THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 1917.
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Back to the War Came.
Whether the recent exchange of peace notes
between the European belligerent! through inter
mediary neutrals was merely a war maneuver, as
charged by the Allies, or undertaken in good faith,
as insisted on by the Central Powers, it is plain
that nothing has been accomplished toward im
mediate opening of peace negotiations. On the
other hand, it is also reasonably certain that no
harm has been done in the way of driving the
two sides farther apart. It is always possible that
these preliminaries may have been the necessary
prelude to paving the way. foryhe real peace ne
gotiations that most come later how much later
no one knows but for the present it is "back to
the war game" for continued test of relative
strength and endurance.
Rumors are rife of new phases of warfare yet
to be developed, notwithstanding the common im
pression that the refinement of modern barbar
ism in the prosecution of the war have already run
the limit of man's inventive genius. This is the
first great war that has been carried on both above
and beneath the surface of the earth, on and be
low the waters of the ocean, and also in the air
above. If there were more dimensions to our
planetary formation some method of warfare
would doubtless be devised to take advantage of
it, but all that remains is to make more deadly, de
structive and exhaustive the operations that are
being carried on.
If the war game must go on, the faster and
more furious it is waged the quicker will come
the ending for which all of us are waiting and
hoping. " ' . ,
The egg boycott needs more steam if the man
agers expect to hatch out something.
It is again proved that t nonpartisan job can
stir up ai much party politics as any of them.
' It would not be a real Nebraska legislature if
not enlivened by putting the Omaha stock yards
on the gridiron. , -, .. '
The dope business that has been flourishing
under cover in Omaha must go. Put that in your
pipe and smoke it I
Peace moves can not be wholly useless when
they give the movers an occasional glimpse of
publicity's spotlight '
Legislative bills pile up in the usual prodigal
way. The high cost of raw paper carriei no shock
to those who do not foot the bills.
We greatly fear the only way to enlist Mr.
Bryan in the egg boycott campaign is to persuade
him that it is movement to banish eggnog.
"Don't resist 'stickups I'" lay the police. Dig
up is another name for safety first The value
of the advice would be enhanced if the source
backed it up with action.
Nebraska National guardsmen were turned out
of service on a freezing cold day without even
their overcoats. The proverbial ingratitude of re
publics evidently still holds the fort.
British statesmen renew their fealty to the
principle of nationality and the integrity of small
nations. Still they neglect making Ireland a
practical object lesson of their professions. '
President's Program Lags.
Again does President Wilson find it neces
sary to mildly but firmly admonish congress (hat
it must give more attention to the program he has
laid before it. His little journey to the capitol
is now explained by the fact that he impressed
on his leaders there the fact that he wants ac
tion on his proposed railroad laws, on the reve
nue measures, the Porto Rico bill, the Webb for
eign trade bill and several other measures in
cluded in the imperative program laid before the
present congress, much of which was carried
over from the long session. Only six weeks of
ife for the present body remain, and the abso
lute domination of the democrats dies with the
Sixty-fourth congress. Most of this time will
be taken up by consideration of the great appro
priation bills and an effort to shove through
the "pork-barrel" legislation engendered by the
democrats. This is why the president is appre
hensive. If bis orders are carried out, it is
equivalent to notice that the country may look
for another batch of imperfect legislation, such
as the Adamson railroad law or the Underwood
tariff hill, concerning the exact meaning of which
even the authors themselves are undecided.
The democrats in congress have not only
wasted the people's money, but they have been
profligate with something of far greater im
portance. . In playing their petty partisan games
they have wasted time. Feverish activity now
will not take the place of industry, but threatens
the .country with 'laws that will defeat their own
ends. ,
Our old friend, Edgar Howard, is not making
as much "copy" in his capacity of lieutenant gov
ernor as all of ui were ted confidently to expect
Either an explanation or a reformation is dne,
Edgar. .
? Congressional leaders flounder helplessly in
the backwash of t deficit, seeking new lourcei of
revenue and taxation. The ability of congresi
to squander, money far outruns its capacity to
raise the wherewith. '- '
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Without exception every wonder-working
project advanced for the betterment of the dear
people has its terminus at the public treasury. In
this direction reach the taproots of betterment
for the fellows who get next.
Cattlemen interested are fearful lest a hasty
withdrawal of the Pershing expedition expose
their herds to the ravages of bandits. Though
the expedition failed to "get Villa" it is some
what consoling to be told one useful purpose it
has served.
' The addition of five new rear admirals to the
service on land to that extent advances prepared'
ness. The office contingent of the navy lends
Just as much dignity to the uniform as though
they trod the quarterdeck and sniffed the spume
of the briny deep.
The deadly perils of auto gas in cloied garages,
officially demonstrated by government chemists,
serves as a timely warning1 to careless autoists.
The absence of odor and color vastly increases
the dangers from the gas and makes ventilation
the sole safeguard. ' j- ",
I lie only practical result of the senator s
speech at Philadelphia is the unanimous adoption
of a resolution calling for the establishment of
a United States Department of Peace with
secretary ranking with the secretary of war. We
nominate Nebraska's most distinguished demo
crat, William Jennings Bryan, for secretary of
peace.
'Pork and Partisanship
N.w York World -
If the democrats in congress wish to present
the republicans with a live issue they will insist
upon the passage of the "pork-barrel legislation
now under consideration. Not that the reoub.
heart party when in power distinguished itself
Dy eniorcing tne rule ot economy in making ap
propriations, but it is the privilege of everv mi
nority party, whatever its own shortcomings may
nave Dcen in umer oays, to mane tne most ot tne
faults of its opponents and to draw profit from
them in a political way.
Partisanship might impel the republicans in
the house to let the democrats have their head
in handling the public buildings and rivers and
harbors bills. But in the senate there is hope
of an agreement between the leaders on both
sides on a sounder, policy to curb extravagance
and keep appropriations within reasonable bounds.
If the national interests are of less importance
than the political advantage to be gained from
permitting the democrats to discredit themselves
by raiding tne treasury, the appeal to renubl can
senators to co-operate in retrenchment may go
.Uunceaea. . ... ,. ... t
After all, both parties are on trial jointly be
, fore the country in the existing situation in con
ureas. "Pork-barrel" legislation cannot he rail
roaded through both branches if there is an ear.
nest purpose among the more patriotic demo
crats ana repuoucau to diock it
Fire Waste In Nebraska.
State Fire Commissioner Ridgell presents a
report on the fire loss in Nebraska for 1916 that
is not especially flattering to the people of the
stale.1 Estimated loss of almost thirteen millions
is shown by the 1,516 fires reported on, a fact
sufficient to cause wonder, but analysis of the
origin of the fires shows still greater reason for
reflection. A very large percentage of the fires
were started under conditions that might well
have been avoided, had ordinary precautions been
observed. This indictment of carelessness on
part of the citizens will be warmly pressed by
the insurance men as a pretext for maintaining
the high rates for insurance that' now prevail.
Property owners who are careful of their prem
ises and watchful against possible outbreak of
fire are thus mulcted because of the negligence
of their neighbors, while the communities are
put to additional expense for the maintenance
of 'costly fire-fighting establishments with no
compensating reduction in cost of insurance. Ne
braska needs some sort of inspection that will
prevent fire loss and not merely report on prob
able cause and adjusted loss after the property
has been destroyed.
Germany's Latest Sea Venture.
If reports reaching shipping: centers are accu
rate, Germany seems for once to have done the
obvious. Instead of relying entirely on its sub-
sea navy the naval department of the kaiser has
taken advantage of experience and sow presents
a new, but not entirely unexpected, evidence of
its energy. Vessels captured at sea, instead of
being sunk, have been fitted out with guns and
crews and are now roaming such parts of the
ocean as are inaccessible to the under-water
craft. The flurry among the shippers is proof
of recognition of the possibilities of this method
of disputing with the Allies control of the sea.
Neutrals can extract but little comfort from the
condition, for it means just that much added to
the pressure under which ocean trade is carried
on during the war. That the practice is capable
of being sustained indefinitely is a guaranty that
the closing days of the war will be as interesting
as any for those who go down to the sea in
ships,"
A Russian Religious Impostor
- Ceorf . Kennaa in toe Outlook -
Kill the Child Insurance Bill.
A bill fathered by Bennett of Douglas, doubt
less by request, in the senate at Lincoln should
not be allowed to leave the committee room. It
provides for permission to fraternal insurance
societies to write policies on children between
the ages of 2 and 18, with the parents as the
beneficiaries. The present law forbids the in
surance of a child under the age of 16. Dangers
inherent in child insurance are too obvious to
require recounting here. Nebraska laws at pres
ent are designed to throw every safeguard
around the home and especially to conserve and
protect child life to the utmost. Child insurance
is generally forbidden, and properly so. No
good purpose can be served by removing the
obstacle now interposed by the statute against
the possibilities that reside v in permission to
insure babes or children. The legislature should
see that this proposal is put to rest at the very
outset
The recent assassination in Petrograd of the
man widely known as Gregory Rasputin has re
moved from the field of social and political life
in Russia one of the most extraordinary as well
as one of the most successful impostors who ever
made religion a cloak for ambition, sensuality and
vice. Fifty years ago or more there was born, of
muzhik parents, in a villiagc of western Siberia,
a boy who received at his christening the name
of Gregory. Rasputin, which means a rake, a
dissolute, licentious man, was not his family name.
It was apparently assumed by him in later life
when he put on a deceptive garb of sanctity, and
it was intended perhaps to suggest the idea that
he was a reformed and converted sinner. Greg
ory, as a peasant boy, received in the public
school of his native village an elementary educa
tion which enabled him to write his name and
read the Bible; but that was all. As a youth he
was given to drunkenness and dissipation and
lived the life of a common village hoodlum of the
peasant class; but in spite of his excesses he de
veloped into a man of powerful physique and
not unpleasing appearance, and a man, more
over, who for some reason was particularly at
tractive to women..
About the beginning; of the present century,
when he was approaching middle life, Gregory
happened to fall in with an itinerant Siberian
preacher, and under the latter's influence he os
tensibly reformed, repented and became con
verted. Whether ther"e was any sincerity in this
professed change of heart or not we have no
means of knowing; but for two years or more tl
repentant sinner studied the Bible, ecclesiastical
history and the writings of the church fathers,
and finally went on a long religious pilgrimage.
When he returned to v estern Siberia he became
an itinerant preacher himself and set up as a
starets, or "holy one," under the name Raspu
tin. By this time he had become a man of shrewd
native ability, had acquired self-confidence and
had discovered that by means of his personal
magnetism, his knowledge of the Scriptures and
his reputed holiness, he could exert a strong in
fluence over both men and women, but particularly
women. The idea then apparently occurred to
him that he could find a wider field for the exer
cise of his talents in the capital of the empire than
in western Siberia, and in 1905, armed with let
ters of introduction from the locaj ecclesiastical
authorities to Bishop Theofan and the famous
Father John of Cronstadt, he started for St.
Petersburg.
The supposition that a middle-aged, profligate
Siberian muzhik could make a career for him
self in the higher circles of St. Petersburg so
ciety would have seemed at that time so improb
able as to be almost ridiculous; but the daring,
quick-witted, unscrupulous religious impostor was
well on the road to success in less than three
months. He seems to have been taken up first
by the ladies of the higher court circles, who
found his religious teachings novel and his per
sonality attractive.
No doubt the Nebraska delegation in congress
will welcome with pleasure the free seed od
ions of the state solons. In communicating seedy
Views to higher statesmen observing the niceties
of diplomacy is of prime importance. Copies en
grossed in the highest style of the art bear evi
dence "of distinguished consideration and greatly
Accounts differ as to the circumstances in
which the czar first met him; but in the winter
of 1906-1907 he seems to have been received at
the winter palace and to have been presented
to the empress. About that time be began to
be known and talked of as "Gregorio Novus," and
his influence with the imperial family became so
strong that even nobles, generals and high officers
of state who desired promotion or increase of
salary sought his intercession and support On
his reception days his apartment was thronged,
and he granted petitions and dispensed favors
with all the assurance of royalty. So confident
was he of his power that, according to the St.
Petersburg Gazette, he would often say to a peti
tioner: "Take this" (writing his own name on a
scrap of paper) "to so-and-so, and tell him that
Gregory ordered it" Whether the czar was aware
of Rasputin's dissolute life or not it is impossible
to say; out it ne was ne paid no attention to it
Throughout the .yean 1907 and 1908 the starets
was a frequent visitor at the imperial oalace in
Tsarkoe Selo, and was apparently on intimate
terms with Doth the emperor and the empress.
Meanwhile, however, his relations with women.
and especially women of high social position, be
came an open scandal.
Health Hint Utr the Day.
nrt.Ha IiI!.jtc with nhnnnlnp r-mtrh
are best kept out of doors witH the
disease, they should not be allowed to
play with well children until after six
weeks and after all coughing ot
phlegm has ceased.
One Var Ago Today In the War.
Allied warships bombarded Bulga
rian port ot Dedeaghatch.
Turkish army driven westward upon
Armenian border.
British assault In France repelled,
according to Berlin.
King of Greece appealed to United
States against aggressions by the al
lies. Russians captured Austrian posi
tions above Czernowltz in desperate
fighting.
In the early part of 1909 Bishop Theofan re
ceived so many complaints of Rasputin's con
tinued bad conduct that he again summoned him
before an ecclesiastical court, which, after hearing
his defense, directed him to seclude himself for
a year in a monastery and there "listen to spiritual
admonition." Rasputin coolly declined to go, on
the alleged ground that "his spiritual daughters
and female disciples could not get along without
him." The court made no attempt to enforce its
mandate, but in 1910 the scandal became so noto
rious and the proofs of Rasputin's misconduct so
convincing that Bishop Theofan denounced him
as a hypocrite and Prime Minister Stolypin or-
oerea mm out ot tne city, lne dissolute starets
then disappeared and for about two years nothing
was heard of him. His disciples and "spiritual
daughters," however, continued to insist that in
justice had been done him, and to urge that he
be permitted to return. - Their efforts in his be
half were supported by Bishop Hermogen and
by the monk Iliodor, whose influence over the
czar was then very great and toward the end of
IV1 1 Kasputin reappeared in St Petersburg,
where he soon recovered all the ground he had
lost, ana more.
Again he became the favorite, if not the ad.
viser, of the emperor and empress, and again he
was taken up by the court ladies in the salons.
His activities finally created so much indiimatinn
in the Duma that they were made the subject of
two interpellations.
In July, 1914, while Rasputin was makin? a
visit to his native village of Pokrofsky, in the
aiDcnan province oi ioooisk, ne was stabbed In
the street by a peasant women named Guseva.
who declared when she was arrested that she
"wished to remove from this world that false,
infamous prophet, who has led so many people
astray, and who has falsely instructed the czar
on countless questions. Kasputin, who seemed
to be mortally wounded, was taken to a hospital
in Tiumen, where he was soon cared for by Prof.
Serge Fedorof, the czar's court physician, and
Mademoiselle Virubova, a lady-in-waiting of the
empress, .who had been sent there by imperial
command. Two or three days later a telegram
from Tiumen announced that after a surgical
operation Rasputin died, without recovering con
sciousness, at 6 p. m. on the 14th of July. But
he was not dead. A subsequent report stated that
he had regained consciousness and would prob
ably recover. Three or four months later he
was again in St Petersburg, apparently as popu
lar among the women and as powerful at the
court as ever.
After the outbreak of the European war Ras
putin's influence over the emperor and the em
press was popularly connected with many import
ant events, notably the removal of the Grand
Duke Nicholas from command of the armies.
Rasputin, it was said, favored a separate peace
with Germany, and the grand duke, when he
heard of it, declared that if the starets should
fall into his hands he would hang him.
. According to telegrams from Petrograd
which reached this country early in January and
which have since been confirmed, Gregory Raspu
tin, the Siberian starets, the favorite of high-born
women and the reputed counselor of the czar, has
been shot death, apparently by a number of per
sons, and his body, riddled with bullets of differ
ent calibers, has been found in the River Neva.
It does not yet appear whether the murder was
due to social or to political causes; but in either
case the life that the man lived is a sufficient
explanation of his death. The story of such a
life would hardly be worth telling if it did not
throw light on a monarch and a ruling class
whose character and actions now have inter
and importance for the whole civilized world.
Civil service employes of Chicago, 500 strong,
have formed a union to protect themselves from
the pressure of the politicians and the pie counter.
In Omaha Thirty Years Ago. .
In the drug store of Leslie & Leslie,
corner Sixteenth and Dodge, three val
uable medals were displayed, belong
ing to W. Thompson, a retired officer
of the English army and father of R.
liriMiwraoaowbu
III!, . TTj-ml&.rNAN-'
B. Thompson, car agent of the Union
Pacific They commemorate the cap
ture of Sebastopol, the Crimean war
in general and L-ucknow.
Articles of incorporation were flled
of the Omaha Lithographing company.
The incorporators are J. D. Jones,
Frank J, Devlin and E. L. Marthing.
Superintendent Mahoney of the poor
farm is caring for nearly 100 patients.
Nahan Franko gave a pupils' re
cital at Lyon & Healer's piano ware
rooms, the following pupils taking
part In the program: Herbert Rog
ers, Francesca Koecer, Mabel Bal
combe, May Wallace, Rose Brady,
Charles Higglns, Virginia Robinson,
Bessie Morse and Julius Thlele.
The third annual charity ball of the
Hebrew Benevolent society netted 1600
to charity. The committee on arrange
ments consisted of the following la
dles: Mesdames M. Hellraan, A. Pol
lack, E. Simon, S. Kalish, a Katz, F.
Adler, L. Mendelssohn, I. New, Max
Meyer, J. L. Brandeis, Albert Cahn,
B. Newman, Morltz Meyer and A.
Haas.
Thirty employes of the Arm of Max
Meyer A Co. all gathered about the
banquet board In the music hall of the
establishment the occasion being a
farewell supper given in honor of Da
vid Silberstein, who, after eight years
in the employ of the firm, starts Into
the cigar business for himself.
This Day In History.
1732 Richard Henry Lee, "one of
the organizers of the American revo
lution, born at Stratford, Va. Died at
Chantilly, Va., June 19, 1794.
1734 Robert Morris, the financier
of the American revolution, born at
Liverpool, England. Died In Phila
delphia May. 8, ISO.
1776 Andre Marie Ampere, whose
discoveries in electro-magnetism cre
ated a new science, born at Lyons,
France. Died at Marsallles in 1836.
1801 John Marshall was appointed
chief justice of the supreme court of
the United States.
1815 Congress passed a bill to es
tablish a government bank, but Presi
dent Madison vetoed It
1820 A patent, for the lattice truss
bridge was granted to Ithiel Town of
Connecticut
1849 Nathan Read, who was the
first to apply for a patent in the
United States, died at Hallowell, Me.
1873 Russians occupied Adiian
ople. 189S The pope Issued an encyclical
to the Roman Catholics of the United
States.
1901 The German emperor arrived
In London because of the falling health
of Queen Victoria.
1907 The water in Niagara river
reached the highest point on record.
1911 The American and Canadian
reciprocity commissioners reached an
agreement.
The Day We Cetobrete.
John A. Kuhn, department manager
of the Updike Grain company, is cele
brating his forty-sixth birthday. He
was born in Chicago and started in as
office boy.
Ernest Sweet the hustling real es
tate man. was born at Hayten. Wis.,
January 20, 1873, and graduated from
Elliott college at Burlington, la.
Dr. Sanford Rlngler, osteopath phy
sician, is 40 years old. He was born
in Marengo, la, and secured his pro
fessional education in the American
School of Osteopathy at Kirksvtlle.
Colonel John L. Chamberlain, who
has been nominated to be inspector
general of the United States army,
born in New Tork City, fifty-nine years
ago today.
Furnifold M. Simmons, United
States senator' from North Carolina,
born In Jones county, North Carolina,
sixty-three years ago today.
Josef Hofmann. one of the world's
most celebrated pianists, born In Cra
cow, Galicia, forty years ago today.
He has more than once played en
gagements In Omaha.
Rt Rev. Frederick Eis, Catholic
bishop of Marquette, born near Co
blenta, Germany, seventy-fonr years
ago today.
Richard Le Galllenne, American
poet author and journalist born in
Mverpool, England, fifty-one years ago
today.
Schuyler P. Brltton, former presi
dent of the St Louis National league
base ball club, born In Cleveland thirty-seven
years ago today.
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Timely Jottings and Reminders.
The Concatenated Order of Hoo
Hoo, the big social organization of the
lumber Industry, completes the twenty-fifth
year of Its existence today.
"Billy" Sunday's nine weeks' cam
paign in Boston will close Sunday.
After a week's rest the evenagelist will
open a revival in Buffalo.
The Western Paving Brick Manu
facturer's association is to meet at
Kansas City today for its annual con
vention.
The Western Live Stock show, one
of the largest exhibitions ot Its kind
in the country, opens at Denver today
and will continue through the coming
week.
An open meeting is to be held in
Washington today under the auspices
of the American peace society to con
sider a dlflnite program fer Interna
tional, reorganization designed to se
cure a lasting peace at the conclusion
of the present war.
When Miss Eleanor Kllnger, fashion
model, and Ora Cne, designer of bats
and gowns, are married today in St
Vincent de Paul's church. New Tork
City, they will break all wedding tra
ditions in that they will wear black
from head to foot The wedding
breakfast served by a black servant
will consist of blackberry cocktails.
black bass, black bread, black coffee
and other black delicacies.
A Hen is a Female.
Omaha, Jan. 19. To the Editor of
The Bee: In publishing my letter in
regard to my ancient hen 1 think you
caused me to appear as having made
some grammatical errora I do not
lay claim to being a great gram
marian, as grammar was my failing
when in school, but you surely made
a mistake in changing the word "her"
and "she" when I made mention of
the ancient hen. You changed "her"
and "she" to "it"
I may be wrong, but I think that
"it" applies to inanimate objects and
that "her." "him." "she," "he" and
"his" apply to animate objects. There
are male and female of chickens, the
same as all other animate objects,
and I do not think it is correct to say
"it" when you speak of a chicken,
either a male or female chicken. If
I am wrong about this I wish some
one who is well versed in grammar
would tell me of that fact.
It is always my aim to write In a
correct manner as to grammar and as
to orthography.
FRANK A. AGNEW.
For the Troth of History.
Omaha, Jan. 19. To the Editor of
The Bee: The statement by Mr. Bell
ought to be corrected. The Serbians
did not kill the Austrian crown prince
and his wife. They were killed on
Austrian soil In the province of Bos
nia, were they not? McKinley was
killed by Czolgosz, perhaps - of Aus
trian or some foreign descent, but
America would not think of blaming
the land of the murderer's forefathers.
Therefore, Mr. Bell should understand
the Austrian position was a most un
just demand on Serbia and was made
for the purpose of producing war.
F. G. SMITH.
Some Qneettonable Laws.
Oxford, Neb., Jan. 18. To the Edi
tor of The Bee: I had the pleasure
a few days ago of reading two letters
in the same issue of The Bee, one
from Charles Wooster denying the
constitutionality of the federal road
law, the other from Ernest L. Ireland
demanding the repeal of the foreign
language or Mocket school law. Both
letters are timely and to the point
and voice sentiments that should re
ceive careful consideration by Ne
braska people at this time. Our leg
islature is in session and this bribe,
which is misnomered "aid for public
roads," is up for legislative action.
The question arises, will our legisla
tors fall for this gold brick or will
they properly resent the Imputation
that they can be bribed to disregard
the farming interests of our state and
surrender the building and supervision
or Its roads to a Washington dictator.
This law Is not only foreign to the
spirit of our constitution but Insult
ingly suggestive that the farmers are
dependencies of congress, lacking in
knowledge of road construction and
fishy enough to swallow any free bait
congress may throw out. If Nebraska
believes the time has come to greatly
Increase our road tax, it is not neces
sary that tha amount shall be fixed
aj Washington or that we must be
neipea irom tne porn uanvi
we will do our duty in building roads.
It might not be proper for our icrik-
lators to memorialize congress to
mind its own business but they can
cover themselves with glory by sit
ting down unanimously on the federal
road law.
As to the Mocket law for forcing
foreiim languages into our public
schools it is absolutely indefensible.
No one has ever given or can give one
logical reason for Its existence except
as an appeal to the vanity of foreign
born citizens.' It is true that some
of our best citizens were cradled
where a foreign language is sung,
and the-e is no question but that lan
guage will always be sweet, music to
their ears, and yet they have come to
this country to share in its domestic
government to become a part of it
and to accept the responsibilities of its
citizenship. Their children should
become truly American-bred. They
should be rocked to sleep to the tune
of the "Star Spangled Banner" and
be thoroughly schooled in the lan
guage of the country that is to be
their home. There is no place In our
public schools for a foreign language
except as a trimming with the higher
branches. No foreign country would
tolerate the Mocket law, and why
should our own United States. I do
not question the patriotism of the
originators of this law but they cer
tainly stand in the shadow of poor
Judgment and short-sightedness and
no one will condemn their efforts in
future years more than the children
who receive the effects of this law.
Any man who would support such a
measure because he wishes to curry
favor with those of his constituency
who are foreign-born, Is surely lack
ing In true moral courage that makes
for a good legislator and none should
be quicker to black ball him than the
foreign-born citizens whom he has
thus Insulted. A. C. RANKIN.
WANTED
A thoroughly cpabl itock
and bond Bedesman, preferably
with promotion experience, is
wanted by lar middle west
corporation whole business Is .
with the best class of business
and professional men. We
mast have a man who under
stands western people and
western ways and who can
meet the most intelligent ele
ment of the community on a
plane of mental equality- To
such a man we offer an ex
ceptionally desirable connec
tion, both from the viewpoint
of remuneration and character
of work. The man we want
will be able to, earn from
$3,000 to 16,000 or better a
year, depending upon his abil
ity solely. Applicant must
poitieiy be over thirty and
be prepared to famish higtmat
references. State age nnd give
your experience briefly in first
letter.
Address Box 1486
Bee
Big Day Saturday
At the 4 Sherman & McConnell Drug Stores
This has been a very busy month thus far at the 4
Sherman & McConnell Drug Stores. Business started
out with a great deal of snap from the first day of the
year, Jan. 2d being one of the largest days we have ever
experienced in all of our stores. The disastrous fire at
our Owl Store on the evening of January 2d caused us
plenty of grief. A prompt. adjustment was made with the
Insurance Companies, and the debris quickly cleared
away, and repairs have been so far made that there is
little left to tell a visual story of the fire. During the
days when business was partially suspended, our other
3 stores came to the rescue, and all classes of business
was promptly cared for.
The Fire Sale, which started at the Owl last Monday
Morning, was a wonderful success, as it should have been,
as thousands of dollars' worth at goods were sold at from
Va to the usual retail price, and better yet, these goods
had a 100 value to the purchaser. Saturday will be
final clean-up day on the Owl i'ixe Sale. There are still
hundreds of items left, but they will surely be closed out
"slick and clean" by the close of business Saturday.
We shall run our usual Cigar and Candy Sales at all
of our stores on Saturday, and this, together with our reg
ular schedule of low-cut prices on hundreds of standard
articles, go to substantiate our well-known catch line
phrase :
"You Save Time and Money by Trading at the Sherman
& McConnell Stores."
Standard
Medicines
12c
29c
64c
14c
12c
25c Carter's Little Liver
Pills for
50c Caldwell's Syrup .
Pepsin for
$1.00 Lydis Pinkham's
Compound for . . .
25c Packer's Tar Soap
for
25c Kennedy's Laxative
Cough Remedy for
Eezall Rheuma- IT OQ.
tic Remedy for TJC OeVl.
50c Irving's Bucmi OQ.
Wafers for
25c Laxative Bromo- 1 Q
Quinine for IJ7C
50e Doan's Kidney Pills 4(J
Borden's Condensed Milk 1 J
rwr can XfV
35c Genuine Castoria
for
50c Canthrox
for
$1.00 size Bromo
Seltzer for
$1.00 size Wine of Car- CQ
dnl for Ue7C
25c Sloan's Liniment J 4 (J
60c Sal Hepatic
for
21c
29c
79c
34c
Mb. box Mule Team
Borax
9c
Mb. can Perfumed ID.
Talcum
Candy
See us for fine Confections.
Ligf att'a Elect Chocolates, a very
choice, high grade confection,
tt-lb., 40c j 1-ib., 80c; 2-lb. box,
for S1.60
Mb. Martan Chocolates for 50
Mb. box Maxixe Cherries. 39
Mb. box Triola Sweets. . .39tf
Liggett's Dainty Dutch Delight
Vt lb., 30c; 1 lb., 60c; 2 lbs.,
for $1.20
Mb. Fenway Pink package. 60J
Cigar Specials
Don't forget there is "Some
thing doing" at our Cigar Depart
ment all the time, especially Sat
urday. 15c Preferencia, for ..10
15c Manilla (Florentina), each,
for 7
10c Humanas, Sat, each. . . .c
10c La Marcas, Sat, each.. 5
Have you smoked a Black and
White cigar, made in 4 sizes.
Nothing like it in America for
the money. 5? each for 1 or
same rate for a million.
Black and White Little Cigars,
10 for 15
Black and White Tweenies,
10 for 10
Black and White Crushed Plug,
per tin 10
Black and White Smoking Mix
ture, for 15
Black and White Crushed Plug,
in large -lb. tins 35k
Get the Black and White
habit It is pleasant and inex
pensive. Kl Paxo, a large, rich smoke, box
of 25 for 82.75
10c Roi-Tans, Saturday, each ZC
Sherman & McConnell Drug Co.
CORNER 19TH AND FARNAM.
CORNER 24TH AND FARNAM.
"THE HARVARD"
CORNER 16TH AND DODGE.
CORNER 16TH AND HARNEY.
"THE OWL"
enhance tne joy ot tne recipients.
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