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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: FEBRUARY 18. 1917,
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'Twas ever thus. The humble spud, reclining
in the lap of luxury for a brief season, cruelly
cuts its poor relations.
An anti-treatmg bill is pending in the Kan
sas legislature. Under bone dry conditions con
serving the stock on hand is vital.
Prospects for real trench fighting are as re
mote in Cuba as in Mexico. Tropical revolu
tions are a means of recreation, not work.
No need of alarm about these cases of men
ingitis, but at the same time let ui omit none of
the proper precautions against its spread.
If the Deutschland is not tied up to a Brit
ish dock its intrepid commander will surely find
a way to let us know that it is "alive and kick-
:ng.
Rival belligerents persist in broadening the
ocean danger zones. The difficulty ol digging
postholes defers for the moment fencing the seven
seas.
William Howard Taft says this nation it i
"good-natured, tolerant, war-hating giant" Stil
it is not good policy to step on the giant's corns
too often.
The persuasive power of federal grand juries
ranks as a modern marvel No other wheel In
judicial machinery possesses equal skill in turning
a combine into pulp.
Keep your ear to the ground for the names
of the directors to manage the federal land
bank at Omaha I According to all reports, the
suspense will soon be over.
' The Federal Trade commission wants $400,
000 to start searching for the cause of the rising
cost of living. The size of the touch innocently
exposes one of the main causes.
The threatened 7 o'clock closing law for pool
halls is already in the discard. Wonder if the
pool hall men responded to the unwriteen invi
tation to come down to Lincoln and see about it?
That Shallenberger defense of Bryan may be
taken as corroborating the suspicion of senatorial
ambitions harbored by the former governor and
now congressman from the Fifth Nebraska district.
Tax gatherers stand a slim chance of reach
ing federal farm loan bonds. The attorney gen
eral holds the exemption clause of the act con
stitutional, thereby shutting the door on the lo
cal assessor. "
, This week brings the second birthday anniver
sary in the month of an American immortal. For
sound statesmanship and' advice given us by our
presidents no font is comparable to Lincoln's, ex
cept that furnished by Washington.
Wartime's whirligig makes startling contrasts.
While the lordly spud struts the market place
with swelling front tha 5-cent loaf humbly shrinks
from public gaze, seeking, as it were, a small
cavity to hide its diminished shape. '
Persia appears to be the liveliest spot on the
war map. Two revolutions are in full swing, the
Turks are shooting up the country at both ends
' ind the.middle and Britons and Russians are burn
ing powder on two sides. Beside the Persian
fracas Mexico's entente is a third rate amateur
performance.
New Spirit in China.
Public attention, focused on events in Eu
rope, is missing one of the most interesting evo
lutionary movements in modern history in not
noting what is going on in China. Some notice
has been given to affairs there, because of the
acts of ti.o Japanese, the change in government,
and a suggestion from Baron Shibusawa that the
United State join with Japan in exploiting the
great, empire, but these are only the outstanding
salients of the news. What has really occurred
is of vastly greater importance, for the future
rather than the immediate present.
China has established itself as a republic,
:.. thwarted an effort of its first president to seize
the imperial throne as emperor and has now rein
i stated the republic, with a strong and able man
at its head, surrounded by capable and patriotic
advisers, This government is so supported that
it has been able to practically compel by moral
force a revision of the Japanese demands that
startled the politicians of the United States a year
and a half ago. It was that affair that realty
awoke the Chinese to their national sense and
aroused the spirit of patriotism thought to have
died out The example set by the people, through
the enormous voluntary contribution to the fund
for defense and the more effective boycott on
Japanese wares, gives the new statesmen of China
epcouragement in their work. '
That these statesmen, many of whom are well
, known in America and some of whom, like Dr.
Wb Ting-fang, have been on terms of intimacy
with leaders of American thought, turn to us as
their friends is a welcome result of a policy of
justice and generosity. Unless-ome monumental
' blunder prevents, the readjustment of world rela
tions, will find China well placed among the now
ers and a Chino-American entente, based on mu
tual regard and understanding, flourishing to the
advantage ot both peoples, . ; ;
Rehabilitation of the Missouri Pacific
Omaha and Nebraska have a special concern
in the rehabilitation of the Missouri Pacific which
is about to emerge from its receivership. In,
mileage and territory' covered the Missouri Pacific
is one of the great railroads of the country and
it has one of its main termini in Omaha. It is
greatly to our advantage to have every railroad
serving us adequately financed, well equipped and
efficiently conducted and there is every reason to
believe the Missouri Pacific will from now on oc
cupy a stronger position than it has ever before
held.
The road has been brought successfully
through the receivership period under the guid
ance of Benjamin F. Bush, who is practically cer
tain to succeed to the presidency and who will
be looked to, in that capacity, to continue the
broad-gauged progressive policy inaugurated by
him as receiver. Omaha wants the new Missouri
Pacific to make more of this end of the line as
soon as it is able to do so, and in natural conse
quence, to make more out of it If the end of
the receivership means, as it should, the writing
of Omaha in bigger letters on the Missouri Pa
cific map, the road will also have a right to look
to us for reciprocity and co-operation.
"Spirit of the Crusader."
Opinions expressed by Dr. Fred1 Morrow
Fling are entitled to something more than or
dinary consideration, but hit choice of similes
in reference to the possible entry of the United
States into the world war la rather unfortunate.
One usually thinks of a crusader as a militant
meddler, while crusades at a rule are marked by
an attitude of presumption on part of the active
participants. However, the word "crusade" is
much misused, and it is possible that Dr. Fling
employed it in. a colloquial rather than a spe
cific sense. ,
The United States, if it enters the war at
all, will do so with utmost reluctance, and with
nothing of the spirit of the crusader. It will
be with no purpose to establish our own po
litical or economic ideals, beyond supporting our
right to hold and enjoy the same. Nor will we
try to enforce our ways of living on any peo
ple. Sane and effective social reforms do not
advance on such tines.
Our part in the war so far has been passive,
but resolute, to the extent that nothing of our
national beliefs has been surrendered. Nor have
we undertaken to impose these beliefs on others.
So far as the older peoples of the world are
concerned we will yet be content to teach them
by example and precept and without entering on
a crusade.
Where Eden Was and Is.
The Nebraska minister who announces that,
the Garden of Eden was located not far from
Omaha and on this side of the Missouri river has
merely confirmed an opinion that hat long been
held by careful students of the Biblical story.
It it beyond comprehension why the announce
ment has to long been delayed. All material evi
dence supports the proposition. At any rate no
place in all the world can vie with thit region
in it productiveness, its capacity for supplying
all of man's creature wants, while at the tame
time affording him the inspiration at well to sus
tain and develop hit spiritual nature. We are
loathe to think, even now, that Adam deliber
ately forfeited hit right to live in this delightful
region, "where every prospect pleases and man
alone it vile.'' It must be to, though, and in
charity to the ur-father of the biggest family
known we may think of him at living ever after
in vain regret It is quite likely that when driven
forth he went to Kansas, for in that section of
the world he could better appreciate the meaning
of the mandate: "In the tweat of thy face shalt
thou eat bread." Kansas certainly conduces to
and induces copious perspiration. But hereabouts
we find constantly multiplying evidence of the
favor that has been in all times bestowed upon
the rami around Omaha and in fruitful fields, vol
uptuous vineyards and fecund flocks !- -resented
proliferous proof of the assertion li.- Litis was
and it the Garden of Eden. The preacher is right
no one here, it disposed to contradict.
Monkeying with Man's Apparel.
It has come to be the custom in the United
States for some self-appointed arbiters elegan
torium to semi-occasionally pronounce in what
manner mere man shall be attired. Those who
are moved by the dicta thus emitted and who ear
nestly strive to regulate their garb in conformity
thereto find themselves everlastingly perturbed as
to whether they are doing the right thing in the
proper way. Happily for humanity, most of that
division of the population to whom the bifur
cated garment is appropriated by custom as well
at law gives little heed to the oracles who de
cree the involved and complicated schemes for
masculine adornment , Thus the latest dictum,
under which the suspenders and the belt alike
are ejected from the wardrobe to the limbo of the
unfashionable, it likely to receive about the same
amount of serious attention as did that which
would have man bedeck himself in prismatic
hues, till his exterior resembled a rainbow. We
want it distinctly understood that too much of
responsibility rests on the suspenders to be lightly
transferred to a loop of elastic tape, while the
belt performs some functions that are not to be
shifted. Furthermore, if the sartorial pundits
care to know in what estimation they are held
hereabouts, let them sojourn in this vicinity at
any time during the next few months and watch
the happy, prosperous, hustling burgher of
Omaha disregard their advice and go without a
vest while clinging to both his galluses and bit
surcingle.
Fixing Prices by Commission.
The surrender of the paper makers to the
Federal Trade Commission can hardly be taken
at establishing the right of the government ti
fix and maintain prices on commodities. If the
moveuent meant anything it is an admission on
part of manufacturers concerned that the prices
exacted were boosted by a combination within the
purview of the anti-trust laws and not as a re
sult of trade conditions.' The settlement just
announced is salutary as indicating the possi
bility of stopping price manipulation without in
terfering with legitimate conduct of private busi
ness. The trade commission can serve by fol
lowing up this line and perhaps with a few more
similar adjustments much of the so-called "psy
chological" causes for inflated selling prices will
be removed and the buying and telling of the
country may be placed on a more nearly reason
able basis than hat prevailed for several months.
By Victor Boaewstar
THE announcement made elsewhere in this
issue of the impending retirement of my
brother from the joint management of The Bee,
which we have conducted together since the
death of our father, should set at rest the gossip
which has been more or less current with refer
ence to a change in the ownership of The Bee.
Our alert competitors have had a habit' of selling
The Bee in imagination ever so often to some
one, but have never effected the sale. It is only
fair, however, to state that my brother and I not
long ago entered into a "buy-or-sell" agreement
the outcome of which has been my purchase of
part of his one-third holding to make a majority
stock control for me. The remainder of the
stock remains, where it has always been, in the
hands of members of the Rosewater family here
and in Cleveland, except a half dozen scattering
shares. It should be noted, too, that The Bee
Publishing company, which publishes the paper,
and the Bee Building company, which owns
the Bee building, are wholly separate and dis
tinct though with some duplication of stock own
ership, and that the recent lease of the building
has no relation whatever to the present changes
in The Bee Publishing company.
,. It it everybody'i guest which tide won in that
three-hour suffrage debate.
I heard an apt story this week said to be "Bill"
Park's account of his first meeting with Edward
H. Harriman back in the days when Horace G.
Burt was head operating boss of the Union Pa
cific and Park was division superintendent out
in Wyoming. Mr. Harriman was making his first
tour of inspection accompanied by Mr. Burt in
the president's private car, which had been
stopped over night Before 7 o'clock in the morn
ing Mr. Hairiman sauntered forth and encoun
tered Park on the job.
"Are you connected with the road? he asked.
"Yes, I'm the division superintendent"
"Well, what are we waiting for? Why don't
we pull out?"
"We're ready to start any moment, was
Park's prompt answer, "but I'm under instruc
tions not to move until Mr. Harriman gives the
word." A
"Well, go ahead!" said Mr. Harriman, and
clambered aboard, while the train began imme
diately to move. .
Later Mr. Burt took his division superintendent
back to introduce him to Mr, Harriman, present
ing him in this fashion:
"This is Mr. Park, our division superintend
ent I believe you have not yet met him, Mr.
Harriman."
"Yes, I have," bluntly answered Mr. Harriman,
"I talked with him this morning while you were
still asleep."
Let me acknowledge indebtedness to Herman
Peters for a copy of a little house publication
entitled "The Bigelow Magazine," sent me to call
my attention to an article in it upon telegraphy,
in which my father is mentioned in a compli
mentary way. I quote from the article:
"Telegraphy has contributed about as many
big men to the country at typography. Thomas
A. Edison. Frank Munsey, publisher; Edward
Rosewater, iat; editor of Omaha Bee; Richard
Spillane of Commerce and Finance; George
Kennan, writer and traveler, and George Ho
bart and Guy Carleton, playwrights, were all
telegraphers.
"Telegraph operators as a class have con
tributed much to the literary output in the
general periodicals of the country. A trade
journal, The American Telegrapher, hat a de
partment of verse contributed by telegraphers
and much of it is of unusual merit above the
average of the popular magazines. Probably
the reason there are so many literary con
tribute and even poets among telegraphers
it that at certain stations they have long pe
riods of leisure time for reflection and content-
Elation; they are intelligent as a class and
ave ease and facility in the use of the pen or
typewriter. -
"The best and fastest penmen in the world
are telegraphers and particularly among the
old-timers who were in the business before
the introduction of the typewriter. The pro
fession really developed a style of penmanship
of its own one that was rapid and in all cases
above the average in legibility."
The reference to the peculiar penmanship of
telegraphers, or "the telegraph hand," at it is
called, makes me wonder to what extent it still
survives the inroads of typewriter and printed
telegraph. In the days of receiving by sound and
transcribing in long hand this penmanship was
wonderfully legible and rapid. My father could
tell at a glance from the handwriting whether
the author of a letter had ever been in the tele
graph service. I fear, however, that "the tele
graph hand" will before long be a lost art.
The Lincoln birthday banquet of the Young
Men's Republican club at Lincoln showed by its
attendance and enthusiasm that there is a live
bunch of republicans at the state capital who
are going to stay on the firing line until the po
litical enemy is again dislodged. The best part
of it was the interest manifested by the younger
element, which, it is a regret to report, seems
harder and harder to enlist for political activity
in our campaigns, a difficulty encountered by both
political parties in this state and, I take it m
other states, too. With a militant backing the
young men who successfully promoted and "put
over" that banquet can do a whole lot to help "put
over" a clean-cut republican victory at the next
election in Nebraska..
People and Events
Governor Lowden of Illinois commoted to
imprisonment for life, the death sentence of a
negro who execution was deferred seven timet
by Governor Dunne. The successive respites
were granted because an obstreperous sheriff
insisted on making a public show of the execu
tion. The last act of clemency nullifies the sher
iff's defiance.
Edward Swagg manages a cafe at Minneapolis.
His nationality or politics is not defined, but he
doesn't care who knows that he doesn't like
the colors of Old Glory. One of his waiter inno
cently indicated his feelings by wearing a small
flag on his coat lapel It cost the waiter bis job.
Swagg it now trying to explain the incident,
which hat already diminished his' daily eating'
house swag.
School teachers looking for jobs in New
Mexico face a perplexing proposition. Some
citi't make a practice of holding out salaries as
a penalty for marriage during the school term.
Others offer liberal bonuses for teachers who re
main single. Marriageable girls are in greater
demand than teachers and the teacher who pre
fers the bonus to the man challenges the risk of
being kidnaped. '
Talking to the Commercial drib men of St
Joseph on 'The Fun of Making a Living," Bishop
Quayle of St Louis expounded thit brand of live
rhilosophy. "It's a mighty lot of fun to be here,
ft a mighty lot of fun to have nothing and im
prove on your capital. '. The only robust, thing
worth while is making a living. Because a man
eventually is going to be a corpse it no excuse
for hit being one all the time. It elongates the
funeral. Stand out look your job in the face and
say, 'I like you'" . . ;. -. .....
Big risk and big money work together around
powder mills these stirring timet. The Du Ponts
run a big plant in a ravine in the wilderness of
Wisconsin, out of which grew the town of Barks,
dale. The town hat a population of 100, is eight
een miles long and tour miles wide and
is said to be the richest burg in ' the
country. From the powder company alone
the town pulls $75,000 in taxes annually and is
blowing itself building paved roadt to every
householder's door.
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Health Hint for the Day.
If earache la neglected the inflam
mation may spread in the ear as well
aa in the bony lump behind the ear
and thus cause mastoid disease, which
may attack the brain it not cured by
surgical operation.
One Year Ago Today In the War.
Victory at Erzerum celebrated
throughout RushIo.
Berlin reported failure ot British
assaults at Yprea.
German assailants entered French
trenches in upper Alsace, but were
driven out
United States notified Its represen
tatives abroad that merchant ships
could carry guns.
In Omaha. Thirty Years Ago.
The ladies of the German school gave
a masquerade ball at Germanta hall,
the committee of arrangements con
sisting of the following: Mesdames
C. C. Bchaefrer, Max Hemple, 6. Keleh
enberg, M. Tibke and Miss Ida Po
mey. The physicians of Omaha were re
quested to meet at the office of Dr.
Tilden to take suitable action on the
death of Dr. James P. Peck.
The Church Guardian, official organ
of Bishop Worthlngton, published in
ta
this city, appears this month in a new
dress and contains fourteen pages of
Interesting reading matter.
While crossing the Sixteenth street
viaduct the horses attached to a car
riage containing Mr. and Mrs. An
drew Rosewater and two friends be
came frightened by a locomotive and
broke the carriage pole.
Rev. T. J. Mackay of St Paul church
In Council Bluffs announces that a
new pipe organ has been ordered for
which he has made himself person
ally responsible.
C. 8. Higgins gave a banquet at his
establishment to a few of his Pythian
friends, the occasion being in honor
of his having taken third rank degree
in Triangle lodge.
Thomas H. Larke, the competent
young man who has been acting as
private secretary to W. N. Babcock,
general agent of the Chicago & North
western, has resigned and gone into
the real estate business.
This Day in History.
1795 Geore Peabody, philanthro
pist born at Danvers, Mass. Died in
London, England, Novembr 4, 1869.
1817 General Lewis A. Armlstead,
noted confederate commander, born at
Newbern, N. C: Killed while leading
his brigade at Gettysburg, July 3, 1863.
1842 Charles Emory Smith, Phila
delphia editor and postmaster general
In the McKinley cabinet, born at
Mansfield, Conn. Died in Philadel
phia, January 19, 1908.
1848 General William O. Butler
succeeded General Wlnfleld Scott as
commander of the American forces in
Mexico.
18tl Jefferson Davis was inaugu
rated president of the Confederate
State of America at Montgomery.
18(t Federals occupied Charles
town, S. C. which had been evacuated
the day before by General Hardee.
1867 The Austrian emperor re
stored the Hungarian constitution.
1871 The republican government of
France was recognized by the great
powers.
1891 Arthur J. Balfour introduced
the Irish local government bill in the
House of Commons.
1895 Archduke Albrecht who com
manded the Austrian troops in the
Franco-Italian war, died in Vienna.
1899 Emile Loubet was elected
president of the French republic.
1904 Lord Roberts retired from
the post of commander-in-chief of the
British army.
The Day We Celebrate.
R, F. Kloke Is 57 today, having been
born in Wisconsin. He came here
from West Point Neb., to take up the
farm loan and Investment business.
Jean Jules Jusserand, French am
bassador and dean of the foreign dip
lomatic corps at Washington, born at
Lynns, France, sixty-two years ago
today.
James P. Goodrich, governor of In
diana, born at Winchester, Ind., fifty
three years ago today.
Edgar E. Clark, Interstate commerce
commissioner and member of the spe
cial commission named to Investigate
the workings of the Adamson eight
hour law, born at Lima, N. Y., sixty
ons years ago today.
August Belmont head of the New
York banking honse that bears his
name, born In New York City, sixty
four years ago today.
Right Rev. Theodore N. Morrison,
Episcopal bishop of Iowa, born at
Ottawa, 111., sixty-seven years ago to
day. Sherrod N. Smith, pitcher of the
Brooklyn National league base ball
team, born at Mansfield, Gs, twenty
six years ago today.
Storyette of the Day.
"It is a rule to which most good
lawyers adhere," observed a well
known attorney, "never to tell more
than one knows. There was an Inci
dent In a western town wherein a
lawyer carried the rule to the extreme.
"Counsel for one side objected to
a person, whose name was on the
court's register for some purpose or
other, on the ground that he was
dead. The counsel on the other side
declined to accept the assurance, and
demanded conclusive testimony on
the point
" "Whereupon counsel for the other
aide arose and gave corroborative evi
dence as to the decease of the man in
question.
"'But sir, how do you know the
man's deadf" demanded opposing
eounseL
' " 'Well,' was the reply. , 'I don't
know. It's very difficult to prove."
" 'As I suspectet). You don't know
whether he's dead or notr
- "No. But I do know this they
burled him about a month ago on sus
picion!' "New York Times.
' HERS AND THERE.
' in Brittfk im
of potato. rry month.
- Ocrauuiy did not bacon a ihfrbTjf! dtac
nation nattl within th tut rnrtion. .
Tht torpedo as fired from inrfae voutla
1 effeetlvo op ta lo.vvv yard, tmnga,
Tht Montonoffrin toldkr waan hla nodal
for valor on hla eap, tauUad of aerou hla
Wit breast.
The founder of the Kothsehfld riches was
born in a Frankfort ghetto, the son of a
poTerty-strteken dealer la enries.
Under fenftUh law no eleiwman ean be
arrented within the walls of his chnreh, or
whil he Is coins; to or return lnf from his
duty.
The binrest ran of the Unitad States navy
b sixty feet In tanrtb. wekfbs aboat eighty
ton and fires a projectile weichian 1,104
pxmnds.
DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES.
"The trng-a rumen t of the you n if lurgoon
to the telephone girl Is unusually appro
priate." "Why so?"
"Hecauue she makes a practice of cutting
folks off and ho of catting them up."
Baltimore American.
"Do you think women ought to smoke?"
"I should say not. It's hard enough a
It Is to tell who' the man of the house."
Detroit Pree Press.
"Jlggs alway get the best of a Job,"
said BUI. the burglar. "Lait night him
an' me trimmed a provision store."
"Did he get all the money7"
"No. He let me take the cash while he
slipped around and gathered In all the
sirloin steaks. "Washington Star.
our HWAworr is broki -am
1 HONOR BOOM D RETTURM,'
THfc Kir?
ROSE ALEWrf
Wife Well, John, I'll have to do the cook
ing now. Bridget left without warning.
Hub Not eiartly without warning. She
said tht morning that I'd better bring
home some dyspepsia tablets tonight, but I
didn't quite catch on to what sh meant.
Boston Transcript
Church Do yon suppse peace will come
this year?
Gotham Why, surely. We don't have any
presidential election this year, do we ?
Yonkera Statesman.
A. stranger enternd a church during the
sermon. (Jetting tired, he asked hla neigh
bor, "How long has he been preaching?"
"Abotrt thirty or forty years, I think," re
plied the man.
"I'll stay, then," said the stranger; "he
most be nearly done." Christian Herald.
An Irish magistrate, one of the old school,
was summing up a case In a Dublin court
The plaintiff was a handsome woman and
her good-looking daughter was one of the
witnesses. "Gentlemen of the Jury," said his
honor, "everything in the case seems plain
except, of course, Mrs. O'Toole and her
charming daughter. Dublin Mail.
, NEBRASKA.
Fair land with fifty aummcro flown.
Nebraska, fairest, our own nweft hnrac!
Ring out glail bell with joyous peal.
The depth of love for thop we f-M.
Thy purpo grand, thy spirit free,
O. fairest land, thrice- bleit are we
Who find txweath thy a sure, dome f
God's greatest gift to man, a home.
Shfnc on, shine on forever more,
Lone star that lights Quivers' horat
Whero cities rise by magic hand.
Let wealth not oauDerlse th land.
Where granaries bunt with store given
To hand of toll by hand of heaven.
Be thou forever an open door
And star of hope to the homeless poor.
Pair garden for the toller's plow
To thee with welling hearts be bow!
May our souls be broad as thy endless plain.
May virtue here strive not in vain.
May laws most Just, with balance fair.
To rich and poor give honest hare
May thou shine on, ami on, aa now,
Crown Jewel on Columbia' brow. ,
Twas God's own hand that gavs thee birth.
Nebraska, fairest spot on earth!
Should war's dark cloud anwelcomed lower,
And strange and portent grow the hour,
Brave sons shall stand thy borders round
And guard from foeman's foot thy ground;
Brave hearts shall lonely keep thy hearth
That thou live on, O, Queen of Earth.
Center, Neb. ALLEN S. ST1NSON.
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1 In Buying
i Rubber Goods I
I Don't take chances. If you
need a hot water bag, a foun-
s tain syringe or rubber gloves,
get something that is guaran-
I teed ; then if they prove faulty ;
you can have them replaced. ?
The rubber goods we sell are i
. all guaranteed, and many are I
made especially for us and
have our name stamped on ?
them a tort of quality in sot-
t ance.
" New Store Soon in Dundee .
. Our new "Wml-End Pharmacy" at "
m 49th and Deds will be aptn "
- in a few day.
1 Sherman & McConnell
1 Drug Co.
Four Good Drug Steras.
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I Shrewd Men I
wnen investing money ai-
s ways look the proposition
s over carefullv. They take
no chances. They are abso-
luteiy wire 01 aeiimie re-
turns before they spend a
s cent.
But, after they are con-
vinced they go the limit
We call this trait fore-
I sightedness it denote S
sound business logic.
The L. V. Nicholas Oil
S Company is selling a por-
tion of their capital stock
at $100 a share to meet
the demand of an increas-
ing trade.
s Many representative busi-
ness men clear, cold,
reasoning financial men 2
are buying L. V. Nicho-
las stock in amounts of
from $100 to $1000.
5 We will be glad to count
you as one of the stock-
holders.
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S Omaha, Neb. IE
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dictation? And the speediest system allow
ing the greatest use of a stenographer is the best,
isn't it?
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ly in place of deciphering her notes.
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delaying a single letter.
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..... Mickel's .....
Nebraska Cycle Co.
Corner 15th and Harney Sts. Omaha.
Phone Douglas 1662.
THE GUARANTEE
BEHIND A CERTIFICATE
OF THE
WOODMEN OF THE WORLD
is
OUR RECORD
MORE THAN A QUARTER CENTURY OF SQUARE DEALING,
PROMPT SETTLEMENTS and
$32,000,000.00 Assets
CALL DOUGLAS 1117
NO CHARGE FOR EXPLANATION
J. T. YATES,
SoTereifa Clark.
W. A. FRASER, .
Sovereign Commander.