THE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1917.
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"Non-partfcanship" u a fine horse that can be
easily ridden to death!
The Macedonian erjr of former years is heard
no more. Macedonia is too busy platting grave
yards. ; '
Gridiron initiates when asked the question
"Who is the vice president?" answered, "I don't
know." Neither does anyone else I
For once fashion fits its masculine creations
to condition of service. The new "trench coat"
peculiarly becomes the task of digging for a
living.
The story of a movie star demanding $1,000,
000 for a year's work lacks the essential thriller.
' The brand of nerve tonic used is omitted from the
screen.
' j Absence of word to the contrary strengthens
the Impression that the Du Points bear with be
coming fortitude the shoctt of 1,130 per cent in
crease in last year's munition business.
If our lawmakers down at Lincoln can speed
up to a finish in the less than sixty days al
lowed them, they will encounter no protest ex
cept from the per diem supernumeraries.
January's fire record piled up a total loss of
$36,400,000, by far the highest score for the month
in three years. Safeguards against fire wobble
grievously when the mercury flirts with zero.
The cunning scheme to cut out office study as
one requirement for admission, to the bar has
failed and the future great lawyer may yet tell
how he rose from office boy to bead of the firm.
Two of the leaders in the bomb massacre at
San Francisco have been convicted of murder.
It is a meager conclusion for a deliberately
planned slaughter of innocent people, but it ful
fills the limit of the law.
" Nebraskana at the national capital are going
to hold a fitting celebration, March 1, of the semi
centennial of the state's formal admission to the
t union by presidential proclamation. What are
we going to do about it out here? -
Impeachment articles against the Federal Re
serve board largely rest on charges of alliances
with "big business." As the reserve banks form
a sizeable line of big business, the board cannot
do else than plead guilty and beg for mercy.
Those country papers indulging in uncompli
mentary remarks about Omaha's subscription to
land bank stock should take It back. Let them
observe that the stock subscriptions for Omaha
head the list of the twelve banks and equal nearly
one-fourth of the total.
Our amiable democratic contemporary, the per
sonal organ of the senator learnedly discusses
the question of literacy as a fitness test for im
migrants. When the literacy test was passed
over the president's veto the senator was re
corded as "not voting!"
Universal military service is objected to
chiefly on the claim that the "people of this
country are not amenable to rigid discipline."
Nonsense. The way the boys in the trenches lite
up and stand at the pie counter without hitching
mocks the base calumny.
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The last batch of Omaha municipal bonds are
being sold on a basis of 4'A per cent interest.
Omaha's credit today ought to float 4 per cent
bonds, as it has in times past, and would do so
1 only our finances had been managed to keep
'.hese securities eligible for all investment funds.
, Munition melons excite more curiosity than
ippetite; among outsiders. Invited guests thrive
and wax fat on the diet. Bulletins from the Du
Pont melon feast show no ill effects of absorb
ing $82,000,000 of last year's net. An extra divi
dend of 100 per cent .makes doubly sure the
ability of stockholders to assimilate nourishment.
Shafts Aimed at Omaha
fiu;. p;1a. u d --. i ...
... . . " auggeareu mat a
paper mill be started in Omaha to work over
... h-f" uiuis aavca up ana sent to
a paper mill in Wisconsin. This is a good idea
tl,a til nnan-r - t XT.L I 1 1 , ..
..... ,ul ui ncurasiui will giadiy
help put across. The Omaha Commercial club
should get busy at once.
Norfolk Press: ' Old-style business methods
and new-style thieves seem to work together all
right An Omaha business man banked his
money only once a week and an industrious
burglsr heard the glad tidings. It cost the busi
ness man $3,000 to learn that he should visit
the bank every day.
Hay Springs News: If the local newspaper
F..,. lnc oope sent out to
them by the Omaha Commercial club Omaha
ucsi-aaveriisea city in the world.
The club specializes every sparring match and
hull tntrht- am a .n
- auraxiKHl IOT UtTiaht,
ways tortrettins to enclose even a rnmn
Ainsworth Star-Journal: The Omaha automo
bile show is to have a aoecial dav for tha farm
ers to view the automobile. It makes us smile
y lien wc rcu u, i evidently some of those
ii T i 7 " ,"' ", too, seem to
think the farmers don't know an auto when they
tuciu to come up to
Brown county and we can show them two autoa
owned by farmers to one by the city man, and.
. Ilr ... nrit all AA'm I.L '
Imagination Versus Facts.
"The market price of silver has made another
spurt, but the quotation for an ounce of silver
is still less than half that for a bushel of wheat.
Remember how a certain statesman used to tell
us that an ounce of silver and a bushel of wheat
would always exchange as equal value?"
Omaha Bee.
No; we do not remember any such states
man, nor do we remember any such assertion'.
Neither does the editor of the esteemed Omaha
Bee. The trouble with some people who try
to quote history is that they rely too much
upon their imagination. The great trouble with
some people who try to discuss finance is that
they rely too much upon the same source for
their facts. York Democrat.
The trouble with some other people who try
to quote history is that their memories are either
short or they seek to impose upon the shortness
of other people's memories. In this case, the as
sertion of the equal value of an ounce of silver
and a buihel of wheat was the common reliance
of sixteen-to-oners during the campaign of 18. Ii
was sometimes referred to as thel "India wheat
argument." We have not time to go through
again the accumulation of documents left over
from the free silver campaign, but find at hap
hazard in Mr. Bryan's "First Battle" (Page 240)
the doctrine explicitly stated in a speech by Sen
ator Newlands there quoted approvingly by Mr.
Bryan in which he says:
The Indian wheat-grower receives today,
just as he did twenty years ago, an ounce of
silver for a bushel of wheat; he sells it for that
price to the Liverpool importer who also offers
to the American wheat-grower an ounce of silver
which, formerly worth $1.20 in gold, is worth
today only 65 cents.
That puts it, in brief, as repeated over and
over on the rostrum, in the campaign literature
and in the newspapers, that the price of the wheat
was fixed in India, net by demand and supply, but
by the traditional exchange of an ounce for a
bushel and that the price of wheat in India gov
erned the world price and held American grown
wheat to the same basis of value. The assertion
in question we freely admit, is not now after
twenty years of disproof a very live issue, but
the editor of the esteemed York Democrat must
not be allowed to deny the facts of history and
get away with it.
Expansion of the Dry Belt
Prohibition is moving forward by leaps and
bounds. The record of progress last year, great
as it was, falls far ahort of the speed indications
of 1917. In every direction the movement is for
wardthe drys to a "bone dry" condition and the
wets retreating under the pressure.
Twenty-six states comprised the dry roster
when the year opened. Indiana and Utah have
already joined the number, statutory prohibition
having been enacted in each state. The question
of wet or dry goes to a vote of the people in
Wyoming. Minnesota's legislature is certain to
submit a constitutional amendment on the sub
ject, and similar procedure is indicated in Illinois.
In Missouri there is no doubt the issue is to be
pressed to a third test next year unless the legis
lature enacts a law tightening the lid. Alaska is
bone dry by congressional enactment, and the
District of Columbia is so close to the dry belt
that nothing less than the rush of business at the
close of congress will save it for a time. That
congress feels the pressure is evident by action
on these measures, supplemented by th! sweep
ing prohibition riders on the postoffice bill and
the committee report on the submission of a con
stitutional amendment. From every point of
view the situation is extremely heartening for
the drys and correspondingly dark for the wets.
Fashion and the H. C, L.
The fabled guest of Diogenes for an honest
man proved no less a failure than the present
search for the root cause of the high cost of liv
ing. Earnest and devoted men and women, singjy
and in groups, assailed the problem from every
angle. State and federal authorities instituted
open and still hunts. Consumers' leagues and
household leagues pursued the villain hither and
thither. Each and all arrived at a common
destination without reducing the cost in the
slightest degree. Failure is not due to lack of
zeal, intelligence or searchful power. It springs
from striking a blind trail at the outset and get
ting nowhere. The real cause of high living
has been tracked to its lair in a direction gen
erally ignored, and the honor of discovery be
longs to I Miss Jane M. Newcomb, a research
teacher in the Pennsylvania State college.
Miss Newcomb asaerts that fashion makers
are the principal conspirators with which man
kind must grapple if it would live within its
mens. Every inch cut off woman's skirts means
an extra pound of beefsteak inside to keep the
wearer fit for the elements. But the worst of it
is, aa the discoverer points out, the girl or woman
"who struts the streets in short skirts, silk stock
ings, and chest bared to the winter's winda must
eat so much to keep warm that she becomes
dyspeptic, nervous and Irritable." The tyranny
of the fashion plate thus increases the normal
consumption of food, swells the demand which
boosts prices, and opens up innumerable leaks in
the purse. Further search is a waste of time.
Speculation in food is a side issue. The problem
resolves itself into the simple one of stretching
the gowns at both ends and shortening the de
mand for food. Without the essential props of
fashionable brevity the high cost of living tum
bles as a house of cards.
Twenty-five years ago today every live demo
crat in Nebraska foregathered at Lincoln and
celebrated the reinauguration of Governor Boyd
at the state house. Nothing like the turnout was
staged before or since. History deala with the
event as a political episode. It was more than
that It was the most imposing display of plug
hats that ever enlivened the splendors of Lincoln
scenery.
The first self-imposed task assumed by Bishop
Harty is the completion of Omaha's new cathe
dral While he is sure to succeed in thia aim)
enterprise, it is to be hoped the response to his
appeal win oe prompt so that he can soon dedi
cate the beautiful edifice and take up other work
in which the general public, as well as the church,
is interested and which he doubtless plans.
Let us remind our lawmakers again that the
best way to Keep politics out of the school board
and. for that matter, out nf all hnarila - .......j
to be non-political, is to bar the members during
uieir terms irom naving tneir namea printed on
the primary ballot aa candidates for party nominations.
Homer Moore, who was once a member of
The Bee staff as- musical critic, haa composed a
grand opera and, more than that, has had it ac
tually produced. The Bee sends congratulations
and hopes to shine in some of the reflected glory
The High, Cost of Inheriting
Lltara Dlaaat.
A writer in the New York Times-Annalist has
looked into the state laws affecting taxes on in
heritances, into the existing federal tax and into
the proposed new federal tax and has applied his
data to a consideration of the question, What
would be the coit of Hirectlv inheritine $10,000,-
000 in each of thirty-two states which he names?
1 axes on inheritances were already high in torty
states when a federal income tax was first im
posed. In all of these states, except California,
the tax was doubled by the federal tax, while the
proposed increase will make the amount collected
by the federal government 50 per cent greater
than it now is. The proposed new law has been
made part of an emergency revenue bill endorsed
by the democrats in caucus of the house and now
before congress.
Following is a table which the Annalist writer
compiled to show what in thirty-two states would
be the tax on $10,000,000 under the existing state
laws and what it would be with the proposed new
federal law ra force:
State Tax.
State. Amount. Pet,
Arizona ....$ 99,950
Arkansas
California . ,
Colorado . .
Connecticut
Georgia . . .
Idaho ....
Illinois ....
Indiana ....
Louisiana ..
Maine
Mass. . ....
Michigan ..'
Minnesota .
Montana . .
Nebraska . .
Nevada
New York .
New Jersey
N. Carolina
N. Dakota .
Oklahoma .
Oregon
Rhode Isl'nd
S. Dakota..
Tennessee
782,810
1,449,150
199,790
386,900
99,950
296,585
198,800
296,325
199,800
199,150
386,600
, 99,980
298,725
99,925
99,900
492,750
396,550
296,450
74,985
294,650
399,600
99,950
336,500
298,725
124.900
Utah 498,900
Virginia
Washington
W. Virginia
Wisconsin .
Wyoming ..
Average tax.
386,850
99,900
296,525
296,605
199,500
305,865
0.99
7.82
14.49
1.99
3.86
0.99
2.96
1.98
2.96
1.99
1.99
3.86
0.99
2.98
0.99
. 0.99
4.92
3.96
2.96
0.74
2.94
3.99
0.99
3.36
2.98
1.24
4.'98
3.86
0.99
2.96
2.96
1.99
3.05
State and Fed.
Amount. Pet.
$1,361,450
2,044,310
2,710,650
1,461,500
1,621,500
1,361,450
1,558,085
1,460,300
1,557,725
1,461,300
1,460,650
1,648,100
1,361,480
1,560,225
1,361,425
1,360,300
1,754,250
1,658,050
1,557,950
1,336,485
1,556,550
1,661,100
1.361,450
1,598,000
1,560,225
1,386,400
1,760,400
1,648,350
1,361,400
1,558,025
1,568,105
1,461,000
1,461,000
13.60
15.32
27.10
14.60
16.47
13.60
15.57
14.59
15.57
14.61
14.60
16.48
13.61
15.60
13.61
13.60
17.54
16.58
15.57
13.36
15.56
16.61
13.61
15.98
15.60
13.86
17.60
16.48
13.61
15.58
15.68
14.61
15.41
The writer of the article discusses the matter
further in some detail. Inasmuch as the states
differ greatly in the amount of tax imposed, he
selects first one of the states imposing the lowest
amount of tax, Arizona:
"Mr. Anyone, jr., by the death of Mr. Anyone,
sr., falls heir to an estate of $10,000,000. Being
a direct heir, Mr. Anyone, jr., gets off with the
maximum of exemption and the minimum rate of
taxation under the inheritance tax laws of most
of the states, but his direct heirship in no way
lessens the weight upon him of the federal tax
on estates. Arizona would be a good state to die
in from the point of view of the man with $10,
000,000 to bequeath provided that his millions
fell entirety within the jurisdiction of the state
and provided also -that they were left in toto to
Mr. Anyone, jr. Under Arizona's inheritance tax
law, in that case, the state would take for itself,
only $99,950 of Mr. Anyone's estate. With the
federal tax of $841,000 (figured at the present le
gal rate) added to the state rate Mr. Anyone's
estate would pay total inheritance and estate taxes
amounting to $940,5000. Under the increased fed
eral rate proposed by Mr. Kitchtn s committee,
however, Mr. Anyone's death taxes would mount
up t6"$l,361,450, or 13.60 per cent of his estate,
"Arizona, however, is not in a class by itself.
Mr. Anyone's heirs would fare as well in Montana
or Georgia or Michigan or Nebraska or Oregon or
Washington, which states and the federal govern
ment, under the proposed increase in estate taxes,
would charge him only $1,361,000 or so and per
mit Mr. Anyone, jr., to take the balance of about
$8,738,000. This cost could be even scaled down
a. I v.-.-., x:-.L. r-
III U1C HK VI ail coiaic piuvaicu ill nui ill vdru-
lina and left to an heir within that state's jurisdic
tion. North Carolina's rate, plus the proposed in
creased federal tax, would be only $1,336,485, or
13.36 per cent.
"Assume, however, that Mr. Anyone, sr., died
in California, which state since Oklahoma remod
eled the law which practically would have con
fiscated an estate of this size, represents the ex
treme in taxation of inheritances. Under the Cali
fornia law Mr. Anyone, jr., if he happens to be a
minor, is exempt from taxation on the first $24.-
000 of his inheritance, but from that sum upward
the tax applies progressively, with the result that
the state's share in his fortune amounts to $1,449,
150, or 14.49 per cent. This is the rate of progres
sion: Tax Pet.
On $25,000 2
On 'the next $50,000 4
On the next $100,000 7
On the next $300,000 10
On the next $500,000 12
On the next $1,000,000 and up 15
"The federal estate tax at the rate at present
in force would deduct $841,000 more from the to
tal, bringing the double tax up to $231,150. With
the proposed 50 per cent increase the federal gov
ernment's share would be $1,261,500, raising the
total of the inheritances and estate taxes to $2,
710,650, or 27.10 per cent and leaving a balance
of $7,709,850. The table which follows presents
a comparison of the existing rates of the federal
estate tax and the increased rates which are pro
posed in the pending emergency revenue bill :
Present Proposed
Estates as Graded. . Tax, Pet. Tax, Pet.
Up to $50,000
$50,000 to $150.000 2 3
$150,000 to $250,000..... 3 414
$250,000 to $450,000 4 6
$450,000 to $1,000,000 5 7A
$1,000,000 to $2,000.000 6 '9
$2,000,000 to $3,000,000 .. 7 10
$3,000,000 to $4.000,000 8 12
$4,000,000 to $5,000,000 9 13'
Over $5,000,000 10 15
"There are thirty-two states which have in
heritance tax laws that apply to the supposi
titious case of Mr. Anyone. Twelve other states
exemot direct heirs in their inheritance tax laws.
but in these instances the rates applicable to col
lateral netrs usually are Higher, these twelve
states are Delaware, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky,
Maryland, Missouri, New Hampshire, Ohio, Penn
sylvania, Texas, Vermont and Virginia. There
are four states which have no inheritance tax
laws. These are Florida, Mississippi, New Mex
ico and boatn Carolina. (
People and Events '
In searching for jokers in oresent bids and
past laws, a committee of the Kansas legislature
hopped on a bygone joker which enables a uni
versity professor to pull municipalities for $5
for each 1,000 inhabitants as compensation for
services as chief booster of the Kansas League
of Municipalities. There are other jokera in the
pack, but the professor's $5 yields the greatest
percentage or legislative numor.
Colonel John D. Colton. one of the two remain
ing survivors of the Jayhawker argonauts of '49
observed the sixty-seventh anniversary of their
deliverance, at his home in Galesburg, 1IL, last
Sunday. Snow and wind and zero temperature
vividly recalled the hardships of the trip through
the Sierras in midwinter, out of which Jay
hawkers emerged January 4, 1849. The other sur
vivor is L. Dow Stephens of San Jose. Cal. The
Jayhawker party started from Galesburg and
was composed of Illinois and Iowa gold seekers.
ITODAYI
Health Hint for the Day.
A good voice requires that the whole
body should be healthy and whatever
we do to Improve condition of our
none, teeth, throat lunits, digestion
and circulation will help to Improve
the possibilities ot our voice.
One Year Ago Today In the War. ,
Germans repelled British assault
southwest ot Ypres.
Russians beaten In rersia, accord
ing to Constantinople.
Eight hundred Austrian soldiers
killed orwounded in raid by Italian
aeroplanes on city of Laibach.
Lansing Informed Austrian charge
that United States stood firmly for
right of merchant vessels to carry guns
for defense.
In Omaha Thirty Years Ago.
At a meeting of the Board of Edu
cation Messrs. Coburn, Long and Liv
eney were appointed a committee to
see ' upon what terms a school site
could be secured In Kountze's new
addition west of Sixteenth and north
of Lake.
Miss Katie Powers and Mlas Bertha
Blrkett have been appointed to the
position of teachers In the city schools.
All night a row of messenger boys
crowded the door at the Capitol ave
nue entrance to the exposition build-
i i tAtm- mwIIva Ttlacea for
parties who wished to get first choice
of seats lor tne ram coorai
they were placed on sale.
T.in.han thn ho ba.ll machfnest of
the Union Pacific ahops. Is promoting
ine lormauon ot an ammcui wo
league.
ryu -an-.H b a a niitiva commit
tee of the Nebraska Humane society
met at the office of General J. E. Smith
to consider applications made for the
position of agent of the society.
Mr. ana Mrs. J. u. niuj.
Dodge, are mourning the death of
their infant daughter, Mary.
Fremont Benjamin of Avoca, la., is
visiting in Omaha and Council Bluffs.
Mrs. Jonn Hammer auppeu "
ion not in her yard and in the fall
broke her wrist.
This Day In History.
1817 Birth of King William III of
Holland, father of the present queen.
Died November 23, 1890-
1864 Second confederate congress
met at Richmond.
1868 General Flores, president of
Uruguay, assassinated.
1878 Phonograph patented by
Thomas A. Edison.
1890 Joseph G. Blggar, Irish home
rule leader and known as the "In
ventor of modern parliamentary ob
struction," died in England. Born at
Belfast in 1828. !
1902 President Roosevelt refused
to reopen the Sampson-Schley contro
versy. '
1908 The Joint note of the Euro
pean powers regarding Macedonian
reforms was delivered to the Turkish
government (
The Day We Celebrate. (
Myron L. Learned is celebrating his
fifty-first birthday. He Is a native of
Vermont and studied in Boston law
Bchool. He was associated In a law
firm with John L. Kennedy from 1888
to 1907, since which time he has been
practicing on his own account.
William F. Wapplch was born Feb
ruary 19, 1860, at Keokuk. Ia. He be
gan his residence In Omaha on his
twenty-seventh birthday and has been
here continuously since, with a brief
intermission. Ak-Sar-Ben would have
a hard time to put up an initiation
without him.
H. J. Day was born right here in
Omaha Just thirty years ago today.
The rubber market Is of great interest
to him. as he Is associated with the
John Day Rubber and Supply com
pany here.
E. W. Dooley started life In New
Brunswick, N. J., thirty-seven years
ago today. He was for some time
manager of the Woolworth store here,
but has recently been promoted to
Chicago.
Adellna Pattl (Baroness Cedar
strom), for many years the world's
greatest singer, born in Madrid seventy-four
years ago today.
General Alvaro Obregon, minister of
war in Mexico, born In the state of
Sonora thirty-seven years ago today.
Brigadier General William Crozler,
chief of the bureau of ordnance of the
War department, born at Carrollton,
O., sixty-two years ago today.
Rt Rev. Nicholas A. Gallagher,
Catholic bishop of Galveston, born in
Belmont county,. Ohio, seventy-one
years ago today. "
George Sisler, first baseman of the
St. Louis American league base ball
team, born at Nlmlsila, 0., twenty
three years ago today.
J. Weldon Wyckoff, pitcher of the
Boston American league base ball
team, born at Wllllamsport, Pa., twenty-live
years ago today.
Timely Jottings and Reminders.
Problems relating to military pre
paredness will occupy a prominent
place In the discussions at the 114th
meeting of the American Institute of
Mining Engineers, which begins its
sessions today in New York City.
The Association of Outdoor Show
men of the World, organized to weed
out unscrupulous showmen and to up
lift conditions generally In the show
business, will meet in Chicago today
tor Its first annual convention.
National Song Week Is to be ob
served throughout the country during
the week beginning today. Patriotic
hymns, folklore songs and standard
music, It Is planned, will be sung In
the public schools and at community
choruses organised for the purpose.
Whether members of a great rail
road brotherhood may Invoke the aid
of the courts to stop a threatened
strike regularly ordered by their or
ganisation and still retain their mem
bership In the order is to be deter
mined at Louisville today. Fourteen
members of the Order of Railway
Conductors, employes of the Louis
ville ft Nashville railway, have been
cited to appear before the Louisville
branch ot the order to show cause
why they should not be expelled for
resisting through legal procedure last
September, service of a general strike
order when a nation-wide railroad
strike seemed imminent
a.
Ambulance Corps Volunteers.
New York, Feb. 16. To the Editor
of The Bee: I am permitted to send
you the enclosed very human letter
from the front (letter exceeds our
space limit) written by one of the first
rate Americans who are serving with
the Harjes-Norton volunteer ambul
ance sections, which are under the
t American Red Cross. If you like to
state that anybody who wants to join
the volunteer ambulance service in
France should apply to me, we shall
be glad. ELIOT NORTON.
Why Quibble About Consistency?
Omaha, Feb. 15. To the Editor of
The Bee: In a recent World-Herald
there apeared an editorial on "The
Clamor for War." It appears that Dr.
Lyman Abbott, President Hibben of
Princeton and certain other "mili
tarists" put a paid advertisement in
the New York papers last Monday, in
which they stated, among other things,
that "It is no longer a question of
whether there shall be war with Ger
many. There Is war with Germany."
The Herald editor can not find words
harsh enough to express his opinion of
these men and of their wicked attempt
to bully the president and congress.
Strangely enough the Herald did
not say a word last week when Amos
Plnchot and certain other pacifists put
paid advertisements In papers" all over
the country! hinting that Mr. Wilson
was no longer to be trusted and bid
ding all men to write to their con
gressmen and urge them to desert the
president, Appended to this advertise
ment was a lop-eared "voting blank,"
cunningly worded so that no matter
whether a man voted "yes" or "no"
he was voting against Mf Wilson and
for the German kaiser.
In every crisis we have had with
Germany the Herald has acted in ex
actly this way. First it prints a rous
ing editorial on standing back of the
president and upholding American
rights and honor: then it begins to
shift its attitude, and the next thing
you know it is siding with the Bryan-Ford-Pinchod
crowd and helping
them to hold the president back by
his coat-tails.
Each time we have had trouble
with Germany I have noticed that It
always has been the peace-at-any-prlce
faction that has started the first
scare-your-congressman-to-death. On
the other hand, if a group of men
grow weary of Mr. Wilson's painstak
ing attempts to isolate the bacillus of
an overt act, if they get the idea that
the microscope Is no longer the instru
ment Indicated, and if they start to
educate the public along these lines,
the same paper Is always ready to
rend them apart AMERICAN.
BEGINNINGS IN DEFENSE.
The first school for trvm firing: was estab
lished br the War department at Sandy
Hook In 1840.
The tint torpedo school of the United
States navy was established at Newport, R.
I., in 1869.
The Trenton, of the United States navy,
was the first warship In the world to be
lighted by electricity.
The first Ironclad steam war vessel was
designed by Thomas Gregg of Pennsylvania
and patented by him in 1814.
The first linc-of-battle ship built for the
United States navy was the America, com
pleted at Ports month, N. H., in 1780.
The .United States Naval academy dates
from 1845, In which year it was first opened
on the grounds of Fort Severn, near Annap
olis.
The firat warship bailt tinder the present
organisation of the American navy was the
United States, launched at Philadelphia, July
10, 1707.
The first United States naval hospital
was established at the old navy yard in
Philadelphia .daring the second war with
Great Britain.
The first American warship of the Bcrew-
propeller type was the Princeton, which, was
launched at Philadelphia just seventy-five
years ago.
Host of our navy yards date from 1800,
in which year sites were purchased for the
yards at Boston, Brooklyn, Portsmouth and
Washington.
In the early days of the United States
navy chaplains were appointed by the presi
dent, and it was by no means the rule that
the appointee was an ordained clergyman.
The present United States military acad
emy was developed from a small mathemat
ical school which had been established at
West Point in 1801 under the direction of a
private eitlsen.
Storyette of the Day.
The pretty girl of the party was
bantering the genial bachelor on his
reasons tor remaining single.
"No-oo, I' never was exactly disappointed-
in love," he meditated. "I
was more what you might call dis
couraged. You see when I was very
young i cecum e very mucn enamoured
of a young lady of my acquaintance;
I was mortally afraid to tell her my
feelings, but at last I screwed up my
courage to the proposing point. I
said, 'Let's get married.'
"And she said, 'Good Lord! Who'd
have usl M Jttvarybody'i Magazine.
AROUND THE CITIES.
Sioux City's boosters last week enter
tained the Greater Iowa Boosters' club and
took in a fresh stock of red pep. The object
of the state club is "to make the wheels
Of progress turn faster."
Philadelphia boosters are shaking hands
with themselves on the location of a huge
Westinghouse plant en the edge of the city.
Enthusiasts figure the1 plant good for an
increase of 40,000 in population.
Louisville is talking up for next year a
centennial celebration in honor of the acquisi
tion of that territory from the British by
George Rogers Clarke. Boosters believe
the celebration is good for 50,000 visitors.
The New York couple which won the
spotlight by dressing in black for the mar
riage ceremony took less chance with the
fates than a Salt Lake couple. A fruit eake
baked forty-six years ago was served at the
latter wedding.
Chicago's right to regulate billboards has
been sustained by the state supreme court
"The decision," say the Tribune, "seems to
indicate that things offensive to the eye,
as well as those which offend the nose
and ears, may be declared nuisances and
abolished."
Federal and state authorities In Chicago
are waging war on the bonding business,
controled chiefly by underworld grafters
who shadow the courts for victims. The
state has nabbed the queen of professional
bonders, who scheduled the same property
four times for an equal number of patrons.
Half a dozen of the clan are in the toils of
Judge Landis court.
TICKLISH TRIFLES.
'I'll get a terrible scolding for coming
home so late.'
Vrtu don't know now in manage a wire.
Do something to dintrict her attention."
What can I do?
I -i.neraily leave the corner of a IS MM
tir.king out of my vest pocket.' Louisville
Courier-Journal.
Vncle Eira F Kph Hopkins has gone
to Palm Beach. I wonder If there'll be
enough going on to suit him.
Uncle Etien wrii. fjpn am i irk in g any
chances, lie's took his checker-board along.
Life.
Thr in one thing In a lawyer's pro
fession which is different from any other?"
What is that 7"
"The longer he is at It the more he has
of a brief career." Baltimore American.
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MWBEViE I&VIY ASLEEP
Mrs. Oibble How many fresh eggs do
you use In making your poverty pudding?
Mrs. Gabble The recipe calls for nine,
but since we formed the Rronomy league t
cut it down to eight. Judge,
"Ter not workin', DlnnyT Are yes out
of a Job?"
"Shore, the boss aiscnargea me yisieraay
an Oi got mad an' quit."
"Aw, go on! Yer too Binsitlve" Boston
Transcript.
"Have von taken any chance In a lottery
since we were married,'- dear?" asked the
sweet young thing.
"No; that was the last one." was th
cold reply of the husband. Yonkers States
man,
"Now' this stock fell forty points last Octo
ber, Jumped sixty-two notches In Novem
ber, and fell eighty points in December.
What's it going to do next?"
"Oonh. I been used to playing the races.
I dunno how to figure on past performances
like that." Washington Star.
"No." remarked the determined lady to
the indignant taxi driver, who had re
ceived his exact fare, "you cannot cheat
me. I haven't ridden in cabs these last
twenty-five years for nothing."
"Haven't you?" he retorted bitterly.
"Well, you've done your best." New York
Times.
Author Walter, this beet Is as tough sj
leather.
Waiter Really, sir, I am disappointed In
you. 1 have always heard that you were
an original man, and here you are saying
the same thing they all say. Puck.
"So Jimmy has been half drowned again,
has he, going out In a rowboat against
my express order? Well, I am going to
cure him of hie love of sea travel by the
homeopathic method."
"How's that?"
"I am going to take him to the wood
shed with me on a whaling trip." Balti
more American.
THE BEACON LIGHT.
Old Glory floating tn the brees
O'er lands that love thee well.
With all thy rights upon the seas,
Remember, "War is hell."
You came to us when days were dark.
Conceived in truth and right
At birth you were a glowing spark,
You're now a beacon light.
You're loved and honored 'round the world.
Because yqur mission's peace.
And everywhere you are unfurled
The hopes of men Increase.
Your sons are brave as brave can be.
And at attention stand
All are prepared to follow thee
When given the command.
But if, perchance, there Is a ohanoe
To keep us from the fray.
We truly hope some circumstance
Will point the peaceful way.
For if we fall Into the maw
Of this world-holocaust,
Who will there be to plead for law,
When all the world Is lost?
Then strive for peace with honor bright.
And hold thy neutral place
You shine tonight the only light
To save the human race.
Omaha. R. F WILLIAMS
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