THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 1917.
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JANUARY CIRCULATION
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Fewer laws and more respect for law it a good
slogan! ' -
It isn't too soon to commence figuring on the
"paint up" program.
Remember the Auto show is even better at the
finish than it was at the start.
Another "rowell mizzle ricture in sunaay a
Bee. Try again and as often as you please!
The prospect of Villa "standing by the presi
dent" lends a dash of gayety to the situation.
Omaha's gain irt bank clearings is a fair index
of what the city is doing in' other directions.'
Whatever else the legislators may do, they
are showing good judgment in the bills they are
killing.
The farm loan bank will give out some jobs
before it makes any loans. Who wants the
places!1 Speak up. '
Another million-Jollir building wilt be wel
comed, but we can spare the application of fire
for clearing the lot.
It's a cinch that wild horse deal will not look
half so tempting to a person after serving a term
in prison and paying a $10,000 fine.
It is gathered from his remarks "Gumshoe
Bill" Stone dislikes the rude caresses of the road
roller. Evidently it disturbs the moss.
. The German chancellor refers to the "unpar
alleled bravery" of the submarine crews. Pas
sengers on the Laconia can testify on this point.
Colonel Bryan's lucid expositions of dry rot
falls painfully short of the volume of silver moon
shine dispensed some twenty-one years ago. Time
tells. 1
An extra session 01 congress commenaa risen
for one epochal reason. The inauguration of the
"lady from Montana" justifies the worry and th
expense.
No half-way station any longer between "Wet"
and "Dry." The new federal law makes it a
through ticket every time from point of departure
to destination. f
With assurance given to the public that the
,car shortage situation has been completely re
lieved in the west, food price boosters will have to
find another excuse.
Burglars fat Omaha and Brooklyn passed up
the money boxes and made off with prize pack
ages of potatoes, bacon, eggs and onions. Store
breakers manifest keen appreciation of values
nowadays. ,
There are too many roof gardens in New
York," observes Governor Whitman, "and too few
tajMi, Mnua IVI1UUIIB MIV SillllMISl
State possesses an official who can map a condi
tion with picturesque accuracy.
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' Nobody ha any use for a deadbeat who tries
to get away from his honest debts. The mere un
fortunate, however, can always count on svmna-
thetie consideration from creditors convinced that
'he is making a real effort to pay up.
Not a Penny for Blackmail
St. Leu Is Glaba-Dtiacrat
After Colombia lost Panama it offered to take
$8,000,000 for all its rights to the canal cone and
later reduced the price to $5,000,000. But con
gress, being advised of all the facts, refused to
pay a cent. During this administration we have
been asked to pay $25,000,000 and make an ex
pression of regret that means an admission of
wrongdoing, if it means anything. The price has
been reduced to $15,000,000, but any payment
would represent a yielding to blackmail. Every
concrete argument about the alleged "wrong to
wivKiui. , iwku vii laiscuwu. oiaicmcma
about John Hay have been forged, in the face of
his public and private utterances over his own
signature. Hay's conscience was clear. He
signed the Panama agreement with ink from
Abraham Lincoln's inkstand, as he wrote his
daughter at the- time. In numerous letters he
declared that Roosevelt could not have done any
thing except what he did.
The order to protect both ends of the railway
when the revolution began was th extent of
American "aid." But the same order had been
given four times before during the- same admin
istration. There had been fifty-three Panama
revolutions in fifty-seven year. The only reason
the last was such a success was that the unani
mous action of the Colombian congress in re
pudiating a treaty the Colombian government had
urged upon as and was more than fair to Colom
bia had it made all residents in Panama favor
independence.. They saw the dream of a canal,
which meant so much to them, fading, with pros
pect that the Nicaragua route would be chosen.
The uprising was unanimous. Even the Colom
bian soldiers joined in it The only fatalities
were accidental, a Chinaman and. a dog being
killed.
We paid Panama the same amount we were to
have paid Colombia. We did not profit finan
cially by the revolution. The project itself was
for the benefit of the world, all ships being
treated alike. Our only act consisted in prevent
ing an indefinite duration of bloodshed and de
vastation through the whole extent of the isth
mus as John Hay put it in a letter to Prof.
George P. Fisher on January 20, 1904. Colombia
lost Panama because of the greed and perfidy
of its -Wcial representatives and should bear the
loss.
Future Relations with Germany.
The Chicago Tribune carefully analyzes the
speech of Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg to
the Reichstag and finds it a solemn warning to the
United States. No longer is there any question
of the unbrage of Germany at the course pur
sued by this country. We are now dealing with
facts and not sentiment. Fine words nor spe
cious arguments no longer will avail to mollify
the German government, whose resentment is sol
idly founded on the belief -that we have aided
its foes. The conclusion is tiiat we may be cer
tain that in years to come the United States will
have to reckon with Germany as an offended and
uncompromising rival. The possibilities con
tained in this should be fully realized by all
Americans. It is more than ever an argument for
preparation for national self-defense. Having
chosen our path, it devolves on us to be ready
for what may be encountered on the way.
Such a Foolish Feud.
What an exhibition of foolishness we are hav
ing in the court house, where certain county com
missioners have "locked horns" with the sheriff,
with nobody hurt but the public! Shutting off
the elevator power and making people climb the
stairs to transact business gets no one anywhere
and the pretense that this controversy turns on
the sheriff's bills for feeding prisoner i alto
gether too flimsy.
In view of its uncompromising fight on that
abuse, The Bee will not be accused of defending
any jail-feeding graft. However, the situation is
not now to be remedied by the county board, but
by repealing the law enacted for the special benefit
of the last democratic sheriff by a legislature in
party sympathy with him fixing an exact price.
This price was then and is still exorbitant, though
less so in these day of high living cost. Be that
as it may, the present sheriff ha no option but
to furnish meal to prisoner at the rate the law
prescribes. We are thoroughly convinced the
whole system is wrong and that, as jail purveyor,
the sheriff should act merely a agent for the
county with only reimbursement for such actual
outlay on the same plan as governs other public
institutions.
But the right or wrong of the jail-feeding law,
railroaded through the legislature two years ago,
will not justify the peculiar performances being
pulled off in the court house.
"Under Which King?"
Nebraska's fiftieth birthday was celebrated in
Washington by citizens domiciled there in be
fiting manner, even to the staging of a section
of the interminable dispute between the demo
cratic "leaders" of the Antelope state. Colonel
Bryan and Governor Metcalfe locked horns on
the peace question and enlivened the proceedings
by expression of diametrically opposite views,
each claiming to speak for the home folks. Which
really represents Nebraska sentiment? The prob
ability is that neither does. The people of this
state are patiently waiting, sincerely hoping that
war may be averted, but not deluding themselves
with vain promise. Like other true Americans,
Nebraskan know the price of liberty and are
willing to pay it. The incident at Washington
indicate how far the docent of local democracy
are from agreeing on anything of real impor
tance. Followers of the donkey emblem here
about are (till confronted with the question,
"Under which king?"
Barring British "Slacker."
Public approval will follow the determination
of Governor Whitman of New York to debar
from exhibition in hi state a prize fighter who
notoriously has evaded military service in his
own country. Seldom is a case presented in which
action concerned with the affairs of prize fight
ing, other than to actually prohibit the practice,
may be said to have the support of good morals
and sound ethic, but this has. That the fighter
in question, a British subject of military age,
fled from his own country to escape military serv
ice and came to America, lured by prospects of
lavish returns for his skill a a boxer, is ad
mitted. One of the excuse always relied on by
the advocates of prize fighting 1 that boxing is
the "manly art of self-defense," but here we have
an example that well answers that. Instead of
developing a sense of honor it ha apparently
fostered only the cupidity of this youth and by
reason of his peculiarly irresponsible conduct he
has added, if possible, to the obloquy already at
tached to the proscribed sport.
, Vindication.
The hog editor of our esteemed hyphenated
contemporary scoffed recently at a statement
made by The Bee, relative to th progress of the
pig a a producer and reproducer of it kind. The
limited experience or Information of the eager
critic did not comprehend the capabilitiea of
the modern pig, so he challenged the accuracy
of the statement that a good brood sow would
bring forth a many a twenty of her young at a
time. Undoubtedly, he had in mind the hazel-
splitter or razorback hog, the type with which he
is the more familiar, but it was the high-class
modern machine for making bacon out of corn
The Bee referred to. At any rate, the answer to
our critic comes from the state farm at Kearney,
where twenty-one pink-nosed bit of potential
pork product came together to greet a (ingle
tow a mother. This is ample vindication. We
would suggest that the pig editor referred to get
out of his luxurious quarters long enough to see
how far the world has advanced since he was a
farmer boy.
' Subscriptions to federal loan bank stock
range from $41,725 in Omaha to $410 at Colum
bia, S. C Omaha's rank at the head of the twelve
district cities is conspicuous by reason of the
meager sum subscribed by localities especially
vociferous for land bank honor.
Never another peep in reinforcement of that
labored charge that the Allies were unwilling to
accept "peace without victory" only because it
would compel them to forego the profit, at so
much an acre, on a huge international land grab!
What about it?
The mayor of Chicago offers a ready Solution
of the rising cost of living. Let people buy only
what they can afford to ftav for. The rest la .
Still the federal government propose to squander
uu,uuu seeking a solution not half as good.
Thirteen state bank charters iisued by the
banking board in one day constitute a delicate
tribute to the speed efficiency of that supreme
court deciuon.
Rev. C. N. Dawson
"My First Sermon"
"At the dote my big friend said,
'Well, you vid a migh y tight
belter than I thought you could.' "
Food prices in Chicago are reported to be on
the decline. Speed the good work. Somebody
ought to notify the lioj buyers.
It was back in Kankakee county, Illinois.
Soon after receiving my quarterly conference,
or local preacher's license, I was informed by my
pastor at the close of his Sunday morning serv
ice, that he would not be able to fill his evening
appointment on account of sickness in his family,
and that I must preach in his stead at the Bloom
school house, where I had previously wrought
in the capacity of a country school teacher.
No word of mine could convince him that I
was wholly unprepared for such sudden action
and that it would be utterly impossible for me to
comply with his requirement He said, "I will
end them word that you preach to them this
evening." The "word" must have traveled on the
wings of the wind. The whole country side
turned out to hear the boy preacher. The house
was crowded to the limit, and only two of all
that number were church members.
When I arrived, I found Ad Mann (with whom
I had boarded while teaching in the community)
a big rough-and-ready sort of chap, entertaining
the crowd in the capacity of "the preacher."
Somewhat confused I took a seat about half way
back toward the door and waited further de
velopments. After enjoying my confusion for a
time, he said, "Well, I'll give way to you, and if
you are going to do anything, you'd better get
at it." I took him at hi word and proceeded to the
pulpit and opened the meeting in due form. After
the singing and prayer, I announced my text, but
was unable to find it I remembered the words,
but could not locate them. Fortunately I had
chosen a text that covered everything between
hell and heaven and extended to the last man
of a lost race. "And as Moses lifted up the ser
pent in the wilderness, even so mutt the Son of
Man be lifted up: That whosoever believeth in
Him should not perish, but have eternal life."
My embarrassment abated in some measure
and I had reasonable liberty. No preacher ever
had closer attention. The audience was made up
of my friends and they wanted me to succeed.
At the close of the sermon (if it could be
called a sermon) my big friend, Mr. Mann, was
the first to clasp my hand, saying, "Well, you did
a mighty sight better than I thought you could."
And really, I do think it was the poorest ser
mon I ever preached.
Pastor Dietz Methodist Episcopal Church.
(Naal "My First Sanaa," by Rav. Frederick E. Pamp.)
Slamming the Stable Door
Mtanaapalla Jauraal
Under the pressure of the present emergency,
the senate has passed the administration's espion
age bill, imposing severe penalties on foreign
spies who violate our neutrality or undermine our
national defenses.
Senator Cummins asserts that there are no
less than 100,000 of these secret agents now oper
ating in this country. The Department of Jus
tice long ago found itself unable to cope with such
offenses for lack of laws with teeth in them. It
drew up fourteen different measures designed to
overcome its difficulties.
But congress paid little attention to the matter,
though news dispatches brought serious offenses
to light daily. It required the break with Ger
many to jolt the senate into action, and the house
has yet to consider the bill in which the fourteen
Department of Justice bills were consolidated.
Among the provisions of the bill passed by
the senate is one that make it an offense pun
ishable with two years' imprisonment for any per
son in charge or a private, foreign or domestic
ship to destroy or injure it or to permit it to be
used as a place of resort by conspirators against
the United States or its treaties or obligations.
If congress had passed such a measure, when
the need of it first became apparent the disabling
of the machinery of ninety-one German merchant
men interned in our ports could have been pre
vented. When the house has passed the present
bill, and the president hae signed it, the slam of
the stable door after the horse has been stolen
will once more reverberate through the land.
We aeem to be degenerating into an eleventh
hour country. We are worse than the foolish
virgin of the parable. We put off till tomorrow
the things we should do today. The violations of
our neutrality since the war began have been per
sistent and notorious. Dumba and Boy-ed and
Papen were sent home. Recently Consul General
Bopp and his accomplices have been convicted.
But most of the offenders have been "within the
law," and, though Washington knew pretty well
what they , were up to, effective action was im
possible. Even now it is touch and go whether the
house gets around to take action before it is over
taken by March 4.
People and Events
Investigation of the remains of the private
bank of Robert L. Pitte & Son, Chicago, ahow
that fraudulent transactions have been going on
for thirty years, and depositor did not get wise
until the bank went under. Absence of state
supervision made shady work a quiet easy, inside
job. , i
"Father Pete" Drexelius of Detroit founder
of the esteemed "Social Order of the Moose," is
dead at 54. Mr. Drexelius was a lodge "jiner"
of distinction long before he gave the Order of
the Moose habitation and a name. Fatherhood of
a new order earned for him the highest laurels
of lodgecraft.
A Washington judge consulted by a teacher
regarding unruly school boys was advised that
the rawhide was the proper instrument of correc
tion and advised her to try it on. A-moment later
his honor, on being shown a pair of husky 18-year-old
kids, revised hi advice ana suggested
suspended sentence on good behavior. Discre
tion bespeaketh judicial wisdom.
Life in the old Kentucky home has its lights
and shades as elsewhere. Thus the Courier
Journal ruminates: "When a plain American
daddy who has made his pile gets to be middle
aged and his hair and his daughter are coming out
about the same time, he finds the cor-.ing out of
his hair cause the family much less worry, in
addition to being unattem'H by expense."
A wandering Croesus from New York blew
into a Pittsburgh hotel bar and flipped a $10,000
bill in payment of a noon appetizer. The dazed
barkeep looked from bill to man and concluded
the local asylum had lost a member. But things
looked different when Croesus flashed nine more
bills of the same altitude. "It's one on the house,"
said the boss as Croesus was led toward a safety
vault
Captain George Steunenberg, the poet of the
regular army, has retired from the service be
cause of failing heaUU and will cv'tivate the muse
as a private tizen. The captain is a native of
Idaho, a brother of the murdered Governor
Steunenberg, and is creditt-1 with having pro
voked the ire of the German k-" tr by penning
atpoem satyrizing German tactics taught at the
Leavenworth school five years ago.
A touch of postmortem humor enlivens the
will of Randolph McMullen, a wealthy farmer
of Tyrone township, Hollidaysburg, Pa. It pro
vides for the distribution of an estate of $100,000
among the poor of three counties under the super
vision of a Catholic priest, a Protestant clergy
man and a Jewish rabbi. The reason given in the
will for the novel request is that "each trustee
will watch the other" and see that, every cent
given to charity will be rightly applied.
I TODAY
Health Hint for the Day.
Don't bite your Anger nails! It is
Imply a sign of bad temper or over
flow of Irritable energy.
One Year Ago Today In the War.
Terrific fighting continued in the vi
cinity of Verdun.
French minister of marine placed
loss of life in sinking of La Provence
at 3,300 men.
United States senate tabled the Oore
resolution to warn Americans off
armed merchantmen.
In Omaha Thirty Years Ago.
In the establishment of Tiffany &
Co., New York, there is prominently
displayed the large cast of a buffalo
head six feet In height, bearing the In
scription: "Cast of the new bronze
to be placed on the new Union Pacific
bridge between Council Bluffs and
Omaha" This ornament in bronze Is
to be placed above the center of the
bridge.
At a meeting of the Omaha Wheel
club the following new members were
taken in: E. B. Smith, ft. N. Mc
Laughlin, George R. Voss, George O.
Howard, George Scrlbner, H. H. Hun
ter, P. P. Pomeroy, A.- D. Hughes, H.
H. Rhoadeg, F. N. Conner, A. J. Ken
drlck, C. W. Moulton and W. 8. Rob
erts. The names of the old members
are as follows: W. 8. Bacon, Perry
Bandollet T. F. Blackmore, F. N,
Clarke, W. G. Clarke. W. B, Coombe,
C. M. Haynes, A. C. Jolllffe, Ed Lytle,
V. T. Mittauer, H. B. Mulford, Roy
Runcle and O. F. Bchwarz.
The Council Blurts Real Estate as
sociation completed Its organization by
the election of the following officers
for the coming year: B. A. Benson,
president; E. W. Raymond, first vice
president; Frank Cook, second vice
president; N. P. Dodge, treasurer. The
executive committee consisted of M.
F. Rohrer, C. E. Friedman, E. L.
Squire and Forrest Smith.
Hegemann & Plnsch is the style of
a new commission firm which has
opened at 1006 Howard.
Michael McCarthy, and old and re
spected citizen of Omaha, died at his
home from heart disease.
This Day In History.
1793 William C. Macready, one of
the greatest actors of his time, born
In London. Died there April 27, 1873.
1815 William H. Crawford of Geor
gia became secretary of war in Madi
son's cabinet
1820 Congress admitted Maine to
the union.
1839 Act of congress authorising
the president to resist any attempt of
Great Britain to enforce exclusive Ju
risdiction in the disputed territory in
the north of Maine.
1842 Congress appropriated $30,
000 to aid Prof. Morse in establishing
the first telegraph line between Wash
ington and Baltimore.
1849-Department of the Interior
created by act of congress.
1851 National Soldiers' home, near
Washington, D. C, established by con
gress. 1871 The German troopa began to
leave Paris. i
1878 Treaty of peace between Rus
sia and Turkey signed at San Stefano.
1886 Peace was restored between
Serbia and Bulgaria.
1892 Several Berlin newspapers
confiscated for reprinting a London
Times editorial on Emperor William's
speech at Brandenburg.
1894 Lord Rosebery succeeded
Mr. Gladstone as British premier.
The Day We Celebrate
Lewis a Reed was born March i,
1847, and is one of Omaha's pioneers.
Mr. Reed was for many years cashier
of the Nebraska National bank, retir
ing because of his health.
W. G. Templeton, doing business as
a. broker in loans and Insurance, Is
Just 72. He came here from Culbert
son, Neb., and was at one time deputy
oil inspector under Governor Mickey.
Dr. Hayes Gsantner, the dentist was
born March S, 1873, right here In
Omaha. He went through the public
schools and graduated in dentistry
from Washington university at St
Louis.
William H. Wilbur, agent for the
Guaranty Fund Life Insurance com
pany, was born March 3, 1869, at New
Lebanon. N. r. He was formerly In
the real estate business.
Alexander Graham Bell, perfector
of the telephone, born In Edinburgh,
Scotland, seventy years ago today.
William M. Calder. who succeeds
James A. O'Gorman as United States
senator from New York, born in
Brooklyn forty-eight years ago today.
Duke of Manchester, who married
Miss Helena Zimmerman of Clncin
cinnatl, born in London forty years
ago today.
Lawrence Addlcka. representative
of the American Electro-Chemical so
ciety on the naval consulting board,
born In Philadelphia thirty-nine years
ago today. - .
Rt Rev. Thomas F. Lillls, Catholic
bishop of Kansas City, born at Lex
ington, Mo., fifty-live years ago to
day. John M. Wood, for many years
prominent In base ball as player, man
ager and club owner, born at Belle
fonte. Pa, fifty-seven years ago today.
Timely Jottings and Reminders.
Birthday greetings to Alexander
Graham Bell, Inventor of the tele
phone, who Is 70 years old today.
President Lowell of Harvard Is to
deliver the address today at the an
nual Charter day exercises at the Uni
versity of California.
The Anti-War league of the District
of Columbia has issued a call to all Its
branches to meet In convention in
Washington today and tomorrow to
form a national organization.
Today will see the completion of
all preparations for the presidential
inauguration. The preaident Is to take
the oath of office in private at the
White House on Sunday, preliminary
to the formal ceremonies to be held
the following day.
Overshadowed by the enthusiasm at
tending the arrival of the Inauguration
visitors and the holding of a suffrage
carnival, the sixty-fourth congress to
day will begin to say its farewells and
to prepare for the termination of Its
business at noon Monday.
8toryctte of the Day.
Two women traveling In the same
passenger coach could not agree about
the window and finally appealed to
the brakeman.
"If that window remains open I
shall catch my death of cold," objected
one, to which the other promptly re
plied: "If It is closed I shall smother
to death."
The brakeman scratched, his head
In perplexity, until an old gentleman
sitting nearby proposed:
"Open the window until one freezes
to death and then close It until the
other smothers to death, and then the
rest of us can finish our Journey In
peace." New York Tlmea ,
Who Should Pay the Bills.
McCook, Neb., March 1. To the
Editor of The Bee: It I am reliably
informed, the Taylor bill before the
state legislature provides a tax on all
property of the state for assisting rural
education.
I believe any cpmmuntty unable
properly to educate Its youth should
have state assistance, because educa
tion is properly a state function. How
ever, I have before me -a, directory of
a typical Nebraska county showing
that the tax levied in each rural schoul
is hardly a third as many mills as Is
now being levied by cities and towns.
Now, the query is, why should
cities and towns be excluded from the
benefits of this general tax and the
proceeds thereof devoted exclusively
to communities now levying barely a
third as much for school' purposes as
the communities denied the ben fit of
this general tax. W. T. DAVIS.
Woman Suffrage in Practice.
Omaha, Neb., March 1. To the Edi
tor of The Omaha Bee: Wyoming Is
a great state In area but has a popu
lation of only 145,965 In 1910, less
than Omaha.' Woman suffrage was
adopted In Wyoming in 1869, through
influence on the territorial governor.
The following year the legislature re
pealed woman suffrage, but the gov
ernor vetoed the repeal and suffrage
has been In practice for forty-eight
years. Why has Wyoming "mothered"
no reform legislation? Why is It In
many ways the most backward in
granting protective legislation to wom
en and children? Section 3, Article 1,
of the constitution of Wyoming reads:
"The rights and privileges of Its clti
zents shall be without distinction of
race, color, sex, or any circumstance
whatsoever other than individual In
competence or unworthlness duly as
certained by a court of competent
jurisdiction." Suppose every state now
had a constitution "eliminating sex in
legislation" and requiring that women
vote on the same terms as men. What
would happen to the legal protection
of the woman worker?
In January, 1917, upholding the
state constitution which denies distinc
tions of sex, the Wyoming courts have
declared It unconstitutional to protect
the working women, and thus nullify
Chapter 45, Session Laws, 1915, which
prohibited the employment of women
more than fifty-six hours a week, or
more than ten hours a day (see page
40, labor laws of the state of Wyo
ming). Thus Wyoming has constitu
tionally demonstrated that "equal
rights" are actually a menace to the
welfare of the woman worker. Ac
cording to pamphlet 248, national
child labor committee, entitled "What
state laws and the federal census say
about child labor," Wyoming is one
of the two states In the union having
no standard child labor provisiona
There is not even a 16-year-age limit
in mines and quarries. In 1916 Wyo
ming, after forty-six years of woman
suffrage, passed an act establishing a
nine-hour day for children .under
14 years of age.
Why have women, alleged to be1 suf
fering under the cruel tyranny of men
they despise and laws "which they have
no voice In making," never tried to
colonize the vast empire of Wyoming?
At the last election, November, 1916,
Wyoming cast fewer votes than Dela
ware, although there are more men in
Wyoming.
Nebraska Association Opposed to
Woman Suffrage.
Minneapolis reports that a favorite brand
of indoor aport has suspended operations for
the present. The new city administration
clapped the lid on tight, and alienee and
gloom pervade pre milts formerly astir with
the rattla of ebipe and the mowing of
"kitties."
Sage Tea Keeps
Your Hair Dark
It' Grandmother's recipe to bring
back color, youthfulness and lustre
Everybody is using it again.
Gray hair, however handsome, de
notes advancing age. We all know
the advantages of a youthful appear
ance. Your hair is your charm. It
makes or mars the face. When it
fades, turns gray and looks streaked,
just a few applications of Sage Tea
and Sulphur enhances its appearance
a hundredfold.
Don't stay gray! Look young I
Either prepare the recipe at home or
get from any drug store a 50-cent
bottle of "Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur
Compound," which is merely the old
time recipe improved by the addition
of other ingredients. Thousands of
folks recommend this ready-to-use
preparation, because it darken the
hair beautifully, besides, no one can
possibly tell, as it darkens so natu
rally and evenly. You moisten , a
sponge or soft brush with it, drawing
this through the. hair, taking one
small strand at a time. By morning
the gray hair disappears; after an
other application or two its natural
color is restored and.it becomes thick,
glossy and lustrous and you appear
years younger.
Weyth's Sage and Sulphur Com
pound is a delightful toilet requisite.
It is not intended for the cure, miti
gation or prevention of disease. Adv.
Bargains for
You NOW!
Get your share of that ele
gant quality Furniture at dis
continued bargain price
from the
Raymond Stock
1513-15 HOWARD.
SMILING LIWES.
Judfa How came a man of yonr ability
to eland hare convicted of forseryT
Prisoner It la all owlns to my taklns
rood advice,- your honor. Whe, 1 left
school my teacher told ma with my talenta
to so on and forge ahead. Baltimore
American.
"1 don't aea how Btlter mabea auch a
success of hie bualneaa when ha la away
from hla office ao much."
'Thai'a why a maa can't afford to otay
In hla office these days. It he makes a
succesa he'a sot to think, and ha can t
think when he's interrupted." Lite.
PEAR MR.kABIBBlE,
A lilRV. TMW dILta ME aRW
ACjO.IS (rETTlUt MARRIED.
SHE m IVWrtED ME To AYrBlb
HER WENWi - SHOW I 0?
WIUiAMHlNtt.
TAkE NO CHANCES -THE"
SROOM & UABlf NOT TO SHOW
Of!
"Allow me." said the asent, "to recom
mend this new electric Iron to your atten
tion." "Indeed," said the laundress, "to tell you
the truth, I am In pressing heed of Its
service." Baltimore American.
Adam (after a Ions el!enc)-Say, Bve,
can't you say aomethlncT It'a dull here
with a dumb wife.
Eve What'a a woman to talk about, with
no elothaa and no aervanta 7 Life.
THE REPUBLIC. -
Lonvfellow'a "Th Build tnf of the Ship.
Thou, too, tall on, O Ship of State t
Sail on. O Union, etronr Mid great I
Humanity wtlh all iti feani,
With all the hopea of future years.
Is hanging breathleee on thy fatel
We know what Maiter laid thy keel,
What Workmen wrought thy rlbe of iteel,
Who made each mait, and aall, and rope,
What anvlla rang, what hammeri beat.
In what a forge and what a heat
Were ehaped the anchor of thy hope!
Fear not each ludden eound and hock.
'Tie of the wave and not the rock;
'Tie but the flapping of the eall,
And not a rent made by the gale I
In ipite of rock and tempeet'i roar.
In eplte of falee light on the ehore.
Sail on, nor fear to breaet the eeal
Our hearti, our hopea, are all with thee,
Our hearts, our topee, our prayer, our
team.
Our faith triumphant o'er our fears,
Ar all with thee are all with tbeel
Self
Controlled
Men
can't be stampeded
Moderation is the
watch-word of their
lives in business, eating,
drinking,
INVESTING
They are the type of
men we want for stock
holders. The L. V. Nicholas
Oil Company will sell
stock in amounts of
from $100 to $1,000 at
$100 per share.
Interviews will be
gladly given.
i FrawMcari,
I
Orate Kxeham- Bide, Oaeaha, Hek. I
Grain Exchange Bldg.
OMAHA, NEB.
Itching Pimples Kept
Mr. Simpson Awake for
Hours. Suffered Badly.
Healed By Cuticura.
"I suffered very badly with my head
which came out in little white pimples.
They would go away in a week and then
come oacK again. incy
festered and came to little
white heads and my scalp
was sore. It itched and
bumed so badly I would
just lie awake for hours with
the pain and I used to have
big eruptions on my head
from scratchine. My hair
was also thin and dry.
' 'I was told to wash my head with salt
and water, but it did no good and 1 tried
but with no relief. Then 1 sent
for a free sample of Cuticura Soap and
Ointment. 1 afterward bought more and
when I used two large boxes of Cuticura
Ointment and two bars of Soap I was
healed." (Signed) Charlie Simpson,
Oak St, River Grove, III., June 7, '16.
When Cuticura has cleared your skin
of pimples and redness keep it clear by
using the Soap assisted by the Ointment
for every-day toilet purposes. Abso
lutely nothing better.
For Frca Sample Each by Return
Mail, address post-card: "Cuticura,
Dept. H, Boston." Sold everywhere.
The Horrible Handicap
of Poisoned Blood
The Innocent Suffer Even Unto
the Third end Fourth Genera
tions But Relief li Now in Sight.
It has long been accepted as a
matter of course that the sins of the
father must be suffered by innocent
posterity, yet it is hard to become
reconciled to this condition. The
heritage of physical infirmity is
handicap under which thousands
must face the battle of life.
Scrofula is probably the most no
ticeable of the transmitted blood dis
orders, though there are other more
severe diseases of the blood that pass
from one generation to another. No
matter what inherited blood taint you
may be laboring under, S. S. S. offers
hope. This remedy has been in gen-
...1 .. - (A, mrtr ttiart fiftv vpara. It
is purely vegetable, and contains not
a particle ot any cnemicai, ana atia
promptly on the blood by routing all
traces of the taint and restoring it to
absolute purity.
Some of the most Distressing cases
of transmitted blood poison have
A ,Um fratmnt ni 9i. S. S..
and no case should be considered in
curable until this great remeay nas
been given a thorough trial. S. S. S.
acts as an antidote to every impurity
in the blood. You can obtain it at
any drug store. Our chief medical
adviser will take pleasure in giving
you without cost any advice that your
individual case requires. Write to
day to Swift Specific Co., 36 Swift
Laboratory, Atlanta, Ga.