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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: MARCH 11, 1917. The, Omaha-Bee DAILY (MORNINO-EVBNINO SUNDAY FOUNDED BY EDWARD KOSEWATER VICTOR ROSEWATER. EDITOR ". TIIK BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETOR. Entered it Omaha poatoffica ti otcond-elaoo matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Ar Cwnr. Br Mill, mil oas SoiiSm a?ajoai.Ma riw.l ll!r anlaout 8ttndJf " Mo .W Knalas and Suadu Z iS - IS, t.mui wiiaout Suaoaf " " J-JJ dl7 B aalr " so - 1JS an. Boa thm feoio U ooaw....... ";" 4 aoil of ouaoa of adanoo of UmuUnv la oallnfT u Oaaa. cirevluwa iMparUMuL REMITTANCE matt tor crmft, annoo or ikou! onto. o tea Hud Ukoa la ntroan at anil aoaoaoto. Panoaal aaoca, aiwt oa Ooaa. ul OFFICES. Oauaa-4k. Boo Batknat. !'l"f-?'!'!,u, "uto Soma (huB-U M at- Ka Iota la. rink An. CowaoU HiutH-H H. Mala a, St. UMt-Kww B'l- of COMJTOO. CORRESPONDENCE AdaMal ooaaaanleaUoao ratotlaf ta aao oat omtorltl wttor to Uaioaa Boo. Balunlal Dwrtawal. FEBRUARY CIRCULATION 64,592 Daily Sunday, 50,466 anrafo olrcaloUoa far tho ajoMao oaboenbod aa4 oaora ta ar Mat wuium tarcaloUoa jiaaaoor. Sakacrftara laavtef taa city ahaaM km Tka Baa Baikal ta tbaaa. AaUraa. ckaato4 aa a! Urn aa raqaaataa. 1 1 Tbc weather man may tilt the lid any old hour without risking a raid. Once more the Cuban president hails Uncle Sam at a faithful defender of the "inf." Are you tending in answers for The Bee's prize puzzle picture contest? Get the habitl Late reports from the market place accelerate the notion that you can't keep a good hog down. - The worst part of this cruel courthouse war fare it that, to date, the real sufferers are the non combatants. Still wc have had other presidents, too, who have insisted that everyone opposing their de mands was "unpatriotic." If it isn't fair to submarine boat without warning, bow about raiding a drink-dispensary before 8 o'clock? 'Snoutragel The latest war at Santiago ended as suddenly at it began. Unlike the scrap of 1898, there wasn't time to pen a round robin. One would think a man shrewd enough to corral a million bushels of potatoes -would be smart enough not to brag about it. Every democrat who wants to make an elec tive office "nonpartisan" admits that democrats despair of ever winning it in a straightaway race. War on three sides of the Holy. Land and shells popping at Jerusalem and Bagdad. By the shades of the mighty, the Turk is getting his due. As public building jobs go a capltol wing at $700,000 suggests a high percentage of calories and protein for those bidden to the preliminary feast ' . Great Britains pension roll already exceeds $100,000,000, and unknown numbers are yet to be added. It is one of many large items that insure posterity a steady job. Only four individuals with incomes of $1,000, 000 a year are reported in Chicago. Windy City millionaires are noted for their modesty in mat ters of revenue outgo. The date for the special session of congress Is far enough thead to permit congressmen to run home and look after their spring planting and shaky fences. Watch them do it I Suppose that competitive examination order for postmastership applicants had come before the turnover of our Omaha'postomce and passing an examination had counted more than passing a check book wouldn't it have been awful? -a I It ft possible Nebraska is ta enter the toll road era after almost all the other states have abandoned the oll road system? Do not the toll bridges that have sprung up in the state consti tute a sufficient embargo on traffic and travel? The entire cabinet, so we are assured, supports the president in hit conclusion that he has author ity to establish armed neutrality. Every one of those cabinet officers knows what happened to ' Bryan and to Garrison the moment they disagreed with the president . 1 . a ' a Brother Savidge missed the greatest oppor ' tunity for public service when he omitted from hit prayer a petition for heavenly light to guide the six judges in solving the elevator job. Pos sibly the parton concluded he had reached the limit of a reasonable appeal for divine assistance. The rush for passports to Mexico, reported at Chicago, signals an approaching spring drive over the border. A drive in that direction is not esteemed a health conservation movement at this time, which is all the more reason for persuading the passporters to lodge on this tide of the line. Good Advice from Ball Player, Retirement from the rankt of active players to the less conspicuous place of team manager hasn't lessened the keenness of judgment that made Christy Mathewson the greatest pitcher of hit time. That remarkable acumen that enabled him to gauge a batter with a glance now serves hint in other ways, and from hit stored wisdom he gives a bit of advice that may well be applied to others than base ball men. To his players he says the public it tired of the wrangles over the pay of stars. People who pay to see ball games want to look at good players in action, and do not care for pay roll totals. Rivalry between good dubs engenders public enthusiasm, and brings out crowds to tee the games. Therefore, he ex pectt the men under hit direction to play ball and not talk about their wages. And this is good advice for others. The public has listened to the accounts of fabulous sums paid to movie actors and othert, to the stories of enormous incomes gathered by captains or ad venturers in industry, and to the sound made by money talking to itself until the noise no longer lulls to sleep. What now is looked for is action and results, and the man who is to take up the time of the plain people during the coming sum mer will be tha fellow who can do something worth looking at or listening to. That chap needn't worry about his reward, for it will come , to him, the only condition being that he lake it, e it in his own way, and not make a nuisance taf tim self bragging about it . Ireland's Rights and Wrongs. The evil genius of discord and disunion deals cruel blows with constitutional movements for self-government in Ireland. When events and conditions presage the dawn of home rule deed or circumstance beyond control transpires which throws the movement backward, wrecks the ma chinery of organization, discourages its active supporters and friends and brings joy to its ene mies. The tragedy at Phoenix park threw the Parnell movement back seven years and forced the nationalist party into a defensive attitude for that period. Complete vindication in British courts gave the movement a tremendous impetus which held out confident promise of early triumph. Then came the downfall of Parnell, dismaying friends and foes alike and disrupting for a time both leadership and party. ' In the last ten years greater progress toward the goal of Irish self-government bad been made than in any like period in a century. Political conditions made progress possible. The alliance with the liberal party1 effectually disposed of the veto power of 'the House of Lords, hitherto the main obstacle to Irish self-rule. The Commons placed the home 'rule bill on the statute books definitely during the early days of the war, de ferring actual operation until the close of the war. Ulster opposition and threata created discord and doubt of ultimate success. But' these ob stacles to complete union would have yielded to the mollifying influences of time had the nation alist section of the island observed good faith to ward the government in the throes of a mighty war involving its existence. The Dublin rebel lion was a cruel tragedy, not only for the partici pants and the city, but to the pledged faith of Irish leaders. Harsh reprisal by the authoritiea aggravated the aituation and ruthless executions spread discontent and disloyalty. The outburst of indignation by nationalists in the Commons and their appeal to friends of Ire land in the United Statea reveal deplorable con ditions in Ireland. In weighing the accusations of bad faith, however, allowance should be made for the heat of political debate intensified by the growing fear of party defeat. Most friends of liberty will prefer to wait the end of the war, the calm counsels of peace, and the event itself, be fore believing that Lloyd George has betrayed Ireland. Why Pick on the Mother-in-Law? Why it the rating-of the mother-in-faw so far below par with the great majority of people? In The Bee's recent puzzle picture contest, which elicited several hundred answers,'1 two-thirds of them perpetrated some kind of a mother-in-law joke, in one, form or another. This showing makes the conclusion unavoidable that the mother-in-law Is generally regarded as a fair target for the shaft of satire. Now there are undoubtedly mothers-in-law and mothers-in-law. Yet we are inclined to hold a brief for the victim of unjust suspicion and ac cusation, In many households the mother-in-law Is a ministering angel, the harbor of refuge from a storm-tossed sea, the relief expedition in time of trial. All these mother-in-law jokes for get that mother-in-law, herself, probably had a mother-in-law, and knows from personal expe rience the limits of timely and untimely intrusion into the newer family circle. And daughter-in-law, too, may some day become mother-in-law and appreciate better the reversal of the situation. The mother-in-law, however, hat, been "in bad" to long that It it doubtful if she will soon again be set right or even lose the first place on call for the subject of a joke. Saddest Spectacle of the War. ; Nothing could more forcibly drive home the sordid tide Of the great world war than a state ment from the secretary of the Jewish organiza tion at New York, charged with the work of dis tributing the contribution! for relief of the Jewish destitute in Europe and Asia. He says that it ia manifestly impossible to relieve all, and that many must die from starvation. This shocking admission will surely startle millions of well-fed Americans this morning, arousing them from their complacency, perhaps, to a better realiza tion of exact conditions. So far the contributions from America, gen erous though they teem, are totally inadequate to the demand! for relief of innocent victims of the calamity that follows the war. It is unneces sary here to give details at to what or where these starving people are located. In Poland, in Russia, in Asia, millions are deprived of food, shelter, the barest needs of life. The secretary in his calculation putt the cost of food needed to preserve the livet of these starving people at 7 cents per day each, and on this basis he reckons that $32,000,000 should be raised this year in America if half of the burden it borne by this country. This turn will not be tubscribed, he thinks, and therefore his statement that many of the destitute over there are certainly doomed to starve, ' , - From London last week came an official ex planation that many tons of provitions destined for hungry Belgiana had been unloaded in Eng land to prevent spoiling on shipboard. Communi cation ia cut off and the relief work interrupted. Thus even the efforts we are making to help are temporarily, at least, thwarted. It ia not for the dead who die in the trenches we should sorrow. They go to their doom well fed and warmly clothed. It it the old men and weak, the mothera and babes, behind the lines, untouched by shot or steel, who suffer the horrors of starvation. And 7 cents a day will feed one of these. What will the civilized people of the world answer? Whiskers and Weddings. Approaching the altar of Hymen, a Chicago girl gave her prospective lord and master an ulti matum; he must shave or give up the wedding. So there was no wedding. Several morals might be drawn from this bit of real life. First is the fact that each haa escaped an unhappy experience. A girl who can think of her husband's whiskers on her wedding day is not sufficiently centered on the ceremony to promise well as a wife. A man who prefers his beard to his bride may not be expected to make many i of those sacrifices constantly essential to pleasing the woman he has taken for better or worse. Eugenists might get some consolation out of the young woman's stand. Insisting that the groom shall come clean in other regards, why not include the modern rite performed so expeditiously by any skilled itarber, or possible of achievement by even a tyro equipped with a "safety" razor? In the final analysis, a man's whiskers continue to be his own fault, while a bride is something of personal selec Br Vlrtor Baaawatar FROM ALL THIS extraordinary real estate activity, it looks as if Farnam street property prices were starting on another upgrade extend ing all along its length. When I was a boy we used to go skating on two ponds, one on either side of the road, just about on Twenty-first street where two great oak trees formed an arch across a narrow lane that had to wind between them and oa which two wagons could not pass, and west 'of that was nothing but country hill and dale. I think the irony of fate is well illustrated by the experience of the Lutheran church people, now the Kountze Memorial, whose house of wor ship was located first on Douglas between Twelfth and Thirteenth, whence it was pushed out by the inroads df business to make way for the Millard hotel. The new church was erected at Sixteenth and Harney, with a special purpose to be safe from the pressure of commercialism, and there it stood until completely surrounded by stores and office buildings that made the approaching thor oughfares the busiest marts of trade in the city. Again the church moved to get away from busi ness surroundings and this time was transplanted to its present location at Twenty-sixth and Far nam, not many years ago at that, and today it ia again the center of business development and it is only a question of time when it will have to choose once more between being a downtown church and another move. I venture the predic tion that no more dwellings or residences will be built on Farnam street east of Fortieth. By way of finishing the discussion as to the proper way of spelling "Farnam" street and the peculiar mistake that caused- it to be spelled Farnham" for perhaps twenty-five years, until the "h" was reformed out of it let me say that a document was dug up not long ago by Charles L. Saunders bearing the original signature of Henry Farnam, after whom the street was named. The autograph is attached among several othert to a notice sent to the then Governor Alvin Saunders advising him of the meeting of the in corporators of the company organized to build the Union Pacific railway, Those who ought to know say The Bee's smoker for the grocers was attended by more men engaged in that line of business in Omaha than had ever been brought together before. The party had a two-fold purpose of sociability and of securing attention to a talk upon advertising and the way advertising helps to build up business. Incidentally, the occasion demonstrated the neces sity of the corner grocery and the community service which it renders, and for which nothing else is likely to be developed "just as good" or anywhere near as good. The death of Adolphus W. Green, announced in the news reports fast week, is a reminder of one of the wonder stories of American industry in which he played the leading part. Colonel Green, who was a lawyer practising in Chicago and often a visitor to Omaha, organized the National Bis cuit company and later became its president and made even more of a hit as a captain of finance than he had 'done as a legal practitioner. It was his program of expansion that took in the old Garneau Cracker company here and absorbed numerous cracker 'factories all over the country. When the Nebraska law was passed requiring the marking of weights on all food packages, he or dered a complete discontinuance of business in this state and a great million-dollar factory about to be erected to supply this section of the country was built in Kansas City instead of in Omaha, although Omaha got some other cracker factories instead. For the opening of this Kansas City plant he Issued a large number of invitations and brought with him from New York a special train full of guests, including some of the biggest moneyed men in the country and laid a banquet spread for them in the factory itself. This enter tainment was one of the most elaborate I ever attended. For it, one floor of the factory was transformed by artists and decorators sent on from New York into an imitation of the Madison Square roof garden looking out on a' .panorama on one side of a view of New York City at night with illuminated building and moving lights of steamboats, elevators and cars, and on the other side a similar panorama or Kansas City. Colonel Green was a big man who did things on a big scale, and it will take a big man to fill the position made vacant by his death. . People and Events Paul A. Husting, junior United States senator from Wisconsin; was at one time a railway postal clerk. ' " . ' Editor Chapman of Better Farming, a Chicago publication, puts out the warmest roast that has been penned and wired to Senator La Follette, boss of the filibusters. Mr. Chapman dubs the Wisconsin senator "the chief of the Twelve Apostates." Harvard college has accepted from the Na tional Canners' association a gift of $20,000 a year for three years for the purpose of investigating food poisoning with special reference to canned goods. Acceptance of the gift was conditioned on full freedom in publishing the results. Assuming that social distinction is measured by the purse, a monthly magazine devoted to the activities of the select, at $1 a copy, has been launched in New York and named the Chronicle. It is sent to subscribers only, news stands being regarded as instruments of social defilement. . Former Governor Haskell of Oklahoma, the man who was unhorsed as Bryan's financial man ager in the campaign of 1908, has distinguished himself by building permanent roadways into his' home city at a cost of $104,000, He regards the public improvement as his "monument." "Drink a lot of water, get the required amount of sleep and knock on wood when you boast about it, and you'll always have good health.". 9uch is the White House health hint dropped by Secretary Tumulty in accounting for his vigor and "pep." ' "Knocking on wood" is emphasized alt other knocks barred. The, high cost of vegetables puts steam into movements for cultivation of idle ground in cities and suburbs. Scores of cities are boosting vacant lot planting, encouraging young and old to over time industry that guarantees a profit in advance. "Back to the garden" campaigns promises big results if pursued from digging time to harvest J. F. Mikuleo of Chicago esteems his luxurious blonde whiskers as a badge of distinction. So when Miss Mary Madric, his bride-to-be, hinted that he should patronize a barber' lawn mower and look respectable at the altar, Mikuleo re turned the license and told Mary to acek a bare faced man. "1 prefer my whiskers to any wom an," Joseph exclaimed as he passed up the big mitt. An elderly widower in southern California, sued for $10,000 damages for breach of promise, counters on the fair plaintiff, a milliner, by as serting that the milliner did all the proposing. Even when she stroked his whiskers he retained self control and rejected the proposal. The wid ower's allegations are mighty interesting, even though they omit to mention what business' called his whiskers to a millinery shop. Few member of the English nobility have had such a varied and adventurous career as has Sir Genille Cave-Brown-Cave! who is known as the cowboy baronet. He fought in the Boxer rebellion, the second Burma war and the Spanish-American far, and between times saw service in the British navy.' He has indulged in Arctic exploration and for several years was a "cow puncher" on a western ranch. Recently he be came a member of the Salvation Army and has now announced his engagement to wed one of the army Jassies, ; , aBaoaaTav g ia. n T Health Hint for the Day. The habit of scratching the skin after removing the clothes at night or while waiting for the morning bath to nil should be avoided; in almost all cases it is simply a bad habit and may cause permanent injury to the akin eczema and little "mattering" or fes tering sore places. One Tear Ago Today In the War. Russians captured Korind, alxty four miles from Kermanshah, Persia. Russian torpedo boat destroyer Lelteman Pushtchln sunk by mine. Germans captured section of Bois des Corbeaux to west of Meuse at Ver dun. General Smuts, British commander, captured Important positions In Ger man East Africa. In Omaha Thirty Years Ago. The police force la Just at present afflicted with sickness. Marshal Cum mings and Sergeants Mostyn and Matza being laid up with pneumonia, while Court Officer Whalen is laid up with inflammatory rheumatism. While John Rosenfeld, an express man, was driving across a Tenth street railroad crossing, one of his horses suddenly balked and refused to "budge an Inch" until an approaching engine crashed Into the wagon, at which the horse condescended to Jump out of the way Just In time to save himself. Miss Maggie Truland, who has been one of the trusted and efficient em ployes of the county clerk's office, has accepted a position In the office pf the Byron Reed company. Contractor Brennan has a force of men at work upon the retaining wall of the court house. The friends' of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Merle, 708 South Eighteenth street gave them a pleasant surprise party, it being the birthday of Mrs. Merle. The Buckingham home has been sold to a syndicate composed of the following: Albert W. Boyden, Oliver Cook, Eugene C. Bates, Daniel H. Smith and William C. Boyden. The Omaha Belt railway obtained an injunction against the Chicago, Minneapolis, St. Paul & Omaha road in the district court to prevent that road from building on Its right-of-way. Sheriff. Coburn is on duty again after a brief but serious illness. This Day In History. 1757 Admiral Sir James Saumarez, whose activity off Gibraltar checked the naval program of Napoleon in 1801, born on the island of Guernsey. Died there, October 8, 1836. 1786 Justice John McLean, of the supreme court of the United States, who dissented from the majority de cision in the Dred Scott case, born in Morris county, New Jersey. Died in Cincinnati, April 4, 1861. 1811 Badajos, an Important bar rier fortress, was surrendered by the Spanish to the French. ' 1820 Benjamin West, one of the first great American painters, died in London. Born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, October 10, 1738. 1836 Charter granted to the San dusky, Mansfield and Newark railroad of Ohio. 1841 Steam packet President sailed from 'New York for Liverpool and was never heard from again. 1854 A British fleet in command of Sir Charles Napier sailed on an ex pedition against Russia. 1868 John A. Rawlins of Illinois was appointed secretary of war. 1874 Charles Sumner, United States senator from1 Massachusetts, died In Washington. Bora In Boston, January f4 1811. 1891 General John M. Palmer was elected United States senator from Illinois, on the one hundred and fifty fourth ballot 1900 Overtures of peace from Boers rejected by Lord Salisbury, the British premier. Tho Day We Celebrate. William L. Yetter was born March 11, 1867 at St. Joseph, Mo. He came here from Hastings to go Into the wall paper business and has branched out since, having places of business in Kansas City and Denver also. Dr. H. C. Sumney is 47 years old today and was born in Malta, III. He is recognized authority as a specialist in skin diseases. Baron Sonnino, who has been min ister of foreign affairs In Italy since the reorganisation of the ministry in 1914, born at Pisa, seventy years ago today. Dorothy Glsh, the younger of the two Glsh sisters, celebrated as mo tion picture actresses, born at Dayton, O., nineteen -years ago today. Al Reich, formerly prominent as a heavyweight pugilist born in New York City, twenty-seven years ago to day, - Storyctte ol the Day. Dr. J. Lewengood, at the Friars club, was heard telling of a friend of his who. went to a bank to borrow 15,000. - "The cashier took him to the presi dent In order that the head of the bank might quiz him about his finan cial responsibility," said Dr. Lewen good. "Fifteen minutes later the president went to the cashier and said: 'Let him have the money. He's all right." "'How do you know he Is?' asked the cashier. " 'He's got an onion breath,' replied the president." New York World. ACTIVITIES OF WOMEN. Women now tit in tha legislatures of five Utes, Utah. Arlaona, Oregon Montana, and Washington. , Tha woman'a lection of tha Nary leagut li to hold its second encampment of tha National Servie aehool in Washington from April 1 to Mj2. Hereafter tha American flag will be dis played at all meetings of the Woman's lub of Pittsburgh and the meetings will open with a flag saluta. One-half of all tha girls between 1 and SO years old in New York state work for wages, and there are in all 1,688,610 work ing women in tha state. Mist Anna Longfellow Thorp grand daughter of tha poet Longfellow, ia among the twenty-nine young women on Vassar's senior honor list thia year. Dr. May Agnee Hopkina hat been ad mitted to membership in the Dalit Auto mobile club, the tint woman to be thus hon ored by any automobile club in Tezaa. Everyone of tho BT0 local organisations affiliated with tha Georgia Federation of Women'a Club will be asked to follow tho federation' lead in adopting resolutions d nouneing lynching. Mrs. Ira Nelson Morris, wife of tha United States minister to Sweden, haa ar ranged to open a depot In Stockholm for collecting and selling the handiwork of the militona of war prisoners in tha concentra tion camp of Europe. Mis Hallle M. Daggett haa theidistree tlon of being tha only woman Are lookout in tha United Bute forest service. 8h i located at Black Bear station on on of tho highest peaks in tha Klamath national for est. In Biskiyau county, California -1 j ' AROUND THE CITIES. Tha assessment valuation of Greater New York for 1817 total $8,67S,705,Slo, an in crease of $89,500,000 over tnat of 1016. Tha tax rata ia yet to be determines! Over in Minneapolis the price uplift of hog sends pork sausage a notch or two above the price paid for Thanksgiving tur key In 1914. There art other hong op on the same peg. Sioux City Justice xise to It opportun ities occasionally. Theodora Salmer, a speed maniac known as the "Millionaire Kid Motorist," won a sentence of eight years in the penitentiary for running down and kill ing Vernon Froet, a 14-year-old boy. After four years of litigation against eoal carrying roads Philadelphia secured a com promise settlement by which eoal rate are cut 25 cent ton. The saving amounts to $2,000,000 annually, bnt whether the dealer or the consumer get It remain to. b fet tled. Legislation looking to the regulation of private banking in Illinois has simmered down to Chicago. Rural banking is esteemed safe and aura. As Chicago private bankers have been the chief sinners against honesty, lawmaker conclude that regulation is needed only where financial wickedness pre vails. Evanston, 111., Is going Into tha city plant ing business with unusual vigor. While other communities talk about cultivating idle lot and acre, Xvanaton acta as it talks. The city council appropriated ISO, 000 for seed and plowing and incidental labor. It I expected that school children will do the rest. The very latest revision of the epistle of the City of Paul comprise thirty-nine articles of modern reform and progress. The list embraces uplift measures, sanitation, cleanliness, righteousness, recreation, ath letics, truthful advertising, pure publicity and other features calculated to make the city approximate it name. Public improvement bond to the amount of $900,000 ar pronounced necessary by the authority of St, Joe to put the city in proper shape In the matter of sewers, elec tric light plant, motorised lire department and other modern essentials. Tha question of authorising the bonds will be submitted to tha voters in April or May. Oat In San Francisco they ar knocking the mayor for extravagance in use of munici pal automobile. An appropriation of $760 for painting and repairing tha machine as signed to the mayor' office, mad an open ing for a general airing of municipal Joy riding. "The more unlikely an official Is have an automobile of hi own," commenta the Chronicle, "the more reckless ha is in the use of a city machine which his brief term of authority gives him tha opportunity to use." I, HERE AND THERE. Factories In lh United States maka tha steel pens for about fifty countries. A new hand bag for women can be con tracted in. sixe to serve as a shopping bag or purse. Switterland leads the world In expendi tures for poor relief in proportion to popula tion. In a recently patented double pointed pen either a fin or stub pan can b pro jected for use. A clip has been Invented to hold a pencil on a telephone, while' a chain prevents it being carried away. Parrots ar considered by naturalist to exhibit the highest degree of intelligence of any species of birds. In German East Africa the giraffe de stroy the telepgraphs by rubbing their long necks against the wires. Experiments ar under way in Spain for manufacturing fuel by compressing rice husks and tar Into briquet. An automobile with flva persona takes mora gasolin than when on person is riding, but tha increase is very email. German breweries are manufacturing a form of yeast to be mixed with stock foods to increas their nourishing qualities. The United States bureau of fisheries now supplies mora than 4,000,000,000 Ash speci men annually to different hatcheries. Tha age of horned cattle can be told from tha fact that a fresh ring ia found on tho horn every year, beginning with the third year. A motion picture camera has been In vented which can make 400 aeparat pictures between the first and second Shots of a quick-firing pistol. For riding on water there haa been In vented si tricycle with hollow, water-tight wheeles, tha rear pair being provided with blades for propulsion. German scientist were tha discoverer of the possibility of producing sugar from beats, and Germany ha always been far In the lead in the beet sugar Industry. Sausage casings valued at $91,070 were invoiced at the American consulate at Punts Arenas, Chile, for tha United State during 1910, against $101,007 worth for 1016. A nawly contrived kitchen cabinet contains a rare combination, that of an electric range and a refrigerator, both of which are hidden from view by convenient door when not in use. , A factor in tha ultimata relief of th paper shortage may be the action of the Chines government, which haa decided to have papermaklng taught In governmental schools. Russia, under prohibition, la prospering. In the first full year of prohibition the sav ings bank deposit reached $406,000,000, and in th first nin month of 191$ th lav ing amounted to $766,000,000. A survey of th butcher hop of Min neapolis show that high price closed up twenty-five shop since January 1 The rising grind of th wholesalers and shrink ing demand put th retailer ont of business. JllllllllNllllll)lllilllllllllIIH)llllllllillllllllillllillllllHlll Headquarters for Sick Room and Hospital I Supplies I In buying rubber goods take no chances. If you need a hot water bottle, a fountain syringe or rub ber gloves, get something that is guaranteed. For many years we have made a special study of rub ber goods and hospital supplies and have refused to allow any thing but guaranteed goods to en ter our stores. "YOU CAN SAVE TIME AND MONEY BY TRAD ING AT THE REX ALL DRUG STORES. SHERMAN & M'CONNELL PRUG CO., ' 5 Good Drug Storaa. lllltlltlllttnWIllllllllllrt'l!MtlllttltllltlllttlttHHHMf LAUGHING GAS. 'I am encouraging my husband ta Inj an automobile." "They coat an awful lot." "That Just It. If he pay 12,100 for the kind he want he won't be able to preach economy to me for quit a while." Boston Transcript. What has become of the old-fashioned mother who wouldn't let her children read improbable books for fear the same might give them false Ideas of life?" "She's probably a movie fan now." Balti more American. Mrs. Ex I don't believe that music teacher can make anything out of Cath erine's vole. Exe You'r mistaken. He's mad ovei $100 oat of It already. Buffalo Courier, "Hubby, you know that letter I said 1 gave you to mail?" "Tea, my dear; I assure you I mailed It." "No, you didn't. I didn't glv It to you. I thought 1 gave it to you, but I gav 11 to father." Louisvlll Courier-Journal. A NrOUN$ MAN WWta ME fo Qo WRSRAictC RlbMfcWIH HIM ON RlVJERStbe WNt-SrtiUlftt? HfCtS -MAte PEOPLE INN NOV) UVe ft TVIE NElQHBGfiHOOt "Truth 1 mighty," exclaimed the Idealist. "Tea," replied Mr. Pustln Stax. "But a well-managed rumor will answer just aa well If you want to get th stock market going." Washington Star. Poet (rapturously) I shall lov you for ever and a day. Blaae Stenog And th rest of th timer Puck. Eve enchantress wonder-eyed, Smiled at Adam by her side. Cooed she, "Tell m. Eden' lamb, Do you ralty car. Adam?" Uf. "Want to get off again, do you?" roared th bo. "This will be th third lm you've ben off this week. What's th trouble now?" "I want to gt my eyea uamlnad? tul lenly replied the clerk. "Well, get 'em carefully examined whll you're about It. Tou'll be looking for work after Saturday night." Boston Transcript. THE RED, WHITE AND BLUE. Thar' a patriotic flavor In the atmoaphsr thl spring, It pervade th heart and mind af mn and yes quit vrytblng; Our emblem ha a meaning that sew w deeply aena When tha latest war nws tin us to reeling moat lntana. W ar proud of what It stands for and w know It will prevail Though th shrieking "ex try" headline may causa wdm hearts ta quail. At home and school th children Li" Its lesion well to heart. It sways th hearts and mind of men upon th busy mart; For poem, aong and story It has been a joyoua theme. And as th years march onward more bright Its colors fleam. It shines to give us courage, for courage gave It birth And It lead u on to better time when peac shall rule th aarth. Iu th cities w wlU find our flag exalted every where, In village email, on homestead, w es It floating there; And ven Mother Natur shown a patriotic train For when across th windy hills I sought out her domain. Upon a whitened tre top against a iky of blue A cardinal for Old Glory supplied th needed hue, BayeU N Tret, Omaha, MY COUNTRY, Julia W. Galloway, In Boston Transcript, "America!" When first I heard The muslo of that matchless word. My youthful heart with rapture atlrred. My Country I A oft Z knelt at mother's kne At twllght hour In Infancy, She taught me bow to pray for thee, My Country! Land wber my mother lived and taught. Land wber my sire for freedom fought, Land that our martyred hath bought My Country) Lives thera a man so mean, so bass, Who can not In thy history trace, The struggles for a peaceful race, My Country! Tet, should a proud oppressor rise To curb the liberty we prise, We'll shout defiance to the skies, My Country! For all w'v fought for in the past. Let us maintain whll tlra eball last, With truth and duty holding fast, My Country! While "peace with honor" w proclaim, The atarry flag which bear thy name. We'll let not overt act defame My Country I Bleat burden of my power and long, To tha my life, my strength belong, I lov thee, whether right or wrong, My Country I Til live. I'll work, fll die for the. Dear land of my nativity, Take all that life holds dear to me. 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