THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: MARCH 11, 1917.
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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?
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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
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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, ; ,
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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
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' 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.
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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.
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PRUG CO., '
5 Good Drug Storaa.
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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.
My Country I
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