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THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1917. The Om'aha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. PROPRIETOR. Entered at Omaha poatofficc ac Mcond-clMi mitttr. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, Br Cafrtar. Oiilr cut Sunear parmUi.5o Dallj wiUKrot Bandar.. . ' j Gracilis wid Sunday " Craetns (HUwut Sunder JW Sunday Bw only ... . A ..).. thru VMM III iJlllH fhml notice or dunce of addreie Of Imiularttr I daltTarr to Dull Boa, cticulattoe iMpennenu By Hill, per reu. KM .M " S.OC 4.00 in ,.hmo REMITTANCE limit ay drift, nmn or poatal order. Only 1-ceet ataaaijl trice 1; nnsont or moll mount Paraonal ceac. ml 00 Oaaea act torn esenanfe. cot oooopud. OFFICES. Omaba The Bo Bulldlm. I'biean tWrt Oae Bdldlnl, Souta Omen-Sl N St, Nee Tort M rifUl itt Council Itluffo la H. Vala It, St Bl ! CfMlM. Lincoln Lltlll Bulldlnc. Weahlflllon 7K Hta St. S. W. CORRESPONDENCE AddrOH eonMrantaallnnn nlatlnl to JWe and editorial natter 10 Omaha Bre. Editorial Department. FEBRUARY CIRCULATION 54,592 Daily Sunday, 50,466 Ararafa circulation rot too month, wbocribcd cod fwom to Bf Delect WtlUania. Clrculalloa Haaaiar. Sueccribere leartni the city eheuuj have THe Bee aullee' to then. Addrtaa chanfecl ae alien e requeetee. Why not a battleship "Omaha," even though it can never anchor at thii port? v i- So far the much-prophesied spring drive shows the greatest execution among warring cabinets. "War minister quits the cabinet T headline. No, unfortunately, It is in France this time not in the United States. , Confusion grows in the Postoffice department. Every move labeled "economy" actually swats business with a mailed fist.. Taking at face value the British review of U-boat activities, it is painfully evident the wets are not making good the advance prophecies. Sjome day perhaps the great, patient Amer ican public will groV weary of being the "goat" in labor wart and awing a few efficient hammers. Backyard vegetables will be just as nourishing as those bought on the market and taste a great deal better, at least to the person who planted If the trainmen are "firm" and the railroad managers "will not budge," of course the inno cent public wilt get it in the neck. But 'one or alt may move. If the Celestial empire actually breaks into the melee on the entente side the celebrated partner ship of the central powers with the Deity neccs- sarily dissolves. State and national bank deposits in Nebraska on March 13 reached the huge total of $446,576, 000, The rush for bank charters needs no fur ther explanation. "Look out for floods in the Missouri valley rivers this spring" is the warning of our weather man. Then we may console ourselves that we will have no shortage of the "crystal fluid" after May 11 Official statistics put out by Washington ex perts show an advance of 19 per cent in retail prices of food in 1916, The average consumer can boost the percentage several notches and not train experience. ' Apropos of Met's testimonial to Governor Neville, it is a trifle early to give a governor, in office less than three months, a clear bill as hav ing "made good." Here's hoping he may be en titled to it two years hence I It is nnderstood, of course, that no disrespect of superiors is intended 'when Omaha job holders journey to Lincoln for salary boost. Doubtless the exercise of a legislative pull is designed to lighten the crowding burdens of city commissioners. ' The sale of Nebraska's school lands was stopped twenty years ago because enveloped in gross abuses and serving only to deplete the en dowment that belongs to the school children of the state for all future generations. Nothing has aince.iiappened to change the situation or warrant the state in disposing of what remains of the school lands, except a greedy clamor from those who hope to profit through expected land .bar gains.. ... ' , A Husband's Pockets -PhlU4.lr.hU Lodftr. - From a time whereof the memory of man run neth not to the contrary wives have asserted their right to go through their husband's pockets. Now that right is upheld by a judicial decision. One highly important principle, asserted by the wife in this case in her original complaint, remains in doubt. The court did not touch the question of the husband's obligation to hand over his pay envelope unopened. The custom prevails in msny households. Sometimes it is based on the desire of the wage-earner to make the partner of his bosom the treasurer of the domestic establish ment. Sometimes it is based upon the wife's assumption that he is not fit to be trusted with , the spending of money. In that event she takes his whole pay and doles out to him enough for what the. thinks he ought to spend upon himself, often remorselessly cutting out such luxuries as beer and tobacco. The husband may feel that thii Is an indignity, but who can doubt that it is for his own good. Man without a woman's guid ance is a feeble creature at best. He should be irateful, not resentful, to have his financial affiirt '.alcen capably in hand. But if the miserable wretch objects to this form f uplift, if he wantonly tears open the envelope is soon as-he gets it and extracts therefrom the urn which he judges suitable for his personal ex penditure, is his wife justified in searching his sockets during his hours of slumber? The learned udge says that the it. In the case before him here wat ample evidence that the husband had impropriated to his own use an immoderate share if hit wages. Out of $15 a week he had been jiving her but $4 or $5. He tried to defend him iclf by jaying that he had taken hit wife to the noviet twice in one year. "You'll have to do bet ter than that," remarked the magistrate. ""If i wife can't get the money she needs any other way, he hat i right to pick her husband's pockets." .nd he advised the recalcitrant defendant to give us wife $7.50 a week and buy her tome candy nce in a while. Half hit waget it surely not too nuch for him to hand over. No wonder he igreed quickly with hit adversary lest a worse hing befall. "I don't want to keep my pantt on 'or 'a whole month." he said. Let other stins-v lusbands heed the warning. They may have a egat right to open the pay envelope; but they rust not extract from it more than their reason able share. Whether they or their wives are bet ier entitled to decide what a reasonable share may wc, ii sun, enact unucicroiinca. THE REVOLT IN RUSSIA. The revolt in Russia is a fact. The czar hat abdicated and a new ruler titt on the throne. Discussion of how the uprising started and the extent of the changes it has wrought musfawait further details. - It was not, however, altogether a bolt from a clear sky. Several weeks ago The Bee pointed out tome significant political movement! in Russia, with comment on the expressed deter mination of the liberal or popular element in the Duma to vigorously oppose the bureaucracy, which has had direction of the Russian adminis tration for to many yean. One feature of the pretent popular upheaval wat forecatted at that time, and tince hat had tome emphasis in the newt coming from Russia. It is the inefficiency of the transportation tyttem, failure of which hat resulted in famine in parts of Russia, although immense ttoret of foodstuffs of all kinds are available within the limitt of the empire. Reforms in thit regard were pledged by the minitter last fall, but have not been carried out. Similarly, other promises made by the bureaucrats, under pressure of popular displeas ure, have apparently been ignored or forgotten till the patience of the people it exhausted. That the Duma has gained in popular strength since itt prorogation in 1915 was, proven by the first vote taken, after the body wat called to gether last November. It was then shown that a government majority of nearly 300 had been transformed into an opposition majority of the same size. Leaders who spoke for the govern ment in 1915 took the rostrum in 1916 and argued for the people. This warning of the rising tide of public displeasure has apparently been lost on the reactionary aristocracy, in whose keeping the administration of Russian affairs hat, to long been left and through whose maladministration and neglect to much of misfortune hat come to Russia. The effect of the revolt on the conduct of the war can only be a subject of speculation. Expres sions in the Duma have been in favor of giving the army in the field full support. Whether thit attitude it changed must be learned from later developments. . . Mr. Wilson's Tariff Commission. Having fully adopted the republican plan for a tariff commission, the president hat named a board the outstanding feature of which it the apparent effort to make it nonpartisan in appear ance and yet preserve its control by the demo ciats. Three "lame ducks" are cared for in its composition and the other membert have been selected with care, that none may give offense to tht partisans of democracy. Professor Taussig of the Harvard faculty, chosen to head the board, will bring to it deep theoretical knowledge of tariff, at well at an undemanding of the economic principle! in volved. He it unquestionably the man best versed of all in American tariff histoty. E. P. Costigan, who comes from Colorado, it known only locally for his "uplift" activities and hit participation in the bull moote doingt in hit home ttate. "Dave" Lewit of Maryland wat ont of the radical reform ert in congress, till the votert of hit home state decided to retire him last fall. Congressman Kent of California has made for himself a reputation at an independenMhinker, yet with democratic leaning!, and a vigorout fighter in whatever caute he etpouses. "Dan" Roper of South Carolina ,is a dependable partisan democrat, who served as clerk to the wayt and meant committee before he became assistant postmaster general or, still later, retired to help run the campaign for Wil son's re-election. , When he assisted in framing the Underwood tariff, all suggestions from manu facturert wat tpurned by the jlemocratt, who felt fully equal to determining any question involved without the consent or advk;e of anyone else. Ctil bertson of Kansas, the one republican named, is qualified to some extent by his service at an in vestigator for the Trade commission and his con sequent familiarity with American industries. Plenty of work awaits the new board mem ber!, and their opportunity, to lerve American interests it unlimited, depending only on. their ability to free themselves from the chains of theory and partisanship. . . i Progress of Workmen's Compensation. Further report of the action taken on the workmen's compensation bills at Lincoln indicate tome progress made at least a distinct rebuff to the contingent fee brigade by the rejection of their demand for an option, after injury, for'an employe to sue or accept the allowance fixed by law at he may be perauaded lookt" more profit able to him. Then, too, readjustment of the scale of benefits is in the direction of what The Bee has urged, namely, more generous treatment of the widows, orphan! or Idjpendentt of those who are killed or totally disabled by industrial accidents. 1 ' The one loophole which teemt to ut quet tionable it the establishment of a right to tue at law wherever the employer may be charged with willful or negligent nonobtervance of the tafety appliance act which will be an invitation to make tuch allegation upon the slightest pretext in order to seek punitive damages instead of compensation. Failure to provide required tafety precautions should not be overlooked, but it should bring flown criminal prosecution on the offender and the penalty should be in the form of fine collect ible by the ttate rather than an extra payment to the injured perton. It it to be hoped the measure wilt be still fur ther perfected at it goet through the remaining ttaget of enactment. For tht Good Ship "Omaha." The Bee't Washington correspondent very pertinently suggests, "Why not name -one of the new scout cruisers for Omaha?" It it quite appro priate thit should be done. One of the good old "battle wagons" of the navy is the Nebraska; that it is no longer in the first line isn't the fault of the ship, and it has established tome markt in the annalt of the tervice that will alwayt be retpected. Once a steam frigate bore the name of Omaha in the navy, and the fact that it lingered in neglect at the Mare Island navy yard prevented a newer cruiser being named for the Gate City tome yean ago. It has tince been broken up and relict of the vessel are preserved at the Public Library here. Why should the name of Omaha be allowed to vanish from the naval roster? Let's. get busy and induce the powers that be to give at thit distinction that is properly ours. The revised Colombian holdup comet back to the original turn of $25,000,000. A raite of $10,000,000 in a few montht affords a tempting margin for lobby expenses, incidental splitt and like incidentals. - Drive at Boston's Pride 'Wukiaftoa Cerreapenoence, Boctoa Traaecript.- Is the proud Boston baked bean to be hum bled? Must the modest dried pea weep? la the navy bean to fall from it! high place of honor? These harrowing questions are suggested by the evident intention of the Department of Agricul ture to boost the soy bean above its neighbor! and rival! at about the most nutritif us article now before the American people at a reasonable price. Soy beans particularly threaten the social position of the Boston baked bean, for they contain fat and no starch, and the bean barons of the department say that for these reasons they will remain sep arate when baked, whereas, every educated per son knows that half the joy in a mess of heav enly baked beans is having them "squash up to gether," especially if they are leftovers from Sat urday night and are fried for the Sunday morning breakfast. But to get away from expert testimony and back to the Department of Agriculture. Soy beans never have been used in this country for human food to any great extent. Considering their high nutritive value this is unfortunate (says the department). Many varieties of them are grown. The mammoth yellow variety is now on the market under the name "Togo bean" at 15 cents a quart, or about 8 cents a pound. In many parts of the country they can be obtained from growers for from $2.25 to $2.50 a bushel (60 pounds). This amounts to less than 5 cents a pound. The soy bean belongs to the class of food usually known at legumes. This class includes also navy beans, peas, cowpeas, lentils, peanuts and others. All of the legumes are very rich in protein, an important body-building material. The soy bean has more protein than any of the others. In composition it resembles the peanut more than the others because it contains a large amount of fat. In other words, it is a fatty legume rather than atarchy legume. This fact should be kept in mind in cooking it. When soy beam tell for 15 cent! a quart, 10 cents' worth will supply over five ounces of pro tein. When beef, of average composition, sells for 20 cents a pound, 10 cents' worth will supply a little over an ounce of protein. The protein of beef is, to be sure better utilized by the body than the protein of the legumes, but even after allowance has been made for this fact the soy bean is at present prices a very economical source of protein. Like all of the other legumes, toy beans are probably more thoroughly utilized by the body if their skins are removed. Fortunately this can be very easily done. When they are to be used for soup they can be put through a strainer, which removes the skins. When they are to be baked the skins can be removed in the following way: After the raw beans are washed, cover them with boiling water, bring to the boiling point and cook for not more than ten minutes. Allow them to cool and stand in the water in which they have boiled over night or for an equal length of time by day. The skins can now be easily removed by rubbing the bean! between the hand!. Since the water in which they are soaked contains considerable nourishment and is also rather fatty, the best way to do this is a! follow!: Pour off the water in which they have been loaked and lave it, pour clear cold water over the beam and aa the skins come off allow them to float away from the beans, renewing the water as needed. Whenthe skins have been re moved pour over the beans the water in which they were soaked and begin the cooking. Soy beans can be used very much as the or dinary navy bean! are used and for this reason recipes are hardly necessary. The chief point to be remembered is that , they contain fat, while the navy beans do not, and that they contain no starch. Because of this fact and the large amount of fat, they remain separate when baked, and for this reason baked soy beans differ in appearance from ordinary baked beans. The toy bean con taint 30 per cent protein, 18 per cent fat and 2 per cent carbo-hydrates as against 24 per cent protein, 1 per cent fat and 62 per cent carbo hydrates in dried peas and 22.5 per cent protein, 1.8 per cent fat and 62 per cent carbo-hydrates in navy beans. Extra Sessions of the Past There is considerable speculation in official circlet as to whether President Wilson will get all that he wants from the special session of con gress summoned to meet next month. The record of the past extra sessions indicates that he will. Nearly all of the extraordinary sessions which have been summoned have done the will of the president. Nearly all of them have also trans acted some other business than that for which they were called. The president cannot limit congress to the consideration of any particular subject or list of subjects, and a glance through the records of former years shows that many extra sessions have been made the occasion for legislation in addition to that recommended by the president. , In the history of the nation there have been three extra sessions called to deal with prepara tions for war. In this connection it it interesting to recall that the first extra session of congress was called to deal with a situation bearing marked points of resemblance to that which exists at the present time. Tht session was called by John Adamt on May 15, 1797. The congrest was the Fifth. The relations of the United States with France were in a critical condition at that time, the French government having suspended diplo matic intercourse on the ground that the Jay treaty in relation to French West Indian poses sions was a violation of a Solemn compact. Pinck ney, the American minister to France, had been expelled from that country and the French gov ernment had undertaken measures looking to depredation! on American commerce. President Adams made numerous recommendations to con gress concerning the organization of .the militia and providing for a naval armament and his wishes were promptly met. The session closed on July 10. The appearance of a war cloud was also the cause for the fourth extra session of congress, which was called by President Madison on No vember 4. 1811. The United States was then on the eve of the war of 1812 and the president made an earnest plea for putting the nation in a pre pared state of defense. President Madison's rec ommendations were carried out and the congress also went further and legislated on customs mat ters and financial problems. One of the most memorable extra sessions in the history of the country was that called by President Lincoln on July 4, 1861, when he sum moned the Thirty-seventh congress because of "the opposition to the laws of the United States and obstructions placed in the way of their exe cution" in certain southern states. This session carried out the recommendations of President Lincoln by passing important military and naval measures and also by making certain tariff re visions. The authority under which a president may summon congrest it contained in article two, tection three of the Constitution, which provides that the president "may, on extraordinary occa sions, convene both houses, or either of them, and In case of disagreement between them with respect to the time of adjournment, he may ad journ them to tuch time at he shall think proper." There it no cate on record where a president has been called upon to exercise the authority con tained in the last phrase of the quotation. The longest extra session in the history of the United States wat that of the Twelfth con gress, called by President Madison when the country was on the eve of war with Great Brit ain. This session lasted 245 days. The shortest of the extra sessions was that of the Thirty-fourth congress, summoned by President Pierce on August 30, 1856, because of the failure of the regular session to pass the army appropriation bill. Thit tetsion completed itt work and ad journed in ten days, j Health Hint for the Day. Men should wash their heads once a week: for women once a fortnight Is sufficient. One Year Ago Today In the War. Russians launched violent attacks on Uscleczko bridgehead In Bukowina. General Oallieni, French 'minister of war, resigned, was succeeded by Gen eral Roques. French repulsed five terrific attacks by Germans to capture Fort Vaux, at Verdun. In Omaha Thirty Years Ago. - The 10,000 members of the 300 post of the Grand Army of the Re public In Nebraska are represented by nearly 1,000 delegates, who are here to take part In the tenth state en campment The spring hunting season has re ceived a startling Inauguration if we are to believe the stories of making the feathers fly which Charley Johan nes, Charles Fltchett, Ai Howk ami Charles lane told on their return from Me laKes near valley. j!.uen uf the quartet, In his own words, did a.l the shooting while the others were asleep, and a notary public has been Bent out to Valley to see If Mr. Ziea, the kind-hearted host, did not do all tho ahooting himself. Henry Dltzen has sold his grocery business to Messrs. Julius Wilde and William Larson. The Omaha & Council Bluffs Railroad and Bridge company (was In corporated by Guy C. Barton, J. H. Millard, Frank Murphy, T. J. Evans, John Stewart and George F. Wright. Mrs C. M. Jackman of New York City has arrived in Omaha and in tends to locate here as a teacher of music. Regan Brothers have a force of men clearing away-the dirt preparatory to beginning work on the city hall foundation. This Day In History. 1751 James Madison, fourth presi dent of the United States, born at Port Conway, Va. Died at Montpeller, Vt, June 28, 1836. 1802 West Point Military academy established. 1835 Charter granted to the Cleve land, Columbus & Cincinnati railrreid. 1847 Lansing made the permanent state capital of Michigan. 186S The prince Imperial, son of Napoleon III, born. Killed m Zulu land, June 1, 1879. 1887 Henry Barnard wne appointed first United States commissioner of education. 1888 Solemn national funeral of Emperor William I took place in Berlin. - 1889 Three American and three German warshlpe wreoked by terrific hurricane in the harbor of Apia, Samoa. 1891 Submarine telephone cable from London to Paris completed. 106 Thirty-five persons killed In a wreck on the Denver & JUo Grande railroad near Adobe, Colo. 1908 Freedom of the City of Lon don conferred on Miss Florence Nightingale, the famous Crimean war nurse. 11J The hulk of the battleship Maine was raised In Havana harbor and sunk in the open ocean, The Day We Celebrate. Dr. Robert S. Anglin, whose chief Interest in life is mending defective noses and ears, Is busy receiving birth day congratulations today. He chose Canada as his birthplace and learned his profession at Queens university at Kingston. Louis D. Carrier, chief clerk of the Union Pacific railroad at Council Bluffs, was born March 16, 1850, at Geneseorlll. He has been contin uously in railroad work since 1875. Edward F. Sanderson, clergyman and educator,, now director of the People's Institute, New York City, born In Cleveland forty-three years ago today. Ethelbert D. Warfleld, president of Wilson collegerf.born at Lexington, Ky., fifty-six years ago today. Elsie Janis, popular star In musical comedy, born at Columbus, O., twenty-seven years ago today. ' Henry B. Walthlll, one of the most widely known of motion picture ac tors, born In Shelby county, Alabama, thirty-nine years ago today, i Clyde Milan, outfielder of the Wash ington American league base ball team, born at Linden, Tenn., thirty one years ago today. Patrick J. Donovan, manager of the Buffalo International league base ball champions, born at Lawrence, Mass., fifty-two years ago today. Edward W. Gardner, former ama teur billiard champion of America, born at Nantucket, Mass., sixty years ago today. Timely Jottings antl Reminders. Debating teams of the University of Pittsburgh and Penn State college engage in their annual contest this evening at Pittsburgh. Representatives of Colgate univer clty and Dartmouth college debate at Hanover. N. H., this evening on the question of the adoption of universal military training In the United States. The compulsory arbitration of dis putes between organised labor and corporations is to form the subject of a debate between teams of Swarth more college and Trinity college of Durham, N. C to be held this even ing at Swarthmore, Pa. A meeting of the intercollegiate foot ball rules committee Is to be held to day In New York City. No changes of a basic nature are contemplated, but a number of suggestions for minor changes In the rules will be made and some, no doubt, will be adopted. Storiette of the Day. Dr. Oliver Hobson was defending bertain appropriations. "Don't call these appropriations pork barrel appropriations" he ex claimed. "Though Pocatella numbers only 617 souls, it can appreciate a 190,000 postoffice as well as any bloated metropolis could. r'Cut appropriations of this kind, gentlemen, and you wound your elec tors as cruelly as the drummer waa Wounded at the Pocatella house. "This drummer, being very fond of corn on the cob, ate ear after ear. Finally the pretty waitress, after she'd brought him his fourteenth or fif teenth ear, said tartly: " 'Don't you think you would save half a dollar or so a day If you boarded at a livery stable?'" Wash ington Star. Health Regulations In St Joseph. Bt Jo souneUiiion arc eonctdcring a sweeping set of health regulation! propoccd by the cltr'a teeUth Sopartnent Some of lb retelaUona call tor canitarj wrappero for bread, aereoAed openinga when food lo sold or served, inspection of persona who handle food, eanltary equipment In neat acerbate, deetntctloB of unwholesome' meat and food, batter to be reel eow batter and lee cream to yield not lecc than 8 per eent of batter fat Intereeted parties coot the regalatlona as revolutionary. Mr. -Darr's Explanation. Omaha, Mareh'l4. To the Editor of The Bee: On March 12, 1917, at Hastings, In the United States district court, the government dismissed each and all of the charges In the indict ments against me except one count, which charged, in substance, that I had purchased certain certificates of deposit of the First National bank of Sutton with knowledge that the parties to whom they had been Issued had not paid the bank for them. . Whereupon, on the advice of my counsel and my friends, I entered a plea of nolo con tendere to that count. The United States circuit . court- of appeals In a recent decision defines this plea as follows: "Various reasons may exist why a defendant, conscious of Innocence, may be willing to forego his right to make defence if he can be permitted to do so without acknowledging gulls." The facta are that I did purchase the certificates in question, although I had absolutely no knowledge of any irregularity of their issue. With this full consciousness of my innocence, my reasons for entering the plea of nolo contendere were that I had no confidence in the reliability of some of the witnesses for the government and I know the prejudice which existed In the Hastings district on ac count of the failure of the bank. The facts are that I have never been In the town of Sutton; I have never received a dollar from the bank In question, and did not even know any officer of the bank. The banker who issued the certificates and the man who received them both say that I knew nothing of the circumstances surrounding their Issue, and no per son says that I did. The Treasury department of the United States, after investigation, concluded that I had at no time received any money or profit from the transaction. There is not now, nor has there everJ been, anything in the slightest degree reprehensible in my conduct through' out the transaction. I am, and have been throughout, conscious of my in nocence. Nevertheless, upon advice and for the reasons above stated and In view of the prejudice which I know existed against any person who had transacted business with any agents of the failed bank, I decided to fore go the right to make defense and, without in any manner acknowledg ing guilt, to permit the judgment of the court to summarily dispose of the whole matter. ubu. a. dakk. In Behalf of Nervous People. Petersburg. Neb., March 14. To the Editor of The Bee: A recent ar ticle under the heading, "The Ner vous Egotist," stated that every ner vous person without exception is self ish and conceited. Such a statement spells only hate in the mind of the man who makes It. Men and women whose nervous systems have been wrecked by over-study, over-work and privation, in the interests of humanity, are known and honored throughout the civilized world. It Is true that the Chinaman is not nervous Neither is nervousness an affliction of barbar ians. The louder and more harsh the noise to which they may listen the greater Is their glee. The writer has reared a family of girls and boys. One of the lattel has been extremely nervous all his life, and all who know him say he Is the kindest-hearted, most self-sacrificing and least conceited boy one could wish to know. When any one of the family is ill or in trouble, he lies awake at night in sympathy, not for himself, please take note. An other class of nervous persons is moth ers, confined too closely, night and day, to the care of small children. Thousands of these women eat every meal under a nervous tension and the advice of the would-be nerve doctor to "forget yourself and build up an interest in something outside- your symptoms" is ridiculous in the extreme. These women would give anything they possess, except the child, for just one hour a day of absolute freedom, not to get away from, but to get back to, in peace and quiet, their poor, neglected selves! As well advise a starving man to fast a while as a nervous mother to get away from herself, this self, being the very last individual who eve receives her at tention. If the medical profession could for get their resentment for the few nerv ous millionaires in the country, long enough to see that the great majority of nervous persons need only freedom from care, and more diversion and rest, their pitiful ignorance of this subject would at least be less of a stumbling block to the race. J. J. part of the display of what was tailed the "Birth of a Nation," and that was where ex-union soldiers were shown In the act of aiding the desperadoes of the Ku-Klux Klan in carrying out Unl 1 rnmut-kofl when T HHW Tt that It was not true and old soldiers to whom I have taikea say mat sucn an event never occurred. From the number of people who have spoken to me and written to me of my article it looks as if it struck a responsive chord with a great many people. A number of persons have said to me that they thought the Ku-Klux Klan did a lot of good. I told them to read up the history of that time and see what the people of the coun try at that time thought of that mur derous gang of outlaws. FRANK A. AGNEW. Corn Importation from Argentina. A Bee reader at Missouri Valley asks for the amount of corn imported from Argentina into the United States In 1916. No exact figures are available on that point yet, but the most recent data given out by the Department of Commerce "at Washington, under date of March 10 -of this year, and com piled from the official reports of the Argentine government, are: Corn ex ported .from Argentina to the United States (in metric tons of 2.204.6 pounds): 1913, 85,495; 1914, 155.164: 1915, 98,244. At fifty-six pounds to the bushel, the Importation in 1913 was 3.365,938 bushels; in 1914 it was 6,108,806 bushels, and in 1915 it was 3,867,866 bushels. i SUNNY GEMS. Old Soldiers Express Satisfaction. Omaha, March 14. To the Editor of The Bee: It is with a great deal of pleasure to me mat i nave Deen in formed that the old union soldiers in the Nebraska Soldiers' homes were greatly df lighted with my recent ar ticle in your columns entitled, "The Ku-Klux Klan." I felt pretty sure when I wrote It that It would 'strike heme In good shape with the veterans who so many years ago fought for the preservation of our union and who should be shown every honor and given every comfort of life that can be given them for the few remaining years of their lives. In writing of the doings of the Ku Klux Klan, I forgot to mention one JJJI!!l;lllllllll!llllllllflllllltliatllll:illUIllltl!!Mlttl 1 Market Week Visitors WELCOME j to the Art Galleries . of the I A. HOSPE CO., I 1513 Douglas St. iiiiiiiiii;iiiiMttiiiiriiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiifiiiiiii.iiii'iiiiiiiii:iuiiiI "A prohibition orator maks the tat mnt that people In 'dry' towns live longer than the residents of 'wet' centere. How about that?" "No; I don't think they really live longer, answered Mr. Jiitrslty. "Il merely seems longer." Birmingham Age-Heraid. "I heard a sound," ald one driver, turning around. 'It was my wheel spoke,' roplied his funny companion. "But not with the tongue of the wagon," retorted the first. JAN WVCtEWASStmmrV Nes-v&iMJOr now WiV mwwHAs set such . Crawford Why did you tell your wlfn you couldn't dance when you're such a crai-kerjack at it ? Henpeck If she . knew, she'd never gn away to the country and leave me in town this summer. Judge. "Excuse me, sir," tho- waiter reminded him. "The amount put down In the bill does not include the waiter," "Why should It?' growled the diner. "I didn't eat a waiter. New York Times. Marjorle When he proposed to her ihs asked him what kind of answer he wanted, and he told her the shorter the better, Madge Did she say 'Tea?" Marjorle Of course not. She said "No." Judge. CLOTURE. ' Joha 0Keefe In New Tork World. It was an ancient senator, Who wiped away a tear. "No more"' he said; "ah, nevermore Shall I spill language here. No more, no more I'll take the floor And talk one solid 3 earl "Oh! I remember, with a thrill That stirs my Inmost soul, The day I put my language mill Beyond all men's control. And simply talked to death the bill For suffrage at the pole! "I talked the glory that waa Rome's; I dwelt a wek on Greece; I went from Scandinavian gnomes To Mr. Jason's flefce. I had the pages bring more tomes And Bpoko another piece! 9 1 talked about the price of drinks In Chamberlin's cafe; I probed the riddle of the Sphinx, Diucuased the Roentgen ray: And by the time I'd thought these thinks, Six months I'd talked away! "For six months more, you understand, T talked by days and nights On vivisection, taxing land, Mince pio and troglodytes. They brought my meals In to me and I talked between the bites! "I talked of chewing gum and kraut. Skirts, symphonies and sin. Arid not a man could ever doubt The prowpjss of my chin. For lo! 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