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THE EEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1917. The .Omaha Bee DAILY MORN INC)-EVBNINO SUNDAY FOUNDED BY EDWARD K03EWATER VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR THS BEB PUBLISH1KQ COMPANY, PROPRIETOR. . Entered t Omaha pottofflf as iwond-elm matter. TERMS OF UBSCRIPTION. Br OurMt. Br MtIL Dillr so tmi'T ,.. par steam s HW.NH Dalle wlUlout Sunday " SSo " 4.00 Cranial end luadu. ...... " e " .00 Krcmlni without Bund! " S6e "CM swirlst Be only " 0o 100 Datlr end Sundae Bee. three run n. adraoee Itl.tO Send notice of ononis of address or Imsulette' tt deUfSty to Omaha Hm. Circulation Dopertnenl. REMITTANCE Hmtt Or drift. oxrvM or pctJ order. Onlr f-eeat ataarpe taron tl piymoat of small OMounte. rersooal shook, except or. Orubft d nun axononse, aot oooaraea. orricu. Omo Tr Dm Brdldme, OoIoho Pooplo! On Bolldlnt, Soutb Omaha ISIS K It. Mew Tort 340 Fifth Are. iwinell Blnffe-M N. Mela ft u Irelo Ne B'k. of OonMrot, Lincoln mm Buiidim. Wsjimmon ris Kit et h, w, CORRESPONDENCE Adrlraei txnunrnleotloDi routine to am and tdltorlrJ Bauer to Online Be. Bdltorlel Department. FEBRUARY CIRCULATION 54,592 Daily Sunday, 50,466 Anno eMulaUoa for the aoMbs euboarlbed h4 swore to Mr DvujM Williams, ClreulaUco aliau. gubocra.ora leevtM ttio etty iImuM Ban Trio Boo seaiM to triora. Aetctrau dx(Od 00 ItM 00 Mquootod. Vow watch the cre makeri work overtime and the crowd. i ,. . It begini to look if Colonel Richmond will displace Brother Charley ai the first citizen of Lincoln. The spring drive of the spade and the plow promisea more decisive war result! than military strategy. The pulsing breath of spring no doubt in fused the joy of good roads among lawmakers. More power to springl "Fifty or more towns taken," says a west front war report Insert the word "sites" after "town" and the report accords with the situa tion, ' Next time Railroad Commissioner Wilson pro ject! a legislative bill no doubt care will be exer cised in picking a number less luggestive of the hook. Water course! ihed their, winter overcoats with befitting gentleness. Kindly Nature thus ad vance's toward a proper itate of preparedness for May day. Cheer apt No danger of a famine in postage stamps exists. The home patriot may do his bit of licking a! readily ai the man at the front. Only more so. The Russian revolution, like all movements of its clasi, shows signi of running from one extreme to the other. Safety liei In choosing a middle course and aticking to it. A naval officer report! U-boats lurking off the coast of New England. By the scales of the Sacred Codfish, can such things be ind Con gressman Gardner on deck? Feriih the thought! The substitution of red flags for the royal col ors in Petrograd mean! much, ai revolution! go. Should the "reds" reach the helm of state the span of Russian progress measure! the distance from the frying pan to the fire. ' The court of last resort long ago concluded that its deliverances could not please both lidei at the aame time. Still, having given the whole loaf to hia friends, Sam Gomperi might Spire the country the spectacle of demanding the bak ery and the works. Every organised power in Omaha should back up the movement for fair and just railroad rates for hay market shipment!. That groii discrimina tion in this and other Omaha interest! still per sist! comtitutei an aggravation which should be resented energetically. Potato baroni delude themselves with the idea that the tighter the grip the greater the profit. At a matter of fact, every round of the tun advancet the new crop and loosens their grip. The quicker they let go the lesi the chances of "holding the sack." Should the supply of heir apparents fall short this year King Ak is at liberty to conscript one or more of Europe's idle monarch!. " Beside! lend ing to the fall festival a dash of nude royalty, the emolument! of the job no doubt would lighten the perplexitiel of imperial poverty. Semi-official word came from Washington urging women to dress more patriotically dur ing war. Unfortunately the hint lacks diagram and pattern and leavet the women in the dark on patriotic style. Results in this line ire hope less unlets the government mobilizes the fashion makers of the country. For the moment the potato king of Chicago overshadows the egg kings of the lakeside. Percy Miller cheerily admits a stock of 1,000,000 bushels on hand, but repels the luggestion of cornering the supply. Perish the thought Merely a bit of Yankee forehandednesi in stocking up for the family! War and Literature -Wothtnftoti Foot- The war, as might have been expected, has given impetus to the production of a vast amount of military literature, as well at of novelt and stories based upon the tragedies, heroism, sacri fices and passion! engendered by luch a struggle. Nevertheless, there hat been a notable decline in all publicationi in the belligerent countriei. In France, for instance, there were 11,460 book pub lications in 1913 and only 4,274 in 1915. In Eng land, where 10,665 books were published in 1915. there was a decline to about 9,000 last year, ana an even greater decline hat taken place in Ger many. Probably it It not because the noncombatanti are less inclined to read, but because energy has been directed to other channels, that the decline has taken place. This explanation is supported by the surprising Increase in the number of books published in the United Statet lince the war began. It might have been expected that the increas ing price of paper would have retarded develop ment in the book industry, but the itatiitici ihow . that the contrary is the case. In 1915 there were 9.734 publicationi, while in 1916 there were 10,445, and the increase took place in spite of the fact that in 1915 2,538 booki were imported, while the output in 1916 included importations number ing only 1,648. Theaters and amusements In the belligerent countries at well ai in the United States have been patronized just as liberally during the war i before the smuggle began. Universal Military Training. Much of the opposition to universal military training arises from the confusion of training with service. Practically all earnest advocatei of peace and this inctudet nearly everybody in the United States agree that in case of attack re sistance must be made. All are willing to defend the country against invasion, and to protect it! citizens In their guaranteed rights everywhere. This willingness impliet readiness, and to be ready necessarily means to train for the duties that are to be assumed. It it a certainty that the young men of the country will make up our army, whether volunteer or conscript, whenever it may be called into service. To send them un prepared to take part in modern war has been characterized by General Wood at murder. We have advanced to a point where the blunderi of 1898 will not be repeated. Mobilization campt are made safe and unitary. In 1916 we learned tome further lessonl about mobilization through the experience of a call for the National Guard, which found the quartermaster'! department of the army almost as helpless at it was in 1898. We know that our boyi are willing to fight for the flag of their country if necessary and we also know they are unfit for that service because they lack the technical knowledge, the familiarity with the tools that a good workmen must have before he can use them well. If we are ever to defend our selves against attack, why should we not become acquainted with the meant we will have to use in that defense? If we are to depend upon our boyt to fight the battles the nation may be forced into, reason requires that we give them the best pos sible preparation, as well at the most effective of arma and the most serviceable of equipment. This it all universal military training meant. Oood Roadt for Nebraska. Ai the most consistent ind persistent advo cate of good roads for Nebraska, The Bee feels justified in congratulating the people of the state on the prospects for improvement of the high ways. The appropriation that will bring the state the benefit of the government aid is well on its way and will very likely become law. Whatever money is expended in the construction of perma nent roadways in an agricultural state li well spent. No other permanent investment will bring such returns as that which lowers the cost of transportation to the farmer. The appropriation of the money to defray the cost does not end the fight for good roads, however. Much remains to be done in the way of perfecting the system under which the work will be carried on. At present the Nebraska system for highway building and control It archaic and inefficient and must be com pletely revised before satisfactory results can be secured. Local supervision may be all right where only the local interests are concerned, but with the nation and the state uniting to de fray the cost of their construction the public high way! take on something of a different char acter and Interests beyond those of any particu lar locality must be considered. When the high way! of the state are placed under central con trol, with competent men in charge of the work, then Nebraska will be fairly set on the way to permanent good roadt. Goods Under True, Colon. American textile manufacturers are moving at thia time along a course they might well have taken long ago. It it to establish American-made goodt ai luch. According to Dry Goods, a tech nical trade journat, much of conscioul deception hai hitherto been practiced by lome dealer! in catering to snobbery through selling American made goodl is those of foreign maki, Thii prac tice it il proposed to abandon and for the fu ture the fabrics of Yankee-land will be told at uch. No good reason It known why thii should not be, for the product! of American loonit com pare very favorably with any in the world and under the stimulus of the war much of fabrica tion has been undertaken on this side never be fore attempted because it could be bought abroad cheaper. Head! of important manufacturing firm! are interested in the move, at least to the extent of endorsing the idea, and it is contended that with proper understanding on part of the public the request for goods of foreign makes will be lessened, while the home-made stuff advances in favor. Other thingl being equal, the home product will have no trouble in getting the pref erence, but the makert must realize that they have no right to capitalize patriotism to the ex tent of vending an Inferior article under the name of American. Meeting the Man Shortage. Railroads Of the United States, as well at other induitriet in which unskilled labor it largely employed, are facing the certainty of a hortage of men for the outdoor campaign. Thit shortage ii due to several causes, one of which ii the new Immigration law, which exclude! illit erate laborer!, the lort mostly depended upon to do the track work for the railroads. Several ways have been suggested for meeting the situation and the' Railway Age Gazette considers the prob lem from several angles. That paper offers as a possible solution. Another meant of increasing the amount of labor it to give increated attention to the care and comfort of the men through the provision of more sanitary camps and closer supervi sion of the food furnished. Money ipent to provide the ordinary comfort! and conveniences in the campi will yield larger return! thii year, when the primary problem it to secure and hold men in the service if the work is to be completed. In plain words, the contractor! are advised to deal with their men ai human beings and try to make the conditions of employment such as will induce the workmen to itay on the job until it is done. Thii wilt open a new era in big construc tion work and may help to solve the migratory worker problem, aa well as the man shortage. Trade in Garden Toolt. Robim and scissors grinders are abroad in the land and other harbingers of spring have been noted, but the most encouraging of all ligm is the report from hardware men that trade in gar den tools ii brisk. Men feel the impulse to get out and stir the toil, quite natural with the com ing of the vernal equinox, but thii time they are impelled in more effective way by the resistless presence of the awe-inspiring prices tagged on all green stuff good to eat. Therefore, many backyards hitherto virgin of the hoe will be dis turbed this season and many tables will welcome during the coming month! vegetablei fresh and crisp from the home patch, furnished at the cost of only a few hours' pleasant employment Some muscles may ache from stooping, but thit is toon overcome, and is more than compensated for by the real delight of raiting a little bit of garden truck. . The garden tool business is one that may well be fostered. Uncle Sam in On Caribbean 5-The Town That Was By Frederk J. Hatkin Charlotte Amalie, St Thomas, D. W. I., March 12. Painted pale blue and green and pink, bright and flat in the tropical sunlight, Charlotte Amalie hangt gracefully upon three hills, tike a gay but faded and drooping tapestry. Behind it it a mountain, stripped almost bare by hurricanes. At its feet lies a round harbor of deep Caribbean blue, lapping gently at the roots of storm-battered palm grovel. Everywhere are relict of the town's long and itoried past. The hilltops are crowned by ruined forts and towers, some of them three centuries old, forgotten of history but rich in legend. The waterfront is littered with the old brass and iron Cannon that have been used to fortify the island in times long gone, or salvaged from the war ships of another age. There is nothing really new about the place, and indeed its appearance it said to have scarcely changed in a hundred years, save that ships no longer throng the har bor and men the streets at they did in the olden timet. This has probably been the richest town and the gayest of iti tize in the world. Dutch plant ers have made their fortune! here out of the toil of slaves; here piratet have come to bury their tpoil, and court their Creole sweethearts ; here merchanti in the old wind-jammer days have made million! in a few years, and carried them away, as everyone has carried wealth away from Charlotte Amalie. The people of Chrlotte Ama lie, who have helped to make to many fortunes, are poor, and even hungry. The ttory of thit island begins with the ttory of the new world, for Columbut touched here on his second voyage. Although Dutch, English and Spanish all held the island at times, it was Dan ish almost continuously from the early seven teenth century, At first, like St. Croix, it was a sugar island, and always it was the home of pi rates and smugglers. It is laid that the pirates never molested the little island, but came there to be good and get married, and that the plant ers supplied them with beef and tugar and fruit. The agricultural career of St, Thomai came to a sudden and complete end with the abolition of slavery in 1848; for Charlotte Amalie had been made a free port and had become a port of call for the whole Caribbean world. The harbor of fered work at high wages to all comers; the plant ers could get no labor; everyone became a mer chant, a smuggler, or in tome other way got a hare of the money that came to St. Thomai from all over the world. Those were the great days of Charlotte Ama lie. Often the little round harbor was so filled with ships that a man could walk across it upon their decks. Charlotte Amalie not only offered a safe anchorage and all necessary supplies at duty-free prices, but the offered royal entertain ment At the hotels and the government house there was one ball after another, and they were undoubtedly among the most cosmopolitan so cial affairs that ever were held. Feasts were given, too, that are said to have rivalled Roman banquets in their splendor and variety, for the choice wines and foods of all the world came to Charlotte Amalie. The passing of the sailing vessel was the great est blow to the prestige of St Thomas as a port of Call. The fatter and surer steanjers had no such pressing need of a half-way harbor. But the Hamburg-American and Leyland linel, to gether with tramps, still tent several hundred ships a year to Charlotte Amalie, and a large part of all the goods shipped to the West Indies passed through the port. The names of nearly all the great figures that made the romance of the Spanish Main are asso ciated with the story of Charlotte Amalie. Drake and Morgan and Captain Kidd and every other famous pirate and privateer used the harbor of St. Thomas, and legends of buried treasure are as common around here as rumors at a political convention. On a hill north of the town there is a high tower supposed to have been built by a pirate known ai Blackboard, and to the east is another known as Bluebeard's tower. Both of these structures have been thoroughly ransacked for buried doubloons and pieces of eight without finding any, but nevertheless they look the part which legend assigns them. In connection with the Bluebeard castle there is a story which teems to be a tort of St. Thomas version of the Orien tal Bluebeard legend, an 4 ought to be of peculiar interest to students of folk lore. According to this yarn, Bluebeard was a hand some pirate, with a remarkable aptitude for win ning the feminine heart. He finally himself fell deeply in love with a pretty young Creole girl named Mercedita, married her and took her to hit tower to live. After a short honeymoon he sailed away on a freebooting expedition, leaving Mercedita to keep tower alone. He also en trusted her with a certain casket which she was on no account to open. Needless to say, Mercedita opened the casket as soon as Bluebeard was out of the harbor. She found therein tender missives addressed to her husband by no less than seven other pretty young Creoles of her own set and acquaintance, reveal ing the shocking fact that Bluebeard was on termi of intimacy with them all. In thii emergency there was nothing for Mer cedita to do but go to an Obeah woman. It is aid that Obeah women are still consulted about love affairs in St. Thomas. At any rate, this Obeah woman gave Mercedita a powder which was to be administered to the other seven women in order to put an end to their love for Blue beard. That afternoon Mercedita had a tea party, Invited her seven rivals and gave them all the Obeah dope in their tea. Thereupon they all went home, lay down upon their several beds, and moit romantically expired. Mercedita wat tried for witchcraft and murder and tentenced to be burned on the beach. While she wat being tied to the ttake and the faggots piled around her, Bluebeard returned, made a secret landing and distributed his men in the crowd. When the penal fire was lit, he chased the populace home, whipped the police and car ried Mercedita triumphantly aboard his sloop. It it said that the subsequently divorced him. The island is full of tuch legends, most of them fanciful no doubt, but made vivid and real to the visitor by the unspoiled quaintness of the place and the people. People and Events Coat sold for $60 a ton in Paris last month. American consumers, comparatively speaking, got off easy. . A Chicago peddler attempted to break the spud market 'by selling at 60 cents a peck. He paid $2.75 a bushel wholesale. How did he make a profit by cutting under? He cut the measure one-fourth, and the operation cost him $25 in court Several manufacturing firms in St. Louis em ploying tewing girls and women have introduced overalls, man-style, for all hands, greatly to the delight of the workers. The working togs are modeled after the trouserettet worn by women workert in the mills of England and France. The St Louit women are delighted, because of the freedom of movement afforded and the handy pockets. A pair of cart loaded to the roofs with bottled beer rolled peacefully through bone dry Kansas, headed west, until they reached twitch beside the water tank at Wichita. The town of Vic Mur dock it esteemed the dryest spot in Kinsas. Whether the thirsty got a hunch or whiffed the approaching brew does not appear in account! hailing from enviout Topeka. It doesn't matter much. The impression is that while the two cars of beer hovered on the siding a reception committee got busy. The subsequent proceedings may be guested from an official report that the cars were found empty. It ii supposed the haul was inspired by feart of a long, hot summer. I misi nr Health Hint for the Day. Milk la best sterilized aa soon as de livered at your house, by putting It In an enameled Iron Jug and standing the jug In a, pan ot boiling water on the tire. The milk treated in thia way never bollt and In about twenty min utes all the germs are destroyed with out rendering It unpalatable. One Year Ago Today in the War. Steamship Esperanza reported tunk by Russian warship off Roumanian coast. Russians, after various euccessea on northern front, made galna at Jacob atadt Several divisions of French troops on twenty-three-mile front, between Arraa and the Bomme, replaced by British troops and sent to Verdun. In Omaha Thirty Yean Ago. Frank Chrysler haa made applica tion to join the Le Fevre Gun club and H. C. Kellog, Will 8. Dlmock and D. T. Btubbs have made aimilar applica tions to the Omaha Gun club. William Dun, the good-looking su perintendent at the old "checkered" barn on, Harney street paid without a murmur a bill for $16 Incurred on ac count of shooting a bunch of young pigs out at Fremont, mistaking them for rabbits. About half of the 125,000 atock ot the Lake Manawa street railway haa already been subscribed and there la every prospect of the atock being toon all taken. A contract and 120,000 bond were filed with the county clerk, by which a franchise was given by the county commissioners to the Omaha & South western Street Railway company, the incorporators being Henry Ambler, Samuel J. Howell, Charles R. Wooley, C. F. Harrison and O. S. Ambler. Messrs. Nelson and Miller called at The Bee office to complain that a band of a-VDSies and eauattera were occupy ing Marsh's addition, near Twenty-fifth and Maaon. Captain Ijams. clerk of the district court, accompanied by Mrs. Ijams, haa gone to Chicago for a week's visit. The management of Boyd's opera house la planning to get ahead of ticket speculator! by selling ticket! for the Booth engagement at auction. This Day tn History. 1778 Continental congress author ized privateering. 1)01 Emperor Paul ot Russia strangled in hit palace. 1816 Signing of tha treaty ot Vi enna, restoring to Austria the Italian province! and concluding a new alli ance between Great Britain, Austria and Russia. 1818 Don Carlo Buell, noted civil war commander, born at Marietta, O. Died near Rockport, Ky., November It, 1898. 1867 The eenate passed a supple mentary reconstruction act over Pres ident Johnson'a veto. 1868 Answer of President Johnson to articles of impeachment read in court by hit counsel. 1877 Execution or jonn o. Lree, Mormon bishop, convicted ot being the main instigator in the Mountain Mead ows massacre. 1888 Colonel Burnaby crossed the English channel in a balloon. 1892 Tha great strike on the Ca nadian Pacific railroad ended, all the men being reinstated. 1901 Agulnaldo, Filipino Insurgent chief, was captured by General Fun- ston in Isabella, Luzon. 1912 Funeral services were held In Arlington cemetery over the last vic tims recovered from th wrecked battle ship Maine in Havana harbor. JV16 Army reorganization Dill passed by the house ot representatives. The Day We Celebrate. Philip J. Kunz, contractor and builder, is celebrating his fifty-second birthday. He came to this country from Germany in 1885 and is promi nent in the Builders' exchange. Dr. Jamei M. Peebles, noted medical scientist, lecturer and peace advocate, born at Whltingham, Vt, ninety-live years ago today. Lord Mllner, one of the five Brit ish cabinet officers comprising the war council, born sixty-three years ago to day. Rev. Ira Landrlth, prohibition can didate for vloe president in the last election, born at Mllford, Tex., fifty two years ago today. Valentine Everit Macy, president of the National Civic federation, born In New York City forty-six years ago to day. Bishop Thomas F. Kennedy, rector of the North American college at Rome, born at Conshohocken, Pa., fifty-nine yeara ago today. Cardinal Bourne, archbishop of Westminster, born at Clapham, Eng land, fifty-six yeara ago today. Timely Jottings and Reminders. The thirteenth national conference on child labor, under the auspices of the national child labor committee, opens today at Baltimore. Vitalizatlon of the rural school prob lem Is to furnish the theme for the fifth annual Massachusetts conference on rural education, whioh meets to day at the state normal school at Worcester. By order of the federal court that part of the Pere Marquette railroad systert formerly known as the Port Huron ft Northwestern railroad is to be offered at public aale today at Port Huron. Teams representing Tale, Harvard and Princeton universities engage in a triangular debate tonight on the sub ject "Resolved, That after the present war the United States should so far depart from its traditional policies as to participate in the organization of a league of powers to enforce peace." Storyette of the Day. Timothy O'Brien, while passing down Main street one morning, was hit on head by a brick which fell from a building in process of con struction. He was taken to the hos pital in an unconscious condition, but was soon revived sufficiently to send for a lawyer. Some days later he re ceived a call from his lawyer, who in formed him that he had settled the case, whereupon he peeled oft aeven crisp new $100 bills. "How much did you get?" ques tioned Tim, feebly. "Twenty-five hundred dollar!," re plied the lawyer, complacently . "Twlnty-nve hundred dollars an' you give me $7007" screamed Tim. "Say, who got hit by that brick, you or me?" New York Times. NEBRASKA EDITORS. . Editor H O. Chmmbcrs of the Mlnltaro Free Prooo hu inoullod aa Intertype. Mr. Chambers to preparing to lot Mo ohoro of the prosperity that abounds in the Ne braska vall.y of th. Mile. - The plant of the Ragan Journal wao prao tieally destroyed by Are loot weak. Editor Howell moved tha remnants to a vacant tore building and, with tho assietanM ot nelt hboring editor, rot oat hit paper nearly oa time. Wants a Referendum. Lincoln, Neb.. March 20. To the Editor of The Bee: Although some seem to stand aithast at the possibility of the state of Nebraska spending a paltry $100,000 on Senator Norrls' proposed referendum on the issue of this nation engaging in the European war, it strikes me It would be a very good Investment In the event that we enter the war Nebraska would be getting off lucky if its share were not more than $100,000,000, a state per capita amount that would only make the national expenditure total around $5,000,000,000, which would give us amnle cause to hang our heads In shame at our country being such a piker in comparison with the amounts being put into the game by those now engaged In it. I believe If a new undertaking were before the legislature Involving the expenditure of $100,000,000 or more by the state or Neoraska mat u wouia be submitted for final decision to the people who must pay the bill. This is all we despised pacifists have been demanding. We contend that thia Is still a democracy and that in a de mocracy all questions of vital im port are settled by decision of the ma jority ot its sovereign citizenship. Let the people rule. Vox popull, vox Dei "the voice of the people Is the voice of God." C. S. ECKERT. Charters for New Banks. Lincoln, March 21. To the Editor of The Bee: It is apparent that the supreme court, In its reoent decision requiring the banking board to issue a charter for a new bank to F. N. Woolrldge et al at Sidney, based its holding upon the same grounds that I did aa trial judge; namely, that the banking board Is not clothed with power under the law to refuse a char ter on the sole ground that the com munity Is already supplied with suffi cient banking facilities. Neither the supreme court nor the trial judge made any rinding touching the truth of the contention of the banking board that the guaranty fund is liable to be in danger from a surplus of banks. As trial judge I was much im pressed by the testimony bearing upon that question and I think the whole matter deserves the serious attention of the legislature. Most men believe that with unlim ited credit they' oould get rich. Want of credit has prevented many a man from acquiring wealth. What posses sion do successful men hold in higher estimation than their credit? I am of opinion that the present banking law, giving, as it does, to a man enter ing the banking business a credit I which Is not his, is likely to Invite into that business men lacking the qualifications and the character needed for It and to create a surplus of banks and sort of banking which may finally end in disaster. The people are bent on having a guaranty of bank deposits. On the other hand, they are probably equally determined against anything tending towards a monopoly In the banking business. What should be done? In my opinion, the proper way to secure a guaranty of bank deposits is to re quire banks going into business to in sure depositors, the insurance to be of a character provided by law and ap proved by the banking board. It will be said that la what the present law amounts to. Each bank contributes something to an Insurance fund for all and eaoh bank la watohing every other. This argument Involves a rad ical error. Under the present law It is a forced Insurance upon the part of existing banks In favor of the one applying for a charter. 'Under a law such aa I propose banks applying for charters where the facilities are al ready sufficient and more banks would not pay will find it difficult to procure insurance, and where the ap plicants for charters are not of a character likely to make them suc cessful bankers they, too, will And it difficult to procure or retain Insurance. I am constrained to write this let ter, not so much because I have given attention to the question and believe our present banking law contains a vicious and deadly principle that of forcing one man to lend his oredlt to another, or the state, by operation of law, giving to a man a credit he ha not earned but because I believe dan ger to the banking business of the state may be Impending. A. J. CORNISH. Kidnaped Boy Released. Frank Vlviano, 8 years old, kidnaped from his home in St. Louis, March 2, wao re leased by the kidnapers last week on pay ment of $4,000 by tho father. Tho young eter was found wandering on the streets, dazed and almost starved. Garden Land Sale Today 56th and QSts. Remember how to reach the sale: Take a street car to 43d and Q Streets. Salesmen will be there to take you to thit garden land. Or take the Ralston or Fapillion and in terurban car and get off at 56th and Q Streets, the southeast corner of the garden land. H. H. HARPER & CO., 1013-14 City National Bank Bldg. Phones Douglas 2596, South 2447. Brown Park Mineral Springs Water li a tonic containing the elements that enable your body to build it self up to perfect normal strength. The famous Sulpho-Chlorine Mineral Water ) delivered in Omaha in five-gallon jugs, at 11.66 50c refunded when jug fs returned. BROWN PARK MINERAL SPRINGS 25th and O Ste., South Side. Phone South 879. DR. JOHN A. NIEMANN Osteopathic Phyaiclan In Charge. "Venus 10 PENCIL 'VaNDS Ii ' bought bT all who want the btsi. 17 perfect black degrees, Land 2 copying ffor every pos sible purpose. - BUM Band VELVET Th Supreme sc. PENCIL n Lead Pencil Co.,N.YJ Headaches come mostly from disorders of the stomach, liver and bowels. Regulate these organs and keep free from headaches by using BEECHAM'S PILLS Large. Sale at Any Medicine In the WorlJ. s9oM cTerrwberee In box. 10c 25c girinaviianM V Civ tea 1qxT JS(LWf I foi-Eastei- E GROTTE BROTHERS CO. General Dbtritwtorl Onuha,Nebruai 53
