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4 B THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: APRIL 22, 1917.' The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY FOUNDED BY EDWARD KOSEWATER m VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR ' TUB BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. PROPRIETOR. Entered at Omaha poatofflte sscond-claas matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION DUO aoo tmto per sweta, Pilly without Sunasr ' we Ren!at vd Sunday w EtmiIhi wttasut 8tmdw Snnri.t Dm onlf D&llr tnd Sands, B. th" W l edaaee................sis.se Itad sMlc. coin,, of adores, at lirwulutti Is eelHer, la Oust R riimlatlAa rj.MItIB.UL REMITTANCE wan Br Arart. erprfee ar poil order. Onls l-art etsraps tsksa m irnial X niU reran! abaci, eat.pl as ODuae sat astern ssrthanie. not weptad. Bi Mill, par raw. Is w 4.00 ,00 " S.M - I ..uses OFFICES. haass-Jrae Baa BolMlm. ",aVlTS!'l,S!',U"a fcuUi On.be-231s . New Ir.rk-!W rma Aw. Wll BMfa-14 N. Mats St, JU Ixmll-Nrw CORRESPONDENCE . ddnes amasnroMMons reutlni u aM and aUUrlal sua so aiaba Be. BdltoriaJDapartmaau FEBRUARY CIRCULATION 54,592 Daily Sunday, 50,466 trtrin elrralatlno 11a tnoMlii nbatrlbal and aeon to H Dane ayillluaa, Ctrcalalton alsBasw. Subscribere leavfof city animlal hare The Baa BalM ba thetw. Addr. ch.ar.tsil M cltaai a rwnuaata.. April ihower fortify tgainrt May drouthi. It u up to the boyf who know beam to prove it by cultivating a patch. Uncle Sam weep seven billion! into the pot and whisper, to William across the table: "Come down or show down." , In the coming distributiop of legislative souvenir- the chairmen of the ifttn committee clearly earned the reward of the sieves. . Foxy Villa plays the game smoothly. Sending across the line a message of neutrality diverts suspicion long enough to negotiate for I package of ammunition. It Is gathered from the report of the Inter state Commerce commission that the looters of the Pere Marquette system at least considerately left the name as a souvenir of their operations. , The jingle of the dollar in the market place grows weaker as the days pass. Though an changed In appearance, the almighty plunk of yesteryear feels almost too feeble to assimilate reduced nourishment . ' Still, if the worst comes, probably the gov ernment can secure the services of the7 eminent price fixers who excited the interest of the fed eral grand juries last winter. There is no lack of talent in that line. i The "Mother of Parliaments" sends an officiaf greeting to the United States for seeing its duty and doing it Commendation is welcome, but the applause rightly belongs to the authors of sub marine ruthlessness. ,. " ..a' ; Boys and girls should not be overlooked in mobilizing the industrial resources of the coun try for a bumper food crop. Properly directed in garden work, Jheir energy and real as well as results will prove a gratifying aurprise to elders. Every democratic president since the ciyi! war won success for progressive policies through re publican support in congress. In the present critical situation the fate of the administration's army policies rests with Republican congressman. On American farmers and gardeners devolve the task of feeding a large part of the world next winter. Intensive cultivation and increased acre age insures performance of the duty. ; Moreover, material returns wilt equal th energy exerted. Truly the times produce novel and startling situations. The spectacle of the fifth George) vo calizing the American anthem which hurled defi ance at George III ia enough to rattle the skele tons of bygone monarch and cause the shades of the republic's founders to rub their eyes and smile the while.; ' . ':: ' V . . Out of twenty-two food necessaries enumerat ed in The Bee, milk and cream acqre the lowest per cent of advance in six months. The remain ing twenty monopolized the price boosting ele vators. The comparative moderation of the milk men brightens an otherwise doleful record of in flation. ' ! While the city authorities ar on the cleanup job, some practical means should be devised for persuading non-resident lot owners to co-operate with home owners in the crusade for community betterment;,. Neighborhood enterprise deserves that meager return for increasing the value of vacant lot. a', The president of the laundrymen'i association is fairly within his rights in criticising the "serv ants of the people," : Criticism property timed makes for enlightment and progress. Delaying it until the evil is done serves no good purpose. The obligation to "speak not ill of the dead" should be observed equally at the bedside of the dying. , .. . Argentina and the War. A note from Argentina to Germany, relative !o submarine operations, indicates a rupture of relations between Buenos Aires and Berlin and the possible early entrance of another nation into the war. The positive nature of the commu nication leaves no room for doubt as to the out tome, for Berlin is not likely to give more con sideration to Argentina than was accorded Brazil or the United States or other nations that have nade protest against ruthlessness at sea. . The South American republic is not a negli gible adversary. Argentina can put an army of 44)0,000 splendidly trained and equipped men into the field in a fortnight Its navy ia not so for midable, but what there is of it ia modern in all appointments. Men for both branches of the serv ice are secured by the selective draft plan, some 60,000 boys coming to the service age each year, Of these 8,000 are chosen for the navy and 18,000 for the army, intensively trained, and restored to civil life under reserve regulations that make them mmediately available for service. Argentina has been at peace with the world for many years. Its last serious dispute, with Thile, was settled by arbitration, but it baa not - ibandoned preparation on that account Since he revolution "i the early '90s the republic has jade great- progress, its internal development laving been brought to a point where it will be of great value to the allied cause as a reservoir of food. - ' - "Ignorance of the Law." Speaking recently at a Creighton law students' dinner, Judge Martin J. Wade of the federal court called attention to many popular misapprehen sions, the result of ignorance of the law and its workings, which prejudice courts, judges, juries, lawyers and the law alike because some decision or action, whofly sane and entirely within the law, is not understood. Out of this has grown up an attitude on part of the public which he in sists is dangerous, because it breeds disregard for the law and disrespect for its instruments, and thus strikes at the very foundation of free gov ernment Our government is a government of and by the law, resting on the expressed will of the people. Laws are made by the people or through repre sentatives acting for them; are administered by judges selected either by ballot or appointed by an agent of the people. All machinery for making laws in continually under the control of the peo ple and any change the public wants easily may be brought about Moreover, the law surrounds a man from his birth to his death; it protects his privileges, rights his wrongs, preserves his liberties, punishes his misdeeds and touches him on every aide in all his doings. Justice, based on truth, is the quest of the law; its pursuit of truth is not that of a de vouring monster, but of a sympathetic supporter. Misconceptions of the functions and operations of the law are always embarrassing and frequently the cause of sorrow and disaster. Judge Wade would have the people made bet ter acquainted with the law and workings of the court. This knowledge will increase respect for the law and thus would make more certain the perpetuation of republican institutions. Our citi zens of all walks must come to know that their liberty rests on law and that the courts and ju ries are bulwarks against tyranny. - Kriegerbund and the Country. From several points' in Nebraska have come stories of how the Kriegerbund is showing its loyalty to the United States by discarding dis tinctively German emblems. The sacrifice of these men is notable. They followed Unser Frita" and Von Moltke and Bismarck a lifetime ago; to them Koeniggrati, Met and Sedan are more than words. Sentiments of comradeship, born of trials and dangers supported, when with youthful feet they tramped the roads of Prussia and Francein the uniform of the king, have held them together in the new land where they have spent their manhood years. It is too deeply rooted to banish and none would wish to deprive them of their memories. But the action of these men in giving over the outward signs of their atirring youth that they may not appear disloyal to the countryof their adoption should inspire a higher quality of devotion in the younger. Grand Army men can appreciate the situation of these German veterans and others should know they have given the final proof of sincere, attachment to America, , Naturalization in War Time. The status of alien enemies domiciled in a bel ligerent country is well defined by treaties. The United States has always been most scrupulous in the observation of its obligations in this di rection and has ho disposition to work hardship on citizens of an enemy who are here in a peace ful pursuit ' Only against those who abuse the hospitality of the nation is retribution directed. The question of naturalization in war time has just received an authoritative definition from the federal circuit court of appeals sitting m New York. It is there held that a German who had taken out his second papers prior to the declara tion of war is entitled to take the final oath and become a citizen. Thil decision is in line with reason. It gives full consideration . to the man who seriously in tended acquiring citizenship and works no hard ship on those' who seek naturalization only after a state of war is recognized. Many aliens,' long resident in this country, have neglected or dis dained to become citizens, but on the eve of war have (ought to escape from possible internment through naturalization. This is properly denied them, for to grant them the boon they seek would be to cheapen its quality. When peace is established they have their opportunity again to knock for admission to the sanctuary of citizen ship. ' Citizenship in the United States is beyond price, but is extended to all worthy persons who properly seek it' It is entitled to full protec tion, however, and is rightly denied to those who desire it only under stress. Enemy aliens will get every consideration consistent with our na tional safety and can ask for no more. ' Bluing National Wast. , , , ' If the people of the United States were put on trial before an impartial jury, charged with gross, criminal or inexcusable waste, very few would escape conviction on the first ballot. Waste is a conspicuous national sin. Individually and col lectively we are grievoua sinners against the opu lence of nature, heedless hitherto of the certainty of repentance. We are now awakening to the mag nitude of our wasteful offenses and brought aharply to the forks of the road where the choice lays between strict economy or the pinch of dis tress. . : ) The problem of conserving the food supply of the country, so far as it concerns the home directly, may be safely left with housekeepers. The shrunken power of the dollar makes reform and economy at the table compulsory. Other forma of waste for which men are chiefly re sponsible require equally earnest attention. No visible progress in the aggregate is made if the country increases its resources in one direction and carelessly permits destruction in another. Practically that is the result of the growing num ber of preventable fires in this country. Fire lossea for the first three months of this year far exceed the records of 1915-16 for the same period. In 1915 fire losses totaled $182,000, 000 and in 1916 $231,000,000. Analysis shows that 21 per cent of the fires of 1915 were strictly pre ventable, 38 per cent partly preventable and 41 per cent classed , as "unknown origin," no doubt many being preventable fires.. Sixteen per cent of Nebraska fires of that year were preventable, 57 per cent partly preventable and 27 per cent in the mystery class. " Fire losses are among the largest sources of economic waste that afflicts the national house hold, i At least one-half of the milliona burned up might be saved by reasonable care and attention to ordinary safeguards. In mobilizing the re sources bf the country for increased production and prevention of waste this blazing national peril ahould be embraced in the field of operation. Be Victor Boaearater ' Not long ago I commented in this column upon what struck me as an exhibition of the contrariness of events reflected in two news items that came over the wires the same day, one describing a former classmate of mine, now a Johns Hopkins professor, as playing ring leader of a bunch of riotous students bent on breaking up a peace meeting, and the other telling how another friend, a self-avowed militant suffragette, was to have charge of peace head quarters opened in Washington. The reference seems to have secured attention at the university, for I have a letter from Thomas R. Hall who is still the registrar there, as he was when I at tended, written to set me right, and in fairness what he says should be given here: "I think it is due Prof. Latane, to inform you that he was not cpnnected with the riot nor was Prof. Wood. They both went to' the meet ing in the capacity of auditors; they were unable to get in and it was while they were standing at the front of the building that the disorder occurred. They had no connection whatever with it It was not an outbreak of Hopkins students and professors. The news paper account was greatly exaggerated." I need hardly add that I am glad to Stand corrected, and hope that in so doing I may at the same time correct any wrong impression created by my adversion to the report of the incident. The late T. J. Mahoney, whose sudden death was announced this week from Washington, had an active part in many public and political move ments about which much could be written, but one thing he did can never be undone and that is his part in breaking the ice for big law fees pre viously almost unknown to members of the local bar. The era of handsome earnings for lawyers practicing in our courts dates from the famous Creighton will cases that determined the distri bution of the wealthy philanthropist's estate. As attorney for the beneficiary institutions Mr. Ma honey astonished every one by putting in a bill for $75,000, which I am told was finally com promised for about $67,000, and the attorney rep resenting the executors was allowed some $45,000. "That was the start of decent fees for lawyers here," remarked a well known attorney fully con versant with the facts. "Why, with the exception of one or two rare instances, a lawyer's fee of more than $1,000 was unheard of in Omaha he fore that time. A thousand-dollar fee called for a jubilation and whenever it became known that anyone had drawn such an emolument, he was in duty bound to call in his fellow attorneys for a feast around the table at the Henshaw hotel, where he was duly toasted and congratulated upon his good fortune. Since then lawyer's fees in Omaha have been more on a par with those in other big cities." Spring housecleaning in one of the offices in the city hall uncovered some old sample ballots going back to contests of only a few years ago, yet al ready now almost forgotten. One is for the city election of the year 1900 at the top of which is the name of Frank E, Moores, for mayor, labeled "republican," running against William S. Popple ton, labeled "democrat, people's independent and silver republican." In the Same election. Tom" Flynn was trying to head off William H. Elboum for city clerk. Ernest Mertens wanted to dis lodge A. H., Hennings for treasurer. Charlie Withnell was running against John N. West- berg for comptroller, and William Fleming against rrea j. sackett lor tax commissioner. At . the bottom of the ballot is a proposition to vote $3,000,000 in bonds to buy the waterworks (for which we afterwards paid nearly six and half millions,), a propositipn to vote $25,000 for inter section paving bonds and $75,000 for sewer bonds. Another ballot gives the layout of the fall r ivw " Tt. rr cictuuii ot 7V wmi juitn n. ivucKcy ncauing the republican ticket for governor against William H. Thompson, nominated by the democrats and peoples' independents, the silver republican label having fallen by the wayside. That was the year our now Senator Hitchcock unhorsed Congress man Mercer, the year R. B. Howell was commis sioned state senator, the year James P. Enelish was chosen county attorney over A. W. Jefferis and the year Henry a. McDonald outran Charles O. Lobeck for county commissioner. Still another ballot, going back I ' think to 1899, is in blanket form and embellished like a child's picture book, with party emblems over each column. There is a fine eagle for the re publicans, a farm house for the populists, a strutting rooster for the democrats, a cracked liberty bell for the silver republicans, a rose for the prohibitionists and a five-pointed star for the gold democrats. It is all very interesting to those whose memories go back that far and must cer tainly seem very curious to the new crop of voters, who have since come upon the ac:nes. The big deais in real estate at Fifteenth and Douglas streets, with their prospective new build ings there, recall that Fifteenth and Douglas was the heart of Omaha's business district before Sixteenth and Farnam streets laid claim to that distinction. The popular drug store and soda water dispensary, in every city always at the very center, was in the Creighton block corner and run by Norman A. Kuhn, and it was the "Meet-me" place of the town. For years the Kuhn drug store easily ranked first and served as the training school for ambitious drug clerks, who later branched forth with stores of their own, some of them running the leading drug stores of the city today. When Kuhn took the swell trade, I believe he captured it from the Saxe drug store, located in the street floor corner of the old Boyd's opera house at Fifteenth and Farnam streets. People and Events Th lot. Tr.hn r. Tnt,f,.nn Ph;tuiM,;. i,. mous lawyer, achieved the distinction of pulling7 j . rnnnnA t. m fi own two ices oi $juu,uw eacn during nis mc time. Eighteen women have been commissioned by Governor Capper to beat up the bushes of Kan sas for naval recruits. Eligible young men might as well throw up their hands on sight. Salt water ia the one escape from hot water. 1 The reserve forces of Farmer Henry Rhinas of Mulligan Hill, N. J., consisting of seven husky daughters, have been mobilized and equipped for planting, cultivating and harvesting a bumper crop this year. Male slackers or serenaders hovering in that vicinity are cautioned to keep beyond reach of the dog. Patriotism of the militant order blooms in Milwaukee. One divorcee publicly offers to re lease her former spouse from all future payments of alimony if he will enlist and serve his coun try. The example commends itself to general use. Alimony loss is insignificant to ex-wives beside the knowledge that the shaken party can do some thing worth while, i - Can women shoot straight? Well, why not? Shooting straight is a matter of practice. The Women's Revolver league of Bayonne, N. J., prac ticed a bit and at its recent spring shooting match put up scores ranging from 85 to 94 out of a possible 120. Regular service revolvers were used on a three-inch target fifteen feet distant The shooters are preparing for home defense. . . Henry Ford's mother was born in Cork. Nat urally the auto magnate has a soft spot for moth er's town and plans to build an auto factory there. British rivals are working the hammer, but Henry is going ahead with his usual vim. He has the goods, the grit and the money, too, and proposes to pay a wage of $2.50 a day where $3 a week is the common standard. Industrial progress is Ire land's greatest need and Ford is the right party to start progress in that line. , Men of his stamp could make Ireland independent and a hive of in dustry. , swjswrya asiaW Ml aa.'. M Proverb for the Day. , A friend in need is a friend indeed. One Tear Ago Today In the War. ' French repelled four assaults at Verdun. German forelim minister consulted Ambassador Gerard regarding United States ultimatum. British naval patrol boat sank Ger man auxiliary trying to land Sir Roger Casement In Ireland. In Omaha Thirty Years Ago. Lyle Dickey haa gone to Topeka on a matrimonial mission. He will wed Miss May Williams of that city, for whom he is building a new house on Grove street west of Judge Dundy's. Mrs. Koliins Kelly gavels, tea and donkey party to a number of her friends, at which the misdirected ef- forts of a reverend gentleman In em bellishing a portion of the donkey'a anatomy kept the company In a hilari ous condition at the expense of cler ical dignity. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Rosewater and child have left for an extended trip along the Pacific .coast. Mrs. Will Wood, formerly Miss Marie James of Council Bluff a, la the guest of Mrs. Doctor Coffman. , Mr. and Mrs. Guy Barton enter tained at dinner Judge and Mrs. Sav age, General and Mrs. Hawkins, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Barker and General and Mrs. Dandy. N. C. Copeland of the Union Pacific haa removed from 1814 Webster to a cozy home In South Omaha, Mr. and Mrs. W, O. Taylor gave a small dinner party, entertaining the following: Misses Knight, McCpnnell, Isaacs, Messrs. Btebbings, Knight Tilt son. Strong and Chase. H. C. Stuht has left for Japan. This Day in History. 17B8 Sir Alexander Cochrane, the British admiral who ordered the de struction of Washington, born in Eng land. Died In Paris, January 26, 1832. 1776 The Provincial Congress re solved to raise an army of 30,000 men. 177S North Carolina authorized her delegates to subscribe to a decla ration of independence. 1793 Washington issued a proci lamation of neutrality in the war .be tween France and England. 1855 Chicago placed under mar tial law in consequence of riots over the enforcement of the liquor prohibi tion law. 1861 Main legislature provided for ten regiments of volunteers for the federal army., . . ....... 1867 Md. Hodsman crossed the Irish channel from Dublin to England in a balloon. 1880 Lord Beaconsfleld (Benjamin Disraeli) resigned the British pre miership. : 1892 The president proclaimed a renewal of the modus Vivendi as be tween the United States and Great Britain in the Bering Sea. 1898 President McKinley pro claimed a blockade of Cuban ports. The Day We Celebrate. ", .... Ed P. 'Berryman is celebrating his nfty-flfth birthday today, He has been a member of ex-Governor Shallen berger's sta(f and made one unsuccess ful attempt, to .beat "Mayor" ijim to his Job. . Major Dennis E. Nolan, member of the general staft of the United States army, born in New York, forty-five years ago today. Miles Poindexter, United States senator from Washington, born at Memphis, Tenn., forty-nine years ago today. fc- . Bishop William F. Anderson of the Methodist Episcopal church born at Morgantown, W. Va, fifty-seven years ago today. John A. Moon, representative to congress of the Third Tennessee dis trict born In Albemarle county, Vir ginia, sixty-two years ago today. Richard W. (Rube) Marquard, pitcher of the Brooklyn National league base ball team, born In Cleve land twenty-eight years ago today. . Timely Jottings and Reminders.' '. Nation-wide observance of "Hu mane Sunday.'' By gubernatorial proclamation the week beginning today Is to be ob served as "cleanup week" throughout the states of Iowa and Indiana. A great parade of th Cathollo so cieties of the Brooklyn diocese Is to be held today in celebration of the silver Jubilee of Bishop Charles B. Mc Donnell. The widespread and successful na tional negro health week campaign, inaugurated by the late Booker T. Washington In 1916, Is to be repeated during f he week beginning today. Storyette of the Day. A gentleman in Cincinnati employs two negroes to work on his rather ex tensive gardens, which he personally oversees. One morning Sam did not appear. "Where Is Sam, George?" he asked.' "In de hospital, sah." "In the hospital? Why, how In the world did that happen?" ' . "Well. Sam, he been a'tellln' me ev'y mo'nin foh ten yeahs he gwlne to lick his wife 'cause o' her naffo-in'." "Well?" t n "Well, yestiddy she done ovahheah him. Da's all." Ladles' Home Journal. AROUND THE CITIES. HERE AND THERE. In Pittabursh the Janitors of aona of tho high buildinga ralat ebickena on tha roof. Than ara about 15.000,000 fur fait hats made in tha United Statea each year, and abqut 7,000.000 wool fait onea. If the wind la In the right direction, a ort of eold etnell sivea aailora warning of the proximity of an iceberg. Ruaala haa a land area of 197.156,587 verata, equal to (,417,118 Engllth aguare milea. or one-eeventu of the land aurface of the globe. Shotgun cartridge wada made In France from granulated cork are aaid to leaaen the recoil of guna In which they are need with out Impairing their efficiency. The government of New South Walea' la having timber grown In that atate teated to learn If it will produce a aatletactory wood pulp for papermaking. ... . The uae of aulphate of oilde on aiurahlum ware tn order to produce inaulation for elec trical purpoaea ia being adopted, and the pro eeao la now being applied to copper wire. - The yate, which ia one of the hard wooda of Australia, aeema , to be the atrongeat timber known, with an average tenaile strength of 24.000 pounda to- tha anuara Inch, which approachea- iron. . ' In her eonatant efforts to make new millionairea' wivea out of old onea, Dorothy Gray, New York maaeetue, has developed velvety tittle mounda of fleah in tha tips of her Angara. She haa insured them for (60.000. The oldest man In Loulalana la dead In the person of John Shay, aged lift yeera, who waa born In County Kerry, Ireland, served in the civil war aa a union quarter master, and then settled down in the Sunny South. Straw hate are blooming in Salt Lake City. Chicago slackers' week before last touched the high aeore since the rush for Immunity permits began. Marriage licensee reached a total of 2.S88. Sioux City bakers are now marketing a alxteen-ounee loaf for 10 eenta, and have cut out the 5-cent mouthful. A year ago the same weight of bread coat 6 eenta. While the stock held out, a Denver mer chant did a boom business selling hot ta- males soaked In boose. The lineup excited the curiosity of a eop, and business slumped instantly.' St Joe'a vacant lot gardening boosters have 1,000 In ehape for spring planting, double the number uaed last year. The num ber of persons, young and old, ready to dig. equals the aupply of lots. The public forum in the county building at Minneapolis has been closed up, aa a war measure. Too much talk on war threatened the peace of the meetings, and locking the doors promoted Individual safety. The festive jitney of bygone yeara sur vives in Sioux City, defying the hammer knocka of traction enemiea. Qnly aeven licenaea have been issued so far this year, half the number -of jitneers doing business a year ago. SOME WAR-TIME FACTS. Boatswains ara the chief seamen on board vesssls of tho navy and actually direct me operationa ox the deck force. Any portion of the cavalry force of the army may. be Srmed and drilled as infantry. or dismounted cavalry, at the diaeretion of the president. As an incident of the exercise of bellig erent rights, the president may form mili tary and civil governments in the territory of the enemy occupied by the armies of the United States. Army regulations entitle a major-general to wear two rows of nine buttons each on the breast of his dress coat which la one button more in each row than a brigadier general la permitted to wear. The regulation garrison flag of the United States army is thirty-six by twenty feet, and is hoisted only on holidays and special oc casions. At all other times It Is customary to uss the post flag, which la twenty by ten feat The preaident by and wHh the advice and eonaent of the aenate, may, In time of war, confer eommiisiont by brevet upon commissioned officers of the arm? for dia tiniroishtd conduct and public service in presence of tho enemy. Offieen and privates of the various branches of the military service may most easily be distinguished by tho difference in tho color scheme of their uniforms, particu larly the shoulder straps and facings. That for the staff corps is dark blue, as well aa for general officers; engineers, scarlet piped with white; -signal corps, orange piped with white; ordnance department, black piped with scarlet; medical corps, maroon; quartermaster's department, buff ; cavalry, yellow, and the Infantry, light blue. DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES. "Mamma," said Elsie, ' "I do hope omj Dutrhmun will marry me when I grow up "Why a Dutchman, dear?" ' " 'Cause I would so like to be a duchess mamma." Boston Transcript. "What la breatt worth today?" she ask-4 pointing to a loaf about the sixe of 4 bis cuit. "Worth about two cunts, lady," respond the truthful grocer, "but. we're charginj ten." Puck. "Sir," said the fair eanvanser, "I am sell ing stock In a peach orchard." "Are you a fair sample of the output? he Inquired. "If so, I think I'll Invest."--Kansas City Journal. OTHER NWY-W FMCfc CAUJEt "iSARAH MV NAME. tow w0pwOw! rr- He PROBABLY 5lv,Nr VOU A NICKNAME i "I suppose a great many ask for infer mat ion who have no idea of taking a train? "Yes." aatd the weary official. "When some people spy a free bureau of informa tion there's a strong temptation- to stock . up." Louisville Courier-Journal. School Teacher (to little boy) If a farmef raised 1,700 bushels of wheat and sold it for $1.17 per bushel, what wilt he get? Little Boy Automobile. Motordom. THE KID HAS GONE TO THE COLORS. N. M, Herahell, in Indianapolis Kewi. The Kid has gone to the Colors , And we don't know what io say; The Kid we have loved and cuddled Stepped out for the Flag today. . We thought him a child, a baby With never a care at all. But his country called him mansi And the Kid has heard tho call. . 1 He pauaed to watch the recruiting. Where, fired by the fife and drum. Ha bowed his bead to Old Glory And thought that It whispered: "Cornel" The Kid, not being a slacker, Stood forth with patriot-joy To add his name to the roster And God, we're proud of the boy! The Kid ha gone to the Colors; It seems but a little while Since he drilled a schoolboy army In a truly martial style. , ' V But now he's a man, a soldier, And we lend him listening ear. For his heart Is a heart all loyal, Unscourged by the curse of fear. His' dad, when he told him, shuddered, His mother God bless berl--oried; Tet, blest with a mother-nature, She wept with a mother-pride. But be whose old shoulders straightened Was Granddad for memory ran To years when he, too, a youngster, was cnangea by tne Flag to a man I Mason & Hamlin Headquarters THE HOUSE OP HOSPE CARRIES MORE HIGH-GRADE PIANOS THAN ANT CON CERN IN THE MIDDLE WEST y-- ! Pianos With Reputation ! The large line we carry consists, of pianos Of standing, with long years of reputation back of them. These artistic and thoroughly dependable instruments never fail to give abundant and over flowing satisfaction. Every little detail bespeaks the most careful workmanship, combined with the highest business intelligence. , . You Can Save Money by Purchasing Your Piano Now Mason & Hamlin Vose & Son Cable-Nelson Kimball Exchanged Pianos, $60 and Up Kranich & Bach Bush & Lane Brambach Hospe Exchanged Player Pianos $225 and Up Terms to Suit A. Hospe Co. 1513-15 Douglas St. Ulnjili!iiitliitniriliiH.KI!iiiliil Paul Revere's Warning j WAS FOR - ! PROTECTION OF THE HOME THE WARNING OF THE j WOODMEN OF THE WORLD j I IS ALSO EFFECTIVE s Nearly Million Homes Are) Protected Against Want, I IS YOURS IF NOT 1 1 RING DOUGLAS 1117 - I 1 NO CHARGE FOR EXPLANATION - I 4 J. T.YATES, - W. A. FRASER, . 5 ' Soreraign Clerk. ' Sovereign Commander. fiS)lf"llnlllMINII!llllWIIIISHtliaillia!l,!lliW