THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1917.
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" ' MARCH CIRCULATION
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to ttxra. Addraaa chanfad aa lla raquMUa.
'Troubles never some singly." The outlook for
home-made grape juice is fringed with gloom.
Dealing a death blow to naturalization fee
arrabs compensates for many legislative short
comings.
Appropriating the money Is easy beside the
task of placing the war tax where it will make
the least noise.
Heedless drivers on auto highways Ignore
safety signs, but rarely miss the hospital, the
jail or the cemetery.
Autocracy raves in vain. The specter of de
mocracy marching on gathers corporeal substance
with every passing hour.
Uncle Sam's financial merry-go-round starts
the spring whirl by borrowing from ourselves
and giving; the hand to farmers and allies.
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Jt is a neck-and-neck race between the Mis
I do and Nebraska delegations in congress for
haprize as knockers of aggressive) war policies.
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tvery little while Speaker Champ Clark pro
j s the country into an attitude of prayerful
ititude for what W. J. Bryan did it Baltimore.
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A Chicago woman tops the score board with a
cord of seven divorces. Stilt, some mere men
imagine they monopolize the courage of the hu
man family.
, WIIIIO 1119 HU1I1CI DllUUia lUr UCIIIgCI CIH BlllUM.
rrobabiy ne promised tne voters to Keep tne
country out 01 war
London views the Stars and Stripes as a joy
ous symbol of victory. Confidence is well placed.
Old Glory never went down in defeat and it
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Will WI1IIC IICC men live.
' fntnnel Pnnaevalt'a enrolled armv nf 1 25.0(10
men stands ready for mobilization. It is up to
congress to cut War department red tape and
The experience of Governor Shaltenberger
with the rush for colonelcies no doubt convinced
Congressman Shaltenberger that the woods are
full of volunteers pulsing for service and glory.
Steadily decreasing rations of J. Bull seriously
tnreaiens tne most imposing tront tasnionea Dy
cartoonists. The loss is not without some gain.
Enforced dieting enables him to line up with the
slim respectability of Uncle Sam.
The government and the food producer have
common aims. The welfare of one is bound up
with the other. The fellows in between whs
produce nothing, but trim producer and consumer,
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mv vtiij nuuiu tne buvv mucin lags iui cmiijt
'attention.
The projected grand jury quiz into the egg
. corner developing at Chicago promises to give
the government as well as the public line on
the price-fixing talent of the country. Simitar
action on the sugar holdup in Omaha might
enable consumers to identify the patriots of pelf,
Pity the sorrows of an autocrat out of a job.
In the heyday of his power Czar Nicholas had
a fund of $.10,000,000 a year to run the imperial
household, buy gasoline and hire chauffeurs. Now
the dethroned monarch takes whatever the cook's
fancy dictates and flips the crank of a loaned
rliwer. '
Trade Marked Goods Are Thrice
Guaranteed to the Consumer
By Clinton L. Oliver
The buying of trade-marked, advertised goods
is really buying goods that are thrice guaran
teed. First, they are guaranteed by the manufacturer
who has placed his trade mark on the product
and by so doing has virtually said: "This is my
product and I guarautee it with my name and
reputation and 1 am willing to risk my future
business success on the quality of this article
and the satisfaction that I know It will give to
the consumer."
Secondly, they are guaranteed by the magazine
or newspaper in which the advertising appears,
as do reputable paper will carry an advertisement
of a product unless convinced it is as represented
in the advertisement.
Thirdly, the merchant in making the sale is
guaranteeing the product, knowing that he is pro
tected by the trade mark and the national adver
tising. - -
From every standpoint it is advisable to buy
goods that are nationally advertised. You know
that you are paying the same price as a person
who may live a thousand miles away from you.
You know that if you purchase the goods at a
village store you are getting the same price as
that bffered in the city store. People should study
the advertising pages of the newspaper, especially
those advertisements by the manufacturers who
tells you of their product, their method of manu
facturing, etc By doing this you will become fa
miliar with the many lines of trade-marked goods
and standard of quality. By studying the national
advertisements you will bo better prepared to
understand the value of local advertisements. If
the newspapers carry advertisements of trade
marked lines of goods which are carried in your
hotpc store, you will know that those goods can
bought at home at the same price as anywhere
else.
Form the habit of studying the advertisements
sud become familiar with the trade marks and
then use them as your shopping guide.
Another Fee Graft Ended.
Governor Neville completed the good work of
the legislature on one item of its schedule by
signing the bill which will prohibit the clerk oi
the courts from holding onto fees collected in
naturalization cases. Hereafter it will not be
legal for the clerk who signs his name and admin
isters the oath to retain for his own use the fee
that rightfully belongs to the county. It is a
singular condition that made it necessary to pass
a law specifically covering this point, but the leg
islature found that was the only way in
which a considerable sum of money that right
fully belongs to the county could be saved from
diversion into private pockets. Slowly but surely
the fee graft it vanishing before the light of intel
ligence, and some time all our public officials will
be serving as most of them are now, expecting to
draw only the salary fixed by law and not to piece
out their incomes by holding fees collected for
the performance of official duties.
On the Other Side of War.
Mr. Balfour's interview, published throughout
the cotntry, in which the great British statesman
simply stated some of the impressions he has re
ceived since landing, gives us a very intimate
glimpse of a side of the war that has been mini
mized by the accounts of the fighting. Cities
sitting in gloom, homes darkened and the orderly
life of great centers of social activity disarranged
have all been familiar enough because of stories
sent to this side from the actual scenes, yet the
situation has never seemed to real as made by
Mr. Balfour't statement. To awalk along properly
lighted city streets was i novel experience to him
and to others in his party. Just that one little
bit of municipal housekeeping marks the differ
ence between war and peace. It was not needed
for Mr. Balfour to refer to the losses personal to
himself and his friends that hit statement might
have full weight or the sacrifices of the people
who are warring for liberty could be duly empha
sized. Sorrow enough that these sacrifices are
needed, but it is well for the world, perhaps, that
they were made,' and it is now up to Americans
to see that they were not made in vain.
Champ Clark and the President.
The speaker of the house of representatives
has again directed his personal and official power
against the plans of the president, this time oppos
ing the executive's effort to provide an army by
the adoption of universal service. It doesn't seem
to make any difference to the great Missouri
democrat that experience has proved the futility
of the outworn system to which he clings nor
that the fairness and equity of the new plan is
admitted. He seems incapable of grasping the
central thought that citizenship in a democracy
carries with it something beyond the acceptance
of all its privileges and immunities. Duty implies
service, and, while a wiltingnes sto serve is ad
mitted, the people acting as a whole have a right
to require that that service be rendered in a way
that will do the most good. This principle has
been applied many times . and last spring was
given the sanction of law when the Oregon court
held that the public had a right to call on a citi
zen to assume political office regardless of his
personal inclination. The sentiment that ani
mates Mr. Clark in his opposition to the presi
dent's plan doesn't deserve ,to be permitted to
obstruct the nation's progress toward the right.
Universal service should be the ambition of every
citizen, and its application will benefit all.
Richmond and Hit Fellow Democrats.
Having loved and lost, our own Henry Clay
Richmond declines to be consoled by any philos
ophy or poetry; the fact that the bitter cup iff
pressed to hit lips by his fellow democrats doesn't
make it taste any better. He wanted to build a
new state house for Nebraska, and house roll No.
1, intended to bring about this desirable result,
bears his name as author.
Through all the weary watches of the long
est session of a Nebraska legislature on record,
Henry Clay Richmond nursed that bill. He
guided its faltering steps as timidly it approached
the house committee, and, as a father leads his
child, he led it through the various vicissitudes
and uncertainties that surround a big appropria
tion bill on its journey1 through the mazes and
jungles of a legislature. Finally he brought it
Qut into the sunlit heights of open enactment and
saw it passed by a good safe vote in both houses.
And, then something happened. Henry Clay
Richmond doesn't exactly know what it was, bt
he does know what effect it had. Between pas
sage and signature a Bermuda high developed,
and, while the fond father of the new state house
measure was maneuvering to avoid that obstacle,
a range of low visibility set in and from some
where out of the vasty deep a torpedo was
launched. Not even the periscope of the devastat
ing U-boat was seen, nor the wake of the torpedo;
but that isn't much consolation. The new ca'pitol
bill was hit amidships, just abaft the boilers, and
Henry Clay' Richmond refuses to be comforted.
His personal opinion of some of his fellow mem
bers of the late house is definite enough, but too
entirely picturesque for publication.
In good time the republicans will build a state
house for Nebraska, just as they will do a lot of
things the democrats left undone.
Returns from all sections of the northern
world afford cumulative proof of the destructive
force of the past winter. That it was the most
expensive and long drawn out, in this region is
beyond doubt. Expensive fuel is the least of its
toll on human resources. Partly blighted winter
wheat and alfalfa fields and damaged vineyards
mark its destructive trail. Like conditions belt
the world. The winter seemingly donned its
war bonnet and joined humanity in th$.earnival
of destruction.
The socialist Voerwaerts of Berlin boldly de
mands that the "German government tell the peo
ple the whole truth, which is limply that it is im
possible to dictate termt to a world of enemies."
Tersley put, and the fact that, Voerwaerts pulled
it off the press shows that official censors are pre
paring the public for coming events.
Legislative history at best is a Sahara, rarely
relieved by an oasis. Its dusty dreariness should
have restrained the senate from expunging Sena
tor Howell's deft touches of color. Besides
brightening the pages of the journal, the charac
ters limned by the senator might terve at models
for future political sculptors.
By a vote of 100 to 31 one branch of the leg
islature of Maine rejected a bone-dry bill. The
Pine Tree stye, strengthened against the tempter
by a drouth of fifty years duration, refused to fol
low the fajhion and mock its settled grip on the
water wagon. Wherefore, the shade of Neal Dow
sleeps on in peace.
Department of Agriculture
Weather and War
By Frederic J. Haskin
Washington, D. C, April 24 Since our dec
laration of war one service ot the weather bureau
to the general public has been stopped its ob
servations of the movements of shipping are no
longer published. These observations are made
upon a larger scale than ever, in order that the
government may have the fullest possible knowl
edge of the whereabouts of our merchant vessels
which must be protected from submarines; but
the information is withheld from publication to
kirp it out of enemy hands.
' Our daily weather map, which shows the
movements of storm areas over arid near the
North American continent, will doubtless also be
withheld from publication if actual hostilities take
place; for weather is an important element in war.
The firing of big guns at long, range and the use
of torpedoes are largely affected by weather con
ditions. In a naval battle off our coast an enemy
fleet which did not know what to expect in the
way of weather would be at a disadvantage com
pared to our own; for all possible information is
furnished by the weather bureau to the Navy de
partment every day.
The importance of weather in war is shown by
the fact that whert the European war broke out,
all of the belligerent governments immediately
withheld from publication their weather observa
tions, which had until that time been used for
publication of an international weather map of
the Northern Hemisphere.
In addition to these regular services of report
ing the movements of vessels from its coastal sta
tions in co-operation with the coast patrol and
keeping the Navy department informed as to
meteorological conditions, the weather bureau is
now making studies of he upper atmosphere,
which are of the greatest military value. The
observation of upper air currents by means of
kites and balloons which, the bureau has been
carrying on for several years is largely for the
benefit of the aeronautical corps. This informa
tion is also of value to the coast defense and
naval gunners, for in firing at long range the big
guns throw their projectiles several thousand feet
in the air, and knowledge of what wind velocities
will be encountered at these heights is indispens
able to accurate pointing.
These services which the weather bureau is
able to contribute to the efficiency of the nation
as a fighting organization are really the least im
portant part of its activities even in war time. For
our war problem is chiefly one of food supplies
and in the production and transportation of foods
the prophecies of the weather bureau are implic
itly relied upon for protection from floods, snow,
frost, storm and drouth.' In Medford, Ore.,
which is the heart of the northwestern fruit coun
try, the bureau has a special man to warn the
orchardists against the approach of frosts. When
this man says the word millions of little oil
burners are lit in the orchards and the apple blos
soms are brought safely through freezing nights
by artificial heat. Down in Louisiana the people
have stores and warehouses along the river front
and rely upon the flood warnings implicitly. If
the weather bureau says the river is going to
rise ten inches during the night they move their
property thirteen inches higher, and go to bed
with perfect confidence that it will not get wet. -
The flood and storm warnings of the weather
bureau are the features of its service that save
the most in life and property; but for its crop
protection bulletins are equally important. It
gets out special publications for the cotton, corn
and cattle regions, which let the farmers and
ranchmen know approximately what they may
expect for some days in advance. Railroads also
make liberal use of the weather bureau service,
especially in timing shipments of, live stock and
perishables. Incidentally, any citizen may call
upon the bureau for information about the
Weather. If you are going on a week's fishing
trip you have a right to ask your local forecaster
for special information as to what kind of weather
you will have. t
The basis of the bureau's forecasting service is
a mass of climatological information which has
been gathering for over a century. It is interest
ing to know that the greater part of this informa
tion has been collected, not by trained specialists,
but by American citizens giving voluntary serv
ice. Ours is really a volunteer weather bureau.
For the bureau has only 200 meteorologists in
observatories about the country; but it has 5,000
volunteer observers. These are citizens who have
shown themselves reliable and willing. They
are provided by the bureau with maximum and
minimum thermometers and with rain gauges, and
they send in daily reports. These reports, cov
ering the whole United States, county by county,
and continued for long periods, are the most
valuable work of the weather bureau, and upon
that its efficiency is largely based.
Nebraska Press Comment
Tekamah Herald: The talk of calling an extra
session of the legislature would be a calamity.
Don't do it, governor. One session of that senate
is all the people can stand. . It is the worst thing
ever inflicted on this great state of corn, cattle,
hogs and alfalfa.
Plattsmouth Journal: Edgar Howard seems
to have gotten in bad with the senate members.
The lieutenant governor should take into consid
eration that there are just as smart men in the
senate as he is, and he shouldn't try to run every
thing to his own notion. That's where the trouble
comes in.
Ord Quiz: Among ihemjust and deplorable
things done by the present legislature is the pas
sage of a bill allowing state funds to be placed
in state banks which bid the highest for the
money. It allows state funds to be deposited
in state banks up to the amount of their capital
stock and, of course, the bank guarantee law is
held to make these banks responsible for the
funds. Without the bank guarantee law the state
would not be safe in permitting such large de
posits in individual banks; neither would the in
discriminate deposits be safe without the bank
guarantee law. The evil of the bank guarantee
law is -thus made greater than ever. Banks with
no responsibility outside of its capital stock are,
on account of the bank guarantee law, just as
sound as the really sound banks, for the tottering
bank is by this law held up by the sound banks.
In other words, the hank guarantee law makes
the sound banks stand back of the worthless bank.
The theory is vicious and the practice is bad.
There is too much incentive for cheap-skate hank
ing, and the rapidity of their establishment in all
parts of the state is one of the evidences of it.
There is no more justice in making a sound bank
responsible for the failure of a dishonest com
petitor than there would be to make sound busi
ness firms responsible for the debts of their bank
rupt competitors.
People and Events
As a step in the direction of keeping down the
price of meats the butchers of Great Falls, Mont.,
cut out bookkeeping and banished the slate. Spot
cash goes or the meat stays. Masters of the
cleaver have no ears for "charge it."
Says Luke McLuke, says he: "Adam was one
of the few men in history who had no friends to
come around and tell him how to raise his boys."
Absence of expert advice doubtless accounts for
raising Cain while on the job.
Spurred by aviating prices and bright pros
pects for the future. of the beet sugar industry,
new factories are projected in the intermountain
and coast states. One Salt Lake -building com
pany reports contracts for factory buildings total
ing $7,200,000. According to estimates, the new
factories will produce enough sugar for 3,000,000
persons at the present rate of consumption.
1 TODAY
Proverb for the Day.
An honest confession is good for the
aoul.
One Year Ago Today In the War.
The entente allies conferred at
PartH on economic conditions arising
from the war.
, Germans delivered heavy assaults
from Hill No. 60 to Loos and en
tered Krltish trenches at several
points.
Government's compulsory military
service bill introduced In British House
of Commons and withdrawn because
of opposition.
In Omaliu Thirty Years Ago.
Mike Bauer, real estate dealer,
agent of the Anheuser-Busch Brewing
company, chief of the fire department
of Nebraska City and other things too
numerous to mention, is visiting Chief
Galllgan. He remained up until mid
night because someone suggested there
might be a fire before that hour and
he wanted to see the rapidity with
which our firemen get out of bed and
fly to the scene of destruction.
Colonel C. 8. Chase, who has been
confined to his house for four weeks
with a sprained ankle caused by slip-
ping on a banana pet), 1b now able
to walk around assisted v by two
crutches.
The funeral of Mrs, Sabina Ham
mond, aged 90 years, mother bf P. II.
Hammond of North .Sixteenth street,
occurred at the Holy Family church,
where requiem mass was chanted by
Father Shaffel, 8. J.
The Church Guardian is to be con
gratulated on having secured W. J.
Carter for . Its musical editor and
critic.
A meeting of the Omaha Board of
Trade was held in the new building,
with Mr. P. R. Her in the chair.
Manager lioyd of the opera house
stated that the receipts of the Booth
season amounted to very nearly $9,000.
A messenger boy was arrested for
distributing dodgers announcing the
prohibition city convention.
Charley Bergatrom, a laborer, em
ployed in grading a lot, narrowly
mfesed being crushed to death by the
falling of the high banks near the
alley between Fifteenth and Sixteenth,
Harney and Howard.
This Pay In History.
1775 Colonel Samuel H. Parsons
and Benedict Arnold planned at Hart
ford, Conn., the capture of Fort Ticon
deroga. 1798 Congress, in session at Phila
delphia, ordered the fitting out of
cruisers for war.
1813 York (now Toronto) captured
by the Americans.
182a General U. S. Grant, eight
eenth president of the United States,
born at Point Pleasant, O. Died at
Mt. McGregor, N. Y.. July 23, 1885.
1838 Fire in Charleston. S. C, de
stroyed more than 1,000 buildings.
1876 Queen Victoria made empress
of India by act of Parliament,
1892 Cornerstone laid for the
Grant monument in New York City.
1893 General John M. Corse, noted
union commander in the civil war,
died at Winchester, Mass. Born at
Pittsburgh, Pa., April 27, 1835.
1898 United States fleet bombarded
the batteries at Matanzas, Cuba.
The Day We Celebrate.
A. H. Burnett Is 60 years old today.
He was born in Galway, N. Y.. and
griduated from Bloomington College
of Law.
George E. Burd, one of the new
rear admirals of the United States
navy, born in Maine sixty years ago
today.
Dr. Hollis Godfrey, president of
Drexel institute and member of the
council of national defense, born at
Lynn., Mass., forty-three years ago
today.
John G. Cooper, representative in
congress of the Nineteenth Ohio dis
trict, born in England forty-five years
ago today.
Charles T. Copeland, for twenty-five
years associated with the department
of English at Harvard university, born
at Calais,! Me., fifty-seven years ago
today.
Frank Gotch, champion wrestler of
the world, now retired, born at Hum
boldt, la., thirty-nine years ago to
day. H. H. Myers, outfielder of the Brook
lyn National league base ball team,
born at East Liverpool, O., twenty
eight years ago today.
Timely Jottings and Reminders.
Today is the ninety-fifth anniver
sary of the birth of General U. S.
Grant.
Two hundred and fifty years ago to
day Milton sold the copyright of "Par
adise Lost" for 5.
Nebraska will observe today as
Cleanup day in pursuance of a proc
lamation issued by Governor Neville.
The Iowa Society of the Sons of tho
American Revolution wilt' meet in an
nual convention today at Ames in
celebration of Grant's birthday.
Governor Burnquist has proclaimed
this as Arbor and Bird day in Minne
sota and has urged the people to util
ize alt acreage in the tate to aid in
preventing a food shortage.
feloryette of the Day.
There is an elderly member of the
faculty of a New England university,
a noted entomologist, who has re
tained in his empioy a faithful cook
whoso services have extended over a
period of twenty years.
Recently the professor summoned
her to his study in a ceremonious way,
which was unusual.
"Regina," he began, "you have now
been In my employ twenty years. As
a reward I have determined to name
the hug I recently discovered after
you." Harper's Magazine.
AROUND T"HE CITIES.
Twenty thousand people witnessed the lay
ing of the corner stone of the new memorial
museum in Golden Gate park, San Francisco,
last Sunday. The building is the gift of
M. de Young, publisher of the San Fran
cisco Chronicle, and the donor handled the
trowel on the occasion.
From the flrst of May until the end
of the war. the lights In New York's White
Way wilt be turned off at 1 a. m. Lobster
palaces and fluid dispensaries must shoo the
crowd at that hour, inuif the lights and give
darkness m brief season of solemn repose.
Broadway is surprised, but lacks the nerve to
kick on a war measure.
To stimulate the use of electricity In the
kitchen, the Light and Power company of
Kansas City, Mo., put out a rate of 2 cents
per killowat hour. The same current used
for lighting cost 8 cents an hour. The
company agrees to cut the light rate to 7
cents, when the number of consumers reach
60,000 and to 6 cents when the number
reache 75,000. The minimum monthly
charge the cooking meter A 80 cents.
The opening of a new municipal year in
St Joe is signalised by a message
from the mayor urging- a bond Issue of
$525,000 for modern city improvements. Ac
cording to the mayor the money is needed
for motor! ting the fire department, renew
ing street lighting plant, an emergency hos
pital, a workhouse, altering the police sta
tion and more sewers.
ilia Voice for Ireland.
Omaha, April 25. To the Editor of
The Bee: I have often wondered who
wrote your editorials on Irish ques
tions. I would be willing to wager
thai he Is English. The editorial of
the 23d on "Great Britain's Willful
Men" is a ease in point. The writer
quotes a ffreat number of English pa-'
pers to the effect that Ireland should
have home rule, and then naively adds
that Americans will probably get tired
of both 'sides of this question.
. Is it possible that the gentleman Is
anticipating? Ireland is entitled as
much to self-government as Belgium
or. Poland, and the American who Is
Interested in the freedom of one will
be just as interested in the freedom
of the other. The only one who will
feel like calling a plague on both
their houses is the one who is Inter
ested In the freedom of small national
ities only In as much as this freedom
suits England.
, JAMES P. FORD.
2766 South Ninth street.
KThe reference Mr. Ford objects to
was not to Ireland, but to the con
troversy between Redmond and Car
son, whose bickerings seem to be the
main obstacle now between Ireland
and home rule).
How to Meet KutlUess Warfare.
South Side, Omaha, April 2,5. To
the Editor of The Bee: Were I in a
position to make suggestions to those
who are managing the campaign for
the English and French In the present
war, I would suggest that they place
some German prisoners on every ship
that- leaves any English or French
port, even Including the fishing
smacks, and then when they would
be attacked by the German pirates
with their submarines the Germans
would be in danger of drowning their
own men whenever they torpedo any
vessel of the allies. Since the Ger
man government does not seem to
want to carry on a civilized warfare,
if there is such a thing as civilized
warfare, they ought to be met with
some of their own methods. Since
the German pirates seem to take spe
cial delight In sinking hospital and
relief ships as well as fishing smacks
and ships with women and babies on,
they ought to be met with the chance
to drown some of their own people
as they did a few days ag when they
sunk a hospital ship.
FRANK A. AGNEW.
Pica for tlic Aliens.
Omaha, April 22. To the- Editor of
The Bee: The attitude, assertions and
actions of the German-Americans as
a class are' truly laudable since the
declaratlbn of war by the United States
government against Germany: Their
united expressions of loyalty to their
adopted country, supplemented by ac
tions that speak louder than words, are
rapidly restoring the American pub
lic's confldencf! In them that was
shaken before actual hostility was de
clared. I
It would be surprising If there were
no Germans in this country who are
plotting against tt, but these are in the
minority to such a degree that their
efforts will amount to little. That every
loyal American should promptly re
port to the proper authority all per
sons whose words or actlons'convince
him that they are disloyal is an unde
niable duty. The position of aliens in
this country whose respective govern
ments are at war ylth ours Is far from
enviable. Whichever side they sym
pathize with they probably have loved
ones on the opposing side, while a
position of strict neutrality would be
galling to men with iron in their blood.
For this reason the feelings of aliens
who have espoused our cause should
be respected as far as possible.
J. H. ROBERTSON.
CHEERY CHAFF.
Boftgs I understand (hat the Upton
Smyths have bouftht a whole nw set of
Ancestors with the proceeds of their steel
holding.
Togge I always suspected that they came
of common stock. Life.
"We're studying all nbout trees now."
"They are getting ready to put on their
.ipring fiuery."
"Tea, and it Is really very exciting wait
ing to see what the different trees are
TOing to wrar.'' Louisville Courier-Journal.
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"That man's whole life has been a leriei
of ups and downs."
"How so?"
"He began as an elevator boy, then be
came a mountain climber, and now ia giving
balloon ascensions." Baltimore American.
"T never knew such a complaining lot of
customer,' growled the baker.
'Same here," answered the butcher. "They
seem to take advantage of the fact that we
can't get along without 'em in our business.
Boston Transcript.
OWL DRUG CO.
N 16th and Harney Streets
Removal Sale
Continued
V
Friday and Saturday
These prices before we move to our new quarters at
16th and Farnam, in U. S. National Bank building:
We have hundreds of items in this sale on which a
great saving can be made. An inspection will convince.
Toilet Goods
15c, 19c and 25c quality Williams'
Perfumed Talcums, per Q
can, at C
25c Absorbit (Body De- A
odorizer) for llC
25c Assorted Lot Face Powders
and Talcum, peripack- 1 A
age, at JLHrC
50c Assorted Lot Powders and
Talcums, per package,
Colgate's Medium Size Cashmere
Bouquet Soap, 10c OP
cakes, 3 for SOC
25e Golden Bath Powder
for
$1 Golden Rule Hair Re- CQ
storer and Tonic for. . . OlC
25c Houbigant's Rice Pow- 1 P
der, 2 shades, for IOC
50c Standard Bulk Perfumes
six kinds, per ounce, J29c
14c
5c Ivory Soap, S cakes J
10c Maxine Elliot Soap, f
per cake OC
50c Harriet Hubbard Ayer's Lux
uria Face Cream, OQ
per jar aC U C
25c Nu-Fut Foot Powder, J
The exquisite Dorothy Vernon
line of Toilet Waters, Soaps and
Face Creams at the following
deeply cut prices:
All 25c Creams, Powders, Toilet
Waters, Perfumes, per A
package, at XTtC
AH 50c Creams, Powders, Toilet
Waters and Perfumes, OQ-
per package, at a6C
25c Sanitol Liquid Shampoo or
Hair Tonic, per bottle, J
50c Sanitol Liquid Shampoo or
Hair Tonic, per bottle, 20 Q
Pur Wines, Malts and Liquors
Specially priced for this sale
and to close out. Sold for me
dicinal bh only.
Household Items
25c Wright's Silver 14-
Cream, for Xfrp
25c Liberty Cleaner, 1 A
for ItC
25c Castilian Cream or 1 A
Ethereal Cleaner, for. . 1HC
35c Household- size Machine and
Lawn-Mower Oil, OI .
for 1 C
10c Skat Hand' Cleaner,
per can
25c "Rat Nip" Paste Rat 1 A
Killer, for irC
" Olive Oil
50c Beri-French Olive
Oil, per bottle
oe Golden Gate Cali- OQ
fornia Olive Oils for. .. aWC
$1.00 Size-Pompeian C O.
Olive Oil, Tor Oa7C
Rubber Goods
6c
29c
Barg
ams
75c Wood Box Paragon CAf
Bulb Family Syringe. . . OtC
$2 2-quart Hercules j 1 Q
Fountain Syringe. . iplilv
$1.75 Hercules 2-qt. Water Bot
tle (warranted) J QQ
75c Good Value No. 15 Q
Atomizer (warranted). tHC
Med icinal Items
$1 Fenner's Kidney and CO.
Backache Remedy Ol7C
$1 Kennedy's Favorite gQ
Remedy, for OIC
75c (Paraffin or Petroleum)
White Mineral Oil; for AQn
internal use, per bottle. TTC
$1 Finkham's Compound,
for
25c Ointments, 4 kinds,
per package, at
100 Hinkle Tablets,
for
100 2 -grain Quinine Pills
for
1-lb. sack Sulphur or Cop
peras, for
35c Limestone Phosphate, O A
for a&'tC
60c Pape's Diapepsin,
for
64c
14c
19c
59c
5c
29c
The Owl Drug Co.
16th and Harney Streets
SHERMAN & McCONNELL DRUG CO., Proprietors
THE OMAHA BEE INFORMATION BUREAU
Washington, D. C. ' .
Unclosed find a two-cent stamp, for which you will please send me,
entirely free, the pamphlet "Care of Food in the Home."
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