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THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 1917. The Om'aha Bee ;" DAILY (MORNINO-EVENINO-SUWDAY "'"' FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR THB BEB PUBLI8HWQ COM PANT, PROPRIETOR. . Entered t Omaha poataffica aa aacono'-daaa aittw. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION r Br CuTttf. Oaiit u turfw ...........par auaia. Ma n.l. mluttit Sunllft . 4M wlaa and Buiwlv " 404 lining without Suadaf a n uiil par rau, ! - 4.00 IM IN SZTmm at abawa 1 T TUutti is taUfarr la Oxu mWWIWI mmmmmmm REMITTANCE or poaul onltr. Onlf Katt ataaratam unit by draft tanninl of mall acoottnu. ParaoeaJ ahagk, aaoapl OB I OFFICES. Omafja-Tta ta BMIfflna. Pmlri OM amldlsa. a l.. Mil M a. Km Vn,kfM PlfiK A?a. rZil Blulfa-M H. Uals It St. Uou-Nw B k. at Omunr. linooat littla BoUdlas. WaaUnitea IIS lilt M. W. CORRESPONDENCE imm MBMmmnaaa rautlni to am ant Omaba IMa. Editorial Dapartmaafc APRIL CIRCULATION 56,260 Daily Sunday, 51,144 irmn atanlatM lot tha awntha aataaHMt ant taw a D1al WUUuia. cuonlatloi Haaapa, Suaacrftar. taartaf tha cHy ahwiU km TKa Baa aaailat AOoraae caanaw mm km mm Jupiter Pluvius, Eg.l Have heartl Tht fabled "rare days of June can't come too toon, Thi1 liiual precaution! against repeating may e discerned with next Tneaday. Besides its other patriotic atpectt, a Liberty bond Bhres the ttttttor the laugh. . Emperor Charles, though young In the reign ing business, equals his silica in the efficiency of his promise department ' lttx Gorky is not the easy mark King Ferdi nand took him to be, He recognized Bul garian double cross on sight 1 The, jreather man teems bound to have It bit town way, even if hit teal to make up lost time on ' falnfall It misplaced just now. ' New York harbor hat a tteel gate big enough to ahut the thipping in, but the real question is, : Will ft keep the U-boatt out? It ! trident from expert testimony that the mysterious light So the heavens was not reflec tion of the double cross t Chadron. Young man, tn early Visit to the registration office will pot lower your chest expansion any, aad will help your eelf-retpect quite t little. The Bee owet in apology to "Billy the Bear," but assurei him that arrangement! hare been made with the printer and the proofreader to get ; his name spelled right hereafter.1 Testimony taken at Chadron tendi to confirm what William J. Burni is credited with once hav ing said about professional detectivet as a class. And Burns knows them pretty well. Little difficulty will be experienced In smug gling across the Rio Graade Pancho Villa'e pot of golden loot ..The chief source of worry for ; Pancho is maintaining ownership on this sidev ': - r , Milwaukee socialists may get along very welt without Editor Simon or Gaylord, but an outsider will rather itand with these expelled members than with tome who perl retained in full com radeship. ' t One additional beauty of the Liberty bond it that you are taking, no chances In baying one. When your confidence in the county weakens you . will have no trouble In finding someone willing to buy yon out at face value. v ' Railroad profits for the first quarter of the year fell away tharply through Increased operat- : ing expenses. Similar effects ire marked in the ' operating expenses of households. Precious few escape the reach of the H. C. of L, - In tpite of the solemnity of the Job, the kaiser ' Indulges in Occasional flashes of humor, "We will continue to fight," he laid it Arret, "until we secure a complete victory against those who attacked us." Get the last four words?. .. .; President Lincoln once had to deal with a altuation very similar to that now confronting President Wilson, and he. met . .firmly.. His answer to those who objected to the arrest of Vallandigham will apply very patty today, The fact that an inexperienced city man it willing to take a job on a farm it pretty good evidence of hit willingnest to help, tnd ought to , be tccepted as auch, and to relieve to some extent Jrom criticism because he doesn't know much about farm operations. The Italian Pledge i ' Bmttra TrajMcrlpt Don't Try to Avoid Registration. Young men subject to the provisions of the selective draft law, no matter what their prefer ences or predilections, are solemnly warned by the president that registration it unavoidable. Further, the president tells them that attempts to evade this requirement will avail them nothing, but will subject them to serious penalties.' Those, for example, who hope to escape by absenting themselves from the country, will, on their return, find officers waiting to arrest them, charged with a misdemeanor and will be punished and regis tered as well. It it not pleasant to contemplate the fact that a very considerable number of men who are thus called upon by their country do seek to escape through some means. Various societies and organizations, animated by different reasons, but all tending to one end, have busily endeavored to foment t general resistance to the law. Several of these agitators are facing trial on charges of having committed an offense for which the severest penalty may be exacted. Reg istration is terious business; it is the call of the nation to its citizens, and the voice of the nation must be heeded this time. The Pint Month of Prohibition. The first month of prohibition in Omaha has passed into history without serious catastrophe or any particular jolt to the customary smooth running mechanism of the community outside of the people directly dispossessed from the banned business. One month is probably too short t time to afford opprotunity for t fair judgement as to ful fillment of either the promises or the forebodings to numerously handed out during the "wet" and dry" campaign. The comparative statistics of arrests tnd jail inmates show a noteworthy fall ing off notwithstanding the well-known fact that much of stored drinkables continued accessible to the previsioned and forehanded. The survey which The Bee hat just had made of the placet formerly licenaed to tell liquor indicates also that jutt tbout one-third of them are vacant. Almost two-thirdt of these locations are now given over to temperance drink dispensaries, and a few of them devoted to other uses, proving that the transition it not at hard at wat generally ex pected Bootlegging there has been and will be, but to far there it apparently no more of it, if as much, as during the dry hours of the "wet" era. It will be interesting and instructive to take an inventory of the situation from time to time and thus get an insight into prohibition's real effect. The prince of Udine and Mr. Marconi, speak' inff in the moat aolemn wav at the tomb of Wash- ington yesterday, promised the persistence of Italv in the war to the verv end. "We shall never lay down our arms," laid the prince, "until our ' liberty, and the liberty of the peoples who are suffering with us, shall be rendered safe against all surprises and violence." Mr. Marconi was not less nnaitive and not less solemn. The prince of Udine, to this uttermost adherence of Italy to the cause of all the allies, pledged the honor of the house of Savoy; and whether we like kings or princes or not, there is no one alive who can tay i that the men of that house have failed to keep thrir nrnmines. The entire Italian nation it equally earnest in this matter. Such whisperings as there have been of a fear that the Italians would desert the allied cause if Austria met their territorial demands are silenced bv the aolemn assurance. They were not, however, needed. The Italians' war flagged for tome time after Gorizia, but the fact wat that they did not possess the material, the guns and the shells to enable them to ores their attacks further. That deficiency. at the fighting on the Carso proves, has been ; remedied. We have now excellent assurance not only that the Austrian army will be kept very busy on the whole Italian front' relieving the dangerous Russian front of any noteworthy con- . centration there, and really putting the entire Ruiin front uo to the Germans, but that even if Trieste and Laibach should be conquered by the Italians, giving them all the unredeemed lands that they are fighting for, they will go on actively i with their warfare for the take of rendering the maximum amount of assistance to their allies. The utterance gives assurance also that a' complete understanding has been reached between the Italian government and the British, tho French, , the Russians and tne acrmans witn regard to iu s lure Balkan ouestions. By the prince of Udine'i ; declaration, Italy it teen to be fighting now as " much for Serbia and Montenegro as she it for herself. The announcement will lie a cheering ' tune throughout all the allied countries. Spain't Shaky Throne. . No throne in Europe teemt lest tecure and more shaky than that of Spain, where the unrest it rtpidly leading up to open revolt The governl ment hat made many arrestt of prominent men and army officers, but it unable thus to quiet the popular uneasiness. Adoption of the course of repression it due to the tenacity with which the Bourbon clingt to hit traditions, an exhibition of his inability to learn anything, even by his own experience. The house of Hapsburg hat domi nated Spain for centuries, its arrogance increasing with itt incapacity at the years have passetj. Its policy, now tdhered to, is that under which Spain wat brought down from the position of leader among the civilized governments to its present condition of exhaustion, stripped of world-empire and impoverished in men and means, But traditions of the old regime persist, and Alfonso it following in the footsteps of Ferdi nand tnd Philip. The plain people of Spain, long epressed and rigidly governed by church and ttate, respond tlowly to popular movements, but certainly are not unaffected by the riting tide of democracy all around them. France and Portugal, Switzerland and Italy, nearest neighbors and clos est friendt of the Spaniards, all are alive with the democratic impulse, and their influence must be felt by the people with whom their intercourse to intimtte. Moreover, the pressure on the Spanish govern ment is greatly aggravated by the German U-boat campaign, in which Spain has lost many ships, and about which a steady flow of notes has passed between Madrid and Berlin. This is not vithout itt effect on the public mind, tnd hat not been to far carried on in a way that would atrengthen the king tnd hit minister! with the people. Spain would be wore of a moral than a material accet lion to the cause of the allies, but the establish ment of a democratic government in lien of the illiberal monarchy would not be altcjgether with out effect Winter Wheat Situation in Nebraska. The report just made by George Coupland, food conservation member of the Nebraska Coun cil for Defense, on the winter wheat situation in the ttate challenges immediate attention. It is in the nature of a final estimate on the crop before the harvest which it now tpproaching and gives a much closer view than we have yet had of the ex tent of the disaster which has overtaken this im portant crop. Tht estimate of the Department of Agriculture on the 1st of May waa for a yield of 11,000,000 bushels, or about 20 per cent of a nor mal crop, Mr. Coupland cuts this down one-half and wisely insists that all will be needed for seed for the 1918 crop. Here is one of the serious factors of the problem plainly brought to view. The small amount of old wheat in the farmers' hands and the prospective light yield offers temptttion to the holders to fix exorbitant prices for teed. The Council for Defense will have to firmly meet thit and to arrange that enough for planting will be furnished the farmer at a price that will encourage him to seed not only the full but a greatly increased acreage. Nebraska hat faced worse situations and come out with fly ing colors, and patience and good judgment will overcome the difficulty in the present crisis. Instant action should be had in the case of William Hale Thompson if the Order of Cowboy Mayors hopes to retain its standing in political aociety. Chicago's mayor continuea sulking in hit tent obstructing patriotic activities in petty ways and making the Lake City an object of de rision. At a measure of telf-retpect the order should swing the lassoo over big Bill Political farmers in congress, who do most of their cultivating in comfortable offices, now es say the rote of expert advisers on farm develop ment crop collection and distribution. In these days of voluminous thought wavet tnd confused foreboding it it cheering to know that the "saving grace of humor" looms large as a national asset The demand of Russians at the front for guns and ammunition adds a postscript to the record of military unpreparedness which Berlin capital ized in the summer of 1914, Great Britain was similarly fixed. . Still, Berlin it farther from de daring a dividend than when it repudiated treaty obligations and struck Belgium i foul blow. Controlling 7 e Nation's Food A New Science By Frederic J. Haslin Washington. Mav 31. The oreat war has brought into, being a new science the science of feeding nations which cannot fail to be of the greatest tervice to civilization in time of peace, at well as in war. It will furnish a basis for the reconstruction of Europe upon a more efficient plan. It is the first effective and scientific measure that has been taken against the high cost of living. I hese tacts are made clear by a study ot tne methods of food administration used in Europe. . . . i. : u .u - j -I . c ,l. u-f.' wiiim iic me iiiuucis ui me uicaouica iiuw uciuie our congress. This new science is by no means complete or perfect, but it is worthy of the name because principles governing the distribution and consumption of food have been discovered, which are the same for all nations, and upon which sound metnods may be based. i A One of the most important of these principles is that the distribution of a nation's food cannot be controlled by laws, but must be placed in the hands of an administrative authority with broad towers. Germany has a food dictator. In Eng and food administration is in the hands of one man; in France and Italy small committees hold thit enormout power. Owing to the need for firompt action, and for constantly changing regu ations to meet changing conditions, this concen tration of power it recognized by experts as abso lutely necessary. And tne one-man administra tion, in cases of emergency, is almost always more effective than control by a board. That is why . 1. - Y T ' . i c-. . , . i L I l I ' ... 1 me uniieu aiaies is 10 nave a iouq aiciaior, De riving the very highest powers from congress through the president. Farmers and other citi zens testifying before the house committee on agriculture asked that the food administration ahould be in the hands of a commission upon which producers, middle men and consumers would all be represented. That would undoubt edly be more in accordance with American tra ditions. It might be hazarded that if the new and efficient methodt of feeding the nation which have been evolved should be made a permanent part of the national government, some such board would administer them. But during the emer gency of war a less cumbersome method is a ne cessity, s Having established this central power, the methodt of increasing the nation's food supply are to stimulate production, lower the cost of dis tribution, and keep the unit of consumption as nearly as possible at the physiological norm. In the United States, all three of these things entail the elimination of waste waste land, wasteful transportation methods, waste in homes. the necessary preliminary to the application of any of these things is a food survey. This, which is the least comprehensible of the adminis tration measures to the layman, Is the most valu able of all to the food expert. The survey will cost millions of dollars and it will take at least six months to complete it. But when it has been made the food administration will know just ex actly how much of each product the country pos sesses, the sources of it, and how and where it is moving. This information is necessary for all three of itt methods. It will show what lines of iroduction should be most stimulated, where the oss comet in distribution, what percentage of waste there is, and how much of it occurs on the farm, how much on the road and how much in homes. It will show these things, not to the pound, but with sufficient accuracy for the pur pose. For the food survey is no experiment It is in established part of the science of food con servation. Germany, France and England have all made tuch turveys, they have found them in dispensable, and the greatest value of these food statistics will be after the war, when the civilized world will have more need than ever to use its re sources with the utmost care and efficiency. The survey having been completed, the next ttep will be to determine how much of our na tional food supply we are wasting, and how. Get ting the percentage of waste it a simple- mathe matical operation. From the food survey, the crop statistics and slaughter nouse reports, tne import and export figures, the estimate of amounts stored in houses, will be computed the amount of food consumed in a day in the United States, arid this will be converted into calories, which are the ac cented nutritional units. This result will be di vided by the whole population, giving the aver age number ot calories used per day per person. Now an estimate will be made of the number of calories the average American actually consumes in a day. The difference between this and the first figure will be the amount that is wasted daily. For example, in Great Britain the food survey showed that for each individual 3,100 calories a day were being used. This amount wiuld be heavy eating for a working man. The average consump tion was found to be only about 2,400 calories. lheretore, the average daily waste per person in breat Britain Was W calories a day. b-ven in a country to famed for its economies as Germany it wat found that 30 per cent of the food oroduc tion waa being wasted, and Germany hat kept alive largely by cutting that waste down to a minimum. The turvev will not onlv determine the amount of this waste, but will show where it occurs whether in production, distribution, or consump tion. Nearly all foods are wasted to some extent in the home, but it has been found that the waste differs for different products and classes of prod ucts. For example, the greatest waste of potatoes is blamed upon the producer, for the incorrect methods of storage used by farmers are respon sible for in immense loss. Green vegetables are wasted chiefly' in the channels of trade; they rot in the cars and in retail stores and city markets. In these ways the new science of food conser vation determines the amount of a nation's needs, of itt supplies and of its wastes and losses. It makes I map of the nation's food channels, so that it may know of every break and stoppage and inequality in the vital circulation. Its methodt of controlling these things will be described in two more articles. Our Fighting Men '' Samuel Reber. Colonel Samuel Reber. who has been appointed signal officer of the new Northeastern department of the United States army, is one of the most widely known officers of the signal corps, with which branch of the service he has been connected since 1894. In his early military career he saw tctive service in the Indian campaigns in Arizona and during the war with Spain he was brevetted captain for gallantry in action at Guanica. Colonel Reber has had extensive experience in ballooning and aviation, having supervised the several inter national ballooning contests conducted in this country tome years ago. He is 53 years old and a native fo St. LOuis. After graduating from West Point in 1886 he, took special courses at Johns Hopkins universijf.- and at the Army War college. In 1900 Colonel' Reber married the daughter of Lieutenant General Nelson A. Miles, U. S. A., retired, former commander of the army. I TODAY Proverb for the Day. Brag li a good dog. better. I Holdfast a Frank E. Beatty. Rear Admiral Frank E. Beatty, U. S. N., re tired, the present commandant of the Charleston navy yard and the Sixth naval district, it best remembered as the officer who commanded the ships of the north Atlantic fleet at the time of the naval 'demonstration off Tampico, Mexico, in 1914. Admiral Beatty was born in Wisconsin in 1853 and graduated from Annapolis at the age of 22. In the war with Spain he took the monitor Monterey from San Francisco to Manila to rein force Dewey. In 1908 he commanded the battle ship Wisconsin in the memorable cruise of the American fleet around the world. As commandant of the navy yard at Washington and later as superintendent of the naval gun factory he had an opportunity to aid in making the big gun of the modern American warship the equal of any big gun in the world. One Year Ago Today In the War. Oermani aecured foothold tn Brit ish trenches on Yprae front. Italians threw back desperate Aus trian! assault in the Lagartna valley. New Russian offensive against Aus tralns began, 13,000 prlaoners being taken. In Omaha Thirty Years Ago. The board of education of the Lutheran synod held a session in the reception room of Boyd's opera house to consider the matter of the location of a college which the Lutheran! pro pose to build. The bond of St. A. D. Balcombe as chairman of the board of public works waa approved by the council, the sure tie! being Lewis Reed and Harry D. Reed, the amount being 115,000. Chairman Balcombe waa looking around the court house endeavoring to And some nook In the basement of that building to which the office of the board might b moved so as to be near the city engineer's office. W. J. Carter, formerly In the Re publican business department has opened an office aa expert accountant in the Chamber of Commerce. The Seventh ward republicans met at the Hanscom park house and se lected Paul Vandervoort J. T. Bell, Loula Peterson, John McDonald, J. M. Hensel. John C. Meyers and L. H. Bradley as convention delegates to be voted for at the primaries. The meet ing also elected N. C. Bell, clerk; N. W. Nelson, Judge, and C. L. Thomas, Inspector of the primary, election. D. W. Kelster, bookkeeper In the revenee office for the last two years, has been succeeded by John C. Cal houn. Mr. Calhoun will be succeeded by Mr. Heller of West Point. James Creighton is building three brick flats of two stories and a base ment each on Davenport, between Twelfth and Thirteenth. They are to be constructed by .Cleves Bros, and will cost 112,000. This Day tn History. 1629 John Sobteskl, the Polish ruler, who saved central Europe from Turkish Invasion, born tn Oalicla. Died at Warsaw June 17, 1MI. 1666 First legislature ot North Carolina met. ' . 1689 The Leisler Insurrection broke out In New York. 1773 John Randolph of Roanoke,, for many years the most striking ngure In American political life, born at Cawsons, Va. Died In Philadelphia June 24, 1833. 1817 George H. Corliss, famous aa the inventor of the Corliss engine, born at Baaton, N. Y. Died at Provi dence, R. I., February 21, 1888. 1865 British government resctnded its recognition ot the confederates as belligerents. 1869 A southern Immigration con vention met at Montgomery, Ala. 1890 Work of taking the decen nial census of the United States was commenced. - 1892 The "High-Water Mark" monument was dedicated on Gettys burg battlefield. - 1902 England observed a day of rejoicing over the end of the South African war. ' The Day We Celebrate. John Thomas Yates, who was born June 2, 1866, la a Marylander by birth. He Is also one of the organ izers of the Woodmen of the World and has served continually as sover eign clerk since January 1, 1892. Dr. Ewlng Brown, practicing physi cian In the Brandels bulldiOK. is 69 years old today. He was tw.-n at Monmouth, 111., and educated at Mon mouth college, studying mediline later at Jefferson college and Johns Hopi kins. Thomas Hardy, famous novelist, born in Dorsetshire, England, seventy seven years ago today. Richard- H. Aishton, president of the Chicago & Northwestern railway, born at Evanaton, 111., fifty-seven years ago today. Lulu Glaser, popular musical com edy star, born at Allegheny City, Pa., forty-one years ago today. Ruffln G. Pleasant, the present gov ernor of Louisiana, born at Shiloh, La., forty-six yars ago today, Sir Edward Elgar, noted musician and composer, born In Worcestershire, England, sixty years ago today. Dr. Thomas G. Oerdine of the United States geological survery, born at West Point, Miss., forty-flve years ago. Timely Jottings and Reminders. A notable wedding In Baltimore to day will be that of Miss Clara Hun tlcker Murray, daughter of Bishop and Mrs. John Gardner Murray, and Mr. Auville Eager. Under the auspices of the classical and archaeological departments of the university, a conference on classical studies In liberal education is to be held today at Princeton university. By order of the federal court the Tennessee Central railroad Is to be offered for public sale at Nashville today. Three times recently the road has been offered for sale without a satisfactory bid being received. A wedding connecting two of Amer ica's wealthiest families takes place In New York today when Mlsa Alice Ford Huntington, daughter ot Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Huntington, becomes the bride of Charles H. Marshall. M laa Huntington is a sister of Mrs. Vin cent Astor, while Mr. Marshall, the bridegroom, is a brother of Mrs. Mar shall Field, 3d, whose husband Is prin cipal heir to the colossal estate left by the late Marshall Field, Chicago's merchant prince. v Storyette of the Day. Something happened to the steering and his machine dashed across a crowded sidewalk and into a jeweler's ttore window. It cost him heavily to settle everything, and after that he didn't drive his car. Last week he hired an expert chauffeur to tool him down town. Soon some trouble de veloped. He hailed the driver: ' "What's the matter?" "8teering gear gone wrong air! What shall I do?" "Drive It Into the cheapest tiling you see ! "--Argonaut LE'S GO FISHIN. Soring la colt and wat. dear aval Alakta it mlshty hard an ua. Waeda 'ra hlth and corn ao arnall, Car'nt malta aut tha rows at alL Rhumatts In my llt kaaa. Puta ma d'-awn and aeut, you aaa. PovsyH Goln' tn rain? eu bet! Traa-toad kollara "watt" "wat" "watt" La'a so tlahla'l - Son's amllln. faa! tip top. Paya Ilka thaaa lea tach tha apot! Tatera flna, and paaa la tit. Mandy'a fayrdan's ahorlay Itt. Baa bird tn tha charry trea. Stop your allnsln' aaaa at mat Robin dlsaln' grubo I vuml Say, ala filter, lan ma aome, ADELLA LOVEJOI CURRIER, Wa go flahlp: St. Edward. Nab. What U-Boat Success Means. Omaha, May SI. To the Editor of The Bee: Many wage earners do not realize that their economic welfare will be seriously injured If ruthless Germany succeeds In Its attempt to drive our world commerce off the sea, Germany can become master of the sea If it can destroy the foreign trade from our farms and factories. In that way Germany would close many of our factories, coal and iron mines, depress farming, lessen trans portation, depress, wages, destroy our prosperity and throw millions of wage earners out of regular employment. By forcing several years of hard times on us, ruthless Germany would com pel us to grant a German peace, which means special concessions and billions of dollars to pay its war expenses, thus strengthening them while weakening us. Labor would have a large share in the payment of a huge Indemnity. ShalJ we allow Germany to depress la bor and industry by stopping our over sea trade and placing a huge indem nity on their backs? The world will not be safe from Krupp kultur until we make Ger many a republic and teach it demo cratic culture, ERNEST L, IRELAND. Hired Girls on the Farm. Culbertson, Neb., May 29. To the Editor of The Bee: I see that Mr. Rankin objects when Mrs. Davisson of the university says girls should expect to tend the baby and help with the farm work. Well, there are always plenty of objections when some truths are spoken. Being a farm woman, and having worked both in farm and city homes for several years before I was married, I know something about con dition there. On the farms I have always been asked to help do the milk ing and often to carry the separated milk to the pigs and no one seemed to think they were asking too much If they told me to wait on the children and attend to the baby, even at night; or patch the hired man's clothes. Some of my other duties were to attend to the poultry and get the cows, although when the lady of the house engaged me she assured me I would only have to do the housework. v I have never oeen askea to do actual rarm work, outside of working in the garden, but a neighbor's girl that went to help out on a farm here, while there was illness in the family, not only did the house work, but was asked to, and did, drive a team In the fields in the artemoon. Yes, indeed, girls working in the coun try are treated as one of the family; that's why girls always prefer to work tn town or city and the country women goes without help. Farmers also ob ject to paying as good wages as city folks, although the hours are longer and work is harder. ANNA MEYER. , JUNE TIME FOLLIES. 'How do the firla munrtfc to keep their hair in place?" "They use a net over ihlr lovks.' "But how do they keep the net In place O well?" "The can make handy projection!, I'm told." Loulavllie Courier Journal. Teachur If you are kind and polite to your fellow. pypiln, what will b the result? Pupil Why. they'll think they can lick me. Puck. "Now. Willie, supposing you accidentally stepped on a gentleman' foot, what would you say?" "I would nay 'Be pardon, sir.'" "And If the gentloman gave you a dima for being polite, what would you dot" 'I would step on tha other and say 'Beg pardon' again." Boston Transcript. "Pan't vou think of any way to per- uade aervanta to live away from the city?" "Only one," replied Mr. Crosalots. "Move uummer boarder." Washington Star. "Good gracious, John, why did you allow the agent to persuade yon to take a cottage with no more ground than this?" ''Because, my dear, I did not go Into tnts deal with any selfish Idea of territorial ex pansion. UHllllllUl AUIIillSH, JllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllMIIIIIIIIIMi 24 ic Per Gallon A quality piece of goods and one we are proud of. 2 ;The L VJfiJholat Oil Company g PMtfn B GRAIN EXCHANGE BLDC. ' aillMIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIItr AnotherBigSaturdaySale AT THE Sherman & IwcConnell Drug Stores I The days and weeks have all been busy ones at our stores this year. On January 2nd, we had a disastrous fire at our Owl Storebut our loss was promptly adjusted, and we followed with in a few days with a Fire Sale, which cleaned up everything that had even the smell of smoke about it. A few weeks later we opened up our pretty old rose, and gray "West End" Pharmacy at 49th and Dodge Sts. Then came. March, when we were driven almost to distraction by moving our Warehouse from the quar ters we had occupied for 17 years, at 1514 Dodge street, to the 3-story, and basement brick building we purchased at 509-11 South 12th Street. The next step in destruction and reconstruc tion was the removal of our Owl Store from 16th and Harney to our new and handsome quarters at 16th and Farnam. Col. Harry Wolf and his associates are making things move at 16th and Harney, and we hope to be re-established at that point with in 12 months. . At the present moment, our 5 stores are all "cocked and primed," speaking in military parlance, and we are quite sure that now, more than ever, you will surely save time and money by trading at one of the 5 Bexall Stores. Prompt Service, Free Delivery, in and from all of our Stores. Proprietary Medicines at Money Saving Prices $1.00 Pinkham's Compound. . ,69c Ls Broil's Health Elixir or 45c &d 890 Healthtone Tonic for 45c tnd 89c Morse't Glycerole of Celery, for ........ 45c "d 89c 35c Genuine Castoria tor 21c S. S. S. Blood Purifier. 74o, $1.39 25c Mac Laren'a Mustard Create for 14c Mentholatum tor 17c and 39c Horlick's Malted Milk, 39c 69c and $2.74 50c Pape's DIapepsin for 29c 35c Limestone Pbospbate for. -24c Toilet Goods at Sharply Reduced Prices $1.00 Vantine't Oriental Orchid Toilet Water for ggc Rocheau Toilet Water, In Long Green Bottlea '.QRp. 25s Cutex Manicure Preparations . r...,. 19c Assorted lioc or zoc Talcum rou ters, per box . .14.P Assorted Lot of 60c Toilet Waters, including Lazcll s, at 34c 25c Houbigant's Rose or Violet Toilet Rice Powder, at Idn Long Bar Elmerito White Castile Soap, for ...75c 15c Munyon's Witch Hazel Soap 'or ...-9c 26c Woodbury't Facial Soap,.17c 25o Cuticura Soap for 17c 60c Melorose Cream for...... 39c Prohibition Alcohol MEDICATED We are now prepared to furnish under federal and state restrictions the only spirituous liquor which may le gally be sold , in drug stores in Nebraska, viz., Medicated Grain Alcohol. We have this in various medications, prop erly labeled, all to be sold in the manner and for the pur poses as contemplated by the Nebraska Prohibition Law, and as permitted by Federal Revenue Regulations. The Owl's New Cagd Our Owl Drug Store is now entirely moved from 16th and Harney, and we are splendidly established in our new quarters tn tbe United States National Bank Building at the northwest corner of 16th and Farnam streets, entrance just north and just west of the Burlington Tick et Office on 16th and on Farnam street. West End Pharmacy Our pretty old rose and pearl gray drug store at 49th and Dodge it getting better every day. Mr. J. D. Rainey and Mrs. Anna Baker preside from early dawn to dewy eve. They have several genial helpers, all of whom will be pleased to serve everyone in Omaha, and espe cially In the Dundee district Sherman & McDonnell Drug Co. Corner 16th and Dodge (The Original.) Corner 16th and Farnam (The Owl), Corner 24th and Farnam (The Harvard), Corner 19th tnd Farnam (Near Grain Exchange, Fontenelle Hotel, Telephone Building and 8anford Hotel), Corner 49th and Dodge (The West End Pharmacy). THE OMAHA BEE INFORMATION BUREAU ' Washington, D. C Enclosed find a two-cent stamp, for which you will please tend me entirely free, a copy of the pamphlet, "Preparing Vegetables." Nam Street Address. I ...oxa ; Citr-- Stat ....-r,.!