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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JUNE 24, 1917.
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The spurning of German bribes in Mexico is
the cruelest cut of all.
It is painfully evident that the county asses
sor leaped before he looked where he would land.
Now comes the drive to fill up the army, show
ing that life is just one thing after another these
days.
Pa Rourke's boys are working more like real
champions just now and fairly uphold the name
of Omaha. ' ,
x Yankee gunners are doing fairly well aganst
the U-boats, even though they are working with
out range-finders.
Having reached Switzerland in good physical
condition, it is t safe guess that King Constan
tine is looking up.
Kansas has raised the ante on its wheat crop
by a couple of million. bushels and Nebraska is
coming along right behind.
It may be i trifle early,-but we want to warn
the weather man not to spring another Bermuda
high on us like that last one.
If noise Is needed to make the glorious.Fourth
feel like its predecessors, safety suggests hiring
a squadron of motorcycles to race and explode
on the highways.
Des Moines "superiority" for taking care of
that cantonment evidently lost some of its po
tency when the War department applied the acid
test of accessibility.
When lining up the fighting "J. J.s" don't
forget Brigadier General John J. Coppinger, who
fought bis way to honorable distinction in both
Europe and America-'
Mexican opinion voiced in national prints fore
shadows an early breaking of ground for mis
sion to Uncle Sam. Preparedness lends deli
cacy to a friendly touch.
While other cereal monarch s wobble around
theii thrones, King Corn I holds the center of
the market place, and with, his magic wand draws
widening circles of obeisance. ,
Despite the great success of Rev. Mr. Sunday
in converting New York, the regular shakeup
methods had to be used on the police depart
'tnent immediately after h"is "amen." '
. If the state's purse fails, aubscriptions might
be taken up to defray the cost of printing the Sen
ate Journal. The literary merit of senatorial vote
explanations alone justifies the expense.
One of the economy stunts recommended to
housekeepers is to save 2 cents on each meal.
That would mean a saving of $12,000 a day in
Omaha. "Where there's a will there's a way."
Rear Admiral Peary is looking over St. Paul
and Minneapolis in search for a site for an avia
tion camp. If going up in. the air is an ad
vantage, he has hit the right place the first time.
One New York coal broker who bought vast
quantities of coal at $2.10 a ton sold out to the
allies at $8 a ton. "They thought I was doing
them a favor," he added while on witness stand.
He was doing em good.
Railroad statisticians renew the complaint of
falling net revenue", due to increased cost of op
eration, equipment and taxes. Millions of people
outside railroad circjes, touched in the lame spots,
mutely extend a sympathetic hand and swap tears
with the big ones. But what's the use?
Great Britain's Food Problem.
' Conservation of food and price regulation
marks progress in Great Britain, The spur of
necessity sharpened by increasing prices is a
forceful incentive to economy among tlia middle
classes, while an aggressive campaign against
gluttony among the well-to-do steadily tends to
ward moderation. Various phases of the problem
treated in the news columns of the London Times
up to thi first week in June show great difficulties
encountered, which are gradually yielding to the
force of law and the national weal. Price fixing-
embraces the mam food essentials from meats to
cereals. Records are made of every animal
slaughtered for food and the butcher's profit lim
ited to a specified percentage above the price paid.
A butcher violating the regulation is not only
subject to severe penalties, but may be denied the
right to purchase imported meats controlled by
the board of trade. In none of the accounts on
hand is mention made of a fixed price for the
stockraiser. Apparently the main object of the
regulations is to head off middlemen and pre
vent speculation in public necessities.. With
respect to cereals the government already has
guaranteed minimum prices to farmers for this
and the next three years, but regulates the profits
of handlers between raisers and consumers, stipu
lating the weight of different sizes of bread loaves
, and the price of each at retail. Food products of
oats and barley are price-fixed in like manner, as
well as of milk from producer to consumer.
Despite the regulations and proclamations
peculation in food is far from being eliminated,
This is not surprising, since price fixing is a new
Venture in the kingdom. Business methods are
not readily revolutionized and the grasping hand
doei not easily forget its cunning. That it is
sharply curtailed is evident from the decreased
number of protest meetings and the growing vigor
of courts in applying penalties for violation.
Omaha and the Red Cross.
Omaha's share in raising the Red Cross $100,
000,000 war fund is testimony to our people's
patriotism and generosity. A week ago a mark
was set for each individual of the estimated popu
lation and just as that figure is more or less in
definite, so the sum expected was not put at any
fixed total. It was determined the collection
should be not less than $210,000, but it has been
quickly oversubscribed and actually will reach
quarter of a million.
To attain this magnificent result, with all it
means as proof of the liberality of our people
and their appreciative devotion to the high ob
jective of the Red Cross, energetic and system
atic woik was demanded. No question was made
as to Omaha's responsiveness, the task being to
organize and co-ordinate the workers, that full
advantage of the impulse to give might be taken.
To this end the leading business men gave over
their own affairs and brought their ability to
the service of the great enterprise. These and
the organizations that co-operated with them so
effectively succeeded in awakening among the
citizens a splendid sense of the quality of the
work and the imperative importance of its 'sup-
porf-
I he answer is read m the total subscriptions.
Omaha has its proper place among the sustainers
of the Red Cross and those who worked and those
who gave may alike rest with the satisfaction
that comes from a good deed well done. It dem
onstrates that, in the bright lexicon of service to
the country, there is no such word as fail.
Why King Constantine Was Deposed.
Those who attempt to compare the invasion of
Belgium by the Germans, with the treatment of
Greece by the Allies overlook certain of the
salient facts in the case. King Constantine was
under treaty obligation to aid Serbia in event of
that country being attacked. He was also bound
by treaty to permit the passage of relief for Ser
bia across Grecian territory at any time. The
first ot these treaties he violated; the second he
sought to eVade. He presented himself as a men
ace to the Allies in their effort to aid Serbia, and
when the Bulgarians appeared on his frontier he
withdrew the Greek garrisons and allowed the
Bulgarians to occupy strongly fortified places
without resistance. Once an entire Greek army
surrendered without firing a shot, and the ;Ger
mans guffawed at the joke of "kidnaping" 250,000
men right under the nose of. General Serrail,
In every way Constantine showed his unneu-
trajity, his personal preference for Germany and
his willingness to assist the kaiser, even to the
extent of breaking his pledged faith with Serbia,
his ally in the war against the Turk and the Bui-,
Kr, wno .re now unca up wun me uerman. - ne
was false to his own people, as is proved by the
votes of confidence given to Venizelos, and mani
fested in many ways treachery when most pre
tentiously asserting his desire to be let alone in
peace. '
Constantine's record in connection with the
war does him little credit, and certainly does not
warrant his being placed alongside Albert of
Belgium. v
Switzerland and the Russian Incident.
Switzerland is coming, in for a few unpleasant
moments with Entente diplomats because of its
connection with the German peace offer to the
Russian socialists. It is not suggested that the
Swiss foreign minister was not within his rights
in acting as agent for Germany in the transmis
sion of the offer. It is the awkward way io which
he went about it that has caused the trouble. Min
ister Hoffman is accused of having pro-German
sympathies and this, together with his pronounced
adherence to socialism, led him to overstep the
bounds of diplomatic procedure. Instead of send
ing the communication to the Swiss minister, as by
request ofGermany, he transmitted it as an order
from his home government. - Odler Swiss min-
resuit mac ne was expenea irom Kussia. in a
less delicate situation the slip of the Swiss min
ister might go unnoticed,, but when so much
hangs upon trifles the Entente representatives
at Petrograd and Stockholm, at which points the
disclosures, were made, feel the attitude of the
Swiss government should be made more plain
than is indicated by the acts of Minister Hoff
man. The German intrigue with the extreme so-
cialists has been rendered harmless by exposure,
but the incident shows how very necessary the
utmost vigilance has become.
Fraternals Meeting the War Risk.
One of the problems in connection with the
war has been the matter of life insurance. Risk
incident to military service in time of war is enor
mously increased over the normal uncertainty of
life on which rates are calculated, and insurance
companies generally find here real cause for per-,
plexity. "Old line" companies have met the con
dition by adding an arbitrary rate to policies in
existence to cover the war risk, while declining to
assume any new liability of insurance on those
who are going out. Fraternal companies are con-,
fronted with similar responsibilities, and are tak
ing steps to distribute the added cost of insur
ance among their policy holders on a basis that
Will be equitable and yet produce a sum adequate
to discharge emergency liabilities. This move is
prudent, for the societies could not afford to be
placed in the position of discouraging service by
repudiating or suspending the insurance of mem
bers who join army or navy, and it is just, because
it places the added burden on the entire member
ship, and gives the man who stays at home an op
portunity to, do his share by paying for the man
who goes out to risk his life for the nation. The
patriotism of the "fraternals," never in question,
is strongly asserted by this movement.
Hollownesa of "Titles." -,-'"
Another American girl, wedded to a titled for
eigner, has been disillusioned by sad experience,
and liberated by the court from an unwelcomed
bond. Lured by the glittering prospect of the
position of wife of a "nobleman," she had full op
portunity to test its emptiness and to repent.
Hers is not the first case of the kind on record,
and the lesson of each is the same. The king of
England is requiring all members of his family
to divest themselves of German titles of rank or
position. While this is a "war" measure, per
haps, it amounts to a royal admission of the
meaninglessness of these labels of distinction and
is suggestive of what may follow. The recasting
of social divisions after the war will probably be
along lines that have nothing to do with tradi
tions of hereditary rulers or privileged nobility.
A world in which merit alone will lift a man above
his fellows looms just ahead, for the transmis
sion of wealth and power must be subject to a
standard of desert and ability in a society wherein
the principles of democracy control Human relations
B Victor RoMwater
1 ! . ' j 1 , r l witnout designing to do so, our
Nebraska editors certainly nicked a strenu
ous week for their get-together meeting in
Omaha so far as enforcing their claim to the un
divided attention of their host is concerned. But
newspaper people understand the exigencies of
unforeseeable events and the regular program
arranged for them was so full of good things
that 1 know they did not feel the Tack of any
extras. I am sure they would rather be in Omaha
and find everything here moving so fast that they
have to speed up to keep abreast of the proces
sion man to see us loanng on the job with time
hanging heavy on our hands. Nebraska editors,
like other Nebraska people, enjoy coming to
Omaha for meetings of this kind, because they
know their entertainment will be fully provided
for and at the same time will not be overdone,
and, as a consequence of such visits, the reciprocal
feeling between the metropolis and the folks out
in the state is today much more cordial and sym
pathetic han it has ever been heretofore.
The special treat of the meeting disclosed it
self in the presence and participation of two head
liners invited as guests from abroad Herman
Black, publisher of the Chicaeo American, and
Walter Williams, dean of the pioneer successful
School of Journalism in this country, the school
attached to the University of Missouri at Co
lumbia, of which, by the way, the president, Dr.
A. Ross Hill, is an old Nebraska man. It was
the personality of these men and association with
them, even for so brief a period, as much as
their talks, that must have offered inspiration to
the men and women eneased in orintinr dailies
and weeklies and uplifting the standards of the
lourtn estate in tne cities and towns throughout
Nebraska, and in this way enabled to keep in
touch with the deeper currents of journalism.
While here. Herman Black looked nn a num.
ber of old friends whose acquaintance dales back
to the days when he was our fellow townsman,
for, be it known, he was a resident of Omaha in
the middle '80s and traveled all through this
section of the country as a dealer in butchers'
supplies, which was also the business he set up
in when he first located in Milwaukee. His rise
in- the newspaper wdrld reads like a rorAance, be
cause it was but a chance turn that nut him in
charge of the Milwaukee Journal, with which
ne maae gooa ngnt trom the start. He has
never bad anv experience with the rriitnrial iH
of the paper, but on the subject of advertising,
which was the topic he talked about, no one
is better versed. It was his success in "producing"
in the Milwaukee field that convinced Hearst that
Herman Black was the man cut out for the Chi
cago job and he was so sure he wanted him that
a five-year engagement at a magnificent salary,
as newspaper salaries run, was the outcome and
it is understood that the results have satisfied
both with the bargain. ,
In Walter Williams is oresented the tvn of
trained journalist, a student of affairs, the ana
lytical mind coupled with the power of quick re
partee, the driving force of the daily battle of
the composing room, softened bv the tincture of
university culture. I have myself been down to
Columbia and have seen how the Williams plan
of teaching journalism works and it is eminently
practical as well as theoretical. Dean Williams
found the connecting link to couple up his school
with the newspapers of Missouri, for whose bene
fit it is supposed to be principally maintained, by
holding a "field week" once a year in the nature
of an institute of journalism. This makes the
university the clearing house for all that is going
on among the newspapers of that state. Dean
Williams also bumped into old-time friends, here,
former comrades in journalism in Missouri, such
as Mr. Reeves of The Bee and Mr. Parrish of the
publicity bureau. The newspaper profession is
wonderfulfy cosmopolitan more than that, it
touches elbows with practically every other pro
fession or 'line of work. .- ,:
This afternoon I am to serve a natlh.ar.r tnr
the funeral of Mrs. Harrv P. Deuel, who ha HI.H
after a lingering illness. I wish I could pay a fit
ting tribute to the memory of this good, woman,
whose kindliness, unselfish devotion to others, pa
tient disposition and radiating cheerfulness could
scarcely have a counterpart From my infancy
Mrs. Deuel has been almost a second mother, an
across-the-street neighbor for years and then
only two blocks off. When she lived in thexottage
ProTerb for the Day.
Don't count your chlpkens before
they are hatched.
i.t.r at VntmrrriA fn.,..,l !,. I
us children to hem ourselves, and aft.rwacU
being much closer to the school building, we
could stop jit at her house in stormy weather to
get someining io eat instead ot going all the
way home. Her little benefactions were count
less and never exoloited. No trnuhln i in
great for her tovgo to to help relieve distress or
comion sorrow and 1 do not believe she ever
knowingly offended anvone. She alwavs lcnt n.
ceptionally well posted on what -was doing and
was a mine of information about people and
events of the early days in Omaha. I remember
that when I wanted an article written a year or
two ago about the famous Omaha operetta, "Mr.
jjmpson ot umana, sne unearthed the libretto
for me irom her collection and in;trH tt,. (?..
was but a pleasure.
People afid Events
New York's "finest" shin in mm Vtir.tin.
but not all the time. It was a woman ti-tivJ
who traced, the Cruger crime and uncovered the
gin s grave, long alter the cops quit the job and
forgot it.
An amateur sardener r.nmnlain. nt thm A(t.-
culty of deciding between weeds and vegetable
sprouts. The easiest way out of thsydilemma is to
tryout'out samples in a pipe. If a sample smokes
it i a weed. Smoke Up!
The first OUtnourinir of feminine hathinir tnlt.
at Chicago beaches proved as fetching as a high
class reinforced ballet. The censor let down the
bars on all styles, and as a result the veracious
press delicately remark that some of the show
would curl a prophet's whiskers.
Mrs. Marv Smith, a o-ravhaired widnw nf a
St. Louis suburb, brought her little store to a
bank for investment in Liberty bonds. "I am
sorry it is not more; my country can have it all."
A fine spirit of patriotism, but hardly approaches
the spirit of sacrifice shown by an Omaha family
which turned into the Red Cross fund a Liberty
bond bought on the installment plan and repre
senting the family savings.
Somebodv rocked the boat in Oyster hay and
Mrs. Rav Hvman. New York's woman "hanW
dropped $8,000; the bank's cash balance, in the
cruel waters,. Banker Hyman worked a get-rich-
quicx scneme, a sure thing good lor 5U per cent
a month on the ouiet. As soon as the friWat
authorities caught on Mrs. Hyman took to motor
Doating and the cash vanished. "Believe me,"
she whispered to the sleuths,'"! feel quite upset."
When New Yorkers iwent nn the halnim and
other fragments of the so-called anti-craft' riot,
precious little cause for the ruction , could be
found. The petition to the mayor, the attempted
delivery xf which started the trouble, had'only
three names attached and was a orotest ao-ainst
a state census of men of military age, with which
tne-mayor nothing to do. J. he pretext served the
purpose of misleading others into a demonstra
tion which ended in a collision with police clubs.
Governor Burnauist of Minnesota has ordered
an investigation into conditions in the northern
topper camps where the Industrial Workers of
tne World .agitators exercise autocratic power
over labor. Refusing to work themselves they
bulldoze workmen into idleness and create a reign
of terror. The situation also calls far the strong
arm of federal authority, inasmuch as the agitators
defv reffistmtinn and think thi-v are hiuwr than
state and federal power. Under these, circum
stances there is need of asserting authority with
convincing vigor. '
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One Year Ago Today In the War.
Russian captured city of Kuty in
Gallcla.
British began attack on German' po
sitions along entire ijritinn front.
Rome reported the Austrlans In Ren
oral retreat before the Italian often
slve in Trentlno.
In Omaha Thirty Years Ago.
The Omaha High school graduating
exercises iook place at Boyd s theater,
the following young: people receiving
ciplomaa: John Ahlqulst, Mabel Bal
combe, Iowa Ball, Nellie Bauserman,
Amelia Blumve, Harry JU Bowner, J.
w. uroatcn. Belle u Cox, Augustus K.
Detweiler, Rose Donahue, Emily Dorn,
Enoch J. Ellison, Jeannette B. Glbbs,
Clara Oriffls, I. Harris, Carrie House,
Bertha Leisenrlng. Mary Ludington,
Anna Aiciague, iveua Mover, Ben Nel
ton, SI. Alta Peacock, Victor Rose
water, Sadie Schlesinger. Lou Shron.
shi, Leonard C. Strang, Vena Wells,
r,iui wnuney ana Minnie woodman.
McDonald, the charioteer, with his
two charioui and eight horses, has ar
rived 'to take part In the great races
on me rourtn or July.
Mrs. J. B. Hunter gave a lawn so-
ciaDie at ner residence, corner Park
avenue and Mount Pleasant street, for
tne Denent of the Hanscom Park
Methodist Episcopal church.
Mrs. I. Brown, wife of the Douglas
street rurnlture dealer, has received
news of the death of her mother and
Drother In Berlin.
Rev. L. A. Lamar of the First Rao.
tt church, corner Fifteenth and Dav
enport, gave s. talk on the subject of
froniDiuon.
Governor Thayer visited Creighto'n
college for the first time and expressed
himself as remarkably pleased with
the equipment of that free institution
of learning and with the reception
Biven mm. '
F. T. Mittauer, A. C. Joliffe, C. W.
Mounton and W. E. Coombs have re
turned from ' a pleasant vacation at
Spirit Lake, la. They made the Ion
Journey on their 'cycles and their ex
periences en route going and coming
were many ana variea. r
This Day in History.
1763 General William Hull, who
was court-martialed and sentenced to
death for the failure of his expedition
against Canada in the war of 1812,
and subsequently pardoned, born at
uerDy, conn. Died at Newton, Mass.,
November 29, 1825.
1797 Congress, in view nf th
threatening relations with France, au
thorized the president to raise 80,000
militia for three months.
1817 Thomas MeKean. nne nf tho
signers of the Declaration of inde
pendence, died in Philadelphia. Born
at Londonderry, Pa.. March 19, 1734.
1820 President Madison, General
Jackson and others entered in Louis
ville by the Free Masons.
1859 The French and Sardinian
defeated the Austrlans at Solferlno.
1867 General Custer lost sixty men
in a fight with the Indians near the
headwaters of the Republican river.
1894 President Carnot of France,
while visiting in Lyons, was stabbed
by an anarchist and died the following
day.
1897 Celebration of the 400th an
niversary of the discovery of Newfoundland.
1898 Americans lost thirty-four
killed and the Spanish 265 in' the at
tack on Santiago.
1916i-Unlted States renewed .de
mands on Germany in the Frye case,
Hhe Day We Celebrate.
J. P. Guth was born In Wurtem
berg, Germany just fifty-five years ago
today. He is an architect and has
erected many of the most prominent
buildings of this city and of the state.
, Stanley M. Rosewater was born right
here in Omaha Just thirty-two years
ago today. He is a graduate of the
University of Michigan law school, and
a son of the late city engineer, Andrew
Rosewater. '
Charles Dorsey Armstrong, Is Just 41
today. He was born in Jeffersonvllle,
Ind., and is now engaged In the real
estate and Insurance business here,
operating under the name of the Arm-1
strong-Walsh company,
Edwin St J. Greble. one of thW new
brigadier generals of the United States
army, born in New York fifty-eight
years ago today.
Major Francis Le J. Parker, mem
ber of the general staff of the United
States army, born in South Carolina
forty-four years ago tosay. '
Lieutenant General Frederick S.
Maude, recently honored . by King
George for distinguished services as
commander of the British forces in
Mesopotamia, born fifty-three years
ago today.
prince George ' of Greece, eldest
brother of ex-King Constantine and
uncle of King Alexander, born in
Athens forty-eight years ago today.
John Q. Wood, recently consul of
the United States at Chemnitz, Ger
many, born at Bucksport, Me., fifty
years ago today.
George von L. Meyer, former secre
tary of the navy of the United States,
born'ln Boston fifty-nine years ago to
day. v
Timely Jotting and Reminders.
- This Is Midsummer day.
The northern Baptist convention has
designated today as memorial day for
the late Rev. Henry U Moorahouse,
corresponding secretary of the Home
Mission society of the Baptist denom
ination for many years. I
The southern Baptist convention has
set apart today as Christian Education'
day, and for the first time in Its his
tory is calling on Baptist Sunday
schools of the south for co-operation
in supporting Baptist educational in
stitutions, s
The supreme board of director of
the Knights of Columbus is to meet in
Detroit today to complete arrange
ments, for raising a $500,000 fund to
establish Catholic social centers in
American military camps and canton
ments. The proposed establishment of an
Independent Jewish republic in Pales
tine, with Jerusalem as its capital, is
the subject to be considered at the
twentieth annual convention of the
Federation of American Zionists, meet
ing today In Baltimore. ,
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8toryette of the Day.
An editor, apropos of Wllllaki Dean
Howells' eightieth birthday, said:
"Mr. Howells is as modest as" he Is
gifted. His publisher once showed
him a sketch for a prospectus that
praised him warmly.' Mr. Howells
drew his pencil through certain over
warm adjectives, and said -that they
made him feel like the young widow.
"A yousfg widow, he explained, had
carved on her husband's tombstone
when he died:
" 'Sacred to the memory of John
Doe, who departed this life in the
fifty-seventh year of his age, bitterly
regretting that he must leave the
most beautiful and best of wives!' "
Philadelphia Bulletin . (
AROUND THE CITIES.
The garbage queation persiata in worrying
St. iuouia city dads.
St. Paul propoaee to apend $3,000,000 In
Ave year in buitdinc new achools and re
pairing faulty buildingi.
New Yoxk'e municipal machine coat $88,
884.191.41 to run in good order during the
firat quarter of the year. Income exceeded
the outgo by $17,000,000.
A bunch of Chicago joyridera homeward
bound from Nilea, Mich., filled with en
thaalaam and thinga, ditched three men and
jolted two women. Eight persona escaped
uninjured from the scrap piles.
St. Joe'a council of the national defense
adviaes bskeriea to cut out the practice of
taking back unsold loaves, limit delivery to
actual demand and pass the aaving to the
consumepin larger loaves. Do you get that T
The freakish Missouri switched around a
fine farm near Sioux City and shunted the
owner, Frank Malloy, his real estate and
belongings on the Nebraska aide. Frank
kicks about the change, but the river doeen't '
talk back, merely murmuring muddily aa it
rolls on.
The grand jury of St. Louis continues:
poking its probe into the political mess com- j
pounded by the state legislature last winter.
Having trailed a police shakedown of $18..
000 to Jefferson City, where It served aa a
booster lor a wage raiae, the jury wante to
know who got the swag which failed to pull
uirqugn a certain medical law.
After a school war of moderate propor
tion carried on for a year, the school board
of Chicago surrendered and restored to the
active list some sixty teachers suspended for
alleged political activity in boosting for fa
vorable lawa in the state legislature. Scarce
ly had this action calmed the education wa
tera when the mayor's political ax descended
on several membere and started reddened
waves oi indignation.
Out In Salt Lake City Tecruitina offi eon.
are giving the yellow hoot to the heroes of
rne pinit slip. One university student who
acught the tag of rejection passed through
the preliminaries all right, but complained
of various ailments to the. doctors. As the
latter failed to find any physical trouble, the
student saved bimaelf from serving his eoun
try by refusing to) take the oath. He got
the yellow cross and jeers for a block.
Drydale is a Missouri border boozery
within hiking distance of Fort Leavenworth
Three saloons and twelve barred bouses ctfm
lrise the visible buaineaa of the town. In
defiance of official Kansas Drvdale ladles out
the jtrtce to all comers, and is especially
hospitable to the jaded and'ttyrsty pilgrims
from Kansas. Missouri officialdom, failing
to move against Drydale, an appeal has been
made to Washington to save Kansas from
the imps of evil just over the line.
JUNE TIME.
June with her smiles and sunny, skies,
with rosea all around,
If quite the finest month we have
The best we'te ever found.
It lends but pleasure to the eye,
With fishing time In view
It also bringa to mind the days
Back home with mother, too.
r "ilV8 h1 month wnen robins sing
hile resting In the cherry trees
Placed here, by God above.
It also brings back mem-o-rles.
Whn we'd wade in the pool.
With knickerbockcrs-patohfid at knee,
As we'd prance home from school.
Oh, gee! but those were happy daya
In June time years ago.
It makes me feel like crying now.
Because I loved them so.
In fancy I can hear thn fm..
Croak In the old pond tfiere.
June bringa so many thinga to mind,
with which njne can compare.
The water bucket on the shelf
Was also dear to me;
And hi the yard the worn old well
In fancy I can aee.
The dear old organ in the hall
x Sweet tones did give to all. 1
It brings a tear drop to my eye
When this I do recall.
The kitchen chairs, so restful, too,
mo in my nuna loaay;
Also the home-made quills so warm
Are memories dear alway.
When shades of jilght around ma fall
And stars peep out o'er head,
My thoughts they wander back again
To those I loved now dead.
Oh, June time, you bring many thoughts
Into my -mind asaln:
8cme touched with pleasure, some with care,
f- feel happy when you're here,
And welcoma vnti iaih tima
God blesa you, blessed month, o' June,
Omaha. LEONARD L, KELLY.
New
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isfaction that's what you get at
the Rexall Drug Stores. Buying
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means quantity hence price
concessions from manufacturers,
which we pass on to our patrons.
Ever changing stocks assure the
freshest of drugs and drug sun
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money by trading at the five
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We faithfully discharge our obligation
to the public. We render a polite con
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pointed funerals along modern lins. We
are discreet and dependable. We will
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DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES.
"My wife finds our portable house quite
a convenience."
"Eh?"
"We have to turn It around for her to
face the sunst and again so that she can
aee the aunrlae when she fee la J Inclined."
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Church Isn't It frightful what the specu
lators are making out of potatoes?''
Gotham Well, there are others. Set
what the tunnel people are making out of
tubera? To niters Statesman.
"Personal rights are not enough insisted
upon," said the social philosopher. "For
example, why cannot every man, if so ln-
Clined, be master In his own house?"
"Becaose," replied Benedict, th married
man, "hta wife won't let htm." Baltimore
American.
MR.WW6BIE,
HNOE 1 A WW TO Cfi
hwusers aw trwe mone?
Se&,buvenj am
X.O.U SomY HE Ml
VCT KlS ACCOUrTrS STRWuV
Jeaa She got mad and asked him what
he meant by kissing her.
Bess Not exartly. She asked htm and
he aald he didn't mean anything and thea
alio got mad. Judge.
"How's your motor-car behaving?"
"Well," replied Mr. Chugglns. "the way
It uses gasoline, shows that while It may
be weak in spots, its appetite Is all right."
Washington Star.
Mother That young man of yours la
simply Impossible. He doesn't like Shaw;
he doesn't like Ihaen; he doesn't like Gala
worthy. Whom does he like?
Daughter (demurely) Me. Boston Tran
acrlpt.
Uncle Ezra What would you do if you
saw an army of Germans coming acroas your
field yonder?
Uncle Kben Do? I'd have Ep Hosklns,
the constable, arrest the whole durn bunch
for trespassing, and I think any court in the
country would back me up, Life.
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SOUND or BE out of place
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