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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JULY 22, 1917.
The Omaha Bee
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Did you lay you are i1 gardener? Potato bugs
gotcha yet?
Last session today of the Sunday Barber Shop
Social Club.
Members of the exemption board will now en
joy their period of popularity.
The superiority of The Bee's service in print
ing the draft lists first speaks for itself.
Missouri river boosters are persistent, if noth
ing else, and sticking to it always brings res(i!ts.
If some, folks had their way, that state council
of defense would be rechristened "the state coun
cil of offense."
Those lads in camp have some advantages
this weather, so far as sleeping goes, if their
mosquito bars hold out.
Since voting on the food bill clears the ways
for further debate on appropriations and the
revenue bill, it leaves the senate plenty to talk
about.
With two Sinn Feiners in parliament and an
Orangeman in the cabinet, the pacification of
Ireland seems to be making some little progress
but who can tell which way?
"Take a soldier home for Sunday dinner," is
a suggestion worthy of consideration. Many of
the lads soon to leave here may never revisit
Omaha, but they will rememhjer hospitality
shown them.
Dr. Michaelis exhibits the same tendency to
stick to home-made "facts" that characterized
his predecessor's administration. This has some
advantage, for it permits justification not other
wise to be obtained. . ..
Little is being heard from Texas these days,
the principal reason being that the watermelon
season is in full blast down there, and everyone
too busy trying to consume the output to devote
any time to argument.
The fact that a big crowd did not assemble to
watch the actual drawing of the numbers at
Washington is no sign that the whole land was
not interested. Nothing before ever stirred the
people so universally as did this event
Business Sanity and Speculation.
Unsettled business conditions provoke a de
sire on part of the venturesome to take advant
age of temporary circumstances for the purpose of
securing undue profits.' The shortsightedness of
such a policy was sharply hit at a convention of
dress fabric makers and dealers in New York last
week. Speakers generally discussed the trade sit
uation from a conservative standpoint, advising
careful and deliberate action by all jobbers. Mr.
E. R. Green of the Pacific Mills company said:
I would not advise anyone to speculate.
We must pursue a policy on the basis that
we are not in business for a few weeks, but
that we will be in business after the war is
over. We must pursue a policy to keen us in
business. There is nothing to warrant fear of
the future.
The soundness of this advice must appeal di
rectly to all in business, big or little. None can
tell exactly what situation will prevail after the
war, but all expect tremendous industrial and
commercial activity, with a high level of prices.
This will be the natural effect of the great dis
turbance and abnormal demands through which
the world is now passing. Whatever readjust
ment takes place, it is not at all likely that any
thing like what has hitherto prevailed will be re
established. All this recommends caution to the
men who direct the business affairs of the world.
These are trying to anticipate peace condi
tions, while maintaining the high pressure re
quired by war demands. It is clear that with the
cessation of tht present requirements for military
uses a violent wrench must be sustained by
manufacturing enterprises in turning again to
product useful only in time of peace. That this
will be met successfully is admitted, but business
sanity warns against undue risk, np matter how
alluring the prospective gain.
Mobilising Industrial Slackers.
When the West Virginia legislature last win
ter passed a law to require every ablebodied man
in the state to do some useful work, little enough
attention was paid to the move by outsiders. It
was commented upon briefly as another bit of
freak legislation, and let pass because of the pres
ence of more important matters. Yet back of
that law is a thought of interest not only to West
Virginia, but to every state in the union. Mary
land has grasped the point, and its governor has
issued a proclamation, -warning all industrial
slackers to hunt up employment. Just how he ex
pects to enforce the mandate is not made public,
but he hppes to make it effective.
A little -thought will make plain to any the
economic justice involved in this. Three years
ago industrial stagnation had set loose a large
number of persons, unable to find work, and the
problem of unemployment came in for much at
tention. It was temporarily set aside by the flood
of war "prosperity" that washed over the land,
but its consideration has only been postponed.
The condition of unemployment had steadily in
creased, with a continually growing number of
permanently idle men and women, the backwash
of industry. To these must be added the individ
uals found in every community who never work,
but always live. No village or hamlet is entirely
free from these perpetual loafers. They depend on I inevitable. Even as it is, with the simplest method
the enersrv of others, contributing little or nothing of ?11 followed, It has been hard to make people
. ,tt ,,, Ar.a.iri. frAm ,v.M, understand, and we already have a number of
" Bj Victor Raaawatar "
A F COURSE the draft for the new con
V scripted army is the all-absorbing topic, for
no single event in this country has ever directly
affected so large a number of people so vitally.
I doubt if anyone yet appreciates the colossal
magnitude of the process of selecting tne in
dividual members of a 500.000 army out of 10,000,
000 eligible and, at the same time, assigning to
the remainder the'order in which they win De
called respectively in event additional armies are
to be raised. The most difficult part of this gi
gantic task devolved on the newspapers and the
press associations of the country. The drawing
of the numbers, after the mechanical arrange
ments are adjusted, must have been a compara
tively simple matter, like the drawing of a jury
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ur an orumary cnurtii itiuc cxtcui mm u
upon a scale many times multiplied. But the
transmission of the numbers in their proper order
over wires reaching to every city and town of
any size in the country meant an immense amount
of labor involving skill and painstaking accuracy
and the wonder is that so few mistakes crept in.
In each locality came the still bigger task of
identifying the names belonging to the numbers.
Here in Omaha, for example, each number re
ceived carried with it six names to be located,
one each in the enrollment list of the six districts.
and then coped with address. The Bee gave its
readers both the serial number and the draft num
ber and also the list of names drawn with ad
dresses something none of the other papers here
did, but all of which was necessary to be fully
serviceable to readers who might have names only
or numbers only and who might also want to
know whether the persons in whom they were
interested were to be within ranee of the first
call. There was, to be sure, opportunity for er
rors in reading off and in copying as well as in
the typesetting, but still mighty few errors have
actually occurred.
The Bee preferred to concentrate its energy
upon attaching the names to the numbers and
making them accessible promptly in extras rather
than in posting bulletins which only a few could
read, and there is ample proof that this enter
prise was appreciated by the public.
The authorities at Washington evidentlv oer-
Suaded themselves they could devise a svstem that
would shorten the time needed for the underr
taking and, in fact, announced two or three dif
ferent plans as. adopted only to come back finally
to the old-time method of drawing one number
at a time as the safest and surest way. One dis
carded suggestion was that only one number be
drawn whicji should merely be the starting point
in the list so that if the number, (say 1,247), came
out, conscription should start in each district with
the name opposite that figure and run right along
the registration enrollment until the number of
recruits in the auota of each district was fur
nished. What that would do was quickly seen in
its application to groups of men who, by pure
accident, would happen to have registered to
gether, all in one family, or all in a factory, or
one business house with decidedly unfair, if not
disastrous, consequences. Another rejected scheme
contemplated a key number that would take the
samefiiial numeral in each thousand with it, for j
example M, carrying with it 1,247, 2,247, 3,247,
etc., but this, too, proved to be unworkable be
cause of the condition of the lists of certain states.
It would have been even more unworkaMe for
the identification of the names, by piling them up
no tan as io mane complication ana contusion
Proverb for the Day.
Greed kills the goose that lays the
golden eggs.
One Year Ago Today in the War.
Germans In counter drive in west
gained footing In Leipzig redoubt,
north of the Somme, but were driven
out by French.
Russians forced Austro-Hungarians
beyond Btyr-Lipa confluence and
reached gates of Berestechk, menac
ing Xiemoerg and Brody.
This Day In History.
1620 The Pilgrims sailed for Amer
ica from Holland in the Speedwell,
duc were compelled to return.
1777 Lewis du Portail of France
was appointed chief engineer of the
Continental army.
1789 The famous frigate Consti
tution, "Old Ironsides," sailed from
Boston on its maiderr voyage.
1862 The confederates repelled ait
attack on the ram Arkansas near
Vicksburg.
1864 Battle of Decatur or Atlan
ta, the severest battle of the Atlanta
campaign, resulting in the loss to the
union army of 3,72? and the death
of General McPherson.
1867 Empress Eugenie of France
visited Queen Victoria at Osborne.
1872 George Washington Craw
ford, governor of Georgia and secre
tary of war In President Taylor's cab
inet, died at Augusta. Born in Colum.
bia county, Ga.. December 22. 1798.
1903 General Cassius M. Clay, fa
mous soldier and diplomatist, died
at Whitehall. Ky. Born in Madison
county, Kentucky, October 19, 1810.
191 b Six persons ki led in San
Francisco by a bomb, exploded pre
sumably by anarchists in protest
against a preparedness parade.
In Omaha Thirty Years Ago Today.
Louise Armalndo. the chamDion fe
male bicyclist of the world, Is at the
lumara note).
A stalk of corn fourteen feptnie-ht
Inches high, being nine feet to the first
ear, was left at The Bee office as an
r
Releasing a huge shipment of cartridges to
the Mexican government is another sign that
Uncle Sam has more important business on hand
than fussing with Carranza. The watch of the
Rio Grande will be kept up just the same.
Australia wheels into line with a surplus of
146,000,000 bushels of wheat, practically all of
which has been bought by the British govern
ment at around $1.10 a bushel. The effect of this
may be ultimately felt in the home markets.
The Omaha Democratic Hyphenated raises a
raucous howl against "regular channels" for food
distribution, ignoring the fact thai efforts, in the
direction of regulation have so far been thwarted
by democratic senators, such as Gore and Reed.
Yankee boys now in France are keeping the
censor busy with their efforts to get some word
of their doings back to the home folks. Up to
date the censor has the better of the contest, but
none can tell when the swing will go the other
way.
Omaha long ago was recognized by the army
as the proper point from which to distribute sup
plies for military forces throughout the west, so
the present administration is merely accepting
the lesson of experience in using this as its central
quartermaster s depot.
Universal military training makes drafts un-
' necessary over in Germany. Every' man subject
to call had his number in advance. When Canada
realises how successfully conscription is working
in the United States, the example may be followed
across our northern border.
The Woman In Overalls.
Quite a deal of talk was heard a few weeks
ago about the woman in overalls, and some en
thusiasts affected to support the proposition that
the garment of toil would supplant motley as the
only wear. Now we get a little professional ad
vice on the topic,; The superintendent of the
company; charged : with coach cleaning at the
Kansas City union depot suggested to the women
employed there that they don the bifurcated
garb, and to his astonishment was met with al
most unanimous refusal. The women did not
want to wear them, and flatly said the principal
reason Was the looks of the thing. Some of the
buxom wenches did put on overalls, and the su
perintendent admitted the effect was anything but
appealing to the esthetic sense. He expressed it
a little more bluntly, but that is what he meant.
However, this one experiment is not to be taken
as finally disproving the case for the opposition.
If woman is to enter largely into industrial
operations in America, as she has irt the European
countries where war has disturbed the balance of
things, she will have to dress the part and let
looks go hang while she is at work. Overalls
differ from party dress, and few ever learn how
to wear them gracefully, but they do serve a pur
pose nothing else can filland when woman gets
mong the whirling wheels and flopping belts of
ihe big shops, she will have to discard her skirts
. t whether she likes it or not
they draw sustenance. It is these, rather than the
former class, against which compulsory work acts
are levied.
The numbers of these industrial slackers have
not been taken, but in the aggregate they must be
many. If way can be devised to compel them I
to do even a little in the way of supporting them
selves, a considerable burden will be lifted from
the public. ,
Paying Off Our Soldiers in France.'
One of the little side issues of our share of
the war is coming up for attention just now, It
has to do with what plan may best be adopted
for paying off our soldiers in France? Normally,
it would be an easy matter, but the disturbed bal-1
ance of money values offers some complications
that must be considered. To send gold to France
might have the effect of further depreciating
French currency issues, and so upsetting local
business. In this way the presence of our troops
would be a mixed blessing. It is possible to pay
through the French government, by a simple ex
change of credits, if the details can be arranged
on a satisfactory basis. Such a plan would en
able France to make its purchases on this side,
without transfer of bullion, and without any un
pleasant effect on its home business. It would.
of course, be optional with the men if they took lt .would be an economy move for the newsapers
their pay in French currency or American gold,
thus protecting them as well as. the governments.
Eventually, it is estimated, this business may
reach to $40,000,000 a month, and with such an
enormous sum involved, great care will necessar
ily have to be taken to avoid undesirable effects.
letters from folks registered in Omaha, but now
out of town, asking whether they have been
drawn, not knowing how, apparently, to make
verification for themselves out of the serial and
draft numbers as published, which apply regard
less of where registered, or where removed since
registration.
Sneaking of "extras." we cot nnt a nrrrmn
of editions at almost two-hour intervals-ight
altogether. Our paper, with the first numbers
ana names drawn was on the street shnrtlv aftor
9 o'clock in the morning and each subsequent
issue carried the added names up to the hour of
going to press until the last one had the list in
full of all who are likelv to be summoned tn
answer tne nrst call. The sale of The Bee on the
streets Friday was three times what it i nn an
oroinary aay the largest street sale, I believe,
xnat we ever naa in the same period of time, ex
cept, possibly, the day after the tornado. Don't
let anyone get the notion, though, that selling
extra papers on the streets is a money-making
venture jor H neWSDaner. lor tne white naner
alone, under current high prices, before bein
printed, costs more than the price at which the
printed copies were sold to the newshov. Thar
reminas me tnat i recently ran across a souvenir
"extra" issued by The Bee in 1872, during the
first year of its existence. Just a little- dodger,
containing a single news item, not any bigger
than an ordinary envelope which was evidentlv
un uu mc in css aim aisiriDuiea oroaacast, tree
of cost, solely to let the public know what haH
happened. It could easily be demonstrated that
A Pleasant Picture of the Great War.
If war ever can be said to wear a pleasing as
pect, it must be when the armies of great na
tions can meet under the conditions that have
brought the French and Americans together.
Something more than the mere relations between
allies is noted in the intercourse already estab
lished between the men of these splendid forces.
It partakes of the quality of fraternity of the high
est type and the men are mingling with cue pur
pose only in view, that of co-operation in all pos
sible ways. Civilians have caught the spirit, too,
and the traditional friendship between the na
tions is finding exuberant expression in many
little touches that show the depth of feeling ex
isting. The time may come when American sol
diers will cease to be a novelty in France and
when their water-drinking will no longer excite
curiosity, but nothing will efface fhe memory or
offset the influence of these early relations, which
are knitting even closer the ties between the two
great republics.
extras" with bare announcement of an unusually
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...iv.iaiiug ucwi event wiin invitation to read the
details in subsequent regular edition. This would
not apply to the draft "extras" because it was the
details that the public wanted, but it would apply
to most of the "extras" with which we are all
surfeited, not specially in Omaha, but in every
iisv my enjoying newspaper competition
People and Events
The Bee aims to present its readers a distinctive
newspaper, a paper with characteristic features
of its own that mark not only a difference from
other newspapers, but also a superiority. iWhat
our readers get in news, pictures, discussions and
human interest stories ' is not only the very best,
but is not to be had in competing newspapers.
Subscribe regularly and insure every day delivery.
Looking back on that scheme for an embargo
on the export of war munitions and supplies,
wntcn our hyphenated contemporary championed
so loudly and so persistently, everyone sees now
what a surrender to military autocracy it would
have been. It is natural to keep the sponsors of
that pro-German movement on probation.
Dudley Field Malone will probably shine with
new lustre, now that he looms up as the cham
pion of the fair suffs who were locked up by the
Washington police. What we would like to know
is who is watching for U-boats in the New York
harbor while Dud is visiting the White House?
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wow comes anotner federal ennrvatinn .t
wun a warn in tr to skvacraner nwner tn ,,( n
roof illuminations and save money. That's what
me owners like.
Owing to the high cost of living the registered
nurses of Minneapolis hit un the scale inr ervi-.
to $5 a day or flat $30 a week, and $35 a week for
0D5r.er.nca1 ana contagious cases. .
Rivals of Los Angeles jeer the city's claim
to a population of 600,000, spread over 3S1.1
.square miles. Draft registration totaled 42,278,
indicating a population of 453,626. It is San Fran
cisco s turn to let out a joyous scream.
Lured, wedded, robbed and deserted on the
same day features the brief romance of Dora
Sherman, a New York woman, at Pittsburgh. As
a sample of matrimonial speed from altar to di
vorce court this tops the record for the present.
The Johnston family of Grafton, 111., last week
kept local society on the jump by staging three
weddings on three successive days. Two sons
and one daughter flew the family coop in fine
style, and reduced the hitrh cost of living a-a
at least temporarily.
New York is shakinc hanrta u-irl, U.t
the lowest mortality record in the city's history.
The death rate for 1916 was 13.89 per thousand of
the population which is figured at 5,602.841. The
showing is all the more surDrisiner in view of
year's epidemic of infantile paralysis.
Liquor interests in Minnesota are not makintr
progress in COUrt in the 'fitrht ao-ainr r.rl.r. n(
the Mate Board of Safety restricting saloon hours
and forbidding serving boys and women. The
federal court cut out attacks on the constitution
ality of the board and restricted ittnm t..
question whether the board exceeded its authority
The restriction put the lid on a fine volume of
argument.
With all the dignity of the clin. Tom Ta-W
posing as a Kentucky colonel, blew into Chicago
last month and circulated some bank checks
without coin to back them. B esiHe he hiA in
mind some Wallingford schemes in the way of
woioia oooie sure to pull down 55,000,000. After
the police searched the colonel's uooer storv their '
agreed the wheels were out of gear and sent him
io an nospttai
exhibition of what Nebraska soil can
do. This stalk came from the farm
of R. H. and H. L. Plckard in Doug
las precinct.
Ogg & Palmer have opened their
new livery stable on Fourteenth and
Howard and are ready to receive fifty
nena or. ooaramg norses.
The amended articles of Incomora-
tion of the Lutheran church, by which
it has been shown that the name has
been changed to the Kountze Memo
rial Lutheran church, have been filed
with the county clerk and Messrs P.
J. Nichols, Fred Drexel and D. T.
Mount have been requested to redeed
the lots, given by them to the church,
to the new society.
The amateur base bait clubs of the
Chicago Bargain Shoe Store and S. P.
Morse & Co., played a match game at
Athletic Park which resulted in 14 to
8 in favor of the Chioago Bargain
enoe store team.
Officer Clark of the Humane society
was ia consultation with Mayor
jsroatcn relative to tne killing or a
blind cow which has been a general
nuisance to ihe city for some time.
After several weeks' work the
county commissioners have given the
contract for the erection of the county
nospnai to Kyan & Co., for 1120,000.
The Day We Celebrate.
B. J. -McVann, former manager
traffic bureau Commercial club, was
born July 22, 1869, at Medina, N. Y.
He " was educated at Crelghton unl
versity, going into the railroad busi
ness then, and has been with the grain
exchange and Commercial club and
now In Chicago.
Joseph B. Redfleld, president of the
Klopp-Bartlett Printing company, was
bom right here in Omaha, July' 23,
1874. He started to learn the print
er's trade at 12 years of age and was
a journeyman at 18.
O. C. Edgerly has forty years to his
credit today. The Sunderland Ma
chinery and Supply company claims
him as secretary. He is an Iowan by
birth.
Dr. Otto A. Gsantner, one of Oma
ha's dentists, is just 35 today He was
born right here in Omaha.
Lieutenant Kenneth Whiting, in
command of the squad of United
States naval aviators recently arrived
in France, born in Massachusetts,
thirty-six years ago today.
Dr. Karl Helfferich, known as "the
rlghthand man" to Chancellor von
Bethmann-Hollweg, born forty-five
years ago today.
Bishop John C. Kilgo, of the Meth
odist Episcopal church, South, born
at Laurens, S. C., fifty-six years ago
today.
Evelyn Briggs Baldwin, leader of
numerous expeditions to the Arctic
regions, born at Springfield, Mo., fifty
five years ago today.
Duke of Somerset, one of the
wealthiest members of the British
peerage, born seventy-one years ago
today.
George Gibson, catcher of the New
York National league base ball team.
born at. London, Ont., thirty-seven
years ago today.
Timely Jottings and Reminders.
The biennial international conven
tion of the Loyal Order of Moose is to
have its formal opening today at Pitta-burgh.
The Belgian war mission to the
United States, headed by Baron Mon-
cheur, is scheduled to spend today at
Little Rock.
Catholics throughout the country
will be appealed to for funds to further
the war relief and other work under
taken by the Knights of Columbus
during "Knights of Columbus Week,"
which is due to begin today.
The socialists or more formally the
Workmen's Council of Greater Boston
whose parade of several weeks ago
in protest against the war was broken
up by soldiers and sailors, have ob
tained a permit to hold another meet
ing today on Boston Common. Specu
lations are rife concerning the fate
in store for the demonstration.
Storiette of the Day.
"Germany's claim that it imports
nothing, buys only of itself and so is
growing rich from the war, is a dread
ful fallacy."
The speaker was Herbert C. Hoover,
chairman of the American food board.
"Germany." he went on. "is like the
young man who wisely thought he'd
grow his own garden stuff. This young
man had been digging for about an
hour when his spade turned up a
quarter. Ten minutes later he found
another quarter. Then he found a
dime. Then he found a Quarter again.
By gosh," he said. Tve struck a
silver mine. and, straightening up, he
felt something cold slide down his leg.
Anether quarter lay at his feet. He
grasped the truth. There was a hole
UVhis pocket." Washington Star. ,
SIDELIGHTS ON THE WAR.
At tha present tima fully two-third of
tha German army is said to be in France.
More than 800 naval and military book
have been pabluhed in England during the
lat year.
Two hundred member and ex-members of
th Church Lads' Brigade of England are
serving with the colors.
Owing ta leather scarcity, German author
ities are requisitioning the skins of rab
bits, hares and domestic cats.
German cigar manufacturers are now
obliged to deliver 75 per cent of their out
put to the military authorities.
The projectile fired from a IS. 5-inch naval
gun will penetrate fifty inches of wrought
iron at range of over a mile.
Over 8,000,000 paper bags bearing printed
appeals for thrift have been distributed
among retail shopkeepers in England.
Animsls in the London too are "doing
their bit" by going without potatoes, of
which they formerly consumed 15,000 pounds
year..
Through the offices of the king of 8pain
the eases of 15.000 missing soldiers of all
nations engaged in the war have been traced.
A shopkeeper in Woking, England, gives
widows or dependents of soldiers or sailors
killed in the war a liberal discount on all
purchases.
By cleaning, mending and the reissuing
of old clothes to troops in France, a saving
or. more tnan S5.000.000 has been effected in
seven months.
Lieutenant Josef Schaumburg, the first
berman airman to use airplanes in battle
and also the first airman to drop bombs
irom airplanes, has been killed.
A rental of nearly 8260,000 a year is to
D paid lor the occupation of the Hotel Met
ropole, in London, which has been taken
over ny tne British government.
A French soldier tells of the amazing ef
feet of a shell explosion of which ha was
the Wctlm. The shell exploded several yards
away from him without doing him any harm.
But it blew his overcoat from off his back
and when ha picked tht garment up it was
minus all the buttons.
LIVELY AND LIGHT.
"I heard the other day of a man la
difficulty who was railing repeatedly for
help and nobody would go to his aid."
"How cruel!"
"Not necessarily. He wanted a rook an
there was none to be had." Baltimore
American.
Cooper Why has the great Americas
novel never been written T
Webster Because when an American
posees sufficient comprehension of Amer
ican life and the necessary facility of ex
pression to write such a novel ba becomes
a promoter or goes into politics. Life,
A TOAST TO THE FLAG.
John J. Daly in Philadelphia Ledger.
Here's to the Bed of it
There's not a thread of It,
No, nor a shred of it
In all the spread of it
From foot to head,
But heroes bled for it,
Faced steel and led for It,
Precious blood shed for it.
Bathing It Bed.
Here's to the White' of it
Thrilled by the sight of it,
Who knows the right of it,
But feels the might of it
Through day and night?
Womanhood's care for lt
Made manhood dare for it;
Purity's prayer for lt
Kept lt so White.
Here'a to the Blue of It
Heavenly view of lt,
Star-plangled hue of it,
Honesty's due of lt,
Constant and true,
Here'a to the whfle of It,
Stars, atrlpes and pole of It,
Here's to the aoul of It,
Red, White and Blue.
"Do tell me, major." said Mrs. Oushsr.
"did you ever fall Into the hands ot th
enemy in any ot your engagements?"
"Oh, yes." replied the old major, "but I
escaped shortly afterwarda through th
divorce court." Boston Transcript
She Has your boy .fulfilled your expec
tation, a shining light?
He Has he? Say, the traffic cops pinched
him twice this week for not having on his
dimmer. Judge.
iX3R MfekAftBrAE.
WflHOUY Mi NCfflCE rJHAma
l.v I .rtt i r lil i . . -. . . . V
wirt itrT Mfc FIAT-WHAT
bO W0J MAKE WW?
MR.BUVIT2.
! rAfoE 0VJY SHE WAS
A COOK BEflDKE YOU MEf
HER I
"My salary !s $4,000 a year. Couldn't yoa
llv on that?"
"I suppose I could manage to live on It,"
replied thx girl, "but I expected to do a
lot of entertaining after I was married."
Philadelphia Bulletin.
Miss Prim Now, Tommy, let's see what
you know of physiology. What olass In tha
anlmat kingdom do I belong to?
Tommy Dunno. Pop says you're an old
hen, and mam says you're an old cat."
Louisville Courier Journal.
"Why do they say that honesty Is tha
best policy?"
'Because it never lapses and you done
have to pay premiums on It." Detroit J"res
Press.
Dinny had enlisted and his mother went
to pee him drjl. He wasn t very fsr up
In tactics and was rather conspicuous foe
his awkwardness. But as his fond mother
looked along the moving line she exclaimed.
Aw. wlsha, look at thlm; lvery mother's
son of thlm out of step but my boy, Dlnny."'
Boston Transcript.
This undertaking organization has won
tha commendation of averyone who has
availed himself of our services. We will
continue to merit the good win of the
public. We conduct funersls alone? mod
ern, dignified lines. Out-of-town funerals
conducted. We are in the public service.
N. P. SWANSON
Funeral Parlor. (Established 18S8)
17th and Cuming Sis. Tel. Doug. 1060.
The Twelve Best Sellers
and Their Prices
in the Rexall Drug Stores
25c Carter's Little Liver Pills for 14c
Colgate's Talcum Powder. 8 kinds. 15c
3 Be Limestone Phosphate for.. .24c
25c Mentholatum for.. 17c
25c Packer's Tar Soap for 17c
Sexall Tooth Pasta 10c and 23c
$1.00 Pinkham'a Compound for. .60c
Mennen's Talcum Powder, 4 kinds,
at 10c, 14c and 25c
85c Genuine Castoria for. . ...... ,21c
Listerine for ..15c, 19c, 43c and 79x
25o Houbigant'a Rise Powder for 17c
Bromo Seltzer for. . 10c, 19c, 30c, 79e
Our stock comprises 126,000 items
in drugs, toilet articles and sundries.
There is a Rexall Drug Store very
near you. In any event, a telephone
call will receive our prompt attention.
Sherman & McConnell
Drug Co.,
Cor. 16th and Dodge (Original)
Cor. 16th and Farnam (Tha Owl)
Cor. 19th and Farnam '
(Handsome and Commodious)
Cor. 24th and Farnam
(Harvard Pharmacy)
Cor. 49th and Dodg (Old Rosa A
rearl bray Wast End Pharmacy)
I
Summer Excursion Fares
VIA
ILLINOIS CENTRAL till
To Practically All Points East
Following Rates Apply to Some Principal Points:
New York City, standard routes. ..... .$59.10
Other routes $55.80
Boston, Mass., standard routes .$59.10
Other routes $54.60
Atlantic City $57.30
Montreal .$45.20
Water trip ....$49.70
Detroit $35.10
Quebec, Q. C... ..$50.10
Toronto .$40.10
Buffalo ...$42.41
Portland, Me $52.90
, Niagara Falls $42.41
Rates to Other Points in Proportion
Attractive variable route tours to New York City
and Boston at slightly higher fares. ,
Tickets on sale daily, commencing June 1st. Return
limit 60 days.
Information and attractive literature at City Ticket
Office, 407 South 16th Street.
S. NORTH, DISTRICT PASSENGER AGENT.
Talephon Douglas 264. Omaha, Nebraska.
($1,000.00)
ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS
Protection in the Woodmen of the World
can be had for about 3Vi cents per day for men within the
Selective Draft Age. Other ages and amounts in Proportion.
This is real protection for your Family in the strong
est and most Progressive Fraternal Beneficiary Society.
Membership, 850,000. Assets, $33,000,000
' Ask any member or call Colonel d L. Mather, City Man
ager, 803 W. O. W. Bldg.
JOHN T. YATES,
Sovereign Clerk
W A. FRASER,
Sovereign Commander.
THE OMAHA BEE INFORMATION BUREAU
Washington, D. C.
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