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JULY CIRCULATION
57,229 Daily Sunday, 51,153
Arertge elrwiietlon tot Hi monta tutecribed and iworo to or Delta.
Kilhama. Ctroulilloo atantger
Subacribert leaving th city ahoutd have The Bee mailed
to thenl Address chanted aa often aa requeated.
Play it safe when you start for your Sunday
Joy ride today.
What water there is at Fort Crook is of good
quality, and that is some comfort.
Meat-less, wheat-less, eat less they're all
all right, but only with the accompaniment of
cheat-less t
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Yes, but will 3-cent letter postage reduce
complaints by producing better mail service than
2-cent letter postage?
Wall street also felt the heated spell, although
customarily it is hot enough there to suit any
body but a salamander.
These are the days when Omaha draws full
dividends on money we have invested in ouv pub
lic parks and playgrounds.
Chances are we will save our Nebraska corn
crop it least once or twice again this season, with
final rescue from Jack Frost.
Nebraska is to get a chance to furnish sixty
officers more than first alloted, but even that
number will not exhaust the material.
That appeal for a water cooler for the machine
gun company up on Farnam street, ought to be
quickly filled. The boys should be comfortable
while they are here.
Eight-four degrees granted at the end of the
ummer term suggests that the University of Ne
braska is not so seriously hampered by presence
of the war after all.
The returned Root mission is being entertained
at "a Pacific coast port." Oh, shucks I What's
the use in the censor trying to hide their where
abouts after they are safely home?
If it were a republican senator from Nebraska
who voted "wet" in defiant disregard of the man
date of his constituents, try to imagine how our
democratic contemporary would roast him.
A German naval expert admits that Great
Britain yet controls the sea, but says the busy
little U-boat may, in time turn the balance. This
is different again from the promise made in
February.
Sooner or later a brigade of "graybeards" will
have to be formed to satisfy the cravings of the
veterans who didn't get enough of it between '61
and '65. A little of their spirit infused into the
youth of today might do no harm.
Evidence is accumulating that the kaiser and
his advisers had an inkling, at least, of what was
going on before Austria declared war on Serbia.
History will locate the blame in due season; the
big thing now is to get the job completed.
Our Omaha hyphenated questions the Ameri
canism of Collier's Weekly, whose Americanism
has never been in question. Must be n the
theory of the "stop thief" cry raised by the
purse-snatcher as he is making his getaway.
It is interesting of course to note that Sen
ator Gore, democrat, proposes to delay the food
control bill still further, while his Oklahoma
constituents are doing all they can to delay the
selective draft. Not all our national troubles are
"blaraable on the I. W. W.
Just to illustrate how the whirligig of time
works, Omaha went to the commission plan of
city government in order to get a new deal in
.the city hall and now it is proposed to go back
to the mayor and council system in order to get
a new deal into the city hall.
"Nebraska never voted on national prohibi
tion" is the excuse offered by Senator Hitch
cock's paper for the senator's vote against sub
mitting the prohibition amendment in the face
of the decisive "dry" vote of his own constituency.
No, and Nebraska never voted on national suf
frage, but the delegation representing Nebraska
In the house took the record in their respective
districts as instruction and voted the way their
tonstituents voted. "If the people rule, why is it
they don t get what they want?"
What America Needs Most.
What America needs most at this moment is
a better understanding among all the people of
the full meaning of patriotism and loyalty.
Every time we read of internal dissensions in
Germany or hear stories about approaching pop
ular revulsion against the German war lords, we
conclude that Germany is weakening and find in
it great encouragement. We forget, however,
that in precisely the same way the kaiser and
his war lords, who we may be sure keep fully
posted on what is happening over here, meas
ure the added strength of the opposing force
represented by the entrance of the United States
into the war by reports they get about back
pulling, draft-resisting, German-sympathizing, obstruction-making
activities in this country.
The certainty that the people of the United
States are earnestly and solidly for "America
first," as against all enemies, driven straight home
to the German warriors, would be the most
powerful factor imaginable to make them realize
the inevitable and to hasten the advent of peace.
Every manifestation of open resistance or half
hearted support to the measures adopted by our
government for the vigorous prosecution of the
war means, therefore, increased cost in life and
treasure for the attainment of the goal just as
concentration of force and prompt action means
quicker peace and less outlay to get it.
As The Bee has more than once pointed out,
we are in this war to the finish and eachand every
loyal American, regardless whether he previously
thought we should get in or stay out, should have
but a single purpose now and that to achieve
peace by victory possible only through the. dis
play of unstinted and undivided Americanism.
Rations for European Neutrals.
President Wilson has called on the European
neutral nations to present exact data on which our
program for providing them with rations may be
worked out. The United States is not willing to
let the people of the neutral countries starve, but
insists on shutting off supplies from Germany,
This is a change in our position brought about by
our new relations to the war. Last year we sent
great stores of food and other supplies to the
Scandinavians and Dutch, who promptly re-ex
ported them to Germany at an added profit It
is different now, since we have become a bellig
erent ourselves, and only the real home needs of
these countries will be supplied, after our allies
have been "provided for. Norway, whose trading
with the Germans has been quite extensive, al
though its shipping has suffered more than that
of its neighbors, is willing to make almost any
kind of an agreement that will secure food. Hoi
land shows true Dutch thrift in asking for goqds
on conceded terms, but declining to allow its
cargo carriers to run any risk of U-boats. Sweden
and Denmark will present their calculations along
with the others and soon the absolute embargo
on shipments to these countries may be lifted.
Their predicament is serious, but our own safety
requires that they be rigidly dealt with in this
Butter. ' . . ,
Tractor Show at Fremont.
Fremont is again to be for a week the center
of interest for progressive farmers, because of
the competitive exhibition of farm tractors. This
show not onlv marks the advance in farm meth
ods, but in the practice of machinery builders as
well. The use of heavy and high-powered ma
chines in farm operations has lone passed the
experimental stage, and is become as much a
matter of course as any step in the operation of
corn production. Demands on the industry re
quired the presence of machinery, and this de
mand has been well met by American genius,
devoted to the end of lessening drudgery, saving
man power and making more certain the reward
of intelligent effort by providing the means for
better preparation.
The tractor is as necessary to successful farm
ing today as is the olow or the harrow it dratr
across the field, while new uses are being found
for it each year. Farm life is no longer an iso
lated condition, set apart and detached from the
community life of the nation. All the conven
iences and comforts of a modern city nre now
at the farmer's disposal, with his own peculiar
opportunities of environment enhanced by reason
of his increased domestic advantages. His home
is a center of culture as well as cultivation, and
his family enjoys the little refinements that nH
and soften existence, all brought about and made
possible by the engine that animates the tractor.
The present show at Fremont is the greatest
of its kind ever held, with an assemblage of
machinery that indicates how highly the makers
esteem this chance for exhibition and compari
son of wares. A visit will well repay any,
especially those who may be even remotely con
cerned in agriculture.
Good Roads for Douglas County.
. Douglas county is going through the same
course that disturbs road building in every Ne
braska community. Too many advisers and too
many experiments hinder any real progress along
the lines that means so much to all. The county
commissioners want one thing, the automobile
clubs another, Commercial club and improvement
club committees make suggestions or demands,
private citizens get out injunctions, nd between
them all road improvement halts and languishes.
A conference might be held, and an argreemen(
reached, under which a continuing plan for road
building and maintenance could be worked out,
and Douglas county be given the benefit of the
money that is now expended on roads. Every
thing needed can not be done at once; somebody
must wait, but in time the county can be covered
with splendid highways if the work is done in a
systematic and not a haphazard way. We can at
least have honesty and eliminate graft and
favoritism in contract letting. Something should
be done to harmonize ideas and methods and get
results in road building.
II y Victor Rotewnter ,
THE PASSING of General Harrison Gray Otis
out at Los Angeles last week has taken away
one of the most striking and widely known figures
in American journalism. General Otis was what
in common parlance we would call "a fighter from
Fightersville," and he was on the fighting line
all the time. His fight against the labor unions,
running over many years and culminating in
the dynamiting of his newspaper establishment,
foruss'ed the attention of the whole country upon
the uncompromising battle he was waging for
what lie was convinced were his rights and the
reaction has unquestionably been greatly in his
favor. The fight, by the way, was at last ac
counts still on. .
General Otis was a warm personal friend of
my father and fought side by side with him in
some of the Associated Press controversies of
years gone by. I personally met him only two
or three times, the last time down in Mexico
City, where he was one of the specially ap
pointed delegates to represent our government
at the Mexican centennial in 1910. He then ap
peared to be in his prime with robust physique
and courtly bearing, affable yet extremely dig
nified. He afterwards sent me a reprint of a
symposium on a proposed "endowed newspaper"
to which we both had contributed our views and
both favored trying it out. At the same time
he indicated the field he believed such a paper
should cover as follows:
"Besides being a newspaper, in the broad
and true sense, it is to be assumed certainly
it is to be strongly desired that the proposed
new journal will be, in the matter of doctrine,
a brave unswerving champion of the Constitu
tion of the United States a stalwart defender
of liberty under law, and of the indisputable
right of all law-abiding citizens, acting either
singly or in associated capacities, to be protected
by the state in freely pursuing their business,
political, religious or personal pathways, within
the limitations of law, in their own way, with
out shackles and without unwarranted and un
authorized private or leagued interference,
harrarsment or persecution. Unless the pro
posed new example of reform journalism does
these things, it will not truly serve the great
body of the people, which it is the business of
a public journal to do, and it will not succeed.
So far as I am concerned, I am perfectly willing
to see the suggested experiment tried. It will
be interesting and notable, and will surely
arouse a farflung public interest."
Another epigrammatic paragraph of the same
article gives this as General Otis' idea of the
editor's guiding star, which he himself doubtless
aimed to keep constantly before him.
"The responsible editor of an American pub
lic journal should fear God and obey the law;
respect the judiciary, worship the flag, honor
the army and the navy; advocate peace when it
can be had without dishonor or unrighteous
ness; stand against unjust wars, both foreign
and internecine, and at the same time hold him
self ready to direct his glance along the gun
barrel and his hand quick to reach for the hilt
when his country's life is assailed. He should
have a heart over-responsive to the calls of the
suffering and oppressed, and to worthy aspira
tions of the liberty loving."
Develop the Milling Industry.
Announcement of the formation of a company
well financed to establish another great flouring
mill for Omaha is welcome news. Capitalists are
slowly waking up to the attractive possibilities
of this neglected industry. The Bee has m sea
son and out of season urged the importance of
flouring mills to Nebraska, one of the principal
wheat raising states of the union. This city ought
to be a milling center as well as a grain market,
and perhaps the history of the grain exchange
may be repeated now. For many years this
paiaer urged the feasibility of making Omaha a
primary grain market, and finally it came to pass.
In time our efforts to awaken investors to the
possibilities of milling may bring reward. Adja
cent to the greatest wheat fields of the world,
with cheap and unfailing power, splendid raiU
road facilities and every natural advantage,
Omaha should come eventually to be the real
milling center of the United States, if not the
world.
School Athletics in War Time.
Again we are reminded that the president fa
vors the retention of athletics at the schools of
the country. Very good reason may be found for
this, and very little why it should not be so. If
the end of college athletics were to develop win
ning teams, or to turn out champion strong men
maybe the interruption of the war and its con
sequent drawing away of lusty youth from the
schools might affect the practice. Primarily,
however, the object . of athletic training Is to
develop the physical faculties of the students, to
keep their bodies in tune with their minds, and
to see that both grow together. Outdoor and
indoor games and exercises for the muscles are
vitally a part of a well-rounded college course.
Immature minds require no more careful atten
tion than immature bodies, and it is quite as im
portant to stimulate the one as the other. Ath
letics are just as important now as ever at the
schools, and should not be given up.
General Pershing gave his army in France a
going over the other day that made some of his
officers and men think "Black Jack" is a drill
master rather than an army commander. At any
rate, the smartness of the Sammies will be
vouched for as long as they are under Pershing's
eye.
I see that our sketch of John C. Fremont and
story of how he became famous as the pathfinder
and immortalized by having the town of Fremont
named after him has drawn out some critical
comment from John T. Bell. "In respect to the
services rendered our country before the civil
war by General Fremont," says Mr. Bell, "the
praise rendered him by The Bee is to a consider
able extent merited, but his connection with the
civil war reflected no credit upon him."
It is hardly in order to hold a brief for Gen
eral Fremont's part in the civil war which Mr.
Bell makes out to be a complete failure, disas
trous to the general and costly to the government,
but'that still did not lose him the credit earned
by his exploring expeditions. When w e held our
Transmississippi exposition and the government
issued a series of commemorative postage stamps,
the design for one of them showed General Fre
mont in the act of hoisting the Stars and Stripes
on Pike's Peak as a belated official appreciation.
Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont, the widow, was
then living in California and an effort was made
to induce her to visit the exposition and inci
dentally help along the publicity by writing
some magazine articles. According to my recol
lection, however, she was unable to make the
trip.
Here are a few extracts from a letter I re
cently came across in my father's correspondence
of particularly timely interest and which the
author, I feel sure, will have no objection to pub
lication. It is a letter from an officer whose
military record will not be challenged and was
written in the field during our last war. His
rank then was only "major" now it is "major
general." "Santiago, Cuba, July 14, 1898. My Dear
Mr. Rosewater: Though the news of the fall of
Santiago has gone to the world by wire, yet
perhaps a letter from one who has gone through
the heat and rain and fighting may be of inter
est Really I think no army has ever endured
what this one has. It is a wonder there are
any left.
"Still nothing succeeds like success, but the
success is due to the valor and patriotism of
the individual line officer and enlisted man
these by their combined efforts have brought
glory to American armies.
t "Well, it was a hot fight that Tuiy !, thrown
into the middle of it at the crossing of the San
Juan river under the fatal balloon where the
converging artillery and infantry fire made life
worth nothing. We waded the river to our
armpits and formed line in an opening in dense
undergrowth facing our objective, the San Juan
block house all the while exposed to volley
firing from front, left front and left flank and
you know what it means to be uncertain as to
the position of the enemy. On the dusky troop
ers trudged, their number being gradually di
minished until they reached the open in front
of the position when they advanced by rushes
almost half way, then went the balance with
a charge.
"Spanish small arm fire is terrible. The low
flat trajectory of the Mauser is only equaled
by that of our own Krag Jorgenson. Men in
the third and fourth lines were in as great
danger as those nearer, indeed, less casualties
occurred close to the entrenchments. This
dusky Tenth cavalry is my regiment and it was
inspiring to accompany them. Our losses were
20 per cent killed and wounded, 50 per cent of
officers were lost a fearful rate. I doubt the
expediency of attacking entrenched positions
from the front. The enemy being armed with
modern small arms, artillery and flanking fire
are safer, to say the least. It was costly, but
it decided the fate of Santiago.
"With kindest regards I am, yours sincerely.
"JOHN J. PERSHING,
"Adjutant Tenth Cavalry."
People and Events
General Pershing has adopted "Sammies" as
the popular name for American soldiers in France.
Uncle Sam appreciates the compliment.
It was entirely in accordance with the general
fitness of things that Emma Goldman should have
returned to New York on the hottest day in
twenty-four years.
When the price of potatoes began to go up,
Henry Clay, of New York, grocer, sold Ivis stock
at auction and invested all the money in rice. He
disposed of it all in three weeks at a profit of $5,
000. Peter Keavney of New York isn't a military
slacker, for his wife had to get him out of the
army. He is slightly remiss in other way, how
ever, for a police judge sent him to "the island"
sixty days for failing to provide for his family.
I TODAY
Proverb for the Day.
It makes all the difference as to
which end of a horn comes foremost.
One Year Ago Today In the War.
Russians won another victory on the
road to Lemberg.
British captured German main sys
tem on second line north of Pozieres.
French rolled back German forces
In fiercest fighting: of entire Verdun
campaign.
This Day in History.
1731 Thomas Dawes, the Boston
patriot at whose house the famous
caucus club held its meetings, born in
Boston. Died there, January 2. 1809.
1749. Thomas Lynch, a South
Carolina signer of the Declaration of
Independence, born in Prince George
parish, S. C. Lost at sea in 1779.
1812 A force of 200 Americans de
feated In a skirmish with 600 British
and Indians at Brownstown, Mich.
1816 Henry Clay was re-elected to
congress from Kentucky.
1817 Thomas W. Tipton, United
States senator from Nebraska 1867-75,
born at Cadiz, O. Died in Washington,
D. C. Nov. 28, 1899.
1864 Admiral Farragut attacked
the forts in Mobile Bay.
1867 President Johnson requested
the resignation of Secretary of War
Stanton.
1914 Montenegro declared war on
Austria.
1915 Austro-German army cap
tured Warsaw, storming the city's last
defenses.
In Omaha Thirty Years Ago Today.
Hon. J. P. Usher, the only living
member of Abraham Lincoln's cab
inet, is In the city vlsitifig his son,
Colonel Sam Usher.
Judge Berka has placed a large ta
ble in the main room of the police
court quarters for the use of the night
police reporters who have been or
dered out of the police station by the
chief. The Judge has given the re
porters the freedom of the room and
has done everything possible to make
the busy night workers as comfortable
as possible.
Colonel Savage, mayor of South
Omaha, has returned from his western
trip looking fresh and hearty.
Mayor W. J. Broatch and family
have left for Atlantic City and Deer
Park for six weeks sojourn.
The steam motor on the Benson line
Is one of the ugliest ,'looking instru
ments of locomotion ever seen In these
parts, being black as night, about the
size of a traveler's trunk, witlv a
smokestack in one end. For some rea
son it cannot be made to stay on the
track and it is causing considerable
trouble with passing teams.
Mrs. Jack Galligan has left for Chi
cago to be present at the operation
which is to be performed on the chief's
eye.
Mrs. Sam Atkinson, of Bedford,
Iowa, is the guest of Frank and Miss
Mary Atkinson of this city. Mrs.
Atkinson has accepted a position in
the Omaha public schools.
The Day We Celebrate.
Dr. Ralph W. Council, city health
commissioner, was born Agust 5, 1859
at Chroon Lake, N. Y. He has been
practicing medicine in Omaha since
1884.
J. O. Detweller is Just 54 today. He
was born in Chambersburg. Pa,,
and put out his shingle first In Shelby,
Neb. He has been practicing law in
Omaha since 1892.
A. F. McAdams is celebrating his
87 birthday today. He was born in
Marcelline, 111., and is district commer
cial manager of the Nebraska Tele
phone company.
C. D. Sturtevant started his earthly
career Just forty years ago today In
Chicago. His present abiding place is
right here in Omaha, where he is sec
retary and treasurer for the Cavers
Sturtevant company.
Brigadier-General Henry A. Greene,
TJ. S.' A., born in New York, sixty-one
years ago today.
Captain Malin Craig, member of the
general staff of the , United States
army, born in Missouri,forty-two years
ago today.
William 8. Culbertson, special coun
sel of the Federal Trade commission,
born at Greensburg, Pa., thirty-three
years ago today.
J. C. W. Beckham, United States
senator from Kentucky, born at Bards
town, Ky., forty-eight years ago today.
Blanche Bates, noted actress of the
American etage, born at Portland,
Ore., forty-four years ago today.
Dr. Frank Strong, chancellor of the
University of Kansas, born at Venice,
N. Y., fifty-eight years ago today.
Colonel Jacob C. Ruppert, president
of the New York American league
baseball club, born in New York City,
fifty years ago today.
Timely Jottings and Reminders.
Coatesville, Pa., today begins a
week's celebration of its semi-centennial.
The present National Guard of states
will cease to exist as such today, when
the last contingents are to be drafted
inrn the American army.
ODD AND INTERESTING.
Broom-corn brooms were first made in the
United Statea in 1791.
In on English factory 80.000 khaki unl
forms a day are being turned out.
Eggs a century old are considered a great
delicacy by the Chinese epicure.
Sleeping or waking, alive or dead, the
yea of a snake are always wide open.
In the American revolution Rhode Island
had a complete regiment of negro aoldiers.
In China it la eonsidered a grosa breach
of etiquet for a man to wear eye-glasses or
spectacles in company.
The first mill in America for the manu
facture of cotton yarns was erected by Sam
ual Slater at Providence in 1795.
New York City leads all other cities of
the United States in the manufacture of
men'a clothing and men's furnishing goods.
German atatistica show that the number
of juvenile criminals has increased more
than four-fold sine the beginning of the
war.
Brigadier General Henry Knox in 1776
waa the first to suggest tha establishment
of military school for the United States
at West Point. N. Y.
There is living in Norfolk, Va., an aged
negro who is believed to be the last sur
vivor of Commodore Perry's famous expedi
tion to Japan in 1853.
In tha deepest parts of the Atlantic ocean
the highest peak of the Alps might be sunk
and there would atill be half a mile of aea
water covering it.
Sir Stephen Fox, whose first child was
cradled in 1655, when he was 2$, lived to
nurse baby daughter seventy-one yeara
later, when he was 99.
It ia estimated that the mail carriers
of London walk, together, something like
48,860 mites a day, or a distance equal to
twice the circumference of the globe.
In certain parts of the far eaut the
shepherds have a curious method of cooking
an egg. The egg is placed in a sling and
whirled rounds and round until the heat
generated by the notion hae cooked It
AROUND THE WORLD.
Argentina offers a good field for the sale
of chewing gum.
The best sand for glass manufacture
comes from Fontainbleu.
Motor boats forty feet long and drawing
three and cne-half feet of water are wanted
at Montevideo, Uruguay.
The Russian flag flies over one-sixth of
the earth's land surface, to protect 182,
000,000 souls, representing sixty-four racial
and tribal divisions and speaking more than
150 tongues.
The duchy of Lichtenstein is to issue two
new postage stamps. They will show the
coat-of-arma of the eountry and the pic
ture of King Johann II. The values will
be S and 15 heller.
The British War office issues a statement
that a farmer in the north of England has
been fined 1375 for refusing to sell and de
liver his wool in accordance with the official
wool purchasing order.
It is officially announced in London that
8.805 artificial limbs have been made for
soldiersby private firms at a cost of $636,
000, and that more than 7,000 additional
men who have lost limbs are waiting to be
supplied.
The commission to regulate the sale of
sisal, which controls the sisal products of
Yucatan, has announced that it will loan
4,000,000 pesos to small farmers engaged
in the cultivation of henequin without in
terest. Plans for the construction of a tunnel
under the English channel and the linking
up of the east and west eoaat of Scotland
by a ship canal have been engaging consid
erable attention lately. More recently the
proposal to bore a tunnel beneath the Irish
aea has been revived.
The Sumitomo family, which own the
Sumitomo bank and many valuable copper
mines In Japan, has distributed $2,500,000
among its employes. Other Japanese in
dustries are prosperous, and it is reported
that the Toyo Kasen steamers make $150,
000 clear profit on every trip from Hong
kong to San Francisco.
SUMMER SMILES.
"Oh. don t you love nature?''
"Yes, Indeed, It adds so much"' Chris
tian Register.
The Profossor lie made perfect fail
ure of his Homer.
Her Well, he brought In three runs with
his two-bagger. Judge.
"What time did my wife say she would
be here?"
"An hour ago, air."
"Dear ma! I'm early!" Life.
"I thought yon bad given up burnt-wood
art, dearie."
"Ferdinand, how can you be ao heart
less? This Is a pie." Kansa City Jour
nal, Officer Hang It! You've brought the
wrong boots. Can't you see one la black
and the other brown?
Batman Sure, but the other pair is just
the same. Cassell's Journal.
"Doea sleeping on your back give you
nightmare?"
"Invariably," replied Mr. Chugglns. "I
waka up with my hands pawing the air.
Imagining I am fixing my automobile."
Washington Star.
DEAR MR.KAS'.ot&E,
UVto SHOULD APOiOlZS1
OR. JJIFE?
1ST Vou TALK fl HIM 1
Green Golfer (to caddie) What are you
looking for? I must have driven It fifty
yarda farther than that.
Diplomatic Caddie Yea, air, but some,
tlmea they hit a atone and bounce back
a terrible distance, air. Boston Transcript
A REMINDER.
It may be hot In Omaha
Across the rolling prairies,
I can Imagine If I try
Just how blame hot the air ia;
I know the perspiration rolls
In sunshine and In shadow.
But let me Just remind you folks
It's cool in Colorado.
It sure is hot in Omaha,
So hot your clothing burna you;
But the garden truck Is doing fine.
That ia what most concerns you;
The small boy seeks the swlmmin' hole
The birdie seeks the fountain;
But It's cool In Colorado, for
There'a fresh snow on the mountain.
Nebraska's fields of waving corn
Are strong for Uncle Sammy,
They could not march to victory
If breezes there were balmy.
They need a sun that'a boiling hot
To fit their blades for battle;
Eo, It's scorchln' hot in Omaha
But cool In far Seattle.
The mountain brooks are full of trout,
The vales with posies atudded;
The air la full of plney smells,
With conea they're newly budded.
The camper shivers at the dawn
But hla heart ia not sad. Oh
It may be hot In Omaha,
But come to Colorado.
BAYOLTj NB TRELB.
Each burial service planned and exe
cuted by us ia marked by the distinc
tion that our good taste makes pos
sible. Our undertaking wisdom solves
every burial problem. Local or ship
ping funerals atended to in a manner
that warrants your confidence.
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Funeral Parlor. (Eatabliahed 1888)
17th and Cuming Sts. Tel. Doug. 1060
"We have asked her several tlmea to sing
and ahe has refused each time."
"If I were you I'd let It go at that. Some
of the atrangers may go away thinking
they've missed something." Detroit Free
Press.
"Mrs. Smith, do you and Mr. Smith agree
like most couples, on the question of pre
serves?" ' "No, we take quite opposite views about
them. I put them up and he puts them
down." Baltimore American.
Visitor When writing about China do yon
refer to It as a republic or a monarchy?
Editor Always the opposite to what It la
at the moment. It's bound to be the other
by the time the article gets Into print.
Buffalo Express.
"I just now met Blobson. He said he
waa going out to play a little golf."
"He probably told the truth. Blobson
can go through more motions and play less
golf than any other man of my acquaint
ance." Birmingham Age-Herald.
V
Rubber Goods
Our connection with
rubber manufacturers .
enables us to keep on
hand at all times only
fresh stock. Everything
is in good condition and
prices are right
Water Bottles, 75c to $2
Atomizers, 50c, 75c, $1
Syringes, 50c to $3
Sherman & McConnell
Drug Co.
Five Good Drug Stores.
Summer Excursion Fares
VIA
ILLINOIS CENTRAL EL El.
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
"VVater trip ...- .TC.;.v. $49.70 ,.;
Detroit ....... . rf, iKc""iKjT $35.10
Quebec, Q. C . . . :.- x:w $50.10
Toronto . . . e-pr've" .$40.10
Buffalo .-......e.,..:.;... $42.41
Portland, Me. . ..-ricTTc?K?r(iir $52.90
Niagara Falls ............... T.. .$42.41
Rates to Other Points in Proportion
Attractive variable route tours to New York City
and Boston at slightly higher fares.
v Tickets on sale daily, commencing June 1st. Return
limit 60 days.
Information and attractive literature at City Ticket
Office, 407 South 16th Street.
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