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Subscribers leaving the city should hava Tba Baa mailed
U them. Addreaa changed aa often aa raeruaated.
The International Down-and-Out club also
does a brisk war business.
Cabinets come and cabinets go, but Woodrow's
present bunch defies the laws of necessity ( and
grim custom.
It is announced that drafted men may vote in
the coming fall elections. Nebraska has no fall
election this yearl
Rain may be bad for tractor demonstrations,
but it is good for the corn and thus, indirectly,
for the tractor, too.
So long as Missouri and Oklahoma supply cal
oric for congress Washington is secure as the
metropolis of the hot air belt.
According to Omaha experience, it is easy to
. "slip over" a tax levy, but not so easv to escape
the "holler" when the tax bills are due.
Adjournment of congress by September 1 is
predicted presumably subject to change without
notice, just like predictions of the war's ending.
Now we are to have an "Air Route" to Ger
many. Must be the successor of the old "Cannon
Ball Route" we used to read about in the advertisements.
This labor unrest is not confined to Omaha,
but is more or less manifest in every large city
in the country. It is hardly to be expected that
industrial peace will accompany world war.
In one respect at least the participation of
China in the war is desirable. It should deter
mine how far the stifling gases of Teutonic war
fare surpasses the odorous, pots of the ancient
empire. 1
Argentina bristles tip to the central powers
with characteristic vocal vim. With the "big
brother" actively in the fight on the same side,
the courage of the scrappy republic rivals its
discretion.
Herr Zimmermann follows Von Bethnuim
Hollweg to the back bennies of German politics.
The exposure of his absurd intrigue, with Mexico
made his continuance in the foreign office little
short of a joke.
Cardinal Gibbons defines the true spirit of the
times in these terse words: "Be Americans al
ways. Remember that you owe all to America,
and be prepared, if your country demands it, to
give all in return." ,
The 3-cent fare squeeze in Nebraska steadily
exhibits the qualities of a boomerang. Fctty hold
ups in one direction promotes losses in Mother.
Business friendship built up by square dealing is
too valuable an asset to be shattered by legal
grabs. '
, With all Nebraska Guards mustered in, the
people of the state might pause a moment and
expand with pride a collective chest. A splendid
beginning has been made, and the results are cer
tain to reflect honor on the patriotic spirit of the
people.
The new grading projects for Dodge street
and St. Mary's avenue have one other out
standing feature. If the work goes through, it
will mean employment for graders for many
moons to come, bringing lots down to the curb
line elevation.
The silver statue of Catherine II. proved too
great a temptation for the professional thieves of
Petrograd. Besides keeping their hand in, the
kidnapers doubtless concluded, since royalty is
no longer popular, to reduce the ancient dame to
a melting mood. - ,
While checking waste don't overlook the waste
of needlessly duplicated delivery of goods from
store and shop. Sending the delivery wagon out
on two trips where one would easily suffice is
sheer waste and the blame here attaches not half
so much to the merchant as to the customer's
unreasonable insistence.
Moral Neutrality1'
-Boa ton Transcript-
Had the president supplanted Mr. Dcnman
with Mr. Hurley as chairman of the board and
authorized the gmcral to build as many ships
as possible as rapidly as possible, he would have
ended the. danger of debate and hastened the
building of ships'. Friction may easily continue,
however, for the reason that under the executive
order the shipping board still retains control of
the general manager of the fleet corporation, and
Kear Admiral Lapps can do nothing without its
approval. While we hold him in the highest re
spect and are well aware of his great abilities in
certain directions, the fact that the president has
conscripted him for this task, knowing that he is
in poor health and already overburdened and
broken by hard work, makes it necessary to Offer
the admiral sympathy rather than felicitations,
and adds, as we believe, to the blame attaching
to the president for his course in the premises.
Under the Roosevelt administration General
Goethals was confronted with somewhat similar
difficulties at Panama. There the canal commis
sion was charged under the law 'with construc
tion. President Roosevelt promptly appreciated
the need of one-man control and vested absolute
authority in General Goethals. Had this action not
been taken there quarrels would have multiplied
and we might still be building the canal. By
backing up the best man at Panama, President
Roosevelt assumed the responsibility which Presi
dent Wilson has evaded at Washington. The one
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piv.iuvin maiiijcoicir mat inorai courage tor I
which the other has vainly tried ro suastitute '
"moral neutrality."
"Let the People Rule."
Copies of the Congressional Record now at
hand disclose details of the debate and proceed
ings in the senate on the national prohibition
amendment. Submission of this amendment for
ratification by the states was finally ordered (sub
ject to similar action by the house) by a vote of
65 to 20, one of the twenty being our own demo
cratic United States senator from Nebraska, who
answered "No," notwithstanding the fact that the
very same election that returned him to the sen
ate last fall by a plurality of 11,723 also carried
the state "dry" by a majority of 29,442.
In his speech on the subject Senator Jones of
Washington enumerated twenty-five states now in
the "dry" column and of the senators representing
these states only two Senator Hitchcock of Ne
braska and Senator Hardwick of Georgia are re
corded among the "Noes." Fearing possible njis
understanding of his position, Senator Hardwick
presented this explanation:
"I am unable to support this proposition on
principle and I think it my duty to state briefly
the reasons why I cannot do so. In the first
place, three years ago when I submitted my
candidacy for the senate to the people of Geor
gia I stated emphatically and positively that I
could not and would not support such an
amendment. I was elected to the senate with
that declaration on my lips, probably not be
cause of it, possibly in spite of it. I consider
that I am bound, in honor, to vote in the sen
ate as I stated to the people I would vote if
elected to the senate. I cannot subscribe to
the monstrous doctrine that pledges in politics
are not just as binding on honorable men as
pledges in business or in any of the personal
relations of life. I do not so regard it. Having
taken a position in opposition to this amend
ment while seeking election, I am bound to
stand by it after election, unless I had honestly
changed my mind on the merits of the question
and could frankly avow it, giving the reasons
for my change of opinion.. I have not done so.
I am opposed to this amendment now for the
same reasons precisely that I was opposed to
it when I was a candidate for the senate."
Another explanation offered by Senator P.om
erene of Ohio to justify his vote "No" set forth
that Ohio had rejected state-wide prohibition three
times in four years and continued:
"In my judgment I must either ignore what
seems to be the advice of my people as evi
denced by the results of the elections I have just
referred to, by voting in favor of it, or I must
vote in favor of what I believe is the judgment
of the people of my state, by voting against this
amendment."
Quite a few other senators, likewise, took pains
to put into the record, for justification of their
votes for or against submitting national prohibition,
the votes of their respective constituencies for or
against state-wide prohibition as proof of their
responsiveness to the wishes of the people at
home.
Despite careful search, no explanation offered
by Senator Hitchcock is to be found in the Rec
ord. Through all this three days' discussion he,
for once, was as dumb as an oyster, except when
answering to the roll call.
President, Peace and the Country.
Senator James Hamilton Lewis from Illinois,
whose remarkable performance in the senate as
tonished the country a few days ago, has just
returned from a conference with the president,
bringing the information that the executive does
not share with the democratic whip of the senate
the view that the time is ripe to discuss peace
terms. Quite on the contrary, Mr, Wilson as
sured the senator of his total lack of faith in the
sincerity of Germany's peace feelers. 'No one
has better reason to look askance at any proffer
from Germany than our president. German equiv
ocation with this country has been very thor
oughly established by events before and since we
went into the war! Nor is it possible to see an
acceptable peace on any basis so far tentatively
suggested as acceptable to the German war party.
Peace talk now heard at home emanates from
thoughtless folks or from pro-German sources.
These latter are zealously at work striving to
weaken American determination, to chill Ameri
can enthusiasm and to defeat American spirit by
dividing the American people. Prattle about this
being a rich man's war, about the wishes of the
people not having been consulted, is indulged in
by these insidious foes at home, seeking thereby
to discourage the willing and strengthen the un
willing in their resistance. Tapers formerly open
in their sympathy with the German cause now
print columns calculated to confuse and bewilder
their readers and covertly suggest what they
dare not openly avow. Men are willing others
should fight that they may reap the rewards in
safety and these find inspiration in examples of
men placed in high position who boast of their
patriotism, but show a lack of it.
The time is very near when all men will have
to fly their true colors. No American citizen is
in this war merely for the sake of war itself or
because he wants to be in it, but because our na
tion as such was confronted by the stern neces
sity of defending its rights and tlie lives and prop
erty of its citizens. With such a stake every man
will eventually be put squarely on record, either
for or against America, and no dodging.
Michaelis and His Assistants.
The selection of cabinet officers by the new
German imperial chancellor, so far, as they are
known in America, justifies the criticism already
passed on them by some Berlin papers. The
names are new, but they come from the same old
crowd, and represent ho new ideas in govern
ment or as to the relations of the empire with the
world. Not manyTtf them have been extensively
heard from outside of their own country, the new
secretary for foreign affairs being the Only one
to have attained anything like prominence. His
services as minister to Constantinople mark him
as well qualified to carry out orders. The gen
eral character of the selections is such as to give
emphasis to the opinion already expressed that
Michaelis is but a stop-gap chancellor. Specula
tion as to the likelihood of a change in German
policy will all turn on possible peace terms. An
abandonment of views hitherto expressed and a
more concrete and definite statement of what will
be accepted must be had before any action is pos
sible. The strained efforts to read into Dr. Mi
chaelis' inaugural address an invitation to the
United States to discuss peace is unwarranted, as
anyone must be convinced by the subsequent ap
pointment of a cabinet that is looked upon even in
Germany as bureaucratic and reactionary.
Tublic authorities should not play favorites
among the milk dealers. The object of inspec
tion is to insure clean, wholesome milk up to rea
sonable standards. The dealer who. tries hon
estly to live up to requirements should not be
harrassed, but the dealer who tries to evade them
by trickery has nothing coming to him. There
is no good reason why the milk business in a
city like Omaha should not be conducted on the
same fair and square basis as any other legiti
mite business that rarely, if ever, figures in the
rolice court.
War Fakes-and Others
By Fred rk J. Haskin
New York, Aug. 4. When you are tempted to
part with a dime or a quarter to some unknown
solicitor of alms for Belgian babies, or wounded
French soldiers, or tubercular Hindoos, or to the
alleged representative of some day nursery or
rrbme for the aged, or to some deaf mute, one
armed chap, wounded soldier, or blind man
hesitatel
The chances are about seven to one that you
are contributing to the support of some clever
fake who has a bank account, wears good clothes
in the evening and despises you for an easy
mark. Especially since the war began the fake
solicitors of alms and professional beggars have
multiplied. The police instituted a campaign
against them last winter and the mendicancy squad
was disbanded in March because the evil seemed
to have been almost stopped. But now "flop
ping" is on the increase again and the police will
probably take the field against the fakes and beg
gars as soon as the weather cools.
The war is one of the richest appeals to public
sympathy that the professional fakes and beggars
have hit upon in a long time. Anything connected
with the war attracts prompt attention. Not long
ago a man with his arm heavily bandaged was ob
served by a policeman regaling a large crowd
down on Fourteenth street with tales of his ex
periences in the Russian army, where he had
been wounded. Of course his spiel ended with an
appeal for alms, which brought a generous re
sponse. The policeman recognized the wounded
Russian as an erstwhile deaf mute and arrested
him. The crowd set up a howl of protest and
tried to induce the officer to release the man. but
he was taken to the police station, where about
forty feet of bandage was removed from his arm,
revealing the fact that it was as good as ever.
The police roundup of fakes and mendicants
brought to light several very interesting facts.
By far the greater part of the beggars of all kinds
are professionals. Most of them are poor enough,
but not a few have bank accounts and some of
them accumulate small fortunes. They are organ
ized to a certain extent, and have recognized
leaders who direct their efforts. Strangely enough
some of them seem to follow begging for a love
of the business rather than because they need the
money.
The person who is actually compelled to beg
by unfortunate circumstances seems to be really
rare in New York. This is shown by the fact that
99 per cent of the persons arrested for mendicancy
were convicted. Practically all of these were pro
fessional beggars and most of them fakes. One
pathetic old man was discovered begging to save
himself and his son from starvation, was cared for
and turned over to a charity. One man of edu
cation, who had been a professor of theology,
was found begging in a subway, and startled the
police by spouting Latin quotations at tnem. An
artist of ability, 39 years old, was found solicit
ing alms as the sequel to a prolonged spree. These
were the exceptions. Nearly all of the rest were
professionals. One Richard Welsh, 45 years old,
and prematurely gray, so that he was very suc
cessful in the part of a decrepit old man, was said
to be the recognized leader of all the beggars in
New York and to direct their efforts, even when
in jail. The actual extent of his decrepitude may
be gauged from the fact that he beat off two po
licemen with his walking stick the last time he
was arrested, and did not surrender until rein
forcements came up. He is said to have a consid
erable amount of money of his own and to be
married to a wealthy woman.
Proverb for the Day.
If wishes were horses beggars
might ride.
One Year Ago Today in the War.
London reported gains for the Brit
ish at Gulllemont.
Turks forced Russian evacuation of
Bitlis and Much.
Russians smashed Teuton line in
Gallcla, taking many towns.
In Omaha Thirty Years Ago Today.
Charlps Ogden has returned from a
tour around the lakes and through the
northwest, where he has been courting
cooling breezes and hobnobbing with
leading democrats.
A double team attached to one of
the Singer company's wagons ran
away and on turning the corner of
Sixteenth and Douglas they collided
with several vehicles, causing an en
tanglement of buggies, drays, wagons,
horses, mules, etc. There were several
narrow escapes from personal Injuries,
especially the old lady who was res
cued from a perilous portion by an
able-bodied man and seated on the
sidewalk before she knew anything of
the excitement.
Constable C. Westley o Council
Bluffs was in the city looking for the
following witnesses of the late wreck
on Lake Manawa: D. C. Bradford,
Fred Fuller, Pat Quigley, Charles Alt
horn and Ike Meyer.
Edmund Lane, one of the oldest em
ployes of the Union Pacific road, died
at his residence, 820 South Eighteenth.
Articles of incorporation were filed
of the Home Investment company, E.
S. Rowley, Elmer C. Finney and
Charles K. Collins being the incorpo
rators. Max Goldenrath, assistant treasurer
of the Chicago opera house, is spend
ing a few days In Omaha as the guest
of George Mahler.
J. II. Patterson and family, who re
side on Georgia avenue, have Just re
turned from an extended trip to Port
land, Me.
The average beggar, like the average every
thing else, just barely make9 a living, but the tal
ented ones do a great deal better. Thus Joseph
Vono, arrested for mendicancy and having no other
occupation, was found to have bank accounts to
taling $12,000, an apartment on West Fifth aver
nue, a dress suit, a phonograph and some dia
monds. The prosperous "flopper" nearly always
has a few diamonds. They are a conveniently
portable form in which to ke:p wealth. Signaro
Quarino of New York supported a wife and eight
children in Italy by begginpr and had enough, left
over to own several good diamonds.
A woman who was taken up by the police
for mendicancy had $45 on her person at the time
and was able to show that her son was a success
ful physician. She was one of those for whom
begging seems to have a fascination. Another suc
cessful beggar told the- police that he. had taken
in $40 in one morning's work and showed the $40
to prove it.
Most of the beggars are men, but there are
some women and a few children. One of the most
ingenious boy beggars on the police records was
Johnnie Fitzgerald, who used in his highly orig
inal method his small blue-eyed and cherubic
looking brother. The rest of the properties nec
essary for the act were a small iron savings bank
and two pennies.
Witness then Johnnie and his small brother,
walking along until they catch the eye of some
sympathetic-looking woman. At this point, John
nie gives the small brother a vicious shove, spilling
both him and his pennies. Johnnie gathers up the
coin and disappears down an alley, vhile the
sympathetic woman dries little brother's tears and
gives him a dime or maybe a quarter to replace'
the lost pennies.
Putting Economy to Proof
-New York World.'
Dr. Michaelis as Prussian food commissioner
reached the conclusion that "the food supply of
the German people appears to be secured for the
future," and his reasons for thinking so are sent
to The World since his elecation to the chancel
lorship of the empire.
This is the sort of report from official Germany
which has alternated regularly for the past two
years with reports of brutal starvation from the
English blockade. It may be true or false, but on
the basis of a known underfeeding for the poorer
masses of the German people it may be true.
There are fewer mouths to feed in Germany
and the number is growing fewer right along.
The birth-rate has been declining heavily; the
death-rate and lost in prisoners and exodus of
people to neighboring neutrals have been greatly
increasing ever since the war began. Germany's
population, from these causes, is falling by over a
million a year and is by no means offset in the
feeding by prisoners taken. Yet even then the
food situation is so desperately topsy-turvy that
we have from the chancellor himself to the
Reichstag the fact that "hundreds of thousands"
of city children have been sent to the country.
Since Dr. Michaelis wrote this food repot t the
United States embargo against Germany as gone
into effect. Perhaps that "terrible fact," as Herr
Erzberger of the Reichstag called it, entered into
his calculations. But in any event the chancel
lor has given us all the more reason for making
that embargo effective to the last ounce of Amer
ican food likely to avail the enemy through adja
cent neutrals. Let Germany be put to the utter
most proof of its own boasted self-sufficiency.
People and Events
Following the announcement of nine indict
ments by a grand jury and a bill of impeach
ment against him in the legislature, the governor
of Texas announces his candidacy for a third
term. It is hard to keep a man like that down.
In the naval circles of Washington the recent
deathskof six retired rear admirals are look ! upon
in part as one of the results of the declaration of
war by the United States against Germany. While
it is true that all these men passed to the great
beyond after they had retired to inactive life,
nevertheless the mere fact that they could not re
join the United States in the great warfare over
seas may have had more to do Fx hastening their
deaths than people outside their family circles
may dream. All the admirals were on the retired
list. They were: Stephen Bleeker Luce, John
Henry Upshur, William II. Emory, Bartlett Jef
ferson Cromwell, Conway 11. Arnold and William
P.Potter, ,
This Day In History.
1607 First settlers landed in Maine,
coming from Plymouth, England.
1776 Lieutenant John Paul Jones
received a captain's commission in the
navy.
1778 Daniel Boone successfully de
fended his fort in Kentucky against
the Indians.
1812 Commodore John Rodgers, a
noted federal naval commander in the
civil war, born in Harford county,
Maryland. Died in Washington, D. C,
May B, 18S2.
1817 George V. Lothrop, United
States minister to Russia 1885-88 and
long a democratic leader in Michigan,
born at Easton, Mass. Died in De
troit In 1897.
1829 The "Stourbridge Lion." the
first locomotive) run in the United
States, was tried at Honesdale, Pa.
1867 A small body of federal sol
diers raided and destroyed the office
of the "Constitutional Eagle," a news
paper published at Camden, Ark.
1887 Alexander W. Doniphan, dis
tinguished Mexican war soldier, for
whom the National Guard camp at
Fort Sill has been named, died
at Richmond, Mo. Born in Mason
counts-, Kentucky, July 9, 1808.
1914 Bombardment of Libau by the
Germans.
1915 British took 1,200 yards of
German trenches at Hooge.
1916 United States senate passed
the child labor bill.
The Day We Celebrate.
Dr. Paul H. Ellis, physician and sur
goen, is 41 years old today. He
was born in Beatrice and graduated
from Creighton Medical college.
Carr Axford of Lake Lawn, Lake
street, landed in Omaha fifty years
ago. It was his birthday and he was
then 30 years young. He went to the
Union Pacific shops and got a Job as
cabinet maker and worked there over
forty years. He is now a pensioner of
the company.
John B. Watkins is Just 56 today.
Illinois claims him as a native son, but
his chosen abiding place Is South Side,
Omaha, where he is manager of the
lumber firm of J. B. Watkins & Co.
Lester Heyn is 33 today. He was
born right here in Omaha and hero
he has stayed right on the job until
he has become one of Omaha's leading
photographers.
S. E. Mathson, manager of the Booth
Fisheries company, has a birthday to
day his forty-eighth. He was born
in Sweden. .
F. R. Vierling is 36 today. Chicago
Is his birthplace and he is assistant
manager of Paxton-Vlerling iron
works.
Lieutenant General Nelson A. Miles,
U, S. A., retired, former commanding
general of the army, born at West
minster, Mass., seventy-eight years ago
today.
Dr. Henry F. Osborn, one of the
foremost American authorities on pa
leontology, born at Fairfield, Conn.,
sixty years ago today. .
Dr. George F. Bovard, president of
the University of South California,
born at Alpha, Ind., sixty-one years
ago today.
Henry W. Miller, vice president of
the Southern Railway company, born
at Raleigh, N. C, forty-nine years ago
today.
Dr. Ernest Albee, professor of phil
osophy at Cornell university, born at
Langdon, N. H., fifty-two years ago
today.
Timely Jottings ami Reminders..
The Irish convention is scheduled to
resume its sessions today In Dublin.
The Doane family of America holds
Its biennial reunion today at Nan
tucket, Mass.
The annual convention of the Cath
olic Total Abstinence Union of Amer
ica begins its sessions today at Scran
ton. Ta.
The American Co-operative associa
tion, said to be in close affiliation with
the Farmers' Nonpartisan league,
which has become a. political power in
North Dakota and neighboring states,
is to establish headqunrters in St. Paul
today as a first step in the promotion
of a system of co-operative stores in
the northwest.
HERE AND THERE.
The flrt marble aoda fountain ever used
waa erected In a drug atore in Lowell, Mass.,
In 1869.
Of all the mounted aoldiera in the world
the Cossacks of Ruatia are. perhaps, the
most famous.
Sixty thousand dollars is the average cost
of the big runs of the British navy, with
their mechanism.
A project has been revived to bring Will
lam Penn'a body from its resting place in
England to an Imposing mausoleum to be
erected near Philadelphia.
The first really authentic account of a
man being raised in the air was in Paris,
Oct. 15, 1783. when Pilatre de Rosier was
lifted eighty feet into the air by a balloon
made by Stephen and Joseph Montgolfiar, to
whom belong the honor of having built the
first successful, man-carrying, lighter- than
air vehicle.
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Our Conscience.
Mr. Rosevelts been advisin' 'bout
our conscience great and small; says
Just put it in your pocket, 'cause
'tain't much 'count at all. But I'm
'fraid 'twill be unhandy when our Fa
ther calls the roll, 'cause our con
science, my dear brother, is the guard
een of our soul, and we'd better Its
sen to it. 'cause .God's sure a-goin' to
call, and His son, our friend and
brother, said kill not at all.
Superior, Neb. EVA NANCE.
CHEERY CHAFF.
"I'm In hard luck."
"Why?"
"I told Belle she was the first fir! J
ever loved and she said she couldn't waste
her time training amateurs." Baltimore
American.
"A fool and his money are aoon parte
my son."
"Who got yours away from you, dadt"-
Detroit Free PreBs.
Farmer's View of Potato Question.
Hancock. la., Aug. 7. To the Edi
tor of The Bee: I see that spuds (po
tatoes) have gone up again. Well, I
don't doubt it, for the World-Herald
quotes them at 6 cents a pound. I
suppose they are kept at that price by
commission men or the Herald does
it free gratis. Of course, the demo
crats have to keep prices up, for they
are using lots of money for army of
ficers and to keep up the extra offices
they are creating, but they see to it
that the small farmers or the farmers
in general pay the most of it. Your
paper says that potatoes have gone up
again and it Is unexplainable, unless
due to the fact that the farmer is not
putting any on the market. When
they are put on the market you Just
watch and see the price tumble like
oats have since they have commenced
to thresh, about one-third, and they
would go lower if they could get the
price of corn down.
I know something about thi spud
business. I raised 1,200 bushels a few
years back and at the best they were
only worth two-thirds of a cent a
pound (40 cents a bushel) until spring,
and then the merchants and grocery
men had gotten the bulk of the crop
and the price went riRht up. Now to
show you how small some of these
merchants are, they wanted a few
spuds for their trade. They asked my
price, which was 75 cents. .This was
before digging time and they were a
mile out. The merchant said he would
take one bushel, but I told him 1 would
not get him less than five bushels, and
the deal was off for the present, until
after they had tried to get a bushel or
two from some of the other farmers,
when they came back to me and took
the five bushels at 75 cents. I don't
try to raise any more potatoes than I
will use in my own family and if I
happen to have more than I can use
and cannot find some reasonable party
to sell them to I will give them to my
four-legged hogs.
The consumer is somewhat to blame
for these high prices. They will come
to us and try to buy produce and if
they can't buy for less than half what
they would have to pay at the store
they will go back to the store and
then holler about high prices. it
seems to me this administration is
working right into the hands of the
coal barons and all these big corpo
rations. They seem to think all we
need is something to keep our bellies
full. I would like to know if we have
an army officer in our army that has
been tested beyond a little skirmish
and some marching. I don't think
they have a Phil Sheridan in the whole
army if they have they are holding
him back as they did during the civil
war until Lincoln put Grant, Sherman
and Sheridan at the head but the ad
ministration says that would not be
fashionable now. b. R. W.
'There must be an awful lot of dropped
'h's' lying around in London."
"Not bo very many. You see, it's thl way,
A bus driver may drop & couple at 'Igh 'Ola
born, but he picks up one when ho comet
to Hoxford street." Boston Transcript.
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"I once knew a man who went hungry
in order to buy fW for his horse."
"I can understand his sentiments. Many'a
the time I have cut down on meat and po
tatoes In order to buy gasoline. "Washing
ton Star.
Stella I wish I know where I could steal
some money in a law-abiding way!
Bess Pear nu-I What do nu want with
so much moncy.as ail that? Life.
"I timed him, Ter Honor, an' he was go
In' 2ft miles an hour."
"Look here, officer. If my car wasn't go
ing faster than that, you may lave it for
junk. Browning's Magazine.
"Where did you gt that stuff, kid?"
"I was teachod It."
"Teached It? Who learned you to talk
that way?" Kansas City Journal.
what we deem is
GOING TO WAR.
Farewell to homo and loved ones
We're going off to war. .
We'll Join In the fray for the U. S. A.
And the flaa we so urinro
We're going to fight for v
rlKht.
For all we hold so dear; ,
We'll keep our flag afloat
And ave'll get the kaiser's goat
For we're the boys who have no fear.
CHORUS:
Then lets pack our traps and get on
To join the FrenVh and Briton, amid the
cannon's roar.
For we want liberty and a land that is free
From bloodshed and from war
So goodby to mothers, sweethearts and
brothers
We'll return when the war is oe'r. y
We'll take your blessings with us.
'Twill help to win the fight.
Our visions of you and the red while and
blue
Will give us strength and might
Then let us make haste for we've no time
to waste
They're calling across the sea. .
We will shoulder our guns
To the tuno of fife and drums
And march on to victory 1
MISS C. ADAMS.
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I Feel Safe
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That statement was made, by a
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that the stocks are complete and
fresh, the service quick and that there
"is a store at her elbow."
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