THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: AUGUST 12. 1917.
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Yes, boys, and we'll alt be here with the glad
hand for the victorious homecoming.
. Pie puts a punch in patriotism to prove its
standing as a live American institution.
A square deal in exemption cases is all the
individual can expect or the nation desire.
Peru's notice to the kaiser that it will have
nothing more to do with him has Peruvian bark
on it.
What's in a name? A great deal! Bixschoote
in Belgium is just now in the thick of the big
shoot.
To do his full patriotic duty every loyal citi
zen of Omaha should be a recruit in the army of
King Ak-Sar-Ben.
Delaying the announcement of the makeup of
the kaiser's revised cabinet suggests a scarcity
of trained cuckoos.
In all probability no more national tractor
hows will be held, but the eternal verdict will
be "the last, the best."
Kansas City, with its street car traffic tied up
by a striket has Omaha's sympathy. Having
gone through that experience once, we want no
repeat.
At last days of peace and comfort radiate joy
in freight rate-making circles. Cliff Thome
shifts his hammer from the railroads to the coal
producers.
Altogether too many automobile accidents due
to careless or reckless driving. Slow down in
busy streets and observe the rules of the road
scrupulously.
The county attorney says that he is ready to
go after violators of the ahti-cigaret law if he can
show a price-boosting conspiracy. Now stop
your jokingl ! ' ,
The second class of prospective officers will
soon be in e the preparatory reucjiet. Oppor
tunity beckons as never before for leaders of
fighting men. i A
, Suffrage sentinels at the White House talk
fluently about self-government in general, but the
practical demonstration of personal self-government
is wanting.
t For those who dislike Texas as a way station
to the fighting front, the Canadian route remains
wide open. Moreover, the Canadian recruiting
office will show the way.
Beef, bacon and white bread head the list of
restricted foods' in Canada. Similar action is
likely in the United States as a necessary means
of sharing essential resources with the country's
allies. ';, ,
The coal combine of Illinois recanted its defi
ance and came down as gracefully as secrecy per
mitted. The big truth at last hammered in is
that the public welfare takes precedence of pri
vate' greed.. .
Well, after that story in the World-Herald
about the Germans making glycerine from dead
human bodies, we do not see how our lost pro
German subscriber can continue to read even
that hyphenated sheet.
, Nearly a thousand Scandinavian ships have
becu sunk by U-boats and mines and 500 scameu
lost since the beginning of the war. For these
ncar-to-tlie-war-zone countries neutrality is at-
lost as costly as belligerency would be.
Removal from office of members of a draft
i'Oard charged with taking bribes sets a salutary
example, but it is not punishment enough if the
charges are true. That case in. New York
should not stop with the mere removal.
Co-operative Thrift
The operations of savings and loan associa
tions in the United States for thepast year afford
an illuminating exhibit of co-operative thrift in
full flower. Returns compiled by the United
States league show remarkable expansion of bus
iness from year to year and corresponding growth
in the army of saving men and women, boys and
girls. Twenty years ago the assets of all asso
ciations hovered around $500,000,000. During the
succeeding seven years the total remained an
chored 'at that figure, while honest co-operative
effort weathered the storm provoked by the
wreckage and robbery of nation-wide associa
tions. With these crooked concerns disposed of,
legitimate local associations, having demon
strated their fundamental strength, went forward
by leaps and bounds in business and popular
favor. Today the combined assets amount to
$1,696,707,040, more than three times the aggre
gate of a dozen years ago. In the same time the
membership advanced from 1,512,000 to 3,568,
000 persons enrolled in 7,034 associations. Ag
gregate receipts for 1916 reached the record sum
of $1,061,913,000, handled at a cost of nine-tenths
of 1 per cent.
Nebraska associations hold high rank in this
notable record of co-operation. 'Standing eighth
in volume of resources, approximating $55,000,
000, and leading all states west of the Mississippi,
their percentage of growth has been equaled by
few 'states and surpassed by none. This is a rare
and creditable showing, due to good management,
strict supervision, straightforward mutuality and
a record unmarrcd bv bankruptcy or loss.
The Philosophy of Optimism.
One of our foremost living leaders of modern
thought reminds us in an address delivered some
time ago that of all the religions of the world,
and of aU the philosophies evolved Ly master
minds, there is not one but is predicated upon the
eventual -triumph of good over evil, and that
despite all temptations no one has yet framed any
scheme of education, politics or society upon the
hypothesis that the influences making for wick
edness in the world will finally conquer. The ex
planation of this is, of course, man's optimism
his conviction that his aims and purposes are
right and that, regardless of setbacks or delays,
in the end right will prevail.
It will do us good to dwell upon this thought
at this particular time, when all the inhabitants
of the earth seem to be in a ferment and many
people are beset with doubt and discouragement
as to the future. There have been conflicts and
catastrophes in manifold succession ever since
the dawn df history, and even before it, yet, look
ing backward, the historian has had no difficulty
in finding them steps in human progress, or, at
any rate, in no way stopping the course of
progress. All of our most priceless boons of lib
erty have been gained only through frightful
bloodshed or destructive revolution, but are uni
versally conceded to be well worth all and more
than the cost.
The same optimism that has animated man
kind from "the beginning still guides the human
heart, and from it springs the faith that out of
all this turmoil will come a better day that the
darkness of the battle will be followed by the
dawn of peace and greater happiness that the
forces of good will again, as always, vindicate
and hold their superiority to the forces of evil.
"Sammies'' Find a War Song.
Just as might be expected, the "Sammies" did
not wait for someone to come forth with an in
spired anthem or battle chant for their uses.
Word now conies from "Somewhere in France"
that the men who went over with Pershing are
digging their ditches, adjusting their gas masks
and otherwise learning the gentle art of modern
warfare with zest and nerve, buoyed up and en
couraged by the simple strains of "Hail, Hail, the
Gang's All Here." Just as" the army that went
but at Kitchener's first call was in too much of
a hurry and adopted "Tippera'ry," or, as our own
in 1898 took up with "A Hot Time," so these ad
vance agents of American manhood have found
their need supplied by the rollicking chorus that
requires only a good pair of lungs and makes no
demand whatever on musical talent. It has a
sentiment, too, that might impress a not too
stolid German. It carries with it something of
a promise. "The gang's all here" doesn't mean
that all our available men are there, but it does
mean that along the battle fronts, standing now
shoulder to shoulder, may be noted men from
all the great world democracies, sternly resolved
to bring about that condition to establish which
we entered the war, safety for free government.
A Francis Scott Key or a Julia Ward Howe may
yet appear, but the noisy chant that has made
the rafters ring in many a convention, at count
less gatherings of good fellows, comes from the
crowd, and battle songs belong to the men.
" Americans: Meek, or Self -Disciplined?
Americans, despite surface turbulence, afford
in general such an example of aggregated pa
tience and ofttimes forbearance as must cause
wonderment as to whether our national virtue
is meekness or self-discipline. We put up with
$o many things that might be expected to annoy
or vex us as a whole that even cyir own philoso
phers are puzzled at times to account for our
behavior. The good-natured majority submits
to impositions from the minority, and again the
minority bears with at least a semblance of grace
what seenis to be an unreasonable demand from
the majority, and pests of one kind or another
are eternally disturbing our equanimity or taxing
our patience, but with all our wayward tenden
cies, our vagrant notions andhazy ideas of in
dividual responsibility, we somehow manage to
weather trials that would produce revolutions else
where. Somewhere there is a safety valve,
through which the excess pressure escapes, and
it may- tickle our vanity to think we are really
self-disciplined, our pride subject to reasonable
restraint and our will united to a common pur
pose. If this be so, Americans are slowly learn
ing one lesion that 'will lead to true greatness
in time. The pressure of the war has much to
do with our immediate willingness to accept con
ditions that might otherwise be objected to, but
through the war we will build tip a firmer and
finer quality of national strength, because it will
teach us self-control.
One Splendid Industrial Achievement.
Of" all the industries of our country none ap
pears to have felt the quickening impulse of war
conditions more deeply or to have responded
more readily than the railroads. Regardless of
the clamor against the increased wages and the
unsatisfied requests for higher rates, the men
who are responsible for the operation of the great
systems have taken hold of an emergency situa
tion in a way that will be the more admired and
commended the longer it is studied. A short time
ago Fairfax Harrison, who is chairman of the gen
eral board, made report that passenger mileage
had been reduced by more than 16,000,000 miles
and with no hurt to the service. Now Mr. Harri
son gives out a statement that is even more re
markable. Freight movement shows an increase
of a little more than 16 per cent and with the
addition of scarcely any equipment. Just what
this means may better be understood from the
statement that the increase amounts to more than
four billion ton-miles; that is, four billion tons
moved one mile. This is a splendid test of the
capacity of the roads and is also a most'impres
sive reminder of the possibilities of careful and
efficient co-operation. It has been accomplished
by thjt roads under war pressure, it is true, but.
it has been done so easily that it should be main
tained without especial difficulty under the pres
sure of business demands in time of peace. The
railroads are solving their own problem.
Leading cities in every state suffer like Omaha
from unequal taxation. The tendency of rural
politics everywhere is to shift the load on "the
big fellow." The cities are responsible for the
excess burden because the character and ability
of their legislative representation rarely rises o
the rural level. In contest for equality of tax
ation mediocre leadership leaves "the big fellow"
practically defenseless.
As a means of promoting industrial peace the
National Council of Defense might post in con
spicuous places throughout the country auto
graph copies of President Gompers' pledge
against strikes during the war. Disarranged mail
service doubtless accounts for numerous failures
of the notice to arrive
By Victor Rosewater'
THE BOOKLET of Omaha reminiscences put
out by my old friend, John T. Bell, contains
a lot of interesting material relating to the early
days and prominent actors in the upbuilding of
Omaha. Mr. Bell used to be associated with The
Bee, and I regret to have to make a correction in'
his account of the establishment of this paper.
He speaks of my father being a member of the
legislature of 1871, where his course "did not suit
the Omaha Republican people, which fact they
made generally known."
"On returning home," he continues, "Rose
water bought a little theatrical sheet and in June
of that year began the publication of The Bee.
It has been said that one object he had in view
was to repel attacks made upon him by the Re
publican. Possibly that was not the case, but
the fact remains that he at once began methods
that must have matie the Republican owners
quite uncomfortable at times. Certain it is the
Republican died and The Bee still lives one of
the leading newspapers of the west."
Now the story of the founding of The Bee
was written in detail by my father before he died,
and it is a good deal better to stick to his version.
He made no purchase of any theatrical sheet or of
any other previously existing newspaper, but The
Bee was started out by itself as a wholly new
venture. True, the first numbers were about the
size of a theater program and actually contained
the current theater program of the day, and copies
were given out free on the streets, and perhaps
at the theater, but the theatrical part of it was a
minor consideration, the main purpose being to
champion and "put over" the law for consoli
dating the school districts of Omaha', which was
the main achievement of my father as a member
of the legislature, but which the opposition had
saddled 'with a referendum clause requiring a
popular vote of approval before it should become
effective. The Bee, therefore, was projected and
issued as a temporary campaign publication for
free distribution, and acomplislied its object by
carrying the election in favor of the new school
law. This achievement, together with the favor
able reception accorded and assurance of patron
age and support, led to the decision not to aban
don publication as planned, but to continue it and
secure a regular paid subscription list that would
make it permanent. It was the rule of "the sur
vival of the fittest" among newspapers that later
decreed the extinction of the old Omaha Repub
lican, as also of a Half dozen other Omaha news
paper enterprises that flourished for brief periods
m the Interval, while The Bee grew stronger and
stronger in the community.
Mr. Bell relates these two anecdotes about
the founder of The Bee which, regardless
whether strictly accurate or not, are character
istic: "Mr. Rosewater did his writing with, soft pen
cils only a few inches long. He had been a
telegraph operator and was a fast writer, as
well as a pungent writer. In the early period
of The Bee's history it was his custom to col
lect newspaper clippings for several depart
ments he ran in his Saturday issues. On one
occasion fee left W. E. Annin, an associate edi
tor, in charge of the paper and when he re
turned on Monday and was looking over the
Saturday paper he was all stirred up on account
of the character of the clippings Annin had used
in these departments. He said they were rub
bish and trash, but Annin explained that every
last one of them had been taken from the paper
collar box in which they had been stored by
Mr. Rosewater."
"James B. Haynes, for several years managing
editor of The Bee, says that he was asked to
look up short stories to run in the paper. Noth
ing in this line clipped by him quite suited Mr.
Rosewater and he said lie would attend to that
matter himself. He found what struck him as
being the right sort, read the opening para
graph and sent it in to the composing room. It
proved to be quite interesting and it also proved
to be one which wound up with an advertise
ment of Warner's Safe Cure in which style of
advertising Warner was an expert."
I had a delightful little visit last week with
Lanmore C. Dcnisc, another Omaha boy who has
been making an impress in his chosen field, that
of a minister of the gospel, although he has now
given up his pulpit and is engaged in the organ
ization work for the Third Worlds Christian
Citizenship Conference, to be held next year in
Pittsburgh, where he is making his headquarters.
He is a son of the late Dr. J. C. Denise, one of
our early Omaha physicians. The Denise home
was the big, spacious, frame, mansard-roofed res
idence still standing on the high embankment at
Nineteenth and Dodge. It has changed owners
several times in recent years and was not long
ago damaged by fire, and is about to be torn
down.
"I ran oyer and went through the old house
n . .i!ngfrinS look at the old place," said
iJcnisc. I he building was put up by my uncle,
John K. Meredith, who came here as district
attorney in territorial days, and I was struck with
tlie substantial way in which it was constructed
ana the unusual conveniences it must have had
for that time. But the neighborhood I would
hard y recognize, nearly everything that was
"miliar in the surroundings having disappeared.
I Hat part of Omaha is changing so fast that I
know that when I' come back another time I will
be unable to find even the present landmarks."
1'rom Mr. Denise I learned that his mother
and the other members of the family are living
at Summit, N J. There were six sisters in his
mother s family, Mrs. Meredith, who is now 92
being the oldest, and they are all together in close
proximity, their combined ages aggregating 518
years further testimony to the sturdiness of the
stock of our pioneer families.
People and Events
Indiana, the "mother of vice presidents," plans
to maintain its reputation. Already the forward
looking natives -are grooming Governor James
P. Goodrich for second place on the republican
national ticket in 1920.
"Vote under the cocoanut!" was the stirring
slogan which led the dry hosts to victory in Porto
Rico. A cocoanut showed the spot fori the dry
mark. The wets chose the bottle for an emblem,
but the milk in the cocoanut touched the right
spot and carried the day.
A fifty-fifty split on tobacco between the home
consumer and the American soldiers in France is
the unique "good fellow" movement launched by
the Chicago Tribune. "Have one on me" is a
patriotic and fitting tribute to the boys abroad.
Heres hoping it will stick to the finish.
Montana laws forbid carrying booze into In
dian reservations "by boat, team, wagon or sled."
A smuggler recently caught in the act showed that
his conveyance was a motor car and therefore not
unlawful. The court agreed with hiin and desig
nated his vehicle as "a rare combination of lux
ury, necessity and waste."
Last winter the governor of Utah persuaded
the legislature on pledges of a big dividend to ap
propriate $25,000 for an investigation of suspicious
deals- in state lands put over by former adminis
trations. The probe has gone far enough to show
that some of the choicest coal land in the state
wa sold to knowing ones as grazing land at
$1.50 an acre. Plans to make the present owners
disgorge are under way.
Profuse apologies and promises of "never
again" saved Carl F. Dingier of St. Louis from
being tagged as an alien enemy. Dingier edits
the official organ of a Masonic lodge whose mem
bership is largely German. In a recent issue ap
peared a crude, insulting burlesque on the national
anthem. It was a rib-tickler built on the Schrick
lich plan, but the humor of the publication fled
when , a government agent blew into the sanc
tum. Mr. Dingier emerged from the inter
view considerably wiser and deeply repentant.
I TODAY I
Proverb for the Day.
Harder the storm, the sooner over.
One Year Ago Today In the War.
Austro-Germans reported to be in
full retreat toward Lemberg-.
Germans made determined assaults
against the British north of Pozieres.
French continued vigorous attacks
on third German line north of the
Somme.
In Omaha Thirty Years Ago.
The following have left for Spirit
Lake: Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Dundy, jr.,
Mr. and Mrs. William Redick. Miss
Luna Dundy, Miss Gertrude Clark. Mr.
Gordon Clark, Colonel Sharp and his
sisters, the Misses Sharp and Dr. Wil
cox. The second of the series of moon
light parties of the ("Jolly Trio." was
held at Hanscom park. The members
of the trio are Messrs. B. X. Harris,
A. Lewis and M. J. Harris.
Warren Swltzler and family have
returned from Mlnnetonka.
Miss Lou Erlon of South Omaha has
left for a visit to friends at Lewis, la.
It is stated upon authority which
cannot be questioned that Clement C.
Chase will in a few months lead to
the altar a most charming girl.
Misses Florence and Josephine
French gave a delightful dancing party
at their residence In Central park.
The music was furnished by the Fifth
Infantry band and the following were
present: Misses Carrie and Mamie
McLain. Jessie Le Clair, Addie ITurl
burt, Lizzie Lawton, Sue and Mollie
King, Mollie Knowles and Messrs.
George Day. Ostrom, Searle, Fisher.
Craig, Woodburn and Sherman.
This Day In History.
1774 Robert- Southey, the poet
laureate of England, who had a
scheme to come to America and found
a colony, born. Died March 21, 1843.
1817 First of two duels fought at
St. Louis between Thomas H. Benton
and Charles Lucas.
1851 Filibustering expedition from
United States landed In Cuba.
1882 Lord Salisbury resigned the
British premiership and was succeeded
by Mr. Gladstone.
1898 The peace protocol between
the United States and Spain.
1899 M. Paul Deroulede and others
were arrested on charges of plotting
against the Frenrh republic.
1908 King Edward VIL visited the
Emperor of Austria at Tsehl.
1914 John P. Holland,, pioneer sub
marine inventor, died at Newark, N.
J. Born in Ireland in 1842.
1915 Russians stopped desperate
assaults by the Austro-Germans north
of Chelm.
1916 War Department Issued or
ders for the Immediate movement of
the National Gnard troops toward the
Mexican border.
Tli Day We Celebrate.
Otto Liekert, one of Omaha's guard
ians of the law, is Just 49 years of
age today.
Former Grand Duke of Alexis, who
was heir to the imperial throne of
Russia before the late revolution, born
thirteen years ago today.
Julius Rosenwald, chairman of the
committee on. supplies of the National
Council of Defense, born at Spring
field, 111., fifty-five years ago today.
Dr. AValter A. Jessup, the new presi
dent, of the University of Iowa, born
at Richmond, Ind., forty years ago
today.
Ma.lor-General Sir Francis Lloyd.
British army officer in command of
the London District, born sixty-four
years ago today.
Dr. Benjamin T. Marshall, who has
been chosen president of the Connecti
cut College for Women, born in Bos
ton, forty-five years ago toduy.
Christy Mathewson, manager of the
Cincinnati National league baseball
team, born at Factoryville, Pa., thirty
seven years ago today.
Storjctte of the Day.
"I don't seem to be able to say the
right thing to women," a bashful
young man confided to us the other
day. "and that's why I don't shine
in society. I'll tell you an instance
of it. Not long' ago I met a woman
I hadn't seen for years, and I could
see that she was trying to keep younjr.
So I thought I'd say a graceful thing
to her.
" 'You carry your age remarkably
well.' said I.
"Well, the moment I said it I could
see that I was in the wrong. She
was looking chilly and getting red,
so I said: .
" 'Don't mind my little jokes I
never mean what I say. As a matter
of fact, you don't carry your age a
bit well."
"And then she killed me with a
haughty look and sailed away with
out saying goodby. Seems to me I
should have put it rather differently,
don't you think?" Seattle Times.
OF INTEREST TO WOMEN.
The German empress has a mania for
collecting cookery recipes.
Japanese railways now employ women as
cashiers, bookkeepers and ticket sellers.
A hobby of the queen of Denmark is to
collect the eye-glasses of celebrated men.
Queen Marie of Roumanla has a collec
tion of scent bottles valued at many thou
sands of dollars.
One and a quarter million of women are
stated to be engaged in men's places on
the British railways.
Miss Katherine Magneson of Berkeley,
Cal., is one of the few women members of
the American Society of Chemists.
The women of British East Africa have
organised a league to encourage the study
of legislation and the expression of women's
views.
In Holland it is the custom for an un
married woman to walk on the right of
her escort, while a married one takes her
husband's left arm.
Katherine Leckie, who has made a high
reputation as a journalist. Is said to have
been the first woman to take out naturali
sation papers in this country.
Mrs. Josephus Daniels, wife of the secre
tary of the navy, is a sister of Ensign Worth
Bagley, the first officer of the line killed
in the Spanish-American war.
Mrs. Ella Hoover Thacher, for more than
twenty, years superintendent of the Women's
Christian Temperance union work among
soldiers and sailors, has visited every mili
tary and naval fort of the United States and
practically every battleship.
Mary C. C. Bradford, the new president
of the National Education association, is a
descendant of tha Carrolls of Carrolton, sign
ers of tha Declaration of Independence and
the Constitution of the United States.
Few women of wealth have given so much
of their time and money to active per
sonal work and study in behalf of tbe poor,
and especially for the betterment of the
condition of women and children, as Mrs.
Mina C. Van Winkle of Newark. N. J., for
seven years president of the New Jersey
Women's Political union, investigator of
cranberry bog employment for the Consum
ers' league and chairman of infant welfare
work In her city for five years
AROUND THE CITIES.
Inroads of draft among the young men
of San Francisco has doubled the number
of women workers in the grocery stores of
the city.
Sioua City did not add much to solar heat
during July, only $1,418 worth of property
being burned op. Insurance companies made
good all but 110 of the loss.
The garbage pail is not as fat as it used
to be and ia losing weight everywhere. In
Boston the Jane haul fell away 530 tons a
remarkable showing of kitchen economy.
The jitney problem lingers in Minneapolis.
Evidently the business is extensive and
troublesome, inasmuch as a council com
mittee is conducting an investigation of the
traffic and seeking light for regulation.
Four trunks and a suitcase full of thirst
quenchers checked to the arid belt of Idaho
fell among the dry Philistines of Salt Lake
and thence to the jail cellar. In all 826
pint jags and sixteen bottles of beer of un
known ownership got switched on the way.
New York's city budget for 1918 is tak
ing shape and promises the usual annual
increase. Estimates from sixty of the city
departments call for $3,000,060 more than
last year. Cutting the municipal garment
according to the cloth is not a fixed habit
in New York or elsewhere.
City dads of Portland, Ore., archelping to
win the war by promoting the growth of
pork. Bars against raising hogs within the
city limits have been removed on condition
that the owners give the hogs a daily bath.
The concession implies an inspector's job,
which makes for another brand of "bacon."
San Francisco and Boston bakers are put
ting on the market bread loaves composed
of varying proportions of wheat flour, corn
meal and rye flour. The loaves are cheaper
than whole wheat bread and contain a
greater quantity of nutriment per pound.
Both cities report unexpected popularity for
the combination loaves.
Topeka s scbool managers are giving
overtime thought to the question whether
a war bride automatically loses her job.
Under present rules marriage of a woman
teacher ends her connection with the pay
roll. Some of the board take, the view that
war brides acquire a different status, in
that marriage to a soldier does not provide
"other means of support" on which the rule
is based. This is the patriotic view and
seems likely to prevail.
Disappearances of girls and women in
Greater New York make a large number in a
year, but the number lost to relatives is
small. During the first five months of the
year 833 disappearances were reported to
the police. . Of this number 790 or 93 per
cent were located and sent home. Many
more cases were withdrawn from the police.
Two-thirds of all were between 13 and 30
years of age years when the desire for ad
venture is strongest.
SIDELIGHTS ON THE BIG WAR.
Italy's war expenditures now average
$2,500,000,000 a month.
Germany is replacing silver and nickel
money with zinc coins.
One hundred thousand women arc new cm
ployed in the munition factories in Italy.
The Scots Greys hava captured more flags
in warfare than any other. British rogiment.
The British army veterinary service now
has a strength of over 25,000 officers and
men.
Among the allies the lowest-paid soldiers
are those of Russia, who receive only 1
cent s day.
Sir Artbur Conan Doyle, the creator of
"Sherlock Holm?3," is writing a popular his
tory of the war.
The British postolJSce maintains 500
branch offices in France for the convenience
of the soldiers.
Recent auction sales of boots east off by
the British soldiers have realized more than
$100,000 for the government
To economize leather and other material
the city employes of Munich have been or
dered to wear sandals without socks.
Three hundred newsboys of New York
City have enlisted in different branches of the
military service since the beginning of the
warv
In a single week the Navy department at
Washington has received as many as 2,000
letters, each offering a solution of the sub
marine menace. . ' .
About 12 per cent of the total number of
Victoria "crosses granted are received by
members of the medical profession serving
in the British army.
One American concern has supplied the
allies oa the western front with 8S.000 miles
of barbed wire. The wire in not the ordi
nary kind, but a special military type, very
heavy and strong and painted the grim olive
drab of war.
Included in the Russian army is a division
called the Corps de Chasseurs, of which little
is known outside the service. They are
picked men, chosen for various reasons, and
include not only the men of best education,
but also the best runners, sharpshooters,
fencers, swimmers, climbers, sappers, fishers
and huntsmen. As pioneers they build
bridges across ' the broadest and fastest
rivers of Russia. As hunters and fishermen
they provide the army with game and fish.
They are under a strict and special disci
pline, but they are not obliged to march
in line, are free from barrack service and
are excused sentinel duty. '
HERE AND THERE.
Blue-eyed men are said to make the best
rifle shots.
Russia is twenty' times larger than France
and Germany put together.
One pound of cork is amply sufficient to
support a man of ordinary size in the water.
The court records show that the greatest
number of divorces take place between the
fifth and tenth year of married life.
Scientists state that the little toe is grad
ually becoming smaller and smaller, and its
final disappearance is only a matter of time.
The ex-czar of Russia, before his deposi
tion, possessed a single estate equal in ex
tent to about three times the entire area of
England.
The aim of the authorities of the British
museum is to hava a copy of every book
published. There are in that vast library
7,125,000 books.
The Russians are the most remarkable of
all linguists. They will learn Chinese in six
months and will acquire English with ease
in a few weeks.
SMILING LINES.
"So this Is the watch you are giving
your fiance for his birthday? I don't fancy
..a murh eturrnvlnz on 1L dear. 1n
stead of "Grace Osborn to Henry I.ewi?'
why didn t you simpiy nave inc inmaia put
on?"
"t wanted to, dear, but 'O O to H I,"
seemed sort of rude and profane." Bostoa
Transcript.
She How long will they be raw re.
cruits?
H Until the veterans finish roasting
them: Puck
Women have all the best of it."
"What now?"
"It ia considered chic for a girl to be
married in her mother's wedding gown.
Hut how a man would be hooted if ha
showed up In his father's old Prince Al
bert coat." Louisville Courier-Journal.
"The young man our rich neighbor's
daughter Is going to marry Ja a very prom
ising young man, they say."
"I know he is. Ho has promised to
pay me the money he owes ma when he
gets hold of hers." Baltimore American.
In the old days a man used to get a
wife by tapping her over the head with a
club."
The girl nodded.
"These young man that keep calling ana
never come to the point," said she, "make
me feel that women would be justified In
p.duptlng those tactics now." Louisville
Courier-Journal.
ptAR MR. KABtBrHJE,
1 HrVJBIr HEAW rCM M
MMBE HETrimkS IT IS HIS
f'.&MC UIU AilUCal fMllalA atlh
AW
"ISmma's lialr used to be brown and noit
it is srolden. Why did she change?"
' Yuu Bee, her mother wanted her to b
a blonde, so IJmma felt sli must obey
a mother's dyeing request." Baltimore
American.
Is he honest?
1 think he must be. I haven't heard him
bragging about It. Detroit Fro Press.
"We must do something about blind
tigers."
"I say so. too," declared Innocent Mrs.
Squab. "Those unfortunate animals should
have the services of a good veterinarian at
once." Louisville Courier-Journal.
"Do you believe a wife is justified In tak
ing money from her husband's pocket?"
"Certainly, If he Is carelens enough to
leave any there." Baltimore American.
A pistol shot sounded in the boarding
house.
"What's that?" cried the atarlled
boarders.
"That report," replied the reiiely landlady,
"is probably only a roomer." Baltimore
American.
A RED CROSS CALL.
Yes, war Is wrong, we all .igree.
Its hate and carnage smirch the soul:
For all our leisure we must pay
Demands our toil and lives for toll.
It takea eur husband and our sons.
Our brothers and our sweethearts true;
tt takes our money and our guns,
Our worktlme. and our playtime, too
Come, sisters, we have had our day.
When we were pampered, precious toys"
For all our liemire we must pay
In working for our soldier boys.
We rannnt meditate nor grieve
O'er hardships that they must endure.
But save our strength, that we may leave
No work undone, for victory's sure
If every one but does his part
At home ax well as at tho front,
In field 'or factory, plant or mart
And lets no other bear the br'".tl.
Come, sisters, we must b".p to prove
Our forbears right wlier. they laid down
Their lives for Freedom. By thIr love
We have not known a tryant's frown.
Oh. we are fighting for a caus
In Freedmon's name, to help the world.
To reaeh a place where all her laws
Are just and wise, her flag unfurled
Will show to other planet's gase
In fiery letters bold and free
"We're in the Sun, now CJod we praise
We are a World Demnncracy."
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Water Bottles, 75c to $2
Atomizers, 50c, 75c, $1 '
Syringe, 50c to $3 r
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