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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: NOVEMBER 2u, 1917.
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OCTOBER CIRCULATION
58,059 Daily Sunday, 51,752
Awta etreulstlea for tna noatk nbacribtd tad awore to or Owtjht
William. ClraaJatlea aUusfar.
Subscriber leaving the city should have Tba Baa milled
.to them. Addraas coanf ad aa often aa requested.
It is just one drive after another. Do your bit!
"Hypothyreosis"' sounds more imposing than
"brain storm."
National Responsibility for War Damage.
Influential men in England are moving to se
cure action by Parliament that will result in the
indemnification of owners for all property dam
aged by air raids. The chancellor of the ex
chequer has applied the principle of national re
sponsibility in part, extending to cover losses of
500 pounds or under, regardless of insurance; over
that amount uninsured losses must be subject to
adjustment by the government under the provi
sions of the insurance law. It is this latter feature
the movers for general indemnity object to. They
do not question the government's intent, but they
want the burden of loss to fall on the nation and
not on the individual. Personal injury is included
f with property damage.
It is argued, with much more force and show
of right, that the damage is the consequence of
a war in which the entire nation is involved, the
exposure resulting from this fact, and therefore
compensation should be on the same basis. In
other words, it is but the extension of the prin
ciple that provides relief for those who are-injured
in military service or for property taken for
tnilitary uses. The committee has anticipated one
of the most extensive features of all the war
problems, temporarily in the background, but cer
tain to demand careful attention, that ot reha
bilitation of devastated regions. France already
has taken hold of this work, the government as
suming the burden, and is proceeding on a wide
scale to restore war-torq areas to usefulness.
The task is one of tremendous size and its
final accomplishment may be long postponed, but
the principle involved seems founded in justice
and equity alike, and therefore should prevail. The
ruin of war is a matter of concern of the whole
nation and not alone of the few who are acci
dentally caught in the red path of the destroyer.
It will be the first dry Thanksgiving ever cele
brated in Nebraska. ' -
Genera! Byng got a promotion. What the
Bavarian crown prince got is not disclosed.
Turkey In Asia has been hard pressed, but
turkey in America is right on the verge of suc
cumbing, i '
It was Russian mobilization that furnished the
excuse for the kaiser to put the match to the war
bomb and now Russia is the first to flunk.
Teutonic bells are silent, in spite of Russian
provocation to clatter. Necessity belled them to
the metal pot.
, Measures already taken to insure an ample
supply of teed corn reflects wise foresight While
the danger of a shortage may be exaggerated, be
ing certain marks the safe course.
, Perhaps President Roosevelt did not do such
a good job, after all, when he forced the peace
settlement that saved Russia from impending anni
hilation at the hands of victorious Japan.
Our congratulations to the 'new officers who
have just won their new shoulder straps in the
second Officers' Reserve training camp; We con
fidently depend upon them to make good.
Young Officers Deserve Their Honor.
The new class just "sent out from the officers'
training school at Fort Sntlling contains, the
names of a number of Nebraska boys who have
won commissions in the United States army. To
these, as to all those who have similarly been
distinguished, The Bee offers its most sincere
congratulations. Theirs is a real achievement,
for their appointment comes on merit alone. Ac
tual and thorough tests of physical and mental
fitness, of temperament and capacity to command
have been substituted for old-time favoritism and
political pull in the selection of commissioned of
ficers. For many weeks these'young men have
been devoting long hours every day to study and
drill, mastering the details of the work and duty
required of officers. No longer does a royal road
ead to the responsibilities of command; work well
done is the only way by which the honor can be
attained. Selections have been carefully made and
those who have been chosen deserve the distinc
tion that has come to them and the country looks
orward to them with confidence. Those who
tried and failed need feel no humiliation. To
them, too, the nation has gratitude, for they have
proven their willingness to be of service. Our
new army will be better, because it will have of
ficers of a high grade of fitness, chosen by meth
ods that determine quality and capacity for im
portant work, f : ' ' .'
Reports from Deming indicate .a general rush
for soldiers insurance. In this the fighting boysi
to-be show commendable business sense and fore
sight Insurance backed by the government is a
sure thing and a good thing. ' "... V
Thanksgiving hospitality -to the , khaki boys
lends the flavor of home to active service. It
heartens the host and hostess, cheers the boys
and strengthens the ties binding home defenders
to the, unrivalled American home.
"The neighing steed, the flashing blade," im
mortalized' in deeds and story, '! renewed their
gtory in caa!ry charges on the plains of Cambrai.
Three years is a long time to wait, but neither
steed nor blade lost their nsrhtinsr. edee.
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Cuban sugar planters compromised their dif
ferences with the United States and, accepted $4.60
per 100 pounds. The increase amounts- to one
tenth of a cent a pound over the price originally
agreed upon and reflects credit on the patriotic
moderation of the planters.
The response to The Bee's offer to make the'
arrangements for hospitable householders to en
tertain a soldier from Fort Crook or Fort Omaha
for Thanksgiving dinner has been ime quite un
to expectations,' Anyone eise wno wants to get
in oa the Invitation list will have to hurry. '
' History naps Italy as the graveyard of Tea
tonic ambitions. Every imperial free booter from
Huntand found the country too hot to hold. Some
retired alive others were carried out in a box
History has a way of repeating itself and the he
roic Italians are writing the foreword on the
Flaw " " I;',"1.'
Fairly definite assurances come from Wash
ington of the delivery of Liberty bonis in ample
time for Christmas shopping. The magnitude of
the task of printing the bonds far exceeded the
capacity of private shopsand taxes the far
greater resources of the government printery
working triple shifts. The treasury plans to have
bonds ready for delivery to subscribers on the
next payment day, December 15.
In his Western Laborer Frank A. Kennedy,
who has been serving his country as a patriot in
the laborious exemption board job, asks: "Why
don't Senator Hitchcock wake up and give us a
law providing for the shipment of the pro-Ger
mans back to Germany for them to feed V Oh,
pshaw I Why ask such foolish questions? Wouldn't
that be a nice measure for Senator Hitchcock to
champion after bis effort to earn an imperiat red
eagle by championing the kaiser's bill to make
the United States helpless by putting all our mu
nition plants out of business 1 1
Spirit of the Soldier
Baatoa Tfanarrfpt.-
Omaha save Leonard Wood a great ovation
when the general went there recently in response
to an appeal for help from the people of that
middle western city in their second Liberty loan
campaign. . His ten speeches in a single day to
tens ot thousands ot people increased Omaha i
total subscriDtion by a ouarter of a million dot
lars. But the telegram sent by the Liberty loan
committee to the secretary of war thanking him
for General Wood's assistance failed to include
any mention Of this incident observed by one of.
.. I . . A-a aa w a
ine committee, a vrana Army veteran made nis
way to the platform atter one of the biar meet
ings, and stopped the line of handshakers long
enough to say: -
"General, it makes my blood boil when I read
anout tne war they are waging on you in days
'ike these. I wonder how you feel about all the
insults that have beea hcaoed noon you.
"Comrade, you ought to know that it is Im
possible to insult a soldier going into a fight.
as Leonard Woods reply
Urgency of" More Systematic Money-Getting.
That the same problems Often bring out simi-
ar suggestions for, their solution in widely dis
tant places is' evidenced again in the matter of
what we have called the free and easy, hit-or-miss,
"irresponsible solicitation of funds for war
activities and relief work.
Just, at the time The Eee was proposing a
jnott systematic and centralized control of these
money-getting campaigns, a plan was being jmt
Into effect in the little Wisconsin town of Keno
sha, in substance underwriting all of the requi
site: made upon the community foV these pur'
poses and providing for meeting them out of a
single community fund made up of weekly con
tributions equal to a half hour's earnings of every
inhabitant engaged in gainful occupations. In a
word, the Kenosha plan answers the demand for
business methods by cutting off outside solici
tation altogether. : - ' '
The necessity of some better way than gen
erally prevails for organizing" the generosity of
the public is also pointed out by the Wall Street
Journal, a progressive paper with viewpoint ex
tending far beyond Wall street, citing as a hor
rible 'example pne "patriotic bazaar," which, out
of $71,475 taken in absorbed for promotion and
expenses all but a trifle under $755 which was
left to be applied to the worthy object for which
the appeal was made.
Perversion of the philanthropic spirit Is not
likely to occur, perhaps, on such a large scale
in small places, but the effect of a few such epi
sodes irr. repressing the openhandedness of public
spirited people can easily be forecasted. Wher
ever the subject has been given, attention by
thoughtful folks but one conclusion is reached
that strictly business methods and thoroughly
responsible control must be enforced . through
some one recognized authority. ;
' 1 By Victor Roaowator
AMONG the many accumulating proofs that
Omaha is steadily coming into its own and
achieving a position of importance among
cities, entitling it to more and more recognition,
is the increasing frequency with which it is men
tioned or referred to by outsiders. There is no
question that Omaha is more firmly entrenched
on the map and its fame more widespread among
intelligent and well-informed people than ever be
fore. We have had several 'novels published
with the scenes laid in Omaha Meredith Nich
olson's "Main Chance" being perhaps the first
to attract attention twelve or fifteen years ago, and
Elizabeth Dejean's "The Tiger's Coat" being the
latest, with more sure to follow. One of the chief
editorials in the Saturday Evening Post a week
ago, by way of an illustrating" example, speaks
of a bank transferring money "from New York
to Omaha." When I picked up a copy of the
Theater Magazine a little while back I found a
story purporting to give personal reminiscences
of a show girl, who had generously selected
Omaha as the stage setting for the experience she
was relating. ' Of course, the main factor is the
regular day-by-day exploitation , of Omaha's re
sources, progress and achievements" by ouf own
Omaha newspapers the publicity which we give
all the time and which is absorbed by strangers
here and sent in continuous stream to far-away
readers a service in which The Bee has been
foremost in rendering: The thought I am en
deavoring to drive in, however, is this that our
efforts are beginning to tell and to command read
ier response, as everyone who will keep his eyes
open may observe.
The noticeable material expansion of Omaha
and the growth of its prestige abroad nonetheless
rest, as I have often pointed out, upon the sub
stantial foundations so well laid by the pioneers
of our city who are now being called to the great
bevond in such rapid succession. This very day
will witness the last rites in tribute to one of
Omaha's pioneer women, the late Mrs. Caroline
Sears Poppleton, who. in all that the term implies,
may rightlv be called one of the first ladies of
Omaha. She was not only in point of time one
of the first women to locate here, but during all
Of the formative period of the community she
was one of the first in the numerous social and
charitable activities that made the place livable
and helped the food people to decide' to cast
their lot here. She was a woman of education
and culture, always interested in every -undertaking
for the better welfare of other folks and
always ready to assist, thoroughly posted upon
current events, and mentally alert up to her last
year. She had a remarkable memory for people
and incidents of the early days, the days of hard
ship and privations, and must have derived in
tense satisfaction in being able to live to see the
magnificent Omaha now built up on the spot
that was a desolate, uninviting wilderness when
she first made a home here over fifty years ago.
This we all want to remember that except for
Mrs. Poppleton and a few other noble women the
Omaha of today would have been impossible.
Another old-timer who has just taken a ride in
side the hearse on, which he ofteg occupied the
driver's seat is "Jim" Stephenson, word of whose
death came from Salt Lake City. There were
other livery men here when Omaha was young,
but for a long time the Stephenson stables were
palatial as compared with the others. His big
brick barn down on Tenth and Harney has long
since been converted into the Rees printing es
tablishment. Stephenson had all the fancy vehi
cles, with befitting horses, that the most fastidi
ous patron might demand. He had carry-alls and
hacks, coupes, buggies, saddle horses, band wag
ons, funeral cars, sleighs and a Concord coach
that had been brought back from the Black Hills.
He imported into Omaha the first "Hansom"
cttb that ever strayed west of the Mississippi? river
and it was not his fault that the Hansom" did
not beopme as popular on our streets as. it was
in London. "Jim" Stephenson was of the "rough
and ready" sort, but kind-hearted and consider
ate sometimes incongruous, especially when on
dress occasions he insisted on himself handling
the reins, clad in silk hat and stable clothes. He
was a character of the town, to say nothing of
having represented the famous Third ward in the
city council for a little while. He, too, in his
way, laid some of the foundation stones for Oma
ha's superstructure. ,
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- une wno came a nttie later on tne stage, ana
upon whom the lastcurtain has just dropped, was
Thomas F. Boyd, who was our amusement pur
veyor for a dozen years or mor. He was man
ager of the old "Boyd s Opera House that stood
at Fifteenth and Farnam, erected through the en
terprise of his brother, later Governor James h.
Boyd. When the new opera house was opened a
gentleman named Marsh was brought from the
east to take charge of it and shortly .after, if not
immediately, "Tom" Boyd responded to a sum
mons from his brother to come on from Phila
delphia, where he was a printer on the Public
Ledger, and become the box office assistant. Al
though already in middle age, he quickly adapted
himself to the change and In a very snort time
became so conversant with the business that
when Mr. Marsh's services were discontinued he
wai able to handle it without serious difficulty.
Often when ticket sales were not particularly
strenuous I used to visit with "Tom" Boyd in the
box office cage, where I was an eager, listener
to his accounts of printers and newspaper men
in the east, of whom I had only heard, while he
had known them bv oersonal association. Some
of the most noted actors and actresses who ever
played in this country gave performances at tne
old jtJoywnue lorn coya was running u.
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Disfranchising Conscientious Objectors.
The British House of Commons, by a very
large majority, has adopted an amendment to the
electoral bill taking the vote from the "conscien
tious objector." This may seem a rather harsh
measure, when added to other penalties, including
imprisonment, which have been visited on .these
noncombattants, but Erfglish patience has been
sorely tried by the pacifists. The irritating pres
ence of a considerable body of men who have
evaded war service through immunity granted
those' whose scruples, religious or otherwise,
against shedding blood ,are insurmountable has
been one of the problems of the United King
dom from the very start of the war. Public
temper now has reached a pitch where it pro
poses to exclude from active share in govern
ment those who will not fight to defend that
government. The logic of the action is 'incon
testable. 'Woman has been extended the fran
chise on 'a limited scale and her opportunity Hot
attaining the unrestricted privilege is greatly im
proved because of her, assistance in the war;
therefore men who have steadfastly refused to
aid in the emergency or who have hampered ac
tion by their conduct are to be stripped of what
has been 'looked on as the final achievement of
manhood, that of the vote. ' The slacker is highly
unpopular everywhere just now and is likely to
become more so as time passes. ...
Enemy airplane propagandists feed the Ital
ians with plain airy pamphlets proclaiming the
benevolent intentions of the thrust into the vitals
of Venetia. Just beyond Venetia lie the opulent
plains of Lombardy, the richest agricultural
section of northern Italy, No doubt vast stores
of foodstuffs are there, besides stores of metals
drawn to the Industrial center of Milan. ' Look
ing in that direction whets the benevolent ap
petite of the half-famished Teutons.
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People and Events
One Year Ago Today In the War.
British naval planes Invaded Ba
varia. Greek provisional government de
clared war on Germany and Bulgaria.
Austro-Germans drove Roumanians
down the Alt valley and turned flanks
ot new position.
In Omaha Thirty Years Ago.
Articles' of agreement were signed
between Messrs. Ed Rothery and Patsy j
Fallon for a glove contest between
Arthur Rothery and Patsy Carroll, the
match la to be a public one forJ250
a fight '
A corps of surveyors of the Duluth
& Omaha road, who have been work
ing for Borne weeks on the east side
ot the rfver In the vicinity of Crescent
City with a view of making a crossing
to, Omaha, arrived in town today.
Pltul Hersch, clerk at the Paxton,
has handed in his resignation to take
'effect December 1.
J. T. Clark, of the ChicacJ, Mil
waukee & St Paul railroad, arrived
in this city last night
A meeting of the committee ap
pointed to secure the national repub
lican convention for Omaha, was held
at the Millard hotel.
The South Omaha Land company
will erect 100 dwelling houses north
of the stock exchange very soon. The
buildings can be rented without any
difficulty whatever. j
The Lemp's western brewery of St
Louis Is to establish a house in this
city.
A meeting was held at the Castellar
Street Presbyterian church in the in
terest of a public reading room and
library. A large part of the evening
was devoted to the subject of Thanks
giving. ,
Thomas H. Nast lecturer and fam
ous caricaturist will appear at the
Grand Opera house.
Secret service activities promise a permanent
revolution in the vocal characteristics of Hoboken
It is now possible to hear the American language
on both sides of the streets.
Mayor Thompson? campaign for United States
senator marks progress in Chicago. Big Bill's
school board declined to stop socialist and pacifist
meetings in public school auditoriums.,,
Atlantic City fishermen have thrown them
selves into the food conservation movement with
a will and a large stock of shark steaks. The
latter is said to possess edible qualities surpassing
whale nieat It should be explained that the of
fering is genuine ocean shark, not the Boardwalk
variety. , .
Enterprising women of Chicago plan a hotel
exclusively for members of the sex. Mere man
may look in but not get in. The number of
women anxious to lead that kind of a lonely life is
not larue enough to warrant the fear that lonely
men may be forced to go into training as porch-
cumbers.
Philadelphia snorts offer large odds on the
proposition that the war will shoot up the silk
hat as a sartorial embellishment The biff topper,
symbol of masculine dignity. and prosperity, al
ready shrinks from nuhlic raze and those who per
sist in wearing it seek safety in closed cabs. The
sign indicates an early revival of the Quaker cady,
. The estate of the late Henry Flagler, standard
oil magnate, foots no $75,000,000. according to the
tax appraiser's report. Approximately $50,000,000
were spent in his Florida enterprises. Mr. Flagler
atarted to make the huge fortune as a grocery
clerk at Republic. O., switched to the gram busi
ness, and later hooked up with John L. Rocke
feller in Cleveland. The size of his pile tells the
rest .
A peculiarly odious system of swindling has
been pulled off at Camp Devens, Mass. Recruits
listened to the siren voices of crooks professing
to be lawyers with a pull and paid generous fees
for promises of procuring exemption from setvice.
"Some recruits put up from $150 to $250 and have
not even a receipt to show for it Lasy money,
Yes, but it will not be easy to hold it when the
secret service Completes the chase and rounds up
the gang. '.. - , . - . t ;.,
SIGNPOSTS OF PROGRESS.
A combined chemical and mechanical pro
eeia for recovering all the unconaumed fuel
in furnace ashes has been perfected by Dutch
inventors.
Although England's meat importations
are very heavy coming from Australia and
North and South America, 60 per cent of the
supply ia grown at home.
To save carpenters' time a nailholJer has
been invented which, suspended from a man's
shoulders, feeds nails down into the right
position to be most easily grasped. '
A rod attached to s desk and terminating
in a cup which fits under a child' chin has
been invented in Europe for tha purpose of
compelling school children to sit erects
The American consul general at Mexico
City has transmitted the information that
agricultural machinery of all kinds will be
exempt from import duty after October 1.
The production of fuel briquettes in the
United States laat year exceeded .298,000
tons and was the greatest on record, being
an increase of 33 per cent from tha year
before.
An Australian says ha has discovered a
new rapid tanning process with which sole
leather can be tanned in aeven days, calf
skins in six hour and other skins propor
tionately quickly. '
Tha Ohio State Pharmaceutical association
instructed its council of administration to
take over, and run without profit to tha as
sociation, the business of all members who
may be called to tha service T the country.
All of the European armies have ahoes
without linings, and tha new service shoe
of tha United States is made that way. It
makes s better shoe, more sanitary, morej
comfortable and lea likely to causa blister.
DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES.
This Day ta History.
1783 New York was evacuated by
the British and the American troops
under Washington entered the city.
1809 AdolPh E. Borie, secretary of
the navy under President Grant born
in Philadelphia. Died there, February
6, 1880.
1843 Ole Bull, the famous violinist
made his first appearance in the United
States. ,
1863 Battle of Chattanooga or Mis
sionary Ridge, he decisive battle of
tne cnattanooga: campaign.
1867 A congressional committee
recommended the impeachment of
President Andrew Johnson.
1890 Two Brazilian warships ar
rived at New York, bringing a medal
from the new republic to the president
of the United States.
1892 "The Breakers," the magnifi
cent summer home of Cornelius Van
derbilt at Newport was destroyed by
fire. .
189'4 Right Rev. VT. B. W. Howe,
Episcopal bishop of South Carolina,
died at Charleston. v Born at Clare
mont N. H.. March 31, 1823.
1914 British battleship Bulwark
sunk by German submarine off
Sheerness.
1915 Germans began evacuation of
Hitau, their base on Riga front
The Day We Celebrate..
Andrew Carnegie, capitalist and
philanthropist, born at' Dunfermline,
Scotland, 83 years ago today.
Brigadier General Walter A. Bethel,
of the judge advocate general's de
partment born in Ohio, 61 years ago
today. .
Brigadier General Alfred E. Bradley,
of the medical corps of the United
States army, born in New York, 53
years ago today.
Right Rev. Benjamin Brewster,
Episcopal blshop.of Maine, born at
New Haven, Conn., 57 years ago today.
Dr. Bliss Perry, professor of Eng
lish literature at Harvard, born at
Williamstown, Mass., 57 -years ago
today. , ,
Sir Frederick Haultain, the new
chancellor of the University of Saskat
chewan, born in England, 60 years ago
today.
Walter A. Watson, representative in
congress of the Fourth Virginia dis
trict, born in Nottoway county, Vir
ginia, 60 years ago today.
Timely Jottings and Reminders.;
! Colonel Roosevelt it is said, will
leave his home today for Toronto,
where he is to speak in behalf of the
Victory loan.
Today is the centennial anniversary
of the birtb of John Bigelow, famous
in the last century as diplomatist and
author.
Friends of municipal and public-
ownership of public utilities are to
meet in Chicago today for a three-day
conference under the auspices of the
Public Ownership League of America.
Storyette of the Day.
Not for words would Mrs. Smith
speak an unkind word about anyone.
She was one of those charitable old
ladies who try to think and speak
kindly of everyone. If anyone asked
her opinion of a person, and she did
not particularly like the individual in
question, she would express her feel
ings in such a quaint and original
way that the sting would be' quite
lost. '
"What a brilliant conversationalist
young Mr. Jenkins is!" said a friend
to her one day. , "Do you know him?
Really, it's an education to listen to
him talking."
"Yes," Baid gentle Mrs. Smith, "I
have met him."
"You must have found him very
entertaining. Why, he can talk
cleverly and wittily for an hour at a
stretch."
"Then when I met him." said Mrs.
Smith, with a sweet smile, "It must
have been at the beginning ot the
second hour." London Tit Bits.
Caller Excuse me, can I speak to your
typist ona moment
City Man Tou can't; she's engaged.
Caller That's all right I'm the fellow.
Philadelphia Ledger.
"No," remarked the determined ' lady to
the Indignant taxi driver wbq had received
his exact fare, "you cannot cheat me. I
haven't ridden in cabs these last 25 year
for nothing."
"Haven't you?" he retorted, bitterly.
"Well, you'va done-' your best." Brooklyn
Citizen.
"Few of ua get a chance to conduct a
courtship in a conservatory, as they do In
novels."
"It may be Just aa well. I guess a love
that blooms on the front porch Is better
calculated to bear the cold winds of real
life." Louisville Courier-Journal.
. "I heard young Mrs. Stubbs make a cut
ting remark to her husband yesterday."
"Why, I thought they were Just like tur
tle doves. What waa It?"
"That the baby had another tooth."
Baltimore American.
"No, sir! I can tell you It doesn't take
me long to get an Idea into my bead."
"Very likely not. ' But what does it do
after it gets there?" Life.
NO ADVERTISEMENT CAN
DO JUSTICE to the work
of this Office Sanitarium. Es
tablished only a few years ago,
it has now become one of the
leading medical institutions of
Omaha and numbers its pa
tients by the thousands.
If you are sick and have not
been benefited by other forms
of treatment, you should inves
tigate this wonderful institu
tion. The Solar Sanitarium is en
dorsed by leading physicians
and is an institution of the
highest, standing. Our rates for
treatment are most moderate
and will be quoted upon appli
cation. The
Solar Sanitarian
(Largest Office Sanitarium la the
Weat)
Dr. H. A. Wag gener, Medical Director
410-418 Brandei Bldg., Omaha, Neb.
A GODSPEED.
Jlary R. S. Andrews in Scribncr's.
God speed Old Glory when she takes the
road to France! pF
Through the thundering of the legtoas
whre tha-buKles'play advance.'
God apeak: vThe tight Is mine. Carry rou
Imy conquering lance."
God speed Old KS lory on I
God send Old Glory first and foremost In the
fight!
Fling her far, O God of battles, in the van,
for the rlgt.
Lift our hearts up to oar freedom's flag
of red-and-blue-and-whlte.
God fling Old Glory far!
God guard Old Glory clean through battle ..
grime and sweat!
Consecrate the men who serve her so that
none may e'er forget
How the honor of the color Ilea within
his keeping yet.
God guard Old Glory clean!
God bring Old Glory home in honor, might,
and pride!
Battle-bla-k and bullet-slashed and stripes
streaming wide,
Gorgeous with the memories of men wh
greatly died
God bring Old Glory home!
(Copyright, 1917, by Charles Scribner' Sons.)
In that hour of shadows when
folks need our assistance it lafA
then they vision clearly our de-i j
nptirlariilirv. Thpvknow that wf
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are experienced and proficient and
that our equipment is all that can
be asked for.
N. P. SWANSON
Funeral Parlor. (Established 1888)
17 th and Cuming Sts. Tel. Doug. 1060.
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A New Record for 1917
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"The sale of Grand Pianos
for 1917 will break all rec
ords." So says one of the big piano
manufacturers of New York.
The reason is not hard to
find:
People realize the artistic
advantages of the Grand
piano. You may now buy a
, Grand which takes up about
; the same room as an Up-
rijrht piano.
Besides the price is no more
than that of a high-grade
Upright piano. I
'. In the dainty
Brambach Baby Grand
you get wonderful tone
quality, graceful lines and
durability.
Price $485
See and Hear it TODAY.
A. Hospe Co.
1513-15 Douglas St.
FL
VIA
HERE AND THERE.
For shipping perishable goods long dis
tances Russian has invented an artificial
ice, made by f reeling solutions of salt at
various degrees' of concentration. .
Swiss engineer have convinced Russian
fBcials that it is possible to bore 16-mile
tunnel through the Caucasus mountains and
-link tha Black and Caspian seas.
Tha 3.000 member of tha Presbyterian
church of 200 years, ago, when the first
American aynod met at Philadelphia, have
increased to 1,900.000, found in the several
denomination of the Presbyterian family.
Alaska recently had it first country fair.
At Anchorage, In tke Cook inlet country, a
great competitive exhibit of agricultural,
mining and fishing product was held. The
Alaskaa railroad commission gave the proj
ect all possible aid. There were base ball
game and other field sports.
The new Afro-American synod of the
Presbyterian church, United States, com
prising four presbyteries made up of negro
oongregationa and ministers, nas beet named
Snedeeor Memorial aynod, in memory of the
late Dr. J. G. Snedeeor, long a leader in
work for negroe." - ...
Attempt at removing the green top of
potatoes on the assumption that they de
tract from the tuber development have proven
it a poor plan and in the majority of ease
where records were kept the topped pota
toea produced the poorest tuber crop weight
though in some instances the potatoes were
larger. . . : ' V'.
ILLINOIS CENTRAL
Route of the
Celebrated Seminole Limited
THE ALL STEEL TRAIN
Most Direct Service to the South
and Southeast
Round trip reduced WINTER Tourut Ticket on sale daily.
Limited to Return May 25, 1918. w
RATES TO PRINCIPAL POINTS AS FOLLOWS:
Jacksonville $54.56 Ft. Lauderdale . . . . .$75.16
Ormondv $60.96 Palm Beach $73.06
St. Pater.berg $66.16 Lake Worth ....... .$73.06
Daytona $61.26 Miami $76.66
Tampm $66.16 Key We.t ...$87.66
Oranse City $63.66 Fort Myers $71.26
, Havana, Cuba, via New Orleans.. .....$95.91
Havana, Cuba, via Jacksonville $102.56
Tickets to aB Other point at same proportional rate.
Tickets via Washington, D. C, in one direction, returning via
any direct line, at (lightly higher rate.
For full particular, descriptive literature and deeping car
retervation. call at City Ticket Office or write S. North, District
ttenger Agent, 407 S. 16th St., Omaha. Phone Dougia 264.
1 Pa
IV
A NATION OF MEN INSURED
IS PREPARED FOR EMERGENCY
THE
Woodmen of the World
Issue Life Insurance Certificate
... . $250.00 TO $5,000.00
RATES REASONABLE, BUT ADEQUATE
A Homo Protected With One of Our Certificate is Bulwarked Against
Preying Enemies, Hunger and Homelessness
'850,000 HOMES ARE THUS GUARDED
Call Douglas 4570. ' No Charge for Explanation.
W. A. FRASER, Sovereign Commander. J. T. YATES, Sovereign Clerk.
THE OMAHA BEE INFORMATION BUREAU
' Washington, D. C
Enclosed find a 2-cent stamp, for which you will please send me,
entirely free, a copy of the book: "How to Remove Stains."
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