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MARCH CIRCULATION
66,558 Daily Sunday, 56,553
rrt clrcoltllon for the month, mraerlbta tnd sworn to by Dwight
Williams. Otrculatlna Manater.
Subscriber leaving tht) city- should havt Tht Bm mailed
to them. Addrvil changed tl often requested.
Smash all the slates. Vote for the best man.
Over the top for Old Glory,
bond.
Buy a Liberty
And don't forget the school bonds when you
go to the polls.
First election in the history of Omaha with
no saloon back-door for the police to watch.
Amiens, too, has a fine cathedral, which may
account for German desire to reach that city.
Well, well, well! In the language of "Met,"
Mr. Hitchbranch is mad. That's very evident.
It took a year to do it, but Americans are all
headed in one direction at last, and their objec
tive is Berlin.
Wheat prospects ire very good, but that is all
the more reason why even greater efforts be made
to save as well as to produce food. It will all
be needed to win the war.
Foch evidently knows something about Hin
denburg's plans that has not been told on this
side yet. .At any rate, he has not been forced
to play any of his trumps yet.
Council Bluffs made a short job of its quota,
showing that somebody had underestimated the
capacity of the people over there for buying Lib
erty bonds.. However, this need not operate to
prevent them from buying as many more as they
care to.
The colonel having made th'e correction asked
it for, the senator from North Carolina may resume
Y his task of protecting the administration on the
" floor of the senate, but he will have to do so with
- the knowledge that the colonel's criticism of the
; bill before the senate's judiciary committee still
.. stands. ' ' .
Of all places to obtrude religious bigotry the
present war seems to be about the poorest, and
particularly is the exhibition of snch narrow
mindedness in the United States incomprehen
sible. Zealots who cling to their creeds at a time
when fundamentals are being assailed are poor
leaders.
; Minneapolis citizens feel they have put up
aVwith enough of the conduct of the "class con
1 scious" youth who have flouted the draft and
? otherwise misbehaved themselves. These mis
l guided boys may yet come to realize that the
; war in which the United States has engaged is to
1 be carried on withoot any application of ,,bol-aevrsm.
Wheat Production for Current Year. ,
Several months must elapse before the wheat
? srop of the United States for 1918 will be har
vested tnd the yield definitely known. Prelimi
nary estimates, however, are suggestive of ener-
getic efforts on part of farmers and a favorable
season. The April bulletin from the Department
of Agriculture1 forecasts a yield of 560,000,000
bushels of winter wheat, as against a final esti
mate of 418,070,000 bushels for 1917 and 480,-
533,000 bushels for 1916. For rye the estimate is
86,000,000, compared with 60,145,000 last year and
48,062,000 in 1916. If we are to attain the desired
billion-bushel wheat trop, sowing of spring wheat
must be doubled in acreage and the yield per acre
be equal to that of last year. How great the
,' spring crop is to be will determine the amount of
wheat available for export. However, if the yield
is no more than was harvested in 1917, the out
jook now is that we will have an additional 142,-
000,000 bushels for export, or enough to feed 30,
; 000,000 people on the basis of the pre-war con
4 sumption in America. This, with the added yield
. of rye and the saving effected at home means that
the war will not be lost for lack of something to
. eat, if it be not lost before the next harvest comes
in. Our farmers have responded to the call.
IF THE KAISER ONLY KNEW.
To say that Senator Hitchcock is known as
distinctly pro-German, we are told by his faith
ful alter-editor of his hyphenated newspaper, is
"absurd."
Why, of course!
Does not everyone know it was out of hos
tility to the Germans that the senator cham
pioned the kaiser's munitions embargo bill, that
he urged the kaiser's bill to stop the allies from
selling securities in America, that he gave out
that interview opposing a declaration of war
with Austria?
Does not everyone know, too, it was out of
hostility to Germany that the senator, through
his newspaper, has been justifying the enforced
teaching of German "kultur" to the children in
the grammar grades in our public schools and has
been advocating retention of the suffrage for
alien-enemy first-paper voters in Nebraska at
least over the next presidential election?
Did we say "everyone" well, everyone but
the kaiser.
If the kaiser only knew what an implacable
and dangerous foe he had in Senator Hitchcock,
he would put a price upon his head.
Expanding Our Army.
Washington has ordered the assembly of an
additional 150,000 men of the second draft con
tingent for April, an order anticipated to some
extent, but not in such number. This may be
accepted as an evidence that the War department
has determined on more energetic efforts in con
nection with the dispatch of troops to Europe.
It is unofficially known that considerable bodies
of men have been moved lately, and on this rests
the assumption that soldiers are to be sent across
as fast as ships can be found to carry them. Im
provement in the shipping situation, brought
about by the seizure of idle Dutch vessels and
the deal with Japan, will provide transportation
for a much larger force than might have been
estimated a month ago. This change in condi
tions came with the desperate drive of the Ger
man army and stimulated activity for war in
America.
One feature of the new draft order is that
gamblers and idlers are to be taken first; also
that all classes are to be "purified" by the selec
tion of men whose deferred classification is open
to question. While the army is not in any sense
regarded as a reformatory, and some will feel
a shock to their pride in the service by the early
addition of laggards in society, the experience
may be helpful to the objectionables who are to
be drafted. At any rate the discipline will not
harm the gambler nor the sluggard, but will, for
the term of service, bring them into habits of
regular work and may return them to civil life
endued with an appetite for honest productive
labor.
The most notable effect of the order will be
found in its influence on the public mind. In
general the attitude of the people towards uni
versal service is changing and a more reason
able view prevails. Indeed, quite a little has
been said about extending the limit both up and
down, to include all between 19 and 45 years of
age. This may not be brought about, but the
expansion of the army is a recognized necessity,
and as such will be effectually met.
' Idleness Made "Sedition."
The new sedition law for Nebraska among
other definitions of the crime includes: "Being
physically able to work and not engaged in any
useful occupation, refuse Employment or remain
habitually idle when useful employment is ob
tainable." Several objections may be raised to
the literal interpretation of this language. It
interferes with the law defining and punishing
vagrancy, which undertakes to deal with tne
habitual idlers and undesirables. To extetid to
them the severe penalty that is attached to se
dition may not ha,ve been within the purpose of
the legislature, although that is what the act
amounts to. It is doubtful if the new law. will be
more effective in meeting the I. W. W. menace,
although that organization has never operated
extensively within the state. The provision may
possibly be invoked against the workmen in case
of industrial disturbance, "to refuse employment"
being capable of such construction as might ren
der strikers at any time liable to the penalty. So
far as it is applicable to chronic loafers, to per
sons whose presence is a detriment to any com
munity, and to professional disturbers of the
peace, little real objection will be laid against the
law, but as it is framed it is fraught with danger,
and its strict application may be found trouble
some, even in war time. Nebraska's law against
vagrancy, properly enforced, would well have
served any requirements for the protection of
industry.
A quarter of a billiow for the first day's sales
of the Liberty loan bonds is significant of the
enthusiasm of the people for the cause. The rate
kept up for the next 10 days will see the total
asked for reached. Let us hope the censor will
allow this piece of information to go through to
Berlin without change or comment.
Sending athletic stars to France to keep alive
the sporting spirit among the boys is a good
move not that they would be likely to forget
how to play, but they may need a little urging to
take full advantage of their opportunities. .
British Versus German Banking
Review of Rival Systems Under War Conditions
London Chronicle.
One of the results of the profound pro
cess of inquiry and reconstruction which
all our institutions are undergoing is that
the British banking system has been put upon
its trial, has come in for some strong criti
cism and has been contrasted, very much to
its disadvantage, with the German system.
Especially has complaint been made against
our banks that they do not lend money with
sufficient freedom to our home manufactur
ers, and that they are backward and negligent
in promoting British trade in foreign lands.
Many banks in consequence have been
stimulated in the last 18 months to open
branches or form connections abroad with
the express object of developing our foreign
trade. The end of the; war will certainly find
us with ampler financial facilities in France,
Italy and Spain than we had when it began.
The government, too, is backing the move
ment, and the British trade corporation is
proof enough of the eagerness of officialdom
to abandon its old do-nothing attitude
towards commerce.
We are setting ourselves, in short, to
learn from the enemy and to imitate his
methods. But this, the sincerest form of
flattery is by no means everywhere ap
proved. In the current number of "Sperl
ing's Journal," for instance, an obviously
well-equipped contributor, writing under the
name of "Acceptor," takes up a stout pair of
cudgels on behalf of the British banking sys
tem as it is, and throws cold water in olentv
on the idea of reforming it along German
ines.
We all know, our ears are well-nieh
deafened with the laudations that show
ered on the Germans banks and the some
what fearful admiration inspired by their
sie and driving power, their air of massive
efficiency, the closeness of their alliance with
industry, their successes in pushing German
trade abroad. And we are all familiar with
the facile counterpart picture of British banks
as aloof and lumbering institutions by com
parison with their bustling rivals of Berlin.
Acceptor shows us the reverse side of
the medal. He admits that the great German
banks are sui generis, and that we have noth
ing like them here. But so far from regard
ing that as a defect in our. mechanism of fi
nance he insists that it should be reckoned
a bull point in our favor. The German bank,
he points out, is a clearing bank, an accept
ing house, an issuing house, a discount com
pany and a promoting syndicate rolled into
one. But all these functions are performed
in London by separate concerns and institu
tions, each specializing in its own particular
sphere. To contrast the German banks with
the British joint stock banks which is the
invariable form the comparison takes is
therefore, to contrast the whole of Germany's
system witn only a traction of ours.
But Acceptor does not leave it at that.
He carries the war into his opponents' camp.
He shows, what one would have thought
hardly needed showing at this time of dav.
that we have in Great Britain every single
facility for furnishing credit that the Germans
possess. He shows that the unified banking
system which Germany has evolved, while a
weapon of great power in the hands of a
country with a long financial leeway to make
up and struggling for a place in the sun, is
unsuitable to a land like ours, the financial
center of the world, with an assured and
long-established position and with commit
ments in every corner of the globe.
Not only, he argues, is our system better
adapted to our more varied needs and our
greater responsibilities, but it is a more
scientific and more highly developed system
than the German. "We have, in fact, out
grown the German type of bank."
The average man will probably have
some difficulty in accepting this bold decla
ration. The impressiveness of the organiza
tion and activities of the German banks has
left its mark upon him. And small wonder.
The five leading groups in Germany control
a share capital and reserve larger than the
whole of the British joint stock banks, in
cluding the Bank of England. They have
strong alliances abroad. They work together,
and they have pretty well divided the whole
province of German industrialism between
them.
Who could help being impressed by the
parade of such power and efficiency? There
can be no question whatever that the Ger
man banks have played an extraordinarily
effective part in developing Germany's for
eign commerce. It was a toss-up in Turkey
a few years ago whether the Deutsche bank
in Constantinople or the German embassy
was the real depository of the schemes and
strength of the fatherland. The-bank got
hold of every expert it could lay hands on to
further railway, dock, drainage, mining and
such like enterprises. It worked hand-in
glove with the embassy, the consular service,
and the authorities at Berlin. It was prodi
gal of facilities to Turkish merchants. It
proved in the most triumphant fashion that
trade nowadays follows, not the flag, but
the bank.
The truth is that two totally different
conceptions underlie the German and the
British banking systems. The German
banker is as much a trader as he is a bank
er. He involves himself directly in the suc
cess or failure of the particular concerns
that he undertakes to finance. He becomes
a partner in the business; he is represented
on the board; he controls, and often directs,
its management. But the British banker is
a lender of credit, and his primary business
is to take care of the moneys deposited with
him. Where we( differentiate the functions
of the banker and the trader, the German
combines them; and that, perhaps, is the
fundamental distinction ' between the two
sytems.
Given Germany's situation as it was when
it became united the banking system it
devised was probably the most effective of
all possible levers for helping on German
industry. But it entailed enormous risks and
liabilities; it led to the erection of a huge
superstructure on a shaky foundation; it
meant trading on the narrowest of narrow
margins; and it implicated industry and fi
nance in national and international politics
to such an extent that those may not be far
wrong who believe that the war was partly
determined upon to save a top-heavy edifice
from crashing to the ground.
Guarding Wheat from Mice
Measures for Keeping Out the Australian Plague
Washington Letter in Boston Transcript.
Precautions are being taken by the gov
ernment to safeguard American wheat.
Every bushel of the grain brought into the
country from Australia is being examined
by representatives of the Department of
Agriculture to prevent any spread of the mice
plague being experienced thepe. Officials
question whether the plague constitutes a
menace other than in destruction of the crop
in Australia, and doubt that damaged wheat
is being shipped to the United States, but
are taking no chances at a time like this,
when wheat is a vital necessity and when
practically all of the civilized world is look
ing to this country for it. In addition to
inspecting grain here, the department has
sent Dr. J. W. T. Duvel, chief of the division
of grain standardization to Australia, to make
a personal investigation It is believed that
the wheat districts of Australia have suffered
from the worst plague of the last 20 years.
Most of the information at the disposal
of the government is unofficial. A large part
is in clippings from newspapers published
in Australia. These accounts tell much about
the ravages of the mice in Victoria during
May and June of last year. Mice plagues
usually follow a year of drouth. A drouth
kills off the mice" by the thousands. Warm
winters and wet summers, ideal conditions
for a mice plague, during 1916-17 resulted in
,tlie present situation. The mice reproduced
by the millions. Hawks, snakes and other
natural checks on mice became surfeited with
prey and no longer "did their bit." By the
last half of the summer of 1917 the fields
had become honeycombed with mouse holes,
so that it was hardly possible to set foot
without breaking through. The trails of the
mice in some instances were so beaten down
as to indicate that millions of the pests had
passed over the path. It is reported from
Queensland that where a heavy dust lay on
the roads the deep tracks of passing motor
car would be effaced by the tracks of mice
moving from farm to farm.
The mice, when they moved on a place,
ate everything in sight, stopping only at
metals. Furniture stuffing, seats of vehicles,
collars, cuffs and linens; bone buttons, gro
ceries, harness and almost everything else
were consumed. The loss in wheat alone is
estimated at 600,000 sterling. "The
cats and dogs have become disgusted and
nauseated at the sight of a mouse," says one
account received by the department. 'The
people are sleeping on tables to avoid the
mice. The women are kept in a constant
state of terror, and the men are kept busy
preventing the mice from crawling down
their coat collars." One man, it was said,
went to sleep with a top hat on his head to
protect himself against mice and the mice
ate out the sides of the hat during the nightl
One farmer left a "bag of wheat outside his
kbarn over night, and in the morning there
was nothing lett, while another hung a piece
of rope to a rafter in his stable; within two
hours the rope was a moving mass of mice.
In some sections the mice devoured the seed
wheat after it has been placed in the ground,
necessitating a resowing. The churches of
the infested sections conducted special meet
ings for prayer in search of relief from the
plague.
These conditions prevailed despite the
most desperate efforts on the part of the
inhabitants to check the wave of mice.
Within a week an Australian official caught
240,000 mice, and in two months 36,000,000
mice, or 600 tons, were trapped at 120 rail
way stations. It is estimated that 1,500 tons
of mice had been destroyed at the time the
information was compiled. ( A device called
a double fence trap, by which both the mice
inside and outside the wheat stacks may be
trapped, was put into operation. In one
night this trap accounted for 120,000 mice in
one section, while in another section seven
tons of mice were captured in two nights.
Fencing and ditching, terminating in a can
filled with kerosene was attempted as a means
of checking the invasion, but it was found
that the mice quickly filled the kerosene cans
and the .balance went on over the dead mice.
It was upon the wheat crop, the staple
product of Australia, that the mice worked
the most havoc. Definite. information as to
the extent of the loss is not available, but
accounts at hand set the monetary value of
the destroyed crop at 600,000 ster
ling, as previously stated. It is pointed out
fliat 1,000 mice in a meadow would consume
12 tons of green vegetation in a year. In ad
dition to the actual eating of the grain, thou
sands of bags of wheat were rendered useless
by the mice eating into the bags. Stacks of
60,000 bushels in South Australia were ruined
in this way. Strenuous efforts were made by
the Australian officials to remove the wheat
from the fields in devastated areas, and ar
rangements were made for the receipt and
stacking of 120,000 bags a day at Melbourne
and other terminals. Stacks of wheat at the
railway stations collapsed, due to undermin
ing by the mice. It is estimated that the
mice-infested stacks of wheat numbered
more than 4,000,000 bags, 2,000,000 of which
had been transported to the seaboard. Dr.
Duvet's reports are expected to contain much
additional information of interest.
r
' One Year Ago Today in the War.
Brazil severed diplomatic relation!
with Germans.
British in great offensive broke Ger
man lineg between Lens and Arras,
capturing famous Vlmy Ridge.
Fourteen Austrian ships interned
in American ports seized by order ot
Xnlted States government
The Day We Celebrate.
; Kev. Robert I Wheeler, pastor of
"the First Presbyterian church, South
(Side, born 1851.
Dr. Raymond A. Pearson, assistant
secretary ot Department of Agricul
ture, born at Evansville, Ind., 43 years
i ago. ' '-
? Park Trammell. United States ana
tor from Florida, born In Polk county,
Florida, 42 years ago.
Jack Hendricks, manager of St
Louis National league club, born at
joltet. 111., 41 years ago.
. James R. Vaughn, pitcher Chicago
Rational league team, born at Weath
, erford, Tex., 20 years ago.
This Day in History.
': 1811 The Chesapeake, American
commerce raider, returned to Boston,
having captured five British ships In
Jour months' cruise.
; 1 865 General Lee surrendered to
General Grant at Appomattox court
house, Virginia, ,
, 1I1S Germany agreed to compen
sate owners for sinking the American
hip William P. Frye. ,
Just SO Years Ago Today
J. I Brandels ft Sons advertised
(rood quality apron check gtnuham at
t cents a yard, all wool Henrietta
cloth at 2 S cents a yard, white dress
goods at 9 cents a yard and oriental
laces at 2 cents a yard.
At a meeting of the firemen's ball
committee, held at Chief Galllgan's
office. It was reported that the ex
penses of the late ball were $300 and
the receipts $1,700.
The South Omaha land syndicato
filed with the registrar of deeds a plat
of lota 200 to 3$0 situated immediately
south of the line of the city limits of
Omaha.
A movement is on foot to organize
a society In this city to be composed
of Russians, the purposes of which are
social and fraternal.
Sheriff Coburn was directed to pay
his deputies $75 a, month, providing
the fees ot the office permit it,
t
"Over There and Here
Speaking in German even in a whis
per in the precincts of the Democratic
olub of New York is strictly verbotcn.
Ach. Louie!
Thirty-three American telephone
girls equally versed in French and
English have arrived in Paris to work
the American army telephone lines.
Should the boys over there get their
number the lines are bound to be
busy.
Holland's screams against the tak
ing over of Its shipping by the allies
no doubt starts at the heart. But a
time for reprisal will come. Imagine
what will happen to American tour
ists who may hit the roads and canals
in that section in the coming days of
peace. Rotterdam and Amsterdam,
Edam and Valendam may undergo a
lively tourist underscoring of the last
syllable.
Of all the inanimate war horses of
history or statuary, the life-size bronze
trio until recently perched on the bal
cony of St. Mark's church, Venice,
easily hold the war-travel record.
Originally decorating the triumphal
arches of Nero and Trojan In Rome,
they were whisked by Constantino to
Constantinople, captured and brought
to Venice in 1204. Nearly six centu
ries later they looked good to Napo
leon when "the man on horseback"
combed Europe for artistic loot In
1815 they were restored to Ventce,
where they remained until the pres
ent war necessitated removal to Rome
for safety. Thus, after 19 centuries
of travel, the famous war horses are
back on their origin!. sUmjing
ground.
f Me und Gott"
Washington Post: The messages of
glorious victories sent back home by
Bill apd Butch are followed by the
trainloads of wounded and dying.
Minneapolis Journal: Special medals
were probably given to the German
gun crew that blew up a church full
of women and children where Good
Friday service were being held.
Wall Street Journal: Seems estab
lished that a Prussian 70-foot gun can
kill 70 women and children in a
church 70 miles away, but what's the
military value, and the discount for
the moral value of the recoil?
New York World: Demolishing a
Taris church by long range gunfire on
Oood Friday and killing 75 people at
Hcrvice is Germany's moat striking
example to date of its veneration for
the God of the kaiser's prayers.
Brooklyn Eagle: Seventy-five wor
shippers praying in a Catholic church
in France are killed by a German
bomb dropped from the clouds In
barbaric disregard of the conventions
of civilized warfare. The day is Good
Friday. No greater crime is recorded
in history. This crime wipes out
every soft word the kaiser and-his
ministers have addressed to the pope.
Beatrice Express: Four American
women being among the numbers of
helpless women and children killed
in the bombardment of. Paris Easter
Sunday by the Huns ,lt is now in order
for Kaiser Wilhelm to issue another
bullrtin thanking himsolf and his
"gott" for the wonderful victory at
tained by his valiant army, evar the
Americans
Twice Told Tales
Mike's Comeback.
When a young lawyer in a small
Ohio town first opened business he
took a room that had previously been
occupied by a cobbler, and naturally
he was more or less irritated over the
fact that more people came to have
their shoes half-soled than for legal
repairs.
"The cobbler' gone, 01 see," re
marked a son of the Emerald Isle,
entering the place one afternoon with
a dilapidated pair of shoes and glanc
ing at the unfamiliar appearance of
things. "Phat might you be selling?"
"I am selling blockheads," was the
peevish response of the annoyed law
yer. "Begorra. an' ye must be doin' a
moighty fine business," smilingly re
plied Mike. "Oi notice that ye have
but wan left." Baltimore American.
Rare Distinction.
Alden (showing heirlooms) Here's
a faded old document that was written
on board the Mayflower. It's a receipt
given 'by Thomas Dudley to my an
cestors for 2 which he had borrowed
before they started.
Atkins Ah! Then you ancestor
came across on the Mayflower in two
senses.
Alden Yes, he really had the dis
tinction of being the first settler.
Boston Transcript.
AU of a Kind.
"This was is dreadfully expensive,
isn't it?"
"Yes, but then, you know, every
thing else has gone up, too." New
Tork World. -
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Dogs for War Service.
Seward, Neb., April 1. To the Edi
tor of The Bee: Some time ago I seen
an article in your paper that our gov
ernment wanted 10,000 dogs for war
use and specified the kind which were
suitable. Wanting to do something
to help along in our war, besides buy
ing stamps and bonds, I bought two
male young "Airdales" and raised and
trained them. They are now over a
year old and are fine specimens of
"war dogs." Will you kindly advise
me through your paper what dispo
sition I shall now take to deliver them
to the government, where to ship
them? I understand in your article if
the dogs lived through the war they
will be returned to the owner. Give
us all the information you can. We
want to go at it in the right way and
deliver them to headquarters. The dog.s
are called "Hans and Fritz," the
Katzenjammer kids, and are the
Seward war dogs.
JOHN ZIMMERER.
Answer: Army headquarters in
Omaha advise that you write to the
Adjutant General of the Army, Wash
ington, D. C, for instructions as to
how to proceed to get your dogs into
service.
Cats, Dogs and War Gardens.
. Geneva. Neb., April 5. To the Edi
tor of The Bee: While so much is
being said and done towards food
conservation and other methods of
saving expense, why cannot some of
this energy be divided toward dispos
ing of useless curs and cats? Some
families where there is neither chick
nor child support two or more of each
specie. Neither one is conducive to
good gardens nor are they sanitary
as household pets. The cats kill the
birds who feed on grubs, while the
dogs overrun gardens, digging up and
killing plants. The tax on dogs should
be so high as to discourage their keep,
or there should be a law against them
all, while cats should be considered
a mark for anyone desiring a target.
Many a dog is fed enough every day
to suffice ror a poor little hungry child
and in these days of high prices the
latter are not few. A GARDENER.
MIRTHFUL REMARKS.
Aimed at Omaha
Fremont Tribune: Last week the
bank clearings of the cities of tha
country showed Omaha to have made
a long flight toward the top, with ant,
aggregate of $63,000,000 in round,
numbers. Omaha took rank above'
Cleveland, Detroit, Cincinnati and
New Orleans. Omaha is associating I
with fast company these days, whieli'
is the fate fixed for it by every natural;
advantage. That city's location is the
center of an empire of prodigious
wealth and the measure of Its corn
mercial activities reflects this impor
tant fact in a manner that ma,kes it
conspicuous. This western agricul
tural country is enjoying a measure of
unparalleled prosperity, and it i in
evitable that the big trade centers
should show it in their bank clear
ings. York Republican: Superintendent
Plttman made a flying visit down to
Omaha on last Wednesday, the 20th.
His time was so limited that he did
not have much time to investigate
conditions there, but so far as he
could see everything seemed lively.
Lots of building going on, streets
crowded with people, everybody talk
ing war. Red Cross, war sa -ings
stamps and the investigation of the
packers combine. With one or two
exceptions everyone seemed to be
sober, no arrests for drunkenness, a
vast change in the old regime. None
are to be seen with that peculiar
blossomed nose, the hue of the scarlet
rose, caused by the too familiar ac
quaintance, with old John Barleycorn.
All this change can be directly at
tributed to that "horrid" prohibition.
Everybody is thirsty in Omaha and It
is so dry that they even have to
sprinkle the streets!
BAD BUM f
"Friendship takes queer turns. Here I
get Into a fight. Two of my friends hold
me and the other fellow punches me in
the nose."
"Well?" V
"If they wanted to (show their friend
ship, why didn't they hold him?" Louis
ville Courier-Journal.
''What Is old Spondoolix so sore about?"
"He hired an expert to figure out his
Income tax, and the expert found that bis
Income was about $50,000 more than Spon
toolix thought It was." New York World.
"But Madge " queried a cluster of wide
eyed girls, "Weren't you dreadfully fright
ened when that soldier tried to put his
arms around you? What In the world
did you do?"
"Oh. that was easy. I Just yelled 'At
tention!' an4 he was perfectly helpless."
Oargoyle.
RURAL ETCHINGS.
Morning on the Farm.
shower the night before had laid the dust,
And dyed tha fields of corn a deeper
green;
A row of peonies, In bedding mussed,
Put on klmonas, colored, new and clean;
Around the farm house yard a zephyr blew
Tha whit cataipa blossoms' pleasing
scent;
The neighbor!' honey bees were singing to
Themselves aa to their daily work they
went;
The fowls were promenading In tha vales;
The pigeons flew and cooed upon the shed;
The pigs their noses crowded In the pails.
And grunted thankfully while being fed;
All rural life, from small to great, was gay,
Save kicking mule and scolding Jay.
A Frightened Jackrabbit.
A picture from a western pasturage:
It is a frightened hare, with ears a-flop.
High bouncing through the cactus and the
sage
As briskly as Its lengthy legs can hop.
Across the battlefield of Wounded Knee
It comes, near winded, from a chasing
hound,
And pleadingly Its big eyes look at me
As by it passes, sure! losing ground.
Can one be neutral at a time like this?
I twirl my lasso with a movement quick
And, with the feeling that I must not miss,
Ensnare the lavage canine 'round the
neck,
Which shows by snarling that Its thinks
It strange
A hare should have the freedom of the
range
Lincoln. WILLIS HUDSPETH.
1 know something
that i0dearyour skin
"When my complexion wai
red, rough and pimply, I was so
ashamed that I never had any
fun. I imagined that people
avoided me perhaps they did!
But the regular use of Resinol
Soap with a little Resinol Oint
ment just at first has given me
back my clear, healthy skin. I
wish you'd try it!"
Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets Get
at the Cause and Remove It
Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets, the subst
tute for calomel, act gently on the bowels
and positively do the work.
People afflicted with bad breath find
Suick relief through Dr. Edwards
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coated tablets are taken for bad breath
by all who know them.
Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets act gently
but firmly on the bowels and liver,'
cumulating them to natural action,
clearing the blood and gently purifyine
the entire system. They do oat which
dangerous calomel does without any
of the bad after effects.
All the benefits of nasty, slckenine.
-griping cathartics are derived from Dr.
Edwards' Olive Tablets without griping,
pain or any disagreeable effects.
Dr. P. M. Edwards discovered tne
formula after seventeen years of prac
tice among patients afflicted with
bowel and liver complaint, with, the
attendant bad breath.
. Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets are purely
a vegetable compound mixed with olive
oil; you will know them by their olive
color. Take one or two every night for
week and note the effect. 10c and 25c
per box. AU druggists.
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Owing to the tremendous
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"Bringing Up Father"
By
GEO. McMANUS
In Addition to Appearing Every Day
This humorous comic has been
obtained as a regular feature
in colors of the Sunday comic
section of
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