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THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 1918.
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THE BEE'S SERVICE FLAG
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Girls can strike as well as run elevators.
Save till it hurts, and there'll be so much self
satisfaction that it won't hurt.
Rain by night, sun by day, and old King Corn
' is humping himself in Nebraska.
Von Hertling says he has nothing to say. All
1 right, von Kuehlman said enough.
The Piave wilr now get into poetry along with
the Po, the Tiber and the Rubicon.
i One way to attract attention these days is to
,' declare yourself a pacifist. It may also land you
!tn jail.
The open council meeting may succeed the
improvement club as an open forum. It is well
worth trying.
;. Less than a month remains of the open season
)i lot primary election filings. Watch the folks in
i fected with the office-seeking virus get busy.
i ' The kaiser finally has admitted the presence of
in American army in France, for he has consented
,"- to negotiations for an exchange of prisoners.
. German Alliance money at one time paid for a
: bunch of boiler plate portraits of Senator Hitch
' ock furnished free to newspapers. Whose money
is now paying for the "Hitchcock-Knows-the-
Hun" boiler plate picture?
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i It is said the University of Nebraska is not
,i the only state educational institution that has
;f been harboring lukewarm and halting patriots.
I The Stale Council of Defense may yet have more
; work to do.
GERMANY'S LATEST BID FOR PEACE,
Foreign Minister von Kuehlman's speech to
the Reichstag is of interest chiefly for the fact
that he confesses Germany's inability to win vie
tory by the sword. His further postulate, that
Germany is likewise invincible, can not be ad
mitted. It rests on his attitude, presumably that
of the government, of studiously ignoring the
military situation. For example, his boast that
the Austrian army in Italy had "nailed down'' an
important part of the allied forces takes no note
of the depressing and disastrous defeat inflicted
on the invaders at the Piave. Nor does he cor
rectly interpret the checks experienced by the
kaiser's army in France, unless it was this that
moved him to assert that Germany can not be
defeated in the field.
it:, .or. -i .L.'fi .
jjis cinjii iu sin 1 1 icsjiunsiuuiiy ior tne war
onto Russia, England and France in turn is puer
ile, in view of the revelations made by Prince
Lichnowski, substantiated by Viscount Haldane
and Prince von Buclow, and more than supported
by the "Willy-Nicky" letters and other proofs of
German intrigue, duplicity and deceit, brought to
light since the collapse of Russia. Even Ger
mans scarcely are to be fooled any longer by this
sort of misrepresentation.
Most serious of all his statements is that Ger
many will exact pledges of sincerity from its foes
when the time for negotiations comes. Viewed
in the light of Germany's record of dishonesty
and double-dealing, treachery and betrayal in
every form of international relationship, these
expressions of von Kuehlman are pitiful. A na
tion without truth or honor, foresworn and dis
graced, Germany will find peace when ready to
accept terms prescribed by a victorious combina
tion of great nations, pledged not to rest in the
war until liberty founded on justice is made
secure throughout all the world.
Details, such as the disposition of Poland, the
rehabilitation of Belgium and France, the restora
tion of Russia, Serbia's revival, and other of the
many issues that have come out of the war, will
be settled after the main question is disposed of.
This is the crushing of Germany's military power
and it will be accomplished.
The Zimmerman note carried assurance to
President Carranza that Germany's U-boat cam
paign would put the allies out of business "within
a few months." The Zimmerman note was never
anything but a scrap of paper.
' In all this talk about soldiers voting it should
me remembered that our Nebraska law accords
votes in the primary election only to soldiers
; stationed at the time within continental United
States, The overseas voting privilege applies
solely to the November election. Candidates for
lomination will take due note of tne law's limita
tion. .. i
, "What It Means to Be an American."
). Replies, some of them splendidly direct, all
( well written and loftily inspired, are coming in as
i answers to The Bee's request for definitions from
. ts readers of "What it means to be an American."
- Here is a theme on which the ablest of our states
nen, the most gifted of our orators, poets, preach
ers and editors have spent loving care and im
pressive thought, but without exhausting the sub
ject, nor placing it where the humblest of Amer
ican citizens can not express himself with equal
force in explaining what it means to him. You
C do not need to be master of more than the ordi
nary man's vocabulary; a few simple Anglo-
Saxon words are enough to tell the central
.thoughts of Americanism; the Declaration of
' Independence is couched in plain language, and
. the glory of Lincoln's Gettysburg address is its
simplicity. And the most impressive tributes
extant paid to our flag and the institutions it
;. stands for are in the plainest language. What
The Bee wants is the thought of the people, set
! forth in words of the people, that good Americans
may know one another through their aspirations.
NaUing It Down for Kansas City.
Be sure Kansas City is not going to let any
thing weaken its grip on the Federal Reserve
bank for this district not if it can prevent.
Kansas City knows that it captured the reserve
bank away from Omaha by exerting a peculiar
pull which our representatives in Washington,
in, bad with administration, were powerless to
counteract. Kansas City realizes that all the
arguments and strategic advantages for the lo
cation of the bank are with Omaha, and that it
is an anomoly for Missouri to be the one state
in the union favored with two federal reserve
banks.
Recognizing these conditions and looking
ahead to the future, Kansas City is taking steps
to fortify its position by persuading the govern
ment to construct "a monumental building" in
that city in which to house the bank and give it
a permanent home. As a result of well directed
efforts, the Kansas City Federal bank directors
have already approved the selection of a site and
made a stipulation to acquire the property for
$500,000. The building, we are told, will be a
granite structure of impressive character, costing
in the neighborhood of $750,000, and the further
information is given that under any but the "im
perative circumstances" now existing (depart
ments scattered and shortage of vault space), it
is scarcely likely the erection of such a building
would be considered by the government until
after the war.
The real "imperative circumstances," which
Omaha must see, though Kansas City is not apt
to admit, is the outstanding fact that the Federal
Reserve bank for this district naturally belongs
here, and unless nailed down right away may
some day be relocated where it belongs.
Moving in Russia's Interest
Arrival of Alexander Kerensky iu England
will stimulate public concern in Russia. This is
well timed with other steps that apparently are
proceeding with full understanding between the
entente group, looking to the restoration of order
in the land of the bolsheviki. Von Kuehlman's
statement to the Reichstag that disorder had
attained an equilibrium among the contending
factions is too vague to support any conclusion
as to what Germany proposes. It is a reasona
ble assumption, however, that disorder has at
tained its maximum, and that further disintegra
tion of the moral and material elements of the
great empire will be a result of failure to resume
normal conditions. This resumption must be
assisted by stable forces from without, and thus
the duty of the allies is made plain. Russians
must be rescued from themselves, lifted out of
the slough into which they plunged through
their own excesses and their inertia turned
again into constructive energy. All appears to
be ready, save the assent of the United States to
the general plan. "Watchful waiting" prevails
in Washington, but it may be overcome through
a better understanding of what really is de
manded for the salvation of the people we want
to help by placing them where they can help
themselves.
Etchings of Life on Freedom's Front
Semi-Official Sidelights on Doings of the Boys "Over There"
"We of the A. E. F. whe wear the service
chevrou are wont to speculate from time to
time on 'how things are going back in the
states.' We have been away for six months
or more and our knowledge of conditions is
a little vague.
"We have had to depend on personal let
ters, cable dispatches which only 'hit the
high spots' ot the news, and newspapers and
magazines from four to eight weeks old.
The newspapers ate our widest source of in
formation, and fcr the last month or so they
have been depressing."
With these uords the Stars and Stripes,
official newspaper of the American expedi
tionary forces in France, opens an editorial
shell drive on the knockers and pessimists
at home. Reading further reveals good
reasons for the outburst:
Our air program has failed;" "Shipbuild
ing has fallen down." Our army hasn't any
arms." "Whole war effort of first year has
been wasted."
We have read this and wondered.
Whole war effort wasted. Ihen we
reflected that we were here, many hundred
thousands of us, and we figured that this had
been overlooked by the man who classed the
effort as wasted We recalled that there
seemed to be plenty of nine-pound guns to
tote around and decided that the man who
said we hadn't any arms had misfigured, too.
The all too evident exaggeration of those
two statements encouraged us to believe that
there was at least the same amount of ex
aggeration in the others. Then came word
of the tremendous success of the third Lib
erty loan, and there wasn't any doubt left
as to "how things are going back in the
States."
A soldier started out of his quarters one
evening.
Where are you going? asked his bunkie.
"Oh, down to the 'Y' hut to read the pa
pers trom the Mates down to get some
gloom."
ment, says so. "Excellent" is the medical
department's pronunciamento on this same
intant s general health.
More than that, the noneffective rate in
the A. E. F. and that means the number o
men in each 1.000 who are unable to per
form their duties because of sickness has,
since the second week in February, been
smaller than it has among American troops
in the tnited btates. W.trt the exception o
one week, the venereal rate has also been
smaller in the A. E. F. since January 1 than
among troops still at home.
One important fact about what diseases
we really have had is that we brought them
all from home. They are the old, familiar
complaints, some trivial, some serious, but
not one 01 them is a disease which we might
not have contracted just as easily anywhere
oetween tne Atlantic ana facmc.
The number of cases of controllable dis
eases is showing creditable reduction, not
oniy as compared to the rate in the United
States, but also from month to month in the
A. h. t. since January 1.
Every one of the eight pages of the
weekly overflows with newsy sketches of
life in camp and trench, of courage, dash,
initiative in skirmish and battle, the abound
ing confidence of the fightng men and full
appreciation of the humorous side of scrap
ping. One double-column thriller tells how
two colored troopers, holding down a night
post in No Man's Land, overcame an attack
of 24 Huns, routing the raiders and demon
strating the emcacy of filipino razors in
war surgery. Ihe Filipino razor is the
genteel name of the "bolo," which is es
teemed a mighty handy tool for short-arm
work.
Henry Johnson of Albany. N. Y.. and
Needham Roberts, son of a minister, were
the heroes of the fight, winners of the
rrench cross of war. Johnson, the bolo
wielder, recovering in the hospital, told the
reporter: "My lan, I reckon dey had to tote
dat Bush German home to his fambly all
wrapped up in a newspapei.
stars and atripes says the story of the
encounter has entered into the songs and
legends of the company and the part the
members like best to tell is the part about
the bolo knife. To their mind it is the
weapon of weapons, and had you passed
that way the other day, you might have seen
one of Johnson's company sitting with his
legs crooked around a bit of granite that had
once been a tombstone. On its surface he
was sharpening his bolo, and, save when he
stopped to test its edge with his tongue, he
crooned to himself a negro chant with so
much of Africa in it that you could have un
derstood only the oft-recurrent refrain:
Bush Germans, Bush Germans, wese
gwine-a git you yet!"
Bush Germans is the negro name for
the Huns. Nearly all Yanks prefer Bushes
to Boches as a term of reproach, but with
the negroes it is "Bush Germans." This
phrase you will hear in all their songs, of
which the weird jazz discords first bewildered
and then fascinated the French in that part
of the world.
Referring to the general health of the
troops, Stars and Stripes says:
lhe A. E. f . is more than an infant get
ting ready to celebrate the first anniversary
of its birth as an allied fighting machine
it is a mighty husky infant. Its own family
doctor and wet nurse, the medical depart-
Militarism and Murder
William II follows historical precedent
in picking up a term of opprobrium flung
forth by an enemy, and making it a badge
of honor. Is it Prussian militarism you
predatory nations of the entente reproach
us with? Well.
"I know that Prussian militarism, so much
abused by our enemies, which my forefath
ers and I, in a spirit of dutifulness, loyalty.
order and obedience have nurtured, has given
Germany's sword and the German nation
strength to triumph, and that victory will
bring a peace which will guarantee the Ger
man life."
This is something more than the usual
Hohenzollcrn braKKadocio. It is a frank
challenge to the entente on the fundamental
issues of the war. You of the entente are
out for democracy, are vou. with its indi-
dividualistic excesses, its lack of order, its sub
ordination, its wastefulness and clamor?
Well, we are for Prussian militarism, sub
limated into a philosophy of dutifulness. loy
alty, order and obedience, and our victorious
sword proves amply which is the better gov
ernmental and social system of the two. Not
a bad argument, if William II had not for
gotten to mention a few essentials of mili
tarism to which the victorious German
sword is somewhat indebted; the Belgium
scrap-of-paper spirit, the Lusitania spirit, the
Brest-Litovsk spirit, etc. Dutfulness. loy
alty, order and obedience are very good
things in themselves, but to reveal militar
ism in perfection they need to be supple
mented by a murderous leap on an innocent
neighbor, by the assasssination of women and
children, by the practice of easy repudiation
and perjury at council tables. New York
Post.
Democracy's broad charity is exemplified
in tins incident:
ins name was junus Kramer, late pri
vate ot the Mtth company, 61st German in
fantry. He was captured by the French
some time ago and was found to be in ill
health at the time of his capture. He was
removed to an American hospital near the
French prison camp, and there carefully
tennea until, on May u, he died.
There was no minister of his church, the
German Evangelical Lutheran, within many
miles of the hospital. Consequently the
American Protestant chaplain was assigned
to take charge of the funeral services. He
was about to make his ararngements in the
usual way when a novel thought struck him.
Going among the prisoners at the camp
rrom wnicn Julius had been transferred, he
found that one of them had a Bible printed
in German. Taking that man and five others,
he had them marched, under guard, to the
hospital chapel.
There he turned the service over to them,
and in a strang-e land, in the midst of his
country's enemies, Julius Kramer's funeral
rites were gone through by his own country
men, in his own tongue with the reading of
the Scriptures, the prayers in German and
the singing if "Ein Feste Berg" and other old
German hymns.
They carried the body of Julius Kramer,
late private in the kaiser's army, to his grave
in an American ambulance, the same as is
done for the American dead. His six com
rades trudged along beside as a guard of
honor and acted as his pallbearers, lowering
the coffin into the earth. At the graveside,
with bowed heads, they recited the Lord's
prayer in their own language; then they faced
about and, behind the ambulance, made their
way to the hospital and then to the camp.
Decay of German Morality
That all Germans do not lie all of the
time is evidenced by the speech of Herr
Braun, a socialist member of the House of
Deputies, who called attention to the decay
of public morality and the alarming increase
of juvenile criminality in Germany. Herr
Braun said:
"Everybody cheats, steals, grabs, from
jailbird to court chamberlain, who cheats the
needy homeworkers out of his scanty earn
ings and pockets millions. And the longer
the war lasts the worse it becomes."
This is not to be wondered at when we
consider the evil example set by those in au
thority, from the kaiser down, whom every
Teuton is commanded to reverence and obey.
To keep one's word might be construed as
an act of disrespect to a sovereign who does
not hesitate to break his when occasion de
mands. Why refrain from stealing when
the kaiser's own son is a master of that per
nicious craft?
In claiming partnership with the Deity
the all mightiest sought to shift the respon
sibility for theft, murder, outrage and other
crimes on to the divine shoulders, and the
result is not surprising, for Germany has al
ways claimed to be a God-fearing nation.
New York Herald.
People and Events
The June bride who forgets the hot stuff
and retains a suspicion of esteem for the
weather man proves herself as generous as
she is charming.
A Pittsburgh banker coins an epigram
suited to the times. "The war cannot be
won by an eight-hour day. The enemy is
working overtime." Yea, truly, just like an
interest charge.
Only three shades of American shoes are
coming out of the factories these days
brown, black and white. As a wartime
measure the colors satisfy all sane needs,
besides affording shoemakers more leisure to
improve their soles.
Prospects brighten for "real republican
congressmen" to represent the Minneapolis
district at Washington. "The elimination of
Mr. Lundeen at the primary," says the Jour
nal, "makes it possible to have the district
represented, as it should be, by a sound re
publican." Mr. Newton, an American of un
questioned loyalty, tied the primary can on
Lundeen.
The turning down of Charley Lindbergh
for the republican nomination for governor
of Minnesota by better than 2 to 1 carried
the final kick in the home town vote. Little
Falls knows Charley and his socialistic
capers. As an evidence of neighborly esteem
the town gave his 147 votes and rolled up
600 for his opponent. Another instance of
familiarity breeding contempt.
Trouble and worry about help mars the
joy of hotelkeepers in raking in big money
m New York. Waiters and c'her necessary
hands cultivate itching palms as diligently
as the bosses and persistently insist on a
larger share of the spoils. Labor shortage
plays into their hands, leaving the landlords
only one safe course, that of compromise.
Besides, they are making good a marked de
fiicit in "tips."
; One Year Ago Today la the War,
; New Greek cabinet, headed by
rVentzeloa, went into office.
i Belgian war commission received in
houee ot representatives.
Russian Congress of Workmen's
sand Soldiers' Delegate declared
'asalnst separate peaca.
:Tb Day We Celebrate.
';- Daniel T. Quigley, physician, born
;.1S7.
Rear Admiral Harry 8. Knapp, U.
S. N., born In Connecticut 62 years
ago.
General Fraficla V. Greene born at
Providence, R. I., (8 years ago.
' Bishop . Earl Cranston. Methodist
t Episcopal, born at Athena, O., 78
tyeare ago.
!' - J. C (Rube) Benton, pitcher New
York National league team, born at
t; Clinton. M. C IS vaara tn.
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vTbta Dai- In History. -t'
IH1 A peace convention at Dover,
i Del., resolved against the war, and
v for a peaceable recognition ot the con
! Jederacy.
Htl 3nertl John Morgan and his
. band of confederates started on their
: -dalnff raid across the Ohio.
J 1864 Generals Charles G. Barker
and Daniel McCook killed in the as
f au2t en the confederate positions at
: Xeneaaw mountain.
r 1I10 The sultan ceded the Zantl
t.bar coast to Germany.
; 1894 China remonstrated against
tie Japanese InvaaitfA el Cores,
J ust 80 Years Ago Today
Work on Met Bros.' new hall on
Thirteenth street has been tempor
arily suspended.
The office of the general freight
agent of the Fremont, Elkhorn &
1l
Missouri Valley roads has received a
handsome ornament a .very large
elk's head, and the boys in the office
are very much pleased with it.
Peter Christian Peterson and Mary
Hamburg were united in matrimony
by Justice Anderson.
Omaha is to have the largest vine
gar factory between Chicago and San
Francisco. It is to be organlied by
Hon. George Heimrod. The capacity
of the plant is to be 60 barrels a day.
It la announced that the new Page
soap works Is to begin the manufac
ture ot soap in a week,
Round About the State
Beatrice Express: The price of coal
iv-as advanced, we are told, because
freight rates were higher, and freight
rates were advanced because coal was
higher. Another advance is in sight
for freight rates, necessitating a still
further advance in the price of coal.
And there you are.
Crete Vldette follows the weekly
newspaper crowd into the 12 class.
Increased mail rates under the one
system outside the county of publica
tion and a 10 per cent boost in price
of raw paper makes the advance Im
perative. Even at that the Yidettc
is a regular bargain.
Chairman Hevelone of Beatrice has
remitted to Washington S37.500 as
(".age county's contribution to the
tecond Red Cross fund. The county's
ouota was $30,000. Gage works a
plan for war funds approximating
an assessment based on Individual
wealth. Whatever sum is required is
thus prorated and a postal notifica
tion brings in the checks.
F. A. Wolf, publisher of the Madi
son Star-Mail, heeds the call for serv
ice and has taken himself and his
'shooting stick'' to the mechantcul
school of Lincoln for a period of in
tensive training in war mechanics for
the drive to Berlin. The knell of
doom of kaisers Rnd princelings l as
rood as sounded. Meanwhile Ray
'vans of Newman Grove wtl manage
the Star-Mail and watch Wolf do up
the Uuua,
Peppery Points
Minneapolis Journal: Speaking of
canning, wouldn't It be a good idea
to can some of this weather for next
January using the cold pack method,
of course?
New York World: Emperor
Charles of Austria may be an indis
creet letter-writer, but when he wrote
to Ferdinand of Roumanla that "this
is a time when kings must stick to
gether" he showed at least that he
knew a storm signal when he saw
one.
Brooklyn Eagle: One name Is defi
nitely added to the world's history.
Private Joseph William Guyton is the
first American soldier to be killed on
German soil. Many others will die
before Berlin is reached, but his
place in the annals of humanity is
secure.
Louisville Courier-Journal: If a
shirt which cost $1 before the war
costs $2 does the man who had but
one shirt before the war wear a half
shirt, and if so will he be kind
enough to say where he gets it and
how he camouflages the unshirted
part of him?
New York Herald: The cart wheel
silver dollars are ( ring melted up at
the rate of 1,000,000 a week. In or
der to insure a supply of notes to re
place the silver certificates withdrawn
federal reserve bank notes of denomi
nations of $1 and $2 will soon be
available to the amount of K'00,000,
000. Thus the great store of silver
in treasury vaults will be gradually
transmuted into paper in circulation.
Twice Told Tales
Domestic Charms.
Recently Smith and Jones met in a
restaurant, and while daintily ma
nipulating the abbreviated bits, their
talk turned to a comparison of do
mestic expenses. First It was beef,
next it was butter, and fiinally milli
nery came up for a few sighful re
marks. "You should have seen the peach of
a hat my wife toted home a few days
ago," said Smith. "It was all plumes
and other embellishing things, and,
after telling me that it was standing
against my account at $50, she sweetly
asked me what I thought of it."
"I see," was the smiling response of
Jones. "Of course you told her."
"Oh, yes," answered Smith, with a
grim expression, "I simply raved over
that hat for an hour." Philadelphia
Telegraph.
Quite Qualified.
Little Joey Jesso was entertaining
his sister's nervous admirer, and,
after makirtg the usual juvenile re
marks on marbles and tops, he sud
denly announced:
"Kthel told ma yesterday you was
a born politician."
The young man was delighted and.
wishing to know more, asked:
"That so? Why does she think
that?"
That's lust what ma wanted to
know, and Ktlipl faid it's because
you can lo so much talking without
-ommittin' yourself." Lundon Answers.
Osteopathy and Medicine.
Pender. Neb., June 25. Vo the Ed
itor of The Bee: In answer to the
article in this morning's Bee. nurnort
ing to be an opinion of Attorney Gen
eral Reed regarding the use of drugs
or any sort Deing used by osteopathic
physicians and surgeons. In that
article Mr. Reed is quoted as stating
uiai wniie an osteopath was licensed
to practice surgery in this state, yet
eiiice me siaiuie provided that he
could not use nor dispense drugs, then
an osteopath in practicing surgery
must have a regular "M. D." present
supervising the use of the drugs
necessary in all operations. He does
not state specifically, but I presume
he means the antiseptics, wet dress
ings, etc., that are used by all surgeons
in surgical cases.
This would be a fine statement to
come from the attorney general of
the state of Nebraska! Is it not ap
parent on the' face of it to anyone
that when a person is licensed to do a
thing, that license carries with it per
mission to do what it purports to be
a license for? What is the object
and purpose of our state legislature
requiring osteopaths to study and
pass an examination in surgery and
licensing them to practice the am
if it contemplated the work to be
done under the supervision of an
M. D. ?
A regular physician and surseon is
not licensed to practice osteorjathv.
but it is common knowledge that the
medical courses have now borrowed
a great deal from the ostennnth.
though they generally refuse to ad
mit. Would Attorney General Resd
hold that a regular physician must
have an osteopath present and Rnner-
vlse his work, when he uses some of
tne osteopathic practices which he
has learned, but has not been licensed
to practice by the osteopathic exam
ining board?
In a recent medical publication hv
F. A. Davis & Co. called "Infant
Feeding and Allied Topics," we read
me roiiowing with reference to the
treatment of constipation: Spondy
lotherapy Albert Abrams of San
Francisco recommends that in
atonic constipation, the most common
variety, concussion or sinusoldlliza-
tlon of the spine of the first three
lumbar ertebrae to be practiced
daily, and in the spastic varletv the
same treatment to be applied to the
spine of the last dorsal vertebrae. If
tne exact nature of the constipation
cannot be determined, alternate con
cussion of these areas is practiced at
the same sitting. Concussion may be
practiced Dy placing a piece of linol
eum about a quarter-inch thick over
the spine. This is struck lightly, but
rapia diows, witti an ordinary tack
nammer. in lieu or this the middle
finger of the left hand may be placed
upon the spine and struck with the
closed list of right hand, which acts as
the flexor or concussor "
Every osteopath or osteopath's pa
tient who has been treated for con
stipation in the last 25 years knows
that this is the osteopathic treatment
for constipation, and has been used
for fully that length of time, and now
comes the medical profession clalm-
ng a new discovery for constipation
and calling it "spondylotherapy," and
Attorney General Reed has nothing
to say against this practice of osteo
pathy by "M. D.'s!" It is time for
the medical profession and the attor
ney general to wake up and learn
what osteopathy is and what course
of study they pursue, and what the
state of Nebraska has licensed them
to practice. A DAILY READER.
THE NEW PATRIOTISM.
A bayonet that'a dripping red I
uniocKea my vault and cheat.
And pierced the iron armor
Of my aelflsh miser breaat
(Oh, shame forsooth, a aword that'a wet
With thy heart's blood and mine
Should be required to cleave the clasp
upon my purse ana mine.)
I wore a veil of aelflsh pride.
you locked your friendship door:
But flaming aword, and death and grief,
Rent all forevermore.
Dread ahrapnel cleft the wall In two,
Twin your estate ana mine.
And made a path that'a leading
From mv hearthstone In thtnu-
Its fragmenta tore our hearta until
Our wounda became aa one;
And teara of sorrow often fall
For another woman'a aon.
Oh, lister with tha Jeweled hand,
And alster from the slum.
Our sons are brothers "over there,"
Where beats the martial drum:
The overall, the lowly birth,
The social cream or froth.
Forgotten are, and all akin
Who wear the khaki cloth.
Together wa must walk, my friends, .
In step and side by side:
Tba velvet palm, the calloused one.
In tender clasp shall hide.
United atrength will make us brave,
And love shall keep us true:
The wall of caste, dissolved in teara,
Must never rise anew.
Minneapolis. R. A. KtKSDAL.
"Over There and Here"
Girls masquerading in male attire
do not get very far beyond recruiting
officers. One Oklahoma miss of 15.
togged out in a brother's duds got aa
far as the examining doctor. Null
ed. The next step was a hurry call
for mother.
Food hoarding in Canada is no
longer a popular occupation. A pen-
. . . . . A . . a. 1 M
any or iiuu ior eacn onense, coupieu
with the certainty of enforcement, not
ouly checked the practice but per
suaded hoarders to return to dealers
the excess accumulated.
Two days after London recovers
from the novelty of its first Fourth
of July celebration, the 25th anniver
sary of the marriage of the king and
queen will be observed. A thanks
giving service in St. Paul's will start
the limited festivities, chiefly the pre
sentation of the sword of state and
the silver wedding gift of the citizens
of London.
Swiss correspondents picture Ber
liners in an orgy of speculation in
stocks boosted by great expectations
of an early finish of the war. All
classes are plunging and making for
tunes. Young and old are reported
flushed with money, such, as it Is.
Young boys, earning big money in
munition factories "ostentatiously use
one mark notes to light cigarettes."
SAID IN FUN.
MllUcent (watching tha parade go by)
puttees?
Tom Makes 'em march faster.
Millicent Makes them march faster?
Tom Yes; you see they're all wound upt
Cartoons Magazlna.
"Do you ever have any little differences
of opinion with your wife?"
"Never," aaid Mr. Dubwalte,
"Happy man."
"Don't misunderstand me. Mrs. Dubwalte
la the sort of woman who regards disagree
ment with her vlewa as monstrous." Birm
ingham Age-Herald.
"Half of those eggs you sold ma war
bad, and you aaid you'd make 'em good."'
"Did you bring the bad one Is.
madam?"
"Well, no."
"Well, do you expect me to give them
absent treatment?" Boston Transcript, ' f
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Many good bargains in nearly
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Bailey Piano, mahogany . . 165
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Haines Piano, ebony. ... 135
Schubert Piano, ebony... 125
Heinze Piano, French
Walnut 225
Homer Piano, Walnut... 225
Fischer Piano, Walnut. . . 275
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Hospe Grand Piano,
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Cable Nelson Piano,
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Boston Piano, . . 185
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