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THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 1918.
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Help Russia? Ye, but how?
A little of the spirit of give and take will avert
iny strike.
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But Schiller hai been a long imt dead; beildea
that, he'a disqualified for military aenrice.
' Folka still are left wondering aa to how much
of the kaiser's ilush-fund reached Nebraska.
Old King Corn is looming up in the billions
atfain. That is one monarch on whom we can
rely.
i Americans who bought German war bonds
took ft long chance, and bid fair to get about the
return they deserve.
, No meat, less potatoei and more beans la the
latest food order In Germany. Oh, yes, the kaiser
is 'winning the war I
An "American citizen" who thinks the kaiaer
is going to win ought to be put In a safe place
until the war1 is over.
- Familiarity with political wires seems to
stand some senators in good stead in their deal
ings with telegraph wires.
Bas ball players who are appealing from
the 'Vork or fight" order are not Increasing their
owd ef the game's popularity.
'' Present output tqual to one 10,000-ton ship a
day is soon to be doused says Mr. Schwab, and
Germany keeps on deceiving herself.
Our democratic county attorney keeps right
on losing cases in which the fee-grabbing dis
trict court clerk is Opposed to the people.
"Fee Grabber Bob" ought to show his grati
tude to. that democratic legislature in a hand
s some way. His extension on the graft deserves
tome sort of recognition.
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- "Hypocrisy and impudence, thy name la
Wilson" exclaims the Cologne Volkszeitung.
"Murder of Innocent women and children, thy
name is Kaiser Wilhelm."
TAKING OFF THE COVER.
The startling disclosure of the kaiser's invest
ment of $1,000,000 through von Bernstorff in a
New York newspaper for the purpose of poison
ing the springs of American opinion with insid
ious German propaganda is calculated to make
true Americans stop and ponder.
The facts appear to be fully established: The
money was raised by the sale of imperial war
bonds to German sympathizers in this country,
and the transaction was turned directly by the
German ambassador and his military attache
at the head of the German spy system in the
United States.
What the kaiser was to secure in return was
perhaps not specifically stipulated in the bargain,
but sqme things we know were included by obser
vation of what followed. It included, justification
of German atrocities, attacks upon England and
France and Italy, now ouf allies, stirring up the
Irish here to support the Sinn Fein rebellion, ad
vocacy of the kaiser's bill for an embargo on the
export of arms, introduced in congress by -Senator
Hitchcock, playing the game of pacificism
under cover, and helping along all the other wiles
of German strategy to make America submit to
German insult, and keep us impotent against
German attack.
What must be particularly disturbing to pa
triotic Americans is the recollection that the New
York Mail, with the kaiser's million dollars in its
pocket, was only one voice in the German cho
rus that was kept up to the very moment it
became too dangerous to continue the song, and
that all the time Bernstorff and his newspaper
mercenaries were spreading their "made it Ger
many" rirus, they sought to camouflage their
nefarious operations by charging that papers
preaching undivided Americanism were being
seduced by British gold or Wall street boodle."
Of course, all the subsidized organs of pro-Germanism
may not be "caught with the goods," but
most of them are pretty well' identified by the
public, despite their desperate efforts to blot
out the spots with self-applied whitewash.
Founding the tom-tom now will not make
people forget the . record made by the Omaha
Hyphenated last year and the year before that,
and so oft throughout its history.
Omaha's i. hyphenated World-Herald buries
the account of the sensational exposure of the
million dollar German subsidy to the New York
Mail in an obscure place on an inside page. Why?
The New Terk Mail got a hand-out of more
than a million dollars from the kaiser's strong box
for its ' pro-German activities. Some other
hyphenated papers in this Country served the
Jtalser just as zealously as did the Mail.
' Do 'Not Make Jt Too Strong.
Determination , bn part of the mayor and
other city commissioners to eliminate unnecessary
yool halls, soft drink parlors and other places in
whicbthe idle and the jlackers may congregate)
is commendable and will not be opposed by any
body. ' On the other hand, it will be dangerous to
wipe out all ' hese 'places. Men who are em
ployed daring the day, and who live in boarding
houses, hotels, or in lodgings, must hare some
place to spend the little time they have after
work is over. These are not to be considered
in. connection with the objectionables, in any
sense, but they mist be given some reasonable
opportunity for relaxation. Strongest of all argu
ments la support of the saloon rested on its
character as "the poor man's dub." A substitute
for it must be provided, that the man who has1 no
home of his own will have a place where he can
meet ills fellows for. reasonable social recreation
, and intercourse. "Work or fight" is good doc
trine, but efforts to put it Into force must not be
made onerous oa those who really work.
Sataa Rebuking Sin.
Senator Hitchcock's reply to Chairman Hay,
imputing to the republicans an intent to blockade
the prosecution of the war by the president, is a
most remarkable contribution to the literature of
the day. From his exalted position of chairman
(by right of seniority) of the senate committee
on foreign relations, the democratic senator who
has misrepresented Nebraska assumes as spokes
man for the administration to argue that the
president must have a partisan majority in con
gress or he can not carry out his war plans.
Since the very beginning of the Wilson ad
ministration in 1913, Hitchcock has been looked
upon as the leader of the democratic opposition
to the president in the senate. Prior to our entry
to the war he won- the warm and publicly ex
pressed approval of th kaiserites by his im
pudent and open efforts to aid the German cause.
Hie every move was an embarrassment to the
president, and he only pretended to support him
when It became necessary to do so in order to
secure re-election.
In 1915 Hitchcock and his hyphenated per
sonal organ opposed the president's plans for
preparation for the national defense; in 1917,
when it became certain that war was inevitable,
Hitchcock went personally to urge the president
to withhold his message to congress; in 1918, we
find HitcHcock fighting with all his energy and
dkill to take control of the war out of the hands
of the president, , backing every move to dis
credit Mr. Wilson and his cabinet, and calling his
interference "constructive criticism." N
As to democratc support of the president, his
chief and often his sole opposition in congress
has come from his own party. Republicans have
stood by him in all his important measures, when
the democrats were up in a-ms agajnst him.
Speaker Champ Clark came dovn to the floor in
the house to oppose the draft law. Claude
Kitchin led a filibuster against the declaration of
war, and voted against it. "Jimmy" Hay in 1915
blocked the Wilson plan to put the country in
position to defend itself, in spite of the
president's promise to Secretary Garrison, who
was thus forced from" the War department.
Yes, the president has had wonderful "sup
port" from the democrats in congress; and none
of them has been more enthusiastic than the
democratic senator from Nebraska, with his no
torious record of unremitting effort on behalf of
the kaiser.
If the Nonpartisan league is a political organ
ization, it comes within the corrupt practices act
that requires a public filing of its financial state
ment showing all receipts and expenditures by
l-whom and to whom paid. If this law is observed,
the membership roll of the league will soon be
accessible.
Fat of the Land For Yanks
Chicken, Rabbity Real Milk, Honey, Asparagus, Etcetera.
Governor Neville's disgust with the executive
office, which almost but not quite impelled him to
resign to enter the military service, is not going
to prevent him from seeking re-election. Like
the feminine sex, the governor reserves the right
to change his mind, or rather to let "Boss"
Mullen change it for him.
Encouraging word from the corn fields of Ne
braska means fuel for the fighters next year.
Stars and
When the Yanks jumped into the second
battle of the Marne they came from far and
near; came by train, came by camion, came
afoot, came they little caTed how so long as
they got there.
It was a great pell-mell rush of reinforce
ments to a point in the line where reinforce
ments were needed. In that rush one regi
ment of infantry piled into dusty motor
trucks and sped up hill and down dale at such
a rate that they left their mess and supply
personnel, their kitchens and their provisions
far behind so far behind that a whole un
forgetable week went by without their
catching tip somewhere northwest of Chateau-Thierry.
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And the boys, with only the vaguest no
tion of what that week held in store for them,
thought gloomily of their meager supply of
iron rations, wondered how long the hard
tack and corned willy would last and hazarded
the guess that the mess sergeants were asleep
under some distant, peaceful hedge, while
the cooks must be rioting in some roadside
buvette.
Hut far in the rear, toiling along under
the scorching sun behind their field kitchens
and the wagons of supplies, the lords of the
mess were coming as fast as they could.
They had supposed they would come by
train, but if that had ever been the plan, it
went agley.
Veteran sergeants, who had not been
hikers over here; cooks who had scorned the
open road, started out overland in the wake
of the regimental train. They walked 128
miles in five days and one of them got up
out of a sick bed to do it.
They walked aa the most hardened hikers
seldom are called upon to walk. They did
the first 28 hours of that march with only a
cold lunch to stay theirtomachs, with only
one hour's rest except the regular 10 min
utes' breathing spell allowed in every hour.
And when they reached the end of the 128th
mile it was not to rest, but to start in and
cook for dear life.
The one thought that was in their mindsj
as they put mile after mile behind them was
the thought that the poor lads must be hun
gry and thatno regiment can fight without
its cooks behind them.
But the poor lads, with whom the cooks
commiserated as they plodded along the
dusty highway, were living, -for the most
part, on the fat of a wonderful land.
It was one of the loveliest nd most fer
tile countrysides in all the world into which
the Germans made their southward thrust
the last week in May. Fine farms, rich
stocks of cattle and fowl, new yielding gar
dens had been abandoned in the flight of the
civilians from the fringe of the battle area.
It was fair as the garden of the Lord to the
eyes of the famished Yankee horde.
They foraged. Not this regiment alone,
but many another, foraged for several days.
Chicken, goose, fresh beef, fresh vegetables,
tender rabbit meat, pigs incredibly fat and
tempting, honey and cider and wine of such
were the menus for several days of many
and many a company.
There was no suggestion of pillage about
it. The farms and villages had been deserted.
In many places the very pigs were hungry and
all the stock was clamoring for attention.
In the pens of one manor house several hun
dred rabbits had been without food for days.
The oncoming doughboys killed a couple of
dozen for the evening's mess and let the oth
ers go free to forage for themselves or find
their way back to the woods of their fore
fathers. French officers and the accompanying in
terpreters bade the Yankees make free of
the food that was wanting there, and one
ancient Frenchman, add his wife, too old
ana stubborn to desert the little village where
they had lived all their days, called down to
Visions of Loot Vanish
In the pocket of an Austrian officer cap
tured by the Italians at the beginning of the
great-drive just brought to a close so dis
astrous to the drivers, there was found a
proclamation issued by Kaiser Karl on the
eve of the battle in order to incite his armies
to do their uttermost. And among documents
of its class this one was unique.
Invariably, hitherto, except, perhaps,
when a commander has been addressing a
band of acknowledged brigands, it has been
the custom to make a more or less thrilling
and more or less plausible appeal to heroes
glad to do, and if necessary to die, in the
service of a noble cause. Usually there have
been heavy drafts on the dictionary for so
norous adjectives, and th. reward promised
for victory won has been deathless fame and
a nation's gratitude. But Kaiser Karl wrote
about none of these things. He may or may
not have wanted to follow precedent, but
something, presumably an Austrian's khowl-,
edge of Austrians, wirned him that to be
effective he would have to use persuasion of
a different sort. At any rate, he did it, for,
to give his men courage and hope, in plain
and simple language he reminded them of all
the loot they had taken when they first in
vaded Italy, and told them that, if again they
wanted to nave good white bread and good
red wine and strong new shoes to go there
with, all they had to do was to take them
from the well-supplied Italians in the towns
beyond the Piave.
And nowl Instead of living high in
Italian towns and villages, the unhappy Aus
trians have been forced back such of them
at have escaped death or capture-into the
desolated region over which their former
raid was made. There is no white bread to be
found in it, no red wine and the strong shoes
have all been worn out. Still worse, the road
they have taken leads back into their own
land, where everybody it hungry except
those who are starving or have already been
starved to death.
This is a contingency for which the
kaiser's proclamation made no' provision. Of
that neglieence his soldiers justly can com
plain, knd probably they will. New York
limes.
Stripes.
the passing Americans to eat everything up
before the boches could get there.
It was wonderful chow. Infantrymen
who had been golderned city chaps back
home practiced the gentle art of milking,
and could be seen racing the reluctant she
all over a twilit meadow. One old sergeant
was suspected of being a peculiarly bad gas
case until it was found that the frightful
swelling and inflammation of his eyes and
cheeks had been caused by a much annoyed
family of bees when he tried to raid a French
hive, which differs from the American vari
ety and calls for a different strategy in sur
prise attack.
One resourceful corporal, bidding his
squad rest in peace while he went a-hunting,
brandished the bayonet he had kept, bright
for sticking amother kind of pig, disappeared
around the corner of a farm house and came
back with pork chops for dinner. One boy,
caught by a splinter from a random shell,
died with a smile on his face and a wing of
fried chicken in his fist.
Of course, the cooks did prodigies with
the rich rations thus acqured with great pots
and kettles borrowed from deserted kitchens.
The regiment that had lost its cooks created
no substitutes. Each man prepared his own
meal and some of the mess kits up in that
edge of the woods are stih black as ink, re
minders of roadside dinners cooked over
crackling twigs.
The wounded passing on toward the field
hospitals might beable to linger long enough
at the headquarters of a field ambulance
(where, in the bit of green beside the church,
the cook had set up his kitchen) to get a
cup of his finest coffee and eat such a dish
of asparagus and new green peas as would
cost you the remnants of a month's pay to
buy in Times Square.
All through the countryside behind the
battle line there is testimony a-plenty to the
moderation of the forage. There was neither
the time nor the spirit for anything else.
One onlooker marveled at the restraint of
a dusty, thirsty detachment to whom a stock
of wine was opened up. One man whose cor
poral swears he gets happy if he even smells
a bar rag created a mild sensation by refus
ing a second glass
When the rush of the reinforcement
abated somewhat and the first regiments in
line had finally established connections with
their conventional sources of supply, the
mess sergeant of one field hospital headed
for the quartermaster with a truck, swearing
it would be a relief to draw down rations
once more according to regulations. For
age is good for those who get it. but rations
are more dependable. He and the truck
were back by the cook's tent a little later
and the sergeant was roaring with laughter.
"Look what he gave mer he shouted to
the chief cook, and then from the interior
of the truck floated the sounds of a scuffle.
For the quartermaster had issued him sub
sistence stores in the form of a bouncing calf.
That calf was last seen, bouncing in the
meadow behind the chateau where this par
ticular field hospital was a possession. He
was being fattened against a'day of shortage.
.And the nan,e that they gave him was
Willy Uncorned Willy.
Our Dead in France
Americans have heard and read with a
great deal of satisfaction the story of how
the graves of the first three American sol
diers to be killed in battle with the enemy
have been marked and distinguished. And
yet we feel that the young men going after
them, as brave and valiant as they, or as men
may be. and who fall in the line of duty,
should find sepulcher which, when peace re
turns, win be a means ot identification. Our
powing casualty lists intensify this feeling.
What is very likely to come will serve to
make it more penetrating The thought of
unmarked graves in a foreign land is poig
nant enough even to overwhelm the pyro
technics of oratory and the blare of bands.
It will be reassuring to thousands to know
that there is no real occasion for such natural
fears. The care of the graves is in the hands
of the grave registration bureau of the army.
This bureau, under Major Pierce, is in
France, Army Post No. 717. It has com
plete charge of all the graves of men belong
ing to the American expeditionary forces. It
marks them and erects crosses on them.
Co-operating with this humane, necessary
and patriotic work, the Red Cross organiza
tion has enlisted the talent and service of
Mrs. Maynard Ladd, an American sculptress,
who has designed a medallion to be placed
on each grave, either by the United States
government or that of France, or by the Red
Cross organization, as occasion or propriety
may suggest.
To the Red Cross has been assigned the
duty of photographing all of the graves.
The home communication service of the Red
Cross is that branch of the organization hav
ing particular charge of the photographing
work, and to it all inquiries and communica
tions along this line should be addressed. We
may" have no Arlington cemetery abroad, or
such great bivouacs of our heroic dead as
those at Shiloh and Vicksburg, but our dead
in foreign lands will not be forgotten St.
Louis Globe-Democrat.
People and Events t
Advices from Lennox, Mass., picture An
drew Carnegie pulling up big catches of the
jiy of life as a fisherman In neighboring wa
ters. A sale of 8.000 tons of tobacco at Balti
more recently brought a price four times
higher than the 1914 figure. Pipe that, ye
smokers 1
No more free-for-afr sugar bowls on pub
lic tables in Kansas. Henceforth sweetness
will be measured out by servitors and con
servation upheld even to a grain. The food
administrator intimates that Kansans are
sweet enough anyhow and may increase their
reserve stock by moderation and sacrifice.
The operation will bear watching.
u fie Seeing
1 TODAY
One Year Ago Today In the War.
Russians announced the capture of
Halloa, key to Lemberg, the capital
of Gallcla. t
V Premier RIbot declared that
France's right to Alsace-Lorraine did
not admit of a plebiscite.
Tbo Day We Celebrate.
Mal-Oen. Harry C Bale, national
army, bora In Illinois, 87 years ago.
Rear Admiral W. H. H. Souther
land, U. a N., born In Brooklyn, N. T.,
. (6 year ago. ; i ?
Flnler P. Dunne, feuthor and humor
ist, born In Chicago, 61 years ago.
This Day In History. .
1777 British General Richard
Prescott surprised and captured near
Newport, R. L, by tne patriots.
' 1781 -Thomas McKean of Dela
ware was eteoted president ot the
continental congress. .
180J Robert M. Patton, confed
erate financial commissioner and gov
ernor, of Alabama, born in Virginia.
Died near ? Florence, Ala., February
X91885.' ' ,
1872--Nalional democratic conven
tlon nominated Horace xGreeley for
president
IS 15 A Wit battle between th Rus
sians and. vJermans developed north
of Warsaw. - ,- "'-v, -.
1916 British hydroplane from
French torpedo' boat bombed Beirut,
Just 30 Years Ago Today
Articles ef Incorporation for the
Lake etreet Presbyterian church have
been filed with the county clerk.
The Omaha Flambeau club will
give their first parade 'in this city,
with all their torches and display of
fire and fireworks, next Friday
evening.
One hundred and twenty repre
sentatives of the press of Iowa passed
through Omaha on the Union Pacific,
on their way to Yellowstone park.
"Prohibitionists are invited ta meet
at Tenth Street Methodist church,
where a First ward club will be organ
ized. Prominent prohibitionists have
been invited to speak.
About 300 people assembled at
Hanscom park to protest against the
occupation of South Twentieth street
and Poppleton avenue by the motor
line. Anions the speakers were I M.
Rheem. J. J. Points and J. P. Breen.
Over There and Here
The late Lord Rhondda, food con
troller of England, was David Alfred
Thomas before his elevation to the
peerage. He was the original "coal
baron" of the United Kingdom, having-
perfected a combine that served
as a working model for the anthra
cite barona ot Pennsylvania.
When Uncle Sam had his little scrap
with Spain over Cuba, the issue of
war bonds was a shade under $200,
000,000. Since April, 1917, your Uncle
Sam has spent 114,000,000,000, and
Is putting up about $50,000, 000, a day
to lick the kaiser. Financially speak
ing, the Cuban fracas looks like the
fabled SO cents. ,
Col. Arthur Lynch, M. P., who seeks
the assistance of Colonel Roosevelt In
a recruiting campaign in Ireland,
fought with the Boers for freedom,
was captured, tried for treason and
sentenced to death. The late King
Edward pardoned . the colonej, and
Ireland promptly' elected him to
Parliament as a home ruler. Once
more the colonel Is doing his bit for
world freedom and showing Ireland
where its duty lies.
In recognition ef the great service
rendered Britons in Germany by the
American embassy prior to the United
States entering the war, the British
government has made conditional
tenders of gifts of silver to 22 Amer
icans formerly atched to the em
bassy at Berlin. The condition la a
matter of national courtesy to con
gress, which must grant permission
or acceptance. Actiou to that end
is being taken,
Editorial Shrapnel
New York World: When Emperor
Charles knocks in person at the kai
ser's back door for a hand-out of food
for 4ils country the dual monarchy is
Indeed swallowing its long-vaunted
pride.
Baltimore American: The kaiser is
anxious to locate the grave where lies
the body of Prince Max. Naturally,
he Is not concerned about the crowfli
prince, who, he knows, lies every
where. Brooklyn Eagle: Here's to the Iron
Cross, which is pocketed as a souvenir
by captors of German prisoners. As
an object lesson in the vanities of
imperial decoration it may be useful
to civilization.
Baltimore American: Interned
Germans here are raising potatoes for
American soldiers. Healthful labor
in the open is a great Improvement
on the German plan of starving and
beating prisoners of war.
Brooklyn Eaglo. Some of the busi
ness people of Germany are waking
up to the news Jhar the friendship of
the world Is roftl. mk.re than all the
land, all the coal and all the Iron.
Also that assassl.-s n ust be hanped.
New York Herald: Commercial
failures tor the first half of this year
are reported as 21 per cent fewer
than in the corresponding months of
1917. Insolvencies in June were fewer
and liabilities smaller than for many
years. Here is evidence that radical
war-time readjustments have not
seriously affected the manufacturing
and trading community,
Twice Told Tales
The Comc-Back.
One day an Italian was showing an
American traveler Vesuvius in erup
tion and fully expected him to throw
all kinds of emotional thrills. The
American, f course, was greatly im
pressed, but he looked on with perfect
calm.
"It has been In eruption some time
iVow," said the native In a voice that
was almost reverential. "What do you
think of it?" !
"Oh, I don't know," was the star
tling rejoinder of the traveler. "It
isn't so much."
"It Isn't so much" responded the
astonished native. "Do you really
mean that?" '
"Why, yes," was the smillns reply
of the Americans. "We have a water
fall over in our country that could put
that fire out izi five minutes." Buf
falo Times.
Planning His Career.
Seven-year-old Robert has a great
desire to follow In his father's foot
steps. One night his mother over
heard him making this prayer:
"Please, God, make me a good boy,
then a good lawyer, and then Just
land me on the supreme, bench.
Amen." Boston Trt.nscript.
Subbing for Dad.
He So you are going to throw me
down, after all?
She Yes. Father said he would do
it if I didn't and he's so terribly literal,
you know. Boston Transcrlj
Better Than Prayer.
Grand Island, Neb., July 8. To the
Editor of The Bee: Within the last
five years much has been said and
written about prayer. Prayer will
not win the war; were it so the great
war would have ceased long ere
this. October 4, 1914, believers of the
whole' American nation bowed in
prayerj for immediate peace; since
then humble prayers In millions of
homes, thousands of churches and
many gatherings throughout the
world have gone up for deliverance
from the toils- and trials of the
mighty carnage of death. Upon the
bloody battlefields across the sea still
there is the flourish of glinting steel,
still the bursting of shrieking shells,
and the deadly tone of booming can
nons speak for more to come. The
mills of blood and iron still grind.
While many have prayed millions
have been slain and the war goes on
with ever increasing force. Prayer
will not avail; we must fight to win
tb,e war, we must work and do our
best
Though it has never been said, the
main object of prayer and kneeling in
all religions through all ages has beenj
to keep the converted always mindful
of their faith in and obligations to
the god they worshipped.
We are at war, our cause is
righteous, let us fill the atmosphere of
all America with the chimes, of free
dom. To remind us of the past to
picture the present to cause us to
think of the day's work we have done
and our obligations for the morrow,
let It be proclaimed that at the mo
ment of sunset throughout the United
States that every church bell, every
schoolbell and every fire bell in every
town, village and city give four Blow
tolls to remind us of Independence
day a moment's pause and then 13
free and easy tolls for the IS colonies
that first raised the Stars and Stripes.
W. BARTO,
Bell Endorses Wooster.
Omaha, July 8. To the Editor of
The Bee: "It's a cold day" when one
may not derive profit by reading a
public letter from the penof our
able and venerable friend, Colonel
Charles Wooster, "the sage of Silver
Creek." I recall no exception to the
rule that his articles have proven not
less entertaining than Instructive.
I was somewhat amazed, however,
to note that a late communication
bearing his signature had succeeded
In "running the blockade." I am toj
clined to attribute the appearance cl
that letter to eome derangement ol
our local censorial machinery. It I
barely possible, that our superlatively
energetic Mr. Metcalfe and his aasoj
elate members of the State Council ol
Defense are having their time eo com
pletely engrossd In efforts to etrangls
the Nonpartisan league, and in wag
ing vicious ; nd demoralizing warfare
against religious and educational in
stitutions throughout the state that
they forget to guard themselves
against such a fire in their rear as .
letters like Colonel Wooster's are calcu
lated to kindle.
"For my part, if the espionage and
sedition laws would permit I would
express my utter abhorrence of any
such un-American situation (as these
laws create), and declare that with
vey, very few exceptions, not a demo
crat in congrffss should be re-elected,
and I would also declare that no re
publican candidate should be required
to have any other platform than thaW
if elected, he would be a congressman
and not a mere rubber stamp la the
hand of the president."
Such is the conclusion of Colonej
Woosters' able and Interesting com
municatlon. CYRUS D. BELL.
SUNNY GEMS.
"I think I'll Jarry Oraca."
"Sha ought to maka ym aa aconomtoal
wife."
How aot"
"That la, K aha t tha aavinf Oraea t
hara ao oftan haard aboet" LontovHIa
Couriar-JonrnaU
"It is atraar bow aacartr M vtaSaf
will dlaooaa hla flights with aoa,"
"Why ta It atrangar
"Bacauia, naturally, It oavht to be K
aoar aubjact with him." Chicago Post
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July Piano Drife
Would surprise you if you could see the Pianos going
to the homes from the Hospe Store. You would have
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require music, songs and dances; and the beautiful
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hand-played rolls, a reproduction of the. artist's own
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The Kranich & Bach, our standby for over 80 years, at $500.00
and up; the Vose A Sons, $450:00 up; the Bush Lane, $400.00 up;
the Kimball,$285.00 up; the Cable-Nelson, $300.00 up; the Hospe at
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This is your opportunity to get them while in stock. Sown they
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Come now. Just see what we have to offer in Eefinished Pianos.
Hospe Grand, Circassion Walnut y $593
j (Is Worth $1,000)
Hospe Upright, Walnut $175
Schmoller & Mueller, Mahogany Upright Very Cheap
Merten, Walnut Upright $189
Kranich & Bach, Walnut Upright A Bargain
Shubert, Ebony Upright . $125
Fischer, Walnut Upright $275
Emerson, Ebony Upright $iss
Hiure, Walnut Upright $225
Meton, Mahogany Upright $183
Hinze, Oak Upright $210
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