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4 . ' fKE ELS: OMAHA, tfiiDAY, AL Glial 9, 1913.- - - - ' - ' - " it dnnt want narffiara to rum i wr J(7'-- -fc a JJbtiV w... ... The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY POUNDED BY EDWARD BOSK WATER .- VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR , THB BEB PUBLISHING COM PANT. PBOPBIKTOB. " MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tlx imucmn i'im a a.ee nniii mm, je " anMlea to the Mc (Of ouhlicetloe at eli ''I""''" to II ar mi otherwise oredited la this PP. ana ktoa U kjeel - iwbittaed aerate, ell rtfcl eeWtaaUoe ef tot spaotaJ sne-e ! iao i iiiti ' OFFICES New Tors-las WIS Aa. at ML uwls-riw B k ot Coauetsse. Wunluttoe-UU 0 St ,..,, vmtn -I'M Use Bulidlne miU Oman 1311 It Be counu aiaris 1 . state Uaeola Utile Ballalei. JUNE CIRCULATION Daily 69,021 Sunday 59,572 itmii eimiitio tar tM MIA. eoassrtbse at wan m t Oertsa W'S(iia 'IrculUloe Vuw. Subscribers leaving the elty ahauld bae The Baa walled to them. Address cbaneed aa eftes) aa roqneoted. THE BEE'S SERVICE FLAG I! I TXIIIlAAdr i - HI. Some rain; some relief; thanks. Our boys are some bridge builders, as well as eC.rvi.- i Algal LVt 9 . Pershing's men, haying crossed the Oork, are now well on their way to the An. Our boys over there are not fussy about dec orations; what they ask is a chance to get at the Hun. ' It begins to look" as if the big packers might as well imitate Davy Crockett's coon and come down. fThe German army machine' seems to have stripped its gear completely and only works in the reverse, i Lightning hit a church steeple in Boston, (which will very likely be accepted by the kaiser as an approval of his .cqurse. j Well,: the wheat yield looms 200,000,000 bush, els better than it was last year at this' time, which is good news for the hungry. . Starving Finlanderi now feel the full force of "brotherhood" as, expounded by the bolsheviki and "kultur" as practiced by the Hun. . ne Dlina Spot in nt woman am in vavj story is that the Huns probably would have shot her off the deck before coming alongside, , t The Omaha Hyphenated has its ready letter writer working overtime, but, we doubt if it il fooling half as many people as it did two years ago.- ' ' V"'"-' Iowa's "anti-cootie" clothing for soldiers is pronounced a failure, and the boys in Franca will have to go after them just as their granddaddies did down in Dixie ' ' It is with soma pleasure that we record the fact that th regular row over the clrcm passes did not disturb the city hall thU year one posi tive proof of reform. f The U-boat commander who stole the watch of the captain of a smalj fishing vessel wai sim ply living up to his lights, Back ef Germany's pretense in this war lies the lure of loot In seeking to make the eourt house safe for democrats, the gangsters did their job a little too wcli, as they will realise after the voters get a chance to express an opinion of the gerrymander deal. Reporters and the Great Adventure. An Jpwa exemption board hai thrust to the front a group of men who habituHy remain in the background. ; In declaring that the harmless but necessary reporter must work'or fight, this little assembly pf short-sighted enthusiasts h really done the guild a great service. They have made it possible t() call attention to some facts without departing front the modesty that charaq. tcrizes the men and women who daily chronicle all the b'g and Hitty doings of the; world and present them for their readers. Not. a newspaper staff in all th country but has contributed to the army, and very few of the boys waited for the dr?,ft.' The daily life pf tin reporter is one that appeals .to .a, quality not found in Other profes sions; he Js not only venturesome, but is con stantly seeking adventure. The war appealed to his imagination, to hit Sense of justice and right, and from the first he was eager to get into it. Lontr before the flag of his country was advanced to its rightful place among the A!li? the Amer ican newspaper man was seeking service at the front. . When war was declared reporters -by dozens and hundreds, from one end of the land to the other, abandoned notebook and typewriter and put on khaki. For this they ask nothing more than is eiven to others who did likewise. It , 6hould be understood that the average American newspaper office is a poor place for a slacker to seek refuge. FOCH LANDS ANOTHER BLOW. That the German army is to have little rest is made plain by' the launching of another strong offensive blow in the Montdidier region. It was here that the Hun gained hit greatest success in the great drive of March, and where he had made his highest bid for Paris. It was to protect this move that Ludendorff sent forward the huge Rheims or Aisne-Marne salient, which has just been wiped out by the Franco-American forces. Prince Rupprecht's efforts to move forward on the west had been checked long ago by Haig, and the big loop beaded toward Amiens was thus left ex posed to the blow which has been delivered. Good strategy indicate! the need of steadily in creasing pressure against the Germans, at least from Rheims to the cqast ,and this is being ap plied. It ia the best possible protection against a renewal of the thrust anticipated by tha Allies, who are now carrying the fight to the Hun, fcn'd on such terms as entirely does away with his chance to reform for s decisive counter-blow. German fortunes seem to have definitely hit the ebb flow. Battle Honors Won in France. A friend of The Bee expressed some indigna tion oer the fact that the French ministry, in awarding honors to General Foch, General Pe ts in and others, made no mention of the Amer icans. If that were to be taken as an indication of the French attitude, resentment on our part would be justified. The fact of the matter is, however, that the French have given every pos sible proof of the sincerity of their appreciation of the services of our boys over there. General Pershing has been signalled out for high honor, and others in command of American troops have been decorated for their services. AH the way down the line to the humblest private who has distinguished himself in battle the French have passed their insignia of recognition of gallantry. General Mangin's order of the day, just made public, pays so glowing a tribute to the dash and courage of Yankee boyi that it must do away with any thought that the French are not giving full recognition to Americans. National pride should not blind us to the fact that we are still outnumbered in the battle line by the armies of our allies, and that we are doing only part of the great work of whipping the kaiser. We should rejoice with France that General Foch has so magnificently won the baton of marshal of France, and not feel a twinge of pique that in awarding it the ministers of France paid for the moment attention only, to him and others of their own brave, gallant and brilliant soldiers. Hun Petulant in Defeat. Evidences of acceptance of defeat by Germany are many, but none more noticeable than a re newal of the "terror." Bombardment' of Paris by supercannon, suspended for many weeks, has been resumed. Zeppelins have again gone into flight over England's watering places, and in other ways the smallness of the German mind is exhibited. In the beginning of the war the policy of frightening people by deeds eff horror was resorted to as a method of enforcing subjec tion. When the great drive had been decisively checked the petulance of disappointed militarism took on the form of "raids" against noncombat ants, the wanton destruction of property of no military Importance or value. Persistent shell ing of the cathedral at Rheims was an example of this. Hurling hella seventy-five mile, into Paris, where only unnecessary damage may be wrought, 0' drppping bombs at seaside resorts across the channel, can serve no real end of mili tary operation. It is the spirit that moves the chastised child to vent hi wrath on inanimate objects, and just toMhis degree the German has shown the child-mind most when making greatest pretense at auperman qualification. It may soothe his immature pride to hurt some helpless creature or to do injury to a work of art, but it only serves to increase the determination of the Allies to destroy Prussian militarism root and branch forever, imj .' .' 'J-11 m J Our Ships Endorsed by Experts. When American shipbuilders began to send vessel into the water at a rate that overturned all precedent, spme expert expressed doubt as to the seaworthiness of ships so hastily con structed. Much, if not all, of this apprehension has been disposed of . by the verdict of a commit tee of British shipbuilders. They awaited the arrival of the first of these new com merce carriers which happened to be one of the 8,600-ton lot sent out from Seattle. Asking permission, they proceeded to inspect the boat thoroughly, or, as the captain expresses it, "went over her with a microscope." When it was all over the British builders gave the boat complete approval, a well as high praise, They pronounced her as seaworthy as any of the Clyde output taking many' times as long on the ways. Here is the final test, and another plume in Uncle Sam' fast-growing headdress. Our ships are pot only coming down the ways faster than those of any other nation, but are as good as the best when they hit the water., A Kitchen Questionnaire Purchasing Agent oj the Home Asks Some Pointed Questions Philadelphia Public Ledger. To come right down to brass tacks, there is one big, pressing and persistent question which every man and every woman espe cially every woman whose duty it is jto make frequent purchases of the necessities of life is constantly asking, , and that question is: . . "Why is it that our various war authori ties, who intervene dictatorially and rightiy so in almost every other activity of life, cannot protect the domestic purchaser from what seems systematic extortion?" We-regulate very nearly everything in this country now, save and except the most important thing of all the cost f our living expenses. It may be economically impossi ble to regulate that. The humble housewife who goes forth to buy the family dinner and finds that every mortal item on her list has gone up since last week is quite willing to be shown that the government can regulate what the coal man can charge for coal, what the munition maker can charge for shells, what the farmer can charge for wheat, what the railway can charge for transportation, who shall get steel, when we shall eaLbeef, what we shall eat in place of wheat, and a thousand other delicate points in our daily life, but cannot regulate what the grocer shall charge her for butter and eggs, or what the butcher shall ask for Iamb, or how much the fishmonger sail get for fish. She is not only willing she asks nothing so vehemently as that she shall be shown. She is 100 per cent loyal and then some. She will go without accustomed purchases most cheerfully if she is assured that it will help "win the war," She puts her pin money into thrift stamps. But sha does ask that she be taken out of the baby class and put into the adult class, and told all about it It vjould be ludicrous if it were not in so many cases not far from , tragic hpw the prices of the common necessities of life shoot skyward the moment that they are mentioned by the authorities in any way. The govern ment says: "Go slow on meat. The allies need it. Eat fish." And immediately we have nothing but flying fish, soaring so high that their oldest friends can no longer recog nize them. A certain amount of this would naturally be due to those ancient enemies of humanity, supply and demand; but it is. hard to find a housewife or a restaurant patron who believes that it is all due to this. It is too sudden, Alpine and unanimous. But that is not the worst, When the good word comes that we have met the de mand for meat and that we can now eat it again, does the price of fish fall? Not so you'd notice. Once a price ,gets up it seems utterly unable to climb down again. It goes up joyously like a skyrocket, but it makes it dangerously dbry to look down. We are going to have a fine opportunity now to judge the exact relation in these cases between supply and demand. Hoover has sent over the nappy word that we need no longer deny ourselves wheat. While we were saving wheat to feed Europe and we did it magnificently and effectively the price for what little we were permitted to buy aviated, and the portions of wheat products served in the hotels and restaurants ap proached the vanishing point. Bread became a luxury. Will bread now become cheap? Will the cost of wheat products go back to .the old figures? Will the portions served return to the good old wholesome sizes? The housewife will believe it when she sees it. Naturally, the housewife asks questions. The housewife is the purchasing agent of. the home. Men make money come, but women A Florida paper pretends -to regret the fact that we will all be called Yankees after the war, Anybody who wants to be called "Johnny" may have the privilege. make it go and they are compelled to make it go a very, very long way these days. ' The housewife wants to know: Why prices always go up and never come down. Why, when the government commands her to eat certain foods, it does not take any visible steps to prevent the venders of these foods from making them so dear that she simply cannot buy them. Why foods which are not put on the war index seem mysteriously to become as scarce and costly as those which are. Why the substitutes she is compelled to take in order to get a small allotment of what she really wants go up in price like an Amer ican aviator trying to get above a Hun raider when we are not shipping a pound of them to Europe and are presumably producing at least as much as ever Why the prices- of articles already manu factured and in stock go up, though the mer chant would have sold them gladly at the old price if they had not been "mentioned" in some way in a government order. Why the government cannot prevent this when they know they are about to issue an explosive order.. Why the government cannot prevent this things that the government buys, but not the things that the unknown housewife buys. Why the government can regulate the prices and the distribution of some things, but not of others apparently not the very things she, the noneconomic, the nonprofit eering, the unorganized housewife, wants to buy. Doing Germany's Dirty Work The examination of Dr. William Bayard Hale by the attorney general of this state in his investigation of the German propa gandists destroys one other American repu tation which was once good, and enlarges by one the group of Americana who were taking German money to do Germany's dirty work in this country. Rumely, Hale and Viereckl It is a distin guished trio and recalls Devery'e character, ization of a triumvirate which briefly ruled Tammanv hall, as "Soort. Two Spot and Joke." Rumely would do very well for the eno ot tnat nit, ana vierecu ror u wuu term, The latest evidence given out by the attorney general indicates a certain fitness on Hale's part for first position in the epi rram. He was at least takinu a sporting chance when, after having been sent to Mex ico by the president, he hired out to AIDert and Dernburg secretly to edit the German propaganda given out here and then had the final proofs sent to the publicity agent of the Hamburg-American line, because he wished his connection with the Germans kept secret. Perhaos the' most notable of Hale s serv ices in this secret capacity was the editing of the famous speech which Dernburg de livered in Cleveland after the sinking of the Lusitania, the speech which caused Djm burg'e departure from the country. That speech was written in New York by some one whose name has ,not yet been disclosed. It was edited by Hale, according to the evi dence given out by the attorney general, sent to the printer by him and then telegraphed to Cleveland for delivery. There were van. ous other jobs of propaganda work which Hale did. but the reason for his employ ment was not his eminent fitness as an editor but because he was considered a friend of President Wilson and was known in the Per. man council as "the' kitchen door to the White House." The next year Hale became the front door in Berlin ot Hearst a interna tinnal Newt service and exoressed the in' tentinn of atavinc there' nermanently. ' He is not, however, in Berlin, but in New York, appearing as a witness in legal proceedings th ova ft irnna nf utiirh il tint made OubllC. Berlin is a notoriously unhappy plate for Americans in these davs. but there are two of three Americans who we .imagine would be extremely glad to get tnere it oniy me going were good. Brooklyn fcagie. Far be it from us to say that these ques tions of the humble housewife would puzzle for a moment a skilled economist or an offi cial apologist. They will probably be mere child's play for either of these learned gen tlemen. All we suggest is that they should be answered; for of a certainty they are be ing asked constantly, caustically, conten tiously, cholericatly, in every market, every store, every restaurant, every household in the country. Moreover, it will be good tactics to an swer them before we start another Liberty loan campaign. For not a few peop)e are feeling that their incomes are first taxed and then mortgaged for Liberty loans, but that the residue on which they must live is not protected from the profiteer, petty as well as prodigious, who pilfers the lean housekeep ing purse of 10,000,000 hard-working families. War Work of Elderly Women The London Mail asks, "Are we fair to the women of SO?" and pays them this tribute: "Their hearts are golden, their loy alty priceless their willingness to persevere in any work they are put to, their punctual ity, their generosity." An inquiry among the wounded soldiers in British hospitals disclosed the fact that they preferred the older women to the younger nurses. - One soldier said wistfully, "I think silvery-haired nurses like to mother us. They do not tire like the younger ones, who look upon us as the patients. To the older women we are sons." To many of the younger women going into the work, it isjust a wonderful adven .ure, There are splen-.d women of middle age, in perfect physical condition, possessed of chraming personality, and that rare tact which enables them to see at a glance and understand the sick boy's needs, who have been refused in the service. And yet their very years have given them their 'experience and broad view of life, and taught them to be self-effacing and self-sacrificing. Surely there is work for the mother type in this time of stress. People and Events Fortunate is the man who has the time. the inclination and the tools to lose himself near a tisri hole, ' A man arrested at Bangor. Me., as a soy testified that he did not know there is a war in Europe. Once more the bliss of ignorance gets a vindication. No bottled goods over the bar" is the new rule for Chicago saloons bearing the seal ot Uncle bam. It means business and is not to be trifled with. However, the' growler is free to accelerate' the pursuit of happiness and headache. The fool and his money continue vindicating- the adage. Louis Manzione of Chicago's Italian sector staged a drive with a growler into the hundom, carrying' a roll of money in his belt Louis came back somewhat dis figured and minus belt, money and beer. , One Of the ballyhoos of St. Louis insists on the supereminence of the town by the bridge as a maker of near beer. The ab sence of the "kick" is not considered a draw back, since much of the near dry belt hops to any imitation carrying the color and foam. Every emergency, like necessity, pushes genius to the fore. One of the class springs a sure thing to stop auto thieving. Merely a detachable tank which the owner, on park ing his car, takes along as he would a suit case. Simplicity itself, provided enterprising thieves neglected to invest in portable tanks. Tom Lawson, the famous Boston sport and trust buster par excellence, has been called intg a debtors' court at home to ex plain why he does not pay a judgment for $177.31 and costs for stenographic services in connection with the congressional 'leak" investigation. Ye that have tears to shed for Torn, spill 'em now. Philadelphia has been annexed to the com muters' belt of New York. Any Quaker town resident using the $31.86 monthly rate must look like the photograph on the ticket. Under the spur of war conditions tin shows marked designs of becoming a precious metal. Last year it stuck around 3Q cents a pound.. Now it brings $1 a pound and still going. west I TODAY I One Year Ago Today In the War, Von Mackensen crossed the Busltsa rive on a wide front War department palled for 100,000 men to man 95.000 aircraft Enlistments in the regular army reached the authorized maximum f The Day We Celcbraw. Dr. Rodney Waldo BUm, physician find sin-anon, born 187. Marvin Hughltt born in Cayuga county, New YorK, 11 years ago. I,ouis B. Banna, former governor of Korth Dakota, bom at New Bright on Pa.. Ef years aao. Pr. Edward & Parson, dean of Col. fTA&a col lege, porn in Mrpoaiyn, w. Y. ! vears aeo. Charles Nagel, former secretary of eummerce and labor, born in toiO' rado county, Texas, ti years ago, v Yh!i Dav In History. 1TS7 Thomas Telford, the Hoottlsh engineer whose name is known by a method 61 road building he invented, torn in Dumfrleshira. . Died in Ion don September . 14. ' - im Perathe Christian suburb of Constantinople, was nearly destroyed I y ttra. v'--' -'-..' ' , mS-r-Tnornton A! Jenkins, Farra -uts fleet captain ia tha Mississippi, led la Washington, D. O. Bora in , Virsrfnta. December 11. 1811. IK 03 The coronation of Pop Pius x too place at et. Peter i bi Rone, JusiOY ears Ago Today Julius Pearse, chief of the Denver fire department, was In the city on hie way east M. p. Kinney ef the city engineer's staff, picked up a human jaw bone near Bellevue and now tt ia used to bold pens. J. Seymour Judd ef the division freight agent's office of the Union Pa cific, went east on a two weeks' vaoa. tion.;- : . .; , i. : , . The Swedish Boclal club ef South Omaha held their first annual picnic at 8arpy Mills. Twenty teams met the 10 o'clock dummy and conveyed Omaha visitors to the grounds. Dr. B. ?. Cook of Mendota, 111., a prominent physician in that state, pas MM Flatting vr, lUiPft - . Aimed at Omaha Plattsmouth Journal: The Orrteha Bee is still bussing as lively aa ever. York Times; omana is to nave a nubile bath house on Jefferson square. The hoboes are greatly alarmed and may keep clear or tne ,-uaie vuy. Kearney Hubi Tha presiaent is de sirous that Congressman Lobeck be returned from the Omaha district. The only thing that may hinder, will be possible lack of votes. Martlngton Herald) Omaha Is be coming more gay and wicked every day, and, as tne cumax or us invou ties,U is going to stag a state horse shoe contest some time in August Kearney Hubi Sugar' bootleggers are being run to earth at Omaha, who secrete tha preeloua saccharin on their persons ana use it at note is ana restaurants in addition to the table supply. Miscreants! , Valley Enterprise: According to the recent school census, Omaha has passed the 100,000 population mark. It ia rapidly developing into a great city of which Nebraskana should feel proud. Its stock and grain markets have been a marvel to the country the last few years, as well as its sub stantial growth. And last but not least Us recent campaign toward civic reform appeals to all Nebraskans and they are proud to acknowledge it as tneir metropolis. .,i: What Dreams are Made Of. "Do you thl.ik that the things one eats influences one s dreams? ' "Undoubtedly. I ate a porterhouse steak the ether evening and dreamed about bankruptcy all nighf-Boston Editorial Shrapnel Minneaoolls Journal: The Nevsky Prospekt Is that tha bolshevikl them selves will have nothing to eat soon. Minneapolis Journal: "Black Amer icans!" cried the foe. Then there was a rush and a line of vibrating German heels ever the horison, St Louis Globe-Democrat: When tha German people finally discover what has hanpened they will not be very enthusiastic about hochlng the kaiser. Washington post: Congressmen in the trenohes can learn a great deal about the art of wearing gas masks which will be useful in forthcoming debates. , New York Herald: Unconsciously the kaiser sometimes tejla the truth. In his latest ravings he speaks of the onslaught of the hosts of freedom as "overwhelming-" It ia- Louisville Courier-Journal: In the German army an officer who exposes himself needlessly to danger Is tried by court-martlak None of the kais er's sons has been haled before such a tribunal. ; Brooklyn Eagle: Baltimore eourta decide tha peanut vending is an es sential industry. They forget how useful the , vender;) might be at the front in tne capture of hungry booties without a drop or niooasnea. , . Baltimore American: A Swiss law yer pleaded for leniency for his client accused of robbery, on tha ground that he bad lived a Ion? time in Ger many. That ia the way the rest of the world will lopk at ii for a long time to eom Twice Told Tales Fly Fisher. George Ely Crosby, champion fly caster, said at an anglers' dinner- in' South Bend: "Gentlemen, J'll conclude my re marks without any mention of the war strategy of the allies, for I know no more about war strategy than my new housekeeper knows about fly fish, lng. "I was getting ready for a week's trout fishing' when my housekeeper bustled in with some sticky, speckled papers that she started to shove in iny srip. ' 'Whaf are yon doing with those ffy papers?" I shouted. ''I've been saving "em for you every day, Mr. Crosby,' the old dame said. You know you told me you always had to buy flies when you wept fish tog.'" i Doing His Duty. 1 Jimmy had been coaxing his mother all d: y for some pf the new jam that she had made, and in order to Mscourage him she tried to tell him that It did not turn out well, and that she -would have to give it to the lit tle dog, Toodles, next door. A few hours later ehe found him in a cor ner of the pantry, all smeared up with the Jam and tha jar half empty. n answer to his mother's questions u to what he was doing he said? "Toodles don't ltke jam, and I know that Hoover says you mustn't frow nything away, so I thought I would at it"i Chicago Tribune, The New York Herald published the following in its letter column on July 20: w Not John Devoy. New York City, July 10, 1918. To the Editor of the Herald: In the article fey Frank P. Stockbrldge in Monday's issue of the Herald the statement is made that Dr. Rumely met and became the friend' of John Devoy at the University of Notre Dame, and that "part of the money with which the Gaelic American was financed Devoy obtained as a loan from his prosperous , old university friend, Rumely." This statement is false in every word. I never met Dr. Rumely in my life; I was never at the University of Notre Dame; I am now 76 years ot age and waa 40 when Dr. Rumely was born, if Mr. Stoekbridga'a statement as to the year of his birth be correct; I never received any money from Dr. Rumely, either as a loan or in any other way, to finance the Gaelic American, or for any other purpose. The statement about me ia abso lutely untrue and I demand an im mediate retraction. JOHN DEVOY. New York City, July 10, 1918. To the Editor of the Herald: What a treacherous thing even a fairly well trained memory is! Of course, it was not John Devoy who was Dr. Rumer ly's classmate at Notre Dame. I owe Mr. Devoy an apology for inadver. tently using hie name instead of that of the young man who borrowed money from Dr. Rumely to finance his short-lived journalistic venture. FRANK PARKER STOCKBRIDGE. No. Time to Talk Peace, Rldgefleld Park, N. J., Aug. 2. To the Editor of The Bee: Can it be that the latest peace bleating of Lord Lansdowne is timed to reach this country coincident with the publica tion of our first big casualty list? Peace at this time would be the as sassination of every human ideal for which we stand. The German gov ernment and the German people, through their psychology and their training, are a menace to tha liberty of the world. Has their power been broken? Not yet, nor will it be until the day cornea when every man, woman and child In Germany knows that the German army has been de cisively beaten. So long as German arms can suffer defeat and still con vince the home public that they pre vail, Just so long will the German menace endure. The German publio must be taught once for all that there Is in the world a righteous force against which their brutalized stand ards can never prevail. Any peace short of that goal would be traitorous to those American, heroes who have gallantly fought and gallantly died. We are on the eve of knowing the extent of our first great sacrifice. We need all our strength, all our faith and all our resolution. The fetters that Germany has forged must be struck loose. Men must die to make men free. Christ Himself died to win sal vation for the world. This is not the time to talk of peace. This Is the time to resolve to spend our last drop of blood, if necessary, to free a stricken world. Up, America! Your flesh stands between justice and the damnable forces ot murder and rape. The man among us who cries for a German peace in thesa days is either a coward or a traitor, .There can be no peace until we have broken the spirit of a nation that deliberately set out to rule the world with the sword, and with blood, and with Iron. WILLIAM HEYLIGER. Democratic Promise and Performance. Lodge Pole, Neb., Aug. 6. To the Editor of Tha Bee: Can you find out and inform the rest of ua why our friends, the democrats, should be peeved over the work of the state convention doings at Hastings? That dodge on prohibition and suffrage is democratic and true to type. The pautmaster dodger who wrote that letter asking for a one-plank plat form had his democratic text book with him. He said ha did not want any outside questions to be put into the platform on account of the politi cians. There, that will do, for the facts are it was the politicians that wanted the dodge-straddle-mean-nothing platform, And it ia just as well this way, seeing a democratic platform means nothing, anyway, even those of great words that were not "so many sops to catch files with," but "were sincere pledges of a great party to the people, made to be kept." And they were broken at almost the sacred ratio of 16 to 1. There ia another side to it The chauffeurs of the Hastings steam roller knew where the bulk of their vote came from. As a proof look at the vote in the state house on the county option bill, the 8 o'clock closing bill and the suffrage bill, all of which they voted down, and was only saved by the republicans. So all you have to do to put them in a hole ia to read their record. HARVEY POPE. GRINS AND GROANS. "Ten yiars ago that follow told m ho could nevar lova anybody but me. I didn't accept bim, but itill ' "And ha has ilnca married 1" "1 wouldn't wonder at that. But ha'i been married four times." Loulsvllla Courr ier-Journal. "Tha praotlca of medicine haa chanced a good deal In the last decade." ''Tea, a doctor can aucceed nowadays without wearing whiskers." Kansas City Journal, The Pest What's tha rreatest depth you can reach? The piver A little over five miles. Tha Pest Impossible 1 Why you'd never coma up again. Tha piver 1 never said I would, Chi cago Post He Yea, you know lt'a oostlnn ma $109 a year just to live because ef tha war prices. She I shouldn't pay It; It Isn't worth It -CaU's Journal. Friend (leaving the office with the toss) I say, old man, you didn't lock your safe. Boss No, I never do. It cost $300, and Yeast l8a you'va sees back to your old home town, cava you?" Crlmaonbeak ''I oortalnly hava." "And did anybody recognise youT I ahould say so. Everybody I owed money to recognised ma Instantly." "Only those recognised you?" w. ihout Run I owed everybody la town when I left." Yonkers Statesman. OUR HEROES. In daya of old were heroes Who ventured forth to slay Tha dragons fterca that menaced t Their country In that day. They freed tha land from terror, Destroyed tha dragon bold. Add now' la aong and story Their names are traced In gold. In modern daya ara heroes Who go forth In their might, God-given, to quell tha tyrant, And put hla hordes to flight A million strong thesa heroes I From home and comfort fly. Unto a land of peril Wbera many bleed and die. i And en that r.eld of battle, Fighting with noble aim. Our heroes to an Imperiled world An age-old truth proclaim. That Ufa la mora than meat and drink, And raiment, fine, and ease; ' They prove tha Immortal soul of man Can rise above all these. And when tha battle Is ended, And the power of tha tyrant crashed. When the smoke or guns has cleared away ' And the din of the conflict bushed, ' Above tha range of mortal eye Will banner huge unfold. Covered with namea of our hero-boys Illumined on high in gold. Omaha. BAYOLL NB TRELB. Hotel Dyckman Minneapolis ' FIREPROOF Opened 1910 Location Most Central 300 Rooms with 300 Private Baths Rates 11.75 la $3.50 Par Day H. 3. TREMAIN, Pre, and Manager When In need of a purga tive, do not resort' to vio lent cathartics, hut take the gentle, natural laxative- Bcecbams Pills Lsft Bala of Aay MS lelitserfiksn. laJea. lOclSe. Hospe's Special August Player Sale 18 Our stoch of Player Pianos for August is larger than we calcu lated it would be. Therefore we make a special drive op the selling terms to re duce the number. This applies to the nationally advertised and most celebrated Gulbransen Player Piano. The player that is guaranteed for ten. years, The player that requires no in structions to operate. The reliable, easy pumping, always ready player. $425 No discount for cash; one. price to all. No other player has its sta ble price so thoroughly impressed upon the public as the" "Gulbran en Player Piano," and with this is its absolute reliability, its wonderful tone and beautiful touch for hand playing. You make no mistake to own one on the Easy August Terms. 1513-15 Famam St. IYKO Is sold In original peek, ages only, like picture akeva Pelute all SMbttlttitet. Heat Prostrations occur most frequently with those in a run down, weakened condi tion ; who are nervously and physically exhaust ed. 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