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The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING - SUNDAY FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR THB BEB PUBLISHING COMPANT. PROPRIETOR. . MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Vk aaMeiattl mm. of Wch Tbs tt U MKbsr. to J aaiiUsd M IM m tor publtcittw of all' " dispatches endit4 to or a etbenrles credited la this tvt. and H tin avMlriiei asrata . All rttots ot pubUoulo of wvt specltl djtpatca an alia Nwwl . ' - , OFFICES i Oaeka-Tk B Bnlldlna, . af,-!!it lMa' Ceowtt Blaffe-14 N. IU1 St. Lwl-Ni B yf Coauaere. Uaeota LttU Buildin. WMblntmn 1311 O BC i JULY CIRCULATION Daily 68,265 Sunday 59,312 imn elrealatim to tte wt. suiaorloid and mora to hr DwtgM WUltame, OrralaUoa Manager. Sukerriber kartaf th city ehouU by Th. Bm SMiled to Address chanted aa lt a rsquoeUd. THE BEE'S SERVICE FLAG Ian mmm miiiinmiHmiii Decorations passed out by Vierick are t a discount right now. '.. .. "Pot none bot loyal Americana on guard in mciaj places" Is good advice to follow., Hair-trigger repetition of unfounded gossip cm get tvea high and mighty city commissioner into trouble. " ' iV' - " ' : : - J ; One of the real advantages f life in Omaha is that no restriction is put, on the ose of water in the summer. The French were quick to not, the fighting ability f the Yankee boys, but the Germans found it out. soonest. 1 1 . Secretary Daniels might mount a few guns on Gloucester fishing boats, and the next submarine raid would ahow a different outcome. Harry Pearce is another efficient public offi cer who has made good as register of deeds on his first term and is entitled to re-election. Now is good time for the city commissioners to plan for increasing the number of swimming ' holes and enlarging those that already exist Why should the so-called "committee of 500" made up of democrats as well as republicans, try to dictate only republican primary candidates? A new "eastern front is forming In Russia, which may have some effect on the final outcome . of the war. On that side "every little bit helps." Evidence continues to multiply In support of .statement that the tax-gathering machinery of Nebraska is far from perfect in its operation. No one is contesting against County Judge Bryce Crawford, which means 'that everyone is satisfied to keep the right man in the right place. Remember that-what the court house most needs is a thorough cleaning out of the ruling Ting of the county board similar to that which rid us of the old city hall gang last spring. Mrs. McAdoo, having been adopted by the Shoshone tribe, is now almost on a parity wi her step-mother, who is a descendant of Powhat tan. Her husband, too, is a "good Indian." ; Erave little Anna Held lived long enough to see the tide of battle turn and the future of her loved France made safe by the sons of America. Her faith was strong and her reward was great. Are Nebraska voters ready to put the stamp of approval upon the record of the United States senator who declared our entrance into the war put the stamfi of the dollar mark upon the Amer ican flag? ," i ... The Tale of Sacajawea. - Adoption of Mrs. McAdoo by the Shoshone Indians as member of their tribe, under the name o Sacajawea, will revive the romance of that Indian woman, and may turn inquiries again to one of the really entrancing stories of the west. The Lewis, and Clark expedition has, never lost its fascination for lovers of American history, and the part that Sacajawea played in it will not lose anything by reason of critical. examination. , Smitten by the attractions of one of the mem bers of the party, his Indian maiden joined her fortune with theirs and shared with the men all a at.' ' . ' me narasmps ana gangers ot tne long journey from the highlands of Dakota across the Rockies to the Pacific coast She not only took her part of the toilsome journey well, but was able to serve the leaders in serious times through her knowledge of Indian ways. As guide and inter preter she helped them over many a tight place and won a deserve! note of praise from Merri wether Lewis. While all this was in progress she bore the burden! of motherhood and showed her self a woman by caring for and rearing her child. Sacajawea should be better known by the women t "of today. . A REAL LOYALTY TEST The, Lincoln Journal calls attention to an ap parent oversight by the platform conventions of both parties in failing to endorse the constitu tional amendment submitted by the special ses sion of the legislature to require full American citizenship for .voting in the state. Had the re spective parties taken formal action all straight party ballots would have been counted as marked "yes," while under present conditions it will be necessary for each voter jto record himself for or against the amendment by separate crossmark. The party endorsement might perhaps have made ratification more certain, but we believe it is almost as well to have it as it is, because this amendment will give us the best line on the num ber of kaiser-coddlers and - enemy-sympathizers remaining in Nebraska. Each patriotic voter who realizes the danger of permitting subjects of the German emperor or other enemy monarch to, continue to exercise the suffrage and who op poses rejecting the hyphen into the conduct of American affairs will vote "yes" on the amend ment Everyone who cherishes a divided allegi ance, openly Or by mental reservation, to the flag of some other country will vote "no" on an amendment that disfranchises alien subjects. , We believe the loyal patriotic Americans are in the vast majority in Nebraska is compared with the disloyal treason-hearted bolshevki ele ment and that this test will prove it THE BEE: OMAHA, ' WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1918. A Woman Rancher in Wyoming Sheep, Cattle and Horses Plentiful on Paisley Range N: White Btgle in New York Post China Wary of Vatican Approach. The Chinese government has declined to re ceive the legate named by the Vatican as being persona non grata. Back of this may' be dis cerned some deeper influence. France has made formal protest against the establishment of a papal embassy at Peking, and the matter may rest for a time. Its far-reaching possibilities may be partly comprehended by a glance at Chinese experience. For twelve centuries missionaries of the Christian faith have been active in China, and for 250 years the Christians there have been the peculiar care of France. In the last quarter of the nineteenth century the Chinese were given a most impressive exemplification of .how the mis sionaries might be made the agents of imperial ism. In 1891 negotiations begun by the German Catholic bishop of Shantung resulted in the Ger man Catholics being placed under the protector ate of Berlin This immediately brought about German interference with . Chinese politics, and the murder of two missionaries culminated in the occupancy by the kaiser of Kiaochao. With China how an active participant' in the war against Germany, the protest of France against the presence of a papal nuncio at Peking is likely to react on the Chinese mind rather unfavorably to Rome. It is barely possible that further steps in the matter will be set over' until the war. is ended. ' , ;' Eighteen to Forty-five. Secretary Baker and Senator Kirby of Arkan sas find a common ground in their approach to the problem of extending the draft law to include all men from 18 to 45. It is the sentimental objection. The senator pleads with tearful elo quence that the boy be not deprived of the op portunity to establish himself in life before he is snatched, up and set in the forefront of the fight The secretary of war admits the force of this pleading and announces his determination to have the 18-year-olds put into a special reserved class. What piffle I No boy of 18 or of 21 is estab lished in life; few of 25 have determined finally their life work, and most of them find themselves at 30 either definitely fixed as wage earners or still speculating as to what vocation or profession will claim their efforts. If a young man ever has three or four years he can afford to give to his country's service they will be found between 18 and 22. He then has practically no responsibili ties, his presence in the social, political or indus trial life of the country is that of a beginner, and tie will lose little of his opportunity , by postpon ing hit debut for a few months. American experience might serve as a guide in coming to a conclusion on this point At present, according to the estimates of the War department' there are in the army, navy and marine corps 244,326 men under the age of 21. Of these 133,000 are in the army, 97,500 in the navy .and 13,826 in the marine corps. In the civil war, out of a total enlistment of 2,788,314 only 628,516 were 22 years or older at the time of enlistment, and 1,151,438 were 18 years or younger. This answers the question as to "where Grant got his army," and ought fairly to silence the blubbering of Senator Kirby over not giving the hoys a chance at life. The State Board of Equalization thinks that new town lots may account for the discrepancies in the roll complained of by Douglas county, but the board asks too much when it .would have us think that 346,000 acres of Nebraska farm lands were turned into town lots during a year when such high premium was paid for farming. ' Only six divisions of the army raised last year now remain in this country, and they will soon be over there. The new army, it coming along as fast as the machinery can move, however, and the stream to France will be so steady that the kaiser will never notice a break. Fifty miles south of Gillette, oa Porcu pine creek, Campbell county, Wyoming, is the Paisley ranch 1,160 acres of good graz ing lands. The ranch has been cut to about one-half of its former acreage on account of the coming of the homesteaders. The out buildings and sheds and the large, fine ranch house, painted white, and young cottonwoods growing in front send a thrill of home com fort into the breast of one who has ridden across the plains all day, where little is seen save, the small shacks of the homesteaders or lonely-looking wagons of the sheep herd ers. At present there are some 4,000 sheep on the ranch, 500 head of cattle and 50 head of horses. 1 For several years before her marriage Mrs. Edith Paisley conducted the ranch and had in her employ at different seasons from four to ten men. As all western, people know, the most strenuous time on a sheep ranch is at lambing, in the spring, and shearing, one following right upon the other. Mrs. Pais ley went through four years of this. That she made a success of it is proven by the fact that her wool clip and lamb crop one season sold for $32,200. But she had her losses, too; notably the seasons of 1909-10, when her losses were 45 per cent She can talk sheep and their care with the best of the sheepmen, and she maintains that in all her 11 years' experience no better breed of sheep has been found for northern Wyo ming than the mixed breed of Cotswood and Rambault ' Having grown np in Colorado and Wyo ming, she is naturally fond of a famous prod act of those states horses and hn been a more or less daring rider all her life. Here is part of her record as a horse woman: Won second pize at Douglas State fair, 1909; first prize for horsemanship, Weston county fair, Newcastle, Wyo., 1910, riding in the ladies' relay and novelty races; in 1911 she broke her former records by winning the world's championship and first prize at the famous Douglas State air, Douglas, Wyo. It takes nerve, quickness, coolness and real riding ability to stay in a relay race where western horses are used; yet, in spite of the many contests in which she has com peted, she has never had an accident or suf fered injury. . v In the trying times . of lambing, when every one on a sheep ranch except the cook has to be out more or less in some of the most disagreeable weather a human could be called on to endure, Mrs. Paisley, in her "slicker," heavy clothing, rubbers, mitts and fur cap, has bolstered up the faltering cour age of men as she patiently helped to move a bunch of slow ewes and their slower, silly, new-horn lambs to the shelter of some hill side, while the driven snow, cold winds and sleet beat into her face. She is a robust woman, as one would guess. . Her face is round and pleasant, with sun-tanned cheeks, fair hair, brown eyes and perfect white, even teeth. . . It should not be supposed that sheep ranching is all a picnic simply because one of the accredited weaker sex has made a success of it. Let me relate two instances to show the risks one takes in the business in northern Wyoming. At the time I was mail carrier from Gillette to Wright postoffice, where many ranchers, including Mrs. Paisley, got their mail. -. ' . ' , On the ranch of her brother, Bert adjoin ing her own, a herder was lost with his band of sheep,. in a blizzard, 24 hours. When found his cap had frozen to his head and his shoes had, to be cut from his feet He was eushed into Gillette, where every effort was made to save his feet, bu they were so se verely frozen that part of one and nearly all cf ,the other had to be amputated. On the Paisley ranch, if I remember cor-l rectly, the same winter a herder was lost in a storm of great, fury which lasted several days. , When a rescue party was finally able to go out tEey found him seated with his back against a rock, in the snow, frozen stiff. At the Paisley ranch, as on all sheep ranches, there are a number of pretty puppies and older dogs. No animal is more indispensa ble or worthy of consideration in the sheep country than a good sheep dog. This herd er's dog had kept watch by the side of his one-time master for nearly a week and was so exhausted that he could hardly stand. Who can measure the world of patient devo tion in the breast of that dog, as, without food, drink or shelter, and through the long, cold nights and bleak, windy days, he' kept watch by the deadl Gods Known By Their Fruits Kaiser Implicates the German God In a Falsehood The last article written by the lamented Dr. Washington Gladden and published in the New York Independent thus defines faith in God the Universal Father and faith in the kaiser's god worshipped in Germany: The fundamental question of the war is a religious question the religious question, in deed; for all religious questions are at bot tom one the question whether we believe in God. This is a matter that we should settle in our own minds, without delay, for it is vital and urgent About small matters we mav think our attitude toward God is negli gible, but it is of tremendous consequence here.' It makes all the difference in the No speak of them as believing in God at all, world with us whether or not we believe in God. It Is easy to reply that there are "gods many aid lords many," and to insist that our deities be defined. We shall be re minded that every nation has a god of its own, and we shall hear the boasts of the kaiser and the war lords and the German professors, about the German god and his superiority to all the other gods. That is not what I mean by believing in God. The German god is no god. People who talk about belieying in the British god, or the French god, or the American god are athe ists or blasphemers. Even if they refrain from giving their god the national fame if their constant implica tion is that their (tod is a tribal deity and k that they have special claims on his patron age, iney are not iruiy oenevcrs in uou. This distinction needs emphasizing, be cause not one in ten of the people who pro fess to worship God are really monotheists, believers in one God. They jo not believe in any real God, they have a sort of senti mental attachment to the deity of their own tribe, from whom they pretend to expect fa vors, riut taitn in sucn a iragmemary guu is no faith. We cannot have faith in any being whom we cannot respect. It is a psy chological impossibility to believe in any being calling himself god whom we convict by our own confession of being petty or par tial or deceitful or unjust Now we know by reports that reach us of the hymns and prayers of German worship pers, that many of them believe their deity to be partial, petty and deceitful; that they are sure that he is unfair, and a bitter parti san; that is the kind of god that they be lieve in; therefore it is absurd and monstrous When the kaiser talks very piously about the help that his god is giving him, we have to remember what kind of things his god has been helping him to do. For it is just as true of gods as of men that we know them by their fruits. A god who approves the sharp practice by which Austria was forced into this war, who sanctions the invasion of Belgium, and who smiles on the sinking of the Lusitania, is not a god in whom respec table people can believe. In fact this tribal god whom the kaiser patronizes and brags about, whom the junkers worship, and whom the German professors have been trying to get the German people to believe in, is a god that no rational man can believe in. The human mind is stultified when this kind of credulity is required of it The kaiser has made the German people believe a lie about the origin of this war, about the rape of Belgium, about the motives of the American people in entering the war. He knows that this is a lie, and that when he implicates god in the falsehood, he is sim ply talking about the German god, whoever he is, and not about the Universal Father of mankind. "Outraged Chivalry" , The havoc wrought in the German ranks by buckshot from tawed-off shotguns, which appear to have been used with particular effectiveness by American troops in their hand-to-hand collision with the enemy after Lhe had crossed the Marne east of Chateau Thierry in the recent offensive, has given rise to another German protest against this "barbaric and unchivalrous" mode of war fare. The originators of poison, flame and ground glass modes of warfare still think they are judges of chivalry. To call them sawed-off shotguns is some what misleading. The barrel is probably not more than two or three inches shorter than that of the average shotgun. They are large-gauge guns, with a slight choke. They do not merely spray buckshot for a short distance, but shoot with deadly effectiveness at a range much greater than that of small shot The shell contains from 15 to 20 buck shot, each with the potential execution of a shrapnel bullet. There is an added advantage in the use of these guns when, owing to the presence of ras. troops are compelled to wear masks. Accurate sighting of a .rifle is slow and dim-, cult, if not impossible, through a gas mask. Sawed-off shotguns can be used effectively from the hip if necessary. There is-undoubtedly injured pride as well as injured hides in the German ranks result ing from the fact that novices in the art of war have sprung this highly effective weapon upon them. Sawed-off shotguns may be ex pected .to make their debut in the German army as soon as the boche has recovered from his sense of outraged chivalry and from the holes made by the buckshot Washing ton 1'ost. . Bestowal of Foreign Honors King George's award of the Order of the Bath to Admirals Sims, Strauss and Rod man, following his decoration of Generals Pershing, Bliss, March and Biddle, has ex cited misgivings in same official circles. "Sir Admirals" in the American Navy and Knights Commanders in the army? What place have royal baubles in a democracy? , It is perhaps natural that in a republic sensitive - about the acceptance of honors from foreign potentates some persons would fear the prospective return of American war riors beribboned by other Kings and rulers of the AU'ed nations. The action of Admiral Sims in declining the Order of the Bath has been approved by Secretary Daniels. But how serious, in fact, is the menace to democratic institutions? Many Americans have received like decorations without preju dice to their citizenship. Who thinks of Edl s"on or of Charles W. Eliot as. influenced by the foreign titles bestowed on them? The name must now be legion of Americans who bear French, Italian, Turkish and Japanese honorary orders. They are for the most part private citizens. But in the case of army and navy or diplomatic officers decorated by foreign rulers for distinguished service in a cause which is our own, what implication can there be of motives not wholly American? The decoration of American officers by the British King is not merely a token of roy al favor to the individual; it is an ex pression of national gratitude to their coun try. It is an honor like that shown by the French people in naming streets and bridges after President Wilson. As a manifestation of international appreciation it should be taken in the spirit to the proffer. There need be no misgiving as to the motive.- New York World. One Tear Ago Today In the War. China declared war against Ger many and Austria-Hungary, s The deposed czar ot ftussla and his famlly were removed to Siberia. 1'opa Benedict transmitted a peace appeal to all belligerent and neutral government. Tlie Day We Celebrate. David M. McGahey,' general agent Jn Omaha tor the Home Lite Inaur- ance' company, born In 1870. ' George J. B. Collins, consulting and corifractiwr engineer, born 1863. Robert D. Neeley, attorney-at-law, lorn 1S87. Daniel C. Jackllng, mining engineer, torn ia Bates county Missouri, 49 leare axo. -.. y : . Ernest Thompson Seton, naturalist- torn in England 68 years ago. This Day in History. 1S43 Charles A. Schaeffer, preal dent of the Stat' University ot Iowa, born at Harrisburg, Pa. Died at Iswa City. I a.. September 2 J, 1891, 1888 Differences with Bismarck : :-i Count von Moltka to resign as . hK-r-or-nutrr 01 tne German army. 1H--The French invaded German 1915 British transport Royal Ed ward torpedoed in Aegean sea and 1.U9V uvea lost. . , , J ust 30 Years Ago Todatf Scenlo Artist Thompsen of St Louis Is now working on new scenery in Boyd a opera nous. ?, Commissioner Mount was occupied In showing th Washington county commissioner about the city. They ' ' are her looking at th grading of th city with th view of - purchasing a grading machine to do a similar work in their county. Th Water Works company re sumed ita connection with th mains at Fort Omaha and th latter is now enjoying a plentiful supply of th water of the Big Muddy. ' Mr. and Mra Nott of Marion,' are visiting their son. Isaac Nott, who ia with th Arctio Ic company. City Treasurer Rush closed th con tract for th sal of 1242.000 worth of 6 per cent district paving bonds due in irom on to nin years at tn pre mium ot 810,2t4.. , Round About the State "Opportunity knocks but once," ob serves th editor emeritus of the Nor folk Press, "but some people knock all th tim." s After 27 years In th harness, A. L. Brand bids farewell to th patrons of th Pierce County Call, and intro duces W. D. Shepardson and C. B. Brand aa his successors. The new owners propose to keep th republican banner flying In that section and ad vance, republican principles until ever yon who heeds th Call becomes 100 per cent American. Ernest Bristol Of Stanton has no use for the lingo of th kaiser. Hearing it in a soft drink parlor raised his dander to a.flgthlng pitch. Numbers mad the kaiser crowd mora than de fiant and scrappy. "No American can mak me stop talking German," said one. : Bristol discreetly backed out, secured reinforcements and quickly mopped th shop with th kaiserltfts. . 1 ;'- v- Nebraska newspapers are radiant with pictorial beauties Just now. Not th chorus kind, but husky patriots looking more or less pleasant for pri mary votes. All kinds of political physiognomies grace th printers' gal leries. There are baldheads 1 and roundheads, longheads and square heads, some adorned with luxuriant thatches that would rejolc a hair tonld artist Beneath th stern lines of elderly heads and youth's un wrinkled confidence may be glimpsed a general desire to serve the fie-v . pi at any sacrifice. Could patriots) ao morr . . Whittled to a Point Baltimore American: 'The war Will ba won In th air I" As a matter of fact it is belnrf won in the air, on the earth and on th sea. As Admiral Schley said, "There is glory enough for all." . v Kansas City Star: Among the decorations conferred on the German crown prince as a result of his mili tary efforts, that of the tin can be stowed by General Foch has not yet been noted by the official German ga settes. V Baltimore American: The German admiral who admitted that the U boats were not sinking American transports has been retired for ihe benefit of his health: It seems truth telling is about the unhealthiest thing for high officials in Germany to in dulge in. . 1 - . Philadelphia' Ledger: The income tax figures show that th returns' of married men Indicated th possession of more than five times as much wealth as single men. Tet It would be rash to draw the deduction that the married are more than nv times better oft. ... . ' ..... -.-, Brooklyn Eagle: On August . 1914. th kaiser issued his famous proclamation to the German army and navy. The last words of the proclamation were "Gott - help' us! Why is Gott so slow about sending help? Four years Is a long time to wait The good old- German Gott needs overhauling. Ha needs to be taken down, decarbonised, oiled and rrmikmmA Vila tt-a n.mfa.Un la j4 w am August , 1V Twice Told Tales Can't Beat 'Em. , "Tou can't beat 'em," sighed the shoe clerk, looking mournfully after the feminine customer who had Just left "Who wants to beat 'em?" demand ed the sentimental feminist who had Just entered. . "I do!" answered the shoe clerk savagely. "That one needs one good beating. Take it from me. I just fitted a shoe on her foot snugly, and I could see her wince a bit but she said, 'What size is that?' I lied a whole" size and said, ..'That is a , madam.' . ; "Take It away. I want a No. J,' says she. "It was a 4 you took oft,' says I, telling the truth for once. "T know it' she explained, but that one had stretched terribly!"! Cleveland Plain Dealer. : Warning. Vanderbilt Allen on an Atlantic City beach issued a grave warning to a rich old widower. The widower had praised with un becoming ardor, considering hln years, a shapely young lady in a reC bath ing suit He said he had 'mad her acquaintance in a cafe th night be fore. He even said that she would make a wife of whom any man might be proud. . - It was then Mr. Allen issued his warning. He said: "Too many men in love with a white throat or a shapely ankle make th mletake of marrying th whole lrl." Detroit Pre Press, ' God and Our Soldiers. Lincoln. Neb., Aug. 11. To the Ed itor of The Bee: May I express my gratitude for your excellent editorial in today's Bee entitled "Has the Church Missed the Message?" As you truly say, "It will not ba a light or easy task to' bend into narrowness of existirlg sects," those of our boys over there who hav learned by experience the spiritual lesson of the 46th Psalm, that of a verity "God is our .refuge and strength, a very present nelp in trou ble;" who have demonstrated in the heat of battle the eternal truth of the 91st Psalm, that "He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty;" who have learned in the stress of horrifying situations that the 121st Psalm is not merely a "song of degrees," as the title Imports, but that when accepted in faith and under standing it is the living Word of the One Omnipotent God. ' ' "His truth," says the' Psalmist, "shall be thy shield and buckler. Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night nor for the arrow that flieth by day; nor lor the pestilence that walk eth in darkness; nor for, the destruc tion that waste th at noonday. A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand, but it shall not come nigh thee." Th marvelous exploits of our troops only Just beginning can only be explained by the fact that thou sands of them have that understand Ing faith of the protective power of an omnipotent God who is Love, and who careth for all His children who come to Him in humility and faith. Undoubtedly those who return will "come, with much clearer ideas of God," and they "will not worry about creeds." They will be less Inclined to worship material wealth and more in clined to-valu the "peace of God which passeth understanding." They will have fully learned that "the eter nal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms" (Deut 33:27). And that all this is not fixed for some definite time In the future and at some remote and unknown place, but is a present possibility, an eternal verity for here and now. CHARLES Q. DE FRANCE. Disposing of the Missouri. Omaha, Aug. 7. To the Editor of The Bee: A couple of days ago a correspondent of The Bee suggested that the next legislature pass a water power bill by which certain counties, upon their own initiative, might in corporate water power districts for the purpos of improving the many water power sites of the Loups and the Niobrara The correspondent also sugests that the Missouri river could not be utilized because it has six inches of fall only to the mile. A closer investigation will disclose the fact that the Missouri has a greater fall than six inches. The fall, in all rivers, varies, and. .one of the very nice government publications Is a series of maps which illustrates the survey 1 of the fall of the principal rivers of the country. The work is not at hand, and I Will not undertake to recall the fall of the Missouri from memory. The great loss in the Mis souri is the chemical contents of the sediment which is constantly washing to the sea. The waters of the Mis souri are very rich in chemicals, which, if applied to the land, would constantly enrich the millions of acres in southern Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma. The proper start would be to survey a canal beginning some where on the higher altitude of the river bed, and divert the waters 300 miles to the westward. With so much water spread upon the southwestern plains the present drouths would be a thing of the past The canal would carry very large boats, and water power might be developed. This is a work of the government. There are good and sufficient rea sons why water power districts are not the proper way to Improve the present sites. They would give a monopoly to a few counties which have the money to make the improve ments. State ownership is the only proper method of improving. WALTER JOHNSON. LINES TO A LAUGH. 'That fellow must bar a thlrat for knowledgs." "Why aoT' "Opens every dictionary ha eomeg acron." "I understand be found a 12 bill In one once." Louisville Courier-Journal. "Is th soil hers (ood enough to raise anything?" 'I sent a sample to thr agricultural ex pert and he advised me to raise marbles." Judge. She I'm sorry I can't mary you. I had no Idea you wanted me to. He Well, what do you suppose I'Te been letting- your father beat me at golf all this time for? Boston Transcript 'Was the operation successful I" "Completely so. It was the most brilliant demonstration of th operator's theory pet al ble. Only one person appear t to ia aatiefted with the resolta.'' Who wbj thatT" "The patient's widow." Baltimore Amer ican. .... ' Examiner In Pbyslea. What happens when a light falls Into the water at aa angle of 45 degree! Stud. It goea out. Boston Transcript "If pa ' did order you from the kovae, Harold, don't let It make you lose your tem- -per." "It won't dear, but I can't help feeling somewhat put out." Baltimore American. WELCOME, RURAL CARRIERS. Te sturdy men from hill and dale, Who carry Uncle Samuel's mail To every farmer In the state, We welcome to our cit's gate. . Through rain and storm and summer heat -Vou make your dally rounds complete. And when the roads are filled with snow you likewise never fall to go. Tou brave the weather hot or cold, , . ' And prove that you are brave and bold; Tou. never have been known to fall To bring around that dally mall. ' Papers, letters and" cards galore Tou bring right to the farmer's door. And if today they make him sad. They may tomorrow make him glad.' Tonr visits spread the truth and light And make the farmer's life more bright; While unconfined is mother's ioy When you bring a line from her soldier bo. LORIN ANDREW THOMPSON. Fremont, Neb., August' r w im mrm , . : ' y IS supreme t . - II Mf Ul VI r- tventuallr. sooner or latr. the sounding board of every piano will flat ten or crack, destroing the original tone. 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" Combining safety with an assured 6 income, payable twice annually, the First Mortgage Real Estate Bonds which we offer are a thoroughly conservativeand profitable investment. , The direct first mortgages, against which these t bonds are issued, are secured by modern business ' buildings, hotels or apartment buildings in thriving cities throughout the Middle West in every instance the property value being about double that of the total amount of the bonds issued against it ' Experienced investors, who have carefully studied the merits of the First Mortgage Real Estate Bond, ' f recognize these further advantages in addition to stability, safety and good income: - ; , , It is the simplest form of first mortgage investment; it is the most convenient, for all such matters as - , ' ' searching of titles, drawing and recording of the . "mortgage, etc, are taken care of; and the most profitable, for none of the expenses of these details come out of the investor's income. Your interest is net . ' ... ,.-: ., , '. Our booklet, "How To" Choose A Safe Investment," " contains some interesting data on the matter of First Mortgage Real Estate Bonds as an investment and describes fully the bonds which we are offering,' V ,. , A copy will gladly be sent you free upon request. ' 1 Bankers Realty fnvestment Co. CONTINENTAL AND COMMERCIAL BANK BUILDING CHICACO, ILLINOIS . ' , '' ; 1 BEE BUILDING, OMAHA, NEBRASKA i