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THE. OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: AUGUST 18, 1918.
The Omaha Bee
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Slam the kaiser; vote, for true Americans.
' Again it's the hit bird that flutters and the
stuck pig that squeals.
The boys from America echoed Foch's declara
tion "They shall not pass" and they did not pass.
, "Big Jeff" should have such a big majority in
the primary that his election will fee assured in
advance. "
- Karl may need those troops on the south
ern front quite as much as Wilfie'needs them in
the west. 1
Nebraska's corn crop may fall a little below
expectation, but it will be something colossal
just the same. ; : y
If the kaiser does not by this time see the fu
tility of fighting the, war further he must be as
blind as a bat. ,
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umana oecrceu a cican-uui i
bunch last spring. A clean-out of the county
board ring is next due. i
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' Omaha never looked better to the visiting
stfanger than it does today with its, convincing
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air oi ousiness, ouswe aim pusicea.
V But how will Keith Neville reach the sol
dier voters when , the government declines to
give their addresses or to undertake to deliver the
' ballots? ,
The presidential boot looks as if it had sev
eral more good kicks coming. Senators and con
gressmen with, crooked war recods may as well
prepare. v
A candidate 'for the water board is bringing'
out some very interesting facts and information
as to the inner workings of the board, His ad
vertisements are worth the taxpayers' careful
perusal.'' "
" .Next Saturday is to be a redletter day in the
lives of another 'fine lot of American youngsters,
for they will then be permitted to formally notify
the world that they are ready to accept any as
signment their country gives them.
Make an appointment with yourself to go to
the primary ? Tuesday and yote against all the
kaiser-coddlers, German sympathizers and "kul
tur" apologists who have the gall to ask for of
ficial honors at the hands of patriotic Americans.
' Salvation Army on the Battle Line.
One of the not unexpected incidentals of the
present war was that the Salvation Army should
be first of the great agencies for relief to rtfach
tie firing line. Its advance corps moved out
almost as soon as the little army of English
"Contemptibles" got under way, and it has been
, just as tenacious in .its hold on the front trenches.
' Somehow this seems' as it should be. These mil
itant soldiers of salvation, who face in their ordi
nary walk dangers as deadly and conditions as
. undesirable as infest the war area; whose lives
are dedicated to carrying light into dark places,
and who find in the city slums amid the dregs
- of human existence occupation for their utmost
efforts, felt the call of the fighting front while
others were discussing ways and means. The
lassies and the brigadiers alike have ministered
to the comfort of men in trench and camp, have
quietly done a great deal to ameliorate the hard
life of the soldier,' and without ostentation have
borne ; a great share of work behind the lines,
"oup, soap and salvation" has literally been
translated into terms of war service, and the
creed that has carried tambourine, and drum
through the purlieus of the metropolis is found
in France and Flanders, : minus its musical ac
companiments. This is why the Salvation Army
is to be included in the impending great drive
for funds in America. It deserves the support,
for it has nobly done its share.
NORRIS AND VON HINTZE AGREE.
A striking similarity of thought and expres
sion is noted between Senator Norris and Admiral
von Hintze, now foreign minister fqr.the kaiser.
The senator declared it was war-madness that
led the United States to take up arms against
Germany von Hintze says it is the war craze
of the United States that prevents Germany
from forcing a peace on' Europe.
If Norris had had his way, the kaiser would
long ago have triumphed, our flag would now
float below the black banner of the Hun, and only
by permission at that and the foulest crimes ever
committed against humanity, of which the rape
of Belgium and the murder of the Lusitania's
helpless passengers were but examples, would go
unpunished into history.
Senator Norris would have had us submit to
the terms thundered by Berlin, our commerce
abroad to be carried on vessels striped like barber-poles,
and along routes designated by the au
tocratic Hohenzollern; we would be asked to for
get the men, women and children of America
who had been murdered by the Hun pirates, and
to save our precious hides from danger admit the
truth of what so .often had been sneeringly
charged from Germans, that Americans are noth
ing but cowards and dollar-worshipers.
Von Hintze is right; it is the United States
that has thwarted the German plan for world con
quest and subjugation, and has saved the day for
human liberty. Norris was not only. wrong, but
has persisted in being wrong, even after our en
trance, into the war, for. he took the indignation
of his countrymen at the atrocious Hun to be a
willingness to yield their dearly bought Ameri
can liberty.
War-Time Purchases Analyzed.
The Council of National Defense has been in
terested in how folks are- standing the war strain,
and to determine this recently made an inquiry
regarding personal expenditures. Clothing,
household furniture and a few luxuries were
classified under appropriate headings and some
fioteworthy facts developed. Boys' clothing for
five months of 1918, as compared with the same
time in 1917, shows an increase of 3 per cent in
amount and 17 per cent in dollars and cents;
men's clothing decreased 17 per cent in quantity,
but went up 23 per cent in dollars and cents. This
shows tffit out men are wearing fewer clothes
and paying more for what they do buy. The sale
of men's work garments increased 48 per cent in
volume and 96 per cent in price. In ojher words,
man had to don habiliments of toil to meet the
demands of living expenses. Women's wear
shows about the 'same record, fewer garments
sold for more money. Shoes fell off 33 per cent
in quantity and 17 per cent in price. Household
furnishings show a general decrease in the quan
tity sold and a corresponding increase in amount
received from sales. In the luxury list jewelry
increased 3 per cent in volume and 17 per cent
in price; pianos and organs 22 per cent and 33
percent, and automobile and bicycle supplies 30
ana 52 per cent, respectively. Americans, seem
ingly, are willing to stint themselves on clothing
and the like, but must have their jewelry, their
musical instruments and their joy rides. If the
sale of Liberty bonds and thrift stamps did not
tell a different tale, the conclusion would be justi
fied that war prosperity had gone to the heads of
some. It rsjjy be that the record of the coming
months will show a different state of trade, for
.the balance exhibited here is too uneven to be at
all creditable. -
Austria'! Bargain With Germany.
If it be trues that Austria has agreed to fur
nish Germany with armed forces to the number
of fifteen divisions, in exchange for Poland, then
the kaiser's extremity is greater than had been
thought. The recent renewal of the bond be
tween the two empires was supposed to unite
them so closely 'that such deals, would be un
necessary. Austria was disappointed in the Ger
man aspiration! to Poland, but could not in
terpose any objection sufficient to turn aside
the kaiser's plan. Fifteen divisions, 180,000 men
on the German scale, is small enough price to
pay for the empire, f it can be delivered. The
other part of the terms suggested, that Germany
evacuate Belgium and submit more reasonable
peace plans, is scarcely entitled to, credence.
Germany's interest still lies in the west, and Bel
gium will not be willingly relinquished by junk
erdom. Accompanying this piece of news is an
other, to the effect that Austria has proposed
autonomy and home rule for the several states
composing the empire. This offer, if it has been
made, comes . too late., The Czecho-Slav na
tion is born; panSlavism will triumph over pan
germanism, and the long delayed concession from
the Hapsburgs to the Bohemians is now futile.
The difference between the American and the
German, "invasion" of Russia is that our boys
will take food to the starving, while the Huns
took it away from them.
Lord Northcliffe says we have done wonders.
So we have, but we have only started. Just
watch us go from now on.
When Germany begins to conserve on "can
non fodder," the world may take it as a sign that
the turn in the road has come.
Views, Reviews and Interviews
Retirement of Henry Watterson from Active Editorial Work
Recalls Incidents
The retirement of Henry Watterson from
the active editorship of the Louisville Courier-Journal
is more than an incident, in the
newspaper world for Colonel Watterson is
almost the last, if not the last, "big gun" of
the socalled old school of American journal
ism. In his announcement to his readers,
Colonel Watterson explains that he intend
ed to signalize the conclusion of a career of
50 years by relinquishing his editorial har
ness, a plan which he will carry out by con
tinuing as editor emerifts until next Novem
ber and he takes pride in the circumstance
that he has served at the head of a leading
daily newspaper longer by many years' "than
any person connected with the American
press of any large city in the United States.
Mr. Bennett, the elder, he recalls, founded
the New York Herald in 1835 and died in
1872, 37 years, and Horace Greeley founded
the New York Tribune in 1841, dying in
1872, 31 years. Colonel Watterson consoli
dated the Courier and the Journal in 1868,
since which time he has been personally con
ducting its editorial activities although, be
cause of poor health in later years, some
times at long distance ind with periods of
rest and recuperation. My father, who was
a warm personal friend and admirer of
Colonel Watterson, though politically at
complete variance, founded The Bee in 1871
and remained at the helm until 1906, 35 years.
I have known Colonel Watterson myself
for nearly half of his 50 years and have en
joyed his confidence and benefited by his ad
vice and favor. . I remember one occasion
particularly while he was stopping, in Omaha
during a lecture tour of the west, when he
sent word to me that he had some important
information he would give me in the form of
an interview for The Bee it I would call at
a designated hour. When I went to see him,
he made the first disclosure of the determina
tion of Secretary Carlisle to resign the treas
ury portfolio he was holding in the Cleve
land cabinet and remove from Kentucky to
New York to become associated wfth some
of the big Wall Street financial institutions
and this news was distributed to the country
out of Omaha.
On a subsequent occasion something that
passed between us furnished material for a
good story which- Colonel Watterson perpe
trated on me at the National Press Club in
Washington. I will quote it just as reported
at the moment in the Washington Times:
"Not many years ago," said "Marse"
- Henry, "some political theorist made a
vivcious attack on newspaper editors who
conducted their editorial pages on a strict
ly partisan basis. This attack was par
ticularly annoying to the younger Rose
water, and he wrote an able article defend
ing his fellow editors. Desiring the widest
possible circulation, Rosewater sent his
piece to the Atlantic Monthly, which had
given space to the attack, with tht sugges
tion that it should be printed in justice to
the newspaper profession.
"Shortly thereafter Rosewater received
a letter from the editors of the Atlantic an
nouncing that while they appreciated this
courtesy in submitting his manuscript they
had already arranged for a reply article on
that very subject from one of the most dis
tinguished editors in the United States.
"Rosewater did not have any quarrel
with the Atlantic because his manuscript
had been rejected, but he did feel that he
had written an able piece, and that it
should not be consigned to the waste paper
basket. Hence he had it set in type and
sent proofs, with a hold-for-release notice
to some of his newspaper friends. I was
among the editors who received the Rose?
. water article, and I must say it was a
mighty able effort. It was so able, in fact,
that I just crossed off the release notice
and sent it to the Atlantic Monthly. A
few weeks later the Atlantic Monthly came
out with a defense of the political editors
by Henry Watterson. In a day or two I
got a telegram from Rosewater saying: 'I
don't care whether I get in the back door
or the front door, so lorig as I get in.
Please accept my congratulations on your
masterly effort in the Atlantic Monthly
just out.' "
The Colonel has here embellished the.
facts a trifle but in substance his recollection
was pretty good. The author of the article
to which we jointly replied was Prof. Ed
ward A. Ross, formerly of the University of
Nebraska and now of the University of Wis
consin, who once admitted to me that he had
a particular grievance against the rewspapers
because of what he thought mistreatment
of him by the Pacific coast newspaper at the
time of his troubles in Leland Stanford uni
versity. One of the books in my library
which I value highly is a copy of Colonel
Watterson's "The Comprpmises of Life,"
which he sent me, autographed and inscribed
with his own personal regards.
It is fi source of great regret that ab
sence for a brief vacation rest prevented me
from attending the funeral of George W.
Pundt, my closest friend of boyhood days,
whose remains were brought from St. Louis
to be interred beside his father, sister and
brother in their Prospect Hill plot. The
Pundts were one of the pioneer families of
Omaha, their coming here dating back to
1856, and for years and until after the death
of the father, they had the leading grocery
establishment of the city. The Pundt home
was located on the corner of Seventeenh and
Douglas, where the Brandeis theater now
stands, at first a little square one-story brick
dwelling, replaced in the early '80's with
a handsome new two-story and mansard
residence which ranked among the palatial
homes of that day. This house remained
there, though later left high on a stone
walled embankment by the grading of the
street, until it made way for the present busi
ness improvements.
As boys,' George and I were almost in
separable and it was constantly "Ain't that
so, George!" and "Ain't that so, Vicl" till
we became known around the neighborhood
as the "Ain't-that-so" youngsters. We had
everything together that boys usually have,
from marbles to tops and postage stamps to
measles, and the intimate companionship
continued until he went to work in the gro
cery store and I left for college. After the
family suffered the death of the father and
underwent reverses in the financial depres
sion and panic of 1893, the Pundt grocery
disappeared as an institution and the boys
took employment with other grocery houses,
later establishing themselves in the grocery
business at proprietors with the backing of
relatives in St. Louis. I believe George was
in Omaha only once or twice after that and
while I always dropped in to see him when
ever I happened to be in St. Louis, we inter
changed only occasional correspondence.
One sad part of the whole affair is that by
his death, only the mother and two sisters
surviving and none of the children .having
ever married, the family name of Henry
Pundt, which at one time stood for so much
in Omaha and was an important factor in lay-
ing the foundations of the city, is apparently
doomed to become extinct and will be found
only by reference to our local histories.
God's Country
We met up with a regular American the
other day on a railway train. He said he
was born in Sweden, but was brought up
here. A few years ago he went back to the
land of his forefathers for a pleasure trip.
He enjoyed it much, but after three months
of that foreign country he sighed for home.
To use his own language:
"When I landed I thanked God for God's
country and that I was in it once again, in a
land where you can call the mayor 'Bill'
and the mayor cals you 'John.' Over across
it ain't that way,"
When a westerner goes to New York
with a roll in his pocket and an inclination
to spend it, he has a pretty good time, and
thinks Gotham a pretty good little town. But,
at that, he is mighty glad to get back to the
great outdoor west, where he is as good as
any other man and a darn sight better. Nor
for the life of him would be content to live
in New York upon the terms of life given to
99 per cent of that populous burg to com
pete, to scrimp, to see well-heeled westerners
coming to enjoy the Gotham entertainment
which the ordinary New Yorker cannot af
ford. If that is so about New York, it is much
more so about Europe. To visit Europe is
one thing. To live in Europe is entirely an
other. To the man or woman wonted to
American conditions only American condi
tions are tolerable. To convert a discon
tented American into an enthusiastic Amer
ican all that is required is to have him go
live and compete in the country of his ideal
ity for a period. In less time than the period
he will be yearning for the good old United
States, and cursing himself for a fool who
didn't know enough to know when and where
he was well off.
There is only one United States in this
world, and the ordinary man or woman who
is here ought to thank his stars for it. Min
neapolis Journal.
People and Events
Her name is Helen Ketchum and she sells
theater tickets in a Chicago hotel. Does
Helen Ketchum? Uh-huh, and then some.
It is estimated that 90,000 Nebraska hogs
have taken joyrides on auto trucks to market
in the past 17 months. . Still, the price tag
assumes they arrived in sedan tary limousines.
Lawmakers in Georgia plan to win the
war by passing a law abolishing tipping.
With cotton and corn bringing unheard-of
prices, comfortable cracker solons cheerily
grapple with problems of world-wide import
Hand grenades are now being turned out
in this country at the rate of - 2,000,000 a
month. In the Hands of men versed in the
national game the output insure base hits to
burn and increased speed in the Hun home
run. ,
"I am the most persecuted man in public
life," shouts Bill Thompson, seeking promo
tion from the Chicago mayoralty to the
United States senate. Frequent showers of
stage fruit lends considerable emphasis to
the claim.
The story goes that an American sailor
in London absorbed a $5 meal at the Eagle
hut and coolly shoved a $30 confederate note
over the counter, receivving 5 in change.
The incident maps a spot where collectors
of ancient monetary junk might unload.
"Angels and ministers1 of grace defend
uSi" A committee of the war industries
board boldly declares that "Billy" Sunday's
work is not a war essential and declined to
aid Providence, R. I., in sectoring material
for Sunday's tabernacle. Now move
back to a safe distance and watch Billy warm
a corner for that bumptious committee.
From coast to coast, from Manitoba to
the gulf, every moving passenger train, un
der Chief McAdoo's orders, forthwith be
comes an animated dry belt. Water may be
had, of course, if the traveler carries a drink
ing cup, but the fluid which laid the dust,
aroused the jaded tourist and lent eclat to
indifferent scenery, is no more. Luckily,
your Uncle is not emphasizing scenic routes
these days.
The passing of William Henry Newman,
former general manager of the old Vander
bilt lines, brings nto print several novel per
sonal traits. His pre-eminence as a ailroad
manager was largely lost to fame by his
aversion to publicity. He would not be in
terviewed and never had his picture in the
paper. Still, he rose from the bottom to the
top of the ladder by the simple expedient of
letting his work peak for him.
One Year Ago Today In the War.'
'Announced by the War department
that armeo forces of the United States
totaled 948.141.
Berlin officially announced the cap
ttye of - 42,000 Russian prisoners
mace the Austro-German offensive was
begun July II. ; , ,
The Day We Celebrate.
, Lee McGreer, contractor and build
er, born 1862. ;
Louis M. Rogers, confectioner and
florist, born 1883. t
C. J. Meltzen, general manager of
the Omaha Robe and Tanning com
pany, born 1872.
Ernest Hinds, major general of the
United States army, born in Alabama,
(4 years ago.
Jack Pickford, ' noted photoplay
star, born In Toronto, 22 years ago.
This Day In History.
1808 Augustus J. Fleasanton, who
' originated the "blue glass craze,"
born in Washington, D. C. Died in
Philadelphia, July, 1884. -
'1864 George G. jleade,was com
missioned a major general in the Unit
ed States army.
-1866 The North' German confed
eration was formed by an alliance of
the North German states with. Prus
sja. - '
12 SJ International peace confer
ence began its sessions In Chicago.
190E Czax issued a manifesto
rraativg a constitution to Russia while
seservinf autocracy.
Just 80 Years Ago Today
The SlxtU ward republican club
has ' chosen an executive committee,
consisting of Messrs. James R. Young,
W. A. Grant. H. T. Leavltt, William
Brown, Cornish Spohr and Cohn.
The Omaha Horse Car company be-
gan the work of tearing up the pav
ing between Farnam and Douglas.
Mr. and Mrs. . P. W. Lynch cele
brated their crystal wedding anni
versary at their home at Twelfth and
Martha streets. Nearly 40 couples
were present
Mrs. J. Merritt and two children
have returned from a three months'
tour through Europe.
Mr. Frank Bennison of the Bennl
son Bros, dry goods house, and
Miss Ida Mason of this city were mar
ried 'in Chicago. : i
A very pleasant surprise party was
given for Miss Katie Mets at the home
of her parents, 1508 Maxcy street.
Quait Bits of Life
A wounded soldier asked what had
surprised him most in the battle zone,
told of finding a robin's nest in an
empty shell case.
The greatest meat eaters are the
Australians, who before the war con
sumed an average of more than seven
pounds a head weekly.
An institution has been organized
in California to take care of "despair
ing mortals on the brink of suicide's
graves."
A farmer living near Caruthersvllle,
Mo., went to St Louis recently and
bought a street car from two confi
dence men, paying f 100 for it.
Since the ruler of Afghanistan be
came the owner of an automobile he
has ordered the construction of more
than 10,000 miles of macadam roads.
Evidently a great national struggle
makes for mental steadiness. For the
last two years there has been a de
crease of over 8,000 in the number of
Insane persons cared for In England
and Wales.
An Oregon doctor has invented
crutches which terminates in rockers
that reproduce their shoulder curves
as they rotate, enabling their users'
shoulders to move in a straight line
and thereby lessen fatigue.
A Bath (Me.) youngster, aged 10,
has 100 hens. His father pays tor
the grain, but the boy takes care of
the flock, and in return has all the
money he receives from the eggs.
Out of this sum he buys all his own
clothes, takes all his movie and candy
money and still puts quite a sum in
the bank, and with ISO of what he
had saved bought a Liberty bond.
Signposts of Progress
Argentine women have won their
right to all the professions, including
engineering and law.
Under the new wage schedule for
railroad employes Women who do the
same work as men will receive the
same. pay.
Thirty-three American telephone
girls, all speaking French, were in
one detachment that recently arrived
In France.
A Parisian has Invented roller
skates propelled by a one-quarter
horsepower gasoline motor, the fuel
tank being carried on the wearer's
belt
Australian women have invented the
spiral sock, which is being introduced
into this country. They are soft and
clinging, without heels, and are said
to outwear three pairs of the other
kind.
One of the assistant postmaster gen
erals in Washington wanted the other
day some maps that were in New
York City. He telephoned at 11 a. m.
to have Uiem put on the postal air
plane which left New York at 11:80
a. m. They were delivered to him in
Washington at 2 p. m. That is the
world'a record for fast mail service.
American exports of tinplate now
exceed those of England, and Ameri
can tlnplatea have now secured a
foothold In an Increased number of
foreign countries. A noteworthy fea
ture is that 1917 Is the first year in
which England has had to yield Its
pre-eminence with regard to tinplate
export
Peppery Points
Washington Post: The Germans
are calling It a "retrograde victory."
One more such victory and Germany
is undone.
Baltimore American: The kaiser
said the Yankees wouldn't fight, and
the crown prince says they fight with
impudent audacity. Quite a difference
of opinion.
Detroit Free Press: A German pa
per takes a fling at BernstorfTs "lack
of sound business , methods." You
can't expect a crook to be a good busi
ness! man, too. ,
Brooklyn Eagle: As we go toward
the Rhine von Hertling stiffens his
peace terms. At the finish these terms
will be very stiff. There is nothing
stiffer than, rigor mortis.
Kansas City Star: General von
Hutier was brought to the western
front from Riga where he achieved
success with his so-called surprise tac
tics, which he was expected to startfe
the British with. It was his army
which was caught by the British at
breakfast
New York Herald: In this coun
try the report of the death of Schwie
ger, who fired the torpedo that sank
the, Lusitania will be received with
regret for that is one man whose pun
ishment Americans have hoped to de
termine. However, there are the
"higher-ups" who must and will be
held to a strict and personal accountability.
- Around the Cities
The ruction in Detroit over 6-cent
street car fares disposes of the illusion
that everybody in town owned a car.
Foreseeing the dust wave approach
ing the Gopher state, the brewery at
Bremidji, Minn., has been turned into
a flour mill. The transformation is
dry enough to -ult.
Two hundred men a day and girls
to match is the. present average mar
rying score of draft ellgibles in' New
York City. Some awakenings and
tearful separations are comin-
Up-to-the-minute city dads of
Bloomington, Ind., cheerily endorse
feminals as a becoming fashion and
decreed that working girls may wear
them on the streets as well as in the
shops.
Kansas (Ity consumers of electric
light are booked for an extra touch
of, 10 per cent' effective September 1.
The Missouri Public Service commis
sion found the company needed the
money and decreed the boost
Out in Spokane, where much water
tumbles over the falls, hotel and
apartment house owners are slowly
heading guests and tenants toward
one tub a week. Should the native
need more, the road to the river is
open.
In compliance with the request of
the fuel administration, Philadelphia
department stores now open at 10 a.
m. and close at 4:30 p. mOther lines
of business are under pressure to
shorten working hours as a war
measure.
The new city of Nitro, in West Vir
ginia, has 19,000 workmen engaged in
producing explosives for the govern
ment. The town Is strictly new, fresh
and clean, sickness is scarcely known
and the death rate from natural
causes almost at zero.
A hot fight over gas rates is brewing
in Chicago. Some time ago the courts
decreed an 80-cent rate and the de
cree stands. But the company wants
more money ancj plans a boost of
27 Vi per cent next month. If the
promise is made- good a forensic gas
attack is sure to follow.
While the authorities of Philadel
phia were explaining to a Jury why
the police became involved in an elec
tion day 'murder, thrifty yeggmen put
in several busy hours in the shadow
of the city hall, cracking five safes and
getting away with 225,000. Cops are
supposed to be numerous in that lo
cality. Over There and Here
Nearly 1,500,000 women are now
working in men's places in British in
dustry. Nearly 20,000 are at the front
in France working in the hospitals
and in the commissary deartment of
the army.
Since July 29 letters from American
soldiers delivered at Atlantic ports
totalled 7,000,000. The record indi
cates improved mail service and the
readiness of the boys over there to
write as well as fight ,
American copper Is doing its best
to win the war. Last year's shipments
to the allies totalled 1,126,082,417
pounds and the domestic consumption
1,316,463,754 pounds, both together
makipg a record year.
Wear and tear of training is evi
dent by the pile of work put up to the
army reclamation division. During
June that branch of the service re
paired 1,184,032 articles of clothing,
shoes and other equipment. Besides,
more than 4,000,000 pounds of wast,e
was salvaged and 116,878 derived
from the sale of waste material.
The German mark continues losing
prestige in nearby neutral countries.
Late quotations from Switzerland and
Holland show depreciation of 41 per
cent, while the Austrian mone. taken
is 64 per cent below par. Both relics
of .bygone greatness reflect the hope
lessness of Kaiser Bill's cause.
Fuel rationing in England and
Wales was launched last month and Is
designed to effect a saving of not less
than 25 per cent In domestic consump
tion., Allowances are based on the
number of rooms occupied, and range
from three and one-half tons per an
num for a two-room, house to one ton
per room for five rooms or more. The
withdrawal of 75,000 skilled miners
from the collieries Involves a reduc
tion of 22,600,000 tons in the yearly
output of coal.
DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES.
'Do you believe In the rood effect! of
cantlgatlon In bringing up your children?"
"No, I don't believe In none of theee new
fangled fads. I think nothing' ao good ai
a regular old-faahloned licking.'' Baltimore
American.
"Bill iay hie soldier life reminds him
dally of home and mother.
"How la that?"
"They won't let htm aleep late morn
Inge." Boston Transcript.
"The girl of the period la very pretty.
She must bear some nice things about her
self." "Exactly. And that makes me wonder
why she so frequently plasters her hair over
her ears." Chicago Post.
"Papa, what does morale mean?"
"It's hard to explain, son; but I can give
you an example my uniform cheerfulness
in the presence of your mother's relations
when they are paying ua a visit." Life.
"What did the bride's rich relations girt
her?
"One rave ber a silver, gold-lined sugar,
bowl and the other rave her enough sugar
to fill It." Louisville Courier-Journal.
"I understand some very antique stuff
was louna m mat oia mansion.
"Yes, Indeed. Some old poster beds, a cen
tury-old sideboard, ancient mahorny tables
and chairs and a barrel of flour."--Buffalo
Express.
Hobble Funny, ain't ItT ' '
- DeHoy Oo on and have it out
Hobble Why, they call It a wedding
march when lt'a really a two-sep. Indlaa
apolls Star.
IF THIS WERE FAITH.
Having felt Thy wind In my face
Spit sorrow and disgrace,
Having seen Thin evil doom
In Golgotha and Khartum,
And the brutes, the work of Thine hands.
Fill with Injustice lands
And ataln with blood the sea:
If still In my veins the glee
Of the black night and h ion
And the lost battle, run:
If, an adept.
The Iniquitous lists I still accept
With Joy, and Joy to endure and be with-
And still to battle and perish for a dream of
good:
Ood, It that were enough?
If to feel, In the Ink of the slough,
And the sink of the mire.
Veins of glory and fire
Run through and transpierce and transpire,
And a secret purpose of glory In every part.
And the answering glory of battle fill my
heart;
To thrill with the Joy of girded men
To go on forever and fall and go on again,
And be mauled to th earth and -arise,
And contend for the shade ef a word and
a thing not seen with the eyes:
With the half of a broken hope for a. pil
low at night
That somehow the right Is right
And the smooth shall bloom from the rough:
Lord, if that were enough?
ROBERT LOUIB STEVENSON.
Hair Removed
Tfcia method for removing; -pFTftuons
hair la totally dlfleremt
from all athera because It attaeka
hair under the akin aa well aa
the akin. It does this by absorp
tion. Only srennlne De Miracle hae a
money-back guarantee la each
package. At toilet counters la
eoe, SI and 92 alsea or by mall
from aa in alaln wrapper oa re
ceipt of price.
rnrc book with testimonial of
ri" hlffheat aathorttlea, ex
plains what causes hair on face,
neck and arm, why It laereaaee
and how DeMlracle dervitaUaea U,
mailed In plain aealed envelop on
request. DeMlracle, Park Ave. and
tfPth St Mew York.
D&BaffdrBAIUfe
Sanatorium
This institution Is the only one
in the central west with separate
buildings situated in their own
ample grounds, yet entirely dis
tinct, and rendering it possible to
classify cases. The one building
being fitted for and devoted to
the treatment of non-contagious
and non-mental diseases, no others
being admitted; the other Rest
Cottage being designed for and
devoted to the exclusive treat
ment of select mental cases . re
quiring for a time watchful care
and special nursing. ' ,
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