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6 THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1918. The Omaha Be DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY FOUNDED BY EDWARD BOSEWATEB VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR :?TUE EES PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETOB. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS -v. imuun I'rM, t hiett Tb Be is MiiAct. esctuaifeu ntitM u U on for publloatloa of all am dispMcfee) cnrtitcd ts it or -.at ntnerwiM ertdiud la Uils paper, sad tin the local nw rublmlMd brs Ail tfiflU of publication s( out spesleJ liloin are lias marred. Otnh The B tfulldlnj. ft'Mti Ooiha 8311 N. St. Council Bluffs 14 N. Utl Lmeela-UtUe Bonding. OFFICES Cbleato People's Get Balldlaf, Hew Yort in Fifth At. i at St UmiI New B'k of Consent. Wuhloitoa UU O Bt - JULY CIRCULATION Daily 68,265 Sunday 59,312 '. Arnim circulation for the month, tobicrlbea antl fwon tn by Dwlc&i . VVilinma Circuluiw nium Subscriber leaving the city should have Tba Baa vailed to them. Address cbwifM aa onea aa raquaaiaa. THE BEE'S SERVICE FLAG rMi mmmmmmm 111 jtt "rt awiiilHiiiiiiil , Pretty good republican ticket! What is the so-called "committee 'going to do next? of 500" Tornadoes are out 'of leason, and an embargo ; should be put on them. Buying doughnut for the boys over there also helps to win the war; Some of the wreckage of the original air craft program is now coming down. V "Work or fight"- has been alightly amended and for .the next few months will read "war work or fight" : At any rate, the .kaiser will admit that America has moved faster than he thought when he forced 5 war upon us. ' -f. j Advice to young men: Keep your registra tion and classification cards1 where you can reach them without delay. , -; . Austria may be camouflaging an attack on Italy, but a safe guess will be that the "surprise" Will find General Diaz ready. , Geography evidently still cuts a figure In Ne braska ; politics, especially when it comes to choosing United States senators. :; Now watch the "also rans" suddenly dicsover as usual the urgent and overpowering need for rest and recreation in distant parts 7 ,V A republican congress will at least secure a chairman for the house committee on military affairs who s in favor of winning the war. Still, altogether too many violations of, the rules of the road by auto drivers. It is only a question of time till the reckless speeder gets his. :"' The French finally captured1 Lassigny and m'iMH caught up with some of the war correspond cnts, who took the town several days ago. In fairness, the army ought to be allowed a handi cap on some of these swift workers. The Trade commission thunders against the "Big Five", meat peackers aa a monopoly, when as a matter of record thirty-three packing firms attended a conference recently held in Washing 'ton, when the Food administration fixed the price of meat for delivery to the army and navy. Too bad, isn't it, that the vote on the consti tutional amendment to atop subjects of the kaiser from continuing to exercise the suffrage in Ne braska is not a record vote? It would be inter esting to know jus who 1 ,t'M opposed to mak ing American citizenship prerequisite to having part in the American government M'KELVIE FOR GOVERNOR. Nebraska republicans are entering the 1918 contest with a state ticket headed by S. R. Mc Kelvie iot governor. The nomination of "Roy" McKelvie was practically settled when the pri mary ballot was made up because he had no seri ous opposition, yet the reason opposition failed to develop was his acknowledged strength and popularity with all classes of the people. In McKelvie the republicans have a standard bearer to whom they can rally with full faith in his undivided Americanism, his ability and his reliability. McKelvie is the publisher of an agricultural paper, read now in practically every farm home in this state. He is presonally known and in intimate touch with intelligent stock raisers, grain cultivators, dairymen, horticulturists and farmers generally, and likewise with the indus trial interests focalized in the commercial club movement. He is a student of public questions and by his service as lieutenant governor1 gained a familiarity with the conduct of the state's busi ness that will enable him to take hold at once of the reins of government centering in the execu tive office. One Man and, a Battle 60 Miles Long Experience of a Non-Corn in the Thick o) the Marne Drive Stars and Stripes, Published in France. Putting a Dent in the Man-Power Bill. Dent of Alabama, who aucceeded "Jimmy" Hay of Virginia as chairman of the house com mittee on military affairs, proposes to follow r closely the tactics of his predecessor. Just as Hay three years ago told the president he could not have a real army, so Dent now gives notice that plans for utilizing the man-power of the country to win the war must be modified accord ing to his peculiar views. Accordingly he has had reported the administration measure with an amendment embodying his notion that 20 be the minimum age for military service. It means nothing to him thaf almost a quarter of a million of men under 21 are, now voluntarily serving with the colors, or that half of the total enlist ment of the north in the civil war were boys oi 18 and under. He simply wants to show the ad ministration that he has views that must be reck oued with. Just what Chairman Dent and those who work with him expect to gain by their present attitude is not plain. The man-power bill will pass, and in the form asked by the War department, and no good end can be served by the picayunish op position that is developing among the democrats in congress. They simply threaten to foozle their opportunity to help by prompt action at critical time, thus preserving the tradition of the party, whose hindsight has always far excelled its foresight Two of a Kind. "Satan rebuking sin" has a counterpart in Senator Hitchcock's hyphenated World-Herald, declaring that Senator Norris "failed in the hour of supreme test.". Those front-page portrait decorations of Hitchcock and Norris, conferred by the kaiser through his subsidized American mouthpiece, "The Fatherland," are exact com panion pieces and identical testimony of faithful service to "kultur." As between the pro-German war records of Nebraska's two United States senators, they are two of a kind, and honors are easy. Reviewing die Air Craft Fiasco. The subcommittee of the senate's committee : .am fnilUarw arTaira fiaa ffivn n Ant Ita eaftAe rtf aft inrVtifmrlent Innnirv marlai Into th airnlana apart. r 4 r dal, but tells little that has not already been made public. The necessity for this Investigation, after jtht president had turned the matter over to the Department of Justice, and Charles Evan Hughes had been selected to sift the mess and fix the re sponsibility for the failure, is questionable, and even now it is uncertain if any real benefit will come from thrashing over the old straw. That nearly a billion of dollars was wasted has been shown, but the senators leave to Mr. Hughes the fixing of any culpability. His report may be looked for shortly, and on it finally will rest the verdict of the public. The reputation of at least one man whose patriotism never was questioned has gone down under the load, and others may go with him. What the American people chiefly want to know is: Will our army have airplanes needed to win the war, or will we have to go on borrowing from our allies while disputing engi neers at home experiment? The scandal can . w ait, but the war will not Ice Situation ia Omaha. ,That an uncommonly hot summer, together with unusual demands for ice in other directions, should derange the domestic ice service is not to be wondered at. Omaha is not the only western city to suffer because of a shortage of ice, but that does not help out locally, nor does it afford, an excuse for some phases of the situation. Just at present the chief trouble is to secure delivery. The big ice concerns naturally hold the bulk of the trade, and take care of their regular cus tomers in satisfactory manner. Service to the outskirts of the city is left to the "independents," who really are ice peddlers. These purchase ice from the big dealers, and distribute it among their customers in small lots. In many parts of the city this delivery is accomplished only at un due proportional expense. That is why the ice peddlers are asking permission to increase charges, to the extent of covering extra cost of delivery. The difficulty is obvious, and the remedy is simple enough. Omaha apparently is not proper ly organized for the safe, speedy and economical supply of ice to the householders. Whether the ultimate establishment of the municipal ice plant will' relieve the situation need not now be dis cussed. Those who are better acquainted with facilities for production say that the addition of the output of the "muny" plant will no more than provide for the ordinary consumption of the city. What really must be had is a better system of delivery, ample storehouses, for example, so locat ed that service in particular localities may be prompt' and at a minimum cost Better readjust ment of present capacity wouid help, but some thing ought to be done before another hot sea son comes around. The soldiers' vote is going to determine which candidates go on the ticket in several places. The man who wins out by the help of the boys in service ought to be backing them up at every turn. When a battle stretches away along front of more than 60 miles, when a battle which marks a turning point in the history of the world is still bitterly waging, no living man can tell its tale. But one who has been in the thick of it can tell at least what he did and saw and heard. This, then, is th story of a sergeant who prefaced his tale by saying that, after all, he had not had much to do with the tight: It was late Wednesday, just before sun down, that we knew we were going into an attack. The day before that was Tuesday, the 16th, wasn't it? we had suddenly pulled up stakes, piled into trucks and started off for somewhere, we didn t know where. We were going along roads we didn't know through a countryside we d never seen before. I he boys were all singing and kid ding because they thought, most of them, that they were going into a rest area. They wanted to do nothing in the world except sleep for about a week. Lord knows, they d earned it. We had traveled all that night and all the next day before we ran into some Frenchies, who fell on our pecks. They told us there was to be a big advance the next morning and that we were going in, too. They told us it was to be an advance on a 50 kilometer front all the way from Soissons to Chateu Thierry. We laughed at those wild prophets, but a little further on we saw a lot of French tanks trundling ahead as if they meant busi ness. You should have heard the roar at the sight of them. You could hear the bunch passing the word along. "Oh, hell, there's going to be another party." I don't think I can ever tell you what the roads were like that Wednesday night It seemed to us as if all the soldiers from all the nations in the world were moving, mov ing, moving somewhere. French lancers, French of many a uniform, Jasbos and dough boys, doughboys, doughboys horses snort ing, drivers coaxing, cursing, doughboys laughing tanks, ammunition trains, ambu lances, supply trains, mules, horses, water carts, wheels, wheels, wheels; guns, guns, guns all creeping along in the mud and the dark and the rain all creeping over little, rotten, twisting country roads that climbed hills and dipped down into valleys, roads all cut up by shell fire, roads that hadn't been mended since Joan of Arc advanced along them. .There never was such a jam since the world began all in darkness so black you couldn't see your hand in front of your face. We could hear, we could feel the nightmare confusion. We couldn't see it except when a flare of lightning lighted up the whole country just for a second and then went out and left the blackness blacker than ever. We were hungry and thirsty. When a Whole army races over the hills and far away, they are pretty apt to get separated from their kitchens. I will say that some of the outfits got hot breakfast in the front line Friday morning. That means the supply boys worked like the devil, I can tell you. But that Wednesday night we had had noth ing except iron rations since we started, and hardtack sure makes you crazy with thirst. In the woods that evenine a sort of wild enchanted forest, it was, like the places in Andersen's fairy tales we got a little rest and a little water. It came from the water carts and we filled our canteens. Those of us that had any sense kept a little for use later on. It was just as well, for there were dress, there, vou dirtv. lousy doughboys right dress, or I'll drill your damned feet off when I get you back in camp! Kight dress! And so we went, with a rolling barrage to clear. .the oath. I don't know much what happened next, except the rush and only Germans hiding in dugouts, Germans at machine guns trying to stop us A ravine was our first objective, and we landed there breathless and not much the worse for wear. A moment later and could hear the colonel's voice behind us: "Is this Company K? Good work great work keep it up! . We kept it up 10 kilometers before mid night Maybe it was 12. Things aren't very clear in my mind the order of things You must remember we had already been two nights without sleep and almost without food and water. It couldn't have been much aftsr 6 when I got my first prisoners four of them lying limp on a pile of wire, playing possum. 1 just tapped one of them on the shoulder, Lome on, Hemic And they came like lambs, That niaht there was gas in a town we took, and that meant plenty of work and some waste hours spent in the masks. It was the i:xt morning, frndav morning, that we captured the major general, lhey say that s what he was. 1 don t know myseli. I say it was we who captured him. As a matter of fact, when a dozen of us finally got down into his dugout, which was deep as well with several nights of step.,, there were French soldiers from three different outfits, and there were three of our regiments represented in the dozen. That shows you how things got mixed up in that pell-mell rush. He was very tall the general and he was standing with his great cape drawn around him when we stumbled in on him. He rose and went up the steps and out with out saying anything. As he walked along a little doughboy sit ting by the roadside was smoking the mak- tns. ihe big prisoner stopped dead short, reached under his cape, drew out a gold cigaret case, put a cigaret to his lips, bent over and took a light from the doughboy, Then, with never a word, he stepped back into line and marched away. Ihe doughboy was left sitting by the road, his cigaret hang ing loose between his fingers, his mouth wide open. It was that day. rnday. that we passed the German aviation field with the hangars all burned in the wake of their retreat. It was that afternon, in a little town 10 kilome ters from where we'd started, that a stray German shell caught a group of us standing in the little court It was about 4 in the afternon, and the officers and men of several outfits had come together to hold a hurried council. Some of us 15, I think were killed outright Some were wounded, badly wounded. Some of us were merely knocked flat I was merely knocked flat. But the major was hurt and the captdn my captain, and one of the best men that ever walked they killed him. He didn't suffer, I think. He was conscious only a minute before he died. But he knew me. "Goodby, Jack," he said just that and died, with me bending over him. He had been a wonderful friend to me. We didn't have much time to think about it those of us who weren t hurt, for there were plenty who were, and they had to be carried away and patched up. You can only two wells in all the sector we took. I guess how dazed and how rushed we were. was pretty busy checking ud the tras mask. That was my job, you know. A good many a( .U - 1 L. 1 I I . 1 , . ui,iuc uuutn naa iosi ineirs. iney always uu. i naa none to give tnem, so l confis cated well, stole some French eras masks and passed them around. It must have been about midnicht whin tne oraer came to chuck evervthinor our light packs, and start on. That shows what a hurry we were in. Dawn was just beginning when we came up out of the last ravine and deployed along a wheat field. , We had studied the mans as best we rrmU by candle light. If we could only have had eight hours for a little breathing spell and a chance to study the maps and the country ahead of usl But surprise was the game, and when that's your game there's no time to Jose, no time to put things in order, no time for anything at all. Zero was 4.35. The captain looked at his watch when we got in line. It was 4.25. We had 10 minutes. All along the line as far as you could see the Germans were signalling for artillery, blue flares and white and pink. It stretched away so far I knew that those Frenchies had been rieht It must he. a hiir advance, an advance all along the line. aii along our platoon you could hear fhe bunch chuckling and whispering and getting set and some of them were singing ever so softly. Then, at 4:30 sharp, the barrage opened. From the sound of it. I think all the e-uns. big and little, French and American, from Soissons to Chateau-Thierry, went off in the same moment. They have told me since that that is just what happened, that the watches were synchronized. These guns spoke as if a single hand had fired a single gun the biggest gun the world had ever known. I have been under the guns, or within sight of them, everv dav and every night since March or pretty nearly. i mougnt i knew what gunfire was, but I never knew real gunfire before. It was 4:34. I could see the captain crossing himself and saying a little prayer to himself. Come to think of it, he wasn't a Catholic, as far as I know. But it doesn't matter. I suppose we all crossed ourselves mentally. And then 4:351 Zero! The time to be gin I And we began. Oh, boy, you should have seen the way that platoon went over the top as pretty a line as ever you saw. I coulC.hear the ser geant swearing like a demon at them. "Right The doctor at the first aid station thougHt I was wounded, and it was not until then that I found there was blood splashed all over my face the blood of my friends. Yet there was one little thing that happened that I noticed under all the stress. It sticks in my mind now. Up on the roof of a little building facing on that court a signal corps private was stringing a wire, and a pal of his was feeding him the wre from the ground below. When the shell fell it knocked the ground man against the wall, but part of it struck the one on the roof with such force that it knocked off the back half of his steel cap split it clean and knocked it off. He himself wasn't hurt. He was merely dazed. Three minutes later I saw him still sit ting on the roof holding the end of the broken wire in his hand. "Well," he called down to his side-kick, "I guess we'd better splice this wire." And he went ort with his work. First American Field Army The first American "field army" of which the organization has been announced is not an "army" in the specific sense given to the word either by Germans or allies. This arises from the unusual- strength of the American division as compared with other armies. As against the 12,000 men of a Ger man division, or the somewhat larger num ber in a French or British division, the Amer ican division is more than 27,000 men strong. The composition of our various army corps announced some time ago shows six divi sions to a corps, or about 160,000 men. This is five times the size of the French or British army corps. If now our first field army is to comprise five corps it would mean a force of 800,000 men, as compaed with the aver age "army" on the western front of two or three corps of two or three divisions each, or from 60,000 to 140,000 men. In fact, our first "field army" would be numerically two or three times as strong as the "army groups" of Foch or Ludendorff. Our first "fiejd army" really means that of the 1,400,000 men we nave shipped across more than half are ready for battle service and are in a position to take up longer stretches of front than we have hitherto occupied. But it is not likely that for some time will the American forces take charge of a long and continuous front like that held by the British or the French. New York Post VfieJd. 8TO Prices at Soda Fountains. Omaha, Aug. 22. To the Editor of The Bee: Apropos to Ice cream soda prices, permit me to air a few truths of the present-day prices of materials for this most popular of all summer beverages. Concerning the principal ingredient used in the manufacture of ice cream, sugar: Sugar three or four years ago eold for 4 to 14.20 a hundred. Ice price today is $8.40 a hundred. Ice cream sold at wholesale three or four years ago for 65 cents a gallon and the creameries were willing to pack it and keep it packed at that price, no matter what quantity was bought per week. Today it 1b different They demand that you buy 45 gallons a week or they charge extra for ice. As far as the manufacturers stating that tho price of ice cream has not advanced, it has advanced, aiid very nearly double the former price. The manufacturers were the first to boost the price, which made it necessary for the retailer to raise prices on soda fountain concoctions. A year ago ice was $4 a ton. This year it is $6, and, to cap the climax, you are told to buy a half ton more on Saturday night In order to have enough to run your business Sunday on account of no deliveries Sunday. The government tax on carbonic acid gas that makes your soda is 6 cents a pound, and a cylinder of gas that formerily sold for $3.25 now wholesales for $4.25, and one-third of the soda fountains in the city are out j ot gas and unable to supply their pa- irons wun soaa because of the gas manufacturers' inabilitv to for their furnaces. Crushed fruits in half-gallon Jars formerly sold for $12 a dozen. To. jiay the same article sells for $39 to aou a uozen. Twelve-ounce glasses used to whole sale $9 a gross; today they are from to Jl.bU a dozen: mora than double their former price. Jiiveryining nas srone on. Ralnri for fountain help and store haa trini.i salaries paid 10 years ago, when I first entered the drug, and soda busi ness, and yet some of the human race will try to tell the people we -re rob bing them by raising the price of ice cream soda 5 cents a glas3. C. A. B. Seize 'Em, Scoots. Omaha. Ausr. 22. To tha TJMttnr r,f The Bee: It has been sueeested thnt the war board in charge of labor give the country an ODDortnnitv in o-ot t. full benefit of the active services in war work of such zealous patriots as N. P. Dodge, R. L. Metcalfe, etc. The time which they expected to devote to congesslonal work Rhmiiri ho util ized by the government X. A. T. Jerry Feels Grateful. Omaha, Ausr. 22. To th Kditm. The Bee: Notwithstanding mv nrtfv. ity, it is a physical impossibility for me to meet individually all my friends who put me "over the top." There fore, please give me space- to extend to them collectively my most heartfelt manKs, especially the ministering an gels who championed my nomination. JttKKY HOWARD. LINES TO A SMILE. "Here's the argument. Invited to go motorlnjr. down." "Well?" "Now, should she stick tn tti r accept the Invitation of another motorist to take her home?" Louisvitu Journal. 8unreon (before tho sngriti.i,) w.n. ing? Tut! Tut! Whv. It won't anything. The Tightwad (with a sieh nt relluft Thank you, doctor. I knew you'd be Taa onable. Buffalo Express. A young lady Is The car breaks "General Foch Is a brilliant strategist." "Tea. but wa'va en t a in m, .. . v borhood who knows more about how this war should be run than Foch ever will know." Detroit Frea Press. She Women hava much more enduranca than men. He Of course, they have. Do you sud- pose any man would go around In a tem perature of 99 degrees wearing a sweater to match the summer furs? Baltimore Ameri can. Parks Yes, sir. The war will be won in the kitchen. Lane Good! I've had several wars In my kitchen and never won one yet. Judge. Jones Ever see one of those cateplllar trucks the paper tells about here. War Gardener No, but I have learned In my garden a lot this summer about the truck caterpillar. Cartoons Magazine. "Daughter, your young man hasn't been here for two nights. Where Is he? Pa said he d kick him Into the middle GIRLS! USE LEMONS FOR SUNBURN, TAN Try Itl Make this lemon lotion to whiten your tanned or freckled akin. I .TO DAV One Venr Ago Today In the War. British line advanced S00 yards on Vpres-Menin road. 'Russian forces began withdrawal from the Rlga-Dvina sector. Italians anounced the capture of 18,000 prisoners along the Isonxo. The Day We Celebrate. V- ', John R. Brotherton, attorney-at- few, born 1858. ueorge w. Alien. marnuT oi uma- ha's police department born 1871. Sir Laming Worthlngton Evans, British minister ot blockade, born 50 years ago. Amelia Rives Troubetzkoy, author, born at Richmond, Va., 55 years ago. . Prot .. Barrett Wendell, Harvard university faculty, born In Boston 6$ years ago." . ' Tlls Day fn History. . 1781 John M. Berrien, United States senator from Georgia and at torney general In Jackson's cabinet born near Princeton, N. J. Died at Savannah January 1, 1858. 1788 Gen. Josiah G. Totten, chief engineer of the United States army in three "wars, born at New Haven, Conn. Died In Washington, D. C, April 22, 1864.' .- ' 186 Peace between Austria and FruBsia.was signed at Prague. 1888 Thomas A. Becker was con secrated first Catholic bishop of WU ininerton. Pet , , ', 114 Japan dec artel a state of war witli Germany, Just SO Years Ago Today The Irish-American Republican club held a very large, meeting at its rooms in the Barker hotel. The membership now numbers 270. John T. Cathers delivered the address. Georga C. Knudsen of Pries lake, near Florence, brought one ot the largest wildcats to the county clerk's office that has ever been presented for bounty to that official. It. was 18 Inches high, ,40 inches long and weighed 88 pounds. Miss Grace Garrett ot Burlington, la., is visiting in Omaha. Five hundred Jap parasols have been received by the committee on uniforms for , Drummers' day . at the fair. , These sun shades are to be used aa the crowning ornament of drum mers in their parade, and one ot them will be presented to each man who marches In the procession. Over There and Here The Red Cross unit at Honolulu in cludes American, Chinese, Japanese and Portuguese women. A colorod soldler-to-be, headed for Camp Dodge, wad advised to make his will. "What to' I mek a will?" he asked. "Da only will I keah 'bout is will I cum back?" Ferdinand, the German boss of Bul garia, is weary of war and. the king business and ia laid up for repairs. This kultured ccout for an easy job never took kindly to war. If? mussed up thmgs, piled up expenses and in terfered with free access to the tax gather's pot Only large, juicy slices of a rival's reai estate and more sub servient slaves made war acceptable to Ferdy. In the present deal with Kaiser Bill the delay and uncertainty of securing title to the surrounding booty preys upou a mind attuned to quick profits minus prolonged funerals. Federal authorities at Reading, Pa., are about to knock off the capital "T" camouflaging the name ot Ferdinand Thun. t A big manufacturer Is Thun, prominent in the industrial Ufa of Pennsylvania. Whun a thousand men, women and babies on the Lusitania were torpedoed to a watery grave, Thun celebrated the slaughter with a banquet at his own expense.' Great wealth and wariness in subsequent years saved him from secret service attention, but he was not overlooked. Thun and Harry Janssen .another wealthy manufacturer, have been ar rested on charges ot jointly subsidis ing kultur newsoanera la this country. Center Shots Detroit Free Press: Only the Ger man mind can explain the war ad vantage in sinking a Ashing smack. Minneapolis Tribune: Mr. Gom pers is opposing the work or fight proposition. It sounds better in war time than work or strike. Baltimore American: The people ot western Siberia declared their in dependence on July 4. They have given themselves a good start if there is anything in precedent Cleveland Plain Dealer: An im mense proportion of the ""..German wounded are found to have been hit In the head; We've got some real American squirrel hunters over there now. ' Minneapolis Journal: A British scientist has invented a micrometer that measures a millionth part of an inch. The crown prince may now measure his advances toward Paris. New Tork World: Between crown princes, Prussian and Bavarian, Foch has created a new bond of fellowship. "The enemy has evaded" both of them by decisively defeating first one and then' the other. . . New York Herald: Now that the air mail has been carried on for a week by civilian aviators without in terruption, the Postofflce department regards the service as regularly in augurated. The fact that the mall on each of several trips has approximated 200 pounds is regarded as evidence ot the .growing popularity of the air route, . ,. .-. ,.. Twice Told Tales Spirit of the Times. ' The lawyer was sitting at his desk absorbed in the preparation of a brief. So intent was he on his work that he did not hear the door as it was pushed gently open, nor see the curly head that was thrust into his office. A lit tle sob attracted his notice and. turn ing, he saw a face that was streaked with tears and told plainly that feel ings had been hurt. "Well, my little man, did you want to see me?" "Are you a lawyer?" "Yes. What do you want?" "I want" and there was a resolute ring in his oic "I want a divorce from my papa and mamma:" Pear son's Weekly. Austro-German Alliance. Senator Simmons was talking about Austria's alliance with Germany. "Alliance?" he said. "Why, it's subservience. It's bondage. .It puts Austria in the position of the little, thin man who looked across the breakfast table at his herculean wife and murmured ttuldly: , - 'A letter for me. dear. Shall I open it? "Detroit Free Press. Please, Don't. "Well." said Mrs. Gabb. "since your friend, Mr. Nagg, has decided to visit us for a few days, I suppose I'll have to try and make him feel at home while he is here." "Oh. I wouldn't do that" interrupt ed Mr. Gabb. "He is a married man, you know." Cincinnati Enquirer, Squeeze the juice of two lemons into a bottle containing three ounces of Orchard White, shake well, and you have a quarter pint of the best freckle, sunburn and tan lotion and complexion wfcitener, at very, very small cost. Your erocer has the lemons and any drug store or toilet counter will supply three ounces of Orchard White for a few cents. Massage this sweet ly fragrant lotion into the face, neck, arms and hands and see how quickly the freckles, sunburn, windburn and tan disappear and how clear, soft and white the skin becomes. Yes! It is harmless. Adv. of next week, mother. I ruets that's whtrt he la "Baltimore American. "He looks to me like a mas who b4 loved and lost" "He looks to ma more like man whej had loved and won." Life. "How do you ilka that elgar 1 save yea old man? For 200 bands off that brand they give you a gramophone." "You don't sayl If I emoked J0 ct those cigars I wouldn't want a gramaphonej I'd want a harp." Boston Transcript OLD GLORY. Beneath thy starry folds unfurled All nations protected stand. The weak, the strong, the sora oppressed Of every clime and land. Symbol of hope to human kind Blest emblem of liberty! - Thy a sure blue and stars of light Are pledges of purity. From oat the troubled years of time, From a day that now Is gone. Thou hast come forth an Ideal true To forever lead us on. Once more the angry clouds of war Roll across our nation's sky. Onca more we fight for human rights Once again we do and die. Then lead ns on, oh emblem true I Lift our souls to noble deeds And let again thy starry folds Serve, as past, a nation's needs. The path we know is strewn with thorn For it Is our Calvary.1 Tet lead us on that after this The glorious day we see When all mankind shall stand at last Unshackled, unbonded, free! Where weak are strong and right is might Throughout all humanity. The Fobliclst fy9 TT ilospe 5ay.- "Ultimately you will choose the -the worlds finest piano Lar none But why T7 lose tmu?. why delay i Uivn We sell Krankh & Bacfi, Vose & Sons, Bash-Lane, Kimball, Cable-Nelson and the Hospe Players. , Used Pianos horn $145.00 up. Player Rolls, Benches. Tuning, Repairing and moving. Everything in Art tmd flusie 1513 Douglas St. Operations May Often Be Escaped The records are full of in stances where operations for appendicitis have been avoided. The condition upon which the need for an operation is based has its cause in slug gish action of the bowels. When nerves are pinched at the point of emission be tween joints of the backbone it results in weakened or sluggish action of the parts served by such nerves. Chiro practic adjustments remove the pressure and Nature works a restoration to nor mal health. Before the extreme Of an operation is resorted to be sure that the cause is not one easily removed by ad justments. A Spinal analysis is free. DR.J0SEPH C.LXVRENCE Established as a CHIROPRACTOR Since 1912 I Bard Bk.N.W. Cor. 17 tifi Dowlas s ornct MOuet -4.n: mpx Exeter fuNOAV I TTLFPHOMM ovnw-eoocoj msi AtJ-WAlNUT SO mm ather ite Us est in Stoiiiac Keep a close watch on your stom ach this summer We need all our fighting strength War work change of diet will make as all easier1 prey to stomach and bowe. trouble than ever before It is so , easy to become overheated on a blazing hot day especially after eating a hearty meat And then the excessive heat makes as flood oar "tomachs with all kinds of cold drinks. That's bad at any time: ,much worse even danger ouswhen there is the slightest feeling of stomach trouble Keep the stomach sweet and coo and free from too much acid that's about aL that is neces sary It's not so much the diet as to keep the poison from start ing trouble You can easily do this if yon wiL ,"03t take a tablet or two of EATON IC after your meals. EATONIC is the wonderful new compound that absorbs the harm ful gases and .Tiicea and almost instantly drives away stomach misery Instead of sadden and painful attacks of indigestion after yon begin using EATONIC you'll for get yoa have a stomach And there will be no more heartburn food repeating, sour stomach, gas pains, or tnat lumpy, bloated reeiiljg you have so often experienced aiter eating Then your appetite yea know bow bara it is to satisfy m hot weather eat one or two EATONIC Tab.eto a hat hour be fore meats and yon wiL enjoy the re suits anc lee. better in every way These are a tew reasons way yon should start using EATCM iCtoday and fortify your stomach against the chancu trouble this summer It costs oiLy 60o for a big package Your droeeist whom yoa mow ana can trust wiL prompt? J UU J more tn&n satuned, yoa an oat