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THE BEE'S SERVICE FLAG
All ready .to mobilize the army of school chil
dren for the annual Offensive against ignorance.
"Two husbands cfcunt same wife", reads a
headline.". And that when war has made hus
bands so scarce. ' - ".
Martyrdom for .the i W. W. at the price of
twenty years in the peifltentiar? will soon lose
all ol its attractiveness. ' '
The threatened boost fci the price of private
wires" Unexpected to redute the number used.
The least leased wires the tetter.
t Assurance comes by roundabout way that
Hindenburg is alive and kickfog. The story that
Kitchener is still somewhere In captivity has not
recently come, back. ' x
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' The official prohibition prospectus lists Ne
braska among the states "absolutely certain" for
ratifying the federal amendment If that's the
case, what's the use of fussing aliout it?
How viewpoints change 1 The . proposed min
imum 6 per cent income tax rate f now referred
to as "nominal'' Presumably thece is no word
left to characterize the old 2 per cent tax.
. .. it .-M:... m i&iztbA with
Kcaicitrant jnuu. --
touting, "To hell with the FathellanoT For
the misguided people of Germany we move to
amend, to make it, "To hell with the liaiserl':
McNab of San Francisco is trying to -force
Mayor Rolph out of the way of Francis? J. Heney,
who might have been democratic nominee for
g oernor of California if the voters had .not pre
ferred Rolph. AH right, and then the voters will
have another chance to turn down the gifcat po
litical "trust buster" J
Captain Soy-ed, who had a hand in tHe dis
tributon of the ' slush fund for German 'propa
ganda in America, is said to have publied a
j.V.m uAtli tti. Uir1nrmnf that brtOUflrht
the United States Jnto the war. ' Wonder if he
tells who ' got the money J. with which ' certain
newspapers were innoculated with byphenisfln.
Denver is issuing $10,800,000 water bondi to
consummate the acquirement of its water .wdrks
at an agreed price of $13,970,000, purchase pro
ceedings having been pending even longer than
it took for us in Omaha to buy our water system.
If Omaha felt stung In paying $6,230,000, perhaps
there is balm' in seeing Denver stuck for mose
-than twice that sum. ,'..,..';.; . ' ',,
" Taking , Care of Industry. . s
The administration is preparing to deal with
two. phases of the really important problem of
placing industry on a war footing. Firms and
corporations ' engaged in nonessential lines are
threatened with bankruptcy, by .reason of. en
forced cessation of activity, and those that are
being'transferred, to the essential groiip are suf
fering from the temporary interruption. For the
latter class Chairman Baruch of the War Indus
tries board proposes recourse to the half-billion
fund established by congress to aid in such cases.
These can be tided over any passing embarrass-
ment by this tneane, but the group whose opera
tions will be entirely shut down must have a more
permanent form of relief. Chairman Harding of
the Federal Reserve board is giving this his at
tention, and will have some recommendations to
make on the point soon. It is said that exten
sion of credit in form of rediscounts has been
suggested as a measure of relief for institutions
that might "otherwise be forced into disastrous
liquidation. Exigency of ' the war situation is
forcing, such" extensive readjustment of business
that only through the ntmost care can serious
trouble' be averted. Obligation in this regard
rests quite as heavily on the citizens as on the
government, and prudent co-operation must , be
established to prevent permanent injury to the
country's borne interests. w '
OUR LOANS TO OUR ALLIES.
As everyone knows, a large part of the money
raised through the sale of the Liberty bonds has
been used for loans to our allies. If we are fight
ing our battles shoulder to shoulder with our war
partners for the same object and for the same
stake, we are under obligationsto extend them
the utmost financial help as well as men, muni
tions' and supplies. The very fact that our allies
bore the brunt of the onslaught for" more than
three years before we took a hand and in that
time depleted their resources for our benefit as
much as their own makes this obligation all the
stronger.
Yet, we must not delude ourselves with the
notion that we are being called on to' carry more
than our part of the financial load or that Great
Britain, which alone of our allies is in position to
share this burden, is not likewise coming hand
somely across. We quote a reference in the Lon
don Times to a recent statement officially made
by a member of the British cabinet, which should
open our eyes to what Great Britain has done
in this direction:
Meanwhile the most interesting financial dis
closure made by Mr. Bonar Law was his an
nouncement of the details of the loans made
by us during the war to our several Allies.
Hitherto it had been considered contrary to the
public interest to say how much we had lent to
each other, but it is now felt that this reticence
is no longer necessary. The public now learns,
therefore, that of the 1.402 millions (of pounds
sterling) lent by us to the Allies up to the end
of July and awing to the help now given by
the United States this is 22,700,000 less than
was estimated in the last Budget Russia has
had 568 millions, France 402 millions, and Italy
313 millions, while the remaining 119 millions
has gone to the smaller states, including Bel
gium, Serbia, Greece, and Roumania.
The Times goes on to declare its agreement
with Bonar Law in his avowal that no qualms
have ever been felt in that country about these
advances and adds:
We may sometimes discuss among ourselves
how far part of these loans may be "recover
able," but that does not alter the fact that we
have made them in the consciousness of our
own wealth, and with an unselfish determina
tion to put it and all our national strength in
to the common service against the common
enemy. That we have done this in complete
unselfishness is, we fell sure, well recognized
by our Allies.
That we are confident, well expresses the
sentiment also back of the money which we in
the United States have advanced to the other
countries engaged with us in the world conflict
against the Hun. It is only a question of best
subserving the common purpose and most quick
ly achieving the universally desired end. The very
knowledge that the hard hit countries can draw
upon the limitless resources of Great Britain and
America will be one of the powerful factors forc
ing the German people finally to realize and
admit the hopelessness of the kaiser's ambition
to chain the world to the chariot of "kultur."
War and the Literary Guild.
One of the wonders of the war so far has
been the failure of the literary guild to produce
even a novelty, let alone something distinctly
worthy. The paucity of invention and lack of
penetration is appalling, in view of the achieve
ments of the cold-blooded scientists, who have
evolved marvels from mathematical formula ap
plied through the mechanic arts. Perhaps it is
because the magnitude of events has staggered
those romancers who are filling the pages of cur
rent, publications with their output, but the fact.
remains they have invented nothing, not even a
Mannikins that have served since first the
doughty deeds 'of daring' heroes came to be
chronicled for the astonishment and despair of
bewildered but admiring weaklings, are again
paraded, this time decked out in khaki, Sam
Brown belts, field gray or other modern uniform,
in deference to! the day. . In turn they have worn
every variety of garb thai has encumbered and
distinguished the fighting man from the time of
the troglodyte onward. Moreover, they are. do
ing the self-same things in the old familiar way;
a variant of the modern school being that the
brave man dies, but always with a smile" on his
face that haunts and inspires his survivor.
One credit mark- should be given the story
tellers. They have quit having the hero listen
"dreamily! to the soft purr of his smoothly-running
airplane engine. Stern reality has knocked that
recent" concomitant of a good story higher than
any birdman yet' has Mown. Maybe the haste
to reach the market early has resulted in bring
lag to the consumer so much of unripened fic
tion, and that when the first rush is over more
mature," and consequently more desirable, fruit
will be offered. Most of the stuff that is now
ccitning In it both juiceless and tasteless.
Views, Reviews and Interviews
Incidental Remarks Suggested by Personalities Figuring
in Current News
It is gratifying to the friends of Capt. C.
E. Adams, as it must bt to him, to have
him bring back again to Nebraska the high
est honor within the gift of , the G. A. R.
the position of national commander. To be
head of this great organization, the remnant
of the finest fighting force the world has
ever seen, up the time of its disbandment,
is the privilege of few, even though the tetm
is only one year and rotation is quickened
by the rule against re-elections. Captain
Adams has been an indefatigable worker in
the ranks of the G. A. R. My acquaintance
with him dates back more than 25 years,
when he successfully planned and carried
through the Kansas-Nebraska Interstate
G. A. R. reunion that put the town of Su
perior on the map
In response to insistent demand that
The Bee send a member of its home office
staff to cover the meeting, as the only foot
loose reporter, I was delegated to go to
Superior, where I was received and treated
as a special guest. The reunion proved to
betjuite up td prospectus and I had such an
enjoyable time that I welcomed the chance
to repeat the assignment the following sum
mer. I do not believe I have attended many
G. A. R. gatherings since, but it would be
a safe wager that few, if any, have been
pulled off in, this state that Captain Adams
has missed.
Another incident in my personal relations
with Captain Adams, which have always been
cordial and pleasant, goes back to the famous
1894 republican state convention. That con
vention made history by sponsoring the
nomination of Tom Majors for governor,
bolted by my father and The Bee, with the
result that the election went to Judge Hol
comb, Nebraska's first populist governor.
I have no present desire to review the whys
and wherefores of those proceedings, ex
cept to recall that Captain Adams was the
chairman to whom I delivered the letter my
father had written explaining why he could
not support the nominee and tendering his
resignation as member of the republican
national committee in order to be wholly in
dependent in the course of action he had
decided upon. By advice of the floor leaders,
whom he hastily consulted, the chairman
pocketed the missive without disclosing its
contents to the delegates, who remained in
ignorance of what had happened until the
newsboys came rushing into the building
with copies of The Bee containing the full
text of the document, and the sensation it
created forced another hasty conference that
reversed the previous decision and instructed
the chairman to present the letter to the
convention for its action.
The death of Senator Ollie James leaves
a big hole in the leadership of the demo
cratic party. Ollie James used to be adver
tised as "the baby giant from Kentucky"
and in stature came fully up to the pros
pectus, though in endurance he fell short
of it. Senator Tames was one of William
Jennings Bryan's political finds, and at his
invitation, came out to Nebraska as neaa
liner for one of the early so-called three-
ringed fusion circuses the triangular meet
ings of democrats, populists and silver re
publicans, by-which the "silver forces" were
welded together behind a single set of candi
dates. This particular assemblage took
place in Grand Island and as I remember it,
the Kentucky orator did a fine job ot spew-
binding. Senator James campaigned in Ne
braska again two years ago, hammering
down the proposition " a vote for ,Wilson
is a vote for peace," and I have no doubt
exerted effective influence in piling up that
41,000 plurality for the democratic presi
dential ticket. He nad a very attractive
personality and had he lived longer might
well have climbed still to higher fame as a
public man.
i
The late Senator James was not only a
little giant in size, but he was distinguished
also .by possession of a shiny pate.
"I see you have been honored by having
a postoffice over in West Virginia named
after you," so a constituent accosted him as
the story is told.
"You don't say?" exclaimed the senator
with a pleased look. "Did they call it 'Ollie'
or 'James?'"
"Neither l" came the retort. "It is called
'Bald KnoW"
The current American Magazine plays up
a former Nebraskan who has aviated to the
pinnacle of fame and fortune with portrait
and laudation. The picture presents the
familiar face of Walt Mason, "whose poems
are printed daily in a syndicate of 200 news
papers reaching 10,000,000 readers," and who,
from being a complete failure a dozen years
ago, became prosperous and happy, known
and loved all over the country." When Walt
was sticking type around Omaha he was in
the abyss of failure, as he will doubtless
readily admit, and he raised himself but
slightly when he reached Beatrice and stuck
there. The turn of the tide is credited to
the chance of writing to the Emporia Gazette
for a job, giving as his credentials the own
ership of right of "all degrees that could be
conferred upon him by a certain institution
that claimed to cure booze fighters" and a
desire to try himself out in a dry town. At
least this is the way vouched for by William
Allen White. Whatever worked the trans
formation, whether the dryness of a Kansas
town or a final coming to himself, Walt
Mason is one of the national figures produced
out of Nebraska journalism, and not the
smallest of them by any means.
The monitor of Senator Hitchcock's hyphen
ated paper will have to be more vigilant He
has let slip by him a communication calling Sen
ator Norris "that menial of the kaiser." But it
was Hitchcock, and not Norris, who sponsored
the kaiser's no-export-of-arms bill and cham
pioned the Hun scheme to choke off our allies
from marketing their securities in this country.
When it comes to doing "menial" work for the
kaiser, no one has anything on Hitchcock.
But Mayor . Smith is credited with having
lofty ideas without going up with the flyers.
'i'Why Have We No Friends?79
The Eternal Question Fronting the Pariah of Nations
Philadelphia Public Ledger.
ter of even militarism at its maddest. They
no more believed that Germany or France
would strike a treacherous, deadly blow at
Belgium than that a foot ball player would
begin the game by stabbing a spectator.
When the cowardly thing was done they
gasped, incredulous and then took another
long, accusing, horrified look at this land of
Goethe, , Schiller and Wagner.
But this assassination of a nation was
only the beginning. ' Horrors followed thick
and fast. Where were the chivalry, the high
courage, the knightliness of war? The Ger
mans were fighting like brute beasts. It
would be idle to go over the sickening cata
logue again; but of this Germany may be
sure when it asks, as defeat darkens the hori
zon, why it has no friends every mur
dered civilian, every shamed woman, every
maimed child, every desecrated and de
stroyed home strewn along that first terrible
-t- ji V i r a i .
marcn inrougn Dcigium ana r ranee nas Deen
long since resurrected as a regiment of
avengers whose massed armies will one day
compel Germany to pay to the uttermost.
"Why have we no friends?"
This, on the testimony of an American
lady just returned from Germany, is "the
eternal question" ever and everywhere heard
in that mighty empire, once all-conquering
and confident, now depresed by defeat,
doomed and damned.
Even a bespectacled German cannot es
cape this stunning truth. His beloved Fath
erland is utterly without friends. No matter
which way he looks, he sees unwilling satel
lites, shivering "neutrals" who hate and fear
him, and open enemies that cover the earth.
We sometimes laugh at our long list of allies
against Germany. But the German does not
laugh. It meant that the condemnation,
the contempt, the distrust, the disdain of the
entire world have avalanched upon his head.
The great case on trial before the grim court
of last resort might be fairly listed as "Ho-
henzollern against Humanity.
But why has Germany no friends? When
one comes to look at it, it is extraordinary
that the great duel for which the world long
waited between. the triple alliance and the
triple entente should have found the rest of
the nations all on one side. Public opinion
is not usually so unanimous in any war. But
in this war even one member of the triple
alliance went over to the triple entente. The
two ieutonic empires stand absolutely alone,
w wtiij ui w. j . w ii i si eu. J uwuguv, was la-
boozted" and bullied, and Bulgaria, which
rose from a hospital cot in search of revenge.
What are the reasons for this shameful iso
lation?
First It was Germany that lifted the lid
off hell. The decent, civilized, humane sec
tions of the human race have never yet re
covered from the shock of waking up one
morning out of their dreams of millennial
dawn to find that a great nation, nominally
civilized and Christian, had actually opened
the wild beasts' cage and let the carnivora
of war loose upon the complacently peaceful
world of this twentieth century. Why, we
all thought before August, 1914, that a war
between advanced industrial nations was
"impossible." Germany committed the crime
of slaying our settled belief in human prog
ress in the triumph of the good and setting
up once more the butchers code that the
blood of battles must baptize whatever lead
ership mankind would follow.
Second Germany again shocked man
kind by its methods of "making war. Its huge
armies began by riding down an innocent
nation that stood in their path. Military
writers had talked of swinging into France
by way of Belgium for years, but the vast
mass of law-respecting, treaty-regarding men
and women had simply never regarded it as
possible. They thought immeasurably bet- dpd?"
Third Gradually the German purpose
emerged from the smoke of battle so menac
ing and monstrous that none could mistake
it 'Germany meant to master mankind. The
German ambition was to establish German
rule throughout the world by force or the
fear of force. It has no friends now because
it proposed to know no friends in the day of
its triumph. Its soldiers sang "Deutschland
ueber Alles" as they smashed their way
across two of the finest industrial districts
in Europe. And that was its preconceived,
imperial policy Germany over all.
These are probably the three chief vision
clearing shocks to the universal human con
sciousness which has made every people
free to choose its course align itself with
the original entente allies whose heroism
averted the greatest disaster of civilized
times. We think instinctively of many other
German acts than those mentioned, but
they all fall into one or other category.. The
atrocities have been unnumbered, unceasing
and often unmentionable the Lusitania. the
hospital ships, the torture of prisoners, the
maiden tribute ot uiie but tliey all merely
go to show how Germany makes war. Brest
Litovsk shows how it makes peace, with the
insane purpose of world domination always
in mind. Germany has challenged mankind
to a fight-to-a-finish to settle who jhall be
master the German race or "the common
sense of most." On such a batleground,
where could Germany expect to find friends
except in the kingdom of that other arch
enemy of the human race whom the kaiser
blasphemously defines as our good German
The Empire 0 Siberia I
About 90 per cent of the population
of Siberia Is of Russian origin.
Nine-tenthi of the Inhabitants of
western Siberia are engaged In agri
culture. The entire population of Siberia is
estimated at little more than 7,009,
000. The Siberian winters are long and
exceedingly severe, the summers short
and hot
Siberia haa long been the greatest
source ot supply of, the fur trade of
the world.
While. Siberia has many schools it
haa but one university, which is lo
cated at Tomsk.
Siberia has an area more than one
and one-half times as great as that of
the United States.
Vladivostok, the great Siberian port
on the Pacific, was founded by Rus
sia in the year I860.
Siberia contains rich deposits of
graphite, used chiefly in the manu
facture of lead pencils.
Virtually all of the crops common
to the temperate cone can be pro
duced In abundance in the vast agri
cultural regions ot southern Siberia.
The Trans-Siberian railway repre
sents the greatest railway undertak
ing in th world. It cost nearly (175,.
000,000 and took 11 years to build.
The city of Tomsk Is the largest
manufacturing center of Siberia, hav
ing flour mills, potteries, iron
foundries, sugar refineries, and a
variety of other factories.
Peter the Great began to send pris
oners to Siberia in 1710. The system
was continued for 200 years, until
abolished in 1910, except in the case
of political offenders.
Irkutsk, the seat of the administra
tion of government in Siberia, is a
city of more than 125,000 inhabitants,
and contains many handsome build
ings and modern improvements.
Of recent years thousands of Rus
sian peasants have settled in Siberia
to carry on agriculture, and nearly all
the fertile soil free of forest and out
side the steppes has been occupied.
One of the principal Siberian cities
is Tobolsk, the commercial center of
the vast province of Tobolsk, which
extends over an area ot 500,000 square
miles, a large portion of which, how
ever, is practically uninhabited. The
most prominent building in the city
is the Kremlin, built in Imitation of
the great citadel in Moscow. This
structure was erected by Swedish
prisoners of war captured by Peter
tne ureat at tne battle of Poltava in
1709.
DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES.
"Man li n unreasonable critter."
"How now?"
"He'd like to have every pretty fir! he
eeea in love with him. Tet what a lire
he'd have with four or five thousand wlra
min In love with him. Louisville Courier
Journal. "That man ! telltnc of the moat wonder
ful exploits he accomplished when he waa
on the firing line."
"Waa he ever overseas T"
"Well, he might have been half aeas
over." Baltimore American.
" 'A primrose by the river's brim, a yel
low primrose waa to - him, and It was
nothing more.' What does that Una mean?"
"Well, It means that to a poet a primrose
la something to throw a fit over, while to
a botanist It la a grandlflora." Kansas City
Journal.
"Tour money or your life," said the high
wayman. "Mister," said the facetious rlcttm.
"you've got the wrong slogan. What you
ought to say la "Work or fight.' " Detroit
Free Press.
Friend 'The office boy was Just con
fiding to me that he wanted to be boss
some day."
The Boss (with a sigh) "Queer, Isn't It?
I waa just envying the office boy hla Job."
New Haven Register.
Srlde 'How do I compare with your
mother's record?"
Bridegroom Well, dear, your fusses are
nothing to the ones mother used to make."
Baltimore American.
Mrs. Sparks (dejectedly) "Our cook li
going to leave, Frank. She says the kitch
enette Isn't large enough to turn around
in."
Mr. Sparks ''By Oeorge! I wonder If
she'll stay if I install a turntable." Buf
falo Express.
Dome 8. Tick Isn't It awful to have to
give up your home and wife and go to
war?
Oabe Oy My only regret Is that I have
but one wife to give up for my country.
Town Topics.
"Well, what have you done about It?"
"Done?" returned J. Fuller Gloom. "Why.
I haven't done anything about It, ot course.
I have been too busy wrlttng plecea to the
papers demanding that something be done."
Judge.
Mother wanted Fannie to marry the mil
lionaire. Father wanted her to marry the
ioor man.
"Ton married tor love yourself, my dear,
Sid you not?" smiled father, sentimentally.
"Tes." answered the mother, decisively,
"and you dofl't suppose rm going, to stand
by and are our daughter make the same
mistake, do you?" Baltimore American.
That school teacher la foxy minx. Told
bar puplta to writ a composition oa the
automobile."
"Now she knowa where to look for motor
rides." Chicago Poet
The word highbrow' used to mean j.
someone excessively Intellectual, but now It l '
apparently means someone who la disagree- .
able." "Well, what'a the difference?" Life.
MILTON'S PRAYER.
I am old and blind! ""
Men point at me aa amltten by Ood'e frown --
Afflicted and deserted of my mmd
Tet I am not cast down.
t'
I murmur not that I no longer aee; T
I am weak, yet dying.
Poor, old and helpless, I the mora belong,'
Father Supreme, to Thee. I ' V
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0 merciful One! '!.
When men are farthest then Thou art most v
near; J,
When friends pass coldly by, my weakness',
shun.
Thy chariot I hear. J
Thy glorious face ,
Is leaning towarda me. and its holy light ,.
Shines In upon my holy dwelling place,
And there Is no more night. 'L
On my bended knea v
I recognise Thy purpose clearly shown;
My vision Thou hast dimmed that I may set f
Thyself Thyself alone. f
1 have naught to fear; "V
This darknesa Is the shadow of Thy wing ;"
Beneath It I am almost sacred, here
Can come no evil thing.
Oh! I seem to stand
Trembling, where foot of mortal nevar ye
has been, -Wrapped
In the radiance of Thy sinless hand -
Which eye hath never aeen. s:.
Visions come and go;
Shapea of resplendent beauty around ma ,
throng;
From angels' lips I seem te hear the flow .
Ot aoft and holy song. a
It Is nothing now.
When Heaven la opening on my sightless ,
eyee.
When airs from Paradise refresh my brow, .
That earth in darkness lies.
In a pure clime ' ',
My being fills with rapture ; waves of thought ,
Roll In upon my spirit; wavea sublime ''
Break over me unsought.
Give me now my lyre!
I feel the stirring of a gift divine , -
Within my bosom glows unearthly fire, . -
Lit by no skill of mine.
ELIZABETH LLOYD HOWELL,
Unsightly Hair
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r 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., . , .
See tho
CADILLAC
at tha
STATE FAIR
Lincoln, Neb.
One Tear Ago Today In the War.
Four German mine sweepers sunk
. ' by British deatroyera
French struck blow on Alsne front.
taking mile of trenches and holding
gains against counter aiucKa.
CUmeral Pershing moved hla head
quarters from Parle . to the region
turned over by the French govern
i ment for training American soldiers.
The Day We Celebrate. " '
William E. Paimatier, manager
nrominent Loan society, born 1863.
Alfred C Kennedy, real estate man,
born 1892. . , ? "
rtn&r Admiral Samuel McGowan,
- navmajter areneral . of tha United
States navy, born , at. Laurens,. S. C
4 ft Vfltara a.m.
George W. Anderson, member of
the 'Interstate Commerce commission,
born at Acworth. N. H- 67 years ago.
Henri Bouraasl, leader of the
French nationalist party in Canada,
born in Montreal. SO years ago.
James J. Corbett, former champion
heavyweight pugilist ot the world,
bora n San Francisco, 63 years ago.
This Pay in History.
1851 Gen. Narcisco Lopes, the dar-
' ing filibuster, who attempted to wrest
Cuba from the Spaniards, died in
Havana. Born in Venezuela In 1799.
1864 General Hood evacuated At
- lsnta, after blowing vp his military
. Tvors and destroying bis stores.
Just 80 Year's Ago Today
Tha Ninth ward reDublican club
held an enthuslastlo meeting at Ilerti-
man's hall and elected as president.
H. U Seward; vice president, J. F.
Hertzman, and treasurer, J. K.
Coulter.
A Jolly gathering 'of young folks
and inspiring musio enlivened Hans-
com park on the occasion of the sec
ond of the select moonlight parties of
Harmony Social club. -The committee
of arrangements consisted of Misses
O. Brandels, T. Saly, Messrs. B. Har
rls and H. Kotholz.
E. C. Snyder has returned from a
delightful vacation spent in New
York." Philadelphia and other places
In the east.
M. It. Mendelssohn of Mendelssohn,
Fisher & Lawrie. architects, is on an
eastern jaunt, taking In Chicago,
Cleveland, Detroit and other archl
tectural centers.
Around the Cities 1
Goshen, Ind., proudly boasts of a
father, aged 64, who followed hla son
Into the army. William A. Brooks Is
his name. The son is In France and
dad is headed in that direction, via
Jefferson barracks.
Minneapolis Is mighty sore about
tha restrictions on burning up gaso
line on Sundays. While the major
portion of the city lies west of the di
viding line enough fringes the eastern
side of the Mississippi to render ex-
emption - unpractical. Besides, the
major twin hews to the line ol safety
by sticking close to St. Paul, at least
on Sabbath daya.
Buffalo voters, 35,000 to 7,000, re
jected an ordinance authorizing 6-cent
tares oa street railways. Releren
dums on that issue work that way.
Traction people are more successful
with state commissions. 'Boston and
Pittsburgh have 7 -cent fares, Mis
souri cities are on a 6-cent basis, and
several Massachusetts cities, by mu
tual agreement, conceded 6-cent fares
for the duration of the war.
Unbusinesslike accounting of the bus
in esa affairs of the city of Minneapolis
is sharply crltlzed by the state public
examiner, after an extended exam in
ation. Defects consist of overlapping
accounts, lack of Inventories of city
property, and the eagerness of city
officials to spend more money than
the taxes produce. r The city comptrol
ler admits the charge and offers as a
remedy the removal from ofnee of an
official "who makes expenditures In
i excess of aiyiual appropriations,"
Quait Bits ol Li fe
The United Statw senate meets on
an average of less than 200 days In
a year and it costs about 99,000 for
each meeting day.
Canadians are discussing the ques
tion of .having'allens now in intern
ment camps in Canada employed on
the highways of Canada.
Miss Jessie McGtath of Chicago,
carried 61,962 in bills sewed in the
lining of her clothing, it was develop
ed when she was sent to the hospital.
Six thousand five hundred and thir
teen women are holding 61 different
classes of jobs on the Pennsylvania
railroad lines east of Pittsburgh.
As a consequence, it Is charged, of
wilful misstatement of ages, the num
ber of women in the British census
groups, aged 20 to 25, and 25 to SO,
is disproportionately high.
Dr. Isabella Gray of St Louis, I1U
is said to be the first woman admitted
to the United States army service with
rank of lieutenant. She has been as
signed as an anesthetist at a base hos
pital.
For the first time In their lives,
refugee children sheltered in the Lux
emburg asylum In the Toul sector in
France are being taught to brush and
care for their teeth by American Red
Cross nurses. . . ,
Joel Moses, named for state engt
neer on the socialist ticket In New
Tork state, explained that he could
not take the nomination, as he was
not an engineer, but a tailor. The
convention raid that wouldn't make
, any difference.
Over There and Here
Lord Lansdowne, the British pa
cifist. Is now trying to. put through
Parliament a bill to legalize lotteries
promoted by war charities.
Oh, well, if men a clothes go up a
few more notches over here a sufn
cient margin will be left open for
condoling with the Viennese. A pre
sentable suit for a man costs from
1300 to $500 in Vienna.
A soldier at Camp Dlx, belonging to
a sect forbidding marriage, won a 10-
year penitentiary sentence for mak
ing an allotment to a "spirit wife."
The latter returned the money and
gave the soldier's game away.
New British regulations forbid
aliens of German and Austrian
descent from disguising, themselves
with new names. All name changes
made since August. 1914, are declared
unlawful. Hereafter changes cannot
be made without royal license.
T. P. O'Connor, M. P., report! that
6ver 900 of his Liverpool constituents
have perished on the battlefields of
the war. Other divisions of the king
dom have made proportionate sacri
flees. Never before have Britons
made greater Ufa offerings for the lib
erties or their rosterlty.
Private Harry L. McFarland of
Fallston, Pa., in a letter to his father
tells of finding his brother dead on
the battlefield of France and of aid
ing his burial, and adds this soldierly
postscript: "Now, Dad, do not worry
too much. He died game. He still
held his rifle in his hand and there
were seven dead Huns in front of
him."
Eleonora deCisneros
f ,)( .-)
lime. Eleonora de Osaeros
Le&dlng Mezzo - Soprano
Chicago Opera Company
Praises
MUAILIL
-PIANOS
W. W. Kimball Co.
.Chicago
Gentlemen:
I realize in your pianos the
qualities 1 most admire. The
tones are beautiful and blend
perfectly with the voice.
The Kimball piano is very
valuable to the singer, as it
aids ,arv) supports the voice
most effectively.
Very sincerely yours.
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