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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE! OCTOBER 6, 1918.
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Put th good old U. S. A. behind the punch.
T. N. 17 ha a nasty habit of going off on
light provocation, and is no respecter of persona.
Yon hay the best excuse you ever had for
not going to church today, but it will not last
forever.
The "Spanish flu" germ avoids the interned
Germans, proving that the bug has some sense,
after all
Things art reported to be "moving". in
"Turkey. The same is true of several places on
the map in Europe.
Not many people will quarrel with an edict
that drives them outdoors into Nebraska's won
derful Indian summer.
Nothing in the quarantine order will prevent
people from going into the parks or visiting the
ountry as far as they like today.
.' Foch hat materially assisted the new Ger
man chancellor in coming to the conclusion that
id will be well to restore Belgium.
While Indoor Liberty loan meetings are
abandoned, nothing in the situation should op
erate to prevent your buying a bond.
' "The United States is no boarding house,"
says "IV R." and he thereby states a great truth
which all the world is coming to recognize.
i! Over 10,000 men a day landed in France for
the American army during the month of Au
gust Some feat, no matter how it is viewed.
The kaiser was right when he told his people
last March that the hour had struck, but he was
not well prepared for the recoil. In fact, the
hour struck him.
King Ferdinand of Bulgaria has done one
act In connection with the war that becomes
htm he has abdicated. Sets a good example
for the kaiser, too.
Still, you'll have to admit that "Charley"
Pool was both thrifty and enterprising when he
enclosed his campaign literature with the official
mail going out from his office.
Americana are credited with having borne
the big end of the hardest fighting around Cam
bra!, as well as along the Meuse, and they are
winning all the way, just as the home folks
knew they would.
; Formation of an American foreign legion is
proceeding apace, but no faster than the Czechs,
Slavs and other of the oppressed and sub
merged races In Europe would like to see it.
These are really fighting for liberty, and well
they know why.
, German newspapers are now giving extra
credit to Hun regiments that stand up and fight
the oncoming Americans. Some change in view
from the early days of the summer, when these
same papers insisted that the Yanks couldn't
get across and wouldn't fight if they did.
Subscribers leaving ths city should have Tha Bea mailed
ta than. Address chanitd as often as rsgusstsd.
THE BEE'S SERVICE FLAG
- The Hun has given another reason for the
exclusion of Wagnerian music from American
programs by naming his "lines" after the heroes
and heroines of the great Richard's noisy op
eras. As s6re of our readers may recall, these
characters behaved in a way the present-day
German admires and tries to imitate.
"Colossal Cheek"
OH, WHAT A FLOP!
Oh, what a beautiful flop our amiable hy
phenated contemporary is now performing to
cover over another black spot in its record of
pro-Germanism, though being a flop in the
right direction, it perhaps calls for approval in
spite of its doubtful sincerity.
We refer to latest pronouncement of the
World-Herald unequivocally and uncondition
ally in favor of the pending constitutional
amendment decreeing "no votes for aliens,"
when scarcely six months ago it was trying to
save the right of subjects of the kaiser to con
tinue to vote in Nebraska until after the next
presidential election.
To keep the record straight, we quote from
the documents in the case.
In his address to the Nebraska legislature,
convened in special session March 26, last, Gov
ernor Neville, now heading the democratic
state ticket for re-election, treated this subject
as follows:
"The time has come when steps should be
taken to make citizenship the qualification of
an elector. I have no patience or disposition
to temporize with the man of foreign birth
who has enjoyed every advantage of citizen
ship, and who now, in the hour of our coun
try s peril, is in sympathy with our enemies
and covertly lending aid and comfort to them.
With the aid of federal and state laws they
should be placed where they will no longer
be a menace. On the other hand, no good
end can be accomplished by disfranchising a
considerable number of friendly aliens, many
of them natives of our allied nations, others
the subjects of neutral countries, and some of
them, whose loyalty to our country cannot be
questioned, the subjects of countries with
which we are at war. We gain nothing if in
disfranchising the alien enemy we disfranchise
a greater number of alien friends who will,
at the earliest posisble moment, become de
sirable and patroitic citizens. With these con
siderations in mindj I recommend that an
amendment be submitted for the considera
tion of the voters of the next regular election,
making citizenship the qualification of ah
elector, and allowing those declarants who
are voting at the time of its enactment a
reasonable period in which to Complete their
citizenship."
The source of the governor's inspiration Tvas
quickly disclosed by the hyphenated World
Herald promptly trumping his play. This is
what that organ of pro-Germanism said edi
torially the next morning:
"The governor's recommendations are, this
newspaper believes, uniformly good and
worthy of adoption. He takes a strong stand
for confining the right of franchise to full
fledged citizens. But he would not take away
that right from those who now and for long
have been exercising it without giving them a
reasonable time in which to complete their
citizenship. These recommendations of Gov
ernor Neville will, we believe, meet with the
hearty approval of Nebraska, and no less
, hearty approval of the legislature."
This particular recommendation, however,
did not meet with the approval of Nebraska, nor
with the approval of the legislature, but, on the
contrary, evoked an immediate and indignant
protest, with the consequence that the law
makers submitted the amendment without tlje
saving clause for Hun voters demanded by the
governor of Nebraska and the World-Herald.
And now the hyphenated sheet slyly backtracks
with this declaration:
"Every man and woman who hereafter
helps by the ballot to decide what shall be our
dealings and relations with foreign nations
must be an American citizen first, last and all
the time an American citizen exclusively and
only. He cannot be permitted to claim ex
emption from a citizen's duties while enjoy
ing the citizens' proudest privilege and most
sacred right
"This is elemental and fundamental. We
are not arguing the question there is no
question to argue. We are merely stating a
self-evident proposition an axiom."
If this is fundamental and an axiom now,
how could it have been less fundamental and less
an axiom six months ago? The democratic
governor and- the hyphenated World-Herald
stand self-convicted of an attempt to maintain
intact the chief prop of the kaiser's propaganda
In this country. An overwhelming vote in
favor of the adoption of the full citizenship
amendment at the coming election will be our
best answer to the cunning emissaries of
"kultur."
One Year Ago Today in the War.
Britsh renewed artillery attacks in
Flanders.
Peru severed diplomatic relations
with Germany.
The special war session of the
United States congress ended. i
In Omaha 30 Years Ago.
Mrs. Dr. Mercer has returned
from New Haven, whither she ac
companied her son, who will enter
Ya!e college.
, K. S. Berlin entertained the Oma
ha guards at his residence, the even-
ing being enjoyed with music, reci
tations, etc.
The residence of Mr. and Mrs.
M. Horwich on Pierce street was the
scene of a festive gathering, the oc
casion being the engagement of
their son, Kaspar, to Miss Fannie
Trajinsky.
The Ladies' Musical Society of
Omaha and Council Bluffs has
elected the following officers for the
year: President, Miss Poppleton;
vice-president, Miss Officer; secre
tary, Mrs. Martin Cahn; treasurer,
Mrs. R. S. Whitmore; secretary and
treasurer for Council Bluffs, Mrs.
J. M. Treynor.
J. S. Tebbitts has returned from
his long vacation in Maine.
Joe Henshaw, one o'f the old time
hotel clerks of Omaha, is at the Millard.
The German announcement that any ap
tored American who has a shotgun in his hands
will bt executed at once and that if America
continues to furnish shotguns to its troops
"other reprisals" will be carried out is based on
th statement that the use of such weapons is
"forbidden by The Hague conventions. This t
Is a curious proposition worth a bit of analysis.
Article II, section 23, of The Hague conven
tion of 1899. and the same numbered section
and article of the convention of 1907, in identical
language, prohibit the use in land warfare of
anna, projectiles or materials "propres a canser
znaux superflus." The record copy is, of course,
In French. How vagueness appears in this may
bt noted from the fact that the same French
words art differently translated in the official
. text of tht twocon?entions. The English text
$f 1899 makes the phrase read "of a nature to
cans superfluous injury." The text of 1907
makes it "calculated to cause unnecessary suf
' faring." That is tht nearest thing to any men
tion of shotguns.
No military man will say that such injury as
Is necessary to stop an enemy soldier from
further fighting is "superfluous injury." The
shotgun does stop such a soldier with less risk
to his life than a rifle involves, but perhaps with
xnort "suffering." The average man would
rather bt stopped with buckshot than with a
riflt bullet Pain may be greater, but life is the
important thing.
But it is a superb illustration of the colossal
"cheek" of BerGn, when the inventor of the
poison gas classes anything else as against in
ternational law because it inflicts "maux supsr-
Vlnto court with clean hands to plead on any
technicality.
Vv As to the murder of prisoners, counter re-
Ration is the easiest thing in the world-for -tile
I ilei Wt may well regard the German threat
(a Muff. If it turns out to be anything more
f situation will be dealt with sternly and justly
ytht antesta commanders. Brooklyn Eagle.
Insincerity of Austrian Overtures.
Again Austria invites belligerents to a dis
cussion of peace terms, but in such fashion as
to plainly show a lack of sincerity. In the list
of delegates assembled at Vienna to storm the
world with tht newest proposal we find Wek
erle, Tisza, Apponyi and Andrassy, all past
masters in the gentle Austrian art of double
crossing. Prince Maximilian, "pacifist" chan
cellor of the German empire, is collecting a cab
inet of political misfits and nondescripts, pre
tending to be a coalition of all Germany's inter
ests, but really a makeshift gathered in hope of
fooling somebody.
Each of the Hungarian statesmen named is
reactionary to the limit; the Jugo-Slavs have,
groaned under the Magyar oppression for gen
erations, and now the incarnate heads of that
tyranny are set up as evangels of a just and last
ing peace. In Germany we find Schiedemann,
socialist, who connived with Erzberger to over
turn von Bethmann-Holweg and then accepte'd
Michaelis and later von Hertling, filling a place
in the cabinet; von Hintze changing parties that
he may retain the portfolio of foreign minister,
Groeber, defender of the Brest-Litovsk farce,
and finally Prince Maximilian declaring his sup
port of the Reichstag resolution of July, 1917.
Where can any hope for peace founded on
impartial justice for all nations spring from such
a group? Representatives of a system of inter- ! SIGN POSTS OF PROGRESS
The Day We Celebrate.
John L' McCague, president Mc
Cague Investment company, born
1856.
Fred F. Paffenrath, local manager
for Nicoll the Tailor, born 1866.
County Judge Bryce Crawford,
born 1869.
Robert F. Gilder, artist and arch
aeologist born 1856.
Ernest E. Beale, vice-president of
the Central Coke '& Coal company,
born 1869.
William A. Kelly, veteran in the
Omaha postoffice, born 1854.
Major General Joseph T. Dick
man, U. S. A., born in Ohio, 61 years
ago.
Albert J, Beveridge, former United
States senator from Indiana, born
in Adams county, Ohio, 56 years ago.
Sir Thomas G. Shaughnessy, head
of the executive committee of the
Canadian Railways War board, born
in Milwaukee, 65 years ago.
Rt. Rev. Mathias C. Lenihan,
Catholic bishop of Great Falls,
Mont., born at Dubuque, Iowa, 64
years ago. .
Joseph W. Bailey, former United
States senator from Texas, born in
Copish county, Miss., 55 years ago.
This Day in History.
1762 The British took Manila
and demanded a ransom of $4,000,
000. 1806 Prussia joined the allies of
England against, France.
1818 Shadrach Bond was inau
gurated first state governor of Illi
nois at Ka$kaskia.
1848 Vienna fell into the hands
of the revolutionists.
1886 John B. Gordon was elected
governor of Georgia without OPpO
1891 Charles Stewart Partiell,
Irish political leader, died at Brigh
ton, Eng. Born in County Wick
low, June 27, 1846.
1914 Japanese captured Jaluit
Island in the Marshall group.
1915 Austro-Germans began the
invasion of Serbia.
1916 Berlin claimed all Russian
attacks In Galicia had been re
pulsed. 1
Timely Jottings and Reminders.
1,528th dy of the great war.
Centennial anniversary of the in
auguration of Shadrach Bond as
first state governor of Illinois.
Liberty Loan Sunday will be ob
served throughout the United States
today with church sermons appro
priating the occasion. x
The Ancient Order of United
Workmen, a pioneer of American
fraternal societies, today begins" a
celebration of the semi-centennial
of its founding.
Storyette of the Day.
Charles Belmont Davis was talk
ing at the Philadelphia club about
his recent official visit to England.
"England isn't starving," he said,
"but she is hard pressed."
"One of my companions, on our
arrival in London, entered a res
taurant, and without noticing the
tiny portions of dried fish and liquid
Chinese eggs and salt porpoise and
suchlike substances that were be
" ing served -all round him my com
panion rubbed his hands gleefully
and said to the waiter:
" 'Waiter. I'd like to have a large,
juicy sirloin off the . grill, three
inches thick, underdone, and with a
lump of fresh butter on the top.'
"'Ha, ha, hat I don't blame you,
sir,' the waiter said." Detroit Free
Press.
national politics that has been sent to the dis
card, they inspire no confidence in a world
grown both wary and weary of their machina
Hons.
When the tricksters who have manipulated
tne destiny of central Europe for so long, heri
tors of ages of intrigue, deception and perfidy,
come with open hands, willing to accept a peace
not made in Germany, they will find that un
conditional surrender is intended for Germany
and Austria, as well as for Bulgaria and Turkey.
William Allen White's khaki pants have
gone to war again, but this time Private Bill
White is wearing them instead of his father,
who makes light of hisloss, but descants length
ily on the young man's aptitude for loot. It
comes natural to a Jayhawker.
One comforting thing about the "flu" is that
one is not required to take all the advice that
is given. Just follow common sense rules of life
and you will stand as good a chance of missing
it as anj - ''
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A portable rack riffs been patented
that converts the corner of any
room into a wardrobe.
To aid a carver a Denver man has
Invented a clamp which holds a
roast of meat firmly and permita It
to be turned over easily.
New York longshoremen struck
for S8 a day, of eight hours, and $2
an hour for overtime. They'll av
erage $60 a week on that scheme.
Machinery for ships In which a
steam turbine and an oil engine are
coupled to each propeller, per
mitting either kind of fuel to be
used, has been patented by a Swiss
inventor.
A horse-drawn cranberry-picking
machine is a novelty recently tried
on the canberry bogs of Plymouth.
Those who know harvesting condi
tions think the machine is too high
and topheavy and the horse and the
wheels crush a lot of cranberri.
James Lord, a farmer living In
Goshen, Ind., has Just received a
check for $1,100 for potatoes dug
from a three-acre tract. The seed
potatoes cost him only the labor of
hauling last spring, and h har
vested 560 sacks of potatoes, averag
ing US pounds to the tack, for
which he received fl.7l per 100
pound.
Views and Reviews
Comparison oj Spanish "Flu"
Excitement Here and Abroad
Over in Chicago for two days this week, al
though the people there were greatly excited
over the influenza epidemic, they did not seem
quite so panicky as 1 found Omaha t j be on my
return. True, the Great Lakes naval training
station and the Camp Grant cantonment had
teen quarantined, and there was a noticeable
absence of uniforms on the streets ordinarily
so much in evidence. Visitors who had come
long distances to see relatives in training were
deeply disappointed in not being able to have
their expectations met, but the theaters and
movies were going ami the schools were run
ning and the several conventions and downtown
meetings in progress were uninterrupted. The
newspapers, however, were full of "nu" stories
and free advice what to do to keep from getting
the "flu" or to keep others from getting it from
those who already had it, but if anyone was
working in "flu" masks they must have kept
themselves in out-of-way places. The most re
assuring bit of information was the assertion by
one of the recognized medical authorities that
not 1 per cent ot the cases prove tatai.
Those who heard Henry L. West when he
spoke at the Omaha Chamber of Commerce last
spring on the work of the National .Security
league and the need of reinforcing the demand
for thorough-going war legislation will grasp
tht same vein of earnestness running through
his new book, which is entitled "Federal Power
Its Growth and Necessity." In this volume
Mr. West, who used to be a Washington news
paper man, as also one of the commissioners
for the District of Columbia, corresponding for
the City of Washington to what a city commis
sioiter is for Omaha, goes historically into the
growth of centralized power in this country and
the exercise by the federal government of more
and more authority formerly supposed to belong
to the states alone. He shows that the doctrine
of states rights has become not only obsolete,
but cannot possibly be revivified. He drives
home his conclusion that "we must honestly
recognize the fact that the states have been elim
inated as national factors and that we have es
tablished a federal government with supreme
functions," and that our next task and business
is to make that centralized government elastic
and keep the federal power under control of the
people free from the perils of autocracy.
Such an interesting chapter of forgotten his
tory has been dug up by Al Sorensonthat I
take the liberty o appropriating it (wi'th this
due credit) for Bee readers:
In looking over my library the other day
I ran across a booklet entitled "Ins and Outs;
or the True Inwardness of Political Reform."
It was published in 1877, and the author was
Willis Sweet, who for a brief period was an
editorial writer on The Bee statf. Mr. Sweet
married the daughter of Rev. Mr. Copeland,
a Unitarian minister, and soon after moved to
Idaho, where a few years later he was elected
congressman. His political observations in
Nebraska had taught him how to turn a trick
or two in Idaho. His booklet is dedicated
"to the ward politician, self-appointed office
seeker, de tamer of character, and to all who
Owe success to pledges made and ruthlessly
broken." In his preface Mr. Sweet says:
"The word reform has been used as a subject
for more orations, sermons and editorials
than any other word or topic in the English
language. Church reform, social reform,
dress reform, temperance reform and politi
cal reform are the great reforms of today.
There is a certain degree of earnestness on
the part of few interested in each of these
reform movements; but combine all the sin
cerity and demagogism embarked in all the
various movements and then place demagog
ism between sincerity and the searcher after
truth, and sincirity would be hidden out of
sight. The battle which has been raging be
tween the Ins and Outs since political history
began has ever been fought under the reform
banner, and the close observer must conclude
that political reform in this century is the
most stupendous fraud of the age. This little
book is simply a condensed history of a great
political reform movement in Aksarben," etc.
The reader will observe that Mr. Sweet
was probably the first person to spell the
name of Nebraska backward. Ht also dis
guises Omaha as Ahomo. It will be remem
bered that when the now famous order of the
Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben was organized the
promoters offered a prize for the most appro
priate name. Ak-Sar-Ben was chosen from a
large number of names presented. Did the
winner of the prize ever read "Ins and Outs,"
or was it a coincidence that the said winner
thought of the name and believed it to be en
tirely original? It was Solomon who said
there is nothing new under the sun. But
there is an exception to every rule, and Solo
mon is a back number, anyway, and some of
his sayings are ditto. The world "do move,"
as Brother Jasper declared.
"Ins and Outs" is a semi-comic yet truth
ful story of the famous Hitchcock-Saunders
senatorial campaign, resulting in the defeat
of P. W. Hitchcock for a second term. The
principal characters in that political drama
are thinly concealed under fictitious names,
easily recognizable. Hitchcock appears as
Hickox; Saunders as Sanderson; Briggs as
Triggs; Dr. Miller as Dr. Pipifax; Datus C.
Brooks as Potatus Baggs, editor of the Go
for, alias Republican; Theron Nye as Nigh;
G. W. E. Dorsey as Alphabet Dorsen; Ashby
as Ashbert; Governor Butler as Governor
Butterby: Silas A. Garber as Garter; C. E.
Yost as J. O. East; T. M. Marquette as Mar
quis; Kountze as Kounse; C. E. Perkins as
E. C Kirpens; Major Paddock as Major Dock
pad; Billy Irving as Girvin, and Edward Rose
water as Rosebud, editor of The Wasp. Much
space is devoted to Rosebud, who, with his
peppery paper, cut a big chunk of ice in that
memorable red hot campaign.
For further information it may be added that
Mr. Sweet was 'afterwards appointed to a fed
eral judgship in Porto Rico, but died nearly ten
years ago.
People and Events
Cheer up, fellers. Profiteers can't keep all
things up in the clouds. The mercury is com
ing down, also the elevator and Hun pride.
A New York man recently filed a petition in
bankruptcy, owing $700,000 and no assets. Still
the Knickerbocker town flatters itself that only
the country is easy.
The lot of the millionaire is not a happy one
around Chicago. Drafting chauffeurs to essen
tial war work puts the former up against the
duty of driving their own cars.
The only Chauncy Depew last week enjoyed
the rare experience of making a speech at the
dedication of his own monument, reared by the
people of Peekskill, his home town. "As a
rule," Mr. Depew explained, "statues are made,
after a man is dead, from photographs and
reminiscences the reminiscences being all dif
ferent. This was made after careful sittings,
and my friends say it is like me." The statue,
life size, represents Mr. Depew in an easy ora
torical pose the uplifted right hand and index
finger straight up as if challenging the lightning
of the clouds. A notable change from artistic
canons is the absence of Napoleonic shelter of
the left hand under the buttoned ministerial
coat. Chauncey's coat is unbuttoned, but the
left hand has a thumb clutch on his trouser's
waistband, whether in the safety pocket or the
suspender is not clear in the print. Most likely
the hand safeguards suspender buttons against
the convulsions of one or more of Chauncey's
celebrated stories. Omaha people who recall
Mr. Depew's New Yor-k day address at the
Transmississippi exposition may readily 'draw
a mental picture of the Peekskill bronze figure.
Around the Cities
New York will dismiss all ellen
teachers from its schools.
The city of Montreal bought a lot
of steel several years ago to enlarge
the city waterworks, but the under
taking was postponed. Recently
the city soldthe steel at a profit of
$40,000.
The Torrens system of land trans
fers is making progress In New York
City. Two parcels of land totaling
$172,000 changed ownership at a fee
cost of $426.37, said to be a mate
rial reduction of transfer fees.
Fresh cream for the breakfast cof
fee bids farewell to the early risers
at Minneapolis. The milk wagon
drivers' union served an ultimatum
on all concerned that henceforth
there will be nothing doing on milk
routes until after 7 a. m.
A PWladelphla lnvestlpator, as the
result of an extended search, finds
that certain restaurants In the city
squeeze patrons to the screaming
limit. Nothing new about that.
Most any diner-out knows tht feel
ing from home experience..
Over In Cedar Rapids, la., a bar
ber who persisted in working over-
time in his own shop, contrary to
union ruies, one morning lour.a am
shop front smeared with yellow
paint, and Jhe stripes of his pole
merged into sunflower tones.
Chicago authorities art wrestling
with a defloit ot large proportions.
Already some $1,760,000 has been
advanced by tht banka to meet the
city's payrolls, and tha latter keep
on coming. At a means ot relief,
tht council It considering tht possi
bility of using trust funds to absorb
tht Indebtedness,
A total ot 1,447 saloons went out
of business In Greater New York on
September 30. This Is one-third of
tht whole number, most of them
owned by the brewers, who vlsloned
tht end of beer production Decem
ber 1, and allowed licenses to lapse.
The state loses $4,000,000 In license
money and the city 1 much higher
sum.
EDITORIAL SHRAPNEL
St. Louis Globe Democrat: The
Hapsburgs and the Hohenzollerns
are now fighting for their Jobs.
Minneapolis Tribune: Thirteen
million men In the. new draft age!
Bulgaria asking an armistice on Fri
day! A black cat crossing the
kaiser's path. What's the answer?
Kansas City Star: Of course.
Germany cannot be expected to think
much or the allied triumph over
Bulgaria. It was accomplished with
out treachery or lying propaganda
New York Herald: No doubt if
all the Germans at the front surren
dered the chancellor would get up
in the Reichstag and announce that
It was a triumphant piece of strategy
on tne part or that great genius
Von Hindenburg. For how could
the allies ever feed them?
Baltimore American: Tht cotton
planter Is human. Just like the rest
of us who are not Hunt or hyenas
in disguise, and ttiat Is the reason
why he wants tht sky to be the only
limit for the price of cotton. But
all the same there is Just as much
reason why a fair limit should be
fixed for the price of cotton as for
the price of wheat.
New York World: The Bank of
Germany's gold reserves have never
recovered from the $26,000,000 sent
to Russia to bribe the Trotzkys and
Lenines. Creeping up a little week
by week, as new coins are squeezed
from children's toy banks and other
sources, these reserves are still
$5,000,000 below those of 1916. And
in Holland, Saturday, the German
mark waa at 47.1 per cent discount!
ODD BITS OF LIFE
A nerson in a Malna villa o-a hn
had posed for 23 years as a girl
creaiea a sensation Dy aonning male
attire, confessing that he was a man,
and marrying a school teacher.
A Brattleboro, Vt, man who.
boardlns out wax fnnm! t tiv
sugar card, and when the food ad
ministrator aemanaea the card the
man nrotested that ha couldn't drfnir
cider without sugar.
m. J. LAUghton, or Old Orchard,
picked four Wolf River applet that
together weighed tlx pounds. One of
them weighed two and one-half
DOUnds. Annthr annla ntxlrait fmn
the tame tree made a pie.
Amonr tha lata irtlMaa -n.t...4
at the salvage headquarters of the
American Red Cross In Washington,
are a mimeograph machine, several
discarded bell-hop uniforms, three
soup containers, Seven trunks and a
uaicn oi yu.vuu post cards.
a young man in Atlanta at a mov
ing picture show, watching the dock
ing of an American transport at a
port in France recognized the first
officer to step from the transport as
his father, MaJ. O. T. Kenan, and so
trot his flrat lntlmatlnn nf til r.k...
whereabouts.
A well-to-do Brussels woman
writes in a letter: "I have a cloak
made out of tha VinnA e n v...
..www IH J 41UB-
bands service cape, a waist made
of his foot ball tunio and a dress
maoe out or a sheet; mamma has
menaced a draaa nut tf i.i..
room tablecloth, my sisters have
ciubkb maae out or woolen blankets."
SMILING LINES.
"What's In tbs mall from your husband
today?"
"A eoupls of nsd!es. Ha wants ms to
thread am and mall 'am back to him.
Oot to do soma sawing; ha says." Louis
villa Courier-Journal.
"What la ths world makss Cranksmlth
o peculiar ?
"01, soma years ate he flew all to
pieces ovsr something, and tha doctor
put him together wrong." Judge.
"My good woman, da you belters In
eaitlgattng children by way of died-
pllne7"
"I don't believe In none of theie yere
new-fangled ways of bringing up chil
dren. I believe In a good ltcktn,." Bal
timore American.
OfficerHow Is this. Murphy T The
sergeant eomplalns that you called him
names.
Prlvats Murphy. Plase, surr, I never
called him ony names at all. All I said
was, "Sergeant," aays I, "some of us
ought to bs In the menagerie." Pear
son's Weekly. .
"It mast be awful to be married to a
poet."
"It has Its disadvantages, I'll admit,
but In war times no one can accuse him
of being a profiteer." Detroit Free
Press.
Lawyer Now tell ms ths truth. Doesn't
your master live In continual trepida
tion?" Witness No, sir! he lives in the sub
urbs. Cincinnati Enquirer.
Over There and Here
In the last five months the Chris
tian Scientists among ihemselves
have raised over $1,000,000 for war
relief work.
Horse stealing has developed into
a big business In Vienna. A report
quotes $1,000 to $1,500 as the price
of a horse for slaughtering for food.
Slaughtering makes discovery Im
possible and promotes thievery.
A petition with 1,250,000 signa
tures, urging the internment of all
enemy aliens In Great Britain has
been presented to the government
The petition is the work of the Na
tional party, an organization whose
object is "to eradicate all German
influence" In the United Kingdom.
One of the largest refrigerating
plants in th world has been built In
France by Uncle Sam's hustlers. The I
plant Is the main one of the army,
located "In a field six miles long and
as level as a billiard table," and
comprises a score of buildings con
nected by railroad tracks.
It is an open secret now that dur
ing the first two years of the war
British naval and military authori
ties would have been badly off had It
not been for German lenses obtained
through neutral markets. At pres
ent a rapidly growing glass industry
has been established and the old de
pendence on Jena Is a thing of the
past.
Reciprocal treaties favorably re
ported to the United States senate
will render 100,000 subjects of
France and Greece residing In the
United States subject to military
service In their native land. Unless
they accept service under the Amer
ican flag or elect to go Into the serv
ice of the home countries they must
leave the United States.
Paris caterers thought they knew
American spenders pretty well from
peace time observation. The com
ing of the American army brought
new revelations. It is now a com
mon occurrence for American pri
vates, noneoms as well as high offi
cials, to enter swell restaurants and
sit down to a war-tiine feast. These
lobster palaces rarely see a French
private. Modest pay forbids. But
the well-to-do American private, of
whom there are thousands overseas,
takes In all Paris has to offer when
duty permits.
TAKE HAIR OUT
NOT OFF THE SKIN
Hair Is bound ts arrow oat
coarser amd sjtlflfer when snerely
resnoved from the sjorfaea ot the
sklsu The oaly conuaoa-senae way
to remove hair la to attack U un
der the skia. DeMlracle, the orig
inal aanltary liquid, dors this by
aksorptloa.
Only genalno DeMiraele kne a
noaey-oaok guarantee In each
package. At toilet conn tern In
tOe, SI and S3 alaea, or by mall
from a la alala wrapper on re
ceipt of price.
FREE book mailed In plai
sealed envelope on reqaeat. I
Miracle, 120th St aad Park Ave.,
Wew York.
itiexpei73ife
The hoarded wealth of Croesus
could not purchase a modicum of
dinglty for his memorable funeral.
We will furnish you a service
whose modest yet impressive dig
nity appeals to the sensible person
of moderate means. We pay strict
attention to all details and will
serve you in an efficient manner.
N. P. SWANSON
Funeral Parlor. (Established 18SS.)
17th and Cuming Sts. Tel. Douglas 1060.
Gat eat the BOND Wages
"If you want your
CANNON booming at the front
you mut keep your
BUSINESS booming at home."
Among MONDAY'S
"Business
Boomers"
We Mention:
A handsome Knabe Plan, bt
tiful tone, rttponsivt actio,
not tntlrtly . 275
A Schmoller A Mueller Puvnt,
genuine mahogany, good M
new, and the C 1 7 K
price is V 1 O
A Splendid Player Piano (used),
full 88-note; no better J9QC
value obtainable W&VU
Brand New Upright Pianos. $JSO
"Apartment" Grands $528
Player Pianos $475
The World Famed Pianola. $575
Schmoller & Mueller
Piano Co.
1311-13 Farnam St.
Estab. 1859.
DuBsndFOAitBta
Sanatorium
This institution is the only one
in Hm 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
in(J special nursing.
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NEBRASKA.
'Croes the old Missouri River
Through the gateway of the west,
Where the sunsets ars the brightest
And where everything Is best
'Cross the old Mlnourl River.
O, that'a where 1 would be,
Where the plains of fair Nebraska
Hold the heart and soul of me.
When the golden sunset's fading,
And the dusky twilight falls.
Then my heart goes out in answer
As the voice of Helmweh calls
From the home la wide Nebraska
Where they're missing ms today.
And the time whenj'll go back th?r.'
Seems a million yesrs away.
Take ms back, then, to my homeland.
To the Stats of Ooldenrod,
Where ths fertile fields and maadon
Bloom beneath the smile of God.
'Cross ths old Missouri River,
For that's where I would be.
Where tbs plains of fair Nebraska
Hold ths heart and soul for met
REOINA HART OLSON.
Washington, D. a
I Contracted Purchases before the Rise in I
I PRICES
a Now is the opportunity, make your selection for the
i holidays. Leave the Piano witn us until wanted.
I TERMS
convenient an to suit your purae.
5 Fine line of 4
i Mason & Hamlin Kranicb & Bach
Brambach Vose & Sons
Bush & Lane Kimball
Cable-Nelson Hospe
Player Pianos
I Apollo Electric ApoIIophone
Melville Clark Players Gulbransen Players
vranich & Bach Player: Hospe Players
We Have Pianos from $150 Up
Player-Pianos, from $375 Up
j and they are positively guaranteed.
a Your long evenings, your gasless Sundays require
a music, and music wich can be produced artistically
j a without practice or study. If you don't believe it, come
! a to our warerooms and be shown.
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