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Bought your bonds yet? Get busy.
Fighting the "flu" is America's greatest in
door sport just now.
In the end Germany will not "offer" peace
terms. She will simply say "yes, sir."
Omaha's railroad boys and girls make an im
pressive showing when-they turn out to parade.
About the most laughable joke of the whole
war it Bulgaria serving notice on the Huns to
get out
Sir Eric Geddes admires America's navy
vastly. So do we, and ditto John Bull's collec
tion of warships. .
The kaiser can read hit answer in the rising
tide of the Liberty loan. Keep it swelling
higher and higher.
"Over the top" is the word coming in from
country communities on. the Liberty loan.
Omaha will soon be there.
It is quite in keeping with its record that the
Omaha Hyphenated should be inflating a sur
reptitious gas attack on the proposed new city
charter.
Do not be misled by von Hindenburg's
resignation. Last spring his death was an
nounced, but he turned up all right when the
kaiser wanted him.
Life In the lobster belt has lost much of its
joy, iince the New York authorities insist on
closing the "palaces" at 1 o'clock and the hotel
proprietors announce that only cold cuts will
be served after 9 p. m. War is all Sherman said.
Omaha is glad to get Colonel Grant back,
but will say goodbye with some reluctance to
Colonel Maher, who is to go abroad for more
important work. The sincere friendship for
these men it based cm substantial foundation.
A Chicago man who wedded seven women
in succession is in jail, but the detective who
worked up the case can not get one of the wives
to testify against her husband. That fellow de
serves something, but we can not think just
what it Is.
It is carefully estimated that cotton at 35
cents, as proposed by the New Orleans ex
change as a basic figure for price regulation, will
return a profit of 235 per cent to the grower.
That is not profiteering; it comes nearer being
something else.
Another topic on which "T. R." has well de
fined views, and is not at all meally-mouthed in
stating them, is the Nonpartisan league. When
the public gets better acquainted with the ob
jects and workings of the organization, the col
onel will have plenty of support in his stand.
Von Eckhardt, minister for Germany at
Mexico City, is trying to earn his salary by
keeping strong the faith of Carranza in the
kaiser's military prowess, but the wily Mexican
can probably see the end as plainly as any. This
ought to help the oil situation at Tampico wonderfully.
Hoover's advice to farmers not to stampede
to sell their wheat is in good time. The price
for the cereal is guaranteed by the government,
but might be broken if a needless rush were
made. As the winter rolls along the crop will
be called for, and the farmers will lose nothing
by holding their grain.
Why Huns Scream for Peace
According to the official figures given out in
Paris, the allied armies in France and Belgium
took 122,936 German prisoners from September
10 to September 30, at the rate of over 6,000 a
day for three weeks. From July 15 to Septem
ber 30, 11 weeks in all, they captured 254,007
prisoners, a daily average of almost 3,300. They
also captured 3,600 cannon and more than 23,000
machine guns. This statement covers the period
since the Germans started their drive on the
Marne and were suddenly checked when Foch
- gave the signal for the allies to assume the
offensive.
It is a safe estimate that during the last three
months the total German losses in killed,
wounded and prisoners have been at least
900,000.
. The allies in respect to men have more than
' redressed the balance of the severe losses inflict
ed upon them earlier by the Germans, beginning
' March 21. In less than four months, according
? to the Germans' statements, they captured over
191,000 prisoners French, British, Belgian, Por
tuguese, Italian and American.
Assuming that since July 15 the Germans'
losses in killed and wounded were offset by
equal losses on the part of the allies, which is
- improbable, during all that period American
troops have been moving overseas at the rate of
almost 10,000 a day. In three months 846,000
Americans were acutally transported. Reinforce
' raents from America have reached the allied
4 armies in numbers far more than sufficient to
ift' Tiake good all losses they may have suffered
in v year, while Germany, in victory and defeat,
where" fjjeen steadily and fearfully weakened since
loing ) 918 campaign started.
undreiir before have the odds been so heavily
Jled in Itrie Germans in men and material, and
a alT Dlafds are increasing every day. New York
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WHAT OF THE SOLDIERS' VOTES?
Nebraska held a specially convened session
of its legislature last winter to extend the pro
visions of the vote-by-mail law to men in the
military service in training camps and overseas.
It remains to be seen how far this machinery
will be workable and to what extent the boys
in khaki will make use of their right to vote.
The New York lawmakers undertook to take
care of the soldier vote by creating a commis
sion to go abroad for the purpose of collecting
the ballots of approximately 200,000 voters in
service in Europe, but the whole New York
plan has gone to grief through a prohibitory
order of the War department, issued on the
ground that it is not practicable under present
military conditions "to attempt to obtain in any
manner the vote of our soldiers abroad," with
the further intimation that the soldiers overseas
will not be permitted to vote at all in the No
vember elections.
Whether this ruling also inhibits Nebraska's
vote-by-mail plan is not quite clear. The bal
lots for this purpose are supposed to have al
ready gone out; otherwise it might be advisable
to ask for definite information as to the attitude
of the War department, and even at that it
would be desirable to know whether or not we
are to expect the ballots to be marked and re
turned as the law contemplates.
Incidentally, Congressman Siegel of New
York, just returned from the war zone, has
made this. statement with reference to the ques
tion of soldiers' voting:
"Everywhere I went our soldiers asked me
if they would have the right to vote. They
want the right badly in order to bury alive
those candidates who are not in favor of
prosecuting the war to the limit. Two mil
lion Americans will be abroad at the time of
the elections, and their votes would have the
deciding power in districts where the vote is
close. The American soldier abroad consid
ers military service a very poor reason for
losing his vote."
Liberty Loan is Popular.
Omaha salesmen, engaged in collecting sub
scriptions for the fourth Liberty loan, report
that their work is much easier than it was for
either of the others. Less time is needed to
convince purchasers of the necessity for sub
scribing, and many who did not buy in any of
the first three are now putting money into bonds.
All of this argues that the loan is popular in
the best sense of the word. Our people are
awake to the fact that the money is needed for
the war purposes of the government, and also
understand that one need not be wealthy to be
come a bondholder. The small bond is as good
a proof of patriotism and faith in our cause as
the biggest ever issued. Mr. McAdoo has
wisely provided for the printing of more of the
"baby" bonds this time than in any of the
former issues, and the prospects are he will
need them all. If Omaha's experience is to be
taken as a guide, the 20,000,000 purchasers will
be more than attained.
Mr. Wooster and the Constitution.
Our energetic, critical, caustic and sometimes
correct fellow citizen, Hon. Charles Wooster of
Silver Creek, quotes Senator Lodge much as
some folks quote the Bible, just enough to
seemingly support his own peculiar contention.
In the speech delivered by the senator on Au
gust 23, in which is clearly outlined the aims of
the United States in the war, Mr. Wooster
might have found perfect consolation for his
perturbed soul had he but read the next sen
tence. Beginning precisely where Mr. Wooster
closed his quotation, Senator Lodge said:
It is our intention to return, as our laws
show, to the old restrictions, protections and
rights of the ordered freedom of the constitu
tion. We are taking these vast risks, we are
bearing these huge burdens, we are making
these unspeakable sacrifices of life with a
brave and cheerful spirit, but we have no
right to do all these things unless we win the
prize and reach the goal which alone can war
rant and justify them.
Senator Lodge was arguing in support of the
bill to extend the age limits of the selective
draft He did not mean to convey the impres
sion that the constitution had gone to the junk
pile; nor is it fair to think that he captiously
objects to anything that is prudently deemed
expedient to victory in the war. He speaks of
risks assumed, burdens borne and sacrifices
made in cheerful spirit that we may establish
our ideal. Mr. Wooster surely can follow the
senator in this course, when the chief sacrifice
asked of him is that he give over the use of the
German language, for which he can have little
need in the security of his happy home at Silver
Creek.
Preparing for Peace Problems.
Senator Weeks presented a resolution in the
senate one day last week that deserves more at
tention than it has had. He asks for the; naming
of a special committee, to consist of six mem
bers from each house, to be evenly divided as to
politics, which shall study and report on the
great problems involved in demobilization and
restoration of our national life to a peace basis.
The importance of this must be plain to all.
No one can predict with accuracy just what
form the movements involved in the change
from war to peace will assume, but that the pos
sibilities ought to be carefully considered and
needs anticipated as far as possible all will admit.
America is lagging a little behind in this
work. France, England and Germany already
have been busy laying such plans. France, par
ticularly, has acted in the matter of arranging
details for the protection of industry in the
time of reconstruction, through the establish
ment of governmental agencies for the purchase
of raw material and supplies and the financing
of private operations to a certain extent This
matter was recently discussed . in The Bee.
Germany is making similar arrangements, while
in England the big financiers and manufacturers
are carefully considering all that will be in
volved in the change that is to come.
No better reasons could be given for the
support of the Weeks resolution than the fact
that the . work must be done, and that our great
est allies, as well as our chief foe, are preparing
as far as possible in advance to meet the con
ditions following the war.
It was Bulgaria's treachery, according to
Count Tisza, that brought the peace notes from
Austria and Germany. Very well, but some of
us had an idea that perhaps the Huns felt the
same dread of the Allies that seemed to influ
ence riie Prussians of the Baltic in reaching a
decision to quit cold and take what is coming
to them. . ;
Right in the Spotlight.
Believing that "the war comes
first while other business comes
second," Myron T. Herrick, 63 years
old today, is devoting himself
wholly to his work as chairman of
the National Finance committee of
the War Camp Community service.
Mr. Herrick is an Ohioan who gave
up the practice of law to become a
successful banker in Cleveland, and
later achieved prominence In poli
tics and diplomacy. In 1903, fol
lowing some years of active work in
behalf of the republican party, he
was elected to the governorship of
Ohio. From 1912 to 1915 he was
United States ambassador to
France, and, though previously not
versed in diplomatic customs and
habits, he made an admirable record
of efficiency, especially during the
opening months of the great war.
Mr. Herrick is a former president of
the American Bankers' association
and still retains large financial in
terest in Cleveland and New York.
One Year Ago Today in the War.
French and British delivered an
other attack in Belgium, penetrat
ing German lines on a wide front
in the Ypres region.
French official statement sent to
Washington stated that Germany
had passed the climax of her mili
tary strength.
In Omaha 30 Years Ago Today.
Mrs. Chalmers, of Waukesha, is
spending a few days with her old
friend, Mrs. S. H. Foster,
The Omaha base ball trustees are
in receipt of handsome offers from
two different American association
groups for the purchase of Tom
Lovett, Omaha's crack twirler.
Alderman George Metacalf re
turned from a two weeks' trip
through Nebraska.
S. N. and W. H. Rice of Wis
consin are in the city on a short
visit to their brother, A. T. Rice,
of the First National bank.
Rev. T. J. Mackay will go to Red
Oak today to officiate at the ved
ding of John L. Cahoon of this city
and Miss Dean Palmer, the accom
plished daughter of Captain H. II.
Palmer, sheriff of Montgomery
county. v
The Salvation Army has moved
its barracks to the third floor of
Lytle's block.
The Day We Celebrate.
Charles W. Hamilton, banker,
born 1859.
Casper E. Yost, president of the
Nebraska Telephone company, born
1841.
William Maier, building contrac
tor, born 1858.
Jay D. Foster of Foster-Barker
company, born 1861.
Major-General Leonard S. Wood,
U. S. A., born at Winchester, N.
H., 58 years ago.
Henry L. Meyers, United States
senator from Montana, born in
Cooper county, Mo., 56 years ago.
Robert Warwick, celebrated star
in the "movies," born at Sacramen
to, Cal., 34 years ago.
Dr. William C. Braisted, surgeon
general of the United States navy,
born at Toledo, O., 54 years ago.
Camille Saint-Saens, the famous
French composer of orchestral
music, born in Paris 83 years ago.
This Day in History.
1760 The Russians and Austrians
surprises and captures Berlin ami de
stroyed much of the city by fire.
1805 William M. Gwin, one of
the first senators from California,
born in Sumner, Tenn. Died in
New York City, Sept. 3, 1885.
1868 The United States was the
first country to recognize the pro
visional government of Spain.
1899 President Kruger issued an
ultimatum, rendering war between
the British and Boers inevitable.
1914 Germans took Antwerp, aft
er a gallant resistance by the Bel
gians. 1915 Belgrade, the Serbian cap
ital, captured by the Austro-Ger-mans.
1916 Great Britain protested
against German submarines being
permitted to enter United States
ports.
Timely Jottings anc Reminders.
Fifteen hundred and thirty-first
day of the great war.
Festival of St. Denis, the patron
of France.
Centennial anniversary of the
signing of the convention of Aix-La-Chapelle,
which led to the with
drawal of the army of occupation
from France.
Rt. Rev.- Ethelbert Talbot, former
missionary bishop of Wyoming and
Idaho, now Episcopal bishop of
Bethlehem, Pa., celebrates his 70th
birthday today.
The national convention of the
Disciples of Christ, one of the larg
est religious gatherings of the year,
will begin its session today at St.
Louis.
A provincial conference to dis
cuss plans for the coming united
campaign to raise funds for war
camp community service will be
held today at Dubuque, Ia.
Storyette of the Day.
"I want to have a tooth drawn,"
announced the small boy with the
steelgray eye, "and I want gas."
"You're too young to have gas,
my little man," said the dentist.
"Besides, I'm sure you aren't afraid
of being hurt. Sit still and be a
man."
"It isn't that at all," said .the
boy, "but I'm afraid I shall notbe
able to help giving a bit of a squeal
when it comes out."
"Well, that won't matter at all."
said the dentist. "I'm sure I shall
not mind."
"No, but I shall. Look out of that
window."
The dentist looked and saw a lot
of grinning lads standing under the
window.
"They're all the kids I've fought
and licked." said the customer, "and
they've come to hear me holler."
Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph.
The Lucky Handicap
Major Rupert Hughes, U. S. A., in Carry On.
Did vou ever know a race to be won by the
man who had no handicap at all? The betting
odds are always on the man who starts at
scratch or thereabouts. He gradually overtakes
and passes the string ahead of him and goes
through to the goal.
Success in life is only a Marathon. People
make fun of the hare who let the tortoise beat
him, but a bookmaker who knew his business
would have favored the tortoise in the betting
every time.
The rich man's son with what people call
"every advantage" has really all the disadvan
tages. He has next to nothing to fight for. He
has nothing to strengthen his muscle and his
determination and his envy on. He gets every
thing but his clothes ready made.
He is like an elevator boy with no stairs to
climb; he only uses his legs for props. A litlte
pull on a rope or a shift of a lever and the car
shoots up or down; so his arms stay flabby.
Nobody ever made a success with a cinch.
The greatest helps a man can have are his hand
icaps. Among all great orators who would be
called the greatest? Demosthenes, of course.
He stuttered as a boy and had a voice that
hardly carried past his Grecian nose; so he filled
his mouth with pebbles and went out on the
beach to shout down the breakers. It was good
practice for conquering audiences.
Among all the great composers, who would
be called the greatest? Beethoven, undoubt
edly. He was deaf during a great part of his
life.
The master poet of Greece was Homer, and
he was blind. And so was the epic poet of Eng
land, Milton. A man does not have to hear to
make music, nor see to write.
"Pilgrim's Progress" was composed in a jail,
and so was the masterpiece of Spanish litera
ture, "Don Quixote."
Speaking of Spanish literature, W. H. Pres
cott, one of America's greatest historians, who
wrote classic histories of the Spanish monarchs
and conquerors, made wonderful research among
ancient manuscripts'in spite of the fact that he
could hardly see. When he was in college a
boy threw a piece of bread at him. It hit him
in the eye and he became all but blind. Yet he
managed to devise means for reading almost
endlessly in dim old libraries.
Another famous American historian was
Francis Parkman, who was such an invalid that
he fainted at the least effort. He could hardly
work an hour a day; it was torture for him to
travel. Yet he filled many volumes with the
results of his explorations in rough countries,
seeking the truth about Indian wars and cus
toms. There was a young count named Geza Zichy
who had an ambition to be a pianist. At 17 he
lost his right arm. But he went right on with
his career. He rearranged the brilliant concert
pieces that were beyond the ability of most pian
ists so that he could play them with his left
hand. He composed works of his own and
made himself famous as a pianist. He com
posed two successful operas.
One of the greatest of all illustrators was the
Spaniard Vierge. In the very height of his ca
reer his right hand failed him. He learned to
draw as .well with his left. The American car
toonist, T. S. Sullivant, who has drawn so much
laughter from the readers of Life, lost the use
of his right hand, too. He learned to draw with
his left and his followers never knew the differ
ence. It would be easy to go on all day mentioning
names ancient and modern of those whom fate
seemed to surround with wire entanglements,
but who scrambled up out of the ditch, and went
over the top, crawled through the barbs and
charged on to victory.
With some of them the handicaps were pov
erty or parental opposition, ill-health, poor edu
cation, hostility, disgrace, wounds, physical,
mental or spiritual obstacles to overcome. But
they were not stopped.
To my thinking we ought not to say that a
man succeeds "in spite of" handicaps, but "be
cause of" handicaps. The man to feel sorry for
is the poor fellow who is rich in everything but
defects. He is the one whose case is most
nearly hopeless. What has the wretch got to
exercise his will power on? or to set his teeth
in? or to brace himself against? A man can't
get strong Jby lifting cream puffs or sticking
pansies in his buttonhole.
When he wakes up in the morning he has
no pet demon sitting on the foot of his bed de
fying him and bringing him out of the nest of
sloth with a roar. People are so cantankerous
that they never get over the childhood longing
to do what they are warned against. When
destiny says "You can't," a man of real stuff
replies, "I'll show you."
The things people do best are the impossible
things. The novel that had most effect on
American history was written by the timid little
wife of a clergyman, and the noblest war poem
ever written by an American was written by a
woman. The Spartans who put their weaklings
to death never accomplished anything but a lit
tle fairly good fighting. The race is not to the
swift, but to the lame, the halt and the blind.
It's the grit that counts.
Perhaps the stoutest-hearted ' poem in any
language was written by a poor bedridden in
valid who spent a good part of his time in hos
pitals under the surgeons' knives. He wrote
that marvelous defiance:
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods there be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Beneath the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody but unbowed.
People and Events
Another peach of a bankruptcy case stalks
around court in St. Louis. Assets $300, liabili
ties $450,000. A. H. Brown & Co, stock brok
ers, played the game to the limit Even pro
fessionals can't beat it.
Rent profiteers in New Jersey who persist in
gouging tenants are promised a lively run for
the extra money. Governor Edge by proclama
tion announces that a housing dictator will be
ointed if necessary to check the shameless
g. .ed of landlords.
The last time a Long ran for governor of
Massachusetts, long, long ago, it was John D.,
of whom Ben Butler said, quoting a hymn,
"Man wants but little here below, nor wants
that little Long." Now Richard Long of Fram
ingham is in the race as a democrat.
Restaurant profiteers back in New Yrk have
been jolted out of the notion that cents are in
significant factors in price boosting. The local
food administration took notice of doubled
prices of milk served patrons, and promptly
countered by requiring milk to be served by
weight eight ounces for 5 cents and 12 ounces
for 10 cents. Luckily for milk drinkers, the
food regulator took over their neglected job of
kicking.
Indications point to the early abandonment
of gasless Sunday and the substitution of a more
thorough system of gasoline conservation than
obtains at present. Director Regua of the oil
division of the fuel administration, in a recent
speech in New York, said that more effective
methods must be adopted to reduce home con
sumption. Rationing oil is considered imprac
ticable, owing to the expense. Voluntary con
servation seems more feasible and is likely to
be pressed home on users throughout the coun
try. Washington vouches for the report that Sen
ator J. Ham Lewis of Illinois, while in London
recently, was presented with a cream-colored
silk stovepipe hat by an admiring shopkeeper.
The headpiece is said to be an artistic dream,
altogether too charming for native topnots, and
fell to the Illinois senator because he was the
only man the shopkeeper found handsome
enough to wear it. So far the tile has not
paraded in Washington, and may be reserved
to lend eclat to the coming parade of victorious
armies on Pennsylvania avenue.
Over There and Here
Wartime payrolls of New Tork
state industrial establishments
scored a new record Jn August and
an increase of 36 per cent in wages
for three-fourths of the year.
A news item tells of Berlin rowdies
demolishing statues in Berlin parks.
Jobs of this nature help some in
freeing Berlin of atrocities and mak
ing It presentable to the allies.
Boys on the firing; line are not
alone in piling up glorious records.
Engineers are delivering good roads
and bridges on demand, and dock
hands are going over the top of the
score board. On one day recently
all hands on deck and dock unload
ed 11.433 tons of cargo at one port.
Efficiency hitched with Yankee hus
tle make an unbeatable team.
Colonel Roosevelt stigmatizes war
profiteers as "blood suckers." Just
so, but reformation calls for some
thing stronger than words. A shin
ing sample of "blood-sucking"
profiteering came over the wires
from Los Angeles last week. A re
port that hot lemonade had medici
nal value in cases of Influenza shot
the price of lemons up 100 per cent.
Not for an instant did the profiteers
hesitate to turn national misfortune
into personal profit.
RIGHT TO THE POINT
Minneapolis Tribune: The great
est shell game In history Is now on.
St. Louis Globe Democrat? At
present the watch on the Rhine is
for airplanes.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat: Com
pulsory voting also might settle a
good many of our political troubles.
Washington Post: Just to make
the Hun peeved, the United States
announces that the sauerkraut crop
will be so big that there will not
be tin enough to pack it all.
Louisville Courier-Journal. If
the McAdoolan half-soled panta
loons are the patriot's proclaiming
garment and if we're asked to give
cast-off clothing to the Belgians,
just what sort of pantaloons is a
Belgian gentleman in distress des
tined to wear?
Brooklyn Eagle: When Georges
Clemenceau began his four years
residence in the United States, 63
years ago, soldiers returning from
the civil war were everywhere. The
"Tiger" of France celebrated his
77th birthday by visiting an Amer
ican camp. Some memories must
have sprung to life; some contrasts
must have been suggested.
New York World: Rounding up
their captives in Varennes-en-Ar-gonne,
how many American soldiers
remembered the captive whose name
is imperishably associated with that
town Louis XVI. of France, there
halted on his flight toward Ger
many? Our boys are wading ankle
deep in history, while they make It
west
A PLEA FROM OVER THERE.
Tour letter, mother, came today and made
me mighty glad
It always cheers me up a lot to hear
from you and Dad.
I've read It through a dozen tlmea, I
know 1t all by heart,
And yet I feel you ended It befora you
sot a start.
"There'a nothing new of Interest to write
about," you say:
Believe me, mother, when you've been In
trenches night and day
And, 'midst a raining hell of ahell, you're
fought your very best
It lin't "new" but old newi that will slva
a fellow rest
So I'm hungry just to learn If old Bill
Splv?ns sold his cow
The one that always kicked so much
or If he has her now.
And, tell me, has our old dog Frtnca had
many recent fights,
And does our Tom-cat still Insist on roam
ing 'round at nights T
Has Mandy Jonea compelled Jim Smith
to pop the question yet,
Or does he still go 'round each week and
"set" and "set" and '"set?"
Ia Charlie Sprlgera still keeping book at
old man Snellvln's store.
And do the boys go fishing In the river
any more?
And tell ma all abont the glrla tha enea
I used to know.
Is Mamie Just as pretty now, and who la
Susie's beauT
Is Bessie still as crasy over Sissy Elbert
Crane T
That fellow always did and always will
give ma a pain.
I'd Ilka to know just how oar old base
ball team gets along.
Does Buono still give lectures on "sea
noble art of song?"
Haa little brother Fred licked that tough
kid In Nealy'a block.
And are the chimes still working In our
old Colonial clock?
And does but I must stop right her.
I m sure that you can see
It's newa of "homey" things that doea
the most to Interest me.
I'm fed up with thrills and horrors auch
as fleck war's bloody foam,
And what I need to rest me most la news
of folks back home.
Edgar Burros In N. T. Herald.
The Best Cough Syrup
Is Home-made
Here's aa easy way to save S3, and
yet have the best cough remedy
you ever tried.
You've probably heard of this well
known plan of making cough syrup-at
home. But have you ever used itf
When you do, you will understand
why thousands of families, the world
over, feel that they could hardly keep
house without it. It's simple and
cheap, but the wav it takes hold of
a cough will quickly earn it a per
manent place in your home.
Into a pint bottle, pour ounces
! of Pinex; then add plain granulated
! sugar syrup to fill up the pint. Or, if
desired, use clarified molasses, honey,
or corn syrup, instead of sugar syrup.
; Either way, it tastes good, never
' spoils, and gives you a full pint of
I better couah remedy than vou could
buy ready-made for three times its
cost.
It Is really wonderful how quickly
this home-made remedy conquers a
cough usually in 24 hours or less. It
seems to penetrate through every air
passage, loosens a dry, hoarse or tight
cough, lifts the phlegm, heals the mem
branes, and gives almost immediate
relief. Splendid for throat tickle,
hoarseness, croup, bronchitis and bron
chial asthma.
Pinex is a highly concentrated com
pound of genuine Norway pine extract,
and has been used for generations for
throat and chest ailments.
To avoid disappointment ask your
druggist for "2'i ounces of Pinex"
with directions, and don't accept any
thing else. Guaranteed to give abso
lute satisfaction or money refunded,
The Pjnr (' r't. n'r"-". TM.
Alter each meal - YOU e?t ont
ATOMIC
(Toft YOUR STOMACH'S SAKE)
and get full food value and real atom
acb comfort Instantly relieves heart
born, bloated, gassy feeling, STOPS
acidity food repeating and stomach
misery AIDS digestion; keeps the
stomach sweet and pure
EATONIG it the best remedy and only eort,
cent or two day to use it You will be de
lighted with results Satisfaction giuumntaeD
nr money back, t' lease call and tnr i
"Fellow the Beaton Path," 18th and
Far oin 3ta Omaha.
Poultices for Pneumonia.
Chapman, Neb., Oct. 7. To the
Editor of Tha Bee: I am mailing
you a slip from an "old newspaper"
that myself and neighbors were com
pelled to try, aa we could not get ti.
a doctor. In the cases we tried It
was a great success. One bad case
was a child 12 years old. We had
not vinegar to keep tha poultices
damp, so we used a "steamer," and
it did not only keep them plenty
moist, but also heated them. We
timed tha change Just 10 minute
apart, rolling one off and the other
on keeping the hand between the
body and hot poultice so as not t
burn the patient In changing. We
rubbed the patient from heart down
ward to help relieve pain as soon as
he could stand the pressure. In one
case, after rest came and sleep, we
noticed rolling action of tha heart
and slow, and we used heat for that,
hot water bottle on the heart side.
After the phlegm and blood were
raised from the luns, etc., there
was no cough or cold left in the
cases we had. It seems there should
be much better than this nowadays,
but this worked womlers with us.
MRS. W. B. CONNER.
The clipping referred to contains
the following advice:
"Take six or ten onions, according
to size, and chop fine; put in a large
spider over a hot fire, then add the
same quantity of rye meal and vine
gar enough to form a thick paste.
In the meanwhile stir It thoroughly,
letting it simmer five or ten minutes.
Then put In a cotton bag large
enough to cover the lungs and apply
to chest as hot as patient can bear.
In about 10 minutes apply another,
and thus continue by reheating the
poultices, and In a few hours the pa
tient will be out of danger. This
simple remedy has never failed to
cure this too often fatal malady.
Usually three or four applications
will be sufficient, but continue al
ways until the perspiration starts
freely from the chest. This remedy
was formulated many years ago by
one of the best physicians New Eng.
land has ever known, who never lost
a patient by the disease, and won his
renown by simple remedies."
Ask Tonr Exemption Board.
Omaha, Oct 6. To the Editor of
The Bee: Will you kindly answer
a question or two that would be of
great service not only to the writer,
but to many more in the same posi
tion? I am 43 years of age and reg
istered for the draft on September
12, last. Several of my neighbors
tell me that they received their
questionnaires some time ago; these
men are all in the '30's. I have,
however, not received any question
naire to date. I understand that the
boards are, and have been, examin
ing the newly registered men for
some time physical examination.
Do you receive your questionnaire
before being called for physical ex
amination or not? If so, will you
pelase Inform me why some of the
September 12 men have not been
sent theirs? I am, In a way, up a
tree, as I may be called out of the
city at any time. Thanking you for
an answer In your columns.
T. P. SMITH.
Answer If you have not yet re
ceived your questionnaire, you
should make application to the ex
emption board In your district im
mediately, that you may secure one
and comply witn tne law ruiiy.
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