THE BEE: FRIDAY. OCTOBER 18, 1918
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The Hun on the run has taken the cue from
evacuate.
, "Previously prepared position" has dropped
from the kaiser's catalogue of explanations.
RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT FOR
GERMANY.
How can Germany have a government re
sponsible and responsive to the people without
eliminating the imperial dynasty?
This is a question forced by the demand of
President Wilson speaking for the Allies which
involves many complications for the established
order in the German empire.
A reading of history discloses that with few
exceptions popular government has been firmly
established only by getting rid of the ruling
royal family. Great Britain is the main excep
tion, and, in a lesser degree, Italy, but the sta
bility of the great republics of the world has
been maintained by having all branches of the
government, including the executive, answerable
directly or indirectly, to the will of the people
registered through the ballot. It is, quite obvi
ous that the Hohenzollern household is the real
obstacle to popular government in Germany,
particularly its doctrine of divine right rule, car
rying the a6sumption that sovereignty comes
from above instead of from below.
That theory of government will have to be
reversed, in Germany as elsewhere, if irrespon
sible war incendiarism is to be prevented for
the future, and that explains why this great war
is being fought out to the finish.
, The kaiser loves his people so much that if
any sacrifice is to be made lie. will let them
make it. j
Abatement in the "flu" epidemic is slowly
proceeding, but do not let up on precautions
against the disease. v
The Yanks are driving closer and closer to
the, German main line of retreat. Keep your
eyes on these boys. ;
Repelling the attacks on his candidacy for
governor, Roy McKelvie calls the liars, and calls
them by their right names.
Make the Loan Go Over.
Americans have set for themselves a stupen
dous task, if the fourth great Liberty loan is to
reach the goal of $6,000,000,000. Three billion
six hundred millions have been subscribed, leav
ing $2,400,000,000 to be brought out on the last
two days of the drive. Boosters for the loan
are optimistic that the m.ark will be reached, but
if it is, the world vf ill be provided with a specta
cle such as it never before witnessed. Omaha
has made good on the job by surpassing the
quota set for its subscription, but a chance is
yet offered for setting the total still higher.
'With the mark at $11,316,000 already, no good
reason is known why we should not have a final
roundup reaching to $14,000,000. It is not so
much a matter of local pride as it is of notifying
the world, and Kaiser Bill in particular, that we
are deadly in earnest in our war aims. This
' German prisoners complain they have either j will not be the last of the Liberty loans, but let
been fighting or running without rest since Au- j us make this a good one.
gust 8. And that is only half of it. ( j
TODAY
One Year Ago Today in the War.
German naval force took Moon is
land from the Russians.
Reported in Washington that
mutinies had broken out in the Ger
man navy.
Russian battleship Slava sunk in
engagement with German naval ves
sels in Gulf of Riga.
In Omaha 30 Years Ago Today.
John Y. Stone, candidate for at
torney general for Iowa on the, re
publican ticket, is in the city, i
A delegation of Lincoln Odd Fel
lows came over the Burlington and
were met at the depot by the Union
Pacific band which escorted them
to the lodge room.
C. L. -Stonehill, of Chicago, ar
rived in the city to accept a posi
tion with his brother, C. A. Stone
hill, the dry goods merchant.
An adjourned meeting of the
bureau of charities is to be held
at the bpard of trade building.
The Woman's Auxiliary of All
Saints church gave a dinner for the
benefit of .the Y. M. C. A. in their
new building.
Col. W. H. Beck has returned
from a pleasure trip to points in
Missouri.
Miss Helena Parmalee is the guest
of Miss Minnie Richardson.
: In going "over the top" for the Fourth Lib
erty loan ahead of time Omaha has developed
such momentum that it keeps right on going.
Ijrhe shakedown of court house employes for
democratic campaign funds could not even wait
the close o the Liberty bond campaign. Safety
first!
;.' Socialists of Germany . and Austria now
glibly talk of peace concluded by the people, but
these same fellows voted for the war appropria
tions four years ago.
1 An increase of over 4.100 cars in receipts of
cuttle and hogs for September at the Omaha
stock yards is an indication of what this region
doing for the world. A
j Anything that helps the little folks is popri
bjr in this country, and therefore The Bee's shoe
fund is going to succeed as well as its free ice
ind milk fund. Come on in.
Guaranties of good behaviori ' by Austria-
Hungary do not seem so important. Austria
Hungary will have to be on good behavior to
maintain its own equilibrium.
a "Prince Arthur" Mullen has just landed a
consular appointment for his "Brother John."
The big "boss" also believes in the democrati
loctrine of keeping it in the family.
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Franchise in the "Solid South."
When the woman suffrage amendment was
before the , senate for debate Senator Under
wood warmly defended the Alabama law that
disfranchises negroes and poor whites. Simi
larly other senators from the south put in a
word for conditions that limit the franchise, and
finally voted against a proposal that might
break the hold of the democratic party otij the
"solid south." "White man's government" has
an attractive quality that appeals to certain
minds, but how oppressive it may become is
shown by some figures taken from records in
the office of the provost marshal general. In
the state of Virginia 179,000 men were registered
for military service, only 30,000 of them being
voters; 550,000 men of voting age live in Vir
ginia, but only 150,000 of them are voters. Of
these 100.000 are democrats, and therefore the
2.350,000 inhabitants of Virginia, the state of
Washington, Jefferson and Wilson are under
rule of this minority, through the application
of laws that limit the suffrage. How can we
consistently criticize the cumulative system of
voting that exists in Prussia when in a section
of our own country so large a proportion of the
population is denied the right to vote at all?
We have manhood suffrage in Nebraska; why
not in Virginia, or in Alabama, or in Texas,
where the democratic majorities come from?
The Day We Celebrate.
F. S. Knapp, secretary Omaha
Box company, born in 1869.
Weston A. Eddy, secretary United
Oil nd Supply company, born 1877.
Frank Schlinger 'of Olsen &
Schlinger, born 1879.
Brig.-Gen. Charles M. Saltzman,
United States army, expert of the
signal corps, born in Iowa, 47 years
ago.
Frederick Harrison, perhaps the
most distinguished survivor of the
literary Victorian epoch, born in
London, 87 years ago.
Sir Henry Craik, member of the
privy council, born inGlasglow, 72
years ago.
Frank R. Wilson, publicity di
rector of Liberty loan, born in
Woodbury county, Iowa, 37 years
ago.
Nikola Tesla, electrical inventor,
born in Austria-Hungary, 61 years
ago.
This Day in History.
1813 The French were com
pelled to yield in the second day's
lighting at Leipsic.
1831 Frederick 'III of Germany,
father of the present kaiser, born
at Potsdam. Died there June 15,
1888.
1840 Ceremony of the exhuma
tion of the body of Napoleon Bona
parte at St. Helena.
1893 Charles Francois Gounod,
famous French composer, died at
St. Cloud. Born in Paris, June 17,
1818. '
1914 After a terrific battle the
allies checked the German advance
on Dunkirk.
With the Huns' hold on the Belgian sea
coast broken, the real folding-back move is now
under way. It will not be long till the "sacred
oil of Germany"' will be the scene of activity.
.; "Soup kitchens" have au unpleasant memory f
for those who survived the good old democratic
day of the '90's, but this time they are really
serving the splendid purpose of aiding victims
of "Spanish flu" and not the sufferers from free
' trade. . .
i , The power to declare war, except to repel
invasion or attack upon Germany, is to be taken
away from the executive and lodged in the
Reic&stag. Oh,' but don't we all remember the
kaiser's assurance that this is a war solely of
defense?
If "Big Jeff" had been in congress during the
last six years the Omaha district would have
been (registered in, favor of preparedness for
defenseof , the nation every time. As it is our
vote has been cast six times against an increase
in the navy or the army. Is this "Why Lobeck?"
, A new lawsuit brings aijpther echo from the
famous, or rather infamous, "gymnasium" in the
basement of the court house. The way to fin
ish the cleanup of the county building is to turn
down the democratic county commissioners
seeking re-election and change the control of
the county board.
Why Disturb Civil War Vets?
' There are in soldiers' homes 15,000 veterans
of the civil war, averaging 76 years of age. be
sides 4,000 men not so-old. The rccommenda
1 tion sent -by the War department to congress
that these homes, which are not, crowded, be
gradually "set. aside for soldiers of the present
war, ana tnat provision dc maae in mem ior
vocational education," beginning with the home
at Danville, III., is a shock to sentiment, to, the
wholesome sentimnt that holds in reverence
the men who saved tfcis ration in the great re
bellion. Only the graest Necessity could jus
tify the uprooting of 15,000 men of great age,
tearing them away from the surroundings to
which they have become accustomed and con
centrating them ' somewhere else. ''Civil war
veterans may be concentrated without incon
venience" is the War department statement.
Now the south, its sentiment being formu-v
lated by sons of confederate soldiers, is in the
siddle. It controls the majority, party caucus
in the lower house. Wm it stand for such a
proposition -as is thus presented?
We do not believe it. The necessity is not
toroven. It is not shown that other placet bet-
ler adapted to the uses of vocational education
could not be made ready before t'uey will be
needed. Cn'oi or until . the- necessity is
rr.onstrated cons-ress should so slow. We
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ixious to forget the heroes of 18ol-lf65. or to
'subject them to needles art novance. Brooklyn
"Co-Operation." '
"Congressman Lobeck has given splendid
co-operation to Senator Hitchcock." Polit
ical taffy department of the Omaha Hyphen
ated. , ,
You bet he did. The team worked so well
together in" December, 1914, that when Hitch
cock presented his bill to prevent Great Britain,
France or Russia from getting any help against
Germany in the United States Lobeck offered
the same measure in the house. The kaiser
could not ask for more consistent co-operation
than this pair has maintained on such matters.
Germany's Supply' of Materials.
Ira Nelson Morris, United States minister to
Sweden, warns his countrymen not to be mis
led as to conditions In Germany. 1 Mr. Morris
has had ample opportunity to know of condi
tions back of the line in the Central empires,
and he gives some facts that ought to check the
thought that the Germans are about at the point
of breaking down for want of food and other
supplies to carry on the war. He thoroughly
substantiates the statements heretofore made
that the Germans acquired very large stores of
oil and other material from Russia and Rou
mania, and he points out that the stock of meats
has been largely increased through purchases
from Denmark and Sweden. Man power is be
ing replenished by return of prisoners from Rus
sia, and generally the situation is not such as
justifies any supposition that the kaiser is on
the point of exhaustion. Our people must con
tent themselves with the thought that a long
conflict may yet face our armies.
In the Case of Finland.
One of the interesting little sideshows of
the war at present is the case of Finland.
When the wave of bolshevism broke over Rus
sia, it also overflowed Finland, but the extreme
radicals were soon put down. Before the
conservatives could turn around, however, the
Hun had crossed the Baltic, after seizing the
Alaan islands and concluded his effort to trans
form the Baltic into a German lake by setting
up a government for Finland, nominating a
Gxrman princeling to-be its king, and starting
him off in business with a considerable guard
of soldiers. The Finns did not take very kindly
to this summary process of Germanizatiori, and
now are demanding the retirement of the Ger
man soldiers. This demand is emphasized by
word .from Paris that the French have broken
off relations with the Finnish government be
cause of the presence of the Germans. In the
meantime two sources of propaganda are busy
inithe United States. One is in favor of a free
Finland, with a responsible government; the
other is out and oat bolshevik, adhering to the
Lenine-Trotzky lunacy. The outcome is not8
yet plain, but it is clear that here is another of
the problems that will add to the perplexity of
the-TOundl that, later is to readjust political
boundaries nd relations in Europe" J
Timely Jottings and Reminders.
One thousand five hundred and
fortieth day of the great war.
Centennial anniversary of the
birth of Gen. E. O. C. Ord, one of
General Sherman's most trusted
subordinates.
Died 25 years ago today, Lucy
Sterne Blackwell, famous pioneer in
the cause of woman suffrage,
Today wijl witness the final big
"drive" in the. fourth Liberty loan
campaign in all parts of the United
States. '
Storyette of the Day. y
"My dear, you know there is noth
ing I hate more than a domestic
scene."
"Well, then, John Henry Dub
waite, why do you conduct yourself
in a way that forces me to create a
domestic scene?.'
"What have I done?"
"Nothing, that's just it. You've
said, 'Yes, my dear' to me so many
times I'm sick and tired of hearing
it. Why don't you lose your temper
occasionally? Throw things around,
slam the door, kick the cat I Threat
en to choke me! For once in your
life do something to convince me
that I'm married to a red-blooded
man and not a spineless jelly-fish."
Birmingham .AKe-Herald.
RIGHT TO THE POINT
Washngton Post: -Every town
burned now by the Germans should
mean an extra turn of the screw
when the victors have captured the
firebugs.
Baltimore American: For the
first time In four years the people of
Khelms can go to sleep without hav
ing their rest disturbed by German
bombardment. Would they have to
be begged to buy Liberty bonds?
New York Herald: Ferdinand,
late of the Bulgar throne, announces
his intention of devot'nR himself to
the study of botany. Here is an op
portunity for the German kaiser. He
might be put to "picking violets" for
Ferdy.
Minneapolis Tribune: Count von
Bernstorff, once German ambassador
to Washington, now represents his
country in Turkey. The sultan
would better lock up his silver and
have the alarm bells in good work
ing order.
Brooklyn Eagle: How sharper
than a serpent's tooth It is to have a
tactless child. Kaiser Wilhelm's re
flection that the crown prince would
be even less acceptable to the allies
than himself is significant. The
whole brood of Hohenzollerns is aus
gespielt, Brooklyn Eagle: Even the 30
per cent ot Mohammedans out of
120,000 population of Beirut cheer
the French occupation. For years
a French company has been lighting
the city with gas, and It was
the French who built the Lebanon
railway to Damascus. To Beirut
French influence is a synonym for
progresslveness. . '
New tork World: While a seri
ous fire nearly threatened the Rock
Island arsenal the fire department
ofkthe city remained on strike, and
only with the help of volunteers and
"firemen from other cities were the
flames brought .under control. What
would be the verdict of the American
people if they 'were the Jury In the
rase of public employes who thus
llasrantly failed in dolnf their duty?.
Marshal Ferdinand Foch
Over There and Here n
New York Times.
In panegyrics upon Ferdinand Foch this mes
sage to Marshal Joffre ' on the eve of Fere
Champenoise usually appears: "My center
yields, my right falls back. Situation excellent.
I attack. It sounds too much like Ney to re
flect truly the genius of Foch, and a little like
one of his models, Desaix, who, arriving on the
field of Marengo when the Austnans were
flushed with an illusive triumph, led his three
regiments against the enemy's center, exclaim
ing: "There is yet time to win another battle.
At Fere-Champenoise Foch transferred t the
Forty-second division of the Ninth army from
one end of his weakened line to the other and
routed the Germans, whom the unexpected di
version took by surprise. The great French
strategist is never reckless. Calculation is in
all his strokes, although he seems to appeal to
the god of chance sometimes. But in that re
spect he resembles Napoleon, who said when
Gohier asked him how he could defend his axiom
that "it is alwavs the srreater number which de
feats the less" when he had won victories with j
small armies:
"Even then -it was always the inferior force
which was defeated by the superior. When
with a small body of men I was in the presence
of a large one, collecting my little band, I fell
like lightning on one of the wings of the hostile
army and, defeated it."
That is what Foch did at Fere-Champenoise.
He repeated the strategem when he shattered
the enemy's Soissons-Rheims salient in the west
on July 18 and the days following; and, having
seized the initiative, he has been doing the same
thing ever since from Flanders to the Cham
pagne. He is the unusual combination of offen
sive and defensive fightes, equally adroit in both
capacities. Like Lee, he can hold his line while
the enemy makes costly assaults upon it, biding
his time for a counter-offensive; and, like Jack
son, he can turn up with a division where it is
least expected and smite the enemy's flank, giv
ing him no time tobring up re-enforcements.
There is no longer a doubt of Foch's su
periority, both in strategy and tactics, to the
German commanders opposed to him. It was
demonstrated most brilliantly when he antici
pated the German assault on the night of the
national fete, July 14, 1918. He read the pur
pose of Ludendorff to strike when all France
was in celebration. The Germans reasoned that
the French would be caught napping. Foch's
intelligence department had apprised him of
the enemy's preparations for a major movement.
He calculated that the blow would fall upon the
night of the national fete, and by capturing
prisoners he learned that 10 minutes after mid
night was the time set. Foch's artillery opened
fire first with a terrible barrage. The Germans,
nevertheless, came on, to find the first line
lightly held, to find the second line a stone wall.
There wal no surprise after all except for the
Germans. And four days later Foch launched
his counter-offensive, which has been kept up
unintermittently on the whole front, first here
and now there the most wonderful battle ever
fought by a great commarfder, the scale tremen
dous, the results prodigious. Today the fate of
the German army in the west trembles in the
balance.
A superman this Frenchman, if the term can
be applied to any human being; and yet he is
not consciously great. At heart and in manner
he is the same man who was known in the class
room as a teacher of the art of war not many
year sago. Happily, he has never been a pe
dant; he has been able to change his formulas,
to adjust himself to new conditions of warfare.
If his officers have learned a great deal in the
war, so has he. He could now discard much
that he used to teach at the Ecole de Guerre,
where his pupils, some of them now in high
command, worshiped him. If there was any
danger of Foch's rusting as a professor of war
it ceased when the command of the Thirteenth
division at Chaumont was given him in 1911.
Promoted to the head of the Eighth corps, he
was later transferred to the responsible post at
Nancy, headquarters of the Twentieth corps.
There he was at the outbreak of war, and his
friends knew that he was destined to play a
leading part in the conflict upon which the salva
tion f France depended.
No one knew Foch's value better than his
predecessor in the supreme command. It was
Joffre who selected Foch to foil the determined
effort of the German high command to get to
the sea in the autumn of 1914. There began
that association with British generals, French,
Smith-Dorrien, Haig, Byng, Rawlinson, Allenby
and others, which ripened into esteem for their
efficiency and faith in their trustworthiness.
They all came to admire Foch, officer and gen
tleman and comrade. He never failed them in
emergencies, they never failed him. They were
for him to a man when the question of the uni
fied command had to be settled. They could
serve under him, knowing that he was not only
France's best, but a consummate master of the
art of war.
Foch, son of an obscure administrator at
Tarbes, never had visions of a great destiny,
and in the simplicity of his life he has not been
different from the body of his countrymen. sHe
has always nourished ideals, he knows and be
lieves in ethical values, he is soundly patriotic
and he is devout. He does not pray as rrluch as
Stonewall Jackson did, but believes in the
efficacy of prayer. He says that he has been
strengthened by it in ordeals. As a soldier he
has been a sincere student of psyschology. He
thinks that a good cause is more than half the
battle. He believes in sedulously cultivating
the morale of an army. He regards the German
"will to victory" as a barren phrase. The formi
dable soldier is the man of soul and imagina
tion, in Foch's view, and as the French army
has both soul and imagination, he holds that it
is invincible.
More painful than humbled pr'de
to the Hun is translating U. S. la'
"Unconditional Surrender."
The roeky road to the Rhine and
beyond visualizes for the Hun the
Dublin highway celebrated in ribald
song.
Paris la to have 68 grand opera
performances in 42 days and every
performance is sold out in advance.
The Joy of advancing victory over
whelmed the box offices.
A large British airplane carrying
nine passengers recently crossed the
English channel from France in 25
minutes. Progress In air navigation
promises to give the channel tunnel
scheme another long sleep.
The Louisville Courier-Journal
emphasizes the liberty creed of "un
conditional surrender" quite forcibly,
though the absence of Colonel Wat
terson's picturesque alignment of
the three H's is conspicuous.
Down In Sprinfield, Mo., one H.
A. Daily emptied a pailful of nickels
on a bank counter and exchanged
them for war savings stamps. Your
Uncle Henry had been collecting the
pile for 34 years.
In one section of the Belgian bat
tlefield one batch of 600 Hun prison
ers paid the penalty of treachery
with their lives. They were sur
rounded and forced to surrender.
Left iiwcharge of a small guard, the
Huns grabbed up their weapons and
began shooting the Belgians in the
back. The latter wheeled about and
In a few minutes turned the batch
over to the grave diggers.
Two husky high school boys in
Detroit, taking lessons In Liberty
bond salesmanship, scaled the wall
around Henry Ford's house after
being chased from the gate, and in
stantly became chummy with Mrs.
Ford. "Come here, Henry," called
the madame. - Henry came. Some
time after the boys scampered off
with a subscription for $50,000 each
and a cake lunch stowed in the right
place. Say, boys, can you beat it?
MIRTHFUL REMARKS.
"I wish to purchase a pot."
"What tort of a pet?" '
"Oh, any kind of an intelligent pot.
Something for my wife."
"Well, air, this dog- can da anything
but talk."
"I'll take htm. That defect will novor
bo noticed." Detroit Freo Prets.
lees
Cynic 8o your alrahlp was wrecked In
lh billiard. I thought you considered
It perfect.
"The ship wan perfect," replied the In
ventor. Mlffly. "The air waa at fault."
Philadelphia Inquirer.
"Don't aend that abusive letter, even
If the fellow did Injure you. You might
get Into trouble."
"How no?" I
"The law doea not allow you to write
your wrongs.'' Baltimore American.
German General Why the devil don't
you stop these Americans coming across?
That's your Job.
German Admiral And why the devil
don't you stop 'em when they are across?
That's yours London Punch.
7 .V9 A
"Order !n the Council."
Omaha, Oct 15. To the Editor of
The Bee: Can It be possible that
Omaha yes, Greater Omaha, a
metropolitan city of the great west,
of which its citizens have been
justly proud, Its achievements in line
of hospitality have been the envy of
other cities and its manner of caring
for its unfortunates has been a mat
ter of comment; always at the top
In case of emergency, the manner in
which It handled Its Liberty bonds
places It in front rank of any city In
America. Yes. we pride ourselves
on these great accomplishments.
But, on the other hand, such vaude
ville stunts placed on the boards of
city hall by Messrs. Butler and Ure
as yesterday Is liable to bring us in
ill repute. Imagine men of mature
minds like a lot of rollicking school
boys inviting one another into the
alley to fight Is this the change we
voted for? So mote it be. There
is another election later, and some
of these frivolous boys will have a
chance to hie to some alley to reflect
as well as fight. Seriously speaking,
if I had been a member of that au
gust body I would feel a bit ashamed.
The mayor should call time. During
the stormiest sessions of Pahlman's
administration I have heard nothing
to compare in passing the lie to each
other as in this Instance, qualified, as
It were, a "pie-faced liar," a new
kind of a liar. Sure these obstreper
ous lads need a calling. What next?
Make them take out bonds to square
themselves before their constituents.
JAMES HALE.
Objects to Kindergarten.
Blair, Neb., Oct. 15. To the Ed
itor of The Bee: Permit me to en
ter a protest against using the name
"kindergarten" for the department
in our schools attended by the
younger children. As we are doing
away with the German language, let
us also, and at once, eliminate the
word "kindergarten," which should
go on the scrap heap along with
"kultur," "kamarad" and a few
other sauerkraut expressions.
ANNIE VIO GATES.
Where They Started.
Kansas City Star: Don't forget
to knock on the head the argument
that with the Germans put back on
their own border the allies w-ill have
won the war. That would merely
be putting them bark where they j
were when they started.
October Sale
PIANOS
and PLAYERS
"I went into the laundry the other day
and what do you think I found Maria do
In!??" "What?"
"She was pressing her glad riga with
a sad iron." Chicago Post.
"Shall we send our ion to a co-educational
college?"
"I'm In favor of It. It won't hurt him
to learn something about women along
with his other education." Judge.
"What makes you think this measure
Is unconstitutional?"
"Well, I have submitted It to four law
yers, and they are unanimous that It's
constitutional." Life.
TELL ME NOT.
(With apologies to the jhades of H. W. L.)
Tell me not in hopeful accents
That the Huns are goln' to quit
While the towns of France they're burn
ing , , '
Brother, have you lost your gtyt?
War Is vital. War Is duty.
Hasty peace is not our goal.
But to make the Hun feel Justice,
To awake In him a soul.
Not an armistice, not a respite
Should our allied leaders yield,
But with bombs of all descriptions
Expurgate him from the field.
Russia bit a Hun peace apple, '
To her sorrow. We are wiser;
Justice with sweet mercy tempered,
Was not destined for tbe kaiser.
Trust no peace note, friends, I urge you
What's a Gorman .guarantee?
While his submarines are skulking
On th' pathways of the sea.
Talk not peace, till they are conquered
Back our boys with Bonds today.
Than when they have won the battle,
Peace will come, and come to stay.
BAYOLL NB
Omaha, i
Do You Know
this Woman?
She's anywhere between 25
and 40; pale, haggard, dull
eyed, listless, nerveless, over
wrought, lacking in strength
and endurance, troubled with
loss of appetite, indigestion ar.d
insomnia, shows indubitable
signs of suffering from impov
erished blood and an absence of
Tital force her whole appear
ance, in fact, being pervaded
with an air of utter exhaustion
and despondency?
Do you know this woman?
Of course you dol She's oa your call
ing list. She's not just one individual
she's a type. You can see her every
where. No doubt you recognize her
In the mirror every meriting when yon
dress your hair. While the may not
look audit like you, yet you are forced
to admit a strong resemblance. You
don' t like her appearance a bit, do your
There's really nothing very pleasing
about her, to there? Besides, aherath
ex get on your nerval, doesn't she?
Why don't you tell her to
take LYKO. the great general tonic!
It will put color in her cheeks, bring
back the sparkle to hor eyes, restore
her strength, calm her nerves, relieve
her restlessness, give her new snap
and animation, increase her appetite,
aid her digestion, regulate her liver,
kidneys and bowels and transform her
into the picture of health in short
time. Tell her she'll not mind taking
"LYKO" because it is so agreeable in
taste and that she can buy it from any
tellable dru store.
TIM a real General Took
Sole Manufacturers:
LYKO MEDICINE COMPANY
New York Kansas City, Mo.
We Include Our Entire Stock!
Contracted Purchases Before the
Rise in,
PR'CES
Now 5s the opportunity, make
your selection for the holidays.
Leave the Piano with us until
wanted.
TERMS
-oivenient an l t suit your purse.
Fine line of
Mason & Hamlin
Brambach
Bush & Lane
Cable-Nelson
Kranich & Bach
Vose & Sons
Kimball
fiospe
Player Pianos
Apollo Electric
Melville Clark Players
Kranich & Bach Players
Apollophone
Gulbransen Players
Hospe Players
We Have Pianos from $150 Up
Player Pianos from $375 Upl
and they are positively guaran
teed. Your long evenings, your gas
Icss Sundays require music, and
music which can be produced ar
tistically without practice or
study. If you don't believe it
come to our warerooms and be
shown. t
CoerjtSTntiii rt wi4j.iim
1513-1515 Douglas Street.
"The Victor Store." ,
Chicago Opera Co., Not. 1-2.
Special to Hunters
BIG SALE ON LOADED
SHELLS
Black powder, any 7R
gauge I wC
Smokeless powder, any Qft
gauge IOC
Jefferson Square
Hardware Co.
418 NO. 16TH ST.
Hotel Dyckmao
Minneapolis
FIREPROOF
Opened 1910
Location Most Central.
300 Rooms, 300 Private Baths.
Rates $1.75 to $3.50 Per Day.
H. J. TREMAIN.
Pres. and Manager.
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An Eye for an Eye
To the Hun the only deterrent is the fear of
certain retribution, qualitative and quantitative, j
In the absence of this fear he will continue to .
kill and pillage and burn on the retreat as on the j
advance. Assured of measured and merciless
reprisal, he will crawl as he has always crawled
when in terror of the coming of the square deal.
Accordingly, to that end we propose the sub
joined, table of the equivalent, or approximately
equivalent, retributive values:
For Cambrai Milheim
For St Quentln Bonn
For Lille Dusseldorf
For Bruges Coblenz
For Antwerp Frankfort
For Brussels Cologne
For Liege Hanover
We ha-e no, doubt that this table can be im
proved in detail and, extended in geographical
application. Perhapi the method of prevention
and protection which it suggests can be rendered
most effective, not by promising to destroy the
equivalent German city, but by promising to
hold it and its inhabitants to convict labor until
it has paid the last penny of its nation's shame
ful debt for the destruction of the French or
Belgian city set against it in the foregoing, list.
Which plan of reprisal would seem more
dreadful to Hunnish apprehensions? We con
fess we don't know. New York Sun.
People i and Events
Four kings and one emperor have gone into
the discard since the war began. Ample room
for more, and the taxi awaits.
I Truly the world moves fast and forward in
wartime. Hereafter sailors manning the ships
of America's new merchant marine will be paid
rxtra for overtime work at sea, except in cases
of emergency when the captain calls "all hands
on deck." '
Does marriage dull the zest manifested by
women in concealing their years? Observers
at the registration booths in New York lean to
the affirmative. Most of the unwed answered
the age Question "over 21," while the married
usuallv eave exact fieures. One married woman.
who hesitated for a moment, was coached by a
sister "over 30." She ienoraH the bint and an
wertd "41" - -
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tro u ma a o n
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YOUR car bounds away the
instant the spark touches the
gas, if it's Red CrownGasoline.
Red Crown is a straight-distilled,
clean gas, that's all gas. It vap,orizes
readily in co'ldst weather.1 It
doesn't keep you busy with car
buretor cleaning., It is motor fuel
with more than ordinary power
and mileage.
Wherever you buy it, it's the same.
At service stations and good gar
ages. Look for the RedMown
Sign.
v.
CP(aplW. is a cold-proof lub
d 0lQnng ricant that keeps cyl
inders clean and compression tight.
STANDARD OIL COMPANY
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