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Get your Red Cross out in front I
Free advice to President Wilson: Keep out
of Portugal.
. If worse conies to worst, George Creel is
there to save the situation.
The greatest mother in the world wants you,
md it only takes a dollar and a heart.
Colorado has also gone "bone dry," and Den
ver may now find out what real bootlegging is
like.
Boys stationed in southern France say it is
cold, but what about the lads in northern
Russia?
Not a very fragrant odor about the fight be
tween the potash producers and the fertilizer-makers.
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Hear the returning soldiers shout for the
. Red Cross? That ought to help you make up
your mind to join.
No danger that the legislature will run short
of measures for consideration. The bill factory
, never fails to work overtime.
Now it is said the mistake at Hog Island
was in making the yard too hig. Well, maybe
; we will grow up to it in time.
f
i ;The Dutch have asked Herr Ilohenzollern
to take his trunk and go, but he declines. His
: greater problem would be where to go.
Playing Santa to the boys must be great
sport for Governor-elect McKelvie, but the tree
does not hold enough presents to go round.
i Poland has broken with Germany over the
. bolsheviki question, but it will not be long until
sounder reasons are disclosed for the breach.
': Hotel owners are viewing a lot of labor
' saving devices in New York, but they will see
nothing to beat the safety razor for slicing the
ham.
Mrs. Wilson, is sharing the nice things said
to her' husband in Paris, preserving the well
established reputation of the French for gal
lantry. The people have the money and they are
ready to spend it. The merchant who has the
goods and advertises them right will get the
business.
Railway stations seem to be favorite resorts
' for president assassins. The? fatal shot was
fired at President Garfield in the railway station
'. at Washington.
i The governor of Maryland proposes equal
rights as a foundation for domestic peace. Good
enough, and let tts watch the southern states
s wheel into line.
The bootleggers' bund seems to be driving
a brisk holiday trade. The higher the prices
and the bigger the profit, the more desperate
the chances that will be taken.
- Postmaster General Burleson proposes to
permi; long distance telephoning after midnight
' at one-fourth the rates charged during daylight
:: hours. All of us can then afford to talk in our
sleep if we want to.
Another Mexican general has been assigned
the task of overtaking the elusive Villa, who
; has outlived quite a long list of pursuers. Who
can say but the expedition undertaken by
. "Black Jack" two years ago may not yet be
brought to its reasonable conclusion?
The polished Parisian, long practiced in the
art of handing out pretty compliments, has
nothing on our president, who can give them
word for word in the polite competition. Pretty
soon, however, this must come to an end, and
each side will get down to brass tacks on the
peace negotiations. Of course, we all want the
same thing, but how to go about to get it will
- engender some discussion.
"Passing the Buck11
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"Passing the buck" is epidemic in Germany.
It is the open season for alibis.
The kaiser blames Von Bethmann-Hollweg
and Von Jagow for starting the war.
The defacto German government seeks to di
vert responsibility for the murders of Edith
Cavell and Captain Fryatt from Berlin to any
other quarter where there is hope of making it
stick.
Various parts of the crumbled German em
pire are maneuvering to avoid paying shares of
the war bill which will be presented by the
victorious allies.
, This "George did it" and "Let George do it"
business 'may be good mental exercise for all
classes of Huns. It may give temporary com
fort here and there to those who have a burn
ing sense of guilt, but it will not divert the
minds of the peoples and governments of Ser
bia, Belgium, France, Great Britain and Italy
from the fact that the outrages inflicted on them
' by the German armies went virtually unpro
tested in Germany as long as the armies were
winning. The German masses were, to say the
least, accessory after the fact. They stood by.
ready to profit by what the principals might
Rain for them by their crimes. Now they should
he niade to suffer for what they permitted
themselves to be used for in the attempt to
ceajize oa the crimes.-MinneapqlU Tribune, .
MODIFY RED TAPE METHODS.
The Omaha city commissioners are moving
expeditiously to reform the purchasing prac
tices of the city. These have been found both
extravagant and wasteful, and while something
of a check of departmental expenditures has
been provided, the methods by which that has
been obtained are more costly than the value
of the oversight. While they are about it
they should take up the more important
matter of planning for the annual out
lay. A budget system has been adopted
after a fashion, but it lacks the essential element
of control. Heads of departments make esti
mates, which are lumped, and in the shake-out
each gets at least all he reasonably expected to
have, whether the better interests of the city
are conserved or not. More careful consulta
tion and closer scrutiny of community needs
ought to produce a far more satisfactory
division of funds, and while it is scarcely proba
ble that less money will be needed, because of
the continually expanding requirements of the
city, service will be improved because of wiser
ways of spending have been adopted.
Portugal's President Assassinated.
News of the assassination of President Faes
of Portugal shocked the world at a time when
it was preparing to celebrate the triumph of
democracy. Such a crime is deplorable in any
government, but in a republic, where the presi
dent is selected by the vote of his fellow coun
trymen, it becomes doubly calamitous, because
it is more a blow at the liberties cf the people
than at the person of the victim.
When King Charles was assassinated ten
years ago some cause might have been found
for such an act, because of the scandalous life
of the monarch and the tyranny of his rule.
When Manuel was unseated and the entire
Braganza family banished two yean later, Por
tugal became a republic, with such institutions
as might be looked for in an enlightened gov
ernment. Since that time the politics of the
country have been stirred by the efforts of roy
alists on the one side and socialists on the other,
but through it all the democracy of the people
has asserted a stabilizing influence.
When Portugal espoused the cause of the
Allies against Germany the action aroused the
intense opposition of the royalist element, which
was pro-German, and the socialists, who were
opportunists at the moment, and affairs in the
little country have been sadly disturbed for the
last two years. President Paes was energetic
in pushing the Portuguese participation in the
war, and incurred the bitter enmity of the op
posing elements of the people. His death does
not menace the existence of the republic, which
seems to be well founded, but will be a cause
of sorrow such as has been borne by the United
States and France because of the act of a mur
derous lunatic.
Economy and Reform Combined.
A suggestion from the lieutenant governor
elect that legislators restrain their propensity
for introducing duplicate measures is both wise
and timely. It contains nothing that can oper
ate to restrict the service of the lawmakers, or
that will in any way tend to limit the views of
one who seriously seeks to improve the laws of
the state. Adoption of the suggestion should,
however, have the effect of saving many dollars
in stationery and printing cost, as well as a large
amount of time for the members.
Nebraska's experience is but little varied
from that of other states, where the introduc
tion of bills is without limit. Each session of
the legislature finds the files clogged with meas
ures, hundreds of them of such little moment
that they never emerge from the chamber of the
committee to whom they are referred, while
other hundreds are killed at the end by a single
sweeping resolution. And even with this whole
sale slaughter, each session of the legislature
adds from 300 to 500 new laws to the statutes.
It is incredible that Nebraska or any other com
monwealth requires this amount of tinkering
with the written law each two years.
Let the approaching legislature give these
thoughts some consideration, and mercifully
limit at least the number of bills offered. In
the counsel of many lies wisdom, and the bills
that deserve to survive and become laws will
be all -the better because they can have more
careful consideration, the result of greater de
liberation in committees and on the floor, and
the state will be the gainer.
France and America Comrades.
One note of encouragement has rung through
all the pretty speeches made on both sides of
the reception table since Mr. Wilson reached
Paris. It has to do with the establishment of
closer comradeship between France and Amer
ica. Much has been said of the debt from one
to the other; there should be less talk of this.
Americans did feel a great sense of obligation
to France for favors extended when the
colonists were seeking to set up for themselves.
It is hardly probable the French ever thought
of that as a debt they might some day realize
on. We may have felt it ought to be repaid,
but it surely was not that alone which drew us
into the war on the side of France. We must
have had a higher purpose and a nobler aim than
merely to wipe out a score that showed a bal
ance against us. As a matter of fact, we owe
the French far more than is involved in the help
given us in the course of the Revolutionary war.
From the spiritual side of France we have
drawn more than we have from the material.
This great war has drawn the two nations closer
together, and in the communion thus established
good for both will be found. France will be
greater than ever, just as the United States will
advance in all the things that make for human
ity's betterment, and the strengthened friend
ship will bring good to the world. Civilization
will suffer little while America, England and
France is so united.
Italy is beginning to reckon up losses and
expenses, and presents a total that must give
that little country an honored place. Five hun
dred thousand soldiers lost their lives, as many
more were permanently disabled and $11,000,-
000. 000 was added to the national debt. This
is going some for the country that had just
emerged from a war Germany thought had
crippled her to a point where she did not count.
Little nations of Europe are coming to the
surface with grievances that go back to the year
1, or before, and demand that something be
done to settle them before peace is fully estab
lished. It will very likely take the form of wip
ing the slate clean and starting off anew.
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Right in the Spotlight.
Frominent among the British rep
resentatives at the peace table will
be Andrew Bonar Law, who is chan
cellor of the exchequer and lead
er of the unionists in the house of
commons. Mr. Law is regarded as
one of Great Britain's most astute
statesmen. He is a Canadian Scotch
man and behind a quiet exterior con
ceals much political acumen and en
ergy. He entered parliament in
1900 from one of the divisions of
Glasgow and from 1902 to 1906 he
South Dakota's Chaplain
Stars and Stripes, France. v
When the Twenty-eighth infantry came out
of the line in Argonne to sprawl in well-earned
rest, any visitor to the candle-lit billets or to the
little October campfires was sure, sooner or
later, to hear the talk reach the name of their
Ipst friend and priest, Father O'Flaherty Chap
Iain C. E. O'Flaherty, killed in action at Very,
France, October, 1918.
Then is the time to get at the truth about a
man, because after such a battle death seems far
too common a thing for any one to have pretty
nothings said r.hout him just because he is dead.
One nitrht, when the fog dimmed the li?ht of
thp full moiin. thev were talkinir about Father
was parliamentary secretary to the O'Flahertv a chance miscellany of officers and
board of trade in the Balfour ad- lncn, gathered around a sunken fire, where, on a
ministration. He is an authority on ! sizzliIlg griddle, someone was turning the flap
finance and economic questions and jacks made from a supply of recently acquired
will probably be Lloyd George's
right hand man in protecting Brit
ish interests from this point of view.
One Year Ago Today in the War.
U. S. submarine F-l rammed and
sunk by F-3 in American waters,
with loss of 19 lives.
Sir Eric Geddes, first lord of Brit
ish admiralty, announced loss of
11 vesesls in a British convoy in
North sea.
In Omaha Thirty Years Ago Today.
Freddie, the two-year-old son of
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Bowman, while
playing in the alley, was attacked
by a cock and before his cries
brought his mother to him, the cock
had picked holes in his cheek and
forehead and had badly lacerated
the child's face.
The new bridge motor cars are
running every day until midnight.
There are six trains running every
12 minutes and averaging 75 to 80
passengers.
Burt G. Wheeler has resigned as
stenographer for Blake, Bruce & Co.
to take a similar position with the
Armour-Cudahy Packing company
of South Omaha.
Mrs. Chris Dun and daughter left
to spend the winter in San Jose, Cal.
The Day We Celebrate.
Sir Patrick McGrath, president of
the Legislative council of New
foundland, born at St. Johns, New
foundland, 49 years ago.
William Lyon Mackenzie King,
former minister of labor of Canada,
born at Kitchener, Ont., 44 years
ago.
Walter W. Graves, chief justice of
the Missouri supreme court, born
in Lafayette county, Missouri, 58
years ago.
Clinton Rogers Woodruff, a noted
pioneer in good government and
other public welfare movements,
born in Philadelphia 50 years ago.
This Day in History.
1822 Frederick W. Lander.' one
of the early pathfinders across the
plains and mountains, and a general
in the civil war, born at Salem,
Mass. Died at Taw Paw, Va.,
March 2. 1862.
1868 Dr. LIsher Parsons, who was
Commodore Perry's fleet surgeon,
died at Providence. R. I. Born at
Alfred, Me., in 1788.
1885 Sensation in England over
Gladstone's conversion to Irish
home rule.
1899 Appointment announced of
Lord Roberts to the chief command
of British forces in South Africa,
with Lord Kitchener as his chief of
staff.
1914 Berlin claimed an impor
tant victory for the Germans in the
region of Warsaw.
1915 Italian liner Tort Saud re
ported sunk by submarine.
1916 President Wilson transmit
ted the peace notes of Germany and
Austria to the entente allies without
comment.
Timely Jottings and Reminders,
Fifteen years ago today the
Wright brothers made their first
flights in the power aeroplane.
Eighty-three candidates will re
ceive degrees and certificates at the
109th convocation of the University
of Chicago today.
Maj. Gen. Clarence R. Edwards,
commander of the department of the
northeast and who led the Twenty
sixth division in France, is to be the
principal speaker at the second an
nual meeting of the four-minute men
of Connecticut, which will be held
today at Bridgeport.
The liberation of Palestine is to
be celebrated jointly by the Jewish,
Catholic and Protestant faiths in a
great meeting tonight in the Metro
politan opera house, New York City.
Hon. Henry Morgenthau, former
ambassador to Turkey, will preside
at the meeting.
Storyette of the Day.
Two women were discussing a
third. "She's a splendid worker, but
still she isn't popular," commented
the single one. "I wonder why?"
An old lady who had been listen
ing, broke into the conversation.
"She's too handedy," she told them.
Both of the two young ones
looked their wonder.
"Yes," explained the old lady, "too
handedy I mean. Doesn't the Bible
say not to let your left hand know
what your right hand does? But
she doesn't do that. If she lend?
her neighbor on one side a cup of
coffee she has to tell te one on the
other side all about it. When she
gives any one anything she tells
about it. And you both know that
no one likes to have their weak
nesses advertised, even by the one
who helps them most. She keeps
one hand too well informed of the
other hand's doing9. That's why I
say she's too handedy." Indianap
olis News.
QUAINT BITS OF LIFE.
The mace of the lord mayor of
London is carried before him upside
down when he is attending a fu
neral, or the sovereign is present.
This is an acknowledgement of the
two powers that are above the lord
mayor the Sovereign and Death.
When a code book of the British
navy becomes obsolete or too dilap
idated for further use it is destroyed
by fire under conditions of great for
mality. Its title and number are
cheeked-and rechecked, entered in
a register and certified by the cap
tain of the ship. The book is then
placed In a furnace in the presence
of a number of officers and reduced
to ashesj ,
German flour.
"I was with him when he was killed or not
more than 20 feet avay,"a young lieutenant said.
"All that morning he had been burying German
dead. Then at noon, when a shell struck a
truck at Very and when every one scattered to
the four winds. Father-O'Flaherty hotfooted it
to the place to see who was hurt and what could
be done about it. The second shell got him
killed him outright."
"Nervy guy. he was," the cook observed.
"The doughboys tell me he went over the top
with them at every fight since Soissons."
"Sure he did. I can see him now with that big
cane of his, parading through the mud. I re
member how he used to point this way and that
with it. Once, when he was trying to show a
bunch of German prisoners at St. Mihiel the way
to the nearest lock-up for Heinies, he had to do
all his talking with his cane. Thev thought he
was going to hit them and yelled 'Kamerad' till
he most died laughing."
"He accused me of swearing at him at St.
Mihiel," said a captain, grinning reminiscently.
"I denied it."
" 'Yes, you did, captain.' he says, trying to
look solemn, 'and highly improper it was, too.
It was just before the zero hour and you barked
at me, "Keep that damned nut of yours down or
you'll lose it !" ' "
"What I used to enjoy," said another, "was
watching him suavely toying with all of you,
making monkeys of you when you didn't know
it. A man of the world he was, and you were
all just children in his hands."
There was no denial.
"Do you remember his blessed bedding roll?
Lord, it was the biggest and finest in the A. E.
p. sjze of an eight-room cottage. A gift, I
think, from his lcwing parish out in Mitchell,
S n When he joined us he was too green to
know the trenches were not palatial enough to
make room for that kind of housekeeping.
"I remember once when he first came to
France," the K. of C. man said. "He was bil
leted right near one of those big French naval
guns, and while we were waiting for him one
rainy day we saw him through the window,
pacing up and down the road, talking, talking,
talking to a little poilu, the mathematician of the
battery, whose job was to calculate the trajec
tories and all that sort of thing.
" 'Well, father,' we said when he came in at
last 'been showing him how to hit the cathedral
at Met??' 'Not exactly.' he said: 'that little
chap's a priest. I've just come from confes
sion." , .
"That new chaplain of ours is no slouch,
either," said a man from the engineers who had
dropped in hopefully, smelling the griddle cakes
from afar. "Name's Cannon. Don't know where
he comes from. Not a Catholic, I imagine.
Don't know just what his church is. Nobody
does. When thev ask him, he just says, 'I'm
what vou are.' He made a good many friends
on Hill 269.
"I guess vou know it was the engineers who
took that little old hill for you, and a rotten
hard fight it was, for we haven't a lot of machine
guns and hand grenades and fancy things like
you fellows have. Just rifles and shovels for
us. Well, the chaplain, he was in the thick of
it every minute. I'll never forget him burying
that officer. Dug the grave with one of those
dinky little medical department axes. Covered
him over, dropped on his knees and whistled
taps over the grave. That chaplain doesn t know
what fear is. '
"Same with O'Flaherty." said the cook.
"That was the trouble," said the private pour
ing out the last spoonful of batter and, as he did
so unconsciously phrasing for all of them the
dead priest's epitaph. "He was too damned
brave,"
Stop the Waste
"If the people really knew the method and
the manner in which we expend money and the
waste of which we are guilty they would mob
us" So Mr. Borah told the senate in the de
bate that followed the call of Senator Martin of
Virginia to the administration to not only cut
down future estimates but as far as possible to
turn back into the treasury the unexpended
balance of money appropriated by congress dur
ing the war.
These calls upon the national legislators
should be heeded. As a result of the war ex
penditures they have got into the habit of
"thinking in billions" and an appropriation of a
million or two dollars, as Senator Penrose re
marks, is regarded as "mere chicken feed. But
there comes a day of reckoning, as citizens may
discover in their increased tax bills and the
necessity for subscribing new loans.
The United States treasury is no Fortunatus
purse. Every dollar expended by it must come
from the pockets of the people, and it was high
rime to call a halt upon the extravagance and
die waste which Senator Borah declares has be
come a national disease. New York Herald.
War's Havoc Among Civilian
Between 300,000 and 350,000 civilian deaths
are estimated by the public health service to
have been caused by influenza and resultant
pneumonia in the last 12 weeks in the United
States. And the end is not yet. For the United
States the old-time fact that war's diseases cost
more lives than the fighting is a fact still. It
was so in the Franco-Prussian war; the best
French estimates showed 200,000 lives lost
through the smallpox which followed that strug
gle, while across the border there were 170,000
German deaths from it. The cholera epidemic
that accompanied the Austro-German war was
estimated in Austria and Prussia alone to have
cost 280,000 lives. It must be remembered that
the conflict just closed saw terrible epidemics
of typhus, typhoid and other diseases in the
more unsanitary parts of Europe, and that even
in the most sanitary countries malnutrition and
exhaustion increased the mortality from ordi
nary ailments. We shall perhaps find that the
deaths in the armies have been almost or quite
matched bv civilian deaths from disease. New
York Tost.
People and Events
Six-cent fares on the trolley lines connecting
seaside cities have received official sanction in
New Jersey.
The presMent's flag .hich floats from a
separate military mast n tie George Washing
ton, is of blue bunting, 10.2 feet by 16 feet in
size. In each of the four corners is a five
pointed star, with one point upward, and in the
cen.er of the flag is the .atijnal coat-of-arms.
Must have been "a grand and glorious feel
ing" Herr Liebknecht enjoyed the night he cud
dled up in the kaiser's bed in the Berlin palace.
Quite a transition from prison planks to im
perial feathers. Doubtless he snuggled under
the top tick comfy-like, but didn't smother.
Herr carries too much hot air for that.
The government printing office was started,
according to Henry Litchfield West, in the
Bookman, with an appropriation of $10.0(10.
The annual cost today he sets at $12,000,000.
The government printing plant employes 5,000
men and women. There are 246 typesetting
machines and 146 presses. The average daily
quantity of franked mail is 150 tons. He esti
mates that the postage on the franked mail at
letter rates would amount to 86,000,000 a year.
State Press Comment
Aurora Repub!: ii: Nebraska has
been securing .!!.. very desirable
publicity in the N, w York, Hoston
and I'hilailelphi.i r., wspiipers recent
ly which reals like Miiff emanating
from Hill Maupin's bureau. .Maybe
some of the fellows who have been
demanding Bill's lna,i on a charger
will want to back up wla-n all the
facts are known.
Hastings Tribune; it was a Ne
braska soldier who fired the first
shot in the war in the 1'hilippine
Islands when assailed by the insur
gent Filipinos. Ami it is said that
it was a Nebraskan who fired the
first shot at I'hate.i u-Tliferry last
July when the second battle of the
Marne was fuiiKlu. Nebraska is
foremost in many ri spools even in
presidential timber.
Crete Videtto: Now that the war
is over we must em out all free
government dope. W e notice when
there is any paid ;o! ertising the
government nllicials fiit it in the
New York City papers. That's a
good place for them to put the free
dope also. We stood lor this in
justice during the war and tried to
do our part, but patieiiee ceases to
be a virtue along this line, now that
the war is over.
York News-Times: These dear
dear souls who are planning to plant
the returned suUhcrs on the semi-
arid plains of the west as a matter
of governmental generosity are go
ing to be badly disappointed. The
American soldiers in France are well
informed regarding the western
cotintiy and if thev hud wanted
some of that land they could have
gone there long ago. It is likely some
of tho irrigated districts might prove
attractive to some of the soldiers but
the greater portion of them were
raised on real farms in Iowa and
other states and they are not going
to rush pell mell to the west to get
the lands which t'nele Sam might
hand out to them.
WHITTLED TO A POINT
Baltimore American: Get the
money first, then do your Christmas
shopping. But get the money.
Washington Tost: Boor Tommy
Atkins! Just finished with his hard
drives and now bottled up in
Cologne.
Minneapolis Tribune: The kaiser
says he has some "friends still m
America," Perhaps; but at present
they are still; very still.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat: In spite
of the interest in aerial mail service,
chief concern is as to when there is
to he a return of normal efficiency
of the regular mail.
Kansas City Star: The French
distrust the servility of the Germans
in their attitude toward the French
army of occupation. Those French
men certainly are the suspicious
boys.
Brooklyn F.agle: When George
Washington deplored entangling al
liances some 50,000 Americans had
not died fighting for our liberties in
Fiance. The defenders of human
freedom are allied in other ways
than on paper.
New Y'ork Herald: If the kaiser
had attempted to commit suicide six
months ago it would have convulsed
the world. When he tried it yester
day everybody simply looked bored
and turned to some other headline
in the newspaper he was reading.
New York World: A new star
shell perfected for our navy Is ex
pected to increase our efficiency in
night fighting by 25 per cent. But
wasn't it the American idea that
Liberty's torch was so to light the
world that there need be no nights
or days of fighting?
New York World: In the case of
women employes of the war indus
tries board, whose services are dis
pensed with, it is announced that
their railroad transportation home
will be "paid personally" by the
chairman of the board. That is gen
erous; but why should not Uncle
Sam himself do it?
SIDELIGHTS ON THE WAR.
Tweniy-three languages will be
spoken at the peace conference.
Persons competent to translate a
few of them may pull down a joy
ride to Paris at Uncle Sam's ex
pense by getting in touch with Gen.
W. W. Harts, equipment director of
the American peace mission.
Woe has come In Belgium to men
and women who consorted with the
Huns and attempt to remain in the
country. Pro-German men may not
stay and live. Fro-German women
are publicly branded by having their
hair cut off.
Soldiers, sailors and marines re
turning to civil life are privileged to
continue their government life In
surance indefinitely. A series of
payment options suited to policy
holders' convenience are available,
and existing policies may be con
Verted into any of the forms given
by private concerns at any time dur
ing the next five years.
Aimed at Omaha
York News-Times: Omaha's
street car strike is over but straw
hangers are not permuted. More
Joy out of life.
Hastings Tribune: otnaha Is to
have another big hotel. More proof
of the rapid growth of Nebraska's
metropolis.
Fort Calhoun Chronicle: One
good thing about th,e street car
strike it furnishes the Omaha
dailies with plenty of front page
stuff Just at the time when war
news has frazzled out.
Hastings Tribune: That street car
strike in Omaha has been a good
thing in one respect, it lias made
many a lazy man use his legs.
Beatrice Express: The Omaha
public after enjoying healthful walks
for the past e.ght days, has returned
to strap hinging in crowded, un
healthy street cars. And the public
appears to be real happy at thai..
Blair Knteriiri.se: Cifv Pmnmts-
I sioner 'fowl of Omaha proposes to
annex Sarpy county to Douglas
county. If ho succeeds the peo
ple of Washington may look for
I an effort to annex them to Douglas
i county and Omaha. Omaha has an
nexed pretty nearly everything in
Douglas county.
THE MESSAGE SENT TO DAD
Mother, oh. Mother, whre are you?
I must tell you the nmvs rlpht away.
I have a letter paying
He'll he home by i hrlstmaa day.
And we'll kill the hrlndlert heifer.
The calf he saved, you know,
And carried In out of the weathur
That nlfiht two jvara ago.
Yes, hrlndle has heen my Rlory,
Hut the muse Is greater by half
Than the one. told of In the atory.
Where they slaughtered the fatted calf.
And, mother, I'll go to the grocery
And buy whatever you say.
For Jlmmle has starved for your goodies
Since the day he went away.
And I'll put on that coat of father"
That ho wore In sixty-three.
And stand straight like a soldier,
So our hoy will be proud of me.
No. you won't need any finery,
You will look all right to Jim,
And he'lt kiss that curl on your forehead
That has whitened, grieving for him.
Mother! Why. mother, you are crying.
1 oes this good news make you sad?
Well, women are curious critters
They cry most when they are glad.
Honey Creek. K. W, H.
MIRTHFUL REMARKS
'See here, hasn't the pedestrian the
rlsht of way over motor-vehicles at the
crossings?"
"Yes, the pedestrian has the right of
way. hut the motor-vehicle has more mo
mentum." Baltimore American.
"I thought you were going to quit talk
ing politics."
"True," said Senator Sorghum, reminis
cently. "There was a time when I thought
I was going to give up smoking." Wash
ington star.
"I feel dubious I hear the lady 1re
are to sue Is a great beauty."
"For once that will help our caae."
"Huh?"
"We're suing Her to recover th bill of
a beauty doctor." Kansas City Journal.
"Your national dances do not compare
with ours." said the Herman diplomat
"You are wrong about that," protested
the pultun. "Folks will be doing the tur-
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toughs.
Colds.
Sore
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Mrs. David Martin,
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Narihville, Tenn.,
Writes: I had a very bad cold, soma
thing like "GRIF," and after using
Juniper Tar I have entirely recovered.
Buy It Today, as Colds Lead to Grip
60 Doses. 30c
St
l If KO Is soli. In original pack,
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Thousands of pale.weak,
thin-blooded, run-down
men and women have
regained their full bodily
strength and mental vigor
by the use of
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Kuxatca Iron helpJto mak healthier
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Used by more than. 3.000,000 peopla
creasea the strength and endurance
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HOTEL COLFAX AND
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. Colfax, Iowa.
key trot long after the goosa itep bag
disappeared." Spokane Review.
Young Doctor I haven't lost a patient
since 1 hung up my shingle.
Second IMlto I wish I had your luck.
All mine get well. Hoston Transcript.
"Who la the Sick Man of KuropeT"
"The sultan."
"The kaiser Insisted on aaaoolatlnf wltB
him."
And he caught It." Loulsvtlla Courier.
Journal.
The actress (on the morning after th
first night) What do the critics ayt"
Header They all roast you." a
'Then my manager la a fallura.
Judge.
"Yes," said the doctor. "I'to made a
connection with a practitioner whose ape
ilaltv la treatment for loss of memory.
He Is a bill collector." Browning's Magazine.
HOSPE'S XMAS
SUGGESTIONS
Selection Extraordinary
Mason & Hamlin Pianoa
Kranich Sc. Bach Pianos
Voi & Sons Pianoa
Kimball Piano
Buih & Lane Pianoa
Cable-Nelson Pianoa
HOSPE PIANOS
PLAYERS
Apollo Reproducing Player
Gulbranaen Player
GRAND PIANOS
From $525 up to $2,400
CASrJ OR CREDIT
ipiiH
Electric Piano Lampa
Mahogany, Walnut and Gilt
Standards, from $12 up.
Shades, 12-inch, 18-inch, 20
inch, 24-inch, from $8.50 up; all
colors.
Desk Lamps, electric, $2.50
up.
Great assortment of Shades,
from $1 up.
Art Flowers
Many new va
rieties never
shown before;
prices, 25c up.
Candlesticks
Mahogany, Poly
chrome, Ivory
carved, from $1 up.
Candles in the
latest patterns
from 25c up.
Cordova'
Leather
L a dies'
Purses, Bags,
Card VCases,
P n c kethnnlcR.
Cigarette and Cigar Cases, Fold
ing frames, iiemo liooKiets, $1
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Work Baskets
For children
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and sizes,
$1.50 up.
Mirrors
Period Frames, Colonial
French and Just Mirrors; table
sizes up to mantle and pier mir
rors. Wonderful creations at
pre-war prices.
1513 Douglas Street.
The Christmas Art and
Music Store.
AN IDEAL CHRISTMAS GIF!
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and practical one. Why not give a
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Something that will last for years and will be appre
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funded.
ood drug
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15th and Dodge Streets.
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