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6 THE BEE, OMAHA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6. 1919. The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. PROPRIETOR MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tha Iwcitwl 1'rwa. of whim Tha Unlit mirabw, la aicluttMly MUled to thi iiH for publication of til newt diapatrhaa credit! lo It or not irthtmlw credited In Udi paper, and alto ' nm puMtthtd herein. All rljbta of BubllcaUoa ot rar dmitlcoet ara alto rMtrtrd OFFICESi rnlcfO Panrla'a Oil Ruildln. onuha Tha Bee Bid. York in rifm An. "U 0nha till N 8. St. loutt New B' of Commerca, Council Bhi!T 14 K. Mall Wuhlnitoa 1311 O Bt Mnooln UUla Building. DECEMBER CIRCULATION Daily 65,219 Sunday 62,644 Anrtt circulation for tha aimth autwrllajd ana awom to by IL ft, Baaaa. Circulation Mannar. Subscriber l.avlnf tha city ahould bnva Thi Baa mailed to tham. Addraaa changed aa aitcn aa requeated. The Douglas county fair is saved again. Hooray I Lfnine has called a general peace council of iiis own. This ought to be interesting. The new commandment, "that ye love one another," does not mean to boss one another. The local plunderbund does not seem to be dismayed by the stir-up of the detective force. The total cost of the war is placed at $250, 000,000,000. 'Zat all? Ho-hum. Whose deal is it? . A "baron" has left Omaha without deliver ing lecture. What is the matter are we get ting wise? Keeping faith with American farmers is quite as important as keeping faith with our Euro pean allies. The French might have paid us greater compliment than by imitating our national habit of gum-chewing. Iowa will bar the red flag except when used as s railway signal. The Hawkeyes have al ways been rather partial to Old Glory. Legislators are now well advised that con siderable difference of opinion exists as to what is a fair wage for city firemen in Omaha. More Nebraska boys have reached the home shores again, but they will not be entirely happy until they have crossed the Missouri river. A Lancaster county judge has issued a re straining order against Mr. Burleson's new 'phone rates. Now -look out for another "trea son" action. Check of police records shows that sixty prisoners "evaporated" between the city and the county jails last year. The "Black Maria" ni'ist be leaky. , "Tommy" Falconer declines to be "the goat" on the market house, but somebody will have to take the management of the institution, or we will have no market house. Germans are having bad luck with propa ganda efforts among the Yankee soldiers along the Rhine, just as they did at home. It is "old stuff." but they keep right on trying. Mr. Bryan is at Washington in behalf of the suffrage amendment. Do you think his presence wil have any effect on his very dear friend, the democratic senator from Nebraska? City Physician Manning wants a new pest house and hospital. The Bee called attention to this need six years ago. Conditions have not improved any with the passage of time. Seattle is getting a double dose of the war fever, a sort of before and after application of the'madness, but it has outlived fire, flood and panic, and will probably survivethe bolsheviki. The railway administration says it saved 59,000,000 in the southwest by various economies. It will have to do that many times before it wipes out the deficit shown by the record of operations for last year. , Senator Pomerene will be up for lese majeste or something like that. He told Director Hines he could see no good reason for turning over to him the valuable properties of the railroads for five years' experimentation. And Pomerene is a democrat, too. If the senators of the United States really want to stop the spread of bolshevism in Amer ica, they might contribute something to that end by shutting idle and radical debate. Gov ernment officials are leading the loose talk that is disturbing the people these days, and none are more active than certain ot the senators. A little less of talk and a little more of action will help greatly in the mergency. Extra Session Impending It now seems to be the pretty general opin ion among congressional leaders of both parties that an extra session of the new congress can not be avoided. But six of the 16 regular ap propriation bills have been passed, and there are numerous questions . of great importance awaiting the action of congress. It is intimated that congress will be summoned in extra ses sion in May, which would give time for the passage of leftover appropriation bills before the beginning of the new fiscal year. The question of an extra session has held much interest for the politicians. Republicans are known to have been anxious for one, though unwilling to filibuster or delay the work of congress in order to force it Upon the other hand the friends of President Wilson were certain that he wished to avoid an extra ses sion if possible; at least that he did not care to have congress meeting while the peace con ference was concluding its labors. But circumstances seem to have controlled the question more than the wishes of either republicans or democrats. It lie, however, with the president as to the time when the new con gress shall be convened so that it now appears probable that it will not be called together until the peace treaty is concluded and ready to be laid before the senate. The general public is less interested in any possible political jockeying over an extra ses sion than in the really great issues which con giess will be called upon to solve. " Action should be taken as promptly as possible on the questions which have a direct bearing upon the domestic situation in order that the in dustrial readjustment may be accomplished as speedily and successfully as may be. Washing ton Post ONE PROBLEM OF PEACE. Prominence ia given to a statement by Mr. Arthur J. Balfour that no large force of soldiers will be sent to Russia to restore order. This is, of course, important; and coming from such high source will have much weight with the public. In the course of the interview, how ever, Mr. Balfour made a statement that is far more likely to affect the course of the peace council than any consideration of the Russian problem. Asked as to the possible effect of the League of Nations on existing alliances, he an swered: The constitution of the League of Nations will involve no modification of treaties of al liance previously concluded. How will this be interpreted? The treaty of alliance between France, England and Russia still exists so far as the surviving partners are concerned. That betwen the three named and Italy still has similar life, and so on through the list. Mr. Balfour scarcely would have said what he did had he not been sure of his ground. It is therefore difficult to avoid the conclusion that the Paris peace council is not going to entirely recast international relations. America went there expecting to get nothing, and will get it. The others all have demands to be satisfied, and these will be met in proportion to the ability of each claimant to impress the delegates. The "war to end war" now bids fair to leave us just about where we were at the beginning secure only to the point where we are able to entirely protect ourselves. Social Bolshevism Rampant. Is the American home a failure? Do chil dren no longer receive needed and wholesome instruction in the family circle? Must they be turned over to the state in order that they may be taught the elementary rules of decent be havior? The warden of the Kansas state penitentiary evidently thinks so. At any rate he is quoted as saying so to the Nebraska conference of chari ties and corrections. The Man from Mars, who occasionally reviews our mundane maneuvers, might be amused, but he certainly would be perplexed at some of the various forms of lunacy now rampant in America. Wether or not we are seriously threatened by economic and political bolshevism, we surely are con fronted by the social form of that malady. All our ways of life are being measured by rigid standards, set up by persons who have convinced themselves of their own perfections, and who generously desire to bring everybody else up to that acme of goodness, and so sedu lously work to that end. Man has ceased to be a free moral agent. He is to be circum scribed and hedged about by such rules and regulations as will not only forbid but ef fectually prevent his stepping aside. Shortly he will be confined to the straight and narrow way, with the primrose path of dalliance shut off by an insurmountable barrier of statutes of salvation, and the everlasting bonfire will die down because no more fuel is being furnished. It should be in order at this time to select a committee that may bring in plans for stand ardized haloes, harmonized harps, and ready made wings of assorted sizes. In the meantime we congratulate Kansas. The authorities there were able to round up only 600 dissolute women. Here in Omaha the zealous workers have visualized 3,500. We would like to remind the warden, however, that the American home furnished the world with the cleanest army it has ever seen, and .that the boys are coming back the most magnificent specimens of decent manhood the sun ever shone upon. Most of us will yet pin our faith to the home as the place for moral training, even if all the hearthstones do not glow with the light of the Kansas dogma. End of National Conservation. Passage of the bill authorizing the leasing and patent of oil, coal, and other mineral-containing lands puts an end to the great plan of conservation of national resources, entered into under the administration of Theodore Roose velt. It was then proposed that all remaining natural resources be held for public use. Most people will readily recall the hullabaloo kicked up over Webster Ballinger in connection with the Alaska coal lands. A little later the secretary of the navy won much applause by retaining 'certain lands in California supposed to be oil-bearing, to provide a source of public fuel supply for the navy's uses. This land already had been snatched away from the government by court process, and now by action of the democrats every barrier is broken down, and in the name of "production," the public domain is turned over to private ex ploitation on terms entirely satisfactory to the exploiters. The incident merely exhibits the sham of the democratic pretense at protecting the public. Private greed is placed before public good, the policy of Roosevelt is reversed, and 50,000,000 acres of rich mineral land is opened to profit able manipulation by syndicates and combina tionsanother triumph for democracy rampant. Strength of the Armies. How the American army really turned the tide of war is shown in the figures just given out from Washington on the relative "rifle" strength of the forces. "Rifle" strength is defined as the number, of men actually in the trenches, ready to go over the top with bayonets fixed. When the great German drive was launched in March, the army under von Hindenburg greatly outnumbered the Allies. On July 1 the influx of American soldiers had changed the conditions, the rifle strength then being: Al lies, 1,566,000; Germans, 1,412,000. Effects of the fighting continually increased this disparity? as German reserves were exhausted, so that when the armistice was signed the Allies had rifle strength of 1,485,000, with the Germans less than half that number. This tells the story of the sudden end of the war. With odds against them, and defeat in the field only a matter of days, the high command of the kaiser's army sought to save what it might from the wreck. Man-power was then the only thing to be salvaged, and military machinery was sacrificed that the German soldiers might be preserved for the country's service in peace. Americans brought about this result, adding a steady supply of men to the front line, so as to maintain it at the greatest power. German leaders accepted the verdict forced on them by the people they had professed to despise. That is the story of the Yankee army. Herron's Belated Reward New York Times. Leander Herron of St. Paul, Neb., has just won a congressional gold medal for bravery in 1868. That the medal, thua tardily conferred, is awarded only to the bravest is shown by the fact that, although the law under which medals of this class are awarded was enacted in 1863, only 327 have been issued, Mr. Herron's medal bearing this last number. The story of the in cident on which the award was based is told in the Modern Woodman. Herron, now 70 years old, was a corporal of Company A, Third United States infantry. With a pistol in each hand, he rode directly through a band of "dog soldier" Indians and rescuir" a government wagon train which was under at tack. In 1868 the Indians were more troublesome along the Santa Fe trail than at any other time in the history of that famous highway. Five thousand of the red men had banded together for the purpose of running the whites out of the country. Indians from a dozen tribes were in the league. After all the stage lines had been forced out of business, a sort of pony express service was started in western Kansas. Alt the riding had to be done at night, and it meant death for any lone white man who fell into the hands of the Indians. Among the thousands of braves on the warpath was a band of so called "dog soldiers" Indians who had been drummed out of their own tribes because they were too mean to live with. It was with these depraved savages that Herron had his encoun ter. One the night of September 2, 1868, this man. with one companion, Trooper Paddy Boyle, was carrying government dispatches from Fort Dodge to Fort Larned, 75 miles to the east. As the men traveled alone throueh the darkness they suddenly heard the sound of distant firing. Soon they made out the flashes of guns across the plains and, going nearer, saw that a United States wagon train was being at tacked by Indians. Pausing long enough to load pistols for each hand, the two soldiers, guiding their horses with their knees, rode directly into the fray, yelling and whooping as wildly as any braves in the crowd. They had got through the lines and up to the wagons before the Indians realized what had happened. They were also fewer red men to fight because of their passage. The wagon train proved to have only four soldiers with it; all the horses had been killed and the men were beginning to wonder how long they could keep up their desperate resistance to the Indians. Before Herron and Boyle had been five minutes at the wagons, the bucks made another vicious charge, which was repulsed with diffi culty. Realizing that they could not possibly get away with the horses gone, the soldiers de termined that one of them should break through the line under cover of darkness and get to the fort for assistance. Trooper Boyle volunteered for this attempt, shook hands with his compan ions and started off. Writhin a few minutes shots and yells convinced the waiting party that Paddy had been killed and that it was up to them to fight to the last. Ammunition was getting low, as the attacks increased in number and in violence. Moreover, the troopers were suffering sadly from wounds. One of the men had been wounded seven times by arrows and bullets. Another had been hit on the head by a tomahawk during a hand-to- hand encounter. 1 he third man had been wounded twice and the fourth had a bullet through his arm. Only Herron himself was uninjured. They talked the prospect over and decided that each man, as he reached his last cartridge, should shoot himself, so that the In dians might not torture him. . Finally but 12 rounds ot ammunition were left. I he Indians were apparently preparing for another charge. Another band of what the troopers thought to be Indians, dressed in white, came up as aawn Drok-e, and the beleaguered men realized that to neat off both bands was a hoDeless task The rest of the story is told in Herron's own words: "Before we could fire we heard a call In Enc lish: 'Don't fire!' Then the man threw his car bine up in the air and yelled. To our delight we recognized faddy Boyle, lie had got through the lines all right and had reached the fort. The savages had now broken and were neeing across the nraine. '"What kind of a uniform do you call this?' I asked Paddy. " 'Well, the boys were asleep when I reached the fort,' he answered. 'They didn't take time to dress. They haven't got anything on but their underclothes. It was a fact. The band of troopers had almost literally jumped from their beds to their horses' backs when the call came from their brothers in distress. Our Free Lega 1 Aid State your case clearly but briefly and a reliable lawyer will furnish the answer or advice in this column. Your name will not be printed. Let The Bee Advise You Appreciating that many readers ot The Bee on different and various occasions have the need of legal advice, and also realizing that very often this advice is not procured because of the expense and trouble involved, The Bee has made ar rangements with an able and re sponsible lawyer to answer all such questions that may be propounded without charge or cost. Our attention has been repeatedly called to Impositions and frauds perpetrated by scheming and sharp practices that could never have been accomplished had the victim sought and taken the advice of a reliable lawyer. The law, like everything else, Is constantly changing. New laws are being made to meet existing condi tions and decisions are being now handed down that are like guide posts that tell the right direction to take. If we can by this con templated service, assist any of our readers threatened with trouble or help them determine their legal rights and obligations we will have served our purpose. We request you In sending ques- tions to make them as terse and as brief as possible; to write legibly and only on one side of the paper; to give correct name and address so we may know the advice is sought in good faith. These questions will be answered in this column by your initials but not your name, and com munications will be considered con fidential as to their source. Just address "The Bee's Legal Aid De partment, Omaha." DREAMLAND ADVENTURE By DADDY. "L CHAPTER IV. The Disgusted Mole. OOK! Look! Something Is coming up through the ground," cried Peggy, pointing to stirring of the earth before the seat of Gloomy Nooks. "Hee! Hee! More tribute for King Gloomy Nooks," chuckled that grimy individual. The soil heaved up and out of it came a round box of silver and glass. "My compass!" exclaimed Billy. Following the compass came a furry little creature with a blunt nose. "Why, It's a mole!" cried Peggy. "Thai's the queerest watch I never saw," complained the mole in an annoyed squeak. "The queerest watch you ever saw," corrected Peggy, to whom the mole's language sounded very queer. "The queerest watch I never saw," Her Service Stripes The A. E. F. is Still at war. The A. E. F. knows it. Squads east and squads west, outpost duty on a bridgehead, soldiering all over the A. E. F. from Archangel to Bordeaux and from Rome to Southampton, earning more service stripes. Meanwhile, some people over home haven't been taxiing' and dancing either. It takes all kinds of men and some kinds of women to make up a real. army. Read this girl's letter to a soldier: "Don't worry about me. Of course, I'm tired when I get back from the factory, and it's hard to keep awake coaxing dollars from peo ple in the Red Cross booth after supper, but it isn't as bad as it was. I've been made a fore woman in the plant now and I don't have the hard work with my hands, though it's pretty tough to keep the girl's going sometimes, and I do miss the sun. We get up at 5:30, and after supper the booth runs until about 10." And this girl has a soldier husband, too, but that's the only uniform in the family. She doesn't wear one just clothes, rough clothes, not the pretty ones she used to have, but the kind that will stand munition-plant wear. "There's a great big welcome for you (she writes), and we'll go for a long walk on the Palisades and have a good old-time dinner at Sam's chop house, and you'll tell me all the wonderful things you've seen. And you won't mind the few wrinkles I've got that I didn't have before, will you?. They'll be my service stripes. I'm not doing too much, I'm not do ing enough, for I've got to be able to look you and every doughboy and every jackie in the eye when 'you get back and say, 'Buddie, I was backing you up all the time.' " No bands, no D. S. C.'s, but a real Ameri can girl. And there are lots God bless 'em backing the men up over here, and that's why the A- E. F. can stand it. Stars and Stripes, France. I I Ol A V The Day We Celebrate. Clyde C. Sunblad. clerk of the county court, born in Omaha, 1877. John W. Batten, lawyer, born 1868. John H. Baxton, expert accountant, born 1860. George J. Gould, capitalist, eldest son of the late Jay Gould, born in New York City 55 years ago. George H. Hodges, the only democrat ever elected to the governorship of Kansas, born at Orion, Wis., 53 years ago. In Omaha 30 Years Ago. ' The owners of the building recently de stroyed by the falling of the east wall of the Meyer building announce that the old timber is at the disposal of the poor for fuel. Miss Georgia M. De Con has accepted a position as stenographer for the Emerson Seed company. Judge Dundy of the United States circuit court is on the sick list. An Oklahoma colony association -was or ganized, with Jesse G. Smith president, II. C. Barnes vice president, S. T. Robinson secretary and J. B. West treasurer. The Walnut Hill band gave a concert at the Christian church at Dale and Nicholas streets. V Some Legal Definition. Contract A contract may be de fined as an agreement between com petent parties, supported by a legal consideration, and in the form, if any, prescribed by law, creating an obligation on the part of one or both to do or refrain from doing some lawful thing. (9 Cyc. 240). Tort Such wrongs as are in their nature distinguishable from mere breaches of contract, and are often mentioned as of three kinds, viz: Nonfeasance, being the omission to do some act which a person is bound to do: misfeasance, being the im portant doing of some act which he may lawfully do, or malfeasance, be ing the commission of some . act which is positively unlawful. (Ab bott Law Diet.) Sale A contract for the transfer of property from one person to an other for a valuable consideration. (Cent Diet.) Marriage The civil status of one man and one woman united In law for life for the discharge to each other, and the community, of the duties legally Incumbent on those whose association is founded on the distinction of sex. (Olson against Peterson, 33 Neb., 358.) Divorce Divorce is a legislative or judicial act by which a marriage relation is either dissolved or par tially suspended. (14 Cyc. 573.) Equity Equity, jurisprudence may therefore be properly be said to be that portion of remedial justice which is exclusively administered by a court of equity as contra distin guished from that portion of the remedial justice which is exclusively administered by a court of common law. (1 Story Eq. Jur. 20.) Escrow Escrow is a written in strument which by its terms import a legal obligation, deposited by the grantor, promisor, of obligor of his agent with a stranger of third person, that is a person not a party to the instrument, such as the grantee, promisee or obligee, to be kept by the depository until the per formance of a condition or the hap pening of a certain event and then to be delivered or to take effect. (16 Cyc. 561.) Larceny The felonious taking and carrying away or the personal goods of another. (4 Blackstone Comm. 229.) Prayer The request contained in a bill in equity that the court will grant the process, aid or relief which the ' complainant desires. Also by extension the term is applied to that part or tne dm which contains this request. (Black L. Diet.) Receiver A receiver is an Indif ferent person . appointed by the court as a quasi-ofneer or represen tative of the court, to take charge of, and sometimes to manage the property in controversy, under the direction and control of the court, during the continuance or in pur suance of the litigation. (Baltimore Bldg. Ass'n against Anderson, 99 Federal 489.) Trustee In the widest meaning or tne term, a person in whom some estate, interest or power in or af- rectlng property of any description, is vested for the benefit of another. Yowr Murder!" howled Nooks. Gloomy insisted the mole tartly. "I never saw a watch, did I?" "Oh, I forgot that moles are blind," exclaimed Peggy, much cha grined at her own mistake. "You're not so smart as you think you are," grunted the mole, rudely. "As I said before this is the queerest watch I never saw. Instead of telling the time of day, it tried to tell me the way here. And it didn't know a thing about it. If I had paid any attention to it, I'd have been out of the woods by this time." "Oh, compase, will you show us the way out?" cried Billy eagerly, picking it up from the earth. "I can tell vou nothing." tinkled the compass disgustedly. "This queer creature has got me so confused and tangled up with it's senseless turn ings and twistlngs, that I don't know whether I'm coming or going." True enough, when Billy came to examine the compass, he found that it didn't know a thing. Apparently some dirt had got into its workings and put it out of kilter. "You're a funny guide," grunted the mole. "A blind mole knows the way better than you do." ' "Please, wise Mr. Mole, show us the way out," pleaded Peggy. "I'll do nothing of the kind. I might get lost If I got outside the dark woods. Good night." With that the mole drew back Into the hole and was gone. "I wish I had grabbed and eaten him," hooted Judge Owl. Suddenly the saucy rabbit jumped out or tne woods. "Say, if you don't want the dark to catch you, you'd better hurry out or here," he squeaked, at once dart ing back into the woods. Bunny was certainly getting his revenge and rubbing it in. , , "If someone could just give me a good crack with a club, I could fly out of this woods into the region of found things," suggested Silver King, the golf ball. "That's a good Idea," cried Billy Belgium, "I'll do It. Then maybe you can show us the way out." Billy set up Silver King on a little heap of dirt, then swung one of the golf clubs as he had seen men do. "Hee! Hee! What foolishness!" chuckled Gloomy Nooks. Wham! Silver King had drawn in his head, arms and legs and when the head of the club hit him he went zipping through the air zipping straight for Gloomy Nooks' nose. "Yow! Murder!" howled Gloomy Nooks. "That was a good punch," cried Silver King. "Set me up higher this time and try again." Wham! went the club again and Silver King again smashed into Gloomy Nooks. But this time he only touched the top of the Image's head, bounced off and went soaring up through the trees. "Hurrah!" came Silver King's voice, floating back, "I can see the open links. I'm on my way to free dom." "Drive us out, too," cried all the other golf balls to Billy Belgium. "That's the way to escape." "Murder! Oh, my poor eye!" wailed Gloomy Nooks. (Tomorrow will ba told how the aaucy rabbit flnda hla revenge turned against himself.) Daily Dot Puzzle 12 e 13 14 IS 13 t .It 4 17 A a 2o 8 5 6 la 53 5758 7 5b 55- 54 53 44- 33. 'ti4 a 38 37 45 M3 S9 46 At 48. .47 49 if 5o 4i 61 - "1 - ' Can you find my big brother? Draw from one ta two and ao on tha end. ta flees ox "W. W." Milwaukee Wis., Feb. 2. To the Editor of The Bee: Call "Don Quixote" home! FRANK PUTNAM. RIGHT TO THE POINT. St. Louis Globe-Democrat: Every traveler finds European telephone service rar mrerior to ours, but Mr. Burleson, whose rule seems to be in efficiency nrst, has taken it as a model. Kansas City Star: They are mak ing plans to introduce cleanliness and sanitation Into the Turkish ter ritories. Which should be about the quickest and most effective plan to get , the unspeakable Turk out tif Europe. New Tork World: When Ferd Foch tells France that she must stay and keep watch on the Rhine, one question before the Deace con ference is settled. Minneapolis Tribune: McAdoo and Gregory have quit to make more money for their families How about that Burleson family? Don't tney need more than a cabinet mem ber's salary? Daily Cartoonette. To SHOW MV PATRIOTISM IV) 0IN& TO LET THP FMPWAr r,rfc fcrp OQT FbRA U)E-Crrf I GlM III I 1 Knd of the War. Denver. Colo., Jan. 31. To the Editor of The Bee: I would like to get your opinion in regard to a bet made in regard to the closing of the war. A bets B that the war will be over by January 1, 1919. I would like your opinion as to whether you think the war is over or not. J. C. MOAN. Answer The war is not ended yet. Actual fighting ceased when the armistice took effect at 11 o'clock, a. m., on November 11, but until the treaty of peace is signed and nro- claimed, we still are legally at war wun Germany and Austria-Hun gary. Employment Offices. Omaha, Feb. 4. To the Editor of l he Bee: I noticed an article in one of the local papers by one George rvieiiner, wno states he was Inform ed that private employment agencies were sending out help to parties, that the men would work a short while and tnen the boss would fire them ana get more help from the agent, so the agent would get additional rees, and wants the Welfare Board to investigate these agencies. Well tnis investigation . is welcomed by an private agencies in Omaha. We will tell Mr. Kleffner there will be some more investigation done by this ooard, as we have been informprl that his great free employment of- rice nas sent out and monev col lected from the men that were sent SAID IN FUN. She Why ara you looking; ao thoughtful my dear? He I was wondering how Jonah sot away with it when hl.i wife aeked him where ha had been away from home all that time, and he told her a- whale had awallowed him. Baltimore American. "Do you wish ma t tell you about your future huaband?" "I do not. I want to know about tha past of my present husband.' Cartoona Magazine. how tha Browns can "I don't 1now afford an auto." "Well, my dear, I wouldn't let that prob lem worry m Probably they don't know themselves." People's Home Journal. "I LOVE YOU." I've heard a lot of music Aa a connoisseur of tone I've harkened to tha operaa' And the moaning saxophone I've liatened to the jazzera When they did their raKRT worst But for harmony that'a acrumptloua I know I heard It first When Yvonne, la plus Jolle Said as aha looked at me, "Je vous alme!" The ginks who play on glasaea And ring the shiny chlmea Or the organ at the movies I ve heard them Iota of times And tha wops who play the zither, And accordion to Hoyle. Have loft my ears a-tingle. But they never touched the soil Like Marie, qui est belle. When she whispered, ah, ao well, "Je voua adore!" I've heard John Phillip foua Play all his famoua stuff, And the art of the ukulele Has lured ma oft enough: But though I give them credit In their amateurish way. When It comes to downright musle I heard It first that day. When Odette, ma cherle Murmured tenderly, "Jo t'aime!" Stars and Stripes. east, also men have been sent out from there where there was no work at all that they were sent for. We also want investigated why that of fice of his at 1118 Farnam street is running, unless it is for politics. The fact of the matter is this man Kleffner has kept five to six men at the above number for months and has five there now. These five men are -drawing salaries from $125 to $150 per month and for what? Any one good man with brains and one assistant could do all the work that has been done there last sum mer and this winter so far and plav half the time. What Is Kleffner spending the people's money for anyway? The war Is over, the government needs no men from this quarter at Newport News, Norfolk or Nitro, Va, They need none at Seattle. What is the office running for anyway? THe three main railroads entering Omaha, the Union Pacific, the Northwestern and Burlington, have their own employment agents and offices and pay their own agents. If this man Kleffner would at tend to his own business and cut out this wasting the people's money he ould be serving the government and his political henchmen with more honor than trying to put pri vate employment offices out of business and making his brags about it. H. E. WHITE. LIKE ELECTRIC BUTTON Oil TOES Tells why a corn is o painful and say cutting makes them crow. Press an electric button and you form a contact with a live wire which rings the bell. When your shoes press against your corn It pushes its sharp roots down upon a sensitive nerve and you get a shock of pain. Instead of trimming your corns, which merely makes them grow, just step into any drug store and ask for a quarter of an ounce of freezone. This will cost very little but is sufficient to remove every hard or soft corn or callus from one '8 feet. A few drops applied di rectly upon a tender, aching corn stops the soreness instantly, and soon the corn shrivels up so it lifts right out, root and all, without pain. 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