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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.
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DREAMLAND
ADVENTURE
By DADDY.
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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.)
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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.
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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.
This drug is1 harmless and never in
flames or even irritates the sur
rounding tissue or skin. Adv.
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Fragrance
Ali Its
Own
When you say
ROSEMONT
to the dealer,
he knows
that you
know the
better kind of
cigar.
mam
Mild H&vana Cigar
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Why not amok
a ROSEMONT
today 7 You'll
order again.
For tha Present
and Until Fur
ther Notice
10c, 15c
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20c
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mperisKable
( When we state that,
the matchless beauty
of tone of the
is "imperishable" we
state a fact wkicK
cannot be said of any
other piano, bar nonej
L A simplev
vice, the "tensiorv
resonator, prevents
. the souruimg'board
from flattervirvg
forever.
Investigated
Ana yotf will buy
none otRer!
Attend the Big Sale of Player Pianos
New Gulbranien Players
$450
Cash or Tim
Everything in Muile
WylPWw asaVsnkaBV
1513 Douglaa St.
The Art and Muaic Store of Omaha
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-do this !
the instant a cold starts
take a dose of essence Mentho-Laxene,
thn inhale and exhale the breath
through the nostrils three times and
"feel the medicine killing the germ."
-in an hour
do the same thing again.
This should check and abort the cold
but remember to do it instantly
when a cold first starts.
Noti T rellere and correct a bad fold, eongb. sore throat,
fcoaraeneaa or ratarrb, follow tb almpl dlreetloita with eacb
bottle of taaenca Mntba-lan. a truly wonderful medicine,
which yoo enn obtain of any wlda-awnk droxglat. Dlwtlana
ttll bow ta mix with ayrup or honey ta mak a fall plot. A.
million people dm It. lour mony back If not blgbly pleaacd.
Said by drnrzlita erarywhaf.