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-B THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: FEBRUARY 23. 1919. The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY FOUNDED BY EDWARD HOSEWATEK VICTOR EOSEWATER. EDITOR THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. PROPRIETOR MEMBERS OP. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS " Ths Auoruuid Vna. of which The II Is number. Is Mliulwlj etitled to tin un for publicstioo of ill ns dupstcbss cmlltsd in It or not Mhrwl credited In this wef. "d alio tea locil in nuhiiitiMt nsreis. All nhts of publication of oar rwil diipstciiss ere also rwtned. , " OFFICES! CMeai Psorlt's 0s Ruildlu. tmn-TIir B Bids. H,. Vors-lH Ftftb In. South Omth JSU N St Bi. l-ouit .Nt B's uf Cummeree. Council IlluiT 14 N. Hill . Wsstamitno 1311 O 8t Mncoln-t.ittle Bulldlm. DECEMBER CIRCUIATION Daily 65,219 Sunday 62,644 Terits rlreolitlna for tho month . sutMerllwl Mi swots lo bt K. R. Bifio, rirralitlOB Mtniser. Subscriber! leaving tba city should hava Tha Baa mailed to Ultra. Addrssa changed , ofttn as rsquclted. This will be Mr. Wilson's busy week. Dr. Mary Walker wore 'em, all right, and made good in tbem, too. 'Iowa's energetic attorney general at least likes to keep things from stagnating. Chicago is about to tell us whether, war-time patriotic indignation hold over into post-war politics. -tocal booze runners must have blushed for their efforts when they read the story from Michigan. One point in favor of the League of Nations is that Senator "Jimmy" Reed is against it with 11 his -yoice. ' The. Hun is reported to be "cocky" again, , t : tut they will find the glove of velvet conceals a , -gauntlet of steel. ' : The president talked to the secretary of navy 'r' ' over a wireless phone, but he can not reach congress that way. ' J Alfonso of Spain says it is not tasy td be a ' .neutral. Maybe that is why his country did V. ; not work at it very hard. 'Omaha must be a strange community, to remain a Mrlcked as it is said to be, after all . trhe effort to. reform its ways. This is "not the first time Mr. Borah has found himself unable to agree with Mr. Taft, "but that doei not prove him right. A blue-eyed bigamist, now in a nearby jail, Is said to have strange power over women. He could not hypnotize the law, however. ' : The fourth Liberty loan totals $6,993,073,250, 1 and we were just getting so we could play the game. No wonder the kaiser weakened. i One reliable way of breaking into print ; nowadays is to make some sensational charge against public officials. It is being overworked. Word comes from Paris that the Panama canal will remain an American ditch. However, it is open to the world. Our business is to keep it ready for use. t 1 h ir. Mr. Wilson's plan to return to France at once must ,be contingent on congress getting through .with, its work. Otherwise his official : duties-may operate to defer his departure. k The Omaha Hyphenated having disposed of the small matter of choosing a republican speaker, for the next congress, may now re sume its watch over the affairs of the universe. If Great Britain really insists o'ri sinking the German warships, that will probably be their1 "fate. They did Germany very. little good, and perhaps would be of no greater service to a real nation. ' ! Foch is willing to let the Germans have all .'the food they can pay for, but insists on having ,real money in return. His French sense of thrift will not permit him to trade good ma terial for bad' paper. Governor Allen sticks to his story, regardless of What the general who led the division during the fighting says. The fact that the general was on the spot and took part in the proceedings is rather a point in his favor, however. . Graft in the navy it disclosed in an agly caudal. Punishment of the offenders will not sava the country from the shame involved by the, men who have so entirely disgraced their uniform and brought obloquy to the service. ' Munich it reported to be in a state of civil war. Bavarians seemingly not having had enough of fighting. If they use up their ani mosity and ammunition alike on one another, - they will save the Allies a lot of bother later on. A baby born in'January is worth $100 more 'than one born in July, according to the revenue bureau, but the dried-up accountants who live jn the catacombs of the Treasury building; had better consult with the parents before they in sist, on making this rule general. Post Mortem In an interview which Marshal Foch gave to the war correspondents in Trier the other day someone asked if the armistice had not ; been concluded too soon. ' "It was not possible to do otherwise," he re ' plied, "because the ' Germans gave us at once ' everything We asked for. The German high ' command was not ignorant of the fact that it 1 ' faced a colossal disaster. When it surrendered everything was ready for an offensive in which it would infallibly have succumbed. On the 14th we were to attack in Lorraine with 20 French divisions and six American divisions." This brief utterance by the allied generalis simo answers effectively those who, at home and abroad, rent the air with their demands for - . "unconditional surrender." They were shout , ins for a phrase when they already had the fact.r The Germans did surrender uncondition ' ally. ..... . . It answers, too, the possible suspicion lurk . ing in some minds that the Germans were Muffed into that surrender, that the assaulting forces assembled in Lorraine for the battle that .lt was never fought were like' an uncalled hand. ,. But . the fighting that ended the war' last No vember was not that kind of poker. The time for bluffing had passed. The cards were on the "table. It was stud. Each side already had three cards showing. Ours were all aces. Theirs , were two weak hearts and a black king . a very black king. To have played out the hand would have been an idle gesture, a waste ot' time. The hand was won. The game was no. Stars and Srtipes, France. DEBATING THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS. As might have been expected, the debate on the League of Nations is becoming quite gen eral, and some notable contributions are added as a result of Washington's birthday observ ances. None of these will have more weight than that of Dr. David Jayne Hilt, whose ex perience as a diplomat and whose standing as a historian entitles his views to great respect. Dr. Hill finds in the constitution of the league much to commend, but, like most Amer ican critics, halts at surrender of our traditional policy, even for so great a purpose as to se cure world-peace. He sees danger in our par ticipation in European affairs, and nothing that is reassuring in permitting Europe to interfere in purely American questions. These are the points on which argument turns, and to which the whole debate must be reconciled. Senator Borah frankly admits the right of the American public to abandon an old and take on a new policy at any time. He does not, for this reason, concede that discussion is to be omitted because the chief magistrate of the re public is committed to the change proposed.' Other senators have similarly expressed them selves. These take equal issue with Mr. Taft, who has thoroughly committed himself to the president's plan. It is for Americans to determine if they are ready to give over all insularity, and assume a part in the affairs of Europe, at the same time conceding to Europe a part In home affairs. Will we be content to submit our future. treaties to the executive council of the League of Na tions, and stand ready to assist in enforcing the decrees of that council? This decision! affects our internal as well as our external relations. The president will directly address the coun try on Monday, when his reasons and argu ments will be presented. After that the discus sion will probably be more general, but it is certain that the unanimity he met in his war plans will not support him in his peace efforts. Poor Start on Economy. Dropping the appropriation for the support of the federal employment service seems a poor start on a program of economy to whjch Mr. Swager Shirley pledged himself. Yet he has returned to the house from his committee on appropriations the sundry civil bill with the provision for the employment bureau omitted. It is, of course, quite within the possibilities that the omission be corrected. Not one of the innumerable extraordinary activities of the gov ernment in war time more thoroughly and com pletely justified its existence than did the em ployment bureau. It was hastily organized, and perhaps it has not functioned with the precision that might have been desired, but it has been effective and is capable of such reorganization as will make it of even greater service, For many years efforts had been made to secure the establishment of such an urgency for bring ing together the jobless man and the manless job. It has interfered with the operation of private employment agencies only, and from these comes the chief opposition to its con tinuance. In a recent report the statement was made that the free federal employment agency had within the last year secured jobs for men and women to an extent that fees collected for the service by private agencies would have amounted to $10,000,000. This sum was saved to the workers. The democrats will be putting some ornamental touches to their record of blundering if they now kill this needed bureau, just as it is becoming really useful. " Respect for the Law. Senator Jones of Washington voices' disap proval of any effort on part of the anti-prohibitionists to set aside or in any way nullify the national dry amendment or any of the state dry laws. He looks on the course of the "wets" as one tending to bring all law into disrepute. The lack of respect for the law, he points out, is a menace to our existence as a nation. What he says in an academic way is correct enough. Yet only a few days ago th- senator sat in the chamber while a number of members unspar ingly criticized army courts that had sought to punish soldiers who had disobeyed army rule and direct orders. He did not at that time lift bis voice in defense of the law. This incon sistency is not alone a characteristic of the Washington senator, but touches the whole body of the people. Disregard for law is an American trait, seemingly inherent It has been troublesome in the past, is a danger at present, and may bring us sorrow in the future. But the senate of the United States could well afford to set an example by giving support to rather than sympathy against the constituted authorities. If the law is wrong change it, but respect for law is not increased by scolding people for not obeying one, and tacitly en couraging resistance to another. Tea Tippling Replacing Dram Drinking. What a perverse lot we are, and how we con nive secretly to defeat earnest efforts to im prove our condition. Morally and physically we tend to wickedness as sparks fly upward. No sooner had the agents of the uplift toppled the Rum Demon from his pedestal, tharrwe set up another in his stead. Where the sparkling punch bowl once gleamed, now the bubbling samovar sends forth its mystic vapor to allure and seduce the wavering soul. Since four years ago the annual increase in consumption of tea in the United States has been 4,000,000 pounds a year. At the stated daily consumption of .4 of an ounce by each slave of the samovar, this indicates an annual increase of rather more than 400,000 addicts. These are coming in for some consideration just now, although their case will not be seriously taken up till some of the more pressing business is attended to, but they may go ahead in confidence that they will be saved in turn. Then will it come to pass, maybe, that we will all do what we ought to do, and leave undone the things we ought not to do, and only health will be found in us. . Members of congress who are seeing things because farmer boys are being held in the army ought. to listen for a moment to Secretary Houston, who tells us that last year American farmers cultivated forty million acres more than they had ever done before, and most of the boys were in the army then. With little armies scattered about in unex pected places, peppering passersby with indis criminating impartiality, travel in Europe has a flavor that ought to keep folks at home without necessitating passport restrictions. . The Canadian border may be an example of good treaty-making, but it was made between two nations, sincerely bent on maintaining friendship, and sever submitted to a "league." Vieivs and Revieivs If Colonel "Bill", Would Only Repeat for the Home Folks It must have been one grand and glorious day for our esteemed compatriot and fellow son of Nebraska, Colonel "Bill" Hayward, when he marched up the "avenoo" at the head of his dusky regiment of "bloodthirsty black fight ers," as they were dubbed by the Huns, who had to take their onslaughts when the battle was on. The New York papers picture Colonel "Bill" in a tin hat beaming like a billionaire trudging along without a limp despite his lame ankle just to show how he could keep ahead of the best of 'em, and was not to be classed with the cripples who rode in automobiles. The New York World's story of the reception is graphic in the extreme. "At the head of the line." it says, "rode four platoons of police 12 abreast, and then, afoot and alone, Colonel Hay ward, who organized the 15th, drilled them when they had nothing but broomsticks to drill with, fathered them and loved them and turned them into the fightingest military organization any man's army could want. The French called them 'Hell Fighters.' The Germans, after a few mixups, named them 'Blutlustige Schwartz-maenner. - But Colonel Bill, when he speaks of them, uses the words, 'those scrap ping babies of mine,' and they like that best of all. Incidentally, they refer tenderlv to him as "Old Bill, that fightin' white man." So it's fifty fifty." It further disclosed that of the 2,992 paraders, 171 wore the "Croix de Guerre" deco ration and the organization as a whole had been twice cited as indicated by the bronze token with green and red ribbons attached to the regimental colors. And to think Colonel Bill tried to break into the Spanish-American war, succeeded as a captain of a Nebraska City company but got no further than Chickamauga Park! If he could only parade that regiment of his in their war togs up the main street of Nebraska City today wouldn't they try to make up in appreciation for lost time. Come on back Colonel Hayward and let the home folks look at you. I have a fine chatty letter from Major Amos Thomas, who is now doing judge advocate duty with the American forces at Treves, Germany. While, not written for publication, the mayor tells some things about himself and the work he is doing that I know are in no way confiden tial and will be of general interest to friends as giving an insight into certain phases of our oc cupation of Germany: "I am very nicely situated here in com mand of the First battalion, general head quarters military police, of 20 officers and 600 men. In addition, I am provost marshal for the city, and also provost court for the city. In other words, I am policeman and fiolice court. I deal with the civil population argely, and try about 50 cases a week. My court does not stand on technicalities in the matter of pleadings or evidence. I try to get the facts, even if I have to permit the asking of a leading question without the proper foun dation. While I wouldn't want to say that the Hun is presumed to be guilty when he is brought into court, the fact is that out of 50 cases tried this week there was only one ac quittal, and sentences become effective as soon as pronounced. "Rather than try to tell you about the city, I am enclosing a little pamphlet that gives a very good description of the town. I imag ine during peace times a great many tourists visited the place, as it is a very attractive, up to date, modern city, with a rather mild cli mate. I am spending a more comfortable winter here than I did last year at Camp Dodge. "We have little trouble with the inhabi tants. In fact, they are so very decent to the American troops that they are strongly sus picioned of indulging in propaganda to turn usagainst the French. It is not necessary to say that our treatment of the enemy is en tirely different from the treatment he accord ed his vanquished foes. We have so thor oughly acquired the habit of paying for every thing we use and respecting property rights that we seem to be following about the same policy here as elsewhere. We are sometimes criticised for the reason that the Hun does not, and cannot, comprehend such treatment. He knows but one policy the iron fist, both in the civil and military. "I" find the Hun to be an awful baby Practically everyone I try for crime cries like a child and always puts up some sort of a pitiful tale to secure mercy. If he thinks he has the upper hand, however, conditions are entirely different. I think Germany is very short of foodstuffs. The people look under fed. They haven't the ruddy, healthy com plexions you expect to see here, but they al-, ways keep up a good appearance, seem to have plenty of paper money and are ready to start merchandising at the earliest possible moment. "The German people, I believe, expect to resume their former trade relatione when peace is declared. They do not seem to be able to understand that they have done any thing they should be required to pay or atone for. It seems beyond them. "I am very anxious to be released from active service, and again resume my law prac tice. I think a high percentage of the offi cers desire to return to civil life. My work is very pleasant and interesting. My battal ion enjoys the reputation around here of be ing one of, if not the crack, organizations of its kind in the American expeditionary forces, and we have every accommodation for comfortable quarters, plenty of plain food and good equipment. The commissioned personnel I have under me, and those above me with whom I come in contact, is the finest I have met in my 21 months of service." . A Great Renunciation Of all self-denying ordinances and solemn leagues and covenants against evil, that ot the New York Federation of Women s Clubs against women's evening gowns designed by designing men and that "have led fashion to the extreme limit of indecency,' and are hav ing a most demoralizing effect upon the youth of the country," is the most stringent, ascetic and nobly virtuous. The members of the ted eralion, it seems, are to "set their hearts like flint and refuse to wear the gowns, no matter how becoming they are I" This is the topnotch of feminine altruism, and few there be that find it. ... , , Since horrid man is notoriously blind to the aestheticisms and refinements of female dress; since he can but ignorantly worship some vague added charm in that costume which the severer sisters reprobate; since he is too dense to un derstand the fantasies of women's dress, con trived, the wise assure us, only to impress or excite the envy of the once ruling sex, the fears of the federation about the male "youth ot the country" are unfounded. To the stupid masculine mind woman s dress is always charming, becoming, decent. Yet the most obfuscated survivor of the dethroned sex can't hide his wonder and admiration when he hears of high female souls whose bodies are to scorn, "no matter how becoming," female fash ions. How can what is "indecent" be "becom ing?" The federationists need a dictionary. It is the way of this world of sin to say that Puritans in petticoats never hate a mode in which they have the faintest hope of looking be comingly arrayed. New York Times. They Used a Lot of Words. The nation's four-minute men poured out an jiggregate of 1,000,000 speeches in the several lampaigns, each and every speech radiant with eloquence, patriotism and pull. Their pull on the money bag: was a caution. Home Health Hints Reliable advice given In this column on prevention and cure of disease. Put your ques tion In plain language. Your name will not be printed. Ask The Bee to Help You. IIpullli of Returning Soldiers. The eyes of the world are just now focused on the relation of the re turning soldier to social diseases. Tho examination of enlisted and drafted men showed an alarming stale of affairs In this respect anion our population; in fact, the Inci dence of social disease was so sreat that those In authority were oon confronted with the alternative for accepting for military service the majority of those affected, or of con fessing defeat in the rapid mobili zation of a great army such as was required to win the war. Larse numbers of afflicted men were, therefore, accepted, and treatment was given at the various canton ments. While under military con trol all of our soldiers were sub jected to disciplinary measures cal culated to minimize both recurrent and new Infections. If, therefore, treatment in the army has been rea sonably effective, and control of new infections has been as excellent as the reports from the surgeon gener al's office Btate, then It would ap pear there Is greater danger to the returning soldier from social dis eases from our civil population than to our people from the returning soldier. But it Is not my purpose to dis cuss this phase of the welfare of our demobilized men; they have had far greater opportunities of becoming familiar with the above diseases than was or will be possible to any one In civil life. As a matter of fact, attendance on lectures on so cial diseases was made compulsory. That part of their Instruction, there fore, it can be taken for granted, has been very well taken care of, and It is up to them to profit from It and act accordingly. What I wish to do here is to add my voice to those who see a far greater danger to the health of the returning aoldier from another source. It - Is this: The urgent needs of the world war made absolutely essential the Intensive physical training of the soldiers. Even those inured to physical exer cise and hard work found the train ing taxed their endurance often to the point of exhaustion. Soldiers that did not show a physical falling after a brief training gradually re sponded to the requirements, so that in a comparatively short time those in charge of training camps were able to report an average increase in weight among the troops. This increase In weight under training signifies two things principally, viz., enlarged and firmer musculature and enhanced ability to absorb nu trition. Now It Is a curious physi cal phenomenon that when the nu tritional capacity of the body is en hanced by exercise it continues for an indefinite period after the exer cises are discontinued. This results in the excess of food Ingested being laid on as fat throughout the body. Accompanying the laying on of fat from food ingested, we have anoth er source of fat in the Involution of the muscles which were enlarged bv exercise. Formation of fat is part of the process of decrease In size of muscles resulting from dis use, and it is first deposited within and between the mus cles' fibers; In other words, the passage from a condition of ' great physical exertion to one of compar ative inactivity is characterized by a fatty degeneration of muscles ana organs that were enlarged to meet the needs of that exertion. And right here lies the greatest danger to the returning soldier; the danger of not very gradually resuming his pre-soldier days. If he would not put his future health In Jeopardy he must needs devote part of each day for some months to physical exer cise. These he can gradually lessen over the months until only so mucn is practiced as Is required by his place in life. In this way he may avoid the commonest sequel to spor adic soldiering, viz., a weak, and often permanently, crippled heart. Cost of Preventable Sickness A recent survey of five townships in Dutchess county, made by the State Charities Aid association, dis closed the fact that preventable sick ness was costing the county at a con servative estimate $412,000 a year In actual money, to say nothing of con tinued invalidism, bereavement and loss of productive power to the com munity which could not be estima ted. A close study was made of 1,600 cases of serious illness and it was estimated that the county was losing 9,000 working days by men and women, and 13,700 school days, and that these two items alone were costing the community $25,000 a year. Report Dutchess County (N. Y.) Health Association. Problem of the Mental Defective. Mental defectiveness is hereditary and constitutional, and consequently not amenable to our preachings, asylums, reformatories, penitentiar ies, etc. We must ever bear in mind that each year a new quota of de fectives is born with statistical reg ularity. They pass through the hands of parents, then the peda gogues, the theologians, the physi cians, the social workers, the em ployers, the courts, the prisons, and back on society, each one in turn passing them up to the next, and no one willing to acknowledge their im poteney in the face of mental defec tiveness. Hickson. Treatment For the Itch. What do you recommend for the Itch? R. ti. The itch is due to a very minute parasite which burrows into the skin. As its principle activities are performed at night, it is then that the most Intense itching is experi enced. Treatment: Scrub the obvious bites thoroughly (using a brush) with green soap and hot water, then after drying, using another brush, rub in thoroughly a mixture of two parts of balsam Peru and one part of castor oil. Make the applications several successive nights, and always put on clean night clothes. For the irritation remaining after cure, use zinc oxide ointment. 1 TODAY The Pay We Celcbrnte. Alexander P. Thomson, of Par triilne and Thomson company, born 1850. Herbert A. Dowd. cashier in the I'nited States internal revenue of fice, born 1859. Vice Admiral Henry R Wilson, tT. S. N., who has been seriously 111 in Kngland. born in New Jersey, 08 years ago. Sir George Cave, who held the post ot home secretary in the late Uritish government, born in London, 63 years ago. Royal Meeker, United States com missioner of labor statistics, born in Susquehanna county, Pa., 46 years Dr. John H. Vincent, retired bishop of the M. E. church, famous as the founder of the Chautauqua .....x.-. hnm ut Timcalnnsa A In... S7years ago. Jonathan uourne, rornier i.imra Ptates senator from Oregon, born at New Bedford, Mass., 64 years ago. In Omnlin 30 Years Ago. John A. MacMurphy, late 'of the "Hoof and Horn," ie planning to open up in mercantile business in South Omaha. Wholesale butter quotations are: Creamery, fancy print, 24 to 26c a pound; choice, solid packed, 15 to 17c a pound; dairy, fancy roll, 17 to 19c a pound; good 12 to 14o a pound. Wholesale egg quotations, strictly fresh, 11 to 12c a dozen. Since the ice season opened 1,825 cars have been taken from Carter Lake, making In all 91,000,000 pounds and it is thought at best only 65 per cent of the demand can be supplied before a frost sets in. Chief Seavey has posted 12 new rules in the police station, the most important one providing that the cells must be swept and scrubbed every day and the walls and ceil ings whitewashed every week. AROUND THE CITIES. Work on the new union station In Chicago has been started again. The war is over and the railroads in terested are loosening up. Philadelphia proposes to raise a fund of $2,000,000 to finance a war memorial in the form of a Temple of Victory to be built on the Park way. An average of $1 a head will do it handily. A quartet of youthful burglars, three of them under 18 years, have been captured by Chicago police. A record of 30 store robberies and $32, 000 worth of loot recovered testifies to the skill of the leader, 24 years old, in picking apt and obedient pupils from the local school of Fagins. Advance notice from Chicago land lords promise tenants a rent boost of from 10 to 20 per. cent, begin ning May 1. Sixty days is sufficient to let the announcement Bink in. At the same time the city council com mittee on finance recommends that legislative approval be sought for a raise in city taxes from $1.10 per $100 of assessed valuation to $2. Landlords hope to get the money first and Jingle It awhile before the tax gatherer gets his work in. Baltimore is sore in all sectors of its anatomy. For some years past townspeople took recreation and en joyment out of Sundays, among other things the harmless sport of ball games. To the straight-laced the ball and the club and the crowds spelled perdition and straightway sought legal action to squelch the sinful practice. The state supreme court has Just decided the games are unlnwfnl fnvnliinff a hills law 200 years old to sustain the ruling. RIGHT TO THE POINT. Washington Post: Insolence from the Hun helps to prevent the alliee from scrapping among 'themselves. Minneapolis Tribune: Something in the sound suggests It might be a good thing to let the late kaiser go to Heligoland. Philadelphia Ledger: The world prefers in the sunshine of the new day to make hay instead of provid ing cannon fodder. St. Louis Globe Democrat: The shooting of the Roumanian king is ano.ther reminder that kings are be coming easy marks. Brooklyn Eagle: "Barriers around renascent industries," as the French put the expression, has a strangely familiar sound. "Protection to in fant industries" was its American prototype, now wholly lost in the shuffling of the cards. Baltimore American: The time is apparently advancing when it will be at the risk of jail a man will kiss hiswife or mother her child on Sun day. And the blue laws go on get ting bluer until suddenly the public patience will give out and they will become too red hot to handle. PEOPLE AND EVENTS. Time saving sharps on the Penn sylvania lines report that the fashion of titrht skirts spells a loss of 17 seconds at every station stop. Something of the kind has oeen noted before. A profusion of clocks tends to confuse train hands. Just as countrymen were getting next to tne line points 01 mo ca.mei family some heartless cuss smudges the enchantment of distance and smothers the Impulses of affection. The ungainly water wagon carries a kick like a trip-hammer, which would be an object of suspicion on a dry road. Another idol shattered. The failure of the groundhog to show himself and measure his shad ow on the appointed day drew from the founts of publicity In the middle west the finest line of free advertis ing ever featured in February. The famous poacher on the preserves of weather prophets has all rivals beat en in general esteem. Some bumptious crusaders of re cent vintage claim credit for giving the water wagon its winning start. A daring woman in Milwaukee, Mrs. Louisa K.Thiers, 104 years old, boldly swats the kid claimants by showing that her father, Beth Capron, drove the wagon to the front back in 1822. Capron lead Neal Dow by 25 years, and that is going some for a Milwau kee man. A staid and solemn pedagogue in a Philadelphia school looked an in terrogation point at a misa who asked to change her studies from stenography to domestic science. "May I ask the reason?" he whisper ed. "Yes," she replied, blushing the while. "He's a soldier and he's Just back home. He's waiting outside. Must I bring him in?" The peda gogue shook his head and let it go at that. ODE ON LOWELL CENTUARY. Lift up thin eyes, Sad Earth, From contemplation o( tha years of wrong-, Rhk the last tears away, And through thy glistening lashes, Ses how tha bright dawn flashes On ths dark frontiers of another dar. He. who was born a hundred years ago. Greets thee from out his sl'.ence, He had hl share In that great answer Of ths milllon-throat?d, Nn To tho lmse-plot for Freedom's overthrow; All lovers of dlvlnest Libert Were present In that Concord; And Lowell's voice, free. With the freedom of two nations. Vibrated In that trumpet tons; How could that soul oe allye snd salon Who nourished Freedom in her direst need? Watcher pf the world's turbid tide. He found our faults; Truth wii bis only nrlde. But Truth had taken Humor by the hand For Counsel, that she might understand, Ills mind was cheered and lit Itv the still silver Ismps of elder days: He pierced the gloom of many a clinging haze With arrows of burning wit; He knew that Thought Is master of Deed. He dwelt in mansions with tha Lords of ThouKht, And by their wisdom we are freed. m Thought flies before tha Ventura, Prompting with lonoly Impulss As It mova and breathes; W hen the deed is fact. And Victor-laughter crowns the act. Thought heaps the dlnRlng portal With the roses and tha w-eaths; When they are sad Thought summons a few' wordit, Clear with light and tha songs of birds. Graves them on gold: The deed Is. made Immortal! Come, let us dream ths dream That Milton and Shelley, That Lowell and Whitman dreamed. Prompting ths Future with our thought; Then, when tha deed '.a wrougnt. The thinkers who come after Will Join their thoueht with ours And crown ths event; Liberty Justified of her roots and flowers: Then we, with silence bbnt. Shall feel tha Vlrtor-laughU'r Thrill all our silence, anl shall ba well content. DUNCAN CAMPBELL SCOTT. Quaint Bits of Life The whale t said to yield a barrel of milk at a milking. But what hap pens to the milker if she gets care less with her tall? One of the most costly buildings In Benares is a temple for the recep tion of monkeys, which are held sacred by the followers of Brahma. , As a beet-puller, Mrs. William Inh, of Findlay, O., thinks she beats the world. In Just two weoka Rhe pulled 32 tons of beets, topped them, and had them in the sugar factory. By transplanting young trees up side down so that the branches will develop roots ami the roots leaves, an English railroad has produced small shade trees in less time than ordinarily. China had women soldiers long be fore they were know in Russia. During the Tae ring rebellion, IS 50, women, as well as men, served in the ranks. In Nanking, 1853, an army of 600,000 women was recruited. In Turkestan every wedding en gagement begins with the payment of a substantial consideration to the girl's parents. If the girl jilts her lover the engagement gift has to th returned, unless the parents hav another daughter to give as a sub stitute. In ancient times the country nov known as Portugal was called Ltiai tunla. The present name is derived: from Porto Callo. the original ap pellation of Oporto, which has evc been the chief commercial city of the country. i&tPKGiis or hsm Kgspccir A well conducted funeral la a token of reaped to the deceased. Our mnthoils f conducting a funeral have given un an op portunity to serve you in a manner that will command your respect. W are equipped to serve you satisfactorily. N. P. SWANSON Funeral Parlor (Established 1888) 17th and Cuming Sts. Douglas 1060 v?f 'yWE 1 '? US Thrift Brings R Independence Practically every self made man attributes the beginning of his success to the habit of systematic saving. Thrift is an absolutely essential element of success. The amount saved is not so im portant as the formation of the habit of regularly laying aside a portion of your earnings. We cordially invite you to make use of THE SERVICE OF THE FIRST in your systematic saving and in making your sav ings work for you. Deposit a part of your savings, no matter how small, regularly in the First National Bank and lay the foundation for inde pendence. Come in and we will cheerfully aid you in every possible way, and REMEMBER, there's always a welcome for you here. ! fi b H ; ; ;3 1 Jill a m i-j 4j l II . Mi c1 The Apollophone "It Plays and Singa" A Really Wonderful Invention Through a combination of the Apollo Player Piano with a talking machine, the voices of great singers may now be heard in conjunction with actual piano accompani ments, hand played by the great masters. The APOLLOPHONE does not differ in ap pearance from any other high-grade player Piano. But in performance, this, the latest and greatest contribution to the world of mu sic, offers effects that are nothing 'short of marvelous. The combination of the talking machine with the player piano makes the APOLLOPHONE the instrument without a musical limit it does everything that the piano the player piano and the talking ma chine can either individually or in combina tion. And all contained in the same piano case without change in either dimensions or appearance. Price $825 1513 DOUGLAS STREET We Take Liberty Bond (at Par) in Payment for Players, Pianos and Victrolas. 1 F