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i 6 THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, APRIL 3. 1919. t! t I. . Il .' ' i 11 !i ' if it IS! it- t I The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR TH BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. PROPRIETOR MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tb Aisorlned I'rtwj of whleu The Be Is a muabw. tt Mclndnlf alltled to the u for tml'lk-ation of All n.ws dupatohtt credited lo It or not MhrwlM credited In this paper, mil alto tb local news publiihed herein. All liiht of publication of our special dlipatebea arc alw reMrted. i OFFICES i fhleafo Panrlft flai Building. Omaha Tin Be Bldt. New York 2S rifth Am. South Omaha HIS N St. Hi. Louie New B'nk of Commerce. Council Bluffs 14 N. Main St Wi.hingtoo 131 1 u St. Lincoln Little Bulldlni . ' FEBRUARY CIRCULATION Daily 64,976 Sunday 63,316 Average circulation for the month subscribed tod sworn to he f- H. Bagan. Circulation Manner. Subscriber leaving the city ahould bavo Tb Be mailed to them. Addreaa changed as often at requeated. What is the cobt of a car between democrats? The watch on the Missouri just now is keep ing time all the time. Some parts of Nebraska seem to be wet enough to suit anybody. . ;If Chicago can stand "Big Bill' for another lour years, the rest of the country will have to. ; Milwaukee routed the Bergerites at the polls, a sign that sanity is slowly returning up there. United States army camps will continue to be as dry as bones, at least so far as surface appearances go. Nebraska women tried out the ballot in the town elections on Monday, and it seems to have worked very well. , , Wisconsin towns also switched from dry to wet, evidently lent on enjoying the next three months to the limit. No American troops are to be sent into cen tral Europe. The Allies will provide all the force that is needed to. stem the red wave. Fremont elected a mayor1 said to be pledged to an"open" town; now, just what sort of town do you take that to mean in Nebraska these days? Clarence Mackay insists that Mr. Burleson ' merely put a $16,000,000 fine on American busi ness for no reason other than that he had power. Another revolution is reported from Petro grad. Can not say off hand how many this is, but the Russian merry-go-round is getting near the speed limit. " Holding up wheat exports may prevent the price from soaring in America, but if it does we suggest that something of the kind be tried on other food supplies. Midvale Steel and Ordnance also takes note of the fact that the war is over and reduces its dividend by' 33 1-3 per cent.' Readjustment of price level is progressing. . Some of the democratic clacquers who are disturbing the air with shouts for the League of Nations ought to get into closer touch with I what is going on in Paris. i .. Increased pay for firemen and policemen presented a nice little financial problem for Omaha, which has been neatly solved, but the taxpayers will settle the bill in the end. German schemers, who stimulated bolslie vism to frighten the world, are about to reap the harvest they sowed. Bavaria is furnishing a good example of1 socialism gone to seed. Failure of the bill designed to require the ' redistricting of all counties for school purposes , is to be regretted, for it was intended to aid and not to hinder the common schools of the state. Mr. Taft had to walk a mile and a half in Detroit to reach a man he knew could cash a check for him. In Omaha he would merely have asked the first man he met, for they all know him. The president realizes that home affairs are petting to wherethey need some attention, and, therefore, he asks that the peace delegates quit monkeying around and get down to brass tacks. It is time. Filipino emissaries, passing through, say they are not seeking independence, but closer politi cal and economic relations with '.the United States. As enlightenment and reason spread among the islanders they are coming to know a good thing. Nebraska might well have spent that $25,0(X) to keep up state headquarters for returning sol diers it New York. The boys may not all get ashore there, but those who do certainly would feel a little better if they were met with the slad hand from the home folks. A Vast Effort Only by degrees can details "be gathered of the mighty exertions required to overcome the combinations of force that Germany powerfully organized through so many years. The world : did not realize what was coming. There could be something worse than to have lost the war. and that would be a failure to render another like it absolutely impossible. Official reports as they accumulate make more clear the desperate danger of that colossal offensive. The defense also had to be colossal, and by a greater margin, before the tide could be turned. It is not gen erally known that in 1917 Great Britain trans ported to France 130,000 Chinese laborers, near ly all from farms, to build the roads so urgently demanded in the rear of the allied lines.- The British furnished the ships for the operation and financed it throughout. President Wilson pub lished his peace basis of 14 principles in Janu ary, 1918. It was two months later when the Germans began their tremendous offensive, be fore which the allies fell back, often hastily, so strenuous were the successive waves of attack on a front of more than 200 miles. The drives have been called a military gamble, but it was for months a prodigious task to stop them. So much were fresh men needed at one time that the British tried to drill the Chinese, but they could not be taught to march, for the curious reason that they wear shoes with noise less soles and so lack the sense of rhythm com mon in other parts of the world. The German line was smashed at last, but more than 2,000,000 ' Americans were hurried across the ocean to help meet the world-peril, and they were not there a day too soon. Another such war must never occur. A peace without th'e firmest assurance on this rnint would be an inconceivable catastrophe. Su Louis Globe-Democrat SPEEDING UP PEACE NEGOTIATIONS. President Wilson's warning to the Peace conference, that too much time has already been spent in talk, and that action soon must follow, certainly ought to produce results. It is not the rurpose of the American delegation to undertake to dominate the conference, nor to drive through a treaty without mature delibera tion. But its members realize- how impatient the world is becoming for definite determination of the problems, how much depends on the issue, and the anxiety of everybody concerned to be about the tasks of rebuilding the world. Ger many alone can profit through delay, and al ready has, for that matter. The multiplicity of problems presented to the conferees, some of them entirely unrelated, or at best only remotely connected with the war, and the ardor with which the inconsequen tials have been pressed, is responsible for most of the waiting. America, asking for nothing, seeking no advantage, striving only to formulate a basis for enduring peace, has listened with patience to the special pleadings of the con flicting interests, and has striven to bring about concord between elements at variance. But there is a limit even to America's patience, and action can not be longer postponed without set ting up irritation. . . In this connection, it is worthy of notice that the American delegates report they had the Root amendments to the league covenant under consideration for several days before they were published in this country; also that they are re garded as helpful because constructive, and that efforts will be made to: incorporate the senator's suggestions in the document as finally adopted. The distinction between the representatives of the United States in Paris and the "swallow it whole" shouters at home is thus very sharply defined. Do Not Use the Soft PedaL It was a happy thought, undoubtedly, to turn the dispute between the building material men and the builders over to the gool fellow sh;p committee of the Chamber of Conmercc. That devoted group ought to be able to pour oil on troubled water, to get at basic facts, and to set everything straight. It is admitted that Chairman Wilhelm approaches the point with an open mind,, and that the committee he has selected to assist him is composed of men com petent and capable of dealing with the impor tant business 'cfrrred to it. But with all this agreed upon, another thing must not be lost sight of. It is an investigating and not a whitewashing committee. The peo ple do not want the soft pedal used. They want to know all the facts, and who, if any there be, is responsible for the situation that is holding up a building program in Omaha. Architects and others familiar with the local situation say the 1,300 buildings Mr. Wilhelm refers to as being under way in Omaha are scarcely a start on what is needed, and that with a little encouragement such a campaign as never was witnessed in the city will be set in motion. One leading architect says we are practically four years behind in our building needs. If this is true, Omaha requires 10,000 structures of various types. If any approach to this is possible we should have it. If prices are fair, we should know it; if profiteering causes delay, the fact should be made public. No innuen does, no generalizations and no soft pedal should mark the inquiry. Chicago's Municipal Election. The result of the municipal election in Chi cago was foreshadowed at the primary. Wil liam Hale Thompson was named as. the repub lican candidate because of divided opposition, and was re-elected as mayor for the same reason. This is unfortunate, because of the un savory war record made by Mayor Thompson, who showed pro-German sympathies all the way through. Had the patriotic elements of the Windy City united in support of any one of several good men who were suggested, victory might easily have been theirs. As to the national significance of the result, it scarcely can have any effect on the country at large. One year ago such a result might have been held to reflect a grade of public sen timent opposed to the course along which the nation was moving. At this time it has -no such value, and indicates only the complica tions of affairs local to Chicago's city politics, and nothing more. Thompson already has been rejected by the voters of Illinois as a candidate for United States senator, and this verdict must be accepted as disposing of him as a factor out side his own bailiwick. Some little interest may be found in view ing the position of the candidate of the newly organized labor party. Out of a possible 240, 000 union labor votes he secured 50,000, or about one in five. This does not indicate a lack of solidarity among the labor unions on economic questions, but does show, they are not ready to confound their labor problems with political aspirations. Mr. Compton and the County Car. Here's a pretty state of affairs, indeed, when the right of the chairman of the road commit tee to drive to and fro between the court house and his country home in a car owned by the county is questioned. What, one might ask, is left of the privileges and prerogatives of a democratic county commissioner if this is to be denied him? Mr. Compton rather naively suggests it would be silly for him, after a hard day's work on the roads in western Douglas county, to uive all the way into the city, just to park the county's car, and then take his own to drive home in. Is it not so? Besides, he saves much time for himself, not to speak of the gasoline, oil, tires and incidentals. It is a truism of auto-owning that it is not the initial cost, but the upkeep, that counts. By the pres ent arrangement Mr. Compton escapes both through the easy process of allowing the county to foot the bills. In the case brought by an Omaha taxpayer against the mayor it was held that a city official had no right to drive a city owned car on his private business, or even to transport himself between his home and his office. Such a decision might without violence be stretched to include a county official. But the democrats have a majority on the county board, and it is not likely they will interfere with the perquisites one of their number so pleasantly enjoys. Science's Latest on the Flu London Times, March 14. The third wave of the influenza epidemic has now ended. The deaths from the disease re corded for the 96 great towns of England and Wales last week numbered 3,218, compared with 3,889 the previous week. In London the deaths numbered 597, as against 808. What is more it has ended to date. The mysterious period icity which the mysterious disease seems to have established for itself has been maintained. This periodicity is roughly 12 weeks. The first wave began .in July and died down about the end of August a two months' course. Twelve weeks after the beginning of the first wave at the beginning of October the second wave began to flow. The wave was spent by the middle of December. Again, 12 weeks after the beginning of the second wave, i. e., in January, the third wave appeared. It had begun to spend itself irr the first days'of March. Friend of the Soldier Replies will be given in this ' column to questions relating to the soldier and his prob lems, in and out of the army. Names will not be printed. Ask T h e B e e to Answer. Meanwhile the evidence that the causative organism of the epidemic is the filter-passing germ described by the late Major Graeme Gib son and also by Captain Wilson accumulates. It is a very strong body of evidence, and to a great extent satisfies the requirements of proof laid down by Koch. That is to say, the germ can be recovered from patients affected by the diesease; it can be cultivated outside the body; it can, when inoculated into animals, reproduce the phenomena of the disease; and it can be recovered again from the inoculated animals, and again grown. It is just the failure to understand the neces sity of proof of this sort which has led so many observers to describe "germs of influenza", in these last weeks. This is, perhaps, especially true of the much debated Pfeiffer's bacillus, which was originally discovered in the 'eighties, and has been discussed a hundred times since. The bacillus is one of the many which are very commonly present in the human nasopharynx. (Other bacilli very frequently found in healthy throats and noses are the pneumonia bacillus, the streptococcus and the staphylococcus.) This by no means establishes the Pfeiffer bacillus as the cause of a disease. Were such an argument admitted, there would be no limit to the number of things which might be suspected in the same connection, e. g., baldness, soft corns all of which occur frequently in persons suffering from influenze. We should be back again in the dark ages. , We do not think that it has been established of the Pfeiffer bacillus or any other bacillus or coccus, except the one mentioned above, that it will produce influenza when inoculated into animals, or that it can be recovered from these animals after infection. In the absence of proof of this kind, the state ment that the bacillus is present in the throats of all influenza patients does not carry us much farther. It is in all probability. So are other bacilli. Admittedly these "residents" may and do afflict severe illness once the resistance which normally holds them at bay is broken down. It is exceedingly improbable that they themselves are the agents which initiate the at tack. This is the reason why vaccination against influenza is not generally advised. You cannot vaccinate against a disease the exact cause of which is in doubt (though now that Major Graeme Gibson's discovery has been announced, a vaccine of a new kind may possibly be avail able soon.) The best use that can be made of vaccination at present is to inoculate against the "residents," the germs which lie constantly in wait for their host, and visit pneumonia and blood-poisoning upon him when he is weak; And there are, as has been pointed out before ie these columns, objections even to this courso Walker D. Hines wants to buy coal for his railroads, but not at the market price, thus prov ing that even a railroad dictator is human. Many announcements of "cures" of the dis ease have been made. The public should real ize that probably upwards of 80 per cent of all cases of uncomplicated influenza in this epi demic have got well by themselves when pneumonia has supervened it has, of course, been a different story. It is easy to see that an individual treating a limited number of cases in some particular way, by some particular serum or drug, might easily have recoveries in 100 per cent of his patients. He would ascribe this good result to his drug or serum. In point of fact his patients would have recovered in any case. Rigid contrbl of every new method is es sential before it can be accepted; otherwise vast disappointment must result. That means pitting a large number of treated cases against an equal number of untreated cases or cases treated by other methods. Only then can conclusions worth talking about be drawn. Bacteriologists and others who publish statements of results without having sufficiently controlled their work do no good service to science or to humanity. A standardized vaccine is now available against the pneumonia complications, and the first authentic statistics are hopeful no more. Sera (a serum differs from a vaccine. It is an antidote; a vaccine if a "hair of the tail of the dog that bit you" or is likely to bite you) of all sorts have been tried during the pneumonia attacks. Good and bad results are spoken of, but perhaps on the whole the good outweigh the bad, especially as regards antidiptheria serum, which does seem to exercise some beneficial ef fect in early cases. 1 Shift of Political Power The west is avenged. Iowa has ousted North Carolina from the proud position of holder of the largest number of important chairmanships in the house of representatives. Three of the 10 are now hers those on appropriations, rivers and harbors, and agriculture. In addition, Iowans have places on five of the remaining seven major committees, and the chairmanship of two of the minor ones. The other major chairmanships are held by representatives from Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan. New York has as many chairmanships as Iowa, but none of her five is of the first rank. In mere number, Pennsylvania leads all the rest, but her eight are of minor committees. So are the seven of Illinois. Even the triumph of Massachusetts in the speakership contest is somewhat offset by the fact that the republican floor leader comes from Wyoming. Just how the standing of Illinois is affected by Mann's peculiar posi tion is a question that happily for their peace of mind the compilers of the "Congressional Directory" will not have to answer. The geo graphical effect of the republican victory last November is graphically shown by the south's retention of but two chairmanships, minor ones at that, and held by a couple of representatives from Kentucky and Tennessee. New York Post. ! The Day We Celebrate. Paul B. Burleigh, banker and broker, born 1871. Richard W. Jepson, grocer,, born 1892. John Burroughs, most famous of American naturalists, born at Roxbury, N. Y., 82 years ago. Margaret Anglin, widely celebrated as an actress, born at Ottawa, Ont., 43 years ago. Andrew J. Peters, former assistant secre tary of the treasury, now mayor of Boston, born at Jamaica Plain, Mass., 47 years ago. "Budd" Fisher, celebrated cartoonist and comic artist, born in San Francisco 34 years ago. In Omaha 30 Years Ago. "Fascination" fascinated an audience at the Boyd with Cora Tanner in the title role. Rev. J. M. French of Cleveland who has ac cepted a call to the First Presbyterian church of this city is to preach his' first sermon here next Sunday. The contract for grading Bemis Park has been let to B. P. Knight and company at 10.9 cents per yard and there are 50,000 yards to be moved. Rev. P. S. Henson of Chicago will deliver a lecture on "Fools" at the First Baptist church. Fifteenth and Davenport streets, for the benefit of the Omaha Baptist Missionary union, Seventh Division in Line. Omaha, April 1. To the Editor of The Bee: In the morning issue of The Bee dated April 1. I saw a statement under the "Friend of the Soldier" column that the Seventh division never wns in th frnnr lino I trenches. As I was a member of the Fifth engineers, attached to the Seventh division, I wish to correct this statement. We took over a sec tor on the night of October 9, 1918, called the "Puvenelle sector," di rectly in front of Metss. and held that sector until November 11, 1918, when the armistice was signed The 34th, 55th, 56th and 64th infantry were the regiments with which my outfit operated. I do not write this in a sense of bragging, but feel it is an injustice to the boys of the Sev enth who lost their lives there. If you will kindly correct this I will consider it a great favor. Yours sincerely, SERGT. ED C. GRIMES, 812 North Forty-second St., City. P. S. The Seventh division is now in the army of occupation with the exception of the Fifth engineers. We gladly print the foregoing let ter, as an act of justice to the boys of the Seventh division; the state ment complained of was made on the strength of the report of Gen eral Pershing on the battle opera tions of the American army, which does not mention the Seventh di vision as having been engaged at any time. Friend of the Soldier. Many Questions Answered. A Soldier's Wife No word yet as to when base hospital 202 will sail. Worried Mother The 58th Infan try is in the army of occupation, and no time has been set for Its return from Germany. Helen The 313th engineers Is part Of the 88th division: aero squadron 803 is in the service of supply; address, A. P. O. 713-A; no orders for its return. A Header The 16th balloon com pany is in the service of supply with the Fourth army corps, A. P. O. 775; the 30th balloon company is in the service of supply. A.' P. O. 722, lo cated at La Courtine (Creuse); no order for immediate return of either. The 16th engineers is assigned to early convoy. Inmates of embarka tion hospital No. 3 were transferred to other hospitals, returned to their commands, or brought to the United States when the hospital was de mobilized. A Reader See answer to A Reader, foregoing. Write to the adjutant general of the army for information regarding any particu lar soldier. Mr. J. T. R. The 56th engineers is scheduled for early convoy home. Letters to this department are an swered in order of receipt. A Brother The present address of the 408th telegraph battalion is P. S. via A. P. O. 702; it is in the service of supply, and on March 25 Washington announced that it has been assigned to early convoy home. B. E. C. No orders have been is sued for return of ambulance com pany No. 1, now in Germany; field remount squadron No. 2 is attached to headquarters of the Second army: no orders for its return. Anxious The 24th balloon com pany is attached to the Second army; A. P. O. 784; no orders for its early return. Soldier's Wife The 20th balloon company is assigned to early con voy, but no date fixed for its sailing. C. B. B The First aero squadron is part of the Third army corps, headquarters at Kllburg; A. P. O. 754; not under orders for immediate return. Mrs. L. V. S. Aero squadron No. 341 is in the service of supply, at St. Jean-de-Monts (Vendee); no orders for its early return home; mobile hospital 101 is at Joinville (Haute-Marne) ; no borders for its early return; can give you no infor mation concerning the dental service unit you mention. A Soldier's Mother The 110th in fantry is part of the 28th division, which is under schedule to sail for home in May; its address is A. P. (). 744; evacuation ambulance company No. 33 is at Bordeaux, A. P. O. 705. and is not under sailing orders at present; evacuation hospital No. 7 is at Heippes (Meuse), A. P. O. 914, and no orders have been issued for its return. A Sister of Two Soldiers The 165th infantry is part of the 42d di vision, which is under schedule to sail for home in April. Miss R. C. A. Transportation company No. 3 is at Saumur (Maine-et-Loire), A. P. O. 718; it is not in the army of occupation, nor have any orders been issued for its immediate return. Mrs. L. M. The 134th infantry is part of the 34th division still in France; its present address is A. P. O. 912; all the units of this division were ordered returned in January, but several were left behind. A Soldier's Sister Transportation company 48 (attached to transporta tion company 51), is not part of a division; its station is at Bordeaux; no orders yet for its return. H. A. M. We regret we are un able to give you any information as to a photograph made at a detention camp at Camp Funston; unless you can get in touch with some member of the company you have in mind and so learn the address of the photographer, would suggest that you write to the officer commanding at Camp Funston. Soldier's Mother The 115th en gineers is attached to the Sixth army corps, A. P. O. 783; no orders for its early return. Mrs. E. M. A. The Seventh engi neers is part of the Fifth division, Seventh corps, Third army; its ad dress is A. P. O. 745; it is not as signed to early convoy home. DREAMLAND ADVENTURE By DADDY "THE FOVR GOOD DEEDS" (Balky Sam, Billy Goat, Johnny Bull and Judge Owl set out to perform a good deed apiece to atone for kidnapping the Boy Who Howled. They com back to tell their atorlea to Peggy) CHAPTER IV. .Tolinny Hull (joes Hunting. 'AHAT are you growling about, Johnny Bull?" asked Billy Belgium. "I never did like cows, and now I like them less than ever," answered Johnny Bull in a gruff bark. "I think cows are lovely they give us nice milk," declared Peggy. "Milk!" exclaimed Johnny Bull peevishly. "That's the only reason I didn't let old Nan be turned into beefsteak when she spoiled my good deed today." f'How did she spoil it?" asked Peg gy. Johnny Bull, scowling darkly, sat down to tell his story. "I set out, as you know, to save a child from drowning. But not a child could I find in any of the riv ers or lakes which I passed. "After I had walked and walked, I finally came to a woods, and from this woods came the sound of chil dren crying 'Hurrah,' I thought. "Her forefeet sank into a bog." 'Here are children in trouble. I'll bet there's a pond in that woods and youngsters are drowning in it.' "Eoldly I dashed through the woods to become a hero, but, alas! my hopes were vain. No pond was there and the crying children were safe on dry land righlfcin their own home, a tiny cottage tucked away in the woods. "Safe as they were, the children were weeping bitterly. 'Mother, mother, we are starving. Give us bread and milk,' they cried. " 'Our cow is lost! You must go hungry, my poor little ones,' sobbed their mother. "Wasn't that just like a stupid cow. getting lost or stolen? Of ; course, when I saw in what trouble this family was I couldn't go search ing a child that was drowning. I I had to search for that cow instead j "Fortunately. I found her trail, I and my nose helped me follow it. Through the woods, across the mead ows, up the road, over the hills and down into a swamp I tracked that cow. No wonder the poor woman couldn't find her. But my nose led me straight, and finally I came upon her knee-deep in marsh grass which she was eating greedily. , " 'Go back home, quickly,' I told her. 'The children are starving for milk.' " 'I'm never going home again,' she mooed. 'I m a wild cow, now. I'm tired of the humdrum life in my own meadow, and am going out into the world to find romance and ad venture.' " 'You start for home this minute or I'll bite your tail,' I answered. " 'Try it,' she mooed so insolently that I did try it, and then what do you think that crazy cow did? She kicked me kicked me into a pool of mud and laughed at my struggles to get out. "But I had my revenge, for when she kicked me her forefeet sank into a bog, and in a minute she was struggling for dear life. The more she struggled the deeper she sank, until it seemed certain she would drown in the mud. I didn't want that, so Ivran for help. A covered wagon was coming down the road and I stopped it. I made dog signs so plain that the driver got down from his seat and followed me to where Nan the was drowning." " 'Ha, what a nice fat cow,' he cried. Then i.e threw a rope around her horns, hitched his horses to the other end and dragged her out. But when she was on solid earth a new danger arose. In my haste to get help for Nan I never noticed what the man was. Now I found that he was a butcher. " 'I've saved the cow from the hog, now I'll turn her into meat to feed hungry people,' he said, pulling a large knife from his belt and start ing for Nan. "But I wasn't going to let her get butchered while those poor children cried for milk. Quick as a wink, I grabbed the butcher by the leg and gave him a hard nip. My, how he yelled! He gave a great jump and landed right in the mud. While he was getting out I jerked the rope from Nan's horns and started her kiting for home. The butcher never caught us. I tell you those children were glad to see their dinner com ing, and Nan was so glad to get safe ly home; she promised she'd never run away again. But aa for me my good deed has gone to smash." "Hee-haw! Are you awfully cross, Judge Peggy?" There stood Balky Sam with ears drooping, the picture of woe. Daily Dot Puzzle 24 ? rr ..5 ssio S9 .SO -i,!t' Trace from one to sixty-nine And you'll see a of mine. Draw from on to two and ao on to and. (In the next chapter will be told how Baiky Sam makes Bad hearts gay.) an Ideal husband. Women are such fools. She Of course they are, to believe there Is such a thing. Ilaltlmore American. DAILY CARTOONETTE Our Gofvr h&s f?on Awflv! I WISH I COOLU nMLIT.'y-3 1 IO. " tin iMease Note the Date. Omajia, April 1. To the Editor of The Bee: I notice some are rais ing roars of righteous remonstrance against this scheme of monkeyins with the course of nature by setting the clock an hour ahead. They are right. Some of the kicks apparently come j from farmers, and it does affect that class. If a farmer owns a farm end works by clock time instead of sun time, you know how easy it is, if he follows this plan assiduously for some years to raise a fine, healthy mortgage on his farm, and if the farm, by that method, can't raise the mortagage, then the mortgage will raise the farm. Then no sensi ble farmer will fly in the face of the danger consequent, possibly at tending that course. A Missouri farmer tried it last year, worked by sun time instead of clock time, and right in the middle of the busy sea son his wife left him. She also took the best hound, a team of mouse colored mules and a wagon contain ing a feather bed, the hired man and a jug of fine old whisky that had been given the farmer the day before. The neighbors said it was good enough for him, though it was rather tough to lose the hound, he could drink the brand of whisky he had always used. Of course the man who works on salary has to go by clock time he cause there must be a system. Now he gets home so long before bed time that he has time to rest before going to bed, and not going to bed tired, he don't sleep well. That's too bad. To the fellow who never works and has no business it is a source of annoyance. If he gets up at his usual time and finds it is 12 noon instead of 11 a. m. it makes him think he has lost a good hour and a game or two of "Kelly" or pinochle. But there are far graver conse quences. We hear that the Lama of Thibet resents our interference with his prayers, making the sun rise while he is yet asleep. He in tends to take a lam at us, and is getting his navy ready, and war may be declared any time now. The Balla-hoo of Timbuctoo alsu resents it but from a slightly differ ent reason. He claims that if we have power to set the sun one way we have power to set it any way, and he is preparing a plank for the league of nations and will Insist on its adoption, making us set the clock back an hour so he will have more time to sleep the morning after the night before. The only persons not affected arc a few of us unimportant old fogies who believe, with Rev. John Jas per, that "the sun do move," and la not affected in any way what ever by the clock, and will rise and set "clock or no clock," and that we can go to work or to bed just the same as before. HITTY McGINN. "Are you writing regularly to your boy. Josh?" "I dunno," replied Farmer Corntosaal. "I kind o' got au Idea that I've been writ in" to the censor. After the censor takes out the news he wants he lets John keep the change." Washington Star. "He had to work himself up to the point of proposing." "And she had to work him up to that point." "Then I suppose their marriage Is what might be called a labor union." 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'TIs not the bursting of the buds Nor lawns aturnlng green, Nor soft spring rnlns that wash things off And beautify the scene; 'TIs not the first bluebottle fly Aslnglng In my ear, That tells me that the spring Is nigh, Ah, yes, that spring la here. The smell of fresh turned earth to me Docs not mean anything, That happens In the fall, you see. As nft as In the spring. Rut there's one sign that never falls And of tt you'll take note If you'd avoid quick, hot spring gales That threaten your life's boat. When wtte begins to rubber at The rug there In the hall, And In the curtains finds holes that You cannot see' at all, Ans says the varnish Is cracked off Some spindle legged thing. Ton need no longer laugh or scoff For you have with you spring. CLAY COUNTY SUN'. SAID IN FUN. T f f r th" w!ory of a voman who lililed liersoif b'.'i-uu&e ahc could nut IitiU t DRESS UP! MADE to ORDER JVJICOLL tailoring means clothes distinguished by their quiet sim plicity, their apparent indivduality and style. They give that ease, lack of consciousness and freedom that most men want but seldom get. Our Spring Woolens are Varied, Un usual and correct. To this we add skillful tailoring. $35, $40, $45 and Up. A very exceptional range of Blue Serges and Cheviots at $40 and $45. NICOLL ThelUilor W2 Jew-ems' Sons 209-11 So. 15th Street Karbach Block