THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9. 1919-
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MARCH CIRCULATION
Daily 65,293-Sunday 63,450
Arerac circulation for tit mosXh aubacrlbad and (won to t
E. B,. Bkui, Circulation Manager.
Subscriber leaving the city ahould havo Tha Bm mailed
to thorn. Add rest changed aa often aa requested.
"America first" is not a bad motto.
Michieanders stick to all or nothing on pro
hibition. It is just as well.
"Johnny" Maher is coming home, if proof
that the war is over were really wanted.
Let the eagle scream again an American
army officer has won a tennis match in Lunnonl
It may be a little early to start, but the gov
ernment again advises the people to "swat the
fly."
"League or war" would sound better if the
public had not heard democratic promises before.
If the Victory loan does not go through with
a whoop, it will not be for lack of whooping
it up.
City employes who went to war ought to
have the old job or a better one as soon as
they show up for work. )
"Jimmy" Gerard proposes that the kaiser be
exiled to some nice "lonesome"' town. Nomina
tions are now in order. v
France it now said to be fighting both friend
and foe, but this is probably a libel on France.
All the French want is security.
A correspondent wants to know why Secre
tary Baker should go to France agam at this
time. We confess inability to answer this.
When the innocent farmer brings the city
siren into court to recover the money he spent
on her, it is time for movie-men to change reels.
Otfr affairs are rapidly getting back to .nor
mal, the announcement being made that the
Georgia peach crop is killed by the cold snap.
4 Bavarian bolsheviki plan to go the limit in
their program, Ifjthey succeed, sunny southern
Germany will be quite as happy and prosperous
as Russia.
Ninety Omaha boys in one bunch make quite
a showing, even where Yankee- soldiers are as
plentiful as they are in French back areas now.
They will get a cordial welcome home some day.
Now that everybody has endorsed the "Ar
gonne Drive" along the river bank as an ap
propriate memorial to our soldiers,- what about
building it? Omaha has enough such projects
up in the air to keep all hands at work for a
generation.
With the railroad operating deficit increas
ing each -day, the public may be pardoned for
expressing astonishment at the announcement
from the office of Walker D. Hines that an
other increase in wages is coming soon. This
is the real beauty of having Uncle Sam foot the
bill. I
. .
Mayor Smith still clings to the belief that
one way to bring down the cost of brick in
Omaha is to make more brick, to which pur
pose he devotes a lot of otherwise useless and
unsightly claybanks. If the high banks along
some of the streets can be converted into sky
scrapers by the simple process the mayor sug
gests, it would seem worth trying. ,
The secretary of war "passed the buck" as
usual on his departure for Europe, writing a
letter to;Senator "Jimmy" Reed, giving his ex
cuses for failure to immediately demobilize the
army; If Mr. Baker had been frank at the out
set, instead of needlessly raising expectations
by his statements that led folks to think that the
boys would soon be home, he would not now be
forced to seek refuge (behind statements that
the British refused to furnish us needed ships.
"Local Jobs for, Local Men
it
The War department has called on the com
mercial organizations of the country through
the National Chamber of Commerce to aid in
. securing iobs for the returning soldiers. One
feature of this nev movement which is worthy
of every attention is that all organizations that
get in. touch with a soldier out of a job are
asked to notify the home organization, so that
the soldier in turn may be put in touch with his
old associations and, if possible, with his old
employers. As the committee which has been
ro-operating with the National Chamber of
Commerce puts it:
" 'Local jobs for local men, should be the
slogan used with and by the employers in order
that the returning soldiers may be impelled to
redistribute themselves throughout the country
in the ratio in which the man-power was with
drawn for military purposes, thud bringing into
immediate operation the maximum reabsorbing
capacity of the whole nation."
This is all very well, but the astonishing
thing is that this policy should be suggested
now after the employment service of the United
States Department of Labor, partly through the
failure of co'ngress to support it and partly
through its own methods, has had to call tn the
aid of outside organizations to remedy the mud
dle the employment problem has got into, v It
is to be remembered that the leading workers
in the draft boards here and elsewhere sug
gested that, whatever else the War department
did, final -demobilization should bring the soldier
back to his home draft board, and thus pass him
back to civil and industrial life through those
who know him. This was not done, and, in
certain large centers, the soldiers who were
helped to "local jobs" were men who belonged
thousands of miles away from the placet where
they received employment. Consequently, this
made confusion and distress when the local men
turned up later demobilized but jobless. That
' the Chamber of Commence has adopted the new
slogan proves that the way in which the bureau
handled matters was not the part" of wisdom.
The thing to do now, however, is not to cry
over split milk, but to Follow out the sugges
tions of the National Chamber of Commerce
and get the men back to home and to work at
once. Philadelphia Ledger.
THE PEACE OF JUSTICE.
A lot of weak sentimentality is being hawked
about to the purport that we and our allies in
the war should be generous and compassionate
with the late enemy in the terms imposed in
the treaty of peace. According to this talk, we
must not load Vanquished Germany with too
great a burden of reparation, and we must
not set up obstacles to its unlimited future in
dustrial expansion. We' should help Germany
get on its feet again as a great nation and we
hould open the door and offer the hand of wel
come to the new Germany, to an equal place
at the world's council table..,
People who are talking fn this fashion
should be reminded that it is the peace of just
ice which was promised to Germany and that
while justice should always be tempered with
mercy, we are not called on to treat Germany
as if It were an innocent victim and we the ac
cidental victors. All we have to do is to pic
ture the conditions reversed, and try to imagine
what terms the kaiser would be imposing on us
if he were dictating the words of the peace
treaty. We have it from official spokesmen
close to the imperial throne at the time Ger
many believed it was about to win out, that
no concessions were to be' made to France or
Italy or Great Britain. How much territory
Germany would have annexed, how great the
indemnities it would have exacted, what punish
ment it would have meted out to those who
had stood in the way of its ambition, no one can
tell. We may be sure, however, that exultant,
victorious Germany, would ''have consulted its'
own interests exclusively.
When the terms of the peace treaty are made
public, particularly the provisions embodying
the demands to be enforced upon Germany
and Austria and their partners, let us then weigh
them, not in rancor, not in bitterness, not in
revenge, nor yet in forgetfulness, but on the
scale of even-handed justice that makes sure
that all those lives of loved ones were not sac
rificed vainly.
Seven-Day Service on Necessaries.
Mayor Smith's statement that the police
should vigorously enforce the ordinance pro
hibiting the delivery of ice on Sunday rs worth
while noting. If his suggestion is strictly car
ried out, it may have the effect of securing the
repeal of an ordinance against' which The Bee
protested at the beginning. Six days of con
tinuous work is enough for any man, and espe
cially for the man who delivers ifce on hot sum
mer days. One complete day's rest in seven is
a wise regulation.
But Omaha is a seven-day town. Life goes
on continuously, and must be provided for. In
many lines seven-day service exist, with a sim
ple adjustment of working forces on a six-day
schedule. Such a rule is not impossible for the
ice companies. To shut off Sunday deliveries
does not materially affect the big consumers,
,for they easily can store a two-day supply.
In the small homes this is not possible in the
extremely hot weather, when the rest day is
most needed by the workmen.
The situation in the small home is already
bad enough because of the city ordinance that
forbids the opening of grocery stores or meat
markets on Sunday, thus forcing the house
holder to carry his own provisions, where for
merly he left them in the dealer's cooler over
Saturday night. Now to deprive him of ice or
force him to enlarge his ice box is hitting him
a double blow. Give the small home some con
sideration. Icemen should have their rest day,
but the people also should have their ice. The
problem is merely one of adjustment of work
ing forces by the companies.
Politics in the Peace Drive.
Some assertions made in contention for the
League of Nations have a strangely familiar
sound. The advocates of the "swallow it whole"
policy remind us that unless the league is
formed, another war is right at hand. Such
statements must bring to the minds similar
pleas made not so many months ago.
In 1914 the pacificatory elements of the
democratic party began a steady propaganda,
in which they were ably seconded, if not sys
tematically directed, by the agents of Germany,
the purpose of which was to keep us out of war.
In 1916 their rallying cry was "He Kept Us Out
of War."
It required no especial penetration of vision
then to discover the imminence of either war or
ignominy. Germany had murdered our citizens,
destroyed our property, invaded our rights, and
sneered at our protests. War could only be
avoided by completely submitting to dictation
from Berlin. Democratic leaders knew this, and
they also knew that if they told the truth, they
would be swept from office. Therefore, they de
liberately deceived the people as to the exact
situation, and won continuance in office through
the desire of Americans for a peace they could
not have.
Another national election is coining on, and
we find these same unscrupulous political trick
sters tuning up to play 'on the same string
again.; Our people do not want war; they yearn
for peace sincerely and with all their 'hearts.
But they have learned that there can be condi
tions worse than righteous war. It remains to
be determined if the sirens of the democratic
party can lull the public into forgetfulness of
the blunders of the last three years by singing
a sweet song of universal peace.
A League of Nations probably will come out
of the peace negotiations, but such an issue will
not free the democratic party from its record of
incompetency, extravagance and mismanage
ment of national affairs. '
Mail Service Under Burleson.
A Montgomery man a few days ago re
ceived a letter from his brother, written and
mailed in New York June 20, 1914. It took
both a republican and democratic administra
tion six years to get the letter here, but Mr.
Burleson clearly has the best of it. The letter
was not delivered while Mr. Hitcchcock had
it; Mr. Burleson did actually deliver the let
ter. Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser.
The Advertiser's joke would be a good one if
rt were based on facts; it is an even better one
because of the blunder it contains. Albert E.
Burleson was appointed postmaster general in
March, 1913, and has served continuously since
then. Therefore this long-delayed letter was
under his care and keeping from the time the
writer dropped it in the mail box in New York
until, the carrier delivered it to the proper
party in Montgomery, years later. The whole
affair is typical of the democratic shiftiness,
however.
If President Wilson is not bluffing, and the
stories from Paris are substantially correct, we
may hear that the Peace conference is about to
cease conferring, and get down to brass tacks.
The Conference and the Peace
London Times, March 17.
The Germans, as was inevitable, have agreed
to the surrender of their merchant shipping
and the allies have undertaken to allow them a
supply of foodstuffs, and even to resume their
foreign trade under certain limitations. While
humanitarian considerations enter largely into
the first of these concessions, both are made on
solid grounds of self-interest for the allies.
This is the more satisfactory as competent
observers, like Bishop Frodsham, who writes to
us today, are not all agreed that Germany is
so near starvation as its representatives assert
and as the allies appear willing to believe. A
large amount of new tonnage it is stated to be
3,500,000 tons will become available for the
urgent business of feeding all the hungry peo
ples, and if the blockade is to be partly raised,
and the Germans are to be permitted to exporf,
certain commodities, they will be obliged to de
vote the proceeds of this trade to paying the
allies for the food supplied to them. But pay
ment is secured by other means as well. The
cost of the foodstuffs will be a charge upon
'German credits in neutral countries, and Ger
many must deposit 18,000,000 in gold in the
National Bank of Belgium within a few days.
It is not anticipated that this sum will have to
be drawn upon, as it is expected that Germany
will be able to earn the successive installments
of food supplied to it, or will be able to pay for
them out of its credits. It is believed, accord
ingly, that the whole of the great gold reserve
which it has heaped up, and which is said to be
100,000,000, will remain available for the
reparation to be exacted from it. . It is hoped
that today the conference will finally settle the
naval, military and air terms of the preliminary
peace. The anxiety to have it signed at an early
date is so great on both sides of the Atlantic
that some disappointment seems to have been
felt in Paris because this group of terms was
not discussed at Saturday's sitting of the coun
cil of 10. There are strong reasons why the
peace should be completed for presentation to
the Germans with the least possible delay, but
President Wilson, we feel sure, is as alive as
any European statesman can be to the ex
pediency of this course, and, , if he asked to
have the debate on Saturday deferred, he had
grounds for the request. The terms had been
considerably altered largely on the suggestion
of Mr. Lloyd George during his visit to Amer
ica, and he desired to study them attentively
before they are formally sanctioned. There are
still important subjects, such as territorial ad
justments and finance, to be settled after these
military matters have been determined, and, the
democracies are getting impatient. Our Wash
ington correspondent assures us that opinion in
the United States is "absolutely content" with
the proposed terms, so far as they are known,
and that it is overwhelmingly opposed to
procrastination over the conclusion of the pre
liminary peace.
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America sees in the righteous stringency of
those terms a strong argument for the necessity
of a league of nations. They require a sanction
behind them, and only such a league can pro
vide it. A comparison of the passages in our
Paris and Washington messages which treat of
the present attitude of the president and of
American opinion towards the league and the
covenant of the league reveals some remark
able differences of judgment. On the one hand,
our Paris correspondent asserts that Mr. Wil
son's first public action since his return has
been to issue a statement in which he declares
that the establishment of a league of nations,
according to a decision of the plenary confer
ence of January 25, is an integral part of the
peace treaty, that this decision must be regarded
as final, and that there is no reason to believe
it will be modified. Some Americans in Paris,
it is said, go farther. They assert that the pres
ident means to press for the inclusion of the
actual covenant in the peace terms. On the
other hand, our very cautious and well-informed
Washington correspondent tells us that the
public disbelieve a statement made by a New
York newspaper that the president is opposed
to the amendment of the covenant and to the
postponement of further consideration upon it
until after the preliminary peace. Nearly every
body, he assures us, believe that the covenant
must be carefully amended, and he adds that
France and Great Britain are known to desire
amendment. Our Paris correspondent seems
to take very much the same view of what is
possible and expedient in the circumstances as
that which we ventured to suggest the other
day. He cannot bring himself to suppose that
America intends to advocate the inclusion of
the constitution of the league, or even the con
sideration of that subject, in the preliminary
peace treaty. The proceedings on January 25,
he shows, do not support any contention that
the constitution should be so included. It was,
indeed, resolved, on the motion of M. Clemen
ceau, that the creation of a league of nations- is
essential to safeguard peace, and that such
creation should be an integral portion of the
general treaty of peace. A commission was ap
pointed to consider the question, and, as we all
remember, at a later plenary sitting of the con
ference the draft covenant of the league was
produced and read. But, great as was the favor
with which the principles of the draft were
then received, it was made clear that the docu
ment was a draft, and no more than a draft,
and that it remained subject to the discussion
and amendment which, in the opinion of expert
diplomatists and international lawyers, is ur
gently required. It was clear then, and it is
clearer now, that this process must take time.
Our Washington correspondent, in his account
of the controversy on the subject in America,
says it is complained that the supporters of the
covenant as it stands fail to explain it "bv other
than generalities."
We refrain altogether from comment upon
the party discussions in the United States, but
we may observe that nothing could be more
dangerous than a great international instrument
which should really be open to such a criticism.
Such a document ought to be absolutely clear
and free from ambiguities, and to insure clear
ness and certainty on a subject so novel and of
such vast complexity, minute consideration and
careful draftsmanship are indispensable. The
answer to rumors, which our Paris correspon
dent describes as causing "alarm," seems so
obvious that we are quite unable to understand
why there should be alarm. We have given it
already. Let the broad outlines of the league
of nations be embodied by all means in the
preliminary treaty, but let the detailed provi
sions of this most momentous and most com
prehensive of all international covenants be re
served for the full consideration so great a work
demands.
57
Contract For Sale of Ileal Estate.
S .K. B. Is a contract legal where
a husband signs a lease to a tract of
land to a party to Improve and have
all crops from same with the privi
lege of buying it ftt a stated price
when conditions of the lease are
completed, The lessor agreeing: to
I give a deed, but his wife does not
sign the contract or lease?
Answer A contract for the sale or
lease of land. does not have to be
signed by the lessor or vendor's
wife, and a court of equity will de
cree specific performance where the
contract was "otherwise valid.
What states do not require signa
tures of wife to land owned by hus
band? Anssver Texas is the only state I
know of, although there may be
'others.
What is the legal share of a wife
in Nebraska?
Answer By this . question I as
sume that you mean what share she
would inherit upon the death of her
husband This would depend en
tirely upon whether or not there
were any children or whether she
was the mother of all the children
of the deceased. In the event that
there were no children her interest
would be one-half and from a fourth
to a thirdi depending on how many
rhildren and what her relation is to
them.
DREAMLAND
ADVENTURE
By DADDY
' Contract.,, ,
L. L. I ordered a piece of furni
ture made by a contractor or car
penter and it was to cost me $12.00,
but ho made it different than I
wanted It and asks more money for
it now. Can he collect the price he
wants for it and can he make me
take it, which I have refused to do?
Answer On the facts stated you
have a perfect right to refuse ac
ceptance of the piece of furniture if
it is note what you ordered or if the
price is more than you agreed to
pay.
Owner's Inability.
M. Y. I live in an apartment
house. When I rented the apart
ment It was with the understanding
that I should have the lirst one I
wanted that became vacant as the
one i took was undesirable. A de
sirable apartment has become vacant
and the agent informed me that I
could have it in the presence of wit
nesses and asked me to find a sub
stitute tenant for the apartment I
now occupy, which I did. The agent
sent mo a contract to sign for the
new apartment. The party I pro
cured to take the apartment I now
occupy saw the vacant apartment
in the meantime and rented it of the
agent before I had time to return
the signed contract, and the agent
refuses to let me have the apart
ment but wishes me to take an
other one. I went to some expense
and trouble in my arrangement to
take the apartment he promised me.
Have i no recourse?
Answer From your statement of
facts I think the owner of the apart
ment would be clearly liable for Rny
expenso and trouble you went to to
procure for him a tenant for tho
apartment you orcuyvy. It is also
my opinion that an action for spe
cific performance would lie to com
pel him to execute the contract for
the new apartment, assuming that
the facts are such that the contract
has been partly performed on your
part.
RIGHT TO THE POINT.
Kansas City Star: Mr. Debs evi
dently made the mistake of his life
by not doing what he did under the
guise of a conscientious objector.
Washington Post: Speaking of
endless jobs, what do you think of
the senate committee's attempt to
hear everybody who has a sure cure
for bolshevism?
St. Louis Globe-Democrat: The
American soldiers in the army of
occupation may not be "clamoring"
to the correspondents for return
home, but their letters indicate that
they do not enjoy their present job.
Brooklyn Eagle: "I would eat .
little dirt rather than have another
war," says Vice President Marshall,
defending the league of nations. It
was he who announced the senate
adjourned "sine Deo," instead of
sine die. He is always epigrammatic,
but his way of advocating a given
cause makes him an ally of very
doubtful value.
New York World: Oldtime labor
unions used to order strikes to win
something in hours, wages or con
ditions. Bolshevist usurpers of un
ion power order strikes as an end in
themselves, in the interest of revoluj
tion. They rather prefer losing. It
promises more trouble.
New York World: The American
Ele.'trlc Railway association holds
that there is need of a "cost of ser
vice system" of regulating fares. No
reasonable man will dispute it. The
tlrst item of cost is service, because
it is basic, is honest capitalization
limited to actual investment.
MOMENTS OF MIRTH.
rrs wasted nothing of a pig axcapt -the
f qucai.
Oillis I understand now that they are
even canning the squeal and putting it on
the market In the form ot grand opera
'Ponograph records. Life.
It was a deathbed scene, but the di
rector, was not satisfied with the hero's
noting.
"Come on!" he cried. "Put more life
'n your dying." Film Fun.
x "THE MVSTKMQCS KNIGHT
(Jack Sparrow leads arevolt in Bird
hind. Ills followers capture Penny, but she
Is rescued by a mysterious knight.)
CI IA ITER III
In Pursuit of the Mob.
PEGGY couldn't believe her eyes.
Never before had she seen a
knight and she didn't know that one
existed outside of story books, yet
here this champion had come unex
pectedly to her rescue.. And he was
such a splendid knight too all cov
ered with armour and with a hel
met on his head. The visor of the
helmet was down and she couldn't
see his face, but she was sure that
he was handsome and brave.
The knight's gallant steed had rich
trappings of velevet about his head
and its back waB covered with a
broad velvet saddle cloth. It was
a sprightly beast, too, and charged
vigorously among the revolutionists
while the knight lay about him lust
ily with a long sword, fn quicker
time than It takes to tell the revolt
ers were put to flight.
"HI yi! You are safe, fair prin
cess!" shouted the knight.
"But my brave defenders, where
are they?" cried Peggy, looking anx
iously around. Not a sign could she
see of General Swallow, Judge Owl
Hlue Jay and Heddy Woodpecker.
They had been carried off by the re
treating Sparrows and Cow Birds.
"We will save them," shouted the
knight. "Ki yi! Hi yi! To Birdland.
my gallant steed!"
Away went the gallant steed at
such a pace that he soon began to
overtake Jack Sparrow's mob. This
wouldn't have been so easy if the
greedy revolutionists hadn't stopped
Down Into another poultry-yard
settled the mob.
several times to swoop down on
poultry yards and steal the food
of startled chickens. Once, even, they
swept over a field where a farmer
was planting his seed, and right be
fore his eyes they grabbed up the
seed he had sowed and sped away
with taunting cries.
"The' rascals! They will make the
farmers think all the birds have
turned thieves!" exclaimed the
knight "1'uir Princess, we must
drive these scamps into exile."
"But ilrst we must rescue General
Swallow, Judge Owl, Blue Jay and
Heddy Woodpecker," insisted Peggy.
"From the unknown have I come
to do your bidding, fair Princess."
answered the knight. "It shall be as
you say."
Down into another poultry yard
settled the mob, but before the birds
could gulp down the food they found
there, the gallant steed had leaped
over the low fence and landed among
them. Slam, bang, clicklty-clack went
the sword of tho knight, raising hav
oc in the mob. Away (lew the revolt
ers, hut before they had fairly clear
ed the ground I'eggy leaned over
and made a snatch among them.
That snatch dnew General Swallow
away from the revolutionists that
were guarding him and landed him
safely on the back of the gallant
steed.
"Don't let them get away," shrilled
General Swallow. "They intend to
wall Judge Owl, Hlue Jay and Redely
Woodpecker up in a hollow tree and
let them starve."
"Hi yi! After them fast!" shouted
the knight. The 'gallant steed re
sponded, but swiftly as ho galloped
the mob flew faster and this time it
didn't stop to steal or eat. It flew
straight for Birdland and disap
peared into the depths of the forest.
"Poor Judge Owl! Poor Blue Jay!
Poor Heddy Woodpecker! cried Peg
gy, fearinr; that she had seen the last
of tier loyal friends.
"Do not despair, fair Princess!"
said the knight. "1 have come to help
you right the wrongs of Birdland.
Por a moment we are balked, but
even now I have a plan to over
come ou: foes and restore your
friends to you. Go, General Swallow,
summon here all the fighting male
birds of Birdland. Woe to those, who
rise against our beloved Princess."
Bending over, he gallantly raised
Peggy's hand to his lips and kissed
her fingers through his visor.
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FROM NEAR AND FAR.
Natives of the Sudan are raising
money for the erection of a medical
college at Khartoum as a memorial
to Lord Kitchener.
Chinese merchants in Tahiti have
subscribed a fund for establishing
an orphan asylum for the children
whose parents were influenza vic
tims. One of the encouraging signs of
the times in Mexico today is tho in
terest in physical education, as mani
fested in the promotion of foot ball,
base ball and tennis clubs through
out the country.
San Jose, principal city of Costa
Rica, possesses one of the finest
opera houses in the western world, a
structure which cost $1,500,000 to
build and equip. The exterior is of
white marble, while the interior is
furnished in Italan marble and ma
hogany, with a grand stairway
modeled after that of the Paris opera
house.
During the middle ages the Vene
tians controlled the sugar trade,
bringing the product from Egypt,
Syria and India. So important was
the industry considered that when in
1420 a Venetian invented a new pro
cess of refining sugar he was pre
sented by the government with a sum
of money representing an enormous
fortune in those days.
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a Victrola
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"How late shall you remain at your
rammer cottage this year?"
"Ask the cook." Boston Transcript.
Fond Mamma You are an authority on
plants, Mr. Smith. Is it true there are
i ome creepers about a house that are
' ery annoying in their habits?
Crusty Bachelor Yes, madam; . babies.
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DAILY CARTOONETTE
The Day We Celebrate
Rev. Robert L. Wheeler, pastor of the First j
x icsuyicnan cnurcn, aoutn aiae, DOrn 1801.
rion. waiter r.. roster, premier ot New
Brunswick,, born at St. Martin's, N. B., 45 years i
ago.
Dr. Raymond A. Pearson, president of Iowa
State College of Agriculture, bom at Evans
ville, Ind., 46 yearj ago.
Park Trammell, junior United States senator
from Florida, born in Polk county. Fla., 43
years ago.
In Omaha Thirty Years Ago.
Boyd's opera house has been incorporated
with these incorporators: James E. Boyd, E. L.
Bierbower, Charles Ogden, Thomas F. Boyd
and D. VV. Haynes.
j The Omaha base ball team beat Kansas City,
pounding them tip to a score of 4 to 2.
The criticism of the Albani concert ranks
that artist as second only to Patti in the realms
of music. '
R. S. Mcintosh, assistant cashier of the New
York Life Insurance company here has resigned
to become agency inspector for Iowa for the
Mutual Benefit Life Insurance company.
Mrs. G. W. Clark went to Blair to attend the
district convention of the W. C. T. U,
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