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t thorn. Addreea changed aa often rquated.
Watch the "100 per cent" boyi line up today.
The Peace conference it just getting down
to business.
London calls the note a "bombshell," but
that it nothing to what Rome said.
Reappearance of the box score denotes a
welcome substitute for the casualty list.
Germany hat a substitute for the whole to
offer at Versailles. It ought to be good.
Telegraph operators who are seeking more
pay also are plotting against the peace of Mr.
I Burleson.
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Mexico repudiates the Monroe doctrine, but
that will not keep the . civilized world from
recognizing it.
The president had better come home and
make the rude persons stop picking on hit post
master general.
Report from Lincoln is that Nebraska has
more farm hands than jobs just now. Must be
a mistake somewhere.
Enforcement of the dope law might also
engage attention from the authorities without
: injury to public service.
With the George Washington at Brest and
the Peace conference in a deadlock, what can
an outsider do but wonder.
Italy knows why she fought, and is loath to
give up any part of the fruits of victory. And
most Americans will side with Italy.
Shakespeare provided Bohemia with a sea
coast and now Mr. Wilson does as much for
Serbia; however, Serbia's is a real one.
- Michigan has Challenged Iowa's claim to
being first over the top in the V-loan drive, but
Iowa has one distinction the Wolverines can
not claim that of being dry the longer.
, Chauncey Depew goes right on "kidding"
the public, regardless of his birthdays. He is
tuly an excellent exponent of the maxim that
"a merry heart doeth good like medicine."
Beer flows through the brewery pipe lines
fn New York again, holding hope for those dev
otees of Gambrinus and Bacchus whose out
look was more and more gloomy as July 1 ap
proached. At A .
Mr. Burleson may be the victim of a con
spiracy; in fact, he admits he is, but will that
account for the way he mussed up the railway
mail service and everything else he has had
to control?
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. Missouri, driven to new sources for revenue,
hesitates between tobacco and chewing gum as
an object of taxation, but the chances are the
hesitation will not be long. And yau can guess
where the tax will land.
Senator Smoot declares himself in favor of
the amended covenant of peace, but he is only
getting in line with the American public, who
are unanimous (in favor of anything that will
avoid war and preserve our honor and national
integrity.
Carter Glass is scheduled for a fairly busy
day in Omaha, but we hope he gets time to
imitate his predecessor and go to the movies
with ex-Mayor Jim or some other perfectly
good democrat. Maybe Prince Arthur can at
tend to that.
The crew of a locomotive running in north
ern Nebraska had the singular experience of
being compelled to swim ashore. This novelty
entitles them to a place in thi news, but is not
likely to add life-belts to the regular equipment
of the iron horse in these parts.
Another German Disaster
Any man who is fairly, well informed as to
the happenings of the war and fairly well skilled
in using his pen would be able to answer ef-'
fectively the protest made by the rector and
senate of Leipsic university against what they
called the "outrageous action" of the French
high command against German scholars and
men' of science in Strassburg. Had the pres
ident of Columbia, to whom the protest was
transmitted by the University of Upsala. done
no more than answer it effectively, he would
have earned no particular praise by performing
a task so easy. As might have been expected,
one would think, even in. Leipsic, and as should
have been known in Upsala, Dr. Butler did
much more than that he made a reply sd
complete and so crushing that both the Ger
mans and the Swedes must now be regretting,
the former "that they invited attack and
the other that they exposed themselves to
suspicion of undue sympathy with persons un
deserving of it from civilized and decent people.
: Whatever the French may have done at
Strassburg, he said, Germans Were not en
titled to complain until they had shown, their
own disapproval, in the past and now, of atroc
ities committed by their own armies in Bel
gium and France. Of such preparation for
pleading in an international court of equity he
had seen no signs, he told them, and. to make
this important point the clearer. Dr. Butler pre
sented for German consideration a carefully pre
pared enumeration of those atrocities, divided
into 31 separate and distinct classes and cover
ing about all the crimes of which human beings
are capable.
He also reminded them of the amazing proc
lamation issued in 1914 by Germany's men of
eminence in letters, arts and sciences. That
proclamation was so full of falsities and absurd
ities that even its signers have since tried to
evade responsibility for it by saying that it
was drawn up, not by themselves, but by po
litical officials and signed in obedience to or
ders from the German government. A confes
sion more ' regrettable than the proclamation
iUelfl New York Time ,
WILSON WINS: WHAT NEXT?
president Wilson has won his most dis
tinguished victory at the Peace conference, car
rying his point against Italy and in favorof
Jugoslavia. What the ultimate effect of this will
be can not be told. For the moment it will
arouse bitter resentment among Italians, who
will feel that they have repeated in some
measure the experience of 1866, when Prussia
abandoned its alliance with Italy, and left the
"irredenta" to be settled at this time. This
may evaporate as a gust of intense national
feeling, and the Italians may find ample room
for development and realization of proper am
bition with the Dalmatian coast in the hands
of the Jugo-Slavs. Speculation on this point is
idle at the moment.
The new state or states favored by the pres
ident are by his action charged with a serious
responsibility, that of bearing themselves so as
to lessen- the likelihood of serious friction with
Italy. Unfortunately, their past is not the best
assurance that they will so act. They have been
a quarrelsome lot for many centuries, cutting
one another's throats on little pretext. The new
era into which the world is moving, and the
"window on the Adriatic," may modify the his
toric attitude of the Balkans, and Slav and
Latin, Greek and Tatar, Roman Catholic, Greek
Catholic, Mohammedan, Jew j and early
Protestants all the intricate mixture of racial,
political and religious differences may be
tranquilized and brought to harmony under the
benign influence of the new rule. It will be a
triumph indeed for Mr. Wilson's policy and his
conception of justice if this can be brought
about.
Italy has left the peace conference, trusting
her interests to her allies, England and France,
on whose fidelity she may rely. She will not
get all she fought for, because the representa
tives of the most powerful of nations have said
she asked too much. Readjustment of the
world's political boundaries goes on . apace.
What next?
One of Victory Loan's Qualities.
Not the least attractive quality' of the Vic
tory loan is that it leaves the money at home.
Payments made on it go into the banks right
here, and will be paid out through them on
govefnment obligations. This, feature, together
with the fact 'that six months' time is allowed
for the completion of the purchase, installments
apportioned so as to put the least possible
strain on individual resources, makes this loan
the easiest of the series, so far as the purchaser
is concerned. The others took the ' amounts
subscribed out of the channels of trade almost
immediately, even though it was at once paid
out by the government, and this made ithem a
real test of the resilience of American commer
cial life. With the present loan, the money is
not only kept at home, but it is taken by the
government for public uses in sums so small as
to have the least possible effect on the volume
of local business. Subscribers should take due
notice of these features, and realize that their
purchases are made under the most favorable of
terms.
Hunt Up the Missing Men. v
Accumulating evidence supports the con
clusion that in one respect the army system
is sadly deficient. This refers to the painful
lack of close articulation between) the medical
and the other branches of the service. When
a soldier was sent to a hospital wounded or
sick, or disabled from any cause, he practically
disappeared On the roll of his company he
was crossed off as detached because of disabil
ity, and while gone from his unit was as if he
never existed. Tn the hospital he was entered
as a patient, duly listed as to character of in
jury or disease from which his disability arose.
In either case his record was completely set
down, but the gap between them never was
bridged. When discharged from the hospital
as fit for duty, he might be returned to his for
mer unit, or sent to a casual camp, from whence
he would be caught up into service again, but
here occurs another hiatus. Not that these
men are entirely lost sight of, but the pay
master's records will carry something of an
account of their existence, but no other agency
appears to have anything to do with them. And
many a soldier has practically disappeared in
the hospital, not to be heard from again until
he shows up as discharged.
To be sure, the soldier himself is to blame
in some degree for not keeping his home folks
advised of his whereabouts and situation, but
all the responsibility should not be put on the
man who, sick and discouraged because of not
getting mail from home letters having been sect
back to the writers by some company clerk,
whose duty it was to see that they were de
livered, at the hospital failed to write home.
Parents and other relatives on this wonder why
they get no news from the boy, and bombard
Washington with inquiries, only to be told that
he was admitted to such and such a hospital
at such and such a time, and that no reason
is known why mail should not reach him.
No weaker spot in the system has developed
than this, and if ever the country does get into
another war, some way should be devised for
keeping closer track of mefK.who are detached
from their units on account of disability.
Carranza's Standing Abroad.
Withdrawal from Paris of Mexican dele
gates because of failure to obtain recognition
from either jEngland or France calls attention
to the position of the Mexican government be
fore the World. Carranza's flagrant intrigue
with Germany and his attitude towards foreign
ers generally have set his government in poor
light, which his present maneuver will not im
prove. His bombastic repudiation of the Mon
roe doctrine amounts to nothing. If that
doctrine is an embarrassment to the United
States at all, it is because of Mexico. Within
a very short time deferred claims will be pre
sented to the Carranza government on behalf
of Europeans who suffered in person and
pocket during the years of disorder down there,
and under the terms of the Monroe dojetrine
the United States will have to see that Mexico
makes settlement. It is not the possibility of.
Japan or any other country colonizing in that
country, but the fact that we are morally re
sponsible for Carranza that is making us
trouble, and his determination to continue his
affront of civilized governments is not helping
the situation.
Workers Against Bolshevism
If it takes as much fussing around to estab
lish peace after the treaty is signed as it did
to get down to business after the armistice took
effect, sixty days will not be long enough.
What good would come of laying another
cable to Japan? It would be seized by Mr.
Burleson immediately as a "war" measure.
Leslie. Weekly. .
We have seen no exposure of bolshevism
more scathingly accurate than that of a Boston
union labor leader. Peter W. Collins, former
president of the BoMon Central Federated un
ion and international secretary of the electrical
engineers, says that bolsheviki are not labor
men, and that bolshevism is "the biggest gold
brick ever offered to the unwary." He says
that class hatred is "artificially manufactured
by bolshevism," and that "the right kind of la
bor believes in working hand in hand with cap
ital." The illegitimate discontent of labor at the
present time he attributes to bolshevism. which
always fosters revolution, and he declares that
"the solid workingman opposes it." This is the
right sort of talk and what may be expected
from" any man who loves his country and its
institutions. '.
At a labor meeting held recently in Boone
county, West Virginia, resolutions were passed
attacking tne government and threatening the
state legislature. State Labor Commissioner
Samuel B. Montgomery took pains promptly to
repudiate this action, declaring that it was not
the action of any labor union, and that it is de
plored by laboring people throughout the state.
R. Toothill, labor member of the British Par
liament, states that much of the trouble between
workmen and employers is caused by suspicion
and that the one thing necessary is to bring
them closer together. This is precisely; what
many of the great corporations in this country
are trying to do and with no little success.
Walker H. Hines, director general of rail
roads, who has shown in his administration of
the railroads great practical knowledge of the
difficult problems confronting him, pointed out
to striking clerks of the Nashville, Chattanooga
& St. Louis railroad that the government had
provided adequate machinery to deal with all
cases of dispute and grievances, a provision
which they had disregarded. He reminded
them that unless discipline and authority were
recognized "the railroad business would become
chaotic, and the public, which in the last
analysis has to pay the bill, would resent the
resultant excessive cost and inefficient service,
and the reaction would be exceedingly unfavor
able to the employes themselves."
Mayor Dahnert of Garfield.! N. t., warned
the strikers of three big woolen mills, on the
reopening of the mills, that all willing to return
to work would be given full protection and safe
conduct to and from their places of employ
ment. This is in line with the" action of Mayor
Ole Hansen of Seattle. The man who wants to
work must be free to do so without intimidation,
just as those who don't want to work must be
protected.
A Paris dispatch says that the minister of
commerce has begun the formation of a Na
tional Federation of Employers to act as a coun
terpart .to the General Federation of Labor.
Employers will thus come to have a definite
and unified program just as employes now have.
A similar movement is on foot in this country.
The United Mine Workers of America have
declined to participate in a general strike on
July 4 in behalf of Thomas Mooney, convicted
in the San Francisco preparedness parade out
rage. The mine workers hold tllat participation
in such a strike would be in violation of the
fundamental laws governing the union, and
would abrogate the joint wage agreement to
which they are bound.
When labor keeps faith with itself and shows
respect for its contracts with employers, it wins
the support of public opinion, and secures the
moral backing of the public in every lawful ef
fort to maintain high wages and the American
living standard.
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Democratic View of Burleson
Possibly there are stations in which Albert
Sidney Burleson Avould be a conspicuous suc
cess, but the postmaster generalship is not one
of them. He has industry, ability1 of a sort
and determination, but above all else he is ac
complished in the gentle art of making enemies.
fhe review of Mr. Burleson's public career
appearing elsewhere in this issue of The World
is not more convincing as an indictment of his
temperament and practices than of the policy
that has kept him so long in office. He is the
colossal contradiction of the Wilson cabinet.
Being everlastingly at war with nearly every
body else, he is always at war with himself,
and he cannot help it.
A radical, he is also a reactionary; a demo
crat, he has no more favor in his own party than
among republicans; an intermediary between
capital and labor, he is disliked by both; a gov-ernment-ownershipper,
his control of the wires
has driven every other doctrinarie of state so
cialism to despair.
To exasperate when he would conciliate; to
be impolitic when he would be politically mas
terful; to disturb and distract when he would
be diplomatic, and to set everybody by the ears
when he is making, the most elaborate plans
to be ingratiating in all of these things we
have Burleson and Burlesonism.
It is Burleson who cannot go to the capitol
for any purpose without stampeding congress or
driving its members into stubborn silence. It
is Burleson who cannot attend a meeting of the
cabinet without awakening the wrath of his
associates. He 's worse than tactless. He has
a positive genius for that kind of dominance
which leads inevitably to contention. He is
irritable himself and he is the occasion of ir
ritability in others.
Some such men have been wise in council,
but this is not true of Burleson. His advice is
apt to be as bad as his manners, and some of
the most grievous errors of the present admin
istration are attributed to him. In particular,
he is said to have inspired the president's la
mentably partisan appeal last October for the
election of a democratic congress.
With the postal service disorganized, in
efficient and mutinous, Burleson's methods are
creating similar conditions as to telegraphs
and telephones; and yet, the facts all being
against him, business being against him, labor
being against him and his party being against
him. he remains the one eulogist of the present
system and stands alone in the administration
in urging its adoption as a permanent policy.
By common .consent, Burleson is held re
sponsible for much of the criticism, many of
the enemies and not a few of the difficulties
that Mr. Wilson has encountered. He has no
friend in public life except the president who
keeps him in place. What is the explanation
and what is the attraction? Better men, more
useful men and more adaptable men are dis
missed into private life every day. New York
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ITOMAV
The Day We Celebrate.
Edward G. Clay, district freight agent of
the Union Pacific railroad, born 1872.
Princess Mary, only daughter of their majes
ties of Great Britain and Ireland, born 22 years
ago.
Earl Grey, former secretary of state for for
eign affairs in the British government, born 57
years ago.
In Omaha Thirty Years Ago.
Benedicta Persson, mourned as lost on the
Danmark, which sank April 12 in mid-ocean,
was welcomed home by the Sidney Barkalow
family, where she has been nurse for more
than six years.
The Union Pacific and Burlington have
agreed upon plans for a $1,000,000 union depot,
provided the city will construct a viaduct
across the tracks at Tenth street.
General Purchasing Agent McKibben of the
Union Pacific left on a tour of inspection over
the entire system.
The cantata of birds at the First Presby
terian church under the direction of Mrs. War
ner L. Welch, was very, pleasing. Among the
"song-birds" were Misses Florence Muir, Ethel
Clarke, Maggie Meldrum, Jessie Houston, Mary
Crawford and Emma Allen,
Attorney General Palmer.
I T. "VVahoo, Neb. We did not
make a mistake In our reply of April
14 to your question regarding the
president's cabinet. You evidently
do not know that Thomas W.
Gregory resigned as attorney gen
eral, A. Mitchell Palmer being ap
pointed March 4, 1919, to succeed
him. Mr. Palmer was born tn
Pennsylvania in 1S72 and was edu
cated in his native state, graduating
from Swarthmore college. He was
a member of congress from 1909 to
1915, and was defeated for the
United States senate in 1914, and
later was made alien property cus
todian, which office he held when ap
pointed to the attorney generalship.
Opposed to League of Nations.
What United States senators have
been most active In opposing the
league of nations? Are they all
republicans?
Senator James A. Reed of Mis
souri, democrat; William E. Borah
of Idaho and Miles' Poindexter of
Washington, republicans, are most
conspicuous for their opposition to
the League of Nations as proposed.
Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachu
setts and Philander C. Knox of
Pennsylvania, republicans, have fre
quently been placed in a false light
regarding their stand on this sub
ject, as also the 39 republicans and
IS democrats who signed the
"round robin." Their objections
were specific and not general, in
cluding, particularly, proposals
which involved the Monroe doctrine.
Their proposals have been adopted
in the main, and along with them
has gone the opposition raised by
Senator Lodge and others of his
opinion.
Marconi's Birthday.
April 25 is the 45th birthday of
Siffnor Guclialmo Mamnnl uh v,o
accomplished such wonders with his
wireiess xeiegrapny. Slgnor Mar
coni is half Italian, half Irish, his
mother beino- an Irish
was born in Italy and educated at
juegnorn ana at tne university of
Bologna, where he made his first
experiments in wireless tnisranviv
when he was but 20 years old. The
success of his system proved rapid.
In 1896 he was nhla tn transmit maa-
sages across the mouth of the Severn
river, ana in another three years
the first wireless communication was
established between TCnvlnnri onri
France. Two years later messages
were sent over a distance of 2,100
miles, from Cornwall; to Newfound
land. Marconi wireless has long be
come a oommonplace of everyday
life, nnd most of the great shipping
companies, as well as th nvt nf
the world, now use the system.
OF INTEREST TO WOMEN.
Women school teachers in vir
tually every section of the United
States and Canada are agitating for
higher wages.
The number of women holding
elective state and county offices in
Kansas was increased to 200 in the
last election.
promised land settlement scheme
girls of the land army are to have
the same facilities to get small hold
ings as ex-soldiers. (
Under the British government's
Because of the soaring price of
butter the women's organizations of
Hamilton, Ont., are considering
starting a boycott against that com
modity and milk and cream as well.
Through popular subscription
there is soon to be erected in the
cemetery in Vancouver, B. C, a
suitable memorial to mark the grave
of Pauline Johnson, the celebrated
Indian poetess.
Unless the school girls of Spokane
voluntarily curb their propensity to
follow the extremes in the matter of
styles they may have to submit to
a system of compulsory uniform
dress.
Now that women are permitted to
sit as members in the Saskatchewan
legislature the newspaper women of
that province are demanding the
right of admission to the press
gallery as reporters.
Every town and village of Holland
Is preparing for popular fastivities
to be held on the last day of April
in celebration of the tenth birthday
of little Princess Juliana, the heir to
the Dutch throne.
Queen Victoria of Spain, as nearly
every one knows, was an English
princess, but what is not so generally
known is the fact that she was
born at Balmoral, and was the first
royal child born in Scotland for
300 years.
Having no prison of its own for
women offenders, the United States
government many years ago adopted
the practice of boarding them out
with various state institutions, pay
ing the state 65 cents a day for the
keep of a prisoner in good health
and $1 a day for those of tubercu
losis tendencies.
In many factories and business es
tablishments the experience of put
ting women in men's places during
the war demonstrated the fact that,
generally speaking, women workers
do not like to be "bossed" by women.
The manager of a large factory said
he had been obliged to put women
in place of certain chief foremen, but
the experiment had not proved suc
cessful. The girls, he said, did not
work as well as when there were
men in charge. In the same way,
the manager of a firm which em
ploys hundreds of girl clerks re
marked that he was glad the war
had taught him the value of women
workers, but his experince showed
that the latter worked better and
mote happily under men bosses than
under women.
DREAMLAND
ADVENTURE
By DADDY.
Th Myiterlou Knight challenged by
King Bird to meet the Knight of th
Poisoned Sword in knightly combat, 1
attacked by an elk.) '
Strange Things Happen.
PEGGY was eager to run to the
help of the mysterious knight
in his battle with Big Horn, the elk.
She knew, as the birds didn't, that
the knight was Billy Belgium, and
Eily, even though brave as a man,
was still only a boy. The elk towered
above him and was far the stronger of
the two. And while the elk's antlers
couldn't pierce Billy's armor, if he
could throw Billy to the ground he
might be able to crush him.
Still Peggy knew that in knightly
combat It would never do for a lady
to go to the aid of her champion. So
she sat tense and desperate, watching
the two as they thrashed about the
arena.
The elk tried hard to shake Billy
loose, but Billy wouldn't be shaken.
Though the elk jerked him off his
feet, and swung him into the air,
still he clung tight. Billy quickly saw
that he was no match in strength for
the elk, and that he would have to
use his wits, and use them quickly,
if he were to save himself before he
became exhausted. So he edged
closer and closer to a small tree at
the edge of the woods. When they
were almost upon it, he gave the elk
a sudden shove and let go the horns,
The elk, glad to be free, raised his
head and shook his antlers. Then he
lowered them again and charged at
Billy.
That was Just what Billy wanted,
for he leaped nimbly to one side and
tho elk smashed into the tree. Before
the elk - recovered from the shock,
Billy jumped behind the tree and
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When he bucked, the knight flew off
bis back.
grasped the antlers at either side.
Thus he hold the elk fust, but with
the trunk of the tree between them.
Much to Billy's surprise he found
It very easy to hold the elk in this
way. It wasn't until afterward, that
he learned than one of the prongs of
tho antlers had sunk deep into the
tree and had become stuck there.
Still the elk might have wrenched
the prong loose but for the tightness
of Billy's hold.
To Peggy and the birds It looked
like a mighty tug-of-war on the op
posite sides of the tree. When they
saw that the elk could not budge
they cheered and cheered for the
mysterious knight. The elk twisted
and jerked with all the strength of
his powerful body until it seemed as
if something had to give way.
And something did give way, but
not what Peggy, Billy and the birds
had expected. It was the antlers
themselves. The elk gave one partic
ularly vigorous twist and crack! the
antlers snapped oft his head.
Such a powerful Jerk had the elk
given, with his four feet all braced,
that he sat down with a solid bump.
But the elk wasn't particularly
astonished at losing his horns. He
was used to shedding his antlers
every spring and had really been
trying to get rid of them for several
weeks. What amazed him was the
Jar he got when he sat down.
Billy's brain worked fast. Letting
go the antlers, he sprang for his
sword, snatching it from the ground.
Armed with this he quietly advanced
on the elk.
But the eld, with his sharp weap
ons all gone, was not at 'all anxious
to meet Billy's sword. He turned tail
prepared to fly. Billy prodded him
with the tip of his sword, and with
a grunt, the elk gave a startled leap
that carried him into the forest. He
had had all the fighting he wanted
for that day.
"Hi yi! King Bird," shouted th
Mysterious Knight, "I have met and
conquered the Knight of the Poison
ed Sword!"
"Nay, that was not the Knight of
the Poisoned Sword," responded King
Bird. "Mount your gallant steed
quickly, for my champion is about to
put you to rout." ,
At this word the knight Jumped
upon his charger. All turned toward
the forest all except King Bird and
his followers. They lifted the pear
shaped lump of clay and flew with
it until they were over the Myster
ious Knight. Then they dropped It on
his head. The lump broke into plcees
and out of it appeared a small fuzzy
creature.
The knight," thinking that some
one was throwing things at him,
flashed indignantly around. Then,
quickly, he began to duck his head,
to dodge, and to wave his sword
frantically around his head. It was
as if he had suddenly gone crazy.
And In a moment his gallant steed
began to cut up queer antics. He
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Case for the Dog.
Edison, Neb., April 19 To the
Editor of The Bee: Please allow
me to thank you for the space given
us called the Letter Box in your ex-
qellent paper, and allow me to say
a few words through It In "Case
Against the Dog." I agree with L.
B. Reynolds that "the need of con
centration along this line is impera
tive," but for the dog. Instead of
against him I, too, can give in
stances of dogs in homes, one in my
childhood home, of a large yellow
dog. One day my little sister was
playing near our home and this dog,
with a savage howling yelp, darted
in front of her and engaged a very
large rattler in a battle which ended
fatally for Mr. Rattler. The dog
was bitten about the head and was
very sick but did not die. Do you
think the fresh milk and cream my
mother gave him in her endeavor
to save his life was wasted? This
same dog guarded my father's hogs
from coyotes, and my mother's chick
ens from coyotes and hawks. Each
night and morning thte dog went
by himself Into the pasture, often
out of sight in the Mils, and brought
the cattle in to be milked. Do you
ox
HERE AND THERE
During the war Red Cross workers
In America produced more than
250,000,000 surgical dressings.
Sugar cane, after the Juice has
been crushed from it, has been found
suitable for manufacturing Into
paper.
An officer with a great experience
of army horses says that roans are
he hardiest, the best-working, most
iven-tempered and, easiest to train.
Most nations of the world use
leather, in some form or other, for
Iheir footgear, the greatest excep
tion being the Japanese, who use
wooden clogs to a very large ex
tent. To "walk chalks" is an ordeal
sometimes used on board ship as a
test of drunkenness. Two parallel
lines are chalked for some distance
upon the deck, and if the supposed
either, he )s declared to be sober.
The eight-hour day has been es
tablished in several Dutch factories
during the past year. One of these
factories reports that the experiment
is successful, and that more work is
now being done than was done with
the former longer day. No adverse
reports have yet appeared.
During the seven months ended
January 31, 1919, the merchant
ships built in American yards and
officially numbered by the bureau of
navigation, Department of Com
merce, aggregated 1,149 of 1,996,859
gross tons, and in addition 48 wood
en vessels of 100,288 gross tons were
built for foreign flags, mainly
French.
LIFT OFF CORNS
WITH FINGERS
Doesn't hurt a bit and costs only
few cents
Magic! Just drop a little Freezone
on that touchy corn, instantly it
stops aching, then you lift the corn
off with the fingers. Truly 1 No
humbug! ,
Try Freezone ! Your druggist sells
a tiny bottle for a few cents, suffi
cient to rid your feet of every hard
corn, soft corn, or corn between the
toes, and calluses, without one par
ticle of pain, soreness or irritation.
Freezone is the discovery of a noted
Cincinnati genius. Adv.
think the food given him was
wasted?
I have kept dogs both in town
and country and it never cost any
where near. $36 to feed them. I
wonder if Mr. Reynolds and his
kind are fighting booze and tobacco
as fearlessly as he is fighting our
pets. I feel like it is time for this
old world to turn around and take
a look into the ojd fashioned home
where the dog was part of the fam
ily, and was not begrudged the scraps
and bones he ate. .
We have a small spotted dog, the
constant playmate of my little girl,
a playmate that is healthy, never
tells her filthy stories or teaches her
bad language, and one that is al
ways ready for a romp and never
hurts her.
I fully agree with anyone that
there are worthless dogs as well as
good ones and they should be killed,
but a tax will never rid the world
of them. Taxes will allow the well-to-do
to keep their dogs while poor
families or stingy, grasping fathers
will get rid of their children's play
mate, often their main source of
pleasure. It should disgust anyone
to see a man with a pipe or chew
of tobacco in his mouth prate about
cost of keeping a dog for his family
to enjoy and almost in the same
breath boast that his thrice loved
chewing or smoking costs from 10
cents to $1 each day. Give me the
man who loves horses and dogs and
I'll show you one who is kind to
his family. Just take notice, you
will see I am right.
As to the law side of the ques
tion, it is plain that it was put
through by the sheep men and the
damage they get paid for will be
done by coyotes almost every time.
We alt, know that there is very
little damage done by dogs and It is
In nearly every case settled by the
owher of the dog. Give us laws
against auto stealing and all two
legged thieves. LOIS STEWART.
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vain.
ave pianomaker
striven to build a piano
equal to tlic matchless
in its tone beauty and in
comparable resonance.
Tfie
jusfly famed Tension Reson
ator (exclusive because pat"
ented) make the Mason
fHamlin. alone of all pianos,
proof against deterioration
when properly cared for
! Crane? 050 up
Uprights 650uj
Other High Grade Pianos
are the Kranich & Bach, Vose &
Sons, Bush-Lane, Kimball, Bram
bach and Cable-Nelson Pianos.
New Pianos from $285 and better.
Cash or 24 months' time.
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"The Art and Music Store"
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Standing in the Seine, ,
There's a fine old .
Praw from on to two and o on t tli
end.
shook his head, he pranced, he
danced, he whirled about and he
bucked. AVhen he bucked, the knight
flew oft his back, landing on the
ground. The knight's sword went in
one direction and his helmet in an
other. With a bound, the knight
jumped to his feet and thrashed
about madly with his arms.
"Whee! Whee! I told you the
Knight of the Poisoned Sword was a
terror," exulted King Bird. "He will
get under your armor."
(In th next chapter will b told how
the table are turned on King Bird.) ,
beahbr. roar-checkad. ataady
Barred woman without iroa. WhB
th boa cm from toe Mood of
women, Im row go from tbeir
cbcaka tbair charm and attract
tranaadput. I always insist that
my patients take organic iron
Nuxated Iron (not metallic iron
which olten corrodes the stomach
and does more harm than good).
Nuxated Iron is easily assimi
lated, does not blacken nor in
jure the teeth nor upset the
stomach. It will increase the
strength and endurance of weak,
nervous, irritable, careworn,
haggard women in two weeks
time in many eases. I have
used it in my own practice
with most surprising results."
Ferdinand King, M.D., well known
New York Physician and medical
author. (Satisfaction guaranteed1
or money refunded On sale it all.
good druggists.)
Victory
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mend the Victory Liberty
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In addition to this, of
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for taking advantage of
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tions and bring our boys
safely home.
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10 on July IS, 1919.
20 on Aueu.it 12, 1919.
20 on September 9. 1919.
20 on October 7, 1919.
20 and accrued interest
on November 11, 1919.
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