THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, MAY 23, 1919.
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Iowa it tome celebrator, also.
The Turk proposes )b protest at Paris. All
right
t - You yet have time to plant a garden, if you
lave so far been discouraged by the weather. .
' Lenine and Trotzky say they are fooling the
Allies. Just as the ostrich fools its pursuers.
Going after the owners instead of the dogs
ought to bring action on the license question.
Will a single democratic vote from Ne
braska defeat suffrage again? Hardly, we think.
. It Paul Sutton's promotion and increase of
pay a recognition of valued services, or a vindication?
Sixty-six to 30 is now the count in favor of
suffrage in the senate. One of the 30 is from
Nebraska.
The ladies certainly have no reason to com
plain of the welcome they got at republican
headquarters.
Pershing may be called upon to go to Berlin
instead of London. He will make a fine appear
ance either place.
' Seven more days are given the Germans to
become accustomed to the fact that they no
longer are lords of creation.
The busy bolshevik! now propose to mo
bilize all men up to 40, this being the same out
fit that two years ago was "weary of fighting."
, - Nebraskans in the Eighty-ninth got a great
welcome when the huge Leviathan reached New
York, but just wait till they begin to cross the
Missouri river I ,
Kansas City is carrying on another house
cleaning, this time to rid the city of so-called
"clairvoyants." Omaha may begin to get ready
to receive the flying fakirs.
Luxury taxes are due for early extinction.
This will not make any particular difference to
Claude Kitchin, who had the fun of messing up
the revenue laws all he could.
' The Bee has carried on and won many a
battle for the right in Omaha, not only with
out help, but against the opposition of its con
temporaries. 'Its present experience is not at
all lingular. ., : ,'
The laborer's right to a decent living is the
first moral charge on industry," says the
Knights of Columbus convention. And it will
soon be recognized as the first economical
charge as well.
- The Omaha Chamber of Commerce is going
to add a "department of agriculture," thus giv
ing formal recognition to the chief industry of
the state. The farmers may come back by' say
ing 'We were here first." v
; Now we know how many days a bolshevik
will5 lay-off work during the year, the new
official Trotzky calendar containing 280 work
ing daya. On the other days, the proud Rus
sian proletarian will simply loaf. .
. Rev. Ernest V. Shaler ia to be doubly con
gratulated. In addition to being raised to the
bishroprie in the Episcopalian church, he is also
to be permitted to remove from Seattle to
Omaha. This is luck enough for one day.
, New York Methodists have gone on record
as favoring equitable wages over high rents and
exorbitant profits in other lines. This feeling is
'likely to spread in America, where posWar
profiteering is becoming decidedly unpopular.
Chinese students who sign a protest In their
own, blood are lineal descendants of the war
riors who sent "before them hideous images to
strike terror into the hearts of the foe. China
will never be free unless these learn to strike
the blows that break chains. ' .
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Nebraska building and loan men know just
where they stand on the proposed federal build
ing loan bank, and they did not mince words in
stating their views. The success of co-operative
building in this state will add weight to the
opinions of the men who made it a monument
to fair dealing and conservative mutual help
v fulness. " - 1
To Build Up Europe
- This country has a job of construction work
;' before it that will take up decades and yet not
' be finished. That is the job of building up
Europe, of repairing the wasted places of war.
When the word Europe is thus used it includes
the almost inconceivably ruined northern France
and Belgium. But it takes in vastly wider areas
than this. When all .else has been done Russia,
sobered and forward looking again, will be
turning to this country for the materials for its
newer existence and prosperity.
Even Germany is upon the list of nations to
be resuscitated by the United States. It. had
: come to be felt by the European allies that
Germany means more alive than dead, that a live
- and working - Germany can pay an indemnity,
- while a dead or stagnant Germany could not do
. so. For purely selfish reasons the allies are
looking to the United , States to provide the
.wherewithal for Germany's return to the world
; of action and enterprise.
The entire, world sits at the feet of the
. United States. This country, therefore, has a
task before it that will be immediately beyond
anything that could be put down on paper.
This means permanent employment for Amer
icans for years to come and a vast fields of
bnsuiess enterprise . the world- over for the
United States.
PEACE AND THE AMERICAN POLICY.
Henry ;. Morgenthau, addressing American
soldiers at Coblenr, warned them that perma
nent peace js not established in ' Europe, and
will not be by the League of Nations. Dr. B.
N. Tipple, speaking to a group of Omaha men
on Monday, said the same thing. These men
are intimately conversant with conditions in
eastern Europe and western Asia, having first
hand knowledge of matters Americans do not
understand. Their warnings are given seriously.
Neither is an alarmist, and both are devoted
to peace, to the establishment of concord among
nations as well as individuals. But they are too
sensible and conscientious to deliberately give
their; assent to propositions they know are in
correct. - '
It will be very good for the world if Amer
icans do not again return to the fool's paradise
from which they were driven by the rude
shock of war. The League of Nations is a long
step toward the ultimate establishment of gen
eral and durable peace. It is popular here be
cause Americans are traditionally devoted to its
purposes, for it embodies their ideals, symboliz
ing those things for which America stands be
fore the world as the type. All our history,
from the time Washington signed the Jay treaty
until now, is one unremitting endeavor to set
up international arbitration in place of war, to
bring about the adjustment of differences that
ordinarily cause war.
At present the abhorrence of war is stronger
than ever, so that in some minds it overshadows
the fact that the possibility of arped conflict
has not been banished, or even rernotely post
poned. We must not now forget the adjuration
passed along the line at Bunker Hill: "Put
your trust in God, but keep your powder dry."
Americans may show their disposition by en-y
tering a world combination looking to the per
petuation of peace, but they will also exhibit
their prudence by peeping themselves ready to
defend with utmost effect their liberties. Our
ideals will suffer none by adoption of a policy
that mingles common sense in due proportion
with our altruism.
Mr. Wilson and the Tariff.
Expressions from "wets" and "drys," en
thusiasm of suffragists, and the debates pro and
con on the peace pact still serve to detract pub
lic attention from the substantial quality of
the president's message to the congress. Un
derneath the issues that are more or less spe
cialized in their nature, and which were treated
by the president as such, are the fundamentals
of government. Sources of revenue, justice to
labor, and the protection of home industries are
the enduring things to be considered by con
gress. It is comforting to republicans, therefore, to
note that the president has swung away from
his free trade moorings far enough to spe
cifically recommend that a tariff wall be erected
between certain American industries and possi
ble German competition in the future. This
sign of progress is further exhibited in his plea
for the workers.
The prirde object of the republican policy of
protective tariff is to secure employment for
American workers in producing not only for
the home market, but a surplus to sell to the
world. Under it was set up the American
standard of living, higher than ever attained
elsewhere, and only possible when men are
made secure in steady employment at high
wages, these guaranteed against the unfair com
petition of goods made elsewhere under condi
tions that will not be tolerated in this land. The
president has knocked another big hole in the
doctrine of his party as expounded in its plat
forms, which declare a protective tariff to be
"robbery."
For Control of the Senate.
Something more than the vindication of
Henry Ford's character as a citizen is involved
in the libel suit now being tried at Mt. Clemens,
Mich. The action is really part of the
desperate effort now being made by the demo
crats to capture control of the United States
senate. This is proven by the revival of the
abandoned contest against Trumann H. New-'
berry, who was elected to be United States sen
ator from Michigan over Henry Ford "in 1918.
The New York World fairly gives the snap
away by its insinuation that Newberry's seat
was purchased. That eminent exponent of
democratic purity hypocritically inquires if the
senate can be bought. .
When the subcommittee of the senate's
committee on ejections and privileges was mak
ing a preliminary inquiry last winter, it discov
ered that a considerable part of the Ford rec
ords of the campaign had been destroyed. These
chiefly had to do with expenditures of money
on his behalf. Enough was disclosed, however,
to show that however passive the candidate
might have been, those who were interested in
perpetuating democratic control of the senate
did in his name many things that scarcely .will
support the World's innuendo against the
republicans. ... ,y
Mr) Ford is surely entitled to his day in
court; he is right in defending himself against
what he conceives to be an aspersion, and he
may, if he wishes, allow his friends to prosecute
a contest for a seat in the United States senate.
This will not, however, permit the halo that
shines around his head blind the eyes of the
public to the fact that he is just now being used
as a blind for the scheming politicians who are
laying plans to befool the people in 1920 as
they did in 1916, when a false issue determined
the election. j
Our Soldiers Are Men, Not Mendicants.
. An incident reported from New York is in
dicative of the spirit of the young American
soldier. On a street car a woman accosted a
soldier, and after learning that he was a mem
ber of the Rainbow division, volubly praised its
work in France, and finally tendered the man
a $20 bill, which was refused. She was very
likely actuated by good motives, just as have
been hundreds of others, who have uncon
sciously affronted the manhood of these boys.
American soldiers are not seeking "tips," nor
gratuities of any sort - They want what they
earned, opportunity to continue self-respecting
citizens, nothing more. The boy who wore the
uniform with honor in France respects it in
America. Give him a job, and he will look out
for himself. He asks neither adulation nor
adoration. His native manhood revolts at the
thought of trading on his glory. Plainly, our
soldiers are men and not mendicants, and there
is no room in this land for what Colonel Dona
van, who headed a sweet outfit of New York
fighting men, so neatly calls "lap dog pa
triotism. : .
The Budget System
From the . Washington Post
Republican leaders who will be in control of
the next congress have declared themselves in
favor of the adoption of the budget system in
the appropriation of public funds. This policy
was advocated by the United States Chamber
of Commerce at its meeting in St Louis, and
congressional leaders have promptly fallen into
line. Mr. Gillett, who is slated to be speaker
of the next house, has announced that he will
work to -secure this reform.
'In view of the fact that the budget, system
has been so frequently brought to the front in
the past 20 years and each time has been re
jected, a measure of skepticism now is but nat
ural. Presidents have urged it upon congress
and party leaders have vehemently demanded
it in the public interest, but the old system
has remained. The reason is that the adoption
of the budget system would compel a number
of important committees of the house of repre
sentatives to surrender their prerogative of
framing big appropriation bills and thus would
materially lessen their influence in legislation.
This involves sacrifices which the statesmen
have not been willing to make in the cause of
reform, and so the old order has held.
So it is certain that the budget system some
time will be adopted by the American congress,
and perhaps this is the time for it to happen.
If this should prove to be the, case, it would
be a fortunate thing for the people, since it ob
viously is in the public interest that the appro
priations should be made, up by one committee
instead of by several, thus removing the possi
bility of duplication and the likelihood of ex
travagance. Representative Good of Iowa has prepared
a bill which he will introduce early in the next
session, which contains the following salient
features:
Creation of a separate bureau of estimate
with a director personally responsible to the
president, whose duty it will be to examine
and pass upon the merit and urgency of ap
propriations requested by the several depart
ments and bureaus of the government:
Presentation of all departmental estimates
to -congress by the president instead of the
secretary of the treasury with the president's
express approval of the same.
Creation of an auditing organization re
sponsible to the several appropriating com
mittees of congress, whose function it shall
be to supply congress with accurate informa
tion at all times regarding expenditure of
funds appropriated and available balances in
the accounts of the several departments.
These provisions seem to constitute a step
toward a more businesslike administration of the
public finances, and if enacted into law no doubt
would prove beneficitl. But they contemplate
several appropriating committees, as at present,
and not the concentration of this function in
one committee. The change would still permit
'the various committees which now frame appro
priation bills and convoy them through the
house to continue as before, whereas the budget
system, if adopted, would make all such bills
subject to the jurisdiction of a single committee.
It seems that in this way the best results would
be obtained.
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On Making Teeth Good Servants
Between the doctors and the dentists the
teeth of the people appear to be having a hard
time of it. This is a layman's conclusion drawn
from what'members of the two professions had
to say to and against one another at a meeting
in Chicago.
The dentists indicted the doctors for making
too many erroneous diagnoses of the ills of the
flesh in which the teeth were held to be the
chief inciters of trouble. The doctors said the
dentists were too ready with their forceps in
yanking out molars, cuspids, bicuspids and in
cisors, and the dentists retorted that they acted
for the most part on orders brought to them
by patients from doctors. ,
The inference from all this appears to be
that doctors have considerable to learn about
teeth that they ought to know and that dentists
are not as well up as they should be on general
physical ailments.
"When doctors disagree, who shall decide?"
On one thing both professions unfte that
good, sound teeth are a vitally important part of
the human anatomy. They put it up to the
owner and operator of teeth to take good care
of his masticators, and they hold out the prom
ise to him that if he will do that much for him
self he will spare himself much discomfort, save
money and time, and carry a very good line of
insurance on his general health.
This Chicago controversy is merely one more
admonition to boys and girls to begin nurturing
their teeth in childhood, keep it up through the
school period, and not forsake the excellent,
cleanly habit when they are grown to full
stature. The habit pays big in more ways than
one. Minneapolis Tribune.
RedCross in Permanent Service
The desire of all governments to utilize in the
future all those extraordinary phases of war ac
tivities that, brought great personalities and.
great expertness into the services is making it
self felt in many admirable forms, but few have
so much to recommend them as the plan to con
tinue Red Cross work in scientific co-operation
to prevent disease and relieve humanity through
an international organization. This central or
ganization, as planned, will co-operate with all
the health departments of the world, and will
put at the service of the world all the facts and
information that it may gather that will pro
mote the physical and mental welfare of all peo
ples. The idea also to add what might be called
an intensive application of welfare ideas to the
work of such a central bureau is also one from
which only the greatest good can flow. As
thus organized for peace, the Red Cross would
enter upon a new career of usefulness. Such
an ambitious scheme is not only the logical de
velopment of what the Red Cross has done dur
ng the war, but it is practical, which is only
another way of saying that the universal serv
ce of the Red Cross has infinite possibilities,
ind its wartime experiences must not be lost to
the world. Philadelphia Ledger.
New York, May 22. On the clos
ing day of this month the literary
world will pay homage to ithe
memory of Walt Whitman, on; the
occasion of the 100th anniversary
of the birth of "The Good Gray
Poet." The occasion is to be marked
by anniversary exercises in the pub
lic schools and special meetings of
literary societies in all parts of the
country.
A special feature of the centennial
is to be a pilgrimage to the old Whit
man homestead at West Hills, I I.,
where the poet first saw the light on
May 81, 1819. The poet's father,
grandfather and great-grandfather
were born in the same house. The
early Whitmans owned a vast estate,
with hundreds of slaves, and were
noted for their hospitality and fine
style of living.
But time had dealt hardly with
the Whitmans, and in order to add
to the support of his family, Waifs
father had learned the carpenter's
trade. On his mother's side of the
family, nearly all the people were
sailors. i
la Walt Whitman's early life there
were no indications that the boy
and youth might one day become a
poet. He found it a tax to read
Tennyson and he was never able to
read Bronning. ,
In infancy he removed with his
parents to Brooklyn, where he at
tended the common schools until his
apprenticeship to th e Long Island
Star at the aee of 12. In 1838 h
hfounded a weekly paper in the town
oi nunungion, u. i wnicn ne him
self printed for about a year. He
subsequently taught school in the
summer and in the winter found em
ployment at the printing trade. For
two years he held a position as edi
tor of one of the Brooklyn news
papers. Then, about 1848, he was
seized with the "wanderlust," which
in succeeding years was to take him
over a large ipart of the United
States and Canada. The early '50s
found him back again in Brooklyn,
this time as the proprietor of a
small book store and printing shop.
Later he engaged in carpentering
and building, but always spending his
spare time in scribbling verses which
found occasional publication.
Whitman made his struggle as a
poet with his "Leaves of Grass,"
which he himself assisted in setting
up and printing and which was pub
lished in 1855. His work received
favorable criticism from Ralph
Waldo Emerson, and soon the first
edition was exhausted and others
were run oft the press. A wide di
versity of opinion was immediately
created, and. the poet became an ob
ject of ridicule and of praise, both
in Europe and in America. The so
called "Whitman cult" had its origin
at this time and acquired an ever
widening coterie. Year by year
there has been a gradual change and
broadening of view in regard to the
"Leaves of Grass" that has finally
given the author a place for high
thought and poetic insight into life.
During the civil war Walt Whit
man devoted his days and nights to
the sick and dying in the army hos
pitals. He gave his services, and to
support himself wrote for the New
York newspapers. He had only odd
hours for this, hours that were sadly
needed for rest. When he held a
position in the office of the attorney
general at Washington, following the
close of the war, he sent half his sal
ary to his mother, and much of the
other half went to old soldiers still
sick and unfortunate. While hold
ing this office the poet was stricken
with paralysis due to Jiis labors in
the hospitals and his lack of proper
care and rest for himself. While he
partljf recovered, he was never again
a really well man. He passed away
at his home iri Camden, N. J., March
26, 1892. When the news of his
death was told, there was mourning
all over the country in homes
where his name was held in tender
memory.
Throughout his life the poet spoke
fearless words for liberty; for men
and women in their life struggles;
for mothers and motherhood; for
fathers, and for little children.
MUCH IN LITTLE.
I I OUAV
The Day We Celebrate.
'William H. Clark of the Nonpareil Laundry
company, born 1870. .
. Selskar M. Gunn of Boston, who has been
a knight of the Legion of Honor for his anti
tuberculosis work in France, born in Lo.ndon
36 years ago. L .
Sir Valentine Chirol, for many years "direc
tor of the foreign department of the London
Times, born 67 years ago.
Rev. John W. Cavanaugh, the retiring pres
ident of . the University of Notre Dame, born
at Leetonia, O., 49 years ago.
, Douglas Fairbanks, motion picture actor,
born in Denver 36 years ago.
Edwin Y. Webb, representative in congress
of the Ninth North Carolina district, born at
Shelby, N. C, 47 years ago.
"Maj. Gen. -Erasmus M. Weaver, U. S. A.,
retired, former chief of coast artillery, born at
Lafayette, Ind., 65 years ago.
Thirty Years Ago in Omaha." . ' '
Alfred E. Blaufuss was commissioned notary
public by the governor.
About 200 people witnessed the athletic en
tertainment given by members of the y. M- C
A. at the Grand opera' house.
Tangier lodge, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine,
was instituted at Masonic hall. Three hun
dred visiting Knights attended. Col. H. C.
Aiken, C N. Dietz, Tj K. Sudborough and J. N.
Westberg formed the local committee.
W. W. Cole was granted permit to build a
two-story frame residence at Thirty-fifth ' and
Half Howard, costing $4,000.
Several lighthouses on. French
coasts have been equipped with
lenses that enable their lights to be
seen 50 miles.
Traction people in Philadelphia
expect to cut a juicy melon some
time this year as a result of the
money saved by the mild winter
weather. Similar savings have been
made throughout the country, and
shareholders elsewhere have Phila
delphia to thank for mapping one
lource of welcome dividends.
Jamaica has suffered from three
hurricanes in three successive years,
as a result of which its banana fields
were completely destroyed and great
damage done to cocoanut and' other
plantations. The loss from the 1917
hurricane was greater than was at
first apparent, and a large number
of trees, damaged by the storm, have
subsequently fallen victims to para
sitio diseases or decayed from, bud
rot.
Although Cuba Is not a large pro
ducer of alcohol at present, there
is an opportunity to make this one
of the leading industries of the is
land because of the. large produc
tion of sugar. From the manufac
ture of a ton of sugar 40 gallons of
molasses, or miel, result; from the
latter, 18 gallons of alcohol of the
first quality can be produced. The
estimated production of sugar in
Cuba for the season is about 4,000,
000 tons.
DAILY CARTOONETTE
Bahunct , while you are
Away vuscriNq. your
Mother - r q-o to
BEH EARLY EVERY MlCfHT.'
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DREAMLAND
ADVENTURE
By DADDY.
(Billy and Perry aid Harold, th boy
tramp-detective to capture a fu( of rob
bora.) 1 CHAPTER V.
The Moving Fort.
"V OTJ gro up stream and I'll go
down," whispered Billy to
Harold. "Peggy, you guard the cen
ter." The boys rushed away, and Just
In time, for the tramps were nearing
the shore.
Billy, reaching the point where
Hound Robert was wading toward
the ba-;k, began to bark like Johnny
Bull and to shake the bushes, keep
ing out of sight himself. Up above
Harold did the same thing. ' In the
center Johnny Bull did hia own
barking. The tramps paused in sur
prise. "Whoops! There's a whole pack of
dogs on shore!" yelled Slim Jim.
"Don't be afraid. We can beat 'em
off with rocks. Charge!" shouted
Blinky. With that the tramps made
a rush forward, hurlln? stones as
they came. Swish! Splash! Smack!.
stones came nying DacK at tnem as
Billy, Harold and Peggy got into ac
tion. The tramps dodged and ducked,
but they didn't "have the advantage
of the trees and bushes to protect
them, and so they got banged hard
before they beat a quick retreat into
the deeper water.
"Victory!" laughed Billy, joining
Peggy and Harold.
"Yes, but I wish that sheriff would
hurry up," said Harold anxiously
"These are desperate chaps who
have been in gun fights. Rocks and a
"Ha! It's the Plunder Stolen from
the Chase bank," shouted the Sheriff
dog can't keep them out in the river
all day."
"Ur-r-r-r-rgh! I'll eat 'em up If
they put a foot on shore," growled
Johpny Bull, but Peggy and Billy
felt that Harold spoke the truth, i
Now the tramps in the river set
up a shout They had found some
thing in the water. They pulled and
they tugged until they brought it to
the surface. It was a la-inch top
lost by some small craft that had
been wrecked in the river. Attached
to it were poles, which the tramps
quickly tore loose to use as clubs.
Then, with the launch top held be
fore them, like a moving fort, they
advanced toward the shore.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!" went the
rocks against the top as Billy,
Harold and Peggy threw with all
their strength. But the stones fell
harmlessly into the water, and the
tramps laughed.
"Woof! Woof! Woof!" "barked
Johnny Bull, leaping to the water's
edge and baring his teeth. But the
tramps only waved their clubs and
laughed the louder. Protected by the
launch top they were afraid of
neither stones hor dog.
"Run! Run! You'd better run!"
croaked the warning voice of Bull
Frog.
"Run, before they see us," echoed
Harold. The children turned to obey,
only to meet with a surprise. There
were the sheriff and his men, ready
and waiting for the tramps to reach
shore.
The sheriff grinned at the sur
prise of the children, and motioned
them to hide behind trees.
On came the tramps behind their
wall. Johnny Bull growled and
snarled, but wisely backed out of
reach among the bushes.
The tramps, following him, walked
right into a trap. Suddenly they
were grabbed, and quicker than a
wink they were the prisoners of the
sheriff's force.
"You have no right to touch us.
We haven't done anything!" cried
Blinky. as the tramps were hustled
into their clothes.
"Dig under the camp Are," cried
Harold, the tramp boy detective,
from behind his tree. Two of the
Sheriff's men pushed the fire away
and dug up the ground. In the cool
earth below they came upon a tin
box. When this tin box was opened
it was found to be filled with money
and Liberty bonds.
"Ha! It's the plunder stolen from
the Chase bank!" shouted the sher
iff. With that he and his men hust
led the tramps away to the waiting
automobile. Harold, the boy tramp
detective, went along with them.
"Thank you for helping me!" he
DAILY DOT PUZZLE
New ' Incorporations.
Marsland, Neb., May 19. To the
Editor of The Bee: I would like to
ask a few questions through The
Bee. I saw in The Bee May 16,
1919, that a new $4,000,000 potash
company was organized at Lincoln,
of Lincoln men, to do business in
the state of Nebraska, but organized
or incorporated under the laws of
Delaware. And why? The Doug
lass Motors company is doing busi
ness in Omaha and incorporated un
der the state laws of South Dakota.
And why? There must be some
thing wrong here with our state
laws, or is it the blue sky laws. But
they are like the liquor laws, still
asleep.
And why has Omaha Just com
menced to float so many stock com
panies? It has a motors company,
two rubber companies, drug, com
pany, cattle company, land com
pany, il company, a Bust Develop
ing company, and the Lord only'
knows what will come next. Some
times I think they may see good
picking as long as the government
bonds last These companies are
all headed by honorable business
men, but why all come at once or
nearly so? JOHN L. KAY.
Brutal Deed Denounced.
Oxford, Neb., May 20. To the
Editor of The Bee: A I happened
through the town of Oxford I saw
a very cruel act. A man (brute)
whose vocation in life Is supposed to
be the constable of Oxford, trying to
beat a dpg to death with a club
about the size of a broom stick. The
little dog did not die of this treat
ment at first. The brute walked
over to a restaurant, across from
where he had done this cruel, act,
and sat down, until some voices
reached his ear crying for him to
come and shoot or kill the poor lit
tle animal and put it out of torment.
but the bruite only came across and
beat this poor animal again, but
it did not die for a half an hour
afterward.
This all happened across from the
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy rail
road station, where there was a large
gathering to see what this brute
was up to. A young man stepped
up to the brute and asked him kind
ly if he would not kill the dog in
stantly and not let him suffer, but
the brute only answered: "I'll put
you in Jail if you don t mind your
own business." i .
Hoping that some humane society
will look into this and see if they
cannot get a man to act as con
stable, A. TRAVELER.
THE HERO.
Her soul, a one that kneel by nlrbt,
Is only riven to thankful prayer,
But all her ways of life are light
With the proud radiance of her air.
The man that she divined before
Is now by half the world confessed.
And for a sign her eyes adore
The sliver rose upon hia breast.
Hi Up make answer, but hi mind
I seared with unforgotten scenes;
He laughs not, lest he hear behind
The chattering of Death's machine.
For his own act his deed he knows
And loves his battle t.onor well.
Yet yes that he might wear the ros
A greater captain failed and fell.
HENRY NEWBOLT In tha London Outlook.
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shouted to Peggy and Billy. "I'll give
you a splendid dinner in return for
the one I took as the boy tramp,
and I'll have a big beefsteak for
Johnny Bull."
"Woof! Woof! I like beefsteak
better than tramp steak," barked
Johnny Bull as the auto chugged out
of sight
(Next week will b told th itory of
how Peggy and Billy and th Bronx Giant
help to bring fortune to a poor widow.) .
oci would not.
' course, lcnotxrirvalv
buy a piano whose
tone would gradually
deteriorate, even dtr'
the best or care.
Tnvesticjate
carefully, and you
will iTnd that tne
Ulipimlinnlnr
alone of all oianos
has a tone and reso
nance which
improve with. age.
N o wonder
it is highest praised as
well as highest priced.
sJcus o siour vou whv-
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There Are Others
BEST PIANOS
Kranich & Bach
Vose & Sons
Brambach
Kimball
Bush & Lane
Cable-Nelson
and Hospe Pianos.
Grands and Uprights at Prices
From $285 and Better.
Cash Prices and Terms If You
Prefer.
!ieaPl?!i? L
1513 Douglas Street.
The New Player Roll Rooms Now
Oa Main Floor.
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Service Standards
Capital and
Surplus
$2,000,000
4 -5
There are few surer and
better ways of measuring a bank's
ability to render helpful service than
by its growth and success.
The present position of this
institution in Omaha and the west
proves that its service standards and ,
attainments are unusually high.
The Omaha
National Bank
laniun t Seventeenth'