THE BEE : OMAHA, ' SATURDAY, JULY 'S, 1919. -The Omaha' Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSE WATER VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR v THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. PROPRIETOR MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS - Tk Asaodsted Prase of whlca Ths B to SMmbar. U -luilnl; mulled to the um for puMlcttloo ol all ntm dispatches ersdlted ts It or ml otherwise mdlud In thti paper, and alio toe local nws published herein. All right of puMleatloii of ow sps clal dispatches an alio i nan ad. " BEE TELEPHONES i FTtrato Branch Ixejiann. Aak for tha TPvl 1 000 Department or Particular Parson Want! J Ivl A VW For Nlfht or Sunday Service Call) PAHsrlal Department ..... Trlrr ISOOL. tlrculnuoa Depart muit ..... T1 1008L. IdrarUstaa Department ..... Tiler 10081. " OFFICES OF THE BEE: Horn Office. Bat Building, 17th and Fsmsa. Branca urnces: sous 4110 North U Sentoa 6114 Military Are. JouaoU Bluff 1 N. Matn to M16 North th Park South Sid Vlntoo Walnut Ssw York City ihleaio Out-of-Town OfflCeSt 1M Fifth Ara. I Washington Setter Bldf. I Unoolo MIS Le? worth. WIS N Btreet. J46T South 14th lit North 40th. 1S11 O Strati 1M0 H Street. APRIL CIRCULATION Daily 65, 830 Sunday 63,444 Ararat elrenlatloa for th month a. It, sunn, circulation atanetar. subscribed and sworn to by Subscribers Imvlnff tha city thould hava Tha Baa ma i lad to than. Addraa changed at often requested. You should know that There are 75,000 farms within 50 ( miles of Omaha which average in value $10,000 apiece. Did you guess the winner? Omaha had a really sane Fourth, and feels good this morning, thank you. The irrespressible Mexicans persist in play ing with matches around the powder house. Manitoba is given power to grant divorces, but that will not put much of a crimp into Reno. Toledo will not worry about the headache until the cash is all counted and a balance struck. With a seaplane in active operation here abouts, all Omaha needs now is a submarine and it will be a real seaport. Uncle Sam's boys are showing the Allies that they are some punkins on the athletic as well as on the battle field. Atlantic City prices for strong drink ought to be sufficient to enforce the dry laws, without ( aid from the federal authorities. Herr Hphenzollern is promised at lea.st one more visit to London, this time for the purpose of saying, "Good morning, judge!" Heroes could face the bullets in France, but shy at meeting "crowds in America, deserve all the more the recognition given them. The telegraph companies will have to invent a new excuse for delay or nondelivery of mes sages, now that the strike has collapsed. A Connecticut juvenile court judge has ad . vised spanking as a corrective measure, but the , difficulty is to get parents to assume this respon . dibility. Vilhjamur Steffansson finds the .- of New York "vitiating and enervating," but one does not need to be an Arctic explorer to, experience that feeling on Manhattan island. p Pershing proposes that the American force j in Germany be cut down to 6,000" if the peace t,- treaty is observed. Amend this to bring the i " boys all home as soon as possible. Any part of the future that depends on wheat is now assured. Nebraska 'and Kansas have produced enough to feed the country, and the rest of the states can take care of the world. v Governor Allen failed to get help from the government ' In harvesting the Kansas wheat crop, but he did get the secretary of war and the secretary of the navy on record. Twenty-two powers are expected to unite in asking the extradition of Wilhelm the Worst, who looks to Holland for protection. His chances are getting slimmer all the time. Turkey's case is "unfinished business" at Paris, where the powers are unable to agree on conditions for the "unspeakable." May we not express the hope that no more Berlin or Vienna experiments be tried? The Illinois man who wants to lay. a special tax on prohibitionists ought to be careful how he monkeys with that phase of the proposition. If he gets the drys waked up to its possibilities, he may get another proof of the power of "brutal majorities." . Uncle. Sam's vigilance against bomb throw ers should not be relaxed, just because the Fourth has passed. Any day is good to over haul an anarchist. Every ship returning to Europe should carry its quota of "reds" till the country is ridded of them. Railroads and Harvest A . The demand which Governor Allen is mak ing upon the railroad administration for rates for harvest hands to the Kansas wheat fields does not. appear unreasonable. Under private control the roads have granted the rates in for- . iner 'years, and Kansas has received help from as far east as Pittsburgh and from Cleveland. The excuse offered by Walker D. Hines for the administration, that if the rate is granted to Kansas other states will demand rates for " men who work in the different industries of vital importance, does not present any serious prob lem. If the demand for labor in any vital in- ' dustry is as important as the Kansas wheat sit uation, there should be no hesitancy on the part of, the railroads to co-operate in getting the labor to the place of demand. The suggestion made? by Mr. Hines that the Kansas farmers are prosperous and should pay wages that will attract men from all sections of " the country is gratuitous advice from Mr. Hines. No complaint is made of the wages. From four to five dollars a day for harvest hands is regarded as very attractive. But the period of harvest labor is so short that it would be impossible to pay wages' that would justify . harvest hands from Ohio and Pennsylvania pay ing full fare on the railroads at present rates, anyway for the two or three weeks' work in - the harvest fields. The position taken by Mr. Hines has not added to the popularity of the railroad admin- istration by the government. Possibly it was apt intended that it thould. Kansas City Star. , THE CASE FOR THE CODE LAW. With the understanding that an extra session of the Nebraska legislature is to be convened shortly to ratify the federal suffrage amend ment. Governor McKelvie has to decide whether he shall include in the call the amendment and re-enactment of the administrative code law with an emergency clause that will put it into immediate operation. ' The administrative code is part of the party program upon which the governor was voted into 'office together with a legislature over whelmingly republican in both houses, and the measure itself is the laborious work of careful adaptation of this system to the needs of Ne braska by special committees of each house. Had it been enacted originally with the emer gency clause there would have been'no objec tion or complaint, but the operation of the law is now threatened by a referendum invoked by democratic agencies through hired 'autograph collectors securing signatures to a petition to defeat it. Re-enactment with the emergency clause would, of course, be followed by a cry from the democrats that such action is a nullifi cation of the right of the people to a referen dum, when in fact the proposed referendum is a nullification of the vote already taken by the people at the time they elected the republican governor and legislature and the referendum can still be taken only by way of repeal rather than of suspension. If the administrative code system after a fair trial has made good, the people will want to continue it. If it does not meet expectation, it can be repealed either by direct vote or by action of the next legislature. The real ques tion therefore, is whether the code law will stand on its merits as a piece of constructive legislation, whether it really marks an advanced step for efficient and economical state govern ment as compared with the present administra tion through the multiplicity of boards and commissioners, which all agree is cumbersome, costly and inefficient. 1 , China's Case Before the World. Another weak feature of the Paris peace treaty is that which sets up justification for the retention of the Shantung peninsula by Japan because it was taken from Germany and not from China. That Germany took the land from China twenty-one years ago, even under pre tense of a concession is scarcely a sustainable reason why it should not be returned to its na tionality. A peace treaty that orders the return to its rightful owners of the venerated skull of a dead and gone chief of an African tribe surely might without violence take cognizance of the fact that a rich bit of territory properly belong ing to China is now held by Japan under pretext of having seized it from Germany. If the German title were indefeasible, the action of the peace conference in allowing the Nipponese to hold Shantung may be defended. China, however, contends that the concession made to the Germans was under duress, at a time when the spoliation of the weak and decay ing empire was exciting European powers, and asks the restoration of the territory to its original sovereignty. Confirming Japan in its pretentions to succession to German rights in the rich mineral deposits of the peninsula con-r trasts strangely with the professions of the "big four," as to the establishment of justice for weak as well as strong nations. That it holds the germ of a future war be tween China and Japan is clear, and that genuine statesmanship will be required to avert that war is as plain. The Chinese are in no sense satisfied with the Paris decision. Just a Matter of Business. We are not especially concerned as to whether the so-called championship of the world in the realm of heavyweight prize fighting changed hands at Toledo. Whatever of admira tion may exist for the physical prowess of the mighty Willard, or the splendid forces of the agile Dempsey, is swallowed up in contempla tion of the business acumen of the men who promoted the affair. Gauging the mood of the American people with such accuracy as almost amount to prescience, these entrepreneurs have in their own parlance "stood the public on its head." They (seized the opportune moment, diverted attention from the more serious aspects of na tional existence, and centered an unduly large share of notice on the movements of a pair of pugilists. This was but preliminary to and in a measure a screen for the operations of the business end of the game. Once the great athlete was admired by all and envied by many. He was an example of the possibility'of physical and mental development and co-ordination. On his mind as well as his muscles depended his pre-eminence in his es pecial line of endeavor, and the all-around man was a source of inspiration because of his vigor. Am6ng savage and semi-civilized people he was chief, and the highly cultivated paid him tribute of respect because of his beauty and grace as well as his ability. Not so these days. The professional athlete is first of all a business man. His real triumph is found in the box office, his trophies take the form of cash in hand, and his glory is invested in lands and stocks. His leadership may pass, but the usufruct of his endeavor is substantial and enduring. Even should he, as many of the ilk have done, dissipate his gains foolishly, it remains true that it was not the sporting instinct nor the joy of winning that led him to the top, Nbut the sordid longing for the hard cash. "May the best man winl" is a mockery now, because the outcome is really determined by the money taken at the door. Nebraskans will follow Silas A. Holcomb to his new home with all hopes that in the change of climate he will find better health and relief from his physical ills. The people he served so long and in so many capacities have not lost their interest in him because of his en forced retirement. The downfall of the former head of the Ne braska Anti-Saloon league may be due to a frame-up, or to a constitutional inability to tell near-beer from the real thing, but it is not edi fying in any regard. Omaha loan and building associations make such a showing of vigorous health and activity as must convince the world of their soundness and of the enterprise of their management. Japan now sets up a plea that China slipped the double-cross to the land of the Rising Sun. That is nothing to what the Celestials have in store for their little brown bosses. Trial for Murderers of frliss Cavell J. P. Collins in Boston Transcript. For 20 years Maitre do Leval was legal ad vocate of the British legation in Brussels, and after the war began he got an appointment in a similar capacity to the American minister, Brand Whitlock. greatest of Miss Cavell's cham pions and friends. The Maitre said Miss Cavell had done more for the war by her death than many generals had done in living. When she was warned of what she must expect if she were caught in the act of helping prisoners to get away home, her reply was simply, 1 know, but I must go on, and on the work went. After Mons and Charleroi, great numbers of allied fugitives had to be collected in all sorts of dark and obscure places, and Belgian farmers found harboring any of these were shot with the captives themselves. But nobody ever con ceived of women being shot for any such act of mercy. Maitre de Leval made it clear, at any rate, that she was only one of a group concerned in the noble work of obtaining life and liberty for brave men who had risked their lives for the liberty of others, and he showed moreover what a clever plan was improvised by the patriotic Pfince de Croy and his sister for succoring these men. I hey brought them to their chateau, or somewhere near it, had them photographed, gave them Flemish names, taught them the ru diments of thejanguage, prepared false identity papers for them and even located their birth in places which never existed. When the majority of this devoted group were arrested and they were betrayed by a man said to be a Pole the Prince de Croy was one of the few who escaped, and it was gener ally believed that the women would survive. Most of them did, but one of them was doomed from the first and knew it. Nurse Cavell had o one near her to tell her what to say. She cVvned to saving these men's lives, 200 in all, and openly said it was her work and her duty in life. If she had handed these countrymen of hers over to the Germans, she said simply, they would have been shot. When remonstrance was made to the Ger mans through American authorities, the reply was given that there was no need for M. Leval to see her; besides, no political prisoner could be seen by anyone 'till sentence was passed, and in any case, being a Belgian, M. de Leval could not plead in a German court. When another man was obtained, M. Sadi Kirschen, he was told the case was not very grave. It is' clear now that a game had started to put her friends off and give the machinery of murder plenty of time to go forward. As a rule, even in German law, the public prosecutor in military courts was a man versed in the procedure and innocent of bias; but in this case a man named Stoebef was employed, whose son had been killed on the English front, and he seems to have left no stone unturned to be revenged. He was an elegant, cynical, incompetent, un scrupulous ruffian, fashionably dressed, with a waxed mustache, and he set himself to bully Nurse Cavell in the most horrible way. He treated her like a slave and told her she lied; he bullied her advocate for using a word which was not German, and made the whole defense a mockery. There was no capital offense to be proved against her, for she was only an accomplice in helping soldiers into neutral territory, Holland. Moreover, she never guided "enemy" troops into enemy lands, as was alleged in order to bring her into the toils. As a matter of fact, a law was enacted only after her death to give warrant for her sen tence. She herself was in no doubt at any time as to her fate. "I am English," she said, "and they want my life." Fearing the worst possibility, her few friends prepared a petition for her addressed to the governor, Von Bissing,, and his creature, Von Lancken. When they asked for Von Lancken (having heard the worst) he was at a frivolous play and sent word they must wait till the play was over. Then he grumbled at being disturbed at that time of night, though it was her last night alive. First he denied the death sen tence, but later admitted it, saying he could only be a messenger, and not even the kaiser could release her then. She was bound to a chain and fired at by 12 soldiers, but these are held blameless. They simply carried out orders. The men to answer for it all are the kaiser, Stoeber, Von Bissing and Von Sauberzweig, and it looks as if we are to have all four at the bar. Friend of the Soldier Replies will be given in this column to questions relating to the soldier and his prob lems, in and out of the army. Names will not be printed. Ask The Bee to Answer. A Just Judge Magistrate Geismar at Coney Island has fought a valiant rear-guard action in the lost battle for personal liberty. A woman was brought into his court, charged with the hein ous offense of wearing a bathing suit on the street but under a complete and decorous equipment of street clothing. Her culpability was discovered by a vigilant policeman who de tected the bathing suit, and who arrested the woman's husband for objecting to his methods. Now the magistrate holds that the right of the citizen to self-determination in undergarments should be inviolate, so long as outer garments meet the demands of propriety; that wearing a bathing suit is a crime only in some circum stances, and that the police are not entitled to go about disrobing citizens to find out if they are wearing anything offensive to the official moral sense. v "Thus freedom now so seldom wakes, the only throb she gives is when some heart indig nant breaks to show that still she lives." Though our legislative bodies will no doubt hasten to remedy the oversight, it is a relief to feel that for a few days at least there is something which is not a crime. New York Times. Revival of British Industry. An article in the London Times of April 17 claims that the world of British industry is gradually being remade. From one end of the country to the1 other munition factories are being closed, dismantled and then adapted and refitted for the work of peace, though the Brit ish manufacturers are silent during the period of transition. 7V7 The Day We Celebrate. Jesse C. McNish, president .of the McNish Cattle Loan company, born 1878. J. D. ("Dad") Weaver, secretary of the Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben, bori 1851. Jan Kubelik, one of the most celebrated of living violinists, born in Prague, Bohemia, 39 years ago. ' Will N. Harben, author of "The Inner Law" and other, popular novels, born at Dalton, Ga., 51 years ago. Dr. Judah L, Magnes, noted New York rabbi and Jewish scholar, born in San Francisco 42 years ago. Frances Tiernan ("Christian Reid"),v writer of many popular novels, born at Salisbury, N. C, 73 years ago. Thirty Years Ago in Omaha. The committee appointed by the Board of Trade to examine the plans for a union depot met to prepare their report. Hon. Liang-Ting-Tsau of San Francisco, his imperial Chinese majesty's consul general, passed through Omaha. R. C. Patterson has decided to build o $15,000 three-story brick structure on Farnam street, between the New York Life and Ames buildings. The Nebraska Press association assembled here and left for an excursion to the Pacific northwest Editors and their wives were given a drive over the city by courtesy of the Board of Trade. i . Confusion In Published Orders. M. R. J. You are not alone In your predicament; others are also confused by the apparently contra dictory orders that are published from time to time with reference to the army. Things have moved fast in the last few weeks, and as events have developed changes have been forced in the military program. It is only certain that the American forces in France are being removed as speedily as possible, arid that within the present month they may all be out of that country. It is also settled that troops held in Germany will berremoved with all expedition. The army bill just passed provides for an army of 400,000 for the com ing year, which necessitates the de mobilization of forces at home with utmost expedition. The latest an nouncement from the War depart ment to the effect that the army will be reduced to 233,000 officers and men by September 30 is interpreted to mean that all American soldiers will be returned from Europe by that time. Many Questions Answered. An Anxious Mother The 320th supply company, quartermaster's corps, was demobilized in February. Its members were transferred to other units. L. E. C. Write to the zone finance officer, allotment branch, bond di visions, , Lemon building, Washing ton, D. C. for information concern ing the Lroerty boad you did not re ceive. M. 8. The 20th infantry did not go to France; it was employed in this country during the war, mainly in Utah, and on station in Texas and Kansas. J. R. M. The 80th artillery reached New York on June 20, and has since been demobilized. R. S. L. The latest news we have concerning camp hospital No. 41 is that it was assigned to early convoy. This unit has been stationed at Is-sur-Tille. M. J. Field bakery company No. 322 Is In the army of occupation, with the Fifth division, and has not yet been assigned a sailing date for return. L. E. J. The 312th engineers reached Newport News June 11 on the OrizHba. T. R. L. No orders have yet been Issued for the return of mobile laboratory No. 49. It Is in the service, of supply. Soldier's Friend No orders have as yet been issued for the return of the 19th field artillery. This regi ment is in the Fifth division, and is, part of the American forces in Germany. Soldier's Sweetheart Casual com panies are made up of men from all states and all branches of the serv ice. These have been detached from regular units for many reasons, and are grouped and sent home as such. The number of such a company gives no idea as to what men are in it, or from wflat state or branch of the service they come. DREAMLAND ADVENTURE By DADDY. DAILY DOT PUZZLE "THE WATER GOBUXS, (In this story Peggy and Billy visit the Ur.dtr-the-Water folks and ara caught In a remarkable adventure.) The Two-Finger SIgnnl. "PEGGY'S father, returning home from a. business trip, had brought her a charming green bath ing suit as a present. It was so pretty Peggy had to try it on at once. And after she had it on, she thought what fun it would be to frolic in the spray of the lawn hose. Out she ran to the back yard, but when she got there she found Norah, the maid, using the hose to wash windows. So Peggy ran up and down the lawn in her bare feet, enjoying the tickling sensation of the grass. When she grew tired she sat in the hammock to rest until Nor; A was through. "Hoo-hoo!" cried Billy Belgium from the shrubbery at the side of the yard. "Hoo-hoo!" and he held up iwo ringers. The two figures looked to PeRgy like some kind of a signal and she wondered what they meant. She wondered, too, why Billy kept him self so closely hidden in the shrub bery, showing only his head and his partly closed hand with the two fingers standing up straight. "Hoo-hoo!" cried Billy again, shaking the two fingers at her vig orously. "Hello, Billy, come on in," said Peggy, but Billy only shook his fin gers commandingly, while once more he uttered the mysterious call, "Hoo-hoo!" Peggy's curiosity was aroused and she ran to the edge of the shrubbery. "What do you want?" she asked. "Don't you know what that means?" whispered Billy, as he shook his two fingers before her CVS- "No, I don t, frankly admitted Peggy. "Oh, ofj coure not. You're Just a girl. It means, 'Come on in swimming'?" "Swimming?" Peggy was much MUCH IN LITTLE. Clergymen in Oakland, Cal., have formed a labor union. The red and white flag of Monaco flies over the nation of least area, but there are three smaller in popu lation. It has 23,000 Inhabitants, as compared with 6,321 for Andorra, 10,000 for Liechtenstein and 11;513 for San Marino. At the beginning of the war in Europe it was believed that there would be much work for cavalry units, but the system of trench war fare, which developed, made that important military arm of much less service than in previous wars. Agricultural implements in con siderable quantity will be in de mand for a new Natal (South Africa) settlement scheme for ex soldiers, especially windmills, fenc ing material and dipping tanks, says the British and South African Ex port Gazette. IN THE BEST OF HUMOR. Pedestrian Hey. mister! you're loalnr something. Autolst What Is It? Pad. Th TilpfiniirA Af mv nnmninv In your auto. Judge. "Lady outside wants to see you." "I wonder If she's worth seeing?" "She is. Blue eyes, golden hair, per fect figure. Oh. boy!" Louisville Courier- Journal. "Ah. waiter, tell me. are the oysters good?" "The ones I ate were, mister, but I don't know how you're going to tell whether or not one oyster Is good by eating an other." Detroit Free Press. Mr. Flatbush She has a very difficult part In the new play. Mrs. Flatbush Difficult? Why, h doesn't say a word. "Well, Isn't that difficult for a wom an?" Yonkers Statesman. "What about my case?" TTou are only technically guilty," said the lawyer. "As for your being In Jail " "It's a mere technicality, I know, but how about getting me out?" Kansas City Journal. SUMMER HEAT. x In these days of summer heat I should like to make retreat To the mountains, or the lake, Where my thirst I fain would slake From the rippling hillside stream; Or perchance, could sit and dream Of the bass and mountain trout Idly swarming all about, Round my hook on every aide Mindful not of time or tide; ' Birds a-slnglng in the trees; Pine trees murmuring In the breeze; Then, mayhap. In summer heat, I could keep my temper sweet. LORIN ANDREW THOMPSON. Omaha, Neb. DAILY CARTOONETTE I'LL TIE ROVER TO M LEc WHILST I TAKE A NAP! ) "This Is the way to dive and swim," continued General Croaker. c 9 II 3 . ,39 Z r s 1 , Noodle says "Trace fifty-four, Then you'd better add one more." Draw from one to two and so on to the end. surprised. "Why, the bathing beach is miles from here." "But there's a dandy deep hole In the river," responded Billy, and, now Peggy saw the reason he had kept himself partly hidden; he was dressed in his bathing suit. "Oh, I'd love to go swimming but " What Peggy Intended to say was left unfinished, for Billy seized her by the hand and drew her running toward the river. They never paused until they reached the fishing place where, in a former adventure, they had been puzzled by the mystery of the vanishing fish. "Whee!" shouted Billy, diving into the dark water, only to rise a mo mt.it later aid begin swimming witlj a strong crawl stroke. "Oh, I wish I could dive and swim like that," cried Peggy from the bank. "Cro-ak! Cro-ak! That's a funny way to swim," boomed a hoarSe voic-i from beneath her feet, scaring Peggy so much that she almost leaped out of her skin. Looking down she saw General Croaker watching Billy with a queer look of disgust on his face. "This is the lees as Roosters and the Welfare Board. Omaha, July 2. To the Editor of The Bee: Orchard Hill is con vulsed with merriment. Your nar rative about the Welfare board and the rooster brought down the house. Nearly everybody up here keeps chickens. So also did the folks who don't like the rooster's crow, until the chickens refused to thrive and finally died under the cold persistent cynical nagging of their household. A rooster can die and have peace, but some men have to live on. (See Mr. Jiggs.) The sentiment is about equally divided as to whether 3846 Hamilton street should be lynched for disturbing the sweet slumbers of his neighbors by tolerating a rooster that persists in sending forth his clarion tones In the wee small hours of the morning; or whether he should be Induced to start a sanitarium to restore the hearing of the deaf. Why is it some folks can not hear the door bell when the bill collector calls, but is disturbed by the mild notes of a poor rooster who is only fulfilling the instincts of na ture? We are going to put plush rugs out in the street so that the autos will not disturb our sensitive neiehbora! Rnr. sav Mr tr.HHn. why should an old hen object to iiib crowing vi a rooster: rne wel fare board is not living up to its op portunities. It should protect our suffering citizens. Would it not be a good move to commence action in the supreme court to abate this nerve-racking noise! N S. J. WOODRUFF. Police Service for the Sick. Omaha, July 3. To the Editor of The Bee: "Motorcycle Officers Emery and Croft have been sta tioned at the residence of C. P. Boyer, 724 South Thirty-sixth street, to prohibit automobile drivers pass ing that place with cut-outs open. Mr. Boyer is reported to be danger ously ill and his physicians say the noise disturbs him greatly." Do you suppose you or I would be given the services our esteemed police commissioner has given Mr. Boyer? While I do not question the ad- "Business Is Oooo.TwaIYou" -WHY NOT vantage of having everything quiet around the sick, if he is entitled to this service, why not every sick per son in Omaha? Is it possible every hospital is filled to capacity, or some other place where the auto traffic is not so heavy as on South Thirty-sixth? Let's hear from sick people who want all noise abolished whife they are ill. Yours for a new polrce commissioner, H. K. SPLURGEON. Services Appreciated. Omaha, July 2. To the. Editor of The Bee: On behalf of the League to Enforce Peace I want to say that we all very much appreciate the manner in which you treated the re cent visit of Rabbi Coffee of Chicago to this city. Yours truly, LYSLE I. ABBOTT. Secretary Nebraska Branch. way to dive and swim," continued General Croaker. With that he toolc a header from the bank, landed ker plunk in the water, and swam abfcut with graceful, easy strokes. "I wish I could swim frog-fashion." cried Peggy and Billy together. "I'll give you a lesson," volunteered General Croaker. "But you are al together too big for me to iach you In -this pool. I'll ha-e to get some water nymph grass to make you small." General Croaker dived out of sight, but a moment later appeared brinsing to shore a spray of. water weed. "Nibble this!'" he said to Billy. Billy nibbled, and in a trice he was as small as the frog. "Nibble!" said General Croaker to Peggy, and in the wink of an eye she was as small as Billy, and looking wonderfully like a frog in her pretty green bathing suit. "Now follow me!" ordered Gen eral Croaker, diving from the bank into the pool. Kerplug! Billy leaped tl after him. To Peggy, how frog size, the bank looked as high as a hill, while the pool looked like avlake, it was so large. She drew back hesitatingly. "Come on! Are you afraid?" croaked General Croaker. Splash! Peggy plunged boldly Into the river. As the waters closed above her head she found herself going down, down, down, into a strange and wonderful forest peopled by creatures of most startling appearance. The great tragedy that must com into everyone's life demands the service of an experienced, able undertaker. We have every facility in our perfect organization to conduct a funeral in a manner that is fitting. The funeral can be priced to meet the exigencies. N. P. SWANSON Funeral Parlor' (Etablished I8SS) 17th and Cuming Sts. Douglas 1060 Ok ire. is more fltarv supreme musical deligKt m ine matchless tone of the Mnsoxt mtditt Piano-there is inspira tion, for the ViiaUft- expression of art, in. all its forms. rs- splendid tone? cJecares os ins Gaj premier c&mseose ej'oJe, Aas i'ti spired me o accompfsfr results cviicJj. arMoufA ,7J I I -a '-'"-"r' 'ran? jucai jmpojjjMe. Following is a list of pianos which may be seen on our floors some of them we have handled for 45 years: Kranich & Bach, Cable Nelson, Bush A Lane. Kimball, Brambach, Vose A Sons and Hospe pianos. Grands and uprights at prices from $295 and better. Cash prims or terms If desired. 1513 Douglas Street Just One Application and the Hairs Vanish (Modes of Today) A harmless, yet very effective, treatment is here given for the quick removal of hairy growths: Mix enough powdered delatone and water to cover the undesirable hairs, apply paste and after 2 or 3 minutes remove, wash the skin and the hairs have vanished. One application usually is sufficient, but to be cer tain of results, buy the delatone in an original package. Adv. rnOHC BOUOIAS 3 1 ..v v: T IV.N.CH0U6 oil Company Stop Itching Skin There is one safe, dependable treat mentthat relieves itching torture and skin irritation almost instantly and that cleanses and soothes the skin. Ask any druggist for a 35c or $1 bottle ofZemo and apply it as directed. Soon you will find that irritations, pimples, blackheads, eczema, blotches, ringworm and similar skin troubles will disappear. A little Zemo, the penetrating, satis fying liquid, is all that is needed, for it banishes most skin eruptions, makes the skin soft, smooth and healthy.' Tbe E. W. Rote Co., CleveUnd.0. 11 OMAHA ft, Jl i PRINTING rMStf I I C0M,fNY ffig I I mil nn mi) Ifff 1 I BOOBBaHaSWli Commercial Printers -Lithographers steel die Embossers LOOSE kCA9 OrviCES Dorit try to hide ybiir lace when people look at you Resiaol OVERCOMES SKIN TROUBLES Although that unsightly skin eniption is conspicuous, it may be overcome with Resinoi Ointment Decide at once to give the healing medication of this ointment a chance to correct your trouble. Best and speedier results are obtained by the joint use of Resinoi Soap and Resinoi Ointment This soap contains in a modified form the same soothing medication as is embodied in the ointment. The combined use of the ointment and soap , Fr trial eldom fails to relieve other annoying mtuinnttiuni.wriiiitai- skin disorders on the body and limbs. avA BmUimun, M4. 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