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' i , i ' ii i if i d ti The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY FOUNDED BY EDWARD KOSEWATEB - VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. PROPRIETOR " MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Auot'ltUd I'rM of which The Bm 1i a inwnbr. li ! cluahtly entitled v Dm um foe publication of all news diirttclwi credited to It r Dot otherwise credited In thli paper, vid alio the Inrtl un puailthed aenln. All lights of publication of our spa tial dieiatrlxs art tin resented. " BEE TELEPHONES: - PrlTtto Branch Exchaiise. aik for tin Tirl 1 000 Department or Psrttculsr Person Wanted. JTad AVVrvr For Night or Sunday Service Call: filttortal Deiwrtnwnt Tyler lOOOL rirrulutiog Iteturtnient - Tyler 1MML. Advert inns DeparUneut ..... Tyler 100SL. . OFFICES OF THE BEEi f Home Office. B Building. 17m and reraem. ' Branch Offices: Ames 4111) North U Pirk MIS l-atMnworth. Ilensnn 0114 Military Are. Soutn Sida 3318 N Street. Council Bluff It N. Msla Vinton 147 South 16th Uka 3318 North Min Walnut 119 North 40th. New Tork City Vhlcago Out-of-Town Officea: M fifth In. ' Washington Seiffer Bids.' I Lincoln 1311 O Street 1330 H Street. APRIL CIRCULATION Daily 65, 830 Sunday 63,444 Arerage circulation for the month subscribed and sworn to by 1 R Rssin, Circulation Msnsser. Subscribers laavinf tha city should hava Tha Be mailed to them. Addreaa changed aa often as raquaatad. You should know that i Omaha is second in the world in receipts of hogs and sheep and third in receipts of cattle. The match between the president and the senate comes next. "Dempsey to enter vaudeville" sounds almost as a matter of course. Maybe Lake Manawa is not big enough for a seaplane to operate on successfully. t Oklahoma sent half its doctors into the army, and yet no serious decline in public health was noted. Holland says the Hohenzollerns are free to leave whenever they wish, but not to go where they please. Now that the "experts" are out of the way,' the president and others may! get a thance at the front page. s Neptune and Aeolus make a pretty strong 'combination for transatlantic voyagers to buck, either below or aloft. Omaha's experience with a safe, sane and dry Fourth was such as ought to encourage its repetition through all time to come. France has adopted the Fourth of July as an extra holiday. Other nations, especially Great Britain, are privileged to follow suit. Local banks were ready when the comp troller called for a statement, and the aggregate showing must convince any of their solidity. Having heard the news, the crew of the R-34 is bringing its own schnapps, but this does not presage a long stay, as the cargo is said to be limited. Senator Poindexter' sticks to the Monroe doctrine, which is most encouraging proof that he has no thought of leading Washington out of the union. u One hundred thousand dollars will offset a couple of blackened eyes and a broken jaw fairly well. Many a man has taken as much and had only his bruises to console him. That watch tower is an imposing addition to the scenery at Sixteenth and Harney. Wonder how. it will work? Reminds one of the "wel come" arch,, which finally was so unwelcome. 5 Italians are vigorously assailing the problem . presented by the cost of living, and, although we may scarcc'y commend the method adopted, 4 It at least has the merit of efficiency from the standpoint of the ultimate consumer. As is customary whenever anything big in ' the way of news is to be handled, The Bee beat its braggart contemporaries to the public with its extra edition so far that "there was no sec--ond." When it comes to serving the public r The Bee always leads. ." , Perfidious Albion has aimed another dastard blow at suffering Erin, the British government , having decided to solve the housing problem in ' Ireland by building homes for the workers, and paying half the cost out of the public funds, i This is treachery, indeed. ' No Race Suicide in America l- The census report on vital statistics, births and deaths for 1917, the midyear, just issued, shows that the United States has fared well as .compared with the rest of the world. While nearly all the European countries, certainly those engaged in the war, have shown a marked increase in the death rate, a reduction in the number of births and an actual loss of popula tion covering a period of over four years, this country reports marked improvement. There is evidently no race suicide in America, and the population is increasing by natural growth, by the excess of births over deaths. We are not dependent upon immigration for growth, and ' the facts brought out by the census may have some influence on congress in considering legis lation on this subject. It is to be regretted that our vital statistics do not cover the entire country, but only two thirds of it This is due largely to the neglect pf the southern states in failing to collect their vital statistics. This has shut them out of the "registration area," the district in which the figures are collected. Louisiana, Mississippi and other southern states have been working to correct this deficiency for years, and we hope soon to have the health conditions of this entire section made known Jo the world. P r " As it is, the report is most encouraging, showing a steady reduction in the death rate, not. only in the aggregate, but proportionately. The rate for the year was 14.1 per 1,000. The improvement is illustrated by the figures given - for previous years: In 1910, a rate of 15.0 per 1.000; in 1900, 17.6; 1890, 19.6. and 1880, 19.8. : There has been a slight check during recent years, and the health record of 1915 will prob ably not be equaled for some time. Last year, . with -our influenza epidemic, is certain to make ; a bad showing. : - " The number of births for the registration . area was 1.353,792, and estimating for the rest of the land at the same rate, there were 2,135, 658 babies born in the United States in 1917. : With the better treatment and care observed, it is probable that, a greater percentage will grow up.i-New Orleans Times-Picayune. . . ; THE PRESIDENT'S PROGRAM. No official announcement is made as to just what Mr. Wilson will do after he reaches home on Tuesday. Unofficially, it is given out that he plans a speaking tour, personally, to present his program to, citizens of the country. The advisability of this course has been questioned by some, but it may be accepted as settled that if the president deems it expedient, it wilt be undertaken. He will not need to spend much time in de fending the underlying principles of the League of Nations. That work has been well done by others, and the matter has been so thoroughly debated that it may well be doubted if there yet remains anyone who has not reached a con clusion on the principle, at least. Some of its details, however, may require explanation, but this might better be given to the senate, unless the tour is to develop support for the executive against the legislative branch of the govern ment. If this be the purpose, it is unfortunate. The people elected a republican congress be cause of dissatisfaction over the course pursued by the democrats, and this in face of a personal appeal from the president for an endorsement of his policies. At the present time, the most important thing is the hearty co-operation of all citizens, and of all branches and depart ments of the government. Efforts to give the war a partisan tinge were rebuked, and any at tempt to turn the peace treaty into a party issue deserves condemnation. Mr. Wilson has not been frank at all times with the senate, nor the public. He asked a "white card," and when this was not granted him, he proceeded as if it had been. The time is now at hand for a decision. It is within the power of the senate to re serve action as to any article in the treaty, or the covenant for a league of nations. It is also within its power to amend any of these. The document will be considered on its merits. Pop ular opinion favors the league, and it may be given official endorsement, but the co-ordinate branches of the government under the constitu tion must recognize one another. Getting on an Even Keel Again. Two bugaboos that have been rocking the boat of late are laid away. Both had to do with threats to make the Fourth of July a day of terror for decent people. On the one side a set of agitators promised, even to the last minute, a nation-wide strike in protest against the Mooney sentence. The other outfit proposed a repetition of the bomb outrages, but on a wider scale. It can not be denied that these threats caused considerable apprehension. No one could tell exactly what forces were behind them, and so the issue was awaited with trepidation. When the American Federation of Labor repudiated the Mooney strike, its advocates in sisted the leaders did not have control of the men in the ranks. This has been disproved. Members of trade unions have showed them selves true to principles, and, self-disciplined, unwilling to take part in a demonstration the sole purpose of which was to overawe the courts. Labor has asked that Mooney be given a new trial, because of suspicion that attaches to the manner of his conviction. But the self-confessed I. W. W.-bolshevik extremists do not control the acts of the labor unions of America. The bomb outrages present a more serious element of the social problem. Murderers of this type are not easy to overtake, and as long as they are at liberty, danger exists. The hunt is up, however, and Uncle Sam will not rest till he has set his heel on these snakes. Plainly, affairs in America are settling down. Law and order rule, and justice sways the minds of men, who seek only an even chance and a square deal. Food Prices and the Law. The Department of Agriculture throws its weight in favor of some law that will give the government control of food production and distribution, to the end that prices be stabilized. This has been proposed many times within the last few years, usually in interest of all the peo ple. At the moment it is put forward in behalf of the beef and mutton growers. Such experi mental control as was exerted by the federal government, during the war was to guarantee that prices to the producer would not fall below a certain basic figure. It was not suggested at any time that the rise should be limited. Under stress of war economy, people turned from meat to other articles of, food. Prices since have en abled them to continue on this basis. Demand having gone below supply, prices are coming down on beef. Not that the consumer can no tice, but the producer feels the change. In time, perhaps, we may have a beef steak or a juicy roast at something like the prices asked in the days before prices were fixed to stimulate pro duction. Just now the great American public is wondering whether the cost of living depends on any of the natural laws of trade, or on the modern rule of "let your conscience be your guide." Surplus Army Food for Sale. The offer of the. United States government to sell to cities at 20 per cent less than cost in carload lots surplus canned vegetables, bought for the army, with the understanding that the same be resold to consumers at the prices for which they were purchased, is within reason. So far the effort to dispose of the immense stocks of foodstuffs held by the army has been on -a basis that would maintain the high cost of liv ing. In most instances, sales have been made to packers. This has naturally occasioned much complaint. The government commandeered large quantities of food within the last two years, taking the entire output of many factories and canning plants at rates that gave large profits to the owners. It may or may not be good busi ness to resell this food at a rate that will make the federal government whole. It should not, however, be disposed of by, any plan that will enable private purchasers to secure another large gain through the process of retailing it to consumers. The people have paid for it once, to be fed to the soldiers. They ought to have a chance to buy it back for themselves at a fair price. Views and Reviews About Long and Short State Constitutions In connection with Nebraska's forthcoming constitutional convention the remark is fre quently made to me with slight variations: "I hope the convention will give us a short constitution. We don't want any of those lengthy new-fangled documents. I believe a constitution should be confined to essentials and leave the details to be inserted in the statutes by the .legislature." This raises the interesting query, "What is a short constitution?" and this question I have tried te answer for fhe satisfaction of my own curiosity. All the constitutions of the United States and of the several states have been gath ered together in one compilation called "Ket tleborough on State Constitutions." Although printed in small type and on thin paper, they make a nice little volume of 1,645 pages. The constitutions here set forth are arranged alphabetically by states, together with the amendments that have been made. Of course some pages are partially blank, but the number of pages of printed matter allotted to each fur nishes a rough measure of the length. Gossip is rife that the president and secre tary of state have had a tiff over the instruc tions left behind when the executive sailed for home. Mr. Lansing, however, accepted the as signment with the full knowledge that he would only be required to say "yes," and so has no particular kick coming now. Dodgjs county holds up its head today, hav ing wiped out an old score with Ahe public. As the constitution of the United States is perhaps more familiar to most people than any state constitution, we may visualize that by not ing that it occupies 11 pages of this volume and that no state has a constitution of so small compass. The two that come" nearest to it are those of Connecticut and Vermont, each fillling 16 pages, ami other short ones, by this sort of measurement, are Rhode Island and Indiana with 17 pages, then Iowa, Kansas, North Caro lina with 18 pages each, New Hampshire ex tending into the 19th page, and all the rest running from 24 and 25 and 26 upwards. At the other end of the line we have Louis iana with the longest-constitution of the lot, filling 87 pages, being nearly eight times as long as the constitution of the United States. Cali fornia's constitution requires 70 pages, and is therefore over six times as bulky as the federal constitution. Oklahoma's constitution fills 58 pages, Colorado's constitution 47 pages, Ken tucky's constitution 45 pages, Maryland's consti tution 42 pages, the Texas constitution 40 pages. Nebraska's present constitution, with all its amendments.vjs really modest in demanding only 28 pages of the book, which is probably a trifle below the average. j In the matter of length it will be observed that the southern states as a rule present more bulky documents than the northern states, pre sumably because they go into great detail about their election machinery, especially designed to keep the blacks from voting regardless of the federal prohibition against abridgement of the franchise; also that for the most 'part the earlier state constitutions are the short ones, this, despite the fact that the second largest, that of California, was framed and adopted 40 years ago. Louisiana's 87-page fundamental law is the product of a constitutional convention, which sat in 1913 and which was in session only 12 days. " v While all of the constitutions have been more or less modified by amendment, excepting those most recently adopted, the basic law, that is to say the last revision, dates back over a century in some instances. Massachusetts, for example, still goes under its constitution of 1780, all changes having been by means of amendment. Vermont's constitution bears the date of 1793 and Maine's of 1819. Vermont called a constitutional convention-in 1913, but .when the delegates assembled, instead of writ ing a new constitution, they merely wrote amendments to make it meet new conditions. Ohio had a similar experience in its last constitu tional convention, which met in 1912. The old constitution' of 1851 in its main features was left intact subject to the proposal of some very radical amendments, which, however, were not ratified in their entirety. Nebraska had three constitutional conven tions, but only two constitutions. .The terri tory achieved statehood under a constitution framed in 1866. An effort was made in 1871 to get a new and broader constitution, but the work of the convention was repudiated at the polls. - The second effort gave us the present constitution of 1875, which has stood up now with very few amendments for nearly 45 years. The record shows that more proposed amend ments have been beaten in Nebraska than adopted, although one section, that relating to the make-tip of the supreme court, has been amended twice. A woman suffrage amendment has been voted on and defeated twice, prohibi tion first rejected, was finally adopted. In 1897, 12 proposed amendments were submitted all at one time and all of them rejected. The last one submitted, requiring full naturalization for voting citizenship, was adopted last year. It will be seen therefore that the first decision i of our coming convention will have to be whether to undertake a comprehensive revision to be ratified as a whole, or to restrict its work to specific amendments. Some Old-Time Drinks The Historical society of Pennsylvania early in its career translated into English an account by the Swedish traveler Israel AcYelius of the differente sorts of strong drink that were popu lar hereabduts. "Mamm" was made of water, sugar and rum, and was the chief stock-in-trade of many a tavernkeeper. "Manathan" was rum, sugar and beer. "Lillibub" was made of milk, wine and sugar. "Tiff" was beer, rum and sugar poured on buttered toast. "Sampson" lived up to the name a mixture of cider and rum. he ingredients of "sangaree" were wine, water, sugar and nutmeg. When brandy and sugar were added to cider it became "cider royal." ''Raw dnyn" was the title for straight rum. Tea, 'coffee and chocolate were popular. "Small beer" came from molasses and "tabic beer" was brewed from persimmons, pounded up with the seeds, mixed with wheat bran and baked in an oven. If among the innumerable beverages of the time a man could find nothing to quench his thirst, he must have been hard to satisfy. The Pilgrim fathers were much distressed because they were reduced to drinking water when they came to the New World. But Hig ginson, of $alem, proudly told his contempor aries: "I can and ofttimes do drink New Eng land water very well." Philadelphia Ledger. More German History It is now reported that the former war min ister and quartermaster general, Von Stein, ot Germany, is going to write a book in which he will make some sensational revelations concern ing the antecedent history of the march through Belgium. It is said that he will relate how the war plan of 1914 arose and came to be adopted. Some time ago it (was given out that Field Marshal von Hindenburg and General von Lu dendorff were each about to write a book in which they would tell the truth about the war and disclose many things hitherto kept secret. If they all adhere to their promises and tell the truth triev will make the trial of the former emperor of less importance, for it is just that truth which the trial should bring out. Also they should make an effort to get to gether and make their stories agree, else con fusion will result and the testimony of all of them go for nothing. If the purpose of each of these war leaders is merely to offer a defense of his own part in the affair and to disclaim re sponsibility, their books will be curios only and serve no useful historical Duroose. Indianapolis Star. - Home Health Hints Reliable advice given in this column on prevention and cure of disease. Put your ques tion in plain language. Your name will not be printed. Ask The Bee to Help You. Examination of Persons for Social Disease. Below I am printing a recent 'de cision of the supreme court of Iowa on the right to examination in that state of persons suspected of" having a social disease. As will be noticed it applies specifically to syphilis. As one of the points raised by the court is that such an examination cannot be enforced "before it is authorized by a clear and definite expression of the legislative will," the implication is that the legislature has such pow ers. What then will the Iowa legis lature, or the legislature of any other state do, granting that.it has the power? And what will the citizens do to influence the legislature one way or the other when such a drastic proposal is made. Preceding the great war a few states required certificates of health from physicians prior to . marralge, freedom from disabling disease, in cluding tuberculosis, insanity and venereal diseases among others. Such a law is geneal in its application, and on this score cannot be criticized. But since the war, on suggestion and with the assistance of the govern ment, social diseases were singled out for special suppression largely through the police power of enact ments passed by civic governments. The saying is trite, "necessity knows no law," and as in war anything or everything may be declared a neces sity, the late war witnessed many infractions of the law by those in authority without a protest from the people. And that is as it should be a nation at war must strain every resource to win, and only the meanest citizen voices a protest a&fainst infringements of his personal liberty when so much Is at stake. The American people have respond ed nobly to every call made upon them to uphold every enactment for the common good, whether it was right or wrong from the viewpoint of peace times. . ' But we are at peace now, to all intents and purposes, and the same urgent necessities of war do not ex ist, even if many corrections in the minds of many are just as urgent from another standpoint, viz., the social. But, however urgent these corrections may seem, we cannot go on enforcing police power illegally as illustrated by the decision ap pended to this article. The examination of certain per sons for social diseases during the war was for the protection of our soldiery against inefficiency due to contracting them. The effectiveness of the army was being jeopardized, and any measure to counteract it had public approval. But with due con sideration of everything done in this matter, the real good came as a re sult of the education and punish ment of the soldier, restrictions on his liberty, and the removal of temptation and opportunity from the vicinity of camps. Examination, detention and treatment of women of the town 'anywhere was so small, in comparison with the actual num ber of women of this class, that it makes such a contention laughable. Ask your physician what he thinks of this matter. Ask him the relative number of private and clandestine prostitutes. And while you are ask ing him questions along this line, let him answer you to what extent are apparently reputable men and wo men addicted to promiscuity. And to what extenfflxe they afflicted with venereal diseases. His answers may surprise you. All of which has a direct bearing on any laws that ouv legislature may pass. Are We to have examination of that small minority of persons caught in a raid, or are we to have general examina tion of all citizens for social dis eases? The benefits of the former both directly and indirectly are ne gligable and only protect the erring: enforcement of the latter would pro tect both guilty and innocent to the extent that such a law is enforceable. Should our next or future legisla tures take up this question, frank, full and open discussion, let us hope, will be preliminary to any enactments. Properly Resents Thoughtless Sneer Harrlsbuig, Neb., July 3. To the Editor of The Bee: I have a ques tion 1 want to ask you: Are all the people in Omaha inclined to treat with scorn people who do not live in Omaha? I wrote a letter for this column and "Mr. Silly" and "Mr. Jersey Bull' sneered at ne because I lived in Harrisburg, a town of 200 in habitants. The fact is. 1 don't even live in Harrisburg. 1 live on a ranch 15 miles from there. The other day you published a letter from a minister and he was sneered at as a preacher from a country town. During the last 25 years I have met a number of Omahans, and now that I remember the kind of men they were, 1 am sure iny question should be answered in the negative. Away back in , the '90s 1 met the war-horse of Nebraska journalism, Edward Rosewater.) Later, I met the one and only Jim Dahlman, and still later 1 talked with A. L. Sutton. These men, and about a score more, Impressed me as being men whoso souls would respond with a hearty amen 'to Kobert Burns' poem en titled "A Man's a Man for a' That." That is to say, if a man is a real man it doesn't matter where he lives, or what he does, or what kind of clothes he wears, he is still a man for a' that, and so I suppose it is only the rilt-raff, the flotsom and jetsom, that, as Shakespeare says, "Too oft doth congregate in our marts of trade," who think they are somebody big because they live in a big city. However, it might be well to re mind "Mr. Silly," "Mr. Jersey Bull" and the other fellow, who sneered at the minister because he was a small town preacher, that of all our presidents the ones that we re member with peculiar affection were the products either of a small town or of God's great out-in-the-country. It might also be well to recall the fact that the greatest preacher who ever trod this old war-marred, grave scarred, sin-cursed world was born in one small town and lived until he was 30 years old in another and men of Jerusalem, just like those in Omaha, sneered at Him and asked, "dan any good thing come out of Naiareth?" EDWIN WARD. (Wragg against Griffin, Sheriff, et al. (Iowa), 170 N. W. R. 400.) The supreme court of Iowa sus tains a writ of habeas corpus, and orders the release of the petitioner therefor, in this case wherein the court says that the question present ed may, in its final analysis, be stated as being: "May the local board of health of the city of Des Moines, on suspicion that the petitioner is afflicted with a venereal disease, or has been ex posed to such contagion, lawfully order him under arrest and subject him by force to an examination of his person and compel him against his will to permit a quantity of blood to be extracted from his veins, and then be held in continued durance until the blood has been sent to an expert in a distant city and by test thereof it is determined whether such petitioner is or is not in fact so diseased?" After having examined with some care the various statutory provisions and board of health rules to which its attention was called, the court is forced to the conclusion that the power is nowhere provided either ex pressly or by necessary implication. While the statutes in terms author ize boards of health and health offi cers to deal with quarantinable dis eases, there is no express provision for interfering with the liberty of persons who are merely "suspected" of being diseased. Special emphasis was placed on that part of the rules of the state board of health wherein it is made the duty of the mayor to direct the chief of police to cause persons suspected of being diseased "to be investigated,1" and authorizing health officers in such cases "to make examinations" of suspected persons and to detain them as long as it may be necessary to determine whether they are .so afflicted. But even here there is an entire absence of any express authority to subject a sus pected person to an examination by physical force or by an extraction of blood from his body by violence for experimental purposes. Men and women were examined and treated by physicians for sexual diseases for generations before the so-called "Wassermann test" was discovered or invented, and, so far as this court is Informed, with reasonably reliable results. At least there was no evi dence here that, even in the technical phrase of physicians, the word "ex amination" In such cases is under stood as necessarily meaning a blood test by the Wassermann method,' or by any other method involving vio lation of the person, and, in the absence of such explicit authority for the subjection of a person to such treatment on suspicion alone, Jt ought not to be approved as a valid exercise of authority'. This petitioner may be a bad man, but the court has no right to as sume such a fact for the purpose of minimizing hi claim to protection of the ordinary rights of person which law and the usages of civilized life regard as sacred until lost or forfeited by due conviction of crime, j Even when charged with the gravest of crimes, he cannot be compelled to give evidence against himself, nor can the state compel him to submit to a medical or surgical examination, the result of which may tend to convict him of a public offense, and, if there be any good reason why the same objections are not available in a proceeding which may subject him to ignominious restraint and public ostracism, it is at least a safe and salutary proposition to hold that, be fore the courts will uphold such an exercise of power, it must be au thorized by a clear and definite ex pression of the legislative will. This the court does not have, and in its Judgment the restraint of the peti tioner, not as a diseased person whose detention in a separate house or hospital the statute authorizes, but solely as a suspect and for the avowed purpose of forcing the ex posure of his body to visual exam ination and compejling the extrac tion of blood from his veins in search of evdence of a loathesome disease which may or may not exist, is a deprivation or his lberty wth out due process of law, and he s en titled to be set free. Australian Railroad Wrinkle. Australian engineers have invent ed switches for use in railroads where three rails are laid to accom modate cars of different gauges. "Dress and Address" The two most potent assets a man claims to attain success and prosperity for himself and his family is dress and address. To define this expression so often heard and accepted every where for its homely logic, we need but say that man's appear ance in dress bespeaks many of the essentials necessary for suc cess in any of the world's activi ties. A nian dressed with care, scrupulously clean; a pleasing countenance; the exposition of teeth which indicate care and other minor details impresses one with a pleasing personality or ad dress. DO YOU POSSESS THESE IM PORTANT QUALIFICATIONS? If you do, you command re spectful attention among your fellow men. You carry with you a dignity which everyone re spects. You obtain maximum ef ficiency in your work; you are confident in your own ability: you inspire the confidence of others. No matter how well you dres? if your teeth are neglected you are self-conscious of thif neglect; th'is self-conscious feel ing is reflected in-your every act your vitality is lowered; your ef ficiency is lessened and failure ir your work is courted. The great er percentage of men who fail in life's work are men who are care less with their personal appear ance; neglect ther teeth and are shiftless in their habits. These facts apply equally to the profes sion as to the laity. SEE DR. TODD TODAY Dress up; prepare for the success that should be yours; build up confidence in yourself; inspire confidence of others; preserve your good health; get in condi tion and remain so. Every facil ity known in advanced dentistry is employed in Dr. Todd's Dental Service. NEW LOCATION Fourth floor, Barker block. Elevator en trance on 15th St., off Farnam St. G. W. TODD. The Day We Celebrate. C. O. Crowell of the Crowell Lum ber and Grain company, born 1874. Clarence H. Walrath of Walrath & Sherwood Lumber company, born 3864. W. J. Connell, attorney-at-law, born 1846. John Alperson. cigar man, born 1873. Princess Victoria, second daugh ter of the late King- Edward and sister of the present British sover eign, born SI years ago. J. Murray Clark, president of the Royal Canadian Institute, born at St. Mary's Ont., 69 years ago. Katherlne Tingley, world head of the Uinversal Brotherhood and Theosophical Society, born at New buryport, Mass., 67 years ago. John Skelton Williams, U. S. comptroller of the currency, born in Powhatan county, Va,, 54 years ago. Thomas Gallagher, representative in congress of the Eighth Illinois district, born at Concord, N. H., 69 years ago. Thirty Years Ago in Omaha. The congregation 'and Sunday school of the Second Presbyterian church on Saunders street, enjoyed a basket picnic at Hanscom park under supervision of Rev. W. J. Henderson. Real estate transfers for the day reached $172,168; building permits granted, $21,700. J. B. Mason is building a $7,000 home in Walnut Hill district, on George street, near Lowe avenue; Omaha now holds first place in the Western baseball association. Hon. James E. Boyd sold Boyd's opera house on Farnam street to Mr. O. M. Carter and a number of the stockholders of the American Loan and Trust company. ODD AND INTERESTING At St. Paul, John Frost, common ly called Jack, was overcome by the heat while working in his potato patch. The inventor of a new tree plant ing tool claims it will do double the amount of work of implements now in use. An aeroplane that actually lifts itself from the ground with flapping wings has been built by a French inventor. Blinded Australian soldiers are to be provided by their government with houses at a weekly rental of one shilling. An Inventor has hinged a carpen ter's square and provided it with a third strip, calibrated in inches and degrees, to be used .in connection with the two arms for many pur poses. The foremost woman potato pro ducer of America is Mrs. Hilda B. Neilson of Sebastapol, Cal., whose seed potato standards have been adopted by eight of the western states. IN THE BEST OF HUMOR. "I heard 8-ond-atory Bill klllad Bur flar Jim." "Tea; Jim railed htm a raformar."- Cartoona Maiaalna. Juno la that her dad or her huaband with her? Bena Her dad, of couraa. She'a aiHInff hla opinion of aomethlns. Boaton Globe. "You know, laat nl(ht they fot Into tha ftrocer'a. broke open hla aafa and took IJ.OOO." "He ahould worry! He'll fet that back In a few daya." New Tork World. Wlgwaf 1 aaw your name In print tha other day. nighedde Tha-aoT WhereT Wigwag 1 waa looking up your number In the telephone directory. Philadelphia Record. Private Auattn Hava you any elaatla blanketa? Corporal Arnold What do you want elastic blanketa for? Private Auatln 80 they'll atretch whan I do. Overaeaa Camp Dodger. "What'a good for a black eye. Bin" "Oh. a amRll piece of raw beefateak." "Tea, but auppoaln' j"er aln'l no bloomln' millionaire ?" Boaton Tranacript. Blondlne Doean't derty Glddlgad make up aomethtng awful T Brunette Tea I don"t know whether la her eyaalght that la bad or her judg ment. Youngatown Telegram. PEACE. the wan. exhauated world lifts up hei head From brooding on her dead. To catch the meaaage clamoring down the That heralds what la finished at Versailles. Into her faded eyea rreepa heaven now; Forgotten Joy grows fair upon her brow; Her hands, unclenched, fall open and out stretch To touch that future she so yearns ta teach The errors of the past th woe, the wrong That cornea from being strong. If justice and If love are laid aside . . , Peace! The awaited word rlnga wide, Fraught with the beauty of the summer's day That broke from atorm to greet It, aa a play Breaks on a darkened house In sudden llKht When the flrat curtain's rtitng glvee ts eight Some scene where we, expectant, lean to aee A dream take (loweror fail us utterly. So waits the universe before this Word That aounda upon her heart! Have we then heard Aa surely as an actor hears hla cueT Or shall we fail In things that we must do To make the dream come true? 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