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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JULY 13, 1919
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JUNE CIRCULATION:
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iterate circulation for Ihe month aubacrtoed and awora to by
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Subscribers leaving the city ahould have The Bee mailed
t thorn. Addroea chanted aa often aa requeated.
You should know that
Omaha's jobbing business last
year was $261,000,000; leading
lines, automobiles and groceries.
Watch the balloons go up today.
T Another sting of ingratitude has been added
to the senator's collection.
When bottled spring water takes to blow
ing up, where -shall we turn for safety?
Up goes the price of milk again, but surely
not on account of scarcity of feed this time.
'The gentleman ffom Tennessee may not be
a full moon, neither is he a terribly dry one.
Chicago is having quite a time to raise
money to keep going, but is not alone in that.
Beatrice-on-the-Blue is running short on
water, another of the disadvantages of life in a
dry state.
.While the president is taking the swing
around the circle the vote will be taken in the
United States senate.
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' How to pay. for goods needed is now Ger
many's greatest problem. Lifting the blockade
did not entirely remove the embargo.
It takes a pretty mean thief to rob a home
while a funeral is in progress, but some men
will do anything for contraband liquor.
, At least the lady hold-up who is doing so
well in Omaha is said to nave 'a sweet voice and
engaging manners in addition to her taking
ways.
' ; Raising the blockade is reported to have
brought down prices on food in Germany 30
.to 60 per cent. Something of the sort would
1 i welcome in this neck of the woods.
"'Italy is passing its plate for a slice of China,
relying on the success of Japan in getting what
it demanded. This will have to end some day,
3T the League of Nations may be greatly embarrassed.
Great Britain is about to appoint a consul
to Germany. This is a step towards resump
tion of friendly intercourse, but it is likely the
appointee's social engagements will not over
whelm him for a time.
Director General Hines takes
reduction of number of accidents
roads as a result of especial care,
natural outcome, and if it were
even more satisfactory showing mi
Presence of the human factor as
uncertainty of machinery, however,
tire elimination of mishaps in the
unattainable.
pride in the
on the rail
It is but the
persisted in
ght be made.
well as the
puts the en
realm of the
The Federal Trade commission advocates
permission to manufacturers to fix the resale
price on their wares, but not to an extent that
would become oppressive only just far enough
to avoid injudicious price-cutting, whatever
that is. This about lines up every agency of
the government in the glorious work of sus
taining high prices. Also, it shows the Bryan
plan for picking out and preserving good trusts
has not been entirely forgotten.
T
Fini
Farewell shot of the Stars and Stripes, the
weekly paper published in France for the A. E.
F., its last appearance being on June 13, 1919.
The Stars and Stripes is no more, but be
fore its swan song took the breeze it had the
satisfaction of achieving the final stamp of
authenticity, the last brand of the genuine O. D.
article, like slum and reveille, for it was gen
erously included in a long list of army products
atari' held up to violent arraignment by a dis
charged soldier, whose words were widely
quoted in the states.
About the worst thing that our gentle critic
could say about the sheet was the fact that all
the time the buck who was the editor was an
swering angry letters from top cutters and
other autocrats and trying to get Wally to
'draw his cartoons a few hous before the deadline,-
a legend was appearing on the masthead
in which "G-2-D" was a part of the postoffice
address.
"Ah-ha!" said the corporal, and put down
another note in his book. "Some day I'll get
lack and tell the world that the general staff
an a propaganda paper."
'The facts are these: There was a censor
' ihip on the Stars and Stripes. It was made up
of some three privates and one fat sergeant.
They sat on every article, and if they caught
the- scent of the press agent, the promotion-
hunter, or the officer who wanted to explain
alt about what the enlisted men really thought,
they threw the said contribution into the waste
basket, and Rags, the credulous office blood
hound, swallowed it.
t Once in a while this board was fooled. Once
n a while news prophecies of beefsteak and
ce cream got into the columns, but did not
t:tne true until long afterward. Once in a
. while some joyful enthusiast put over some
Poilyanna-keep-smiling rubbish, but it wasn't
. o'ten. You can fool some of the people all of
J the time, but you can't fool even a soldier editor
U of the time.
- So let them wield their hammers if they
arilL The Stars and Stripes is lowered with
this, its seventy-first issue, with malice towards
'none.' with charity for all, and with apologies to
.. nobody, - '
OUR INTEREST IN GERMANY.
During the war our paramount purpose
was to smash the German military power to
smithereens in the quickest possible time with
the smallest sacrifice of men and money. Our
own safety required the weakening of Ger
many in every way to the point that resistance
would be hopeless.
Now that the war is over, what is our in
terest in Germany? It is to keep Germany
down or to help the country get on its feet?
Palpably a response prompted by sentiment
or vindictiveness might be different from that
dictated by enlightened slef-interest. The dis
cussion of this situation from a British source
brings out some very pertinent points. Un
palatable as it may be, we are reminded be
cause of the indemnities and reparation to be
received, the allies are now interested in Ger
many as a business concern not as a beaten,
disorganized and ill-found nation and if they
are to draw from that business the dividends
they require and demand, then not only will
it have to be superbly organized, but it will
demand the unremitting energy of its workpeo
ple and the ungrudging economic assistance
of the would-be receivers of dividends.
So we have to face the fact that if we are
to receive what is due from Germany, we
must first help it become again a great indus
trial nation, for apart from a trifling total of
gold and foreign securities, payments will have
to be in kind. Therefore, Germany must man
ufacture and ship its goods. It must also find
buyers, otherwise it cannot pay. It follows
that the acceptance of such payments forces
the allies to trade with it, wJiich will involve
admitting German products nito our markets.
Even this, we must remember, will be useless
unless we,, the allied peoples, despite resolu
tions to the contrary, buy freely the things
that are "made in Germany." If we do not
do this, or if we render it impossible for Ger
many to compete with us in the world's mar
ketsthen we must sacrifice Germany's ob
ligations to us.
Sanity further tells us that no people will
continue to work and strive without re"'rd or
hope, and it follows that Germany must
permitted to regain an industrial organization
adequate to produce a surplus of commodities
large enough to meet indemnity instalments,
"but also to provide its own people with suf
ficient present and future comfort to induce
and enable them to put forth their maximum
effort."
It may be urged that the interest of the
United States in Germany is not as vital as
that of other countries for the reason that
comparatively little of the reparation money
is to be paid to us. In truth it is six on one
and half dozen of the other, because the coun
tries to be reimbursed by Germany are indebt
ed to us for loans advanced and their ability to
meet the interest and pay off the principal
will depend in great part on what they get
from Germany.
A colossal war debt has been piled up in
all the belligerent countries, for which Ger
many must be held responsible, and the only
way the burden can be lightened is to make
Germany pack the load. Furthermore, the
only way Germany can possibly pay up is by
increasing its capacity to produce and thus
producing far and beyond its own needs. Our
interest is in a quick reconstruction of Ger
many just as it is in the reconstruction of all
the other war-weakened countries.
President and Daylight Saving.
President Wilson has vetoed the repeal of
the daylight saving law because "it served the
convenience" of the many communities of the
country in a way which gave all but universal
satisfaction." The source of information to
which the president has access are unknown,
but probably are deemed by him reliable.
However, he surely is not well informed as
to the sentiment generally extant, if not wholly
controlling the agricultural industry of the
great Missouri valley, to refer to only a single
region. Here the farmers have almost unani
mously disregarded the time schedule set by
the law, and are operating on the old time.
These men are not in any sense contumacious,
or lacking in reverence for law, nor can anyone
question their patriotism. They simply realize
the fallacy of calling 6 o'clock in the morning
7. and trying to regulate work that is controlled
by sun in a way that will correspond with a
schedule established in Washington.
It may not have reached the ears of the
president that at the recent convention of the
American Federation of Labor at Atlantic City,
the delegates voted down a resolution favor
ing the continuance of the law. At that time
coal miners, iron and steel workers, and many
other craftsmen denounced the law. Mr. Wil
son may have convinced himself that the inno
vation is popular because it was supported as
a war measure, when the public was content to
try anything Jhat might help to win. but he cer
tainly has misjudged the opinion of the farmers
in this part of the world. The law does not
save daylight, but actually wastes it in the great
grain fields of the west.
War League or Peace League?
Clemenceau has turned a ray of light on a
part of the League of Nations not hitherto
much illuminated. Addressing the committee
of the Chamber of Deputies, he congratulated
France on the treaties guaranteeing safety
against aggression by Germany, and then he
said: "The French government must endeavor
within the league organization to secure the
adoption of the amendment proposed by Leon
Bourgeois, establishing a military and naval
staff in the league."
If the league is not to have power to de
termine, but only to advise as to war, why
should it be equipped with a military and naval
staff? If it has such a department, will it not
be supreme over all national military establish
ments? How can these questions be answered
to the satisfaction of Americans, who have been
taught to regard the covenant as a guaranty of
peace.
To be sure, the Bourgeois amendment has
not yet been incorporated in the covenant, but
here is the great French statesman advocating
its urgency before the treaty is finally ratified
by his own government. Is it a war league, or
a peace league?
Keeping Gernuh potash under the ban
means help for Nebraska, but how long will
the administration hold it there against the
pressure of the southern planters who want
cheap fertilizer, ub matter whence it comes?
Views and Reviews
Basic Principle of Federal
and State Constitutions
As the time approaches for the preliminary
steps toward Nebraska's coming constitutional
convention, a little more talk is being heard of
the subjects that the convention may take up.
A number of "big questions are bound to be
projected the general frame-work of the state
government, the scope of legislative powers,
the reorganization of the judiciary, a just sys
tem of taxation, a more efficient public school
establishment, just to mention a few. The
chief obstacle to intelligent discussion of these
problems, as I find it, is the general lack of in
formation as to what our present constitution
provides and distorted ideas of the functions
and operation of the government and this,
among those who would naturally be expected
to be tolerably well posted. Because their
profession has to deal with the laws enacted
by virtue of the constitution, the lawyers seem
to be the only ones who have frequent occasion
to refer to it, and even they as a rule look to
only one thing at a time in connection with
the particular case they may be investigating.
I once asked a man who sat upon the bench
for many years whether he had ever given at
tention to a certain provision of the constitu
tion and he frankly answered, "No. I never
had occasion to study that section. I am sure
no point was ever raised under it in any suit
I ever tried." The lawyers, however, under
stand the basic principle of constitution-making
where the laymen for the most part do not
grasp it. What I mean is that under our form
of government our federal constitution is a
delegation of power, while a state constitution
is a limitation of power. In other words, the
federal president and congress can do only
what the constitution expressly or by fair im
plication permits, while the state authorities
and more particularly the state legislature may
do anything which the constitution does not
prohibit. This is the explanation therefore of
the long and the short constitutions, the
lengthy documents indicating that the people
in those states do not want to trust the officers,
whom they create, to act for them except under
detailed directions. People who say they want
a short constitution should understand that it
means fixing only the broad outlines of the
government in the constitution and giving the
public officers wide discretionary powers while
holding them to strict accountability in their
exercise.
Rev. A. F. Sherrlll, who has been revisiting
Omaha after 20 years in other fields, was for
20 years, as pastor of the First Congregational
church, one of the leading ministers of this
city. Now nearing his 80th year, he came to
Omaha in 1869 and remained until 1889, being
here through what may be called the formative
period of the city, during which time he was
active in all the movements for the educational
and moral improvement of the community. It
must have been, as he says, an eye-opener for
him to come back and see the Omaha of today
in contrast with the Omaha of which he was
a part.
The present First Congregational church
at Nineteenth and Davenport, at the time hailed
as a palatial edifice, was erected just before
Dr. Sherrill severed his connection with the
church, and nearly all the other Congregational
churches of Omaha were outgrowths of his
congregation, the one on St. Mary's avenue,
which has just been reunited, being the product
of a factional division and secession. The
Congregational church has always been strong
in Omaha because it has had strong men in
its ministry strong in the earlier days as well
as now. Dr. Sherrill's pastorate here was al
most coincident with the first 20 years of The
Bee. and I feel safe in saying that he has the
distinction of having commanded more space
in The Bee for his sermons than has any other
one minister who ever occupied an Omaha
pulpit.
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.
The week brought news of the death of C.
P. R. Williams, who was one of the old-timers
on The Bee, although not associated with the
paper for many years. Familiarly known as
"Charlie" Williams, he was a printer and fore
man of the first composing room and genial
and popular, but was with us only a short time.
He later located at Grand Island and for a
dozen years or more served as an internal
revenue agent for the government, a position
which he filled with the happy faculty for mak
ing and keeping friends even among those he
had to call to account. He was always close
to my father during his lifetime when he al
ways counted on the loyalty of "Charlie" Williams.
I have received a copy of the book, "Roose
velt," written by George Sylvester Viereck,
who won undying fame as a boy poet and eter
nal odium as the editor of "The Fatherland."
The book contains a lot of interesting docu
ments and other information, but in true
Viereck type tells more about Viereck than it
does about Roosevelt. The very first sentence
particularly, is characteristic, "This book, dear
reader," the author confides, "will be a delight
ful secret between us. It will not be reviewed
in the American press. It will not even be
mentioned." Now I do not hesitate to men
tion the book, but only to disabuse the Viereck
mind of the delusion that he is the victim of an
air-tight conspiracy of silence and that the
overpowering forces of oppression and perse
cution have picked him out for their limitless
wrath. In fact, I referred to his reference to
me in connection with the Roosevelt (1912)
episode at the time it appeared as a periodical
installment, now incorporated into the book.
The main point now sought to be made is that
Colonel Roosevelt was an equally ardent ad
mirer of Emperor William and of things Ger
man until after the outbreak of the war, when
the colonel, despite entreaties and pressure
from former champions, denounced the invasion
of Belgium and issued a clarion call to lovers
of liberty to ward off the menace of militarism
while Viereck took up the cudgels for kultur.
inviting the eventual cudgelling of himself. To
me knowing the Viereck of old and appreciat
ing his high literary ability, though never in
sympathy with his propaganda exploits, the sad
part is that he seems still convinced of the
rectitude and righteousness of his course and,
judging from this book, to look for literary
martyrdom as a welcome recompense.
Physical Exercise and Physiologic
Fitness.
(Journal Amer. Med. Assoc.)
Enthusiasm for an end or object
that is unquestionably good some
times defeats its own purpose by en
couraging extremes of performance
which damage rather than improve.
This has doubtless often been true
of athletics. Pursued ostensibly to
promote personal welfare, physical
exercise is not infrequently carried
to a point of overdoing which re
sults in ultimate injury rather than
benefit.
At the present time the value of
exercise in the development of good
physique is being menaced we fear
by the extreme claims of propagan
dists whose chief aim is to exploit
the physical unfitness of the average
American business man for their
own personal advantage. Widely
advertised systems of exercise, gym
nasiums for the "busy man," phy
sical training "institutes," and
work-to-be-fit wonders have become
part of an organized commercial ef
fort to "save"the lethargic Ameri
can gentleman.
Possibly many of these schemes
represent a wholesome beneficial in
fluence. A serious difficulty lies in
the lack of suitable criteria as to
the benefits deriver; or rather in the
failure to recognize where the limi
tation of muscular effort lie for the
untrained. Perhaps some index will
be found In the recent studies on
aviators. In an address before the
Harvey society, Henderson pointed
to the increasing frequency among
aviators of a condition of "all-stale-ness."
This is described as the ef
fect of repeated slight oxygen de
ficiency of a person who does not
become acclimatized. It is a condi
tion, Henderson says, closely similar
to, perhaps identical with, "over
training" or staleness, the physical
and nervous impairment of athletes.
The Manual of the Medical Re
search Laboratory of the War de
partment's air service states that the
ability to endure comfortably and
well high altitudes is dependent on
the ease and quickness with which
the adaptive responses in the
breathing, the blood and the circu
lation take place. An explanation
of the difference in reaction ob
served among the members of a
group of men when at a high alti
tude is to be found in the degree
of individual, physical fitness. In
persons damaged by disease, over
work, unhycienic living or weak
ened by inactivity and by loss of
sleep, the power of adjustment is
as a rule below par. The normal
equilibrium of the body is so nicely
adjusted that under usual conditions
the physiologic balance is largely
maintained by adjustments that are
made with little or no expenditure
of energy. There is a certain range
of greater or less breadth through
which the external factors of the
environment may be varied and yet
be met by an automatic adjustment
of the physiologic processes in the
body which will preserve the vital
balance of the mechanism. But be
yond a certain point, specific for
each organism, changes in the ex
ternal conditions will necessitate
more radical alterations which will
tax the compensating mechanisms
to the utmost capacity in order to
prevent disaster. Theoretically the
organism which has been called on
repeatedly to make a certain kind
of adjustment will be the one most
capable of responding when an ex
trordinary demand is made.
Translating these observations
from the new physiology of aviation
to the physiology of training for
fitness in everyday life, we are prob
ably justified in concluding that the
test of exercise as a beneficent per
formance lies in the rib vsinlnffin ad
justments that it induces. If the
neart reduces its rate of beating and
is less sensitivp in moHArafa
tion, the training is commendable.
Trainine should make rh hoar, tnH
other muscles work better and en
dure fatiguing exercises better than
the untrained heart does. Conse
quently, if the heart reacts exces
sively as a .result of work; if there
is a rapid rise in pulse rate which
returned only after a long interval
to its normal, the fundamental aim
of exercise for health has not been
accomplished. The symptoms of an
overtaxed mechanism are at hand.
However advantageous vigorous
training may.be in the great major
ity of cases, failure to adjust to the
increased demands of work is al
ways a signal to desist and an in
dication that other modes of per
fecting the organism should be
sought.
Tipperary
A Mississippi Function .
The nation has been told at some length of
one of the most successful lynchings that the
south has witnessed of late and knows it was
staged in Ellisville, Miss. As usual, the per
son lynched was a negro who, it was alleged,
had assaulted a white woman, but what sets
the lynching in a class by itself is the fact that
the governor of the state declined to interfere,
saying that "nobody can keep the inevitable
from happening."
Governor Bilbo, one observes, says in ef
fect that Allah is great and the negro will be
killed in any event, which is exactly what hap
pened, indicating that the governor of Missis
sippi understands his own people thoroughly
and does not propose to interfere with their
own peculiar activities. It was nothing to him
that the law would have punished the man had
the law been invoked; he was as indifferent to
that fact as to the fact that it was a part of
his business to see that law is honored in his
state. To these things he has proved himself
indifferent. The governor and the state' alike
have made an ill name for themselves Hart
ford Courant
THE INTERRUPTED BATTLE.
" (Drawn from Real Life.)
Back to a eounty-seat town of the yes
terday Runneth the picture I'd throw on the
screen.
MJ on Its forum, with frontier decorum,
The crowd is awaiting for court to con
vene. What are they saying that might be of
Interest:
"Homesteaders murder'd the bodlea
were burn'd!"
"Mitchell and Ketchum, that Olive gans
Btretch 'em!"
The cattlemen's rights of domain are
concern'd.
Through this assemblage the local pritt
pugilist
Elbows his search for a prowess display;
Eyeing all strangers, till one of the
"rangers"
This case has attracted, stands square in
his way. '
Foemen more equal ne'er met on a battle
field: Onlooker's heart-bests are audible while
Speeches aggressive and tokens expressive
Are passing between them with never a
smile.
Blows are the sequence: yes. heavy and
plentiful;
Each for some vantage is striving In
vain :
Bleeding and breiilhless, with courage
that's deathless.
They pause for a moment, then "at It"
again.
Someone Is veiling: "Say! What are they
fighting for?"
Must be to settle some terrible grudge!
Fought here an hour" That voice augura
power.
And following close comes "his honor."
the judge.
"Fight,--if vou've got to: but let me of
ficiate; Make it four rounds, to a win or draw."
Form In a circle, you fellows, my clerk'll
Be timekeeper; let's go according to
law"'
All but that timekeeper now are !:. ;eadi
ness ;
He has no timepiece to meet the demand.
"Here you are, stranger, take this!" says
the ranker.
Exhibiting one with a spill-second hand.
"Yes." cried his rival. or this one. the
mato to It!
Look at that picture there! Whose faco
is that?"
"That Is my mother!" "And mine!" says
the oth"r;
"And you are my brother! My lost
brother rat!"
Gifts, and the giver call'd hence from
her loneliness!
Back to a parting their memories run;
Each on his mission bore this admonition,
"Each psrt of a second GOD sees thee,
my son!"
ISAAC A. KILGORE.
Fremont, Ntb ;
Omaha. July 19.To the Editor
of "The Bee: The following article
appeared in an Omaha paper of
8th inst. under the caption, "Tip
perary Sinn Fein is Outlawed:"
"Sinn Fein organizations and
clubs of Irish Volunteers In Tip
perary county have been proclaimed
illegal on account of murders and
crimes resulting from Irish activi
ties, according to a government
statement, the proclamation said.
It is impossible to resist the con
clusion that Sinn Fein and kindred
associations have been formed to
overthrow the constitutional gov
ernment of Ireland by acts of ter
rorism and violence against officers
of the law.
Commenting on the Tipperary
proclamation, The Daily Graphic
said: "Chief Secretary MacPher
son's lists of crimes make it diffi
cult to realize we are not reading
stories of bolshevik Russia." A
compromise with murderers is im
possible, said the Graphic. De
Valera has nothing to learn about
lynch law from the hero worship
pers of America.
The above Is very palatable to
the English taste. However the
Daily Graphic and kindred sheets
failed to be impressed by the fol
lowing outrages, committed by the
English garrison in the same county
(Tipperary) during the months of
March and April of the present
year: One hundred and fourteen
deportations. 10 of whom were
young women under 20 years of
age, their whereabouts being un
known to their parents; nine deaths
which the various juries declared
to be willful murders; 150 impris
onments for political speeches.
These men are held in Jail without
any charges being preferred against
them. Bombing of Clonmel and Ne
nah, causing the deaths of thrfee
persons and the wounding of sev
eral score. Rape by two officers of
the Yorkshire Rifles, whose punish
ment was promotion in the ranks
as commanders of the garrisons of
Cork and Waterford, respectively.
Prohibition of citizens leaving their
own homes after 8:30 p. m. Im
prisonment of farmers for going
into the cities without a permit to
dispose of their produce or to buy
food for their children. , Military
permits for people, be they Catholic
or Protestant, for attending divine
service on Sunday. I believe this
will compare very favorably with
the alleged atrocities of the "Hun"
during any two months o ftheir oc
cupation of northern France or Bel
gium. JOHN A. M'CHRYSTAL.
The Ijeasue of Nations.
Richmond, Ky.. July 1. To the
Editor of The Bee: President Wilson
has Joined with government officers
of Eneland, France, Italy, and Japan ,
in framing a league of nations to
enforce peace, which if ratified by
the United States senate, will de
prive our American people of a
portion of their sovereignty, and
partially destroy the independence
of the United States.
He has combined the league
with the peace treaty in such a way
that it is difficult, if not impossible
for the senate to separate the
league from the peace treaty, so as
to amend it.
Hut some of our senators have
declared that they intend to try and
separate the league from the peace
treaty, and then amend it in such
a way as to make it leave the
sovereignty of our people and the
independence of our country unim
paired. These facts make an urgent call
upon all Americans to do what they
can to support our senators in every
effort they make to preserve the
full sovereignty of our people and
the complete Independence of these
United States.
Doubtless it is true that England,
Italy and Japan want the league In
its present form to be ratified by
the senate, since this would give
American soldiers and money to
help to preserve the independence
of these countries, and to maintain
their sovereigns upon thrones.
But the fact that these foreign
countries want the league ratified
in its present form would not
justify our. senators in doing it,
since this would diminish the sov
ereignty of our people and the in
dependence of our country.
If our senators should find that
it is impossible for them to sep
arate the league from the peace
treaty so that they can amend it,
they can refuse tc, ratify these two
combined treaties, for they posess
a constitutional power to reject any
treaty that the president negotiates.
Hence the sovereignty of our peo
ple and the independence of these
United States depend upon the vir
tue, the loyalty, the patriotism and
the intelligence of our senators.
MRS. JAMES BENNETT.
rmnav
The Iny We Celebrate.
August F. Specht. registrar, office
of 'ity health commissioner, born
in Cnicago. 111.. I860
' Dr. H. W. Allwlne, dentist, born
1885.
Rt Hon. Walter Hume Long,
first lord of the admiralty in the
British government, born at Bath,
K'igland, 85 years ago.
Sidney Webb, eminent English
economist and writer orr social and
industrial problems, born in London,
60 years ago.
Dr. Mary E. Woolley, president of
Mt. Holyoke college, born at South
Norwalk", Conn., 56 years ago.
William J. Hurlnut, author of
several successful plays, born at
Pelviilere, 111., 37 years ago.
Governor Carl E. Mllllkeri. who
has been endorsed by the republi
cans of Maine for the vice presi
dential nomination, born at Pitts
field, Me., 41 years ago.
Thirty Years Ago In Omaha.
Offictrs of Ruth lodge No. 1.
Daughters of Rebekah, were In
stalled at I. O. O. F. hall. A large
delegation was present from Pfcitts
mouth. New officers are: Miss
Humve, Miss Natalie Bernstein. Mrs.
Mary Osburn and Mrs. Rebecca
Llvesey.
The various Nebraska boards of
trade have formed an association
for the purpose of advertising Ne
braska. George W. Llninger and
W. N. Nason of Omaha are presi
dent u nd secretary, respectively.
Louis and Arthur . Metx, ac
companied by Valentine Dumperth,
are on their way to Europe.
3mtl Brandeis has rtturned from
Detroit, where he attended the wed
ding of his brother. Arthur, to Miss
Zerllna Friedman.
FROM HERE AND THERE.
A woman's chance of marriage is
greatest between the ages of 20 and
25 years, when 52 per cent of the
marriages take place.
British merchant shipping sunk
by the Germans during the war is
officially estimated at 2.197 vessels,
having an aggregate tonnage of 7,
638,020. In the White House there are
about 175 miles of electric wires,
providing for 3,000 incandescent
lights, together with a call-bell sys
tem and a private telephone system
for th use of the executive house
hold. A severe headache is a common
complaint with the bear. When at
tacked acutely, he will amble along
to the nearest hollow tree and smell
out the bees, who in turn become
highly indignant and sting the in
truder unmercifully. But the bear
doesn't mind. With a snort and
shrug he ambles off home again.
His headache has been cured by the
bee stings.
Once upon a time the Dutch peo
ple were tulip-mad, fabulous prices
were paid for bulbs, and fortunes
were lost and won. Today tulip
growing is a steady industry in
Holland and every, acre of land on
a tulip farm is reputed to be worth
$2,500. The ground is first fertilized
and planted with potatoes, so that
the manured land may not be too
rich for the bulbs, then tulips are
planted the second year. Offshoots
develop on the parent bulbs, and it
is he breaking up of one root into
many, and developing the shoots,
that makes most of the business on
the Dutch flower farms. j
ODD AND INTERESTING.
Fie is considered a sacred num
vcr among the Chinese.
Persons not vaccinated are not
allowed to vote in Norway.
In Iceland whistling la forbidden
as a breach of divine law.
The xkin of the whale is in place
as much a two feet thick.
Every square mile of the sea is
estimated to tontaln about 120,000,
ono fish.
There are fewer daily newspapers
in Spain than in any other country
of Europe.
It is a singular fact that, while
hares are excellent swimmers, rab-'
bits cannot swim.
The starfish has no nose, but the
n-hole of Its underside is endowed
with a sense of smell.
Cigars that are sometimes 18
Inches in length are smoked by the
natives in the Philippines.
The largest yield of bone from a
single whale was taken in 1883, and
amounted to three 3,110 pounds.
In the early part of the 19th
century more than 200 offenses
were punishable with death in
England.
The atmosphere of Zululand is
so clear that it is said objects can
be seen by starlight at a distance
of seven miles.
For fifty years the famous
diamond mines at Kimberly have
yielded an average return worth
more than $20,000,000 a year.
In the Argentine Republic if a
man engaged to marry hesitates be
yond a reasonable time in leading
his fiancee to the altar he Is heavily
fined.
The highest steam -navigated body
of water in the world is Lake Tlti
caca, which lies at an altitude of
12.545 feet, partly n Peru and
partly in Bolivia.
WOMEN SHAVE
UNKNOWINGLY
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from the sarftee of tee akin tb
rcanlt U tie aaaae aa sharing. The
only cammon-acase war to rrmm
hair la to attack It nuer the akin.
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llqala. doea thin by abaorotloa.
Only senntne DeMlraele kaa a
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urn In plain wrapper on receipt of
price;
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left us we realize that after the funeral
those who are living must be cared for.
It becomes necessary to inquire into the
cost of the funeral arrangements. We
will talk it over with you and assure you
that you will not be overcharged.
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SHORT TALES.
The shamrock was adopted as the
national emblem of Ireland because
St. Patrick selected it in order to
explain to the Irish the doctrine of
the Trinity.
Among the members of the canine
kingdom there are three varieties
that never bark the Austraillan
dog, the Egyptian shepherd dog,
and the "lion-headed" dog of Tibet.
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