THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, JULY 15, 1919.
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You should know that
Omaha's live stock receipts have
grown from 4,365,550 head in 1900
to 8,742,058 in 1918.
You save a quarter each time you shave
yourself now.
What is the law to a policeman, when he
feels like making a search?
All crop reporis promise Nebraska a bounti
ful yield, so why be downcast?
Lincoln wants quicker train service, but is it
nice to encourage a desire to get away from
there?
If Mr. Bryan wants to make the race riding
a cross between the camel and the donkey,
he will have no trouble getting Nebraska's permission.
The new city physician agrees with The Bee
that the council's method of handling the gar
bage problem is bad. Maybe we will get some
action now.
It js up to somebody to take hold of the ice
situation with a real firm grasp. Citizens are
entitled to service, and proper authority should
see that they get it.
, .Restoration of mail service to central
Europe will xlo much to bring about better re
lations, for what the people need now is the
close touch of personal correspondence.
"Still up and going strong," is the report
to The Bee from balloon No. 2, indicating the
determination of its occupants to keep on sail
ing. A few new records for Fort Omaha will
look good.
Great Britain is about to receive an object
lesson in economics, to the effect that the cost
of producing coal can not be increased without
putting up the price to the consumer. This is
too often overlooked.
' Making historic spots around Omaha for
the edification of automobile tourists and others
should be encouraged. And, by that same token,
most of them would have greater attention than
is now bestowed on anv.
The democrats have made sure that Ne
braska will not have a business administration
until after 1920. Some day the voters will get
tired of the obstructive tactics of the reac
tionary party and its leaders.
"Mr.' Lansing says: "I leave for home to
night, pleased but not overcomplacent with the
owtcome." What do you, mean, Mr. Secretary?
Have you not had the assurance of your chief
that the way has been cleared?
Of course, when the senior democratic
member of the foreign relations committee is
spending a few days at his summer house at
a fashionable seacoast resort, the duty of lead
ership falls on the next man. It is not that the
administration has asked a change in the sen
ate; it just happened that way.
Nonpartisan League Losses
Radical movements have their "natural his
tory," as men of science would say. The re
sults of the special referendum in North Dakota
on the set of statutes seven in number en
acted by the legislature of that state to give
effect to the principles of the Nonpartisan
league, a political organization decidedly so
cialistic in its aims and methods, are interest
ing and illuminating from the point of view of
a "naturalistic" study of politics.
The league appears to have carried all its
measures, but by majorities only one-half as
large as those it received in the election last
November. The revolt of several high offi
cials who were elected by the league, hut who
could not approve some of its "advanced" pro
posals notably the act for a state bank to be
managed by politicians accounts to some ex
tent for the losses sustained, but two other
factors evidently have played an important part
in weakening the league's grip on the state.
. In the first place, where the farmers have
enjoyed prosperity the league vote has declined
heavily, while in a corner of the state in which
the farmers have had four successive crop fail
ures the league has retained its hold. Good
crops, high wages and substantial bank ac
counts militate everywhere against destructive
or otherwise un-American forms of radicalism.
North Dakota, despite some alleged peculiar
conditions that have made it radical, remains
It was not very clubby of Mike Clark to go
out and catch the culprit while the police were
framing alibis.
Crowds at Fort Omaha Sunday learned that
army ballooning is not such a tame sport as
some might think.
Colorado letter carriers are frank at least,
but it will be a long time before Burleson
grants their desires.
f Why bother the detectives over a little thing
like a murder, when there is a probability of a
pint of whisky escaping detection?
Mr. Wilson makes good on the "daylight
saving" fad, but be would help a lot more if he
would show how to save on something we have
less of.
A WISE DECISION.
Announcement by Governor McKelvie that
he will not ask the legislature to avert the
threatened referendum on the administrative
code law by repassing that measure at the com
ing session, will put where it belongs the re
sponsibility for keeping the people from having
the legislation they voted for at the last elec
tion. The governor declares that it was at his
own instance that the law was not originally
passed with the emrgency clause because he
wanted sufficient time to organize the depart
ments properly and had no thought that any
political party or machine would resort to the
referendum by which 10 per cent of the voters
vfould defeat the expression of a decisive ma
jority. What throws a sharper light on the un
scrupulous character of the democratic partisan
clique fomenting the referendum is the esti
mate that under the law requiring the full
text of the act to be mailed to every voter in
the state, this procedure will cost the tax
payers approximately upwards of $1 50,000 for
printing and postage alone. To hold up the
operation of this law and force it to another
vote, without a chance to make good in prac
tice, the referendum promoters apparently have
no compunctions about saddling this colossal
and needless expense upon the public, an ex
pense which could be easily avoided without
abating the purpose of a popular vote upon it,
by letting the law become effective and then
initiating its repeal. We doubt whether the
people of Nebraska will feel like approving
such expensive folly.
The decision of the governor not to include
the code bill in his special session is, all things
considered, decidedly the part of wisdom. Per
haps it would also be wise, in view of the cir
sumstances, to consider anew whether a special
session for the sole purpose of ratifying the
suffrage amendment and the outlay involved
are warranted at this time in the certain knowl
edge that ratification by Nebraska will not
not come anywhere near making the necessary
thirty-six states and that final adoption will not
be hastened or retarded whether Nebraska acts
this month or later on.
Scandal in Spruce Production.
Some of the romance of spruce timber pro
duction for war uses may be kicked galleywest
by the iconoclastic process of a congressional
inquiry. The great forests of the Pacific north
west contained the finest timber in the world
so far as airplane requirements are concerned.
Nothing else equalled the straight-grained
spruce of this region, and to its production
much attention was given. How it mounted in
price from somewhere around $65 to $650 per
thousand feet has been told, with a wealth of
exciting detail descriptive of the superhuman
energy expended in the great woods. The Loyal
Legion of Loggers, or whatever it was, set
up to combat the I. W. W. and other pro-German
agencies and influences in the timberland.
did loyl service. But now comes a charge
that all this splendid work was accompanied by
wastage that was criminal. Uncle Sam was
footing the bill, and consequently millions of
dollars were thrown away. The inquiry should
go to the bottom, that justice may be done, to
the men engaged in the work if they are inno
cent, and to the public if they are not.
Railroad Rate Control.
Judge Lovett, in his discussion of the rail
road problem, puts not a little emphasis on
the proposition that control of rates, both pas
senger and freight, must be in the hands of the
Interstate Commerce commission. This, he
says is necessary to avoid the unjust discrimin
ation that rests on the activity of state com
missions empowered to fix tariffs within state
boundaries. In this nothing new is presented.
It was recognized long ago, and in the repub
lican national platform of 1916 a definite prom
ise was was made to remedy the situation.
Experience under federal control has made
even clearer the need for centralized authority
over transportation. Competition without un
fair discrimination is possible, but the reverse
was too often the condition when state boards
vied in an effort to secure advantage. The en
tire fabric of rates needs overhauling, but it
will be much better done under supervision of
one than of forty-eight boards.
The workmen's compensation . law. which
goes into effect this week, is vastly bettered by
amendments made last winter, but still has
spots that might be improved. Progress is
being made, however
it
Commoness" As An Asset
Richard Spillane in the Philadelphia Ledger.
An old farmer, collarless, shabbily clad, his
cotton socks hanging over the top of his shoes,
sat himself down on the steps of a southern
bank at 7 o'clock one morning. Some one,
knowing that the bank would not open for an
hour or two, explained the situation to him
and asked if he was waiting to see some one.
He replied that he was, that he wanted to see
Percy Johnston. The townsman asked him why
it was that so many farmers liked to come and
chat with Johnston. "Oh," replied the farmer,
"it's jes' because he's so durned common." This
same Percy Johnston is today senior vice pres
ident of the aristocratic Chemical National bank
of New York, where he is introducing some of
the "commonness," otherwise humanness,
which appealed to the farmer. Is there not a
pointed moral for bankers as a class in this
anecdote? Have not our banks, as a rule,
failed to win a warm place in the hearts of the
rank and file of the people in their community?
Has there not been too much marble and not
enough "commonness?"
Pleading for the Peace Treaty.
Senator Swanson's "keynote" speech in be
half of the peace treaty with its league of Na
tions feature does not clarify the situation in
the least. In the main, the new spokesman for
the administration has merely repeated what al
ready has been said, dealing in generalities and
avoiding particularization. What the American
people would like to know is just in what man
ner they are obligated by the document. How
much of a mortgage will be put on the future
of the country? The citizens have the courage !
to face the truth, and would like to know the J
facts.
Mr. Wilson, when he laid the treaty before
the senate, indulged only in broad and general
references to its contents and the difficulties
under which agreement was reached by the con
ferees at Paris, but did express indirectly a will
ingness to discuss in detail its provisions. This,
perhaps, will come later. For the present, it
may be accepted that the opening of the de
bate is not to be taken as dealing with the con
tents of the treaty in their minute and separate
application, but only to outline the underlying
principles. If this is so, the senator's address
serves the purpose.
Other senators will be heard, however, for
the one certain thing in connection with the
treaty just now is that it will be thoroughly
discussed. It is unfair, however, for the sup
porters of the president to allege that Ameri
cans will be skulkers if they decide finally to
act contrary to the belief of the group that
favors ratification without reservation.
Americans want permanent peace if it can
be had without sacrificing national honor and
sovereignty. They are not "too proud to fight."
They are willing and eager to help the other
nations of the world to the utmost, but they
would like to see some settle down to the
legitimate occupation of helping themselves.
And they are not in a mood to accept a treaty
the terms of which they do not fully under
stand, just because it is presented to them with
the assurance that it will bring peace.
The foregoing is from, the Central Banker.
It is not likely that any collarless hayseed will
plant himself on the doorstep of the Chemical
National bank and wait for the doors of that
venerable and remarkably rich bank to open.
If he did a crowd would collect, a "cop" would
appear and the agriculturist would be hurried
over to the city hall police station and get a
scare that would rob him of a year's growth.
And yet the Chemical needs fresh blood and
smiling, obliging officers about as much as any
big bank in America. It has been too stilted.
It has had such a reputation for wealth that
people lower their voices when they speak of it.
It was not always so. A quarter of a cen
tury ago the person who carried the largest
account in the Chemical was "Shanghai" Pierce
of Pierce Station, Tex. "Shang" was the rich
est man in Texas. He was about six foot six,
had been raised on the prairie and when he
spoke you could hear him in the next county.
"Shang" had his own private bank in Texas
under the name of Weekes, McCarthy & Co.,
at Galveston, but carried large deposits with
the Kountze Brothers at Omaha and the Chem
ical at New York. When he came north and
called at the Chemical it was so distressing
to some of the folk, but a joy to others. The
echo of Shang's "how-dy" could be heard across
the park. If he started to tell how hot it was
in Texas the people began to gather in Broad
way and spread the story that something ter
rible was happening in the bank.
But "Shang" didn't call often. Once a year
or two was the average. Next to "Shang" the
largest individual depositor was "Hetty"
Green.
"Shang" had ranches in various parts of
Texas. His brother, Jonathan, had one of sin
gular charm in Matagorda county. Its western
boundary was the Tres Pelacios river; its east
ern was another stream; its southern, Mata
gorda bay, and its northern a 13-mile "fence" of
Cherokee rose bushes about 40 feet wide at the
base and rising to a height of 30 feet. From
Texas "Shang" used to drive his cattle north
to Kansas City or Omaha. In the Indian na
tion he had a big ranch, where he rested and
fattened his cattle. That ranch district now is
a city and has skyscrapers a-plenty. You may
know it is Tulsa, Okl.
Friend of the Soldier
Replies will be given in this
column to questions relating
to the soldier and his prob
lpms, in and out of the army.
Names will not be printed.
Ask The Bee to Answer.
Servife Chevrons.
Doughboy You are entitled to
wear two sold chevrons, denotins
a year's overseas service, but you
should not mix these with a silver
chevron to denote an additional six
months' service in this country. The
chevrons should be worn with uni
form only. You are privileged to
wear the uniform for four months
after leaving the service, and then
only on proper occasions.
Advanced Headquarters.
Regular Advanced headquarters
of the American forces in Germany
stiU is at Treves. General Pershins
has removed general headquarters
from Chaumont to Paris, but this
does not affect the status of the
troops in Germany. It was stated
several weeks ago that the forces in
Germany were to be supplied after
July 1 via Antwerp and the Khine,
to save cost of transportation across
France.
DREAMLAND
ADVENTURE
By DADDY.
"BUMBLE BEE BUZZ."
(PeRgy and Billy pave Bumble Bee Buzz
from Kiiiff Bird and hecomo honey bees
when he ulveg them a wish.)
It is a pretty good asset for a bank to have
a president who, for want of a better descrip
tion, is called "human." The success of the
mamoth Continental and Commercial National
of Chicago is ascribed in part to this quality
in George M. Reynolds. He comes from Pa
nola, la. His first banking experience was in
sweeping out the jerkwater country bank at
that place, polishing up the handle of the big
front door and hitching the teams of farmers
to the posts in the road in front of the bank
building.
Mr. Reynolds is bucolic. He reads more
country newspapers than any other banker in
America. He loves to read them. He is pro
foundly interested in agriculture. He knows
more farmers than any other big banker. He
is "George" to all of them and they are "Jim"
or "Pete" or "Henry" to him. They feel he
is one of them, as he is. As a result of that
closeness of its president to the farmers of the
Mississippi valley the Continental and Commer
cial has an agricultural following of tremendous
size. Without it the bank would not be the
giant it is today.
The Probable Result
The next thing of supreme interest with re
gard to the league of nations is the probable
procedure of the senate. It has been repeat
edly asserted by those who favor incorporating
reservations in the resolution of ratification
that a majority of the members are in favor
of reservations in a greater or less number.
Mr. Root has outlined certain qualifications.
Whether all of them or only a part of them
will be incorporated in the ratification resolu
tion remains to be seen. But the rule of the
senate provides that while the resolution of rat
ification must have the support of two-thirds
of the members voting, such a resolution being
before the house may be amended by a ma
jority vote. That being true and the majority
being in favor of certain amendments, those
amendments or reservations could be adopted
and made a part of the resolution of ratification
and the question would come before the house
on the adoption of the ratification resolution as
amended.
Presumably all, or practically all, who sup
ported the reservations will support the gen
eral proposition as amended and it would carry,
unless a sufficient number of those insistent
upon ratification without qualification should
vote against it. In that event, the administra
tion group clearly would be responsible for
the defeat of ratification.
In other words, the president and his sup
porters standing for ratification without quali
fication and refining the right of the senate to
give advice in accordance with its constitu
tional power would be responsible for the re
jection of the peace treaty and its incorporated
league of nations.
At the present writing, ratification with
reservations appears to be the most probable
conclusion of the whole matter. Minneapolis
Tribune.
The Day We Celebrate.
C. W. DeLamatre, attorney, born 1860.
Gwyer H. Yates, assistant cashier, United
States National bank, born 1885.
Lucien Stephens, men's furnishings, born
1861.
Viscount Northcliffe, eminent publisher and
one of the most influential figures in British
affairs, born near Dublin 54 years ago.
Franklin L. Lane, President Wilson's secre
tary of the interior, born in Prince Edward Is
land 55 years ago.
I Dr. Benjamin Ide Wheeler, the retiring
president of the University of California, born
at Randolph, Mass., 65 years ago.
Ferdinand W. Peck, noted capitalist and the
oldest native-born citizen of Chicago, born 71
years ago.
Thirty Years Ago in Omaha.
The Omaha Guards have gone into summer
camp at Spirit Lake.
Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Kurtz have moved from
the Paxton to their elegant new home in Dun
dee Place.
Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Dietz have gone to Mam
mouth Cave, Kentucky, where they will pass
the summer.
Successful applicants for grammar positions
were: Agnes George, Jennie L. Marble. Ida
E. Pinklcy, Nellie Root, Bessie Snyder, Mary
E. Brolliar.
Many Questions Answered.
Sister of Two Soldiers-r-Our last
word of the 101st balloon company
is that it is at Bordeaux, assigned
to early convoy, but no date fixed
for its departure. Its new address
is A. P. O. 705.
I. M. I. Company E, 811th pio
neer infantry, still is in France, but
is assigned to early convoy. Most
of this regiment has reached the
home station, and part of It has
been demobilized.
A Soldier's Sweetheart Graves
registration unit No. 308 is not at
tached to any division, nor is it un
der early sailing orders. Its last
address is A. P. O. 731, at Neuf
chateau. Father No farther announce
ment has been received with refer
ence to the departure for home of
the Second division. It was ordered
to prepare for sailing about
two weeks ago. The marines in this
subdivision will very likely be sent
home with the rest. It is under
stood that the some provision for re
leasing drafted or enlisted men ap
plies to the marines as to the army
service.
Arthur You should write to the
adjutant general of the army for in
formation regarding an individual
soldier. We cannot furnish it.
llary Embarkation hospital No.
2 was demobilized many weeks ago.
We can give you no information as
to what became of its members, who
have been returned to their homes
or otherwise scattered.
II. A. M. Depot service company
No. 2 is in the service of supply at
Kourpes, and is not yet under sail
ing orders.
Quartermaster Depot service
company No. 91 reached New York
last week, and will very likely be
demobilized this week. Cannot tell
you which camp it was sent to.
Mother The Fifth division has
not yet been mentioned among the
early returning forces. This applies
to all units of the division, and in
cludes evacuation amublance com
pany No. 63.
1j. It. K. The 2 2d service com
pany, engineers corps, was sent to
Camp Upton. Cannot tell you it it
has bten demobilized yet.
CHAPTER III.
In the Spider's Web.
PEGGY I5EE was startled when
she saw the two fierce eyes of
the creature hiding in the corner
of the lacy curtain. At first it look
ed like a tiger ready to spring at
any one who might come that way.
Hut a second glance showed Peggy
what it was a spider, cruel and
hungry, with his web spread to en
tangle unwary insects. To her bee
eyes it seemed just as big as a tiger
and Just as dangerous.
As she gazed at him, the spider
suddenly darted out of his den.
Peggy was startled and dodged
to one side. This is Just what
the sly old spider wanted, for
when she dodged she dodged
right Into a corner of the web she
I.adn't seen. In the flash of an eye
she was caught fast.
"Ha, what a fine catch!" laughed
the spider. "I'll have a nice plump
bee for my supper."
Peggy struggled desperately to
free herself, but the harder she
thrashed around the more she got
tangled. The fine, silky hairs seem
ed to wrap themselves around her
legs and she couldn't jerk herself
loose. Now she knew how to pity
flies she had seen caught in? spider
traps.
"Keep cool!" warned Billy Bee.
"You're doing just what the spider
wants when you struggle that way.
Break the threads one at a time."
His advice was good and Peggy
"Here Come the Worker Bees, and
They Catch Us It's Good
night for Us."
did as lie said. She quit trying to
tear herself loose by main strength,
and set about cutting the threads.
She quickly found that while she
couldn't free herself from all at
once, she could easily break them
one by one.
But that isn't what the spider
wanted her to do. When he saw
that she was a wise bee wiser than
: any he had ever caught before-he
came rushing across the web to
spin more threads around her. But
he was very, very careful not to
get near her stinger.
"Buzz-z-z-zr.-z:" hummed Billy
J Bee angrily, making a quick dash
j at the spider. Old Spider Manylegs
i stopped short. This was something
new to him to have a man bee
! defy him in his own web. He
I couldn't understand it. Maybe this
! was a new kind of man bee, one
! with a sting that would make it
mighty hot for him. Man bees
I usually didn't have stings, and the
lady bees were the real fighters, but
this chap was so bold he must have
some hidden weapon about him.
That's 'the way he figured U out
and he wasn't a bit anxious to have
a poisoned sword thrust into his
soft body. He retreated a bit and
looked Billy over.
"Bumble - umble - buz - i-x-i!"
boomed Bumble Bee Buzz. "Hurry
up. Princess Peggy Bee, old Spider
Manylegs will get you in a minute."
That fs about the worst thing that
Bumble Bee Buzz could have said,
for when Old Spider Manylegs
heard it he made up his mind that
Billy was only an ordinary man
honey bee and didn't have any pois
oned sword. Getting over his fright,
he started again for Peggy.
"Buzz-zz-zz-zz! I'll sting you!"
threatened Hilly, flying close over
Spider Manylegss' head. But now
Spider Manylegs Just grinned and
kept on going toward Peggy.
Humble Bee Buzz saw the harm
he had done, and he, too, made a
(Illicit dash at Spider Manylegs, tak
ing care, however, that he didn't
get caught in the web. Spider
Manylegs dodged, but when he saw
how Bumble Bee Buzz steered clear
of the web, he grew bolder and
made a sudden dash at Peggy. Just
before he reached her, Billy lunged
downward and bumped Spider
Manylegs on the nose, bouncing
away again before the spider could
grab him. The bump delayed the
I spider Just a moment, and In that
I moment Peggy gave a hard jerk
and pulled herself free.
Spider Manylegs was mad clear
through about losing her and also
over the bump on the nose.
"I'll get you yet," he cried, but
Peggy and Billy only laughed at
him. Bumble Bee Buzz didn't laugh
at him. He was scared of some
thing ho saw coming through the
woods.
"Quit your laughing and follow
me uuick for your lives!" he
buzzed, dashing for a hollow tree
that stood nbove the spider's web.
"Here comes the worker bees, and
If they catch us it's good-night for
us."
IN THE BEST OF HUMOR
(In the next Installment wtlt be told
how they piny a Joke on .luclfe Owl.)
Mrs. Myles And Is her husband kind
to her?
Mrs. S-ylyes Oh. very. Why. he's more
M:e a friend than a husband. Yotiker's
Statesman.
Clever Police Work.
Omaha, July 10. To the Editor
of The Bee: Last evening about 7
o'clock while Mr. Ringer's pet and
ex-chief of the moral squad was
enjoying a social visit with several
persons in front of the Forrest &
Meaney drug store at Twenty-fourth
and N streets, a rapidly driven auto
mobile struck and knocked down a
boy in plain sight of Mr. Briggs,
and not more than 30 or 40 feet
from where he was standing, and
after stopping for a brief instant,
perhaps in anticipation of some
action, or at least investigation on
the part of Mr. Ringer's favorite,
passed on south on Twenty-fourth
street, while the boy who was struck
and knocked down crawled to the
opposite curb, without any discovery
by Briggs that anything had hap
pened. Surely that man Briggs is
a great police officer.
L. DAILY.
"What's his claim to distinction?"
"A Kreat one. He created the role of
Hamlet "
"Huh?"
"In the films." Judge. I
She Oh, Carl, there was one a time,
when you used to lovingly stroke my
chin. You don't r!n It any more.
He Yes; but that was when you had
t'hlef Clerk Tiiffson has asked for an
only one. Detroit .News.
other raise, although he's been given
three In the last four months.
Office Manager He must have worked
for the railroad administration. Life.
ODD AND INTERESTING.
MUCH IN LITTLE.
German experiments have made
a textile from the fiber of a plant
similar to the North American cat
tail. An electric soldering device has
been invented that can be operated
with an automobile storage battery.
Demands for telephone service in
Japan are about 150,000 ahead of
the government's ability to supply
equipment.
The handle of a new razor strop
of the usual two-faced type is hol
lowed out to form a recess to con
tain a hone.
Brazil is coming rapidly to the
front as a shipper of manganese.
From January to June of this year
59,270 tons of this metal, valued at
$1,470,500, was exported.
Mrs. A. Sinclair of Woodstock, N.
H., caught a hen hawk In her hands
and after quite a battle succeeded
in killing it. It measured two and
one-half feet from tip to tip.
Latin America bought $24,618,
638 worth of American automobiles
last year, a gain of more than
$21,000,000 over the importations
from this country in 1912.
At a recent meeting of the board
of industries of India, held at Be
nares, the establishment of schools
was discussed for instructing ex
soldiers in motor driving and oil and
steam engine practice.
Miss Rose May Bowers, aged 16,
of Richmond, Me., recently earned
$18 in an unusual way. While out
walking she saw a young wolf at
the entrance of a den, crawled in
side after him and captured him.
The government railways, says
the Japan Advertiser for May 2,
have decided to cut a submarine
tunnel under the Shimonoseki
strait, according to the chief of the
construction bureau. It will be
started this year, and it is planned
to complete it in 1928.
Australian coal exporters are
making a strong bid for the Philip
pine market. They are offering
their product at a much lower price
than the Japanese dealers, who
have hertofore held the monopoly
in this commodity. The lowest Aus
tralian price recently quoted was
about $3.36 per ton f. o. b. mines,
while that quoted by the Japanese
was $12.75 per ton f. o. b. mines.
DAILY CARTOONETTE.
CyOSMTME uUlrVH HAS
BLOWN ME OL.H LIU
AWAY -NOW I'J-L HAVE
T'PlCW UPA NEN ONE
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WDHEDIDu,
The word Czechs should be pro
nounced as though it were spelled
"cheks."
Iowa is the corn state. She grew
400,147,000 bushels in 1918. Illi
nois was next.
The Chilean government has
taken steps to electrify three sec
tions of its railway system.
An English inventor's interlock
ing concrete piling is said to be
stronger than sheet piling made of
wood.
An Englishman has invented a
centrifugal pump directly connected
with an electric motor that runs
equally well either in or out of
water.
Forestry experts have found that
a plant growing luxuriantly in the
Philippines and heretofore thought
a weed is used in other parts ol the
Far East for the production of cam
phor. After 14 years of exeprimentlng
an Illinois mechanic has produced a
bit that bores stars, crosses, hexa
gons, triangles and holes of several
other shapes in metal as well as
wood.
Lake Bower, a Des Moines auto
mobile salesman, has been away
from home for 30 years, and in all
thitt time has never missed a Sun
day in writing to his mother or the
folks at home.
At Pittsburgh Stanislaus Trenski
and Mrs. Mary Danska returned a
marriage license that had been is
sued to them, having concluded
after talking it over that Mrs. Dan
ska's four children and Trenski's
five children together would be too
big a burden.
According to the London Times
for May 14, 1919, army horses and
mules were bringing better prices
in the United Kingdom than at the
last of April. Since the signing of
the armistice, 91,819 horses have
been 60ld at an average price of
S1S4.24, as compared with $181.97
previously reported; 2,805 mules
averaged $107.91 per head as
against the previous average of
92.45. The total amount received
fiorn the sales since the signing of
the armistice was $1 7,220,541.97.
Portugal bought 520 mules for $88,
572.12, or $170.33 per head.
In the heat of summer, owing to
expansion, a steel bridge is appre
ciably longer than it is in winter,
and at various times of the year it
may be longer on one side than on
the other, as when a hot sun plays
on one flank, and a cold wind in
pinges on the other. The "breathing
apparatus" of a bridge consists of
rollers under the feet at one end, so
that the end can move to and fro
freely according tc. the expansion
and contraction of the huge girders.
Oh, Boston! Why Have
You Not Confessed It?
Boston. There are dozens of
fashionable women residents of the
Back Bay who" have not touched
water to their bodies for the past
10 years," and as a result are pic
tures of perfect healthy So asserts
Dr. Charles E. Page, physician,
author of health books and advo
cate of the non bath doctrine.
In addition to this bathless
theory, he sounds a serious warninc
against the wearing of underwear.)
tie says:
"Leave it all off and you will
escape colds, bronchitis, influenza,
pneumont , and all the physical ail
ments tha'; are commonly suposed
to threaten the average human
being.
"Attire the body in the 'draper
ies is his injunction, meaning
drop all underwear, both woolen
and cotton. He advises men to
dress only in shirt, trousers,
suspenders, jacket, stockings and
low shoes. Wear a hat if you must
but your hair will do much better
without one."
Dr. Page is 79. and thinks be
should live to 110 or 115 and any
body, he says, can do likewise.
He (somewhat embarrassed, after the
car had stopped on a lonely road) 1
ean't start my engine; the thing won't
spark.
She Must be like some people I know.
The Olive Branch.
"No more the gonial popping of the
champairne cork."
"A tangible sign of wealth."
"Just so. But we can still have the
melodious detonation of the exploding
automobile tire." Cleveland Leader.
"Say, can you let me have five or ten "
"No "
" minutes? I think I can show you
how to make some money."
" objection, old clinp. You can have
20, if you want." New York American.
Husband Always wanting money. Tt Is
like a game of chess nothing but "check,
cheek, cheek!"
Wife But if you don't give it to me It
will still be like a game of chess, for It
will be "pawn, pawn, pawn." Pearson's
Weekly.
"So you are going to take a trip over
one of the scenic routes?"
"Yes," replied Mr. .lagsby. "I've been
traveling over that road for years."
"Why go again?"
"As the dining-car will probably be
'dry,' I may find time to glance at the
scenery." Birmingham Age-Herald.
"What Is the h-st thing to take for a
cold?" asked Smith.
"I'm not sure," replied Jones. "But the
advice of your friends is the worst thing
you can take for a cold." Knoxvllle Jour
nal and Tribune.
Dohson It was an awful trial for me
to make. that speech last night.
Clublelgh Iion't mention It; just think
what the rest of us suffered. St. Louis
Republic.
"Thanks," said the Judge; "a sweeter
draught from fairer hand "
"Yes. Interrupted Maud Muller fixing
him with a cold look; "but before you
ricle away, remember theres a one-cent
war tax on that drink." Washington Star.
"BAYER CROSS" ON
GENUINE ASPIRIN
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hut wvnu udi rtontf.
Ask for a guarantee
from the maker or
seller of any otker
piano equal to th
Mason tr5 Hamlin
guarantee.
Such a guarantee
wui not oe given
because it cannot .
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show .you
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The following is a list of
pianos to be found on our floors;
some of them we have handled
for 45 years
Kranich & Bach,
Vose & Sons, Brambach,
Kimball, Bush & Lane,
Cable-Nelson and
Hospe Piano
Cash price, or term if you prefer.
1513 Douglas Street
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"Bayer Tablets of Aspirin" to be
genuine must be marked with the
safety "Bayer Cross." Always buy
an unbroken Bayer package which
contains proper directions to safely
relieve Headache, Toothache, Ear
ache, Neuralgia, Colds and pain.
Handy tin boxes of 12 tablets cost
but a few cents at drug stores
larger packages also. Aspirin is
the trade mark of Bayer Manu
facture of Monoaceticacidester of
Salicvlicacid. Adv.
Stop Itching' Eczema
Never mind how often you have tried
and failed, you can stop burning, itching
eczema quickly by apply ing a little zemo
furnished by any druggi t for 35c. Extra
large bottle, $1.00. Hea. ing begins the
moment zemo is applit d In a short
time usually every trac ? of eczema,
tetter, pimples, rash, blackheads and
similar skin diseases will be removed.
For clearing the skin ant' making it
rigorously healthy, always we zemo, the
penetrating, antiseptic liquid It is not a
greasy salve and it does not st ain. When
others fail it is the one dependable
treatment forskin troubles ol' all kinds.
The E. W. Koee Co, Cleveland. O.
MILLIONS
Suffer from
Acid-Stomach
Millions ot people suffer year after year
trom ailments affecting practically every
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Here la the reason: poor digestion
means poor nourishment of the different
organs and tissues ot the body. The blood ia
impoverished becomes weak, thin, sluggish.
Ailment ot many kinds spring (rom such
conditions. Biliousness, rheumatism, lum
bago, sciatica, general weakness, loss oi
power and energy, headache, insomnia,
nervousness, mental depression even more
serious ailments such as catarrh and cancer
of the stomach, intestinal ulcers, cirrhosis
of the liver, heart trouhre all of these can
often be traced directly to acid -stomach.
Keep a sharp lookout forthe first symptoms
of acid-stomach indigestion, heartburn,
belching, food repeating, that awful painful
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EATON IC, the wonderful modern remedy for
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et a box from him today and ll you are Dot
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