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THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 1919. The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR ,TBC BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETOR MEMBEJt OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Ae AaaoHateri Prui t artilnh TV Ru fa mnih.v I. ctasttely entitled to Ute w for publloetlon of til news dlipetohej credited to It or not otbtrwlM erwlited la thli paw, and alio i um looal nm pubJlahad Uinu. All right of publication of out apaciu aisiwicnw are ajo raaerrea. BEE TELEPHONESi rival Brandt bchanfe. Art for tlx HTvIaw 1 flflfi Department or Particular Peraon Wanted. 1 JT 1CT ' For Night or Sunday Service Calli SOtonsl Department ..... Trier 1M0L ClRUtotloB Department ...... Tta 10081. Advertising Department ..... Tylw 1WSL. OFFICES OF THE BEEi - . 52? Offto. Bm Building. 17U end hrau. Ames 4110 North lata Rensoa 611 Unitary An. I'ounoU Bluffs 14 N. Mils Uto S51 Nona iWlfl New Tork CU Culcaee Park South 111 Vinton Walnut Out-el-Town Officii: 1M rirth Art. I Waehlngton SMf or Bldg. I Lincoln M15 Lata ran worth 3S1 N Street. J47 South llth. 819 North 40th. 1311 Q Street. 1330 R Street. JUNE CIRCULATION: Daily 64,611 Sunday 61,762 ,reult1on ,nr " month lubtorlbod and iworn to br n.aauj in'i.iuu aaenaeer. Subecribere leaving the city should have The Bea mailed to them. Address changad as oftan a requeated. You should know that Omaha's grain receipts have grown from 16,433,285 bushels in 1904 to 91,463,800 in 1918. The haughty porker is coming back. The democrats also promised to reduce the cost of living. Up in a balloon is no good place to be a thunder shower. in If you wish, you may trade with Germany now as freely as before 1914. "President" De Valera is compared to Ben Franklin, but he does nor look like him. "Joe" Tumulty vehemently denies that he is to be made postmaster general. He deserves a better fate. A secret understanding between Germany and Japan would be rather awkward just at this juncture. Italy proposes to avert a general strike by t!ie simple process of not letting it start. This will bear watching. In Italy shouts of "Viva Soviet 1" are heard. Next thing will be to change the name of "Via Wilsone" to "Via . Trotzky." Present "per cap" money in circulation is $54.28, or 1 per cent less than it was a month ago. Did you notice the difference? Government reports, more frozen meats on hand now than a year ago, and the stock is likely to increase unless the price comes down. TEST OP THE REFERENDUM LAW. Two petitions presented to the "secretary of state, asking for referendum action on acts of the legislature raise important questions as to the law. On that which challenges the ratification of the prohibition amendment to the federal constitution, the point is whether in this case the assent given by the legislature is an act subject to review by the electorate. It seems to be such. Without undertaking argument of the point, The Bee feels that the course pursued by Sec retary Amsbery is correct. Until all doubt is removed, any hesitancy that may be felt should be resolved in favor of the state. Sooner or later the courts will be asked to decide the issue, and it will be better to have this done in advance. Especially is this true,, when the purpose of the requested reference of the action of the legislature' to the voters is so palpably only to delay a result that may be foreseen. The objection lodged by the governor against the form of petition having to do with the code bill, also touches an undetermined de tail in the course of procedure. The statute requires that the text of the law sought to be held up be attached to thes petition. Obviously, this is to give the signer first-hand information as to what is contained in the measure chal lenged. Whether merely citing the title of the bill is sufficient notice of its contents, or its scope and purpose, to properly advise the voter and enable him to make up his mind definitely as to its merits may well be questioned. Merely to rush out with a petition and secure signatures, influenced by a one-sided statement of the case, does, not appear to comply with the spirit of the referendum law, and certainly falls far short of its letter. The partisan nature of the attack on the code bill is admitted, and it will do no harm to see that the political schemers who have promoted the movement conform to all the reasonable requirements of the law... Public in terests will be well served by having these questions settled before the state is put to any further expense or inconvenience. The president of the American Electric Rail way association says the cost of living is too high for the concerns. This makes it unanimous. An association of millers has been formed in Chicago, with intent to reduce the price of flour to Americans. Hurry up and let's get it over. , . Mr. Wilson has the full consent of the sen ate to start on his trip as soon and permission to go as far as he likes. It is only required that Tie leave the papers in Washington. If you have given close attention to Wil sonian politics, you will agree that the tactics of the senior democratic member of the foreign relations committee were Napoleonic. The president has been sustained in his veto of the repeal of the "daylight saving" law, but he is going to have a hard time making -the people of the middle west think he has done them a favor. ' A Los Angeles murderer will rely on a de fense of emotional insanity. The jury may tak him at his word, but it should make sure he does not get another opportunity to let his emotions boil over. . .tourists win not De auowea to overrun France this year, so the gadders will have to ?ut up with American scenery and hotel prices, ,,tll of which are high enough to suit the most expansive pocketbook. Senatorial Courtesy and the President The senate courteously refrains from laying any obstacle in the way of the president mak ing his proposed tour of the country to address the citizens in his advocacy of the League of Nations, but prefers a request that it be fur nished with papers and other information con cerning proceedings at Paris. In this way the debate at Washington1 may be carried on, while consideration will be given the treaty in com mittee, the quiz of the president being deferred until after he has concluded his speaking trip. Disclosures in connection with the Shan tung episode are such as warrant the closest scrutiny of the entire matter. It is now openly charged that Great Britain and France, while they were insisting that China enter the war, became parties to a secret compact with Japan, under which the latter government should have all of China that Germany laid claim to. China entered the war as a belligerent, did all things asked and kept good faith with the Allies, only to learn at Paris that Shantung had been awarded in advance to Japan. Americans have not been told, and maybe they never will hear, the detail of proceedings in the secret conclaves where the peace treaty was formulated. All they know is that "open covenants of peace, openly arrived at," was treated as a pretty figure of speech, having no practical application to diplomatic proceedure. This will not reconcile them ti the dismem berment of China under a treaty that is sup posed to provide security for the weakest as well as for the strongest of nations. We are told that Japan declined to sign the treaty unless given the peninsula; China re fused to sign because Japan was placated. Spe cial pleading can not alter these significant facts. Italy was deprived of Fiume under pres sure exerted by our president, who for some reason felt unable to resist or unwilling to pro voke the Japanese. The incident will stand considerable ventila tion before its odor is entirely fragrant to American nostrils. Darrell Figgis and the Gaelic North Omaha is asked to put up with the odoriferous "hog ranch" for the rest of the summer, while the council looks for relief. Some day it will take hold of the garbage ques tion and settle it right. The R-34 got home without mishap, and completed the cycle that will stand forever as . the first round trip between England, and the : United States via the air route. Wht may follow depends on man's enterprise and applied t genius. Secretary Baker has shown some signs of backbone, having denied General Ansel's re quest that all courts-martial sentences be referred to him for review. A little of this firm ness earlier in the game would have saved a , lot of scandal. Socialism in North Dakota The socialism with which North Dakota has begun to experiment is a middle class social , ism. It is an uprising against the capitalist and the banker, not by the disinherited proletariat but by a community of prosperous landowners. Between 1900 and 1910 the number of farms in the United States increased from 5,737,372 to -6,361,502, or about 11 per cent In the same period the number of farms in North Dakota '' increased from 45,000 to 74,000, or about 65 per cent In the same decade the value of farm property in the United States increased from $20,000,000,000 to $40,000,000,000, or 10 per cent, and in North Dakota the increase was from - $255,000,000 to $975,000,000. or 280 per cent The, growth of farm wealth in North Dakota "during the decade was greater even than in golden Kansas or Nebraska. If, therefore, a social revolution is under way in North Dakota, it'would be the kind of revolution which arises, not from the misery of a people, but in a com- munity that is well off and is determined to be still better off. The North Dakota experiment is of interest-as a bourgeois movement along socialistic lines; and not the least valuable les son we may wait for is to see how North Da kota) goes at the solution of its own labor prob lems in relation not only to the town worker but to- the farm laborer. New York Post. "Bone Dry" Country in Sight. Any hope the wets might have had of saving a little something in the way of liquid consolation must have been thoroughly dis pelled by the field day proceedings in the house of Monday. Followers of the camel walloped right and left everything the liberals put up. "Two and three-quarters" was knocked higher than any airplane yet has traveled, and the one half of 1 per cent provision was riveted fast to the law. War-time prohibition goes right along with the rest, and the prospects are that until a change comes over the heart of the people the United States will be as dry as the inside of a lime kiln. But even a lime kiln is subject to leakage, and so It may be expected that here and there a trickle of the forbidden liquor will be discovered by the thirsty. It is perhaps just as well that this is so. If we are to have prohibition at all, it should be complete. Until it has been given the per fect trial that is posiible only when all forms of alcoholic beverages are taboo, no one can say with authority how it affects the country. It certainly will be more satisfactory in the end to make it plain whether the people want the extreme of prohibition, or prefer a modified application of the restrictive measure. When time has answered the question, ex perience may be called upon to provide such relief, if any, as will meet the needs. For the time the Rum Demon is doomed to enforced retirement. He will be chained and cast into the limbo of darkness, there to remain until the American people decide to grant him a re prieve. The advent of this day none can predict. From the Christian Science Monitor. To anyone who knows Ireland, as alone she can be really known, from the inside,, the interview with Darrel Figgis, the prominent Sinn Feiner, published in this paper, recently, must have come as a veritable breath from the hills. For those who do not know Ireland, it afforded a great opportunity to catch a real glimpse of the real thing, and to gain some un derstanding of what the Irish problem really is. Now, it is not, of course, from the face value of Darrell Figgis' words that anything is to be learned. The wonderful picture he drew of Ireland's present wrongs has no actual rela tion in fact, any more than the green uniforms of the tragic outburst of 1916 had any rela tion to face. The words, however, of this con vinced Sinn Feiner had a very strong relation to the facts as he loved to see them. Blend like the rainbow that hangs In thy skies! Erin, the tear and the smile In thine eyes, Shining through sorrow's stream. Saddening through pleasure's beam, Thy suns with doubtful gleam, Weep while they rise. So Thomas Meore described it all just a hun dred years ago, and the Irish rebel has never been able to see Ireland, nor wanted to see Ireland from any other point of view. Ireland the downtrodden, but never despairing; Ire land bound in tetters, but ever seeking liberty; Ireland poor and despoiled, but ever defeating her oppressor; these are pictures indeed worth having and, above all, worth describing. Com pared with them, what attractions are there in the dry-as-dust prosperity of a Wyndham land act, the prosaic activities of an agricul tural department, or the degrading success of a farmers' co-operative society. Where one may see the picture of a whole people yearning to express itself in Gaelic, the language of its fathers, but terrorized into silence by a merci less government, and only daring to utter the loved tongue within the four walls of the mud cabin, or away out in the mists of the bog; where one could have this picture, who would deliberately choose to have a picture of two shamefully prosperous farmers, for instance, "enjiyin' the tark av it" at the crossroads in a very Irish rendition of the king's English? brie wishes to speak her own tongue, but is not free to do so, because men are thrown into jail for it, and because the foreigner ruling in the country decrees that business shall be conducted in his tongue." So Darrell Figgis describes the situation. And "it's a wonderful way he has, sure-ly," as Mike MacHinery might have said, and, indeed, undoubtedly would have said. 'And yet there are many, and they Irish men, who, with all their hearts going out to the "grahnd dramer" that is in a man like Dar rell Figgis, feel constrained to tell the facts. Stephen Gwynn is one of them. And what has Stephen Gwynn to say about the Gaelic? "Since I left Dublin," he wrote recently in The Observer of London, "in five days' leisure ly travel I have not heard a word of Gaelic spoken; but I have been in hourly converse with the Ireland of today. In that Ireland the easiest thing in life is to make friends; all vou need do is to come asking a favor. Begging for leave to boil a kettle there, wanting a casual hand with some job about the boat, we were on Ireland's hospitality the whole way; and never in my life have I known the country side friendlier or more tranquil. In a score of stray conversations one met no trace of the fever which very genuinely displays itself in the audience at a demonstration or discussion in Dublin. Prosperity was evident; these peas ants were all poor people, yet, with the excep tion of one household, none could be called in digent; and the barefoot children in the bogs seemed well nourished and full of life." And so he goes on. And yet Stephen Gwynn is an Irishman of Irishmen, a member of Par liament, and a convinced home ruler. lie is, moreover, one of those Irishmen, and they are undoubtedly growing in number, who see the impossibility, on the one hand, of the "grahnd dramer," and. on the other hand, of the drab utilitarian, and who seek earnestly for the mid dle way. Stephen Gwynn can understand Dar rell Figgis, just as he can understand the dour Ulsterman, and he can see them both and their like for what they are, Irishmen all, and as Irishmen all take them all to his heart. Tommy Moore may not have been a great poet, but he had "a great power of spathe surely," and sometimes he had a true vision. And so he wrote this second verse and finished his poem: Krln, thy silent tear never snail cease, Erin, thy languid smile ne'er shall increase, Till, like the rainbow's light, Thy various tints unite, And form in heaven's sight One arch of peace! Our Free Legal Aid State your case clearly but briefly and a reliable lawyer will furnish the answer or advise in this column. Youn name will not be printed. Let The Bee Advise You. Lost Baggage. E. M. Please answed through through your "Legal Aid" column the following question: I waa trav eling from'New York to Chicago and my trunk was lost Is It necessary for me to sue the Initial carrier or can I sue the carrier of this state, where I can get Jurisdiction? Answer You can sue either. Mechanic's Lien. C. D. A. Can a mechanic's lien be filed for work done for the city of Omaha? Answer No. " DREAMLAND ADVENTURE By DADDY. "Bl'JtBLE BEE BUZZ." (Peggy and Blllv. given a wish bv Bum ble Bee Bun, whom they save from Kin Bird, are changed into honey beea and feast among the flowers.) . Intoxicating Liquor. J. V. Is a registered druggist 11a ble for selling Jamaica ginger? Answer If he sold in good faith, ror medicinal purposes, no. Divorce. K. S. I was married in Iowa less than six months after having pro cured a divorce In Nebraska. If . return to Nebraska can I be prose cuted for bigamy? Answer Yes. Probating an Estate. YY. H. L. Can heirs dispose of real estate in this state without hav ing the estate of ttfe deceased pro- oatea : Answer It Is necessary to have the estate probated in order to de termine who the heirs are, and sec ond, whether there are any debts against the estate. Taxation. B. R. The Masonic lodge of our city owns a building that is used ex clnsively for lodge purposes. We have never paid taxes upon the same, but several lawyers have stated that under recent opinions by the supreme court of this state that the property is subject to taxation. Answer Your property is exempt The question was fully discussed in the case of Mount Moriah lodge No. 57, A. P. & A. M., against Otoe County, 101 Neb., 275. Contract D. C. E. I bought a soft drink parlor a fewi months ago in which was stored some intoxicating liquors. The liquor was seized and I was fined under the prohibition law of the state. Can I recover from the person from whom I bought it, the amount of fine I had to pay for hav ing the liquor there and storing It? Answer :o. MUCH IN LITTLE. Some Tragedies of Pug ilism The bookkeepers of the prize-fighting indus try have provided us with many disillusion ments. Instead of 50,000 paying spectators at the recent Toledo mill, there were fewer than 21,000. Instead of receipts of $1,000,000, we have an actuality of $452,000. Instead of great crowds of the proletariat clamoring for $10 seats, the attendance was made up largely of the capitalistic classes, whose tickets cost $50 or $60. As showing, furthermore, the risks and dis appointments of the business, it may be noted that all the concessionaries lost money. The man who provided sleeping accommodations for the expected throngs of campers-out, the lemonade man, the soda-water man, the peanut man and many others did not realize enough to cover the prices paid for their privileges. All this explains why the City of Toledo, which was to have 7 per cent and the United States Government, which was to receive as a war tax 10 per cent of the receipts, are consid erably short of revenue from that source. It may be accepted also as the reason why the estimable Tex Rickard, who staged the show believing that it would net him $500,000, is not making any boasts of his newly acquired wealth. If the finances of fisticuffs are to be as un certain as such disclosures seem to indicate, the pugilistic fraternity will presently be de manding guaranteed prices, wages and profits. The crowning tragedy of Toledo, however, ap pears to be that the only man who took in all that he had any reason to expect was Jess Wil lard with his $100,000 bonus, and he was licked. New York World. A pneumatic hammer for tamn- ing paving stones has been In vented. A reflector concentrates the heat at the top of a new electric cook stove. The population of Madagascar at the close of 1917 was estimated at 3,227,470. More than 151,000 tons of crude peat were produced In the United States last year, exceeding the best previous year by about 56 por cent. i' or testing screw-threaded ma chine parts for extreme accuracv apparatus has been designed that projects magnified pictures of them on a screen. An English chemist's synthetic milk which can be condensed or dried is made from peanuts, soya beans, sugar, water and mineral salts from real milk. A locomotive and three coaches, in which about 100 miners were pas sengers, jumped the track In Pennsylvania, ran on the ties a lit tle way and then jumped back on the track again. The art of shoeing horses to pro tect their hoofs against the evils of hard usage was unknown to the Greeks and Romans, and is first mentioned in the history of the Celts as late as the fifth century. The population of Germany, ac cording to religion, Protestants, Catholics and Jews, is given by Gus tav Sundhorg in "Webb-Mulh'all" as follows (before the war): Protes tants, 35.400,000; Roman Catholics, 20,200,000; Jews, 615,029. The kingdom of Italy has 25 per cent of its soil represented by pas ture land, while the corresponding ijiuijuniuii ior rsnrmnia is 59 per cent. In the kingdom the land un dtr cultivation represents 45 per cent and in Sardinia it is a fraction less than 30 per cent. B Peggy Feels (jueer. UMBLE BEE BUZZ, alarmed by the sight of the worker bees, sped for a hole In the hollow tree. Into this he crept in a great Duster. Peggy Bee and Billy Bee did. 't know why he should be in eian fear of the workers, but he seemed to have a hurry-up reason, so they followed without asking questions. Not until they were out of eight in the darkness of the tree did they speak. "What is there to bet scared of?" asked Billy. "I see only a bunch of bees no bigger than I am and not nearly so big as you are, Bumble Bee Buzz." "Hush-sh-sh! Hush-sh-sh!" mum bled Bumble Bee Buzz. "Those are working lady bees, and thy'd sting you to death If they saw you bang, ing around doing nothing." "Why should they do thatT I've never harmed them," answered Billy. "It's their nature," mumbled Bumble Bee Buzz. "And It isn't safe to argue with a peppery honey bee about her nature. The only point she can see is the point of her sting, and she Is liable to make you feel that point without a mo ment's notice." The worker bees sailed swiftly past the hollow tree on their way to their hives. And as they buzzed along they hummed a little song: "Busy-busy-busy bee, Never Idle, never free Biny-busy-busy bee." Jutlgo Owl Shook Ilia Head and Went On Snoring. "Oh, I must go and Join them," buzzed Peggy Bee. "Something In side of me is Just pulling me along." "Grab her!" promptly ordered Bumble Bee Buzz, seizing one of Peggy's wings. Billy seized another wing and they held her fast. "It's her Instinct calling to her. If we let her go she is lost," hummed the bumble bee. "Busy-busy-busy bee," sang the workers. Peggy struggled hard. "I must go," she gasped. "I must get to work, I must gather honey, I must store It away in the hive." . "Never Idle, never free," sang the lady bees. "Never free," echoed Bumble Bee Buzz. "Do you hear that, Princess Peggy? Never free to go home. never free fo play, never free to do what you want to do?" "Uusy-busy-busy bee," hummed the workers, their voices growing fainter as they sped away from the tree. And the farther away they got the less Peggy struggled, until, as the last hum died in the dis tance, Billy and Bumble Bee Buzz were able to let go. "Gracious me, that was queer," Peggy gasped. "I really didn't want to leave you two, but It was Just like IN THE BEST OF HUMOR. Mrs. Gotham A dollar doesn't mem to go very far now. Mr. Gotham It doesn't? It roes so plagued far it never comes back. Yonkerg Statesman. Mrs. Henperk .She's very prettv, but she hardly says a word. I can't understand why bo many men propose to her. Mr. Ilenpeck I can. London Answers. "rorlck Hamm messed up the billiard scene complptoly." "How was that?" "Went on without his cue." Kansas City Journal. Alxut the Bond Issue. Omaha, July 14. To the Editor of The Bee: Will the taxpayers of Omaha wake up before they are plunged Into bankruptcy? Within the last few weeks, the people of Omaha have been given to under stand that we may expect a bond election in the fall for at least $2, 000,000 for a river driveway, and other so-called special Improve ments. This bond issue Is request ed by Commissioner Roy E. Towl and recommended by the City Plan ning commission, who wish to spend more of the taxpayers' money in trying to offset the works of God Almighty In attempting to grade down Omaha hills in order to fill in the hollows. It occurs to me in looking over the expense of Commissioner Towl's office, after having spent his allot ment that he would not have the nerve to plunge this city into fur ther debt, at a time when our peo ple can hardly hold their heads above water, but that he would spend more of his time for which the taxpayers of Omaha are paying him to see if he could not eliminate some of the official waste and ex travagance of the present city com mission. What need has Omaha for a planning board? Are not the city commissioners mien enough to do what is best for the people, and stop expending thousands of dol lars in establishing new grades and securing data in other cities on how to run a city. it is time to call "halt" to the fierier of the taxpayers' right to vote on these bond issues. Commissioner Kay i-,. 'lowl, who appeared as the principal lobbyist before the Ne braska legislature advocating the passage or senate Files 165 and 166. He is the most dangerous man on the city commission, and he should ue K-caneu ueiore ne can do any lurtner aamage. Had It not been for the untiring efforts of members or tne legislature, Jerry Howard, itooprt urueseaow and Harry Fos ter, assisted by John Grossman, T. J. Fltzmorris, S. Arion Lewis and the Citizens' and Taxpayers' league of Omaha, Mr. Towl would have deprived every citizen of Omaha the right to vote on our bond Issues. Then the city commission could have run hog-wild with the finance of our people. The citizens of Oma ha owe these supporters a debt of gratitude for the valiant fight they made against Towl and his sup porters while trying to protect the rights of the common people of Omaha. No doubt the citizens of Omaha will give Mr. Towl another spanking when the time comes to vote on these bonds. What Omaha needs today is more houses and office buildings. That's the reason we are living in a congested city, and not because we need wider streets or river drivteways. The people of Omaha should see that Mr. Towl Is recalled aud City Engineer Bruce and City Planning board is fired. We then can expect our city to make some progress. With reference to' taxation, the city commission seems to have no regard for the taxpayer, and they should be wakened up and told where to head in at, and that we have reached our limit of taxa tion and ought not to stand for any further autocratic act of the city commission. We are still living in a democracy that believes in the old adage, "Let the people rule." ROY M. IIARROP. something dragging me to work, work, work!" "That's because you are a ladr bee, and that's the way lady bees feel," declared Bumble Be Buzs. "You had a narrow escape. If It hadn't been for Billy and me you'd be working right now, working In lady-bee fashion, never to stop." Just then a peculiar roar broke loose above them In the hollow tree. "Whoo-oosh-kerlug! Whoo-oosh-kerltig!" "What's that?" mumbled Bumble Bee Buzz. "Sounds like a giant snoring," answered Billy. "Yes, and it seems that I know that snore, even though It Is louder than any snore I ever heard," an swered Peggy. "What Is It, an elephant bee?" asked Bumble Bee Buzz. Peggy looked up Into the tree and snickered an odd little be snicker. "It's Judge Owl," she giggled. "He Is fast asleep. Let's buzz around his ears and wake him up." "What a Joke,' 'answered Billy. Judge Owl was perched near an opening, where he could get fresh air and still be in the dark. He was snoozing and snoring like a good fellow. "Buzz-zz-z-z!" whispered Peggy' In his ear. Judge Owl shook his head and went on snoring. "Ruzz-z-z-z-z-z!" sang Billy In the other ear. Judge Owl shifted over, shook his head twice, and went on snoring. "Buz-z-z-z-z-z!" rumbled Bumble Bee Buzz very loudly. With that Judge Owl opened his eyes In a hurry. "Buz-z-z! Buz-z-z!" roared all three around his head. "Hoot! Hoot! Hoot! Get out!" cried Judge Owi. "Buz-z-z-z-z-z-z-z!" they shouted, making a dash at him, but Judge Owl, only half awake, tumbled over backward, out of the hole In the tree, right Into the web of Spider Manylegs. (In the next Installment wilt be told hew Judge Owl finishes Spider Manylegs.) They Know Thai Cuficnra WiD Soothe And Heal Whether it is an itching, brrrniog skin trouble, an annoying rash, irri tation, cut, wound or bum Cuticura will soothe and in most cases heal First bathe with Cuticura Soap and hot water. Dry and anoint with Cuticura Ointment The Cuticara Talcum is also excellent for little ones, it is delicately medicated and exquisitely perfumed. Soap 25c, Ointment 23 and BOe. Talcam 25c. Sold throughout the world. For ample each free address.: "Ctiticwa Lab oratories. Dept. 20P, Maiden, Mass." )SVCarjcura Soap aharet without nrae jFF'Bowen'a Value-Giving StoreWjt The Hotter the VTeather "Well, the soldiers learned to sweep, wash and cook." "Yep, the present crop of brides Is going to have a perpetual cinch." Louisville Courier Journal. Mistress What was that terrible yelp inp in the nursery Just now? Maid N'urse slapped one of the children. Mistress Oh! I was afraid something had hurt Fldo! Pearson's Weekly. 10 She Would you cheerfully walk miles for the sake of seelns me? He Kr Well of course, love. She I'm so glad because I have Just heard your last car go. Edinburgh Scotsman. "Do you really blleve that's the bank burglar you arrested?" "His actions prove It," renlted the de tective. "I hear he's just picked the lock of his cell and escaped." Browning's Magazine. Delegate How do we know the league will really work or First whether not? Second Delegate We don't. I can hard ly wait for the next war to begin to find out. Life. the greater becomes the need of a Refrigerator, for the safe, sanitary and proper keeping of milk and food. ;Take no chance on having your milk sour and your food spoii. Get a THE OLD MELODEON. An Illinois savant solemnly announces that the robin is not in any sense a harbinger of spring. True enough, but it is not going to be easy to divorce him from a popular belief that his activities in the late days of a long hard winter do not presage the end of the cold spell. Italian doctors upheld the honor of the profession, 1,060 of them losing their lives while attending wounded men. The devotion of the medicos, the ambulance men and the nurses is one of the bright sides of war, if it has any. Secretary Baker did not want to "flood the market" so he held up the sale, of surplus food bought for the army. What was he afraid of that a poor man might buy something to eat at a reasonable cost? The Day We Celebrate. Frederick E. Bollard, vice president and treasurer, Garvin Bros. & Bollard, born 1864. Roald Amundsen, the discoverer of the South Pole, born at Sarpsburg, Norway, 47 years ago. Bishop H. St. George Tucker, who has been placed in charge of the Red Cross work in Siberia, bornt Warsaw, Va., 45 years ago. Eugene Ysaye, one of the most famous of violinists, born at Liege, Belgium, 61 years ago. Thirty Years Ago in Omaha. Mr. Charles T. Goodman and wife and Mr. James Forsyth and wife have returned from San Francisco, where they attended meetings of the American Pharmaceutical association. A party, is being organized by James Steph enson to tour Yellowstone park. P. D. Armour, well known millionaire packer, is in Omaha conferring with John A. McSliane and W. A. Paxton on matters con nected with the South Omaha plant of Armour & Cudahy. Representatives from the Kansas City Com mercial club, on a tour of inspection to the northwest, spent the day in Omaha. Thev were entertained with luncheon and a drive i. over the city, ' There, like some ancient visitant Of bygone days It stands; It yellow keys a welcoming Extending to the hands. No fingers wander o'er the keya, No feet its pedals press. 'Reft of the soul of music there It waits somo hand's caress. It leans against the chamber wall Like some old broken form. Too weak to stand alone without Assistance In the storm. Its bellows gaplne wide Is hung With cobwebs to the floor; The dust upon Its yellow keya Is strewing Uilckly o'er. Ah, In the stillness of the night The ancient thing It grieves. And plaints In echo to the soft. Low whisper of the leaves. Then from the lonely chamber float Sweet tones of Buelah Land: A spirit song from spilrlt throat Chorused by spirit Dana. But when the light of morning falle In glory everywhere. The dust upon ' the yellow keya Is strewing thickly there. From Buelait Land the player cam To spell away the gloom: And passing, left behind the same Sweet lavender perfume, Horace Seymour Keller In the New Tork Sun. 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