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t?j 'J.u ".' s -a. .'mux; -im jl.i1' a., . i 6 THK ' J1EE: UMAHA, SATUKUAY. AUGUST J, m& The Omaha Bee V DAILY ! (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY ; FOUNDED BY EDWARD BOSEWATER 'j I VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR 1MB BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETOR T MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS t ' n imiiid Press. M which Tht B u t Buster. II aa ' iMMmIi aailtled to Ui um (or publication of all mi dlsitelie credited to It or nnl otnerwlaa credited in this paper, ud also ; lh local un publlanad linroin All rtfhU of Dublloatloo ot our epaetaJ dlapatcbea art also mtrnd J BEE TELEPHONES! Print Branca Kiehange. Ask foe tht vltr 1 (111(1 DanwUMOl or Putnlir Parson Wanted. J wl wW .i.. - . r, For NIB f SuncUy Sarvica Call i Mtorlal Deirtnt Trlar 10001 . CMrulaUon Department ...... xyiw 0o8 jjhtnmm IMiaJtmant . . . . xlr 10u8I OFFICES OF THE BEEi - Homo Offloo. Baa Building. lTth ud Fanum. Asms 4U0 North Itth iPark " 1114 MMUarj An (South Bid CmhmU Blaffl 14 N. Main IVinlon Ue Kit North Hth Iwalnut . Out-of-Town OfficMi Now York City 186 Klftb A to, iWaahioiton CklesfS) Beegw Bldg. (Lincoln M19 Loann worth 9318 N Street M7 South 16th lit North 40th mi o street 1M0 H Htrwt ., JUNE CIRCULATION: Daily 64,611 Sunday 61,762 Arri cirrulatinn fur the month subscribed and nrorn to to E. a. Batan. Circulation alanafar. 3becrlbere leaving the city ahouM h.v. Tht Bn mallsd t uam. Addrcaa changtd aa often as requeatad. You should know that ' In the "Omaha Empire" there is s one bank to every 1,456 people; in the United States, one bank to , every 3,666 people. Come on with your "muny" grocery store I Maybe the admiral can tell it to the marines. Now, if the H. C. of L. was anything like Davy Crockett's coon, but it isn't I Dean Ringer seems to be the only city com- missioner getting any reelief just now. Roumania has shown how strong the League of Nations may be in the Balkans, at least. ' Japan will please take notice that the -American navy is now guarding the eastern shore of the Pacific. Wall street has felt the effect of the inquiry into the high cost of living. Now let its influ ence spread. - Admiral Rodman will have the sympathy of at least one Omaha orator who once attended a national convention. Des Moines is in sore straits, indeed. The town is short on gasoline, and joy-riding is consequently curtailed. ; If old "H. C. of L." would only watch the Omaha base ball team, he might get a tip on how to slide down gracefully. Daily roll call of speeders at the police courts show regular numbers, but more than a $10 fine is needed to stop the disease. Writing a letter may solve the question, but the chances are that more than written words will be needed to get all the present trouble straightened out. , ; New York liquor dealers ask permission to sell whisky in hand in order to be enabled to ' p'jrvt-ixes due. Here is a nice little question for the drya to settle. ; Secretary Daniels laughs at the predicament of some of the senators. He must mean those who tried to follow him through his changes of course on the naval program. 'The president, it is said, will cover a wide field in his talk on the high cost of living. What the people would prefer in this instance is that he get down to brass tacks for once. Summer "runs" at New York theaters have been interrupted by actors going on strike. If the trouble lasts long enough, it may give the managers a chance to discover some real plays. i XT ivmi ttia cAtiil nrirA r f flnnr n f 7 r 11 tc a . swing, l u ii.io.it pi i. isi uuui ni r v-v. i a i j ' pound falls short of the relief that was looked 1 r v . .. I . .(. ior. it may lave tne government wnoie on ine wheat guaranty, but it is not helping the bread buyer. ! An American showman is reported to have 'offered Cletnenceau a fabulous sum to "lecture" in this country, but we can not imagine the "Tiger" putting himself into the Bryan class at any price. It is pretty hard to make a monkey out of a jungle king.' Warehouses are full of meat in process of curing, but the consumer must bear in mind that it was purchased at top prices from the farmer, killed and dressed by labor paid the f highest wages ever known to the packing in dustry, and that it will not be sold at low price - unless the packers can be induced to pocket an enormous loss. The Tiger of France The vote of confidence in the French cham ber, which assures Premier Clemenceau of a further lease of power, will find an echo of approval in Canada, where the aged premier numbers his admirers by the tens of thousands. No man can boast with less conceit or more justice that he deserves well of his country. His steadfastness of purpose, his unswerving courage, his zeal for France, which is almost fanatic in its intensity, saved his country from a moral collapse that would assuredly have brought about defeat in the field in the most perilous hour of France's history. By saving France he saved Europe. Amid the whispers ' of the waverers and the treasons of the timid he stood inflexible and set his face sternly against those who sought to dissipate his coun try's strength in political conflicts. r- Premier Clemenceau has not disguised his hope that he might be permitted to retire from public life when the peace treaty has ben rati fied. On his own admission the other day he has been forced to abandon this hope, that he "might husband out life's taper at the close, and keep the flame from wasting by repose." In spite of the fact that he has almost reached four-score years, he is ready, if the people will It, to buckle on afresh his armor and tilt again in the areni in which he has fought so sturdily and so chivalrously. For his old antagonists ' have not raised their visors. The news from Paris tells how he bowed courteously at the right and the center; but "glowered at the ex treme left." The socialist party fears this old warrior, because they are internationalists, while he is for France; they are working for a vision ary nd idealistic World federation, while Cle menceau plans for the future out of the prac tical experience of a life of patriotic duty mag nificently fulfilled. Montreal Star GET TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS. Mayor Smith has made a sensational report to the city commissioners on certain features of the food situation in Omaha. He charges that cars containing food have stood on the side tracks in the railroad yards until the food rotted; that within a few days eleven carloads of edibles have been permitted to go to waste, while exorbitant prices are being charged con sumers. The mayor has made public, in advance of official inquiry, the names of two commission firms to whom this food was consigned. He accepts full responsibility for his allegations, which are stoutly denied by the men involved. The county attorney is reported to have said that no law exists for the punishment of a profiteer, unless criminal conspiracy can be shown. However, the detestation of honest men will reach the individual who deliberately per mits needed food to decay in order that ab normal profits may be had from what is sold. With all the agencies of organized govern ment actively engaged in the investigation of the food situation, the mayor should find no trouble in getting his complaint before the authorities. The law may not reach them, but public indignation will visit on them such obloquy as will forever end their profit-taking in this part of the world. Get to the bottom of these charges, and let the people know the truth. Daniels and Free Speech. Suppression of Admiral Rodman's speech at San Diego by the secretary of the navy is cer tain to excite much more comment than would have followed the address had it been deliv ered. Mr. Daniels followed a precedent estab lished by his chief, who compelled the Order of Caribao to desist from singing a song that had little meaning to any but those who served their weary days in suppressing the Filipino in surrection, the fruits of which the present ad ministration is so eager to garner. Careful perusal of the interdicted speech, publication of which is for the moment with held, does not disclose anything that savors of breach ,of etiquet or discipline. Similar utter ances have gone unchallenged. Only on, one point might objection be laid, and it is the in ferential reference to the League of Nations. Admiral Rodman proposes that the navy be a shield to the United States, and that with it maintained at the present relative strength our country is safe from attack from any foe save Great Britain, and he says such an attack is unthinkable. Into this may be read an expres sion to the effect that the proposed League of Nations is unnecessary so far as American1 safety is concerned. .Premier Hughes of Australia, at a public banquet in London, said in so many words that Britons, no matter where located on the earth's surface, proposed to "lie safe behind the shield that had sheltered them," referring to the Brit ish navy. Secretary Lansing admits that at the peace conference the "freedom of the sea" was never brought up. Is an honored officer of the American navy to be censured for having dared to conceive thoughts that lie in the mind of every patriotic citizen of the land? Only a little while ago the secretary of the navy was before congress asking money to build a navy that should be "second to none." For what purpose? At San Diego he expressed the intention of keeping the navy at its present proportional strength. Why then, did he object to a gallant sailor saying the very same thing? Settling the Shop Hands' Strike. Chairman Cummins of the senate committee on interstate commerce in a most deferential manner passed the shop hands' strike back to the president, who in turn slips the buck along to Director General Hines of the railway ad ministration. The law under which the roads were taken over gives the president ample power to deal with wages. Therefore the men must go to the administrator and not to con gress for relief. This will apply also to the trainmen and clerks, freight handlers and all other classes of raflroad help. With this point settled, the next thing is to get regular train service re-established. Di rector Hines is quoted as having served notice on the strikers they can look for no relief until they are back on the job. One of the peculiar features of the strike is that it was called and pursued in defiance of the laws or the leaders of the several unions involved. The men rebel liously set aside all their own regulations and undertook to enforce action by a threat to tie up the transportation industry of the country. The 300,000 strikers boasted by the secretary of the "shop-federation" has come down to 80.000 under the estimate of Mr. Hines, but even that number is a menace, because it represents a lawless force. These men must understand that higher wages can not be paid until something in the way of wealth is produced to meet the demand. If they stop all production, as one of their officers threatened, the source of wages is de stroyed. This simple fact is so obvious as to need no illustration. Until the men get back to work, there can be no thought of increasing wages, for there will be no money wherewith to pay anything. Some really vigorous action by the govern ment on this point just now will be of great help in settling the strike. Hitchcock Expects to "Retire." "Go away from home to learn the news," still holds good. From Boston we get the in formation that Senator Hitchcock expects to "retire" to private life at the close of his pres ent term. It is quite possible he may be able to reconcile the voters of Nebraska to this con clusion, and that his retirement will be facilitated to such an extent as will make it very certain. "As a matter of fact, his presence in the senate is due to a combination he never may hope to encounter again. Supported by the wet and pro-German element of Nebraska, whose gratitude he had earned by aiding the kaiser's cause in, every way possible, he was finally rescued from defeat by the tremendous Wilson wave. In fact, he has the unique dis tinction of being the only man ever elected to office in this state who ran 30,000 votes behind the head of his ticket. Whatever of longing he may have for the quiet life of a private citizen undoubtedly springs from his astute apprecia tion of the circumstances attending his last en counter with the voters and dread of another. Truth and Ghosts In P. Jacks in the Atlantic Monthly. A peculair difficulty (in the investigation of psychic phenomena) which has not been sufficiently noticed arises from the reluctance of persons who have jumped to conclusions about these things to admit, on subsequent proof, that they were wrong. To declare your belief in "spirits" and then to be confronted with proof that you were the victim of a mis take, is a particularly odious way of being made to look a fool. Peeople exposed to this danger will fight to the last ditch fight till every vestige of regard for truth has long been thrown to the winds. Recently I had an experience of this in investigating a haunted house, a remarkably well attested case. After two or three of the most trying nights of my life, I succeeded in satisfying myself that the ghost was due to natural causes, though I was more than once on the point of seeing him myself, so great was the nervous tension caused by watching and waiting for his appearance. But when I presented' my explanation to those who were already committeed to belief in the ghost, and whose reputations for common sense were in a manner dependent, on their stories being verified, I encountered the darkest of looks. My explanations were not accepted. I do not wonder at this, and I cannot deny the possibility that, if I had stayed in the house another night, I might either have seen the ghost or come to believe that others had seen him. I should undoubtedly have saved myself a great deal of trouble and some un pleasantness if I had come down from the haunted chamber with a circumstantial story that I had seen the apparition a story' which I could easily have invented and maintained without anybody being able to prove that I was lying. Indeed, I must confess that the temptation to do this did once or twice fur tively suggest itself to my mind; and although I managed to resist the voice of the tempter who promised me much amusement and reclame I could not help thinking that many ghost stories have their origin in precisely this temptation to which, by the grace of God I had turned a deaf ear. At all events, I learned that belief in spirits, or in ghosts, when once it has been expressed, is apt to become a vested interest of a kind which people will not give up without a struggle. The moral is that one should re frain from expressing such a belief until he is absolutely sure of his ground. Here, too, the emotional stress was very great, and it was none the less trying because the predominant emotion happened to be that of fear. Like Fontenelle, ope need not be lieve in ghosts to be terribly afraid of them. I certainly did not believe in the particular ghost; I suspected from the outset that an idee fixe had got possession of the witnesses; but when, after watching for hours in a dark and silent corridor, I saw a column of light slowly form itself at the farther end, it was nothing short of the courage of madness that caused me to rush toward the "apparition" only to discover that it was caused by the sud denly unclouded moon shining through a sky light and reflected from the surface of a highly polished floor. I wonder even now why I did not rush in the opposite direction, away from the terrifying object instead of toward it, calling out to all and sundry that I had seen the ghost. Under these peculiar conditions one's nor mal psychology is apt to be dislocated, and the mind can play the strangest tricks upon itself. The boundaries between truth and falsehood become blurred, our very conscience gets out of hand, and we may tell the most egregious lies almost without consciousness that we are lying. Americanizing Hotel Kitchens The National Hotel Men's association in session at Chicago, with delegates from every state, is reported to be devoting much atten tion to the "Americanization of the hotel kitchens." There is an exposition in connec tion with the meeting, with 300 exhibits to demonstrate just how food "cooked as the American mother used to" really tastes, and how much more economical it is. The claims as to economy upset traditions. The foreign chefs were supposed to make wonderful dishes of parts of meat the American mothers found impossible. They were also suspected of secret triumphs of salvage, and even yet the suspicious patron of a hotel avoids most meat mixtures, because of doubt as to antecedents. Some of mother's dishes were eaten with a blind trust which no hotel can ever inspire. Nor does the current menu seem nearly as ex travagant in prices for meat orders as for side dishes, simple vegetables that cost almost as much a square meals in other days. This is not the work of the chef, but of the proprietor. Avarice is not an exotic. When a man orders cold slaw at a price that would make cabbages worth $1.50 a head, he has no thoughts of Americanization. ' But these questions aside, there is doubt as to the universal appeal of "mother's cook ing." There were as many styles of cooking as there were mothers. Some fried steak un til it was hard as adamant. Some served im possible saleratus biscuits. Some made soup indistinguishable from dishwater. There were more than fifty-seven varieties of coffee. Some used grease to a degree that brought dyspep sia to every member of the household. Only the hunger of growing youth and inexperience made the eating of such meals possible and in some families dried beef and canned stuff were luxuries. Some mothers made corn bread that was an abomination, while others made it more palatable than ambrosia. Every man's own mother was, of course, a wonderful cook; it was only when he went visiting that lie discovered other women's limitations. Even the mothers that can really cook con sider it a treat occasionally to try hotel cook ing. They are very modest about culinary skill. They show far more vanity over their skill in cutting boys' hair. Yet no barber that ever lived put out a sign guaranteeing hair cuts such as mother used to give. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The Day We Celebrate. Dr. Rodney Waldo Bliss, physician and surgeon, born 1878. Lord Lytton, who served as British com missioner for propaganda in France, born at Simla, India, 43. years ago. Rt. Rev. H. M. Burge, recently appointed to the bishopric of Oxford, born 57 years ago. Charles Nagel. former secretary of Com merce and Labor, born in Colorado county, Texas, 70 years ago. Dr. Edward S. Parsons, the new president of Marietta college, born in Brooklyn, N. Y., 56 years ago. Louis B. Hanna. former governor of North Dakota, born at New Brighten, Pa., 58 years ago. Thirty Years Ago in Omaha. The Omaha Turnverein gave a grand gym nastic exhibition and ball in Germania hall for the benefit of the prize class which goes to the Fremont tournament August 16. A party of 24 delegates from California to the high court of the Ancient Order of For esters, which is to meet in Minneapolis, passed through the city. President G. F. Swift and Treasurer Louis F. Swift of the packing house of Swift and company are here from Chicago. C. C. Valentine, reporter in Judge Wake ley's branch of the district court, lef for MassarhiKf tt for a summer vacation Amend the French Treaty. New York, Aug.1 6. To the Edi tor c) The Bee: The French treaty should not be ratified without four vital amendments. 1. All references to the covenant should be stricken out, because It, the covenant, indirertly requires us to make what Its advocates may de scribe as the "supreme sacrifice;" that Is to surrender our Indepen dence. 2. France-should be given a de fensible permanent frontier. Foch says the Rhine and all its bridge heads. This has not yet been done. 3. Either reconstruct Russia, In cluding Poland, or else give Poland Danzig and a defensible frontier against Russia, Germany and Aus tria. These former autocracies three times before partitioned Poland. Germany and Austria at least threaten to do it again. 4. Make pan-Germany pay or work off every dollar of allied and associated war debt, war costs and war pensions, and punish every pan German war criminal. Otherwise pan-Germany will be financially stronger than the nations it in vaded. Suppose we guarantee France, while leaving it with a defenseless frontier. After Germany's partial compliance with the treaty, when the Rhine bridgeheads now tempor arily held are evacuated, the only way we may keep our guarantee good will be to permanently keep not less than three-quarters of a million regular troops in Europe on the French frontier after the Rhine bridgeheads have been yield ed to Germany. Otherwise our guarantee will be only another scrap of paper. HENRY A. FOSTER. "Jerry" Wants an Investigation. Omaha, Aug. 7. To the Editor of The Bee: It was mortification to read in your three "B" column to day the lack of etiquet at the capital, wherein the wife of Con gressman Berger "has been denied admittance to the house press gal lery." While the president has considerable trouble with the pack ers, the high cost of living, the league of nations, etc., as a cham pion of woman's privileges, whether it be the franchise or a living wage, I have an idea it is right to agitate an Investigation of this gross of fense to a woman of high character, although the investigation might annoy the president. I would suggest to the women to petition President Wilson about the great insult offered Mrs. Berger. JERRY HOWARD. MUCH IN LITTLE. Douai is an example of an Indus trial city deliberately put beyond the possibility of competition by dyna mite in the hands of the Germans. During the war exceptionally high prices for molybdenite, used in the manufacture of high speed tool machinery, encouraged its produc tion in Ontario. It has been estimated by an Eu ropean scientist that the commer cial value of the electricity in a flash of lightning lasting one-thousandth of a second is 29 cents. A Boston man has invented a triple propeller for aeroplanes, de signed to prevent accidents in flights, Insure greater power from the same amount of fuel and increase the life of an engine. Besides the railways, the canals are very important for communica tion in Finland, especially the Saima canal, which is equipped with 28 sluices and has a length of 60 kilo meters. This canal connects the big lake system of Saima and the sea. The total value of the canals is esti mated at 100,000,000 marks. -It was discovered that flax fabrics provided the best material for the making of the wings of airplanes, and with his discovery flax growing became of supreme national impor tance in Ireland, and Ulster fields and Ulstei factories were at once devoted on a very large scale to the new branch of the industry. The sole owners of a co-operative dairy in Finland are those who de liver milk to it. The founding and running expenses are shared in pro portion to the amount each member uses the dairy, the profits being di vided according to the amount con tributed to the annual output. Ev ery owner of one or morecows may become a member. ' ODE FOR CHATEAU THIERRY. At Concord and at Lexington The fight for Freedom was begun; And thence tho names ran down the yeara, Baptized in patriot blood and toars, Until at Yorktown it waa won. And when full circle swung the wheel And Sumter struck Its flerice appeal, Then brothers fought and won and iost, Tried In a white-hot holocaust, Till Appomattox set the seal. Ths slow years healed; the sacrifice Left but a phantom scar. The dice Fate flung at San Juan came to blot. What we had feared remained was not. We paid, but it was worth the price. And so Columbia rose to might! Through trial and travail, In despite - Of all the pitfalls, gins and snares, The counterplay of diverse cares. Freedom had held her beacon light. Then was that light uplifted, yet High as the highest planet set. Till all might see it there and know The torch for what It was. Its glow Enkindled earth a coronet. And In the lifting did we pour Dear blood as we had done before. Blood that shall sanctify the place As of the Lord's abounding grace Shrine at a pilgrimage's core. So In the years to come, Romance Shall link that little town of France With Gettysburg and Bunker Hill, And generations far shall thrill Anew at their inheritance! Maurice Morris, In the New York Sun. DAILY CARTOONETTE. ItOHJ.UJlLUE,YOU NflUQHT Y SOYO STKRIHTOUTOF THI5 ROOM RT0NCE! Me qcMs' Qottz&t DREAMLAND ADVENTURE By DADDY. "THK JEALOUS ELEPHANT. (In last week's story Peggy and Billy planted Judge Owl In a hothouse and he grew Into the largest bird In the world. When they took htm to Join a circus he ate up the supper meat of the menagerie animals. An angry tiger came after the meat, and Judge Owl tamed him by giving him a ducking. Then Judge Owl was asked to join the circus.) Judge Owl in the Circus. .Tfl"AKE way for Judge Owl, the A-Vl. biggest bird In the world! Make way for the tamer of the Royal Bengal tiger! Make way for the new king of the circus animals!" So shouted Billy Belgium like the herald of a mighty monarch as he marched ahead of Judge Owl into the- circus tent. As told in last week's story Judge Owl, after grow ing in a hothouse until he became bigger than an elephant, captured the escaped circus tiger and ducked the beast In a lake until the Royal Bengal was helpless and ready to crawl back into a cage. When Judge Owl did this the circus man ager hired him as a freak and also as a policeman to keep order among the animals of the menagerie. Judge Owl's entry into the circus was like a hero returning from war. "Boom, ta-ra-ra-boom!" blared the band. "Hurrah! Hurrah for the biggest t -j 7 Judge Owl Finished His Program With a Stately Bow. bird in the world!" shouted the peo ple who had seen Judge Owl duck the tiger. 'Hurrah! Hurrah!" shouted the others Inside the tent, who had heard how Judge Owl had pounced on the Royal Bengal aa the beast was about to spring into the crowd of men, women and chil dren. "Yow-ow-ow! We are hungry; Where's our supper?" howled the animals whose meat had been gob bled up by Judge Owl. But the ani mals quite hawling in a hurry when Judge Owl marched into the men agerie tent. His size so astonished them that they didn't have any breath with which to howl. Instead they Just growled and sniffed and got back as far in their cages and pens as they could. They had never seen a freak so huge, and naturally I they were scared. I Major, the largest of the elephants. ' was the most astonished of them all. He had long thought himself the blg i gest creature on earth, and here was a strange bird or even greater size. Major didn't like it. "Ur-ur-umph! Ur-ur-umph!" he trumpeted in vex ation, as the crowds turned from him to stare at Judge Owl. Judge Owl was very proud of all the attention he received as he strut ted along, following Billy into the show tent. There the people cheered as Peggv put Judge through his tricks. And they laughed, too, for it was very funny to see the monster bird Jigging and turning somersaults all at the command of a little girl. Judge Owl finished his program with a stately bow and the handclapping was so loud it sounded like the roar of the surf on the seashore during a storm. But back in the animal tent trou ble was brewing. Peggy felt it in the air the minute Judge Owl stepped from tho arena into the menagerie. The animals were all strangely silent and were glaring at Judge Owl in i anger not in fear as had been the case when he first came into tne cir cus. Suddenly a low growl ran through the whole tent. "Ur-r-r-r-r-r-ugh! Ur-r-r-r-r-r-r-ugh! He stole our supper! Ur-r-r-r- ugh!" Peggy knew at once what had happened; the tiger told how Judge Owl had gobbled up tne menagerie meat. ' Naturally the animals didn't like that a bit. But what puzzled Peggy was that the elephants seemed aa upset as the others. They were hay and peanut eaters and she couldn't see why they should be DAILY DOT PUZZLE ODD AND INTERESTING. The public holidays in Russia number 86 in a year. The chrysanthemum is served as a salad in French households. Asparagus enjoys the distinction of being the oldest of all plants used for food. New Zealand has a railway that runs in a perfectly straight line for 136 miles. In a certain section of Persia there to o iana rt riicrmv rnmels fivft feet in height and snow-white in color. In northern China vegetarianism to dmrat tVio rule th food nrinci- pally consisting of turnips, potatoes, corn, rice ana miiiet. At Quito, the only city m tne woria inqtaH Ti tVio ovact line of theeaua- tr,r tViA sun sets and rises at 6 o'clock all the year round. With most of the leading wrestlers of Japan wrestling is an occupation .i,;ni. Vims Vioon handed down from father to son for many generations. The tirst commercial hiupjuchl vi ,t,.i r.nt nt Mnnitoba was made from Winnipeg in 1876. The ship ment was made to xoronto iui accu purposes. As a means of preventing small boys from "hanging on" automobiles immninr Vina fittprl un a contri vance which gives an electric shock to anv delinquent. An' extraordinary variety of or chid grows in Java, all of the flow ers of which open at once, as u uy the stroke of a fairy's wand, and they also all wither together. IN THE BEST OF HUMOR. "The golfer must keep his eye strictly on tho ba 11." "That must be wny pretty gins nun i go in much for golf." Louisville Curii r- Juurnal. jack What are the ups and downs of life? san.lv Keenlnir ud acpearances and keeping- down expenses, my son. Pear son's Weekly. "Is that efficiency expert at your office making any progress?" "1 hhould say he is! Why. he's already n J lease do not miscm- wit yviiy . of this store of pleasant j dealmq. -j T . J It is our constant and conscientious endeavor to nje PJPrv rrKtrtmir J ' vxvc very oesi ylalio or (piayer-piano his purse r in our annnrinrmTvts. 4; fcourse, our leading 4 t pianos. But our locuer I f all ofthem carry out shown tis how to spend the day without acompllshlnB' anythlng."-a-Llfe. "Poor fellow! He meant well, but about all he ever did was to tell what he was going to do." "Yes. His volume of life work was chiefly devoted to preface." Judge. Reporter I understand you were treated like dogs overseas. Can you give mo an Instance? Humorous Private Well, sometimes they put us in pup tents. London Answers. 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