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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.
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' pound falls short of the relief that was looked
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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.
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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
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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
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It is our constant and
conscientious endeavor
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r in our annnrinrmTvts. 4;
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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.
Soph What did Williams say to your
dogmatic statement?
Fresh He gave me a categorical reply.
Soph. Made you feel sheepish, eh?
Yale Record.
Jill The man I marry must be able
to keep a cook.
Jack Bright and early tomorrow morn
ing I'm going to enter a school of hyp
notism! Buffalo Express.
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angry over the loss of the menagerie
meat. But when she heard Major's
defiant boasting she understood.
"Ur-ur-umph! We'll not have any
stranger coming here to rule our me
nagerie," he trumpeted. "This owl
may be bigger than I am, but I'll
show him that I'm the strongest
creature in the wcrrld. Ur-ur-umph!"
and Major's little eyes glittered with
mean mischief.
"The big elephant Is Jealous," ex
claimed Peggy. "What do you think
of that?"
"This is the tiger's revenge,"' de
clared Billy. "He is stirring the ani
mals up against Judge Owl."
(Tomorrow will be told how the clrcu
animals want to eat Judge Owl.)
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