THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: AUGUST 24, 1919
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JUNE CIRCULATION:
Daily 64,611 Sunday $1,762
aierats circulation for tha month auhirrttari and '
S. R- Risan, Circulation Manager.
worn to by
Subacribara loavinf tha city should have Tha Baa mailed
to tham. Addraaa changed aa eftan aa raqueatad.
You should know that
The people of Omaha are hospitable,
. opportunities are many, climate
salubrious and city beautiful.
Tassing the buck settles no point.
Now watch the new morals squad make
things hum! .
Archduke Joseph is a true Bourbon, in that
he learns nothing.
The trail may be cold, but the pursuit is hot
enough to suit the bandits.
' Nobody will worry if the president never
gives out the notes he gets from Mexico.
Some jester once called golf a game for old
men, but the "kid$" are winning the honors.
More thunder showers are promised for the
present week, just to keep the climate going
right
Roumania has 100,000 carloads of foodstuff
to export from this year's crop. That ought
to help amazingly.
It might save trouble if the aviators down
along the border were to fly northward for a
while in their trials..
Republican senators on the foreign relations
committe have no fear as to the effect of a
textual change, it seems."
Japan may have succeeded in bluffing the
, peace conference, but the United States senate
is something different again.
v The prince of Wales is not making the
"front page" as often as was expected. He
ought to get a new press agent.
I t The list of , automobile accidents continues
, lengthy enough to show that, careless driving
v has not been entirely eradicated.
Extravagance is at the bottom of most of
our troubles, and its practice is not confined to
the wealthy by any manner of means.
Pooling to purchase, but not to sell, is
within the law. But the unanimity with which
prices went up or down is remarkable, just the
same.
Carranza finds it difficult to check his cu
pidity and keep hands off foreign investments
in Mexico, but he may get some outside help
in his efforts to restrain himself.
First division boys, leaving for home, give
out t letter that next to America they love
France. And these are the fellows we were told
"were being corrupted in Germany.
"Prince Arthur" comes home from Wash-
"nfcton full of confidence that the senate will
swallow the treaty whole, covenant and all, but
this is not the first time he has guessed wrong.
Still, $6,000 figures up to considerably more
than 2 per cent per annum on an investment of
$35,000, so that one commission firm is not
' losing any great sum of money on the capital it
; employs.
. One hope comes uppermost in the mind
these days, and that is that some one of the
many investigations under way will reach a
definite conclusion. Most of them merely peter
out without getting anywhere.
Three hundred thousand pieces of French
machinery, stolen by the Germans during the
war, have been identified and are being sent
home. Now you know the cause of the. groan
ing that is going up from der vaterland.
Omaha continues to lead the world as a
sheep market, because of its facilities for hand
ling the business. And these were not developed
under government control, a fact that might be
remembered when you are listening to the soap
boxer. ,
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Too Much Jazz
". The complaint of the actress against too
much jazz, for breakfast, lunch, dinner and
lullaby will find a plaintive echo in the breasts
of several million persons.
There is a time when music had undoubted
charms; against music itself there is no valid
objection, although no one has ever yet ex
plained what induces a man to take up the
study of the bass drum. But it is a grave
question whether we have not been overpro
grammed. Life may be a song, butnf the song
is in syncopated time, instead of the gentler
melody mother used tp make, the song may
fall flat on the ear. Even the sweetest of
arias palls if heard too often, and too long; it
is generally conceded that twenty-four hours
of music in a day is too much.
It is no reflection on our natural gay-heart-edness
if we protest that there is something
really inspiring in silence, and that music is
much more delightful when it can be contrasted
with nonmusical moments.
As for the musical hiccoughs for which the
modern publisher insists his public is waiting,
parched and gasping, that is easily explained
by the example of the innocent lad and his first
drink.
Any vice soon takes good hold on the weak.
-Detroit News.
WHEN PERSHING COMES HOME.
General John J. Pershing will rery shortly
leave France to return to America, his work
over there being ended. So eager is the
anticipation of Americans, and such is
the importance attached to his advent, the
president s is reported to have given over
his plans for reviewing the Pacific fleet
at San Francisco in order that he may
personally greet this great American soldier
when he lairds. Omaha in common with other
great community centers of the land hopes to
be permitted to entertain him, that he may be
given a notion of how he is regarded by his
fellow Americans. . For more than two years
he has typified to France and to the world the
best there is in the United States. As com
mander of a mighty army, he proved himself a
capable soldier, devoid of professional jealousy,
zealous in upholding the standard of his coun
try, steadfastly moving to the accomplishment
of the task set for him. That American arms
shine with a new luster as the outcome of this
tremendous venture must in a large measure be
ascribed to the unflagging efforts of this mod
est man, whose honor is the greater because
his distinction rests on duty well done. Persh
ing has won a place among the illustrious of
our land, and Nebraska is proud to claim him
as her own.
Legitimate Use of Capital.
Some persons, with a peculiar obliquity of
vision, have seized the present as an op
portune time to attack capital as it is repre
sented in the large groups comprising what is
usually referred to as "big business." Especially
has criticism been directed against the building
up of these groups of capital by the process of
reinvesting profits.
It is true that many of the practices of the
huge business concerns have been inimical to
the general good, contrary to public policy, and
that laws 'have been enacted to protect the
lesser combinations and the community against
unwarranted use or deplorable abuse of power
flowing from gigantic association of dollars.
Control thus sought to be established has not,
perhaps, always been efficacious, but this does
not invalidate the principle.
An idle man is of no service; he consumes
and does not produce. An idle acre of ground,
or piece of machinery, or any other agency of
production, is of no use to mankind. This ap
plies to the idle dollar, which is an agent of
production, vital to all processes. Unless it
be steadily employed, its existence is worth
less. Following this rule, the reinvestment of
profits in the business from which the profits
came is the legitimate employment of the dol
lar. It extends the business to produce more,
to enable the new capital to earn a reasonable
income. In its operation it was illustrated
years ago by the cycle of the farmer, who
raised more corn to feed more hogs to buy
more land to raise more corn to feed more
hogs to buy more land.
. The process is unending, and will endure,
'its antithesis is found in the bolshevik doctrine
of the destruction of wealth by the simple
proceess of consuming each day all that is
produced that day, starting fresh each morning
to produce one's breakfast before eating it.
Even that contemplates work and the employ
ment of wealth, no matter what it may be
called.
Supply and Demand.
A correspondent of The Bee writes a long
and earnest letter to the editor, setting out that
the law of supply and demand is a myth, ex
isting only in imagination. Prices, he contends,
are artifically fixed and have no substantial
basis. His arguments, ingenuous enough, do
not support his conclusions, but serve only to
show the fog that has spread over his reasoning
faculties. The law of supply and demand is
fundamental, and controls inevitably. Its oper
ation may be suspended by the interposition of
artificial obstacles, in the way of price control,
arbitrary distribution, or some other form of
manipulation, but once these obstructions are
removed the law will assert itself. Whether it
be admitted or not, the underlying cause of our
trouble just now is the world shortage oc
casioned by war waste. Demand is greater
than supply everywhere and for all material
things. Here there may be a surplus, but there
scarcity exists, and the needs of the one affect
the abundance of the other. To shut your
eyes to this, and contend that government own
ership, price fixation, or any other single form
of interference, or all together, will do away
with the everlasting principle is idle folly.
Economic laws are as immutable as moral or
physical laws, and can not be forever set aside.
Fine Point of Honor.
General Dickman clearly points to some
thing the world too often is inclined to over
look. It is the moral obligation entailed in a
bargain. When Captain Matlack of the Tenth
cavalry crossed the border to ransom the offi
cers held by bandits, he carried with him $15,
000, the sum that was demanded and agreed tq
be paid. He paid over only $8,500, and suc
ceeded in escaping with the officers held and
the remainder of the sum. Now General Dick
man proposes that the $6,500 thus withheld is
to be turned over to the bandits as agreed.
The moral and ethical soundness of his position
can not be assailed. While kidnapping is a
crime, and these officers were in effect kid
napped, to evade exact fulfillment of the terms
agreed to falls short of honor. If this punc
tiliousness were carried into the ordinary af
fairs of life, and given general application on all
dealings between men, the law courts would
lose most of their business, the nations would
soon be linked automatically in a league to
maintain the square deal for all, and the world
would be a lot better.
' Market men talk of an overabundance of
tomatoes, as if such a state of affairs could
exist, when every well regulated kitchen is red
olent of spicy odors, indicating the prepara
tion of catsup, chili sauce, picalili and other
things that are needed on the winter table.
Overabundance, indeed I
Spain reports 36,000,000 metric hundred
weight of wheat raised and a domestic demand
for 40,000,000. The Spaniards ought to get
through very nicely on that. Americans saved
136,000,000 bushels of wheat in six months by
voluntary restriction.
Imports increasing, exports decreasing, must
sound like hallowed music to democratic ears,
always attuned to the frca trade pitch,
Views and Reviews
Letters Recall the Hero of For
gotten Indian Outbreak
Among the other interesting letters turned
up in my back correspondence files upon which
I drew recently ' for this column, I find
these two that may stir some of my
readers to lively memories of the past.
It is a request for verification of certain facts,
relating to his army life on the plains, coming
from Maj. Gen. William H. Carter, who, with
the explanation that he was arranging his
papers with a view to narrating his half cen
tury of army life, says:
"In the winter of 1873-4 I was out in
charge of a wagon train from Cheyenne to
old Fort Fetterman on the Platte, and Lieu
tenant Robinson of the 14th infantry was
out from Fort Laramie with another train
when the Sioux broke out. Lieutenant Rob
inson and one of his corporals were killed.
This brought about an expedition into the
Indian country, which resulted in the estab
lishment of posts at Spotted Tail and Red
Cloud agencies, the latter still existing as
Fort Robinson, Neb.
"During the spring or early summer of
1874, while in camp at Red Cloud agency, a
half breed named Toussaint Kenseler re
joined the Indians, having escaped from the
jail at Cheyenne, where he was being held
for murder. He was shot and recaptured by
a small party comprising Lieut Emmet
Crawford, 3d cavalry, (subsequently killed
in- Mexico) and Lieut. P. Henry Ray (re
cently deceased as a brigadier general in the
army) and several enlisted men.. This re
sulted in an attack on the command while
Kenseler was held as a prisoner in camp.
"I find the official records of the War
department are practically silent on many
of the things which now are of interest.
Doubtless they appeared in some detail in
The Omaha Bee, the first item during Janu
ary or February, 1874, and the second along
about May or June. 1874. If the information
contained in your files is indexed by subject,
it may be possible to locate these occur
rences. If you can do so, and will let me
have extra copies of the paper covering them,
it will be a very great personal favor. If
they can be located, and only the office
files are left, I will get one of my Omaha
friends to call and copy such part as would
be useful to me."
A subsequent letter explains more in de
tail this exciting incident of Indian warfare:
Honolulu, H. T., June 3, 1915. My Dear
Mr. Rosewater: Thank you, very much, for
your letter. The particular items that I wish
to obtain information about comprise the fol
lowing: About June, 174, a half-breed Indian who
had been convicted of murder escaped from
jail in Cheyenne, was recaptured at Red Cloud
Agency by Lieut. Emmet Crawford and Lieut.
Patrick Ray. The Indian was brought to the
camp of the troops in garrison at that place,
the camp being called Fort Robinson, which
subsequently developed into Fort Robinson,
Neb., at the same site.- My recollection of
the name of this Indian was "Toussaint
Kentsler." I haVe recently seen a statement
by an officer who did not belong to that gar
rison, but who was in that part of the coun
try, giving the name of the man as "Antoine
Janise." A short time after the capture of
this man, and while he was in the guard
house, I think on the very night of his in
carceration, the Indians attacked our camp
and were driven off, but while the attack was
going on they cut out the beef herd from the
corral and got away with it. It was subse
quently recaptured by Lieutenant Crawford,
Third cavalry. Thia i arrnrriina tn niv
recollection running back over a period of
more than 40 years. This Crawford is the
one who also about that time pursued de
serters and recaptured 12 of them who had
left camp avowing they would fight before
they would surrender.
Crawford was afterward, as you probably
remember, killed by Mexicans in Mexico
after pursuing Geronimo's band across the
line.
If you can have the data concerning this
copied for me it will be very greatly ap
preciated. Very sincerely,
WILLIAM H. CARTER.
When I asked him about it, the outbreak
was distinctly remembered by E. S. Ricker,
who was here several weeks gathering material
for his history of the Indians. Mr. Ricker said
he knew both) "Toussaint" and Crawford per
sonally. Lieutenant Ray will be recalled as
having later been stationed in Omaha and mar
ried here, winning successive promotions
through the Indian, Spanish and Philippine
wars.
The Coming of Lord Grey
There is no likelihood that the people of
the United States will fail to appreciate the
significance of the selection of Lord Grey as
British ambassador or that Lord Grey himself
will fail to fulfill the high expectations that wiU
attend his coming. The long delay in filling
the vacant post at Washington was due to the
anxiety of the British government to find a
representative worthy of the post and one qual
ified to maintain and cultivate the close rela
tions of friendship and good will between these
kindred nations, relations which are so essen
tial to the peace and progress of the world.
There is hardly a statesman living today
who commands greater respect and confidence
than Lord Grey, and his response to the sum
mons of his government to leave his welj
earned retirement and in spite of grave physi
cal disabilities to assume the exacting duties
of the embassy at Washington is thoroughly
in keeping with what the world has learned
to know of his devotion to duty and his deep
sincerity.
America is not unmindful of the compli
ment implied in this appointment. It is with
out precedent in modern diplomacy for a states
man who has filled the office of Foreign Sec
retary to accept an embassy. But Lord Grey's
long incumbency of the London foreign of
fice during the period of supreme difficulties
won for him a position of authority and power
unique in our own time. Even though it be
understood that his coming to America is but
temporary, he is sure of a cordial welcome
from a people and a government confident in
the sincerity of his purpose, full of admiration
of his achievements in his own field of straight
forward diplomacy and of respect for his at
tainments and experience. Philadelphia
Ledger. ,
Strange Notions of People.
The officials of museums and picture gal
leries can sometimes tell very interesting
things about their visitors. It has often been
necessary to forbid men and women from en
tering certain galleries where they have fallen
in love with pictures of exceptional beauty.
Men have become so infatuated with painted
loveliness that they have made themselves ab
surdly conspicuous. The famous picture of
"Mona Lisa" turned the heads of many men,
and some women. After "Mona Lisa" was
stolen, many letters, poems and beautiful flow
ers were often placed before the empty space
she once adorned. Napoleon was one of "Mona
Lisa's" most ardent admirers, and when he be
came emperor and found the picture in the
palace at Fontainebleau, he had it removed to
his bedroom, and it hung there until bis fall,
when it was taken to the Louvre.
Home Health Hints
Rallabla advice riven In this
column on prevention and
cure of disease. Put your ques
tion in plain language. Tour
name will not be printed.
Ask The Bee to Help You.
Remedy for the High
Cost of Living
Examination for Pension.
While our government has not
yet been faced with any serious or
really vexatious problems In con
nection with pensions or relief for
the sick or wounded soldiers, the
day Is not a great way ahead when
more attention will have to be naid
to the obscure and involved aspect
of unsuspected disease. The Brit
ish government is dealing with this
phase of the pension problem In a
comprenensive rashlon. The "Med
ical Correspondent" of the London
Times writes on the topic as fol
lows: 4 .
In the case of men with gross
injuries there Is, perhaps, little like
lihood of injustice being done. These
men know that they are permanent
ly disab'ed, and realize clearly that
unless they obtain adequate pen
sions therr lot will be deplorable.
Consequently they make claims and
obtain help. But there is a lartre
class of patients whose disability is
oi a muon less obvious kind for ex
ample, the victims of tropical dis
eases, of the heart diseases follow
ing various infections, of kidney dis
ease, and so on. They do not know
enough to realize the meaning of
their symptoms; they assume that,
because they do not feel 111 at the
moment, they will not surfer from
relapses of their diseases, and so
they take a light view of their dis
ability. Many of these men are now re
turning from distant theaters of
war, in which they have been serv
ing for years. They have not seen
their wives and families for long
periods. They are refreshed by a
sea voyage and full of 'enthusiasm
at being home again. Their one aim
and end is to get out of the army
and back to their homes and friends
at the earliest possible moment.
To these men comes the official
with his question: "Have you any
claim to make in respect of disabil
ity contracted in service?" The
soldier thinks to himself: "If I
say 'No,' I shall be discharged at
once and get home tonight; if I say
'Yes,' I shall be examined and per
haps detained for medical treat
ment." In a very large number of
cases his mind is made up in an in
stant. He declares that he wishes
to make no claim.
He goes home and goes back to
work. He has no pension, but it
may be that he can earn a fairly
good wage. But in a few weeks his
old enemy, the disease he was not
cured of, finds him out. He be
comes irregular at his work on ac
count of ill health, and his employer
points out that he is a bad invest
ment as a worker. It may be that
in the end if his disease is active
he loses his employment altogether.
His position is now desperate. He
has no work and no pension, and
he is the victim of a debilitating dis
ease. He calls in his local doctor,
who is often Ignorant of war dis
eases, and can do little for him.
H is finally forced to appeal to the
local war pensions committee, who
usually try to get him into a mili
tary hospital. Later he is examined
by a medical referee of the pensions
committee often a doctor without
specialist experience in his disease
and he may finally obtain a pen
sion. Meanwhile the man himself has
suffered great mental strain, and his
disease has probably become much
aggravated; his wife and family
have shared this mental strain, and
may have suffered actual privation;
his employer has been placed in a
difficult and false position, and may
have earned the dislike of local la
bor organizations because he refused
to keep in his employment a worker
who was useless to him; the mili
tary hospital is burdened with a
sick man, whose sickness might have
been prevented to some extent, and
flanally the medical referee of the
pensions committee has to be called
in.
If, on the other hand, this man
had been examined and pensioned
before he left the service, he would
have understood that his disease
was likely to recur. He would have
been enabled to take light work and
to protect his health. He would not
have suffered anxiety; his family
would not have been faced with
want; and his employer would fOve
been spared an exceedingly unpleas
ant experience.
The failure to examine every man
on discharge becomes all the- more
Inexplicable when it is realized that
each soldier has a "Medical History
Sheet," upon which are entered par
ticulars 6f his illnesses on service,
and of his physical state when he
Joined up. The examining doctor, at
discharge, can thus, in a few min
utes, review the case and determine
its character.
The truth is that no soldier should
be placed in the position of decid
ing for himself whether or not he
has a claim to make. No soldier
uninstructed in medicine is com
petent to give an assurance that he
does not need a pension, and there
is an element of meanness to use
no other word in accepting it from
him. The medical man, not the sol
dier, is the proper judge of this
question. If he is competent, jus
tice can be done to all concerned.
The evil is very widespread, and
some truly heartrending cases have
come' to notice. It is a tribute to
the honesty of the men that even
when in distress they usually blame
themselves for not making a claim,
saying, "I was so anxious to get
home again."
But this should not absolve the
authorities. They stand between the
nation and the individual, and it Is
their duty, clearly, to see that in
justice is avoided.
The remedy is perfectly simple:
Examine men on discharge; have
competent doctors for this work; fix
their pensions at once; warn them
of the probable course of their dis
ease. The medical knowledge is at
hand. It merely wants realizing and
utilizing. The situation is well
summed up by the editor of the
Medical World, who writes: "The
men for this kind of work should
be picked men experi
enced general practitioners of good
standing, with whom should be as
sociated experts in the various
branches of specialism."
Texas la Ready.
According to one supposedly good
authority, the shoes for which we
... ton nat lis f.3(l TlPvt
nuvT yay - v wiu vvu.
year. There are two perfectly good
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reasons wny mm iouh-h.i .....
never come true. In the first place.
t . .nn 4
we nave never paia i"i t" "i
shoes, and in the second, barefooting
i 1- . tnA tnntnantallv
much healthier, so we are told. It
might be suggested to the shoe
profiteers that sandals have not en
tirely escaped the memory of the
race and there's no telling what an
infuriated man will do if pushed to
the wall. Galveston Tribune.
Recklessness.
"T-vav in .till tnlkin' about trv-
in' old Bill Hohenzollern," said
Three-Finger Sam.
"well, commeniea -aciu joe,
"that jest shows the difference be
tween Berlin and Crimson Gulch.
t ht. town triov rntildn't find a.
lawyer with nerve enough to take
hla cast," waamngton ciar.
Omaha, Aug. 14. To the Editor
of The Bee: We notice that unrest
and dissatisfaction is increasing
amongst the people from day to
day, not only the poorer and middle
class, but the M ter-to-do as well,
and we also know the cause of It,
which could be remedied if taken
in hand at the proper time. If not,
it will be an' unpardonable crime
for those authorities who have the
power to do so.
It is an open secret for anyone to
know that the so-called high cost
of living is not caused on account
of shortage of commodities or la
bor, but through the laxness of the
government to apprehend and pun
ish the guilty ones, the food hoard
ers. There are four kinds of profit
eers packers, cold storage houses,
middlemen and the retailers. All
exact an unreasonable proflj from
the consumer. I believe we have
got a law to get at those extortion
ists. Every day we read about In
vestigation and probing by govern
ment, state and city officials, and
what does it amount to. When the
real point where the guilt lies has
been discovered it ends right
there without bringing the culprits
to justice.
By raising the wages of the wage
earner 50 per cent and raising the
cost of living 100 per cent the
former does not gain, but loses, in
the end. Cut prices of necessities
of life to normal, reduce wages ac
cordingly, raise luxurfes as high as
you want, and the worker will be
contented. There will be no strife
and trouble between capital and la
bor. Give the worker a fair show
and he will be loyal to his employer.
But the greedy, selfish profiteers
are a good deal worse than the com
mon highwayman. The former
will rob his victim every day and
get by unpunished; the latter will
rob you only once. Hanging would
be the proper punishment for those
human vultures.
What good does It do to tell the
people the investigators are going
after the profiteers and not accom
plish anything? Action and result
that is what we want, and the
quicker the better, before the peo
ple lose their temper and patience
altogether. Cold storage plants for
one thing are a great evil for hoard
ing and inflating the food prices.
The packer will ship his storage
food from one state to another in
order to avoid the cold storage reg
ulation law. I have seen carloads
of melons, onions, potatoes and
peaches taken direct to hog ranches.
If the commission men would sell
those goods at a reasonable price
to the retailer and the retailer with
a fair profit to the consumer, it
would not go to waste, but the com
mission dealer withholds articles
which are plentiful from the mar
ket in order to create a temporary
shortage so as to make the con
sumer pay two prices. The pack
ers are dolngthe same thing in
hides and leather. Make them
loosen up and there will be a great
relief to a good many poor people.
L. PHILIPSON,
1618 Davenport Street.
ODD AND INTERESTING.
The American Life
Convention
Omaha, Aug. 22. To the Editor
of The Bee: The week of Septem
ber 22, next, will bring to Omaha the
annual meeting of the American
Life convention.
This means an Ingathering of del
egates representing 119 American
Legal Reserve or Old Line Life com
panies, domiciled in 86 atates of the
union. '
It brings also representatives of
50 life insurance companies and or
ganizations not members of the con
vention, but deeply interested in Its
work.
These 119 companies are the con
servators of the life policies of ap
proximately 3.000,000 policyholders,
carrying more than $4,000,000,000
of life insurance, with reserve
amounting to more than $400,000,-
000 and assets exceeding $500,000,
000, mostly invested in real estate
securities in the western and south
ern states.
Inasmuch as the headquarters of
the American Life convention are in
Omaha, this city has more than a
casual interest in the annual meet
ing. Six Nebraska legal reserve (Old
Line) life companies are members
and Nebraska has been twice hon
ored with the presidency of the or
ganization. The secretary and coun
sel is a citizen of Omaha.
Terhaps few of its citizens realize
that Omaha is an important insur
ance center. There are In this city
now six legal reserve life companies
having a total volume of life insur
ance of more than $100,000,000.
Omaha Is the home office of the
largest assessment life insurance
company in the world and of the
second largest fraternal benefit as
sociation. There are four wide
awake accident companies and one
prosperous fire insurance company,
with another now being organized.
This oify is the domicile of one gen
eral live stock insurance company
and of a company specializing on
insurance of swine. It is also the
home office of one of the strongest
surety and casualty companies.
Nearly all the great insurance In
stitutions of America are represented
here by general agencies.
The people of this city will be sur
prised to know that the combined
assets of the life Insurance institu
tions, old line, assessment and fra
ternal, located here exceed $43,
000,000. These facts warrant me in com
mending to the special consideration
of the public-spirited business men
of Omaha the annual meeting of the
American Life convention. It af
fords them a real opportunity to
turn the eyes of financial institu
tions, growing rapidly in strength
and importance, toward this progres
sive citv and our splendid state.
THOMAS W. BLACKBURN.
Hard to Choose.
Mother Now, Johnnie, which
would you rather do, have a donkey
to ride or watch father bathe?
Blighty, London.
The Day We Celebrate,
tr. Frederick Cohn, rabbi Temple
Israel, bom 187S.
Rear Admiral John C. WaUon,
V. S. N., retired, born at Frankfort,
Ky., 77 years ago.
Rt. Rev. Theophlle Meeracnaert,
Catholic bishop of Oklahoma, born
in Belgium 72 years ago.
Rev. Samuel A. Eliot, for many
yeara president of the American
Unitarian association, born at Cam
bridge, Mass., 67 years ago.
Harrv H. Hooper, captain and out
fielder of the Boston American
league base ball team, born at 8ant
Clara, Cal., 32 years ago.
Hank Gowdy, catcher of the Boa
ton National league base ball team,
born at Columbus, O., 29 years ago.
Thirty Years Ago In Omaha
Election of officers for the Metro
politan club resulted as follows: 8.
A. Sloman, president; C. S. Elgutter,
vice president; D. Kauffman, secre
tary; S. Bergman, treasurer.
A. T). Brandels and hla bride have
returned from their wedding tour
and are at home at 724 South Nine
teenth street.
Talmer Cox of New York City, au
thor of the "Brownie'' stories, Is vis
iting his nephew, Frank L. Cox.
Emil Heyn of Detroit is guest of
his brother, George Heyn.
Easily Hidden.
It was evident there had been an
accident. A lady on deck rushed
to the captain of the ship and In
quired in anxious tones what was the
matter.
"The fact Is, madam, that we've
broken our rudder," the captain re
plied. "Oh. Is that all?" said the lady.
"As the rudder is mostly under water
I expect no one will notice it."
Blighty, London.
Patience Has Ita Limits.
A distinguished centenary speak
er held with some show of truth
that the Garden of Eden was at
Wichita, Kan. in fact is there yet
but when he contenda that Adam
was an Arrapahoe Indian we can
no longer follow him. Columbus
Dispatch.
While On Vacation
Kep In touch with home nnd efflca.
CoronA
offer this service for $60.00 (With
traveling case). Weighs 6 pounds.
Lasts forever.
CENTRAL TYPEWRITER EXCHANGE
1905 Farnam St. Phena Douflaa 41X1.
More than a third of all American
carpets are woven in Philadelphia
Certain landholders in Scotland
are bound, under monetary penal
ties, to marry at the king's command.
The increase in the cost of living
in Great Britain since 1914 is 160
per cent, and in France 292 per cent.
The giraffe is said to pass over the
ground at the rate of about E0 feet
a second, while the kangaroo covers
10 to 14 feet a second.
In the English city of Chester the
man who fails to raise his hat when
a funeral is passing becomes liable
by an old law to be taken before a
magistrate and Imprisoned.
It is a well established fact that
the more pearls are worn, par
ticularly next to the skin, the more
thev increase in beautv and valua.
If unworn for any considerable j
length of time their luster becomes
dimmed.
The earliest mention of coal In
the territory now comprised in the
United States is recorded In the jour
nal of Father Hennepin, who in 1679
referj to the site of a "cole" mine on
Illinois river, near the present city
of Ottawa.
Preparations for the proposed
flight from London to Cape Town,
by way of Egypt, which may become
a reality much sooner than the
popularly known Cape to Cairo rail
way, have already been begun. This
projected flight is in the nature of a
demonstrating trial, for which elabo
rate preparations have to be made.
The main task concerns the pro
vision of gasoline supplies, and the
establishment of landing places
along the route to be taken, and
obviously much preliminary ex
ploration work has to be undertaken.
The chief difficulties lie in the line
between Broken Hill (Rhodesia) and
Egypt.
SAID IN FUN.
Battle Creek in Omaha
y rvaeri 135 teanre ipun. lm en truMMtte
G. yxr YrOjutifci jaflC lent doil mtJL
oa Try dwAvcAb urv trSSn. aoSA
All baths and electrical
equipment useful in the
treatment of the aicK.
The Solar Sanitarium
Masonic Tampla, 19th and
Douflaa.
Phena Tylar 920.
Blffklns looked slum. Ha shuddered
every now and again, and covered his
eyes with his hands as though they hurt.
"My wife got a terrible Jar at a sale
yealerday," said Blffklns, and his, lip
trembled, i
"How'd that haorjen?" asked his
friend, very concerned.
She was told," said Blffklns. "that It
was the latest thing In vases." Tit-Bits.
"When your aunt visits us she will
bring more sunshine Into your life."
"I don't want more sunshine," pro
tested tha little girl who is beginning
to study the looking glass. "I've got
freckles enough now." Washington Star.
"Vnur trimnjt ., h. - wni... BAt if
man to use profanity In my presence."
."j near, ii Baia noming proiane.
"Oh KM V. J I J XI-1 .
"... j u. iuiu, t 1 1 r ii juu i.iRru
about the canal project he aald he was
worried over the dam prospect." Balti
more American.
"Aren't you a-lari tn m th-aa food
shippers Investigated 7"
"I dunno," answered tha ultimata con
sumer. "It alwaya worries me a little
to see anything done tnat adds to the
expenaea of conducting their business."
Washington Star.
Angry Customer; Look here, waiter,
I have Just found this trouser button in
my aoup.
Walter (with a beaming amlle). Oh.
thank you. air; I couldn't think what
had become of it. Pearson's.
"Yffll lniil4 . . - w K.4
habits." " ou'"
"What'a th anAM tt .f (ham
will b abolished by constitutional
amendmenta." Life.
Hopeful Learner: Professor, do you
think I shall ever be able to do any
thing with my voice?
Encouraging Teacher: Well, It maght
come in very uaeful In case of fire or
shipwreck. Pearsons.
RED POPPIES IN THE CORN.
1 v,?,w"n thm ,n 'he morning light,
When white mists drifted by;
v, "Mn ,hem ln the du'k o' night,
ti. , 'aln,t ,h starry sky.
'ndr waving blossoms red,
Mid yellow fields forlorn;
A glory on the acene they shed,
Red popples ln the corn.
IY? .seen them, too, those blossoms red.
Show 'gainst tha trench lines' screen.
-I ,on ,treni that waved and spread
Thro' all the brown and green:
n?k "n 'nem dyed a deeper bua
oi. il nature gave,
' torn 'rni slopes on which they grew.
i.iQuj a, grave.
Bright blossoms fair by nature set.
Along the dusty ways,
? cheered us, in the battle's fret,
Thro' long and weary days:
ou gave us hope; If fate be kind.
We'll ae that lnnd.rnr mnrn
Then home again wa march and flnd
Ja Popplea ln tha corn.
Treasury of War Poetry."
CAMPBEU. GALBRAItH.
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process before it leaves tKe
tfj(at is qss. reason tuky ike
excels every other piano in.
the tvorld., without exception
in beauty of tone and resc '
nance. Another reason,
is in its "tension resonator,!
which makes the tone or a
Mason GrHamlin, alone
of all pianos, profit against
deterioration..
Years' Personally Conducted
Piano Business
Following makes, some of which we represented since
1 874: Kranich & Bach, Sohmer, Vose & Sons, Kimball,
Brambach, Bush & Lane, Cable-Nelson and Hospe.
Our cash prices are our time prices.
The Art and
Music Store.
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Mutie Store.
1513 Douglas Street.
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