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Mil) Kr J t K THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1919. The Omaha Bee . DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATEB victor' rosewa4:er, editor THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. PROPRIETOR MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The A.vialcl I'raH. ol whick The Mm la member. Is ei ehisiwly vnrttlad to tha um far puhilAatioa of ill newa disialclit endued to it or not otlierwine credited tn thit nair, ud also Ihe lonal nwi publuheil barvln. Ail rUhli of publiciUti of our Siwelal ctistiatcliM are alio reserved. BEE TELEPHONES: Print Branch brhanie. As for the Tmrw 1 f)ff) Department or Particular Trraon Wanted. 1 jrlCr IVVU For Night or Sunday Service Call: Editorial Department - Trier 10DOL. nrrulatlon IVivrtiiiwit ...... Tjler 100SI. AdvertlilDf Dtnmrtniem ..... Tyler lOOSL. I OFFICES OF THE BEE: Homo Office. Ue liuildmj, lTth and Famam. Branch urriw Araea 4110 North :4th I Park 26 15 Learenrorth Benmn 6114 Wliterr Ave. Kuth Side 2318 N Street Council Blum II Scntt rlt. I Wanxit 8111 North 0ib Out-of-Town Office: New Tor Cite xS rifth Are. I Washington 1311 O Street Chicago tleeier Bldf. I Lincoln 1330 H Street JUNE CIRCULATION: Daily 64,611 Sunday 61,762 Average rin-uUtitm for Uia month aubscribed and a worn to by K B. Hasan, Circulation Manager. Subscriber leaving the city should have The Bee mailed to them. Address changed as often as requested. You should know that tTmaha ia one of the few cities in the United States' owning a municipal auditorium. Why was Paul Sutton put back? Back on sugar rations again; how do you like it? Going to the fair at Lincoln today? Omaha s special. New Zealand ratified the peace treaty, this count as the third nation? It is Will Railroad telegraphers are now asking $1 an hour. They deserve it if anyone does. The soviet party has been born. Its pro moters plan to make America just as happy as Kussia. Commercial relations between France and Germany have been resumed. The war must be over. Building operations show an enormous in , crease in money, but not much in volume over last year. The worst of Austria's situation is that all her ablebodied note-writers have gone into retirement. AUSTRIA AND THE WORLD WAR. Along with the peace treaty goes a formal note to Austria, charging, responsibility for the world war. It is set forth plainly that the plea in avoidance set up by the legatees of the late empire can not be given serious consideration. While the intrigues that preceded and followed the ultimatum to Serbia, the match that touched off the train leading to the great ex plosion emanated from the circles closest to the Hapsburgs, it is equally true, that the peo ple of Austria welcomed the war. In all their history they were never more submissive or loyally attached to the fortunes of the Haps burg dynasty and the Austrian aristocracy than in the days after the world war was set in motion. The Czechs and the Slavs alone are freed from this indictment They had ties of blood with the Serbs and the Russians, as well as their own grievances, and it was known by some then as it is known by all now, that the Bohemians and other of the Slavic races held in bondage in the Austrian empire would be a source of trouble to the German alliance. The military put forth its utmost efforts to suppress the disaffection and throttle the patriotic im pulse of these unwilling subjects of the Haps burgs, with only the 'result that the hardships naturally incident to war were greatly in creased in Bohemia, for example, by reason of the vicious enforcement of military orders. But the Germans and Magyars under the emperor and his successors were for the war. Now they are presented with the bill, and must settle. Terms have not been made easy for them; they are expected fo take the loser's end. Impossibilities are not asked, only such tilings as may be done by dint of diligence and economy. The throne of the Hapsburgs has been swallowed in the dust of the empire it represented, but the sins committed by its oc cupants will haunt their subjects for generations! Congress is planning to show Pershing a real good time. The whole nation will join in this enterprise. - Uncle Sam is going to open a big grocery store here. First thing on the list should be an ample supply of sugar. 1 Sir Edward Carson is hunting trouble again. It will be a pity if the British government does not accommodate him. f aeienaant in a breach ot promise suit ;J 'counters with a claim for damages resulting ' r.r'n'oiitgshrok. New field for legal exploitation. s King Albert and Queen Elizabeth of Bel ' gium will be with us this month, and will learn ' how a real democracy looks on the most gal lant of his line. Mexican marksmen must choose other tar gets than Uncle Sam's birdmcn, or they may . belie Senor Carranza's protestations of neu trality and amity. One of our British friends says his country can keep pace with the United States in ship building. Wait until the race gets fairly started, and then see. ,. Final conferences at the White House sug gest that the boss does not want any "boners" pulled while he is away. Safety first means slay at home for him. .' For the second time the Alabama legisla ture has refused to ratify the woman's suffrage amendment. By and by folks will begin to understand that Alabama means it. The cost of living is forcing onto the mar : ket a number of old English family estates, and " Baron Astor is threatening to sell his New York holdings, merely proving the rich are also having some trouble in stemming the tide stirred up by. war. The Edith Cavell Execution Hitchcock's Defense of the Treaty. Senator Hitchcock, administration spokes man for the Versailles treaty, has made his long-advertised defense of that document. It consists of a series of assertions, rather than a connected argument, and presents no real rea son for ratification. Dealing with Shantung, he resorts to the same form of avoidance as characterized the president's course. Instead of an intelligent discussion of what is involved in the provision, with its manifest injustice to China, the senator tells us that England and France are willing to ratify the deal with Japan, and asks if the United States can afford not to go alongK with them. The real question is, Can the United States afford to become a party to the transaction, which on its face bears the marks of treachery tq China, and the negotiation of which is the outcome of that secret diplomacy against which all Americans are set? "Will our self-respect be maintained if for expediency we give assent to the unscrupulous grab by which Japan gets the richest province of China, along with 40,000,000 Chinese? The "immense benefits" to be forfeited in event the treaty fails consist of Germany's con sent to submit to justice in the matter of repar ations and damages. As the United States has laid claims only to such reparation as covers private claims for damages, it is not plain where any escape for Germany is provided. As to the acts of the alien' property commissioner, these will stand on their merits, regardless of whether we have German approval or not. The work was done in conformity with law, and its endurance requires no validation by the Ger man government. That provision of the treaty is formal only, and in no sense vital. Vital questions in connection with the League of Nations were not considered by the senator, probably being reserved for another time after the president has made his per sonal appeal to the country. The position of the treaty has not been greatly strengthened by the latest effort of its most distinguished champion. Humanity's revulsion against the execution of Edith Cavell by the Germans is not miti gated one jot by the minority report of the committee on military law of the American Bar association, which says the execution was in accordance with the laws and usages of "civ ilized warfare." i Whatever the merits of the case in the tests of law considered in a detached way. the de rent element of mankind will not overlook the fact that the German armies had neither a legal nor a moral right to be on Belsrian soil :f.a'l or to have any authority whatever over the lite and conduct ot i.dith Cavell on that soil. In sending its armed forces into Belgium the German government broke faith with other : powers and violated its own solemn agreement that under such circumstances as arose it would respect the neutrality of the little country. Did not Germany, by an act of invasion, forfeit any right whatever to a standing in court, save that of an archcriminal? Are we to understand from this minoritv re- iport that it sanctions this heartless invasion carried out under a violated promise? Prob- ,ably not, but there is the fundamental, ugly fact o a treaty prpstituted into a scrap of paper, -and that fact properly is taken into account in ; either a legal or moral appraisal of Germany's execution of this heroic, self-sacrificing woman. When (jermany carried out this execution decree Germany already had become an armed burglar and murderer and despoiler of woman hood on forbidden Belgian soil, in the iudement ;of all those who hold that it is an imperative idutv of a nation or an individual to kern the 'written or spoken word. Getting down to the rock bottom of fact and right, Germany had no more orooer business in Belgium at that time I than she had in Maine. She was a cruel tres spasser without the shadow of accepted justifica .'tion for her presence there. How then are we to : reconcile this world verdict, concurred in by many Germans themselves, with an opinion 'now put forth by an American legal authority that the slaying of ahis Eood woman was ad- omissible under "the laws and usages of civil ized wartarer Minneapolis Tribune, Extensive School Building Program. Omaha folks have again been handed a pleasant surprise by the energetic school board, which has outlined a building program con templating the expenditure of $5,000,000. The extent of this proposed enterprise may give some idea of the growth of the city, particu larly in those elements that make demands on the public schools. It is apparent, however, that the building schedule anticipates needs of the future, and its discussion must to some extent turn on this. The "junior" high school idea, to which Superintendent Beveridge is so devoted, looks ahead to a situation not yet wholly developed, and which must be stimulated to a considerable degree. Taxpayers have been of the opinion that with the existing high schools the demand for the advanced or special work among the older pupils was quite well taken care of, or will be when the new commercial-technical building has been erected. Omaha has always had pride in its city schools, and its people have never been niggard in pro viding for their support, and this long-time policy will be continued for the future. This very fact is sufficient warrant for careful scrutiny of the plans now before the board, and will justify the elimination of any features that may be dispensed with at no expense to the efficiency of the public service. The Canadian gentleman who has survived thirty-five years of unsatisfied longing for Yorkshire pudding, and now seeks an "old coun try" cook who can provide him with his coveted delicacy deserves success. If he can be as true to his wife as he is to his appetite, their mar riage wilf survive many shocks. The people of the United States will be much more inclined to lend their credit to the bankrupt Europeans after the latter have shown some sign of becoming self-supporting. As long as the principal industry over there is politics, directed by bolshevism, just that long will our folks want to hold back. Prohibitionists are undecided as to whether to continue as a national party. Considering the success achieved for their principles with out any real representation in office, they ought to find their answer easy enough. "Shoot him! Kill himT yelled the "detec tive," and the murder was done, all in the name of law and order. How much longer can this persist? New York's striking actors are showing that a play may be put on without a manager. That may solve the whole difficult "English A" in France Robert P. Utter in The Review. "English A" is it necessary to define the term? "Freshman English" the students called it. The catalogue described it as "Elementary Composition,, preswibed for all first-year men ' .1. . . .'. . . II t . a in tne university. n you ever get as close as freshman year to an American university, you know all about it. You remember paying good money over the. counter for tuition, and then trying to slip out of the shop without carrying off the goods, thinking it a huge joke on the storekeeper. You didn't like the way the goods were put up. They came in packages of an hour each in the presence of a languid on a nervous young instructor who read you his own undergraduate themes, interspersed with pas sages from Walter Pater and Theodore Drei ser, by way of illustrating matters you never took the trouble to grasp because you knew they were quite unessential. If you got as far as the graduate school, you know still more about it. By that time you were the instructor. You called yourself a "section-hand," and de scribed the course as, "Decomposition and Illit erature, with Special Studies in the Themey Side of Life," and agreed enthusiastically with the colleague who described the professor in charge of the course as having "an admirable talent for organizing sawdust." When we got to France and looked into our old kit-bags (the original ancestor of which must have belonged to Pandora) we were sur prised to hnd tnglish A there along with every thing else. It was like the goblin on the load of furniture that was being removed from the haunted house we did not know it was going with us. It must have been woven into the very fiber of our beings, for we carried no books nor any notes; we did not know when we started whether we were going to teach or sell cigarettes. We were told to include only bare necessities in our baggage, and it never occurred to us that English A fell in that cate gory. But it did. We included it without hesi tation or discussion in our preliminary list of English courses for the A. E. F. university. Naturally we must have a beginners' course of some kind; perhaps each heart did recall a dif ferent name, but all sang English A to be sure, it was English 1-A by the time it got into print, but that was the registrar's do ings. Then, between the acting of the dread ful thing and the first motion, we wondered what it would be like. There were we, indeed, the same old teachers in spite of our uniforms, and there would be they, the same old students Yes, but think what they had been through since they left our class rooms. "Eccovi l'uom ch' e stato all' Inferno," what will he say to unity, mass, and coherence, these three? What will he do to English A? Catch it and throw it back at us like a hand grenade? And if he does, will it explode, or is it a dud? That was at the planning stage, and vague planning it was of necessity; we couldn't make definite plans without knowing who was to carry them out, and of the staff for the- course we were only the nucleus. We were the pro- fessional teachers, wearing at first the Red Triangle, afterwards the "Golden Cooty," the winged torch of the educational corps only four of us at the outset to stand for the Eng lish department, representing Massachusetts, Nebraska, Mississippi and California. After wards we gathered them in, a major, two cap- tains, half a dozen lieutenants, and as many enlisted men. 1 hey represented among them Harvard, Yale, Princeton, University of Penn sylvania, Cornell, Amherst, and state universi ties with North Carolina, Texas and Minnesota as the geographical extremes. Among the en listed men were some of the best of our teach ers. Any university might be glad to get such a staff for its freshman course, young men who had had experience enough to make them use ful, but not so much as to turn them into automatons. So without any tinkering whatever we set up the old machine at Beaune, cranked it, and were delighted to find that it ran more smooth ly in its new surroundings than ever before. Through no prevision of ours, the surround ings had been adapted to it in three main par ticulars (English A always works by the rule of three). First, the sawdust had been prop erly organized for the first time in the history of the course the army had done the trick better than the originator of the English A it was spread under our feet in the class rooms to keep the earthen floor from churning into mud. At the sight our hearts leaped up; for once we could keep the sawdust where it be longed, press it down into the mud; if it could sprout in that soil whence spring the vines of France and milk of Burgundy, then we might accept its juice as the growth of God. Second, the men had not paid for what we had to offer them, and therefore did not feel obliged to neglect it. On the contrary, being paid $30 a month and found for attending the university, they seemed to feel obliged to,carry off all they could get. It becomes a habit in the A. E. F. to take anything anybody will give you. You see a line of men patiently standing, and au tomatically you attach yourself to the end of it, not knowing whether you will get a month's pay, a pair of pajamas, or a shot in the arm. It isn't that you get something you want; you get something for nothing. And you are not compelled to stand in the line; if you were it would be a formation, and you would dodge it if you could. Doubtless the old English A of the organ ized sawdust is a thing of the past, at least in the sense in which the originator of a phase meant it, the organization of all possible "er rors" in the use of language into categories and hierarchies, and parading them before classes with all the pomp of "Sound offl" and "Pass in review 1" It is a joy that soon palls, this teach ing innocent freshmen to blush at a pleonasm and shudder at a split infinitive. One soon be gins to question the utility of teaching students whole categories of errors they never dreamed of, and turns to the more positive process of trying first to bring them to the point of want ing to write something, and then trying to help them express themselves. The sawdust method is much easier; it is a comparatively simple thing to take a body of organized ma terial assumed to be fact and pile it neatly in minds made vacant for the purpose, but it has no rewards worth winning. Our Free Legal Aid State your case clearly but briefly and a reliable lawyer will furnish the answer or advise in this column. Your name will not be printed. Let The Bee Advise You. Popular Japanese Shade Tree. After growing for 10 years, the Japanese cypress, one of the smallest specimens of the horticultural world, reaches the size of a golf ball. As if exhausted with this tremendous effort, the next 10 years see it increase only by a fraction, when it practically stops growing altogether. Motor Vehicles. F. C. Please answer through the columns of your paper under the head of "Legal Aid" the following questions: 1. Is there any law in this state that prevents a child under legal age from runnings an automobile, if so, what Is the age provided far? 2. Does the automobile have to stop before passing a street car at the usual stopping place provided the automobile can pass passengers getting on or off such street, car without doing them any harm? !. Is there any provision as to kind of lights that an automobile has to have? Answer. 1. Any person who per mits a child under the age of 16 to operate a motor vehicle is guilty of a misdemeanor. 2. Under section 28. chapter 190 Session Laws, 1919, It Is provided as follows: "Upon approaching any place where passengers are getting on or off street -cars every person operating a motor vehicle shall bring such vehicle to a full stop and shall" not again start until said street cars have started. Provided, In cities or villages where provisions shall have been made by ordinance for safety zones where street cars stop, and when such zones are distinctly marked on the street, persons op erating motor vehicles may pass out side such safety zone without stop ping; and Provided further, the speed limit in this section shall not apply to physicians, or surgeons, or police, or fire vehicles, or ambu lances when answering emergency calls demanding excessive speed. 3. Section 31, Chapter 190, Ses sion Laws, 1919, provides as fol lows: "Every motor vehicle while in use on public highways shall be pro vided with good and sufficient brakes and also with a suitable bell, horn or other signal, and shall have exhibited during the period from one hour after sunset to one hour before sun rise one or more lamps showing white lights visible within a reason able distance from the direction in which such vehicle is proceeding, and a red light visible from the reverse direction, provided further it shall be unlawful to use on a vehicle of any kind operated on the public highways of this state any lighting device of over four candlepower equipped with a reflector, unless the same be so designed, deflected, or arranged that no portion of the beam of reflected light, when measured 75 feet or more ahead of the lamps, shall rise above 42 Inches from the level surface on which the vehicle stands under all conditions of the load. Spot lights shall not be used except when projecting their, rays directly on the ground and at a dis tance not exceeding 30 feet in front of the vehicle. Women Suffrage Amendment. B. W. Did the last legislature pass a resolution requesting Senator Hitchcock to vote in favor of the women suffrage amendment? Answer. It did. DREAMLAND ADVENTURE By DADDY. DAILY DOT PUZZLE "RACING FOR A THRONE." Drainage Ditch. G. E. M A drainage ditch was constructed in such a manner so that the surface water which it col lected was discharged upon my land. Notwithstanding the drainage district employed a competent en gineer, yet I can establish by the best kind of evidence that the plans of the engineer were faulty and that the ditch could have been constructed in a manner so as to relieve me from the discharge of such waters. I was told that the supreme court had decided a case recently holding that the drainage district was liable for damages in a case similar to that of my own. Will you please tell me the name of the case and what it decided? En closed please find stamped envelope for a reply. Answer No doubt the case you refer to is that of Dryden vs Peru Bottom Drainage District, 99 Neb. 837. Judge Sedgwick ren dered the opinion. It was held in this case that a drainage district that is guilty of negligence in the construction of its ditch and by rea son of such negligence casts the surface waters which It has col lected upon the lands of another, is liable for damage which is caused by such negligence, and that it is the duty of the drainage district to so construct its ditch that it will carry off the ordinary surface water which is collected in such ditch, and if it negligently fails to do so and allows the water so collected by it to be cast upon the lands of an other, It will be liable for damages caused by such negligence. The fact that the drainage district em ployed a competent engineer and constructed the ditch according to his dan. does not constitute a de fense to an action for damages caused by the improper construc tion of the ditch. (Peggy. Billy, Balky Sam, General Croaker and the birds race for tho throne nf Blrdland, one-third of the race being by air, one-third by water and one-third by land. After the race Balky Sam lands In a sink hole and Peggy and Billy turn back to aid him.) They' See a Fire. BALKY SAM was stuck fast in the muck. All four feet had sunk deep in the mire, and the more he tried to pull them out the fur ther he went down. Peggy and Billy swam quickly back to shore and ran to see what they could do. "Hee-haw! I'm a goner now!" brayed Balky Sam. "First I was flying like a bird, now I am sinking like a stone, and soon I'll be un derground with the snakes and worms. That's what a mule gets for trying to be an eagle." Billy took a quick look at Balky Sam, then he ran to an old rail fence nearby and grabbed a rail. Peggy picked up the other end of the rail and they carried it to the sink hole and shoved it under Balky Sam's stomach. Another and an other rail followed until they had built a platform under Balkv Sam so he couldn't sink any further. Billy followed this by sticking rails down Into the mire beneath Balky Sam's feet. "Now everybody lift together!" he shouted. The birds strained at the strings, Balky Sam pawed des perately and up he came out of the mud. Another minute and he was on solid land and Peggy had freed to 6 7 12 2. 54 re si V lb 15 14- .17 3Z 44 4S ia 4.3 r 4: 4ao - 4a 2Z . 2S 42 -4o Z 3d 26 Zb .32 "The Cottage Is on Fire. We Must Try to Save It," She Cried. Noodle says, "Trace fifty-four Morning I adore." Praw from one to two and ao on to the end. the birds from the strings In which they were tangled. "Hee-haw! Now we can go on with the race," brayed Halky Sam, dashing for the lake. He plunged in, and then Billy and Peggy saw another part of the trick he had plotted with the birds. And they saw why the birds towed him through the air Instead of flying free and fast as they might have done. For as soon as Balky Sam began swimming the birds clustered on his back, clinging tightly to him. They were using him as a ferryboat to cover the water part of the race. "Hee-haw! Hee-haw! Goodby, Miss Peggy and Billy," brayed Bal ky Sam. "Goodby! Goodby! We're sorry FROM HERE AND THERE. The Day We Celebrate. Luther L. Kountze, born 1874. Gen. Count Luigi Cadorna, the victorious commander of the Italian armies in the late war, born at Pallanza, 69 years ago. Simon Lake, whose latest submarine boat invention makes it possible for a person to walk on the ocean bed, born at Pleasantville, N. J., 53 years ago. Harold MacGrath, author of numerous pop ular stories, born at Syracuse, N. Y., 48 years ago. Henry Lefavour, president of Simmons col lege, born at Salem, Mass.. 57 years ago. C. Bascom Slemp, representative in con gress of the Ninth Virginia district, born in Lee county, Va., 49 years ago. Thirty Years Ago in Omaha. A special car from Lincoln bringing state, county and city officers and other prominent citizens, arrived in Omaha to take in the at tractions of the week. A heavy rain made it necessary to postpone the Merchants' day parade. Merchants' ball at Exposition hall was a brilliant affair. Thomas Kilpatrick was chair man of the reception committee. One hundred traveling men from Beatrice took part in the Drummers' parade. Stock Inheritance. L. F. S. What Is the best way to get money back for stock subscrib ed? If a wife dies does her hus band get all the property? Answer 1. The only way is to sell the stock either back to the company or to some other purchas er. 2. If no children, then the husband inherits all the property. If children, It depends upon the number and whether the children are the result of the marriage or a previous marrlaere. Your question does not state facts fully enough to give an intelligent answer. Blacklist. A. G. Please answer the follow ing Question: A few years ago I wars engaged in the grocery business and failed and received my dis charge in bankruptcy. I recently eneae-ed in the exocery business again and I find that there is a combination among commission men and wholesale grocers whereby I am refused credit and have been blacklisted. Can I sue them? Answer If you can prove a con spiracy there is a liability. There is no liability by refusing credit. Hospital. t,. k. F. Is a hospital that is run by a church and no profits to any of the persons owning it, liable for an injury caused to a patient by one of its nurses? Answer No. Consistency. "What has become of our anti tobacco league?" "So many ladies had given their husbands ash trays and cigarette cases for birthday gifts that they felt a little embarrassment about pressing the matter just at this time." Washington Star. Rechrlstening Demanded. "And they call that stuff moon shine!" exclaimed the man who was more inquisitive than wise. "That's the name it goes by in these hills." "You ought to rechristen it. It tastes like bottled sunstroke." Washington Star. Xeedless Advice. It's all right to urge economy on those accustomed to be careless with their money, but the careful man is apt to grow rather impatient when he is urged to be more economical than he is under present Drlces Buffalo Commerr-' ; Two thousand three hundred silk worms are necessary to produce two pounds of silk. London bridge is crossed every day by 110,000 foot passengers and 22,000 vehicles. In the Saragossa sea the gulf weed is so densely packed as to impede the passage of the largest ships. Nearly everybody smokes in Ja pan. The girls begin when they are 10 years of age, and the boys a year earlier. Russia possesses the longest ca nal in the world. It starts at Petro- grad and goes to the frontier of China 4,500 miles. London's water consumption per day is not less than 269,000,000 gal lons, and an expert estimates that at least 4,000,000 gallons a day are ab solutely wasted. The young king of Siam speaks English. French and German, ana has written books in all these lan guagen as well as in Siamese. He is a clever amateur actor, and is the author of several plays and dramatic sketches. No other race of animals can show such a history as the black oxen that draw the funeral cars of Tapanese emperors. They are or special breed, and for centuries have been kept for the sole use or tne imperial family. During several months of each year some of the great rivers of Si beria are frozen solid to the bottom, but the fishes imprisoned in the ice maintain their vitalty and resume ther active life when the ice melts in the spring. Notwithstanding his unwieldy shape and short legs, the rhinoceros is one of the most ague or oeasts A horseman can scarcely manage to overtake him, and in strength he is perhaps unsurpassed by any animal in the forest. In single combat no animal but the elephant can stand up against him. In the prison at Lyons, France, there is a curious collection or pens. They are the pens with which the executioneers signed the regulation receipts for the prisoners hanaea over to them to be guillotined. At each execution a fresh pen is used for the purpose, and the Ink is left to dry upon It. I would like to know how many read the chapter I suggested." A hundred handa were upraised. "Now," he said, "you are the very per sons I want to talk to there Isn't any 17th chapter of Mark." Boston Transcript. An American girl once withered the former crown prince. She met him In Berlin before the war. He was making his usual bid for a pretty girl's favor. "I suppose It is difficult for you as an American to realize," aald the prince, "that I can trace my ancestry back 27 generations." "Is that so?" said the girl. "What else can you do?" Paterson Press Guardian. "OMAHA." LINES TO A LAUGH. "Brlgga la always seeking new attach ments for his motor car." "He has one now that will hold him for a while." "What kind Is it?" "One furnished by the sheriff." Brook lyn Citizen. Architect Have you any suggestions for decorating the study. Mr. Qulckrich? Mr. Qulckrich: (war profiteer) Only mat it must be brown. Great thinkers, i believe, are generally found In a brown study. Boston Globe. An evangelist who was conducting nightly services announced that on the fol lowing evening he would speak on the subject of "Liars." He advised his hearers to read In advance the Uth chapter ol Mark. The next nlcht ha arose and said: "I am going to preach on 'Liars' tonight and DAILY CARTOONETTE. .'!":(('. . Hello look at the little TURTLE! TLLTER5E IT AND HftVE di... Z- ..(2 ft- There's a place where the "East meets the West". In Omaha. The hand of friendship la given each guest. In Omaha. O'er the world you may roam. But whenever you come There's always an om In Omaha. There's a place where the "East meets the West," In Omaha. With the enterprise many're Impressed In Omaha. When you leave it behind Few cities you'll find In the world, of its kind, Like Omaha. There's a place where the "East meets the West," In Omaha. It Is rapidly nearing the crest Omaha. It stands firm on the map, Naught can it handicap, 'Tis a city with "snap," Omaha. "Bellvlew." 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Swish! th kites dragged them through the wa ter so fast that spray flew from their breasts like waves from th bow of a speed boat. Swish! they rushed pnst Balky Sam, splashing water over the astonished birds Swish! they caught up with General Croaker, the frog, who was begin ning to get tired of towing General Swallow across the lake. Swish! they even passed Wild Ducks, who were paddling along at a good rate. The beach was near when the wind, which hud become more and more puffy, died away entirely. Ths kitee no longer pulled them and dropped toward earth. "Swim!" shouted Billy, and swim' they did, letting go the kite strings. They had a good lead and reached the beach well ahead of the others. "Now we'll have to run our swift est," said Billy. "Balky Bam can gallop faster than we can, and It will be a hard race to the old mill when he reaches shore." But Peggy was looking at a cot tage which stood close to the beach. From a window a little whiff of smoke had puffed out. 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