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. ... THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1919. 1 1. ( The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY rOOSPED BT EDWAKD KOBKWATTK VICTOR, ROSEWATER, EDITOR TBI III PUBLISHING COMPANT. PROPEIETOK " MEMBER OF THK ASSOCIATED PRESS . Tae AmeM fnm. f whleh Tks Bas to a smbsr. to e- . slniltet eotKltd to the use for publlcMloa tt all am dltpatoaes rrsaittd I It or not otherwise eradlt4 tail peper, aad sl tt total Ml publlibad hcraia. All fliau o( publication of our ' wteUl atopelchss ars also nwiii : , BEE TELEPHONESi MM Braack Xsetuuuj. A for ttTv1tr 1000 Putt I er rsrUeiirar rem Wnilea Far Nlfhl wr Sua day Service) Calli Mterlsl Deperlauat .... . Tjlu IMAU CuvnlaMea Ikwrtnml - - Trier 11MI. ,. 4?ertlint Department - - Trier 100M. ,.. ',. , OFFICES OF THE BEE " r ' Im 0 trios. Bee Building, lit tad rsminc ' Snack Oftleas: Am 41ie Nona Mta I Prk - MIR reeTeawerth lease Itlt Unitary An. Bnuta Side Mis N Street SaaeU Brafli ' 1 Boots St. I Wlnnt in North 0tb Out-af-Towa Office i (, fork Oil 8s rirtk At. I Wuhlnfton Mil 0 Km) t htM Seene Bid. I Lincoln , 13M B Street " JUNE CIRCULATION t Daily 64,611 Sunday 61,672 'Ararat cltrolettsB for tka amta subscribes tad swore to ht I. ft. Raise. Clreulttton Maaster. Subscribers, leaving tha city aheuld bava tha Baa mailed t t these. Address chanftd at sites aa requested. You should know that ' The daily capacity of Omaha's flouring mills at present is over " 5,000 barrels. "Whit'i the constitution between friends?" " Fiume is becoming something more than a 'fume. $ '.Mr. Taft admits be is built for comfort, not airplaning. There are others. Serbia and Roumania will sign the treaty Jv itli Austria, but that, in no way obligates them :o keep the peace. Boston firemen decline to join the police in t'licif folishness. In time it will be clear that ome one has blundered. il " The school board will lose nothing by keep ing in mind that $5,000,000 is a pretty big chunk of money, even in these days. . . It i a greater offense to fail to show up iSor work than it is to kill a man, according to Chief Eberstein's way of administering disci ; pline. : Thirteen was an unlucky number for a 'baker's dozen of auto speeders in the police vcourt. ' A few more such groups, roundly fined, ,may be of effect in checking the mania. i" "Hi" Johnson seems to have waked up Kan sas City and Des Moines as Borah did Omaha. .These "trailers" are dissipating the notion that the middle west is unanimous for the league. Toll of life taken by the gulf hurricane is mounting high, and is already enough to place that atorm well among the great calamities of history. And it is not like war, which may be avoided. v The Jewish relief fund drive is to get money to buy food for women and children who IvtuaHy are starving. The war is ended, but hunger and disease atill stalk' through Europe. Help here is given to tm: helpless. ; An "authoritative" denial of the Bullitt story "i Ktirt'tner' tmv London, nrincioallv because neither i Lloyd Oeorge aor his secretary ts .named in connection with it. Mr. Bullitt must have hit, pretty close, to the bull's-eye. CONSTITUTION DAY. Observation of th anniversary of the adop tion of th Federal Constitution contains some thing a little beyond the mere celebration of a birthday. It is, or ought to be, the beginning of a movement of re-education of those people who have lost sight of the fundamentals which are represented by that document, and the teaching of that considerable element of our population whose ignorance on the point is aa great as it is deplorable. . The constitution of our government, de scribed by William Ewart Gladstone as "the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given moment by the brain and purpose of man,", has been assailed by Victor Berger as an outworn relic of a barbarous age. Socialists of all va rieties demand that it be abandoned and some less stable and durable charter be set in its stead. Dr. David Jayne Hill gives this outline of the constitutional theory, on which our government rests: 1. that government should consist in lim ited and specifically delegated powers; 2. that these powers should be so separated and di vided thai, no individual or group should con trol all of them; 3. that the exercise of them should be confided to responsible representa tives of the whole people; 4.- that legislation should be limited by the provisions of a fundamental law; 5. that this law should con tain guarantees of personal rights and liber ties that should never be taken away by leg islation; 6. that this charter of liberty may be amplified, but never be changed by a mere majority of the people, and only by the de liberate act of a plurality so preponderant as to prevent any group-interest from exercis ing its arbitrary will in violation of the in herent rights and liberties of an otherwise defenseless minority; and 7. the establish ment of a supreme judiciary charged with the duty of seeing that the fundamental law is not violated by any state or federal legis lation. That is the essence of the American con stitution, under which this country has grown since 1787 to be the mightiest power for good in all the world's history. If our people have .lost sight of some things they should ever bear in mind, or if some of them never have been given right instruction in regard to the funda mentals, the condition should not be perpetua ted. Constitution Day in the future ought to mark the advance of Americans in understand ing the charter of their liberties. . Strict economy h enjoinedon congress and the country by Chairman Good of the ap propriations committee, who points to the fact that a deficit of $3,000,000,000 already confronts the Treasury without another dollar being set aside. - ' x " Maybe the tragedy of the drive along the Columbia highway wilk have the effect of re ducing the speed at which the president is hurried along on automobile drives. He is in more danger from reckless driving than any mother cause just now. - Commissioner Ringer'i advice to the other commissioners, that they read the transcript of' evidence in the coroner's inquiry over the body of Eugeqe Scott is good, even if the mayor does insist they have no time to fool with such mat ters. Careful perusal might convince some of them that the county attorney has not acted unwisely in holding the accused policemen fbr murder. .. Vagaries of Unrest . Twenty-three yeara ago the country had a great surprise in the nomination for president of Mr. Bryan, who a few weeks before was the practically unknown correspondent of a newspaper. The period was one of remarkably low prices all along the line. It was hard to get a living price for anything. The army of tha unemployed had never been so large before. Naturally, political unrest was general. Mr. Bryan held that goldbugs had cornered man kind. As an orator he had the manner of Patrick Henry, but not the other attributes. His proposed remedy for the troubled condi tions and low prices was unlimited coinage at an arbitrary ratio. His theory was that price would go up if currency went down. The pop ulists who affiliated with him, wanted unlimited paper money. Deprive the currency of any value except the government stamp, they ar gued, and prices will go up. Inflation was of fered at the polls three times under the Bryan leadership. It was rejected, though Bryan re ceived more votes than were ever obtained be fore by any other democratic nominee. Six teen years of republican national control, with tound money, brought great prosperity and sat isfactory prices. Again there is unrest but with a great dif ference. Prices are high. Dollars are as good as gold, and gold is stocked up in the national treasury beyond all precedent Employment is epen for, all who are qualified at big prices. A job for every man and woman is easily ob tained. And yet the unrest is marked. Strikes against prices send them still higher. In vain a strip of blanket is cut fom one end to lengthen the other end. Doctrinaires are of fering their nostrums as Bryan did in 1896. The poet predicted the coming of a time when "the common sense of most would hold a fret ful realm in awe, and the kindly earth would lumber, lapt in universal law." As ever, the earth is kindly; Bat it is not restfully slum brous. The Bryan fallacies were not the last of their kind. How about the common sense of most Mr. Cryan wa downed by it His imitators will find themselves up against it in the approaching ampaign. St Louia Globe-Democrat, - Ninety Days for Townley. When Judge Dean of Jackson county, Minnesota, sentenced A. C. Townley and Jo seph Gilbert to jail for ninety days for (Con spiring to teach sedition, he struck a mighty blow for freedom of speech and publication. Every agitator overtaken by the law sets up as a defense his right of free speech. This is never to be denied, but it carries with it full responsibility for utterances. Seldom does the radical jawsmith care to recognize this inevita ble accompaniment of free speech. He prefers to sail rough shod into existing institutions, and scatter his verbal corrosives generally over government and society alike, regardless of any effect they may have. Most dangerous of these are thos who have learned how to keep just inside the law, while by insinuation or in nuendo, half-truths adriotly expressed, they manage to do greater harm than were they to come boldly forth and proclaim exactly what their doctrine actually contains. Townley and Gilbert belong to this class. They have per sistently spread the poison of social unrest and class warfare in the most insidious way, until they overstepped their caution, and the law seized them. The present ease will be re viewed by the higher court, whose decision may not be anticipated, but the action of Judge Dean is a vindication of the law and of good govern ment. Our free institutions will exist only so long as citizens in general understand that liberty is only safely guarded when it excludes license. Japan'a Reason for Rejoicing. The LondonxTimes has from its Tokyo cor respondent a lengthy dispatch, recounting the enthusiasm with which the people and the gov ernment received Marquis Saionji on his return from Paris. . It was such an ovation as a triumphant general or a successful diplomat might be accorded after winning a tremendous victory for his country. And who will say Saionji did not deserve it? He had won for Japan at Paris 'by his diplomacy a territory rich in undeveloped wealth beyond any his country ever possessed, with many millions of dollars worth of pre liminary improvements, such as railroads, docks, public and private buildings and the like. Along with this goes 4(,000,000 people, who are to be governed and exploited after the Japanese fash ion., All this had been gained without a blow, merely by diplomatic adroitness in effecting a compromise with an enthusiastic idealist, who while sticking for the principle of self-determination for all nations would willingly sac rifice much sooner than incur the loss of Japan as a member of the great international group he seeks to form. True, Saionji promised that 'in time Japan would return Shantung to China, and the ideal ist accepts this as a pledge, but not a word is said as to when the restoration will be made, nor of the qualification since applied from Tokyo, that the state depends on the behavior of China, with the implication that the Japanese will be the final interpreters of that behavior. No wonder the populace went wild with joy when their emissary ro Paris reached home. He brought with htm the richest prize the empire ever seized, and at the price of a few pleasartt phrases. Samuel Gompers' Silence. Considerable emphasis is being laid on the silence of Samuel Gompers with regard to the strike of the steel workers. This might not be so if the public generally understood the constitution of the American Federation of Labor. That body is composed of autonomous national and international unions, and a few directly affiliated federal unions, each of which is supreme over its own affairs. Mr. Gompers has no more authority to call a strike or to declare one off than has the president of the United States. International unions, moving in their own way and according to their own laws, determine on strikes. It is true that Mr. Gompers, through his personal influence, wields great power in such matters, his advice gener ally being listened to, although not always ac cepted. But his is not the last word, either in starting or ending a strike, and international unions have hitherto been found very jealous of their own business, This is one reason why Mr. Gompers is silent at the moment. "Contemptible quitters" show a remarkable capacity, for holding on, They All Visit the West From the Villager" (New York). At the news of his coming, the middle west town shook itself and made immediate prep arations. The two-column announcements in the , local newspapers, the hand-bills pasted above the tattered sheriff's notices on the cot tonwoods and maples, were almost unneces sary; the news thatJie was coming went from one to the other ana everyone intended to be there. "A monster crowd is expected," the editor paragraphed, and neither rain nor sud den corn-belt temperature could have upset the, prophecy. Early in the morning they began to come in from the farms; "Oles," with their shiny brown faces, oddlv darker than their Scandinavian hair and blue eyes; substantial Mrs. Oles. broad of beam and toting the in evitable Olekin; farm boys, true American stock, as you could see by their thin-lipped, wide mouths and their grave eyes, marked already by the sun with crowsfeet at the cor ners; prosperous farmers, men with moustaches who, in their younger days, had seen hunting in North Dakota or mining in California, but who had drifted back and settled down to the rewarding business of farming rich country; "hands" imported from Chicago and tanned out of their city pallor, but , re-clothed for the occasion in their metropolitan clothes, grown a bit loose at the belt and a bit scant across fhe shoulders; young girls with their gawky lovers, mothers, babies, lunch boxes, assorted equipages, all sorts of horse, and every kind of dog there is a motley assortment, but mid dle western and solidly American. Most of these early arrivals melted into the town and were not seen until evening; a few, however, hung around and watched the tent being put up. Every boy in the town was on hand from the moment the first stake was driven; they stood about making witty remarks during the preliminaries, but became tensely silent as the red-and-yellow striped mass rose up with a sough, slanted and swayed, and finally, amid, shouted directions and curses, stood steady and was rapidly roped down here and there a boy,' with that "goat-like sort of inspiration which is peculiarly boyhood's, leaped into the air, flapping his arms at his sides and uttering whoops. That vacant lot was only a vacant lot; the boy went across its beaten diagonal a dozen times a day, but that' night, with the torchlights flickering and flar ing, with the red-and-yellow striped tent, dirty in the daytime, but now glowing like a thing from China or Timbuctoo! with your own chum's face showing different in the strange jllumjnation, the eyes so glistening and tht wavering shadows producing a strange effect as of grimaces indeed, this was no vacant lot but a land of true romance! The older ones did not, of course, share this peculiar thrill, but they could not fail to feel the pervasive excitement; the sight of the lights, the people going in at the entrance, the half-dozen hustlers with their hoarse cries, the band of eight pieces going oompah inside, even the great black-lettered signs running around the entire tent and announcing his painless dentistry all this could not but make one hurry instinctively one's steps, even were he a skeptic with no intention of going in. I do not know that the middle west is more susceptible than other sections of the country to tins psychological manipulation, but I can not think where there can be people so stolid that they would be unmoved by it. Do not say he was a fakir; he was nothing of the sort. When that red-faced fellow stumbled up on the rude platform in a silence that seemed all the deeper for the stream of guarantee and ejacu lation from the painless dentist himself; when he sat dawn in that kitchen chair, in full view of to him! hundreds of thousands of those who were once his fellow-men; when the den tist waved his soft white hands and shouted and then everybody craned forward as with a quick movement he tipped the fellow's head back and there was a tug and the band two feet away suddenly blasted out like a charge of dynamite and the dentist led him dazed to the front of the platform, holding his tweezers aloft triumphant, and then with the other hand momentarily silenced the bass horn and the trombone "Will you kindly testify to the audi encedid it hurt?" and the subject spits a mouthful of blood into the sawdust and grins and shakes his head, and the band blares out again and the hundreds of thousands applaud and he goes back to his seat but it was indeed the truth; it did not hurt! And after all the bad teeth and a few sound tnes! have been offered up and the dentist's pockets are heavy with silver, the crowd streams home down Main street, dark save for the second-floor window behind which Charlie Hicks is gloomily figuring his accounts the flare of a match shines on Charlie's bright new sign which says "Careful Dental Work," but no one notices the modest claim; they are all talking of the evening's experience, and a doubter will listen in vain to hear any who yielded up his tooth and his two-bits, say it hurt "By Judas, it' didn't!" is the universal testimony. .The next morning the vacant lot is the vacant lot again; romance has gone; the morning sun shines on a litter of papers and tobacco quids and banana skins. Here and there, on the farms, in the hardware store, down at the wire factory, a man is minus a tooth. But that is all, and Charlie Hicks is hoping the bead cur tain of his second-floor office will rattle and let in a patient; it does not rattle. That was a good many years ago. The pain less dentist does not come to town any more. There are people who can remember him, yet, quite well, but I do not believe any one of them could tell you his name. There are a half-dozen dentist's offices on Main street now, though Charlie Hicks has moved into an im pressive place on Maple avenue. None of them offers anything as novel as the traveler of 30 years back offered; they have had no hustlers and no brass bands; their growth has been steady and slow and- unstartling and unap plauded. After all, the middle west is sound, sure American; we can count on it. If Suited Don't Wait. "Don't marry the first girl you fall in love with; wait until you've seen, the rest," advises the Montgomery Advertiser. Yes, and by the time you've seen the rest someone will have carried off the one you were in love with. Boston Transcript. I i on av The Day We Celebrate. I. L. Beisel, city clerk's office, born 1865. Sir Alfred Booth, chairman of the Cunard Steamship company, born 47 years ago. Bishop Thomas F. Gailor, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, born at Jackson, Miss., 63 years ago. Sydney Anderson, representative in congress of the First Minnesota district, born in Good hue county, Minn., 37 years ago. Vivian B. Small, president of Lake Erie col lege, born at Gardiner, Me., 44 years ago. Johnny Griffiths, well-known lightweight pu gilist, born at Wadsworth, O., 26 years ago. J. E. Barton, traffic manager M. C. Peters Mill company, born 1889. I Thirty Years Ago in Omaha. . S. C. Behenna, manager of the Swedish La dies' National Concert company, is in the city arranging tor the appearance ot nis attraction at Boyds opera house. The new power house of the Omaha Street Railway company, on the corner of Nineteenth and Nicholas, is practically complete. It cov ers more ground than any other of its kind in the west. John M. Gibble, mayor of Muscatine, la, is in the city, guest of his sister, Mrs. George Schriner. The Omaha Guards gave a pleasant dance in the armory) 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. Divorce and Attorneya Fees. P. R. W. My wife secured a di vorce from, me and the court made me pay her attorney's fees. I think I was fntttled to the divorce. If I appealed the case to the supreme court can the supreme court charge me with additional attorneys' fees for my wife's attorney? Please an swer immediately through the col umns of your paper. Answer The supreme court can exercise discretion and tax addi tional attorneys fees if It sees fit. Creditors'' Stilt N. W. I have been a reader of your paper for many years and for many years was a friend of your father. I have never asked a favor of you, eo will you please answer "this question. I owned a small farm worth about $5,000. I have been in very poor health, so that I am un able to work. My wife also has been sick. I conveyed my farm with the understanding that the grantee would support my wife and I by giving us $60 a month as long aa any of us should live. I owe some debts, amounting to several hundred dollars, and these parties threaten to eet aside this convey ance unless I pay them. The pur chaser states that If he pays them It will reduce my Income. Please tell me what the law is on the eub Ject Answer-7-The weight of authority is to the effect that It Is the legal duty of & debtor to pay his debts before he can convey property to provide for his future support and that existing creditors may avail themselves of property conveyed for future support, when the debtor has no other property out of which . pay ment can be enforced. Landlord and Tenant. . L. D. U. I rented an adjoinlnp farm for grazing my cattle. The same was taken away from me by the owner because the person from whom I rented failed to pay his rent. I had to take my cattle quite a distance to another farm which I rented, which cost me consid erable more money. Can I sue the landlord for damages? Answer The landlord Is liable for any damages you have sustained. Shipment of Live Stock. B. D. I shipped some cattle with Instructions to the railroad com pany as to where I wanted the cat tle unloaded and fed, while in tran sit. The company did not do as I requested. Is the railroad com pany liable, and I would appreclat If you would let me know what my rights are. Answer A common carrier Is not bound to comply with evry arbi trary request made by a shipper of live stock as to the place where such stock shall be unloaded and fed while In transit. It is only obliged to comply with such request and in structions regarding the care of the shipment as may be reasonable. Whether a particular request or In struction is .reasonable is a question for the jury. Insanity. L. E. M. My father sold his farm about four years ago and at the time he sold It he showed symptoms of Insanity. The consideration paid for the farm was much less than its actual value. Since then his condi tion has grown worse, so that it was necessary. to confine him to an asylum. Can the children set aside this deed by paying back the con sideration? Answer If your father was in competent at the time of the sale, the transaction is absolutely void and you can set the deed aside. Overflowing Waters. B. F. My adjoining neighbor con structed a dam under a right ob tained from the ttate. The waters from the dam overflowed part of my farm and caused me considerable damage. My neighbor claims that as I cut some Ice that the benefit that I derived from the Ice Is to be deducted from the damages that I sustained. Is this the law? Answer It was decided in an early case of Nebraska and which is still the law that special benefits may go to reduce the damages to what remains of the land, but can not be set off against the value of the part taken. . The Wrong Time. "Darling I have decided to speak to your father tonight." "Oh. not tonight, Alfred. He has out nimseir shaving, missed a train, broken his glasses and lost an um brella, all since this morning." London Answers. SAID TO BE FUNNY. "I think tha minister ought to pray for rain," said tno good dracon. "Don't suggest It to him until after wa hava had tha Sunday-school picnic," cautioned the deacon's good wife, Judge. "Now we'll play 100," laid Willie, "and I'll be the elephant." "That will be fine," said Aunt Mabel. "But what shall I beT" "Oh, you can be the nice lady what feeds the elephant with buns and augar," explained Willie. Blighty (London). Some medical fiend claims to have dis covered that bea stlnfrs are a sure cure for rheumatism. Pity the hesitating rheumatic patient, timorously muttering: "To bee' or not to "bee' that Is the question" Tha Passing Show (London). A young farmer" bride who recently undertook the management of the horti cultural department of the farm writes the agricultural editor as follows: "What can I do to 'make my potatoes grow? I peeled them ever so carefully bforo planting them, but they haven't even come up yet." Philadelphia Inquirer. DREAMLAND ADVENTURE By DADDY. "THE CHARMING MERMAID." Now that the nation Is dry, an enter prising dopeologlst has compiled the fol lowing for tha benefit of summer vaea- DAILY CARTOONETTE. BOSS-l'VE AN AWFUL HErURCHE; SOlI LIKE TO LAYOFF THIS AFTERNOON! j mm-- s& tSAU-FARK isftUaatZO I- I V LL. """"" (A mermaid seated on a rocky Isle rails the Prlnofc ot Dollars. Ha cannot swim, but p hinges Into the lake to answer hr. Billy, Peggy and Balky Sam save him from drowning and he rldea on Balky Sam's back out to the Isle, where the mermaid vanishes as they draw near.) CHAPTER IV. The Giant Turtle. PEGGY, Billy and .the Prince of Dollars cried out In wonder when they saw that the mermaid was gone. She had been there so K--r' A 4. -.-.v l V. . ;,r..JV l.: . Li.. "It's a Turtle," answered Billy; "a , Great, Big, Whopping Turtle." tlonlsts: Rye, N. T. ; Bourbon. 111.: Green River, Ky. ; Cllquot, Mo.; Champaign, 111.; Brandy Keg, Ky. ; Brandy Camp, Pa.; Branely City, Cal.; Port, Okl.; Sherry, Tex.; Brandywlne, W. Va. ; Olnn, Miss.; Wine, Va. ; Tank, Pa.; Boose, Tenn.; Drinker, Pa.; Aqua. Va.; Vichy. Mo., and Llthla, Fla. Take your choice. The Wheeling Register. PERSHING. To Oar General John Joseph Pershing. "Where's a man who Is straight, strong and ready? Where's a man who Is always true?" Jeh,ovah spoke from his throne on high: "That Pershing man will do. I've tested the depths of the soul of him, i And I know him all through and through. He's carried that flag Into distant lands. He's spanned both the field and the flood. t Re Is straight. Re la strong. He Is ready. And far more than that he's good. My truth Is his shield and his buckler. And he's done what he said he would." Refrain: And the angels of Glory Now are telling the story That for long ages hoary Olad earth chorused again. Hill and valley are ringing, Many waters are singing, Joyful tidings they're bringing, "Peace and good will to men." So to Pershing we gave full two millions. We had ten millions more than went. A signal flamed and they sprang to arms. New hope their young souls lent. Some "struck for the trail of the un tried west," But they left as on pleasure bent. "My comrades In khaki, by night or day Trust God. Hold the line. Never fear." Thus did Pershing's firm faith lead them onward. V- They answered with right good cheer. The years long will roll back the echo Of that "LaFayette, we are here." Words and music by Marian Sargent, 8223 U St., Lincoln, Neb. (Copyright 1919.) plnlnly Just moment before, and now there waa . nothing on the rocks, not even a bit of fog. "HOo, Hoo! Where is she? Maybe she is hiding among the rooks," hooted Judne Owl, and he hurried alonir to the isle to look for her. "No, no; she Isn't here. There's not a sljrn of her," he a'dded, landm on the Tocks. Ralky Sam, the Prince of Dollars, Billy and Peggy landed on the isle mid found what Judge Owl said was true. The rocks were bare, with splashing waves dancing over thorn. "She must be here. I saw her. with my pwn eyes. And she was fairer even than 1 had pictured her in my dreams," cried the prince, searching In every nook and crack among the rocks. "Perhaps she was really a spirit as you feared," whispered Billy Bel gium. "Or a siren, like those in the" story books, luring the prince to his doom," nswered Peggy. "No, she was too fair and Inno cent to do harm," declared the prince. "We alarmed her and In her fright she was washed away into the lake." "Hee-haw! This thing looks queer to me. I don't like spooks. I'm going back to shore." Balky Sam bal anced himself on the rocks as he prepared to leap back Into the water. "No. Let us look further," cried the prince. And then he let out a glad cry and held up something he had found In a hole between two rocks. It glistened lh the moon light. "A hair comb!" cried Peggy. "That proves she Is not a spirit, npr a spook!" shouted the prince. Judge Owl now let out a cry of alarm. "What's that climbing that rook over there?" he said. They all look ed toward a great boulder a few yards away from the isle where they stood. Something dark and shin ing was poking Itself out of the water. "Is it a snake?" whispered Foggy, as a beady head shimmered in the moonlight. "No, it's a turtle," answered Billy. 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Our prices are right our fr stock large so make your selection I- at Bowen's. We will hold it for you until you want it delivered. anthem rV 1 On Howard, between 15th and 16th J Street. A Balky Sam leaped Into the lake. Ai Peggy and Billy started to follow. the giant turtle slid oft the rock in Balky Sam's direction. "Swim! Swim! The turtle is chas ing you!" screamed Peggy. Balky Sam paddled as fast as he could, but he hadn't gone far when he suddenly stopped and began to flounder in distress. "He-haw! Help! Help!" he brayed. "The turtle has gralibed me by the tail!" "It's the mermaid!" shouted Billy. "She is after the prince." (Tomorrow will he told how they get a suiprino and how the iuhIb gnU one. too.) I ( is supreme r r LonflMt-livfd piano m the world bar none. Ask Cor a guarantee from the maker or seller of en other piano equal to the Mason & Hamlin guarantee. Such a guarantee will rtoi be gtvm because tr cant be divert. Jsk tu to show yox iai v A FOR RENT TYPEWRITERS All Makes Special rates to students. CENTRAL TYPEWRITER EXCHANGE HtfJiejt rrterJ Uifihrrt Jrmisni You can with safety se lect any of the following Pianos Kranich & Bach, Vose & Sons, Brambach, Kimball, Bush & Lane, Cable-Nelson, Hinze or Hospe. ( Player 1 Pianos The wonderful Apollo Reproducing Player, the Gulbransen and Hospe. All cash . prices are our time prices. We rent, tune, re pair and box pianos. Chicago Grand Opera Seat' Sale NOW D.4H1 15 Fsrnam St. I Center of Isl Education 1 I Omaha is serving a great section j I j H r I of the mid-west through its uni- H Hj' i versities, colleges, ( academies, B F ' I I seminaries, and its schools of law, H hi medicine, pharmacy, dentistry, H pi f ) business colleges, normal schools, t4 Eg J etc. It is indeedf ' a city which j Ej could style itself one of the great- 1 E est centers of education in the II g entire west. Il H 1 The United States National Bank I j Eg I has always welcomed the influx II 3 f students to this city. It now II j IpH "'t's we'come ne tou- fl 3 Sjpyji sands who this year are H M'fSM comin& to partake f t H TtM educational advantages. H fi Our officers extend II fe- fctZ? to you the. same fl bigk deree -f tj
