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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: " FEBRUARY 29, 1920.
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to) . tfcesa. Asaresa cfcaaged m allaa as requlreeV
You should know that
Deposited in the banks of Ne
braska have almost trebled in vol
time within the last ten years.
sditrjr ii losing tome of its attractions.
Some oi these days the local highjackers will
jvst taks cellar and all s
It will ba some time before you see another
Sunday just like this one.
Russia's red army is going to work for a'
living. The war must be over.
Brazil is now engaged in an energetic dress
reform campaign. Civilization does spread.
The aviator who went five miles up in the
air almost reached the limit set by the h. c. of I.
We are still waiting to see Br'er Bryan bow
his head to receive the benediction from Gov
ernor Edwards. 1
'. "Barney" Baruch appears to have had his
"poker face" with him when he confronted the
congressional inquisitors.
.. A Hog Island freighter of the largest size is
to be called after "Buffalo Bill," but this will
add no luster to the name.
March' is expected to make its traditional
leonine appearance. If it only goes out like the
traditional lamb, we can stand it
Lloyd George 'and Millerand are willing to
go along with the president in settling ths
Fiume case. That ought to satisfy the world.
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Wall Street is calmer at 'the return than it
' was at the going of the railroads. The welcome
to the prodigal is not going to be wildly
exuberant
Commissioner Roper warns New Jersey that
the federal dry law goes for that state the same
as elsewhere. The outcome of this will be
worth waiting for. ,
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The New York Times wonders why Mr.
Wilson did not select a "deserving democrat"
to be secretary of state. Perhaps Lansing's fate
mighi.be the answer. '
Argentine has placed an order for twenty
five locomotives in the United States, an indi
cation of progress: in South America and a
growth of Pan-American spirit.
. The Mexican minister at Washington L
going, home for "further instructions." Wonder
if he thinks "watchful waiting" is likely to be
displaced by a do-something policy.'
Omaha's week of song did not touch an
aefeached mark of vocal excellence, but it did
give some folks a chance to use their lungs for
a purpose other than mere breathing.
"Herb" Hoover's name has been put on the
Michigan ballot as a republican. This will
about square accounts for running Henry Ford
as a democrat there right after he had received
the' republican endorsement in Nebraska.
If the center of population has swung to
the east, it may be laid to the fact that for three
year the government was offering every possi
ble inducement for men to leave the west and
take up homes beyondthe Mississippi. Wait
until normal conditions are restored, and see if
the factory towns that sprung up over iiigrtt
hold -their present population.
The Unprecedented Craze
for Furs
' Fur-bearing animals would seem to be
doomed s to utter extinction in this country, if
the. present craie for furs and fur-adorned gar
ments continues much longer.
The world's record for fur. sales has just
beejj set in St. Louis, where in 12 days the auc
tioneer sold $27,152,882 worth of pelts of ani
mals, secured mostly in America. According: to
the report of the St. Louis fur exchange, 1,500,
000,000 skins changed hands and sales were at
the rate of about $4,000 a minute.
During the past year St Louis sales of furs
have aggregated $65,000,000, the Missouri me
tropolis having robbed London of the distinc
tion of being the world's-greatest fur market.
Last September furs worth $15,000,000 were
sold in St Louis.
The assertion by deajers that there is. vir
tually no speculation in furs and that every
thing bought in this enormous sale will soon be
absorbed into manufacturing channels shows
how extensive is the demand for furs., A good
part of the pelts disposed of will go into sum
" mer furs to be worn by women during the com
sing summer season. , ....
Such widespread destruction of fur-bearing
animals would seem to be little short of criminal
waste. The Tractice of making summer gar
ments of fur especially can not be regarded
otherwise than reckless, waste, and is a part of
the extravagance which is afflicting the country
today. It is diverting these materials from their
.proper use. 1 v ." . -,,
Unless the wild fur-beanng animals tnulti
"ply much faster than they have in the past they
will soon be exterminated at this rate and future
- seeds of the people for fur will go unfilled.
Of course, as long as fashion dictates that
furs shall be worn, even in summer, little quarter
will be shown the fur. animals. Bat the advo
cates of the conservation of game or of natural
. resources should find something to study in
. the reports of the growing Remand for fun.
Houston Pest, " ; "ST .'TU1 , ' '
LOYALTY AND THE FAMILY.
Patriotism is the backbone of loyalty, and
love of country implies loyalty not only to the
nation, but also to the family, the job and the
community. Disregard for these obligations of
good cititenship is always a danger signal.
The family is the foundation, as it was the
beginning, of society and has been ever since
man the animal became man the human, being,
thousands of years ago. There was no loyalty
of any sort when the relations of men snd
women were as flitting and void of sentiment as
those of wild animals. 7
The evolution of the family was the begin
ning of society and "all its aspirations and prob
lems, and the story of its origin is an absorbing
one, too long to be told here. But through all
the ages and civilizations since the first crude
marriage ceremony, family love has . been the
keynote of every forward movement of the
human race.
It is, therefore, a matter of serious concern
when men anywhere lose loyalty to their
families, and profoundly disturbing when a
modern government sanctions attacks n mar
xiage and family ties. That has been done in
Russia, rf ws may credit reports from that
troubled country. Authority has been set up
there to destroy family life by granting divorces
on mere application of husband or wife. The
world has long known civilization was slipping
in Russia, but nothing quite to vicious as this
lapse from moral order has hitherto been re
vealed. The reason for it is obvious. The
leaders' of Bolshevism and sovietlsm are dis
loyal to marriage and society, because love of
family is the strongest pillar qf all benign and
humane governments. The loyal head of a
family will work, save, and deny himself for it;
and to protect it must support the principles of
thrift, religion and civil liberty. The bolshevik
wants none of these. His perverted intellect
seeks disorder, confiscation of property and the
destruction of legal processes and sound eco
nomic principles. ,
Loyalty puts a man's heart into his work
and breeds success. It makes of him a good
husband and father, and a conservative citizen.
He becomes a lover and defender of law and
order, because upon their stability depends the
happiness and security of his wife and children,
and the permanence of the Job that supports
them. Many of the problems of the day, per
haps a majority of them, simmer down to a
matter of loyalty. The forces of disorder are
always disloyal to their families, .their em
ployers, and their communities. They repudiate
the only principles on which civilization can
thrive.
The hideous political ideas that lurk in bol
shevistic and soviet government leave little
room for loyalty to God, country or family.
They are wholly devoted to greed and irrespon
sible power. The misdemeanors of unprinci
pled capitalists the world over pale into utter
insignificance when compared with the poison
ous and corroding influence of the ungodly
radicalism thrown temporarily into power in
Russia by the ferment of war.
So long as family love and loyalty prevail
In American homes, and our youth and those
who come to us from foreign shores, are taught
that the only road to comfort, safety and hap
piness is that of hard work, thrift and loyalty
to home, employer and government, the baneful
doctrines of reckless radicalism will gain no"
permanent foothold here.
Omaha's Automobile Show.
On Monday the annual exposition of auto
mobile and allied dealers will be opened at the
Auditorium. From the standpoint of -the deal
ers, the most important thing, perhaps, con
nected with the show is that the space in the
huge building is not ample to accommodate
properly all the exhibits. This is indicative of
the proportions to which the industry has
grown. Long ago the automobile passed out
of the narrow zone of contributing solely to
the pleasure of fortunate owners, and went into
its rightful place in the life of the world as an
agent of service. How extensive that service
has become is shown in the work the machine
is doing. No department of human activity but
it has entered; in war as in peace, it was in
dispensable, and what it will become in the fu
ture no one can foresee. That it will go on
and on, meeting the needs of man as they
arise, is admitted.
Omaha has from the first been one of the
prime centers of he industry. As the dis
tributing Ipoint for a region in which the auto
mobile has taken front rank and reached a re
markable degree of popularity, (for Nebraska
and South Dakota are tied for second place and
Iowa is not far behind in the number of ma
chines in use per capita), this city has shown
the value of its peculiar advantages. The
growth of the trade has been of enormous com
mercial advantage to Omaha, fully appreciated
by those who are familiar with all the facts.
Therefore, the annually recurring exhibitions by
the manufacturers and dealers is more than a
mere show of their wares; it marks another
record of advance for the community, and as
such deserves the attention it will surely get
from the public.
American Forestry Devastation.'
A report to the Society of American For
estry from its committee on the application of
forestry has just been published, containing the
outlines of a plan for national actjpn. It dees
not look to the so-called "conservation? but to
a preservation of the timber supply by intelli
gent reproduction of forest growth. It is
pointed out that at the present rate of devasta
tion, the American timber supply will be ex
hausted within fifty years. It is further shown
that by properly directed effort this calamity
can be "postponed indefinitely.
The committee is headed by Gifford Pinchot,
and is made up of Donald Bruce, R. C Bryant,
B. P. Kirkland, P. S. Lovejoy, F. A. Silcox, J.
W. Tourney, G. W. Woodruff and F. E. Olm
sted, all forward-looking men, who not only
have the interest of the countr at heart, but
are deeply versed in all that pertains to for
estry and the lumber industry. In fixing the
blame for existing conditions they place it
where it belongs, on the public, that has in
differently watched the passage of the timbered
areas of public domain into private ownership,
and then denuded of trees in an unscientific
manner. (. No intention to interfere with private
ownership is contemplated, further than to re
quire that lumber companies make some pro
vision for reforestation of logged-off areas.
This would be under government supervision,
and within reasonable restrictions.
The argeney of the situation is plain. The
exhaustion of the white pine forests, the prac
tical extinction of' pulp wood ia the United
States, and other similar experiences warn us
as a nation that the time to call a halt is near.
If present methods are allowed to continue un
checked, this country will be without great ex
tent of forest timber before another generation.
Tree crops are of slow growth, requiring from
50 to 100 years to mature. Therefore, the time
to begin on the plan for providing for the fu
ture, if it is to be done, is now. .
Brick or Bitulithic?
A controversy of considerable moment has
arisen over the material to be used in paving
Douglas county highways. When the bonds
were voted, the flat understanding was that
brick would be used to surface the roads in
cluded in the program. A pledge to this effect
was signed by the county board members, and
on this agreement the support of the public was
sought and given. Now, the board in its wis
dom has let contracts which call for a stretch of
seventeen miles of paving, less than one-third
to be of brick surface.
Good roads advocates who have no personal
interest in paving material, but who want the
best for public use in Douglas county, earnestly
protest against the substitution of bitulithic
compound for vitrified brick in this important
contract The matter is pretty sure to reach
the courts, where the question of bad faith, of
fraud, and other points will be raised. No charge
is made that the bidders were not actuated by
proper motives. The suit will bring in the valid
ity of the pledge made by the county board that
brick would be used in surfacing the highway
for Which another material has now been se
lected. Such a suit will necessarily delay the
improvement, and hold back other contracts,
perhaps setting the whole program over for an
other year. . ,
Here is where the bidders who propose to
put down the bitulithic cancerform a great pub
lic service. It will mean resigning rights under
the contract, but it will clear the way to carry
ing out the better roads campaign on which
Douglas county citizens, in common with those
of the, state, have so enthusiastically entered.
John W. Towle can make the decision. If
he is willing to forego this contract, he will
clear away the legal complications, and open
the path to a speedy adjustment and an early
start on the paving. He is low bidder on both
brick and bitulithic, and therefore stands to get
the job, no matter- which material is finally set
tled on. It may mean a sacrifice to him and
the concern of which he is head, but it will
mean a service to the public. Public duty is
frequently given place over private enterprise,
and here is an opportunity for just such action.
Five Miles High.
The feat of Major R. W. Schroeder, who
drove his airplane to almost five miles above
the surface of the earth, is astonishing for the
very fact. His boldness is in no sense remark
able, for it is but the continuation of the in
quiring spirit that has led man from the begin
ning to venture on enterprises the outcome of
vhich could not be foretold, but of which the
successful issue promised some reward pid the
adventure was alluring. In this case it is not
clear to the lay mind what has been discovered,
save that the atmosphere at thatt dizzy height
still is sufficiently dense to support a flying ma
chine, and that man has not yet reached the
limit to which he may rise over the earth. The
intense cold 67 degrees, presents a barrier to
climbing more formidable than the rarity of the
atrrtosphere. '
These are material facts, and may be over
come. The lesson of Major Schroeder's flight
is not yet fully elaborated. Study by experts
will certainly show some gain for the science of
flying to come from this. As for the major, he
presents a challenge to the imagination as well
as to the admiration of the country. With frozen
eyeballs, senses numbed, his machine out of
control, he dropped like a plummet five miles
through the air. Half-conscious, his mind and
muscles co-ordinated automatically on the very
thing needed to bring him safely to earth, and
he ended the fearful plunge with a well-calculated
landing. A greater tribute to hisskill and
intrepidity could not be mentioned.
What does it all portend? Man has sounded
the abysms of the sea, he has scratched the
skin of the earth, and has soared 36,200 feet into
the atmosphere, all because, he is impelled by
an insatiable desire for knowledge. So long as
Nature holds a secret, that long will it be pur
sued by man, who will never rest until he has
fathomed the uttermost mystery of the created
universe. To tell him these things are beyond
his reach is merely to stimulate his efforts to
achieve them. Five miles high another" sign
post is set up in the search for greater light.
A Blessing Undisguised for the Farmer.
A. New Jersey farmer argues that the auto
mobile is sapping our labor power a.nd has be
come a detriment, rather than an asset. Trans
portation, from- the time of the Battle of Mara
thon down,, has been the chief builder of pros
perity. Rome was once mistress of the world
largely because all roads led to her. . Fulton's
invention of the steamboat made the rivers of
America "streams of empire" that .people the
west and northwest With the railroads came
prodigiously increased facilities for transporta
tion of both people and products. Their part
in the increase of wealth cannot be overstated.
And now we are in an automobile age, with
rail, river and lake transportation supplemented
by a quick and convenient facility for getting
about at a moment's notice or handling freight
on trucks. Has the automobile injured the
farmer? It has done more to get good roads
for him than any other hundred influences. It
has enabledhim to market nis products swiftly
the4 year around. It has given him at low cost
opportunity for invaluable social intercourse.
Jt has lessened distances for him, saved time
for him, and added materially to his enjoyment
of life.
It seems incredible that any farmer should
regard the ' automobile as anything but a
blessing. x
The resignation of Daniel C Roper will re
move from government service one of the most
efficient officials who ever filled the big job of
collector of internal revenue., None of his
predecessors was asked to do what fell to Mr.
Roper as an incident of the wa'r, nor is it likely
his successor will face such problems. The
administration of a new and in most essentials
an untried system of taxation presented prob
lems of the most difficult nature, all to be solved
under the direction of the collector, and that
the enormous revenues were raised and covered
into the disbursing department of the Treasury
is a commendation to the afcility and fidelity of
Mr. Roper teyon other expressionj
Brigandage Replaces
- Burglaries .
(From the Now York Times.)
A good many New Yorkers are
vltwing with an approach to serious
apprehension what at least seenia to
them a marked and continuous in
crease in their city of robberies
committed by armed .men, . usually
masked, manifesting as little fear of
the police as of the victims they se
lect There is, of course, nothing
entirely new in these exploits. They
have been perpetrated- now and
then, all through the past, even here,
but they were rare, until recently
and the careers of the men who en
gaged in them were Invariably, or
next to invariably, short.
As yet these bolder robbers have
confined their attention to groups of
men gathered in places more or less
public, though technically private,
like district political cubs and the
humbler organizations nominally
social. For reasons not hard to
g uess, the bandits hare chosen to ex
act their tribute from those little in
clined to talk much about what they
were doing when their amusements
were thus cruelly interrupted, and
for that reason thejr have excited
less fear and Indignation than other
wise would have been theirs, and
comment on their misfortune has
often taken a somewhat humorous
turn.
But if the holding up of these
specializing "clubmen" remains a
safe source of revenue, it will not
be long before the use of the same
method is extended to private
houses, and the occupants of them,
instead of guarding as well as they
can against .burglars of the old
fashioned sort, will live in well
founded dread of finding themselves
confronted any evening by despoil
ers, who make their presence
promptly known, instead of trying
to hide it, and who trust to the
coercion of the pointed pistol, in
stead of to stealthy skill exercised in
the dark.
This lif an alarming prospect .for
the good citizen, thanks to tlfe Sulli
van Jaw, usually is unarmed, and
even if he has strained his con
science to the extent of having a re
volver or one of the newer auto
matics, he carries it in a bureau
drawer, where the children cannot
get it, and in such an emergency as
these gentry could create for him it
might as well be loaded with choco
late caramels as with cartridges.
Why ordinary burglary should
have given place in Considerable
part to the fiercer sort of brigandage
is a mystery, but it is one which it
behooves the police promptly to
solve. The easy, explanation is the
war, and its familiarizing of men by
the hundreds of thousands with the
attainment Of endr by the infliction
or the threat of death. The theory
may serve with the pacifists, and
there is no doubt that in other days
ft often happened that disbanded
soldiers turned to robbery as the
only means of livelihood that was
open to them.
But no such alternative confronts
the returned American soldier, and
of such few captures as have been
made of holdup men almost all have
disclosed, not somebody who lias
been fighting for his country, but
somebody who has managed to
evade that and every other form of
civic obligation. In every one of
the few cases that can be remem
bered, when the robber turned out
to have been a member of our ex
peditionary forces, it also has been
shown that he was a crinfinal be
fore he entered the army.
Not the war, but the spread of
evil heresies as to the rights of prop
erty, is the probable cause of the
new departure. For anybody im
bued with bolshevist ideas, for him
who has not to take from him who
has seems logical and even right.
Self Control Not
Hysteria
Omaha, Feb. 17.-To the Editor
of Th Bee: "Grandmother's" lucu
brations on "personal liberty," writ
ten to your Lettex Box from ''the
best little town in Nebraska," re
minds me very much ot the sob stor
ies and other fiction published ex
tensively during recent prohibition
campaigns by the Antl-Saluon league,
with the real authors usually con
cealed by such pseudonyms as
"Grandmother" or "A Weeping
Wife," etc.
This particular story is of a father,
who it seems abused his personal
liberty. This man had four chil
dren, one of whom becomes "to all
appearances an idiot," or is taken
for one, although not an Idiot at all.
Such a case, of course, is most pitta
bl, and would have the sympathy
of even a hardened soul, but since
the other three children were nor
mal, might not some other circum
stance havo been the cause of this
Unfortunate failing, entirely discon
nected with the father's abuse of
personal liberty? '
deception and exaggeration are the
chief perquisites of professional re
formers. It is only by such means
that any large number of well mean
ing people can be hypnotized into
an hysteria of unreason, unless it is
that they iike to admire themselves
In the mirror of self-righteousness
which conceals from them first their
bogus morality, and second, the fal
lacy of trying to make people moral
or godd by passing laws. Self-control
and self-relance can only be
augmented under personal liberty;
a straightjacket makes for diffidence.
Unfortunately the abomination of
the American type of saloon (stand
up drinking and treating), is still so
vivid in our minds as to brand, as
its Advocates, all who proclaim
against the knd of prohibition which
has been foisted upon us under false
pretenses. But notwithstanding the
clamor of the Anti-Saloon league,
that kind of prohibition has not
so very many friends left. The
leaguers, although denying it, know
it, hence their opposition to refer
epdum votes, and their demand for
$25,000,000 to "fight to the last
ditch."
If the American people cannot find
a compromise between the extremes
of dry and wet. it will in the first
place be a confession of the im
potence as to our form of govern
ment in properly restricting or reg
ulating the sale of liquors, and
abolishing the corruption heretofore
existing through its alliance with
dirty politics. In the seennri nlnno
it will make of our people a nation J
vjiui,iHi: paiem jneuicine nenus
and lawbreakers. It will undermine
our cherished ideals of personal lib
erty in many other directions, of
vastly more import than the query
"Is 2.25 per cent beer intoxicat
ing?" An American reform which cannot
be accomplished by education is
either unsound and violates some
essential need of men, or it is in the
hands of people who are not com
petent to achieve it A reform
achieved by the breaking of a basic
social and constitutional right Is a
deception, not a gain.
A GRANDFATHER.
IN THE WORLD OF INDUSTRY.
British leather manufacturers
made 70,000.000' pairs of army boots
for all the allies, Including the Amer
icans. A preliminary estimate of the
mount of lumber cut in British
Columbia last year places the fig
ures at 1,700,000.000 feet.
Preparations are being made in
Natal for the production of sulphate
of ammonia and other byproducts
of coal on a large scale.
The native employes at a Bombay
mill struck recently because thy
lid not receive 4. bonus on the re
ported birth of the owner's son.
One hundred million wood boxes
were required to pack last year's
output of the canning industries in
the' United States, estimated at
8,000,000,000 cans.
Taking into account the power al
ready used or proposed to be used,
It is estimated that the total water
power in Japan will reach over
8,500,000 horsepower.
The total production of radium in
the United States up to the close of
1918 Is estimated at approximately
55 'grammes, which is understood
to be more than half of all the
radium the world has produced.
FROM HERE AND THERE.
More than 500 varieties of trees
grow in the United States.
The artificial breeding of fish was
a common industry among, the an
cient Greeks and Romans.
The gorgeously-colored wings of
butterflies, mounted in gold or other
metals, are being used for Jewelry, i
Upright wrinkles between the
eyes arise from worry and study and
will usually be seen on the faces of
students.
Five grammes of radium, about a
heaped tabiespoonful and worth
$500,000, were obtained from the old
guns used in the late war.
More than 40,000,000 of tickets-
are, issued each year by the auto
matic ticket machines on the under
ground railways of London.
One of the best known examnlna
of a much-married man is afforded!
V.. el- . ' : . . . - . . t
uy oir werviuse pinion, me Historian
of Jamaica, who married seven
wives, five of them being domestic
servants from his own household.
His matrimonial ventures all turned
out happily.
Checkers will be one of the favor
ite outdoor sports of those who fre
quent the public parks of Indianap
olis next summer. By order of the
park commissioners checker boards
will be stenciled tin both ends of the
picnic tables in the parks, and sets
of checkers will be provided for all
who wish to indulge in the pastime.
The longest lawsuit on record
lasted oVer 400' years. It was a dis
pute about some land in Poland, the
people Interested being the Sobies
kis of Orlowo and the Sobieskis of
Podlowo. It began in the year 1490,
and a settlement was arrived at in
1890, the land being then divided
among the then representatives of
the original litigants.
In The Grip of
. a Man's Hand-
You Find Strength or Weakness
What Does Your Grip Show?
Have you the firm, forceful power of a
man whose blood is rich in iron the
kind that inspires confidence and
wins success or have you the
feeble, hesitating clasp of a weak
ling, whose blood needs iron?
Nuxated Iron builds strong, keen,
red-blooded men and women.
If you r not strong or well, you owe
it to youraelf to start taking auxatea
Iron to-day and watch its strength-
giving, upbuilding
effect. In two weeks'
time tee for yourself
what sort of a change
has -taken place
in the grip f
your hand and
the amount of
s t r e n gth and
"endurance you
possess.
M IM: h rl j ) 1 1 Ml I
The Day Wo Celebrate.
Willard W. Slabaugh, now assist
ant county attorney, is celebrating
one of his Quadriennlal birthdays to
day. He saw the light in 185, and
therefore has as many years to his
tredit-as the republican party, for
whose candidates he religiously
votes at every opportunity.
Marquis of Hamilton, eldest son
and heir of the Duke of Abercorn,
born 1 years ago.
Rear Admiral Colby M. Chester,
U. S. N., retired, born at New Lon
don, Conn., 76 years ago.
Herbert W. Bowen, for many
years prominent in the United
States diplomatic service, born at
Brooklyn, N. Y., 4 years ago.
Prof. Eugene Wambaugh, eminent
international law expert, long con
nected with the Harvard law school,
born at Brookvllle, Ohio,- 64 years
ago.
Thirty Yean Ago In Omaha.
Thirty years ago In Omaha Feb
ruary had but 28 days, but these
items are gleaned from the Febru
ary 28, 1890, Issue of The Bee:
Real estate sales in the month of
February amounted to $1,518,107,
an increase of 1500,000 over the
same month the previous year.
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Langley of
Ouray, Colorado, wera the guests of
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Belden.
Dr. V. H. Coffman invested ISO,
000 in Omaha real estate.
Miss Lillian Stadelman returned
from a visit in Chicago.
MOMENTS OF MERRIMENT.
' "Colonel. X thought you laid you'd never
swear off."
"biQuor haa gone."
"But there are plenty ef home brews
and decootlona."
"Tes, they are what convinced we Ti
better swear off." Louisville Courier
Journal. An English Tominy was asked to give
his version of aburstlng shell.
Well." he oa Id, "first I 'ears a 'ell Of
a not, and then X 'oare tha norsa ear
ing. 'Try and drink little of tfcls.' "
Ths American Legion Weekly..
"Can't get a oaenee at U newspaper
hy notr
any more.
Th kids hava ta nava rt ta stuav
their hietory leaaon." Philadelphia, Bul
letin. Muggins The world haa scant sympathy
for Us uuforVuiialea.
Bugglne Nonaonae! Haven't you ever
noticed how people invariably ery at wd
dlngst tallas Newa.
SOME JOB.
They ain't no harder work than doln'
nothln', ......
But layln' on yr back a keepln' still
Until the clock npon the shelf announces
Ita tlina to roue yourself an' take a
pill.
They ain't no tougher Job than Isyln'
bllnkln' ,
A-countln' ot the patterns on the
cellln'. t
An' av ry time you hear tha phone ring,
thtnktn'
It's some one wants to know now you
art feelln'..
They ain't no worser task than doln
But "fayVn' there with aching back an'
knees, . '
An' chasm1 one wat hsnky round jar pll-
An' ' Vatchln' It In lima to catch a
sneeie.
They ain't no harder work than doln'
But thlnkln' of yer work that's atandin'
An all the time you should be np an'
earnln' . .
i The dough 'twill take to pay the doctor
bill.
There ain't no tougher luck; than doln"
nothln' ; ,. .
But snltfln' odors from tha ktUBta,
strong, , . ,
And when they fetch yer tray up, flndln
That every, thing to you la taatln'
- wrong.
No. there ain't no harder work than doln"
nothln' ....... ....
But twist and turn an' smell tha vlttles
cook In'
An' have yer friends eomo In and sweet
ly tell you
That cheerful lie about how well yei
- ,00k'n'' BATOLL NB TREL1.
Inductionof true discrimina
tiorv and musical under
standing in its owner fe the
presence in any nouic
of the matchless
lhTpiano tKat requires
no explanations, for it is the
one piano without equal
among all the pianos or the
world'-without exception
It costs more than any
other piano, lut itghres
more in beauty ortone,in
soul-stirring resonance, in
longevity N
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Hicjhed priced --Iiiicd ppstised
Other justly celebrated Pianos we carry in stock
are the
'Kranich & Bach, Vose & Sons, Sohmer, Brambach,
Kimball, Bush & Lane, Cable Nelson, Hospe Pianos.
; w Player Pianos ,
The Apollo Reproducing Piano, the Gulbransen
Player, the Hospe Player.
Every instrument marked in plain figures.
The prices are the same cash or payments.
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A STRANGE LEGACY
I heard of a man who died recently and left every
thing he had to the Orphans' and Widows' Home.
1 On inquiring what the legacy amounted to I was
told it was a wife and three small children.
MORAL
A substantial certificate of insurance in the WOOD
MEN OF THE WORLD would have changed the entire
future of this man's family.
JNO. T. YATES. , W. A. FRASER,
Soveraifn Clark. Soraraifa Commaadar.
W. O. W. BLDC OMAHA