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' The Beefs Platform '
1. New Uniojt Ptaaenfer Station.
. A Pip LJaa from tka Wyoming Oil
Fields to Omaha.
3. Centiauet improvement of tha No
tralm Highway, including tha pare
' Antnt of , Main Thoroughfare leading
into Omaha with a Brick Surfaca.
" 4. A ahert, low-rate Waterway from tha .
Cora Bait to tha Atlantic Oceaa.
j; SECRETARY BAKER CORNERED. V
jii SecjeUry Biker will make no adequate or
; !:ariyctory explanation of the wholesalcaste,
'Sf'aft and profiteering that disgraced his admin
'jvistratfon in the building of army camps and war
J industrial plants in this country. The amount
ji tbsolutely lost is fixed oflkially at about $78,
;i'000,000. ,
; During- that period the writer was located
:niidway betwetn one of the biggest army camps J
.tutmp Sherman) and the "chemical city"
., ' U!Citro); and about fifty miles from each. Man
i ll. workmen at both pces came from "the mjdway
:!point, and 6n their frequent visits home talked
;i: freely andjfjfelingly of the deliberately planned
; ;: waste that was going on. V:
!; The work was done on the co"st plus system,
::ufidcr which the profits of contractors were in-
creaaed when expenses motuited. That thes con
i:tSactors an( bosses employed at Camp Sher-
t tnan worked every possible scheme to augment
;i ttie cost of their building ' operations there
;i cannot be a shadow of doubt. We have heard
.'workmen' whose 'evidence would receive full
.credence , in courts whAe their reputation for
T Veracity is known,; tU how tliey were' taken out
;J;in gangs on Sunday mornings when there was
'no usefuf-work to do and ordered to shift a
- j little pile of boards from one spot to another,
and in ten minutes ordered back to their quar
Mers, having been credited by the boss with. one
fullVday's Sunday work at double price, which
' " was $14, if memory serves us accurately. We
have heard them tejll of valuable lumber being
.burned , m wanton waste and other first-class
j material cast to one side as useless, and later
Jk carted away, nobody kew whither.
At Nitro conditions were much worse, for
A there great quantities of material were stoten in
' y broad daylight under the eyes of those en
? trusted with its care. Valuable metal was buried
j -l.at night to b. removed later, work was delayed
by every possible expedient, and organized con-v
i spiracy to loot and defraud the government ex
;?,isted all overhe place. Men were jtmplo'yed as
skilled workers at enormous .wages in trades
they knew nothing aboift particularly as car
penters and plumbers, an$I inefficiency was
sought by the contractors, "both at Nitro and
J;Camp Sherman. j ,
fY In the little Ohio rivei; city of Gallipolis ber
? tween two and three hundred. workmen live,
;. whose evidence would be ample to convict Uiese
''i contractors and bosses. WjisfeVas the watch
, t word under' Secretary Baker, who had the ef
( :frontery to tell an audience of 8,000 workmen
9 "ilrat Nitro, assembled for a political purpoif, that
'I;they we doing-just as much to win the war
, ;as thmerican soldiers then in . the trenchesl
j: The half will never be told of the wicked,
despicable and treasonable systems at Camp
1 ,S; Sherman and Nitro to weaken and delay'the
' government's war work. Nor did the waste
i.cease with the armistice. The payrolls werei
t continued long after. At Nitro thousands of
. J bale of cotton, directly under the control of
; iljBaker, were left for six months in the open
! winter weather to spoil, without a bit of pro
jection, and with millions of feet of unoccupied
,noor space on all sides, y was a studied, unr
principled waste of a valuable commodity, and
the excuse for not disposing of it was that to
jithrow it on th1 market would unsettle the price
fj of cotton, then at a figure that made all cotton
rgoods aMuxury, and was enriching the south.
:t. No; Secretary Baker will never attempt an
j :;honest explanatjQn of what happened at Nitro
;and Camp Sherman, because it was his duty to
,;have inspectors on those jobs who would care
;fuHy look after the interests of the government
"He had none such, the facts amply demonstrate.
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dfcmand for "strong government" at Washing
ton also a thiag to. be dreaded. ' But it w.ill
come, most certainly, -if food supplies continue
to be menaced. Then a long farewejl io toler
ance and the gentle enforcement of 'law in
America! ': 1 .
"Jack" Pershing a Recommendation.
Even from democratic sources comes strong
testimony in-favor of John-Pers'hing asa
f.j- ... a.. . aJ
leaner 01 men, a atrector ox anairs, and a pq-.
bll pre3id.eftt of the United States. The BaHl-'
more Sun, explaining to it readers that Persh-'
ing nas tne oia-iasnioned and unpopular, vir
tue Cf modesty," tells them further: , .
vve nave not maae as mucn ot mm since
hiv return from' r ranee as he deserves, be
cause he is not a man given- tobooming him
self through publicity bureaus. He did what
he was sent to do in France, and from all ac- '
counts did it 100 per cent well. TKat, it
seems, is Jack Pershing's usual way when he
has a job to do, he does it and says no more
about it. He lets-his work do his talking.
' Pershing himseH,in his address to the Ne-
braskans at WashingtoA on Ay;dhftAday", con
firmed this view. His words are those of a
shicerely modest man, who has Eiven "his life
to the service of liiscointry doing his duty and
doing it well, a man who sanely and rationally
appraises the prob!emsnd achievements of h-
manity, realizing the difficulties as well as the
triumphs, and to "whom success means . onfy"
greater opportunity for service. Nebraskans
may well read and digest the simple words of
a simple man, for through them they will find
insight to tfie real Pershing. ,
He fairly and frankly stales his case, his in
terest as welj as his residence in Nebraska, his
willingness to accept a nomination as president.
fTothis the response of Nebraska should be as
generous, and the world should not be left to
doubt what the people at homehink of their
most distinguished fclIow citiefi. '. (
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Militarism in the United States.
A letter has'come to theeditor of The Bee
;J from an anonymous correspondent, signing him
I'self "A Republican, on the Fence," deploring the
i ; if presence of soldiers as catWidate,s for office, and
.; particularly for that of president He sees the
r hideous form 'of a-jwlitary autocracy brooding
. !: over the country, and demands that it be de
Tstroyed. We would suggest that he jead the
jjjhistory of his country. George Washington was
a soldier; Andrew Jackson. William Henry Har-.
rison, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes,
James A. Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, William
'McKnley jmd , Theodore Roosevelt, all were
Isoldiers, and good ones. "Did anybody ever note
;J.a tendency toward jnilitarism or the esTablish
J ment of an autocracy under either of these?
;i:PeriodicaIly'"the man on horseback" is evoked
;5 by politicians in America, but his apptarance' in
'ithe fltsh is a long way'off. , Soldiers have saved
iithis country on several occasions," and. the
cheapest tm of ingratitude is to oppose a man
4 for office because he wears or once wore the
luniform of his country and fought for iTs flag.
its homes,sand its institutions.
Signs of the Times.
'5; -Monday's New Vork Evening Sun left out
s seventeen andofle-half pages of advertising Jast
Monday to conserve paper because the outlaw
'. strike of switchmen held, up paper shipments.
;;iThus the business of tfie newspaper and of mer
Sichants was interfered with. Just one incident
'of, minor importance Jn a thousand. The day
tefore an I.-W. W. leader declared New York
:enly five days from starvation, and from his
;TccOrd probably wished .starvation would come
v to that city.
tliUtarc lrn tr nart.tfrl in wilt rrfa! a
VUVIl UIA,d W J"- "
A Line O' Typc or Two
. Hnr ( Dm LlM, M th Im till (" tlnjr nay.
News and "Publicity."
An Illinois' court has just settled a novel but
in many senses an important point. The judge
holds that the editor of a newspaper i's the sole
judge of what constitutes news, and' can not be
held pecuniarily liable for declining or neglect
ing to publish anything. Suit waj bought by a
candidate for public office, who set up that
his name, was purposely omitted from the de
fendant's paper, to his great damage. His con
tention was "ot allowed by the court, the de
cision being that a newspaper is riot under
obligation tb-print matter that is merely of ad
vantage to a single individual. ,
This does not exactly draw the line between
news and "publicity," the latter term being a
modern euphemism for the promotion of private
interest, by propaganda. Newspaper' Editors
realize better than any outsider can the pressure
for free advertising, resistance" to which, in
volves the decisionals' to what is helnfufand
what is not. The final determination of this
point must rest With the editor, and he is not
to be deprived of this power, accqrding-iun the
decision, wherein the judge lays down the prin
ciple in this language: 1
The defendant ' owes no duty, to cither
plaintiff or the public to publish anything
which, for any reason, it did not , see fit to
publish.... . . The- defendant is be sole
mriffe of the value of news as such. A news
paper must remain free to publish such mat- 1
icrs as u rjcgai us as possessing news varuc
and to refrain ifrom. publishing such matters ,
as it may determine does, not -possess news
value.
This is both clear and conclusive and when5
better understood'will be of service to the pub
lic as well as to the newspapers that strive so"
diligently to be of real use to their patrons.
' 'j " SOXG. ' v
Today I-heanJ a'meadowlark "
, -His melody outpour;
My soul put oft tier raiment dark
. And spread, her wings to soar.
Full twenty year bade me adieu,
Nor gave a reason why
Go hear the meadowlarks, If you
Would bo as young as I
. LAURA BkACKBUKX.
. DESERT THE' PLACE.
v Sir: On a Glencoe entertainment programme
''noticed recently that verbal anomaly "In
terpretive" mon, Dieu! It was on the same
bage twice! As a citizen of Glencoe what are
you going to do about It? ' G. 9'C.
WHY, whey, a man' is asked to say a few
words after dinner, does he begin by pushing
the crockery and cutlery toward the middle of
the table? t
' ";The Toonerville Telephone.
' '(From the Redfleld,S. P.. Press.)
Noah landed the Ark on Mount Ararat,
and the boys all separated to go into the
pure bred stock gamer and of course the
first yearf. having to depend entirely upon
range, they got "widely scattered. This
necessitated some kind of a telephone sys
tem and Noah invented one that ifhswered
the purpose admirably. The exact origin of
Jhis system is deeply shrouded in the mists
of antiquity, and dowa through the rise and
fall ft, Jabylon, the ' Crusades, the Dark
Agesand the War of the Roses, somehow
it was preserved. Finally, slightly revamped,
Y it came 'to find a permanent home in Red- .
Held. Today it is still In nse, and, although
the museum of history and the Smithsonian
institute have made flattering offers for it,
owing to the value it has as a relic, they T
have not been able to move it from, us. "
x- PSYCHIC messages from a spirit that has
never been on earth are recorded in Mrs. Lane's
book. , A welcome novelty, as they could have
nothine to do with lost collar buttons .and simi
lar trivialities. .
FOR THE FRESHMAN CLAS& IN
r. WHEEZOLOGY.
Sir: A-oung friend of mine named, Kanack
has gone to locate in Canada. I'm sure any of
your wheezers couTd make that item sound like
a pair of wooden shoes ih action.
FO.XDALE.
"THINK of it-we quote from'The Story
of Philadelphia" "think of it a pair of Phila
delphia-made sheets for: every home in the
United States!" Nov blessings light on him
who first invented this same sheet!
.Speaking of Trade Classics. y
Sir: Julian Johnson and myself were break
fasting one afternoon at the'Claridee. Seated
next to us on the wall seat in the grill were
two chorus kids and a John. One of the kids
was reading the Morning Telegraph, In which
there was a review of the "Follies," the front
row of which she graced nightly with her
presence. Said she: "Say, Rennold Wolf says
the eftorus last night -lanced hKe a unit. There
yare, always knocking the- chorus and I've
neve-.been in a harem in my life!" . iG.V.B. '
THE highest scholarship honors have cone
to Abbie Delia Gum of East Moline township
high school. Abbie earned these honors by
to. her studies.
(low to KccpWclF
By Drv W. A.'JSVXNS ;
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Apotheosis of the Corncob. '
America produces around two and a half bil
lion bushels of corn each year, and fully an equal
amount of cobs. For the corn much use has
beeen found, although its juice np longer is Ex
tracted, distilled and doctored up to befuddle
the brain and excite the passions.. The cobyct
remains almost exclusively a waste product,'
despite the limited service that comes Irein the
"Missouri meerschaum," and the inconsequential
fuel supply developed from the pile around the
sheller. Now, however, the chemist haj been
making close inquiry ' into the cbrncob, and
finds it useful ' in the dye industry, ' Various
chemical substances essentially necessary in the
process of making colors fist and furious, es
tablishing qualities of . permanence and bril
liance, are found in the cob. One of these sub
stances now beine suoDlied at $17 a nound can
be extracted from the corncob and sold at a
profit for 15 cents a pound. It soun'ds too ijood
fo be true, but'the chemists now in-conclave at
St. Loin's solemnly asseverate that it is true.
So science has added (another triumph by dis
covering service in waste, and a use- is tound
for. something that has hithertobeen only in
the way.. The railroads may yet be required-to ,
devise special cars to haul the cobs to market,
and maybe the time will come when the shelled
corn will be piled carelessly on the ground.
while the preciouscob will be arefully stored
under cover. It is a topsy turvey day, you know.
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A Hot Time in Georgia. .
Time was when Hoke Smith of Georgia Was
ra target for intense republican criticism.'J,t
seemed at times as if he. got just a little rougher
treatment han he deserved, but -pejraps not.
In this conclusion we are sustained by the Hon.
Clark Howell and his XtlantaConstitution,
which are attributing to , tne southern senator
every political crime in (the democratic fist ex
cept that of being a republican. We hesitate
to mention even -a summary ofN them.
It appears that in the happy southland where
republicanism is tabooed by ways that are xlark,
the democrats-xercise-their talent for political
invective on each other. If the Constitution
a fair example they do it thoroughly.
A Chicago judge has the right conception of
what is due a household from the husband and
breadwinner. He ordered'a striking switcWtian
to get busy and earn money to feed his fa'mily.
We did not 'need a Dener tnan to tell- us
that Omaha is being soaked on sugar; houst-1
wives knew it. '
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If the Nebraska vote
year, it will not be for
)te is i
want p
not captured this
f pursuit. '
Mark Sullivan's guess is. as good as .any
body's, and perhaps as, accurate, v . . '
VTHE couple were married Sept. 2, 1919, at
Twin Falls, and have no children." Salt Lake
Tribune. '
"But" were better than "and.f
Well Considered Protest .of n Quondam
Pretzel Bender. (
. Sir" You listen to a Voice from the People?
Well, the Probitionists was allways yelling their
heads off in favor of the Innocence which has
had,' Jo suffer on acc't their fathers, and hus
bands was always hanging over a bar but they
don't .shed no better tears oyer the Innocence
who lose, our jobs and has ufferted untolled
agonies since probation in public has went in af
fect through no fault of oujs. I am one of this ,
great army though I have not shot my mouth
of before, I can no longer stand sitting by and
listen to the yelps of a mob of near booze hounds
which still has some left yet and no real cause
to complain and me with a genuine and just
bellyache as follows: '
Since the tenter years of my boyhood and
my father before me, that is it was only my step
father,-"! was raised and educated for to be a
Pretzel Render. Mv whole earlv traininer was
along them lines and by thSe time 1 voted twice
for Bryan, whi;h I wouldn't "do no more. I was
conceited not Only the fastest Pretzel Bejjder
in my local, but,lso they had a artistic appear
ance like they was class. And now behold what
can I do. J tried to get a situation as moulder
in a doughnut foundry but on a-c my many
years qf other training, my bent was in that di
rection. Besides from a standpoint of pur art
the doughnut did neycr a peel to me.
So hear I am with.a vast experience in a line
of and -ever which is no good to nobody no more, '
on a-c them guys grabbin his pint from a poor
workman whose father or husband couldn't han
dle it. Me and my famtty feels it aint righteous
to half to lay idol on account some cheep stiff
what wouldn't know hcv, to sp'ell pretzel, much
less hdw it should ought to be bent,
Thankijfg you for this opportunity to t,ell the
woWd, I am, resp., K. M. S.
i Surinar and Itv Poisoninir.
Justat this season the woods be
come inviting and at the same time
tha poison ivy eomes out A little
later tha plant becomes even more
poisonous and the desire to venture
into the woods waxes stronger.
There will be eases of ivy poison
ing from time to time until frost
kills - the leaves next autumn. In
preparation for the ivy poisoning
season Dr. E. A. Sweet of the pub
lic health service and C. V. Grant
of the 'bureau of plant industry, De
partment of Agriculture, have pre
pared a statement which is pub
lished in the public health service
reports.
There are a hundred cures for Ivy
poisoning. None of them is of any
material service, though perhaps
eacn nas some lime merit, xne oih
ease is self-limited. If a niceh will
,not scratch or rub ii and in that way
spread it by his hands, will keep
clean and not spread it with cloths
or 'clothes it will get well of itself
without any medication in about ten
days.
It is customary to claim as a cure
any application which was iii' use
yhile the disease was spontaneously
getting well. KuPpos we were to
reverse things and say1 that if a case
of ivy poisoning had not been spread
by carelessness, then the remedy in
use did harm. How many poison ivy
remedies cOjjJd stand the test?
Whileytlfere is no . proper cure.
Sweet "and. Grant say some treat
ments help somewhat. Soap .and
water will dissolve the resinous poi
fun. . However,- in washing off the
rcsiiv one must- be careful not to
spread it to new areas. Wash the af
fected areas well. Wash off the
soap. Repeat the washing six hours
latef. After the resin has been
washed from the poisoned area it
will be safe and advantageous as
well to wash 'the entire 'body with
soap and hut water. For this pur
pose 'a shower is safer thair a tub
bath. Especial care must Hie .taken
to prevent the poison -from being
spread by the fingers, cloths, dress
ing or bath water.-
To relieve itching immerse the in
flamed area In hot water for several
mjnutes, gradually increasing the
temperature until the' water-is as
hot ait can be borne, or apply hot
w-ater by means of a thick towel. If
it is desired to keep some lotion on
the inflamed area use borax solu
tion (1 teaspoonful in a cup of war
ter)l and change frequently. Or ap
ply a hot solution of permanganate
(1 per cent on a raw surface and 2
per cent if the surface is intact).
Many persons prefer to make no
application, exceptx plain hot water
occasionally ,to relieve itching. Cases
untreated do about as well as those
treated. Exposure loJMe air seems
beneficial.
JThe old ' lead ' and opium wash
should not be used.v It does no good
, ,
and sometimes does harm. Oint
ment and salves do harm. An oxide
Lof"inc salve ,used just as the case
tile thing to do is to enforce all the
is getting well gives some relief from
Itching and does no harm.
As to tho long list of cures, each
with its friends and advocates, what
shall be said? If any man wants to
use. his cure, let him do so. Nature
will cure him with the aid of the
cure or in spite of it, provided, he
will wash off as much of the poison
as possible with soap aud water, will
tjot spread the disease with hands or
dressings and will not smother the
sores with treatment.
"WHY is it," an amateur editor asks us,
"when I want a synonym I can't find it in my
book of synonyms? Vhifh do you use?" None,
my dear sir, because synpnyms do not exist.
DTD SIE FIND ANY?
(From the Beaver Dam Citizen.)
Miss. Marvel Hunter of Waupun, who
has been visitinj? with Mrs. Leslie Huebner,
returned last "evening. , '
VffOW Corseting the Stout Can Be' Made
Bulwark of Business.1 Dry Goods Economist.
' Considerable first line of defence.
A. A. DULL is teaching vocational agricul
ture at Stockwcll. Ind., according to the Purdue '
Alumnus. Whittle, your own Witticism.
All the Facts.
(From the Gary Post.)
Wanted to rent Furnished flat! of 4 or
f rooms; must be two bedropms; aiii fam- .
.'lly; no children. Address Box 1 0237
"PRINCESS Seized as Smuggler; Hid Art in
Bed." Headline. ' s
Recalling an episode ,in one of Byiion's
poems.
'HOWEVtR, we will agree that this expir
ing winter has more than 8 per cent kick in it.
.. B. L. T.
CneVELVET
HAMMER
T?H Jtmut, "Brooks "Baker ,
A democratic family fuss is worth watching.
, DAN B. BUTLER.
The public is a flock of sheep and often,
would be lost if it were not so frequently and
tompetently bossed. It lets the politicians fix
he fences and the gates; it lets them craciously
irrange their neat, artistic slates; j follows
Ihem submissively Nil long and dusty ranks-and
bleats In sheer beatitude its honor and its
thanks. u v 1
Bnt -now and then the public flock resents
the shepherd's crook. ' It violates the pages of
the politician's 'book, "t does not pace o faith
fully behind theVusted goat. . To mix the meta
phor, it starts to rise and rock the boat. 'Twas ,
such a gay diversion of the fresh and fjckle mob
which landed Dan & Butler in' his present
worthy job. '
For Dan's a' city councilman of celebrated
licit. He sweeps the streets with certain skill
reliable and deft. - The judgments of the less
I informed he loves to clarify by talking of the
, . . I. : . L.ti...
ciear-cut view in nis unerring rye. ins .noooy
is salvation" of the. sinful soul through Omaha's
municipaadventures into coal.
Although 'most everywhere he goes upon the
local map, some maiden has prepared for hiin a
neatly baited trap, he shuns i with the famous
speed nd caution of the hare, and when the
wedding bells are rung he's faraway from there;
which proves, a you would rightfully and prop
erty, suspect, the high and classic qualitf of
Butler's intellect
.Next Slbiect: Charles J. Lane.
The Day Wc Celebrate.
AV: H. Thompson, attorney; born
1S4.
Rt. Rev. ArthuiCoBOver Thom
son, - Episcopal suffragkn bishop of
southern 'Virginia; born at Freder
icksburg, A'a., 49 years ago.
Dr. Henry S Pritchett, president
of the Carnegie Foundation for the
Advancement of Teaching; born at
Fayette, Mo., 63 years ago.
Dr. John Lee Coulter, noted sta
tistician and a-specialist in rural life
problems; -born at MalTtfry. Minn.,
39 ycfirft ago. . ,.
Cllarlie Chaplin, one of the most
wudely known of motion picture
actors; born in France (of English
parents), 31 years ago.
Thirty Years Ago in Omaha.
- The Central Labor, urtldp gave a
ball at AVashington hall. v
Dr. Duryea lectured before ' the
Hayden Art club at the Congrega
tional church in Lincoln.
$ Frederick Warde played "Richard
111" at the Boyd. . I
"A meeting was held at the-Y'. M.
C. A. to arrange for the coming con
tention 'of the Statici Business Men's
association ,
An Appeal for Germany
Omaha Anril 19?n. Tn.Thd
Editor of The Bee: Under the cap- j
tion, "German Craft and Allied
Credulity," you advance to the dig
nity ot an editorial the dispatch of
one Henry Wales, your European
correspondent, wherein be purposes
to picture the recent revolution Jn
Germany as"a gigantic bluff cam
ouflage for desire on the part of
the schemers at Berlin to secure fur
theroncessions on treaty terms." It
may not have been his intent ' to
"release'.' this "news" for publication
on "ApHl 1."
What ulterior propaganda pur
poses prompted the same is well in
dicated by the following brief edi
torial In the New Republic of March
1: . s .
"The French" foreign office is tak
ing no chances. If left to form an
independent judgment, it fears that
American opinion might possibly ar
rive t at entirely unofficial , con
clusions about what is happening in
Germany So the American news
paper correspondents in Paris are'
summoned -to the Qua! d'Orsay to
have things put straight for them.
There is no real clanger, either in
this first flurry or at asome later
date, of Spartacide rule in Germany. I
If the British and Italians think it I
necessary to fortify the present Ger- I
man government 'by concessions in
the treaty, they are mistakep. No, i
more mercilessly that treaty which
undermines the position of any mod
erate government In Berlin. This is
the news which the foreign office
wants cabled to America." '
It is thus that the grave danger of
our learning the truth about condi
tions in Germany must be averted.
The doom of hunger and starvation,
the appalling results of the blockade,
the utter despair over the Impossible
terms of the 'treaty, as reflected
dally In a thousand papers all over
Germany.-are nothing but camou
flage, if we must believe French poli
ticians, who, again quoting from the
New Republic, "are chiefly respon
sible for. the disintegration which
has overtaken Europe aince the ar
mistice." It would seriqusly Inter
fere with their imperialist plans -to
have even a semblance of sympathy
develop in the United States for the
sufferings of the German people,
with whom, as President Wilson has
often avawed, we were never'at war.
A. L. M.
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II' 4
Piano
Buy ing x
MADE EASY v
This Week We Offei
100 Piano
At Prices That Will Sell Them
andsl(fore, Too Some Refin
ithed, Other Used, Nearly
New, and NEW PIANOS
Every One Guaranteed or
- Money Back
("nickering, ebonized. $185
Standard, walnut ..... $225
Shubert, walnut ...... .$265
Kimball, French walnut .$333
Evans, oak . . . . $335
Cable, oak J $335
Howard, ebonized $175
Spies, walnut $250
Decker, ebonized $185
Johnson, mahogany ... .$315
Wing & Son, mahogany .$350
Aeolian, mahogany ..... $375
Kimball. Pianos in oak, mahog-.
any ana walnut, $365 and up
Cable-Nelson in oak, walnut
and mahogany, . .$365 and up
Bush, Lane, Hosfie, Hinze, La
gonda 50 other fine pianos,
from $300 up '
Term
N i
' As low as $10.00 monthly
payments. ,
This sale will interest you pi
ano buyers. We hSTve a very
low price on every class of in
strument. The lowest " price
marked plainly and the price
is the same, cash or time. ,
Come early, get first choice. "
1513 DOUGLAS STREET
The Art and Music Store
Buy Your
Curtains
A i-D .
Saturday:
'There will be choice
Nottinghams
at Bowen's
Value-Giving
Price of
a pair
(
Am
$i.29 nor
KM
Many Patterns
in othercurtains at proportion ately
low prices.
Choice Cretonnes
, XaceJPaneHing,
afYalue-Giving Prices.
i
Arrangejp.be here early Sat
urday. ,
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CHEROKEE
PURE CIGAR CLIPPINGS
- or tr. a
WEI5ERT BROS.tpBACCO CO.
9T.LOU19.AO.
JOE HAQROW
(THE BAILIFF) f.r'
Pdlice Judge
Exquisite
Violins
for Young Artists
New Beautifully Finished
.American and Foreign Violin
, At Price $25 and Better
v
Rare Old Viojins
from $150 and up
Strings for all Instruments
Band Instruments
- Orchestra Instruments
Drums and Traps
Violin Bows Repaired,
Instruments Repaired
1513 Dougla St.
Concert Harp Showing in
Our We.t Window. $600.
Vote for
PERSHING
Then vote-for these delegates who will sup
port him loyally and represent you faithfully.
DELEGATES AT LARGE
Charles H. Kelsey
Titus Lowe Elmer J. Burkett
, George H. Austin
.ALTERNATE DELEGATE AT LARGE
Carl E. Herring
DELEGATE SECOND DISTRICT
C. E. Adams
ALTERNATE SECOND DISTRICT,
HirdStryker John HCaldwell
REPUBLICAN PRIMARIES, APRIL 20
The Election
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ficers in Omaha was held March 'ftp mK tlhpti'' '
! 1857, and the first meeting of the Coun-' t &-WwZy "
. v cil was on March 5th, 1857 tW& 'T Bv '
', . Jesse Lowe ,was elected Mayor and rfMC-yi'
G. Q. Bovey? Thomas Davis, Thomas WcVf J'4SliM 't
O'Connor and W. U. Wyman were. A'P '
among the Councilmen elected. I "S
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' fied with Omaha's development sinc ilt'rf"" Xy
f irst National
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