Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 18, 1915, Page 16

6B e — e = | THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE i FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER. VICTOR ROSEWATER, FCDIT_(\B‘ i The Bee Publl;hlng ;nplni. Pronflntof__ | BER BUILDING, FARNAM AND EEVENTFENTH. | Entered at Omaha postoffice as second-class matter. TERMS OF BUBSCRIPTION, By carrler By mafl r month per year. | Dally and Sunday 9.9 ¢ Dally without Sun K Brening and Sund ! Evening without Sunday 4 Bee only.. . 20c. 2.00 1 | Send®Totice of change of address or compiainth of # 1 frregularity in delivery to Omaha Bee, Ireulation Department. REMITTANCE. it by draft, express o- postai order. Only two- g Ay m| u"rflel\"d in payment of small ac- counts. checks, except on Omaba rn exchange, not accepted. 'nv}:'.xrl:a. Omaha—The Bes Buflding South Omaha—218 N street. Council Bluffs—14 North Main street. 5 Lincoln—3 Little Bullding 3 Chicago—sog Hearst Bullding, = New York—Room 1105, 286 Fifth avenue. 8t Louls—58 New Bank of Commerce. \\'li;‘ul’::lnn-—TB Fourteenth 8t., N. W, CORRESPONDENCB, Address communications relating to mnews and edi- torial matter to Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. | JUNE SUNDAY CIRCULATION. | 46,724 State of Nebraska, County of Douglas, ss: Dwight Willlamas, circulation ager, says that the average SBunday circulation for the month of June, " was < DWIGHT WILLIAMS, Ofreulation Mapager Subsoribed in my presence and sworn 1o tore s i3 ul 5 e BERT HUNTER, Notary Public. 4 Subscribers leaving the city tem should have The Bee mailed to them. Ad- dress will be changed as often as requested. e i nadstein, AT July 18 Thought for the Day Selected by Jennie E. Keysor O for abookes and a shadis nooke, Either indoore or out, With the grene leaves whisp' ring overhead Or the street cries all about, Where I maie reade all at my eass Both of the newe and old, For a jollie goode booke whereon to looke, Ia better to me than golde. o ~Old English Song. = Gas company marked down sales are none the less welcome because of their rarity. ——— A greater budget tags Greater Omaha at the start, as a check to unwholesome speed. Not much is heard about Tipperary these days, but it maintains its positicn ot splendid isolation. With dollar gas and S8-cont electricity, | Omsha should be able to keep up with the pro- | cession of enlightened clties. id Everyone will concede that at least one Dun- dee man had good and sufficlent reasons for | opposing the Greater Omaha merger: 3 ~ Whatever doubt existed about the greatness | of Greater Omaha, a $2,000,000 municipal budget gives it the scissors hold and the count. emmm——— ' The Ford people just could mot afford to locate that assembling plant for their western territory at any place other than Omaha. Help! The procession of newspaper automobiles ‘which trailed Harry Thaw out of New York indi- cates that the question of insanity shifted from the head to the tail of the parade. The great :3; Stecher, like the mighty *“Casey,” fanned /in & ball garae, and has nothing left to con- sole him but his champlonship wrestling belt. e e _How's this for a guess? Before the finish the Jitney men will have formed an association + that will be asking for provisions in the regula- tion ordinance to keep fly-by-night and other Interlopers out. And now our fee-grabbing district court clerk rises to remark on the necessity of filling ~ the vacant High school principalship with a man will exercise “a great moral influence"” on ~ the rising generation. We think so, too. b S———— Co-Operation and Rural Oredits. of cc-operative self-help, ted so effectively by savings and loan throughout the United States, offer partial, solution of the “How are the mighty fallen!" | | T. Herrick, former ambas- R a recent address before a ~ gathering of southern farmers, In the eastern g associations are utilized by farmers extent than is generally recognized. ¥ Ohio, Mr, Herrlck's home state, co-operative - associations in many localities overshadow local banks and do business with farmers on equal, 1t not better, terms than other loan agencles. The distinguishing feature of co-operation this line lies in the absence of dependence. member works out his own degree of suc- _ cess, encouraged by the example of his associ- | exit from the cabinet. Mr. Bryan is Peeved. Mr. Bryan devotes the bigger part of a page !in the current fssue of the Commoner to The Bea's remonstrance agalost his arraignment, in his home-coming speech, of the country east of the Alleghanies, in substance again as ‘“‘the enemy’s country.” This seems tc have nettled Mr. Bryan more than anything else since his He accuses The Bee of “dodging as usual,” and declares that our edi- torial “illustrates one of the tricks of the plu- tocratic pres and that “it geeks to divert at- tention from particular offenders by pretending to believe that criticiam is aimed at all the peo- ple of one section of the country.” Mr. Bryan then proceeds himself to do the dodging act by explaining that when he called it “‘the intolerant | and prejudiced east” he referred only to “a por- tion"” of the eastern press, and did not at all in- clude the masses in the east, who, he insists, have remained loyal to democratic ideals and polieles (whether his or President Wilson's, he | does not state.) Mr, Bryan should not let himself become so easlly peeved, for The Bee has constantly cred- ited him with sincerity of purpose, and with being thoroughly conscientious, whereas he tries to make out that everyone who disagrees with him has a sinister inspiration, or is the mouth- plece of some criminal trust. In Mr, Bryan's vocabulary, only Mr. Bryan is pure-minded and immaculate—only he {s divinely chosen to speak for the plain people. We have a faint suspicion that in this instance the virulence manifested against The Bee takes its root in the recollection that this newspaper helped three times to keep Mr. Bryan from consummating his ambition to live in the White House, B Building Operations in Omaha. While bullding operations in Omaha have not taken on the proportions of a boom, the value of bullding for which permits were granted in June shows an increase of 47 per cent over that of 1914, This Is very encouraging in itself, but the more noteworthy fact is the high quality of improvements indicated by the fig- ures. The average value for which permits were taken out in Omaha last month is above $6,000. This may not sound big, but compared with the showing made by other ecities, it is a subject for local pride. In St. Paul the average value of bullding improvements, according to the reported total of permits, was less than $4,000. In 8t. Louis, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Springfield (Mass.), Syracuse, Columbus (0.), Duluth and a number of other cities of Omaha's class, the average value was less than $2,000. In Cincinnati, Birmingham, Seattle and Indian- apolis it fell below $1,000, while Portland, Ore., and 8t. Joseph barely go above $1,000. These figures show that Omaha is not only bullding, but is bullding well. Generally the bullding industry shows the effects of the conditions that have checked the extension of enterprise in most directions. The men who are most vitally concerned are hope- ful, however, and look to the coming months for a general revival in their line. —— War's Havoo to News Gathering. The havoc wrought by war on the regular news gathering facllities {s faintly depicted in the Assoclated Prees service bulletin by a refer- ence to the Agence Havas, the press bureau which supplies French papers and upon which American newspapers formerly depended for nmiuch of their French news. The Agence Havas, at last accounts, had had six of its staff killed in battle, of whom two had been ofted in the orders of the day of the army for great gal- lantry and one was its best reporter. Quite half of the staff is with the army—more than fifty ~—including some of the provinclal correspond- cnts, One of the acting managers at present works in the office from 8 to 10 o'clock, and then goes to his military duty in the ministry ot war untll 4 o'clock, coming afterwards again to the office and working until his desk is cleared. The Havas service, through the war, has shrunk to about half its former proportions. The distribution of news to the interior by tele- phone has ceased, because the long dl-}noo telephone 1s reserved for the army alone, as are the trans-channel lines. The telegraph service is also much smaller than usual, to tinanclal reasons, and to censorship, which prevents pub- lication of news more frequently in French pa- pers than it does transmission of telegrams abroad. We repeat that readers of American news- papers served by the Assoclated Press want to congratulate themselves every day that they have the promptest, most comprehensive and least colored war news at the disposal of the people of any country in the world, “Honor” and the “College Man.” Princeton s out with a circular, inspired, perhaps, by unpleasant proceedings at Annapo- lis, in which is set forth the fact that at Prince- ton university students are “on honor” when taking examinations. It can harlly be that this is intended to suggest the superiority of the stu- dents at this particular college, or to leave the inference that they are more trugtworthy than those of other institutions of learning, large or small, It does occasion some wonder that un- der any conditions such an announcement should be made, ¢ First of all, any scheme of education that does not awaken the moral perceptions of the students, and has not high ethical as well as purely cultural value, is a fallure at the very beginning. Boys and girls should be taught early to understand that telling the truth is only A part of the obligation on them; that acting the truth is sometimes ever more important. “What's the use of lylng to yourself, when you're alone?” asked a character in a popular play, and thereby stated the principle that is iavolved in the so-called “Princeton honor sys- tem." A student who cheats in his examination doesn’t defraud anybody but himself. He may secure the coveted degree, but sooner or later he will be found out in his deception, for the time come when his lack of thoroughness will And things must have reached a THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JULY 18, 1915, ROM John T. Bell, who is now editing a weekly paper calied “The Enterprise” way out in New- berg, Ore., 1 have an interesting personal reminis- cence contribution suggested by the Poppleton autobio- graphy recently published in The Bee. Mr. Bell, who is well remembered by the old-timers here, writes: “1 have just read the chapter of A. J. Poppleton's autoblography printed in the Bee which reminds me of a transaction in which I contributed to Mr. Poppleton’s wealth. It was when W. G, Shriver and 1 were in the real estate business in Omaha. Mr. Poppleton told me he wanted to buy soma land near town for ‘a long time investment’ for his children. 1 called his attention to a tract of 110 acres west of town which belonged to Gen, W. W. Lowe. He looked it over. The price was $30,000 which Mr. Poppleton sald was excessive. We finally got it reduced to $26,000, and he said he would take it if the title was all rightt He set George I. Gilbert to running down the title. That gentieman tackled it with a microscope. This took some time and Mr. Poppleton lost his interest in the deal. “When we all met in the office of Kennedy & Gilbert to close the matter up, Mr. Poppleton wes out of patience with the entird business. He was out of humor with me for urging him to buy the property; he was out of humor with General Lowe on account of his belng the owner of the land, and he was out of humor with Mr. Gilbert on account of his falling to find defects in the title. As he signed his check in payment, he sald, ‘that’s a lot of money to pay for unproductive property.’ “About a year after this deal was made he sold ten acres of the d to John T. McCague for $6,000, and something like a year later sold twenty acres ot the land to the father of Congressman Lobeck. That left cighty acres of land, with the original purchase price all returned to Mr. Poppleton. “In the winter of 1886-7 he refused an offer of $100,000 which 1 presented to him on behalf of Colonel Bamuel Curtls and his associates, and he platted the land into bullding lots. He named the tract Pop- pleton Park. It was given to the firm of Bell & MecCandlish to sell, and in seventy days we sold the east half for about $126,000. So that the entire tran action stood thus: Purchase price, $26,000; total sales, $151,000, less modest expense of handling the property, and forty acres of land left. “Sales of considerable amount were made to building assoclations, with partfal payments, one- fourth cash as 1 remember it, and the balance in three equal annual payments, with interest payable quarterly, perhaps, Collections were made by the secretaries of these associations, ome of whom was the secretary of Omaha Young Men's Christian as- soclation. I forget his name, but he faded away silently, ecarrying with him about $4,000 cash that should have been turned over to Mr. Poppleton. Of course the loss had to be made up by the as- soclation. T really ought to remember the chap's name, for I was out $1,600 in cash by reason of his sllp In judgment as to what constituted business Integrity." If Mr. Bell were to come back here now, T know he would have his eyes opened wide by the present-day real estate transactions, which have so far out. topped the high marks of the boom days as to make the speculators of that period wonder at thelr modesty. ‘There is this difference, though, that the boom-day transactions in Omaha real estats were chiefly blackboard tradirg, by which people marked them- selves up every time a lot changed hands, whereas almost all of the buying now is for investment and business purpos as witness the substantial improve- ments actually In progress whichever way one looks, ‘What is probably the shortest business letter on record is being exhibited by James B. Ludlow, local manager of the Crane company. As precaution against being caught on the links and charged with loafing on the joh, Mr. Ludlow wrote to headquarters saying he would take his vacation “plecemeal” during the ©olf season If the boss had no objections. For reply he had the return of his letter, on which “the boss™ with his pencil had circled the word ‘“objections” in the top of a hook ending below with the motation, “None." ‘With the death of St. Clair McKelway, oditor of the Brooklyn Eagle, mighty few of the old-time Amer- fean journalists remain. Mr. McKelway was a Mis- sourfan by bdirth, and had the advantage of a college education, 80 t! he hardly came within the defini- tion of a self-made man, but he was for a third of a century among the forceful leaders of American thought. Offhand, I can think of only Colonel Henry Wattersop as ante-dating him, and stfll in the harness. Dr. McKelway, for he carrled a whole string of honorary college degrees, was a visitor in Omalia about the time of our exposition, and the honor guest at a banquet arranged for him at the' Omaha club by some of his democratic friends and admirers here, headed by Dr. George L. Miller. It just happened that Colonel Watterson was in Omaha at the same moment, and thesa three old-time newspaper men con tributed practically the entire after-dinner entertain ment, which was both brilliant and memorable, Twice Told Tales True Fignters. “The Black Watch are fighting so well in France that even the Germans praise them. Wonderful fight- ers, the Irish!" ‘The speaker was W. Bourke Cockran. He con. tinued: “When I think of the valor of the Black Watch regiment I recall the story of Pat McCann. “Pat came home one night with a black eye, a broken nose and a split lip; a front tooth was gone as well. “ "Mm Sullivan done It,' he told his wife, as he began to bathe his wounds In & basin of water, “‘Shame on ye! Bridget cried. ‘A big feller Mke you to be licked by a little, hard-drinkin' cockroach like Tim Bullivan! Why, he—"' “‘Whist,' sald Pat from the basin, softly. ‘Don't shpake evil of the dead.' "—New York Sun. A delightful party was given last evening at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. W, V. Morse on Capitol avenus, for their obildren, May, Florence, Hthel and Margaret, Carl and Willle Burnham, Joe Barker, Minnie and Laura Bechel, Sadie, Margaret and Storrs Eowen, Jay Boyd, Sam and May bums, Sam and May Callaway, Alilce and Warren Chase, Darling Coe, Gundy Coburn, May, Willle and Bdna Cowin, Bessie Cooley, Ross and Bessie Towle, Freddie Lake, Lulu Dandy, Frank Duke, Lar- Denise, Grace Detweller, Gertrude and Allen Goble, Connell, Larrimore Gaylord, Walter and Helen Jones Rev. Michael Dowling, 8. J, Detroit, has been TABLOIDS OF SCIENCE. Sclentists of the Department of Agri- culture, after extensive study, have de- clded that the moon has no effect ua growing vegetation By means of the microphone, the very faintest sounds, such as the fall of & feather or a very delicate piece of tissus paper, may be distinotly heard. Electrically speaking, the average man each day dissipates about 2% kilowatt hours of energy In motion, muscular ac- tion, mental exertion and heat radiation. A Pennsylvania rallroad has eliminated the danger from color blindness in its employes varying their position to convey differ- ent meanings. In the last thirty years sanitary sci- encé has decreased by 40 per cent the death rate of persons hetween the ages | of 20 and 30 years, and by 15 per cent the rate of those between 3 and 40 years. As a standard apparatus for measuring dust and soot in the air A committee of English scientists has recommended a rain gauge with a wide collecting area, the water finding its way into a bottle for analysis. A man in South Africa has discovered that an extract of banana juice is a cure for serious snake bites. Forty per cent of snake bites from deadly reptiles prove fatal, but the new inventiion will greatly reduce this proportion, according to the advance man's contentions. One-seven-hundredth part of a grain of radium will thoroughly fertilize a ton of soll, and cause grain o grow with great rapidity. Where this experiment has been tried, it has been notided that all the leaves become very dark. Radishes and carroty raised in this soll grow to six times their usual weight. SIGNPOSTS OF PROGRESS. The total mechanical power in the United States is estimated at 120,000,000 horsepower, In Chicago there i!s an electric ple- making machine with which six girls can turn out 23,000 ples a day. The tonnage of the Sault Ste. Marie canal Jast year was 79,718,344, more than three times greater than that of Sues. According to the latest estimate, there are more than 1,785,000 automobiles in the United States and about 500,000 in Europe. T The production of cheese in the United States has grown until it now cxceeds 20,000,000 pounds a year, Wisconsin mak- ing nearly one-half of it. . The citizens of Cleveland, O., are sup- plied with electricity at the rate of 3 cents a kilowatt hour, since the new munieipal plant has been instailed. An arrangement for killing insects by electricity is described In the Sunday School Advocate. The machine destroys not only grasshoppers and other insects, but also destroys their eggs, which are buried in the ground. A co-operative kitchen has been estab- Nshed in Montelair, N. J. In this kitchen residents can have their vegetables and meats cooked, and deltvcred later in a fireless cooker at their doors. Coal 18 to be mined in Pennsylvania by steam shovels. The method is novel in coal fields, but has long been employed in the Minnesota ‘‘open-pit’ iron mining operations. The port of New York in 1914 handled 46 per cent of the entire export trade of the United States, and the total of $1,807,- 000,000 of forelgn trads, export and im- port, which paseed through the port was Jarger than that of all the other Amerl- can ports combined. QUAINT BITS OF LIFE. One dollar to get married, 10 cents to g0 to college and 60 cents to graduate are some of the items in the new regulation “governing the affixing of stamps on cer- tificates concerning human affairs” which were recently promulgated in China. Jameg Mantes, of Beaver Dam, Wis, has announced that each Thursday he will trim the hair of poor ctildren without cost. The improvement in the community is so markeq that the larber is looked upon as. & public benefactor. g- Born to Mr, and Mrs. John , North Wilkesboro, N. C., a few days ago four children, and all are living. Mr. und Mrs. Doss hive been married about six years and have nine children. Their first born were triplets, their second twins and tae third quadruplets Bahics ate cairied on, or rather in, long pillows by the peasant wonen in Hungary. A babe is lald on the pillow the end is lapped over wnd is usually leng enough to come up to the infant's chin. A string is then tied around the pillow, holding it close about the youngster, thus making a snug and comfortable little ved. Getting married In Burma s not en- tirely a pleasant operation. Custom war- rants the prabtice of (browing stones at the house of the newly wedded, but not blackmail, and when recently a band of Burman youth derianced money befors they would depart the law stepped In «nd sentenced the leaders to heavy imurison- onment and corporal punishment. The woman mayor of Warren, 1N, made visit to Chicago the other day and was so oversome with the pilzht of the flashily dressed woman n cafes that she burst into *ears. The mayor now over %, sald she had gene to the ity to “learn the ways of ths werld,” but declares now that if «ne ean keep Ware ven yirls In Warrea abe will be com- pletely happy. WHITTLED TO A POINT. ‘The less work a man does the more he tires others. Philosophy reeonciles us to the misfor- tunes of others. The wise man has doubts, but the fool is always positive. An undertaker is a man who follows the profession. A woman never outgrows her emotions —she wears them out. The helght of some men's ambition is 1o pull other men down. Most of us have loose purse strings— when the purse is empty. Truth is stranger than fiotion because there's less on the market. The easler & man iakes things the casler it is for him to let them slide. Don't wait untll you are broke before you begin to mend your ways. An old bachelor says matrimony is the cemetery in which love is buried. ‘When & man starts on the downward path he seldom buys a return ticket. Many & man has found himself in a tight place because he didn't remain sober. It's easy to comvinee the lone man at an afterncon tes that there is no place ke bome by using only white lights, | 1 I People and Events | | Ten thousand pantsmakers are on a strike In New York and prosperity's pants bag at the knees. Who sald a ccllege edueation did not pay? A stonecutter with A. B. and A | M. attached to his sheepskin is pulling down §2.50 a day at Cambridge, Mass Iliinols now has & law prohibiting the leasing of tipping privileges in hotels and other public buldings. The proud eminence of the tip as an accelerator re- | mains undisturbed, "'l want to ride astride the foaming tide Where it rushes in to the shore,” writes A young poetess. All right, girile, if you prefer olllcwy foam to a Jitney, buy a ticket to Atlantle City and #o to it A wouvenir collection of 800 poultry wishbones piled up during the :edfl:’d life of Mr, and Mrs, Grossenbach of St. Louls formod decorated ropes in the liv. anniversary, The Standard Of1 company managed to transmit and deliver funds to hardup Americans in Turkey when the State de- partment refused to undertake the Job. Tlusiness efficiency scores whers politics fans the alr, Cherry ple day at Maszaola, In the Arkansas valley, Colo., brought 8,000 strangers to the feast. Twelve thousand vles and an unknown number >f melons | were disposed of, but the record fails to ; mention the morning after, Because his mother-in-law and sister- in-law st had the judge read the rot act. Waking Up a Quaker City policeman {s perilous business, Fullman porters on the Towa-Chieago are sald to be uncommnonly diligent in apprisiug passengers when they are about to enter Towa, coupled with a few touch- ing remarks on the Injustice of the anti- tipping law. Their knowledze of the law and the boundary line enables them to protect forehanded passengers from the penalties of afterthought. Construction work starts this week on the new 00006 Field museum bullding in Chicago. The site is the lake front near Twel(th street. The building will be three stories and basemeat in height, classic Creek architecture and cover an area 700x3%0, giving a floor space of 670,000 square feet. Marble Is the material, with fireproof construction throughout. The museum when completed three years hence will house the vast collection in the ©old World's fair bullding, and will be a magnificent tribute to the liberality of Chicago's foremost merchant vrince, AROUND THE CITIES. Minneapolis hoasts of its eminence as a tombstone market. Balt Lake city reports that the tourist procession breaks all records at the briny gateway. Fathers who neglect their families in Philadelphia are sent to the stonepile for exercise and reform. Cheyenne is stringing along its streets 15,000 incandescent bulbs to brighten the town durinz Frontier week. ‘Wheeling, W. Va., teaches ‘“‘mother love” In the girls' high school, using orphan bables for live samples. One of New York's surpassing special- tles is the most complete rogues gallery in the world. The city has the makin's. Back in fair Toledo, which is in Ohio, & husky wife beater was taken in hand by nelghboring women and soused in a trouzh of water. No formal celebration will mark the occasion, but Baltimore will rejoice in- formafly next fall when the last of its famous cobblestone pavements disappear. A Kansas City judge lifted the mash- ing penalty to $100 because the culprit was a Y. M, C. A, young man who must have known the evils of twilight flirta- tions, St. Joe, Mo., h a fire department which requires an outlay of $100,00 to bring its equipment up-to-date. Such is the conclusion of an investigating com- mittee. The total population of the once pros- perous mining town of Glllette, Col., now numbers one—Sam Bolger. Sam sticks because he made a pile before the strike petered out. The holy city of Hammond, Ind., just over the Chicago line. has decreed that nine inches from the shoetop ls the lmit of skirts in that town. Less is permis- #ible, more gets a run-in. A Gypsum City, Kan., man with money to toss to the birds. blew into Wichita and scattered a roll of bills among the street lofterers. His wife followed him and stopped the excitemnt. Madison {s the whittling capital of Monroe county, Mo. Thirty-five of its thousand people are 80 years and over end can whittle an equal number of kids off the village grocery's stoop. Ing room at the celebration of their silver | rted a family row and ais. | turbed his ufternoon nap a Philedelphia | policeman pulled the pair into court and ! CYNICAL MUSINGS. You can make a little truth go a long way by stretching it A man is judged by his deeds; also by what he doesn't do. Don’'t judge of a man's politeness tiil you see him in his own home. Lots of excuses are not worth trouble it takes to make them. Many a woman {s shy on birthdays who isn’t really behind the times, It is mors blessed to extend the glad hand than to point the finger of scorn. Every woman must have a pet. If she | can't have a cat or a dog, she gets & man, When a man looks down om us, we can't help hoping he will get dlzsy and fall off. It takes a phllosopher to say, ‘‘Bettoer late than never’' when he misses the last train. Unfortunately the fellow who is always willing to lend a hand generally has an empty one. The opportunities that go astray are usually those that strike other people In- stead of coming to us. Somehow or other the fellow who ale ways says "I told you 80" never seems to win any bets. Some fellows would have more use for the milk of human kindness if thoy | could take it out of a bottle.~New York | Times. DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES, the ':l-.'\rr_l(n(‘n I bought dat mule f'um you all's pa,” said Mr. Erastus Pinkley, “he's lvenn_(r)‘ln' to kick me.' “Well," replied Miss Miami Brown, *! allug did say dat mule a powerful good judge o' human natu, Washing= {ton Star. “I have made so_much money,” sald Mr. Cumrox, “that I don't know ywhul to do_with it. .Can't you give it away?" Yes. ut I'm unable to find anybody who knows any more about what to do with it than I do.'—Washington Star. Friend—Why is the editor of your T howling so insistently for war? Havr:fi:! be_very patriotic. Reporter—No; he has a lot of jokes left over from the Spanish-American war }Y:?t he wants a chance to work off.— Afe. “‘Did you ever notice any signs of ine sanity about the patientre o “Well, when he got a legacy from his uncle, he pald off the mortgage on his house Instead of buying an automobile,'— Baltimore Americ; this hat look on me? Does it make me look younger?' asked the woman in the millinery shop. “Ah, madam,” replied the moRiste, makes you look thirty dollars younger." —Yonkers Statesman. “And how dod "I suppose,” “when you recall what a_handsome young fellow “your you wouldn't consider me for a minute?" ‘Oh, yes, I would,"” sweetly replied the widow, ut not for a second.”’—Weekly Telegraph. ‘We gazed pityingly on the listless dru store clerk 1-u.nlnly against the aod{ counter, . quatied: Knaly ana"al] giehitionr” we Newburg Journal. "“"He kee) a still t PRk still tongue in his head, ‘1 should say he does. He doesn't give any more information than a postal card from a soldler at the front.'’—Detrolt Free o8, ‘WE SHOULD WORRY. We worrx because of our neighbors, Their children. their chickens and caty We worry because we are slender; We worry because we are fi If_ta!l or it short we worry: We worrx for this and for that We worry because It is morning, And our worries have just begun; We worry becuuse it is evening, And our worrles are not half done; We worry because of the weather, The rain, and the cold and the heat; We worry because of our stomachs; We worry because of our feet; ‘We worry because of our husband; We worry because of our wife; Ot _this and that and the other, We worry along through life, We worry because it is winter, With furnace and gas bills, and then We worry because it is summer ‘With flies and mosquitos, and when Bummer has vanished, we worry Recause It is winter again, Wa worry because it is raining: ‘We worry because it is dr; We worry because it i Christmas; We worry at Fourth of July; Wae worry because of the future; We worry because of the past; ‘We worry because of the present, That flles so terribly fast. We worry when things go cross-ways; We worry when things go right; We worrv all day in our business; We worry at home at night. For life is continuous worry, From birth till our days have all passed) So we worry along throuzh a life time, And dle with our worries Omahe. We announce ellin, Dcllewhtrn pen ce or Hunting Case, 14k solld 1d, Loi [ $45 to $560. All o diamonds [ mov: s' ec. wide spread stone ns, Stu etc, all the lll‘fi styles. m—-unu.-' dlamond 14K aia- lati- ke ual bargain and Men's Hings, Scarf fon" mounting. . 85 902 —Round Beich Ahnter g Tor solid old. 7 solid gold. 15-inch chain Terms, [oET DIAMONDS - ON CREDIT gold and ments—illinols, Higin, Waltham, etc. Prices range from $10 up. gusrs BASY CREDIF FERMS. " mond LaValliere ne mond, one real Open Daily Till 8 P. M; Saturdays Till Call or write for Catalog No, 903. 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