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20 THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER. VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. The Bee Publishing Company, Proprietor. BEE _BUILDING, FARNAM AND SEVENTEENTH, Entered at Omaha postoffice as second-class matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, | | By cnrrltehr By mail per month. per year, Daily and Sunda: 8. 86,00 | Daily without Su “dbe L4.00 Evening and Sunday. e . 6.00 Evening without Sunda; 2o « 4,00 Sunday Bee only.......cocveiirnienenreediiyinin . 2.00 Bee, three years In advance,..$10.00 Daily and Hundl{, Send notice of change of address or irregularity in delivery to Omaha Bee, Circulation Department. ey o TR T, Teratom Jcpartment. REMITTANCE, Remit by draft, express or postal order. Only two- gent stamps received {n payment of small accounts. Tersonal checks, except on Omaha and eastern ex- change, not accepted. OFFICES, Omaha—The Bee Building. South Omaha—2318 N street. Councll Bluffs—14 North Main street. Lincoln—-62 Little Buflding. Chicago—818 Peoples Gas Building, New York—Room 1106, 286 Fifth avenue, §t. Louis—503 New Bank of Commerce, Washington—72% Fourteenth street, N. W, CORRESPONDENCE, Address communications relating to news and edl- torial matter to Omaha Bee, Egltoriu Department. APRIL CIRCULATION. 57,808 Daily—Sunday 52,228 Dwight Williams, cireulation manager of the Bee Publishing company, being duly sworn, says that the average circulation for the month of April, 67,808 daily and 52,225 Bunday. DWIGHT WILLIAMS, Cireuls Subseribed in my presence and swomn to 8d day of May, 1916, RORERT HUNTER, Notary Publie. Subscribers leaving the city temporarily should have the Bee mailed to them. Ad- dress will be changed as often as requested. Everybody's boosting for Omaha, habit and keep it up! —_— All of us are quite ready to have a closed season declared against tornadoes. Get the The coming “rare days of Jline" must come early and stay late to equal the farewell smiles of May. Altogether too many automobile accidents in this vicinity, Slow down and drive more carcfully! It may be conceded without argument that the modern feminine dress could stand a little _ pxpansion at both ends —— It is well to give the Allies a belated re- minder that, when driven to it, we can give “hands across the sea” a slap on‘the sleeve. Sms——— The unfortunate case of that dislocated Bridgeport postmaster again proves that when tempted to write letters it fer not to do it. In dress reform, as in other personal matters, when woman wills she will, A moderate showing of unity and the fashion makers will be at her -~ feet. - Chicago is already satisfied that its invest- ment of $100,000 to guarantee the expenses of that convention is to return handsome profits— and then some, Cards, dances and like frivolous diversions continue excluded from the pale of Methodism, A live church body can put considerable joy into life without a shuffle or a trot. The most hopeful sign pointing toward early peace negotiations is the labored effort of each belligerent to convince folks that it is not to be blamed for keeping the fight a-going. T The Burlington is to spend two million dol- lars on improvement work in Wyoming. It would have no trouble finding the money to pay for its share of a new Union depot in Omaha. Se— The democratic threat of a gasoline tax, put as a feeler earlier in the year, failed to material- ize in the schedule of proposed new taxes. Party leaders evidently heard from the gasoline vote. Time to begin talking again about a “safe and sane” Fourth of July celebration. Is Omaha to continue to permit the sale of dangerous nol making explosives forbidden in all the other large cities? It must be plainly understood that no dis- loyalty to the administration will be tolerated from any Nebraska democrat holding under the Postoffice department. The only Nebraska dem- ocratic official who can be disloyal to the admin- istration and get away with it, is our democratic United States senator Are We Doing Our Duty? Appeals more urgent than ever are heing made to the American people for contributions for the relief of the stricken and helpless in the It seriously charged that we are not doing our duty as Christians, that we are niggard in our gifts and that we must make greater contributions or stand convicted of war zone of Europe is neglect of those whose necessity gives them a | claim on our bounty Americans have given liberally; this cannot be galnsaid In the excitement at the outset, when Helgium's brought to dire straits, our generosity leaped to aid them. Likewise, in Serbia, in Poland and elsewhere, we have given by shipload to the ald of the This people were war vietims, | impulse may have slackened some as the condi. | thon has continued, or even become more acute and throughout the second winter of the strife e have aided at least in making it possible to Mlleviate some of the suffering. Al of this is admitied, even by thase who now charge we are Bt doing our full duty in the matier The and subdivision of work, the organtaation of special sogieties 1o col et funds for special purposes and the general multiplication of the agencies for gathering and b istributing relief has brought B conlusion, ot least to the Wany are beglaning 1o wonder i the best nter boats of all are served by the methods adopted £ The Federal Council of the Churehes ol Chront in [ Americs s prosenting an appeal through the pul division the reliel with it somcthing public and mind RS that pext Sunday be made the oceasion for | © apecial dgaations in all the church The coun LM Al proposes that the relief work be hrought Eader more centralised contral On the 1o [ Apans 1o e gene ppeal will depend the Batire of its ofortn in this work, but the beads are hopetu! that PPpariwn ity Amerigans will swaken 1o ¢ and imereane (heir assiniunce Plain Talk to England and France. The note from the United States to the Brit- ish and French governments, dealing with the interference with mails by the Allies, is set in very plain terms. Approaching the point with directness that is almost blunt, Mr. Lansing frankly informs the allies their recent reply to complaints made by the United States is not re- sponsive, that it evades the question and is not satisfactory to the United States, Equally clear is his statement of the position of the United States as to how the rules of The Hague con- vention and the postal agreement should be ap- plied. He meets the evasive contention of the Grey note, in which military necessity is pleaded in justification of an intolerable practice, with this plain proposition: “Manifestly a neutral nation cannot permit its rights on the high seas to be determined by belligerents, or the of those rights to be permitted or denied arbitrarily by the gov- ernment of a wa The rights of neu- trals are as sacred as the rights of belligerents, and must be as strictly observed.” While no date is set for the modification of the present practice of seizing and searching let- ter mail, the inference gained from the language of the note is that immediate compliance is ex- pected. 1f the continuance of friendly relation with England and France depends on removal of cause for complaint, further pursuit of the policy adopted in February last can only be con- strued as offensive exercise ring nation. Propitious Time to Boost for Omaha. While Omaha has had its successive ups and downs during its comparatively brief career, it has become the wonder city that it is only through the continued and concerted efforts of its public-spirited and enterprising citizens. Never was the time more propitious than it is today to make Omaha still more important on the map. Omaha is essentially a market town for the product of the richest agricultural terri- tory of the country and on this foundation ls building a center of finance, trade and industry, art, educational and religious activities, In each of these fields Omaha has made notable progress, yet has still much to accomplish, but it also has the men and the means for that purpose. It is merely a question of well-directed and combined energy persistently applied, There is a tide in the affairs of whole communities just as there is in the affairs of individual men, and for Omaha a flood-tide is on right now sure to carry us far forward if we only do our part, Puzzling Case of Casement. Fragments of the public career of Sir Roger Casement, leader of the Irish invasion, made in Germany, throws much light on the puzzling conduct of a sincere but misguided man. Pieced together, these fragments reveal a British offi- cial with a record of twenty-two years of public service as consul and special commissioner in out-of-the-way places of. the world, a service which undermined his health and forced his re- tirement, As British consul at Delagoa bay during the Boer war Poultney Bigelow bears testimony to the loyalty and energy with which Sir Roger Casement aided his government in wiping the Transvaal republic off the African map. The Portuguese port in that crisis was the one ocean inlet to Oom Paul Kruger's capital. Consul Casement's duties were many and complex and he performed them with all the zeal which char- acterized his later efforts against his govern- ment, It has been said in explanation of his conduct, that his sympathetic and generous nature was intensely stirred by the cruelties inflicted upon the natives of the Congo country exploited by alien promoters. This is borne out by the offi- cial record. His revelations of the inhumanities of the rubber region startled the world at the time and forced radical betterment in the govern- ment of the Congo. Although his health was seriously impaired in equatorial Africa, his serv- ice did not command merited reward. Instead he was billeted at inferior posts in South Amer- ica, the best being Rio Janeiro, which shattered health forced him to relinquish in June, 1913 As late as May, 1914, when Sir Roger ap- peared before a royal commission in London and | ve his views on consular betterment, there ap- peared no reason for questioning his loyalty to the crown, The fires smoldered beneath the surface. For months previous he led a public agitation against the Cunard company for cut- ting out Queenstown as a port of call and had arranged with the Hamburg-American line to supply the service, which was subsequently vetoed by the British government. This under- handed blow at the commercial life of Ireland aroused the spirit which assailed the Congo atrocities, and undoubtedly led to his intense activities in forwarding the volunteer movement to gain home rule. War changed the volunteer plans and worked disaster for Sir Roger —_— Standard Dress for Woman, Club women in convention at New York are again giving time to the discussion of uniform Man's sack is cited as symbolizing ideal, 1s urged to look ahead to the time when she can don equally facile habiliments and go forth as insignificant in point of costume as does the or standard dress for women the suit and modest lord of creation This comes at an er rrassing time, for man has secretly nursed the thought that he might be permitted 1o express a little more of his fancy garh, and deck himsell in colors, that his existence will sound & clearer note in the landscape. To have his high aspirations dashed by his helpmeet's volun tary abandonment of her fussy gown 1 inly disappoint him. Maybe the ¢lub womes hop e restore nature's order, wherein [ the ma bird who wears the splendid | plumage, while * mate goss quietly about her pnness of rasing the wly and & alter the me, and it bother hersell about how she ke | vith that inducement, though men will v ¥ Aely prefer 0 see woman do she has sgen, don or doll sueh gar ments as o and gladden the eye on all ceasions, “a thing of heauty and & oy forever e —— at rewa B30.000, Americs the oay ! N ams wnelaimed L ‘ & ol L the Mexica . #real 10 D [ . aliruad adva ails woman | THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: Wasiss, | HE 1904 democratic convention at St. Louis was “a hot one” in every meaning of the word. The control was wholly in the hands of the reactionaries by a more than two-to-one | majority and there never was the slightest doubt as to the outeome of the vote on any subject brought up, but the brutal majority had to ride rough-shod over Mr. Bryan at every turn. He was the central figure of the show, His protests and pathetic appeals in the heated debates precipi- tated at several stages in the proceedings were the only features that lifted the affair above the ordinary and gave it the semblance of excitement, It was “hot” also by the test of the ther- mometer, the delegates being assemliled on the Fourth of July and promptly “peeling” down to shirt-sleeves to withstand the intolerable tem- perature, | saw many people faint, overcome with the stifling atmosphere; on the big days the capacity of the hall was greatly overtaxed and every inch of space jammed to the guards by working the chain-ticket racket until the police had to close the doors to new admissions and refuse return-checks to those going out. “Work- ing in the press seats at two successive almost all-night sessions exhausted everyone there and the tense strain and exertion umfl-r this terrible stress sent Mr. Bryan to bed, ill, before adjourn- ment, Everything was set for the nomination of Judge Alton B, Parker, whom Mr, Bryan, how- ever, to use a recently coined term, had “ham- strung” in advance of the start-off on the track. Strangely enough, the Tammany bunch were with Bryan in opposing Parker. I remember an inter- view with Bourke Cochran, Tammany spokesman, on the opening day in which he uu{thal Grover Cleveland was the only democrat they could nom- inate and fight for with any assurance of win- ning. But Cleveland was impossible and if pos- sible would have been more distasteful to Bryan even than Parker, and there was no other rally- ing point. The only other campaign which showed activity was that which was promoting a presidential boom for William Kandolph Hearst. As a consequence, the Nebraska bunch were simply rated as “anti” and to be delivered wherever Bl?’ln might decide to put them, It is worth recalling now that, when it came to nom- inations, Mr. Bryan closed the speech-making by throwing verbal bouquets at He ex-Gov- ernor Pattison of Pennsylvania and ex-Governor Wall of Wisconsin and then wound up by second- ing for Senator Cockrell of Missouri, and, when the vote of Nebraska came to be recorded, it was set down with four each for Cocxrell, Hearst and McClelland and one each for General Miles, Olney, Gray and Wall. Before the roll call was completed the Parker column had passed the two- thirds mark and a motion was declared carried making it unanimous and by acclamation The St. Louis convention was also the place where Mr, Bryan appeared with nis fierce denun- ciation of the Roger Sullivan crowd in Illinois as a set of “political porch-climbers and train rob- bers.” The Illinois fight had developed a bitter contest between the Harrison faction and the Sullivan men and Mr, Bryan jumped into the breach for the Harrlson people, ‘Although he was slated to represent Nebraska on the resolutions committee, he hurried to the front and showed up with Jim Dahlman's proxy for the meeting of the national committee that was to pass on the contest provisionally in making up the temporary roll. Here he championed the cause of his friends while sitting in judgment on the case, and, when overwhelmingly outvoted, carried it by appeal to the convention floor, onfy to be again run over in spite of his fervid presentation of the contro- versy and bitter indictment of the Roger Sulli- van gang, And then, four years later, when Mr. Bryan was running for president for the third time, he put Roger Sullivan himself on the execu- tive committee to conduct his campaign, Finally the climax at St, Louis came with the reading of Parker’s famous “gold telegram” dur- ing the closing hours and the return of Mr, Bryan, spectre-like, for a last strategic move, He under- took to amend the resolution acquiescing in the Parker declaration, but got nowhere with it, What he did succeed in doing was to make it plain, be- fore the delegates dispersed, that the democratic standard-bearers were headed for gefeat and that nothing anyone could do or say later could repair the damage wrought and plug up the holes. At that moment Bryan stock was at low ebb—lower, I believe, than it is today. He was “down and out,” he was “a dead one,” and yet, in the short space of four years, he was again leading a for- lorn hope as the third-time democratic nominee. In politics things are not always what they seem not in a land where the people rule, where pub lic sentiment changes over night, and where the political outcast of today is the popular hero of tomorrow. Twice Told Tales Gone, and Gone Forever, This Day in Omaha MAY | sergeant-at-arms | memorial to be claimed first of the A 8, 1916, PEOPLE AND EVENTS, added a sheaf of fame by licking the of the demoeratic eon- vention of Tennesses. J. Wesley seems as handy with his dukes as in turning loose a deluge of words. The hulk of an ancient windjammer of John Wesley Gain fresh laurels to his | moderate size was encountered deep in the | sands of East river at the Brooklyn end of the mew subway tunnel. What the craft has on board besides sand and mud | the diggers have not yet determined. For a wonder the high cost of living and the war have been overlooked in the excuses offered for grafting on the labor- ers' payroll of Chicago. A split of 50-50 was effected, which netted the participants $1,000 a month. A prospective peniten- tiary term robs “easy money” of its vel- vety feel, A Louisville husband says his wife chased him out of the house at night when he clad in his night shirt and humil- iated him in the glare of an arc light. He admitted, however, that preceding the chase with a he had attempted to spank her fence picket. With this overture the com- pany will please rise and sing: "My Old Kentueky Home. Colorado has fewer advantages than Cal- ifornia for bogus widows cutting a slice of dend millionaires’ estates. The Texas widow who worked up a cluim for some of W. 8. Stratton's $11,000,000 estate got her marriage dates mixed up and lost uut. Most of the Stratton fortune goes to found and maintsin a home for broken down miners, and bequests of this nature handi- capn the bluffs of imaginary wive Keen competition for summer visitors already manifests itself at some of the swell semi-private resorts. A forward looking manager of & summer cottage at romantic Dobbs’ Ferry, N. Y. puts out a fetching lure for bubbling youth and elders equally eager to Interpret love's dreams. Bhady lanes and sheltered ham- mocks for the daytime and dim lights, cosy mooks nad sound-proof walls are pro- vided st bargain rates. The trouble with wo much of a good thing is the certainty of an overflow, which romance abhors. A real good looking girl’ carrying two large bro “lamps” and @& smile that would make & quaker come off, drove from her home in Ashbury, N, Y., into New York City in her own car and cut & speed gash in Gotham's stmosphere and regulations. “I didn't know I was going so fast, plained to the rt, us her subdued smile centered on the jud, judicial Buddha withstood the animated spotlights fairly well, He figeted, She enlarged her smile, He smiled back, and pondered awhi “Justice s no more blind with me than with anybody id he, “Merely dazzled. 1 sentence.”” Then the judge turned ide, brushed a fly from his shining dome and sobbed for bygone youth, BRIEF BITS OF SCIENCE. In India eyegla of & greenish hue have been found to afford better protec- tion from the sun than either blue or gray. Several German chemists are endeavoring to find economical proe for the re- covery of combustible material from ecoal ashes. After long investigation & French scientist has declared that tuberculosis can be transmitted by the perspiration of a person afficted through the pores. A Vienna physiclan having discovered that a remedy for infectious intestinal dis orders can be produced from red cabbag: a factory for its production is being built, The known coal areas of the United States cover about 810,000 square miles and there are about 160,000 square miles more that are believed to be underlain with mar- ketable co Geologists are trying to estimate the nges of oceans by comparing the amount of sodium they contain with the amount they receive annually by washings from the continents. The first extraction of quinine from the bark of the tropical cinchona tree by two French chemists in 1820 marked an epoch in the medical world, and it was Sir Clem- ents Markham of England, burned to death in his eighty-sixth year, who in 1852, after visit to Peru, persuaded the British gov- ernment to plant and raise the drug in Indin at & time when malaria was serlously barassing -the population. OUT OF THE ORDINARY. Statistics show that only one man in 208 grows to more than six feet in height. Mr. 1, a fisherman in Hawaii, has the shortest name in the world, He wins over Genecal O, of Mexico, by a valid techni- cality, as headline writers can attest. An ordinance ted in Dawson, Ga., some time ago, re “It shall be un- lawful for any cook to take from her place of employment any victuals in a pan or bucket without written permission from her employer.” It seems that after all there is a knack to this long life business. Alec Panoche, oldest member of the Mount Carmel tribe of Indians, submitting the suggestion that baths should be taken ne s than once a year. The first monument in America to Adam was erected in Gardenville, Md. The is & square of cencrete with a sun top and the inscription on one of its fa: “To the Memory of Adam, the First Ma In Maine during the last year there we 6,222 marriages; the oldest bridegroom wi o b back Compiled Prom fee Filgs = Topeka comm [ i wanee exoluding Jitnays rom streets tea The Edis Tervitorial Light company AN by Returendum petitions | orpanined by the following: Henry E | 810 beine rod whiah wil send the e, F. K Crittenden, F. A. Nash and Lowis | THe8e 2 & 't o 1he henpia | A Grolt Denver's Manulaetucers’ latten pla W ovaing & fund of BL000.008 for wee in The wholesale & ery firm of Sloan . drengihening present dustries & Coo has removed from Peora this city ducing others o y seviptinn hustie will ek ers for the police hats, 1 will be w ot R Syl of ol Wiilis by the foree at thelr parade Decorsti he “Buftals W s " o ovalned ot BI0A00 and o first joint rehear of the orchestra and aw b fighting for & siiee \ W sl the June festival ¢ o direction ¢ athan Frank or vossh Na geal o eme . Work on the foundat i ow Roard af | §reies sties of the watil the Mue 3 4 awe have besems ae ohasiote & ent Meyer announces that the st N e commanity W veally & far Mare Aeee be laid with impressive em ander printe smblom fur 1he oty han the souring suapiies of the Masonie o etinte At & meeting of the Omaha Relorm club, by . b e AL e tene he oid &t Ruckinghs N . and | o . ® " .. M gt ands Dr. James Carter, 822 Vieginia ‘¥ . | be | Tllinois volunteers at | lald on faith tion will need more than the five chaplains appointed. Springfield Republitan: Lincoln Neb., by a five-to-one vote of its Commercial club, is to turn its Me morial day parade into a prepared | ness parade Mr. Bryan must be | thinking | Perhaps 1t was right to dissemble vour | But—why did you kick me down staira? “G " #5, the oldest bride was 79, the youngest al (ujne} n);outed the wildly excited individ- | yrigegroom was 16 and the youngest bride ual, waving his arms in the wmiddie of the | 18, There were three men and two women slre“e{ A crowd gathered quickly who were married for the fifth time = Gone, gone!” he shrieked again, and yet | A bath without water is said to be one | b of the latest novelties. A thick robe fs en- “What's the matter Cashier eloped with | twined with wires, and when put on a cur your money?" rent of electricity is passed through the “Wife ran away " wires. The wearer of the robe soon finds “Lost a child?" his body getting warmer until fn a little “No, no, no! But it's gone!" B Fifty-seven people held their breath, and then | | Tne excited individual became suddenly calm | ‘Yesterday has gone, my friends,” he said Boaton thus far h ated $1,401,848 with a glad “smile, “and today is going, Yoy | ™ taeh to war charities may die tomorrow or today. Now, without Joss Binee Jonuary 1 fertysfive persons have of time, you should take out a policy of life in. [ dten Milled by autos in the streets of surance with my firm, the i ';‘,.M;‘“:. ) Y h ] - i he federal insome tax this year w Then seven u.' ifty strong men seized him | oo\ )-m]..q:“m.n. tor .n.uu-. an in and bore him to the nearest horse trough.—Pitts | crenne of $949,000 over last year. Pros burgh Chronicle-Telegrapl v oo P - Svokane, Wash., will ecelebrate Fathers day June 15, A ehorus of 1,000 hoys " joyon g, whieh wi i the chesty Mawout Thirty Years Ago A four 8 o snh 900000 A o capasity of 1,200 harrels & day, s projected Joo. The Swify p M SECULAR SHOTS AT PULPIT. The Philadelphia Ledger: Presbyterians are finding out that “the World, the Flesh and the Devil” are modernized in the mo- torcar, the movies and the dance which goes to prove that even that redoubtable old trio cannont resist the temptation to ultra-modern. New York -World: The term “fighting parson” was appropriately applied to the late Rev. Edward Anderson, who died Sunday at Quineéy, Mass., at the age of 83. As chaplain of the Thirty-seventh the outbreak of the elvil war, subsequently colonel of an In- diana cavalry regiment and minister of the gospel for many years after the war, he won equal honors as soldier and preacher. | Journal: There is & whole- ey in small communities for | those of similar denominational beliefs to | lay aside minor differences and unite in one strong church to take the place of several small, struggling, ineflective ones. | In these days, when less emphasis is d more on works, this fs easily praticable. The world has come to | judge & man more by what he does than by what he believes, and this is a just judgement. The good that one strong | church can do in any community, is far | greater than the total of the good accoms | plished by a number of small organizations | that are fighting mortgages and starving | their ministers, in order to keep the fires of ancient faith burning on the altar. Springfleld Republican: The leading Protestant denominations wre all busy raising funds for their disabled and super- annuated ministers, and three of them | have been given handsome lifts in the | will of Mrs, D. Willis James of New York. To the proper boards of the Preshyterians, Congregationalists and Methodists she leaves $750,000 each for their pension funds, W. already told how well the Episcopalians are coming on ,with thelr fund, and the Rockefellers are not likely to see the Baptists fail in this matter, It fs only decent that the Christian churches should feel as much responsi- bility busin orporations in looking after faithful employes who can no longer work. But to return to the James family. Both Mr. and Mrs, James were splendid givers to many good causes. Since her hus- band died Mrs, James had been giving to religlous and ph ropic objects some- thing like $1,000,000 & year. The number of people in the world who regard their money as a trust is larger than the pes- simists reckon on. reglveh,00na SIGNPOSTS OF PROGRESS. Manufacture of paper in this country consumes nearly 5,000,000 cords of wood annually, The value of the annual orchard products of the United States reaches a total of $140,000,000. A Virginian has invented a handtruck that enables one man to pick up and move objects weighing 1,000 pounds or more. More then 100,000 operatives are now employed in American silk manufacturing mills. This is exclusive of those employed in dependent industries. The production of automobiles in the United States increased 350 per cent be- tween 1909 and 1914, according to the United States census bureau. In the present fiscal year the United Btates bureau of fisherfes expects to ex- ceed all former records in the number of fish distributed and may pass the 5,000, 000 mark. Texas, which In 1860 stood twelfth in rank, now is the seventh state in the American union in point of wealth. It is first in point of size and fifth in popula- tion, and its railroads are of higher value than those of any other state. | A wood splitting machine has been in- vented which automatically handles logs two feet long and eighteen inches thick. It is run by s three-horsepower gasoline engine and consists mainly of a huge knife which works through the knottiest wood at the rate of sixty strokes a minute, TIPS ON HOME TOPICS, Pittsburgh Dispatch: The reports of the favorite son scouts at head- quarters suggest that the country is as much at sea as the political leaders, or that the scouts are qualifying for the Ananias club. Boston. Transcript: A democratic secrelarf' of the treasury can squeeze more gleeful gloats out of a $150,- 000,000 deficit Slau any of the republi- can predecessors were ever able to extract from a $250,000,000 surplus. Cleveland Plain Dealer: Why wouldn’t it be real thoughtful, as well as loyal, for some of those expert American aviators who are flying over France and Belgium to come across and help us out in Mexico? Baltimore American: Sixteen nom- inating speeches at Chicago; and then a vice presidential candidate to be named by sixteen more orators be- fore final adjournment. The conven- DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES. “My husband is a regular rainbow chaser” sald one woman “Mine {sn't,’ replied the other. “Even if he knew there was a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, he'd sit still and ex- ct the rainbow to come to him.'—Wash: ington Star. Mrs. Benham—I have been reading of guests at &4 dinner who were bound and robbed Benham—Couldn't the waiters get thelr tips In the regulation way?—New York Times. PEAR MR KABIBBLE, 1S 17 TRUE THAT Homewy MEN ALWAYS MARRY BEATIFUL 2 WOMEN{ HEYER. i~ e ARE You ASKING “THIS QUESTION FOR YOURSELF OR FOR A FRIEND 7 “I am sorry Bings is laid up. What was the cause of his accident?” “He tried to flirt with a pretty littls one who took his fancy, but after it was 1l over he found out she was one of those camp rookie girls.'—Baltimore American for his misdeed, was about to Robble get & thrashing. He left his mother's room and went to his own. Kneeling down beside ihs bed, and with hands clasped he oftered up the following prayer: “Please, God, If you are as good to little children as they say you are, chance.”—New York Times, AMERICA. In the Torch Bearer. our country l—land through centuries, ti1l now's your Arlo Bat For, O Americ Hi4 In the west, men ‘Through countless an The priceless worth of freedom——once again The world tyrannies could under- was new-oreated when thy shore First knew the Pligrim keels, that one last test The race might make of manhood, nor give r The strife with evil till it proved its best. Thy trus sons stand as torch bea Nght. Here the last stand W It we fail here, what new Columbus bold, Steering brave prow through black seas h land whe; man may om yet be maved? The whole round earth Has seen the battle fought. men hide From tryanny and wrong, where life have worth If here the cause succumb? If greed of gold, Or lust of power or falsshood triumph here. The race is lost! Where shall A globe dlspeopled, cold, Rolled down the vold, a volceless, lifcless sphere, Were not so stamped by all which hope de- bars earth, plunging along ace i, As this throug! Conquered by It shamed among the Be: base, enslaved, dishonored race! Here has the battle its last vantage ground; Here all 18 won, or here must ail be lost, Here freedom's trumpets one last rally sound ; Here to the breeze its blood-stained flag is tossed. America, last hope of man and truth, Thy name must through all coming ages b n The badge unspeakable of shame and ruth, Or glorious pledge that man through truth s free. . This is thy destiny; the choice 1s thine To lead all nations and outshine them all; But if thou failest, deeper shame is thine, And none shall spare to mock thee in thy fall Excursion Fares East VIA ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD Choice of Oircuitous and Direct Routes to New York and Boston Tickets on Sale Daily Limited to Sixty Days for Return, Attractive Routes to All Eastern Resorts For full particulars, descrip- tive literature and sleeping car reservations, call at City Ticket Office or write 8. NORTH, 407 S8. 16th St., Omaha, Neb. Phone Douglas 264 FACTS OUTWEIGH OPINIONS NO PRICE CAN PURCHASE GREATER SECURITY THAN IS CONTAINED IN A CERTIFICATE OF THE WOodmen Of the World The Stamp of Responsibility BACKED BY ASSETS OF MORE THAN TWENTY.EIGHT MILLION DOLLARS AND OUR RECORD OF MORE THAN A QUARTER CENTURY OF PROMPT SETTLEMENT OF CLAIMS RING DOUGLAS 1117 NO CHARGE FOR J. T. YATES, Secretary EXPLANATION W. A. 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