Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 1, 1916, Page 20

I ' THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE ISSUED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. " FOUNDED_BY EDWARD ROSEWATER. VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETOR. OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE CITY OF OMAHA. OFFICIAL PAPER FOR DOUGLAS COUNTY. Entered at Omaha postoffice as second-class matter. By Mail per year. ':. 0 Evening unday 0 00, de- livery to Omaha Bee, Oirculation Department. Remit draft, express or order. Only 2-eent = d’:n-u accounts, Personal and eastern not ae- 1% Dospivs Gas Bllding s il 3 New York——Room 803, 266 Fifth avenus. 08 New Bank of Mmfi 725 Fourteenth street, N. Ww. and ' editorial | | i i l ; in ' advanes, i{ notice of change of address or irregularity in H § k. Y { Y DEN( ; Address communications relating to news ‘matter to Otni.: Bee, Mzml ,)-pmmt. : AUGUST CIRCULATION . 55,755 Daily—Sunday 51&01_& wight Williams, eirculation Publis] co y, being duly sworn, says D cireuls! or the month of August, 1 $5,765 daily, and 61,048 !undv. DWIGHT WILLIAMS, Circulation Manager. au'fi'fl"fz" my ','"l';“f. and sworn to before me "“ROBERT HUNTER, Notary Publis. Subscribers leaving the city temporaril; should have The Bee mailed to them. Al! dress will be changed as often as requested. B = From a literary point of view Art Mullen’s card unquestionably ranks as great stuff. — B the wes . The corn belt, however, is entitled to several M more of good old Indian summertime. B ———1 ¢ This is the week every man, woman and ¢hild . in Omaha is on the general reception committee. 3 Se—— | Austria follows Germany in appointing a staff of fogd dictators. The allied blockade is power- less agdinst American ideas, " However, the bites on the western front do not muaterially shorten the distance nor improve the roads to either Paris or Berlin. . CERETE— Bread baked from American flour is being 'sold cheaper in London than it is in Chicago or ‘Omaha. Here's a poser for bread-makers! } —_— ’l‘ilg 'lnr assoclation no doubt will make g professions and demand the suppressed name 1 riey who returned the widow's mite. [ ] most encouraging sign of the war is the of the talk that peace is not thought means that the eventual peace negotia- ‘being kept in mind all the time. r up! ,Gfiup photographs of the bankers’ nal convention clearly outline the smooth’ led fronts Built up by superior nourishment. ng reports are discounted by the pic- Sn———— ¢ president and mistress of the White miss out is in not staying over for s royal coronation ball, at which they place second only to His Royal High- R & g decession of President Calvin of the Pacific to' the membership of our Com- club may possibly offer a partial offset to fection of Semator Hitchcock's favorite ster, Colonel Fanning. . s ting the invitution to participate in the bration of Nebraska's semi-centennial of hood, the presidept appears to have due ap- tion for the propricties of the occasion even h “Boss” Arthur Mullen does not. ——— s ¢ does not restrain nor surgery stale the habi of successive farewells uired by the livine Sara.” Another and then another tearful ell, Grieve not. Sara delivers the goods. des, ‘more than ever before, she needs the © Merchants who believe in beautiful windows ould also he strong advocates of newspaper ad- vertising. What's the use of beautiful windows unless the great newspaper-reading public is ad- about them and invited and urged to take look? ¥ ~ TIf there are any “disloyal Americans” no one wants their votes, nor should they, be allowed to But, where ‘are the “disloyal Americans,” if there are any, why are they not being ‘prosccuted by the government for reasonable offenses? y ——— Members of that Farm Loan Bank board have completed their circuit with reports of gratifying * and satisfactory hearings. We don't know as to i1 progress made with the bank locations, but A &r mixing democratic political medicine the joy- ride was plainly an unqualified success. o S——— Wisdom from Youthful Lips. Wisdom drips from youthful lips now and then, He is a rare father who has not felt pa- rental pride rise as his children fresh from school 4 lgily pour out a bubbling stream of knowledge newly acquired, More frequently, perhaps, he is ~ do got annoy, for the passing years weave cob- _ webs around the textbook knowledge of the pro- %;. If father is shamed by the children's ker perception, much greater must be the hu- ion of the “dear teacher” who is stumped o silence by a pupil's penetrating philosophy. A lifornia youth of 12 objected to the study of graphy, boldly telling his teacher that it was waste of time. “What's the use,” he said, “of lying the map of Europe when nobody knows it will look like after the war?” The teacher d n;t :l:uwer. nor scek the answer in the rophets and seers read the signs and re- mate. Map miakers idly view the progress war and may not venture a guess how the map will look by and by. The far-flung line meanders from Central Africa to Per- Egypt to Dobrudja, from Saloniki to The Mu and the Carpathians echo “of artillery, and half a dozen seas these agencies of destruction are work- what's the use of studying the geog- Ak-Sar-Ben XXII and His Kingdom. This is to be a week of feasting and merry- making in Omaha, for it is to be signalized by the entrance of Ak-Sar-Ben, twenty-second of his line, into the capital city of his kingdom, and the festivities that mark such an occasion are neces- sarily noteworthy, Unusual preparations have been made for the event, and the days and nights until the close of the season will run together with no division, but be as one time. Always auspi- cious, the celebration this week is made doubly notable. It will particularly :mphasiu_: the jubilee year of the state, showing in pageant something of the story of Nebraska, not only for fifty years of statehood, but with glimpses of all its known history. The president of the United States will be the guest of Ak-Sar-Ben on that occasion, and by his presence will give added dig- nity and importance to the event. Omaha has made preparations for giving welcome to multi- tudes who will participate as interested spectators in the unusual doings of the week, and to all of these is pletiged safety and comfort, and whatever of enjoyment unstinted hospitality and rational divertisement can provide. L Never did the Kingdom of Quivera wear more beautiful aspect; never did the present hold so much or the future promise more for its people, and so Ak-Sar-Ben will be received with joy, the president of the United States with the honor due his high place, and all visitors with such warmth as will make them, glad they came. Omaha is host and hosteds both this week, Chivalry Not a Lost Trait. Out of the sordid murk of the criminal courts gleams a ray of light that is comforting, if not encouraging. The Douglas county prosecutor, com- menting on a verdict that freed a woman from a charge of murder, in face of quite convincing evi- dence tending to show her guilt, said it is impossi- ble to secure the conviction of a woman on a capi- tal charge. Heascribed this to the innate tendency of man to shield the woman under any circum- stances, In at least two of the blackmail cases being investigated by the federal authorities at Chicago it has been established that the male victims paid that they might shield their female companions, not knowing that the sirens had been set upon them intentionally to work their downfall, And now the husband of the second woman in a “triangle” case in Philadelphia, watches by her bedside in a hospital, and pro- tests his faith in her innocence. Man may no longer be as deferential to his sister as once he was, when life held more of ceremony and less of hustle, but these instances show him to hold yet some lingering trace of consideration for her. Generally, he is inclined to accept her at her own valuation of herself, to look upon her as his companion as well as his helpmeet; willing enough to shelter and protéct her, and equally willing to compete with her if she elects to enter the lists in which the battles of life are fought out. She is still secure in her privileges, and quite as energetic in pursuit of her rights. That this is so is another proof that chivalry is not a lost tra Trades UI‘lionl and Contracts. The failure of the sympathetic strike in New York is a gratifying evidence of the’fact that labor unions more than ever are taking them. selves and their relations to the world of industry seriously, In their striving for the collective bargain, which is the chief aim of trades union activity, the members have imbibed knowledge of the fact that they have assumed something of re- sponsibility, too. They have come to know that the public has a share in the bargain they have struck with their employers, and, more than this, they realize that they should be bound by an agreement openly and dreely entered into. Rec- ognition of these considerations—that the con- tract to be binding on their employers must also be binding on them—by the workers will do more than any other means to bring them to that state of stability and accountability wherein the func- tion of. their organizations will reach its fullest possibility for service, because it will have the re- spect and confidence of those with whom they must deal. The action of the New York union .men in declining to break their contracts is a proof, of advance. Work Ahead for Defense Leagues. One of the results of the mobilization of the militia of the country and its summer at Texas training camps is yet to be determined. Troops now being returned to the states where they en- listed are being mustered out of the service of the United States. This automatically returns them to the status of National Guards. What will be the effect of the weeks they spent in camp on the border? Theoretically, it should be good, for offi- cers and men alike have had opportunity for training not possible, even under the best of con- ditions, at home. They should have learned the rudiments of the profession of arms, at least, the minutae of camp routine, some bits of knowledge of grand tactics, and ‘the relation of smaller to larger groups in military operations. Aside from this necessarily fragmentary knowledge, what have they learned? The Guardsmen should have been taught that the country has the first claim on its citizens; that our institutions can not exist unless by the combined support of all the people, and that the man who is not willing to fight for the mainte- nance of the rights and privileges of American citizenship does not deserve to have them. If these lessons have been taught, the mobilization has had some good effect, and the returned Guardsmen are coming home as exemplars of great principles that have been much obscured by the overgrowth of peace. Other lessons have been taught the country. How unre¢ady we were as a nation to face a real crisis has been driven in to the very quick, and we will be inviting our fate if we do not profit by what we have experienced since that Sunday in June when the president suddenly issued the call to arms. It will, be sad beyond shame if the Guard is called out again and has to go unclothed, unarmed and unfed, as was the case this time, T!le defense leagues have plenty of work ahead in seeing that the lessons of the mobilization are ef- fectively applied. ——— Populism is in the sere and yellow leaf. It served the purpose of assisting democrats to 'get in, but the alliance proved deadly to the agsistant. Like a lonely rose of bygone Junes Mr, Pearson lingered in the frosty wilderness, communing with the ghosts of former greatness, The occasion, with battleships eager to revise the | the surroundings and the mood will befit the pathos of the requiem. The upward tendency of shoes appears emi- m:% California youth spoke | nently proper. A close alliance with neighboring L it a3 a waste of time, | fabrics lends tone to the scenery. THE By Victor Resewater O ONE who has not had personal experi- ence on the committees in charge has any coneeption of what it means to entertain the president of the United States. The guest, it must be remembered at every Komt, is not Mr. McKinley, or Mr. Roosevelt, or Mr, Taft, or Mr. Wilson in his individual capacity or as a candi- date for office, but he is the chief magistrate of the nation, the highest executive for. one hundred million people. We have no royalty in this re- public, but the ruler of our government for the time being, whoever he is, rightfully commands a deference and respect for the exalted position he holds separate from his personality. The first and paramount consideration must be his comfort and safety. He must be exposed to no risk or danger that can possibly be avoided. The task of the committee in charge is to receive the president and his party, attend to every minute detail for their entertainment and well-being during their stay, and to start them on their re- turn journey in satisfied mood and at least none the worse for their coming, leaving nothing to chance or unprovided for. In the present instance, President and Mrs. Wilson are journeying to Omaha in response to an invitation issued by the committee for the Semi-Centennial Celebration of the Admission of Nebraska into the Union and to participate in the commemorative exercises, This committee was formed more than a year ago ta carry out the suggestion for the proper observance of the semi- centennial emanating from various sources and fathered by the Nebraska State Historical society, and it just happens that I was the one, at the very first assembling of the committee which met at the Fontenelle June 25, 1915, who brought up the possibility of securing the attend- ance_of the president for one of the semi-cen- tennial functions and proposed extending the invitation, | expressed right then and there the opinion that the president could be induced to accept, reminding the committee that he had written a history of the’ United States and as a historian “would be specially at- tracted by such an epoch-making event. And, I recalled further, that when we were preparing for the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the organization of Nebraska as a territory and of the founding of Omaha, 1 had solicited him, being then president of Princeton university, to come out here to deliver the prin- cipal sd(z'ess and that, while he had been unable by reason of other engagements to accede, he had indicated his desire to accept. I am not sure but that I have already referred in this column to this incident and possibly am repeat- ing when I again print the letter which, how- ever, reclaims its interest as a consequence of what it has now led un to. Here it is: Princeton, N. J., March 7, 1904. My Dear Mr. Rosewater: 2 I esteem it a very great compliment that I should be asked to consider an invitation to deliver the oration at the approaching cele- bration of the Semi-Centennial of the Anni- versary of the Territorial Organization of Nebraska ,and can assure you that it would give me the greatest pleasure to accept such an invitation if it were possible for me to do $0; but my englnments are already too many. It would be literally impossible for me to prepare an oration wljthm the time now re- maining, even if I could at the date named conscientiously absent myself from Princeton. It is a date so nearly on the eve of our com- mencement that, I fear, I should in any case be obliged to decline an invitation which would involve my going to a distant place at that time. Pray accept my warmest thanks for your kind letter and convey to the committee in charge of the celebration my heartiest ex- pressions of obligation and regret. Very sin- cerely yours, WOODROW WILSON. It is hard to make folks understand that for a public function in which the president figures, the invitation lists must be made up with refer- ence to official positions and to special classes and in almost complete disregard of personal choice. The semi-centennial celebration was projected by and is being conducted under the auspices of the committee of one hundred, to which T have already alluded, and the Board of Governors of the Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben. This list, whichis representative of the public spir- ited citizenship of the entire state, is the natural starting point to which is added the official roster of elective federal and state officers. The fact that the president is accompanied by Mrs. Wilson calls for the addition of the wives of the invited guests, so far as accommodations permit, and with the limits within which these accommo- dations are confined these invitation lists, assum- ing acceptances from all, leave little room for additions. The grief caused by disappointed applicants for seats nearer the mighty, however, is onc of. the things which cannot be escaped by those who take on the duties and responsibili- ties of such an occasion. Somebody has to do it and whoever were to do the job would have to do it the same way or embrace still worse troubles. That reminds me of something that happened when I rode around the city with President Taft the last time he was here. We had arranged to have him go by a large number of school build- ings before which the school children were to be massed and I had had requests from many of the teachers to guard against a repetition of the dis- appointment caused during his preceding visit b running ‘Jast the schools so rapidly that the presi- dent could not be distinguished. “Mr. President,” I said, as we approached the Central school, wi\ich was the first on the route, “you will do the school children a great favor if you will let the automobile slow down before them.” “Very good,” said he. “That will be perfectly agreeable.” “One thing more, Mr. President,” I persisted. “These children want to be sure that they see the president of the United States. Now to prevent them mistaking me for you won't you please stand up?” 4 As may well be imagined by all who know our relative sizes, that brought a hearty laugh and Mr. Taft stood up in the auto every time we passed a school building. People and Events Before-the war the German emperor possessed over 200 crosses, stars, badges and other insignia of foreign orders, the value of which was esti- mated at $300,000. Acting on the principle that “like cures like,” a doctor and wounded companions in London framed up a shock for an Australian soldier stricken dumb by a shell shock in France; The victim was persuaded to occupy a hammock stretched between two trees on a river bank. As he was dozing off the rope near his head was suddenly cut and he turned a somersault into the water. Clnmhcringrup the bank he shouted, “Who in h— did that?” The man now talks in a hoarse whisper. The heart-wringing lamentations of the an- cient Jeremijah are fairly outclassed by a railroad conductor’s tearful trials in making ends meet on a pay check of $116 a month. The conductor told his troubles to a board of arbitrators sit- ting at Aurora, 111, to hear complaints on a w question. With a family of wife and child the conductor testified his total earnings of $1,400 in 1915 failed to meet his living expenses and un- | less his pay envelope is fattened debts will over- | whelm an otherwise proud spirit. Some men are born with a porterhouse appetite and acquire only { & stew income, OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: OCTOBER 1, 1916. Thought Nugget for the Day. To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.—George Washington. One Year Ago Today in the War. British and French army prepared for a landing in Macedonia. Five hundred thousand Austro-Ger- mans reported to be ready for inva- sion of Serbia. Berlin announced the annihilation of a French brigade between Rheims and the Argonne. A In continuance of offensive in the west, French pierced German second line in Champagne and threatened railroad serving crown prince's army in the Argonne. In Omaha Thirty Years Ago, A. B. Huberman and family have gone to New York, whence they will sall for Germany, intending to be ab- sent about two years. During this time Mr. Huberman's business will be conducted by four young men who have been with him for some time and in whom he has the utmost con- fidence. A8 an extra incentive to faithfulness, the business will be con- ducted on the co-operative plan, each of the young men having an interest in its welfare. The discovery of the presence of natural gas by parties who were sink- ing wells in South Omaha has induced SouTr onm® a number of monied men to join to- gether to make an investigation. Mr. P. BE. Iler has taken the initiative and s circulating a petition for subscrip- tions to be used for sinking a well 3,000 feet. Those who have signed the petition are J. A. Creighton, J. A. McShane, W. A. Paxton, Dewey & Stone, H. T. Clarke, A. L. Strang, Guy C. Barton, Herman Kountze, F. Col- petzer and C, E. Mayne. President Meyers and members Clarke, Iler, Ames, Wakefleld and Evans of the board of directors of the Board of Trade met to consider the |, bids for the heating and plumbing of the new temple of commerce. The committee reported In favor of ac- cepting Mr. Fitzgerald’s bid. The residence of John Stuben, on North Seventeenth, was the scene of a most pleasant gathering, it being the occasion of the marriage of his oldest son, Arthur, to Miss -Lizzie Bushey. Mr, and Mrs. Stuben will take up thelr residence in Gilmore, where the groom has extensive dairy interests. ) . Mr. John N. Kemp, one of the chief telegraph operators of Chlcnso, s on a visit to his old time friend, D. M. Brown, Kemp and Brown worked to- gether over fourteen years ago. This Day in History. 1781 —James Lawrence, famous American naval commander, born at Burl{ngton, N. J.; dled June 5, 1813, of wounds recelved in battle with the British frigate Shannon off Boston 1801—Preliminary articles of peace between IFrance and England. signed in London. 1841—The Chinese igland of Chusan was recaptured by the British forces under 8ir Hugh Gough. 1862—General Bragg united his forces with General Kirby Smith's at Frankfort, Ky. 1866—Miss Maria 8. Cummins, whose first novel, *The Lamplighter,” made her famous, died at Dorchester, Mass.; born at Salem, Mass., in 1828. 1870—Count Bismarck issued a cir- cular disclaiming any intention of re- ducing France to a second-rate power. 1885—The new Parliament build- ings at Quebec were destroyed by dynamite explosions. 1888-—President Cleveland the Chinese exclusion bill. 1891—The Leland Stanford, jr., uni- versity was opened at Palo Alto, Cal. 1892—England ‘celebrated the cen- tenary of the introduction of money orders. 1893—New German army bill came into force, fixing the peace footing at 479,229 men, and substituting two years' service for three. 1896—The queen of Corea was mur- dered in her palace at Seoul. 1900—Lord Roberts was appointed commander-in-chief of the British army. The Day We Celebrate. A. ¥, Stryker waa born October 1, 1868, in Galena, 11l. He was for ten years with the stock yards company and before that five years with the Illinois Central. David Sherman, bookkeeper, is 31 years old today. He was born in Russia and was brought to this coun- try when only a year old. He was educated in the schools of Grand Forks, N. D. Harry A. Wolfe, a well-known, suc- cessful real estate man, is celebrating his thirty-fourth birthday today. He was born in Krone, Russia, coming to this country as a boy. Oscar D. Kiplinger, familiarly called “Kip” for short, was born October 1, 1867. Everyone in Omaha who likes EK good smoke knows Kiplinger's “Kip." Mrs. Annie Besant, president of the Theosophical soclety and one of the leaders In the movement for home rule in India, born sixty-nine years ago today. David R. Francls, ex-governor of Missour], member of Cleveland's cabi- net, and now United States ambassa- dor to Russia, born at Richmond, Ky., sixty-six years ago today. A. J. Drexel Biddle, author, explor- signed er and lecturer, born in Philadelphia forty-two years ago today. Michael Cardinal Logue, Roman Catholic primate of all Ireland, born at Carrigart, Ireland, seventy-six years ago today. Rev. Charles R. Brown, dean of the divinity school of Yale university, born at Bethany, Mo, fifty-four years ago today. William M. R. French, for many vears director of the Art Institute of Chicago, born at Exeter, N. H., sev- enty-three years ago today. Storyette of the Day. Senator Charles A. Culbertson of Texas tells a story of how Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Jones, who were schoolday chums, met again after a lapse of sev- eral years. “1 saw in the papers about your marriage, Mary,” remarked Mrs. Jones. “It was about five years ago, wasn't {t?" “Yes,” Mrs. Smith replied, “it was just five years ago on June 20." “And I have been married six years. I understand your husband is quite a bibliomaniac.” “Oh, no, not any more,” hastily cor- rected Mrs. Smith. “He has been on the water wagon for nearly three years nows'—Houston Post. HERE AND THERE. American pretzel bakeries are to be merged in & $2,250,000 corporstion. Bef the war Germany had eolonies five times as large in area as herself. The five leading tobacco growing states, named in the order of the amounts annually produced, are Kentueky, North Carolina, Vir- 1 ginia, Ohio and Tennessee. ,business of preparedness. AROUND THE CITIES. Detroit’s latest estimate of population is 870,000. Autoists drove in a circle to facili- tate the count. Minneapolis organizations are falking up s | bond proposition of $2,000,000 or $3,000,000 to put the roads of Hennepin county in good shape. The tax rate in Minneapolis for 1917, in- formally agreed upon by the tax levy board, amounts to 87.68 mills on a 40 per cent valuation, Sioux City taxpayers next year will dig up & total of $1,675,000 for state, county, | city and school purposes. The Journal says this sum “breaks all records in the ory of the eity,” and is due to large increases in the taxable value of property. Sioux City coal dealers have organized a | credit association for the purpose of speed- ing up slow pay customers and shutting down on deadhead business. gets on the blacklist must praduce the cash when he or she switches patronage. Unusual vigilance due to the shark scare puts Atlantic City’s beach bathing record on the year's white list. Not a person was drowned there during the season, though the daily bathing crowds numbered 40,000 to 80,000 people. | Salt Lake City bakers have cut the weight of 5-cent loaves to eleven ounces and 10-cent loaves to twenty-four ounces, a reduction of two ounces in each grade. The higher pro- portionate cut in the B-cent loaf is in fur- therance of the nation-wide plan of the bak- ers to put the jitney loaf out of business, Topeka's grip on the state payroll suffered @ hard jolt last week. A ruling has been made denying pay to employes for legal holi- days. “There is no la the payroll czar, “providing that state employes can leave their work on legal holidays and draw pay for loafing.” Kansas is one grand sweet song. St. Paul harbors som ers who do not care how the dollar co: 80 it arrives. A fraternal insurance association is suing for the recovery of $5600 paid out on the reported death of a man who is very much alive and kicking because he was not in on the split. The similarity of the names of two insured | persons and the death of one after the policy lapsed facilitated the game. Chicago derived a revenue of $5,229,669 in 1915 from the use of its streets and alleys. New York collects less than half | that sum. The major part of the revenue | comes from sfreet, elevated and steam roads for the use of the streets in transporting sidewalk space, private wires and for use of part of streets during con. struction of buildings. EDITORIAL SIFTINGS. Indianapolis News: 1If, as Secretary Red- field points out, 700 vessels were added to the merchent marine during the last two years, what can this government shipping sct do that private capital has not | already done? Boston Transeript: with & serlous erisls in the deflciency of the wheat yield in the great northwest, and the consequent heavy emigration to the United States of settlers, very many of them Amer- | icans, who went to Canada on a sort of spec- ulation. A dispatch from Ottawa estimates that the Dominion has already lost one- eighth of {ts productive population through this re.emigration and the drawing off of 850,000 workers by the war in Europe. New York World: The swearing-in of twenty-four leading American scientists who are members of the navy's civilian consult- ing board as officers of the United States government was in no way a spectacular affair, but it marks one of the longest steps forward that have been made in the real By enlisting in the government’s service the best scientific skill and learning the nation is assured a kind of defense that cannot be extemporized in a hurry to meet sudden emergency. A customer who | Still, they say life in Canada 1s confronted | | DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES. ve cured my chauffeur of overspeeding Lo ‘lnd 5 a month t all fines —Boston mple enough. T pay him* with the understanding t! ars fo como out of his wages | Transcript. | “That get-rich-quick man i as busy as |8 bee | * “Yen* replted Cumrox. ‘s ons of | those busy bees who can't mal e to gather | honey without incidentally stinging some- | body."—~Washington Star. oxt | “Here's a millionaire says you soon gst | tired of riding in private yachts and aato- | mobiles.” “Not s tired as you get of two miles to work every day to sav | fure,"—Baltimore American. | Judge—How far was the man from you | when you first saw him? n rods ou couldn’t stop? I had stopped. Ile was ten Boston Globe. | [P meicsine, (1 AYog LAY IM W Ve WITH HAS ASKED ME YO GWVE UP SMOKING — SHOULD T MAKE THIS SACRIFICE: FoR WER SAKET —ROGERY FULLER ) 3 WHERE, DOES YOUR SMRIFICE QOMPARE WITH HERS? — SHES GIVING UP THE COUPONS! “She's a remarkable plano player."” Wi s thera remarkabls about hes playing? “She knows when to quit."—Detroit Fres Press. Tom—So you really think you have some chance with Mies Coldcash, do you? Jack—That's- what. She s beginning te | find fault with my necktie.—Indianapolis Star. “T wish I were an ostrich,” said Hicks | angrily as he tried to eat one of his wite's | biscuits, but couldn’t, T wish you were,” returned Mrs. Hicks. d got a few feathers for my hat.*~New York Times. ON THE BORDER. Ella A. Fanning, in New York Times. Where the khakl city rises, On the dry and dusty plala, As the Flag breaks out at day-dawn Sounds the heartening, glad refrain: “For the Star-Spangled Banner In Triwmph doth wave! Where the cactus and the In the blistering sun-ray To the troopers massed at noontide Echoes tenderly and low: |7 "We will sing one song For the old Kentucky home!™ Where no cooling breeze comes wafting To the wounded their relief, Still there's balm and joy consoling In the snatch of sweetness brief; *“Phy banner makes tyranny, tremble, Three cheers for the Red, White and Blue!' | Where grim death each hour is lurking, | And the dangers none may know, | There's the spur to noble purpose In the strains, majestic, slow: “As Ho died to,make men holy Let us die to make men free; Our God is marching on!" Where the hardships and privations Weigh the soul with dark despair, [ Courage like a sunbeam sudden 1s renewed, as rings the air: “Yankee Doodle, keep it up, | Yankee Doodle Dandy; Mind the music and the step, And with the girls be handy!” | Where the evening shadows gather, And the thoughts are far away Tears will start—but not for danger— At the cadence, lightsome, gay: “Though Spanish eyes are thrilling, still Their charm it fafls to bind me; And my heart goes back to Erin's Isle, And the girl T left behind me!"” 0 G FA G RM MORTGAGES R R A SAFE INVESTMENT The safety of money invested in this form of securities is no doubt well known to everyone. you were considering investments of trust funds, or money belonging to your mother, wife or sister, where absolute security is would naturally buy first eastern Nebraska farms. surance companies invest the first requirement, you mortgage loans on choice Almost all of the large in- in this form of investment for business and professional men. 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