Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 15, 1916, Page 16

THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE FOUNDED, BY, EDWARD ROSEWATER. VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. THE BEE PUBLISRING COMPANY, PROPRIETOR. Fntered at. Omehs postoffice as secondrclass matter. \ TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. By Carri By Mail Evmln: ;.h. B DR nd Sundsy Bes, thres yeara in adva Send notice of change of address or irreru! 'arity in de- livery to-Om:ha Bee, Circulation Department. REMITTANCE. Remit by draft, express or postal order. Only 2-cent stamps taken in payment of small accounts. Personal ks, except on Omuha and eastern exchange, mot accepted. OFFICES. Omsha—The Bee Building. South Om-ha—2318 N jreet. Council Bluffs—14 Nor h Main street. Lincoln—b626 Little Bullding. 0518 People'ss Gas Build'ng,. New York-——Room 802, 286 F f*h avenue. St. Louis—503 New Bank of Commerce. Washington—1726 Fourteenth street, N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Address communications relating to news and editorial matter to Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. SEPTEMBER CIRCULATION . 54,507 Daily—Sunday 50,539 Dwight Williams, circulation manager of The Bee PublisMng ecompany, being duly sworn, aays that the average cireulstion for the m nth of September, 1916, wab 64,507 dl"fi. 50,689 Bunday. . DWIGHT. WILLIAMS, Circulation Manarer, '!nh‘ulba'l (l)l;' vg' bll'-.'ln:uo and sworn to before me this 3d day of 0l . |97 "ROBERT HUNTER, Notary Puble. Subscribers leaving the ecity lonwuri? should have The Bee mailed to them. Ad- dress will be changed as often as required. The ‘simdovh. on Shadow Lawn steadily lengthen; ‘Em\gre- eyents, etc. The voice of Wall street is still for war—war far epough’ away to. stimulate the shell game at home., . - f mpartidl reader of Mr, Hughes' speeches gfiagrbfiv ta ‘comprehend his clear-cut “;t Af‘qi'a_yial.uou'z l;ipl fiow patrol the New England coast, insuring Boston peaceful en- loii‘i!ngx of ity horors. 9y 434 [ .1\Q‘wi§:‘l’o a total Tack of hospitality beyond the borders, Roumanians aré forced to the con- ‘clusion that home Jooks mighty good. k10 . Sommmes—— “Théte are good grounds:for confidence that el Roosevelt will feel thoroughly at home at + N. M. Gallup is the colonel's normal - ball magnates retire from the autumn eerily as the ice man, carrying a 'tonic ‘to ‘greet a winter's fuel bill i & Ambassador. Gerard -speaks . seven langiages fluently, but.you. could not find in New York or abliing porter to vouch for his fluency of T3¢ most instructive feature of British . press t on the operation of U-53 is the cheefful ity of opinion that,the time has come for ted $tates tg butt'jhy, Have Beitishers for- that we are “too proud to fight?” i ‘Célebration wof: fire -proveiition ‘ddys here and &&51;!!‘&;})“#0 lasting inipressions where' im- ‘pragsions are needed. * Fire losses for nine months ‘of Hiis year total $171,779,000, surpassing the same ‘months"of 1915 by $46,000,000, and coming within 000 of the top record of the same period in 914+ Education anll agitation are wasted where %Ifizfil abounds e Cop the is the quickest and surest cure for | the wandérliist: which grips the average oy ere ~ the beard comes, The case of the Texas youngster ’mp}iqngl. ‘in that his parents encouraged the atment .as a Tast resort. The result jistified their | nocking about the world drives the fever out of th gdfim ‘and makes home look The politicalgame as it is now played imposes mighty strain on the physical and mental pow- ers"of Kandidates” A continious found of meets ings for months, hurried - jumps from place to lace, handshakes and short talks at ‘train stops, withthe usual late-hour conferences, test to the “flkfl){ endyrance of the strongest. Some day n umane system may be evolved, and then n age of politi- .. Boom in Automobiles, - TPhé wayliter afoot on traffic streets or hiking along; rurlifiighways héreabouts suspects from Joltg or, dust'that the automobile business is on the boom. Thousands of gars flanking the stteets of Ontidha through which "King ‘Ak-Sar-Ben's electri- cal pageant passed strengthened the suspicion, and 4he tens of thonsands. which rolled finto the city on i turned suspicion into reality, o ‘parked ‘ot those . occasions t ‘the country at large af the automobile industry, 2 bureau ‘comes within two years of ; set by the industry, and frames in figures’ a notable ;picture of development, During. the fivesyear peridd, 1909-1914, the number of estab- lishments making awtomobiles increased 71.1 per cent and 'ghe capital itivested 1345 per cent, Higher percentages of increase are noted in_ the valulf pf ‘output and the value of materials enter- ing' into the construction, the former showing an ¢ increase of 1539 per.cent and: the latter 174.6 per _cent, .In spite of the enhanced cost of materials ' the selling price of cars in general demand h: ibeen reduced year after year. This is a fact of ‘great Significance in an ‘era of price boosting. In with' the buyers'the economies of improve- ments, standardization of parts and simplified con- struction the mantfacturers made today a hostage - for tomorrowls success. & : elliredults justificd' their foresight .is st increase in output and sales within in-the first-six mouths n “in_trade papers, amounted: to cars, ‘almost equal to the total increase in raising the number in use in. the United - A hint'of the vast sums involved in the use of: - 3,0000 o’fl:&r all kinds may bg had from the y ic fees: - During the first half 112 were paid in registration treasuries of thirty states ! Columbia: No doubt the ' ~push the revenue total 0 pwkhntefle to the ag- of operation:and maintenance. * ‘meagure‘uriderstood by a reference to history. THE OMAHA SUNDAY_BEE: OCTOBER_15, 1916. Gloomy View of Future Unwarranted. The gloomy view of the future evidently cn-< tertained by some of the evangelical churches is not wafranted by anything ndw to be noted in the political or economical situation of the world. That a great war is being waged in Europe for the determination of certain political questions, racial ambitions, and such economic factors as may be involved in commercial supremacy, should not operate to support the suggestion that mis- sionaries must be sent to Europe later to restore Christianity. - The war, in its most terrible aspect, is not blotting out civilization, nor even shaking its foundations. Human destiny is being tried in the fire of conflict, just as it has been in'the days of the world from its beginning. Man has not yet come to a stature of mental or moral growth when he may be ruled by pure reason and with no show of force to support authority. But this does not mean that his religious nature loses in proportion as he turns to violence. Paradoxical as it may scem, the intensity of his faith in the future is increased as daily facing death brings him closer and closer to the solution of life’s sec- ond great mystery, and even the most abhorrent tasks of war are undertaken as a duty springing from a devotion to principle and a patriotic im- pulse that is the stronger because of the deep- seated helief in the fundamentals of reéligion on which patriotism finally rests. Creeds may suffer, and ‘sects may disappear under the wave of war, but ‘religion will not vanish, and Christianity, While I have not yet seen the moving pictures of our Nebraska semi-centennial history pageant, I am told that they are very fine, and that the best pictures show the parade passing the presi- dential party in the reviewing stand, with the Bee building and the city hall on the other side. Here was Nebraska history in the background as well as in the foreground, and it was noted by others, as well, as may be attested by the following let- ter T have received from Frank J. Sadilek of Wil- ber, one of Nebraska’s most prominent Bohemian citizens, which I cannot refrain from reproducing: While watching the parade in Omaha, and when that part representing the first settlers coming to this state in prairie schooners came around, it reminded me of your father, Edward Rosewater, to whom a great deal of credit is due for large settlement of agricultural people in Nebraska, % When he first began to publish a Bohemian paper in Omaha, there was just such a picture on the front page. A covered wagon on the prairie, husband and wife standing by the fire and a group of small children playing around, while the oxen were grazing near by, Many of my Bohemian countrymen were induced, on ac- count of his writings of the richness of the soil of Nebraska, to come from Iowa, Wisconsin and other states to locate here, and through them many of their friends from the old coun- which has survived greater shocks, will outlast the -presént. f . France and Its Future Population. France is already discussing the' question of repopulation as a serious phase of the general problem of reconstruction after peace comes again. The battle of Charleroi jostled the:French people into a realization of .a truth savants had vainly tried to make them realize that they were falling behind in the primary matter of population, Secorid to Austria-in 1814 and in 1880 in namber of people, France in 1913 had been out- stripped by both Germany and England, and was being closely pressed by Italy. In 1911 deaths in France outnumbered births by 34,000. The full significance of these figures in their bearing on national life is now understood by the French. It is not merely a question of providing “can- non fodder.” ‘If it should be brought about that France will never again sec a war, the greatness of the country cannot be maintained by a dwind- ling population. France is important to Edrope, and to the world, because of its arts, its manufac- tures, and its many other indispensiblé contribu- tions to the service of mankind, No one realizes this more keenly than do the French, and it is interesting that plans for the encouragement of families are now being formulated. Advantages of education and in other ways are to be provided at public expense, and it is even suggested that premiums be paid for children, at an increasing ratig, to give an incentive to larger families. Whatever; action is taken by the French in meeting the.shortage of population, which has been so ruthlessly forced upon their attention by, ! the war, it will receive ‘much consideration from eugenists generally. With the outcry “against raising boys to be soldiers, faddists contending for birth control,’and some other factors that col- laterally affect the problem, given, due. weight, try. Now all are prosperous beyond their ex- pectations, What a consolation it would have been to his heart could he have seen that great proces- sion, with the president of the United States viewing it right across the street, where once upon a time stood on a high hill his little home, now surrbunded by skyscrapers. Allusion might also ‘z made to the fact that the city hall stands on the site of the residence of Governor Alvin Saunders, who held his guberna- torial commission fram Abraham Lincoln. I have a-faint recollection of the serenade that was given him there on his return home when he was later elected United States senator. Strange, is it not, that my attention was at- tracted almost simultaneously by the demolition of the old Germania hall building over on Harney stréet east of Nineteenth, which directly adjoined the spot to which “the little home on the high hill" referred to was moved and remodeled for our occupancy to clear the location for the pres- ent Bee guilding. We lived over there for about five' years while the neighboring Germania hall was the center of the social activities of the Ger- mans of Omaha, who then as now constituted one of the substantial elements in the city's popula- tion. Here were held the turnfests and saenger- fests, the dances, masquerades, anniversary feiers and, oecasionally, the presentation of German drama. For a time the building served as a ¢lub house, though its main use was for a German- American school maintained there to teach pu- ils facility with both the German and English anguages. The old-time Germans must be sorry to see the building go, although it has long since outlived its usefulness. In this column recently I related an anecdote, in connection with the visit of the federal land bank board to Omaha, repeating a remark I had made to Herhert Quick when he suggested that the place that gets the bank must be tornado- proos, and | responded: ' Then Omaha's one of thes few places that can qualify, for it has been scientifically established that tornadoes never it twice in the same spot, and we've had owrs.” A little insurance paper publihed .in Indian- apolis takes me up on this and insists that.l over- stepped the limit when I said this fact was “scien- French éffdrts t6 réagh alsolution of the sitwation will be worth watchingi % @ ¢t v e Gollege: Students-for the New Army.. .. .. . Heads_of nineteen "colleges -and - universities: have been asked: to assemble at the War college in"Washington this weék to confer as to plans for putting into operation the provisions of the army réorganization, law, which offers some in- ducements to great ‘schbols to include military training along with coursés usually given. Pri- marily, it is intended to' thus; establish a source from “which ; a spitable namber of properly equipped young mep'inay be drawn to officer the volunteer army of the United States. Since the Spanish;American war it has been the practice to select a few graduates.from schools where mili- tary training is given to supplement the classes from West Polnt, and thus provide for the vacan- cies in the Yoster of commissioned officers. But this means. will not provide enough properly trained men to furnish the new regiments with of- fieers, and if the army should be expanded to war strength, it would be chiefly officered by men taken from civil life, with little more of military training’ than the boys under them. To include the lr.\qnce of arms with the other sciences now | required for graduation from the great schools of the country will be a long step in the direction of correcting a scrious mistake, and will do much to sccure for this country gteater ability for self- defense. Mobilizing “Man-Power.” Great Britain is moving more than ever sys- tematically to classify and co-ordinate its “man power.” Every able-bodied male, citizen. of the United Kingdom is to be requisitioned for service, in the treiches or in the factories, and a carefut count to this end is wow, under way,. It is deter- mined that each En;lllhmtn. regardless of station, whois fit, must “do his b Canada’ has'joined in'the movement, the Dominion authorities hav- ing been reported to have agked the women to | prepare themselves:tp take places of men in.in- | dustrial operations in order that theif brothers | may be released: for field service. Canada has fur- nished 400,000 of 500,000 men promised,,and is eager ‘to complete the qiota. The earnestness of | the English people in the war is'no longer to be questioned:’ Political questions are still agitated, and differences of -opinion on lesser matters exist, but all thought .seems to converge on a single center, that of continuing the war. Tor the crit< ical obsérver 'the situation presents one. interest- ing phase, -Peace will find the British better than €ver. prepared. because of their having been so thoroughly’shaked from their sloth. 'Not in a'cen- tury has, the national spirit been so' completely ronsed ‘amohg the English as at present. What this may mean for;the future may be in some Social economists have not yet determiried at what point in the fatnessiof a pay eivelope a wage becomes nllu(. ‘A suggestion of the dividing ling is seen in a Baltimore dispatch repérting a munition factory strike for “15 per'cent increase in salaries.” The princely stipends received by machinists ;in. munition shops o _doubt justifics the pulsing dignity a salary conveys. Senator Hitchcock is not ‘Boasting to the farmers or the -working men about the valiant fight ‘he ‘Made for the expréss monopolies against | parcel post. The melon-cutting express compa- | nies, however, ought to be duly grateful and chip [ . |.wise,” that any, given locality may not be visited tifically: established,” and it tells me that it has never been established, “scientifically or others by & tornado more than once. To make my dis- comfiture all the more complete, this interesting statement is added: As a matter of fact, the collection of accurate tornado data goes back but a few decades, Lieutenant Finley's work, the first serious at- tempt, we believe, that was made to classify tornadoes, being published in ‘the early '80s. Inasmuch. as the area covered by a tornado rarely exceeds twenty-five square miles. and the average number that visits Nebraska being less than three per year, the probability that any particular area in the state's 76,000 square miles will be hit more than once is remote. Yet, Finley says, “That certain topographical fea- tures in our western states are extrmely fa- vorable to the development and the consequent occurrence of tornadoes in the same locality.” This, however, is questioned by later investi- gators. We received wfore than 1000 replies from policyholtlers scattered over fifteen or twenty states in the tornado investigation which we made early this year, Many advised us that tornadoes in their localities in¥ariably followed water courses, This is said by meteorologists to be nothing more than a coincidence; yet the observation has been made by men in widely separated sections of -the country. Prof. Henry has figured it out that in states where tornadoes occur most frequently that “for any specific area or farm ‘of one square mile, the probability of being visited by a tor- nado is less then one-sixteenth of 1 per cent per century;” yet Mt. Carmel, I11,, was hit twice in 1887; Stillwater, Minn., was hit on July 14, 1893, and again on May 9, 1894; Kansas City, Mo, in July, 1880; May, 1883, and May, 1886; I ouisville, Ky., in 1860, 1890 and 1892; St. Louis, Mo, in 1872, 1890, 1893 and 1896. It would ap- pear from this record that Lieutenant Finley's observations are correct, That being the case the. government should take at least one of the federal reserve banks out of Missouri. In the face of that exhibit it is doubtless time /for-me to back-track a ‘trifle, but I still ‘insist that Oniaha meets all the requisite qualifications for ‘the land bank location. A People and Ivents “Live outdoors if you want to live long,” says Grandpa Heiserman of Alliance, O,, who is 95. Besides that attractive reward living outdqors banishes the worry of paying rent. “Oh, well, what's the use of kicking. We can get this back on the next government job,” ex- claimed a plumber in Salt Lake City after hand- ing up the fine imposed by the federal court on members of the craft convicted of trade conspi- racy. Fines ranged from $250 to $1,500, and eleven members of the combine were pinched. Voters of the Empire State are urged to ap- prove a bond proposition for $10 00000%e the pro- ceeds to be used in completing the purchase of the famous Palisades and contiguous land for an interstate park. New York and New Jersey pro- vide 45 per cent of the total cost. the remaining §5 per cent consisting of private gifts. A widow of means arid a big heart living at -Pierson, Ta., took pity on denizens of the neigh- boring.dry belt an(? proposed to rear on her farm a “Blarney castle” where the thirsty of all ages might. sojourn and wet their whistles with light wines and beer, But ‘her guardian and other driends failed to see the practical charity of her plan, haled her into court and a jury decided her upper story was off color. Thus are good inten- tions rudely mocked. ‘When bakers disagree on operating costs, who shall decide? A local baker makes affidavit to the' district attorney of New York setting forth the cost of turning a barrel of flour into 377 twelve- oince loaves of bread. The flour; ingredients and fabor are figured at $10, and the bread, retailed at 6 cents a loaf, nets $22.62. - Qut of this the baker gets 474 cents a loaf. Moreaver, the baker charges some of the brethren with. making bread from sinto the “barrel." adulterated flour, oils and chernicals. Thought Nugget for tlic Day. That a lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies; That a lie which all a lie may be met and fought with outright; But a lie which is part a truth Is a harder matter to f.ght. —Tennyson. One Year Ago Today in the War. Serblan capital removed to Met- rovitza. Y Russians drove Germans out of for- tified line before Dvinsk. French gained possession of the summit of Hartmanns-Wellerkopf. Serbs took the offensive against the Bulgars, carry.ng the. fighting into Bulgarian territory. Britlsh took important position southwest of Hulluch by assault, “under cover of smoke and gas.” In Omaha Thirty Years Ago. Edward Meadimber, proprietor of the Noveity Carriage works, has do- nated a handsome two-wheeled boy's phaeton to the 8t. Philomenu's association, to be contested for tollowing boys: Wier Coffman, ( ence Gallagher, Alfie McCafirey, Fred Nash, Baby Carey, Willie Coad, Harry Cushing, Cre.ghton Sheiby, Tommie Riley, Will Coryell and Frank Maginn. A Mikauo tea party was given by the ladies cf the chcir of St. Philo- mena g cathedral and several beauti- ful numbers were sung, . under the leadership of Miss Fannie Arnold. A contract has been made for the bullding of a storehouse on Jones in the rear of Paxton & Gallagher's store by Thomas Lipton, the new packer. Ed Mathis, formerly one of the en- gineers of the Union Pacific, has ex- changed places with Daniel Hynes and taken charge of the locomotive round- house while Hynes rides in the cab. August Bohn, saddle and harness maker, intends to remove from his present position to his new brick store, 620 South Thirteenth. Judge Stenberg married Arthur Pulaskl and Miss Elvina Kienke, the ceremony taking place at the resis dence of the former on Sixteenth and Mascn. Mr. Pulaskl is one of the po- licemen recently appointed and is a popular and energétic member of the force. This Day in History. 1795—Frederick Willlam IV, king of Prussia during the revolution of 1848, ‘l‘norn‘ Died at PRotsdam, January 2, 861. . 1812—The legions of Napoleon be- gan their historic retreat from Mos- cow. 1818—General Invin McDowell, cel- ebrated union commander in the civil war, born near Columbus, O. Died in San Francisco, May 5, 1885, 1874—Monument to Abraham Lin- coln dedicated in Oak Ridge cemetery, Springfield, IIL 1880—The completed cathedral at Cologne, founded in 1248, formally opened by the emperor and other German sovereigns, 1884—Statue of John Harvard un- veiled at Cambridge, Mass, ol 1894-—Chinese government issued an imperial edigt for the proteotion of foreigners. 1906—Japanese were éxcluded from the regular public schools of 8an Francisco. 1909—The Greek Parliament abol- ished the right of the royal princes to hold military command. The Day We Celebrate. John O. Yeiser was born O-tober 15, 1866, in Danvllle, Ky. He was raised and educated out in Red Cioud, Neb., going into law first at Rivérton. He/served one term in the legislature, Victor D. Reynolds, sales manager for’ the Dalton Adding Machine com- pany, is just 61. He was born in Wellshoro, Pa., and was for many years with Wells, Fargo & Co., as chief clerk and purchasing agent. Byron J. Reed of Reed Bros., gro,- cers, is celebrating his thirty-seventh birthday. He was born in Omaha and educated at Creighton university. He has been in his present business for the last ten years. Peter J. Selzle, superintendent of the Festner Printing company, was born October 15, 1874, in Omaha. He is a printer by trade, has been with his present employers in various ca- pacities almost all the -time simce 1890. \ Clarence F. Lambert is just 42 years old today., He Is, district man- ager of the Nebraska Telephone com- pany, Morris Levy, retired merchant and capitalist, today celebrates his seven- ty-third birthday, He was for many years prominent in 'Omaha business circles and served on the school board. He came here from New York state. Thomas J. Foley, Omaha agent for the Blatz brewery, is just 66 years old teday. He was born in Belleville, Can- ada, but is one of the old-timers here. Crown Prince Carol of Roumania, now fighting at the front, born at the royal chateau of Sinaia, twenty-three years ago today. Helen Waré, popular actress and moticn picture. star, born in 8an Francisco, thirty-nine years ago to- day. g Dr. Arthur J. Roberts, president of Colby college, born at Waterboro, Me., forty-nine years ago today. Dr. Willlam W. Guth, president of Goucher coliege, burn at Nashwille, Tenn., forty-five years ago today. John L. Sullivan, former champion pugilist of the world, born in Boston ully-eight years ago today HERE AND THERE. Charles E. Hughes when governor of New York established a veto record by killing 248 bills out of 448 left in his hands at one session of the legislature. ‘A 72.year-old man of North Bend, 0., is building & sixty-four-foot eailboat, in which he intends to embark soon on a voyage around the world, starting by way of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to the Gulf of Mexico, and thence through the Panama canal to' the -Pacific. A color varies according to the illumina- tion upon it. A green hue will tend toward blue as the light is lowerel. Red garments appear red in the sunlight and black when seen under a blue of a green illum.nation. Very few blue fabrics appear blue under electric or gas lights because there are no blue rays from such illumination centers. The following verse from the Bible con- tains every leiter of the alphabet: “And I, even 1, Artaxerxes the king, do make a de- cree to all the treasurers which are beyond the river, that whatsoever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, shall require of you, it be done speed.ly."— Ezra vil, 21. Probably the longest game of chess ever Kknown was that payed be ween & man resid- ing in Australia and a friend living in New- ark, N. J. Fach move was made by letter, one player making use of the Suer canal route and the other writing by way of San Francisco and the Pacific. More than five years elapsed before the game came to a close. | | SECULAR SHOTS AT PULPITS.E Philadelphie Ledger: Aceording to the Rev. Dr. Singmaster, the village black imith Jis betfer paid than the village pastor. And | yet the latter is probably more familiar with the anvill Houston Post: The Methodist banquest will come off tonight, and it ls no harm fop those who serve it to kmow that our'favor-{ ite parts of the chicken are the breast, backbone, second joint, wing, drumstick and liver. 'The other parts, so far as we are con- cerned, cun be served to the Baptist vis- blic: During the dark days ! war a deputation of clergymen, | & great historle Ameriean com- visited Abraham Lincoln, “It gives me peculiar pleasure to welcome you,” said | Mr. Lincoln, in response to their leader's | greeting, “for the reason that you repreent the only church that always, at every one of its services, offers publie prayer for divine guidance and support of the president of the United States." The church was the Protestant Episcopal church, whose forty-fourth trien- nial eonvention opened in St. Louis Tu . Springfield Republican: A true missionary was Rev. Charles W. Kilbon, who died last week, but because of his quiet and unassum- ing manner he was not as well known as he deserved to be. During the many years that he labored in Natal he came to be regarded with love, and his advice was sought nnt along by the Zulus, but by his fellow mis« sionaries as well. When he was forced to give up active work on account of failing health be never lost his interest in missions, and he recently rendered valuable service in the work of revising the hymn book used in the Natal mission. | AROUND THE CITIES. For the first time in its school histary | every pupil in St. Paul has had s physieal examination, St. Louisans have started a campaign for a city auditorium to occupy the site of the old city hall at Twelfth and Market streets. Kansas City barbers lifted the price of haircuts from 25 to 85 cents, but the crop of wool fell away so rapidly that the bosses saw the h'wh lLights of economy and bacsed up to two-bits, A triumphal arch in Salt Lake City, first viewed as a thinw of bea'ty, now excites in- dignation and demands for removal. Down- fall in public esteem quickly followed its use as a political signboard. | Sloux City's tax rate next year amounts t0g 105 mills, an increase of § mills over ti§s year. The total ineludes state, county, city and school levies. The ecity as: books schedule city property at $57, Philadelphia is booked for a 25 per cent increase in municipal taxes. That is the minimum boost. It may go higher,* The old rate was $1 per §100 of valuation. The new rate will be somewhere between $1.25 and $1.85. Sixty-nine persons were killed on the streets of New York City by vehicle traffic during September—fifty-three by automo- biles, eleven by wagons and five by trolleys. Thirty-six 6f the total were children under 16 years. San Francisco’s Board of Education has requested the mayor and supervisors to sub- mit to the voters a proposition to issue $6,000,000 in bonds, the proceeds to be used for new school buildings. There, as else- where, the demand for education outruns the facilities. Chicago’s gas company proposes in_settle- ment of pending litigationi a profit-sharing plan between company and consumer. A sliding scale of prices is offered, ranging from 75 cents to 35 cents per 1,000 cubic feet and a rebate of excess profits propor- tionately to users. The Herald figures the average ra‘e under the plan at 683 cents per 1,000. A lively ruction is on amone §t. Joseph taxpayers. The orders of the Board of Health requiring property owners tu con- nect with public sewers provoked organized opposition because of the expense involved. In anticipation of a harvest plumbers boosted prices, An area of high pressure pervades the sewer belt, and the health board and plumb-: ers are shrinking in public esteem. DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES. *“What kind of a letter did your husbané wrie wu ¢ wis awny ?"’ “He sta ‘My Preclous Treasure,' and ended by s ing ‘love." " “How d!d you answer>" “] started wyth ‘My Precious Treasur and ended with 'Send me ten dollars. PRilsdsiphiy Lidger, “Life* rémidrited ‘the bachelor, “ls like a game of cards.” “It's more like a game of chess from my point of view,” rejoined the married man. “I Invariably move twice a year.''— Indianapolis Star. Heck—A doctor says It helps digestlon to lavgh at your meals. 3 Peck—If I weie to laugh at the meals my wife preparcs, I'd_prabably get a plate thrown at my head —Doston Transcript. He—Your son did graduate, after an? She—No, Charlle has so much college spirit! You know there are so many grad- uating every year that it cripples college athletics.—Judge. DEAR MR, KAGIGULE, A WAITER HAS PROPCSED TO ME - SHOULD X MARRY HIM ? —AUTA CHIPPLECHASHE. TR \ES, BUY HELL WEAR OU FOUR OVERCOATS A YEAR BRINGING HOME DIFFERENT VIANDS ! not “Found an honest man yet?" we asked Diogenes. “Ran across a phenomenon today that In- terested me aimost as much. A lady giving up housekeeping was running around trying | (0 find a situation for & good coqk."—Louis- ville Courler-Journal. Tom—I| wonder why Harry broke his en- gagement with Miss Peckem? Jack—According to my Information, her father offered to lend him enough money to get married on.—Indianapolls Star. lDl,lhoh—}luw did you enjoy your vaca- | tion Jerome—F'ine; the hotel where I put up didn’t seem like a strange place at all. It had all the discomforts of home.—Life. THE TORN HAT. Rathaniel P. Willts. His dread of books and love of funm .| And In his clear and' ready smile, Unshaded by a tHought of guile, And unrepressed by sadness— Which brings me to my childhood baek, As If I'trod In its very track, And £ilt its very gladness, And yet not in his play, When y trace of thought is l6at, And not when you would call him' gay, “That his presence thrills me most, His shout may ring upon the hill, be echoed In the hall, rry laugh 'like ‘music thrill, And 1, unheeding, hear it all; For, like the wrinkles on my brow, I scarecly notice such things now. But when amid the earnest game He stope as if he musio-heard, And, heedless of his shouted name As of the cargl of a bird, Stands gazing on the empty alr As If some person were passing therews "I'ls then that on his face I look, His beautiful, but thoughtful face, And, Iifke a forgotien book, Its sweet, famlilar meaning trace. Remembering a thousand. things Which passed men on those golden wings, Which time has fottered now— ‘Things that came o'er me with a thrill, And left mo silent, sad and still, And threw upon my b.ow A holier and gentler cast, That was (0o Innocent to last. ‘Tis strange how thought upon a child llke a presence, sometimes press; And when his pulse is beating wid, And life itself 1s - in - excess— When foo{ and hand and ear and eye, Are all with ardor straining highw How In his heart ‘will spring A feeling, ‘whose mysterious thrall Is stronger, ter far than alfj And, on .ita silent wing, How with the clouds he'll float away, As wandering and as lost as. they! Financial WOODMEN / Assets Gov'nm’t, municipal and other securi- tes . Cash in banks.. Real estate....... Mortgage loans... Interest accrued.. Otaer assets 26,142,055.48 933,258.05 1,354,302.24 135,6u0.00 336,600.00 1,425,000.00 Total .........$30,326,615.77 W. A. FRASER, Sovereign Ccmmander. DIAMONDS - Statement OF THE WORLD October 1, 1916 Liabilities. Death claims (be- ] ing adjusted) ..$ 941,5683.75 Monument claims: A (being adjusted) 375,600.00 Expenses, salaries and commissions due and accrued 80,5646.25 Other liabilities. ,, 6,629,10. Total liabilities. $ 1,404,859.10 Surplus .......$28,922,256.67 Total .. .. .$30,326,616.77 JOHN T. YATES, Scvereign Clerk. WATCHES | ON CREDIT If you wish a beautiful genuine diamond without paying 1 big price, and on very nd good The cond't'ons on which we nd Jewe'ry T credit terms, you'll find it at LOFTIS BROS. & CO. Our Confiden s a very :"l’:fi‘ one and may be explained in two words—conf'dence ~ith, not burdenseme. Our prices are low. xpe; mo publicity. 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