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Evening star., 1919-02-28
China Tea Cups and Saucers
Sets Of White Baking Dishes
Anniversary Sale Price, 81 Sci

ENGRAVED .PYREx, CASSEROLES, bowl por-
ton of the special "Pyrex" glassware which
has been treated to Withstand heat, and the
frame silver plated and engraved in attractive
designs Small size. Anniversary Price, Csc.
chiBs Department. Fifth heor.
Evening star., 1919-02-28
Boys Clothing and Furnishings

SPRING REEFERS AND TOPCOATS-double
single breasted, or belted; self velvet coll
lars: blue serge, jersey cloth, shepherd checks
and mixtures; sizes to IL years Excep
tionaliy well tailored, 1886.
PAU. JONES MIDDY SE1TS-White salatea,
with Palmer linen collars and cuffs; braid
trimmed and emblem sleeve: sailor tie;
sizes to 10 years $2.9s.
KHAKI HOMPERS-serviceable material: well
made; sizes to years; s5c.
GENUINE EECUADoRIAN PANAMA HATs-smart
styles for boys to 10 years; also few
suitable for girls; 1895.
Boys Department, Fourth floor.
Evening star., 1919-02-28
Set of Wizard Helps

Set of Wizard Helps
indispensable in cleaning and dusGHg; in
Guiding $50 Wizard Polish Mop, 81 Wizard
Polish, 75c Duster and Soc Carton of Carpet
Clean-total value, S3.55.
Anniversary Price, $2.68 Set
Housefurnishngs Department. Fifth floor. T.
Also the following:
WOODEN KITCHEN SETS. handiest. kitchen set.
consisting of ham board potato masher. roll
ing pin, pair butter paddles and wooden spoon.
Anniversary Sale Price, CSC Set
BAMBOO-HANDLED BR o Is, four-string
brooms of good quality straw, with bamboo
handles. Anniversary Price, S5c.
oBLoNG WHITE ENAMELED TRAYS size
12@x1S inches, appropriate for butchers
hospitals, or the household; rounded-cornef
style. Anniversary Price. 95c. y
ALUMINUM COVERED SAUCEPANS, one of the
best manufactured durable. heavy aluminium,
from we'll known maker; hve-pint size,
with Anniversary Price, 9Sc.
ALUMINIUM DOUBLE BOILERS. Exceptional
values in a wanted size aluminium double
boiler, tyyo-quart top and three-quart bottom.
Anniversary Price, &1.3S.
Housefurnishinss Department. Fifth foor. 4
Evening star., 1919-02-28
More Misses Silk Dresses

Becoming models of afea in unie effects
embroidered panel white
co collars; others of chine of combna
taeta Navy rookie
black included Sizes H. 10 and Is Anniversary Prices
S2z5 and $14zS.
MiesDc Fouth1s
Evening star., 1919-02-28

Many items included in the sale
are not detailed here, but they af.
ford worthwhile price savings equal
Iy important.
Evening star., 1919-02-28
Mems Clothing and Furnishings

Mems Spring quality gray
chestersed models yoke lined Anniversary Price SIS
Mems Young Mems Atwood light. medium dark
sizes S. assorted lengths anniversary Price $3.50
M Has GsG s mss With
regular straps
IS sss
Men Frrt
@ often s and & high
o T % s sn sss Waist & fast
tam ana Bath s 1 ssa s s @ ss
silk
nsh % nnes F s9 M A' s. evenly woven
Furnishing Department Frsta
To sEsn @ lines # sR 5s s @ s End as cut tan ns sTss
Department soer
Sheffield Reproductions In Fine Silver
ssisss . sds i
esoa ees pe a1a Sale ~ " "
p.rtnent
FEATHER FANS Ms, F.hGnsb big fluffy efh h sin
and darkg gowns; mounted amber sticks. ss75
Fan
ornaments including neck combs French
harpins attractive shapes amber
richly with rhnestones apph
amethysts emeralds. CSC and 95c
ARTIFICIAL ROSES AND BUDS, large ublovn silk
cds ss % & s p light ssd s
Section. First nsr.
STRAP BACK POcKETBOOKS- neat and
styles Of ribbed patent leather the back double
sps ps moPe nisg SIS
ALSO SILK HANDBAGS moi,e striped and silks mounted
med with heavy silk tac fitted with small and mirror;
black, Anniversary Prices
Leather osAsD ar+neuerh 4osr
Evening star., 1919-02-28
Girls Regulation Dresses

Cadet blue Hague cloth; box-pleated front and
back: also front-yoke style with sIashed pocket.
collar white braid trimmed, with embroidered
stars; sleeve ernblems and service bars: red tie,
two large pockets skirt; sizes s. 8, 10, - and
"A; 441S.
Girls Department. Tearth nosr.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-05
Carnegie Rlval of Franklin

Andrew Carnegie, like Benjamin Franklin,
could turn an eplgram neatly. Some of the more
famous of them follow:
Wealth lessons rather than increases human
happiness
Mlonares who laugh are rare
Dealing with petty affairs tends to make
small men; dealing with larger affairs broadens
and strengthens character.
A chaperon's duties are often most success
fully performed by wise and Statutory neglect
A great man settles things; a small one
nibbles away at petty reforms.
Two women, my mother and my wife, made
me all that | am.
Put all your eggs in one basket and then
watch that basket.
Jewels are to woman what wine is to man
not recommended till after 90, and poor
help at any age.
You cannot push any one up ladder unless
he is willing to climb little himself
1t seems to me it is not God but men who
are disposed to make the path so very thorny
| always pity the sons and daughters of rich
men, who are attended by servants and have
governesses at later age. but am glad to re-
member that they do not know what they have
missed.
1t is the stagnant pool of contentment, not
the running streams of ambition, that breeds
disease in the body social and POLITICAL
No man is true gentleman who does not
inspire the affection and devotion of his
servants.
If man would eat, he must work life of
elegant leisure is the life of an unworthy cit-
zen. The republic does not owe him living;
it is he who owes the republic life of use
fulness. Such is the republican idea.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-05
Settl1nQ It--Just Like That

Off-hand, deity, no-trouble-to- show-goods,
William Jennings Bryan says the president
should have granted the railway shopmen's de-
mands for increased wages to meet the higher
cost of living and that if, or when, the cost of
living is reduced the scale of wages could be
reduced accordingly.
For ree-hand-and-fancy settler of things
the Nebraskan is as adept as ever-on paper.
Great problems solved while you wait is one Of
his specialtes. There's nothing much that isn't
tackled light-heartedly in the Bryan tinker shop
The philosophy of the place seems to be that
two plus two is five if you only think it so, but
you have to think quick and keep your mind
off everything else that might butt in and spoil
the lingering"
So far as we know, Mr. Bryan is the one
living human being on the soil of the free and
in the home of the brave who seems to think
that wages can be reduced-just like that
everybody willing, everybody happy, no fingers
crossed, easiest thing in the world, watch the
professor, the hand deceves the noodle, bring
on the next little old puzzle
We don't remember a word from the
brotherhood chiefs, or the railway shipments
spokesman, or from any other source-save the
lips of the handy runner-up for the presidency
Suggesting that wages can be reduced under
any given circumstances and that everybody
concerned would feel that lovely time had
been had.
Has the ken of all the wise men of the land
been overlooking bet? Can this strange
thing, forsooth, be wrought in the tinker shop?
Well we have the forsoothsayer fol t.-Mirne-
apolis Tribune
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-05
MEXICO Not Our. Belgium

One can easily see the cunning slant of the
Latin mind involved in the suggestion from
Mexico City that the United States can hardly
hope to reassure public opinion anywhere if it
proceeds to treat Mexico as Germany treated
Belgium by right of its military superiority and
the helplessness of Belgium before its great
and autocratic neighbor. OF course, there is
not the slightest analogy between the hideous
and unprovoked dragonnade of hapless Belgium
by Germany and the necessity that has forced
the United States from time to time to exer-
else its police power south of the Rio Grande
IN order to protect its own citizens and to Sc
cure some semblance of civilization in a coun-
try otherwise given over to factional anarchy
under rival bandtti, with the central govern
ment tarred with the same stick However.
the ingenious but not ingenious person who
has invented the phrase that Mexico is the Bel
GUM of America in the presence OF the colos-
sus of the north does not care for facts or for
the exactness or justice of the analogy. He
simply wants slogan to stir the pacihsts and
the anti-Amercan heart to bleed for Mexico
at time that the senate is about to reveal the
humbug that has stood for government down
there all too long. That any considerable num-
Der of people here. or in Europe, or in South
America, who endowed with horse sense
will accept the pathetic picture of shrinking
Mexico posing the innocent Belgium of the
western world is hardly thinkable Philadel-
phia Public Ledger.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-05
SOME UNFINISHED BUSINESS.

The inquest over the body of Eugene Scott.
murdered Sunday night as the result of the
activities of the morals" squad Of the Omaha
police force, did not end with the verdict hold
ing the Union Pacific Waterman as the man
who fired the fatal shot. Several questions re-
main to be answered
Chief among these is, What was Paul Suit
ton and his crew doing proving around the
hotel at that hour of the night without war
rant or any other shadow of law?
The law of Nebraska dealing with disor
derby houses, whether they be hotels or other
wise, is ample and prescribes plain course of
procedure. This was not observed nor was the
further provision of the law that premises can
not be invaded for purposes of search and seiz-
ure without warrant authorizing such action.
his is not the first instance OF this willful
violation OF law by the terror gang that mas
querades as morals" squad and perhaps will
not be the last one, although it easily might be
made such if the city commissioners would Sc
riously act to give peaceful citizens proper
protection.
One of the absurdities of the inquest is fur
nlshed by the reported testimony of Policeman
Crandall detective" Paul Sutton, who first
accosted the murdered boy, says he saw no
sign OF his having whisky, nor was any bottle
found with or near the body Yet Policeman
Crandall solemnly testifes: Il seen the bottle
| seen the neck of it as he run by me; that was
after he started to run away from Sutton"
Curiously enough, this observant policeman
seen nothing else He might have added ma
terial evidence if he had noted what became of
the bottle he Seen" and which no one else
saw.
The county attorney has plain duty to go
a little deeper into this deplorable affair, while
the city commissioners would not be wasting
time if they also delved into some of its ad-
nitted we'll as its undisclosed details
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-05
Mr.. Wilson's KEYNOTE

The presidents first speech on his tour. &C
cepted as the Keynote of his campaign, con-
tains nothing new. His appeal is for the &C
ceptance of the Versailles treaty in its entirety,
League of Nations and all Generalities and
specious promises are substituted for argu-
ments broad assertions taking place of the par
tlcular explanations the people had hoped to
hear. The league, and only the league, will end
war, he says, and not to adopt it will be "un-
faithful to those who died" Very able and
sincerely patriotic men do not agree with Mr.
Wilson in this conclusion. These "astonish"
but do not dsmay him, for they are mainly
those who have not read or do not compre-
bend the document
There is the real source of trouble. Most
of us do not comprehend the document and the
president has never set himself about to ex-
plain 1t in such way that we can grasp its
meaning. He and his supporters have busted
themselves with making extravagant claims for
it as panacea for all the political and social,
and most of the economic ills of humanity, but
they never get close enough to the ground to
give an ordinary mortal real chance to find
out what they are driving at. As matter of
fact, whenever the treaty has been subjected
to careful inspection, some and serious
flaw has been found.
1t has been to correct these that the effort
has been made, which so exasperates the pres
ident, and has driven him from home again,
that he may carry his case to the people. He
is stalking his success on the present venture,
hoping to arouse public sentiment to such
pitch that the senate will be overawed and
forced to give in to the executive will. His
political craft is obvious. He will assume that
whatever of regard exists for the president of
the United States in his proper person is ex-
tended to everything the president does or
proposes to do. In this he may be disappointed,
for Americans not deceived by the surface
aspects of the treaty. They have gone deeper,
have found Shantung, Article X and several
other things that are not to be disposed of by
pleasant words or pretty phrases. The people
want to know
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-05
Japan's "Overtures" to China.

81 do not say that these will be our exact
terms" says Yosuke Matsuoka, "but 1 am pre-
pared to declare that our overtures to China
will be along these lines" Mr.. Matsuoka is
a member of the Japanese foreign department.
and was one of that country's peace delegates
to the Paris conference
He is presumably familiar with the history
of the dealings between Japan and China, and
therefore may readily recall the last Overture"
of his government to the Chinese on the point
1t was that if China did not return within TWEEN
ty-four hours satisfactory answer to the TWEEN
ty-one demands, the imperial governmentwou1d
take such steps as it deemed advisable One of
these demands was that Japan be permitted to
succeed to the territory grabbed by Germany.
What dependence can be put on the word
of the government that has so deliberately set
about to rob another? And if Japan intends to
restore Kiaochow and Shantung to China
within year, why seize the territory at all?
The assurances of Yosuke Matsuoka ring as
false as any of the other evasive and noncom-
initial uterances heard on behalf of Toxic.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-05
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Real Estate Dissertations

Omaha, Sept. 3.-To the Editor
OF The Bee: / cannot understand
why the old custom of reporting the
transfers of title to real estate in
this city has been changed.
There are more than 1000 addi-
tions in this city, divided into lots
and blocks, and the old custom Of
reporting the transfer of certain
lot in a certain block in some ad-
dition or subdivision was very SIM
pie and easily understood.
The method now and for some
little time past describes the trans
fer of a piece of land a certain num-
Der of feet north, south, east or west
OF certain street, and on the north
south, east or west side Of a street,
and a man trying to locate one of
these transfers has to use a map Of
the city to determine where It is.
Such descriptions cannot be
found on the tax lists, on the BOOKS
in the county clerks or county as
SCISSORS offices, nor on the numeri-
cal index in the office of the regis
ter CT deeds and they are not ac-
curate in all cases, for l happened
to discover in the list in last Sun
days Bee a reported sale of a lot
which l own and which / certainly
have not sold.
The reporter who gets this in
formation must be working by the
hour, for it would take him a long
time to change the lots, blocks and
additions mentioned in the deeds, to
such ridiculous descriptions as he
furnishes to the papers.
JONATHAN EDWARDS.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-05
Mr.. BrYQn's Latest Panacea
From the Brooklyn Eagle.

II we are to have centralized control of the
carriers, Mr.. Bryan would remove it from Wal
Street to Washington. But he would seek tc
diminish the dangers of public ownership by
| OF the trunk lines and by having the states
own and operate the branches He has, he
says, devoted his attention to the railroad prob
lem for IS years and he is convinced that the
question for the future to determine is whether
the public shall own the railroads or the rail-
roads own the public. What he believes to be
beyond the peradventure of doubt is that
some time" public ownership will come.
To, the extent that nobody else has pre-
scribed such a remedy" the plan has the
would there be any danger of infringement
1t will not address an appeal even to Postmas-
ter General Burleson, who, though he be an
exponent of state rights, is in favor of federal
government ownership subject to no qualfca-
ton whatever. 1t will not commend itself to
the problem and the disposition to dismiss it as
Organism" will be general.
his would be sufficient to say of the
"panacea,' but for the fact that the witness
went into other matters. One of his question
ers became personal asking him whether he in
dental nomination.; also, whether he regarded
it as possible or likely that in the next plat
form OF his party plank would be devoted
to government ownership. His answer to the
inquiry as 10 another nomination was that he
had heard nothing of this" His reply re-
g:arding the plank was that it "is ripe for con-
sideration."
1t is, therefore, obvious that the witness has
concluded to reserve his rights and to provide
himself with an issue-government and state
ownership. He also rendered it obvious that
he did not propose to ALLEVIATE any of the
votes the four brotherhoods and all who af-
hiliate with them may be supposed to influence
or to control. He not only protested that none
should be alarmed by the proposition to con-
cede to them five out of Is controllers, but
saw no reason why the railroads themselves,
through their officials, should have an equal
representation, or, for that matter, any at all
What he refraned from suggesting was that
the five he would like to see taken from them
should be added to the proposed representa-
ton of the brotherhoods, making two-thirds
in all.
The customary alternative to public owner
ship was paraded by the witness. Amplifying
his statement that the question is whether the
railroads shall own the public or the public own
the railroads, he wanted to know whether the
predatory interests" were to be permitted to
weld the carriers into one vast system, with
all the banking power behind them and all the
big newspapers controlled by them But he
did not want to know what would happen
should the vast system be run wholly and
solely in the interest of the employees Posi- !
Bile candidates must be circumspect
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-05
THE WORLD OF SHIPS.

want to go back to the world of ships.
10 the kicking seas where the salt sleet
whips;
Where the flying spray will cling and
And ten-inch stick will snap in the
breeze;
Where dogs dog and a mans Jack.
or a mans a cur IL his deeds are black
Just send me back to the world of ships,
Where a skipper knows his men.
shipped for cabin boy at ten,
MY lot was cast with hairy men;
Grlzzled and rough, but true as steel
wicked as sin, but they were real,
The God they knew was the God of the
sea,
And a creed like theirs will do for me.
so send me back to the world OF ships,
For I'll know my billet then.
Send me aloft at brazil and clew,
Lash me there tween blue and blue;
Send me below where the black gang
heaves,
Where the pistons spit, and the crank
shaft grieves
Send mo on deck with bucket and swab,
Name the packet, and pick my job,
But send me back to the world Of ships
And I'll be happy again.
FRANKLIN JENNESS, In the New York
Times.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-05
f. title Folks Corner 3

and soaked it In the rain barrel.
When it was wet she beat the fire
with it. Billy poured more water
on the fire, and In quick time the
blaze was out. Just as the last en-
Der gave dying sizzle two boys
dashed up on bicycles. What's the
matter?" they shouted. Billy told
them. 1t seemed that the boys had
left fire in the stove when they
went to pick berries. In some way
the stove door had come open and
falling brands had set fire to the
floor.
III you hadn't come along Just
then we wouldn't have had any
cottage left" said the boys CRATE
fully.
We'll. 1 guess we have lost the
race, but it was worth it," said Bill
ly. He and Peggy ran to the door,
only to see the other racers far. far
ahead of them. Balky Sam, with
the birds still on his back, was Just
from the beach to the old mill
where the race was to end.
I'VE can't catch them now" cried
Peggy; and then she and Billy told
the boys about the race for the
throne of Birdland.
The birds We're still on Balky
Sans back, because, after he had
ferried them across the lake. they
wouldn't let go. They knew he could
run over land faster than thew
could, and so they stuck right to
him. Balky Sam fused and fun
ed. but Judge Owl just hooted at
him: Hoo. Hoo! That's our little
trick on you!"
To get rid of them Balky Sam
plunged through the bushes, brush
ing off lot that way. But Judge
owl, Mr.. Robin. Reddy Woodpeck-
er and Blue Jay chung tightly to his
back, and Reddy Woodpecker kept
squirting him along by digging his
bill into Balky Sans tough hide.
Balky Sam easily passed General
Swallow. General Croaker and Wild
Duck, and there was the old mill
and victory only short distance
ahead.
Now Balky Sam was shrewd and
he didn't intend to be tricked out
of the race by any of the birds So
he stopped short, and over he rolled. |
OF course the birds got off In a hur-
ry. but when Balky Sam jumped up
and dashed away, there were the |
birds again on his back. Judge Owl
was even on his head, leaning far
forward. so he could jump off, and
be the first when the mill was
reached.
Seeing that he couldn't get rid
Of the birds that way, Balky Sam
tried another plan. On the path to
the mill was the mill dam, over
which stream was flowing in a
pretty waterfall. Quick as scat
Balky Sam jumped under the water
fall, and in flash the birds were
washed off his back. Then Balky
Sam raced up the bank and dashed
toward the mill.
Il win! l win" he brayed. I'm
president Of Birdland"
But Balky Sam was mistaken, and
as he rushed forward to the front
Of the mill, he got the surprise of
his life, for there. sitting on the
mill platform as though they had
been waiting all day, were Peggy
and Billy
"Ah. at last you're here"
ehuckled Billy. Peggy and l have
won in tie, so we will both be Bird
and's president. l will rule one
lay and she will rule the next"
'Hurrah. Hurrah for President
Billy, Hurrah for President Peg
~. Hurrah for the Republic Of
screeched all the birds,
locking up by the air route.
How had Billy and Peggy man.
'ged to get there ahead of Balky
sam? Why, it really was very sim
lie. The boys at the cottage had
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-05
WROTE BURROUGHS THEME.
Jay Gould Collected 20 Cents From
Boy Naturalist

More than 70 years ago two boys
attehded the village school of Rox-
, Dury' among the Catskills, together
Ihey sat in adjoining seats one
wrote a composition for the other,
and charged him 70 cents for the
performance. The man who COL
lected the cash for his writing was
Jay Gould, who died at Sc and left
an estate valued at $70,OOO,0OO. The
man who paid cash for the compo-
sltion was John Burroughs the ia
nous naturalist and writer, who re-
Gently celebrated his SD anniver-
sary at his beautiful vine-clad cot
tage on the Hudson
Burroughs hasn't been bending
al his efforts to getting money. al
though he has acquired a compe-
tence of this worlds goods. He saws
ne has taken real joy out of life.
Nature appeals to him in a marvel
Gus way, and he has passed his feel
lngs on to the world in his MANY
books.-Detroit News.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-05
And Stopped Talking?

Well said the Far West mayor
to the English tourist, Il dunno
how you manage these affairs in
your country, but over here, when
some of our boys got tied up in
that thar bankrupt telephone COM
pany l was tellin' yuh about, they
became mighty crusty"
"Oh!"
Yes, they didn't like the way
the receiver was handin' the bust
ness nOhow"
Indeed" commented the earnes1
listener Then may | ask what
they did,"
"Sartinly. They just hung up the
receiver Dallas News.