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Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-17
Reed Rockers for You,
Rightly Priced

Fibre Rockers, seat 20 inches wide:
back 81 inches high. at. .$5.75
Cretonne or Tapestry Upholstered
Reed Rockers, with loose cushions
and spring seats; seat FL inches
wide; back, % inches high $19.75
Loose Cushion Spring Seat Reed
Rockers, upholstered in tapestry
and cretonne; seat 81 inches wide;
back 81 inches high, only $4,000
Reed Rockers, large and roomy
for $3.50
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-17

young farmers bride who recently
undertook the management of tho horti-
cultural department Of the farm writes
can ! do to make my potatoes grow?
peeled them ever so carefully before
planting them. but they haven't even come
up yet."-Philadelpha Inquirer.
Now that the nation Is dry, an enter
prising dopeologist has compiled tho fol-
lowing for the benefit Of summer vaca-
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-17

covered that bee stlngs are . sure cure
for rheumatism. Pity the hesitating
rheumatic patient. timorously muttering
ITO bee or not to bee'-that Is the
question"-The Passing Show Gondon).
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-17
SAID TO BE FUNNY.

IT think the minister ought to pray for
rain" said the good deacon.
Don't suggest 1t to him until after
we have had the Sunday school picnic"
cautioned the deacon's good wife,-Judge
Now well play Zoo" said Willie, land
I'll be the elephant"
That will be fine" said Aunt Mabel.
But what shall be?"
"Oh, you can be the nice lady what
feeds the elephant with buns and sugar"
explained Willie.-Blighty (London).
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-17

Toll Of life taken by the gulf hurricane is
mounting high, and is already enough to place
that storm we'll among the great calamities of
history. And it is not like war, which may be
avoided H.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-17

Serbia and Roumania will sign >the treaty
With Austria, but tina. in no way obligates them
70 keep the peace.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-17
GREENLAND
ADVENTURE
THE CHARMING MERMAID"
BY DADDY.

"a mermaid seated on a rocky isle calls
the Prince OF Dollars. He cannot swim.
but plunges into the lake to answer her
Billy. Peggy and Balky Sam save him from
drowning and he rides on Balky Sans
back out to the isle. where the mermaid
vanishes as they draw near.)
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-17

1t is greater offense to fail to show up
for work than it is to kill man, according to
Chief Eberstein's way of administering disci-
pine. F..
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-17
Creditors Suit.

N. WI have been a reader of
your paper for many years and for
many years was friend Of your
father. have never asked a favor
Of you, so will you please answer
this question. I owned small farm
worth about $4,000. l have been in
very poor health, so that I am I'M
able to work. My wife also has
been sick. conveyed my farm
with the understanding that the
grantee would support my wife and
1 by giving us $50 a month as long
as any Of us should live. owe
some debts, amounting to several
hundred dollars, and these parties
threaten to set aside this convey
ance unless I pay them. The pur-
chaser states that If he pays them
1t will reduce my income. Please
tell me what the law is on the sub
Ject.
Answer--The weight of authority
Is to the effect that 1t Is the legal
duty Of debtor to pay his debts
before he can convey property to
provide for his future support and
that existing creditors may avail
themselves of property conveyed for
future support, when the debtor has
no other property out Of which pay
ment can be enforced
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-17
Our Free Legal Aid
State your case clearly but
briefly and a reliable lawyer
will furnish the answer or (,
advise in this column. Your
name will not be printed.
Divorce and Attorneys Fees.
Let The Bee Advise You.

P. r. Why wife secured a d.
vorce from me and the court made
me pay her attorneys fees. I think
was entitled to the divorce. II i
appealed the case to the supreme
court can the supreme court charge
me with additional attorneys fees
for my wife's attorney? Please an
swer Immediately through the col
umns Of your paper.
Answer-The supreme court can
exercise discretion and tax addi-
tional ATTORNEYS fees If 1t sees fit.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-17

Mr.. Taft admits he is built for comfort, not
irplaning. There are others.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-17

"a Fiume is becoming something more than \
f,,me
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-17
You should know that
The daily capacity of Omaha's
Touring mills at present is over
5000 barrels.

Whats the constitution between friends!"
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-17

"Contemptble cutters" show 4 remarkable
capacity for holding on.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-17
CHAPTER Nv.
The Giant Turtle,

D EGGY, Billy and the Prince of
/ Dollars cried out In wonder
when they saw that the mermaid
was gone. She had been there so
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-18
The Industrial Titan of America
Great Story of Pennsylvania Wonderful
ie Special PmssI

verse routes. Behind the traveller
lies branch of the Lehigh Valley,
with its rugged scenery, and in
front of him is the wonderful Wy
oming Valley, with collieries as
thick as hops, and Wilkes Barre a
quarter of a mile beneath him.
And at night, as the summit of
the mountain is passed and myriads
of lights, bright and dim, yellow and
white and blue, flash up from
Wilkes Barre and it's dozens of ad-
jacent towns in the valley below,
the traveller passing that way for the
first time well may wonder whether
the heavens have of a sudden been
inverted, or whether a great silver
lake beneath him is rejecting thou
sands of stars.
How Eric Became a Part of
Pennsylvania
The story of how Erie became a
part of Pennsylvania might have
served as a tip to the Peace Con-
ference on corridors'to the sea. New
York's charter defined its western
boundary as the meridian line ex-
tending southwark to the forty-sec-
ond parallel of latitude from the
western extremity of Lake Ontario.
1t was always assumed that the
Pennsylvania-New York line would
extend directly into Lake Erie, and
that therefore the Erie site and
Presque Isle belonged to New York.
But the actual survey revealed the
fact that there was a small triangle
that did not belong to either State.
Thereupon Massachusetts and
Connecticut both claimed it on the
ground that the charter of the Ply
mouth Company gave them all the
land lying in their latitude as far
west as the Pacific Oceon, not pre-
viously settled by other Christian
powers. After protracted negotia-
tions, New York, Massac achusetts and
Connecticut released their claims in
favor of the Federal Government,
which, in turn. sold the land to the
State of Pennsylvania, giving her a
harbor on the Great Lakes. How
ever, Connecticut. in consideration
Northeastern Ohio, Hence, the
Western Reserve of the Buckeye
State.
Situated between the coal of Penn
sylvania and the ort of Minnesota,
possessed of one of the finest har-
bors on the Great Lakes, Erie is
host to some five hundred manufac-
turing establishments. 1t has the
largest horseshoe factory and the
largest pipeorgan plant in the
world, and makes more baby car
riages, gas mantles, and clothes
wringers than any other city.
1t is one of the few industrial cit
les of America that is resolved not
to neglect the esthetic side of its de-
velopment. In pursuance of that
purpose, it borrowed a chapter from
the history of Chicago and created
city planning comm 'ssion which
has lad out a goal for Erie to grow
up to.
ITO be Continucd.)
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-18
PARKS AND MEMORIALS

n ART commission for Harris
Il burg might relieve the City
- - Council of some perplexing
problems. For several years the
group of statuary presented to the
city by Mr.. Hershey, the head of the
great chocolate industry, has re-
posed in a warehouse waiting the
decision of the city authorities to in
stall this fine work of art in some
proper location.
Now comes another bequest pro-
viding for the creation of personal
memorial and City Council concludes
to give it a place in one of the city
parks. There are fountains and
fountains and memorials and memo
riaIs, but care should be exercised
that in the erection of these things
the city is not exposed to ridicuie.
The parks of Harrisburg are the
property of the people and they must
be preserved from any improper or
doubtful memorials. AS cqstodians
of the municipality the commission
ers have certain obligations which
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-18

spoiled in it's metropolitan district
Mere than half a million people live
within twenty miles of its court
house. Bees in hive in the spring
time were never buster than the
hustling, bustling go-ahead folk of
the Electric City.
Almost at Scranton's very doors
are the famous Pocono Hills, the
Delaware Water Gap, and the lakes
of Southern New York A city of
homes, public health is almost an
obsession with its people, and a
death rate of only thirteen per thou
sand is the result.
Hosiery and Hardware
Next in order of size comes Read
ing, the nations second city in the
production of hosiery and builders
hardware. With the anthracite re-
gion at its back door and the Splen-
did farming communities of South
eastern Pennsylvania to the right
and the left and in front of it, the
city is keeping pace with its larger
neighbors in way out of proportion
to its size. 1t has more than five
hundred manufacturing plants,
which make commodities ranging
from adding machines and railroad
engines to spectacles and art glass.
For the diversity of it's manufac-
lures. the prosperity of it's people.
the advantages of it's location, and
the promise of it's future, Reading
is an urban community that justi-
fies the pride of its citizens.
Wilkes Barre, built upon the beau
tiful banks of the Susquehanna,
calls itself the Diamond City"
More than three hundred thousand
people live within a radius of ten
miles of its central square. The pro-
duction of anthracite coal in Lu-
Zerne county, of which it is the
courthouse town, is worth more than
the gold production of the United
States. Alaska included. In the
beauty of it's buildings, the charac-
ter of its citizenry, the extent of its
civic developm ment, the strength of
its financial resources, and the pro-
gressiveness of its policies, the city
can stand comparison with any ur-
ban community of like size any
where.
Nowhere else in the world can
fuel for power purposes be bought
more cheaply than at Wilkes Barre.
Black diamonds in unbelievable
quantities lie, ready to be mined, di-
rectly beneath the citys factories;
and. hundreds of millions of dollars
are invested in the long list of in
dustries that seek cheap power and
make good profits here.
Who that has Travelled from
Mauch Chunk to Wilkes Barre on
the Black Diamond or the Scranton
Flyer has not admired the day seem
cry on the one or the night scenery
on the other? Two railroads hug
the Lehigh river from Mauch Chunk
to White Haven, through as wild
a mountain region as can be found
east of the Rockies. From there
they reach the top of Nescopeck
Mountains above Penobscot by di-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-18
THAT THIRD TERM

A CONSIDERABLE number of
~ newspaper writers and politi-
cal observers have assumed
from President Wilson's recent ut
terances in France that he has taken
himself out of the race for next
years Democratic nomination. They
should scan his words more closely.
1T is very delightful for one thing,
if 1 may say So" said Mr.. Wilson,
Ito know that my Presidency is not
ahead of me-" But there is nothing
definite about that. He might an
nounce tomorrow his candidacy for
a third term and violate not a
single public utterance that he has
ever made.
President Wilson may or may not
run again. If he attempts it, he
may find opposition in his own party,
although not sufficient to prevent
his nomination. Unquestionably, he
will be governed by circumstances.
Neither precedent, nor tradition,
mean anything to him. He will
do next year what he deems it ex-
pedieHt from a political standpoint
to do. except that he will hardly
chance the risk of anything that
smacks of the possibility of culmin-
ating his public career in personal
defeat.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-18
No Wonder Germany Quit
By BRIGGS
NUMBER EIGHT

/" HERE was an old soldier, a
man with about twenty years
service and a very fine shot, in
one of my companies in France"
said Major Frank c. Mahin, of the
Army Recruiting Office, 325 Mar
ket street, who was my mainstay as
sniper. The old boy was abso-
lutely fearless, but unfortunately was
very deaf. He got to sneaking clear
over into the Boche lines in broad
daylight to snipe, and | got wor-
ried for fear the Boche would come
up behind him some bright day,
without his hearing them, and pro-
ceed to gobble him up, so l detailed
a man to invariably accompany him
to act as his rear guard. Would
you believe it, that old fellow got
to cutting so many notches in his
gun stock that 1 began to doubt his
word, so made him bring in the
dead Boche and let an officer see
the body before L gave him official
credit for another. When we left
the quiet sectors he had official
credit for seven but claimed about
seventy. The bunch finally got so
crazy about sniping Germans that
one day l found-right in the mid
die of the day-that my front line
trenches were almost deserted I;
every one was either out in No
Mans Land or over in the Boche
trenches. Then and there 1 put
sentries on duty not to keep the
Boche out of our trenches, but to
keep all our own men in them eX-
cept those who had passes in writ
ing authorizing them to go out into
No Mans Land. You remember
reading how the Americans owned
No Mans Land. Well, we did We
owned it not only by night, but by
day as well. l remember, though,
one evening when that old sniper
lost his goat l wanted to do some
harassing fire with the Stokes NOR
tars, and in order to get accuracy
we decided to fire four shots into a
certain spot in the German trenches
as test shots, so two mortars were
set up and they fired one shot each:
Pop. Pop Then we waited for the
burst. Fourteen seconds later, right
in the spot we wanted to hit the two
shells burst; in fourteen and one
tenth seconds two wild figures ap-
peared, the old sniper and his rear
guard, not running but flying. A
trench intervened, they took it in a
stride; a thirty-foot belt of barb
wire appeared. they scared over II
like miniature airplanes; tangled
masses of barb wire and chevqua-
de-frise were cleared as though
they didn't exist. Then they hit a
down slope leading to our wire and
trenches and when those two men
hit that slope they opened up the
throttle. cut-out and the suffer and
really Travelled. We were all so fas-
cinated by their unprecedented
burst of speed we forgot entirely to
fire the other two Shells"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-18
BOOKS AND MAGAZINES

Japan and World Peace" by K
K. Kawakami, author of Japan in
World Politics." etc. In this book
Mr.. Kawakami gives what may be
regarded as an inside view of the
present policies of Japan. He dis
cusses the race issue, the Chinese
situation, Japan's position as q
member of the League of Nations
the control of the South Pacific
Islands. Siberian Intervention, and
the effect of German defeat upon
Japanese politics. Mr.. Kawakaml
who will be remem bered as the au-
thor of Japan in World Politics. 81
has established a reputation for con-
scientious, sincere and candid criti
cism. He does not hesitate to point
out errors which Japanese states
man have made, nor does he hesi-
tate to deal, with equal frankness
with China's mistakes. His book is
readable and important contribu-
ton to the literature on interna-
tional relations. (The Macmillan
Company, New. York, publishers.
THE Undying Fire" by H. G.
Wells. Mr.. Wells has taken, great
spiritual conflict as the theme of his
novel. This he has made vivid and
compelling through characters
drawn with his usual penetration
and insight and through incidents ot
a highly dramatic nature.
Job Huss is as commanding a fig
ure as has appeared in any of the
authors books. Unreasoned faith
and agnosticism alike fail to move
him; and in the end, like Job of old
he is rewarded.
Man must fight and move forward
because there Is some God-giveu
thing in his heart that impels him
this is Mr.. Wells message back
of his story. (The Macmillan Com
many. nuhlikherhl
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-18
Washington the Farmer
(From the London Telegraph.)

(ErOm the LONDON IeleBFdpH.J
George Washington's practical in
terest in agricultural affairs is
known to historians, and has often
been illustrated by letters which
have appeared in the auction room.
Last December comment was made
on one such which brought 172
pounds in the Morrison sale. This
letter was addressed to the eminent
Scottish agricultural expert, Sir
John Sinclair, who was nearly in
duced to settle in America after
reading Washington's glowing de-
scr.p .ption of the fertility and prom
Use of the "Potomack lands"
A series of twelve letters sold at
Sothebys recently, written to Ar
thur Young, the writer on agricul-
ture, will be found to confirm the
evidence of Washington's keen in
terest in farming. Like another
Cincinnatus, Washington found
both occupation and leisure ease in
going back to the land again after
his strenuous military activities. His
first letter. August s, 1885, was oc-
casioned by Young having assisted
him to obtain "a bailiff skilled in
English husbandry," and by Young's
gift of four volumes of the An
nails of Agriculture" He thus po-
litely acknowledges this:
II thank you for the favor of
openings a correspondence the adj
vantages of which will be so much
in my favor. Agriculture has ever
been among the most favored of my
amusements, though l never pos
sesed much skill in the art, and nine
years dereliction has added nothing
to a knowledge which is only per-
fected by practice"
Orders for plows. seeds and other
requisites speedily followed. and De-
cember 4. 1888, Washington wrote
on the delights of farming:
The more am acquainted with
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-18
(Continued.C

One of the largest groups of fac
tories in America is that which COM
prises the companies classified under
the general head: Westinghouse In
duStfleS. One of these mammoth
plants fabricates the airbrake. to
which the world owes a great debt.
1t has equipped some three million
cars and perhaps a hundred thou
sand locomotives with this life-pro-
tecting boon. Another of the West
inghouse group makes the switch
and signal equipment now in use on
roadbed mileage sufficient to eStab-
lish a ten-track line entirely around
the earth. Still another is the giant
electric machine company that Gre
ates everything electrical. from a
| sad-iron to a dynamo of ten thou
sand horsepower.
Overlooking With Cities
No State in the American Union
possesses so many thriving urban
communities as Pennsylvania. With
Philadelphia not far removed from
the two million mark in population,
and Pittsburgh driving upward to
the three-quarters of a million, both
the east and west sections of the
Commonwealth are possessors of in
dustrial communities of first rank
in the Western World. But as these
two cities will later be the subjects
of articles to appear in the "Cities
of the Nation" series in The Geo.
graphic (see New York-Metropo-
lis of Mankind" in the July, 1918,
number, and Chicago Today an
Tomorrow" in the January. 1919,
number), further reference will not
be made to them here.
In addition to these the State has
tyxyn nt hnf 40 . he
hundred thousand line, three that
are in the seventy thousand class,
and two in the siXty-thousand class.
1t has three with fifty-odd thousand
people, the same number with
forty-odd thousand, and a like
| number with thirty odd thousand.
Fourteen cities have passed their
teens and have not reached their
thirties, and thirty or more have
! outgrown four figures, but have not
yet passed out of their teens.
Scranton, n Hive of Industry
Starting down the list after the
Quaker City and the Smoky City.
one comes to Scranton. situated in
the heart of the anthracite region,
| in Lackawanna county.
Imagine. buying power on the
| basis of two dollars n ton for buck
wheat anthracite delivered at your
furnace-room door. Fancy twenty
million tons of black diamonds COM
ing up out of the earth in one COM
munity every twelve months. Pic
ture a people so progressive that
they raise community fund of a
million dollars to be used in aiding
responsible industries to expand.
That's Scranton, and why it is grow
| ing at such a rapid rate.
One factory turns out three mil
| lion buttons a day One-third. of the
| nntion's raw silk is carded and
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-18

agricultural affairs the better 1 am
pleased with them. Insomuch that
l can nowhere find so great salts
faction as in those innocent and use
full pursuits. In indulging these
feelings l am led to reflect how much
more delightful to an undebauched
mind is the task of making inn
proVements on the earth than all
the vainglory which can be acquired
from ravaging 1t by the most unin-
terrupted career of conquests. The
design of this observation is only to
show how much as a member of
human society 1 feel myself obliged
by your labors to render respecta-
Bile and advantageous employment
which is more congenial to the nat
ural disposition of mankind than
any other-etc."
Writing on the question of wages,
Washington stated, June IS, 1892:
The labor in this country is
higher than it is in England l can
readily conceive. The east with
which a man can obtain land, in fee,
beyond the mountains-to which
most of that class of people go
may be assigned as the primary
cause of it. But high wages is not
the worst evil attending the hire OF
white men in the country. for being
accustomed to better fare than / be-
lieve the laborers of almost any
other country, adds considerably to
the expense of employing them =
ETC."
Washington's love of his estate at
Mount Vernon finds expression in a
long letter. December IL, 1898:
mo state in United America is
more pleasantly situated than this
1t lies in a high. dry and healthy
country. three hundred miles by wa
ter from the sea-and on
one of the finest rivers in the world.
Its margin is washed by more than
ten miles of tide water It
is situated in q latitude between the
extremes Of heat and colda and is
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-18
Ercuse Lacks Common Sense
[From the New York TribuneJ

tFrom the New York TribuneJ
The War Department has arrang-
ed to sell 100000 yards of denim
at prices ranging from 20 to 2sh
cents a yard, whereas it paid from
20 to 34h cents. The governments
loss is thus about rs per cent. But
the political influence of the farm
is large, and the farmer and the hir-
ed hand insisted on their customary
habilim ents.
But meat products, of which there
are 142,000,000 pounds in govern
ment warehouses-here is another
matter. If this great supply were
sold break in the market might
occur, of which consumers would
get the benefit. The farmers do not
want prices to come down.
Secretary Baker gives various ex-
cuses for the meat impoundment
The latest is that the packages are
unusual and the people would not
purchase.
Try them. mr.. Secretary.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-18
Ito be Continucd.)

the same distance by land and wa
ter with good roads and the best
Alexandria and Georgetown
The Federal city in the year 1900
will become the seat of the general
government of the United States. 1t
is increasing fast in buildings and
rising into consequence; and will.
have no doubt, from the ADVANTAGES
given to it by Nature end its prox-
unity to a rich interior country and
the western territory. become the
emporium of the United States"