Omaha daily bee., 1920-11-28

The motor fire wagon worked like It, al
though dumb and without brains, yet ap-
preciated the situation and was bound to do
its part as it should. Chief Abbott SAYS that
| there was all the time all the water that
could be used, that the full quantity of water
that could be used, was and that there was
| no lack OF pressure at any time during the
| fire.
| Boiled. Fried and Scrambled.
Well we haven't seen any segars named fo
| the new president.
Mr.. Harding is visiting the Panama Canal
Life for the senator is just one landslide aftel
| another.
The Trib owes Northwestern a school O
Journalism. What would you print if the co
| eds behaved for while?
There is nothing so artificial as the amateur
theatricals Of domestic folk. unless it's the do
mestic life of theatrical folk
=, The BARRIERS do nothing by halves nowadays
they want dollar for every little thing
The prohibition agents don't object to our
having a hot time--but it's the humidity
Q. A. r.
1T is the view of Rep Frear that "the excess
Prohts tax IS eyled against those best able to
bear the burden AS, for example, the salaried
class whose income has not increased but whose
expenses have doubled.
WE'LL LOOK INTO IT.
Birmingham. England, Nov. 11.-Story cur
rent here is that voters in the States are anti
Cox Can you verify, Don't hurry, rumour is
circulated only privately, yet and we prefer
searching survey to ascertain facts F. D.
TREES down STATE are growing thick
bark. This is good Joke on the fur-bearing
ANIMALS who are growing thin pelt.
Prophets Of Weather.
Sir: hospitable scraping of chair legs
widening the circle around the sheet-iron stove
invited the BOSNIAN to share in the local
gossip. l. perforce. must stand at the grocery
counter with other mere females The store dog,
who was purchased in puppyhood for Boston
terrier, but who looks Nike a cross between
pickerel and bullhead gave me sedate well
come while l listened to the conversation re-
garding the approaching winter "My son sez
as how he were corn-huskin last week and the
husks were that thin he knows we'll hev mild
weather. Yes, an the last rain, the angle
worms wuz crawln' on the walks, an if we
wuz in for bitter cold, they'd be buried deep by
now yep. and the frogs amt dug in they're
woodlot. | unkivers a squirre-cache, an there
were so few nuts, tits sure the winter will be
short" THE muskrats Is loafin'. Amt airy
one buildin' yet" "All them signs don't count
But kin tell by the spots on the caterpillars
that We'll hev an open winter"
u. D." said I to the genial proprietor OF the
forum, who was weighing out my bacon, what
do you think of all these signs? Do they mean
"but got my heavies laid out handy" Flattered
by my appreciative chuckle he continued "Say,
We know Spot LeBoutillier? Well, he's the all
fredest, cock -surest weather.prophet round
these parts. One day last summer 1 sez to him,
Spot, think We'll have rain? He shuts his
gray eye an cocks his blue one at the sky. /!
he like to drowned afore he got home to st. =
Anne" IRIS |
"LOVE is quite different thing from mar
rage,' said Mr. George, who is man of medium |
News
There is more or less truth in that" COM
mehted Laura Blackburn, who is short and
THE COSMOPOLITAN TOUCH.
(From the Frankfort, Ind, Times.)
To give cosmopolitan flavor to the func-
a
the entire evening after which the joyous
participants departed for their domiciles with
the happy reninscence of having spent
wondrous evening.
A CHICAGO citizen may adventure forth
after nightfall in comparative safety if he cain
afford an armed escort and torch bearers.
THANKSGIVING.
For the summer, for the spring,
For autumn leaf and winter rime.
For these, and many another thing,
We make each day Thanksgiving time.
BERTHA TEN EYCK JAMES.
Asides.
4 B.: There's letter for you in our care.
Q. W.. Success. Big gathering. Encores.
NJ e.: Yes, yes-go on!
INTER-WORLD Church Society Can't Fay
Debts"
Why not cut down the appropriations for the
OF Mars and Venus?
INELUCTABLE.
Whether you want to,
Or whether you don't,
You read the Line,
Though you say you won't. B.
- A LIBRARY table, regular SIS value" is
offered at $2987, and the advertiser calls it IAN
astounding bargain" And perhaps, as prices
rave been going, Il is.
STILL GOING UP.
(From the Atchison Globe.)
We sell the Ideal airplane that is guaran-
teed to fly from so cents up to $3.50. Klos-
termeer Bros
"'MY mind is open on the question of gar
'age disposal Alderman Link declared"
You know what he means. -
THE issue of the League of Nations, Gov
coolidge said, had not been decided by the peo-
e" That comedies with our incqnse;quesntal