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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (March 28, 1923)
ONE OF OURS By WILU ( ATHER. Famous Nebraska Author. (Continued from Yeotenkj'.) SYNOPSIS. Maude Wheeler, living on a Nebraska vgnch with his lar^nh and a jniingrr brother. Halph. ha* to quit Temple college, n small denominational school at l.ineoln. »t the end of hi* third >eor to take rmre •( the home place, while hi* father. N»t Wheeler, ami Ralph spend most of their time on their Cnhnrndo ranch. C’laude’* older brother. Hay lis*. mn* an implement store at Frankfort. While in l.ineoln Maude tin* heroine a dose friend of the F/rlieh family, Mr*, lirlleh. a moth erly widow with five son*, having made the shy hoy feel at home on hi* numerous 'Ulli. Twefv rhngt on the Wheeler ranch are killed In a snow storm. Claude call* ta take F.nhl Roy re. daughter of damn Roy re, a grain merchant, for a sleigh ride. Enid herself rame to the door. “Why, It’s Claude;" she exclaimed. "Won't you come in?” "No, I want you to go riding. I've go' t ie ' 'leigh out. Come on. it's a tine night!’’ “I thought T heard hells. Won' you come in and see mother while I get my things on?" Claude said he must stay with his horses, and run back to the hitch liar. Knid r'irin't 1: > " t! long: she wasn’t that kind. She came swlfily down the path and through the front gate in the Maine seal motor coat she wore when - electric coupe in cold weather. "Now wh ch way?" ci nuked as the horses sprang forward and the bells began to jingle. “Almost any way. What a beauti ful night! And I love your bells. Claude. I haven't heard sbighhells since you used to bring me and Gladys home from school In stormy weather. Wltj don't we stop for her tonight.' .She has furs now. you know," Here Enid laughed. “All the old ladles are •o terribly puzzled about them- they can't find out whether your brother realty gave them to her for Christmas ■ r not. If they were sure site bought them for herself, 1 believe they'd hold <• public meeting.” Claude cracked his whip over his eager Utile blacks. “Doesn’t It make you tired, the way they are always nagging at Gladys?" “It would, if she minded. But she's just as serene! They must have tornt thing to fuss about, and. of course, poor Mrs. Fanner's back taxes are piling up. 1 certainly suspect .Eayliss of the furs." Claude did not feel ns eager to stop for Gladys as be had been a few mo ments before. The'’ were approach ing thy to" P now . . >-.t le-ht,.,; W "d v s shorn softly across the blue whiteness of the snow. Kv n in i Frankfort, the street lights were turned off on a night so glorious as this. Mrs. Farmer and her daughter hart a little white cottage down in I he south part of the town, where r nly people of modest means lived. “We must atop to see Gladys' mother, if only for a minute,*' Enid said, ns 'hev drew up before the fence. ' Site is so fond of company." He tied his team to a tree, and thev went un to the narrow, sloping poroh. hung with vines that were full of frozen snow. Mrs. Farmer met them: a large, rosy woman of SO. with a pleasant Ken tiio'-" vo'pa. pp t ' 1 affectionately, and Claude followed them Into the tow Bitting room, which had an uneven floor and a lamp at cither end. and was acantily furnished in rickety mahogany. There, close be side the hard coal burner, sat Bat lias Wheeler. He did not rise when they entered, but said. "Hello, folks." iti a rather sheepish voice. On a lit tle table, beside Mra. Farmer's work basket, was the box of candy he had lately taken out of his overcoat pock et. still tied up with Its gold cord. A tall lamp stood beside the piano, where Gladys had evidently been prac ticing. Claude wondered whether Bay lisa actually pretended to an Inter est in music! At this moment Gladys was in the kitchen. Mrs. Farmer ex plained, looking for her mothers glasses—mislaid when she was copy ing A recipe for a cheese souffle. "Are you still getting new recipes Mra. Farmer." Bold asked her "I 1 thought you could make every dish in the world nlrsadv.” "Oh not quite!" Mrs. Farmer laughed modestly and showed that she liked compliments. "Do sit down. Claude." she besought of the stiff mage, by the door. "Daughter will be here directly." At that moment Gladys Farmer ap peared. "Why. T didn't know you had com oany. mother." she said, coming In to greet them. This meant. Claude supposed, that Bayliss was not company. He scarce ly glanced at G'-d’ s as He took it. hand she held out to him. One of Gladys’ grandfathers had | ome from Antwerp, and she had the settled composure, the full re,d lips, j brown eyes, and dimpled white hands which occur so often In Flemish nor , traits of young women. Some people 'bought Tier a trifle heavy, too mature tnd iiosltive to he called pretty, even 'hough they admired her rich, tulip like complexion. Gladys never seemed ; aware that her looks and her poverty i and her extravagance were the sub act of perpetual argument, but went o and from school every day with | the air of one whose position Is as j mired. Her musicianship gave her a 1 :ind of authority in Frankfort. Kni'd explained the purpose of their • all. "Claude has got out his old xlelgh. and we've come to take you for a ride. Perhaps Bayliss will go, | too?" Baylls* said he guessed he would, though Claude knew there was noth ing he hated ho much as being out In the cold. Gladys ten upstairs to put I on a warm dress, and Knld accom panied her. leaving Mrs. Farmer to ' make agreeable conversation between her two incompatible guests "BavPss wss tnet » lb- ” uh t■ i‘vv , you lost your hogs in tlie storm. ! ':latide What a pity!” she sabl sym pathetically. yes. Claud© thought, Bayltss wouldn't be at all reticent about that incident! "I suppose there was really no way to save th©m ” Mrs. Farmer svent on in her polite way: her voire was low and round, like her daughter s, differ ont from the high. tight western voice. "So I hope you don't lot your self worry about it.” "No, I don't worry about anything as dead as those hogs were What's the use?" Claude asked boldly. “That's light," murmured Mm. Farmer, rooking a little In her chair. ‘Much things will happen sometimes, and we ought not to take them too hard. It Isn't as If a person had been hurt. Is It?" Claude shook himself and tried to respond to her cordiality, and to th* shabby comfort of her Ion* parlor. »o evidently doing Its best to be attrac tive to her friends. There weren't four steady legs on any of the el tiffed chairs or little folding tallies she had ; brought up from the south, and the heavy gold molding was half broken away from the oil portrait of her father, the judge. But she carried her jmverty lightly, as southern peo pie did after the civil war. and she didn't fret half so much about her hack taxes as her neighbors did. Claude tried to talk agreeably to her. but he was distracted by the sound of stifled laughter upstairs. Prob ably Gladys and Enid were joking about Bnyliss' being (here. How shameless girls were, anyhow! People came to their front win | dows to look out as the sleigh dashed | jingling up and down the village streets. When they left town. Bayliss I suggested that they drive out past the Trevor place. The girls began j *'• talk about the two young New | Englanders, Trevor and Brewster, who had lived there when Frankfort was still a tough little frontier set 1 tlement. Every one was talking about them now, for a few days ago word had come that one of the partners. Vinos Brewster, had dropped dead in his law office in Hartford. It was 30 years since he and his friend, Bruce Trevor, had tried to be threat cattle men in Frankfort county, and had built the house on the round hill east j of the town, where they wasted a great deal of money very joyously. | Claude's father always declared that i the amount they squandered in ca rousing was negligible compared to their losses in commendable industrial endeavor. The country, Mr. Wheeler said, had never been the same since i ihn.se hoys left it. He delighted to j ie!! about the time when Trevor and Brewster went into sheep. They im j ported a breeding ram from Scotland at a great expense, and when he ar | rived were so impatient to get the j good of him that they turned him in with i he ewes as soon as he was out I | of his crale. Consequently all the \ iambs were born at the wrong season: came at the beginning of March, in a ' blinding blizzard, and the mothers died from exposure. The gallant Tre- ' vor took horse and spurred all over j , the county, from one little settlement , to another, buying up nursing bottles , and nipples to feed the orphan lambs. (('ontf-u 1 to ' lice., heat in Gage Looks Good. Beatrice, NVb., March 27.—Farm ers report that wheat in most of the fields is looking good. A few farmers have finished planting their oats. More than 3,300 airplanes were built in France last year. ADVKKT1IKMF NT. BEAUTIFUL HAIR IN A MOMENT —-— Try This ! Hair Appears Soft, Colorful and Abundant —A Gleamy Mass — 35 Cent Bottle of "Danderine" Also j Ends Dandruff; Falling Hair I Immediately!—your hair becomes beautiful. Just moisten a cloth with Danderlne arid draw it carefully through your lailr, taking one small strand at a time; this will cleanse the hair of duet, dirt or nny excessive oil —in a few minutes you will be amazed. 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Present or mail to this paper three Coupons with ninsty-eight cents cents to cover cost of handling, packing, clerk hire, ate. 22 DICTIONARIES IN ONE All Dictionaries Published Previous to This One Are Out of Date MAIL OHDUI8 WILL BE PILLED—Add f« pastas*! Up t. iso mils.. 7si up t» MO miles, 10c. Par greater distances, ask Paeiaiatier rale ter 3 pound* Lawyer’s Fee Held to Be Excessive Supreme Court Orders Omaha Attorney to Return (ercharge. >|M*cial h to Th* Omaha Her, Lincoln, March 27.—The supremo court ordered J. O. Yeiser, sr., Omaha 1 attorney, to return ?620 i|i fees collet t j mi from Anna Burkman. Omaha wid ow. within 20 days. The court held that *020 ot the total fee collected by Yeiser was excessive I The case originally was brought in \ Dougins county district court, which appointed a committee of attorneys to make investigation. This committee! found.the fee collectsd to be excessive ! and stipulated that Yeiser should re turn the excess fee within *0 dsys or stand suspended. Yeiser had appealed against the rul ing. Cooley Found Guilty of Mrs. Mudloff’s Murder _ i Tyndall, 8. T).. March 27. — A ver dict of guilty of murder was returned | by the Jury In the case of George Cooley, charged with the murder of Mrs. John Mudloff at Tabor, 8. D., Januarj' 26, during a robbery. After j 15 hours in deliberation, the Jury came in at 8:10 this morning. It is believed that Cooley's attor neys will appeal the case. State's attorney will. It Is believed, Immediately prepare to prosecute J. j \V. Jarman, Sioux City youth, charged v.lth the same crime. This trial prob ably will get under way the latter part of this week. Omaha Is Principal Butter Making Center Herb Heavenrleh of Klrschhraun 1 Sons entertained members of the Triangle club yesterday noon at Hotel Fontenelle with a brief sketch of Omaha's great butter manufacturing industry. He stated that during 1922 Omaha produced 45,000,000 pounds of butter and this year probably will reach 50,000,000 i>ounds. This places Omaha in first, position as a butter produc ing center. He told how the cream is gathered from many stations and brought to the central plant, in Omaha through an organization. At the plant he rep resents 14,000,000 pounds of butter were shipped out last year. Omaha, he explained, sends butter to all parts of the world. “Some classes of people prefer un salted butter and others want Halted butter." Mr. Heavenrlch said The speaker stated that farmers as a rule do not make their own but ter now, as they did in other years, but ship their cream to the creamer ies and buy their butler. Man Thrown by “Horse ’ on Merry-Go-Round Sues David Hahn has brought suit in muniriapl court against the* Hake view Park company for $1,000 dam ages. He alleges that on July 19, 1922, while riding on the rnerry-go round at Lakeview paik( one of the ''horses" fell down and precipitated him roughly to the ground. The pe tition alleges that .the "horse" was defective. Mr. Hahn states that he suffered lacerations on the head after being thrown and dragged, that his teeth were damaged and hi* auditory and i ocular nerve* affected. He euffera great pain every time the weather change*, the petition avers. Plaintiff also allege* that at the time of the accident he tru the ob Ject of merriment when young men and women of hi* party laughed over hie plight. ADVERTISEMENT. ADVERTISEMENT. I For Constipated Bowels—Bilious Liver The nicest catharic-laxative to1 physic your bowels when you have Headache Biliousness Colds Indigestion Dizziness Sour Stomach Is candy-like Cascaret*. One or two tonight will empty your bowels com pletely by morning and you will feel splendid. "They work while you sleep.” Gascarets never stir you tip or gripe like Salta, Pills, Calomel, or Oil and they cost only ten cent* a box. Children love Cascareta too. Omaha has never been brought Face to Face with such Startlingj Sensational Price Smashing as you will encounter in this gigantic More than $200,GGO stock of smoke scented New Spring Apparel offered at prices you never dreamed were possible —COME— _ Get Your Full Share! The entire city stands spellbound as they learn of the value-giving that is being enjoyed during this marvelous Fire Sale. Crowds from far and near have responded. With more than 50 extra salespeople on our staff, our every facility was taxed to capacity. The greatest crowds per square foot ever assembled in any Omaha store thronged this store Tuesday eagerly bent on sharing in these almost unbelieve-/ able values. Wednesday Will See Equal Crowds So Plan Now for An Early Visit— Buy On Payments Quring This Great Fire Sale Cash or Credit Price the Same Just because we are al most Kivintf away mer chandise is no cause lor retrenchment of our lib eral credit policy. Huy what you need. We'll arranKe the terms of pay ments to suit your con venience. Shop in the lorenoons. You’ll find it more pleasant and the sales force less tired—and then, too, you’ll avoid the tremendous crowds of the afternoon. Insurance Adjusters Say SELL! F'hoy demand the immediate disposal of every gar ment in the house. Sell regardless of the loss! And on their orders we have simply slaughtered prices. A View Taken During the Fire In Our Store Sunday, March 18th It tells a story of the fire more forcefully than mere words could possibly do. It pictures the reason behind this miRhty sale—the real cause for such startling price sacrifices. Women’s and Misses’ Capes, Wraps, Coats, Dresses, Fur Coats, Suits, Skirts, Sweaters, Footwear Men’s Suits, Overcoats, Top Coats, Gaberdines, Trousers, Hats, Shoes, Shirts. Boys’ Suits. I % Hundreds and hundreds of garments were in glass cases at the time of the fire. They are as fresh in every respect as the day they were unpacked frcm theii shipping cases. These same gar ments are offered at the same ridiculous price sacrifices as the smoke scented garments. < •/ Beddeo Clothing Co. 1417 Douglas Street