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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (May 5, 1923)
ONE OF OURS By W1LLA CATHER. f amous Nebraska Author. (CoaUnncd from Yesterday.) * SYNOPSIS. Claud* Wbwlu. *<m of ■ Nebraska rancher, find* a* realisation of hi* dream* la wedded Ilf* with Enid Royer, religiously cold, daughter of Jason Boyce, Franhford. Neb., milter. She. after a year and a half with hint, SO** to China, where her young er el star, Caroline, a missionary, I* 111. During liar absence Claude Joins the army officers' training camp. White attending a small denominational college In Lin coln. where b* spent three years, he be came a friend of the Krllrh family, con sisting of a motherly widow and her five sons. Claude ha* friend* In F.rneet Havel and Leonard Dawson, young Nebraska farmers living near the Wheeler property, on which Claude built a home for his bride. He has an elder brother. Hayllss, In business la Frankfort; his father. Nat. and a younger brother, Ralph. HI* mother I* prideful of her eon's. W'hlle home on leave from camp In the east Claude find* he love* Gladys Farmer, high school friend of his wife. On board a transport to Europe one of his cabin mate* Is a convivial American airman, who offers Claud* a nip from a bottle. The airman ha* th* air of S.n Englishman, ha* served in the Royal Flying corps and Is return, ing to the front from the Cnlted States, where he was sent a* Instructor. "I don't mind if I do," Claude put ont his hand. The other laughed and sank hack on his pillow', drawling lazily, "Brave boy! Cio ahead; drink to the kaiser." "Wily to him.in particular?" "It’s not particular. Drink to Hin denburg. or the high command, or anything else that got you out of the cornfield. That’s tvhere they did get joti. didn’t they?" “Well, it’s a good guess, anyhow-. Where did they get you?" "Crystal Lake, Iowa. I think that was the place.” He'yawned and fold ed his hands over his stomach. "Why, we thought you w-ere an Englishman." “Not quite. I’ve served in his maj esty’s army two years, though." "Have you been flying in France?" "Yes. I've been back and forth all the time, England and France. Now I’ve wasted two months at Fort Worth. Instructor. That's not my line. I may have been sent over as a reprimand. You can't tell about my colonel, though; may have been his ■way of gettinx me out of danger." Claude glanced up at him, shocked at such an idea. The young man in the berth smiled with listless compassion. “Oh, I don't mean Bosch planes! There are dan gers and dangers. You'll find you got Moody little information about this war. where they trained you. They don't communicate any details of im portance. Going?" Claude hadn't intended to. but at this suggestion he pulled back the door. "One moment." called the aviator. "Can't you keep tll£t long legged ass who bunks under you quiet?" "Fanning? He's a good kid. What's the matter with him?" "His general ignorance and his in sufferably familiar tone," snapped the other as lie turned over. Claude found Fanning and the Vir ginian playing checkers, and told them that the mysterious airman was a fellow countryman. Both seemed dis appointed. “Pshaw!" exclaimed Lieutenant Bird. “He can't put on airs with me, after that." Fanning declared. "Cry stal Lake! Why It's no town af all!" All the same, Claude wanted to find out how a youth from Crystal Lake ever became a member of the Royal Flying corps. Already, from among the hundreds of strangers, half a doz en stood out as men he was deter mined to know better. Taking them altogether the men were a fine s ght as they lounged about the decks in the sunlight, the petty rivalries and jealousies of camp days forgotten. Their youth seemed to flow together, i like their brown uniforms. Seen in the mass like this. Claude thought, i th'ey were rather noble looking fel- ; lows. In so ftiany of the faces there wae a look of fine candor, an expres- j sion of cheerful expectancy and confi dent goodwill. There was on board a solitary ma rine, with the stripes of border serv ice on his coat. He had been sick in the navy hospital in Brooklyn when his regiment sailed, and was now go Ing over to Join it. He was a young fellow, rather pale from hie recent Illness, but he was exactly Claude's Idea of what a soldier ought to look like. His eye followed the marine about all day. The young man's name was Albert Usher, and he came from a little town up in the Wind River mountains, in Wyoming, where he had worked in a logging camp. He told Claude these facts when they found themselves standing side by side that evening, watching the broad purple sun go down Into a violet colored sea. It was the hour when the fanners at-home drive their teams in after the day’s work. Claude was thinking bow his mother would be standing at the west window’ every evening now, watching the sun go down and fol lowing him in her mind. When the young marine came up and Joined him, he confessed to a pang of home lick ness. "That's a kind of sickness I don't have to wrastle with." said Albert Usher. "I was left an orphan on a onesome ranch, when I was 9. and i'\e looked out for myself ever since." Claude glanced sidewise at the boy's handsome head, that eame up from lis neck with clean, strong lines, and :hought he had done a pre-tty good lob for himself. He could not have laid exactly what it was he liked ibout young Usher's face, but it leemcd to him a face that had gone through things—that had been trained down like his body, and had developed i definite character. What Claude thought due to a manly, adventurous life, was really due to well-shaped hones; Usher's face was more "mod sled" than most of the healthy coun tenances about him. When questioned, the marine went on [n say that though he had no home of •his own. he had always happened to fall on his feet, among kind people. He could go back to any housp in Plnedale or Du Bois and be welcomed ' like a son. “I suppose there ere kind women iverywhere," he said, "hut In that •cspect Wyoming’s got the rest of the sorld beat. I never felt the lack of Grocers Pay More for Roberts Milk and sell it to their Particular Customers When in Omaha Stop at Hotel Rome a home, rsow the Lntteci states ma rines are my family. Wherever they are. I’m at home.” “Were you at Vera Cruz?” Claude asked. “I guess! We thought that was quite a little party at the time, but I suppose it will seem small potatoes when we get over there. I’m figuring on seeing some flrst-rate scrapping. How long have you been In the army?” “Year ago last April. I've had hard luck about getting oyer. They kept me jumping about to train men.” “Then yours Is all to come. Are you a college graduate?" "No. I went away to school, but I didn’t finish.” jt'sher frowned at the gilded path on the water where the sun lay half submerged, like a big. watchful eye, closing. “I always wanted to go to college, but I never managed It. A man In Laramie offered to stake me to a course in the university there, but I was too restless. I guess I was ashamed of niv handwriting." He paused as if he had run against some old regret. A moment later he said suddenly. “Can you par-lez-vous?” "N’o. I know a few words, but I can't put them together.” “Same here. I expect to pick UP some. I pAiohed quite a little Span ish down on the border." By this time the sun had disap peared. and all over the west the yel low sky came down evenly, like a gold curtain, on the still sea that seemed to have solidified into a slab of dark blue stone—not a twinkle on its immobile surface. Across its dusky smoothness were two long smears of pale green, like a robin's egg. ‘‘Do you like the water?” Usher asked. In the tone of a polite host. "When I first shipped on a cruiser I was crazy about it. I still am. But. you know, I like them old bald moun tains back in Wyoming, too. There's waterfalls you can see 20 miles o(T from the plains; they look life white sheets or something, hanging up there on the cliffs. And down in the pine woods, in the cold streams,- there's trout as long as my fore arm.” That evening Claude was on deck al most alone; there was a concert down in the ward room. To the west heavy clouds had come up. moving so low that they flapped over the water like a black washing hanging on the line. The music sounded well from be | low. Four Swedish boys from the Scandinavian settlement at Lindsborg. Kan., were singing "Long. Long Ago." Claude listened from a sheltered spot ' in the stern. What were they, and 1 what was he. doinTf here qn the At lantic? Two years ago he had seemed a fellow for whom life was over: driven into the ground like a post, or like those Chinese criminals who are planted upright in the earth, with only their heads left left out for birds to peck at and insect* to sting. All his comrades had been tucked away in prairie towns, with their little jobs and their little plans. Yet here they were, attended by unknown ships called in from the four quarters of the earth. How had they come to be worth the watchfulness and devotion of so many men and machines, this extravagnnt consumption of fuel and energy? Taken on* by one. they were ordinary fellows like himself. Yet here they were. And in this mass ing and movement of men there was nothing mean or common; he was sure of that. It was. from first to last, unforseen, almost Incredible. Four years ago. when the French were hold ing the Marne, the wisest men in the world had not conceived of this as possible; they had reckoned with every fortuity but this. "Out of these stones can my Father raise up seed unto Abraham.”’ Downstairs the men began singing “Annie Laurie." Where were those summer evenings when lie used to sit dumb hv the windmill. wondering what to do with his life? (Continued in The Momln* Bee.) Thirteen Omaha Men Will Attend C. of C. Convention Thirteen Omaha ihen will attend the annual convention- of the U/iited States Chamber of Commerce to be held next week in New York City. They arq Carl R. Gray, Walter W. Head, C. C. George, A. K. Brown, j David Cole, John Flack, A. S. Stryker, W. E. Nesblt, Charles S. McConnell, j m powder, makes i Tht Food-Drink f for All Aftt W Avoid Imitation!—Substitute* I p a H X fj * w 0 e o * x A r* r JOIX the CROWDS that SHOP here EVERT SAt'I RDAT. WE GUARANTEE A SAYIXG from 1S% to 20% on VOIR «*R0 CERT RIELS. PHOXE AT 4«03 If yon can’t get away. FREE DELIVERY to all parts of the city. Phone us Friday evening. 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It is velvety smooth and deliciously flavory. The rich cream is filled with dainty red bits of ripe pineapple. , Fairmont's fro r roam Is marie the Hotter Wav In Omaha, Crete, Grand •eid Moat I lly. Take It home la hulk or la pint or quart e»aled pn*?<n«ea. Leo Hoffman, \\ . Farnam Smith, .1. 1). Larson and Karl Vogel. Effort will be made to elect C. C. George as a member of' the board of directors of the national organiza tion. representing the civics depart ment. ' Walter W. Head Is scheduled to make an address Wednesday on fi nancing of the railroads, and Carl Gray will speak Tuesday. Republicans Tried to Keep Promises, Says Mathers Speaker A. N. Mathers of the state house of representatives drove to Omaha from Lincoln Friday with his wife and small daughter. He will return to Lincoln to clean op nis leg islative work and start overland for Scottsbluff Sunday. ‘ I have not been home since the opening of the session.” said the speaker, "and I am anxious to drop politics and get bac kto my business. I feel that the republican party sin cerely endeavored to keep its prom- , ises. Both the democrats and repub- i licans in the house were men of splen- ! did earnestness and character.” 7-;—7~ Sixty Days Each. Tony Circo, 2402 South Eighteenth street, and Sam Circo, 923 South ' Twelfth street, were found guilty on liciuor charges by a federal grand i GET THE HABIT—IT WILL PAY YOU Buy Your Foods uid Necessities / at Omaha’s New Shopping Center The Dodge Market Across from Postoffice Phone ATlantic 7911113 North 16th Street SPECIAL SATURDAY SAVING BARGAINS We are prepared to serve you in every departme»t. 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I'nnrakf Floor, aa loo* n« It laata, pka. 5f -Sc rim Potted Meat, aa long aa It laata. raa . 54 IWHNgS MACARONI-SPAGHETTI and Pun EGG NOODLES ' We I OCU GOOD ALWAYS | % When you have a few minutes of “rest" turn your thoughts to thinking of a Good name for our breads. We want one that can be used like , this: "Purity” for our white breads; “Purity Rye” for our rye breads; “Purity Raisin Bread," “Purity Graham,” "Purity Brown Bread" . . . one surname to cover all our breads. Of course, “Purity” is used here as an example and is im possible for entry. Think of a good name, or several if you can, and mail it to Petersen & Pegau Baking Co. co Now Name Judges, 12th and Jackson Straats, Omaha, Nebraska. grand jury and sentenced to 60 days each by Judge Miller South Omaha Man Held for Violation of Mann Act Kdward Keyes, Thirty-ninth and N street*, was bound over to the fed eral court under $1,000 bond by I.'nlted States Commissioner Boehler on charges of violating ths Mann act. He took Winona Giasco, 16. to St. Joseph April 27. When they re turned to Omaha WTT Tuesday they were met by Keye*' wife and federal officer*. Mrs. Keye* attacked the girl. The girl's father, Albert Glascn, part owner of a rooming house at 2*00 M street, where they live, testi fied. CLEANEST STORES IN THE WORLD \ THE STORE OF PROGRESS LUX i8csize 10c D|f*E” FANCY BLUE "T n I WLh ROSE-POUND f ^ MILK ‘°AST 18c UNIT 8V2c JELLO ‘sa" 9c BEANS 11c SUGAR SST10 *s. 97c COFFEE 4.1 f. B *— AT ANY PRICE—LB. ■ w Rl ITTFR aQa LJ I I tn Tasted Before. Fresh _ Churned Daily. Per lb. * nrnncn ground black q^ rLrrLn ap ^yct8 OC MAZOLA 24c GRAPE-NUTS 15c PINEAPPLES sszsst 19c NEW SPUDS •* 25c 21—CLEAN AND BUSY STORES—21 BUEHLER BROS. Omaha’s Leading Cash Markets FOUR BIG BUSY STORES Please Market Early 212 N. 15th Street v 4903 S. 24th Street 2405 Cuming Street 534 W. Broadway, Council Bluffs JOuR WEIGHTS AND vi SCALES ARE • .p NEVER WRON&. 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