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ONE OF OURS By WILLA FATHER. Famous Nebraska Author. (Continued From Saturday.) SYNOPSIS. Claud^ Wheeler, son of u Nebraska rancher, is disappointed in wedded Life with Enid Royce. religiously cold daugh ter of Jason Kovce, Frankfort, Neb., miller. After a year and a half together she goes to t hinu, where her younger sister, Caroline, a missionary, is ill. Claude goes to officers’ training camp and is commissioned a lieutenant. He had three 3earn in a small denominational college in Lincoln, where he became a friend of the Erlich family, motherly widow and live sons. He lias friends in Ernest Havel and Leonard Dawson, \oiiug farmers and neighbors of the Wheeler family. He has an cider brother, llayliss, in business in Frankfort; his father, Nat, and a younger brother, Ralph. While home on leave from camp he falls in love with Gladys Farmer, high school friend of his wife. Claude leaves with Ids company for Eu rope and after two weeks of intensive training hi France, they leave for the front. Claude Is dispatched with an im portant message to division headquarters. sc\erai miles behind the lines. In " vil lage devastated hv the Germans. Here he nleks up acquaintance with Louis, a French soldier who has lost an arm in the w ar. and Mil#*, de Courcy. charming > oung French woman. He becomes deeply in terested in Mile, de Courcy. Claude and Sergeant Hicks leave for the front lines *»v night. Claude and Gerhardt. young American lieutenant, with 100 men, put to rout a nest of German machine gun ners. Claude is wounded in the ankle by an exploding shell and he and Gerhardt. on I ft days’ leave, return to the home of M. and Madame Joubcrt in a French village where they were billeted a short time before going to the front. Gerhardt knocked out his pipe and began to fill it again. "I went home to see my mother in May of 1914. I wasn't here when the war broke out. The Conservatoire closed at once, so I arranged a concert tour In the states that winter, and did very well. That was before all the little Itussians went over, and the field wasn’t so crowded. 1 had a second season, and that went well. But I was getting more nervous all the time: I was only half there.” He smoked thoughtfully, sitting with folded arms, as if he were going over a succession of events or states of feeling. "When my number was drawn, I reported to see what I could do about getting nut; 1 took a look at thP~other fellows who were trying to squirm, and chucked it. I’ve never been sorry. Not long afterward, my violin was smashed, and my career seemed to go along with It.” Claude asked him what he meant. "While I was at Camp Dlx, I had to play at one of the entertainments. My violin, a Stradivarius, was in a vault In New York. I didn’t need it for that concert, anymore than I need it at this minute; yet I went to town and brought it out. I was taking it up from the station in a military car, and a drunken taxi driver ran into us. I wasn’t hurt, but the violin, lying across my knee, was smashed into a thousand pieces. I didn't know what it meant then; but since, I’ve seen so many beautiful old things smashed . . . I've become a fatal ist.” Claude watched his brooding head against the gray flint rock. "You ought to have kept out of the whole thing. Any army man would say so." David’s head went back against the boulder, and he threw one of the chestnuts lightly into the air. "Oh, one violinist more or less doesn't mat ter! But who is ever going back to anything? That’s what I want to know!” Claude felt guilty; as if David must have guessed what apostasy had been going on in his own mind this after noon. "You don’t believe we are going to get out of this war what we went in for, dp you?” he asked suddenly. “Absolutely not." the other replied with cool indifference. "Then 1 certainly don't see what you’re here for!" "Because in 1!)17 I was 24 years old, and able to bear arms. The war was put up to our generation. I don't know what for; the sins of our fathers, probably. Certainly not to make the world safe for democracy, or any rhetoric of that sort. When I was doing stretcher worl?; 1 had to tell myself over and over that nothing would come of it, but that it had to be. Sometimes, though, I think some thing must .... Nothing we ex pect, but something unforeseen.” He paused and shut his eyes. “You re member in the old mythology tales how. whon'the non* of the god* were born, the mother* always died hi agony? Maybe it’s only Kernel* I’m thinking of. At any rate, I’ve some times wondered whether the young men of our time had to die to bring a new idea Into the world . . something Olympian. I’d like to know. I think I shall know. Since I’ve been over here this time, I’ve come to believe in immortality. Do you?" Claude was confused by this quiet question. "I hardly know. I’ve never been able to make up my mind.” "Oh, don’t bother about it! If it conies to you, it conies. You don’t have to go after it. I arrived at it In quite the same way I used to get things in art—knowing them and liv ing on them before I understood them. Much ideas used to seem childish to me.”’ Gerhardt sprang up. "Now, have 1 told you what you want to know about my case?" He looked down at Claude with a curious glim mer of amusement nnd affection. "I’m going to stretch my legs. It’s 4 o’clock." The next day was Claude’s 25th birthday, and in honor of that event Capa Joubert produced a bottle of old Burgundy from his cellar, one of a few dozen he had laid in for great occasions when he was a young man. During that week of idleness at Madame Joubert’s, Claude often thought that the period of 'happy "youth." about which his old friend Mrs. Erlich used to talk, and which he had never experienced, was being made up to him now'. He was having his youth In France. He knew that nothing like this would ever come again: the Helds and wood* would never again be laced over with thi* hazy enchantment. As he came up the village street in the purple eve ning, the smell of wood smoke from the chimneys went to his head like r narcotic, opened the pores of his skin, and sometimes made the tears come to his eyes. Life had after all turned out well for him,\and every thing had a noble significance. The nervous tension in which he had lived for years now seemed incredible to him absurd and childish, when he thought of it at all He did not torture himself with recollections. He was beginning over again. In the years when he went to school In Lincoln, he was always hunting for some one whom he could admire without reservations; some one he could envy, emulate, wish to be. Now he believed th^t even then he must have had some faint linage of a man like Uerhardt In his mind. Tt was only in war times that their paths would have been likely to cross; or that they would have had anything to do together . . any of the common Interests that make men friends. (Continued In The Morning: Bee.) English Living Goes Up With Pound Value London, June 3.—The pound's rise in the New lone market brings re joicing to the financier, but it doesn’t mean anything to the little fellow. Costs of living In England have ad vanced 33 per cent In the last year. Our Children The Evening Romp. The warm spring evenings bring out the children for their evening frolic. .Sometimes Its gets past bear ing for the tired people resting on the porches or under the trees. Somebody gets an old tin pall and begins kicking it along the walk. Its din is shattering. The gro-wn ups along the street groan and murmur: "That’s that awful Smith child. Be lieve me, if that child was mine, I'd warm him so he needn't lake such ■irenuous exercise' On a hot summer • vening, too!" Noises like that are louder and harder to bear than they are on the cool nights. If children must run and race about in the twilight, which is doubtful, couldn't they have a hall? A soft ball that will not hurt If It hits a child tn the dark, nor break windows that carinot be seen clearly. On the lower corner there Is a group playing with a dog. He harks furiously and chases them madly up and down the street. Screaming like wild men they hurtle across the lawns and dash around the corners. "Yow’, you. yow," barks the enthusi astic hound, "K eow -w," cream the children, "One of those children Is going to get hurt dashing about the streets like that," grumble the watching porchers. "It's a wonder their par ents wouldn't stop them. Veiling And screeching like that! And that dog!” From the block In back comes the wheeze of harmonicas. The small boys have gathered on Wells’ side porch and they are giving a concert to the unwilling audience. Heads wagging, feet stamping, little girls shrilly chanting music fills the air. "Mercy me! Iton't they ever go to bed?" groans a sufferer as the wind bears a whiff of raw melody, louder than usual, to her aching ears. “Should think their mothers would put them to bed in self-defense.” "Mothers arp deaf to their chil dren's noises." says the teacher dry ly. “Only the other mothers' chil dren make noises that are unbearable! leach mother hears only music In the tones of her brood's voices." Children must romp a bit before bedtime of a summer evening. But violent play Is not the thing they need. Chasing a dog or kicking a tin can or playing hide and seek through the house, hanging door after door and screaming as each slams be hind them, is not the setting for quiet rest. The harmonica concert, excruciat ing ns It is, is understandable. The children are working off their last ounce of superfluous energy and do ing it without violence. But the rac ing. howling group are getting pant the fatigue points and they will be hard to quiet. Consider the neighbors In the eve ning. Plan for a quiet bit of play. It will make life a little pleasanter. “Hootch Baby” Fails to Fool Atlanta Prohibition Sleuths Atlanta, June 3.—A nose trained to the scenting of smells of a smoky na ture, made famous by Bobby Burns, the Haigs, the Yawsons, et al, caused the undoing of an enterprising and imaginative rum runner near here. This worthy had a scheme, re garded as “fool proof" by the elite of the rum-runners. But this little scheme failed to take into consid eration the keen noese of officers. “Is precious babykins cold?” al most whispered the girl in the front seat of the speeding car as they flew past the officers. Then came the smoky smell. Then a chase. \ A search tiiat revealed 11 cases of liquor—good liquor—stacked in the back seat of the automobile. The baby was a bundle of cloth— a veritable rag dot!—that the woman tossed disgustedly to the side of the road as the officers accompanirl 'na couple to jail. China leads all the countries in the production of silk. Omaha Firms Stand Back of j Omaha Goods j ONWARD OMAHA We Prosper Individually As Our City and Trade Territory Prospers “Buy in Omaha”—the gateway to an immensely wealthy empire —with ample facilities to han dle its trade, to supply its needs. UPDIKE GRAIN . 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Sutter, extension specialist in poultry. “When the hens have exhausted the supply of green feed, scattered grains and seeds found on the range in the spring, dry mash should be placed in hoppers where the hens can help themselves. Whole grain should not he fed in the morning, as that Is the time when the hen should be foraging; give a full feed of whole grain before roosting time. If milk is available, furnish all the hens will eat. Do not change from sweet one day to sour the next, for this sudden change often causes difestive trou bles. “Each dozen egg shells has an av erage weight of two and one-quarter ounces of lime, w hich means that the hen must have more than that, for some is used in the body growth. Plenty of grit or gravel should be furnished, as grit is the hen's teeth and she cannot digest her feed with out it. Since the hen. In making an egg. uses 70 parts water to 30 of solid matter, she needs all the fresh, clean water that she cares to drink. “If the hens are too fat and are not laying they are either too old. poor layers, or have too many grains and not enough protein Imeat, tankage, milk. Insects) to furnish the whites of the egg.’’ Paving Is Planned. Special Ilinpatch In The Omaha Hee. Beatrice, Neb., June 3—The board of directors of the fair associatior plans to have South Second street, leading to the fair grounds, paved before fall. From that point the high way will be graded and graveled and new sidewalks constructed up to and into the fair grounds. Gage County Fair Society Will Build New Buildings Special Dispatch to The Omaha Bee. Beatrice, Neb., June 3.—At a meet ing of the directors of the Gage Coun ty Fair and Agricultural society, the building committee was authorized to spend 312,000 during the coming summer for a stock pavilion and other buildings at the fair grounds. A contract was closed with a three ring circus which will give daily ex hibitions on the grounds. Son of Former Governor Ra ises Fine Strawberries (*p«l*l IMepateh to The Omaha Bee. Auburn. Neb , June 3.—J. S. Furnas of Brownville, son of the second gov ernor of the state of Nebraska, has been in Auburn inviting his friends to come to his big fruit farm near Brownville and enjoy eating his strawberries. Mr. Furnas reports a wonderful crop of strawberries this year, and he says they are the best ever grown in eastern Nebraska. Barley Acreage Increased Over Preprohibition Day* Consumption of barley by live stock has more than equaled the de pression In demand for barley caused by the closing down of breweries, when the prohibition amendment be came effective, according to a sur vey Just completed by the United States Department of Agriculture, and at present there is a greater acreage of barley than ever In Nebraska, Stella Hessian Fly Damage Estimated at 20 Per Gent Special ltUpatrh to The Omaha Bee. Stella, Neb . June 3—Conservative estimates place Hessian fly damage In this locality at 20 per cent. Some are plowing up as much as 25 acres of wheat and other fields do not seem to be effected. Karly planted grain on old wheat stubble is worst affected. Cedar Bluffs Club Given Five Seals m Girls First to Receive Honor; Complete Two Cooking and Three Clothing Projects. Five of the seven charter members of the Sunshine Sewing club of Cedar Bluffs. Neb., recently held their Achievement day and received their fifth achievement seal. These five girls are the first group to receive five seals In the boys and girls club dem onstration work. They have com pleted satisfactorily two projects in cooking and three iin clothing. They have been sponsored by the Woman's club of Cedar Bluffs, different mem bers of which have been taken turns as leaders. Five clubs at Cereseo also held their Achievement day recently. Forty eight of the 51 girls entering these clubs finished their work under the guidance of the Woman's ciub of Cereseo. Two of these clubs were first year clothing clubs, two were second year clothing clubs and one was a hot lunch club. ® These rlubs are some of the many forms of standard 4 H clubs organized under the leadership of the agricul tural college extension service. In order to obtain a charter, each club must complete the first four of 10 goals They must organize a club of five or more members between 10 to 15 years of age working on one pro ject; and have a local leader In charge as general advisor. They must elect their own officers, who will take charge of business meetings, and they must outline a definite program and When this is done, they are granted a club charter As the work pro gresses, they must hold at least six meetings, one of which shall tie a Judging contest of the product* they are producing, another a public dem onstration by a team, and another a club exhibit of thetr work. At least tin per cent of the club members must file satisfactory final reports before a senl of achievement is presented them at their Achievement day program. Wall Paper Retailer Says Prices Going Up Fred Parks, who operates the larg est retail wall paper and paint store in Omaha at 4708 South Twenty fourth street, has put on an extra force of paperhangers to take care of the extraordinary amount of work in this line being done now. Mr. Parks says the price of wall paper la sure to go higher, because of the increased cost of materials and labor and that people who do their paperhanging this year will save money. "Our men &6 work in any part of greater Omaha and we can do Jobs within two days after the order is placed witth us." said Mr. Parks. Hessian Fly Kills Wheat, \ulmrn Farmers Report Sprf-isl Dlspntrh to The Omaha Bee. Auburn. Neb.. June 3—Some oil the farmers in this part of the state are reporting the probable necessity of plowing under the wheat because of the Hessian fly. Some of the farmers, however, discourage this idea, contending that wheat ground plowed under now is not of any value for corn this year. Well posted farmers say, that after the ground has been sapped by a wheat crop to the extent of the growth of the present crop, the ground must pass through a winter before it is in shape for a corn crop. Crops and Soil Field Day Has Been Sel for June 20 Lincoln. June 3.—Annual Crops and Soil Field Day has been set for Wed nesday. June 20. It was announced by the extension service of the College of Agriculture of the 1'nlversity of Nebraska. Visits will ho made to the various experiment fields and the experts in charge of the various experiments are to discuss the ex periments and results obtained. The moviea surely have a place In this world. Now they've made a hero of a postman in "Loyal Lives.” a Whitman Bennett picture with Brandon Tynan and Mary Carr head ing the east. Dr. Frances H. Turner CHIROPRACTOR X-Ray Service, Comfortable Adjusting Tables for Adults and Children You have tried the rest—now try the best. 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