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Beal May Ask for Grand Jury ^ Last Convened in Douglas County in 1919—Query of Institutions. County Attorney Henry Beal favor* calling a grand Jury after the first of ths year. He Is planning to ask district Judges to call the Jury when they hold their annual meeting on January 2. "The grand Jury serves as a safety valve for the community,” said the county attorney, "It is the Jury’s duty to investigate conditions of the county hospital and of the county jail. There probably wouldn’t have been a jail riot if the prisoners could have laid their grlevlenoes, either real or imagined, before a jury. "There are also many complaints made by people to the county at torney's office on which the county attorney cannot take action, usually because of lack of evidence. Often people who make these complaints feel that something is wrong, that wo don’t want to help them. They have a right to go before a grand jury, and whether or not any action is taken they feel better about It.” The last grand jury in Omaha was in 1919. Schools Closed All Next Week Public school pupils will have all next week to enjoy themselves. All schools, with the exception of Tech nical High, will be reopened Mon ' r, January 7. Tech High will be pened next Monday morning. ’he new quarterly semester of Technical High will begin January 14, on which date 530 new students will be received from the grade schools. Burgess Bedtime Stories Hy THORNTON W. BURGESS To do a thins that must bo done. You'll always find more ways than one. —Grandpa Pelican. Danny Watches Two Fishermen. Danny Meadow MouBe when he had been living on the Oreen Meadows near the Smiling Pool had watched several fishermen. He had seen Plunger the Osprey shoot down from high up In the sky, plunge under water and come up with a fish in his olaws. He had seen Hatties the Kingfisher dart down from the trees and snatch a minnow swimming close to the surface. He had seen I.onglegs, the Big Blue Heron, stand at the edge of the water motionless for the( long est time, and then like a flash strike down and catch a little fish that had come within reach. But the fishing of the two fishermen he watohed that day far down In the Sunny South was altogether different, and a whole lot more interesting. One of these fishermen was Grand pa Pelican and the other was Darter the Snakeblrd. They were unlike as two fishermen could be In appear ance and in the way they fished. But both were splendid fishermen. Yes, ■ vdree, both were splendid fishermen. ™ Danny had found an old stump close ■ I I One of those fishermen was Grandpa Pelican and the other was Darter the Snahehird. to tho water, and up this he had climbed that he might see better. For a long time nothing had happened. Grandpa Pelican sat on his favorite stump, appearing to be half asleep. Darter the Pnakebird sat on a dead branch of a tree a short distance away, but there had been nothing sleepj' in his appearance. Danny had almost lost patience and had about decided that there would be no fislting that day when ho chanced to look over to where Darter was sit ting just in time to -seo lit in drop from ills perch into the water. He didn't go in itead first as divers do. l%He seemed to just drop straight down with his head still up. lie went com pletely under. The water was still and very clear, so that Danny could see down In it. He caught a glimpse of the swiftly moving forms of a school of fish, and then closely behind then appeared Darter. My, how he did shoot through the water! Instead of having his neck stretched out at full length, it was drawn back. Suddenly It shot forward like u flash. That sharp bill, which was like a dagger, passed right through a fish. At once Darter came to the surface. He gave a quick toss of his head which threw the fish he had speared into the air. It came down head first straight Into the open mouth of Darter. He gulped It down, then started for another. Danny turned to see what Grandpa Pelican was doing. Grandpa Pelican had wakened the Instant Darter dropped into the water. HI* keen eyes had seen those fish. When Danny looked he was flying above them. Then ho plunged Into the water, with his great bill wide open. That big bag under his bill was spread wide, and Into it he scooped a fish. He used It like a net. Then he In tils turn tossed the fish in the air and gulped It down. There were many fish, and for awhile those two fishermen were very busy. It was exciting to watch. Danny didn’t know which one he admired the most, the way In which Darter speared his fish, or the way in which Grandpa Pelican netted his fish. They seemed equally successful. At last the fright ened fish disappeared, and the two fishermen returned to their perches to rest and digest their catches. Coryrtsht lllll. The next story; "Danny Returns to Kanny^' i EDDIE’S FRIENDS The Fellow Who Resolves Not to Play for a Year 1 .. 1 ..... .... --—■ --— i _-/ MO,MERES ^ tUe wHolE THiM<k- VA///-A/////' • SO-MOU hAADE. OP \ voHs SHOULD T WORK HOUR M'NO Mo-T To \ hard por wts momes \Y//A///;'// / y PLAS A6A1M , EH, OR DID) AMD THEM POM ATE {///////aV////// S'SOOR U)\PE MAKE K IT TO SOU B\RDS? V//' ' ^''////// n- OP POR SOO / N' AMS WAS r MEED KRat'll HE \///// V-, ? .——^ SLEEP-IT'LL TAKE HtAUSAQOOT\///// - me About A Sear j-iue. stupe r/AAAA/// 7 TD CATCH OP r-f EDDIE OOT V7, I ' -"^Z^yTTV/1 7=BOM H»S ^ BE SACK- j f^v///\ ^B«^E Irsni^J © ita rr iwtl tnvie«. 1«e-* STELLA DALLAS By Olive Higgins Prouty. SYNOPSIS Stella Dallae separated from her hns hand, owing to inroniiintabilUy of temprra mrnte, anil her daughter. Igmrrl, 13, live In the "clieapest room’’ of a fashionable hotel In Milliampton. In the parlors, where she passes much time reading. Laurel overhears seornful referenees lo her mother made hr soelal leaders In the hnlel world Both mother and daugh ter ure always smartly driNseri when they go together to the dining room. l-utirel goes on a visit to her father In New York and he leaves her at the home of Mrs Ylorrlson, a friend, while he Is away on a trip to f'hlesgn. After seeing her ilaimliter aboard the train In Boston Stella goes lo a eafe where she meets an old admirer, Alfretl Munii, with whom she attends o musleal farce, (Continued from Yesterday.) Between October, when he first went to New York, and the New Year, Stephen spent three Sundays with Stella. Kach one was an ordeal to him, and each one a more difficult ordeal than tho one before. The long periods of absence tended to make him more sensitive to Stella's offenses, lie supposed. It se»mod t,o him as If she almost delighted in doing the sort of things he disliked over those week-ends; indulging in all the striking slang of the day, indulging in all the striking styles of the day (she knew how he disliked her in conspicuous clothes); carrying on long giggling oonversntions over the telephone with "one of the girls,” gossip ing, tale-bearing; carrying on long giggling flirtations over the tele phone with one of her male admir ers, going through a scries of smiles and smirks, shrugs and arch expres sions, as if the man himself were present to see her, ignoring Stephen behind hla book at the other end of tho room as if ho were a plant or piece of furniture: dashing oft' for her riding lesson at 10 o'clock Sun day morning with Alfred Munn, while Stephen rend the paper or went to church or took a walk by himself, doing back on the train after his third week-end with Htclia, Stephen asked htmself why lie persisted in these self-inflicted periods of torture. To what end? To what purpose? Tho bleu of separation or divorce had always been distasteful to him, but some things wero worse—a. thousand tiinca worse, after love had turned to contempt, and respect to scorn. Of course, there was Laurel. But wasn’t it better for Laurel not to grow up beneath the shadow of constant chaf ing and irritation? He could see Laurel. She could come to New York occasionally. He could have his child alone. On a rertain week-end In January, which Stephen forced himself to spend in Mllhampton, he had found upon his arrival some cigaret ashes in a tray upstairs in tho lltfle sitting room off Stella's bedroom. Stella didn’t smoke. At that time few of the womph in Mllhampton smoked. Stephen didn’t refer to the cigaret ashes to Stella. Ho was too listless, too deslreless to care wiio had left the ashes there. He didn’t doubt Stella's fidelity. Not then. It was Just another offense in taste. She’d be sure to argue, to harangue, to acclaim in a tone, that would be come loud and harsh, that she could see no difference between a man’s smoking upstairs and down. And the pity of it was she couldn’t see the ■difference. A month slipped by. two mom os. Stephen wrote only the briefest notes to Stella bml they were far between. Oh, how easy It was to drift out of the troubled water*! Wliat a com tort and relief! 2. At fir*t Stephen'* period* of ab sence were a comfort and relief to Stella, too. It was simply Wonderful, she told Eflle McDavItt, to go about unhampered, when, where, how and with whom she pleased, and have a little harmless fun In life, without being preached to for hours after wards. It didn't seriously occur to Stella that Stephen’s absences por tended anything permanent. When Edln suggested such a possibility, she "pooh-poohed” the Idea. “Oh, goodness, no," she said. "It would Just about tc111 Stephen If his domestic affah'H got aired in the newspapers. 1 know Stephen. I never could even mention divorce, or separation, In our squabbles, even as a Joke, without hi* sort of turn ing away, ns If I'd said something Indecent. No. Well etlek—you'll see.” In early March, Stella wrote to Stephen and asked him when he ex pected to come home next. She'd llko to know so aa to bo there. There was a good deal going on and Hosa mond was planning a house party out at her country place, over some week-end soon. Stella was unprepared for Ste phen's reply. Ho told her that ho had no definite plan as to when he wrh coming to Miihampton next. She was not to worry Rbout expenses, the letler went on significantly. He would see that she and Laurel were always provided for. Had ho known In .tnnuary that he was not coming back again for so long a while, h« would have told her. Hot alter all they had already had their dlsclis slons. "Isn't that tho molest?" Stella rx claimed to Klfle. Hho made frequent trips across the river to Elbe's tone merit now. Sho ulw-ays made frequent trip* across the river to Eltle s lene ment when she had "something on her mind.” "You’d think we’d had a row or something, the last time he wag here, hut we didn't. In fact, It seemed to me, if anything, he was a little more friendly than usual. I can't imagine wli.it he's got up his sleeve. I think he had a light to kick up a little dust, don't you? Puts me in a pretty position! It wasn't bad, for a while playing around alone, and calling myself a grass widow, as a joke. But the real thing is an on tirely different matter. Jt's rio fun being an extra woman of any kind long, in society. If you don't own a husband, or a brother, or some two legged article In trousers, you drop out of things—out of evening things, anyhow. Of course, there are lunch eons, and teas, and women's shin dies left, but I got on host with men, and I look best In evening clothes, tooi I'm the kind, anyhow, who wants everything that's going. The more places you're seen at the more you go to, and it's Just life to me to keep going! Why, when I don't go out for a week—have a wave and a manicure and a hot bath and get all dressed up in my l>est clothes, and set out for a real little party of some sort somewheres—I get horribly de pressed. Listen here, KITIe, I haven’t eaten a dinner outside my own house for three weeks now! 1 haven't been to a Illver club dance since Alfred Munn took the horses south In De cember! I’ve known for quite a while it was time for Stephen to come back and get Laurel and me.” Kfflo wanted to know why Stella didn't write to him, and urge him to come bark and get iter then. "Urge him to come back!” Stella exclaimed. “Indeed, t won't! I've got a little pride left, I hope. I never urged a man to c-onio back to me yet, and I don't Intend to begin. Oh, I II manage somehow*. Don’t worry. You'll see.” Khe herself worried a good deal. What was she. to *ay? Hhe couldn't go on Indefinitely, telling people that .Stephen arrived so late on a Satur day and been obliged to go buck so on riy on Sunday, that ho hadn't seen any of his ft lends. Nor could she repeat many times Ihe subterfuge she had successfully carried through unew of stealing across tho rlyer, and burying herself for three or four miserable days in the little red cot tage v ith her father, tetumlng with the story that she had been in New York. It had been necessary to practice Involving deceptions in explaining her absence from such generally dis cussed functions as ‘ihc River club costume dance and tho annual char ity ball. Once she had pretended a turned ankle, another time a head ache. Rut the (ruth was that on both occasions she had stayed at home and had gone to bed at 10 o'clock, bedciuse no one had invited her to a dinner party beforehand- Kho couldn't go to a dance without either a man or a partyl Khe had tried lo get up a party of her own before the hall. Rut every body's plans seemed to lie made. Rosamond might easily have Included her In the dinner party aha gave. She Had two extra men. Neither Edith nor. Rosamond had had her to a single dinner party since Stephen had gone to New York! And they were her "best friends” in Mllhaini* ton now. She had had them one night with two other couples. A real party! Ten In all. She had given them two cocktails apiece and a gendrous amount of Stephen's cham pagne. Not one of her guests had reciprocated yet by an Invitation of any kind. The possibility of an empty engage ment calendar, the consideration of long stretches of Idle days with no climaxes at their ends, filled Stella with alarm. Frightening ghosts of various kinds filtered through the cracks of Stella’s bedroom, during this time, woke her tifl every morn ing about 5, and kept her awake un til it was time to get up and dress. The tragic Idleness of a certain new gown she had bought In January haunted her day and night. Never had a new dress of hers remained new so long. For three weeks it had hung in the closet, Just as it had been lifted from its box. Stella longed to wear the gown. It would make an impression. Now that she could no longer contribute a man to society it was necessary for her to contribute at least an Impression. A conspicuous gown could do a lot for a woman at a dance, Stella be lieved. “But It can't if It hangs In the closet,” she sobbed Into her pillow. 3. When Alfred Munn returned from | Florida with his horses for another season at the River club, he put many of Stella's ghosts to flight. JIs filled her engagement calendar; he provided ollmaxea to her days; he saw to it that there was never a week when Stella didn't dress up In her best clothes and set out for "a real little party" of some sort somewhere, lie broke the hark of the worst gob lin of all—her fear (her almost con viction now) that when a woman's husband goes out of town for any length of time and people WSln to wonder why. all her old admirers turn tail and run. too. to avoid any possible danger of being mentioned in a scandal, t.lfo wouldn't be worth living, Stella felt. If she had no ad mirers. Riding was still popular In Mil hampton that spring; Alfred Munn was still popular. Stella grasped at his attentions eagerly, Instinctively, ns she would at a rope flung to her from the basket of a balloon that offered to rescue her from some un fortunate fats and carry her aloft. Rut the balloon of Alfred Munn’s popularity In Mtlhampton had already begun to lose Its buoyancy. It couldn't carry Stella far. Alfred Munn should have been throwing off ballast Instead of taking mbre en. For a while, though. It lifted Stella out of tho valley and diverted her attention from Ha shadows. Under the excitement of Alfred Munn s at tentions. Stella took heart. (CiMillnueil In The Wnrnlns Bee. Kansas Honus Issue I,egal. Topeka, Kan., Dec. The elate iupreme court held that an additional bonu* bond iRlttl of $8,500,000 to pay compensation claim* of former Kan sas floldirr* not already paid from the original bond Imu# of $26,000,000 w a* legal. Pre-Inventory Sale of High Quality Sporting Goods TO MAKE room for our large purchases of spring merchandise we have made sweeping reductions throughout our stock of quality sport goods. The policy of low rent, low overhead of the Omaha Sporting Goods Co. is well known and in this sale will be found many items priced far below our usual low prices. We quote below a few of the many specials: FOOTBALLS Regular OOe hoya' apeeial fiA_ imitation leather football Regular III.00 genuine #0 fUl leather football at .... 110 value No. 4 4 official *7 CA football, In f hie ante at W • SWEATERS MnHufn weight awenter with V Nc'ck, regular lll.fcO (O CA value at.. ♦O.W Heavy elip-nver ahawl collar aw enter, a bargain at B*Q CA III.00. nqw . .. Extra heavy coat sweater. •hawl collar, regular $17.1)0 *”1 1 Cf| value, at . ^ll.OU Tom Wye Coal a, BA •pedal at. *O.IJU BASKETBALLS $B.00 value basketball, made of | good quality leather, $3.50 1 Ketrular 911.00 quality basket* bail, made of •elected #7 OO 1 train cowhide, at . + Our special hiah trade $ 1II ball, $10.00 ICE SKATES We carry the Winslow complete line of skate* anti skate shoes. These were formerly priced at from $ I 2S to |r».00, All trn hi this sale at a reduction of .. . 'V | SLEDS ft.TB to fl.ftf- Flexible Flynn. This N a line- of the best sleds made. In thi'« sale at a reduction of. 'V Omaha Sporting Goods Co., Inc. 1806 Harney St. AT lantic 0961 J. I>. Crew, IWimleiit J.d. Murdlck, Vlfd-l’rtiltlPiit (iEO, PARISH, Secretary A. t\ Kelt, Trfisurtr Pleasure Seeker in Danger of Losing Real Man They Differ on Question of Gayety—She Loves Him Although He Is Staid—Wants Fun Out of Life. Hy MARTHA AIAEN. HE RES a tsiil whose ■ standard* of life are becoming warped by the festivities of holiday time. "Dear Miss Allen: I can't agree with rny sweetheart because I want to got to gay parties with fr»ii(ls and he refuses to go. I am 24 and he is 30. Don’t you think 1 am old enough to Judge? -Our tastes seem to l>o dif ferent. Haven't J a right to run around with gay persons and get a few thrills? I love this man, but I do want some fun out of life. What ahall 1 do?”—Evelyn. Dancing and gayety are well enough, hut there are lines to he drawn. This young mini is probably level-headed enough to know that there is nothing to -jazz parties just for excitement. The men you meet, Evelyn, at such affairs evening after evening, are simply Individuals who live on the surface. AH are blinded by the glow and glninor of excite ment. Friendships are not built on such circumstances. There is nothing lasting that Is to 1* found in the spirit of revelry. "Wild” parties only give you a sense of boredom that is hard to shake, a weariness tluyt is so great that when something worth while coroos along you are nol alert enough to grab It. Tlie wild party only breaks down your power of resistance and an pa your vitality. Don't let it cost you honest love and companionship, Eve lyn, of a nan who has a sense of \ allies. If you don't watch out your chance for happiness will f!v by you. Your headaches from the wild parties may go away, but your heartache for chances lost may stay with you for years. A Sheik. Dear Miss Allen: I have a girl 'friend who has been going with a married win for some time The man tells her he is desperately in love with her and anxious to marry her. Ills wife will not give him a di vorce. My friend goes away with him on trips. She tells me that this maw is jealous of her. He doesn't want her to have the company of even girl friends. I have been told that his wife works for her living and for the support of their child. It has been said that my friend is not the first girl to whom he has told tills story. What should this girl do? D. M. This seems to be a very plain case of a man who preys upon women. Any girl in her right mind ought to know1 that this man 1* not a desirable acquaintance. Kar better men than this one are serving terms in prison for chasing about with such girls as the one you describe. Can’t you see that this girl is rapid ly destroying her good name, if such a girl ever had any—and la going rapidly down the road to unhappi ness and remorse? Unless she is will ing to throw everything tn life that la worth while she will have to pass hy suoh men. Men of thia class are contemptible and ate the kind that any fine woman should ignore. By the way. this girl Isn't the right kind for a friend. If she will not listen to you. don't get mixed up in the mess that Is sure to have a dis astrous end. It is kind of you to want to help her, hut she doesn't seem to be the sort who asks help from anyone. She is a girl who learns nothing from the experience of others If von have any love problems or other question* ton waul nn»wcrrd. write lo Wurth* Allen and Ihry will lie antwrrrd In .tile order they ore received. Paper Retains Former Policy Mason City. la., Dec. 28—The death of D. M. Conroy, business man ager nt,the Ololte-Onzelte, will not ne cessitate any change in its policy or personnel of employes. The editor, W. F. Muse, who was business manager of the Ottumwa Courier for two years, has a thorougli knowledge of all departments and will act for the present in both capacities of editor arid business manager. Want a room? Head the Classified ads. ___ Woman’s Illness Puzzles Doctors ^ ife of Omaha Physician Suffers Peculiar Malady at Loral Hospital. Mrs. Glenn Miller, wife of Dr. Mil ler, 2002 Deer Park boulevard. Is reported to be seriously ill at the Methodist hospital. Mrs. Miller was taken to the hospital a week ago and has had a high temperature that has puzzled physicians In consultation over the case. This morning at the hospital the case was diagnosed as typhoid fever. Mrs. Miller, formerly was Miss Frances Neble. daughter of Kophus Neble. editor of the “Danish Pioneer." Mr. Neble who had planned a trip to Florida, has postponed it on ac count of the Illness of Mrs. Miller. Henry Kingston Dies. Henry Kingston, OS, living on South Madison avenue, Council Bluffs, died last night at a Council Bluffs hos pital after an illness of five months He had lived in Council Bluffs for 40 years. He is survived by his widow and two sons, George and William, both of Council Bluffs. Candidate for Mayor. Kioux City, la., Dec. 2».—John A. Johnson, Sioux City attorney and for mer clerk of the district court, has announced his candidacy for mayor. MEN; Here's The Clothes Buy of the Season BERG’S CHOICE OF HOUSE Our Regular Stock of $35, $37.50, $40 and $45 Suits and O’coats--in one group at Better suits and overcoats, all beauti fully made and of fine materials. We have included in the sale national known makes of garments. Every color and every style you could want. 1 he biggest selling of men’s clothing this store has ever offered, and at prices that make the values almost unheard of. This store rarel> has a sale, the only merchandise carried in stock is our regular makes and usua qualities, yet we are taking every suit and overcoat in the place and niatK ing them at these ridicuously low prices..Men of Omaha, who know beig quality, will realize what this sale means in values. All $22.50 and $25 Suits and Overcoats Here is a group of our young men’s and men’s medium grade suits and overcoats. We thought we had them marked low at the former prices, but we have now marked them below cost, which is lower than anything ever offered before in this city. All Our $27.50, $30 and $32.50 Suits and O’coats In this group are very choice garments, of latest styles and textures, ultra styles for the young men and semi-conserv atives for others. Remember, this sale is of THIS year’s clothes, right from our racks here in the store. Our Finest Suits and Overcoats, Formerly $47“, $50, $55, $60 at Our choicest and most expensive suits and overcoats are all marked at this one price. Here are values rarely to be found at sale prices. The reduction is below actual cost to us. Don’t neglect to take ad vantage of our biggest sale now. Due to selling entire stock at less than cost are cannot make alter* atiuns at these prices. A nominal charge- will he made for changes. BERG CLOTHING CO. Home of Kuppenheitoer 1415 Fnrnam Street