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THE BEE: OMAHA. MONDAY, MAY 28, 1917.
Briej City Netva
Har. Hoot Print l( New beacon Press
Platinum Wedding Rings Edohlni,
Jeweler.
Elgiit-lncli Electric I an. S7.00
Burgeas-uranden Co.
No Luncheons Memorial Dny No
luncheons will be served ut the Com
merclttl club dining room on Memorial
day.
Tr the noonday M-cent luncheon
at me impress uuraen, amidst pleas'
ant surroundings, music and entertain'
ment. Advertisement.
John Cogan to Talk John Cogan of
Ireland will address the Salesmanship
club Monday night at a meeting at
' the Hotel Fontenelle. He will speak
on The baiesman s Iew Job.
Postpone Trip to Triangle The city
commissioners postponed for one week
a trip to squatter settlements. The
Wlnspear "triangle," along the river
bottoms, will be investigated by the
officials, who have received many com
plaints against this tract.
Says Sbe Was Deserted Mathilda
Hagdahl, who is suing August Hag
dahl for divorce in district court, was
married to him In Sweden February
10, 1900. She says he deserted her
May 15, 1913. 8he asks the court to
restore her maiden name ot Mathilda
Ooransson.
( Peter Boys StaaU Oemokrnt The
Omaha Daily Tribune has absorbed
the Btaats Demokrat ot Columbus.
' This makes the third paper Val Peter,
publisher of the Omaha publication,
has absorbed since January 1. The
others were the Platte Hiver Zeltung
of Fremont and the Volksblatt of
West Point
Heavy Fine for Bootlegging Strude
Alcois, a liveryman at ttosaue, jncd.,
was found guilty by a jury in federal
court of selling liquor to Indians. He
was sentenced by Federal Judge Pol
lock to six months in the Hall county
jail and to pay a fine of $300, Ntcols
refused to plead guilty to one of the
, three counts on which he was indicted
and Insisted on standing trial.
"Red" Martin Fined John "Red1
Martin, an employe of the Martin
employment agency, was fined $100
and costs for violation of the prohibi
tlon law. While bringing forty-one
men from Kansas City to be used
as strikebreakers in the bollermak
ers strike he gave the men whisky
and had It in his possession. A suit
case said to belong to him filled with
whltiky was confiscated. He filed bonds
lor an appeal,.
Commission Man Sued Minerva
Brown, 2312 I street, suing Earl
Brown, South Side commission man
and member of the Live Stock ex
change, for diorvce in district court,
alleges cruelty. They were married
at Guthrie Center, la., February 9,
1906, and have one son, Donald D.
Brown. On application of Mrs. Brown
the court Issued an order restraining
him from molesting her, drawing any
funds from the bank or selling his
membership in the Live Stock ex
change during the pendency of the
suit.
Given Another Chnnce E. H. Mer-
rifield, living at 2416 Charles street,
pleaded guilty to the larceny of gro
. cerles from the store of Hayden Bros.
valued at $8.33. Ho was employed
as a driver. The H. C. of L. proved
stronger than his will power and the
ease with which he could carry out
groceries led to his downfall. He
was sentenced to thirty days In Jan,
but upon his promise aTever to err
again ana tne tact tnat ne was mar
ried and the father of four children
the sentence was suspended. He has
made arrangements to pay for the
groceries, taken in small installments,
Metal dies, pressn'k. Jubilee Mfg. Co,
Dynamite Explosion
Shakes Muskogee, Okl.
Muskogee, Okl., May 27.This
city was shaken by a terrific explosion
at 1:30 o'clock this morning. Windows
were broken allover the city. Im
mediately five riot calls from scat
tered parts of the city were received
at police headquarters.
The explosion, the police said, was
at the powder magazine of the Mus
kogee vitrified brick plant, at the
northern outskirts of the city, where
1,000 pounds of dynamite was stored.
The riot alarms were given by peo
ple who believed their homes were
being robbed.
Windows were broken at Wagoner,
Okl., twenty miles away.
, Boynton. twenty miles west, felt
the explosion.
i
Well Preserved Oak
Logs Found in Sand Pits
, Fremont,; Neb,, May 27. (Special
Telegram.) Well preserved oak logs
iiave been found by workmen thirty
feet under ground at the Lyman sand
wis west of Fremont. The trees are
petrified, but all the original qualities
were preservedv The theory yf resi
dents in that section is that the Plafte
river at one time, perhaps, centuries
ago, had its course along where the
lake is being formed.
There are no oak trees in the Platte
valley except those that have been
transplanted.
Monday Will See, Start
Of Athletic Building
The Seldcn-Cri ck Construction
company on Monday expects to begin
excavation on the new $400,000 Ath
letic club building to be erected on
Douglas street, between Seventeenth
and Eighteenth streets. Wrecking of
the old building, the Douglas audi
torium, is finished.
Officials of the construction com
pany expect to have the club building
ready for opening Christmas day.
They do not expect strikes of teani
iters and other workmen to interfere.
Lobeck Will Stop Here
Enroute U Lane Funeral
(From m Staff Correspondent.)
Washington, May 27.-(Special Tel
egram.) Congressman Lobeck, who
left yesterdayto join the party of sen
ators and representatives, to attend
the funeral of the late Senator Harry
Lane of Oregon, which will be held in
Portland on Tuesday, will stop in
Omaha for several days on his return
from the northwest. i
High School Boys Will
. Gather California Crop
San Francisco, Cal., May 27.
Plans for mobilizing 47,000 high
school boys to aid in harvesting Cali
fornia's fruit and other crops, were
formulated at a conference here to
day between the educational officials.
It is planned also to secure as many
high school girls as possible for can
nery work this summer.
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy.
The personal recommendation of
people who have teen cured of coughs
and colds by Chambsrlain's Cough
Remedy have done much towards
making this preparation one of the
COMPROMISE ON
ESPIONAGE BILL
Newspaper Censorship Pro
vision Changer, Modifying
Matter Already Incorpor
ated in the Bill.
Washington, May 26. A new com
promise provision for newspaper cen
sorship was agreed upon yesterday by
the conferees on the espionage .bill.
They regarded it as greatly modifying
the one agreed on yesterday.
The new draft proposes that con
gress shall prohibit publication of
military information, but not that re
?:arding "equipment" of the armed
orces and instead of authorizing the
president to make censorship rules
and refutations confers upon him
merely the power to permit publica
tion ot matter prohibited by tne sec
tion.
Matter Struck Out.
Other matter obiectionable to those
in congress leading the opposition to
censorship legislation also was struck
out. Instead ot prohibiting public
tion of information that may be use
ful to the enemv it would prohibit
such information that "shall" be use
ful. The new clause follows:
"When the United States is at war
the publishing wilfully of information
with resoect to the movement, num
bers, descriptions or disposition of
the armed torces ot the United states
in naval operations or with respect to
any of the works intended tor the
fortifications or defense of any place
which information is useful to the
enemy, is hereby prohibited and the
president may from time to time by
proclamation declare the character of
such above described information
which in his opinion is not useful to
the enemy and thereupon, it shall be
lawful to publish the same.
For Jury to Determine.
"In any prosecution hereinur.dcr the
.L. i, j. in
jury iryuig inc case oiiau ucicumuc
not' only whether the defendant did
wilfully publish such formation, but
also whether such information was of
such character as to be useful to the
enemy, provided that nothing in this
section shall be construed to limit
or restrict any discussion, comment
or criticism of the acts or policies
of the government or its representa
tives or the publication of the same
if such discussion, comment or critism
does not disclose information herein
prohibited."
Agreement also was reached by the
conferees on the export embargo and
search warrants sections and that pen
alizing interference with foreign com
merce. All were given wider scope,
J. R. Perkins Dies at
His Daughter's Home
J. R. Perkins, 81 years old, for thir-
I ty-five years a resident of Omaha,
diet? at midnight at the home ot his
daughter, Mrs. L. A. Trexler, 4221
Parker street. He is survived by his
daughter, a brother and five sisters.
Funeral services will be held at
the Trexler home Tuesday afternoon
and the body taken to Bennet, Neb.,
for burial. The family requests that
no flowers be sent.
Mr. Perkins came to Omaha in
1882 For many years he followed his
profession as a boiler and elevator
inspector.
He was born at South Franklin, N.
Y., July 2, 1835. He served through
the civil war in the first New York
Mounted Rifles. Mr. Perkins for many
years had been a member of the Ma
sonic fraternity.
Omaha War News
Omahans who would like some ex
pert advice ot. the subject of city
farming or gardening may obtain it
through the navy recruiting office.
Oliver Stedry, 23 years old, Broken
Bow, Neb., has enlisted in the navy.
He will remain in Omaha two weeks
before he is sent to a training station.
Stedry, according to Ensign Rayley,
is a wizard on subjects pertaining to
the soil and its products. He has been
a farmer ail his life, Rayley says,
and knows farming from A to Izard
and Alpha to Omega. "He brought
his overalls along with him," Rayley
announced, "and is ready to go to
work for anybody who wants him
during the two weeks' period or any
part thereof. Here's a chance for
some Omahan to get a real practical
farmer to he'n him beat the high cost
of existence."
"There should be no comparison
made between the number of enlist
ments in the regular army and in
the National Ouard, says Captain
McKinlev. "in consideration of the
fact that during the last week eighty
three mer. were enlisted in the army
and only sixteen in the National
Guard in Omaha. There is nothing
surprising in this, since the army has
facilities for advertising which the
guard has not. The difference is prob
ably due to the difference in advertis-
ing. 1 nave a nign appreciation oi
the National Guard. It is doing a
needed service and I always speak
well of the personnel of the guard. It
and the regular army are doing the
same quality ot service and tne oppor
tunities for service and advancement
in the two in my opinion are equal.
There is no effoit that I know of to
discredit the National Guard by army
officials. The fact that some few of
the men not deemed acceptable by
the examining officers of the guard
have been accepted by the army offi
cers in Omiha is accountable tor by
the fact that aotors disagree. There
is nothing unusual about it."
The navv recruiting station in Oma
ha accepKu twelve men Saturday,
bringing the total up to 1,007 since
April 1. Twenty-six men are adver
tising and soliciting recruits for the
navy in this district, which comprises
Nebraska and South Dakota. Seven
of these agents are traveling. Postal
authorities aid but little, says Lieu
tenant Waddell, tor the prospective
recruits must be examined either by
one of the seven traveling agents
or at one of the four recruiting sta
tions in these two states.
Omaha has enlisted 3.053 men in
the army since April 1. In April en
listments totaled 1,334. In May this
total was increased to 3,123, but of
this number seventy were turned
down aftfl they reached Fort Logan,
making the net total 3,053. Omaha
must enlist 1,752 men between this
date and June 17 in order to fill the
requirement of the district.
Printing Company Buys
Fifty Liberty Loan Bonds
The Feslncr Printing company and
its employes have made application
for fifty liberty loan bonds, according
to announcement of E. O. Peterson,
secretary. The firm will carry most
of the bonds, but employes have sub
scribed for several. Two employes of
the f estnet hrm nave joined the col
ors, Harry Holden signing up with
the army, while Joe Rabb has en
listed in the navy.
HAPPENINGS IN
THE MAGIC CITY
Farmer Lad Declares "Back to
Soil" Is Right Doctrine
as He Starts for
Home.
A tired and homesick young man
walked out of the Stock Exchange
building Saturday noon, remarking as
he left, "Back to the farm for me."
He said he had come in with a stock
train from southwestern Nebraska
just a week ago, determined to make
his fortune in the city but after one
week's experience he said he discov
ered he was only a scrap a little bit
of dust in the big whirlwind in the
great stock market and packing cen
ter. Therefore, back to the soil he
went, saying that he was going to
help dad rciucc the high cost ot exist
ing by helping care for the big corn
crop that these recent rains have made
practically certain.
High School Play.
The South Side High school will
present its annual play, "The Wild
Rose," in the high school auditorium
Tuesday evening. The following stu
dents are in the cast:
Beatrice Farrar Kthelyn Beracr
Lillian Pl-S. Helen Van Sunt
Margerltc Price. Mildred Bliss
Lauretta Van Sant Want-he Crowe
Mario Brady Itlua KorbmsKcr
Irene Nlff Marserot Heater
Marsaret Peart Irma Abhott
Harietta Puke Dorothy Nlman
Miss MrCune, musical director, is
directing the play.
Seniors Give Play, Too.
The senior class will present its
class play, "The Thread of Destiny,"
at the South Omaha High school audi,
torium June 13. The following high
school theipians are in the cast:
Bertha Hoden Helen Bush
Carrie Hutchinson James Bradford
Martha Adams Jessie Tucker
Hope Hibbard Milton Christiansen
Sadla Hothhols Millard Qraner
Bernard Walsh Clare McMillan
Lela Hunter Magna Home
Dudley Inghram Fern Williams
Marjort Mullen Elsie Bush
Elmer Tlssell Harold Caldwell
Bllen Schneider Leonard Voborll
Helon Licbnosky Fay Card
Divine arah at Besse.
Madame Sarah Bernhardt will posi
tively appear at the Besse theater to
morrow afternoon and evening and
the regular price of admission will
be charged.
Mabel Taliafero comes Tuesday.
Wednesday is the big special day.
Two features this day. Miss Lenore
Ulrich in "Her Own People" and
Fatty Arbuckle in "A Reckless
Romeo."
Thursday Lou Tellcgen in "The
Black Wolf."
Friday Clara Kimball Yb
loung in
"The Badge of Shame."
Remember this program will be
presented Just as stated here.
Y. M. C. A. Campaign Fund
Reaches Eight Thousand
More than a third of the Young
Men's Christian association war fund
has been raised, $8,054 being sub
scribed Friday. Subscriptions report
ed Saturday included: Mr. and Mrs.
J. A. Monroe, $200; Peters Trust com
pany, $200; Robert Dempster, $100;
Robert Cowell, $50; Warren Switrler,
$50; a friend, $50.
Only a small percentage of the peo
pie solicited refused to give, says
Chairman C. A. Goss of the local
committee on war work cf the "Y."
The local Young Men's- Christian
association has already established an
association with Company A and one
with Company B of the Fourth Ne
braska, Nebraska City was the first in the
state to 'raise its fullapportionment.
It now has raised $2,000.
Executive headquarters in New
York City wired Saturday that $2,
000,000 of the necessary $3,000,000 had
been raised.
Nebraska workers are anxious to
raise more than their allotted $60,000,
because "unexpected opportunities
have developed for co-operation with
the army and navy."
Negro Killed in Race
Riot in New York City
New York, May 27. A negro was
shot and killed by a policeman in a
race riot neat Sixty-second street and
Amsterdam avenue tonight. Another
was tound with a fractured skull in
a doorway.
The shooting followed a call for
police reserves after trouble broke out
between negroes and white residents
of the neighborhood.
Several persons were more or less
seriously injured and many arrests
were made. Two policemen were
slashed on their hands with knives
or razors wielded by negroes.
The clash occurred when a uni
formed member of the home defense
league attempted to arrest one of the
negroes. A crowd auicklv collected
and a free-for-all fight started.
Union Enemies to Control
Coal, Says John White
New York. Mav 27. Declaring that
the program recently outlined by the
committee on coal production of the
Council of National Defense would
place the great coal areas of the na
tion at the dictation of the avowed
enemies of union labor, with all the
calamities that would entail," John P.
White, president of the United Mine
Workers of America, today addressed
a protest to President Wilson and the
members of the Council of National
Defense.
Fremont Red Cross Party.
Fremont. Neb.. Mav 27. ( Special
Telegram.) The Red Cross party
Friday afternoon netted $105.50, which
will be used for furthering the work
,;t tne organization in f remont. thirty-five
new members were added dur
ing the afternoon by the committee,
prizes were given at cards and a silver
ottering was taken. All prizes were
jonated by merchants. One hundred
and fifty Fremont women attended.
Persistent Advertising is the Road
to Success.
HOUSE DEMANDS BIG
, CUT INFOOD FOND
Appropriation for Survey and
Stimulation Bill to Be Re
duced by More Than
$3,000,000.
Washington, May 27. Reduction
by more than $3,000,000 in appropria
tions carried by the administration's
food survey and stimulation bill was
agreed to by the house yesterday and
consideration virtually was completed
in committee of the whole.
Final passage of the measure
carrying a total of $14,770,500 is ex
pected Monday. The senate debated
a similar bill throughout the day
without making material progress and
the time of passage there still is in
doubt. '
All reductions in the house measure
were suggested by the agricultural
committee. Two remain to be for
mally adopted, but there probably
will be no objection to them.
Material Reductions,
Those accepted today were:
"For combatting diseases of live
stock and enlarging production re
duced from $2,010,000 to $885,000; for
seed distribution and eradication of
insects, and plant diseases from $6,
500,000 to $6,119,000 and for increas
ing food production and eliminating
waste from $4,500,000 to $4,348,300."
On Monday the committee will
recommend that the food survey ap
propriations be reduced from $3,500,
000 to $2,522,000 and the miscella
neous section from $2,000,000 to
$796,200.
Persons employed in carrying out
the work provided for in the bill
would be liable to military service
under an amendment offered by Rep
resentative McKenzic of Illinois, and
adopted.
No Exemption Jobs,
The proposal followed charges by
republicans that unless it were spe
cified that such work could not be
regarded as a cause for exemption,
the bill would furnish 7,500 new po
sitions in which democrats could
make themselves secure from draft.
Little progress was made in the
senate, although virtually the entire
day was devoted to debate. The bill
will come up again Monday.
Owing to objections to the $5,400,
000 appropriation carried in the bill
as introduced in the senate to fight
cholera and other diseases among
live stock, Chairman Gore of the agri
culture committee agreed during' the
debate to a reduction to $4,100,000.
Irrigated District
Planted for War Needs
(From l. Staff Correspondent.)
Lincoln, May 27. (Special.) A. R.
Honnold of Scottsbluff, Neb., dis
trict counsel of the Reclamation serv-i
ice at the direction of the chief
counsel, Judge Will R. King of Wash
ington, stopped in the city last night,
returing from the Conservation con
gress at Omaha, having business with
the land commissioner.
"The Reclamation department is
consistent with the request being sent
out by the administration to look after
the production of foodstuffs," said
Mr. Honnold. "Every acre under the
government irrigation project in west
ern Nebraska, to which water is avail
able, is this year under cultivation.
Those who were so unfortunate as
not to have credit to purchase seed,
have been provided with that credit
by a community interest, so tiiat every
acre is producing something. In addi
tion, several hundreds of acres to
which water is not yet available has
been leased for dry farming purposes
by the government."
Pacific Coast Reported
Facing Big Fuel Famine
San Francisco, Cal.. May 27. Pa
cific coast states are facing a possible
fuel famine, according to a statement
issued here today by Southern Pa
cific railroad officials. The shortage
applies to wood, coal and oil.
Dearth of coal is caused by short
age of labor in the coal mines, short
age of ships for coastwise and foreign
coal and lack of squipment for rail
transportation. The wood situation
is so serious, the report says, that the
Southern Pacific company has deter
mined to reclaim all scrap piles, ties
and second-hand lumber along its
lines. The company says that its re
serve supply of oil for locomotives
is almost exhausted and that within
four months it will be short the daily
requirements by 12,000 barrels.
In conclusion the statement urges
that the public avoid all waste and
conserve every possible source of fuel
supply.
Report American Seamen
Still Held in Germany
Geneva (Via Paris), May 27. The
Associated Press is informed that the
Geneva Red Cross has received thus
far the names of ninety-seven Ameri
can prisoners in Germany. The list
has been forwarded to Washington.
The majority of the American priso
ners are sailors from captured
ships, who were taken before the
declaration of a state of war between
the United States and Germany and
therefore it is claimed-, should accord
ing to international law, be released.
Nevertheless Germany is retaining
them as hostages. The American
prisoners are interned in two camps
and are treated under the same severe
regime as are British prisoners. The
British prisoners receive parcels of
food from home, but the Americans
are suffering from hunger and from
lack of necessities. It is claimed they
are treated badly.
McAdoo, in Closing Talk,
Says Money First Weapon
Columbus, O., May 27. Secretary
of the Treasury William G. McAdoo
made the closing address of his mid
dle western tour in the interest of the
Liberty loan bond sale in Columbus
last night. Immediately after the ad
dress, he and W. F. U. Harding, gov
ernor of the Federal Reserve bank
(system, who also spoke, departed for
Washington.
Mr. McAdoo brought the large au
dience to their feet when he referred
to the sale of the bonds as the first
"battle" of the United Stales against
miiltary autocracy and for world lib
erty and urged the necessity of strik
ing auicklv and effectively with
America's first weapon money.
Armour Expert Compiles
Treatise on Hog-Raising
A treatise on hog raising from the
viewpoint oUhc packer has been com
piled and is being sent out to the
swine raisers of the country by Ar
mour & Co. The booklet is the work
of E. R. Gentry, general hog buyer
for Armour & Co., assisted by Dr. R.
J. H. Le Loach, director of Armour's
bureau of agricultural research, and
education,
BUTTER AND EGGS
' HELDJNSTORAGE
Immense Increase in With
drawn Stocks Reported by
Department of Agriculture.
Creamery butter and eggs have been
going into winter quarters at a lively
rate since the beginning of May. The
office of market and rural organization
of the Department of Agriculture, un
der date of May 22, makes the follow
ing report on the amount of butter
and eggs now held in storage in the
United States:
Reports from 314 cold storages show
that their rooms contain 6,239.716
Sounds of creamery butter while on
lay 1, 304 storages reported 2,695,473
pounds. The 254 storages that re
ported holdings on May 15 of this year
and last show a present stock of 5,
688,732 pounds as compared with 1,
652,991 pounds last year, an increase
of 4,035,741 pounds or 244.1 per cent.
The reports show that during the
period from May 1 to May 15, the
May 1 holdings increased 67.2 per
cent, while our last report showed that
during April, the April 1 holding de
creased 57.8 per cent. Last year the
increase during the period from May
1 to May 15 was 54.9 per cent, and in
April the decrease was 58.6 per cent.
Reports from 368 cold storages
show that their rooms contain 3,259.-
860 cases of eggs while on May 1, 378
storages reported l,6VS,al4 cases. Ihe
.102 storages that reported holdings on
May 15 of this year and last show a
present stock of 2,9y3,528 cases as
compared with 3,595,959. cases last
year, a decrease of 602,431 cases, or
"16.8 per cent. The reports show that
from May 1 to May 15, the Way )
holdings increased 74.3 per cent, while
our last report showed that during
April, the April 1 holdings increased
997.9 per cent. Last year, the increase
from May 1 to May 15 was 49.7 per
cent, and during April was 768.8 per
cent.
FRENCH IDEA OF A PICNIC
American Institution Appealed to
Foreign Visitors in Colonial
Days.
That pleasant word "picnic," so pop
ular at all times in our country, played
havoc with the spelling powers of
our French visitors of colonial days.
Their ways of rendering it were va
rious, of which let "pique-nique" be
a sample. Their appreciation was as
enthusiastic as their spelling of it was
uncertain. Nor was it the only word
to be manaied. for Bar oil Closen
writes "Janckey Dudle," as the nick
name given us by the English, and
Volney delights to tell of "Kentokey."
Bayard shall give us an account of
one picnic which he attended:
"Laborers are sent the day before
to cut down branches and make a
small inclosure near a private house
whose kitchen is lent for such cooking
as is necessary, but always it must
be near a river, the host brings cold
meats, pastries, etc., and the china
and silver are set out on tables cov
ered with fine linen. At soon as a
guest arrives he is given cold punch
in a large china loving cup, often con
taining three or tour bowlstul, which
he passes around the circle, and is
carried to every one's lips. Few
French become acustomed to this
ancient way of drinking, and in
America, where almost all the men
chew tobacco, it is expressly untidy.
In the cities everybody has his own
glass for beer or wine, but toddy and
punch are drunk from a lovine cud.
Toddy is a drink made of brandy,
sugar and tepid water, in which are
placed one or two roasted crab apples
and a tittle muscat,
"When the whole company is as
sembled, the servants put off in the
boats and nets arc thrown into the
water; the banks of the river resound
with applause if the fishermen make
a good catch. The fish are shown to
the spectators, who order them either
to be cooked or thrown back into the
water. The ladies intercede for the
pretty ones, but the gourmands of
America, much less gallant than those
of Europe, won't let a pleasing morsel
escape for alt the beautiful eyes in the
world." Yale Review.
Lineman Found Dead.
Yankton, S. D., May 27. (Special
Telegram.) Ray Wingrove. North
western Telephone company lineman,
working out of Sioux Falls, and liv
ing at Arion, la., was found dead
close to the Milwaukee track, three
miles west of this city this afternoon.
it is supposed he tell or was torced
off an eastbound freight train which
passed shortly before the body was
found.
No Nensltlse.
An attorney was consulted by a woman
desirous of bringinr action acalnst her hus
band for a dlvorre.
She related a harrowlnr tale of the til
treatment she had received at his hands.
So Impressive was her recital that the law
yer (or a moment was started out of his
usual professional composure.
"From what you say this man must be
a brute of the worst type!" he eiclalmed.
The applicant for divorce arose and,
with severe dignity, announced:
"Hlr, I shall consult another lawyer. I
came here to set advice as to a divorce,
not to hear my husband abused 1" Chicago
Hernld.
it Hounded Hopeful.
A young man who was not particularly
enterlalnlnr waa monopolizing the atten
tion of a pretty debutante with a lot of
uninteresting conversation.
"Now, my brother," he remarked In the
course ot a dissertation on hie family, "la
Just the opposite of me In every respeat.
Do you know my brother?"
"No," the debutante replied demurely,
"but I ahould like to." New York Times.
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THREE MEN ROBBED,
TWO BYSAME MAN
Grocery of H. Holbund Held Up
and Looted; R, A. Bullis
Stopped on Street
by Thuij.
Three holdups within a half hour
Saturday night put the police on a
busy hunt for the stickup men.
The grocery store of H. Holbund,
Thirtieth and Burdette streets, was
entered and the proprietor was made
to stive over $8 from the cash till at
the persuasion of a large nickel-plated
revolver, held by a negro, whose de
scription is given as being of light
color, 23 years of age, dark colored
checkered suit and cap and weighing
about 140 pounds.
This description tallies in detail
with that given by R. A. Hullis, 1914
Webster street, of the negro who
held him up between Eighteenth and
Nineteenth streets on Webster. Hullis
fell a victim to the extent of $16.50.
Both of these robberies were between
8:30 and 9 o'clock.
About the same time Joe Hawkins,
2917 Parker street, was stopped by
two white men at Thirty-ninth and
Parker streets, and relieved of the
loose change in his pockets. The po
lice have secured good descriptions of
the three footpads and are keeping
a sharp lookout. (
New British Bank Called
British Trade Corporation
(Correspondence of The Associated Press.)
London April 30. The British bank,
which has now received its charter
from King George, will be called the
British Trade corporation. It is ex
pected that business men in the coun
try will be able to extend their for
eign trade by means of credit and
other assistance from this institution.
such as is not granted lit established
British banks and they will be able
to compete on more equitable terms
with German competitors who have
hpn tinanrefl Hirprtlv nr indireettv
by their government in practically all
trade operations.
War Increases the Value of
All Ocean-Going Vessels
(Correspondsnce of The Associated Press.)
Liverpool, April 30. The tremen
dous increase in the value of ships
since the war is well illustrated by
two transactions which have just been
made in the shipping world. A steel
single-decked steamer of 591 tons
gross, built in 1904, has been sold to
British buyers for 28,000. This
vessel changed hands early in 1915 for
9,000, Another steel single-decked
steamer of 2,996 tons gross, built in
1898, has been sold for about 223,000.
Its original owners sold it in 1910 for
approximately 15,00.
Harold Remedy.
Tha physician to whom the Irishman had
applied for relief from a stomach ailment
Baked on tha oooaalon of hla last visit:
"Have you been drinking the very hot
water an hour before aach meat, as t di
rected? If so, how do you feel now?"
"Doc" said tha Celt, "I tried hard to
do It, but I had to quit. I drank for thirty
five mlnutee, and It made ina feel Ilka a
balloon I" New York Times.
HTHE dumbest oyster can make
a better pearl than the bright
est man. The oyster a
uses Nature's methods. Ot$0iy
NATURE SAYS smoking tobacco is at Stt beet
after two yean' ageing. That it Vhy Vahret it
"aged in the wood" two yeart the natural way, tha
slow way and tho tun way.
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of a friction-crippled motor by using
polarine.
THE STANDARD OIL VOR ALL MOTORS
Holds its body at any eyllndn heat or engine speed. Ends carboni
sation, ovathaatlng, and scored cylinders. Every drop pan,
Look for tha Polerine elan It atanda fer a reliable dealer who will aiva au
what you eek lor. ,Uee Red Crown Oasoune, tha power-full motor IW.
STANDARD OIL COMPANY
(Nebraska) OMAHA
NEBRASKA BANKERS
TO PUSHBOND SALE
Chairman McNish of Stat
Committee Says Subscrip
tions to $22,000,000
Will Be Obtained.
F.very bank in Nebraska will be ex
pected to obtain Liberty bond sub
scriptions for an amount equal to 6
per cent of its total resources as
shown by its last published state
ment, according to Jesse C. McNish,
chairman of the state committee in
charge of the sale and distribution of
the bonds.
Mr. McNish said a chairman would
be appointed in each county in Ne
braska for the purpose of inaugurat
ing an aggressive publicity campaign
and to urge effective personal solicita
tion on the part of bankers to insure
the success of the subscription of the
$22,000,000 bonds allotted the state.
"People generally are beginning to
realize the seriousness of the situa
tion and the necessity for prompt and
aggressive action on the part of every
man, woman and child in tins coun
try," said Chairman McNish.
"Everyone must be brought to a
full sense of realization of the fact
that he can and must do something.
F.very citizen of Nebraska should be
the proud possessor of a Liberty bond,
for Nebraska is purely an agricul
tural state, and agriculture Is being
universally recognized today, perhaps
for the first time in the history of the
world, as the prime business of the
human race.
"The owner of a Liberty bond not
alone has the safest investment,
which is free from taxation and may
be exchanged for bonds at a higher
rate if issued, but he is assisting in an
early and successful termination of
the war.
"Our Nebraska committee is not
only co'operating with the general
committee of the American Bankers'
association, but with the Federal Re
serve bank of Kansas City, in that
the efforts of all engaged in this great
movement may be so co-ordinated ai
to insure the oversubscription of the
bonds."
A Bad OoinmleaorUs, .
(tecrotary of War 'Baker waa.jralalng the
commissariat department of tha army. ,
"It stood tha atraln of tho Mexican crlala
well.'' he said. "Everybody waa fed boun
tifullyeverybody would have oontlnuad to
be fed bountifully to tha end. Thar was
nothlnv here to aussest old Noekm.
"Old Noska, a resular, boarded a street
ear one day. A man looked at him and
said:
" 'Yep,' said Noaka. ' , '
" 'Well, friend,' aald tha manT take a
look at me. I'm tho cuy that supplies
fhe regular army with tta butter.'
"Old Noska BTltted hla teeth, and, with
out a word kicked tha buttar dealer Uiroash
the window.
" 'Now brlns on,' he said, tha sor that
auppllsa tha esse.' " Waahlnston Star.
Barlow Omission.
At a camp meatlne wharo hata were
uaed as collection baskets tha preacher
said: "Let ua alng whlla tho hats' ara
oomlnff In.'
Tha planlet, after soma fumbllns with the
pases , turned to him and Midi "I oan't,
find It."
"Be pardon," aald the preacher, not
underslandlns.
"Why," replied tha pianist, "I can't find
that aons, 'While tha ltata Ara Comlnv In,'
In my book." The Christian Herald.
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