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THE. BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1917.
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READING MATTER
FOR SOLDIERS
Selection of Literature For
Their Entertainment Should
Recognize Probabilities of
What They Do Not Like.
No small part of the keen curiosity
that the world has ' felt concerning
trench warfare, relates to the use of
idle time. In an army that was never
on the march, never free of the foe,
how was the strain relievcc in the
hours off duty Specifically, what
would one who formed a bit of living
wall against a wall of fire and fteel
feel like reading? Few subjects could
be more tempting to the speculator
in psychology, who in such a matter
could make out a most pla"usablc case
for any conclusion he chose to reach.
But it is not necessary to rely upon
guessing, masquerading as reasoning.
We have a mass of particulars. The
supplying of soldiers with some
thing to read began with the war.
The night after hostilities were de
clared between Germany and Eng
Jand. an Englishwoman, Mrs. II. M.
Gaskill, lay awake wondering how
she could help in the struggle. Ke
calling how much a certain book she
had read during a recent illness had
meant to her, she was taken with the
idea of providing reading matter for
the men at the front, in hospitals, and
elsewhere. In a few days Lady Bat
tcrsea lent her mansion for the work.
Lord Haldane officially approved the
plan, and . the first call for books
went out. ' . '
How Books Came.
The response was immediate and
mixed. Empty wagons had to te
hired and kept at the door for the
refuse that people had seized the op
portunity ot sending under -the pre
text of being charitable. Old parish
magazines were received and sent to
the ptilp-makcrs by the tens of thou
sands. . Enterprising householders
I were soon raking up copies of Punch
bearing the date 1846, , "Hints, to
Mothers." "How to Cut . c Blouse,
"Guides to English Watering-Places,
even old telephone directories and
mirablc dictu "Meditations Among
the Tombs," and patriotically dump
ing them upon the volunteer dis
tributers. Yet the first call brought
a full 1,000,000 well-selected books,
which included rare editions o. stand
ard authors. . The latter were sold,
: and7 the proceeds invested m volumes
of the kind most needed. So was
started an activity that speedily grew
and branched until it has become one
U of the great departments of war
work. Merely to collect adequate in
formation about it is a task of no
small size, but this has been done,
and the facts organized into an inter
esting story, by , Theodore Wesley
Koch, chief of the order division of
the Library of Congress. His ac
count, whkh has been appearing in
the Library Journal of the New York
public library, is now reprinted W
enlarged form in a pamphlet .having
the title, "Books in Camp, Trench,
and Hospital." ,
What They Do Not Read.
A glance , at hese pages suggests
' that The question of soldiers reading
should be revised to run, What do the
soldiers not read? . "Boswell and
; Pcpya," said Mrs. Gaskell, "Nick Car
ter, detective stories, the Bible, Nat
Gould, Wordsworth's 'Prelude,' ' a
mous Boxers the Koran, Miss Aus
, ten, Mark Twain, Marie Corelli,
Macaulav, . London Opinion. The
' Round Table, go side by aide." And
this not by any chance arrangement,
but in response to expressed prefer
ences from the front Mr. Koch tells
of a German soldier and his son who
' " had been sent from Verdun to the
Russian - front, where they were
wounded and captured. In adjoining
-beds they were . furnished by the
Young Men's , Christian association
with a copy of "Oliver Twist" and a
Russian grammar. In the same ward
was a young. Berlin professor who
had done research work in the British
museum. His brooding was relieved
by the gift of the "Christmas Carol"
and the inevitable Russian grammar.
A count Arho was a prisoner in a Rus
sian camp' asked for a good American
story, . " lie was given "Black Rock,"
and pronounced it one of the best
novels he had ever read, and asked the
Young Men's Christian association's
- secretary to send him ten others of
the same kind from America "after
" the war." A visit to Petrograd en
abled the secretary to gratify this de
sire earlier than the date the count
had named, and Ralph Connor, Gene
Stratton Porter and Jack London
never bad more grateful readers than
the count and his companions in ad
; versity. - . r K
"Detective" Stories Liked.
But surely, someone will say, there
are books that most soldiers like bet
V ter than they like others. This is true.
"Detective stories are shouted for."
The "favorite" authors "come in grand
- procession of favor," "Kipling, Jacobs,
Florence Barclay, John Oxenhatu,
' Rider Haggard, Dumas. rStevenson.
According to this soldiers are very
much like non-combatants. The par
tllcl goes further. Like non-combat-
not r oj
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afford
have thevJO
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for Coughs e Colds
makes it unnecessary for. yon
to be annoyed by that dragging
cold in the head. When your
ryes brgia to water, when yea become)
feverish end when yon begls to enooe,
take Dr. King's New Disomy- the
, popular mncdy (or SOysu. Knock
that congestion, break tin that hacking
eoHh vve Or. Kinc't Kev Dieeovcrf
clone u put Ton la good step,
tujttat jrour druoi. '
The Evil of Constipation
Leaving waste material in the body,
poisons the system, and blood and
. makes .you liable to sick headaches,
biliousness, nervousness and muddy
, "kin. Try Dr. King's New Life, Pilla.
Prompt relief, 25c. At all druggists.
Siberian Peasants Object
To Lenirie's Land Decree
Petrograd, Nov. 27. The peasant
congress of the Tomsk government
(West Siberia) has sent a message to
the all-Russian conference of The
peasant council at Petrograd express
ing disapproval of Premier Lenine's
land decree. The congress declares
that supervision of land affairs must
be left in the hands of the peasant
congress until the constituent assem
bly meets.
ants, they have their "highbrows."
Whether or not it is these that called
for the "Hundred Best Poems" and
even the "Hundred Be.st Love Poems"
may be matter of -controversy, but
there is no mistaking the "smart
young soldier" who limped slightly
and from whose pockets stuck, out a
copy of Browning. He had profited
by , three weeks in the convalescent
camp "to read for the first time the
whole of Keats and Wordsworth, and
was just beginning Browning." The
ambitious soldier was a musician, but
"you can't bring a 'cello with you on
active service," and so he had "fallen
back more on reading," of which he
was always (ond, but of which he had
done more in ten months in cam
than anv ten months at home. He
was looking out for a copy of Shelley
or Francis Thompson. He must have
been related to the man who was read
ing Macaulay's "History of Engdand."
A sergeant asked for half a dozen
copies of Omar Khayyam to give his
men at Christmas. Literary likings are
strengthened as well as broadened.
One soldier who knew nothing of
Dickens before he enlisted except the
"Tale of Two Cities' had read in
France "David Copperfield'V and
"Great Expectations," and was deep
in'Our Mutual Friend." ,
All this take no account of the re
quirements of men like those who
sent in a request for "The Agricul
tural Holding act, a Motor Manual,
Practical Navigation, Bee Keeping,
and Furniture, periods and styles."
No armies ever read like the armies
of today, because no armies could
read as they can read. Just why and
how the struggle affects literary in
clinations is less important than the
fact that among the items on he
credit, side of the terrible balance
sheet are. better acquaintance with
literature, major and minor, and a
stronger tendency te turn to it as to
a better worldv New York Evening
Post '
Carranza Increases Taxes
On Alcoholic Liquors
Mexico City, Nov. 27. President
Carranza has issued a decree increas
ing the taxes and import duties on all
wines and alcoholic liquors to take
effect January 1. All alcoholic liquors
produced in Mexico will .be ' subject
to a tax of 50 per cent and wines will
be taxed 25 per cent. Wines and al
coholic beverages of foreign make
will have to pay a stamp tax of 70 per
cent above the import" duties. For
eign made beer will be taxed 80 per
cent above the import duty.
Rear Admiral Cowles Dies.
" Redlands, Cal., Nov. 27.Rear Ad
miral Walter Cleveland Cowles, re
tired, died at his home here yesterday
after an illness of a week. Mrs.
Cowles and a son, Lieutenant W.
Cowles, U. . N., were with him at
the time. Arrangements for the fu
neral have not been completed.
GERMAN INDUSTRIES
HAVE HAND IN PRESS
,
Through News Bureaus Big
Business Tries to Control
Opinions in Neutral
Countries.
(Correspondence of The Associated Press.)
Copenhagen, Nov. 26. Attention is
now being directed by German liberal
socialist newspapers to efforts of big
business and industry to gain a com
manding position over the German
press and foreign news field. Before
the war Krupp and associated con
cerns in heavy manufacturing had fur
nished capital for an enterprise de
signed to assist German business
abroad, particularly in South Amer
ica and the orient, by a news service,
and during 'the war big businesses
have extensively financed news service
designed to manipulate neutral opin
ion by means of press dispatches.
One of these, the wireless concern
known as "Transocean," headed by a
former director of the foreign office
press1 bureau, formed the ambitious
project of establishing itself, through
control of wireless and a monopoly
of official and semi-official news dur
ing the war, in such a position in the
American field, that, after the war,
it would be able to continue to furnish
American' newspapers direct with its
brand of German news "delivered from
New York, as well as in South Amer
ica and Asia.
The American declaration of war
and rupture of wireless communica
tion blocked these plans for a time,
but the company a few weeks ago
held a meeting and doubled its capital
stock, money coming from the same
old sources.'
Now the Foreign Advertisement
company, a concern founded shortly
before the war, to act as distributing
center for advertising in both foreign
and domestic newspapers of a number
of great business and industrial con
cerns, has increased its capital from
200,000 to 1,000,000 marks and the Mu
nich Post is able to publish the names
of its stockholders and those of the
holding company controlling it. Forty-four
stockholders in the holding
company include a ''whole galaxy of
the heavy industrial world such as
Krupp, Stumm, the Hugo Stinnes
Steel Works association, the Sochuin
and Mulheitn mining syndicates and
the Augsburg machine factory, with
Director Hugenburg of .Krupps hold
ing voting control. . v
, The advertising company will be
able to dispose of the advertising of,
150 of the largest German concerns.
It Is pointed out in the press and ad
mitted by the founders that an insti
tution with such an amount of adver
tising to distribute may hope to in
fluence editorial views of newspapers.
Ambassadors;1gnore
i Reds' Peace Offer
London, Nov. 27. The Times' Pe
trograd correspondent savs he has
learned froi.. an authentic source that
there was a meeting of the foreign
ambassadors at the American em
bassy Friday night, at which it was
decided to ignore the note of Leon
Trotsky, the Bolsheviki foreign min
ister, demanding an armistice.
Doctor Tells Dow To Strengthen .
Eyesight 50 per cent In One
Week's Time In Many Instances
A Free Prescription You Can Have Filled
ana Uee at Horns.
Philadelphia, Pa. So you wear' glasses!
Are you a victim ot eye etrain or other eye
weakneatee? Ill o, you will be clad to
know that according to Dr. Lewis there '.
real hope for you. Many whose eyee were
falling- nay they have had their eyee re
stored through the principle of thia won
derful free prescription. One man cayi,
after trying it: "I was almoit blind; could
not aee to read at all. Mow I can read every
thing without any glance and my eyee do
not water, any more. At night they would
pain dreadfully; now they feel fin all the
time. It waa like a miracle to me." A lady
who need it says t "The atmosphere seemed
haiy with or without glasses, but after uiing
thia prescription: for fifteen days everything
seem clear. I can eren read fin print
without glasses." It la believed that thou
eanda who wear glaasee can now discard
them in a reasonable time and multitudes
more will be able to strengthen their eyes
so as to be spared the trouble and expense
ot ever getting glasses. Eye troubles of
many descriptions may be wonderfully
benefitted by following the simple rules,
Here ie the prescription: Go to any active
drug store and get a bottle of Bon-Onto tab.
lete. Drop one Bon-Opto tablet in fourth
of a, glass of water and allow-to dissolve.
With this liquid bathe the eyes two to four
times daily. You should notice your eyes
clear up perceptibly right from the start
and inflammation will quickly disappear.
If your eyee are bothering you, even a little,
take step to savethem now before it is
too late. Many hopelessly blind might have
been saved If the had cared for their
eyes In time.
Note: Another prominent Fhmlclan to whom the
above article waa animated, said: "Bon-Opto Is a
nry remarkable remedy. Its constituent Insredtenta
are known to eminent eye apeolallau end widely
preemoea or men. 'ine manufacturers guarantee It
to etrenfthea eyeslsht SO per cent In one weekt
ilme In many Instances or rernnd the money. It can
M obtained from any good druijlnt and Is one of
the very few preparations I feel should he kept en
sand for regular use In almost every family." It la
nld In this city bv Sherman s McConnelL C.
Melcher and other druiilsts. -Advertisement.
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STORE WILL CLOSE ALL
DAY THURSDAY,
THANKSGIVING.
Do your buying as early.
as possible Wednesday.
THE CASH STORE
STOE WILL CLOSE ALL
DAY THURSDAY,
THANKSG I VING.
Many attractive cash sales
arranged for Wednesday.
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$30 Suits and Overcoats
SUITS in all newest models in all wool Cassimeres,
Scotches and Worsteds.
OVERCOATS All most de'sirable styles in Belt
Coats, long Convertible Collar Coats, semi-dress styles, 1
short Trench models, etc.
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Manufacturers Sale of Women s Apparel Continues
Many new lots brought forward,
assortments r and values seldom,
equaled, never ' surpassed shown
Wednesday. , .f ,, - .
500 Classy New
Coats 'made to sell at $35 and $39, in fine
Pom Poms, Velours, Kerseys,
Chiffon, Broadcloths , a"nd thoice
novelties, 25 distinc
tive styles many fur
trimmed. Special
Cash Price
THANKSGIVING SALE
v ' OF BLOUSES
Two Remarkable Specials
Hundreds ot dainty jbiouaes in georgettes,
crepeB, crepe de chihe'aad satins, in flesh,
maize, biege white, and suit shades, 20 dif
ferent designs. v Special, each. ..... $5.00
At ' 17.50 Wednesday, 'have thft greatest
blouse values ever shown in hand em
broidered, georgette, beaded georgettes and
semt-tailleur blouses, all sizes. Wednesday
blouses. made to sell to $15, at.... $7.50
The most fascinating of the new
fashions in Coats, Suits, Dresses
arid Blouses '.' at surprisingly low
Uasn .trices.
Hundreds
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Of
Beautiful Coats
made to sell to $50. High class
Coats in Pom Poms, fine Kerseys,
Broadcloths, novelties, etc.' With
Opposum or Racoon collars or Kit
uoney ouar, uuits n)v
and around bottom. JMj
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MANUFACTURER'S
: STOCK OF DRESSES
made to sell at $35 , and $40- In
Satins, Georgettes, Serges,1
Crepe de Chiries, etc. In - broad
assortment of designs for street,
aiternoon ana dan-
cing frocks. ' Most
remarkable values
at, Cash Price J"
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MISSES' mD FOX SETS, AVEDNESDAT, $15.00.
50 Red Fox Fur Sets, in the season's new (JJ1 P AA
designsworth $20 to $23.00, Wednesday... .plt,UU
WEDNESDAY M0ENING SPECIAL.
N100 white quilled mandarin .vests, vashable, all
sizes, worth $1.50, Wednesday. . .. '. . 1 . . . . . . ,
95 c
A Most
Interesting
'Sale
OF BOYS CLOTHING FOR
, ; WEDNESDAY
Amanufacturer's entire siir
y plus ot Boys'. Knicker Suits
at the lowest price for. this
grade Of merchandise placed
on sale in this city. ,
! , Boys' Suits with' two pairs
of knickers,- in fancy mix
tures, cleanly tailored, rich
in patterns, made to stand
the wear and tear which only
a sturdy . growing boy caj
giYe,them Boys' Suits with
one knicker, b.eautiful
Scotches and cheviots. Values
up to HO,; and a full line of
all wool guaranteed fast col
or Blue Serges, worth $8.50
to 110.00. , .
Cash Price For
Saturday
$5,45
From 1 to 3 P. M. Wednesday'
;We Offer .39 Dozen Purchase
TRIMMED
HATS
Dress Shapes,
. Children's , Hats,
Values to $6.50,,
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No Phone Orders
No Deliveries.
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GOOD "THINGS TO EAT FOR
THANKSGIVING
.Why Not Buy
Christmas Gloves
Now!'
$2.50 Kid
Gloves, $1.80
i Over 500 "pairs of Ladies'
French Kjd and Lambskin
i Gldvesj black or white,,
plain' or embro idered
; backs,' all sizes, every pair '
'guaranteed perfect. Spe
! cial Cash Price. . .$1.80
A complete line of Cbil:
drn's .Dress, - and School
' Gloves and Mittens, in Eid
and knit, "all colors and
sizes. , . . .25 to' $1.50
Omaha's Greatest SANITARY MARKET Fancy Fresh
Ker your ThaitksgiTlnr Puddings.
Dee end CaktavtiM our famous IMa-
nwnd H flour, nothing . finer, per
tl-lb. eeclc lt.S5
The beat domcatlo Macaroni or
Spaghetti, pkg !H
JO-ounce jars pure Fruit Preserree
for We
Lares bottles Worreater Sauce or
PlckUa. assorted klnde Me
Large bottles pure tomato Catsup
for UV
Fancy Queen llvs. bottle tSe
i, pound cakes Baking Chocolate. 1 So
Sj-ounr jar pure Apple' Butter.. tSe
Jcllo for Deaavrt pkg. .......... Wo
X-ounce cane Condensed Wgk..H'i
. ls-ounre cans aaeorted soupe...HHo
No. 1 cane fancy Table Apricots or
Feaebee, put up Id Heavy syrup.
for Uto
ftipe Ollvee. per can. . .ItVlBe
Snider's Oyster Cocktail....... 15-We
No. 1 cans solid Packed , Tomatoes
for IBe
No.' 1 cans Golden Pumpkin... .le
No. 9 cane Hominy or 8o.uasb....lSe
No. S cans Bauerkraot.. lta
. No. I cans fancy Sweet Sugar. Com
. for We
No. 3 cans 'Wax or String Beans.. IBe
No. cans Early June Peas 15e
No. 1 cans Pork and Beans IVfce
No. S cans Pork and Beans lno
Tbs Best Mixed Sow Mate. lb.....tOc
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Vancy California Prunes, lb., ItH-IBe
'Fancy California Mulr Peacbes, par
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Fancy CalifornU Moor Park Apri
cots, per lb ..........tge
Fancy t Crown Muscatel cooking
Raisins, per lb.... lttte
Fancy Golden Sultana Raisins. Ib.lSe -Fancy
California Seedless Raisins.
per lb lie
Fancy Seedlees Retains, pkg. .1-1H ,
Mince Meat, pkg. M-UHe
The beet Lemon or Orange Peel, per
pound ............. ...30
The best Citron Peel. lb......... Me
Pure Apple Cldur, g&llon .3Se.
Fancy Sweet Valencia Oraneea. per
' dosen lU-3Mc
Fancy Cooking Apples. peck.....49e
Large Grape Fruit, e.ich ...... .He
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Golden Santos Coffee, lb. -..SOc
Diamond -H Santos, prr lb......,.S3c
Marlcaibo Blend, per lb tSe
Potto Klco Blend, per lb. i'e
. Aukola Blend, per lb .......SOc
H. B. C. Speclfci. per lb 35c
3 lbs. for 11.00
"15 IBS. BEST OHIO POTATOES
FOB tue
Fresh Shalote. F.adinhee, Beets, Car.
rota. Turnips or Kndire. bunch.. 5e
Fancy Head 'ettuce, head....?tt-Ie
Brusell Sprov.ti, per lb ls
Pascal Celery. stalks on bunch.. IBe
'Michigan Celery, 3 for. ...... .....10c
1 heads fresh Leaf Lettuce. ......10c
Hubbard Squash, per lb.. ....... .!
New Cabbage, per Ib tHe
Fancy Cranberries, per lb.. ......lee
Old Beets, Carrots, Turnips, Parsnips'
or Rutabagas, per lb Ve
Fresh Horseradish Root, per lb..Ue
FANCr YAKIMA JONATHAN AP
PLES, PER BOX 11.75
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Food Display,, ltk St. Window.
Dressed Poultry
': Of All fands at Lowest ' -V,
Market Prices.
Our Sanitary
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e$rj Turkeys, Geese,
Ducks, Chickens.
The very best quality we r
you as Cash Buyers can procure,
and that means the best procur
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