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-A TITE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: SEPTEMBER 1, 1918. SOUTH SIDE AUGUST CATTLE RECORD BROKEN r IN SOUTH OMAHA 4 Month's Run Exceeds Best Pre vious Record for the Same Month by- More Than 14,003 Head. The month's run of cattle at the Omaha yards has .uKcn '. records for ....a wi . -"just The Jk this month amount to 157,866 head or 25,000 mere than . year agj nd 14,000 more than the previous -finer August run of 1910, when 143, 222 '- "-ere received. The increase in catt!e receipts so far this year as compared with the sarr.. eljit months of the year 1917 mow amounts to over a quarter of a 4 The run of sheep was next to the largest August receipts on record, the total for the month being 400,000 head or 136,000 more than a year ago. T he sheep record was made in August 1915 when 413,133 head .came in. , .- The auto truck has become a popu lar means of shipping hogs to market as is demonstrated by the large num ber shipped to the Union stock yards thu month,. 21,196 head, being the total for August. , Although this is the largest number of hogs received at Omaha, in any ingle month by auto truck, 'the July record of 21,1'3 head coming by that route falls little short of the record, Red Cross Supplies Class , - Will Start Work Next Week Red Cross work will start in the Library hall on the South Side, Friday, September 6, when a surgical J . . ! . 1 .!lf l - 1 I J t 1 . dressing ciass win dc nciu irom i iu S p, in, The hospital supplies class will start September 9. further in formation in regard to classes can be secured by calling Mrs. Like. Sales Olrls Wanted 'for permanent work. Apply to Mgr. WiiV Brothers, Twenty-fourth and N streets. South Side Brevities 1 r . John Lay left Friday afternoon with th contingent laavlaf Omaba for Camp Dodge, la., for military training. . Olen Fowler, aged 4 rar. fell down tatr at hit home, 410 South Twentieth treet, laet night and austalned a depreeied fracture of the skull, tie waa taken to thu South Sid hospital, A load of tt bead of hot brought to the TTnlon atook jrarda Friday by the firm of Gun, rlok and ttoblnaon of Kearney, aver aged 13 ( pound In weight and netted the tapper the neat aura of 4,!H.H. Mr. and Mr. H. B. Bsrgqulst and their thru children returned horn tait night from a visit of alx waeka In Eats Park, Colo. Mis Bertha Hoden, who accompanied 1 V am Ihkt-a. vmfttned In the wmt n will tench In Montana, John Edwin Campbell, nn of Ur, and Mrs. P. M. Campbell, 4434 Bouth Twentieth troet, I at home on a t-day furlough. Ma enHated In June, HIT, with the hoapltal eorp at the ureal Lake training atatlon and la now In Detroit Mr. Campbell ha lived In Omaha all hi life and wee for merly In the employ of the contract de-1 partment of the Nebraska Power com pany. Ben Welch Had 'Em All Going in His Military Show at the Gayety Ben Wetch had 'em going at the Gayety Saturday evening. As Izzie, the Hebrew, he had a capacity house laughing two-thirds of the time. The other third he wasn't on. His able assistants are Dolly Morrissey, Frankie Martin, Evelyn Cunningham, Pat Kearney, Jack Barton, Frank Murphy, George Alexander 1 and a comely chorus with lots of "pep." The entire show is filled , with snappy comedy, new costumes and Mting songs. Each member of the 'chorus had a chance to demonstrate her vocalistic ability . in the second - ict wnen mie maae -cacti sing a song. ..' ' .--';: ' Evelyn Cunningham put , over the song, l want a uou; wun tnrec encores and won much applause on her other numbers. ; Ben Welch surorised the audience by a five-second change from the role of Hebrew to Italian. He made a real Italian too, and sang an Italian song in real Ita'ian stvle. Irene Perry distinguished herself by being the only member of the chorus ; to hold Izzie's hand. The audience showed their appreciation of this feat by bringing her back " for another ton?. . ; Dolly Morrissey led her chorus company in true military style with the song, "America is Coming." The steel costumes of the chorus were a , distinct novelty. They scintillated in the footlights. Instilling a , martial spirit into the scene, that went I with the crowd. Frankie Martin, as isoubrette. had more than the usual amount of pep. Bohlff Theater Announces ..t Change in Sunday Program Announcement is made by the jvohlff theater that its Sunday pro iiT&m has been changed and in place of May Allison there will be shown Emmy Wehlen in- "The Outsider, Miss Wehlen is shown in a charming love story and opportunity has been given her for rare dramatic acting, The action of the play never stops for a moment and there are bright i Kite nt iiiimnr hnitf ititrt th atrtru that bring many a laugh from the audience. ' ' : , , Aether Bee Employe. Will ; Join Fornes With the Navy - Albert E, Pcrlcy, linotype machinist with The Bee, has gone to Chicago to take a six weeks' course in Armour institute of Technology, preparatory to a prospective appointment as a mcrcnant marine engineer onicer. Mr., Perley has had five years' ex perience in the line of work which he, will re-enter. Col. R. N. Perley, a brother, is in the Philinoines train ing natives in the science of artillery. R. O. Perley, another brother, ia in Jhe navy. , . Three Sons of Methodist Preacher Now in Service i . . . The theory that all pfeachers' ;n turn out bad is disproven in one case, at least, by the fact that th-ee sons of a , former pastor of an Omaha church are ' now in the aervicc of Uncle Sam in the present war. ' The minister in question is Rev. E. E. Hosman, pastor for six years of the Walnut Hill Methodist church, and the three, sons are Private David FayIosman, with the chemical war service gas defense at Astoria, L. I.; Sergt. Paul D. Hosman, 108th United States engineers corps, Co. D., with the mapping section of the British army headquarters in France, and Second Lt. Everett M. Hosman. at Vancouver Barracks, Wash. Mr. Hosman, after leaving this city, was district superintendent for six years, with headnuartera at Norfolk. and is now pastor of the First Meth odist Episcopal church of Grand Isl and, , Paul Hosman is a graduate of the Norfolk High school, and was a stu dent in the University of Illinois when he enlisted. Everett Hosman is a eraduate of the Lyons High school, Nebraska university and the University of Chi cago. He was serving as a camp secretary of the Young Men s Chris tian association at Camp Funston when he entered the military service. David Hosman graduated from the Omaha High school and the Univer sity of Wisconsin. He was first as- ONE OF ALLEGED HUSBANDS NOW BASKS IN JAIL Actor Arrested on Complaint of the Auto Man, With a ? Charge of Adultery to Meet. . ' As a sequel to a wife's alleged perfidy, the love of two men for the same womanboth of whom claim to be her lawfully wedded spouse the meeting of the two claimants in the Dodge hotel Friday night where the woman and one of the men had registered as husband and wife, Leroy Pomeroy, a show and circus follower is now in the city jail on the charge of adultery. He was arrested on a warrant Saturday. They have decid ed to leave the matter up to the police to decide. Thewoman in the case is Lucille Bryant; a pretty livorcee, daughter of Mrs. Curtis Aarms, 3108 South Eighteenth street. Pomeroy, the man under arrest, asserts he married her in St. Louis May 18. 1916. L McCormick, 1916 South Six teenth street, who also claims to be Lucille's husband, filed the informa tion that led to Pomeroy's arrest. , Lucille Fickle. According to the stories of both men Lucille was fickle; nothing seem ed to appease her desire. Pomeroy says they lived happily , until within a few months ago when a big storm broke and he sent her to Omaha. Here she met McCormick and mar ried' him without first procuring a divorce from her spouse, . Pomeroy alleges. A few , days ago she and Pomeroy registered as husband and wife at the Dodge hotel. This was brought to the attention of McCor mick and he began an investigation. Photo of Certificate. According to the police Pomeroy doesn't tell a straight story, and they are inclined to doubt the story that he and the Bryant woman were mar ried in St Louis, although he has a photograph of the marriage certifi cate with the dates written in by pen and ink. It is badly faded and the dates are hardly readable. It is al leged that Pomeroy and the Bryant woman were never married, although mey posed as husband ana wile. McCormirJc says that Lucille de serted him after six weeks of wedded bliss and up until Friday night he didn t knowv where she was. In the meantime he had filed a suit for di vorce. Friday night he telegraphed to at. i-ouis autnorwes asking veri' fication of the Pomerov-Brvant mar riage. The answer was not satisfac tory and he caused Pomeroy's arrest. uicme, both men assert, could straighten out the problem but she nas c;sappearea. ; Two More Subscriptions For Milk Fund Received " Two more contributions of $5 have been received for The Bee's Milk and Ice fund. This fund was closed several weeks ago and no more con tributions are solicited, but these do nations were accepted and have been turned over to the visiting nurses. The contributions came from Gust Kronberg of Herman, Neb. and Rev. Charles F. Sheldon of Perry, la. , 4TV y sistant chemist in the laboratory of the Blue Valley Creamery company of Chicago at the time of his enlist ment. Mr. Hosman and his three boys who are now serving their country had a large acquaintance in Omaha. SCOTT ErWLOYES PLEDGE LOYALTY IN WAR ACTIVITY 250 Workers Say They Are Ready to Work Overtime to Aid U. S. to Win War. . At noon yesterday 250 employes of the Scott Tent and Awning com pany, working on war contracts, took a solemn pledge to remain on the job, to do a full week's work each week, and to work overtime, if necessary. until the close of the war. The resolution followed a meetina in . the loft room of the factorv at Fifteenth and Harney streets, at which Capt. G. E. Y. Seddon of the First Canterbury company, New Zealand forces of the British army spoke un der auspices of the Shipping board in an ettort to speed up war work. The captain brought a Dersonal message from the allied front to the war workers here and he told the men and women in his audience they were in the reserve line of trenches and were taking as effective a part in the winning of the war for democracy and the peace of the world as the men in the front line trenches. Workers Aid Morale. He told them' their efforts, when inspired by patriotic impulse to give the best that is in them to increasing output and keeping it coming in steady volume, added to the morale of the men at the front. "You remember what hanoened on July 4, when the Americans went over the top with the Australians at Chateau Thierry," he said. "That was the turning point of the fight on the allied front and the presence of the Yanks, with their indomitable fighting, their dash and courage, started the present glorious offensive and added to the morale of the Brit ish and the French, giv ng them theJ "PF J.ou wilt virtnr "Hunlimited soda waters, "You men and women here are ad ding to that morale every day you work and let this thought inspire you in your every endeavor. Do not think that your added efficiency will be to increase the business prestige of your bosses, but remember you are aoing it as reserves in the home trenches for the boys over there." Employes Pledge Aidj Frequent applause greeted the captain's remarks and every man and wom'en in the employ of the company tooic me prescnoea pledge at its close. The pledge was administered by Charles Trumbull of Chicago, member of the shipping board. While in Omaha Captain Seddons, who was in the big battle of the Somme from 1916 to the'present year, received word of the death of his oldest brother in one of the recent battles on the western front. Fort Omaha Balloon Tries to Follow Airplane Suit A balloon from Fort Omaha carry ing two men left the balloon school field at 9 o'clock Saturday morning and made a spectacular iliht over the city, remaining in the air for sev eral hours. Officers at the balloon school say that free flights are a part of the regu lar training and occur every week. Usually the free ascensions are made early in the morning and the balloons remain up tor man; lipuri. oinommo Copyright, 191 S. by Eleanor H. Porter and by The Fubllo Ledger Co. By FermlMlon of Houghton Mifflin Co. All Klgnta ileaerved. THB 8TOBT TBXS FAB; Stanley O. Fultou, multimillionaire, ma' queraaing a jonn Bmlth, genealoglat, I busily engaged In watching relative to wnom Be Da directed hi lawyer to send check for $100,000 apiece. 8udden wealth na different elfecta on the beneliclarlea. Mr. Smith got to board at the home of Mis Maggie Duff, whoae father marrtea the mother of the Blaladell. Sh la not ono of the beneficiaries. - Mr. Smith I boarding with the Duff. He ha Just told Mr. Blaladell that the Duff home 1 a delightful home to live in. Mr., Blaladell. familiarly known aa Mra. Hattle, I giving a party when thl Install ment opens. t CHAPTER XIII (Continued). "Oh-hl" subsided the man. "That is why it distresses me to see my daughter so carried away with the mere idea of spending. I thought I'd taught her differently," sighed the woman. "Perhaps you taught her too well. But I wouldn't worry," smiled Mr. Smith, as he turned away. Deliberately then Mr. Smith went in search of Mellicent. He found her in the music room, which had been cleared for dancing. She was sur rounded by four young men. . One held her fan, one carried her white scarf on hii arm, a third was handing her a glass of water. The fourth was apparently riting his name on her dance card. The one with the scarf Mr. Smith recognized as Carl Pen nock. The one writing on the dance program he knew was young Hib bard Gaylord. Mr. Smith' did not approach at once. Leaning against a window cas ing near by, he watched the kaleido scopic throng, bestowing a not too conspicuous attention upon the group about Miss Mellicent Blaisdell. Mellicent was the picture of rad iant loveliness. The rose in her cheeks matched the rose of her gown, and her eyes sparkled with happi ness. So far as Mr. Smith could see, she dispensed her favors with rare impartiality; though as he came toward them finally, he realized at once that there wa's a merry wrangle of some sort afoot. He had not quite reached them when, to his surprise, Mellicent turned to him in very evi dent relief. "There, here's Mr. Smith," she cried gayly. "I'm going to sit it out with him. I shan't dance it with either of you." "Oh, Miss Blaisdell!" protested young Gaylord and Carl Pennock, ab jectly. , But Mellicent shook her head. "No. If you will both write your names down for the same dance, it is nothing more than you ought to ex pect." "But divide it, then. Please divide it," they begged. "We'll be satisfied." "I shan't be I" Mellicent shook her head again merrily. "I shan't be satisfied with anything but to sit it out with Mr. Smith. Thank you, Mr. Smith," she bowed, as she took his promptly offered arm. And Mr. Smith bore her away fol lowed by the despairing groans of the two disappointed youths and the taunting gibes of their companions. "There I Oh, I'm so glad you came," sighed Mellicent "You didn't mind?" "Mind? I'm in the seventh heaven!" avowed Mr. Smith with exaggerated gallantry. "And it looked like a real rescue, too." Mellicent, laughed. Her color deep ened. "Those boys they're so silly 1" she pouted. "Wasn't one of them young Pen nock?" "Yes, the tall, dark oBe." "He's come back, I see." She flashed an understanding look into his eyes. "Oh, yes, he's come back. I wonder if he thinks I don't know why!" "And you?" Mr. Smith was smiling quizzically. She shrugged her shoulders with a demure dropping of her eyes. "Oh, 'I let fiim come back to a cer tain extent I shouldn't want him to think I cared or noticed enough to keep him from coming back some." "But there's a line beyond which he may not pass, eh?" "There certainly is! but let's not talk of him. Oh. Mr. .Smith I'm so happy!" she breathed, ecstatically. "I'm very glad." In a secluded corner they sat down on a gilt settee. "And it's all so wonderful, this all this! Why Mr Smith, I'm so happy I I want to cry all the time. And that s so silly to want to cry! cut 1 do. So long all mylife I've had to wait for things so. It was always by and by, in the future that I was going to have anything that I wanted. And now to have them like this, all at once, everything I want why, Mr. Smith, it doesn't seem as if it could be true. It just can't be true!" "But it is true, dear child; and I'm so glad you've got your five-pound box of candy all at once at last. And i nope you can treat your irtenas to "Oh. I cant But that isn't all. Lis ten!" A new eagerness came to her yes. "I'm going to give mother a pres enta frivolous, foolish present, such as I've always wanted to. I'm going to give her a gold breastpin with an amethyst in it She's always wanted one. And I'm going to take my own money for it too not the money that father gives me, but some money I've been saving up for years dimes and quarters and half-dollars in my baby-bank. Mother always made me save 'most everf cent I got, you see. And I'm going to take it npw for this pin. She won't mind if I do, spend it foolishly now with all the" rest we have. And she'll be so pleased with the pinl" "And she's always wanted one?" "Yes. alway ; but she never thought she could afford it. But now I I'm go ing to open the bank tomorrow and count it; and I'm so excited over itl" She laughed shamefacedly. "I don't believe Mr. Fulton himself ever took more joy counting his millions than I shall take in counting those quart ers and half-dollars tomorrow." "I don't believe he ever did." Mr. Smith spoke with confident emphasis, yet in a voice that was not quite steady. "I'm sure he never did." "What a comfort you are, Mr, Smith." smiled Mellicent a bit misti ly. "You always understand sol And we miss you. terribly honestly we do! since yon went away. But I'm glad Aunt v Maggie's got you. Poor Aunt Maggie! that's the only thing that makes me feel bad about the. . Jb&JGitorfI. IJorfor Author of "Pollyanna.1 money, I mean and that is that she didn't have some, too. But mother's going to give her some. She says she is, and " ' But Mellicent did not finish her sen tence. A short; sandy-haired youth came uo and oointed an accusinsr fin ger at her dance card, and Mellicent said yes, the next dance was his. But she smiled brightly at Mr. Smith as she floated away, and Mr. Smith, well content, turned and walked into the adjoining room. He came face to face then with Mrs. Hattie and her daughter. These two ladies, also, were pictures of radiant loveliness especially wjre they radiant, for every beam of light found an answering flash in the shimmering iridescence of their beads and jewels and opalescent sequins. "Well, Mr. Smith, what do you think of my party?" As she asked the question Mrs. Hattie tapped his shoul der with her fan. "I think a great deal of your 8 arty," smiled the man. "And you?" e turned to Miss Bessie "Oh, it'll do for Hillerton," Miss Bess'e smiled mischievously into her mother's eyes, shrugged her shoulders and passed on into the music room. "As if it wasn't quite the finest thing Hillerton ever had except the Gaylord parties, of course," bridled Mrs. Hattie, turning to Mr. Smith. "That's just daughter's way of teasing me and, of course, now she is where she sees the real thing in entertaining she goes home with those rich girls in her school, you know. But this is a nice party, isn't it, Mr. Smith?" "It certainly is." "Daughter says we should have wine; that everybody who is anybody has wine now champagne, and cigar- ets for the ladies. Think of it in Hillerton! Still, I've heard the Gay lords do. I've never been there yet, though, of course, we shall be invited now. I'm crazy to see the inside of their house, but I don't believe it's much handsomer than this. Do you? But there! You don't know, of course. You've never been there, any more than I have, and you're a man of sim ple tastes, I judge, Mr. Smith." She smiled graciously. "Benny says that Aunt Maggie's got the nicest house he ever saw, and that Mr. bmith says so, too. So, you see, I have grounds for my opinion." Mr. Smith laughed. "Well, I'm not sure I ever said just that to Benny, but I'll not dispute it. Miss Maggie's house is indeed won derfully delightful to live in." "I've no doubt of it," conceded Mrs. Hattie complacently. "Poor Maggie I She always did contrive to make the most of everything she had. But shea never 'been ambitious lor really nice things, I imagine. At least she always seems contented enough with her shabby chairs and carpets. While I" She paused, looked about her, then drew a bhsstul sigh, un, Mr. Smith, you don't know you can't know what it is to me to just look around and realize that they are all mine these beautiful things!" "Then you're very happy, Mrs. Blaisdell?" "Oh, yes. Why, Mr. Smith, there isn't a piece of furniture in this room that didn't cost more than the Pen nocks's I know, because I've been there. And my curtains are nicer, too, and my pictures, they're so much brighter some of her oil paintings are terribly dull-looking. And my Bessie did you notice her dress to night? But, there! You didn't, of course. And if .you had, you wouldn't have realized how expensive it was. What do you know about the cost of women's dresses?" she laughed arch ly. "But I don't mini telling you. It was $150, a hundred and fifty dollars, and it came from New York. I don't believe that white muslin thing of Gussie Pennock's cost fifty! You know Gussie?" "'I've seen her." "Yes, of course you have with Fred. He used to go with her a lot. He goes with Pearl Gaylord more now. There, you can see them this minute, dancing together the one in the low-cut. blue dress. Pretty, too, isn't she? Her father's worth a mil lion, I suppose. I wonder how 'twould feel to be worth a million." She spoke musingly, her eyes, fol lowing the low-cut blue dress. "But, then, maybe I shall know, some time from Cousin Stanley, I mean," she explained smilingly, in answer to the question she thought she saw be hind Mr. Smith's smoked glasses. "Oh, of course, there's nothing sure about it But he gave us some, and if he's dead, of course, that other let ter'll be opened in two years; and I don't see why he wouldn't give us the rest, as long as he'd shown he remem bered he'd got us. Do you?" "Well er as to that " Mr. Smith hesitated. He had grown strangely red. "Well, there aren't any other rela tions so near, anyway, so I can't help thinking about it, and wondering," she interposed. "And 'twould be mil lions, not just one million. He's worth 10 or 20, they say. But, then, we shall know in time." "Oh, yes, you'll know in time." agreed Mr. Smith with a smile, turn ing away as another guest came up to his hostess. Mr. Smith's smile had been rather forced, and his face was still some what red as he picked his way through the crowded rooms to the place where he could see Frank Blaisdell standing alone, surveying the scene, his hands in his pockets. "Well, Mr. Smith, this is some show, ain't it?" greeted the grocer as Mr. Smith approached. "It certainly is." "Gee. I should say so though I can't say I'm stuck on the brand my self. But, as for this money business, do you know? I'm as bad as Flo. I canrt ense it that it'a true. Gosh I Look at Hattie, now. Ain't she swingin' the style tonight?" . "She certainly is looking handsome and very nappy." ..... "Well, she ought to. I believe in lookin' happy. And I believe in takin' some comfort as you go along not that I've taken much in times past But I'm goin' to now." "Good I I'm glad to hear it" "Well, I am. Why, man. I'm just like a potato-top grown in a cellar, and I'm comin' out and get some sun shine. And Mellicent is, too. Poor child I She's been a potato-top in a cellar all right But now Have you seen her tonight?" "X have and a very charming sight EY! she was," smiled Mr. bniith. "Ain't she, now?" The father beamed proudly. "Well, she's goin' to be that right along now. She's goin' where she wants to go and do what she wants to do and she's goin' o have all the fan cy flumadiddles to wear she wants." "Goodl I'm glad to hear that, too." laughed Mr. Smith. "Well, she is. This savin' an' savin' is all very well, of course, when you have to. But I've saved all my life an' by jingo, I'm goin' to spend nowl You see if I don't." "I hope you will." "Thank you. I'm glad to have one on my side, anyhow. I wish You couldn't talk my wife 'round to your way of thinkin', could you?" he shrugged with a whimsical smile. "My wife's eaten sour cream to save the sweet all her life an' she hain't learned yet that if she'd eat the sweet to begin with she wouldn't have no sour cream 't wouldn't have time to get sour. An' there's apples, too. She eats the specked ones always; so she don't never eat anything but the worst there is. An' she says they're the meanest apples she ever saw. Now I tell her if sne'll only pick out the best there is every time, as I do, she'll not only enjoy every apple she eats but she'll think they're the nicest apples that ever grew. Funny, isn't it? Here I ami i : :r 1 i iidviu iu uigc my wue tu apcuu luim- ey, while my sister-in-law here Talk about ducks takin' to the water! That ain't no name for the way she sails into Jim's little pile." Mr. Smith laughed. "By the way, where is Mr. Jim?" he asked. The other shook his head. "Hain't seen him but I can guess where he is, pretty well. You go down that hall and turn to your left. In a little room at the end you'll find him. That's his den. He told Hattie it was the Only room in the house he'd ask for, but he wanted to fix it up for him self. Hattie. she wanted to buy all sorts of truck and fix it up with cush ions and curtains and Japanese gim cracks like she saw in a den in a book, and make a show place of it. But Jim held out and had his way. There ain't nothin' in it but books and chairs and a couch and a big table; and they're all old except the books so Hattie don't show it much, when she's shpw in' off the house. You'll find him there all right. You see if you don't. Jim always would rather read than eat, and he hates shindigs of this sort a little worse 'n I do." "All right-. I'll look him up," nod ded Mr. Smith, as he turned away. Deliberately, but with apparent care lessness, strolled Mr. Smith through the big drawing rooms, and down the hall. Then to the left the directions were not hard to follow, and the door of the room at the end was halfway open, giving a glimpse of James Blais-i dell and Benny before the big fire place. With a gentle tap and a cheerful "Do you allow intruders?" Mr. Smith pushed open the door. James Blaisdell sprang to his feet. "Er I oh, Mr. Smith, come in, come right in!" The frown on his face gave way to a smile. "I thought - Well, never mind what I thought. it down, wont you? "Thank you, if you don't mind." Mr. Smith dropped into a chair and looked about him. "Ain't it great?" beamed Benny. "It's 'most as nice as Aunt Maggie s, ain't it? And I can eat all the cookies here I want to, and come in even if jay shoes are muddy, and bring the boys in, too.' "It certainly is great," agreed Mr. Smith, his admiring eyes sweeping the room again. To Mr. Smith it was like coming into another world. The deep, com fortable chairs, the shaded lights, the leaping fire in the hearth, the book lined walls even the rhythmic voices of the distant violins seemed to sing of peace and quietness and rest. "Dad's been showin' me the books he used ter like when he was a little boy like me," announced Benny. "Hain't he got a lot of 'em? books. I mean." "He certainly has." Mr. James Blaisdell stirred a little in his' chair. "I suppose I have crowded them a little, he admitted. "But, you see, there were so many I'd always wanted, and when the chance came well, I just bought them; that's all." "And you have the time now to read them." "I have, thank Well, I suppose I should say, thanks to Mr: Stanley G. Fulton," he laughed, with some embarrassment. "I wish Mr. Fulton could know how much I do thank him," he finished soberly, his eyes caressing the rows of volumes on the shelves. "You see, when you've want ed something all your life " He stopped with an expressive gesture. "You don't care much for that, then, I take it," inferred Mr. Smith, with a wave ofTiis hand toward the distant violins. "Dad says there's only one thing worse than a party, and that's two parties," piped up Benny from his seat on the rug. Mr. Smith laughed heartily, but the other looked still more discomfited. "I'm afraid Benny is is telling tales out of school," he murmured. "Well, 't is out of school, ain't it?" maintained Benny. "Say, Mr. Smith, did yer have ter go ter a private school when you were a little boy? Ma says everybody does who is any body. But if. it's Cousin Stanley's money that's, made us somebody, I wished he'd kept it at home 'fore I had ter go ter that old school." "Oh, come, come, my boy," remon strated the father, drawing his son into the circle of his arm. "That's neither kind nor grateful; besides, you don't know what you're talking about. Come, suppose we show Mr. Smith some of the new books." From case to case, then, they went the host eagerly displaying and ex plaining, the guest almost as eag erly watching and listening. And in the kindling eye and reverent fingers of the man handling the volumes, Mr. Smith caught some inkling of what those books meant to Jim Blaisdell. "You must be fond of books, Mr. Blaisdell," he said somewhat awk wardly, after a time. "Ma says dad'd rather read than eat," giggled Benny; "but pa says readin is eatin. But I'd rather have a cookie, wouldn't you, Mr. Smith?" "You wait till you find what there POLICE BELIEVE NEW GANG AUTO THIEVESAT WORK Cars Now Being Stolen at the Rate of Two Per Day; Police Officials Vigilant. Police are of the opinion that a recently organized gang of automo bile thieves has begun operations in Omaha." The automobile squad has been ordered to double its vigilance and endeavor to make things so inter esting for the gangsters that they will be afraid to look at an automobile let alone stealing it. Three auto thefts within two days gives the impression that the number of thefts during September will eclipse those' of August, and the automobile squad will, redouble its efforts. It is thought that the gangsters have a "fence" outside of the city where the stolen cars are taken, remodeled and sold to innocent persons at about half value. One of the cars now being held at the station shows that it has been worked over. All number plates have been removed and other ones substituted, the wheels have been replaced and the whole machine repainted. The original color was pea green. Several other changes have been made, which completely disguises the car. Whether the stolen cars were taken over the Douglas street bridge to a "fence" somewhere in Iowa, or to some upstate town is a matter of con jecture to the police. Louis Group, Louisville, reported to the police last night that his auto mobile had been taken irom the cor ner of Sixteenth and Douglas streets late Saturday afternoon. A bold auto thief made away with an auto truck belonging to the Puri tan laundry, 2810 Farnam street, in broad daylight Saturday afternoon.' The truck was standing in front of the building and the driver was in the office picking out a load of bun dles to be delivered. The words "Puritan Laundry" were painted in large letters on both sides of the truck. is in these books, my son," smiled his father. "You'll love them as well as I do, some day. And your brother" He paused, a swift shadow on his face. He turned to Mr. Smith. "My boy, Fred loves books, too. He was in here a little while ago. But he could not stay, of course. He said he had to go and dance with the girls his mother expected it." "Ho! Mother! Just as if he didn't want ter go himself!" grinned Benny derisively. "You couldn't hire him ter stay away 'specially if Pearl Gay lord's 'round." "Oh, well, he's young, and young feet always dance when Pan pipes," explained the father with a smile that was a bit forced. "But Pan doesn't always pipe, and he's ambitious Fred is." The man turned eagerly to Mr, Smith again. "He's going to be a lawyer you see, he's got a chance now. He's a fine student. He led his class in high school, and he'll make , rn.nA Iv 1 onrA T'tti c ii r A T-T ran riavp the best there' is now 0Q witi,out kilHng himself with work to get it. He's got a fine mind, and The man stopped abruptly, with a shamed laugh. "But enough of this. You'll forgive the 'fond father,' I know. I always forget myself when I'm talking of that boy or, rather, perhaps it's that I'm remembering myself. You see, I want him to do all that I want ed to do and couldn't. And " "Jim. Jim!" It was Mrs. Hattie in the doorway. "There, I might have known where I'd find yo i. Come, the guests are going, and are looking for you to say good night. Jim, you'll have to come! Why. what'll people say? They'll think we don't know any thinghow to behave, and all that Mr. Smith, you'll excuse him I know." "Most certainly," declared Mr. Sn'ith. "I must be gomg myself, for that matter," he finished, as he fol lowed his hostess through the t'.oor- way. (To Be Continued Tomorrow.) 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