THE BEE: OMAHA. SATURDAY. DECEMBER 31, 15)21.
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Armour Truck No Oue
Wounded Meat Taken
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Two automobiles, both laid to be
tarrying packing house workers to
the plants, wr fired Uon before
dawn yesterday. One was an Ar
mour truck, which met a volley
of shots at Twenty-fifth and llarri
Kn atreeia at 6. Nobody was in
jured, but when the truck reached
the plant five bulletholes were found
in the too.
J The other was fired upon between
Forty-fourth and Forty-third streets.
1 on L atreet. No one was injured.
Meat Worth $300 Cone.
A truck loaded with meat and
driven by William McCoy was
Mopped at Twenty-fourth and N
Mreets Thursday afternoon. It was
found yesterday at Forty-first and
1 streets. The meat, said to be
worth $J0f), was missing.
Henry Dixon was injured, perhaps
fatally, when he fell through a sky
light at the Armour plant Thursday,
alighting in a piece of machinery.
Julius Deronoski, S328 South Thirty-third
street, one of the two men
in army uniform who assaulted Po
liceman Askwith at Thirty-third and
Q streets last Monday, was fined
$100 in South Side police court yes
terday. He appealed.
, Negro Fined,
i William Lester, negro, caught at
the Cudahy plant by Chief of Police
Peter Jolly of the plant Thursday,
was firied $100 in South Side police
court for illegal possession of in
toxicating liquor and $500 for carry
ing concealed weapons. Lester had
16 pint bottles of alleged booze on
his person.
John Racikomki, 4436 South Thirty-third
street, was picketing too en
thusiastically yesterday before day
light under the F street viaduct
and was fined $10 in South Side
ourt yesterday, John would leap
rom behind a boxcar when anyone
approached and flash a light in his
face to see who he was. A woman
going to the grocery was frightened
by this proceeding and caiied the
police.
r Packers tlse . Pressure. ,
Packers in Omaha are using" va
rious means of solicitations and pres
sure to get former employes now out
on strike to return to their work in
the plants, according to statements
of butcher workmen union officials
yesterday.
Similar tactics arc being used at
East St. Louis and St. Louis, where
the strikers walked out 100 per cept,
according to messages received from
those cities.. ' ' 1 '
Foremen, straw bosSri and wel
fare workers of the plants are inter
viewing strikers here, urging them to
return to their jobs, according to
union officials, but are meeting with
little success. ,
The packers, are not keeping as
many strike breakers over night at
iV.tt4htir Bf1 ow eitb,er,.vaccording
' to the 'union officials, who charac-
icrize i ins acuon as an 'attempt to
stir up trouble, incite riots-and cause
armed intervention, eventually get
ting an injunction against picketing.
Packers admit more men are going
to their homes for the night, but say
they are doing this of .their own ac
cord. Packers yesterday issued fig
ures tending to show the last three
days business was the largest since
the strike began. They also assert
their workmen now are of the high
est class ever employed in the plants.
British and French Bankers
Meet on Europe's Finances
, Paris, Dec. 30. (By A. P.) The
meeting of British and French finan
ciers and business men at the French
foreign office this afternoon to
grapple with the European economic
situation is regarded in French cir
cles as one of the most important
experiments since the first efforts to
bring Europe back to a peace basis.
It is generally believed that if the
conference organizes an internatiou-
i ai consortium oi Dangers, mercn
' ants and manufacturers, it will have
r - i j ri . it. e. . .
r a TTWKea miiuence on ine iuiure
of-Europe.
Germans to Cultivate
; American Silver Foxes
Berlin, Dec. 3L American silver
foxes and skunks will be cultivated
on a large scale by a German stock
company on a farm in the Austrian
'""Tyrol under the direction of
Professor Demoll of the natural his
,. tory department of the Munich uni-
versity.
In Germany, where the prices ot
the higher grade of . furs have risen
enormously in the past few. months,
a perfect specimen of silver fox costs
100.000 marks.
This is the first attempt that has
been made in Europe to cultivate
silver foxes.
Palmyra Woman, 106 Dies
Palmyra, Neb.. Dec. 30. Funeral
services were held here for Mrs.
Henrietta Maslers, who died at the
home of her daughter this week at
the age of 106. " She was born in
Germany December 18, 181 S. and had
lived in the United States 73 years.
Road Conditions
(Fnralsbtd by Omaha Ad to Club.)
Lincoln Hlshwjr. East Roada good to
Marshalltowo; roada In Cedar Rapid vi
cinity are letting to vary rooti ahapa;
now packed and froien hard.
Lincoln Highway, Wert Roads ara In
food condition to Grand Island and wast.
O. L. D. Highway Roada good; detour
totwera Imperial and Chi!.
Hirhland Cutoff Roada food.
8. Y. A. Road Good.
Cornhonker Highway Good.
Omaha-Topeka Highway Good. .
O Street Road Kicellent.
George Washington Highway Roads
rood; this ta the preferable roil' to
Sioax City at tha present time.
Black Hilla Trail Roada good to Nor
folk. - -
King or Trails. JTorth Roada good to
lilMonri Valley; little rough ta the Ooawt
'icinlty.
King of Trails. Sooth Roada excellent
i Hiawatha: Hiawatha to Leavenworth
roada are rough; detoar between Leaven
aorta and Kansaa City due to road work.
R'rer to River Road Good.
V hits Pola Rood Good; detour - a ear
Omj (air. -
L O. A. Shortlint Gooa.-
Bhea Graaa Road la poor condition to
vlenwood; roada east ot Glenwooa. are
geod.
Weather reported dear ererr where ex
at Blair and Aahiand,
Vfie Vuattune 9timter
By RUBY AYRES.
(latxiaaew trm leetwaay.)
Sh looked Up then, and St tt
the tears were running down her
face, and her lips were quivering
like child's as he said again with
broken-hearted bitterness:
"And me? What about me? What
have I eft in all the world? '
Although she did not know it. It
was a cry from her heart; a con
lemon of the deep love that he
bore for this man, and a sudden wild
flash of hope lit the Fortune Hunter's
eyes.
He put his arms round her, draw
ing hrr unresistingly to her teet, till
her head rested against him.
For a moment it seemed as if she
yielded willingly enough; for a mo
ment he thought that she clung con
vulsively to htm; then she pushed
him away passionately.
"Don't don't I Oh, I can't bear
you to touch me.
She saw the blood rush to his face
and the veins swell on his forehead,
his chest heaved with his labored
breathing as he broke out madly
"You can t bear me to touch you
yet you married that other man.
You believed in him when he was a
bigger rogue than I could ever be-
He was almost beside himself, and it
gave him a cruel joy to see how she
winced and shrank beneath his
words.
"He swore to you that he was in
nocent. It was not the truth; he dc
served all they gave him. Even his
letters to you were a sham and a
fraud. He never cared for you he
never wanted to come home he lived
with another woman for months be
fore" He stopped short, catching
his breath in a sob of bitterest
shame and misery, as half mad, Anne
raised her hand and struck him across
the face.
She was white to the lips and
shaking from head to foot, but her
voice was cruel as death as she
sobbed out in the extremity of her
pain:
"Coward and. liar! I will have noth
ing more to do with you."
And then it sevmed as if all the
silence of all the ages fell on the
world as for a moment they stood
looking at one another; and to the
end of her life she remembered the
tragedy of his eyes when at last he
turned blindly to the door.
"Well, I think I'll go," he said un
certainly. Anne tried to speak but her white
lips could frame no words; she felt
as she were dying as she saw him
cross the room. Then suddenly he
stopped and drew back as the door
opened from without and Mr. Hard
ing and Geoffry Foster entered.
There was a tragic silence. Mr.
Harding looked from the Fortune
Hunter to Anne, and his lips moved
as if he would have spoken, but the
Fortune Hunter cut him short.
"Please come "in, both of you."
His wild eyes went past the elder
man to where Geoffry Foster stood,
pale and rather apprehensive. "I'm
sorry, but I'm afraid I've staged the
play a little before scheduled time.
It's unfortunate from your point of
view, I know, but I'm not going to
run away; I'm quite content to wait
till the police come or anyone else
you are expecting."
. He thrust his hands into - his
pockets and squared his shoulders,
his head well thrown back. There
was a defiant smile on .his .hand
some face, and'for a moment Mr.
Harding looked at him, not know
ing how to answer. Then he turned
to Anne: "My dear; my poor little
girl" He went to her and tried
to take her in his arms, but she
shivered. 'Don't, please! Oh, uncle
T-send him away; send him away."
foster had oome lurtner into tne
room now, closing the door "behind
him. He moved over to where Anne
stood, and had put out his hand to
her when the Fortune Hunter took
a savage' step forward.
"You touch her, and, by heaven,
I'll kill you," he said, savagely.
"You've won, and I'm beaten, but
she's not yours yet, and unless you
want me to break every bone in
your body , ' '
His voice had risen to a shout,
and Mr. Harding caught his arm in
a grip of steel.
"For heaven's sake; do you want
the whole house ' to hear?" he en
treated. , . . . . v I
-The Fortune Hunter's arm fell to
his side; he turned away, and for
some moments nobody spoke; then
it was he who again broke the si
lence in defiant, jaunty tones.
"We want two more to make the
party complete, don't we?" he ask
ed. "You've all been so clever,
Spying on me, and putting two and
two together; it's hard on the oth
ers not. to be in at the death. Oh,
here comes one of them" he added
with a reckless laugh, as the door
opened cautiously an inch at a time,
and Tommy's thin face peered in.
He shrank back when he saw the
Fortune Hunter, then came " on
again confidently as his eyes fell
upon his uncle and Geoffry Foster.
He "spoke, nervously twisting his
hands together:
"It's Mr. Fernie, uncle; he wants
to speak to you." .
The Fortune Hunter flung back
his head and laughed.
"We've been waiting for him," he
said loudly. "Bring him in, and
let's have the party complete be
for the play begins."
"John" It was Anne who spoke
his name, in a little sobbing whis
per, and before anyone could reach
her she had tallen tainting at Mr.
Harding's feet
Fernie had lived through some
very uncomfortable hours since the
Fortune Hunter's visit to his cot
tage.
If he had been questioned he
would have declared unhesitatingly
that he did not believe in conscience,
and that his own if he had ever
possessed one had lone since died.'j
But, all the same, during the night j
that followed and the next day, long-!
torgotten memories raised their
heads and looked at him provokingly
out of the past, and he began to re
member that he had not always been J
om and soured; tnat he had once
been a young man, and that the face
of the woman whom he had married
and brutally, neglected had been
Teryfair. . ' -
It was no personal hatred towards
the Fortune Hunter that had made
him so active and eager to bring
about his downfall, but more the
natural workings of a crooked man's '
nature when he has no better em-,
ployment with which to occupy his
time.
Fernie loved ferreting" into other
people's business. . He thought he
(was exceedingly smart at solving,
small local mysteries which really
mattered very little one vay or the
other, and the Fortune Hunter's
utter disregard of him when he was
considered to be rather power in
the sleepy little riverside town had
added a itrt to hi teal
And all the time he had been hunt
ing down his own sonl He had
done his best to bring to a shameful
exposure the man who was hit own
firth and blood.
"Rot! I don't believe it. It's all
part of his artfulness." So Fernie
told himself again and again, uu
availingly. "I am your sonl" The Fortune
Hunter's tragic declaration had
given the old man a great shock
from which he was alow to recover.
Twenty-seven years is a long time,
and he had almost forgotten that
when his wife walked out of his lift
she had taken their child with her. Me
had casually supposed that they had
both died long since, or, at any rate,
that he would never hear of them
again.
"If he is my son, let him prove it!"
was the way lie argued with his con
science, as he sat alone in his cot
tage, staring into the fire, sucking at
his pipe. But, in his heart, he knew
that no proof was required.
Now the truth had been told to
him he had already begun o won
der why he had not before seen the
likeness between the Fotrune Hunter
and the woman whom he had mar
ried. There were the same blue eyes,
the same little scornful smile. Old
Fernie coughed, and, leaning for
ward, knocked out the ashes of his
pipe.
All the following morning, he kept
away from the vilalge, afraid of
meeting the Fortune Hunter, and he
cursed his luck roundly when late
in the afternoon, obliged to go to the
postofficej he came face to face with
him and Anne Harding.
He had not dared to look nt them
until they had gone past him some
way along the road, but then he
stopped and stared after them with
scowling brows.
Dr. Gregory passing, had noticed
the old man s interest and laughed.
Hullo, Fennel Looking after ro
mance, eh?" he asked. He stopped
for a moment beside him. "Good
looking young fellow, that," he said,
his eyes on the Fortune Hunter's tall
figure.
Fernie grunted. "Handsome is as
handsome does," he answered, in a
surly tone, though he felt vaguely
pleased. .After all, if he had got to
have a son he might as welt have
him tall and well setup; and, at any
rate, he thought about the fortune
Hunter for a long time that night
as he sat by his kitchen fire with
only the voice of the river outside
to break the silence.
Unwillingly he had to admit to
himself that there had been some
thing about the young man's con
duct the night he came to the cot
tage that had called for admiration,
in spite of everything.
"He'll die game, . anyway," old
Fernie thought with a thrill of most
unusual pride; then he caught himself
in with a jerk and swore at what he
chose to call his weakness, as ; he
replenished the fire and tried to set
tle down to his usual evening smoke.
But his pipe would, not draw and
thought would not be Vanished, and
at last he rose relunctantly and took
down the photograph of his. wife
from the mantleshelf.
He: wondered for the first time
now why he had kept it why he
had let it stand on his shelf for so
many years; but his hard eyes soft
ened in spite of himself as he looked
at the pictured face. Life might
have been very different it she had
stayed with him. r
For the first time he wondered
how she had spent the remaining
years of her life. They could not
have been easy,- he knew, for he
had heard years afterwards that the
brother to whom she was supposed
to have gone to Australia had died
before she reached him and that she
had to work to support herself and
the child. - -
Not much of an up-bringing for
lad! Fernie coughed again un
comfortably. Small wonder, as the
Fortune Hunter had said,, that he
had grown up a vagabond! His son!
Outside in the night the voice ot
the river murmured ceaselessly as it
glided by, but it. was the voice of
conscience to which old Fernie lis
tened when presently, he rose and
putting the photograph back on the
shelf, took his hat and went into the
darkness.
His pipe was still in his mouth,
though it ;had long grown cold and
he had not refilled it, and his
thoughts were far away as he walked
through the quiet little village to
wards Cherry Lodge.
(Continued In The Bee Monday.) "
Man Fined for Speeding
26 Years Ago, Fined Again
Detroit, Dec. 31. "Speeding- a
horse 26 years ago at , the terrific
rate of 12 miles an hour proved the
undoing of William Paige, a police
man, who was found lying under a
milk wagon near his home, in a far
from proper condition as the result
of violating the prohibition law. The
judge decided a $5 fine would help
curb Paige's "fast" life.
New Remedy
. For Constipation
' Here is a new reason for til
people who are constipated to
laugh at the old saying "There
is Nothing New Under the
Sun." Here is something en
tirely new a product which
will really combat constipation.
You must understand that
Dilaxin gives natural action
and is a remedy and not a
purge. It contain the neces
sary elements to correct con
stipation and adjust the in-,
test i nil tract to a normal and
healthy state. If you have
dark brown taste, bad breath,
a torpid liver, or it you are
bilious, Dilaxin is exactly
what you need.
Dilaxin is now on sale at
all druggists the world over at
fifty cents foe forty tablets.
Get a box of Dilaxin today
and give it a real test.
Sole Distributor, Martnola Co.,
57 Garfield Bldg. Detroit, Mich,
Grain Exchaiu'cs
And Fanners Form
Complaint Body
Omaha Man Named on Joint
Committee Appointed
To Hear Kicks on
Handling.
Chicago, Dec. 30. Representatives
of farm organizations and grain ex
changes, meeting here yesterday, or
ganized a joint committee represent
ing the producers and the exchanges
interested In the marketing of grain
to consider, in an informal manner,
complaints that may arise concerning
the handling of grain.
The organization resulted from
a suggestion offered at the conference
of grain producers and the grain
handlers, held here recently under
the auspices of the department of ag
riculture. The committee will receive sug
gestions concerning such subjects
from producers, shippers, elevator
operators, millers, distributors and
grain exchanges, a statement said, but
will have no authority to bind cither
the farm organizations or the ex
changes it represents, reporting back
to those so represented any recom
mendations upon which the members
of the committee agree.
The grain exchanges of Chicago,
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that's the order of business at
Barker's during these strenuous
Clearance Days that's the good
news issued Omaha's men folks
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Stop think what this actually means to you. Two gar
ments for the former price of one. Can you or any other
thinking man resist such an opportunity to save? -
Barker's
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$25 Suits and
$30 Suits and
$35 Suits and
$40 Suits and
$45 Suits and
$50 Suits and
Our
SUITS - 0'CGATS - r.lACKIiWJS
Now Offered at
HALF PRICE
We are closing out this department and in this sale we
have forgotten costs. A decisive, complete clearance
must be effected and these prices will do it.
BOYS' BOYS'
$7.50 Garments now ...... $3.75 $15.00 Garments now .... $7.50
$10.00 Garments now . . $5.00 $18.50 Garments now $9.25
$12.50 Garments now . . . .$6.25 $22.50 Garments now . . .$11.25
Second Floor Securities Bldg.
St. Louis, Kansas City, Omaha, Min
neapolis, Dultith, Milwaukee and To
ledo have selected as' their repre
sentatives L. F. Gates c( Chicago,
F. U. Wells of Minneapolis and C
W. Lonsdale of Kansas City, and
the agricultural organizations present
at the recent conference with the rep
resentative of the Department of
Agriculture have selected J. N.
Mrhle .acting for C. J I. Gustafsou,
president of the United States Grain
Growers, Inc.; J. W. Shorthill of
Omaha, secretary of the Farmers Na
tional Grain Dealers association, and
Clifford Thome, general counsel for
the American Farm Bureau federa
tion. Future meetings of this committee,
to be known as "The joint confer
ence committee on grain trade prac
tices." representing producers and
handlers of grain will he held in Chi
cago the second Thursday of Febru
ary, May, August and November.
Nehrahka City Strikers
Cited for Contempt of Court
Lincoln, Neb., Dee. .10. District
Judge M linger in federal court yes
terday issued an order finding 11
Nebraska City packing plant em
ployes, now on strike, in contempt
of court.- A citation was placed m
lie hands of. Deputy United States
Marshal McClung. They are or
dered to appear in court here next
Tuesday and show cause why they
should not be punished for violating
the injunction issued two weeks ago,
commanding them to use no more
than one picket at each place of
entry and egress from the plan.'.
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Overcoats Nov
Overcoats low
Overcoats Now
Overcoats Now
Overcoats Now
Overcoats Now
Every sale must be considered final.
Charges will be made for alterations.
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Entire Stock of Boys
Merchants Will
Use Com as Fuel
Hastings Man Opposes Plan
And Offers to Buy Entire
Crop at Bloomfield.
Bloomfield, Neb. Dec. 30. (Spe
cial.) At a meeting of the Bloom
field Commercial club full endorse
ment was given to the "Burn Corn
or liust movement recently started
among the farmers of this vicinity
and the full aid of that organization
was pledged to help in spreading the
movement.
Each business man or citizen who
goes into the organization pledges
himself to buy two tons of corn tor
fuel at 5 cents per bushel over the
market. The corn will be handled
through the Farmers Elevator com
pany. Kay Satterlce is president of
tne tarmers organization and W. A.
Trenhaile is the secretary. .
Hastings, Neb., Dec. 30. (Spe
cial.) R. A. Collier, wholesale hay
and grain dealer, made the following
statement regarding the plan to
burn corn launched at Bloomfield.
' "We take exception to a move of
this kind. To burn wholesome food
or food products is not in accord
with God's wishes. Our firm will
pay 30 cents per bushel for all the
corn Blocmfield can load on railroad
cars during the next 60 days, pro
viding the corn is merchantable.
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S 15.00
S 17.50
$20.00
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Saturday Regular $1.00 POUND Boxes
Balduff s Chocolates
Delicious Chocolates for the New Year Holiday
the soft, creamy centers being- filled with chopped g f
walnut meats, then hand-dipped in a thick coating J WC
of Bitter Sweet Chocolate fancy, ONK POUND
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All Women's Suits at
All Furs at V2 Off
Spring Millinery Bright, colorful mod
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; being seen. , , ,
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Simmons Full' Size Crib of
white enameled steel, with
drop side and comfortable
springs, is specially priced
now remark- 7C
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This Store Is
Shirt Waist Box
These . matting boxes
are nice and roomy and
attractively trimmed
with rattan: one mod
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As Always. Yon Malta
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Pedestals
Tall, artistically
carved models - in
solid fumed oak or
mahogany finish.
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Saturday Brings Unusual
lhree-riece Living $1 A v50
Koom suite at
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consisting of a full site Davenport. Chair and Rocker of extra
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Canton Crepes, Crepe de
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tines, Velvets and Satins.
Values Up to $34.50
Values Up to $44.50
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3-Room Outfits, $194.50
4-Room Outfits, $267.50
5-Room Outfits, $322.50
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