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For thirty years I have tried to do my duty as a man and as a democrat in Nebraska. My record is my plea for support W. H. THOMPSON Candidate for the Democratic Nomination for U. S. Senator Kirschbaum Clothes. ALL WOOV HNOTAIlQat-D CopyilShtcd 191a A. B. KIRSCHBAUM & CO The Kirchbaum -Wale" The acid boiling pot lias proved thai A. B. Kirsch baum & Co. fabrics are "All Wool." Every Kirschbaum gar ment we sell is guaranteed perfect in fabric, fit and finish or money refunded. Before you buy your Spring suit or top-coat see our Kirschbaum styles. Latest colors, cuts and mod els to choose from. Suits, $9.50 to $22.50 Top Coats, $15 to $40 Each hand-tailored and beautifully finished. Look for the Kirschbaum (Cherry Tree Brand) label when choosing your suit or top coat. It stands for all that is best in clothes. The Kirschbaum Maxim is a "Yungfelo" model of pronounced English style with soft roll front. Price, $20. LincolnClothingGo. 10th St., Opposite Post Office WAGEWORKER S, ATTENTION We have Money to Loan on Chattels. Plenty of it. Utmost Secrecy. Kelly & Norrls Room 1. IQ34 o Rates: Day, 60c Weak 12, $2.50, $3 New Building 163 Newly Famished Room. KCHOPEAN PLAN GLOBE HOTEL E. WILSON, Manager 1339 P Street Lincoln, Nebraska THE CENTRAL National Bank of Lincoln Capital 150,(00.00 Surplus and Undivided Profit $50,000.00 About 8,000 postofflces are now tak ing postal savings. All are president tlal offices. NO WEEK END VISIT FOR HIM! How O. Henry Diplomatically Evaded Trip That Was Not to His Liking. Wherever one goes, one hears a new story of O. Henry. Every one In maga zine circle knows him, and most had had a personal experience of two. Somehow, every story Illuminates the man. They are not merely humorous tales, but through them one catches a glimpse of his characteristics his broad humanity, or his generosity, or his love of the city. Robert E. Davis, editor of the Munsey magazines, re called the other day that one one oc casion he went a-vlsiting with O. Hen ry, down on Long Island. "It was a very hot day," said Davis. "We had climbed an everlasting hill. Another greater hill stretched before us. The sun was a disk of brass, and dust and heat and clicking insects rose from the ground. We sat on a fence to rest. " 'Is there anything else I can show you?' I asked him. " 'Yes.' said Henry, wiping his fore head. 'Show me a return ticket ta New York.' " On one occasion he had promised to spend the week end with Gilman Hall at his country place In Jersey. Mr. Hall had invited him several times. When Henry finally accepted, Hall gave him the most precise directions. "Take the three o'clock train on Fri day afternoon," said Mr. Hall, "and I will meet you with the carryall at the station." At 11 o'clock on Friday morning Mr. Hall was called to the telephone in his country home. The boy at the rail road station droningly informed him that there was a telegram for Mm, signed "O. Henry." "Read it," commanded Mr. Hall, and the boy's sleepy voice buzzed over the wire. "New York," he read. "Twenty-third Street Substation, Western Union Tel egraph Company, 10:30 a. m. Ad dressed, Gilman Hall, Far Out, N. J. Dear Hall: I have missed the three o'clock train. Signed, O. Henry." Neither Henry nor Hall ever re ferred to the telegram or the evaded visit in their subsequent talks. Mother of Twenty-one Grown Sons. At a recent performance in a Ken sington. South London, England, the ater, 22 of the 33 seats representing the third row of the dress circle were bespoken for the occasion by a Lin colnshire lady and her 21 stalwart sons, the eldest of whom is a man of forty-eight, who recently arrived from Australia. The mother and this son, who were the first to arrive, were soon joined by a succession of finely built fellows, who filed along at short intervals, in twos and threes, and took their seats alongside their moth er. The family resemblance soon be came apparent to those in the vicin ity. Some of the men were bearded, some wore moustaches, and others were clean-shaven, but all bore a marked resemblance to the gentle lit tle widow. The further arrival in the dress circle of four splendid burly men wearing the King's uniform, rep resenting the Lancers, the Army Serv ice Corps, and other branches of the service, kindled a still livelier inter est. Two more men were a moment later added to the party, having fresh ly landed from their fruit farm in Western Canada. The mother is a na tive of the' Orkneys. All her children are alive all boys, and eight of them are in the King's service. The sons had arrived from all parts of the Col onies to celebrate their mother' birthday. Collecting Horse Hair a Fad. There was a sonsewnat unpleasant incident at the Yarmouth race meet ing caused by a curious hobby which is growing increasingly popular among lovers of race horses. A horse sud denly lashed out with its heels, and a man who was behind it narrowly escaped Injury. The trainer spoke to the man angrily, and when asked to explain the Incident the trainer said that the man had been trying to pull hairs from the horse's tail. He added that many people made collections of the hairs from famous horses. Ordinarily they wrote to the owner or trainer for them, but there were a certain num ber of men who tried to make money by plucking them from the horses at different meetings. It appears that there are many such collections, and one of them recently changed hands for $100. Such a price ia above the average, but this collec tion contained sixty hairs, three from each of the tails of twenty winners of classio races, among them being Oalopin, Ormandle, Flying Fox, Scep ter, Ard Patrick, Rock Sand, Pretty Polly and Spearmint, the genuineness being vouched for by letters from the various owners and trainers. London Standard. Social Centers. In Milwaukee the establishment o social centers Is coming to be takei. as part of the municipality's concerns. A faculty for such an institution has been appointed by the appointment committee of the school board, and as soon as the matter has been experi mented with a little further, three more soclar centers will be opened, all three having been recently authorized by the board. Miss Julia Welch has been chosen as assistant director of the Fourth Street institution. A great deal of public interest has been en listed in the social center idea, not only in Milwaukee, but all over the country. Club women particularly have become keen over the possibilities that are opening up along this line. 2 Cathleen's Capture By IZOLA (Ooprtlcht, 1812, bx Aaeortlatwl Literary PreaeJ "Listen!" whispered Cathleen ex citedly. "Can't you hear him now?" " 'Deed, and it's only the crackling of the telephone wires. Miss Cathie. Don't you be worrying bo." soothed Blake, brushing out the long, beau tiful waves of chestnut hair. "There isn't a eoul out a night like this for miles. You're tired and a bit nerv ous." "I'm not a bit nervous, Blake," Cathleen .retorted haughtily. She stared at the reflection of herself In the oval mirror and frowned. It was certainly a white and troubled young person who returned her gaze of In quiry. "Anyway, I don't think it at all right for papa to send me out here at this time of the year." 'Tls a foine place for the asth ma," Blake said gently. But I haven't asthma. It's papa who has asthma. I think he should bave thought of me a little in the matter. It's cold and bleak and mis erable down here on the shore this time of the year, and there's nobody living here oh, Blake, there It is again. Don't you can't you hear It?" It was unmistakable this time, a steady, dragging sound on the roof. Cathleen reached for the pink-shaded lights, and extinguished them "with fingers that strove to be steady. She thought quickly. They had arrived that afternoon, without warning, from New York. Her father was to follow the next morning with his nurse and secretary. Only Blake and the old housekeeper were in the house besides herself. The chauffeur was in town. The house was one of several in a summer colony on the bay. The long gardens rambled straight down to the water's edge. It was the last of the row, and faced the sea on two sides. So far as Cathleen knew, there were no other residents there, only a few servants left in charge through the winter. Blake moved cautiously to the near est window and peered out. It was a stormy spring night The rain was pelting down in sheets. -Out to sea the lightning cut the darkness in long glittering gashes, coming swiftly after every crack of thunder. The house was built with gables. Cathleen's suite was in this front, so that the side windows commanded a full view of the sloping roof on the east gable above the library. She leaned over Blake's shoulder, and watched for the next flare of light. "There he is," she whispered. "He's climbed up as far as the parapet, Blake, and is crouching behind that chimney." "And what Ehould he do that for. Miss Cathie?" Blake objected. "Wouldn't he go In the windows by chotce?" "I- dont know," laughed Cathleen. her nerves running to extremes. "Maybe he prefers chimneys. I'm go ing to telephone the village and get the police out here just as soon as they can come." Blake listened to the howl of the storm outside. "Ah, sure, they'll never get np the shore in this gale. Miss Cathie," she groaned, but Cathleen had already sped down the long hall, and she spoke only to the windowpane. "Yes, hello, hello." called Cathleen tremulously, as she got the number at Seponsett headquarters. "This Is Mr. Reid's residence on the bay shore. There is a burglar on the roof, and I am alone except for two servants, both women. Can you send help at snceT WhatT I don't know. We on ly arrived about half an hour ago. The house has been closed all win ter. Do hurry. I'm afraid you'll be too late." She hung up the receiver and turn ed around to face Blake. "I think he's trying to come down the chimney, 'deed, and I do. He's acting that crafty. And there's the open fireplace In the library. Mis Cathie. Do you think he'll be dropping lown that way?" Cathleen felt a wave of falntneas weep over her. It was her first experience with burglars. But she sleanched both hands and stood fast. "Shall I wake Mrs. Busby?" "No," replied Cathleen, firmly. 'She's too nervous. The police will Be here in ten minutes. He won't come down a hot chimney. You go and build a fire in the library, Blake, and I'll get papa's revolver from his rooms, and cover him with it from my windows, and if he breaks in. 111 shoot." The man on the east gable worked with deliberation. Now he crouched behind the low parapet as the wind swept in from the sea. Then Cath leen could see him start to work with renewed energy. He seemed to be tearing at the roof. There were slate plates on it, Cathleen remembered. Mr. Reld was British, and had his own ideas of wbat a roof should be like even on Long Island. She wondered If perhaps this was a slate thief, and then choked a laugh In her handker chief, at the picture of any burglar stealing pounds of slate to bear away down the lonely shore a night like this. More probably he was a lunatic There was a private asylum six miles away. Cathleen felt more hopeful. One might divert a lunatic where a burglar had preconceived notions. Suddenly he began to descend with startling rapidity. He was down on FORRESTER. the veranda roof before she realized it, not thirty feet from her. "They're coming. Miss Cathie!" called Blake, in a hushed tone from the lower hall. 'You can bear them now." Cathleen raised the window, and leaned out. "Don't you move or 111 shoot!" she cried. He moved, nevertheless, and quickly, too. She leveled the revolv er and fired Into the darkness, but not toward the sound. There was dead silence on the roof below her, then she could almost have sworn she heard a laugh. Blake. was directing the police up stairs. She heard steps below in the garden, hurried, adventurous steps, and drew back from the window, white and chilled. "They've got hinn Miss Cathie, in tbe library," Blake brought the news. "He's that bold and daring, too. They want you to see him. Not a word will he say." "Oh, must I?" Cathleen hesitated, but the Reid blood was not made of milk. Head up, and steady nerved,she went down to the library. The burg larg met her gaze squarely. He was young, smooth-faced, towsle-haired, rough-coated, hatless. His curly hair was drenched and curled tightly.. It was the hair that gave him away. "Tommy," she gasped. "Tommy, how could you?" ' "How could you?" retorted Tommy, mildly. "But I didn't know you were here?" "Your father sent me down on the afternoon train." "But why on earth were you on the roof?" Tommy's eyes twinkled. He raised his handcuffed wrists. "It leaked, lady. I was only fixing It. It was coming In awfully, and I was asleep In the room underneath. I didn't hear you arrive even." "You might have seen the light." "But I was looking for a leak. Wont you please explain?" Cathleen explained, with what dig nity she could gather. The man was Mr. Thomas Drew, a close friend of the family. There was a mistake. She had no idea he was there at all And she was very sorry. When they were alone in the great dim library. Tommy took her In his arms with unmistakable Intentions. "You said I was a close friend of the family," he protested, "and you're the family. Do you suppose I was going to be railroaded down South or West, while you stayed here for three months? The governor needs some body here to- look after his business interests, and I applied for the posi tion. Also, the word goes around that I'm to be a junior partner. Will you be a June bride, sweetheart?" "Tommy, you don't know how funny you looked In those steel rings." "The first week in June?" Cathleen laughed, and raised her face from bis coat sleeve. "If you promise to keep off people's roofs." A curious scene was enacted the other day in a London (Eng.) police court, during the hearing of a charge brought against a young Swiss oper- L&Uc artist. In reply to tne accusation the prisoner stated that he had been engaged at a West End theater for ten years. Then, Deiore any one had guessed his purpose, the court was ringing with a tenor song from one of the Italian operas. The amazed jailer stopped him as soon as be had recov ered bis presence of mind, and the ac cused seemed to share in the general astonishment. "That," he said, with the profoundest of bows, "is to secure the verity of what I speak." Poet Can Live on Atmosphere. Some of the dull, utilitarian minds of the world are sometimes at loss to know how the seemingly improvident poet can dive on what appears to be a very meager Income. Stupid things! They have not the comprehension and delicious imagination to perceive that the true bard can Warm himself by his own poetic fire and secure his food and drink from his mlnce-Pierlan spring. Golden Rule. Whatever I have tried to 'do at all, 1 have tried with all my heart to do well. What I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely. Never to put one hand on anything on which I could not throw my whole self, and never to affect depreciation of my work, whatever it was, I find now to have been one of my golden rules. Charles Dickens. Would Hardly Go Around. Willie "Wonder what all the ani mals did during those forty days in the ark." Tommy "Oh, they Just lay around and scratched theirselves, I guess." Willie "Scratched their selves no thin'! What'd they scratch for when there was only two Seas?" Boston Transcript. Woman as Worshiper. Women are born worshipers;. In their good little hearts lies tbe most craving relish for greatness; it is even said each chooses her husband on the hypothesis of his being a great man in his way. The good crea teres, yet the foolish! Thomas Car lyle. PHYSICIAN FOUND IN FIELD EATING CORN Emaciated and With Memory Gone, Doctor Is Rescued Af ter Four Days' Wandering. Trenton, Mo. Emaciated, halt frozen and a physical and mental wreck, Dr D. W. Belshe, who "dlsap-. peared a few nights ago while on his way to make a professional call, was' Found In a field near Tindall, Mo., six miles from Trenton. When discov- Pound Devouring Corn From Shock. ered the physician was in a corn field eating corn out of one of the shocks. He was brought here and taken to his home. In the few lucid intervals which which he has had since being found, be was unable to remember anything that had transpired during the past few days. , Doctor Belshe refused to recognize bis uncle or to admit his own identity for several hours. Both hands and feet bear mute witness in their swol len condition to the harrowing experi ences which the physician must have undergone during his four days' wan dering in the bitterly cold weather. ' After he had been taken to his home here Doctor Belshe managed to say that the did not know what had happened to him, except that he had spent one night in a haystack. NUNS HIDE FROM RESCUERS Barricade 8elves In Burning Convent to Observe Rule That No Man Enter Premises. Paris. Word comes from Le Pcry, the picturesque capital of central France, describing an. Incident that! happened there recently, when a ter-j rible tragedy was averted only by the' resolute action of the police and sevH eral civilians, who succeeded in sav lng aged nuns from death by fire in spite oi ineir oeierminauon to aie. Fire broke out at. the old convent of; the order of Ste. Claire, and a brisk! wind caused the flames to spread so rapidly that soon the whole building' was in grave danger. The only oc cupants were seven aged nuns, who had been given leave to end their days In the convent in spite of the ministerial decree which, dissolved their order. -The order is one of the most closely cloistered, and one of the first rules forbids the admission of a man with in the precincts of the convent. Con sequently, when the police came up The Nuns Were Saved In Spite oi Themselves. they found that the sisters had with drawn to a dormitory and had there barricaded themselves against the entry of their would-be rescuers. Alll the appeals of the police for the door to be opened were fruitless, and. in the end an entrance had to be effected; by force, when the nuns were saved In plte of themselves. : RECTOR'S White Pine " Cough Syrup Is a quick and positive .remedy for all coughs. .It stops cough ing spells at night, relieves soreness, soothes the irritated membrane and stops the tick ling. 25c per bottle RECTOR'S 12th and O Sts. E.;Ficming 121 10 STREET Jewelry & Wares of Precious ZMetals Best selected stock in Lincoln. Here you can get anything you want or .need in the line of jewelry, and at the inside price. Especially prepared for com mencement and wedding gifts. , Watch repaizing and Engraving. see Flemiug first PIANO SNAP We have just taken in trade on a Knabe Grand, a - good, slightly used upright piano in a quartered oak case, which we offer at the "quick sale price" of $165 ON EASY PAYMENTS A handsome duet compartment bench and scarf furnished free. G. A. Crancer Co. 1124 O St., North -Side. MONEY (LOANED on household goods, pianos, horses, etc.; long or short time. No charge for papers. No in terest in advance. No publicity or file papers. We guarantee better terms than others make. Money paid immediately. CO LUMBIA LOAN CO., 127 South 12th. Dr. ChaS. Yungblut, Dentist Room No. 202 Burr Block Auto Phone 3416, Bell 656. Lincoln, Nebraska. J. P. WISE - Cottage- Grocery Choice, Staple and Fancy Orocerlcacg im cj c Vegetable and.Fru it a E3 Auto Phone 4939 j&t 9i N Strett The following is a list of the super intendents appointed for the 1912 Ne- -braska state fair: General, Wm. Fos ter, Lincoln; guards, C. J. Tracy, Loup City; transportation, L. L. Emerson, Lincoln; gates,' George Jackson,. Nel son; Tickets, E. Z. Russell, Blair; amphitheatre, E. R. Purcell, Broken Bow; coliseum, Chas. Graff, Bancroft; auditorium, W. W. Cole, Neligh, and W. Z. Taylor, Culbertson; automobile hall, C. H. Gustafson, Mead; mercan tile hall, Z. T. Leftwich, St. Paul; fruit, Clyde Barnard, Table Rock; , floral, Louis Henderson, Omaha; fish exhibit, W. J. O'Brien, Gretna; sani tation, J. H. Taylor, Waterloo; bands and attractions, J. E. Ryan, Indianola; class "A," horses, R. M. Wolcott, Pal mer; class "B," cattle, E. R. Daniel son, Osceola; class "C," swine, L. W. Leonard, Pawnee. City; class "D," sheep, W. C. Caley, Creighton; class "E," poultry, A. H. Smith, Lincoln; class "F," agricultural products, Wm. James, Dorchester; class "G," dairy, Jacob Sass, Chalco; class "H," do mestic products, Mrs. R. A. Maloney, . Madison; class "I," bees and honey. E. Whltcomb, Friend; class "J," women's department, Mrs. C. L. Mans field, Lincoln; class "K," fine arts, Mrs. Ross P, Curtice, Lincoln; class "L," educational, Anna V. Day, Lin coln; class "M," machinery, W. B. Banning, Union; class "Q," specials. Chas. Mann,,- Chadron; class "S," speed, Jos. Sheen, Lincoln; class "B," speed clerk, H. V. Riesen, Beatrice.