BRINGING UP FATHER— .Iff. SEE JIGGS AMD MAGGIE IN FULL PAGE OF COLORS IN THE SUNDAY BEE Drawn for The Omaha Bee by McManu* iCopvrijsh* 1922) r»-- - ■ ■ | WHW HAVE ) »T'ts ONE OF THEM ' '™cc,,r 1 THINCit) THET Ut>E IN _>AM_ HERE I LL •show too how r THET U^sE EM ' oo they put Tnet>e v.7| f ON ALU THE. ^I'oONER^j' j. __—-^ _ TEO- AN' NO ONE KNOVb ■J/ &ETTEC3. Zj THAN ME - BST TA,VAvO^ - here: c—icr Cop,.,*!-, w:: by |M, Futurt s,nKt |iK SOULS for SALE By RUPERT HUGHES. *■■■■■■■ ■ --■■■■■-- --—... J Ifonlimn'd rrt.ro Ymterday.) The doctor took the Mils with a curious Htulle. Mhe seemed to feel his sardonic perplexity as she mused r.lotid along a well-thought path. "If I hadn't been a fallen woman I couldn't have saved pupa's church from ruin. How do you explain It? A\ hat's t in right and wrong of it all? The old doctor shook his head; "I'm no longer fool enough, honey, to try to explain anything that hap pens to us here. 1 don't even wonder about what's going to happen to us hereafter, If unythlng. as for right and wrong—humph! I can't tell 'em apart. When some terrible calamity comes, your father says, "It is God's will; he moves In a mysterious wav!’ Well. I let It go at that for good luck, tot*. I neither thank nor blamo Any body for anything, nnd 1 don't pray to Anybody to make it come out the way I want It. According to one line of thinking, jour misstep was the divine plan. According to another, good can never conic out of evil. Of course we know it does, every day; nnd evil out of good. The only folks who know tilings know 'em because they think that being pig headed is be ing knowing. It's too much for the wise ones. So let's let It alone and make the best of what comes. We’re ■ nly human, after all, so let's Ik- as human as wo can, and 1 guess that's about as divine ss well ever get Down Here." tic* led r,'r out to ms woerui little tin wagon and they went larruping through the streets, out Into the ceme tery. That at least had Increased in population and some new monuments brightened It. set like paper weights to hold down poor bodies that the wind might else blow away. A few mourners were moving about planting flowers, clipping ;;riiss, lifting away old scraps of paper, or Just brooding over what the earth bad gathered Iwwk unto Itself They looked up startle,1 and offended it the profaning clatter of Uoctrr Breth erlck'8 car. Some of tbem Mem rc-ugni: >d. One or two women, whose grief v.as so old, that it was almost conifortal'le w aved to her. She had a sudden fear that If she paused to kneel at fcllwood's mound and worship there she would start a wonder that intuition would change to ugly surmise. The scandal liad died before its birth, like the Still-born child. It would do Mem tittle harm, for she had been the victim of much harsh talk and was always under that cloud of suspicion that envelop all stage people In the eyes of the Conventional. Hut Klwood In his grave ought to be spared from such a resurrection. The tongues of the busybodies must not dig him up and play the ghoul With him. Tn a panic of Indecision as to her true duty, slip recognized old Mix. Farnaby nlouring by a little hillock. Swaying near tier was her husband, old Fall-down Farnnby, still some how capable of intoxication. The doctor knew better than to pause at all. and Mem's only rite of atonement was a glance of remorseful tu-ony cast toward Klwood’s resting plane. It showed her that the founder of her fortunes was honored only by i, wooden headboard already wraped ar.d sidelong. "one Jkiet favor." she mumbled to Doctor Bretherlck. "Get a decent tombs!oi c for the poor boy and let Hie pay for It.” “All right, honey, -aid the doctor. And the car Janfeled out of the gates again into the secular road. And that was that. CHAPTER LXI. When Hue reached home, Mem was j so beaten down and frustrated that Kht begged permission to rest awhile in bed for the nigiitV ordeal. At the supper table the younger children be net her with questions, filadys was ' particularly curious and searching in her inquires. Then came the hour of tile theater-. going. Nobody had dared to ask Hoo ter Steel don if he would accompany bis family. He had not trade up his own mind. He dared not. The family tacitly assured that his ; ooilaclene or his pride forbade him to appear ltj the sink of inquity he had so often denounced. The family bade him good-by end left him, but had hardly re tched the | gate when hr came pounding aft»r. He flung his arms about Mem's shoulders and cast off all his offices except that of a father, chucking: •'W here my daughter goes is good enough for me! He made almost more of a sensa- | tion in the- theater than Mem. Thcro •was applause and cheering and even a alow mid awkward rising to the feet until the whole packed nudltoiium whs erect and clamorous. Seats of honor were reserved for the great star and the family that reflected her effulgence. As soon aa they were seated the young woman who flailed the piano bega mo hatter the keys, and Mem's latest picture be gan to flow down the screen. She could feel at her elbow the rigid arm of her father undergoing mar tyrdom. She felt It wince as her first close-up began to glow, her huge eyes pleading to him In a glisten of super human tears. The arm relaxed as he surrendered to the wonder of her beauty. It tightened again when dan ger threatened her, and she could heur his sigh of relief when she escaped one peril, his gasp as the encountered another. He was like a child playing with his first toy, hearing his first fairy story. He was entranced. She heard him laugh with a Isyyishness she had never associated with him. She heard him blow his nose with a blast that might have shaken a wall In Jericho. A sneaking side glance showed her that his eyes were drip ping. And when the applause broke out at the finish of the picture, she heard his gc'at hands m; ' irm the loudest thwacks of ••-*1 This was heartbreak i g bliss for lie.. Then too manager appeared on the asrrow stage and spoke ol the honor • of having with them the great star of whom Calverly was so proud, und he took great pleasure in introducing Miss Uetnemher Steddon, ‘'America's sweetheart.” This stolen attitude embarrassed Mem only a moment in the sea of em barrassments that swallowed her. She hardly knew how she reached the stage or what happened there. Whatever she said, she said to her father, staring down at him as so often from the choir gallery. His eyes were bright with a layman’s ecstasy in u child’s glory. She came down and made her way slowly through a phalanx of friends' with outthrust Angers, snatching at the hem of her fame, eager to be able to say.” "I shook hands with Remem ber Steddon one." The family rode home in state, the j children and the mother loud in com ment, the father silent. The old par I sun had to think it all out. Once at home, he sent the children up to bed anti held Mem and her mother I with his glittering eve for a long v hllc before he delivered his ser mon. it was his nature to be for ever praying for forgiveness for something, and now his very pride took the form of contrition: "My beloved wife and daughter, I— ahem, ahum! I want to plead for the forgiveness of you both. I have been wrong headed and stiff necked as so often, but now I am humbled before you In spite of ail my pride. It has just come over me that when God said, 'Net there lie light,’ and there was light, he must have had in mind this glorious instrument for portraying the w onders of Ids handlework. Our dear Redeemer used the parable for his divine lessons, and it has come to me that if lie should walk the earth again today he would use the motion : pictures. "Yon have buiMed better than you knew, perhaps, my child—and now i ask you to pardon me for being >-b inned of you when t should have been proud. You were using .he gifts Heaven sent you as Heaven meant jolt to use them. Never huve I seen the beauty of purity amid temptation I so vividly brought home. "t would not presume to seem to criticize you, my darling, but I ini j plore you to keep your heart and your | ait clean, not only for your own pre vious sake, but for the sake of Hie people whom you arc helping in their own struggles with temptation. Your art is sacred and you can't, you won't sully It in your life. God forgive me for my unbelief and send you happi ness and goodness and a long, long usefulness in til** path vou have ted.” lie rose and lient down to kiss Mem ■ n the brow. Then lie escaped into in's study, leaving the two women to weep in each other's arms with a joy ous abandoment. i None of her father's thunderings I against wantonness, none of his chant , ings about the divine delights of self denial, ever had such influence upon | Mi-.m's soul is his meek surrender be* | fore hei power as an artist'. Nothing has ever made anybody I v.'unt to be g-ood so much as the re ; wards, the praise for having been ; good. That night Mem knelt again by her j old bed, and on kness nmtecustomed I to prayer, implored strength to keep i her gift like a chalice, a grail of holi I ness, She woke with an early morn ing resolve to be the purest woman ] and the devoulest artist that ever ! lived. Other hours and other influences brought other moods, but consecration was her spirit now. The next day she left the town ‘with all its blessings, no longer a scapegoat, sin laden, limping Into the wilderness, but a missionary God sped ■ into the farthest lands of the earth. It seems that all Calverly was there i to wring her hand and waft her salu i rations. The family was woebegone ■ at losing her—all but Gladys, who ' wore a mysterious smile that pur j zled them. The conductor called, "All aboard:" and hasty farewells were taken in j clench of hand and awkward kiss. Mem ran to the rear platform and ! waved and waved lengthening signals 1 of love to her dwindling family. She noted the absence of Gladys and won i derod at It as she went to hep draw ■ irg-room. There she found the girl ' i nsconced In fairy triumph, smiling i like a pretty witch. "What on earth are you doing ■ here?" Mem cried. "Going to Los Angeles with you. I T may never be great like you, but I'm going to have a mighty good | time trying. Can you blame me for ! tunning away from that graveyard ' w hen I see what came to you?" How could Mem blame her? How ! could she fall to understand her hnd 1 to promise h»r help? AH the world i was Ailed with runaway girls striking ] out for freedom and for wealth and renown. Mem's little sister was only another in the multitude and she was so pretty, so desirable, delectable, mag ' netic, that her future looked all roses. ! "I’m Jealous cf you," Mem said. : " Vou'll ruin my chances, you’re so j much better looking and—and—" "Oh, you:" Gladys laughed in dls I ciaimer. There were many questions to ex 1 change and Mem soon learned that her sister had flung off the chains that one j or two ardert lovers had tried to 1 fasten about her. She had substi I luted for the old ditty to run, "The ) boy I left behind me." Gladys was not beginning h**v future with the i daik groping fearsomeness of Mem's. ■ Mem had been like a pioneer who I fights old Wilderness and makes the j path easy for the followers. When Mem. with a last faltering j reproach, asked her sister if she were , wise to toss aside the devotion of a ! good man, Gladys laughed. “Let love wait! The men have kept us waiting for thousands of years. I till they were ready. Now let them wait for us.” I There was no gainsaying this. Tt , had been Mem a uw a feeling when she left Los Angeles and her lovers 1 there. i Consternation must be rife at home in Calvery where Gladys' elopement was doubtless realized by now. but there would be more consternation In the hearts of countless men when the fascinations of the Steddnn sisters should shine upon them from the sil ver sheet. Mem resolved to save her sister from tho anguishes she had known in her own pilgrimage. Fho felt al ready a veteran and u guide with a diploma from the college of life. Iter first thought had been a remorseful feeling that she had not only gone wrong, but had led her own sister astray, as well. Not that she felt that she had led her sister out of the dark Into the light. She had been somehow rescued from oblivion Into the higher oppor tunities. She would make her name famous and keep it. If she ever got a husband she would still keep her name and not use his, except for the sweet purposes of domesticity. Life had not plucked her to fling away or merely to adorn the button hole of some lover. Life had trans planted her into a garden where the choicest, flowers bloomed. She would make herself the rosiest rose that she could. Site would yearn upward to ward the sun and spread the incense of her soul as far as the winds of the world could carry it. And when she died she would leave her name and her face In Immortal pictures of deathless motion. She had sinned—indeed, her life had been redeemed from nullity through her sin at home. She would sin again—but then everybody sinned again and again. But she would make atonement by entertainment, purging her soul, not by hiding in the wilder ness, but by shining like a little sun around the world, blessing the world with sympathy and the nobility of tears shed for another's sorrows. Let love wait, then, till she hail made the best of herself. And then let love not demand that sho Ixiw her head and shrivel In his shadow; but let him bloom his best alongside. She wondered who that fellow of lief destiny would be—Tom Holby, maybe—Austin Boas, or still another perhaps; or others, perhaps, includ ing him! or them! In any case he (or they) had better behave ami play ] fair! As for being a mother, let that wait. too. Sire was going to mother the multitudes and tell them stories to sooth them. There was far more in this dream than vanity, far more than selfish ness. The hope of the world lay there in. for tho world can never advance farther than its women. She had a soul to sell and itlwas all her own, and she was going to mur- j ket. Tho dawn was hers for conquest. Mankind was her lover and her lie- ] loved. Tlie one-man passion called love could tarry until at least the lato I forenoon. The End. Largest Wheat Sales Agency Organized Minneapolis, Dw. 8.—The largest co operative wheat sales agency in the world, which, according to its organ izers will handle 100,000,000 bushels in its first year, was formed here to day at a meeting of six co-operative organizations, representing 10 states. The new organization is known as the/American Wheat Growers' asso ciation and was formed at a meeting of the Northwest Wheat Growers’ as sociation, representing five states, and the trustees of five other co-operative bodies representing five other states. Headquarters of the new association probably will be located in either Min neapolis or Kansas City, it, was said. The states represented at the meet ing today were Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, Kan sas. Nebraska, Colorado, Oklohoma and Texas. Heirs Refused Judgment for Woman’s Death Here Lincoln, Dec. 8.—(Special.)—Judg ment of the Douglas county district court in refusing to award heirs of ; Anna Pauline Jensen any damages from the Omaha & Council fluffs Street Railway company for her death was affirmed today by the state su preme court. Miss Jensen was killed by a motor cycle rider as she was stepping from 1 the front door of a street ear on South Thirteenth street in Omaha, One foot w'as on the ground and the other was on tiie step of the car at the time of the accident. • , It was contended that the tram com pany should proilde a safe rlace for her to alight. i Mercury Drops to 9 \bove; Season's Low Mark The slight snow flurry Thursday «veiling, the first of the season for Omaha, was followed elosely by a fur ther drop in temperature which made yesterday morning the coldest, yet this season, with the mercury hovering i at 9 above zero from 7 to 9 o'clock. Nebraska's first zero weather was Recorded at Valentine. "The light snow wan reported from I all sections of the ntatp, .02 of an I inch falling at Valentine and North I Flatte. i The mercury registered 20 below ! at Havre, Mont. 1 Fair and continued cold last night, j Saturday mostly cloudy with slowly I rising temperature, was the forecast. Robbers Visit Two Offices. Beatrice, Neb., Dec. 8.—(Special.'— Robbers entered the offices of the New ell Lumber company at Odell and that of the Farmers Elevator company at F.lue Springs and secured about *10 In cash. i Japan’s army expenditure for next year will be 206,000,000 yen; the navy I 276,000,000 yen. Clubman Files Poetical Lawsuit • * Against Lauudrv for Torn Pants Trousers Not So Plural in His Home That He Wants Them Mutilated, Says Rhyming Com plainant in Police Court. A pair of disfigured trousers figures j prominently in a poetical lawsuit filed in municipal court yesterday. Charles W. Morton, jr„ prominent in club feircles, brought the suit j against the Leavenworth Laundry ' company, charging that it damages his trousers to the extent of $10u. The petition, written in rhyme, is said to be the most unique ever filed ' In an Omaha court. When inter- i viewed, young Morton, mourning his j damaged nether garment, did some what ns follows himself declare: "I was in despair, "When I found the tear, "in my trousers once eo fair, 'In the brightest glare, "They resisted wear. "And had a derided fi-ir* "t'ntl! In the laundry's lair, "They did so lily fare." 1‘etition Tells Story. "And now their disrepair would , leat’e me almost bare, were it not for “And was *•« '-eivcd \vi*li cruel rebuff and fdgns of actual enemlty. “Hero tin: plaintiff also pruye that they return his coat "On which thav fractured buttons and made streaks—one’d hardly know it, "Now let the honrablo court wltu all <1 ue respect “Ho advised that plaintiff has made fre quent efforts to collect.1' 5. “So now must move the court to render him relief “And allow reasonable Judgment for his loss and grief “Th n quickly ent^r Judgment for the ftOO lost "And assess th> errant laundry with oil attendant costs." Remains Locked in Safe. Thus endeth the petition, but not the story.. Mr. Morton declares that if he wins the suit and gets a new suit all the world will he in rhyme. His attorneys, Crossmari, Monger and I.arton agree that his trousers have been done an irreparable damage. The'remains are locked in the law another pair," ho added, by way of emphasizing the seriousness of the affair. Ho said many uncomplimen tary things about laundries in par ticular, asserting that although he had other pairs of trousers, pants aren’t so “plural” in his homo that he wants any of them unduly muti lated. But on with the petition, which tells the story: l. "Cornea now the plaintiff that he may assuage his gri*!; "Humbly complaining, plaintiff asks this court’? relief "Against the defendant for his tur pitudlnoux < riii>o "Of bathing plaintiff's breeches in solu tion of quick Mine "Or burning them c*r rendering them unfit beyond compare "For human occupation—and they offc-i no repair." "The defendant is a corporation wholly without soul "And operate? for profit and collects a goodly toll "Now the maid who works for Morton wan assembling the wash "And off she sent the trousers little dreaming that ns hash "This nether portion of a costly woolen suit would he— "The plaintiff on their sad return *a hun dred gone,’ says he." "Now on receiving the goods tho laundry erring "Op< n d up the bundle little oaring "And doused the whole assortment Jn their cruel tub "And straightway started in to iear and rub "And pulled and rent, and maiming grievously— "A reckless, impious custom we will all agree." 4. "Alas, the plaintiff called on the de fendant for indemnity Births an i ction of Reginald Oe Koven’s i ' 'era Masterpiece. Mat. 50c, VJc, $1. Ev'ngs J»0c to $1.50 LAST DAY GLORIA SWANSCN “The iiiis. Eellew" 'fipXVOh'fAH-UJUlL/ LAST DAY BOOTH TARKINGTON’S OJoyess Stage Success | larence with WALLACE REID, AGNES AYERS, MAE McAVOY. Last Times TONIGHT LON CHANEY in "Fle.h and Blood” T O M O R R O W Big Double Show TWO SOLID HOURS OF LAUGHTER USE BEE WANT ADS EMPRESS LAST TIMES TODAY ALICE LEWIS & CO. 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