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Improvements at Many Gas Plant Impress Visitors Continental Club Members Shown Over Place, With Running Comment, by Engineer Robison. Member# of the Continental club were given inside information of the manufacture of carburetted water gaa Friday noon at the municipal gas plant. Twentieth and Center streeta, where C. D. Rlblson, operat ing engineer of the metropolitan Utilities district, piloted the visitors through the big plant* Luncheon was served in the offices and then an Inspection trip was made through the various departments with a running talk by Mr. Robison. The heat of 2.600 degrees obtained in the generators was one of the objects of particular interest. The guesta were shown the "blow-off” which operates in cycles of three minutes for generating gas and three minutes for the blow-off. Club members, who felt they were part owners in this $5,000,000 plant, viewed with Interest the generators, carburetters, relief holders, con densers for removing tar, purifiers for removing sulphur, latfge meters, storage holders and the large mains which carry the gas through many miles of pipes to thousands of con sumers. The visitors were impressed by the recent improvements of the plant and by the cleanliness maintained. Court Orders $400,000 for ' Omaha Bank Depositors District Judge Fitzgerald took cog nizance Friday of the unsatisfied claims of depositors in the defunct American State bank and issued an order on the State guaranty fund for $400,000 to supplement money in pos sesion of the receivers, realized from a liquidation of the bank’s assets, to satisfy claims totaling $902,802.55. , Subsequent claims are barred from payment until further order of the court. Adele Garrison My Marriage Problems l The Way Madge end Katherine Swiftly Met. The news from Grace Draper’s Ups that Harry Underwood himself was the Big Tangerine, coupled with the knowledge of his perfidy, to which I had listened uneeen by either him or the woman in whose power I was, gave me the feeling of having been suddenly drawn down Into swirling ocean waves. Once I had that experience In real ity, when—In the first year of my marriage and of my acquaintance with Grace Draper—she had clutched my foot one day when we were swimming and had drawn me underneath the water In a mad attempt to drown me. Then not yet hardened to mur der. she had brought me to the sur face again after a hard battle. That she had regretted her weakness as she termed It, many times, I knew, and I had no misgivings as to her course now that she had me In her power. But to know that my only hope of rescue, Harry Underwood’s intervention with the Big Tangerine, ot whom he had spoken ao confidently, had been but a mockery, this well nigh blotted out consciousness from me. It was only the blind struggle for life till the last breath which brought mo up from the abyss of unconscious ness which yearned for me, and gave me strength to listen longer. “It is nothing to you,” Harry Un derwood was saying, “what the Big Tangerine does or does not do. But do you imagine”—there was sudden ferocity in his voice—“that I have waited years for the chance to tame that proud, sneering, little devil, to pay her hack for affronts you know nothing of, and then let you snatch the opportunity away from me? Not iff a million years! Give me the key to that room, this Instant, and don’t you dare to show your face there until I come back again! I can't wait to go up there now.” “I will not give you the key,” Grace Draper returned steadily, “and I am going to headquarters with your in terference and with the real name of the nurse you brought in here yes terday. I don’t know what you’re trying to do—” “Perhaps the same stunt you’re planning,” the man replied, slowly, significantly. “For the last time, will you hard over that key and keep away from that room until I give you permission? Or will you compel me to inform the Prince of a few other keya which are in your possession, the little fact that the Inner Presence— “You devil," Grace Draper aald faintly. "I thought you’d see reason," he said after a second. “But keep up your spirits,” he added with a return to his old bantering manner. “Per haps neither of us will be compelled to use our emergency plana If I get back with the old man all right, the whole program ought to go through with a bang, and you can have what's left of both the nurse and the dame behind this key for a rag rug. So long!” “Who Is Itf” I heard his footsteps across the floor of the room below and when the door had closed a tearing, hys terical but low-muttered curse from Grace Draper’s lips. Then I carefully laid the rug over the Jagged hole again and noiselessly crammed one of the pillows around the radiator pipe to deaden any sound of my move ments. With the desperation of a trapped rat I meant to make an effort to get out of my prison room. Linda lay deep in drunken slumber. Grace Draper would not come near me until Harry Underwood's return. If I made any attempt at all, I must not wait. Hidden in the lining of my mani cure case were a couple of finely-tem pered tools which Lillian had given me in the days of our government work for Just such a predicament as the one in which I found myself. With infinite caution I rose from the couch and took the tiny but powerful things from the case. Then I went swiftly to the bath room. rejoicing in Linda's stertorous breathing, and feverishly began to remove the screws of the lock which held the door separating the bath room from the next room. Fortunate ly, the lock was a new one, and the screws were not rusty, so I made com paratively little noise, and it was but a few moments before the lock was loose. I slipped the bolt which reinforced the lock on my side, pressed cau tiously against the door and realized there was a similar bolt upon the other side. I wondered how loud a call I dared risk, when I heard a tense whisper through the keyhole. “Who is It?” When I answered "Madge!” there Burgess Bedtime _Stories By THORNTON W. BURGESS. Johny Chuck Proves Ho I* « True Squirrel. This fact la true, so mark It wall In time of dancer blood will tell. —Old Mother Nature. Looking around isn’t the safest business In the world, especially tor those who have been in the habit of seldom going far from their own doorsteps. Johnny Chuck and Polly Chuck, as you know, are not fast run ners. They are not built for running. That is why usually they are not found far from the safety of their home. With a yelp of pleasure lie started straight for them. But spring fever and a desire for change had set them to wandering about, looking for a place to build a new home. They felt as if every step they took was an adventure, and in a way It was. Many times they were so far from a place of safety that had they been surprised by Reddy Fox or Old Man Coyote or some other enemy there would have been nothing for them to do but fight. To have trusted to their rather short legs would have been useless. More than once they saw an enemy in the distance. Then they did the very wisest thing they could have done, which was to flatten them selves out on the ground and keep perfectly still. Always they were on the watch. While really they were was a grasp of amazement, the holt slid bark and Katherine Blckett waa In my arms. adventuring, they didn’t Intend to take any foolish chances. But even the most watchful are sometimes surprised. It happened so with Johnny and Polly Chuck. They were over near an old stone wall mak ing a breakfast of some young clover which they had found. It was the first clover they had found this spring, and it tasted so good that they forgot everything else. They forgot to watch out. Tes, sir, they forgot to watch out. Now it happened that Bowser the Hound had taken it into his head to go looking about that morning. Perhaps Bowser had a little of the spring fever in his blood, too. Any way, he came trotting along on the other side of that stone wall. Just by chance he jumped up on that wall and looked over It just as he was opposite where Johnny and Polly C'huck were enjoying their breakfast. He saw them right away. With * yelp of pleasure he started straight for them. That yelp was the first warning that the two Chucks had that danger was anywhere near. Now there was just one place of possible safety, and that was the old stone wall. At the sound of Bowser's voice Johnny started for that wall In one direction nnd Polly started for it in another. For just a second or two Bowser was uncertain which one to chase. Then he started after Johnny Chuck. Polly Chuck reached the old stone wall at a place where there was just room enough for her to squeeze in between two stones and down under the wall. There she was safe. But Johnny Chuck was not so lucky. When he reached the stone wall he Wbnd no hole big enough for him to squeeze into. He ran along a short distance, but still there was no hole. By this time Bowser was nlmost at his heels. What could Johnny do? I’ll tell you what he did. Just In front of him, growing close-beslde that wall was a tree. Johnny headed straight for that tree. When he reached it he scrambled up into It. Tes, sir. he did just that. He was rather clumsy about it, but he got up there Just the same. When he w-as well out of reach of Bowser he sat down in a crouch and glared down at Bowser. Johnny had never climbed a tree be fore, but then he had never had to. it was the Squirrel blood in him that had made it possible. Toy see, Johnny Chuck belongs to the Squirrel fam ! ily, although few people seem to know it. Our Children i — ——■ ■■ By ANGELO PAT1U. Growing Up to It. "Yesterday waa Donald's birthday," said Aunt Martha complacently, "and I bought him a good book. Books are about tha best thing to buy for a child, I think, don't you?" "Yes, indeed. If the child reads, I do.” "Well, of course if he hasn't the books he can't read them," said sensible Aunt Martha. "That’s why I say, give them good books!" "What book did you buy Don ald?" “O. I bought him a fine copy of 'David Copperfield.’ A lovely one with good binding and new Illustrations. I believe in getting good books.” Aunt Marie looked uneasy. "But Donald can't read ‘Copperfield.’ ” "Who? Donald? O, no, of course not. Not now! But he'll grow up to it. He's only beginning to read. He does remarkably well for a little fel low of 7. But a good book keeps and some day he will enjoy it,’ and Aunt Martha pocked on blissfully. Aunt Marie Jerked her thread and broke it. Aunt Marie waa impatient at times. She didn’t believe in buy ing things for children to grow up to, especially books. But some folks do. Why not buy the child the book that he is ready for now? It is very difficult to buy a book for a child, because few of them are really writ ten for children. Most of them are written to the memory of childhood. They are emotionalized memories, a relief for the weary-minded adult. One makes the mistake of buying a book for a child that one used to be rather than for the child who needs one today! But that is no excusa for buying a masterpiece of literature that is to be enjoyed later in life, and present ing to an infant with the calm in junction that he hurry and grow up to it. There are books for child minds, although ft requires search to uncover them. People don't search. They set about buying a book for a child much as a lady matches samples of silks. “Give me a book for a 7-year-old boy.” "Seven years?" saya the clerk. “Let’s give 'seven years’ Stevenson's 'Child's Garden.'" So easy. Just match up his years and his book. It might be better to match up his BARNEY GOOGLE— \ Barney and Sparky Were Headed for a Trip Around the World. Drawn for The Omaha Bee by Billy De Beck ~ * (Copyright 1923) \,W. . _ ^ I - frp. hy Syfcott. It| fs«wrt\ f VOU tW AU M • \ 'tfcu ST/rr nem« Xu MOOCM ooxu , The MU AHb -MC* ••* I CAN G6T TWc uwror J COM® r Tbo Bab S^flRVcY — Tva auama£ OTmeb - • X'&SGEG* L'r I BRINGING UP FATHER-„.n. SS.5?^^^^ Drawn fo, The Omaha B~ hr McManu. .Copyright 1923) ■ -- — - - - ___ MR*b DEBATE will too HAVE BEEN YOU DO ME A FAVOUR ^>0 LIBERAL to • WANNA CO TO The MV C HARt TIE'S ■ PIANO MOVERS BALL Si! 'to C,LAt“ WILL .YOU A“b»c MACCIE5 J I'M AFRAID TO c--' ' 2/-T _ _ fUj. -' T M9 I I SUPPOt>E MR OUiCt) HE. NEVER ' WILL attend THE . ^MENTIONED IT piano movers ball ^ TONIOHT- IT'S QUITE A SOCIAL ATrAIR jicc^-oear co put on YOOR eveninc Clothed . I WANT YOO TOCO TO TT\ THE PtANO'fSOVERt* r JaBALL AMO I'LL CO J with voo- <;—f 7r«n>r--—~~7. j «t-7 HE.LI.O UIMTX' IN tSOT COlSNAv I © IKJ •> INT L riATunc Scwvict mind with hla book. To consider hia tastes, hia development, the books he haa already enjoyed. The “Child’s Garden" may be just the thing. Then again it may not. It may be he is better prepared to enjoy "Rhymes for Kindly Children.” Certainly one ought not to buy him a masterpiece of literature that he must lay aside. He is going to re member that book qp the embodiment of disappointed hope. He has prob ably been cheated out of it for good. Of course it ia hard to find the right book for the right child but there is no excuse for buying a book for him to grow up to. There is too much In this world for him to grow up to now. He needs something that fits today. (Copyright, 1(23.) Uncle Sam Says School Gardens. This booklet which Is Issued by the Federal Bureau of Plant Industry is designed especially for school garden work. It gives plans for vegetable and flower gardens, contains labora tory exercises, and illustrations of all the necessary steps in the various emthods of garden work, including propagating and grafting. Readers of The Omaha Bee may obtain a copy of this booklet free as long as the free edition lasts by writing to the Division of Publica tions, Department of Agriculture. Washington, D. C., asking for "F. B. 218." Battalion Fire Chief Is Overcome hy Smoke at Fire Fire in the American Shoe Re pair, under the Central Market, at Sixteenth and Douglas, caused consid erable commotion at noon Friday. It was caused, it is believed, fnWn a spark off a nail in filing leather off the heel of a shoe in the process of repair. Battalion Chief Ernest Xewhouse fainted when overcome by heat and smoke, cutting a gash over his eye. 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