Unknown Race Is
Found in Panama
by English Pair
Strange People Who Live in
Wilds Thought to Be of
Chinese Origin—Wo
man Is Discoverer.
By Universal Service.
London, April 21.—F. A. Mitchell
Hedges, traveler and hunter, who was
accompanied on his trip of explora
tion to Central America by Lady Rich
mond Brown, has Just returned to
London after two years’ absence,
bringing amazing stories of the dis- !
covery of an unknown race.
These hitherto unknown people, ac
cording to Hedges, are apparently of
Chinese origin, and have Been living
for many thousand years on the banks
of an, uncharted river in the wilds of
Panama.
Hedges, who is a fellow In the
Royal Ideographical society, explained
to a company of scientists how, start
ing from Colon in a search for pre
historic animals and sea monsters
during, which he discovered a 60-foot
sword fish and the vertebrae of what
when alive must have weighed 70
tons, he fouud an opening in the coral j
reefs of Panama. Threading them !
for 150 miles, in his 30-foot yacht, the
‘ Kora," he penetrated the Hinterland,
where lie found in the Chuekunaqiie 1
country, a race of Indians who had
never seen a white person before.
These people looked on Hedges and
tl ,ady Brown as gods.
Chinese First Discovers.
Hedges declares that he has records ,
which he believes, when deciphered, :
will prove that America was first set- ,
tied by the Chinese. His collection
"f relics contains, according to
Hedges, thousands of specimens
!^*»iong which, he contends, are some
that prove the monster fish and beasts
of the Jurassic and Mesozoic periods
are still extant.
The collection is now being exam
ined by experts of the British mu
seum. some of whom admit that
Hedges' trip adds a valuable contri
bution to ethnology. Others, like Sir
Arthur Keith, famous anthropologist,
are skeptical, and hold that the ex
hibits are interesting, but that they
indicate that Hedges has not found a
new race but an old, forgotten branch
of some Indian tribe.
"Hedges' discovery and collection Is
most valuable in closing a hitherto
uncharted gap In ethnology.” declared
Assistant Keeper of Antiquities Joyce
at the British museum. "It is the,
most complete so far received of that"
period. Undoubtedly the tribe which]
he discovered is living In the most1
primitive conditions and there is no
question but that Hedges and Lady j
Brown were the first white people
they had seen.
Possess Modem Clothing.
"But it is known that these people!
/ have had. trade relations with neigh
boring Indians, who, in turn, barter
with the whites on the coast. This
would account for the fact that Iheyi
were in possession of modern clothing j
which they have cut and1 sewn into
highly Interesting squared designs. |
"Regarding the existence of mum
mified bodies, as far as we know the
. methods of burial of these people is
unknown. I saw dried specimens in
Hedges' collection which were prob
ably sun dried, but these may have
been fish.
"Undoubtedly these people ai-e liv
ing in stone age conditions, but I do
not see any proof of stone age exist
ence in legends, either written or
spoken. Photographs show that mem
bers of the tribe strongly resemble the
Asiatic type.”
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and he does not want any pay for It
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Tomorrow Is Designated
Officially as Arbor Day
Institution Originated in Nebraska by J. Sterling
Morton to Be Observed Throughout Nation—
Tree Planting Ceremonies to Be Held by
Various Organizations.
Arbor day. ordinarily observed on ]
April 22. will be observed tomorrow, 1
according to a proclamation Issued
by Governor Bryan. This event is
recognized throughout the nation ns
a Nebraska institution and tbs lats
J. Sterling Mprton is known as ths
originator of the day.
About 60 years ago, when Mr. Mor
ton's influence was beginning to be
noticed, Nebraska was a prairie
state, -with the exception of clumps 1
of trees along the river. Since the ;
Arbor day movement wa^put into |
earnest motion, 60 years ago, mil- '
lions of trees have been planted in
Nebraska and many millions more I
throughout the country.
Omaha and Nebraska is ever mind
ful of this day which belongs to the
Antelope state. Every school child
of Nebraska .was Impressed last week I
with the significance of Arbor day,
Tree Planting
Urged by Head
of Forestry Body
Rapidly Diminishing Lumber
Supply Should-Give Arbor
Day Special Significance,
Says T, W. McCullough.
"Arbor day should hold for Ne
braska people a more impressive qual
ity this year than ever before." says
T. W. McCullough of Omaha, presi
dent of the Nebraska Forestry asso- ;
ciation. "They are Just one year
nearer to the time when the forests
of the l.'nited States will be exhausted, |
and may look ahead to higher prices
year after year, as the supply of lum- ,
tier is less and less each year, and
the source is farther and farther
away.
"Already the freight on a car of
lumber to Nebraska from any source
is greater than the value of the lum
ber at the piill. Nebraska pays mil
lions of dollars each year In freight
on lumber that Is needed for the many
uses to which it is put, and for which
there is no substitute.
"Only in one way can this situation
be adequately met. Nebraskans must
raise their own lumber. This can be
done. Waste acres in the state, on
which nothing grows, will grow pine
trees. This Is proved beyond any •
question. Other waste acres will grow
oak. hickory, walntlt. elm, maple, cot- )
tonwood, many varieties of trees
which can be put to use.
Systematic Planting.
"Farmers can supply their homo
needs or most of them, from wood
lots, where both grass and trees will
grow, affording pasture and timber
for farm needs. Many farmers in
the state burn cow chips tot fuel,
when they could have wood. Many
school bouses stand bare and unpro
tected, where groves of shade trees
should wave.
“This requires only systematic
planting. Nebraska ought to fur
nish hi! its citizens with home grown
stocK, piovided by state nurseries.
Other states are doing it. In Mas
sachusetts. a much smaller state,
with far less unoccupied land, re
quests are made this year for more
trees than the state nurseries ran sup
ply, and they have a capacity for
furnishing more than 8,000,000 young
trees annually. Pennsylvania showed
a profit of over 14.000,000 on the
state forest reserve for 10 years un
der the management of Gifford
Pinchot, more than J400.000 a year.
In New York cities are deriving
revenue from city-owned plantations.
Colorado, Missouri, Iowa, Illionis,
Indiana, Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio,
states all around ys, are active, with
forestry departments, looking after
the present and future needs of their
citizens.
Once Pine-Clad.
"Why doe* Nebraska, with Its
glorious opportunity, lag behind? Is
It because the people are not awake
to their chance? The great , area
known as the "sand hills'’ will grow
pine timber; once it was covered with
pine timber. A yellow pine log, three
feet In diameter and 80 feet long was
Uncovered last summer In the south
ern part of Cherry county, buried
deep in the sands; pine trees grow in
Franklin county, and every needed
proof that that wilderness once was
forested with splendid trees ts at
hand. If proof is needed that pine
will grow thej-e, take a look rt the
Ressey nursery, on the Dismal river,
where 8,500 acre-slot pine trees toss
their dark plumes In the April sun
shine. Twenty-one years ago that
was waste land; now It Is a splendid
forest. The federal government plant
ed those trees ss an experiment and
an object lesson.
Declines to Pass law.
"The present legislature, like T?«
predecessors, has declined to pass
law establishing a bureau of forestry
In connection with the College of
Agriculture. In the houao the mens
ure fAlled. not localise It waa lack
ing In merit, but because It would
l ost probably 15,000 a year to maintain
ihe eervice. Yet the house passed a
hill to accept the gift of Arbor Ixxlge,
a. park at one edge of the state, the
maintenance of which will coat sev
eral time* $5,000 a year. Parks are
all right, and the public need* them,
but Nebraska need* a bureau of for
estry more than It needH state parke.
"The Nebraska Forestry associa
tion will keep steadily on at Its under
taking, hoping to amuse Mis senti
ment of the citizens to a point where
the great work of transforming the
waste areas of the state In to forest
producing area* will he a fact Instead
of a vision. The crop Is not for to
day, or tomorrow, but for 50 years
from now, for generation* yet to
come, for. *e Joyce Kilmer wrote,
'Only God ran make a tree.’’’
Makes a Million.
Chicago, April 21.— Utile John
I .avezznrla hail to leave school at 8,
to niak* a living. The other day he
leased one of hi* downtown lots for
$1,000,000. "Home have to go to
school and some don't,'' he said.
I
not only with reference to planting
of trees, but of the value of flowers,
shrubs and vines.
Public Buildings to Close.
The city hall and courthouse wtll
be closed tomorrow In honor ofi the
day. The Omaha chapter of Ameri
can TVar Mothers observed tfye day
yesterday afternoon by plant fug 12
elm trees along Turner boulevard
north of Farnam street. An Impres
sive program wae given. This Is an
annual event of this organization.
City Commissioner J. P. Hummel of
the park department furnished the
trees. Mrs. M. E. Lewis was chair
i(ian.
Omaha Boy Scouts went to Camp
Gifford for their annual tree plant
ing. The boys planted 150 sycamore,
ash, cherry, Russian live, wild plum
and jack pine. The planting and care
of trees is part of the training of
every Boy Scout.
Omaha home owners are taking
cognizance of Arbor day by plant
ing trees and setting our shrubbery
and otherwise beautlfuying their
yards.
Loved Outdoors.
-T. Sterling Morton, who ser\ed as
seeretary\of agriculture, loved the
great outdoors. Mis home “Arbor
Lodge," near Nebraska City, was vis
ited by many famous men and women
fluring his life. Mr. Morton succeeded
in establishing Arl/or day In 1872.
and ever since that year the move
ment has grown to be recognized
throughout the nation.
The first Arbor day proclamtion was
issued by Governor Robert W. Fur
nas, who was a hortlculturallst of
tills state. The state legislature set
aside April 22 because this date Is
the birthday anniversary of Mr. Mor
ton. The legislature of 1885 set this
flay aside as a leghl holiday and the
session of 1895 designated Nebraska
as the “Tree Planter's" state and
adopted the goldenrod as the offi
( ml state flower. Mr. Morton lived
to see Arbor day officially recognized
In 40 states of the union.
Arbor day has been referred to at
"Nebraska's gift to the states of the
union.”
Roosevelt's Message.
In a message to the srhool children
of the 1’nited States, written by Theo
dore Roosevelt at the White House.
April 1», 1907. he said:
"A people without children would
face a hopeless future; a country Vith
out trees is almost as hopeless; forests
which are so used that they cannot
renew themselves will soon vanish,
and with them all their benefits. A
true forest is not merely a storehouse
full of wood, but, as It were, a factory
of wood, and at the aame time a reser
voir of water. Wherf you help to pre
serve our forests nr to plant new ones
you are acting the part of good eitl
zens. The value of forestry deserves,
therefore, to be taught In the schools,
which aim to make good citizens of
you. It la well that you should cele
brate Arbor day thoughtfully, for
within your lifetime the nation's need
of trees will become serious."
“The forest of the earth are flags
of nature.’kEnos Mills wrote. "
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Distributed under the trade name of
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Knowing that this new* may seem "too
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the laboratories will immediately refund
your money. This offer is guaranteed by
ample bank deposits, so nobody need
hesitate to accept it.
AIIYBBTIMRMENT.
TO DARKEN HI
It’s Grandmother’s Recipe to
Bring Back Color and
Luster to Hair.
You r*n turn gray, faded hair beau
tifully dark mid lustrous ftlinoat over
night If you'll get a bottle of "Wyeth'*
Huge and Sulphur Compound" at any
drug at ore. Million* of bottle* of thl*
old famous Sage Tea Recipe. Improved
by the addition of other Ingredient*,
are aold annually, any* a well Known
druggist here, lieciiuse It darken* th,
hair ao naturally and evenly that no
one ran toll it haa been applied.
Those whose hair 1* turning gray or
becoming faded have a surprise await
ing them, because after on* or two
application* th* gray hair vanish**
and your lock* become luxuriantly
dark an dheauijfnl.
Tide I* the age of youth, flrey
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\ Sag* mid Sulphur Compound tonight
jund you'll he delighted with yom dark.
handsome hair and your youthful np
[ poaraiio# wllhln a few day*.
French Inventor Dead.
Parts, April 21.—Tim inventor o£
wax bullets used in sham duels, Or.
Paul Devlllera, has Just died in
Vincennes at ths age of '74. Ho was
an Interesting and well-known Par
isian figure, present at many of the
most important duels, either as a
second or as surgeon.
New Russian Steel.
Moscow, April 2J.—Successful ex-1
periments have been carried out in
Kkaterinodrav In the production o\
steel in Martens furnace* with the
use of naphtha pas but without com
pressed air.
Nebraskan, With Brush
and Palet, Gains Fame
Robert Spencer Wins Note as
Painter of Landscapes
and Life.
Another of Nebraska's eons lias
passed through the exclusive portals
of fame. .This son chose the artist's
brush and paJet as his tools, used
plain, workaday people and things
as his models and arrived, just as
true sons of Nebraska have a way
of doing so consistently.
He is Robert Spencer, painter of
landscapes and of life. Back in 1879.
the Harvard (Neb.) weekly paper
doubtless contained an item announc
ing Mr. Spencer's birth. His father
wait'* Swedenborgian clergyman.
His family moved to Viriginla when
Robert was quite young, and later to
N. Y., after graduating from
high school, he went to New York to
study painting in the Chase school.
Mr. Spencer moved, in 1909, (o New 1
Hope, Pa., after (studying with K. V.
DuMont], and took up work with
Daniel Garber. After a discouraging
period he began to sell his works.
From the beginning lie has found In
spiration in the romance of the human
element. In old stone buildings and In
picturesque workers and idlers.
Many medals have been awarded
Mr. Spencer and he is rejtresented in
many of the best known art spots of
the country. The International Studio
| has devoted considerable space to Mr.
i Spencer's aims and views in a recent
' issue.
Former Cabaret Star
Is Fading in Prison
Chicago, April 21.—Birdie Frit**!,
the first and most beautiful of West ^k
Madison street cabaret singer*. the'^B
flower of the night life, i* fading ^
behind prison bar*. "Dope," says the
jailer, nodding bis head. “It gets ’em
all.’’
Cumber Industry Reviving.
Washington, April 21.—The $2,»
307,000 handed the government for
the sale of national forest timber is
taken by the government as an in
dtratinn that the lumber industry is .
getting back on its feet. %
%
Every home in Omaha is vitally
interested in this incomparable
F0R( l-T< l-VACATE SALE
“Turn over the keys by July 1st” — is* the landlord’s demands
Like a flash from out of the clear this order was served on us; our lease
would not be renewed. We must vacate. And the gigantic task of unloading is
now under way. The public is responding as they never have responded before.
The circumstance forced upon us results in'these great values for you.
We must sell—two immense warehouses and
our great retail store must be cleared of all
stocks,regardless of the tremendous money losses
We realize that to comply with the land
lord’s demands must necessitate the most
drastic, most ruthless smashing of prices, #
and that is exactly what we have done
throughout every line.
If there ever was an opportune time to buy
furniture, it surely is during this monster
sale. Never again will such values present
themselves. Your opportunity is here today.
!Forced-to- Vacate Price Tags Tell the Story ■*
of Amazing Money Savings on Every Article
EVERYTHING GOES—NOTHING. RESERVED
Bedroom Suites, Library Sets, Living Room Suites, Sun Room Furniture, f
Breakfast Room Suites, Rugs, Linoleum. Stoves, Chairs, Curtains,
Tapestry, Drapes, Bedding, Floor and Table Lamps, Pictures, Grafonolas
m and Records, Sewing Machines, Washing Machines, Refrigerators,
Kitchen Tables, Porch Furniture, Baby Carriages, Ferneries,
Baby Cribs, Cedar Chests, Mirrors, Bric-a-Brac, Bookcases
and Hundreds of Other Articles That Lend Toward the Beauty and
Practicability of the Home ^
/ , \
Outfit your home on Bowen’s Easy to Pay Plan, and at the same
time share in these sensational money saving opportunities
• *
Do not deny yourself the comforts and contentment that identifies itself
with a well fumishbd home. Enjoy them. This sale makes it possible; makes
[ it easy. We’ll arrange the terms of payments to suit your individual needs.
Buy Now—As You Have Never Bought Before?
It’s time for action! Strike while the bargain iron is hot. To hesitate is to
regret. Avoid regrets—be here tomorrow.
Hardy Rose Bushes
Monday we offer healthy,
hardy Rose Bushes, the
same as we have sold for
seasons, at the extremely
low price of—
s'
BOWEN SHALL CONTINUE
IN THE FURNITURE BUSINESS
—IN OMAHA—
New locations now
under consideration
Although forced from our
present store, we shall in
the very near future an
nounce our future location.
Negotiations are now un
der way.
From the furnishing of a
home complete down to the
purchase of a single clothes
basket. This phenomenal
sale will save you money.
Your even- Furniture
need, no matter how
great or how small, can
most advantageously be
met in this sale. -Select
now. while stocks are at
their best.
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