ONE OF OURS ny WILL* FATHER. Famous Nebraska Author. (Continued From Saturday.) SYNOPSIS. ,< laud* Wheeler, son of a Nebraska rancher. Is disappointed in wedded life with Knid Koyce, religion* daughter of •lason Koyce, Frankfort. Nebraska, miller. After a year and a half together she goes to China, where her younger sister, Caro line. a missionary, is ill. Claude goes to officers’ training camp and is eommjs* | sinned n lieutenant. While attending a small denomination college In Lincoln he became a friend of the Krlich family, a motherly widow and her five sons. Claude lias friends in Ernest Havel and Leonard llawson, young Nebraska farmers and neighbors of the Wheeler family. He ha* hii elder brother. Huyliss. in business In Frankfort; hi* father, Nat, and u younger brother, Ralph. Iti* mother is prideful of her soils. While home on leave from camp Claude finds he loves Gladys Farmer, h!gli school friend of his wife. Claude haves with his company for Europe. On hoard tlie transport In* makes friends with \ ietor Morse, on aviator; Albert I slier, voung marine from Wyoming; Private llert Fuller, » Virginia soldier, and Corporal Tannhauscfand Lieutenant Fanning. An «p id emir 0T ‘'flu** breaks opt on ship hoard and Claude i* kept busy caring for the *iek. Corporal Tannhaiiser and several other soldiers die and lire buried at sen. Despite his unpleasant surround ings Claude fuels a certain sense of free dom in getting away from a still more unpleasant past. "Have you tried him on malted milk?" when Claude had told him how Fanning's nourishment was threatened: "Dr. Trueman hasn’t a bottle left. How long: do you figure we'll be at sea?" “Four days; possibly five." "Then lieutenant Wheeler will lose his pal.” said Dr. Trueman, who had just eome in. Chessup stood for a moment frown ing and pulling nervously at the brass buttons on his coat. He slid the bolt on his door and turning to his col league said resol p tel y: "1 can give you some information, if you won t. implicate me. You can do as you .ike, but keep my name out of it. For several hours last night cases of eggs and boxes of oranges were being * •« lied into the chief steward’s c ibin by a Hunky of his from the galley Whatever port we make, lie can get a shilling each for the fresh eggs, and perhaps sixpence for the oranges. They are your property, of course, tur ii.shed by your government, but this is his customary perquisite. I’ve been on this boat six years, and it’s always been so. About a week before we make port, the choicest of the remaining stores are taken to i. v cabin, and he disposes of them after we dock. I can’t sa #yjust how he manages it. but he does. The supper may know of this custom, and there may be some reason why he permits it. It's not my business to see any thing. The chief steward is s power ful man oil an English vessel, if lie lias anything against me. sooner or later he can lose my berth for me. There you have the facts.'* "Have 1 permission to go to the chief steward?" Mr. Trueman atjaed. “Certainly not. But you can go 'without my knowledge. He's an ugly [man to cross, and he can make'tt un comfortable for you ami your pa tients." "Well, we'll say no more about it. 1 appreciate your telling me, and I | will see that you don't get mixed up In this. Will you go down with me to look at that new meningitis i case?" Claud* waited impatiently in his stateroom for the doctor s return. He j didn't see why the chief steward shouldn’t he exposed and dealt with like any other grafter. He had hated the man ever since he heard him 1 berating the old bath steward one morn ng. Hawkins had made no at tempt to defend himself, but stood like a dog that has been terribly beaten, trembling all over, saying. “Yes. sir. Yes. sir,” while his chief gave him a cold cursing in a low. snarling voice. 'Claude had never heard u man or even an animal addressed with such con ■ tempt. The steward had a cruel face | —white as cheese, with limp, moist hair combed back from a high fore head-the peculiarly oily hair that seems to grow only on the heads of stewards and waiters. His eyes were exactly the shape of almonds, hut the lids were so swollen that the dull pupil was viable only through a nar | row slit. A long, pole moustache hung 1 like a fringe over his loose lips. When Mr. Trueman came back from j the hospital, lie declared he was now - ready to call oil Mr. Micks "He'S a nasty looking customer, but he can t cli> "•>vtbing to me.1’ They went to the chief steward's can u and knocked. "What’s wanted?” called a threat ening voice. Tlie doctor made a grimace to his ! companion and walked in. The stew ard was sitting a." a big desk, covered with account books. He turned in Ids chair. ”1 beg your pardon,” he said coldly, “1 do not see any one here. - t will he—” The doctor held up his hand quick - ily. "That's all right, steward. I'm sorry to intrude, hut I've something 1 must say to you in private, i’ll not detain you long." If he had hesitated | for a moment. Claude believed the | .steward would have thrown him out. but lie wem on rapidly. “This is Lieutenant Wheeler, Mr. Micks. His fellow officer lies very ill with pneu monia in stateroom !I6. Lieutenant Wheeler lias kept him alive by spe cial nursing. He is pot able to retain anything In his stomach hut eggs j and orange juice. If he has these,' we may he aide to keep up his i strength till the fever breaks, and carry him to a hospital in France. If we can't get them for him. lie will be 1 dead within ?4 hours. That's t lie 1 sitliaUou.” i he steward rose and turned out the drop-light on his desk. "Have you received notice that there are no more agga and oranges on board? Then 1 am afraid there is nothing I can do ' for vou. I did not provision this | ship.” ’ ' "Am I understand tlmt. I believe the United Slates government provid ed the fruit and eggs and meat. And I* positively know that tlie articles l need for my pdtlent are not ex hausted Without going into the mat ter further, I warn you tliat I'm not going to let a United States officer die when the means of saving him are procurable. I'll go to the skip per. ’i'll call a meeting of the army officers on hoard. I'll go any length to save this man." "That is vour own affair, hut you will not Interfere with me in the dis ■ liarge of m.v duties. Will you leave my cabin?" In a moment, ^steward. l know that last night h number of rases of eggs ami oranges were carried into this room. They are here now, and they belong to the A. K. F. If you wili agree to provision n»y man, what L know won’t go any further. But it* you refuse. I’ll get this matter in vestigated. i won't stop t il I do." The steward sat down, and took up a pen. His large, soft hand looked < heesy, like his face. "What is the number of the cabin?!' he asked in differently. "Ninety-six.” "Kxaetly whut do you require?" "One dozen eggs and one dozen orungesk every 24 hours, to he deliv ered at any time convenient to you.** "I will see what I can do." The steward did not look up from his writing pad. and his visitors left as abruptly as they had come. At about 4 o’clock every morning, before even the bath stewards were on difty, there was a scratching at Claude’s door, and a covered basket Was left there by a messenger who was unwashed, half-naked, with a sacking apron tied round his middle and li s hairy chest splashed with flour, tie never spoke, had only one eye ancl an inflamed socket. Claude learned that he was a halfwitted luother of tile chief steward, a potato peeler and dish wRsher in the galley. Konr days after their Interview with Mr. Micks, when they were at last nearing the end of the voyage, Ur. Trueman detained Claude after medi cal Inspection to tell him that the chief steward had come down with the epi demic.’ "He sent for me tast night and asked me to take his case—won't have anything to do with Chessup. 1 had to get Chessup's permission. He seemed very glad to hand the case over to me.” "is he very bad?" "He hasn't a look-in. and lie knows; it. Complications; chronic Blight's; disease. It seems lie has nine chil dren. i'll try to get him into a hos- ' pital when we make port, but he'll only live a few duvs at most. I won der who'll get the shillings fur all the eggs and oranges he hoarded away. Claude, my boy," the doctor spoke with sudden energy, “if I ever set foot on land aguin, I’m going to forget this voyage like a had dream. When I'm in normal health. I’m a Presby terian. but Just now I feel that even i he wicked get worse than they de serve.” A day came at last when Claude was wakened from sleep by a sense of stillness. He sprang up with a dazed fear that some one had died: hut Fanning lay in his berth, breath ing quietly. Something caught his eye through lire porthole—a tfiH.it gray shoulder of land standing up in the pink light of dawn, powerful and strangely still alter the distressing instability of ttie sea. I’ale tiers and Jong; low forti fications . close gray buildings with red roofs . . little saillioats bounding seaward tip on the cliff a gloomy fortress. He had always thought of his des tination us a country shattered and desolated—"bleeding !''rance:’’ hut he had never seen anything that looked so strong. so self-sufficient, so fixed from the first foundation, as the coast that rose before him. It was like a pillar of eternity. The ocean lay sub missive at its feet, and over It was the great meekness of early morning This gray wall, unshaken, mighty, was the end of the long preparation, as it was the end of the sea. It was tile reason for everything that had happened in his life for the last 15 months. It was tlio reason why Tann hauser and the gentle Virginian ami so many others who hail set out with him were never to have any life at all, or even a soldier s death. They were merely waste in a great enter pi lee, thrown overboard like rotten ropes. For them this kind releast— tro<-s and a still shore and quiet water -was never, never to be. How long vvriuld their bodies toss, he wondered, in that inhuman kingdom of darkness and unrest? He was startled by a vytak voice from behind. “('laude. are we over?” “Yes. Fanning. We're over." ((nntlnuerl in The Morning Her.) Public Luncheon for George W. Campbell Gsorge W. Campbell, director of student activities of the V. M. C A. olloge, Chicago, and organizer of the Association Male chorus in Omaha three years ago, will be guest of honor at a public luncheon to be given by the City Concert club Thurs day noon at the Brandeis restaurant. Mrs. Hester Bronson Copper, presi dent of the club, and Miss Blanche Sorenson, secretary, are In charge of arrangements for the luncheon. Mr, Campbell has returned to Oit^ ha to direct one group of songs which the chorus will present VVednesdav night at the Brandeis theater. Piggly-Wiggly Sits Tight Awaiting Future Motes By Aesoctated I*rpm. Memphis, Tenn.. May 13.—Piggly Wiggly sat tight in its Mem phis home, awaiting the return of clarence Saunders, its founder and directing head, from s week-end "scouting" expedition and whatever the fates have in store ifi the selec tion of a future "home place" which will carry' with it an adjustment of "problems" which came in the wake of its recent fight in Wall streec Omaha Firms Stand Back of Omaha Goods ONWARD OMAHA We Prosper Individually As Our City and Trade Territory Prospers “Buy in Omaha”—the gateway to an immensely wealthy empire —with ample facilities to han dle its trade, to supply its needs. UPDIKE GRAIN CORPORATION 618 Grain Exchange AT lantic 6312 Mac Dry Battery Co. of Nebraska The Modern Battery 2617 Farnam Phone HA rney 1650 * The Gift That Is Different —at— LOWEN'S ART AND GIFT SHOP Pictures, Lamps. Potteries, Bridge Prizes a Specialty 4707 S. 24th St. MA 0259 ‘‘Let U» Help You Keep You Clean” Frontier Towel Supply 1819 California St. AT 62tl EXCELSIOR-HENDERSON MOTORCYCLES Parts and Supplies Mail Orders Filled Promptly Neb. Motorcycle and Bicycle Co. 1512 Howard St. AT lantic 2957 _ * Meet Your Friend* at The World Billiard Parlor 15th and Douglas* Coolest Place in Town Omaha Tire & Repair Company Oldest Tire House in Omaha Diamond and Goodrich Tires 2201 Famim St. AT 1552 Fontenelle Laundry WA Inut 6277 Everything Sun Dried Finish Hand Work All Work Guaranteed WET WASH ESPECIALLY E. F. MEINIG. Prop. Omaha, Neb k. a To Demonstrate Our Painless Method of Extracting Teeth No Pain—or—No Pay If You Present This Ad (Dee) DR. SH1PHERD 619 Securities Bldg. 16th and Farnam k A CARL JOHNSON Contractor Builder of Better Homes “22 Yeari’ Experience” HA 1704 3027 California St. Automatic Printing Co. “Reliable Printer*’’ Our Price* Save You Money AT 2351 21*t and Cuming BODER SIGN CO. Electric and Commercial SIGNS 1314 Dodge St. JA 10»0 EVERYTHING ELECTRICAL Installation and General Repairs DODSON ENGINEERING CO. Mechanics! and Electrical Engineers AT lantic 6432 1602 Harney St. WE hater 5196 1464 Lothrop St. k_> High-Class Decorating Wallpaper—Paints Fred Parks Paint Store 4708 S. 24th St. MA 0101 ’ AT 7404 BAKER Ice Machine Co. OMAHA Special and 'Expert Detective Service All Bonded Operative* The Hartley National Detective Agency, Inc. Dougla* and Sixteenth St*. AT lantic 8017 Omaha, Neb. k A WARNER Auto and Trimming Shop 420 S. 13th St. AT 7114 Thatcher Piano Co. “Pianos of Quality" Baldwin — Ellington—Hamilton Howard Piano* Grand, Upright and Playor Pianos 124 N. 15th St. JA .1099 >_- - A Service Welding Company ALL KINDS OF WELDING 1609 Le«v*nwortH AT lantic S133 Townsend Sporting Goods Co. GUNS AND AMMUNITION—ATHLETIC SUPPLIES Special Prices (o Base Ball Clubs Golf, Tennis, Tourist Equipment, Kodaks 1309 Farnam Street JA tkson 070 _ ___A St. Louis Omaha If You Want It Done Right, Have IIlack Do It James Black Masonry and Contracting Company General Contractors and Engineers C. D. Whitmire, Mjr. bv . _ - A I lantic 4800 Freight Shows Business Good Incoming and Outgoing Ton nage Surpasses Figures for Last Year. Business is pood In Omaha. If there is any doubt about it lend an ear to C. E. Chllde. general manu- ; ger of the Chamber of Commerce traf- I flc bureau. "Nowadays you don't hear many ! complaints about business," said Mr. Chllde. "But recently a prominent j business man. while talking to me, in- I sisted that there Aas a slackness in business conditions. “As a result of our conversation I made a little investigation. I found that both outgoing and Incoming freight is much greater this year than ' last. Statistics from the freight de- . pots proved it. January showed a dis- • tlnct gain over the same period a yeai ago. and February. March and April have showed even bigger gains. May lias started out to break more rec- i ords. "I have reference to merchandise shipment*. Everyone knows the car load business is heavy. The man who says business is poor piust have so qulred the saying a year or so ago and hasn't bben able to forget it." Chiropractic Prevents Disease, Doctor Asserts Chiropractic is a means of increas ing bodily resistance so as to render the ',ier«on immune from disease, ac cording to Dr. Frances# H. Turner. “Kdison has said. ‘The doctor of the future will he he who keeps us from retting sick: that is. assist us in build ing up a body resistance which makes us immfune to disease.- ” Dr. Turner - declares "That Is what the chiroprac tor dpes.‘‘ Omaha Firm Turning Out Special Auto Truck Bodies Special truck bodies for several Omaha and Council Bluffs Arms are under construction In the shop of Arthur E. Edwon, 212 to 222 North Fifteenth street. Included In th elot are two trucks for the' Quaker Baking company of Council Bluffs and the Northwestern Bell Telephone company. Edwon has completed an exceptionally elaborate job on a bus for a local amusement company. Store ‘Tootquartere" for Wornout Feet The store of Seiler Surgical Co., Inc., located at 208 South Eighteenth street, is "footquarters" for those who seek relief from tired and aching feet. They carry a complete stock of arch braces recommended by physicians. They are elastic, light and comfort able—correct fallen arches and foot strain-strength and support muscles. Trade Review By R. O. I)IN A CO, The new* of the week haa shown more clearly that general business is moving at a ilnwfr puce. Kutther evidence of abatement of demand haa appeared In some of the principal industries, as in iron and steel and in textiles, and pri % » declines have predominated Depression in certain markets has been mainly due 10 speculative commitments, but thi# ej» mnnt does not amount for the continued excess of recessions In wholesale commod ity quotations A change from feverish activity in buying to a condition, where additional orders are of comparatively small volume has come in aome quarters and various prices have stopped rlstng. Some other phases, such aa the increased ability of manufacturers to make early deliveries snd the practical disappearance of premium prices, also reflect a lessen ing of the tension that developed during earlier months this year. With the main tenance of heavy production and a slack, eniftg of demand, available supplies of goods are being augmented, and isolated instance* are noted of requests , for the withholding of shipments and even of the cancellation of contra'"* The suspension of some contemplated construction work, moreover, marks another turn in the Situ ation. the high coats of both labor and materials having a restrictive effect on building operations In different sections. In the retail field, also, restraint on ac tivity has been witnessed, a recurrent e of cold weather this week checking distri bution of seasonable merchandise. Vet the courttry n business. If plainly under going a slowing down process, remains of very large volume in th* aggregate, with "tome of the best previous records still being surpassed. Automobile Industry Mill Active. A Mpecml survey mad* through cor respondents of Dun # Review cunfirms other reports of continued activity In the auto mobile Industry. Despite the sharp in crease In production with practically all plants operating at full capacity, manu facturers are experiencing difficulty In meeting the demands made upon them. Distributors state that buying of passen^ ger cars exceeds the available supply ia various Instances, and the used ear mar* ket, if overstocked in some sections, shows Improvement. With higher costs of ma terials and labor, the main trend of auto mobile prices has been upward, and far ther increases, the dispatches indicate, would not be surprising The general out look is considered favorable, but a reduc tion in activity naturally is to be expect ed after the spring and aummer business has been completed. Iron and Steel Demand Abates. With the record production and abate ment of new demand. th«* price situation in Iron and steel is distinctly easier Published «4quotatlona this week show few changes, but those that occurred were mainly in a downward direction, and premium prices are disappearing The lat ter condition reflects a lessening of the pressure to secure special advantages on shipments, and mills are now in a better position to make deliveries In a week marked by diminished buying in most • juartern, the renewed purchasing of rails ha** been a prominent feature, orders for about 250,000 tone being reported Sales already made and pending are for the see ond half of the year, at $43. which is $.t more than the price on contracts cover ing th«» first half. Even tha $43 price. The iron Age says, is out of relation to ths market for other forms of steel. <|uietne«N in Tfltlls >lnrkrti. The quieter condition* that recently de Vf loped in primary tettlie markets have become more eharply defined. Distribution on previous order* continue* large, but new buying has clearly abated and there are a few instances of cancellations of contracts Doubts regarding future prices is a restrictive factor, and it l» *ig .f|c ant that some markets have shown a weak undertone. In some case* as In gra> cloths and sheeting*, prices have reached lower levels than have prevailed for several months. While output is generally well maintained, curtailment al some cotton mill* ha* been reported and sdrne other producers are not dis poaed to continue making goods for stock. Hroadly • onaldered. merchant* seem con fident that the present change 1* of a transitory rharseter. and the quietness in primary markets has not yet been re flected In any appreciable contraction of retail buying Vnseasonsbly cold weather in different sections this week, however, tended to restrict purchases at the counters. Ka»lng In Hide Markets. Tn common with the movement In some other Important markets, prices of hide* are yielding The de< line has not been general, but sharp break* have occur. Id at the Riser Plate and the weakness There ha* had a generally unsettling ef fect No further business of magnitude has developed in domestic hides, but there ha* been good-sued trading in calf skin* and these continue in a relatively better post Ion than hides. While stock# of er cent, which makes a waterproof product for all purposes Mr. Whlpperman extends an invi tation to any one interested in con crete products or machinery for mak ing them to visit his plant, the Dia mond Concrete Products company, at Forty-second and Parker streets. Packers Increase Wages. Portland. Ore, May 13.—Increases in wages amounting to from 7 to 15 per cefit for all plant employes were announced l>y Swift A Co . North Portland packers, through the company manager. B. C. Darnall. Bee Want Ada Produce Result a. Dr. Frances H. 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