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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 17, 1923)
. 8YXOPJS. Tp.icliael O'llalloran. an orphan news boy. finds a little lame girl screaming with fright for fear that she will he Placed in nil orphanuge. llcr grand mother lias just died. Mickey is sympa- i thetic and lukcs the child to Itis home and attempts to care for her. Douglas Itriice, a corporation lawyer* has seen Mickey ami wants to adopt him as Ills little brother. However, before he can mention the subject, Mickey dis appears. lie tells all of this to Leslie i Minton, Ills sweetheart, and declares Unit he will find Mickey yet. Mickey in the meantime struggles to get .things for Lily reaches, the little lame girl. He finds that it is impos sible to tell anyone about her for fear that any stranger will force him to put the child in an orphanage. One woman threatens this and Mickey leaves her, determined to help no one for fear that in the conversation he will tell about the girl, lie has hardly gone a block when a woman falls and strikes her head, losing consciousness. He helps take her to a hospital. There he meets a nurse, who gives him things for reaches and instructs him in how to cure for her. Douglas Bruce ami Leslie Minton be come engaged and on the morning fol- | lowing their betrothal go to the swamp 1 to make the basket as agreed. The trip to the swamp is made atul the i Miutiims are called in to act as Judges on flic baskets. During the imigiux they express unit mil dislike for each other and shock Bruce and Leslie M inton. Mickey is found by Leslie Minton and sent to Douglas Bruce, lie refuses Bduce's offer of hrothership. hut agrees to con sider a job in the future. M Idle talking to Bruce he tells why he dislikes Minturn and how lia happens to know him. {Continued From .Saturday.1 “Douglas did tell me In connection with Mr. Minturn joining the Broth erhood and taking a gamin from the streets into his office, that he said he was scarcely allowed to see his own sons, not to exercise the slight est control, so he was going to try his theories on a Little Brother. But Douglas wouldn't mention it, only to me. and of course I wouldn’t repeat it to any one. Mr. Minturn seemed to feel that Douglas thought it pe culiar for a man having sons, to take so much pains with a newsboy; they’re great friends, so he said that much to Bruce." “He said that much—” scoffed Mrs. Minturn. “Well, even so, that is very little compared with what you've said about him to me," retorted Leslie. "You shouldn't complain on that score." “1 suppose, in your eyes, I shouldn't complain about anything," said Mrs. Minturn. “A world of things, Mrs. Minturn, but not the ones you do,” said Leslie. rfP^'Oh!" cried Mrs. Minturn. “I think your grievance is that you were born in. and reared for, society, said Leslie, “and in your extremity it has failed you. 1 be lieve 1 can give you more help to day than any woman of your age and intimate association." "That's true, Leslie, quite true!” exclaimed Mrs. Minturn eagerly. "And I need help! Oh, I do!” “You poor soul, you!” comforted Leslie. “Turn where you belong! Turn I to your own blood!” “Leslie, do you think it wrong to gather those orchids?” "I think it unpardonable sin to ex terminate them,” answered Leslie. “If you have any reason for wanting a few, and merely gather the flowers, leaving the roots to spread and bloom another year, I should say take them.” "Will you wait in the car until I go back?” she asked. It was mid afternoon when she re turned, her hands filled with a drip ping moss ball in which she had em bedded the stems of a mass of feath ery pink-fringed orchids. Her face was flushed with tears, but her eyes were bright, her step quick and alert. "Leslie, what do you think I am going to do?” she cried. Then with out awaiting a reply: "I’m going to ask James to go with me to take these to Elizabeth, to beg him to for give my neglect of her; to pledge the Mp9t of my life to him and the boys.” A l» V EKTISEM ENT. ASPIRIN Say “Bayer” and Insist! Unless you see the name “Bayer'' on package or on tablets you are not getting th<* genuine Bayer product prescribed by physicians over twen ty-two years and proved safe by mil lions for Headache Colds Bumbago Toothache Rheumatism Earache Pain, Pain Neuralgia Accept “Bayer Tablets of Aspirin" l^uly. Each unbroken package con i.ns proper directions. Handy boxes >f twelve tablets cost few cents. Druggists also sel bottle of 24 and 100. Aspirin is the trade marke of Bayer Manufacture of Monoacetlcaci tester of Salicyllcaeid. «■ ft* ••••* O 3 «0«*dw~ QUO 0 limiliMH I 0 0 • ; Nature sends a warn- : ; ing of Pyorrhea— : : bleeding gums. Only : ; one person out of five ; past forty escapes. : i Thousands younger : are subject to it as j well. Be on your j guard. ; Brush your teeth with I Indian's I j FORTHEGUmI j More than a tooth paste i — it checks Pyorrhea l • 35c and 60c in tube* • • Leslie taught Mrs. Minturn In her arms. "Oh you darling!" .she exulted. "Oh you brave, wonderful girl!" "After all, It's no more than fair,” Mrs. Minturn said. "I have had everything my way since we were married. And I did love James. He’s the only man I ever have known that I really wanted. Leslie, he will for-, give me and start over, won't he?” “He’ll be at your feet!” cried Les lie. "Leslie, this is your car. but wont you dear, drive fast!” begged Mrs. Minturn. "Of course Nellie!” exclaimed the girl. With that hope in her heart, her eyes tilled with excitement, Nellie Min turn rang her bell, ran past her foot man and hurried up the stairs. She laid her flowers on a table, summoned her maid, then began throwing off her hat and outer clothing. "Do you know if Mr. Minturn Is here?” "Yes. He—” began the maid. "Never mind what 'he.' Get out the prettiest, simplest dress I own. and the most becoming,” she ordered. "Be quick! Can't you see I’m in a hurry?” "Mrs. Minturn, I think you will thank me for telling you there Is an awful row In the library,’ said the maid. “'An awful row#'” Mrs. Minturn paused. "Yes. I think they are killing Lucette.” explained the maid. "She’s shrieked bloody murder two or three times.” Mrs. Minturn slipped on the bath robe she had picked up. and stood holding it together, gazing at the maid. "Mr. Minturn came with two men. One was a park policeman we know. They went into the library and sent for Lucette. There she goes again!" “Is there any way I could see, could hear, what is going on, without being seen?” "There’s a door to the den from the back hall, and that leads to the libra ry,” suggested the maid. You'd have a chance there." "Show me! Help me.” begged Mrs., Minturn. As they passed the table the orchids hanging over the edge caught on the trailing robe and started to fall. Mrs. Minturn paused to push them back, then studied the flowers an instant, and catching up the bunch carried it along. She closed the den door after her without a sound, and creeping be side the wall, hid behind the door cur tain and peeped into the library. There were two men who evidently were a detective and a policeman. She saw Lucette backed against the wall, her hands clenched, her eyes wild with fear. She saw her husband's back, and on the table beside him a little Box, open, its wrappings near, it contents terrifying to the woman. “To sum up then,” said Mr. Min turn in tones she never before had heard: “I can put on oath this man, who will be forced to tell what he witnessed or be impeached by others who saw it at the same time, and are ready to testify to what he said; I can produce the boy who came to tell me the part he took in it; I have the affidavit and have just come from the woman who interfered and followed you here in an effort to save Eliza beth; I have this piece of work in my hands, done by one of the greatest scientists and two of the best sur geons living. Although you shrink from it, I take pleasure in showing it to you. This ragged seam is an im press of the crack you made in a tiny skull lying in a vault out at Forest l-Iill.” He paused, holding a plaster cast before the woman. “It's a little bit of a thing,” he said deliberately. “She was a tiny crea ture to have been done to death by your hands. I hope you will see that small pink face as I see it, and feel the soft hair in your fingers, and— after all. I can't go on with that. But I am telling you, and showing you ex actly what you are facing, because you must go from this house with these men; your things will be sent. You must leave this city and this country on the boat they take you to, and where you go you will be watch ed; if ever you dare take service handling a child again, I shall have you promptly arrested and forced to answer for the cold blooded murder of my little daughter. Live you must. I suppose, but not longer by the tor ture of children. Go, before I stran gle you as you deserve!” How Mrs. Minturn came to lie standing beside her husband, she never afterward knew; only that she was, pulling down his arm to stare at the white cast. Then she looked up at him and said simply: “But Lu cette didn't murder her; it was I. I was her mother. I knew she was heaten. I knew she was abused! I didn't stop my pleasure to interfere. lest I should lose a minute by having to see to her myself! A woman did come to me, and a boy! X knew they were telling the truth! I didn’t know it was so bad, but I knew it must have been dreadful, to bring them. I had my chance to save her. I went to her as the woman told ine to, and because she was quiet, I didn't even turn her over. I didn’t run a Anger across her little head. I didn't call a surgeon. I preferred an hour of pleasure.to taking the risk of being disturbed. X am quite as guilty as Xjucette! Have them take me with her.” Jatnes Minturn stepped back, gaz ing at his wife. Then lie motioned the men toward the door, so with the woman they left the fcoin. "I^ucette just had her sentence,” lie said, "now for yours! Words are use less! I am leaving your house with my sons. They are rny sons, and with the proof I hold, you will not claim them. If you do, you will not get them. I am taking them to the kind of a house I deem suitable for them, and to such care as I can provide. I shall keep them in my presence con stantly as liossihle until I see just what harm has been done, and how to remedy what can be changed. I shall provide such teachers as T sen At for them, and devote the remainder of my life to them. All I ask of you is to speare them the disgrace of forcing me to prove my right to them, or ever having them realize just what happened to their pister, and your part in it. (Contlnrd In the Morning Bee Tomorrow.) Adele Garrison “My Husband’s Love” The Story of Mollle Mrs. Marks Told Madge. DJcky often laughingly has ac cused me of having a card index mind. I was inclined to believe his statement when I noticed the embar rassment of my apartment neighbor, Mrs. Marks, at my idle query as to the occupation of her friend Mollle, whoso praises she had been singing. For at her answer that the girl was a bookkeeper in a fur house, I drew from my mental file, two other queer notes, and compared them with the one which had just come under my notice. At our first meeting with Petey Maj-ks and his wife, I had noticed the gorgeous fur wrap of real seal trimmed with mink which the woman wore. Khe had called my attention to It with childish elation and had be gun a sentence—' Vou_ see my hus band is in the—" only to hive it chopped short with a curt warning sound from her husband. And n minute Inter in the hall outside we had heard the man savagely scoring his spouse for tier indiscretion. That was Exhibit A, I told myself whimsically. Exhibit B. I had de posited in my brain card index but i a few minutes before, when the inad certently-opened closet door of Mrs. Marks had disclosed to my wondering eyes a number of costly fur clouks— there must have been nearly a dozen of them—and had patently given my hostess an exceedingly startled and apprehensive moment until my casual demeanor had convinced her that X had seen nothing. And now I was sure that she had started to say "my husband's fur house,” when she had been talking of the girl, Mollie, but had changed her phraseology at some sudden recollection. The Way They Met. What did it all mean? Why should the saturnine Mr. Marks with the ferret eyes, whose personality was as repulsive to me as his wife’s was singularly attractive, desire to con ceal his ownership of or employment in a respectable and honored busi ness? Why should— I brought myself up with a round turn. It W'as no business of mine, I assured myself, but nevertheless I bestowed an unusual amount of dare upon the safe bestowal of my mental notes. I had a queer little pre sentment that some time I might need them. I flatter myself, however, that Mrs. Marks had no shadow of an idea I had noticed either the fur cloaks In her closet or her slip in answering me. With a light little laugh, 1 made a banal, casual comment: "Bookkeeping Is a dull juft1 for a girl as pretty as you say your friend Is.” "You’ve said It I” Mrs. Marks re turned w ith emphasis. “If 1 had hi r face and flgger, you couldn’t see me for the dust I’d be kicking up on my way to Hollywood. But Mol lie’s queer, as I told you, and I’ve give up trying to make her out. 1 think an awful lot of the kid. though. I used to wheel her around when she was a baby. Her folks lived In the next flat to ours, but the rooms wasn’t anythlnk like these. I’ll tell the cock-eyed world. They was a fierce proposition. But we used to have good times down on that old street. Poor Mollie!” As she talked she had been busy ing herself with setting out cups and saucers, plates and flat silver for two on the table which occupied the place of honor in the center of the room, and which was covered with the most ornate piece of em broidery I ever had seen in my life. If there was a color of the rainbow omitted in the intricate stitches, I did not detect it, while Its flora would have made a botanist tear his hair. Mrs. Marks saw me gazing at it In a puzzled awe which she mistook for admiration. “That’s Midlie's Ring Now.” “I done that when X was a girl,” she said, a bit shyly. "X remember Mollle was a little bit of a tiling then, and she used to sit by me and hold the embroidery silks for me as quiet as a little mouse. How proud her poor mother was of herl” She sighed prodigiously, and I knew that I was expected to aid with a question, the reminiscences which she was so patently enjoying. “Your friend has lost her mother?” I asked. “Not only her mother, but every bit of kith and kin beolnging to hef, except some cousins In the old country that have done her out of the little bit of property she’s en titled to over there. There was a fire in the flat ono day when Mollle was away at school, and when she come home they was all gone, mother, brother and two sisters. “Her father had died two years before, so the poor kid was all alone, except for my mother and me," she went on. "I can feci her little body shiver yet. I held her in my arms all that night, and she never shed a tear, just shook all night as If she was packed In ice. And she’s never forgotten it. She'd stick to "hie till the hot place froze over, Mollie would." She was frankly teary over her reminiscences, while I was conscious of a keen curiosity to see the girl with so tragic a history, and so engaging a person and personality Cuticlira Soap — The Healthy Shavingf Soap ^ rutieoraSoar ahaaea without mujr. RverywharaBc. as Mrs. Marks had described. And then the apartment bell sounded four alternate long and short rings, and Mrs. Marks—her face alight— lushed to the push button in tho wall. "That'* Mollie’s rlnp now," she said. "Isn't this luck?” Open House c Monday Evening--7 to 9:30 Formal Opening of this Greater New Store combined with a Remarkable Style Exhibit of the New Autumn Modes in Men's -Women's - Children's APPAREL No merchandise will be sold dur ing the evening. Music Souvenirs We cordially invite you to spend a few minutes with us Monday evening acquaint ing yourself with America’s largest ex clusive Credit Apparel Store. Beddeo Clothing C 1415-17 Douglas Street 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. FURS Also Storage and Remodeling J. BERKOWITZ 2818 Leavenworth St. HA 2783 L A •-;-> Meet Your Friend* *t The World Billiard Parlor 15th and Douglas Coolest Place in Town ts r -V Ride a Harley-Davidson VICTOR H ROOS •The Cycle Man” 2703 Leavenworth St. Omaha Phone HA rney 2406 >* f » A *U Your Printer for WESTERN BOND Letterhead* and Envelope* to Match CARPENTER PAPER CO. tr Ralph PrintingCo. “Service Printers” Phan* JA 2IM 413 S. 14th Av*nu« r THE A-C- BRAKE CO. 1609 Davenport Street Will give your brakes a thorough and complete adjustment without charge. k _A EXCELSIOR-HENDERSON MOTORCYCLES Part* and Supplies Mail Order* Filled Promptly Neb. Motorcycle and Bicycle Co. 1812 Howard St. AT lantlc 2*87 /- 3 Dr. France* H. Turner CHIROPRACTOR X-Ray Service, Comfortable Adjusting Tables for Adults and Children You have tried the rest—now try the best. Offices 326-326 Brandeis Theater Bldg. 17th and Douglas Sts., Omaha, Neb. Phone AT lantic 3636 t—J PACKING MOVING SHIPPING STORING Absolute responsibility In big things — • cordial co-operation in handling the so-called little things. Gordon Fireproof Warehouse & Van Co. 219.23 North Elovonth St. Phono JA ch.on MM ' ■» Bemis Bros. Bag Co. 11th and Jackson ATlantic2711 k __/ Where Quiet Service Reigns JOHN A. GENTLEMAN MORTUARY 3411 Fa mam Street HA nifjr 1464 ✓ * Consignments All Kinds of Grain “UPDIKE SERVICE” Financial Stability Plu» Service Facility For Safety and Satisfaction's Sake Bill Your Shipments —to— Updike Grain Corporation- Omaha Kanaaa City Chicago _ Milwaukee N—■ ... Ml I —I. .. I / . Memorial Firm Makes Progress Shipments Have Been Made to Almost Every State in Union. Few concern* have had the growth In business the last year enjoyed by the American Memorial company, 1904 i Cuinlng street. This business was organized one year ago by P. 8. Moul ton. who has directed the affairs of the company. They have several traveling repre sentatlves who cover Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri and South Dakota and have shipped memorials to almost every state In the union. They carry In stock a complete line of Imported and domestic marble and granite memorials, many of which they have exclusive control for this territory. Their stock* embraces every size and kind of monuments, markers and mausoleums, and with their com plete plant for finishing, polishing, let tering and cutting the memorials, they are In position to supply any thing desired when wanted. Columbus High School to Have New Building! Columbus, Neb., Sept. 10—Con gestion at Columbus High school forces a vote on bond issue for erec tioti of a new senior high school building Immediately. The old build ing was designed to accommodate 150 pupils. There are nearly 370 regis tered now. Sweet Potatoes Must Be Carefully Stored Sweet potatoes, in order to keep, must be well matured, well dried, carefully handled and atored at a uni form temperature. For home storage the potatoes should be wrapped sep arately In paper and packed In a box. They may also be stored in dry sand or bran In the same manner other ! root cropa are stored In dirt. After the sweet potatoes are packe.l the box should be set In a well ventilated room where the temperature will be about 55 or BO degrees Fahrenheit. If a killing frost comes before the sweet potatoes are dug, the top* should be cut off at once. Wlntey squashes and pumpkins Btora well. The Hubbard can be kept until early spring, although the pie pumpkin will usually not keep that long. To store either pumpkins or winter squashes, they should lie picked carefully with their stems at tached. Hacks or shelves should tie provided In a cool dry room and the fruits laid on shelves. Plenty of fresh air Is necessary. Argentina has nearly quadrupled Its production of rice since the gov ernment employed a Japanese ex pert a few years ago. Coach Bodies Are Well Made The Pfeiffer Top and Body com- j pany, 2526 Beavenworth street, has one of the most complete shops In the city for building new style coach type bodies for Ford and Chevrolet auto mobiles. The workmanship and the material used in these bodies are equal to those produced at the fac tories. They also make * specialty of painting and rebuilding wrecked cars. They employ only the most expert ■ cabinet makers on their work and i are in position to give prompt and j satisfactory service. Holiday Absence of British Cabinet Heads Makes Editor Nervous I.omlon, Sept. 16—The Sunday Times in an editorial condemns the absence of cabinet members during the present European crisis. It says: "Our ministers are on a holiday as though the present and the future were wrapped in impregnable tran quility. There is a country wide feel ing that Prime Minister Baldwin should be in England at this time." | The newspaper deprecates Great Britain's handling of the Italian-Greek dispute and declares: "The country is feeling the lack of a guiding brain.” / \ Loose Leaf Books, Binders end Memos. Full Line of General Office Supplies Engraved and Die Stamped Stationery W. B. DAILEY COMPANY Stationers 313 S. 1 Rth St.—One Doer Sooth of Neb Power Co. Phone AT BUS. I - ^ r— ^ Cylinder Reboring We rebore Cylinder* for Steam Kngines, Air Pumpa and Am monia Compression*. P. Melchior* & Son 417 S. 13th Si. JA 2550 DR. F. F. BURHORN Chiropractic Specialist Suit* 414-26 Securities Bldf. Corner 16th and Fern era JA 5347 Hour* I A. M. to 6 P- M. ' * "your laundry Will b# Bun-dried. hand-finiah*d and fruarrant«**d aatiafactory if you arnd it to na. Wei Wuh Our SprcUlltr FONTENELLE LAUNDRY E. F. Meinig, Prop. W.l. 6277 t " _ \ Omaha Tire & Repair Company OMcit Tir# limit# In Omaha Diamond and Goodrich Tiraa 1201 Farnam St. AT 1M2 ^ -/ '-V Warner Auto Top & Trimming Shop 4H f. I3th St. AT III* l_ To Demonstrate Our Painless Method of Extracting Teeth No Pain—or—No Pay If You Present This Ad (Bee) DR. SHIPHERD 019 Securities Bldg. 10th and Farnam 1 >—.— — ■■■■■■ / *■ 1 > Thatcher Piano Co. "Piano* of Quality" Baldwin — Ellington—Hamilton Howard Pianoa Grand, Upright and Player Pianoa 124 N. 15th St. JA 3066 ^ —. ■ — I. ■ f f ■ " "V Physician * Thermometers $1 to $2-50 Hospital Water liottles $1.25 to $3.00 Pack Rests.$3.00 to $4 00 Invalid Cushions .. $150 to $5.00 Headquarters for Elastic Knit Articles and All Appliances. Seiler Surgical Co., Inc. 205 South 15th Street \_/ / V Automatic Printing Co. “Reliable Printer*’* Our Price* Save You Money AT 23S1 21*t and Cuming \_ / High-Clat* Decorating Wallpaper—Paint* Fred Parks Paint Store 4706 S. 24th St. MA 0101 AT 7404 ^ W ^ I BODER SIGN CO. Electric And Commercial SIGNS 1314 Dndfe St. JA 1010 % —- J BAKER Ice Machine Co. OMAHA '■ CARL JOHNSON Contractor Builder of Better Homei "22 Year*' Experience'’ HA 1704 3627 California 3«. / 1 Ham and Egg* with Buttered Toa*t . . . V Perserve Your Teeth' by frequent visit* to our office. We will examine them to see if there i« anything to he done. We are offering exceptionally low prices during August. It i* to your advantage to "('me in i daring the next few days and have work done at the following price*— Regular $10.00 Underwork (what others charge $15 00 and $20.00 for), per tooth . $5.00 $10.00 Crown* for .$500 $2 00 and $3.00 Fillings for $1.00 Gold Inlays a* low ••. $4.00 $20 00 Plate* far .$10.00 $40.00 Plate* for . $20 00 (Bring Thi* Ad With You) McKenney DENTISTS 1324 F am am Phone JA 2872 for an Early Appointment - ■ ■ ■ ■ f f \ - CATALOGS i ] 7 Advertising Folder®. t Houie Qrgan t. ‘ Commercial Printing We Operate Our Own Linotype Machine® WATERS-BARN HART <_A,A . CO. €-AT. 1322. 414-1* S. 13th V -r \ Uncle Sam Health Food A Laxative Cereal Food AT ALL GROCERS Made by Uncle Sam Breakfaet Food Co. / ■ X WINTER TOPS AND SIDE CURTAINS W. Straighten Bode Panels and F enders Pfeiffer Top end Body Corp. ^525^LMvtnyofth^ AT 0701 J American Memorial Company Artietic .Monument Mff*. MONUMENTS, MARKERS, MAUSOLEUMS Quality and Sarvica k Pk°"» ATUntk _ 1904 Cuming *«. W - Brailey & Dorrance FUNERAL DIRECTORS M ch.on 0526_ 19th .nd famm, Str^t. - - * AT lantic 4956 Sunderland Building / EACH \ r NEW HOME \ WE BUILD BRINGS ANOTHER > 0 AT lantic 4956 15th and Harney SOUTH OMAHA Live Stock Market “The Buckle on the Corn Belt” k_ Creighton University OMAHA ?S«h and California Strata AT „„ _ ^- --- M
