Today
Out in the West.
Harnessing Oil and Wind
One Texas Baby.
No Worry About This
Land.
By ARTHUR BRISBANE
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This is written on the Rock
Island railroad, between Fort
Worth and Kansas City—both
names to make easterners rub
their eyes.
Just before you reach McFarlan,
Kan., you notice a heavy cloud of
smoke overhanging a field. A
fawner is doing his fall plowing,
under a sky without a cloud, driv
ing an oil engine.
On a hill, in the next field, is a
gigantic wheel, on a tower. The
wheel is pumping water. Oil from
below the ground, wind in the
heights above, harnessed and, no
longer blowing where it listeth—
these plow the ground that men
once painfully turned by hand,
and pump the water that women
carried from wells, on their heads,
2,000 years ago.
Oil, wind, and a higher power
under the farmer’s hat, give him
what he needs.
In the Wichita Eagle, you read
the warning of Wichita’s under
writers, in a well written advertise
ment, “95 per cent of men at 60
are dependent on their daily earn
ings, or on others for support,
aiid not one man in 30, who re
tires with a competency, is able
to retain that competency to the
cldse of his life.” Moral, take out
a life income policy.
For one good kind of insurance,
move to the western country, bring
some money with you. Be well
advised, start right, then old age
and other trifles need not worry
you.
How long will the extraordinary
wealth of this country last? For
ever. You read R. L. Jones’ Tulsa
Tribune, like everybody else with
' iir feach of that excellent news
paper, and see, on the front page,
of yesterday, this:
“A gas gusher that will provide
gas for all towns in northern
Colorado, including Denver, has
come in near Collins, Colo.”
About 100,000,000 cubic feet of
gas “every 24 hours” is the cal
culated flow of that well, biggest
ever brought in, in Colorado’s in
termountain field.
It just gushes out, every day, as
much gas as would cost consumers
$100,000 in New York—and no ex
pense, except piping and burning
it. Or you can turn the gas into
electric power, where it comes
out of the ground, and distribute
that power along a wire, for hun
dreds of miles.
That is not all the meaning, in
such news. Where there is gas,
there is oil, nearly always, and by
now, men are drilling for oil
around there, where no oil was
thought to be.
Don’t however, be led into buy
ing stock. If it’s a fine well, but
with no oil, you can have it. Some
would not sell you stock in an oil
less oil well, but they have wicked
friends that would, and do, sell
carloads of it.
And even more important than
the well is that baby eating break
fast with his mother in the rail
road restaurant at Caldwell, Kan.,
just north of the Oklahoma border.
You ask what kind of baby it is,
meaning boy or girl, and the
mother, tall, cheerful and proud
answers:
“This boy is a Texas baby. We
live about 300 miles out from
Fort Worth." In Texas, you know,
“300 miles ouf” means in the sub
urbs.
You learn that the Texas* baby
Is eight months old, and having
heard from Dr. Kerley, in New
York, how eight-months-old babies
should be fed, you watch the
Texas baby taking his 7 :30 break
fast with his mother, and learn
•omething about a Texas constitu
tion.
The baby eats his share of his
mother’* baked apple, very sweet.
While waiting for the oatmeal, he
eats a very large slice of a raw
apple, and needs no help in eating.
He hfl3 his oatmeal, and a piece
of toast, and some egg, when the
tarn and eggs come—but eats no
am. “He has quite a mouthful
•f teeth, began having them very
young, but he can’t chew ham
very well.
“He does not eat wheat cakes
either, but takes some of the
molasses from a spoon.
“He’» like his father that way,
very fond of sweet things.”
Never a sound from this Texa*
baby, except two roarB. The
mother understands them both.
The first means “Give me water.”
He takes a long drink of iced
water, with much ice floating in it.
The second roar means “I’m
tired of this high chair, take me.”
His piother takes him, and before
she starts back to her pullman
car, the Texas baby is fast asleep.
“Yes,” says the mother, “He’s a
very good baby. H’U go all day
without making a sound, unless
you get him angry. He’s got a
quick temper, like his father. What
does he eat? Oh, pretty much what
his father eats, only he hasn’t got
such a hearty appetite. But you’d
be surprised to know how much he
can eat.”
With such a western empire, oil
wells and gas wells, gold, silver
and copper mines, helium in the
natural gas, to carry your flying
machines, “black wax land” 20
feet deep, water power, forests,
vast reservoirs, and especially such
bqhies as that Texas baby, with
such constitutions, there is no need
to worry about this wide land.
The west will take care of the.
whole enterprise, if anything ever
happens to the east. There is
nothing in Europe, Asia or Africa
that will frighten that baby from
Texas, when he gctB the rest of
his taeth arp', grows to bo a man.
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Truck Driver
Not Held for
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Boy’s Death
Crippled Lad Killed in Un
avoidable Accident, Coro
ner’s Jury Finds—Fu
neral Saturday.
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Unavoidable accident was the ver
dict returned Friday, morning hy a
coroner's jury following an Inquest at
the N. P. Swanson undertaking par
lors into the death of Stephen Ben
nett, 9, son of Mr. and Mrs. John
Bennett, 1207 Izard street. The boy
died at St. Josephs hospital Thurs
day, a few hours after he had been
struck at Thirteenth and Izard
streets hy a truck driven by Orville
B. Ball, 23, 1408 North Nineteenth
street. Ball, who had been' held un
der $500 bond since the accident, was
released this morning.
At the inquest conducted by Cor
oner Paul Stelnwender, Ball testi
fied that he was driving 15 miles an
hour. He was returning from the
Northwestern freight depot. Turning
north from Izard street into Thir
teenth street, the truck struck Steve
Bennett and his brother, Andy, 13.
Andy was helping his little brother to
St. Joseph hospital where he wgpt
every two days for treatment on his
hip. With Andy’s support on one
side and a crutch on the other, Steve
was- hobbling across Thirteenth
street, and both were struck by the
heavy truck. ,
Ball and his helper, S. Crandall,
jumped out of the glass enclosed cab
I of the truck and picked up the boys,
who were bleeding from their injuries,
the evidence showed. They were
rushed to the hospital. Steve with
two fractures of his leg and Internal
injuries. Andy had a deep gash in
one of his legs, a sprained back and
bruised face.
Steve died soon after. He was
conscious to the last, begging the
nurse to wipe the tears from his eye9
so he could see. Steve was adored
by the nurses and internes at the
hospital, for he had been a patient
there for three years, since an acci
dent to his hip and an attack of the
flu that left him with tuberculosis
of the hip.
At the hospital this morning, Andy,
lying on an operating table to be
taken to the X-ray room, was cour
ageous. although his back hurt every
time he moved, his leg ached and
the left side of his face was badly
bruised.
- Andy is a carrier for The Omaha
Bee and he said Steve helped him
sell papers on Cuming street some
time. "I earn the money to help my
mother,” Andy said proudly. He is
in the Sixth grade at Cass school.
Besides Steve and Andy, there are
three other children in the Bennett
family, John, 11; Elizabeth, 4, and
Georgia, 18 months old. The father
is employed at the Nebraska Power
company. The family moved here
from Pittsburgh several years ago.
Funeral services for Steve w.il be
held today at 10 a. m., from the
home of Mrs. Bennett's father, George
Barna, 4525 North Sixteenth street.
Burial wfll be In Forest Lawn ceme
tery.
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outdoor things you love. Take the
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King in Russ Mine Deal.
Moscow, Nov. 16.—According to n
dispatch from Kharkov, the Southern
Ore trust has redelved an offer from
United States Senator William K.
King for the purchase of the entire
output of the iron and mangajiese
mines In the southern district which
he recently visited.
Births and Deaths.
Births.
James and Francis Williams. 2709 Cald
well street, girl
Theodore and Gladys Maenner, 6707
Mayberry avenue, girl.
Ea»l and Genevieve Carter, hospital,
girl.
Fred and Mary Peterson, hospital, girl.
James and Elizabeth Reed. 423 North
Thirteenth street, boy.
William and Margaret Walker, 1231
South Eleventh street, girl.
John and Anna Benner, hospital, boy.
Harfy and Cecil Minor, t 3638 North
Twenty-eighth street, girl.
Ruben and Freda Ewing, 2019 St
Mary avenue, boy.
Deaths.
Mrs. Margaret Fedde. 72. hospital.
George Edward Johnson, 3. 2709 Doug
las street.
Mrs. Hannah L. Narrow. 81, 1005 South
Forty-second street.
John W. Townsend. 47. hospital.
Harry Stout, 21, hospital.
Masonic Reunion
to Open Monday
ISO Candidates to Compose
Class of Novices for
Consistory No. 1.
With 150 candidates expected to
compose the class of novices, the 66th
reunion of Consistory No. 1, Ancient
and Accepted Scottish Rite, Nebraska,
wilt open Monday. The reunion will
last four days, ending with the tradi
tional consistory banquet Thursday
evening.
Degrees of Masonry, from {he
fourth to the 32d Inclusive, will be
conferred on the candidates. On Mon
day the ceremonies will be under the
auspices of John W. Cooper, 32d de
gree, K. C. C. H„ venerable master.
anil will bo in Hie Lodge of Perfection.
On Tuesday the ceremonies will be
in the Semper Fidelis rhapter, Knights
of the Rose Croix. Amadeus Andrews
Ilottman, 32d degree, K. C. C. H., wise
master, will preside.
In the ceremonies of the St. An
drews perceptory, Knights of Kadosh,
Theodore Wilson McCullough, 33d de
gree, eminent commander, will pee
side. These ceremonies take place
Wednesday.
Ceremonial Degrees Thursday.
The ceremonial and offloial degrees,
Nebraska consistory, will be conferred
on Thursday. James Robert Cain, Jr.,
33d degree, venerable master of Ka
dosh, will preside.
The reunion will end Thursday eve
ning with the traditional consistory
banquet. Rev. Rimer I. Ooshen, 33d
degree. Salt Lake City, will be the
principal speaker at this time. The
banquet will be served by the Scottish
Rite Woman’s club.
It Is now believed that more than
1.600 members of the Scottish Rife
Nebraska, wMll have charge of the
"STYLE WITHOUT EXTRAVAGANCES *
1519-l^Ql SSl ST.
For Saturday We’ve Prepared
a Notmvorthy Sale of
Tailored Wool
Frocks
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Another tribute to the merchandising
, achievements which stand to the
credit of our new Sixth Floor Dress
* Salon.
Frocks of the most desir
able types: Coat styles,
straightline, silhouettes,
fashioned from Twill
Cords, Charmeen and fine
Poiret Twills.
Every frock in this show
ing is a style thorough-1
bred. A garment that
will add variety and dis
tinctiveness to any ward
robe. .
Sixth Floor
Continuing for Saturday—Our Great
Sale of Finer Dresses
The response Omaha women accorded this
sale during the past two days is its best rec
ommendation ns to character of the dresses
and the appeal of this low price:
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For Saturday selling scores of new arrivals have heen added to the
showing. You may come expecting truly remarkable values, and you
shall not be disappointed.
An UnusualShotving of
Muskrat Coats
$89.50 to $164.50
Perfectly blended skins,
lengths froui 86 to 18
inches, Rorj?eous silk lin
inprs. Most extraordi
nary values are involved.
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French Seal Coats
$74.50 to $189.50
Collhrs and cuffs of
Gray Squirrel, Viatka,
Skunk Marten, the new
Chin crush collars.
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48-inch Mole Wrap, $295.00
A beautiful garimebt, circular (')U. <>£ the finest quality, richest of
lining, this garment waa modeled at the recent ■'Night In Paris”
Style Review. i A
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consistory of Nebraska, Iowa and
other states will lx* present at the
banquet.
Woman's Club to Serve.
The lunches nnd dinners for all
four d^ys of the reunion are to be
served by the woman's club, but not
more than 900 members are expected
to be present at these affairs.
Fr^nk Cnrgell Patton, 33d degree,
sovereign grand Inspector general In
reunion.
In Divorce Court.
Iola May Klemp against George Klemp,
cruelty.
John A Murray against Bertha Mur
ray. cruelty
Alice Matthews against Clarence Mat
thews. < rue !ty.
Alice r#»H< rake against Roman Pskorske,
cruelty.
Alex S sl nd against Mao Siskind, cru
Mary Wallin against Guy Wallin, deser
tion.
Mary C. Wolf against Harvey Wolf,
nonsupport.
Amy Young agalrst Frank Young,
cr ally. _ _
Building Permit*.
Clarence J, Murphy. 3701 North Forty
second aveDue. (ram- dwelllrg. U 791.
I)r Jamea KHIns, 2709 North Forty
fifth avenue frame dwelling 11.000.
Traver* Hroa . Inr .t 2414 Ida street*
frame dwelling, $4.mo.
Charles Hoe beck, ll.3f.40 South Thirty
second street, garage. ll.SQo
Morris I.epkowifch 4ttT* South Twenty
fourth street, aiterotlona, 1900.
Mra. Melfs K Stoner. 6?22 North
Twenty fifth avenue, brick ven-er dwell
ing 16.000.
V V. White. *29 South Fifty-fifth
street, frame dwelling. IG.000
Tompson ,€>cfa & €o.
Early in the Season
Comes
This Sale of
COATS
Third Floor
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$98.60 $125
$149.50
A sale unique not only in point of value offered,
but in the fact that during previous years, re
duced prices have not before been offered so
early in the season.
Just now eastern houses offer price concessions
of considerable importance. Shrewd buyers
take advantage of the opportunity. Mr. Nicoll,
our buyer of women’s ready-to-wear, has just
returned from New York with 230 beautiful
new models which he will offer at these very
reasonable prices.
The Majority Are Samples
A magic word with women who realize that the
finest workmanship, materials and furs com
pose a manufacturer’s samples.
Each is newly styled, luxuriously furred and
beautifully tailored throughout.
Women Who Wear the Larger Sizes
are especially fortunate in securing coats of
such quality at these prices. We offer a large
group in sizes that range from 42 to 54. The
lines are effectively slenderizing, the styles
particularly becoming.
Only the Finest Materials
Gcrona Samara
Lustrosa Costenza
in_black, brown and kit fox, which is the new
taupe shade.
Third Floor
Wool and Plush Coatings
Reduced for Saturday 's Selling
Chinchilla Deep Pile Pluth
All wool and an extra Our entire assortment
fine-quality of this pop- Gf 50-inch plushes are
ular coating. 54-inch roduced> ro,ardIew of
width in black, dark , .
brown, reindeer, dark tornu'i prices. Taupe,
tan and navy. Re- reindeer, silver gray,
(faced to beaver, black.
Yard, $3.75 Yard, $5.95
Slr*rl Floor
Christmas
Cards
Messengers of Affection
and Esteem
Friends abroad, you
will remember, do not
r ec e i v e your mail
quickly or regularly.
Tis none too soon to
mail your Christmas
greeting.
Our cards, you will
find, express the holi
day greeting that you
yourself would write.
Every card Is en
graved ; many are
hand-tinted. A wide
assortment, priced—
5c to 25c
Second Floor
Silk Hose
Thompson-RrUIen’s
Special
A hose recommended
by us for its fine ap
pearance and for its
serviceable v e a ring
qualities. Of twelve
strands of pure thread
silk, full fashioned and
woven with triple
twisted lisle sole and
garter top. Black,
brown and all ^hoe
shades.
Pair, $1.95
Special
A snecial table of full
fashioned lisle hose
presents unusual bar
gains in gray, brown
and navy.
Pair, 59c
Street Floor
Children's
Underwear
In Which Careful Mothers
Dress Their Children
Fine duality M waist
union suits taped with
buttons and garter
tabs. Dutch neck, el
bow sleeves. In two
stvles: Dutch neck with
elbow sleeves, and high
neck with long sleeves.
Both in ankle length.
Sizes 2, 4. 6 and 8 vrs.
95c
Sizes 10, 12 vears—
$1.25
Jersey Bloomers
Black cotton jersey
bloomers in sizes 2 to
12 years are priced—
Pair, 50c
Street Floor
Pouch Bags
Cleverly Styled and
Moderately Prised
These little bags, smart
and new, are made of
very fine black crush
grain leather or of
moire silk in black and
brown. The frame is of
metal filigree; the fit
tings are composed of
coin purse attached by
silk cord, and a tiny
round mirror.
$1.95 and $2.95
Street Floor
Sports
Gauntlets
Knithyl or IT arm
If oolen Yarns
Soft, woolly gauntlets,
almost elbow length,
solve the problem of
keeping one’s fingers
and wrists snugly
warm.
Children’s sizes in sib
ver b r o w n and in
heather mixtures, and
women’s sizes in camel
shades are priced—
Pair, $1.25
Street Floor
FOOD SALE -Immanuel Baptist Church Street Floor