Today
\ A Land Like Heaven.
* Where Only tCoyotes
Are Vile.
Eagles and Gophers.
Come to California.
[ By ARTHUR BRISBANE.
San Simeon Ranch, on 1he Pa
cific, Halfway Between Los An
geles and San Francisco, Dec. 11.—
Our Puritan ancestors believed that
heaven was a happy place in which
vou thought only about yourself,
worrying not at all about the tor
ments pf friends and relatives down
below.
Kxceptionally religious people
believed that contemplation from
above, of friends burning in hell,
actually increased heaven’s happi
ness.
Life on this ranch, with head
quarters on a hill 2,000 feet above
the sea level, has certain heavenly
qualities. ,
You look westward across the
ocean, and don’t care much wheth
er ladies ami gentlemen on the
jury in Los Angeles convict Kid
McCoy and send him to be killed or
set him free to deal with some
other lady and her jewelry.
You look east over the moun
tains changing from the yellow Cal
ifornia tint to the beautiful light
green of the California winter.
Contemplating the size of this
magnificent /attle breeding rnnch,
160,000 acres, running 30 miles
along the Pacific, you forget the
telephone, stock market, courts,
politics, even money making.
You wonder why Hearst, who
owns this place, to which his father
came before him, and who actually
makes cattle raising pay, takes the
trouble to edit newspapers and
magazines, run news agencies, and
fight politicians in more than a
dozen American cities, when he
might simply live here.
Somebody mentions a well known
financial name, saying, ‘‘He is
dead.” Up here that: seems less
important than news that coyotes
la§t night killed two more white
does. They get the white does and
fawns because they are so easily
seen in the moonlight, when coyotes
go murdering.
For a moment you would rather
Invent a method of killing all
coyotes than a method of prolong
ing indefinitely the lives of all the
conspicuous gentlemen in Wail
street.
The men who work on this ranch,
there are many of them, were born
here or nearbys They think and
feel that the ranch is theirs. They
nod kindly at Hearst, the owner,
as if to say, “Poor devil, he has to
go away and work in the east.”
Mr. Nigel Keep walks up the steep
hill carrying a dozen dead gophers
trapped the night before. They look
like squirrels and like rats, live in
holes in the ground. They are
microscopic vegetable coyotes, kill
ing trees, by girdling them and
gnawing the tap root, as the
coyotes kill fawns, partridges and
pheasants.
Richard Taylor, who has charge
>f the eagles' cage, takes the fresh
ly killed gophers and throws them
into the American eagle.
The eaglc«, living in a cage so
hjg that a great live oak tree grows
in the middle of it, catch the dead
gophers in midair, and devour them.
A raptured eagle must eat what
he can get.
That finished, the eagles sit each
one on a branch by itself.
Taylor, their keeper, says: “If
that old eagle could talk he would
say: ‘If you will let me out of
here I will kill more gophers in a
day than you can catch in a
month.’ ”
When you are up here you can
understand why Don Puncho, boss
of the horse ranch, only Went once
to New York and never wants to
go again. —
“What is there to see or do?” he
asked.
He is right.
This is the real California, the
real America, the real land of
glory.
Whilp the east reads tills shiver
ing, this hilltop, is buried in masse*
of flowers, the sunshine is hot 2,000
feet up.
A man has just brought in a
black bass more than six feet long.
The boat front Santa Crux Island,
just, off the coast, fetches off crates
as big as piano boxes full of the
fine Pacific coast lobsters, the kind
called “longoustes” by the French.
They charge a double price for
them at the Cafe des Angelais.
Here the Pacific ocean is full of
fish. The whole land is covered
with sunshine, the hills are green,
with the magic growth that begun
here when winter begins in the east.
The people are happy, because
they ace full of ambition and hope,
and convinced that their land is the
best on earth.
Come to California.
(Copyright, 1924 )
Dix—Plans have been completed for
organization of a Rpbekah lodge at
Dix, where the Odd Fellows already
have a lodge of more than 100 mem
bers. Mesdames Kilham and Coding
of Scottsbluff will institute the new
lodge early in January.
BRAKE TESTING
BILL DRAFTED
As a result of t,h■■ recent automobile
brake-testing campaign conducted In
Omaha by Charles E. ^-'io*t and me
chanics of the A-C Brake company
Police Conipilssloner Henry Ilunn has
drawn up alt ordinance which he will
[ introduce into the city council, pro
viding that all automobile brakes
must be tested at stated intervals.
A meeting was held Friday after
noon ul which were present repre
sentalives of the Omaha Safety eoun
ill and Motorcycle Sergeant Charles
Payne at which Mr. liuiin announced
preparation nf the ordinance.
Woman Dios of Poisoning.
Tonca, Dee. 12.—Mrs. John Yusten,
42, died here foday of ptbvpalnft poi
soning caused from eating tainted
chicken a week ago. She is survived
hy her husband and three small chil
dren, the youngest being twins s
year old.
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Give Furniture
for Christmas
Remember—Your |£« . || # ^B jB) fonatlt Permit Nothing To
Money Back For the Asking Is ar»rl ■ H] I ^P B| B y t , Hinder Your Attendance At This
Orkin Bro..’ Po.icy ^ \J>][ fOlil OFOS' Bm.^ Sa.e Saturday
A Phenomenal Pre-Christmas Selling That Will Set the City to Buying Saturday
Gigantic purchases, consummated by our buyers now in the market, makes such a
wonderful selling possible. Coats of unususal richness, secured at a price concession
positively unrivaled, are offered to you on the same money-saving basis.
Coats Worth to $89.50 in Four Groups Saturday
!_ Women's sizes, 36 to 44 New Colors
. Misses' sizes, 14 to 18 Penny Deer Cranberry
fK gjj Stout sizes, Oxblood Green Broun
■ty' pi 42\/y to 52\i Knit Fox Black
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Materials— Muskrat, I m^mk
:“rnv0xA $£h*3 ). TrimmLn8; .
, Seal. Caracul, Mendel,V Tl v J \elconuede Brytoma
' Vienna Fox, Mo„fHon\^ S' oloua Bolivia Lustoma
___ _r me Suede Cut Polaire
Blocked Chinchilla drizzly
That stands head and shoulders above any value giving ever attempted in Omaha
You 11 stand spellbound when you see the type of Dresses we secured in our recent
*» great purchases and offer you in this sale Saturday. Come prepared to buy sev
eral. You cannot resist such values as these.
Dresses Worth to $55 in Four Groups Saturday
Every Desired Sizes
Color 14 to 54
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Materials Styles
T willine, For ’ T heater
Flannel, Georgette, For Him ness
Satin Canton, Elizabeth For Dinner For Street
Crepe, Poiretsheen, Crepe For Party For Sports
Satin, Checks and Novelties and for Dances
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Our entire first floor will be devoted to the selling of these dresses Satur
day. We urge an early attendance.
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Green Trading Stamps I
Xmas Babies j
To Receive Pretent -
The first baby I
born in Omaha
on Xmas will re- *
reive a “Lloyd”
Baby Carriage, *
the others a I
pretty Bassi- -
nette. ’
TOYS j
9 to 10 Hour Sale
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Ford Coupes, 36c ;
An exact reproduction of a regular •
Ford. 6 x-i inches long. This cor is -
well constructed and has a heavy •
spring. Priced, 9 to 10, Saturday •
only, at 36c.
Masts 1 with two automo. I
l***'101 biles, one racer _
. wn CQ- and a sedan, »
which are pro- •
palled by a heavy
spring. Both cars -
and ga-age are •
nicely finished
in bright colors.
A real gift. "
Bowling ;
Sets, $1.09 I
Consisting of 10 •
wood pin*. Tin- •
ished in rainbow *
colors and three
natural colored
b.i„. ;
Automobiles ;
Foot propelled. This fu.. bolted cor- •
s’ructed automobile has heavy wire *
wheel-, rubber tires, strong steering *
wh'el. bumper and imitation gas *
tank and motometer. It is painted in
tan and trimmed in £ OQ
yellow. 33 inches long iPOsOi/
Dress
On Credit j
Select your new winter's out
fit Saturday. Pay just *
• One Dollar \
Down
and the balance on conveni- -
ent. easy payments as you get *
paid.
TURKEYS i
FREE j
Trimmed I
COATS i
Offered “
Saturday at .
$29.50 :
I-atest styles *
and sixes for •
misses and we- *
men in beauti- .
ful fabrics.
Turkey* FREE
Saturday—a Sale of Mrn'a
Suits ^Ocoats I
$24.50 |
$29.50 j
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ar.d Over real# *
will find Oti» •
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fev'hday feativaL •
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marked tom* of m
our fineM vot'd- •
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ptH*r» 1»* make •
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Turkey* FREE
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