Helen Keller Real Marvel of Century. j 1 Says Interviewer Story of Her Education More ^ onderful Than Develop ment of Radio and Airplane. (Continued from I'll It.1 Due). between Miss Keller and the outside world, Miss Keller laughed happily and kept patting her teacher's arm. It is really wonderful, this comradrie between Miss Keller and her com panions, Mrs. Macy and Miss Thom sen. Compared Willi Napoleon. Miss Keller and her companions were guests of honor at a noonday luncheon at the Fontenelle, at which <' II. Wilhelm presided. The purpose was to Introduce the work of the Helen Keller fund for the American Foundation for the Blind. Miss Kel ler and party will be in Omaha until Thursday. The response to the appeal has so far beep generous in the ex treme. Miss Keller spoke happily of her former visits to Omaha. When Miss Keller graduated from Harvard her lifelong friend, Mark Twain, telegraphed Ills congratula tions, concluding by saying: "The two greatest of this age are Helen Keller and Napoleon," After visiting with this talented, marvelous woman, it is easy to agree with Mrs. Macy, who said, “That was a wonderful compliment to Napoleon." Honor Guest at Tea. On the luncheon tahle before Miss Keller was a vase of flowers. At Miss Thomsen’s request she touched and named the different flowers and ac tually told their color. How does she do it? How do birds fly, and radio waves convey sound? What is elec tricity? wlien you are able to ex plain those thinggs it may lie pos sible to explain how Miss Keller can tell colors. With a smile and hearty handshake for everyone who greeted her, Miss Keller stood in the receiving line for two hours Monday afternoon at a tea given In her honor at the Hotel Kontenelle. Mrs. Sullivan and Miss Thomson stood at her side and spelled out the names of the visitors by sign language on Miss Keller’s hands. Miss Keller then spoke slow l.v to the guest near her In word3 that were clearly spoken. She seemed delighted to learn something personal of each guest who greeted her. Miss Thompson described the attrative setting for the tea to Miss Keller, telling her in the sign language just what flowers were on the tahle anil describing the cakes ready for the teg. Mass Meeting Tonight. Miss Keller was attractively gowned in Alice blue georgette, which was I leaded, and wore a corsage of orchids. She wore pearls. She spoke to her new friends of Mrs. Charles Georgs of Omaha, who was Eer advisor while they were both students at Kadcliffc college. Miss Keller anil her com panions also spoke of the disappoint nihjit at the absence of Mr. .and Mrs ’ K. Dietz and Gould Dietz, who are in Peru, South America, at present. Miss Jessie Millard and Mrs. A. IT. • ftichardson poured ten. Mis. Paul Gallagher and Mrs. P. H. Bogardus were in charge. Those who assisted it the tea were Mesdames John W. Towle, Windsor Megeath, K. W. Nash, L. Beed, Philip Potter. Harold Gifford, H. Von Schulte, T. L. Davis, i \ M. Wilhelm, A. F. Jonas, George toslyn, \V. B. Millard, jr.; Milo Gates, Wallace Shephard and Casper Offutt. More than 150 Invitations were Is sued. No plans for Tuesday have been made for Miss Keller except the mass meeting in the evening at the Bran dels theater. Miss Keller and her companions have been touring thri I'nited States since last May In tin-! interests of the American Foundation j for the Blind. They will be taken on an automobile ride through the city Tuesday morning. Former Filley Resident Dies at His Home in Iowa Beatrice; Feb. U.—Announcement was received here of the death of Robert Flaws, formerly a resident of .lie Filley vicinity, at his home at Webster City, la., after a brief illnes-s of pneumonia, Mr! Flaws was a son of the late John Flaw*, early settler of Gage county, and was 50 years of age. He leaves his wife and two ' children. He was a brother-in-law of Hr. Brugh of this city. Burial whs at Webster City. Farmer Severely Hurt in Falling From Tree Beatrice, Neb., Feb. 9.—Charles Krapp, farmer, living near Cortland, fell from a tree some time ago anil s everely Injured his hip. As ho suf fered continually, lie went to I.lncoln to consult a physician and a splinter nearly six inches long wae removed from the fleslgr part of the hip. Wreck Ml ticks Tracks. Superior, Feb. 9.—A double hemler ast freight westbound on the Bur ington railway was derailed In the yards here Saturday night. Six cars ent over and plied up, blocking the naln track. It was necessary to send 'he wrecking derrick and men from Wymore to clear the way. Westbound passenger No. 17 was delayed over rlx hours. Farm Sold for $29,415. Beatrice, Feh. 9.—Harm Ideus, llv ng near Filley. has sold his IdO-acre 'arm to Thee Jurgens for $29,41* or MS5 an acre. Mr. Jurgens rscently sold his farm in Kansas, south of Wymore, for $125 an acre. Both farms ore well Improved. Dixie Coal ■ Omahu’s Finest Furnace Fuel , Hard Structure No Slack Requires Very Little Atten tion When Burning !CRESCENT COAL COMPANY 9, W*. 7121—16th Sc Laird t Crash Ends Post-Dance Auto Ride; High School Girl Lies in Hospital Georgia Barnes, 17, Technical High school student, is at I.ord Bister hospital, possibly internally injured, after a collision which ended an auto, mobile ride in the small hours of Monday morning. Her condition is serious. Mystery for a time surrounded her arrival at the hospital. A man and a woman carried her into the wait ing room, summoned attendants, and left without telling how the girl had been hurt. The girl was unable to tell what had happened, but it was later learned that passing motorists had picked her up after the collision and had taken her to the hospital./ 1 Miss Barnes was riding with Joe I Hanley, 22, a mechanic living at ! 2502 Cass street, and Mr. and Mrs. Demara, 2203 Binney street, ?t 3:30 a. m. Monday when Hanley drove his car Into a parked car at Thirty-sixth iind Dewey avenue in attempting to avoid collision with another car. Miss Barnes was thrown from the ma chine. The parked oar belonged to Edward Donahue of O’Neill, Neb. Miss Barnes said Monday that she and her friends had gono to a show Sunday evening, and had later gone to a dance. They were riding around after the dance, she said, w lien the accident occurred. r-' Burgess Bedtime Stories V---'i BY THORNTON \V. Bl RGKSh. Who doth a warnlMW fall to hrsd. A foolish person Is. tndecil. —Mrs. Grouse. Mrs. Grouse Is Anxious. Thunderer the Grouse and Mrs. Grouse had a very comfortable winter so far. Old Mother Nature gave them their snow shoes early, and so they had had no difficulty In petting about on the soft snow. To lie sure they had had to live largely on buds, and they had grown very tired of thi. food. Hut. it kept tin ni allv» and In good condition, and they never -ni ... I.e Mire they liail ha . to li'e i largely on liitiln, really hungry. So, seeing how hungry i eoiue of their neighbors were at time*, they f. It that they hail no tea | eon to complain. Now, Thunderer anil Mr*. Grouse like to sleep tinder the snow. It Is al ways warm there, and whenever the snow Is deep enough they spend their nights buried under it. One danger only they fear. That is that while they Sre asleep under the snow It may rain and then form an Ivy crust, and so make them prisoners. But so far (his winter there had been no Icy crust, and so they had had no reason to worry. The Black .Shadows had come creep ing into the Green Forest extra early one afternoon. This was because dark clouds hid the blue, blue sky. .lust alHiul the lime Thunderer and Mrs. Grouse were ready to go to bed It begun to snow. They sat together In a spruce tree making ready to plunge down Into a bind; of snow JitSt below them. Hut Mrs. GiiAiie was uneasy. "Do you think we’d better sleep down there tonight?" said she. "I don’t know why I have it, but I haVe a feeling that something I* going to ha ppen "Pooh!” riled Thunderer. "Why should anything happen tonight any more than any other night?” "I don’t know." replied Mr*. GrOuse. "But t den t like this snow. It ts too wet.” ’’B0OI1 ’” exclaimed Thunderer again. ’ You ought to b« tickled to death to have It snowing. It will cover up the holes we make when we plunge Into that bank down there. Then If Fteddy Fox or Old Man t’oyote happen along they’ll never even suspect that wo are underneath. For my part I am glad It Is snowing, t’ome on. my dear, let’s go to bed ” Hut Mr*. Grouse was still uneasy and anxious. "Bet’s roost up here In this spruce tree,” said she. "You can If you want to," retorted Thunderer. “I’m not going to. When I ran have a comfortable, warm bed under the allow you won’t catch me roosting In a tree all night. Iion’l be slll.v. niy dear, Jt In gelling dark, and I’m not going to sit up here any longer." Me stretched nut his neck, end with those bright a.vss of his he looked carefully In every direction In make sure thst no one was wstrhlng him. Then without snother word he plunged down Into that snowbank. He went down so swiftly that he disappeared instantly. Mrs. Grouse saw the snow fall back behind him. She knew that j he would work his way along for some little distance under the snow. Twice Mrs. Grouse started to follow him, and twice she drew' back. But she didn’t want to spend the night alone in that tree. So at last she, too, plunged into the snow and worked j her way along unty she was some lit tle distance frOm where she had en tered the snow bank.” "I guess I was foolish to be anxious,” thought she, as she settled heiself for the night. "There really isn’t anything to worry about. In the morning I probably will wonder what was the matter with me.” Five min utes later she was sound a iyep. (Copyright. 1*23.) The next story:\”The Worst 1 Inp !>**ns to the Grouse.” r ---—-—s. Nebraska News Nubbins ^ N>mnha.—Krank Smith. 61. resident >f this pla*e for the last ycir. died 't his home here StfurdTu night. The imily i.iitip here from Missouri and he body will bo sent to that state for tirial Monday. The widow and a ■‘n, William Smith, of Nemaha out Ive. Pawnee (if). \rthur lllldebrandt • mi Father Meier «,f |) >p»n|s wei ' r fried in the Kv-n^Hicil church 'bill of IltlDoia. They will livtf on ..■tin. KwlHff. Funeral m \ lees fn» David Cl Tones S|>H»im' i were li ! here Sunday. The sermon W;i« vivir* by II ‘V. .1 M l)aihj . .Mi . i’.n ng* was 65 years of n*;e and is survived by* his wife and five children. llroken ||ow. -At thrjr last ?*egu l«r meeting the HVoken Bow W»»od men adopted a kir^*'* rlasj into their ranks, the initiatory work being riom by the new* team, assisted by th* Woodmen .band. The < amp’s new band of 12 pieces is training for the convention to be held at .Milwaukee in June. \ McCook. The garage, automohlb j and a quantity «»f mlllwork for a j house of I fa n \ K Kammei lohr in Hast McCook were deatroyed Sunday ( | bv fire of unknown origin. Loss is1 estimated it fl.HOO. Harvard. Milton Nelson and Mfitw Seely, Harvard entries in Hie high school commercial (-oiliest, held a: Hebron (Ncb.l academy, won xerotic and fourth places, iexpectIvely, In the beginning typewriting division. Mary Heely lacked one word of scoring In third place. Superior km I Hebron academy were reported tied for firm pluc e llroken How. Mis* Myrtle Kaslev Culver Kearney Chain r Special Announcement We purchased from the i Brandcia Store the entire Bur gcss-Nash Piano stock. Bran dei«. having ro Piano depart ment and no intention of go ing into the made business, pasred their unusual purchase on to us. We take this opportunity to cordially welcome the Bur gcss-Nash patrons to makp our store their headquarters, where you will find the larg- ( est stock in the city of Shert Music, Player Rolls, Phono praph Records, Radios, in fact everything in music. Open a charge Recount with us for convenience in shopping. Burgess-Shah Piano Stock E now on sale at half price and on trims to suit the smallest purse. Schmollir & Mueller V*14-1f 1ftQj4nA TtUphon* Dufflt SI. ridllU UUi AT 1 lift* \l»\ f KTfNl 'I l M INDIGESTION, GAS, STOMACH. MISERY Chew a few Pleasant Tablets Instant Stomach Relief! Thr momrnl 1‘upf * I Mm p»'piln truth*** Ihf MtuniRt It *11 K'***" I Jimp* of ImllKfiillnn, hfVIlt hum, f«iirn#*». fulln***, ftmutevire, p*l0lt*f Ion, v*ni*h your iinmfH'h now' t ‘on-frf rli ui- «i loo and Mcldlh for is fru t rill* Drugglfta ft^ll mlllioul of pack*#*. * ber of Commerce annual banquet, scheduled to lake place un the an niversary of Lincoln's birth, Thurs day, February 12, In the Teachers’ college gymnasium. Bixby, Nebraska photographer, and VV. T. McNichols, ex-chief of the bureau of securities, are scheduled for addresses, while John N. Dryden will preside as toast master. The atendance, confined to men only, will be limited to 400 this year, the largest number that can be conveniently accommodated in the building. Man, 84, Missing After Home Fire Believed He Was Blamed for Blaze; Wandering With out Shoe?. Omaha' police have been asked to look for K. H. Keller, fit, wealthy re tired fanner, living alone at Colum bine He disappeared from a hospital in Columbus last Thursday soon after he*had been placed in the institution by Chief of Police Lehman at the request of his daughter, Mrs. Ger trude Avery, who said he had showed signs of mental confusion for several days and talked often of wanting to go to Omaha, When lie left the hospital the aged man wore a brown checked coat, cor duroy trousers, black cap, overshoes, but no shoes or overcoat. Two reports of a wanderer, one near Columbus and the other near Oconee, were Investigated, without results. Authorities now believe he managed to board a train for Omaha. He is slightly below medium height, slender and carries a tane. Ten days ago he was visiting at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Avery, and her husband on a farm near Archer when the house caught fire and was destroyed.* Mrs. Avery told officers he seemed lo worry about this and became obsessed with the delu sion that he was being blamed for the fire. He induced his daughter to return to his home in Columbus, hut arriving there immediately wanted to leave and go to Omaha. He Is a widower and owns s farm in Polk county and considerable other propert y. COLLINS’ PLIGHT INQUIRY SUBJECT (('ontliinril from I'nrr Onr), Bciill, but did not produce the same effect. Louisville, K'y , Fell. 9—fine of (he two chief outside witnesses of the predicament of Floyd Collins in Sand cave, Lieut. Robert A. Burdon. when he learned of the military inquiry ordered by Lieutenant Governor Ren hardt today, was emphatic In his assertions that there had been definite opposition to the rescue of Collins by some of the natives there when lie was there early last week. "When I went back to the cave Wednesday morning," said Lieutenant Burdon, "after resting from our tre mendous efforts with the Jack under the boulder Tuesday evening, they told me that there had been a cave-in that had blocked the passage and that T couldn’t go In. They wouldn't let me get hv. " 'Skeeis' Miller managed to slip past them some way and lie and Hom er Collins went down. When he came out he was looking more scared than I ever saw him during the whole time. His nose was ^hloody. "He wouldn't tell me what was the matter, but told me for God's sake not to go back In there and to see that Homer Collins didn't go In again If T had to sit in the entrance all day long. "He went Iwirk in by himself a lit tle later to take the telephone back, and I think that was the last time that he was in the cave. "Late In the afternoon I heard somebody calling for me. T was told that I could go back in the cave if I wanted' to now and that they had picked a crew' for me. Each of the crew picked must have been armed with a good drink of whisky liecause I could smell it on all of them. "1 went down the passage feet first I guess 1 Was about SO feet from Floyd when I had to stop. 1 could hr-ir him yelling for help all the time. I hit the blockade with my feet, lint was afraid to push very hard, because 1 didn’t know what I might bring down. "So I backed up and went in head first. 1 soon saw that there was no chance of us getting through. "After that I wasn’t allowed to get near the entrance. .Some other crews went in. but 1 don't know how much good they did. They didn't bring Floyd out. "Then John Geralds went in the last time. He had been in before and said that he had cleared out the passage and that he would bring Floyd out on the next trip. He didn't hrinS: him out. In fact, I don't think lie ever got to him the first time. "When Denhardt got there every thing was different. I believe that if he had been there to take charge in the first place that there wouldn't have been any trouble in getting Floyd'out. "The last time I went into the rave was early Friday morning to take back the air hose. It didn’t run very far back and I thought that I would go back as fas as 1 could and see if Floyd was still alive. The radio test had been made that morning, but 1 had my doubts about whether it meant anything or not. "Geralds says that he cleared out the passage. Maybe he did. Hut this * New Spring Coals at • Cash and Carry Prices 27.50 New Spring Styles 19.75 34.50 New Spring Styles . . 25.00 45.00 New Spring Style*. . 29.75 F. W. Thorne Co. 1812 Farnam St. V i hi ■ wJ ■ N0V/ ON *7 WefieZ I FactoryOutlet SALE/ I PIANOS I f?rands' payers, j 1 ^Pr'8^tS-5Phono$r(Sphs ■ ■ effn EvtvMajjs tillJP.M. Y I QHH■■■■■r Ij Is certain, when I got to the blockade I found it was in exactly the same place that It was Wednesday after noon. "I can't say that they were the same rocks, of course, because I didn't mark the others, but it looks funny to me, that’s all. “Well. I called to Floyd as loud as I couldt but couldn't hear a thing. When I was down there Wednesday I could hear him in there yelling and begging for help. Hut there wasn’t a sound this time. That's what makes me think he is dead.’’ Everywomaris Husband There is a saying that to every married woman there comes a time when she must battle to hold her husband’s love—that sooner or later‘‘the other woman” comes into bis life. Nellie faced this problem. Her husband was as gentle and kind as ever, but she had positive proof that he wee drifting away from her. She knew that a younger, prettier woman was slowly but surely occupying the place that only a wife should occupy in bis mind and heart. In True Story Magazine for March, Nellie tells how she solved this age-old problem. Every married woman, every girl who expects to b# mar ried should read it. It appears under the title ‘‘Prisoners for the Night.” Be sure and get the March True Story today. for Winter Driving—Give you Comfort, Safety 0 Economy Full-Size Balloons are the tires that are changing the driving habits of the nation. They take the dis comfort out of winter driv ing, decrease the number of “stay at homes’’ and increase the use of auto mobiles the year around. These big. full-size bal loons with added road contact, rrya 11ip 1 ied trac tive power and far greater ability to absbrb shocks, will give you a new sense of comfort and security. Firestone Balioons are Gum-Dipped-the pro cess that gives extreme flexibility with the extra strength to the carcass, which made balloon tire construction practical. The sidewalls are tough, yet pliable, flexing easily and yielding to every road J inequality — riding the a top instead of sinking in. Kj You'll get more service JuK from your car more mile- ant age from your tires—this fiju11 winter and through the Km 'j year. 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