8-C THE OMAHA SUNT) AY BEE: AUGUST 4, 1912. DHCLE SAM 10 CENSOR MAIL Parties deceiving Mail at Postoffice Must Pass an Inspection. BAE ON THE GENERAL DELIVERY Order from the department Ex tended to Pot Some of the Letter Writer Out of Bailors. " I The Postoffice department and Cupid have at last crossed swords In earnest niter many threats, counter threats, and mutual throwing of Civets Insinuations. "o longer will correspondence a. al elan :estlne be carried on vi(a the general livery between children who have ?tern parents, young people who hap pen to know each other and whose homes are served by carriers, and mar ried adults who are hitchqd to matri monial posts other than thce Indicated l-y the signatures to the letters they re-4(l-n nt the general dcUverjv Almost from time Immemorial these "Uilets de amour" have fiur protection iihder the-great cloak of"ltacla Sam's cneral delivery which, it , is conceded, has hidden a multitude of sins. These patrons of Cupid's clearing, house, how-e-,er, took no notice of an insignificant lause tucked securely awny In a re mote corner of the postal law. This law says something about "tho improper use of the general delivery by minors and by residents served by carriers." Most Obey the iaw. The other day the postmaster at Omaha received an order from Washington di recting him to obey this liiw jn all its malevolent literalness. Every postmaster In the country received a Blmllar order and in every city it was dfcrled by the "no-mMl-at-homer" as being horrid, nasty and malicious. The general delivery "eMil" which Is as old as the postoffice itelf, has been a perplexing question to all large city postoffices. Up to now, , the various postmasters have looked in vain for a remedy and It was not until the of ficials in Washington called their atten tion to this dormant and almost forgot ten law that they woke up and pressed the claims of this law upon all abusers of the old, good natured general delivery. Assistant Postmaster James I. Wood ward of the Omaha postoffice In speak ing of local general delivery conditions had this to say to a representative of The Bee: "The abuse of the general delivery here by persons who ordinarily should receive their .mall at their homes has not been so great as one would expect. , We have not been troubled to the extent other larger cities have In this respect and I can give no reason for it. Of course we have a certain share of the evil, but It has never become such a nuisance as to necessitate drastic action." "Most of these general delivery patrons or a great many of them," continued Woodward, "are what . you may call people of the street What t mean Is that itilxed In with a great deal of clan destine correspondence directed to parties who have residences In Omaha is other correspondence directed to "floaters." women of the world, etc. This Is the most objectionable feature of the situa tion that the clerks have to deal with. Children and Callers. "Minors are to blame for much of the abuse of the general delivery. Thes9 emmren win iiovk nr in uruva., uuji and girls alike, and receive mall wliicn should be addressed to their homes. Un der the orders from Washington users of the general devllery must furnish in writing their names and. addresses and give statements of their reasons for pre ferring to be served at the general de livery. Minors must furnish the names of their parents In order that they may be notified and have an opportunity to control the delivery of' their children a mall." According to the assistant postmaster the labor of the clerks has already been considerably lightened in 'consequence of the order. "' W. E. Deacon, chief clork of the local postoffice, Is the official in quisitor of all would-be users of the gen eral delivery In the future. Nowadays 'f things look queer to the practiced eye of the clerk who stands beiore the gen eral delivery window, 'the queer one 's ushered into the presence of Deacon, who cross questions the applicant regarding his or her name, age, address, reasons for using the general delivery and other sundry things that a suspicious man may ask. ' In consequence of his newly acquired duties at the postoffice Deacon has been dubbed "the malted fist." In the estimation of an experienced general delivery clerk' the chief culprits in the order of their transgressions are about like this: Married men and women, single men and women,' women of the world, children, old maids and bachelors. Waiting for Its Dedication FIRS' ROORBACK M-i RECORD Hcvr the Name Caiuw tu Be Giver, to Political Hoax In Way back Days. PRATTLE OF THE YOUNGSTERS. Ttachcf It Is said that a camel can go seven days without water. Small Boy Please, ma'am, how long can he go If ho has water? "Minnie," said a mother to her little daughter who ' had the v telltale habit, "why Is it you can't keep a secret?" . "Because, mama," explained' the pre cocious miss, '"two of my trout teeth are gone, and the secrets Just slip out." v -6 ff' v - ',4 i i e ft, v liii Little Kdith was. light-hearted and merry over everything. 80 one day her giother decided to Invite a very serious ;oung person to dinner and he was l-luced next the- light-hearted girl. Every Ui'-r.a" Went .well until she asked him: 'You1 speak of everybody having a nihBioii. What Is yours?" "My mission," said the parson, "is to ssve young men." "Coed," replied the jrlH.." "I'm glad to K-ciit you. I wish you'd save one for me." , . A boy was asked by his mother to go to toe country with her, but the boy re- Al) the coaxing and : pleading was of - no avail. :t :.v'- When the father came Jieme that even ing be was told by his wife that 'Johnny (the boy) refused to go to the country! "Did yon ask htm why ha didn't want ti go?" said the father. "No." said the mother. "I didn't think of that J wiU go up to Johnny and ask film." i , Then the mother went up to Johnny and said: "Johnny, why don't you want to go to the country?" , ? Welt,' answered Johnny, "they have tnrashing machines out . there, and It's tad enough here when you do it by hand." . . . ; a i..--' a, .. -, n is. . xm rl ,s t ' , i ' ta , villi O- APPEARANCE I OP THB DANIEL CHESTER FRENCH STATUE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN AS IT STANDS NOW ON . THE STATE HOUSE GROUNDS AT LINCOLN. ,. TIMELY REALESTATE GOSSIP Demand for New Houses Growing Greater Than Demand for Old. BUILDING BOOM AT. BELLE VTJE Village Bnildlns; Pnmplns; Station, College Structures Being; Over banled and Several Hel dencea Going; V'p. Bellevue is experiencing a small sized building boom. The McDermot building presents an Imposing appearance as one approaches the Bellevue station. It is of cement blocks and Is 100 feet long with a sixty-foot front on Washington street. It will be used as a summer hotel and residence. B. R. Stouffer Is building a substantial modern residence at the corner of Jack son street and Mission avenue, south of the college. E. S.' White, vice president of the newly organised Omaha Btate bank, Is building a fine residence on Hancock street, east of the college. Prof. W. H. Nichols' new two-story bungalow overlooks the river and com mands a lovely view of Elk hill from Its location on Warren street. The village of Bellevue is erecting a cement block building at the corner of Mission avenue and Jackson street as a pumping station for the village water works. The usually quiet old village has taken on an air of unwonted life and activity, which will be further Increased by the building operations on the college gym nasium, plans for which are in the hands of the contractor. Business Manager Baskerville of the college Is superintending the renovation ot the college buildings preparatory to the opening in September. Considerable changes are being made in the shower baths and toilet arrangements of Hamil ton and Philadelphia hails. The residence halls are to be repapered and painted and everything made fresh and sanitary. President Stookey reports an unusually good prospect for a large attendance and is especially gratified that a number ot additions will be made to the upper claswjs. The demand for nw houses instead of the old is growing greater every year, according to Byron Hastings of Hastings & Heyden, a firm which has built nearly 100 houses this year. "We are not bulking any more houses than we can sell," he says, "but are simply supplying the demand. We have built nearly 100 houses and only a few of that number are, unsold. "The demand for new houses this year 1s even greater than last. People are getting away from the idea that houses built by real estate men or by anyone for the purpose of selling are bad ' houses. A house built for a home Is not always the best house. There are many Instances where the house built to sell Is better." On August 21, 1844, when the presidential campaign of that year (Polk versus Clay) was in full blast, there appeared In the columns of the Chronicle, a weekly news paper published at Ithaca, N. Y., a com munlcjtVn signed "An Abolitionist," which gave an alleged "extract from 'Roorback's Tour Through the Western and Southern States in 1S36." This alleged "extract" from the "Roorback" stated that in the course of that part of his travels which embraced the vicinity of Duck river. Tennessee, he "saw a singu lar spectacle, the most striking one of the kind I ever witnessed. It was a camp of negro slave drivers just packing up to start. They had about 300 slaves with them, who had bivouacked the preceding night In chains in the woods; these they were conducting to Natchez, upon the Mississippi river, to work upon the sugar plantations In Louisiana. "Forty-three of these unfortunate be ings had been purchased, I was informed of Hon. J. K. Folk, the present speaker of the house of representatives, the mark of the branding icon, with the initials of his name on their shoulders, distinguish ing them from the rest." This alleged "extract from 'Roorback's Tour' " was extensively copied into the whig news papers of the country, ' and constituted one of the most sensational incidents of the presidential campaign. As a matter of fact, however, there was no such work as ''Roorback's Tour," no person of that name having, written a work upon travels in this country. In other words, the "extract" from such a work which "An Abolitionist" had pretended to give In the Ithaca newspaper was a hoax, the perpetrator of the hoax having copied the most of the "extract" almost literally from chapter vlil of George William Featherstonhaugh's "Excursion Through the Slave States" (a work which was published in 1844), but that part of it which stated . that forty-three of the drove of 300 slaves seen by "Roorback" were branded with the initials of Hon. J. K. Polk, their former owner, being pure Invention. The whig newspapers, no; suspecting that the alleged "extract from 'Roorback's Tour"' was not what It purported to be, at once fell into the trap which had been set for them, eagerly seizing upon the "extract" as first-clasa material for party capital and giving it the utmost possible publicity in their columns. The true nature of the "extract," however, was soon ex posed and what the Whigs had so eagerly seized upon as an effective weapon of political warfare proved to be a boom erang. The laugh was on the whigs, they had been done up with neatness and dispatch. For the rest of that presi dential campaign any charge against Polk was branded by the democrats as "another Roorback," and from that time to this the word "roorback" has been a part of our political nomenclature as signifying a sensational hoax concocted for political effect-in other words, a campaign lie. - The perpetrator of this hoax was one William Linn, a democratic lawyer, poli tician and officeholder of Ithaca, N. Y. He was born in New York City on Au gust 31, 1790, and died at Ithaca on Jan' uary 14, 1867. The sketch of him given in "Apple ton's Cyclopedia of Amerloan Biography," says that he was the author of "the Roorbach Papers," purporting to be extracts from the travels of 'Baron Roorbach,' " a statement which, as Is shown by what has been stated above, is not in exact accord with the facts. Mr. Linn was the son of Rev. Dr. William Linn, and his sister, Elizabeth, was the wife of Charles Brockden Brown, the novelist Boston ' Transcript. 3. I Monday and u Tuesday WULL BE LITTLE FOLKS' SPECIAL DAYS AT . JXREXEL'S CLEARANCE tfALE OF OXX)RDS. Lessons. "There are many valuable lessons to be learned from defeat. "Yes," replied Senator Sorghum; "but they aren't any good unless you can teach them to the other fellow." Wash ington Star. Vncle Pennywise Says The good cook generally marries the man who can't provide tne raw materials -Courier-Journal. horn. Mrs. Margaret Powers was the owner and A. J. Love the purchaser.- The ! deal was made by the Orin S. Merrill 1 company. The consideration was approxi mately $30,000. The new owner gets pos session March 1 next. John Groves, a farmer of Cass county, has bought the Doney ranch in Boyd county from Toland & Wiley.. He In tends to move on It soon and stock it with cattle, hogs and horses, the present prices of which are causing the farmers to seek more pasture land. Dorsey .brorViers have bought, through Toland & Wiley, a 221-acre farm two miles from Ashland. They paid 1SS an acre for the property. From this It can be Judged that eastern Nebraska land has not lost any of its value. Work on the new medical college of the state university Is progressing rapidly now that, the difficulties with the foun dation have been passed. " " It Is expected that the building will be open for Inspection by the incoming legis lature. ; 'v' F. L. Haller, regent of the University of Nebraska, is taking friends there1., to look it over and has invited all Omaha to watch the work. The building will stand at Forty-second street and Dewey avenue. One of ihe big sales during the week was a NSOJacre farm on the West Dodge street road, three miles southeast of Elk- Natural Obstacles, "I feel that I could overcome any ob stacle for you." he declared. "There is only one obstacle that -you will have to overcome to get me," she replied. "What Is it? Tell me, and I will over coma it." "I have made up my mind that ' I 'will never marry anyone whose ears , stick out like the wings on a monoplane. Get yours to flatten themselves against your head and the obstacle will be over come." Ccieago Record-Herald. . " Of Courne Not. Jimmy said: "My pa Is a church mem ber." "So Is mine," boasted Henry. ' "He ain't neither. My pa says your pa don't come to church, and even when he does he doesn't put nothing in the. col lection box." "Huh! My pa Is an honorary member, and honorary members don't have to chip In!" Cleveland Plain Dealer. Tonsrh Lack. , "What's the matter with Deacon Hard uppe?" n , ; "Poor fellow, he's playing in rotten luck. He had a quarter in his hand for advertising and a cent for business,"-and when the plate came along he slipped the wrong coin." Baltimore Sun. ... -v Jf "Safety Frst" Need of the Antamattn Signal i Th recent train wreck 'at Western Springs, 111., emprasiied anew the need of automatic eleetrle block sig nals on all railroads. All agree tbey are superior to the manual system to the extant that they eliminate the human agency and lean upon mechan ical invention.' The whole object ot all safety appliance is to accomplish this elimination and the automatic signal seems to have done that to a larger ''degree than any other con trirance thus far put Into operation by railroads for the protection of life and property. Attesting results, the railroads equipped with the highest form of these automatic signals show fewer wrecks than the others. Of course. even the automatic 'signal Is' no ab solute guaranty against accident, but Its supremacy thus far appears to be unquestioned because when It errs it Is. paradoxically, on the side of ad ditional safety. That Is explainable by the fact that a disordered signal, or an obstruction on the track will short-circuit the current and main tain the warning signal until repair la made, as securely as If the device were In working order. " (Omaha Bee July 28, 1911) bh coi am ten sho, selli It w is a tion. caps; drauj the, puts Is a) duct' glvei Prox tram to d. Nebi The: of t som rail si Tha Watchword ot tha Union Pacific The Overland Route lias recognized that rapid transit is not the first consideration of railway travel the first is safety and comfort. EVERY INCH OF MAIN LINE IS PROTECTED BY AUTOMATIC ELECTRIC BLOCK SAFETY SIGNALS. In addition, two-thirds of the dis tance to Ogden is double tracked, which further reduces the' liability.' of accident. In the last four years there has been but a single fatal accident, resulting in the death of one passenger. The above features Automatic Electric Block Safety Signals and double track, together with its dust less gravel roadbed, fast and splen didly equipped electric lighted trains, direct route and excellent dining cars have given to the Union Pacific its title, Standard Road oftheVt THESE PRICES TELL THE STORY This ,is a general cleanup sale of numerous lines of Shoes for men, women anil children, and among the various lots are some of the most remarkable values we have ever offered. It is a noteworthy fact that, these are not "bargain" fhoes, such as are seen in large quantities in the periodical shoe Bales elsewhere, seemingly made for the purpose. All are taken from our own regular stock and reduced. This means that every shoe offered is a safe shoe to buy, and fully guaranteed by us as good value at the original price. FOR MEN Williams, Kneeland & Co.'s gun metal and tan Russia Oxfords, flj I AC $4.50 and $5 values, now V I Howard & Foster's tan Russia and gun metal Oxfords, $4.00 04 QE values now Twenty lines of $4.00 and $3.50 pat ent, dull and tan low cuts, CO HtL now 9lM 800 pairs of Men's Oxfords, broken lines, small sizes, $3.50 O I AC and $4 values, now V 1 14 ' 80 per cent off on aU Boys', Youths' and Little Gents' tan and black Oifords. FOR WOMEN 400 pairs Ladies' Oxfords, on bargain table, small sizes, $3.50 to $5.00 val ues, tans, patents and gun QCn metal, at ww 400 pairs of Pumps, Ties and Strap effects, worth from $3.00 Q I AC up, now 01 taw 10 lines of Russia Ties, Colonials, Pumps and Strap effects, 0 M C $3.60 values, now Vfc Laird & Schober's patent, gun metal, tan and buckskin Ties and Pumps, $5.60 and $5.00 values, Jg Wright & Peters' tan Co-ed Pumps, patent and suede Pumps, AO AC $4.50 and $4.00 values.. W few Gai B Sixteenth and Douglas Streets 7 M to St. Paul and inneapolis August 4th the Chicago Great Western shortens its schedules to Ft. Dodge, Mason City, St. paul and Minneapolis. No. 16; Twin City Day Express, leaves Omaha 7:40 a. m. and arrives Ft. Dodge 12:16 noon, Mason City 2:43 p. m., St. Paul 7:40 p. m., Minneapolis 8:10 p. m. Cafe, Parlor Car and coaches Omaha to Hay field arid Hayfield to St. Paul and Minneapolis. "No. 12, Twin City Limited, leaves Omaha 8:10 p. m. and arrives Ft. Dodge 12:33 midnight, Mason City 3:07 a. m., St. Paul 7:30 a. m. and Minneapolis 8:05 a. m. Through electric lighted sleepers and chair cars. Buffet Club car to Clarion and Hayf ield to Minneapolis. Train No. 2, Chicago Express,' leaves Omaha 5 p. m., arrives Ft. Dodge 9:37 p. m., Dubuque 4:14 a. m., arrives Chicago 9:30 a. m. Through electric lighted sleepers and chair cars Omaha to Chicago. Buffet club car Omaha to Oelwein, Oelwein to Chi cago. Dining car serves breakfast. , Chicago Great Western Tickets and Berths: Phone Douglas 200. F. F. Bonorden, C. P. & T. 1512 Farnam Street, Omaha, Xeb. Ml All our Misses', Children's and '.Voung Ladies' low Ox fords, Pumps and Roman SandaL'i, and all Boys', Youths' and Little Gents' Oxfords, in tan and black . . , 20 Off 200 pairs of Misses Strap Sandals anc Pumps patent and tan, $2.00 and $2.50 val- QKa ues, at ,..3G 1 BOY SCOUT SHOES. The only real Summer Shoe for the American boy in cluded in this sale at a big reduction $2.50 (51 OC grade for boys ...?'' $2JD0 boys' grade g Jg $175 little gents' f1 )C size, 10 to 13y2..y last Sale Continues On All Our Men's and Wo men's Fine Low Cuts. Our Men's Patent Colt Ox fords at $1.45 Are the talk of the town. DREXEL 1419 Farnam Street. f.i WM. J. BOEKHOFF, SaU DealM. Prinnps Doug-. 119. nones rd. a-su9. OLD THEORY UPSET Rheumatism Can. Never Be Cured Is the Verdict of Many Noted Doctors. UNITED DOCTORS CURE United Doctors Have Cured Many Cases That Ordinary Doctors rronounced Hopeless. That rheumatism is an lncurble3ts ease, that some cases may be helped temporarily, but that no case can be permanently cured, is the generally ac cepted verdict ot a great portion of the medical profession today, and this con tention seems to be borne out by the fact that there are a multitude of peo ple who are suffering from rheurratism today who have been suffering for years past. They have tried every form of a cure from one end of the list of drugs to the other; they have treated with numerous doctors, even used patent medicines; they have gone to the springs and health resorts; always with tha same result They are helped for a lit tle while, but soon become as bad or even worse than before. Is it any won der that they give up hope and expect to live out their lives In pain and misery? The United Doctors, who have theii Omaha Institute located on the second floor of the Neville block, corner of Sixteenth and Harney streets, have now upset this generally accepted theory. They claim that a great per cent of the cases of rheumatism are curable. That rheumatism is a disease of the blood caused by faulty elimination. That tha waste products of the body are not thrown off as they should be by the kidneys, but are stored up In the blood and it is these waste products that cause rheumatic pains. In treating rheumatism the United Doctors do not attempt to kill the pain with optunv morphine, salicylic acid, oil of wlntergreen and such drugs as are generally used In treating rheumatism. The United Doctors claim that the way to cure rheumatism is to get rid of the cause by cleansing the system of the waste product. And that their theory is correct is abundantly proved by the many cures they have to their credit. St Joseph, Mo., July 8, 1912 The many people who are Interested in my remarkably quick relief from rheumatism after being laid ud with that painful affliction for several months, nay be still further interested In knowing that I am still at hard work ten hours every, day in the factory. The United Doctors had try case only two or three weeks until I was able to r surne my work and I have never lost a day since. PETER FRANK 402 Mitchell Ave. The United Doctors not only cure rheumatism, but are remarkably suc cessful in all chronic diseases of the stomach, kidneys, liver, blood and nerves Including dyspepsia, gallstones. Indigestion, food fermentation, consti pation, headache, neuralgia, skin dis eases, irritable bladder, weak back, dis eases of women and diseases of men. Consultation with these specialists Is always free to the interested, and no incurable cases are taken for cure. Their offices are located on the sec ond floor of the Neville block, corner of Sixteenth and Harney streets. The Best Farm M.KalIlie. TWENTIETH CENTURY FARMER Reaches the Live Stock Growers.