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THE BEE: OMAHA, THUESD Y, OCTOBER 9, 1913. 11 Using the Rivers By 6ARRETT P. 812RVISS. While we are chaining tho Mississippi -in' making It stretch out elcctrlo arms 'torsive light, heat and power to cities on. Its banks and for away, the French are preparing to subdue " their wild rlvr- Rhone In a similar manner. They havo a well advanced schemo .for, ',turnlns- the energy of Its de scending; witters lno. electrlo cur I w-n t s ( ''flowing through, hundreds tot - miles of cable, o light the streets And parks of Paris and spin the -wheels of Us Innu merable factories, t In a short tlm there will bo hardly a great river In- tho world that has not been enslaved to man's mightiest and most versatile, servant, Blcctrlo Power, ,the only power that .carries itselC from pla'a'. to place, 'wherever' Its .master bids It go, and turns Itself from ono form to another at his will.- - - ( "T'hls power had Its "birth In tho sun, and gravitation Is its foster-parent, so that the sua and the earth work In a yoke to serve the needs of their diminu tive taskmaster, Man. The sun begins by evaporating the wate.ru of the pecan and sending them up lir the 'air- to form clouds.- The clouds condense 'Into rain on-lho hills and moun tains, and thus fill the springs and streams. The streams UnlBa to", form rtv crs. Tho water ot the rivers, drawn down by the, gTav.lta.tlon of the earth, hurries.qoeanward through, the valleys and leaps roaring down tho rapids and over thii ' precipices. Every" step of Its downward progress means expenditure of the; energy (wiich theTsiin puts' Into It when. Knitted Jt loathe, form of Invisible mlst.tta-fhp'tripuntMn "tops. V " 'Until our-' late' day this wasted energy of the rivers warf only occasionally utll- jr.oa 10 nnve me waier ts;neeia 01 a lew saw or grist mills. Then but a few years ago, came thel discovery Of thll "me chanical power of electricity and how awlftly we have availed ourselves of Itl We were a long" time about It, but at last wo havfa discerned the possibilities of this wonderful combination of sun and earth energy and turned them to ac count. . . '.Let us look at It a little more closely. The energy of tho rivers Is due to thfs descent of their waters. But In order that' they may descend they must first be raised up. Wla could not raise them up, and If we could we should have to expend as much power as we gained. Hero the. .sun Hteps In to befriend us. He can rain; tho waters and make riothlng'of It. "if 'Is Bport for him to lift millions of tons' of water vapor miles up In tho air. He has only to shine upon tho ocean to do It. Thus the sun solves for us the first part -of-he i problem. f$ jrhen tho earth takes' ' hold, ahd per forms its part of the task by drawing the waters down again through the power Of' lis ' gravUatldn.' ' They pour down every-slopo toward-the lower level of tha sca.. They .are . bursting with en ergy, which only heeds to" be caught fn order thcCt'hiaH may use it as he will. But beforo ho could use it on a large scale' he had to Invent an effective means ot catching the wasted energy. Water vjheels were almost childish; they were npt much above the Inventlvts capacity of our cave and river-drift ancestors; they suggested themselves as soon as man bosahtdthlnk a llftle; they aro not more ingenious" 'than 'some of the con trivances of ants and bees. And yet, until the end of the nineteenth century, man continued to take, ttmor- ously, a very little of the energy of the ryerB through his pitiful water wheels, while the great streams, capable of 'driv ing all the- machinery of the world, and more, wertt laughing and rollicking on thtlr way, playfully scattering . their, power td' tho winds. But at last came tho dynamo and the great dams and all the machinery for th,e transformation of energy, 'and then flectrlo power arose spectacularly lllos (he genius irom the fisherman s bottle, and bowsd itself to .the earth before Its little discoverer, and said: "Behold! I atn tho servant' bf your brain. I have a thousand, arms -and a-hundred disguises, and I can seize tho energy of the rivers and carry It away and make It work where you will and what you .will," Ve all know that this Is no faWy tale or- Arabian Knights' adventure, but one the great facts and truths ot our time. And even It tho ago that Immediately ucceeds us, should far surpass all that we have' dbwi,, we may still feel confi dent that history will never forget the century In- which man- first learned to chain the power of the rivers. Hooray! Baby To Rule the House No Longer Do Women Fear The Great t of All Human Blessings. It Is a Joy and comfort to know that those much-talkid-of pains' and other dls. treitts that are. said to preeedo child-bearing may eutllr be avoided. No woman need fear the slightest discomfort If she will fqrtljy herself with the Well-known and time-honored remedy, "Mother's Friend." 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What a Love-Sick Astronomer Sees tttIIO Jeers the cold-blooded aatron- A)- omer the scientist who once " having sweet-hearted with the Pleiades could ever turn to an earthly mistress? One of those soft creat tures who talk a great deal, put powder on their noces and are never on time!" And the "star dreamer" ad Justs his giant lens and through a slice By VIRGINIA T. VAN DE WATKIt They sat directly In front ot men In the street car, and, try as I would not to be an eavesdropper, I could not help over hearing whatf they were saying. I had an Interesting' book, and was at first so much absorbed In it that it was not until the woman's sharp tone attracted my attention that I was forced to listen, The volume I held was a new novel, and the meaning of the page beforo me was a while obscured for roe. by the very audible conversation of my two neigh bors. "Of course,"- said the woman, "you can trump up an excellent exouse for not meeting -me at the-time' you promised to, but you may spare yourself the bother of an explanation ot any kind." After a pause the man spoke. "Then I will not waste breath trying to prove to you that I have been telling you the truth," he said rather wearily. The thought that sprang to my mind ard I blushed as I found myself thinking it was, "Of course they are married!" Tet-why, "of course?" Why should I know that the pair were husband and wife? Because they were quarreling in such an accustomed and natural way. Perhaps they might be brother and sis ter; but brothers and sisters do not take Just that note of irritation with each other. Again I heard the woman's querulous voice: "It I had known that you weri not going to be. there at the time you prom ised I would have accepted mother's in vitation to meet her and a friend of her" at the Waldorf and have tea." "I am sorry I Interfered with your pleasure," said the man. "But the fault was not mine. As I have already told you, I was unavoidably detained at the office." "The office is always a convenient ex cuse," retorted the wife. "What time did you have your lunch?" "About 12:S0 o'clock." "And what time did you get back from It?" "About 1 30 o ciork." In the high-domed roof, 'seeks out the red glitter of fiery Aldebaran. . But th,ere comes a night, when the stars that powder the sapphire sky dance madly up and downl The Milky Way writhes under its pearly skin I The "star dreamer" hunts daiedly for the tender Pleiades. They are gone mad. Something Married "And you took an hour for luncheon I Well, you must have eaten a great deal! Or"-sarcastlcatly "you must have been in remarkably good company. Who was she?" Then I knew that the woman was that most exasperating of creatures a nag ger. I tried again not to hear her, for, in spite of tho fact that I surmised that she was not entirely in the right, I knew also that she was unhappy, Why could she not Just be satisfied to love her husband and to take him for granted? As her evident misery made me uncomportable, I turned to my book again and tried to read. The sentence that my eyes fell on was this: "There were times when it seemed easier to give his life or her than to live with her; when to shed his blood would have cost less than to make conversa tion." The sentence was" written of a married couple who had taken each other for better, .for worse, because they loved each ether. Yet they had come to the place where the man could feel like this of the woman whom he had elected to live with until death ended the union. And right here in front of me was an other couple unhappy, harassed by each other another pair who, in tho, sight of God and man, had vowed eternal fidelity to each other. Yet the dignity ot these yows did not prevent their quarrelling like a pair of silly children. An I listened I thought of the naggers ot the world, those people who drive men to worse sins than the women themselves are capable of. Very often such wives at models of morality and discretion. This one probably possessed many of what my novelist calls "the little virtues" that "are sometimes more deadly to the passion of love than are the large vices." And the pity of it all Is that the poor soul cherishes the delusion that In nag ging her husband she is doing her duty by him. This man took her insinuations with well-assumed patience for a while He trlei to change the tubject In a clumsy masculine way by asking her If she had I has gone wrong: The thlck-sewn planbta burn green and red and bluel Tho heav enly twins are flirting with tho Olant Orlonl The Northern Crown has lost Its rigid circlet shape-grows pliable like a string of loose diamonds and seems to whirl dlsxllyl desperately gating, the astronomer finds It Is a ring of dancing succeeded In matching the piece of silk she thought so pretty, but she answered In a monosyllable- and then went on to say that she did pot wish he would try to greak hltnshelt of the wretched habit of unpunctu&llty. "This Is the third time this week that you havo been late at an appointment with me," she said, "and there has been Just one morning In five days that you have been In at breakfast on time. We always have to rush to get to the theater before the curtain goes up. anl ven then we -sometimes miss the first part of the play. And each night at dinner time you" But the husband had stood all that-he cou)d stand Just now. He Interrupted roughly, and his voice had suddenly coarsened. . "Good heavens!" he ejaculated. "Why not Just tell me that my slrfs are ,more In number than the star of the sky and thegralns of sand on the seashore and let the matter drop! I was late today, and I told you I regretted the fact As you can talk of nothing exoept my- fallings,- and I find them a very unsavory top(b of conversation, I will, with your gracious permission, get off tha ear hero and allow you to continue your ride and meditations alone. I prefer to walk." He suited the action to the word, al though she started to speak, ahd, getting up abruptly, swung himself off at the next corner. In a minute or two I saw the- woman's hand steal furtively to her fa.ee and I knew that, under her veil sh was wiping away the teardrops that she could not keep from her eyes. 1 also knew that she was very sorry for her self, that she felt that her efforts to Im prove the man she loved were unap preciated, that she was self-hypnotlred Into the belief that tn she mftant well, shead done well, and that she felt that her husband was an unfeeling brute, She was certainly to be pitied and, of course, the man had been very rude. But was he entirely to blanie? And does marriage Justify people in saying Just what they please to each other? If so, why marry? Copyright. Ills, International Nows Service. girls. And then he trains his telescope on the moon his softly luminous dead world tho tender, delicate, thin moon a silvery crescent. And where he always found volcanoes pitting It wide and deep thero are nonel Out of its pale glow a woman's face an earthly woman's-tender face ot warm flesh arid sing (T Little Bobbie's Pa By WILLIAM V. K1HK. I am glad I dident marry a man with black eyes, Bed Ma to Pa last nlte. I luv yure eyes, deer. How much mutiny do you want now? sed Pa. I doant want any munny, sed Ma. I repeet .that I luv yure blue eres. The reeson I luv yure blue eyes Is beekau I was reeding In the paper that all the greatest men In the history of the wurld had blue or gray eyes. The artlkel that I red sed that thare was lots of vary nice gentelmen wich had brown or black eyes, but that thay was newer what you cud reely call big league guys. I guess It Is prttty neer so at that, sed Ma. All the men I know with black or brown eyes Is nice to have for friends, but thay alnt grate like Julus Ceasar or Napolyun or 'Shakespeare. iPa went & looked In the glass at his blue eyes & then he eed to Ma. Yes, deer, the artlkel waa rite, though all of us reely grate men do not like to admit it, Of course that doesn't meen, eed Pa. that everybody with blue eyes Is a grate man. Far from It, sed Pa. Thare is a lot of men with blue & gray eyes that is grate only In one line, like grate bookkeepers or grate shipping clerks. But us reely grate men, though i hate to admit it as I sed, all have them peerclng blue eyes or gray eyes wlch can look rite thru all tho shams of the wurld. My father had brown eyes, though, sed Ma, & he was the leedlng man of the town. He was Mayor of Colfax till he got tired of holding down the Job & he hold every other offls that waa worth hiding. What f that? sed Pa. It Isent the reely grate men of any community wich holds the offlses. The reely grate men are too busy to hold offices. Tho mayor ot the average small town Is a nice, Import ant old man that Isent much good at anything excop mayoring. Wen a con venshun euros to the town he gives the members the keys to the city A if any of the members want to go sumware that hasent got keys, the mayor feels ing blood shines down stratght Into his heart! And in each eye 1 a stolen star. And the moon's attendant star that fol lows and stands always a little out from her sllvor harbor like a. lighthouse set In still Jriuo wator It holds a face tho ardent face of Venus' son gllmmer-oyod, pate-halred, winged, smiling straight offended. I doant think yure father waa such a grate man. Pa sed. Yure father had brown eyes & he wasent a bit grate, sed Ma. You used to be all tho time telling what a grate man ho was, but all I ewer saw him do was to draw his penshun & talk about Pickett's Charge. Of course I think all those old boys has a rite to draw munny from the guvernment they helped to save, but yure father always made me feel sumhow, that he did moast of his shooting from beehlnd a big tree & that the darker the days of the Itebelyun was, the better" he liked It beekaua It la easier to hide on a dark day. Oh, well, our fathers was both good old scouts, sed Pa. Iet us talk, though, of the reely grate men. Think of the list, Goethe, Hhakespeer, Wagner, Beet-hoven, Mike Angelo. Ceasar, Napolyun, Unkun, Mathewson & me. But McQraw has got black eyea, I toald Pa & he is a grate man. I think ho Is a excepshun, & the greatest fltelng man living la Jack Johnslng, I toald Pa, & his eyes Is black. That Is not the kind of fltelng men the antlkel ment, Pa sed. It ment the grate lecders of armies. The kind of fltelng men like Jack Johnslng haa black eyes half of the time anyway. 1 know a grate excepshun to the rule, I toald Pa. Teddy llusevelt hasent got blue eyes. ' Well, sed Pa, what of It? Advice to the Lovelorn By BEATRICE FAIRFAX Ask Her. Dear Miss Fairfax; Through an Intro duction a few months ago I met a young lady with whom I have become strangely fascinated,! In a certain sense she haa shown that she haa takvn some Interest In me. How can I know whether she really does care for me? A, A. It. Huch knowledge as that must be gained first hand. But don't be premature, if you want her to love you pay her the attention that will win her love before you ask an avowal. And make your own avowal first. , By Nell Brinkley - down Into his stunn.ed heart a no siar-areamer'a heavens are in chaos new. stars are born fixed planets are adrift tha moon holds naught but a woman's face and her lamp-like ctar is the countenance of Cupldl All tWwhn u, "shepherd rit the stars" an ..imm.. 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