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2- A THE OMAHA SUNDAY DEE: FEBRUARY 20. 1D1G. BRITONS HOLD UP AMERICAN LINER Thirty-Eight German Taisengtri Taken Off Steamship China Outside Shanghai. TOTTED STATES WILL PROTEST SHANGHAI, China, Feb. The American steamship China, which left Shanghai yesterday morn ing lor 8n Francisco, wan held up on the high eeafl by a British auxil iary cruiser and thirty-eight Ger mans were taken off. The China Is owned by the China Mail Steamship company. It is thought It may have been held up toy the Laurentlc, which recently stop ped the Tenyo Maru while on a oy spe to Manilla, and removed sine Indians. WASHINGTON. D. C, Feb. Blml "lar Information resardlri; th removal of Germans from the American liner China h( been reef by th State depart ment from Its representative In China. No action has set been taken by the t nlted State, but It la probable a protest will be made to Oreat Britain similar to thet made to FYanoe when the French rnileer Peecarte recently removed Oer imni and Austrian from the American ships In the Carrlbean sea. In August of 114. the Chin, then owned by the Taelflo Mall SUamahlP company, and the Manchuria, of the Seme company, were halted by British warehlps off Hanfkon and forced to irrender forty German reservist. The Hermans took passage from Hangkong to Ran Francisco and It waa said they had . received . assurances from Washington that they would not be molested while n an American vessel Officers of the China said Oreat Britain, in their opinion, had acted within Us rights. The Men rhurta wss boarded within th Jhree-mlle limit. ' ' A similar situation arose last Decem ber, when a French cruiser held up four American steamships on their way from Porto Rice to New York and removed Germans and Aualrlans. Tha United Mate proteated and tha French govern ment released tha men. BROKEN BOW FIRE BELL . .. FALLS FROM ITS TOWER BROKEN BOW. Neb.. Feb. 19. Ppe-clal.r-Whil an alarm of fire waa being sounded during the night, the fastenings to the bell gave way and It dropped from the tower, a distance ef fifty feet and came near killing the ringer, Clar ence Oarrlson. When dayllgat dawned It waa found that someone had spirited the bell away, and It wee later found In an empty wagon bos, noar the tower. Blnce the city council and electric, light people had a slight falling out several months ago, the fire siren, that waa on the power plant, has been out of eom mission and more or less dissatisfaction has been expressed over the present . method used In sounding alarms. The latest escapade resulted In better un derstanding between the council and light company and th siren has again been Installed. . - - f TECUMSEH WOMAN DIES AT TULSA. OKLAHOMA TffiCUMRKH, Neb., Feb. !. (Kpcdai.) Mrs. KJvlra Jump of Tecumseb, who was taken sick while visiting her deurh ter. lrs. J. W. "Whitney at Tulea, twt, died In that city today. Bhe waa stricken with (Tip, and complications followed. Mrs, Jump wasTB years old. Her hue band was tha late 3. X). Jump and tha family lived In Johnson county for many year. Bhe Is survived by four children. Her daughter, xk Myra Jump of Te cumroh, was with her mother when she died." KIMBALL HIGH SCHOOL DEFEATS SIDNEY QUINTET SIDNEY. Neb., Feb. 19.-?peclal Tele ram Kimball High school defeated Money tonight, M te 14. Mangan ef Kimball played stellar game, throw ing an but two point for Kimball's score. This ties Kimball and Kidney for tha rhsmplonohlp cf the North ristU Valley Baeket Ball league. One more game will be played at Kimball .en March te decide. MILLION ACRES OF LAND ; ADDED FOR ASSESSMENT (From a Staff Correspondent.) LINCOLN, Feb.. !. (Special.) Accord ing to figure made by Slate Auditor Smith from reports reaching hi office ' from the several land offices e the state, l.NB.SU acres e land will be added to the aaseaament rolls of the state this year. SYRACUSEIRlTMARRIES COLLEGE PROFESSOR CHICAGO. Feb. l.-"pecta Telegram ) Prof. Arvid SamuelaoQ of Augustan college. Rock Island, wa licensed here to marry Mis Marjory lla of Syracuse, Neo. DEATH RECORD Aaaeeta Myere. jmEIVTON. Neb., Feb. ISl (Special.) Auiiuetua Myers, a pioneer resident ef Buffalo county, died at hi home In this town Thursday, aged 14 year. He wa a civil war veteran and waa a member of the homestead oalony that settled in this section in th early dara. Pneumonia, coupled with eld age, caused his death. Two daughters sad several grandchildren survlv him. Cor Tarbell. Iliil Cora Taxbell, aged SO years, died Friday at St. Bernard's boapttal. Council Bluffs. I. W. Carpenter. hr guardian, has not completed funeral arrangement. Be(b llaylaa. Miss Ruth Clayton, aged SO yeare. a daughter of Henry H. Clayton of Ham burg, la., died Friday night at the Emeriency hospital of scarlet fever. The body waa taken from Burkett' rbapel te Hamburg for interment Satur day afternoon. Margaret ferry. Margaret Curry, axed M years, died at her home, fl Douglas street, ef Illness Incident to eld age. he has been a reel Crist of Omaha for forty years and wa the widow of Daniel Curry, Three sons, John, I 'avid and TMlllam Curry of Omaha, and one daughter, Mrs. C. A B! ef Denver, survive her. fteraaea W. HollUter. (iHFKOfiH, Wl., Keb. lf.-Colonel Sey mour W. HollUter. pioneer wealthy lum tiertoan. died her today of heart disease, ile aa born In lUelne In IMS. Prominent Omaha by a Cartoonist Here, friends, we hav a most remark able phrenological study. Observe the preponderance of the thought reservoir over the maxillary, mandible apparatus. Note the bulging brow and the eantl tever hrMr extension of the back part of the thoucht dome. Home brain-box. eh! Some Idea-lncu-batorl A great sdvincemcnt, this, from pre historic paleolithlo man with his tnp plece leperlng to'ther way Mg In the jew and Jowl and little In the conk and cranium. Vr. Joseph M. Alkln Is a busy Omaha doctor. He's lived right here In our midst for yesrs. Tet we never noted psrtleu larly his vast bean area. But Just as soon ss he went over, to Chicago the other day a cartoonist thet drew his picture snd put It In tha "Trlb." And here It Is, Just as ha drew It. Vr. Alkln's friends who saw the pic ture have been Inquiring solicitously whether he didn't get enough to sat. They say be looks hungry. Tha doctor went vet there to attend tha national conference of State Boards of Health, the National Association of Medical Colleges and the Council on Mrs. Main's Suit for Divorce and S50,000 Alimony Dismissed FORT DODO!!. Ta., Feb. . (Fpeelal.) Judge It. M. Wrlglt has dismissed the action of Mrs. Jessie E. Main for a di vorce and 150,000 alimony from John W. Meln, a wealthy farmer of Jsaper county. The court upheld the contention that Mrs. Main Is not a resident of Webster county and thls'court has no Jurisdiction. The sffatrs ef the Mains have been thoroughly aired In court. The couple was married at Newton in November; S11. Mr. Main filed suit for divorce In Hit alleging their marriage Illegal. Mrs. Main brought a counter action for sep arate maintenance. pleading desertion. The case went to the supreme cotirt otce or twice. Mrs. Main secured ISO a month alimony and the use of a house In Col fax. Bhe says her husband is worth 113,000, owns 1.000 acres ol land In Texas and has California, holdings In addition te his Iowa farms, 1 Iowa Bachelor Is Hunrred Years Old FOItT DODO EX la., Feb. l.-pctal.) Is Abraham Burger. 100 years of age Friday, Iowa's oldest bachelor? Born on leap year, he has seen the leap years come and go for a full century without letting In one of Cupid's rrow with the amorous bacilli. Vr. Barger never married, although he does not attribute his longevity to this cause. He has been moderate hi all thing and even-tempered from his youth. He ha been a moderate smoker ef to bacco all ef his life and also chewed th weed until a few year ago. , Mr, Barger waa born! in Perry county, Indiana. He and hi brother, Henry, first went te Fairfield, la., and la 1KJ went te Border plains. Henry died a few year age and cine then th centenarian hivs been making his home with Henry Barger' widow. . Henry and Abraham were partner en th farm and anjoyed the fruit of their labors t transform the virgin prairies of pioneer day Into (he big producer of farm wealth they are today. Although he ha no family ef til own, Abraham Barger was not lonesome on his birthday. Five ef his six nephews and niece cam home and helped cele brate hi birthday. GREAT-HEREFORD RANCH NEAR CHEYENNE SOLD CHEYENNE, Wyo.. Feb. 14. (ft pedal.) The Wyoming Hereford association's herd of registered breeding Hereford cat tle and the Hereford ranch of 1?S acres, lying southeast of Cheyenne, were sold yesterday by Henry AHman and Daniel UoUtvan of thl city to ' Raymond IS Huated ef Penver for tX.000. Ten thou sand dollar was paid down to bind th deal end the remainder ef the purchase prlo U due in installment, rossewoon will be given upon the payment of the second tnatallmeat UQ,600, next Novem ber. The last Installment I to be paid within five year. In addition to th 1S,I6S acres of deeded land the edal involve leases en about S.000 acre of state land. The Hereford herd is composed ef between SCO and SCO registered antmal and I th largest reg istered herd in th world. , I llereethlef riea Gotltr. BROKEN BOW. Neb.. Feb. !. ?r c la 1.)-Reese Hail, Charged with horse stealing, appeared before Judge Hosteller in district court and entered a plea of guilty. He received a sentence of from on to seven year In the penitentiary, th court Incorporating In the record a recommendation for leniency If It be consistent with the prison rule. Kail ta th en who hired a rig from a livery man here evral month age, then took It te Oconto, where h sold It He then disappeared and was later located by 8!iertff Wilson In Virginia. lie wa brought here two month ago and ha been In jail ever since. Metrites; Ploaoer I Pea. TJ0CUM8EH, Neb,, Feb, (Special) Lewis Winter dld at hi horn In ster ling yeaterday. H had lived In John con county for many years, coming her let in th 'ft., He I survived by his widow and four daughters. Th funeral will be held at th Sterling Methodist Episcopal chcuh funday afternoon. Mr. Winter wa T year ef age. . CrtrtwM4 Maa Ask Diver. FLATTSMOUTH. Nb.. Feb. l.-8p- clal.) Suit for divorce wa filed In th district court today, wherein L'lyssea O. Btradley of near Ureenwood asked sep aration from hi' wife, Lena Stradley. Tho National Capital aara( Fearwary IP, 11. Th . Agricultural committee continued hear ing on rluttou to direct inquiry lute control ef alaaj output. Conservation champion began fight to amend shield' waterpower bill. Haitien tcssly was laid before th senate to be railed up next week. The lloese Resumed onelJ rstlun puroprialion bill. of poslofflc Doctor as Viewed of the Windy City rxi. JOSEFM H. A1KIN L Medical legislation and Education. He represented the Nebraska Medical associa tion at theae pleasant little affairs. Of course, great domes of thought are probably far scarcer In the Windy City than they axe here. That's why Dr. Alkln's fine specimen attracted attention. And people with twin-six thousrht domes know enough not to live In Chi cago, don't "theyT Tee, Indeed, they do! My land, yes I Daniels Refuses ' To Send Ship with Milk to Germany WASHINGTON, Feb. . Dr. Edmund von Mach, executive chairman cf a cltl sens' committee for food shipment of New Tork.'todsy asked Secretary Danlela to send a naval vessel to Germany with milk for bablea. Dr. Mach reminded the secretary that the collier Sterling, en route to Egypt waa carrying a cargo of unleavened bread for shipment to Palestine and Alexandria, and suggested that a similar arrangement be made for sending milk to Germany. He was Informed that the French gov ernment had objected te the request of charitable ' organisations in the United States which propoaed to supply milk for the relief, of German babies and that it would bo Impossible for the navy to send a vessel io Germany unless France with drcd its objections. Dynamite Found Near Oil Plant at Lexington. Ky. KBXINOTON. Ky., Feb. 1. Discovery of sticks of dynamite, fuse and dyna mite caps, flashlight and revolver and th peculiar actions of two men said to be foreigners, has caused railroad officials to believe that It had been planned to blow up th Louisville tt Nashville rail road tracks or wheck th plant of the Standard Oil company between Junction City and Shelby City. Detective r In. veatlgatlng. The explosives were found under a tele phone booth used by railroad men adja cent to the distribution plant of the Standard Oil company. .The two men were seen about the booth about mid night last night ' v ; Oil Ship Fetrolite :: Aground at Halifax HALIFAX. N. B., Feb. It.-Th Standard Oil tank steamship Fetrolite, which wa helled' by an Austrian submarin in the Mediterrensan In December and In Janu ary wa taken by th British Into Kirk wall, added another Incident te It career today by running aground at Sandwich Point whll ntrlng th harbor hr. It commander reported that it waa In no danger and that he expected to get It off at high tide. The Petrollt. bound from Copenhagen te Philadelphia, ran short of coal and cam her to replenish. Man Charged with Swindling Banks Out of $90,000 . DETROIT. Mich., Feb. 1S.-A warrant Wa Issued today for th arrest of Joseph J. Halpln ef Detroit charged with ob tsinlcg more than 190,000 from Detroit bank by mean ef fraudulent representa tion. Th complaint waa aimed by an eflfcer ef th Dim Savings bank, which is said te have loaned Halpln 130,000. Halpln waa president of th Michigan Ornamental Class works, which failed about a year age. Xt Is alleged that he borrowed large sums of money from local banka by making alleged fraudulent statement concerning th condition of hi company' buslna Medical Fraternity Men Give a Smoker Alpha chapter ef the Fhl Beta T at Crelghton Medical college gave a amoker last night at th Swedish auditorium in honor of th mdleal classes. About seventjr-ftv attended. Speaker were Dr. Robert Retser, dean of Crelghton Medical college; Dr. Claud Duren of the University of Michigan medical achool, and Dr. T. O. Beck of th department of medlcln of th University ef Chicago and Dr. Otis Morganthalar of Bt Joseph' hospital. Ray Byrne, archoa of th chapter, wa toaUnatr. Oerla Allw4 Vee. PLATT8MOUTRY Neb.. Fab. l.-(Spe. elal. The case of Matbew Oeiir.g against Mr. Velme Caasity was settled today. Th claim wa ee for attorney fee tor settlement of th eaa of A. L Caaalty. a Burlington switchman, who wa killed In th local yard sera months sine. Mr. Caasity getting ST.000 from th Burlington. Th settlement gives Attorney Qortag 1300 for his services. Karwa Hew la Harmed. TECUM EH. Nsb.. Feb. 1. -(Special.) The farm residence occupied by John Allen, on and one-half nUle north ef Crab Orchard, was burned te th ground yetrday. Th fir waa caused by a de fective mi. Th house waa ooe4 by Nelson Meyer of Lincoln. Th Allen family saved th raot ef tha hoaaehold effects. SrlckUr! KUlea. AMES, la, Fetx Mi-8pctal Ttlegram.) -V. Rainwater, aged about 0, Atlanta, d a. bricklayer, waa killed thia afternoon by falling lumber ea the new acleno hall of the Iwa Hi ate college. He was re cently married. WAR DEPARTMENT ORDERS INQUIRY Special Board Will Investigate the Charge i Apalnit Aviation Serv ice Made bj Senator. FROMUTEITT 0FFICEKS ASSIGNED WA8HINOTON, Feb. 18. An army investigation of Senator Rob inson's charge that Lieutenant Col onel Ileber, head of the aviation aervlce, had been conducting the aero corp In an Inefficient manner baa been ordered by the War depart ment. A board which Includes the Inspector general and the adjutant general of the army and tho head of the war college will conduct the in quiry. Banquet Served In Great Storm , Sewer at St. Louis ST. I.ins, Feb. 1.-The Mill creek re lief sewer, a great storm drain that cuts straight acroes the city of ft. I-ou's for nearly four miles, wa formally dedicated tonight by a banquet which was (riven In the ooncrete-llned tunnel. Mayor Kiel waa the guest of honor. ' The banquet was given by the construction comreny that ha executed th contract for building the tewer. Oueals at the dinner descended to the tunnel in elevators and on arrival In the subterranean way were nefgnel pi 1 era at the banquet table. The sewer drains more than S.nno acres of land, and when full will carry l.0O,0OD gallons of water a minute. It Is shaped like a single track railway tunnrf" and is ViVt feet wide and 1H feet high. It ta to be used to carry off rain water from city streets. Work on the great tunnel, which runs from the western part of tho city to the Mississippi river, began October 23, 1!H. Twenty-four months was given for ' the completion of the work, but the tunnel waa finished In sixteen months. Frog Skin is Grafted Onto Woman's Chest DES MOINES, la., Feb. W.-Frogskin was grafted onto the chest of Mr. Sam uel Sport at Mercy hoapltni today, and It Is announced she probably will recover from sever bums received in a fire at her home here January H, Chambers Has Rleetrie Mirhts. CHAMBERS, Neb., Feb. l.-(Speclal.) The thrifty Inland town of Chamber, Neb., I lining up with the larger towns. Charles Canarr had Installed a new elec tric light plant which was completed and put in action Friday night ' :4 F its h i o n ab 1 e Spring Suits ; Correctly Tailored Reasonal3ly Priced Styles for the Spring season are distinguished by their bright colors. Colors as bright and fresh and varied as the Spring itself. : , t "We are Proud to Display our New Complete Showing $25 to $135 Unusually attractive values, $29.50 and $35 HO EXT.RA CHARGE The Store for , Shirtwaists A spacious section filled with dainty new Blouses for Spring wear. The February Special $5 Blouses Is attracting much fa-' vorable attention. New Silks for Spring Every new thing that fashion has favored for the coming spring season is included in this in teresting display of silk fabrics in a plentiful , variety of charming weaves and colors. Georgette Crepes A beautiful French fab ric in a choice line of desirable colors. Light Green, Ivory, Violet, Bose Fink, Light Blue, Navy Cope and Black. Satin Taffetas One of the most favor ed fabrics for Spring, yard wide, fine quality, $1.75. Gro de Londre 38 inches wide, $1.50 a yard. All the newest SUk Soctioo FORMER VICEROY OF INDIA FOR NEW PORT FOLIO Lord Canon, for mer viceroy of India, to be named as the Minister of Aviation, the new portfolio to be added to the British War cabinet. W LOAD CUJZZCThf. MAHER PROTEST OVERRULED AS TO ONE INSURANCE MAN ' (From a, Staff Correspondent) LINCOLN. Feb. 19. The State Insur ance board, after considering the charges made by John Q. Slaher, president of the Old Line Insurance oompany, against Ted and Perry Anthony, formerly his agents, on the grounds that . they were not entitled to receive license to solicit Insurance, for another company and con sidering the defense made by them, has decided to grant a license to Ted An thony. Th board Is still considering the matter in relation to Perry Anthony. FOR ALTERATIONS. The Tsfew Negligees for Spring, are Here 1 Very dainty, airy, bou doir apparel, cleverly designed in silks and ' laces, $6.50 to $15 Shown in The Store for Shirtwaists. colors of -peace gray, Hague Blue, Rose, etc. New Stripes and Plaids So popular that they are scarce in the east ern markets, but not so with us. You'll admire their distinctiveness. Crepe de Chines Every one guaranteed fast color. Mala Floor. WAR'S TOLL OFHUMAN TEARS Sign on English Village Homes Mutely Tell of Family Tragedies. , LONELY SOULS REVEAL WOE In order to rentor nd revive the sens of pity It Is necessary to hold the war at arm' length and to see It' aa an ab normal and abhorrent tragedy. The atmoaphere of London and of ell great cities dull th edge of imagination, for we unconsciously fal Into the habit of thinking In bulletins and dispatch's rather than In heartaches snd tears. The war machine is more pitiless than any other engine. It grinds out Its wee co dly and dispassionately. The casualty llt touch no nerv of llvln? sympathy and cotnpaanlon It need an effort a aplrit utal effort to see the obscure grief of the home behind the humtle name print 1 In pitifully small type with it pitiful number and Its pitiful abbreviation of rank and regiment. Now and then the youthfutness of a second lieutenant stir th languid vla'on, and w see the face of a boy, dear-eyed and smooth-skinned, joyous, with dim down on upper lip, and the queer note of imminent manhood In the merry volc. Arid when we are hurt by the blow struck ' at a passion of fatherhood such as Mr. Rtidyard Kipling's a passion revealed 1n wistfully tender stories that have touched a thousand fatherly and motherly breasts we are quickened with a new birth of truth. To ua all there comes a lightning stroke when a boy we knew falls and Is sren no more the tnugh lives In our memory, the jest, the brave and gallant carelessness, th divine Ignorance of 'the dark Into which he marched breast forward the happy unforeknowledge 'of the cruel and Intolerable surcease of all that make youth adorable an-1 l r. Ilr the Conntrr Side A few' weeks ago I tore myself out f the strange hypnotism of London that nation of anonymity which hides so much reality of pain and mourning and sought heal ng and assuagement in the enduring fortitude of sun and wind and tea rn the Cornish coast It waa my dosln to escape from the obsession of the war that nightmare of the mini In which I had been steeped for a full year. And I could not escape. The war Is hard to bear In London, but It Is Infinitely harder to. bear in tho clean, uncoirrpt'd air of the little old hamlet and th ;ittle o d townships, with their little old churches, gray and good and kind. Everywhere In Cornwell I saw a thlnf that moved me more than all th rumors and speculations of London. It waa a simple thing, being no more than a little pasteboard dlso hanging In the window of the parlor in the wayside .cottage, I have seen no such disc In any window In London town. It la a disc bearing th heartbreaking word. "Not at Home." Wheresoever I Journeyed in Cornwall I saw that t ear-compelling card hanging In the little window of the poor. Th pride of it and the pity of It moved me a noth Wonderful Showing of Spring Hats Proclaims a New Season And it is to be a season of manifold charms, as a glimpse of the Thompeon-Belden collection demonstrates. Scores of new hats are here, ranging from the smartest of severely tailored styles to the most elaborate chapeaux Piquant Pole Shapes, are featured. Their high crowns topped with flowers or fruit clusters, or with - t huge bows of soft, rich ribbon. Others have fas cinating little nosegays of pastel tinted blossoms posed on their quaintly curving brims. The WatttaaHat: says Fashion, "will be a favorite picturesque indeed, these high backed shapes of straw with chiffon, satin or Georgette adorned with ribbon and flowers. The Russian Color Scheme: rich, bold, beautiful, finds expression in a hat of gorgeous, many-hued silk, faced with a deep blue straw. Dainty Little Shirred Hats, of Georgette crepe flower and velvet trimmed, in the new rose, Callot blue and other lovely shades, are here. And Black Hats, many of them large with transparent brims of crepe, of Neapolitan lace braid, of chif fon trimmed most effectively with goura, para dise, feathers, fancies, or flowers. Prices range frorn, $7.50 to $18.75 Imported French Undermuslins The rTalittieet of lniulln underwear come from France aad, although evndJtkma there uiaka it difficult to obtain new tocaa, wa bay aucceeded aad ara glad to announce, . . French Oowna, Oanblnatlona, Skirt. Cor set Cover, Drawer and lorcly Chemise. Skirts with hand-caada em broidered flounces, and fitted tops, 94.T5, aa, 97 and more. rndcrmuallBS ing else ha moved m since I etood watching- the recruit drilling In their civilian attire In our London park an1 squares nd churchyarda. f "Not at Home." 1 came upon It on the loneliest foads. where the tall hedges, with honeysuckle atop, drenched roe with the meanlnr of that wonderful word, charged with Immeasurable romantic glamor England. It stabbed me to the heart on the road to Tlntagel and on the road to Land' Knd. "Not at Home." It was a haunting bnrcl"n, a dying fall, a murmurous refrain, sung softly In my ear as the loveliness of the autumnal trees stole Into my brain like a whisper of dreamt, And day after day the tbouf bt of an England "Not at Home" shook me and softened me and humanised me, a msn deadened and atrophied by all th vsst Inhumanity of wsr. A w Meawlair. "Not at Home." There waa a time when Hie words echoed with Idle frivolity and jurfelted boredom, when they were onl the formula or shibboleth of a hostess re luctant to pour out tea for a casual vis itor. And now the trivial phrase was suddenly tense with a new meaning somebody, hueband, father, son or brother, gone on th dreadful errand with death a eavesdropper and ahadower and spy. And I mused over the vigil kept by all those lonely souls behind the little windows with the little discs. Tcrhaps it waa treason to allow my Imagination to roam all over Europe and ta peer at all tho little windows In Franc and Belgium and Russia ad Italy and Serbia and Germany and Austria and Hungary and Turkey, and to intrude upon the innumerable sorrow of humble hearts whose loved ones ar not at home and may never be at home again. The um of all that human pain how can we bear to think of ItT How can we summon up courage to brood over all the agony and all tha anguish outside the Iron battlefields? How can we force our way Into all those sacred stricken hearts and gaae upon their poor unpltied grief? And yet (t is our duty to bear the full knowledge of this many-mlllloned mar tyrdom, so Innocent, so helpless, so pa tient, eo utterly unrewarded and unp laced that even the very devil In hell might weep over it James Douglaa In London New. STORK AND SAME DOCTOR VISITS TWO ADAMS SISTERS HASTINGS, Neb., Feb. 19.-(Sipacial Te' egram.) Within an hour today th tork visited two sisters, leaving a boy with Mrs. William Hendricks and a girl with Mrs. Andrew Schmidt They liv on op posite sides of the county and the same doctor, with a high power car attended both. I. , . : ' Will Balld Heatclp pal Dan. ' FORT DO DO HS, la, Feb. 19. (Special. )- The survey of the Des Moines river has been completed and plans will be drawn at once for the new $100,000 municipal dam. The contract probably will be let before April L It took three special elections. In which bitter feeling waa aroused, be fore the dam wa authorized. . Th Com mercial club sponsored th project th lat time. ' Read Bee Want Ada for profit Vsa them for result. ' , I. !f... Trl -:' :;..- -V !' i; --vi . i- ; ... "A . . ''..;. v j.-i...l 81tp-on Oowna, short aleeres, also open front style, medium or long sleeve. 44.35, JVO, 93, 90, 97.33, 98.23 and nor. Third Floor.