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BRINGING UP FATHER WELL' HOW "TOO EHJOrlNCi STECHER HURTS HIS ARM AGAIN Joe Goes to Excelsior Springs for Best Under Orders' of Physician. ' WILL BE, IDLE SIX WEEKS Because his injured arm and shoul der have refused to mend quickly Joe Slecher will be unable to wrestle for at least six weeks and he may find il necessary to cancel his engage ment to joust with Ad Santel, alias Adolph Ernst, in San Francisco Feb ruary 22. Stecher, in company with his bride of less than a month and his newly wedded brother, Anton, left Omaha Wrinpsrlav niffhr fnr . F.Trrplninr Spiings, Mo. Anton went on his honeymoon trip, but Joe went upon order of his physician, it is said. Stecher is said to have suffered an injury to his arm and shoulder in the match with Cutler in .Chicago on Thanksgiving day.. The injury was further aggravated, it is averred, in subsequent - tilts with Cyclone Bums and one John Olin, disciple of S. Lewis. . The, other day Stecher in a mild workout strained the damaged lum ber again and his physician ordered him to Excelsior Springs for more rest Stecher, it has been frequently re ported among Omaha wrestling fane, intended to wrestle Charley Peters, the, Papillion carpenter, and Earl Cad dock, the Anita, la., flash, in Omaha this winter, .but Joe's-buro -wing my! cause -a delay in these engagements. Topeka Club May Be : t ; , .'. Transferred to Pueblo Lincoln, Jan. 4. John Savage, own er of the Topeka franchise in the Western Base Ball league, was in Lin coln tonight conferring with Presi dent penning oi me league on inc ad visability of transferring the club from Topeka to Pueblo, Colo. Savage said action will be taken by commer. cial bodies in Pueblo within a week looking to acquiring a franchise,-and if favorable- he will probably make the change. If topeka people wish -to retain the club, he said, he was willing to sell, but would not himself remain there another year. - ., While in Lincoln Savage signed for next season Lyman Lamb, a .local semi-professional third baseman. He also announced the sale to the .Mil-, waukee club of the American associa tion of George Cochran, veteran third baseman of the Topeka club, arid "Nick" Allen, catcher. . r V , Admiral Knight Assigned .'; To Command Asiatic Fleet Washington, Jan. 4. Read Admiral Knight, head of the naval war col lege, was designated by President Wilson today to command the Asiatic fleet, with rank of admiral. He suc ceeds Admiral Winterhaller, who has completed his tour of duty and is as signed to duty with the generaj board. Captain W. W. Sims, recently in com mand of the dreadnought Nevada, will become president of the war college. It is understod he is one of six cap tains recommended for promotion to real admiral by the new selection board. Three Wives Get Liberty And Three Petitions Filed The . day's grist in the Douglas county divorce mill is as follows: Petition filed: Ruth B. Burch against William C. Burch, cruelty alleged. - Thomas H. Dearlnf against Lottie M. Dearlng, desertion alleged. Stella Shropshire against Frank Shrop shire, desertion alleged, Decree granted: Bozena droits "from Charlen Orotte. Clarlaa K. Wttgworlh from Henry P. Weg worth. i Shoe Downer from Eara Downer. Omaha Consumers' League To Fight Higher Prices "Eggs have gone up 2 and 3 cents a dozen and the price of butter has advanced 2 cents. There is some thing wrong and we surely will work to lower the cost. . With this declaration, Mrs. Vernon C. Bennett, president of the Omaha Consumers' league, announced a call for a meeting to be held Friday aft' ernoon at ' 3 o'clock in the council chamber of the city hall. Colonel W. F. Cody Is Slightly Improved Glenwood Springs, Colo.. Jan. 4. The condition ot colonel William f. Codv ("Buffalo Bill"), who arrived here today from Denver, was im proved slightly today, according to nis pnysicians. coionei vouy stooa the trip well and his relatives were hopeful of his recovery. Constipation and Hick Headache. Dr. Kinase New Life Fills will relieve you ef both. elsaa oat the bowole and make ft teel fine. ISc All dnisslsU. Ady. l"VE HAD Sport Calendar Today Antobmobile. Opening show f Milwaukee Automobile Dealers' Amoc tattoo. t Bowling: Annual toaituunent of Wiscon sin Httate Pony Bowling Association opens nt Milwaukee. Boxing: Al Nelson against lo Demsrtee, twelve rounds, mt Manchester, Pi. H. Dave Deshler against Walter Butler, twelve rounds, at Boetoni Tommy Robson against Chick West, twelve ronntl, at Augusta, Me.t Pal Moore attains t Young Holsberg, tea rounds, nt Brooklyn. SLED HITS WAGON; 5 COASTERS HURT Heavy Traveler on Capitol Hill Hits Mail Wagon at Sev enteenth Street. WARNED BEFOEE ACCIDENT Five persons we're seriously hurt last night when a big traveler-sled on which they coasted down Capitol ave nue, from Twentieth street, crashed into a United States mail wagon at Seventeenth. - - The victims: Samuel Nadel. and 14. ot ISIS Capitol avenue; at Ht Joseph'! hospital, suffering from fractured skull and lacerations. Laura Townsend. 8. ot 1813 Capitol ave nue: at St. Joseph', hospital, sufferins from fractured skull and Internal injuries. Mrs. Uassl Petersen, 20, of 1818 Capitol avenue; at St. Joseph's hospital; Internal injuries Ray Rltter. 1. ot ill North Eighteenth street: slight bruises and cuts; taken home. Oiier Kuhlman. if. - or zsa nortn nine teenth street; cuts and bruises; taken home. Kuhlman owned the sled and was the steersman," On it were about fourteen others, all of whom left the scene after the accident except those who were hurt Accordine to L. H. Casev of Ben son, who saw the accident, the sled was the only one on the hill. When it crossed Seventeenth street it was traveling at the rate of at least forty miles an hour, he said, me street was dark and except tor the cheers of the exhilarated coasters their pres ence on the street was not known until the accident occurred. The driver of the mail wagon drove off after the accident and despite po lice efforts to locate him his identity could not be learned. Police say that coasters had been warned to stay off Capitol avenue several times. Officer Bob Heller warned the Kuhlman boy only the night before, when his sled narrowly missed crashing into an au tomobile at nearly the exact spot where the mail wagon crossed the street. Little chanee was reported in the conditions of the accident victims when inquiry was made at St. Joseph's hospital Thursday. Mrs. Peterson. was reported somewhat' improved, while Samuel Nadel and Laura Townsend were said to be about the same. Austin Collett Confers With Government Heads (From a Staff Correspondent.) Washington. Jan. 4. (Special Tele gram.) Austin Collett, son-in-law of Mavor Dahlman ot umaha, superin tendent of public works in Santo Do mingo, had a conterence with the State department officials today rela tive to conditions on the island. He leaves shortly for his port, having been on leave for soajie time. Dies After Operation. Geneva, Neb., Jan. 4. (Special.) The news of the death of Jacob Bel ter in a hospital in Lincoln yesterday, was received here today. He had lately undergone an operation for ap pendicitis. He had been studying medicine in Lincoln. He was 21 years old. His home was in Hamilton pre cinct. Warms Rattler Pets; Are Cooked to' Death He was only 18. It was senti ment and a desire for a little ad venture, he said, that caused him to join Company A of the Fourth Nebraska Guards. He never made many friends among the boys on the border, and so when he had a little time to spare he usually sat on the banks of the Rio Grande, which flowed near the camp at Llano Grande. That's where Private O. P. Farnsworth caught them, two deadly, poisonous, diamond-backed rattlesnakes, which were seeking solitude, like himself. He had a hard time, he admitted, to keep them in a box and soothe their vicious temper. But overtures in the way of live frogs and bugs finally won them over. He brought them to Fort Crook. Bessie and Mary he called them. They suffered from the cold weather. Yesterday he placed them on a radiator to thaw out He was called to help in the kitchen. He came back in an hour and Bes sie and Mary were dead. They had been cooked to death. THE BEE: Coprrtrfct. InttraatMMl MR.JI44V WHACT 1 OPINION OF ME? NEWSPAPERMEN AT HUSE DINNER Thirty Associates of Norfolk Editor Bid Him Farewell as Goes East. HAMMOND IS TOASTM ASTER Thirty men, newspaper men and business men, associates or friends of Norris A. Huse of the Norfolk Daily News, gathered at the Hotel Fontenelle last evening, where they tendered Mr. Huse a farewell banquet on the eve of his departure for New York City, where he is to take up his work as vice president of the American Press Association and ad vertising manager for that concern, Mr. Huse has only recently accept ed this new position in the east; has severed his connections as editor .of the Norfolk Daily News, and expects to leave Saturday of this week for New York. Ross Hammond, editor of the Fre mont Tribune, was toastmaster. With his characteristic drollery he carried the honors off well. C. D. Traphagen of the Lincoln Journtl paid a tribute to the guest of the evening and re cited an optimistic poem, entitled, "Say, Ain't It Fine Today?" Gene Huse Speaks, i Gene Huse, brother of Norris, when called upon for an expression, reviewed briefly the record of his fa ther, who put in twenty-five years of his life building up the business which he left to. the two brothers. "When I lost my father I lost my best and greatest adviser," he said. "Now it seems I am to lose the man who has been my associate and adviser since that time. I am proud of Norris, proud of his ability, and am sure he will make good in his new position in New York. If in conducting the paper alone in Norfolk I can win the friendship and esteem of my asso ciates as he has done, I shall feel that I, too, have succeeded." Al Galusha of McCook said he re garded Mr. Huse as a sort of finished product of the newspaper fraternity. He declined to give him all credit personally, for, he said, "his father was one of the purest men that ever lived." ' r .;''' Huses Are Square. Victor Rosewater said he felt sure Mr. Huse would get a good grip on things in New York and would make good from the start "I have done business with his father in the past and I want to say that from his fa ther to his brother, and uncles I never did business with a squarer set of men than the Huses." Mr. Huse in responding declared it is with reluctance that he leaves the role of country publisher. "It was only yesterday ' that Rainbolt over there and myself planned to go to the circus together,' when we arranged that he should tie a strinst to his toe and hartg the string out of the win dow so that I might pull it to wake him in the morning. You did it, too, chimed in W. M. Rainbolt Mr. Huse reviewed his earrv news- Daoer exoeriences. especially as uni versity correspondent for The Omaha Bee, and then told his tnends tnat he confidently expects to be homesick in New York tor old Nebraska and the associates he leaves behind. The Guests. Those present Messrs. H. C. -Losch. 1 J. R. Jamison. were: Messrs. L H. R. Roach. N. A. Huse. Eugene Huse. II. B. Mllllken. T. P. Bturgess. A. W. Jefferla. H. 1.. Swan. Robert M. Mauler. R. E. Harris. H. V. Burkley. C. H. Harding. T. R. Porter. , Prank Anderson. Nicholas Ress. Joseph Onerfelder. A. Galusha. . R. R. Horth. Ballard Dunn. A. M. Walling. P. L. Evans. J. O. Goodwin. J. B. Jones. Oeorge Johnston. Joe B. Redneld. C. D. Traphagen. c J. C. Seaerest. Ross L. Hammond. Val J. Peter, E. V. Parrish. C. C Rosewater. Victor Rosewater. T. W. McCullough. W. M. Rainbolt. C. P. Murphy. Herbert Oooch. Charles Towle. A. V. Allen. B. W. Huse. W. 8. Bsslnaer. Club Sends Condolence To Northwall Family Resolutions' of respeef and friend shin for the late Theodore Gustav orthwall, aiid expressions of sym- gjawiy aim t.uiiuuibiii.K iui i lisutl, who survive him were adopted by the Noonday club at a meeting at the Commercial club , today. Mr. North wall was formerly president of the Noonday club. M. Enderstedt, lecturer and former member of the Swedish parliament who is hrOmaha to give an illustrated lecture on "Sweden Just Now" at the Swedish auditorium Friday night, ap peared for a brief talk before the club. An Aid to Digestion. When you have a fullness and weight in the stomach after eating yon may know that you have eaten too much, and should take one" of Chamberlain's Tablets to aid your digestion Advertisement ' I OMAHA. FRIDAY, JANUARY ltl. Newt VOtfO HAVE FOKT ELLIN' VOOjE- Municipal Judges Installed to Carry On Work of Muny Court Want tA To Ira fSaoAa With A tit I WU W V V V wwsa smv m Fees to Make it a Poor Man's Court. TO ASK LEGISLATIVE HELP George Holmes, C. W. Britt and t E. Baldwin, new .... court judges, were duly installed in the presence of a large gathering of law yers, city officials and friends. The exercises .ere held in the ci'7 coun cil chamber, Judge Sears of the dis trict court serving as install)-" offi cer and chairman of the occasion. R. A. Van Orsdel, George Thum mel and Guy Kiddoo of the Barrl. ters' club arranged the function, which was held with considerable dignity. After Judge Sears administered the CITY COMMISSION TO PROBE BUDGET City Hall Denizens Want More Than They Can Spend in Year. ' MAYOR SEEKS AN INCREASE The city commissioners will begin at the stroke of 10 this morning to fix the budget for 1917. An analysis of the 1 estimates prepared by the various departments indicate that the city hall folks wants $150,000 more than they can spend during the year. The task before the commissioners will be to lop off $150,000. Each de partment head is of the opinion that the other fellow's estimate should be lopped off first - Many proposed increases of sal aries are included in the increased es timates. The mayor wants an increase from $1,5.00 to $1,800 a year for his secretary. The inspector of weights and measures believes the H. C. of L. warrants increase of his pay from $1,200 to $1,800 a year, and his as sistants from $1,000 and $900 to $1,200 each a year. Planners Hodest. The City Planning commission comes in with a modest request for $25,000. It is proposed to increase the secretary of the commission from $2,500 to $3,000 a year, add a stenog rapher at $900 and engineer at $1,500 to the office force, employ three new draughtsmen at $1,320, $1,080 and $960, engage a special clerk for investiga tion work at $1,200, set aside $8,000 for special services of expert planners and $2,500 for transportation and hotel ex penses for the expert planners. The estimate of the city engineering department includes twenty-three salary raises, beginning with En gineer Bruce, $3,000 to $3,600, and Assistant Engineer Beal, $2,100 to $2,400. This department wants $7,000 more for increased salaries. Two boilr inspectors want increases from $1,200 to $1,500 and several members of the building department are slated for raises if the increased estimate of that" department goes through. The city electrician feels that an increase from $2,000 to 02,250 would enable him to successfully keep the wolf from the door. Hummel's Request Commissioner Hummel will ask for $100,000 for the park fund and $40,000 for recreation fund, increases of $10, 000 and $20,000, respectively, over 1916. Commissioners Kugel and Withnell are asking for the maximum amounts fnr notice and fire denartments. The following are a few compari sons of amounts allowed tor ivio ana asked for this year: 1SI7. 11 City hall maintaining I I3.4SS I2S.I1S Public library 60.0M 0,0i Municipal court 1S.6SO I.72S Welfare board lR.noft 7, so City Planning 16.000 7. sot Building Inspector 10.S76 14. Sift City electrician S.1I0 7,4H Street cleaning S2.000 70.000 Street repair and grading... 42.000 31,000 Curb and gutter 10.000 40.000 Park 100.000 00.000 Reoreatlon , 40,000 20.000 Sewer maintaining ......... 14,030 IS. 000 Prison labor 11,000 11.000 Emergency hospital lo.m 7. The city commissioners will have a total ot 1,SW,0W to work with in preparing the budget tor the year. Not Quite Down and Out Many a man feels that he is down and out when as a matter of fact he still has in him many years of good service that can be brought out by DroDcr treatment. Stomach trouble often makes one despondent. It hits him where he lives, saos his strength and energy and makes him feel like giving up. Give him a few doses of Chamberlain's Tablets to improve his digestion and invigorate his liver and bowels, and in most cases recovery is prompt and effectual, Advertisement. 5. 1917. Drawn for -IU. HAVE VOO UNDERSTAND- I'fcJ a a a.. . . 'TV 3CL- HADE MAN- formal oath of office Acting Mavor Butler spoke few words of felicita tion, followed by Judge Wakeley, Raymond Crossman and Judge Britt "We will adhere to the motto of our state, 'Equality before the law,'" said Judge Britt, speaking for the municipal court. He asked the moral support of the community in making the court all that was intended by its founders. The judge referred to needed legislation to make the muny court more effective. A bill will be introduced in the legislature provid ing that litigants who are unable to pay the fees shall be allowed to file their cases without charge, making the court in this case a poor man's court Judges Britt Holmes and Baldwin will enter upon their work at once. Permanent rooms will be assigned on the second floor of the city hall within a few weeks. CHRIST'S SCIENCE WAS HIND MIGHT Ezra W. Palmer Says Jems Was the Great Christian Sci entist and Demonstrator. ALL LITE IS BUT MIND Jesus Christ was the great Christian Scientist because he was the great ex ponent of the omnipotence of God and of the' might of mind, Ezra W. Palmer, C. S. B., of Denver, Colo., told his audience last night at the First Church of Christ, Scientist, Twenty-fourth and St. Mary's avenue, where he lectured on "Christian Sci ence; the Science of Omnipotent Mind." "By reason of the sinless birth of Christ Jesus and His sonshio with the Father," said Mr. Palmer, "He knew and expressed the will of God. The religious systems of His day claimed to teach the true worship of God. But these systems produced no results to prove their unity with the Father. Jesus not only knew the power of God He proved it by re sults. He proved that what claimed to be the real on the evidence of the cor poreal senses was not real but illu sion. He reversed the false claim that matter has life, intelligence or power, either to injure or bless mankind. The false, carnal mentality which St. Paul declared was "tnmity against God," Jesus stripped of all pretense and characterized it as a liar and the father of it." He never taught that God created matter, or that God was in any way responsible for sin, sick ness or death. On the contrary, He exposed the unreal basis of these errors and destroyed them through the might ot mind. The Science of Mind. 'The Science of Mind, which Mrs. Eddy taught is the science of know ing truth. It is the science Jesus meant when He said: 'Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.' How can we know -the truth except through thought? If we can know truth only through thought, then truth itself must have its source in mind. The Scriptures teach us to know God, to love Him, and to obey Him. How can we follow these com mands except through consciousness? The Scriptures teach that man was born of God, that all the marvels of the universe were created by Him. How are these marvels possible ex cept we grant that God is supreme fja j .L. . i. . minur minu is inc source, inc origin of all intelligence, all taw. all order. Mind is life, the cerator of all the manifestations of lite, and these mam testations are the ideas of God. Therefore, God and His creation dwell in the heaven of mind." Wickersham Speaker At Omaha Club Dinner George W. Wickersham, former attorney general under President Taft from 1909 to 1913, is to be the Washington birthday banquet speaker at the Omaha club the evening of February 22. President E. M. Fair field of the Omaha club received Mr, Wickersham's acceptance of the in vitation some time ago. Just what the subject of his talk will be Mr. Fair field does not et know. Mr. Wick ersham told him before the election in the fall that his subject might de pend somewhat upon how the elec tion went. JAR "Take it hot take The Bee by George McManus1 ARE YOU oOAVTlN' OR APOLOCIZfH ? ISFORTY-ONBTOQ OLD FORA BRIDE? Robert Burns Answers a Leap Tear Proposal by Saying He is Too Young. OTHER BACHELORS LAND By A. R. GROH. It was a great responsibility that we assumed when, last Thursday, we advertised to tht. world tlie ,ia-ec of a number of Omaha bachelors and warned the ladies that only threetl days morj were left in leap year. Nor shall we shrink from our re sponsibilities :. w that the answers are coming in. We shall speak from the plenitude i ' our wisdom and ad vise these young hearts in their "af faires du coeur." Upon the wings of the mo . :.ig and via the United States mails came a letter to me from "Bob" Burns, Omaha society man, social worker, business man. Mr. Bur.is was one of the Vis ion mentio d and be has received a proposal. Naturally, most natu rally, he r .shed to me for advice, his young bachelor heart palpitating with the .,eet emotion, of the gentle passion. His sister, Mrs. C T. Kountre, and his brother, "Sam" Burns, are both very hap' married, but he chose me for his confidant Ah, beautiful tribute! He enclosed the letter from the lady in ir' - that I might give the affair my full attention and bring to bear upon it the gre. t 'fhf jf w.dom. Burns Too Young. ." "Dear G .V the blushing i.r, Burns palpitates ; in his letter, "Dear Groh", (here '.oug and . emulous on-laden dash, and then my c. . ....uiiuci.t opens with a burst of sentimental poetry), 'The course of true love never i.id run smooth, 1 am 34 and the lady who writes to me, you will note, is' 41. Maybe I had better take her, anyway. "Robert T. Burns. "P. S. I wrote her today and' told her I was too young." This is the lady's letter, which he encloses: "Mr. Robert Burns, Omaha, Neb. Dear Sir: I chanced to see a writeun by A. R. Groh in The Omaha Bee December 29. It may be you would like to make my acquaintance. I am a widow-by-law, 41 years old. I should like to hear from you at an early date. Sincerely." etc. I have her full name before me, but I shall not publish it. No, no! She has trusted us with it and we shall be worthy of that trust. She lives in a Nebraska town which begins with "C." That is all you shall know. . Johnson Was Happy.. Mr, Bums has already given 4iis answer, a reluctant and hesitating "no," and so I don't see what more I can do, I don't believe, however. that a mere difference of seven years in ages is an adequate objection, per se. Samuel Johnson, the famous Englishman of whom Boswell was the biographer, married a widow twenty years his senior and this marriage was ideally happy. You might go farther and fare You can be converted to admit Advertising Facts YOU will almost admit that nearly all success ful merchants use -newspaper advertising:, but you may be rather doubtful if advertising will pay YOU. IN other words, you admit the other fellow has no more advantage than you have, inasmuch as you can buy the same advertising space he can. THEN why not follow the other fellow. What pays him will pay you, providing, of course, you have something worth while to offer. The Omaha Daily Bee . . " OmaAa's gnmtt mmrktt place " . VIS it cold take it from the bottle, .9 o 0 i: 1 Ji.' worse, Bob. I advise that you see the widow and learn more of her person- ality, her tastes, her appearance. SonK women at 41, you know, are as young v as soma, others at 30. "A woman ia r as young as she looks, a man is as" young as he feels." Give this proposal careful thought'1' Robert Proposals from the fair ones "' don't come every day, you know, and' it's three long years before another leap. year, 1 . Other Proposals. . Many other proposals have come to our blushing bachelors, all bearing dates not later than December 31, so as to come within the law in sncli -case made and provided. One comes, anonymously, from 405 West Wash- ington avenue. Red Oak, la., and asks for "a widower over 67 that has means"' enough to support one in a nice sijr'"" roomed house." j 1 am told that some of our Omaha; bachelors are kept busy several hours a day penning letters which, for some' . reason, they don't want to dictate to their stenographers. I shall continue to be their Bestride"' Fairfax. Bring your problems to mt.'w gentle bachelors.' All I ask in return''' is a welcome at your happy fireside's' m when I am old and lonely. U. S. Rubber Co. Goes Out 1 Of the Retail BusinesCv The name of the Omaha Rubber; -company has just become a thing of' ' the past and this company at 1608- ' Harney street now operates) under the name of the United States Rubbej company Omaha branch. , William McAdam, president of tluv , local company, has just returned from the annual meeting of all the managV.'y' ers Of the branch houses of the United;, States Rubber company, held in New York Gty. The matter of the change ' in name of the Omaha company and -j, certain changes in policy were threes decided upon. r The Omaha Rubber company has for four years been a branch of the -United States Rubber compan. Along with the decision to chantre the name and thus indicate definitely r the relation between the local concern"! and the United States Rubber com-" pany, goes also a decision to abandon ' the retail department of the locar plant . , This, together with the change ill,, the name, became effective January 1 At the same time the sales force was' enlarged by four men, making now. thirty salesmen in all on the road for th is branch. "V "By abandoning our retail depart- ment we have enlarged the scope far taking care of the dealers," said Presi dent McAdam. - The changes were not accompanied- ' by any transfer of stock in the cam- " pany. There will be no change in the "" management of the local plant. Buick Car Stolen New five-passenger Buick, 1917 model, automobile stolen from Sioux Falls. Frame number, 292192; motor number, 290567. New tires in front, old tires and chains behind. Dealer's number, 277: So. Dak. 1916 behind. Twenty-five dollars reward for recov ery of car and same for arrest of thief. Phone or wire, JERRY CARLETON, Sheriff. 1877 BRANDY nina years old."