THE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1917.
HAPPENINGS IN
THEHAGIC CITY
National Crisis Not Reflected
in Prices Paid at the
Yards.
WILSON SENDS LETTER
Evidently there was no crisis at
the stock yards market yesterday,
when the news of the president's
new diplomatic more became known.
For at the time, sheep were selling at
top figures as high as $14.50, or the
record, cattle opened tip at $10.50 and
$1125, with hogs selling at the day's
top of $11.70.
The reason as given by A. C. Daven
port, one of the foremost stock au
thorities about the Omaha yards, was
HOWELL WILL NOT
WITHDRAW HIS BILL
Many Organisations Repre
sented When Proposed School
Laws Are Considered.
SENTIMENT AGAINST BILL
Senator Ed Howell was the prin
cipal character . under fire for three
hours following a luncheon at the
Commercial club rooms Saturday
noon, when the pending bills provid
ing for the Omaha Board of Educa
tion representation by wards was dis
cussed. The meeting was called by the
Commercial club, and besides the
ciud the Umaha Real Estate board,
the municipal officers, the nr linn I
"The Girl He Left Benid"
Copyright, 1917, International Newi Service.
By Nell Brinkley
''that the marlrit was tint infnrmH"' board members, the Women's Huh
until after the president s speech had ! lnf mirage societies and the Worn
come in over the wires. As far as ; en s Christian Temperance union and
cars of stock were concerned, the 0,!ler organizations were represented,
yards underwent the usual light Sat-i .Then sentiment was all against the
urday run. The record shows 5,600
hogs, 100 sheep and fifty cattle re
ceived with 100 horses added. Trad
ing was completed long before. V
o'clock.
President Will Tagg and Secretary
A. F. Stryker of the Exchange, con-
icrrea together on the possible itin
erary that will be adopted for the
annual trip through the northwest
starting sometime early in April. Th
excursion last 5far was the best in
tne History ot tlie yards. A special
train spent sixteen days traveling? the
states of Wyoming. Montana. Idaho.
Colorado, Utah and North and South
uakota. i tie principal stopping
piaces were: Belle fourche, Chadron,
Kapid City, Douglas, Casper, Ther
mopolis, Billings. Miles Citv. Sheri-
dan, Butte, Great Kalis, Helena and
rorateno.
There will be but little rha Here
in the itinerary except perhaps to
extend ine mano visit a little. A hun
dred men, representing 'the Stock
' yards company. The Live Stork ex.
change, the railroads, the commission
men and the newspapers are usually
in inc hsi.
Note From President.
A note of thanks from President
Wilson was received by Secretary
,. mc iruiisn-Ameri-
can Citizens' club, in response to the
, telegram of congratulation sent the
nations executive after Ins "peace
speech to the senate. lamnrv ?" ;;.
gular that it should come on the day
that the. executive should by his own
hand sever relations with Germany.
The message was greeted with great
rejoicing. The secretary sent a tele-
ttmni oi manKS m return immediately.
jmu city oMip.
Kdlion phononrii.il with to record, tor
rna men'a annual dinner it tho clraea
"vimniiiii npiacoiiai rnurcn will ba given
Thuraday avenlnf, February JJ, at tho
- vnurcn. Tna publlo la Invited.
The XL club hu arransad to flva an
other of Ita popular entertainments at tha
nuaninE nan. Twenty-fourth and J atreeta,
February It.
Mra. Roy Rernard will entertain the Iten
alnston of Unchurrh Lodge, No. i, Degree
or tionr, at tier home, sola 1 atreet, Tuaa
' day afternoon.
' Tha Infant daughter of. Mr. and Sire. D.
T. Kannlaop, Ohio atreet. died Satur
day morning at tha home. Mra. Kennlaon
-aa formerly allaa Margaret Nlchola. The
funeral will be held from the home la Nt.
alary'a oometery.
Lease of Bee Building Said
: To Be Largest Recorded Here
The lease just closed and recorded
on the Bee building property, con
veying this to the Keystone Invest'
ment comnanv. is said hv real estate
men here to be the largest real es
tate transaction to date in the history
of Omaha. The next largest deal was
the leasing of the Schlita corner at
Sixteenth and Harney from George
n. josiyn to narry A. wolf, which
called for an annual rental of 5 per
cent on a valuation of $700,000.
The lease of the Bee building, with
two lots 132 feet square and a four
story fireproof annex across the al
ley, calls for a 5 per cent annual
rental on a valuation of $719,000.
The original cost of the Bee build
ing was $500,000. It was one of the
first steel construction, fireproof
buildings in the city. Considering the
splendid type of improvements, the
, . location of the ground in the civic
as welt as the financial center of
Omaha this lease is regarded as one
of the most favorable negotiated in
this citv. The lease carries with it an
obligation on the part of the lessees
to remodel the lower part of the
building so as to secure more space
and higher rents. The lease also car
ries with it an option to purchase for
the first five years at $719,000, the
next five years at $735,000, the next
- ten years at $750,000, and the balance
of the lease at an appraised valuation.
The Keystone Investment company
is composed of the following five
prominent young real estate men:
Byron R. Hastings, Ernest Sweet,
Charles W. Martin, Harry A. Wolf
and Edward M. Slater.
Rescues His Family From ,
Burning House With Difficulty
Mic.iael Cain. 2.111 East Locust
street, had great difficulty in rescuing
his wife and five children from his
home last night when it burned to tlx
ground.
Cam was thawing out pipes in the
cellar with a candle.
The whole neighborhood turned out
to help Cain save his furniture. Emit
Snyder, 2301 East Locust street, was
caught beneath a falling roof and was
crushed and burned about his hands
and arms. His condition is not seri-
ouj.
The house was a total loss. Most
of the furniture was saved. Cain car
ried but $200 insurance.
Watchman Guarding Omaha
Rich Man's Zone Held Up
R. E. Reese, 212 South Twenty-fifth
bills, but Howell stood well under
hre and argued for his bills. Sen
ators Howell, Moriarty and Strehlow
were present. Senator Howell is the
man who introduced the bill in the
senate. Senator Howell charged that
tne persons at the meeting did not
know the facts about the bill thev
were attempting to criticize. It has
been charged that outsiders had pre
pared the bill and that the real au
thorship of the bill was being kept
hidden.
Sponsor for the Bill.
"I stand here sponsor for the bill,"
said Senator Howell. "When I sign
a bill I become the author of it, and
I am here to defend it to the best of
my ability. You stand here and tell
the people that this bill puts us back
to the ward system of election of
school board members. It docs noth
ing of the kind. There is not a word
in the bill that provides for that. It
provides the members of the board
shall be nominated at large and
elected at large. It merely provides
that those elected shall be residents
of the various wards.
Senator Howell was brought to the
floor largely by the speech of Robert
Cowell, member of the Omaha Board
of Education, who challenged the men
who introduced the bills to get up
and defend them.
F. A. Brogan believed it would he
better to let the matter go for two
years, since the bill was not to bo into
effect until the expiration of the terms
ot the present board, and then bring
it up, in the meantime srivinir the nub.
lie an opportunity to atudy the argu
ments for and against it. Mr. Howell
admitted that this might be worth
while considering.
Calls for Signatures.
Mrs. J. H. Dumont called the sen
ator'a attention to a orovision renuir.
ing candidates tor the board to have
petitions for their candidacy with 250
signatures, senator tioweil said he
did not know that provision was
the bill, "but, he said, "it is a good
provision." - '
b. A. Brogan lose to sav he had
ucnmic iniormauon mar c. rioiovt
chiner, former member of the board.
had prepared the bill. "Whose hands
the bill then went through before it
reached the senator I am not prepared
to state, said Mr. Brogan.
Howell again maintained he was
the author of the bill, and when
asked if he wrote it, said. "No. sir.
never wrote a bill myself in mv life.
I take them to the legislative refer
ence bureau, where I give them my
ideas, and where they are prepared
in rlt-afr aurll Kill nrnn.ri, "
would it Be improper to ask vou
said Robert Cowell, "whether you did
that in tnis caser
No, sir, I did not," replied the
senator.
Senator Moriarty said he had the
bill in his possession for a week after
it was introduced and that during that
time ne never got one protest from
umaha, by letter, telephone or per
sonat visit.
Senator Strehlow said he believed
Senator Howell could be prevailed
upon to withdraw the bill. Howe II.
however, declared that he would with
draw nothing under fire and that he
must first be convinced that the bill
is wronir.
It was arranged that the meetine
should De continued next Saturday,
when the senators will again be in
Omaha.
Stone and Pillard Make
Show at Gayety Twinkle
A fantasy of iairyland with all the
mimicry and imagery in which chil
dren and their elders delight is on
at the Gayety theater this week. The
oe Hurtig show features Stone and
Pillard, reputed to be the best dancers
on the. circuit, in "The Rag Doll in
Ragland."
Miss Etta Pillard wins almost all
the credit for building up Stone and
Pillard's fame as dancers de luxe.
Mr. Stone does not even attempt
more than one terpsichorean number,
and he is graceful and agile enough in
that. But to compare him to Miss
Pillard would make justice yawn a
mighty yawn. His lithe little partner
is a veritable queen ot twinkling toes,
who is as quick to flop a handspring
as she is to shuffle her nimble feet.-
But Mr. Stone need not feel peeved
because his blond partner Outdances
him. He earned laurels enough as a
fun-maker. Four times during the
show the audience clapped and whis
tled and refused to let the other num
bers proceed until he had responded
to an encore.
But even Stone and Pillardthaven't
a corner on all the praise. There's
T.JJ.. T . t . I ,
cuuy uupuni, lor instance, wnose
fresh beauty, demure mannerisms and
good singing wins a warm welcome.
Jesse Hiatt, whose scant clothing is
beautifully filled, gets prolonged ap
nlauae when aha ainca hut whelnn.
avenue, a oiock waicnman employed her form or her voice win the plaudits
to the West Farnam district, was held is a matter of dispute. Both are good,
up by three highwaymen at Thirty-, The chorus is a fast-stepping crowd
seventh and Farnam streets last night, i. .mil. .in .nj
in it u uuta, aim iuuucu ui MIC trusty
revolver with which he intended to
scare . away bandits, burglars, and
. kidnapers from the homes of the rich.
Reese has the district neighboring
on Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh
streets, Dewey avenue to Farnam. ,
A Oaod Conk ateaaedy.
Dr. Ball's Ptne-Tar.Honey will aaaa your
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TT7HEN he came away from the October-painted countryside, in the
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behind-
long shadow of a big mountain, to the crying, roaring, laughing,
wondering, beautiful city to "make good" -that is the girl he left
wild rose in a blue bonnet, with eyes that looked straight
and blue, and a serious little carnation mouth. And it almost broke
his tender heart the horror of turning away from her familiar little
face and deliberately rumbling away straight into things he jid not
know and had never even heard of! This is "the girl he left behind
him." NELL BRINKLEY. '
though they meant it.
There are nine special scenery sets
and each is thing of beauty.
bepartaaeal Org ere,
Washington, Feb. 4. (Special Telegram.)
Aouth Dakota poetmealere appointed:
Clearfield. Trtpp county, Ida F. Schulta, viae
Herbert Oldham, realgned; Waata, Penning
ton county, Mary a. Heed, vie H. D.
Wheaton. realgned.
Iowa rural letter carrtere appointed; Lake
City, Harry M. Blue; Lanalng, Roy W.
Reedar; Ltnn Orove, Jamea Morrla; Rork
Fella. Cyril R. La mean: St. Charlee, Lorto
B. Sayre.
By DOROTHY DIX.
A youth of the tender age of 18
writes to me that he is desperately in
love with a woman five years his
senior, and asks my opinon of the
propriety of engaging himself to the
lady. v '
Don't do it, sont
Calf love is as passing an ailment
as the mumps or measles. It is just
a hectic fever, mighty engrossing and
worrying while it lasts, but in a-week
or two, with proper treatment, it will
be over and you will be well again.
It isn't a chronic complaint, like
a lesion of the heart, from which one
never recovers.
There are plenty of chances in mat
rimony, son, without taking any
chance on what you are going to be
and like yourself when you grow up.
Therefore, give yourself the benefit
of the doubt. Don't tie a knot with
your tongue, while you are , still a
mere infant in arms, that it will take
heartbreaks and shame and divorce
lawyers to untie when you arrive at
man's estate, and find out what sort
of a wife you really want and need.
Of course, you say that you are
very mature for your age, that you
have seen a lot of the world, and are
"wise," and all the balance of it, but
it isn t true.
Every boy that ever lived thought
and said the same thing. A half
dozen years later he looks back and
laughs at his folly, and wonders what
on earth he ever could have seen in
that brainless little chit Susie Brown,
or that heavyweight Marian Jones,
that could have made him even fancy
he was in love with her.
And then he fetches prayer of
thanksgiving that he didn't marry her,
while a cold shudder chases up and
down his spine as he thinks jhst sup
posing ne nadi
For a man's taste in women changes
and the -feminine charms that at
tracted him in his boyhood no more
appeal to him in his maturity than
do the pink ice cream and chocolate
soda water for which his soul used
to hunger in his youth. On the con
trary, they both give him that same
sick, sinking feeling of having had
enough and too much.
There are no more pitiful tragedies
in the world, son, than those in which
high-minded, generous-hearted, ro
mantic boys fall victims to their de
lusions about being in love.
For, look you I You are not the
first lad who ever thought himself
in love; and the mere fact that you
are in love with a woman five years
older than yourself proves your case
typical. . '
rracticany every boy that ever
lived has been through the same ex
perience, tor the minute a youth -finds
out that his pulses can flutter, and
gets to the place where he can dis
tinguish between a orettv woman and
an old one. he diagnoses his case as
one of undying affection.
Sometimes there is one to stretch
out a saying hand and keep him from
committing suicide by marrying while
he is under this hallucination, and, he
lays upon shoulders too weak and
young to bear it the heavy load of
matrimony. If he is poor, by that
act he seals his doom, for he can
never get ahead with a family to sup
port, and you will find him, except in
rare cases, an old, worn-out, broken
down man at 45.
The boy who marries also takes a
100-to-l shot at domestic happiness,
because he risks his own development.
The woman he marries may be good
enough and intelligent enough, and
cultivated enough for his mate when
he is only a crude, raw gosling, but
what if tie grows, as so many men
do, into a beautiful swan, with wide,
strong wings, capable of soaring into
the upper air?
Observe the people you know, son.
Do you think that Jones, with his
broad, tolerant outlook on life and his
culture and his charm, would have
married that stupid little Mrs. Jones
if he had waited until he came to
himself?
Would Smith, who is so brilliant
conversationalist abroad, who is the
wit and toast of every dinner table
but his own, but who rarely speaks at
home, have married Mrs. Smith, who
never understands a word he says
and who does, not take the slightest
interest in anything but clothes and
servants, if he had waited until he
knew what sort of a comrade he
needed in life?
No, no I You know they wouldn't.
And, worse still, they know they
wouidn t.
Nine-tenths of the matrimonial
misery is the direct result of early
marriage, it is the boy husband who
becomes the middle-aged rounder,
The French have a proverb that the
roue make the best husband. ' This
is not because he has seen and known
the wickedness of the world, but be
cause he is old enough when he mar
ries to have reached his own mental
stature and knows what he wants in a
wife.
Matrimony is none too certain a
game anyway, son; but if you sit into
it while you are still a boy, fate loads
the dice with which you play, and
you haven't one chance in a million to
win out.
Becoming engaged while vou are
still a boy is scarcely less hazardous.
What generally happens in a long
engagement is that the poetry of it
gets tarnished, the fire and thrill Deter
out, and even its sentiment gets moth-
eaten and dingy. It is a burden on
the man and a cruel injustice to the
girl, and no man has any business ask
ing a woman to marry him until he
can also set the wedding day.
The young boy who asks a girl to
wait for him while he goes out into
the world to make his fortune can
only justify his foolhardiness by his
youth. He is so young he does not
realize wnat ne is doing. If he is
honorable, he is tvino himaelf dnwn
for life before he has even begun to
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tt, auu ii ne is aisnonoraoie, ne is
wantonly sacrificing a woman's life.
The boy goes out into the great
university of life. He learns, grows,
develops, changes from boy to man.
He comes to belong to another
world than that of his early love, but
some day he knows that he must go
back and make good on that engage
ment, nu love nas nickered and
gone out. His neart may even be an.
other's.
If he has the courage, he tells the
girl that he has outgrown his boyish
affection, and there is one more sour
old maid in the world, a woman who
nas been defrauded of her springtime
of love and haooiness bv wait i no- nn
a vain hope.
If he lacks the courage, and is of
the stuff that martyrs are made of, he
kucs Dacx ano Keeps nis troth, and
marries the girl, and both are miser
able ever after.
So, son, pass UD the earlv ennar.
ment! Flee it as vou would the
pestilence, and take this as an addi
tional straight tip: Any woman of
a wno would be willing to engage
herself to a boy of 18 is a candidate
for the feeble-minded asylum. There
' something wrong with her thinks.
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Little Bobbie's Pa On
the Game of Poker
Calf Love Harmless, Provided it Doesn't Result in Marriage
By WILLIAM F. KIRK.i '
When Pa caim home last nite Ma
was receeving, that is what she says
now, she used to say the nabors
dropped in. She was receeving Mister
& Missus Bacon of Macon Georgy.
She interduced them to Pa.
I am vary glad to know the. Bacons,
I am sure, sed Pa. I offen herd my
wife speck of you both. This is quite
a change from the sunny South,
isent it?
It is indeed, sed Missus Bacon. My
husband was saying cumming up here
on the surface car that it was vary
cold & penne-traiting. x
its, sed fi, the climate of New
York is vary pennetrating & after one
has lived here awhile one beekums
as penetrating as the wether. A old
New lorker got into me today for
a tenspot, sed Pa.
Ma laffed, but I cud tell the way
she looked at Pa that she dident
like it.'
Did you loan him the munnv. deer-
est luv, sed Ma, kind of easy like.
O no, 'not that, sed Pa. I made a
bet with him & I finnished second.
That is all. But why speek moar of
it. I hoap you DecDul will like our
hoam & enjoy yure stay here, sed
fa. Mow about all irome to a show
sum of these fine evenings?
lhay say Lura, the Pride of North
Dakoty, is vary good, sed Pa. It is
a problem play. Pa sed. I dident
know North Dakoty had much oride.
sed Pa, I suppose that is the problem.
vve wud be charmed to go. sed
Missus Bacon.
Indeed we wud, sed her husband.
My husband is vary fond of the
theeter, sed Ma. Many a nite he goes
to the theeter befoar he cums hoam,
she sed. But lots of times he taiks
me too.
That is one of the drawbacks of
onr hoam town, sed Missus Bacon.
We see a good play onst in a while,
but a good many weeks passes with
out our seeing anything worth while.
l nave otten wished we were here
all thru the theeatrickal seeson, but
of course my husband has his bizness
to consider & I have my soshul obli
gashuns. We have the jolliest crowd
that gits together onst a week &
plays poker jest for fun. Did vou
ewer play poker for fun, she
asked Pa.
Newer, sed Pa. Poker & frm are
not good nabors, sed Pa. If you are
playing for munny the losers doant
have any fun, & if you are playing
for the joak of it the winners doant
see the joak. Poker, sed Pa. is reelv
j a grate bizness. institushun & shud
uc recgaraea as sucn.
My husband talks the saim as you,
she sed, but he plays jest the saim.
He says he is willing to maik the
sacri-fice so long as the rest of us
enjoy it. I offen think the deer boy
cud win a good deal moar than he
does, sed Missus Bacon, but he does
ent cair for munny.
I always git nervous wen my hus
band is in a gaim, sed Ma, he keeps
hurrying us gurls up. Wen we want
to talk about shopping or shows be
tween deels he acts nervous, & wen
we show eech other our hands befoar
we bet he laffs.
You know how it is, old sport, sed
Pa to Mister Bacon of Macon.
Then Mister Bacon winked at Pa
& sed, I think wimmen play better
poker than men.
After thay was gone Ma sed isent
Mister Bacon a fine man?
The National Capital
Senate.
.MU at II a. m.
Afloptfd Joint sftmkin resolution to hear
i.L n iuunu aipiomauo rup
ture with Germany.
Kftsumeil debate on arrtcultural appro
priation bill,
AUjourned-at 6:06 p. m, to 11 a. m. Mon
day. Boom,
Met at 11 a. m.
Uoonvnn . 1 ... .
..-w,..tl,.u t" ircar. nil- tne prtwtant'
add r pub and continued debate on naval an.
propriation bill. y
Adjourned at 4:45 p. m. to noon Sunday,
i . wT """ swvifc wm De neid ror the
late Representative Tribble of Georgia.
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