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TOE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: APRIL 22, 1017. 3B Council Bluffs Social Activities Monday evening Mist Florence Senior entertained at a miscellaneous shower in honor of Miss Sue Cheyne, whose marriage to Mr. Howard Smith will take place in May. Amuse ment for the evening was furnished by music and games, during one of which Miss Cheyne was blindfolded and led all through the house. Final ly the bandage was removed and she found herself in the dining room, be fore a table heaped with presents. Refreshments were served late in the evening. The meeting of the H. G. L. club, which was planned for Tuesday after noon at the home of Mrs. J. J. Grif fin, has been postponed until next Tuesday. Tuesday evening the members of the Philathea class of the Second Presbyterian church entertained in honor of Miss Sue Cheyne, a May bride. The party took the form of a kitchen shower and was the result of a contest. It had been arranged that the losers should entertain the win ners, but both sides took part in ar ranging the shower.1 The B ,ok Lovers closed their study year at the meeting Wednesday afternoon at ; the home of Mrs. Charles R. Hannan, Sr. Miss Rice gave a very interesting paper, com paring the writings of George Mere dith with those of Dickens and Thackery. The season will close with a social session at the home of Mrs. D. V. Otis, the date to be announced later. The new year books are now ready for distribution; Mrs. A. M. Jackson and Miss Mollie Rice, who have been spending several months in California, have returned home. Mrs. J. M. Mathews entertained the University club Wednesday after noon. Some very interesting current s events were given in response to rou call, as well as the reading of Rud yard Kipling's poem, "On Your Own Head." The study of "Pre-Historic Mexico" was led by Mrs. F. A. Shep ard. Life in an old Mexican town was very ably described by Mrs. ' F. H. Garrett. Mrs. J. E. Hollenbeck led' the study of an article on "In the Crater of Popocatepetl." A very de lightful discussion of Mexican indus- tries followed. May 2 the club will meet with Mrs. J. V. Mallery. Wednesday evening Mr. Oeorge A. Winchester and Miss Delia M. Mott were quietly married at the home of the bride's mother, Mrs. Lena Mott, on East Washington avenue. The ceremony was performed by Dr. George A. Ray of the Second Presbyr terian church and was witnessed by only the immediate relatives and inti mate friends. Mr. and Mrs. Win chester will go to housekeeping at ince in their new home in Lincoln Mr. and Mrs. Torrey Everest are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Everett. Thursday afternoon the Cousins club was entertained by Mrs. C. W. Dachtler. The afternoon was very delightfully spent in' sewing and vis ' iting. The club will meet May 18 at the home of Mrs. William Dachtler. Mrs. Frank Millar and children of v'iles, Mich., are the guests of Mrs. ulillar's brother, Robert W. Wallace. Mr. and Mrs. W.-Hv Baker enter-: tained at dinner on Tuesday evening in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Claude E. Anderson, who left on Wednesday for an extended visit at Dodge -City, Kas The Mid-Week Card club met on Wednesday evening at the home of Mrs. Fred Graham. The afternoon was spent in playing "500" and prizes for scores were won by Mrs. T. J. Fitzgerald, Mrs. Frank Gathers and Mrs. I. N. Minnick. The "cut for all" was won by Mrs. Lester Schrad er. May 2 the club will meet at the borne of Mrs. J. P. Christensen on North First street Mrs. Charles Hood was hostess at the meeting of the History and Lit ' erature department of the Council Bluffs Woman's club Thursday after neon. The afternoon was spent in ,the study of John Masefield's poetry, . With Mrs. Page Morrison as leader. Mrs. J. H. Mayne gave a sketch of the life of Masefield. His poem, "Daffodil Fields," was reviewed by Mrs. H. W. Clark. Mrs. Julius Deet Jcin reviewed his "Good Friday" and . Mrs. Morrison "Life of Gabriella." The season will close with a busi ness meeting to be held May 3 at the home of the leader, Mrs. A. C. Bul lock. The annual election of officers will take place at the same time. French history and French writers will occupy the club next season. . The Neighborly chib was enter tained at an all day session at the country home of Mrs. Guy Pilling, Thursday. The afternoon was spent in contests and prizes were awarded to i Mrs. Charles Greene and Mrs. Dave Cook. May 3 the club will meet at the home of Mrs. John Wil liams. ' Additional Club Notes One of the two articles devoted to woman's club work in the current issue of the Ladies Home Journal is written by an Omaha woman, Mrs. Frederick H. Cole, chairman of the civil service department, General Federation of Women's Clubs. Ac companying the article, which deals with the "Need of Civil Service Re form," is a photograph of Mrs. Cole. This Omaha woman is a national au thority on the subject of civil serv ice reform Her work in that con nection for women's clubs has brought about marked improvement in knowl edge of the subject among women all over the country and has induced many to take advantage of the oppor tunity to find reliable service in the lines of work for which they arc fitted. An illustrated lecture on "Lourdes" will be given Wednesday at St. Ce celia's school auditorium under the auspices of the Young Ladies' So dality. Turner Park Red Cross auxiliary, which was recently organized by Mrs. T. C. Wrath, now chairman; Miss Elizabeth Allan, secretary, and Mrs. A. E. Griffin, treasurer, is raising funds to buy materials for use for war relief work. They ask everyone to save their magazines and news Dapers, and notify Douglas 4470, the Kellogg hotel, during the coming reek, and these papers will be called for bv someone next Saturday. Har rison & Morton have given the use of a vacant store room at bantam street for that day. Miss Elizabeth LIEUT. AND MRS. GEIGER C051E BACK TO LIVE. i MRS.tMBOLD GEICEff ixt. Harold Geiger, wife of Lieu tenant Geiger of the balloon corps of Fort Omaha who is visiting Dr. and Mrs. E. L. Bridges, has been the recepient of a number of social affairs since her return to Omaha. She is a former Omaha girl, a graduate of Brownell hall and will be remembered as Miss Frances Bridges. Before coming to Omaha Lieu tenant and Mrs. Geiger made their home in Coronadp, Cal., where Lieu tenant Geiger was commander of the aviation corps. Allan, Miss Florence Lighton and Miss Jessie Biles will receive the paper. . ' The Mothers Club of Train school will meet Friday at 2:30 at the school house. . Mrs. J. N. Taliaferro, president of the Federation of Women's Relief Corps in Omaha, conies to Memo rial hall in the court house at 8 o'clock Monday evening to discuss Red Cross work. The federation in cludes George Crook, George A. Cus ter and the U, S. Grant Relief corps. Instead of carrying on their Red Cross work in the Elks club rooms, as was planned, they will meet in the war re lief rooms in the Baird building un der the direction of Mrs. O. C. Red- ick, who heads the hospital supplies section of the Red Cross chapter. The J. F. W. club had an all-day meeting with Mrs. Roger Homan Thursday afternoon at which sewing was done for the Visiting Nurse as sociation. The next regular meeting will be held Thursday with. Mrs. R. J. Southard. Mrs. Vincent Hascall will tell stories. British, French and Italian Premiers Confer Paris. Aoril 21. The conference of the French, British and Italian pre miers on Thursday at. St Jean de Maurienne in savoy was marked witn great cordiality. The three premiers reached a complete unanimity on all diplomatic and military questions. The conference was held in a parlor car on the ministerial special tram. The result was learned here following the return to Paris of Premiers Ribot and Lloyd George. - , noro Complete Your Hew Spring Outfit With i Handsome Genuine Diamond Four ..A, S2.S0 Fin. OS-" " Diamonds Month 1161 U ValHere, fine solid gold, green gold leaves, bright finish; 4 fin bril liant Diamonds. Special at 4C $2X0 Month 1041 Convertible Bracelet Watch, finest quality gold filled, plain polished; high grid Foil Jeweled movement; gilt dial. Case and Bracelet guaranteed 20 years. HOFTIS 1 1 nnnr O rf ear" 409 S. 16th St., Cor. 16th and Harney St,., UJ DKUSftVU, 1869 Omaha, Opp. Burf... Na.h Co. Dept. Store. The Department of Agriculture Animals Friends and Enimies By Frederic J. Haskin Washington, April 19. Few people would regard the alligator as a friend of man after a casual glance at him, but there is a law in Louisiana which authorizes the different parishes of the state to enact such measures as they deem best to protect the alliga tor. The reason for this law is the fact that the alligator is regarded as an enemy of the muskrat, and the muskrat is an enemy of the rice planter, because of his habit of bur rowing in the banks and dikes of the rice field and flooding the crop at the wrong time. Thus man and the alli gator, who may be regarded as na tural enemies between whom there exists little spontaneous cordiality, ally themselves against the muskrat. This alligator protection is an in stance of one angle of a great na tional agricultural problem the wild animal problem. By taking possession of the continent, man has disturbed and destroyed the delicate balance of nature, and it is now his task to work out and set up a new balance that shall be favorable to the greatest possible food production. Many ani mals that seem at first to be the enemies of man are really his best friends, and when they are trapped out and killed as a result of a hasty and short-sighted policy, a new and far more destructive species multi plies out of all bounds, because the first species, its natural enemies, have been destroyed. It is necessary that every bird and animal species in the United States should be carefully investigated, tried in a court of equity as it were, to de termine whether it is on the whole injurious or beneficial to agriculture, before the human inhabitants of the country decide how that species shall be treated. This trial is technically called determining its economic status, and the court which tries each species to decide whether it shall live or die is the biological survey of the Department of Agriculture. In the natural balance of animal life, each species of bird and insect and mammal has its natural enemies, not sufficiently numerous to kill it out completely, but strong enough to keep it in bounds. When man steps in and exterminates a species, he often lets loose upon himself and his crops the unchecked multitudes of another one that work ten times as much harm. There is a certain southern state where a bounty has been placed upon hawks and owls, because of the damage they were supposed to do to poultry. In consequence of the bounty, the hawks and owls have been killed out, and as a result of the killing the orchard industry of the state, which might be worth millions of dollars, has been practically ruined. The or chards are ruined by the field mice that girdle the trees, and field mice have increased enormously since the hawks and owls, their natural ene mies, have been killed by man. This sort of delicate balance runs all through nature and it is part of the work of the biological survey to study each bird and animal exhaust ively, weigh the harm it does against the good, and pronounce a verdict for or against, which shall be reflected in local or national protective legislation. This sort of work has already been carried out very extensively. Even suEh relatively unimportant creatures as, the hummingbirds have had to stand investigation, and scores of their tiny stomachs were examined to determine what they fed on. In this case, it is welcome to learn, the ver dict was "Not guilty." When a species of animal is plainly destructive and injurious to man, the survey takes up the work of exter minating it, or, at least, of bringing it within limits. The biggest job of this kind on hand is the campaign on pred atory wild animals . that is being waged in twelve, of the big western siock raising states. These animals include such species as the. gray wolves the coyotes, the mountain lions, the bobcats and the bears; the. annual damage they do to stock is es-l timated at $12,000,000. Even here, the question of the balance of nature en ters to some extent and the interests of farmers and cattlemen are not identical The coyotes are the natural enemies of the jackrabbits, for in stance, and where the survey has car ried out an intensive campaign of coy ote extermination to control the; out break of rabies, the jackrabbits Tiave increased to a point where they do serious damage to crops and it is nec essary to start a new war on the jack rabbits by means of poison. There is no question, however, that the preda 'ory wild animal do vastly more harm than good; they form, in fact, The DIAMOND is the April Birth Stone. Our Annual April Diamond Sale are an event fo the year. At no ether time are greater values waiting for you than in this "Diamond Month." Yon don't need cash. 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There are doubtless numerous other wolves on the range whose meat bills run as high. The western states have been fight ing the predatory animals without success for many years. Most of the work has been done on the bounty system, which offers a reward for the scalp of each wolf or coyote. In some states this system has been in opera tion for twenty-five years, and the relative losses today are greater than they were in the beginning. In the last year the Biological Survey has started work on a new co-operative method which promises to solve the problem. The new system calls for the trapping and poisoning of wild animals by salaried hunters using the best methods and doing away with the bounty system. . The great drawback to the bounty system is the (act that the trapper makes his living from the wild ani mals, and if he kills them out, he de stroys his source of profit. Also, he wants to kill the greatest possible number of animals in the least possi ble time. So he works against the young and unsophisticated animals, who probably do not kill many cattle anyway, and leaves the old and wary cattle kilters alone, because it takes too much time and trouble to catch them. These old animals bring forth litters of young each year, and thus furnish the trapper with fresh sources of bounty season after season. As an official of the Survey puts it, it is more like stock raising than animal killing. The Survey has divided the twelve big western stock-raising states into nine districts, each under the super vision of an inspector, and worked by salaried trappers, who draw no bounty money, and who are judged solely by the results they get. The catching of one wise old wolf may be a harder job and worth more to the cattle busi ness than the trapping of a dozen young ones, and the inspector in charge knows it and gives credit ac cordingly. Wherever possible, the states are being induced to revoke their bounty laws and make an ap propriation to co-operate with the Survey instead. Three states are al ready working on this system, and others are expected to follow shortly. In Montana in the last five years, $800,000 has been spent on the old system and the losses are as big as ever. Dr. Fisher, who is in charge of the wild animal work for the Survey, told the Montana stockmen that if the Survey had that amount of money to spend in five years, they would guarantee to kill out all the wolves and most of the coyotes. It seems to be only a matter of time until the Survey plan will be adopted all through the west, and it promises to solve the problem. The larger predatory animals are only one side of the question of ani mal control. Prairie dogs and ground THE KNOW HOW S what makes the reputation of any PLACE an. order with us and you will be mors than satisfied, because we combine tact in ar rangement with the best of service in delivery, etc. TRY US! " , You will be mare than pleased . , JOHN H. BATH "The Careful Florist" 1B04 Faraam St., Omaha Phone Douglas 3000 12 SIZE ELGIN No. 182 C to (too gold lllled, warranted for 26 yeara, poliihed or beautifully engraved, Elgin C12 or Waltham movement , $1.20 a Month Phone Douglae 1444 and Our Sales, man Will Call Call or Write for Catalog 903. Open Daily Until 9:00 P. M. Saturday Till 9:30 I Klaristl shop 12J12! ' A Month Cinderella and Consort jTgayi-)iWwwaM wwa -awm' eunao jl 1 . VAVC 7IZZnummai Cinderella arrived with Prince Charming in the Brandei stores on Saturday and was on the throne from 10 to i a. in, and 2 to 4 p. m. Chil dren flocked from all quarters of the city to see the charming little princess and her consort. She came to show little girls how wonderfully beauti ful her Cinderella hats are, This is her third visit to the Brandeis stores and already little folk look forward to her arrival with the same amount of expectancy tlicy do toward Santa Claus. Little Miss Josephine Thomas took the part of Cinderella and Trincc Charming was impersonated by. Mas ter George Perlman. squirrels do hundreds of thousands of dollars of damage to crops every year. The Survey has worked out a system of poisoning them at a cost of 5 cents an acre. Methods of destroying such species as the gophers and the field mice and the land-crabs have been de veloped. The Survey is working to ward that balance of nature which shall be the most favorable for the works of man; but one of the most effective methods, and the one that calls for nation-wide co-operation is the preservation of the species that prey on the species that do the dam age. State Abandons Perjury Charge Against Ralston The perjury charge against Robert W. Ralston, a witness in the case of Kenneth Thompson, administrator of the estate of Maude Brainard Thomp son, who sued the Union Pacific for $25,000 damages in district court, has been dismissed at the instigation of the county attorney's offiee. The complaint was filed at the request of Judge Troup, sitting in equity court, before whom the case was heard. Ralston testified on January 11, 1916. ARE YOU GOING TO MOVE? If you are, now is a good time to get rid of your Old Piano or Phonograph. Telephone Douglas 1623 and we will call for your piano or phonograph and give you a due bill for its full cash value. When you are nicely settled you may come down and select s. new Piano, Player Piano or Columbia Grafonola and have it delivered to your new quarters. 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Oldest Piano House In the West. TTTT I M I I l V . TOE BGSTT MM! Lynn Shoe Factories Lockout Their Employes Lynn, Mass., April -2J. The Lynn Shoe Manufacturers' association whose members control thirty-five plants in this vicinity, announced to day that it had ceased to manufacture shoes because of labor conditions. The employes recently asked a 10 per cent wage increase. . . German is Arrested , At Cedar Rapids, la. Cedar Rapids, la., April 21. Dn William von Gerard, a chiropodist here, was arrested last night on or j dcrs from the Department of Justice. Von Gerard was on the border this summer, caring for the feet of the First Iowa and other regiments. He was born, and educated in Berlin. TRY SOME SWEET MILK ON THOSE UGLY WRINKLES . New Wt.v Dtieovcrcd to Mk ui Elegant Rollfjit Mum( IrMtn at Utti Expense. (By Pal Win ten.) 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See that the milk you ue is perfectly sweet and un iktmmed. The powdered bryol, of course, hhouM be purchased from the druggist in its originsl unbroken peonage. uy. DkBsmFBamSj , Sanatorium This Institution is the only one in the central west with separate k.,iuui itiiatod in their own ample grounds, yet entirely dis- ineaifv K0a. The one buildincr being fitted for and devoted to the treatment or non-contagious ana non-mental diseases, no others be ing admitted: the other Rest Cot tage being designed for and de voted to the exclusive treatment of select mental cases requiring for a tim watchful care and spe cial nursing. MILITARY BOOKS tarsaat alack In JV.rth AnMrica. Halp for Olficara and New RacrulU, Infantry, ArtU l.ry, Cavalry. Aircraft, Bombing, Sljnallta,, Flald En,lnaerinf, Machine Gunnery, Army Mvllcal. Army Service, ale. Write or wlr, for eataloeue. 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