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THE BEE: OMAHA. TUESDAY. AUGUST 28. 197. - . r &twtWH a ' . C Omahana in Japan See Monster. Today Mellificia has a fish styry to tell you, not an ordinary lake trout or codfish tale, but a huge tea ser pent jam. It is a true story, for it comes from Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Eld ridge, who have had so many excit ing adventures in the orient. They arc now in Yokohoma, and there, the other day, their rickshaw boy, Minu, ran into the house very much excited. "Must come down to, shore and see big fish," he said. When they had followed him to the shore they found that the big fish vas a huge sea turtle as large as a Ford car and weighing 1.000 pounds. Twelve men were required to lift the monster onto shore. A net mad! of twine no larger than a casting line had been used to catch it, It really re sembled one of the fabulous sea ser pents with which the art and legends of oriental people term. J le Chinese arc very superstitious about killing a turtle. The fisherman , who caught this one had sold it to (some Japanese for 12 yen, ($5). When it was brought in a group of Chinese tailors collaborated in the purchase of the creature'at a greatly advanced price, lj.OOO yen. Then each, tailor wrote his name on the back of tlie turtle' in red paint, towed it out to sea again between two bbaU and there let it loose. This act wa sup posed to bring good luck to the own ers of the painted names. These, queer people seem actually to bclievf these fairy talcs, the Kldridges say. Hr and Mrs. Eldridgc do. not ex pect to return to Omaha until 1919. , . - - ' 'Entertainment for Guests. ' The usual round -of small guests affairs is shaping itself for the enter tainment of. Mrs. Percy Hall of Salt Lake City, wlio is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Matthew A. Hall. Today she and tier hostess will have luncheon with a friend at the, Fontenelle and Tuesday night the family will attend the : high cos of living dinner at Happy Hollow club. Mrs. Hall's stay In Omaha is indefinite. , . Miss Alice Wood of .Springfield, 111., guest of Miss Mildred Todd,,is being entertained at- many informal parties all daring th "week, roday she and her hostess were guests at luncheon and Tuesday evening Miss Todd will have a party at the high cost of living dinner $x Happy Hol low club for her. Miss Dorothy Linnard ' of Fasa- dtua, Cah, who came for" the mar- 4 riage'tof Miss-Gertrude Owen to Major Amos Thomas on , Saturday, may visit here for two or three tks Ipnger. .Tonight a small Orpheum party, including members of the Tam il?, will be given for her. Dr. and '. Mrs. F, S. Owen and Miss Linnard will go to Des Moines this week-end tp vfcit Afajdr and Mrs. Thomas. TliV' twenty-tive privates from Fort Omaha who were entertained by Dr. and Mrs. C.C, Allison at Roscmerc lodge Sunday Had a grand good time, from start to finish. The day was ideal and everything . combines to make the outing care free and successful. , V ' Officers Motor to DesMoin'es. , - Four of the newly --commissioned officers, who have" been in training at the flicers' reserve training camp at Fort Spelling, will motor ovef toDcs Moines .Tuesday morning to report for duty at Camp Dodge, The party w ill include Arthur - Ackerman ' and Nathan Gold of Lincoln and Morton Dcgen and Fred Heyn of Omaha.. f News of Returning Travelers; , Mr. and Mrs. Dtck Kitchen and son will remain -at Glen Isle, Colo two weeks more before going to Colorado Springs to complete their vacation. - ,"'' '' Mrs. George B. Eddy returned Fri day from Glen hc, Colo., where she had spent a month. Mr, Eddy joined her there two weeks ago and re turned to Omaha with her. Mrs. Ed P. Smith and daughter, Miss Ida Smith, returned last week from Glen Isle, Colo. Mrs. D wight Williams has returned from a vacation spent at Grossemont. Colo. , I . Mr. and Mr$. W. H. Herdman have returned from ten days spent in Le roy, Kan., where they were called by the' severe illness and death of Mr. Herdman'a mother, Mrs. D. R, Herd irian ; r ' ., Mr. and Mrs..L.rM. Lord and daughter, Dorothy, returned a weekl ago trom a stay of three weeks at the Edgewater Beach hotej in Chicago. For South American Visitor. , .. Mrs. L. H. Eads. Mrs. C. M. Schin el, fyiss Hortense Eads and Mrs, Hugh McCulloch entertained , at the home of the latter this afternoon for Mrs. Thouias J. Parker of Buenos Ayrcs. who is spending the summer with her mother, Mrs. Fred Smith, Twelve tables were set for the game of auction bridge. Decorations were in yellow early autumn flowers. In and Out of the Bee Hive. V Captain George Teten and Georee ! E.Eddy. R. S. S, of the Sixth Ne braka infantry, were in Omaha Fri-1 yurtning rauons ior me regi ment. Mr. Eddy spent Saturday and Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George B. Eidy. . Miss Clara Foley of Audubon, la.. who was the euest of Mint Kcthvr Connolly, left last Monday for hen nome. ane jiaa, expected to make a .longer visit, but was called home. Miss Mabel Young of Chicago has come to make her hpme here. " Miss Helen Garvin is spending her vacation at Fish Creek, Wis. Lieutenant Randall . Fuller Curtis, who received his commission at the conclusion of : the officers' training camp at Fort Snelling, spent the week end in Omaha, with his father, Mr. W V P. Curtis. Since the close of i ceie iy MELLIFICIA-Au. 2 1 FORMER OMAHA MATRON IS MUCH ENTERTAINED. Cffvs. TAomasZPdtker I . . ' camp he has been with his mother at Lakfe Minnetonka. Lieutenant Curtis leaves Tuesday night fur Des Moines. , Mr. and Mrs. Charles T. Kountze leave Tuesday to Join Mr. and Mrs. Ward Burgess at Wyanno, Mass. They will fcfe gone two weeks. Red Cross Women to Feed Soldiers Enroute to Camp ' Immediate appointment of canteen committees by Red Cross chapters in evcr city or town through which United States troops must pass, is or dered by national headquarters. It will be the duty of this committee to provide food and refreshments for any troops enroute through the city. Frank W. Judson. state director, has issued similar instructions to all state chapters likely to be called on lor such service, ' In the absence of Gould Dietz, local chairman, Randall Brown probably will make the ap pointment in Omaha for organization if this emergency service is ordered to be complete within the next day or two. . '; : ' n , Red Cross chapters are ordered not to" actually prepare the food, how ever, until proper notification as to the movement of troops is received from railroad-companies. '.'The War department advises that the movement of troops will be on a much larger stale very shortly and that department will instruct the rail road companies to notify their prin cipal offices to give, upTm request, in formation to properly accredited rep resentatives of the Red Cross all de tails in connection With such move ment of trains carrying troops so that canteen committees may be in posi tion to provide food and refreshments when necdcjl," said Mr, Judson. . , " ' nl "i i .; V Red Cross to Care for ;f; ; American Prisoners The American Red Cross has com pleted plans for the care of Americans captured and held in German prison camps, according to a news letter, re ceived today at local headquarters. Ellis L. Dresel of Berne. Switzerland,, formjrly attache in the American em bassy at BerlirLwill take charge fo the work. ii "There are over 100 American pris oners already held in Germany. They are 'mosnly civilians taken off Ameri can i merchantmen sunk by Tenton submarines or gun crews taken off the boats since the arming of ships wents into effect. 0 - V n J. " if ' '' ' f Shorty" Hensel Lures Pigs Across Line So that He May Serve Execution ''Shorty" Hensd, veteran constable in county court, hasn't spent more than a quarter of a century in the game without learning a few tricks of the "trade," 'There's more'n one way to skin a cat. says "Shorty." He demonstrated today. t "Shorty," 76 years old. but on the job every day, got his hat and cane when an attorney asked him to go out to East Omaha and serve an ex ecution on a judgment. The judgment was on sixty-eight hogs and 10J pigs, returned in favor of Steve Yunyak,. Jot Hajda and Frank Verebely against Henry Pol lack in county court last week. The three men won the lawsuit for pos session of the porcines and wanted them on their own premises. The porkers were at Jim Whetan's place in East Omaha since during the pendency of the suit. The old, gray-haired constable, ac companied by Clerk Kennedy of the county court, found the hogs at East Tired Out! It's wonderfully invigorating. Have your grocer lend you a tin. Full satisfaction or your money refunded. "v . - ' Awarded Gold Medal; San Francuco, 1915 Awarded Grand Prize, San Diego, 1916 New York Office 111.113 Hudson Street i H. J. HUGHES CO., DISTRIBUTORS t, HARD COAL MAY BE HARDTO OBTAIN G .M.' Wallace of the Nebraska Fuel Company Says Omaha Has Only Thirty Days' Supply. Omaha users of anthracite coal, who have been congratulating themselves that the government ha stepped into the coal situation and fixed the price of coal, will find that there is a joker in the government's step, according to George M. Wallace, secretary of the Nebraska Fuel company. "The joker is," as said by Mr. Wallace, "that Omaha people who use hard coal will not be able to get it. We have only thirty days supply on hand now and cannot get more." Hard coal is produced only in Pennsylvania," Mr. Wallace said, "and in line with the governments policy of conservation there is little chance that the coal produced in Pennsyl vania will be shipped through Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Iowa, all coal producing states, to Omaha and Ne- braskar Omaha coal men have issued a warning to Omaha- people who use anthracite coal and. depend upon it during the winter, to bu now, be fore someone else steps in and fills up bis bin and leaves them out in the cold. Many Have No Hard Coal. Mr. Wallace pointed out that Omaha coal dealers were not for tunate in securing hard coal this sum mer. The local supply of anthracite is far below normal. At least 75 per cent of the Omaha dealers have no hard coal, while others have only a limited supply. The hard coal now was obtained early and for much of it a "premium" was paid. "If we were forced to get a big percentage of this hard coal this sum mer at a premium and then get only 10 per cent of our normal supply at that, how are we going to get coal this winter, when we can pay only the list price as fixed by the govern ment?" said Mr. Wallace. Mr. Wallace declared that hard coal is not the only product affected. Substitutes for hard coal, such as coke, spadra and semi-anthracite, wilt face the same shortagein Omaha before the winter is over, as hard coal. Spadra and semi-anthracite are today in a limited supply. "I cannot see now Omaha people who depend upon spadra and semi-anthracite and coke to carry them through the win ter in case their hard coal supply runs short are going to be able to get these products any easier than anthracite. , To Make Short Haul. "In lir.e with the government's policy of conservation is it reason able to expect that the government will permit shipping anthracite coal to Omaha from Pennsylvania, and spadra and semi-anthracite from Ok lahoma and Arkansas, when Kansas, Missouri and Iowa mines are so close? President Wilson has the power to fix the zones which will determine the coal supply and under the law it is likely that Omaha, with the- rest ot Nebraska, will have to take its coal supply from near at hand. Coal produced by , these . nearby states is smoky, jwoty and dirty, particular customers who have never burned anything but anthracite may not like it, but' they may have to burn any thing they can get his winter if they do pot fill their bins now with their favorite fuel." , Union Precinct Again ; w Carries Off Blue Ribbon Union precinct successfuly defended its eight-year record for superiority in raising farm.products at the fair of the Douglas County Agricultural so ciety last week, when it again carried off the blue ribbon.' , Other precincts Were awarded prizes as follows: Jefferson, second; McArdle, third; Douglas, fourth; Elk horn, fifth; Waterloo, sixth; Valley, seventh, and Benson, eightht I Omaha as per instructions and served Llir r.iri nil III. Then a labor "tin." gave "Shorty" a "Whelan's place is on the state lm," whispered the informer. "When you served them papers the squealers were in Iowa." "Urn." mused "Shorty." So the constable and Kennedy stepped over in Nebraska and made out another execution. Then thev filled several pails with water and loitered over to a trough just beyond the Nebraska line. - The hogs and pigs, indifferently nosing about in rich Iowa mud. heard some yells aifd saw "Shorty" and Kennedy pouring the contents of the pails into the trough. The porkers thought it was meal timl and bolted for NebrasRa. -, When they were all' over the line the wily constable served the execu tion again and he and Kennedy drove the grunters and squealers to their new home with the men who won the Lwsuit. Yes! "Safe Try a cup of refreshing The Road l walked mile with Pleasure, Ebe chattered all tb war. But left me none the wiser For all she had to say. I walked a mile with Sorrow, And ne'er a word aaid she; But oh! the thing's I learned from ber When Sorrow walked with me. Robert Browninf Hamilton. By BEATRICE FAIRFAX. Are you afraid to suffer? If you fear pain too much to endure it, you oiness. Sorrow and iov have this in common they are intense, they lift humanity out of dullness. The very largest happiness tak'es in tragedy it self. And the most frightful tragedy brings something akin to joy in the sympathy with life which is a part of pain. When Keats wrote "Welcome Joy and Welcome Sorrow!" he was ex pressing the fact that the great souls fear nothing. For everything life gives us we have to pay. Think of the supreme sacri fices motherhood demands. And yet, what woman who comes back from the gates of death, with her child in her arms feels that the price is too much? Sacrifice is the thread of melody which runs through all of life. None of us can have everything. It. is necessary to choose wisely to have a sense of values to know what you are willing to give op in order that other things may be added to vou. To dare splendidly is not to be blind to the need of paying a heavy price it is to see the penalty and to realize that the penalty is not too great. Life offers to each of us his desire. We have to be brave enough to take it. If riches and ease and a social position means much to a man, do you suppose he could throw them aside and go to look for a losfcontinent? But if finding a new world was a man's real desire, do you suppose the knowledge that ne must suffer hard ships and face death would deter him? We all, hope to come safely out of horrible undertakings. But only if our desire to achieve is great are we so completely brave that we dare fail ure and destruction. And if we great ly dare we go straight toward achieve ment even where we seem to fail. It is not easy to sacrifice peace of mind. It is not pleasant to take up a burden of uncertainty and terror; but unless that is endurable we fail to possess the strength which wins life's greatest prizes. Sorrow brings strength and sympa thy and understanding. The rrian who can endure sorrow has conquered himself the conquest of life lies just ahead. Sorrow and sufferingjare not too great a price to pay for success. Advice to Lovelorn By Beatrice Fairfax ' Malta Ioqulrle. Deai rta Fairfax: A few daya aro I loat a beautiful (old bar Din la a bullrfinn downtown. I reported It. and. to tnv iur. prlae, tha next dar whlla I waa out to lunch gentleman brought In the Din. I waa tnlit by my employer that he waa a ialmaa In a concern occupying offlcea on m floor. but that he did not. know hli name. I would Ilka to thank thla man. but am at a loaa to know Juat how to fo about It, ' i . LrKIUHT, Tou aurely owe your, thank to tha man who returned your ptn. I Would go to the office where ha li employed and make In quiry. Then either thank him or writ him note. Proceed exactly ai you would If It were a woman who had found thla placa of Jewelry. Don't let aelf-cooaclouinees In terfere with your good manner. Introduction. Dear Mlsi Fairfax: Kindly advle ma 1 It proper when two ladles are Introduced for them to ahako hand? Alao would ju conlder It good form for a lady upon Intro duction to a gentleman to extend her hand! Should a lady, when aeated, upon Intro duction to either a lady or a gentleman rie or remain altting? Thta queatlon have com up among a group of frlanda who have decided to r.blde b your Judgment. RUTH. Of course It la proper for women to ahake hftnd when they are Introduced. Whit I cordial, oourteou and friendly la alraoat Invariably "proper." Hold out your hand to man when you are prevented to htm. That la friendly not forward. It la not necee ary to rlae when you are Introduced, to an other young person, particularly tf It be a man. But alwty rlae for your elder) and of course J a man itand whenever women are etandlng, whether he I just then be ing Introduced to them or not. Canning and Preserving The following table has been care fully worked out by Lily HaxWorth Wallace, and shows the sugar cost of a finished quart jar of each of nine different fruits at present sugar prices, which gives an everage cost of 4Vi cents for sugar for a quart jar of fruit. These figures are based on standard formula as to the density of syrup needed best to preserve the natural flavor of each variety of fruit: Aproxlmatf, Sugar Ceitof Contained dugar In ' In Flnlahed Finished Canned Canned Fruit. . . Quart Quart. Peaches -. . S ouncea 2 1-4 cents Raspberries 8. ouncea 4 -l cents Blackberries ....... S.S ounces 4 2-3 centa Strawberries ....... 7. (-ounces 4 cents Cherries .......... 14 ounces 7 -I cents Plums , S ouncea 2 1-4 cents Psr I.I ounces I cents Grapes lQ.touncea S 4-1 rents Currant ........... 10.4 ounce 5 2-t cent Average , t.S ounce: 4 1-Jcent Bee Want-Ads Produce Results. - Tea First' V .. to Happiness f Peace of mind is a glorious thing I it means quiet, comfort, steadv 1. T nerves ana rest, cut only tne man who is ready to sacrifice his , peace of mind can hope to achieve greatly. Growth always hurts. The very un rest which drives man to the desire for growth lacerates him. Ambition puts an ache of longing into the heart. But all sufferings can be endured j save only one. The loss of peace of mind and comfort and friends and are all endurable. There happiness is only one price-that is too big pay for achievement self respect. The right to look yourself square in the eye. and call yourself a free man or woman the right to take your place with honest men and women is the one thing to which vou must cling unless j-ou can endure the.un endurable heart hunger of feeling yourself an outcast and a weakling. Selling your soul to the devil is this in its simplest terms: Fajling your own ideals of decency giving tip your right to right itself. If you want to achieve, you must look the thing squarely in the face and argue it out with ydurself like this: "Itjen't be easy. Nothing worth, wiiue cvrr is. i n nave to tight and struggle every day and all the time. I wijl be driven when I want to liV down and rest. I will be tortured when I want to bo quiet and calm- I will have to sacrifice all my little de sires. I will hav to go on when I am weary and hungry. I will have to be misjudged. It won't be easy. It will mean suffering yes, it will mean all that. But jt is my biggest possi bility. I must go after it." When the first X-ray came into use and the lead screens to protect the hand of the operator had not been invented a man over in Boston enter ed on X-ray research work. He felt ithat here lay a great chance to helo humanity. The action of the little un derstood ray began destroying his fingers. He madV himself strange padded gloves and went on. He could endure the burning away of his hands no suffering was too great to pay as pride for the knowledge his soul de manded and for the help to humanitv his spirit felt driven to give. He could never have endured the personal fear that would have saved his flesh at the cost of his work.. Extreme? Yes. But his indomitable courage to suffer and sacrifice brought him what he greatly desired. How much would you suffer for your "heart's desire?" You get what you want of life If you want it enoughl . Food Saving For Health As a means of bringiirg the appeal for food conservation directly home to the individual citizen. Herbert C. Hoover Ks devised a card for con sumers containing this pledge: 1. To eat one wheatless meal a day. i. To eat beef, mutton or pork not more than once a day, ' 3. To economize in the use of but ter. k 4. To limit my daily allowance of sugar in tea or coffee and in other ways. - . S. To eat more vegetables, fruit and fish.. ' 1 a , 6. To urge in mv own home or the restaurants I frequent the necessity ot economy. Buy Your Hard Goal How lihile You Can get It President Wilson lias fixed the price of hard coal, mak ing virtually no change in the "list" price agreed upon by mine owners last April. We have been able to get practically no coal at this list price. What we have been able to get will not supply our trade move than 30 days. That we may be able to buy more hard coal is not likely. There are not a dozen dealers in Omaha who have any hard coal at all. The mines won't ship so far west when "home" folks are short of coal. Not over 10 of the normal supply will reach Omaha, in our opinion. The President has the power to distribute the output of anthracite and may be prevailed upon to get Omaha some hard coal, but we doubt it, as the gov ernment doesn't consider it proper conservation to ship Pennsylvania Anthracite through the coal producing states of Ohio,-Indiana,-Illinois and Iowa to Omaha. If you want to burn anthracite this winter, ask" us to fill up "your bin now. I . Hard Grate Hard Egg -Hard Stove Hard Nut - Nebraska Fuel Company 411 South 16th St. Douglas 430 What Women Are Doing sThe distinction oi being the oldest of the state federations of women's clubs probably belongs to the Maine federation, which was organized twenty-ve years ago. Mrs. Russell Sage, who has given more money to charitable and philan thropic purposes than any other woman in America, will enter upon her ninetieth years next September. Miss Lolita Armour, only child of Mr.-and -Mrs. J. Ogden Armour of Chicago, has been elected a trustee of Armour institute, founded by her grandfather in 1893. With the excep tion of her mother, who has been a trustee of the school since its founda to! - j As Dame Fashion wags her head, so go the modes in the "Thorney" way to fine raiment. The secret is out about the par-excellence of Thome Qualities and styles now ready with the choicest ensemble ever dis played under the Thome banner. Suite we'd not charge for less than $30.00 to $90.00 await you at cash figures $24.75 to $74.50 Coats we'd not charge or less than $25.00 to $75.00 await you at cash figures . $19.75 to $64.50 , Reasonable Alterations Done Free Let us show you Our middle name is Welcome Attention is invited to window display in Pekin Blue. Children's Dresses and Coats for Early Autumn at One-Third Reduction E Get tie Round Package Used for Yi Century. (ZX Caution fvold Substitute: The Bee Want Ads 1812 Farnarn $13.75 $13.75 $13.75 $14.00 tion, Nliss Armour, not yet 20 years old. is faid to be the only woman iq ihe United States who holds a college trusteeship. Mrs. Julius S. Walsh, jr., widely known society and horsewoman of St. Louis, has offered her services to the War department as judge and buyer of horses for the federal serv ice. . The only treaty ever signed by m-o-men was the peace of Cambrat, which was negotiated in 1529 by Louisa of Savoy, mother of Frances I of France, and Margaret of Austria, who repre sented her ncphey, Charles V of Ger- i many. AT WELCOME ABC1L Ask For and GET m m ,w THE ORIGINAL MALTED MILK Made from clean. Vich milk with the ex tract of select malted grain, malted in our own Malt Houses under sanitary conditions. Infant and childnn thriem on it Agrtt with th iveakest ttomach of th invalid or tho ogtd, Nteda .to cooking nor addition of milk. Nourishes and sustains mora than tea, coffee; etc. Should bo kept at homo or when traveling. Ami tritious food-drink may be prepared in a moment. A glassful hot before retiring induce refreshing sleep. Also in lunch tablet form for buetneaa smb. Substitutes Cost YOU Sam Pries) Take a Package Homo Produce Results!! i- f lsfM rt'fr.' triitffft x -