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POLICE FIND OWNER OF BIG
KNIFE WITH WHICH WOWS
' THROAT WAS CUT BY FIEND
Deadly) Weapon Stolen from Trunk of Cook at Country
V Club; fioiise fobbed Shortly Before Mrs. C. L.
Nethaway Was Hacked to Death; Mrs.
Bascomb Identifies Negro.
John Lucas, anjsmploye at the Country club,' has identified
the knife with which the murder of Mrs. C. L. Nethaway was
committed as the 6ne which was stolen from his trunk Saturday
between noon and 6 p. m.' at 5S14 Blondo street'
" Frank L. Milgate is the owner ofQ
the house and reported to the police
Saturday night that his home was
. completely ransacked,' but only a
number of rings and a small amount
of money was stolen.' The trunk of
John Lucas was' searched " by the
marauder, but Lucas did not think
6 the knife being taken until he read
in the papers the description of the
knife used in the murder. He then
discovered that his knife was missing.
' . - Knife is Identified.
,' llilgate; informed the police of the
v theft and Officer Hans Neilsen took
; -The knife out to the Country club,
when Lucas identified jr. r
' "If that isn't my knife, it is such
an exact duplicate of the one I had
that I ' can't tell the difference be
tween them," said Lucas.
" The knife has a deer (foot handle
and a heavy blade,' which wassslightly
-bent, and it was the irregularity of
the knife blade that caused the jagged
wound in the neck of the murdered
woman, say detectives. , .
V .Photos Finger Prints. x
. Officer Neilsen also 5 took photo
graphs of, finger prints left on the
window through which entry into the
house of Milgate was made, but'the
rain of Sunday night somewhat ef
faced, the -prints, alth'ough Officer
Neilsen thinks they ' are sufficiently
plain , for the establishment of an
identification.
Therf seems to b nobody who ob-J
served a - suspicious,
nerson - m
vieiaitv of Forty-Sixth, and Blofldo
, but Milgate says that the weeds were
tall enough, to hid anybody who did
not wish to'.be seen. .'" .?V,'
- The home of Frank" Milgate is Eve
' blocks directly north of trje residence
of Fred Bascomb. Mrs. Bascomb
Wentified Charles' Smith Monday as
the man who threatened and annoved
her Saturday, morning at about 7.30
o'clock. V .
.' After Smith departed Mrs. Bas
'comb searched all the roads except
the owe leading north on Fifty-sixth
streetfor the tracks -left by Smith.
Finding no evidences of .Smith's hav-
incr erone in ' the
ruaro vviuiu one
Searched she. concluded that he had
taken the road leading north. m
' 'Trying to Connect Smith.
In pursuance of this new phase de
tectives are striving to get the man
who broke into the house of Milgate
. or if Smith was the person ho did
it to obtain some proof against him.
If it can bf proven that Smith stole
the knife the evidence against him
a urnitlri hr. eomolete.
Captain Dempsey turned over the.ing.at
clothes of Smith to County Attorney.
Magney. They will be subjected to
a chemical examination to determine
whether the blood stains on the hat
. and sleeve belong to the slaughtered
beeves which Smith still insists he
toteti around in the circus at Le Mars.
The examination will take about
four weeks and if it is then disclosed
' that they are the blood of a human
" Smith is the guil'y man, according to
detectives.
Funeral servicesor Mrs. Nethaway
will be held from the Methodist Epis
copal church at Blair this afternoon at
' J o'clock. " .
Deputy County Attorney Piatti,
- -after. holding the inquest into the
. death of Mrs. Christine Anderson and
viewing the body of Mrs. Netha
way is of the opinion that both mur
ders were committed by the same
man. - .;- . .
"There is no question that the same
man committed both murder he
said. "Both women show the marks
of a blow on f the temple and the
jagged knife wound is identical in
both- cases. It was undoubtedly the
work of a madman."
The inquest. Into the Nethaway
murder will be held at the undertak-
in parlors .of Stack & , Falconer J
Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clggk. , ?
Medical Inspection of "v
. . ? School Children Started
Medicai d inspection of children at
the public schools started yester
day and will be continued until
: Friday afternoon, according to a
schedule whichA was announced in
The Bee last Sunday.
' It is. desired by the school officials
' to have" as many of the boys and girls
1 as possible examined before the
schools are opened ijext Tuesday
morning.
Name Board to Settle
1 r : Longshoremen's Strike
V1 Washington, Aug. 28. Peaceful
"". settlement of labor disputes . involv
ing longshoremen was forecast today
by the appointment of a board rej)H
resenting the War department the
' shipping board, the Longshoremen's
association and the principal carriers
to. handle all disputes and appoint
local boards in principal cities
INQUEST FAILS TO
CLEAR MYSTERY
IN MURDER CASE
Jury in Christine Anderson
'Slaying Finds ,Aged Victim
Met Death at Hands of Un
known Person.
The testimony adduced ai the in
quest before the jury summoned by
County Attorney Magney failed to
throw any light .on the mystery sur
rounding the murder vf "Mrs. Chris
tine Anderson, aged 75 years, in her
home, 4236 Corby x street, Saturday
night ,
The verdict fails to implicate any
person in the commission of the
crime. The finding was that the-vic
tim came to her death at .the hand of
some person unknown. t
The inquest was conducted by
Deputy County Attorney Piatti and
was held at the undertaking rooms of
Cole & McKay. The jurors were:
Adolrh. Harm, Peter . Ault.,-.W FJ
Dinney: Captain VMalliason, Fred
Brunning and John C Visiard.
HEAD PARTIALLY SEVERED.
' Dr. Samuel McCleneghan, physician"
for the countyf.attorney,. testified to
the examination of the-body of Mrs.
Anderson. He found a contusion
over the left cheek, two "deep cuts
along the left jaw, each about two
inches long, and a ragged cut from
slightly below the left ear, extending
across the throat, severing the jugu
lar vein, and the windpipe. I
This was about one and one-half
inches deep, and, in his opinion, pro
duced almost instant death. He also
found a contusion on the right jaw,
several on the hands and on the
breast. - -
The . physician testified that Mrs.
Anderson's throat was- cut with- a
knife and the contusions were the
result of blows struck with some
blunt instrument. ,
John Stemle, 4211 Corby street, 600
feet west of the Anderson home, had
known Mrs. Anderson ten or, eleven
years and was certain that she did "not
have an enemy. Last Satwday even-
about 6.M ociock, re saw
Mrs. Lena' LeVan, Mrs Andersons
daughter,' leave the house and walk
east on Corby street
- Mother Was Dead.
Later, when he went to his back
yard, ther was a disturbance among
the chickens, but he did not learn the
cause, though he looked up and down
the alley to see if there was anyone
about the nremises. About 7:30 he
Nwent to the store at Fortieth and Ma
ple streets and about 9 ociock, as he
(Continued on Iace Two, Column Two.)
Boston Reports Loss of '
British SteamerMalda
Boston, Aug.-28. The sinking of
the British steamer Malda, which left
an American port on August IS, is re
ported in cablegram received today.
The Malda, under charter to the Cu
nard line, had made only one voyage
to this country and was a vessel of
7,884 gro?s tons.
British Death List
- For Week Reaches 2,639
London. Aug. 28. British casual
ties reported in the week ending to
day were as follows:
Killed cr died of wounds: Officers,'
218; men, 2,421.
Wounded or missing: Officers,
790; men, 10.902.
FairJVice Committee
Talks Over Whsat Figures
Washington, Aug. 28. The wheat
fair price committee was in session
all afternoon determining the price
to be fixed for the 1917 crop, and in
dications were that its announcement
would not be made before' this even
ing. t '
Postpone Sending Negro '
s i Soldiers to Fort Bliss
El Paso, Tex, Aug. 28. Because
of the necessity of sending a heavy
military guard from El Paso " the
movement of 100 negro, prisoners of
the Twenty-fourth infantry from Co
lumbus, N. M.t to be confined-in the
prison' stockade at Fort Bliss was
postponed today after the , negroes
had been entrained.
Wovfght,War Over Again if Peace
P
Mosals of
uan 't Rely
Washington, Aug. 28. President WilsofVs letter an
swering Pope Benedict's peace note sent to the pontiff
today is as follows: I
"To His Holiness, Benedict XV, Pope:
"In acknowledgement of the communication of Your
Holiness to the belligerent peoples, dated August 1,
1917, the president of the United States requests me to
transmit the following reply:
"Every heart that has not been blinded and hard
ened by this terrible war must be touched by this mov
ing appeal of His Holiness, the pope,' must feel the
dignity and force of the humane and generous motives
which prompted it, and must fervently wish that we
might take the path of peace he so persuasively points
out. But it would be folly to take it if it does not in
fact lead to the goal he proposes. ,' Our response must
be based upon the stern facts and upon nothing else.
It is not a mere cessation of arms he desires; it is i
stable 'and enduring, peace. This agony must not be
gone through with again, and it must be a matter of
sober judgment judgment what will insure us
,against it
PROPOSES ANTE BELLUM STATUS QUO.
"His Holiness In substance proposes that we return 7
to the status quo ante bellum and that then there be
a general condonation, disarmament and a concert of
nations, based upon an acceptance of the principle of
arbitration; that by a similar corfcert freedom of the
seas and that the territorial claims of France and Italy,
the perplexing problems of the Balkan states and the
restitution of Poland be leit to such conciliatory ad
justments as may be possible in the new temper of
such a peace, due regard being paid to the aspirations
of the peoples whose political fortunes and affiliations
will be involved.
: "It is manifest that no part of this program can be
successfully carried out unless the restitution of the ,
status quo ante furnishes a firm and satisfactory basis
, for it The object of this war is to ' deliver the free
peoples of. the world from the menace and the actual
power of a vast military establishment controlled by
an irresponsible government which, having secretly
planned to dominate the world, proceeded to carry the
plan out without regard either to the sacred obligations
of treaty or the long established practices and long
cherished principles of international action and honor;
which chose its own time for war; delivered its blow
fiercely and suddenly; stopped at no barrier either of
law or of mercy; swept a whole continent within the
tide of blood not' the blood of soldiers only, but the
blood of innocent women and children also, and of the
helpless poor; and now stands balked, but not de
feated, the nemy of four-fifths of the world. This
power is not the German people. It is no business of
- ours how that great people came under its control or
submitted with temporary rest to the domination of
its purpose; but it it our business to see to it that his
tory of the rest of the world is no longer left to its
.handling, ;
' : MEANS HOSTILE COMBINATTIO. I
.. To deal with -such a-yower by way Of peace tipon "
the plan proposed by Hhr Holiness, the pope, would,
so far as we can see, involve a recuperation of-its
strength and a renewal of its policy; would make it
necessary to create a permanent hostile combination
of nations against the German people, who are its in
struments; and would result in abandoning the new-
SENATE KILLS
3 CENT LETTER
f OSTSECTION
Upper. House -Eliminates Spe
cial fax' on First-Class ;
Mail from War Levy
' Measure, i ,'
Washington,- Aug. 28. In resum
ing consider-tidn today of postage
sections of the war tax bill the senate,
by a vote of 39 to 29, struck out the
provision levying a 1-cent tax on let
ters and postcards designed to' raise
$50,000,000 in revenue. A provision
giving American soldiers and sailors
abroad the privilege of mailing letters
freejvas retained.
The entire section levying taxes on
first clas4 mail was eliminated on mo
tion of Senator. Hard wick of Georgia.
The senate then proceeded to the
periodical taxproVisions.
Senator Smoot announced he
would seek later to reconsider elimi
nation of the letter tax section.
Excess Profits Tax.
In an effort 10 effect a compromise
on the question of higher war profits
taxes the finance committee majority
gave further consideration to the sub-
stitution of the house excess profits
scheme of calculating war profits
based on capitalization instead of net
profits and allowing an exemption of
8 per cent plus, $5,000.
Those favoring the proposal argue
that it would bring in more revenue
and remove many of the alleged in
justices f the bill's ante bellum cal
culations system. ,
, The senate's cjoture rule may be in
voked as oon as the war profits sec
tion is taken up to limit discussion
and to hasten passage of the bilL It
rprobably would be applied only in
event of a filibuster. More than fifty
senators today had signed a petition
for cloture, which is but a few short
of the necessary two-thirds to put it
into efhet.
Houston Board Begins
Investigation Into Riot
Houston,' Tex., Aug. 28. the city
of Houston today began what Acting
Major D. M. Moody terms the de
velopment of the "real story" of the
horror of last Thursday night, when
100' negro- soldiers of, the Twenty
fourth infantry rampaged through the
west end shooting down fifteen whites
and losing two of their own number.
The board of inquiry appointed by
Moody held its first session and be
gan the examination of witnesses.
Pope Were Accepted Now;
on Kaiser and His Advisers
born Russia to the intrigue, the manifold subtle inter
ference, and the certain counter revolution which would
be attempted by all the malign influences to which the
German government has of late accustomed the world.
Can peace be based upon a 'restitution of its power or
upon any word of honor it would pledge in a treaty of
settlement and accommodation?
"Responsible statesmen must now everywhere see,
if they ntver saw before, that no peace can rest se
curely upon political or economic restrictions meant to
benefit ome nations and cripple or embarrass others,
upon vindictive action of any sort j or any kind of re
venge or deliberate injury. The American people have
suffered intolerable wrongs at the hands of the Imperial
German government but they desire no reprisal upon
the German people, who have themselves suffered all
things in this war, which thy did not choose. They
believe that peace should rest upon the rights of peo
ples, not the rights of governments the rights of peo
ples great or small, weak or powerful theil equal right
to freedom and security and self-government and to a
participation, upon fair terms, in the economic prospects
of the world the German people of course included,
if they will accept equality and not seek domination.
SEEKS BASIS OF PLAN.
"The test therefore, of every plan of peace is this:
Is it based upon the faith of al lthe peoples involved or
merely upon the word of an ambitious and Intriguing
government on the one hand, and of a group of free
peoples on the other? This is a test which goes to the
root of the matter; and it is the test which must be
applied.
"The purposes of the United States in this war are
known to the whole world to every people to whom
the truth has Been permitted to come. They do nbt
need to be stated again. We seek no material advan
tage of any kind. We believe that the intolerable
wrongs d oenin this war by the furious and brutal
Eower of the Imperial German government ought to
e repaired, but not athe expense of the sovereignty
of any people rather a vindication of the sovereignty
both o fthose that are weak and those that are strong.
Punitive damages, the dismemberment of empires, the
establishment of selfish and exclusive economic leagues,
we deem inexpedient and in the end worse that futile
no proper basis for a peace of any kind, least of all for
an enduring peace. That must be based upon justice
and fairness and the common rights of mankind.
CANT TAKE KAISER'S WORD.
"We cannot take the word of the present rulers
of Germany as a guarantee of anything that js to en
dure unless explicitly supported by such conclusive evi
dence of the will and purpose of the German people
themselves as the other peoples of the world would be
justified in accepting. Without such garantees, treaties
oi settlement agreements for disarmament covenants
to set up arbitration in the place of force, territorial
adjustments, reconstitutions of small nations, if made
jwith the German srovernmea no man, to nation crfuld -now
depend on. We must await some new evidence of
the purposes of the great peopls of the central pow
era, God grant it may be given loon and in a way to
restore the confidence of all peoples everywhere in the
faith of nations and the possibility of a covenanted
peace. ROBERT LANSING,
''Secretary of State of the United States of America."
Italian Army Officers
A rrive to Buy A ir craft
. An Atlantic Port, -Aug. 28. A
commission of twenty Italian army
officers, the majority belonging, to
the aviation corps, arrived today on
; a French ' passenger- steamship. It
is understood they have been vent
to purchase aircraft
MORE KHAKI CLAD
OMAHA SOLDIERS
STARTFORCAfiipS
Officers Who Received Their
Commissions at Fort Snell
, ing Go to Pes Moines to
Train New Army.
The Union station again Tuesday
was the scene of a large number of
khaki clad young men on their way
to assume new duties in' the service
of Uncle Sam.
Three score of Omaha young men
who were given commissions in the
United States army after graduation
at Fort Snelling left Tuesday for Camp
Dodge, near Des Moines. Several of
the newly-appointed officers went to
Camp Dode Monday, but the greater
number left today, as it was today
they were ordered to report there. f
They will assist in training the new
army which is to report at Camp
Dodge September 5.
A special train carrying 120 recruits
for Uncle Sam's navy from the Oma
ha district comprising Nebraska,
South Dakota and western Iowa, left
Omaha Monday afternoon for New
port, R. I.
Urge Cadets to Enlist
In Seventh Nebraska
Letters urging the Central High
school cadets, who are enrolling this
week, to enlist are being distributed
at the high school by Edward Zipfel,
former cadet captain, who has been
active in organizing the militia com
pany of high school alumni. Boys en
listed keep right on with their regular
work or studies and drill two nights
each week for two hours each night
The duties of the guard are the same
as those of, the Natonal Guard in
times pi peace.
Auto Fuel Advances a
Cent to Omaha Users
The expected advance in the price
of gasoline has come. It is announced
that the cost to consumers has gone
up another cent on both gasoline and
kerosene. Gasoline now costs 22 cents,
with 25 cents for the best .grade, and
kerosene is 9i cents. 1
FIRST WAR LISTS
ARE CERTIFIED BY
DISTRICT BOARD
I .
Appeal Body Announces Names
of Men in Dodge, Howard
and Arthur Counties Who
Are Called for Service.
r-7-
tt The first lisU to be certified for
service by the district exemption
board consists of the men of Dodge,
Howard and Arthur counties.
Many of .the claims have been re
jected, but the only list of, rejected
claims ready for publication is that
of Valley county.
Douglas county will be the last to
be gone over, according to members
of the board.
Arthnf County.
William T. CrouM George W. Btapheni
Richard Bookman
1 Joseph R. Trubl
Jamei Adolph Balm
Everett J. Yates Jamaa W. Brawer
Dodg County,
Roland JT. Payne ,
John W. Tillman
Harry J. Zevlcky
Irvlns B. Bucklln
Joseph Ulctk.
John Valk
Henry Ttegeler, Jr,
Fred C. Jordan
Theobold Schurman
Luther Peterson
Carl A. Welst
Thomas Cochran
Charles V. Maxwell
Martin IS. Elar
Tom Ernest
Michael Dublgg
Lynn O. Campbell
Jaroster Dabrodney
Ernest Larson
Ralph R. Warner
Harvey W. Realph
' George P. Oerwlck
Oustus L. Olson
Rex L. Scott
Earl C. flteen
Augustus L. Stuart
O. M. Morlln
Si. H. Werts
James Hoffman
Fred Palmer
O. R. Brown '
O. C. Flora
Henry Meyer
H. Oranvllle
William Johnson .
Harry A. Arnold
Wm. A. Hagermaumer ArchleMCruplnslry
Fred L. R&smusscn
Robert Benef lei
James Hansen
JosepHT. Smith
Alfred Rssmuesen
Ivan R. Jeffers
Joseph Walter
John A. Krosne
Carl R. William
John Johonnsen
Anton Sueier
Ludwtt Olson
Emll Vltek
Louie Warner
John R. Haynes
wmttra C. Arps '
Joseph Lanwermeyer
Frank W. Carstens
Herman H. Haunshell
Oscar Dalbert;
(Continued on Pse Three, Column Three.)
War Industries Board
.To Fix Price of Copper
Washington, Aug. 28. The price
of copper required for war uses will
be fixed by the war industries board
probably within a week or ten days.
At the offices of the board it was sug
guested today the price would be be
tween 20 and 2lVt cents a pound.
Says Labor Troubles in
West Have passed Climax
Washington, Aug. 28. Threatened
labor disturbances in war industries
on the Pacific coast and in thj north
west hae passed their climax, offi
cials declared today, and conditions
in the affected districts are rapidly
improving.
AMERICA VMBLE .
TO TALK PEACE ON
THE P OPE'S TERMS
1 -
Wilson Declares Peace Proposition Would Have no Effect
Such a Power,, as Germany Rulers;
Admit Kipdly Motives Which Prompted
Pontiff's Suggestions.
on
(By AawMlnl fTTM.
Washington, Aug. 28. President Wilson haa rejected
:'s peace proposals. '
Pope's peace proposal
T STOP
BOOTLEGGING
IN OB
NEVltLE
Governor of Nebraska Tells
City Officials Law Is Being
Violated; Expects Re
sults at 'Once.
Lincoln, Aug. 28. (Special.)
Bootlegging in Omaha must stop."
Governor Neville, after a conference
with Omaha. and Douglas county offi
cials, made the announcement this
afternoon. Officials conferring with
the governor at his request, were
Mayor DaMman, County Attorney
Magney, Chief of Police Dunn, Street
Commissioner Parks, City ' Attorney
Fleharty, Prosecuting Attorney Mc
Guire, Sheriff Clark and , Deputy
Sheriffs Foster. . '
Say Raids Tipped Off.
"Omaha patrolmen are. charged, with
tipping off raids to places to be raid
ed, according to charges made by
some, of the men visiting the govern
nor. . -
, Thev made no soecific charee. but
said that under the city' civil service
rules, a policeman could not be fired
without taking the . matter to the
courts, an dthis was responsible for
lack of co-operation by the policemen,
who knew that their jobs were se-
To offenders, aho were blamed for
the lack of efficient enforcement of
the law. Governor Neville told the
officials that if they could not re
move officers for failure to perform
their duty, he believed he could and
should do so. . On request of the gov
ernor, the officials met with him to
day in order that a conference might
be had and that there might be
hearty co-operation by the county
and city officials with state officials
in cleaning up the bootleggers. ' '
A special investigator for the state
has been at work on the prohibition
conditions, obtaining information
which resulted in the meeting today.
The investigator reported that he
bought liquor in many places.
Start Injunction Against
Two Millard Properties
County Attorney Magney has filed
injunction proceedings in district
court against Alonzo B. Frary, oper
ating a place at Millard, ana John
Blum, cwner of the property, alleging
evidence of sale of liquor there.
CANTEEN OFFICER OF CO. K,
FOURTH NEBRASKA.
Lieutenant Ciuy Ureene of Company
K, Fourth Nebraska, comes from
Bloomington, Neb. and first attracted
public notice by. being the first war
groom in his company, 1 soon after
their' arrival at Fort Crook. He was
canteen officer during the company's
stay at Fort Crook and will hold a
similar position in Deming. As Cap
tain Killian of Ccflnpany K was absent
on mustering duty during the com
pany's stay at Fort Crook, to Lieu
tenant Green is due much of the ex
cellent condition of the comnanv now
enroute for Deming.
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Ti n mm ii'"-sm 1 iiiiMrmfnnisiriifSift iavSS
All
the
O In a note dispatched last night and
made public here tonight, the presi
dent says that while every heart not
blinded and hardened by tfie terrible
war must be touched by the moving .
appeal of His Holiness, it would be
folly to take the path or peace he
points out ii it does not in fact lead to
the goal he proposes, . '
GIVES PLANS OF GERMANY ,
. To deal with such a power as the
present rulers of Germany upon Pop
Benedict's plan, declares the presi
dent," would Involve a recuperation of
the strength and renewal of the
world domination of that power, now
balked but not defeated, after sweep
ing a continent with the blood of in
nocent women and children and the
helpless poor as well as of soldiers,
l'ermanent peace musjt be based up
on tfie faith of all the peoples and
upon justice and fairness and the
common rights of mankind, he adds
and "we cannot take the word of the
present rulers of Germany as a guar
an tee of anything that is to endure,
unless explicitly supported by such
conclusive evidence of the wilt and
purpose of the Grtrnan people them-
selves as the other peoples of the
world would be justified in accepting."
Reply Goes Forward,
The reply by the United States gov
ernment to Pope Benedict's peace
1- 1 . r . j . -
propus.is na gone torwara, 11 is un-
Merstood, through the British foreign
1 office,! through vhtch the pope s com
munication came. '
it is about 1,000 words long.
)ispatth of the-American reply in
dicates that the replies of the entente
allies are redy, if, indeed, they al
ready have not been made Ex
changes of views have been proceed
ing for several days and' all the re
plies are supposed to be in harmony.
The note also will be published in
"Wednesday morning's London pa
pers, u
Copies of the American reply have ,
been delivered to the diplomatic rep
resentatives of all the entente coun
tries which received the pope's com
munication. .
LARDNER GIVES
Be Correspondent Dingbat '
On Parlesvona FrancaU Stuff ,
FRENCH LESSON
By BITSO W. LAKDXE.
(ftpecla! Cable to Omaha Bee, Copyrtglitef ,
Our Owne French Lessons.
Paris, Aug. 27. The editor of this
column, who has, been in France a
whole week and who is supplied with
a French-English and English-French
dictionary, in augurates today a series
of simple language lessons for the
benefit of the American soldiers on
the continent '
These lessons are givert free and are
worth it. .
t Key to Pronounce,
The vowel E is pronounced lust as
it is spelled. The definite articles le
and la are pronounced as the French
pronounce them. The vowel U is
pronounced like the start of a hic
cough. Vocabulary.
English-
French-
Dog
Taxicab
Waiter
Good
No
Yes
Policeman
Hot bath
Lamb chops
Black Beauty
Rover "
Murderer t
Jesse Jamea
Bone
N04 no, ,no, no no
Oui.oui
Louie
Impossible f
Very good .
Tribune
Conversation, i
English I wonder if I could bor
row twenty frartcs? French Not a
chance. '
Englishy-Waiter, bring us another
drink. French Garcon Encore.
English Show me the Avenue Des
Champs Elysee. French Show raoi
le evenue des champ elysee.
English Tomorrow morning: . I'm
going to take a hot bath. French I'm
not.
English I'd like a drink of water.
French You must be crazy.
English Pretty rotten, mercy.
French Comment vous portez vous.
Conjugation.
I am t suis. You are not Well
what is it?
Tomorrow's lesson will deal with
pharases and idiots and will alos in
form they newcomer in Paris how to
get what he wants. ' ,'
Retailers Will Close at
One O'clock Labor Dav
The stores of Omaha will close at
1 o'clock next Monday afternoon,
Labor day The directors of the As v
sociated Retailers of Omaha have de
cided upon this hour of closing and
have recommended it to all stores
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