I The Omaha Sunday Bee :meJLaIUl&Sg 4 ' -N - OMAHA, SUNDAY MOBN1KO, MAY 5, X918. Thrilling Moments r - of Life Dr4& 'si Garden MffM- TML-Js V$f- 'J&L&toX ' f F y . W Vfff W . . AH 1 I Ulllf T SBW UAf T GombH&ney By EDWARD BLACK. Home Life of the Leffingwells. Howard and Helen were sitting in the parlor of the latter' home, dis cussing plans for their nuptials. He had established himself in a prosper ous business founded by his father. This groom-to-be .was unconsciously frank, sometimes he seemed to be almost brutally frank. His friends understood him as a man who did not waste nor mince words; perfectly . honorable, and possessed of superb , mental poise, tie never indulged in ecstasies, never lost his temper, was of decided likes and dislikes, and formed friendships with fine discrim- . ination. bhe was a woman of plivsr - cal .nd mental charms, which were not; fwotruded to the degree of con- spicuousness. she had traveled ex tensively, and believed that she knew the world and men and affairs, and . a'so believed that she had; fairly ap ' praised the characteristics of the man whose name she expected to take. They had just returned from a heater and were analyzing points of interest in the play. He took ex ceptions to one 6f the characters, that of a lover who endeavored after mar iage to maintain love's young dream. He contended that the lovecef this Slay should have told the women of is love that the path which leads ; from the 'hymeneal altar is strewn ,; with disillusioning experiences. He insisted that the stage lover had not '; been frank during the engagement pe I riod. , s f Wonders. What's Up. Helen's face grew a little tense, but she retained mastery of conflicting amotions. - A strange speech from her ' fiance, she thought. She looked at her . lover with new interest, and she -struggled to say the right word in a delicate situation. : In the play the man exhausted his vocabulary and showered his., wealth before marriage in attestation of his love. He drew roseate pictures of fu ture happiness, and he declared that clouds never would obscure the sun shine of himself and the princess of his heart after they were married. ihe woman of the play accepted him at his word and when, after marriage, some of her idols fell to the floor OMAHA, TUB WEEKLY BCMBLE BEE. A. BTINOER, EDITOR. Communication en njr toplo rncelvcd, without poitag or nature Nou returned. NO ADS AT AUT PRICB. SPRING, - ' ; 1 lent tint ro A tuj named Chaucer ; Tr eomethlnf like that Waa great poet Or great bricklayer Or aomethlnr. And he wrote a poem Which must have been A good poem, - Bncauie all the School teacher j U craiy over It And make The klda atudy it. And anyhow .-. It waa called f'Sprlng- tyke!" v f , And Chancer . ' , Never Uved ' ' In Nebraaka Or he would have called It Not "Bprinr Lyke," But "Spring Lykell." TOO MICH. We admit or a reluctance to boileve the Brltleh report that the Germane sought instruction In train-wrecking from Mexi can revolutionaries, why a Teu Ua In good ..tandlng'ahould , 'seed instruction In train-wreck-i lug I beyond our limited pow. ' er ot comprehension. W'e preeum the next dlsoloa. nre wlU be that Ludendorff has been taking lesson In bomb' - tnc churches from the Swede. UTOW AXD THEN. A hotel In the course of con' "l ruction In New Tork ta send , in:; out advance publicity mat ' trr which Bays, among other - tiling, that employe ' will not be permitted to accept tips. . Orb iting that ' the pre agent who write the stuff la pelther a cp-neao nor a itar. one won--r what -win happen to this : ' ''good Intention" after the hotel 1 finished. . ' .V-1 r We . ao longer are alarmed very time wo read about the - price of beef going up. This oelieaor, a far as w are con. remedy departed from this hum t ium world him days since. CA8HO. ' Oovemmtnt ekpert hasten to r -wmw as there la a plentiful "T of gasoline, despite the ' -t (bat the XesUv Uxlcab I a . . 1 denial. - .v:.:.r."y' , eivB tr. "-That 'have 4 not done ta ' "Tve the morl4 from these rsr shrieks the kaiser. We f n : we ean't aam The Weekly W fTH AL THING and wen broken, she would not be consoled. "The play does not ring true. That man had no right to make such prom ises to his Jover," Howard said, with perfect calmness. "He was a bucca neer, a pirate, to picture such an im possible situation and to inspire false hopes. He was just an ordinary liar, and he knew it all of the time, when he told the woman that their lives after marriage would be a beautiful pathway strewn with roses and hon eysuckles and all of the rest of it," Becomes Willing Listener, ; Helen's face grew more tense. A new facet of Howard's character, she thoucht. seemed to have been re vealed. She fought an inclination to SUNDAY MORNING, MAY SPORTING SECTION OUB HUNCH. 'Twill be opening day next Wednesday, And th season will be on, All the fan and all th ath letes Will- be waiting for th gong. ... ! But we are not so .cheerful. Nor are we blithe and gay, We know that lots ot weather Will be present opening day. HDKBL TIMELY. ' In view of past experiences, w believe opening day would be a better time to open an Ice Tlnk. . . MODEttT rENOv , j Ping Bodle la a modeacus, but he frankly admit th Yankee outfield ta much bet ter this year than last. ' CARELESS BUCK. Buck Hersog ha been made captain of the Brave, showing that Buck la wUllng to tackle anything once. TRAINING TIP. . Larry Qoyle's fine showing with the Client should con vince McOraw that Chicago la an excellent place o send hi players for more season lag. CRAFTY CONNIE. Connie Mack has changed his system. Instead of kid napping collegians and sand lotters. he ha built up his 11I team by Invading the old people's home, PLAYMATES. The New York Giants should be complimented upon their neighbors. Th Dodgers never fall to make th afternoons enjoyable for the Giants. THE DOPESTERS, Critics were unanimous that Beidek, when he waa named manager ot the Pirates, knew nothing about base ball. 80 it Is only natural that the Pirates should become a right smart ball club. N (STEALING BEATRICE'S ' STLt'F. . . ' , Friend Fred; Knowln' that you'd been ia!l through the world and smoked clgarets and everything, I thought I'd ask you about a swell wren what works In' a saw bones factory what I thought was stuck on me. Tou see It's this way: After plptn this Jan off for a cou ple o weeks (and there wasn't any wind blowln either) and than flxln' it for a Introduction through a friend what write military atorlea for a Omaha paper, I take her home on Forest St, and then I calls up and make a date with her 'and the scribe to go to a movie and we es, well I don't remember what we sees for a dime but we eats some kind o' special sodie water what has peanuts on top on the way home, and then I makes another date and takes her and a blonde friend what's dippy about soldier to a vaude ville purfermance an buy 'em strawberry Sunday's what growes In Loulseana for 2 cents at the swellest joint right oa th main stem and I pay the car far horn week I frame It date with the same and ask a friend o" mine to help me out and go flfty-flfty (what aint married and works in a advertisement apartment) and we spends the. evlnln' and 11 cent hearing the pipe organ while Eld Drew Kit Gordon' Purple Lily and then w es court 'em to a high .class calf upstairs Xut has halt china men and ohe civilised waiter with muslo and eats 12.65 worth of chicken sandwiches "and sliced bannanoes what almost blowes the bank roll and then o- the way home I tells my girl all kinds o' nice things like that I grewed to be fond ot her and all educated things Ilk that and when we gets on the stupe I looks lp her slnco pated eyes and I says good night with a sort o' qulvver In my vole like I had the He cup and I holds her hand and she tell m I can com out to see her all the time she aint dotn' somethin' and I goea back horn with a ort o' happy feelln' knowln that I had her from the gc away, and then I call up about SO time th next week but can', make a date because he' In d posed and I tell her rra lonesome and eh tells ms I'm sarcaslm but she give m a date for a Saturday night when Its ralnln' and blowln' and I ain't got no slicker or rain tick so I have to get In a tight with her to Jam the party, hnd r aint een her since the night I thought I had her. I pulled that old stuff that I was going to leave town, but she's too wise she comes from Gretna so she SI A YEAR. Peter F. Peterson, president of th Peterson-Pegsv company, was oa th stand In the recent bakers' hearing before the food administrator. John Parish, at torney for the food administra tion, was examining witness. Peterson had Just testified that he received I1S.008 a year salary. "Look at the way I-feave to work f6r th government for 11 a year," declared Parish, at tempting to press his point that Ill.OOe a too much salary In war times. 1 always anderstood Uncle Sam paid man what ha Is worth," drolled Peterson sweetly. v It' generally a better Idea to keep year foot oa th brake ta stead of th accelerator. -started to ,sy tnan me for all time one had wlthont me, mo 1 101a ner 1 imgnt mind about ieavln', didn't chang hers. Now Fred am I right or wrong t Your rep rtorlally. JACK. Ht$ say the wrong word, smiled with an effort "and then assumed the role of willing listener. "I am interested in your little dra matic clinic. 1D0 you think that all me'n are liars before they are mar ried?" she asked, -with a little show of womanly confidence in 'the man whose opinions she always had re spected. "It is a big subject My point is, that the engagement period should be on such a basis that there need not be any disillusionments after mar riage. There is too much sentimen tality and wishy-washy, meaningless prenuptial declarations. I don't want to have a lot of things to undo after our marriage. It is a waste of time, Bumble Bee 5f 1918. IN OUR TOWN. A visit from th sun 1 eg-, peoted this week. ) An election' ot selectmen will be held Tuesday next John Doe's wife, Mary Do, was arrested last week, Lew Adams, the well known county engineer, took In th trap (hoot last Sunday. Th base ball Reason open Wednesday. Pa Rourke prom ise a good tlm will be had by all. The, opening of th marble eaon ha been greatly delayed by th disappointment of th un. 4 Tommy Toy is watching the bas ban atandlnga closely in th hope that he may win a bet thl year.' Commissioner Jardlne la con soled, by th knowledge that afterYrueadayTi will at least no longer bo alone. H will have company in on way or th other. , GANGWAY. Princess Marie Antoinette, mother of Empress Zlta, . has been ordered to leave Austria and to remain away for the duration of th war, thus prov ing that Austrian ruler are a efficient at "passing the buck" as their ambitious playmates. Hohenxollern brethren. ' ISCAL. .' Woman held as dangerous en emy, we are told by the head line. While tor reasons which must remain strictly our own we hesitate to say It ourself, but some men we know would Insist this Is In no -way aa un usual instance, , WHY NOT EAST? Whole allied line firm a rock In west, write a headline genius In our hyphenated con temp. Th headline genlua no doubt know whereof he speaks, but w fall to grasp th neces sity of specifying the geography of the rock. - THE POOR POET. The poet took his pen" In hand. To writ a long ot spring, He scribbled on to beat th band, ' And this Is how he'd sing. "I love th gentl springtime. 80 airy and so light. As dainty, swaet and soundless As a blast of dynamite. "I love th roaring torrents. I lovs the pelting rain, I love the grlppy feeling. The muddy, murky lane. "I love the chilling north blast ' That, chill you to the bone. The howling wind that blow you ' And I lov their hilling moan, l "I lovs th gentl sprlngtlm. and th next up for a big two fillies goodbye snd the rood change my . With It mow and hall and but ahe torm And then he suddenly remem be red he waa poaching oa Whit' 1 tier's copyright oa "Snowbound." avctikste Space for one thing, and it tends to detract from marital happiness. I want our married lif to be on a practical, commonsense basis. I do not believe that I have told you one thing that I did not mean. I told you that I loved you, and I meant it. I have never told you that you are the most beau tiful woman in all of the wide world, because I am frank to say that I hate seen women who were more beauti ful, judged by the standards of artis tic beauty. For instance, I have seen women with more beautiful curve lines from chin to neck," Howard re plied, his complacency being almost disquieting. Helen quivered just a little bit. What did all of this mean? she thought. The Play's the Thing. "Didn't you Ahink that the woman in the play had a beautiful neck?." she asked, a note of irony in her voice. "I am not making comparisons, he "toward drew closer to llelen and offered a reassuring glance, pressing her hand the while. t Continuing, he philosophized: Now that we are to be married in a few days, I want to tell you of some of the things I expect to do, or will not do, after we begin life as Mr. and Mrs. Livingstone. I want to be quite' frank. My father taught me frank ness, and I have found that it pays in business. When we hall have been married, it may seem that I am. not as attentive to you as I have been during our engagement days. There is more interest in pursuit than in actual possession; that is human nature and there is no use trying to reason otherwise. As .a matter of fact, I will be just as attentive, but my attentions will be more practical and varied. I may not feel , like sitting up until 12 o'clock quite so often. I will always think of your-comfort and happiness, but there will be times when I will nrfer 9 hook to vour comoanv. I will have my dogs, and my pipe and" you may not like my pipe. 1 snau ex pevt that you will have your little divertisements, whichj may not always arouse my interest In most things I am sure we will agree, and I am confident that most of our pleasures will be shared. I will expect you to be attractive on occasions. I will want to point with pride to my wife when we attend public occasions; it may help me in my business." . Then New Understanding. Then a brief silence. They looked at each other with a new understand ing. Helen could not resist a feeling that 'she had a strpnger admiration for Howard, although she wanted to appear a. little piqued. She was a woman and, womanlike, she was not without the clinfeing-ivy instinct. She accepted the logic of Howard's philo sophy. . f "But you always insisted that I had a beautiful neck," she said, with ' a touch of coquetry. N "So I did, and I still maintain that you have a pretty neck, but I never said that you had the most beautiful neck in the world. Taking in the whole world is including a vast area, and you know that I Vave not seen the whole world. I maintain that your neck is beautiful and that of all the women' I have met, I verily be lieve that you are the one to make me happy for the rest of my life. I never called you my turtle dove, for the very good reason that you are not a turtle dove. A man should be very careful what he says to the woman he expects to be his wife. I once heard a man lapse into such a state of mental irresponsibility that he told a woman he loved her so much that he could worship the yery ground on which she walked. I like your tfs- I position and your cooking, but l am not going to say a lot ot things just to flatter you," was his reply. N I Thought All Men Liars. 'Howard, I' thought all men are liars and that they always said A lot of empty nothings to the v,omen they loved. I have read so in books and L expected the same from you, but now I am convinced that your name should be Frank instead of How ard," was the playful rejoinder. "Well, I cannot answer for other men. I find it hard sometimes to an swer for myself. I just want you to understand what sort of a, man I ex pect to be after the minister has done his part, so that you cannot say, 'I told you so,' after we are married," he continued. Helen began-o grasp the true worth of Howard's philosophy. She realized that she could not success fully contravert the soundness of his position. Her misgivings gave way to a feeling of elation. He was a dif ferent sort of man, she thought. "There is another matter I wish to bring to your attention before we are wed, and it is that I believe that betrothed persons should reveal themselves, instead of unmasking after they enter upon the long, long trail of domestic life. I am 'fond of H?(a) OlVlflHP By EDWARD BLACK. J. Dean Ringer visited Omaha fre quently' when he was playing guard on the Cornhusker foot ball team, and while he was otherwise identified with the University of Nebraska. The more he saw of Omaha, the more he was convinced that some day he would like to live in a little bungalow . itv the metropolis and grow up with . the Gate City. When the Cornhuskers were play ing here on a bright autumn day, a friend suggested to Ringer thaQie should pack up his law books and get his name in the Omaha city di rectory. He bid his Lincoln friends goodby in 1905, bought a picket for Omaha, rented an .office in - South Omaha,, placed his name on the door and then waited for a client. He was born in Lincoln" in 1878, attended the elementary and high schools of the Capital City and was graduated from the lawschool of the University of Nebraska. Always On the Job. Making the most of his time was Mr. Ringer's kevnote durine his school davs. before he had finished the Eighth, grade he carried tele- grams and learned teleeraphy. v He was out of school four years, during which time he supported himself and saved money. He became impressed with the importance of higher educa tion, so he qualified for entrance to the Lincoln High school and then entered the university. During the summer vacation he worked as tel egrapher. ) While at the university he was in terested in athletics and made -rec-ord as foot ball star. He was on the Cornhusker team from 1899 to 1903 and also during 1905. He was on the Cornhusker team during 1902, when the goal line of the Nebraskans was never crossed, and it was during that seasoa that the Oornhufkers defeated whistling; and I whistle while I am shaving and I whistle while I am asleep, This is an affliction or an ad diction, and so I thought I would tell you about it," he continued. Helen Gets in Tune. Helen got into tune with the situ ation and was reassured. She made bold to fteep step with the thought suggested by Howard. 1 "Will you be cross after we are married if f should not look as at tractive at 7 a. m. as I do at 7 p. m.?" she asked. "Not a bit of if "And you will promise that you will never, never refer to your mother's cooking if my biscuits are not as light as they should be?" "I promise." "And you will not say unkind words if your slippers are not always in the exact place where you left them?" "I will noty" v It might be said that Helen spurn er such a practical and unsentimental man, but in fact she accepted him as the one man for her. They were mar ried and lived many happy years. The most serious jar they have had was on an occasion when Howard car ried two of Helen's letters in his pocket four days before he thought to mail them, y fv:W .Minnesota for the first time. Mr. Ringer was a member of the uni versity athletic board for two years and was on the intercollegiate debat ing team, winning , the chancellor's prize in 1905. Involves Sackett Law. While practicing law in South Omaha he was instrumental in in voking for the. first time successfully the Sackett law, causing removal of two ' public officials 011 charges of malfeasance. He served as special counsel for the attorney general on that occasion. Mr. Ringer was chairman of the Douglas county dry campaign com mittee in 1916 and is now serving as chairman of the' Young Men's Christian association war work com mittee for Nebraska; also chairman of the state committee of the same as sociation. . 5 His entrance to municipal politics as a candidate for city commissioner came as a surprise to himself and many of his friends. He did not file for the primary until 6 o'clock of the, aft- ernoon-'of the last day of filing. 'He i 1.1 1 t,'j Kr 1 j muugill lung auu uaiu uciuic 11c uc Lfided to fi e, but, having tiled, he went fat 'the task just as he did in his foot ball davs. when he coordinated brain atid brawn to take hhn through dif ficult situations. At the primary elec tion on ApriH he was seventh man in a field of 75 runners. On May 7 he intends to be one of seven who will be elected out of a field of 14 can didates. - Lives in Magic Clty Although particularly identified with the South Side, for years, Mr. Ringer maintains a law office in the First National bank building and lives in the Magic City. . "I was urged to get .into this race and I was slow to make the decision," Mr. Ringer said. "I believe Omaha needs vigorous service at the head of its polict department It it wj Some Fish Story. "You ask me for my most thrilling moment and it does' not take me a moment to remember r, just what and when it was," said Ford Burlingim, former manager of the . Merchants hotel. "To be yanked out of a boat by an ordinary fish may not seem to some people to btmuch of a thriller, buv it thrilled my marrows until I still shudder when X think . of it. "T'was a couple of years ago when . with -a guide and Herman Peters I '. was fishing in Big Sand lake, near Webster, Wis., just opposite the Hobby. Wf had been having pretu good luck, especially Peters with that long whip ot his, with which he can throw a luri a mile, and-1 had not - been doing very well when I changed bait. I hat did the business. "Big Toe, ihe Indian guide, had just rowed us ou of some weeds and into clear water when it happened. I got . a strike. It was some strike and I started to reel in. The big fellow started for me and I kept reeling until he was alongside and way down. Then he plunged under the boat and took me intc the water with him. 1 did not wan to be lonesome in that water so I just naturally upset the - boat as 1 -ent overboard and took Peters and the guide in with me. 1 "Peters and Toe stuck by the boat and soon had it righted, but I had to tend to that fish, as I did not intend to let him rfcape. . "Finally I reeled the fish right up to me and then jumped on his back and steered him until he had taken me ashore." Peters vouches for this tale. Ruffs Close Call. "The greatest thriirof mv 'life.' said "Blondy" Ruff, county clerk of , Sarpy county, "was when I attempted . to cross the Pappio creek during the ' ' cloudburst the night of June 5, last year." The history of that night will ' be tola for many years by the resi- -dents of Papillion. The treacherous -little creek which runs through the . heart of the town rose during the ' terrific downpour of rain and many lives were endangered. Mrs. Walter Voss and three small children were imprisoned in the German Settlement home on the bank of the creek and the mad rush of water swirled around J it,, threatening to carry it down stream any minute. "Blondy" heard the -cries of the children and started to swim across the current to the house. The rush of the water was too swift for him and he was swept down , stream, 1but managed to keep his head above the water. Finally his feet caught in the wheel of a big -grader and he caught hold of a tree, whose top branches protruded from the water. He hung to the tree until his arm lost their grip and then he clundr by his teeth, while he unfast ented his belt and strapped his hands to the branch. Then he lost con sciousness. He was,,in the water for nearly four hours before he was rescued. Men assembled on the bank of the creekand stared, panic-stricken, at the man inhe middle of the stream. It was impossible to reach him. There were no boats in Papillion. . Trucks hastened to Gretna over 10 miles of muddy rain-swept roads and returned with a boat, which proved to be nothing but a toy when the men tried to cross the stream in it. The waves dashed h around and the men saw it would be suicide to attempt to cross tne stream m it. t At last one man snouted: -"I have it a chain a human chain." The plan was hazardous, but it was all that remained. . and volunteers quickly formed themselves into a chain of men and struck out to save their comrade. They were successful and brought him to the bank. His clothes had been whipped from him and he was unconscious, but the men had been in time to save his life. Scott's First Smoke. Cinnamon cigars were the direct cause of a thrilling period of anxiety, coupled with a keen sense of remorse, in the life of Sam W,. Scott, Sara was born in Chester, Pa., during the year well, it was the year before" circuses began to travel in railroad trains. It had been their custom to go by wagon road, and the boys of the town used to go far out into the coun try tp meet the approaching caval cade, assume complete control of a lurid banner and march into town, a member of the circus. m For this pleas urable task they received a fabulous sum and a free ticket to the big top. "Barnum's circus was the attraction, and Joe Hunter, my chum, antf"I were waiting on the road fpr that banner shortly after sunup, and we made our annual triumphant march into' Chester with hands playing and flags flying. But, alas, fame is liable to turn the heads of eventhe great, and we felt called upon to purchase some cin namon cigars to properly com memorate the day. This debauchery proved our undoing. I became deathly sick, and even the circus lost its at tractiveness in my eyes. Llay on the grassy plot near the railroad tracks and suffered the pains of the wickecL Intermittent groans from my chum at my side told me that misery had company. When I arrived home, my mother inquired kindly how I had en joyed the circus. I groped blindly for an answer and finally admitted that I had not been there. When asked the reason for my sudden illness, I ex plained 'Toomany cinnamon rolls.' The suspense and anxiety of that mo ment will always live in my memory." pronounced conviction that great serticeTcan be rendered by one who can act and vote as if he would never be a candidate again. Any public of ficial who trims for votes can not do his full duty. I shall go in abso lutely without strings or promises, ex cept a promise to myself to act en tirely on principle." Mr. Ringer is one of the candidates whose election has been conceded, even by the administration. His name has been one to conjure with in the campaign. His-record all of the way from school at Lincoln to law office in Omaha has stood the test of inves tigation. Mrs. Ringer and two laddies hire endorsed thi candidate .-