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Wednesday, June 19, 1918.-
-STORE NEWS FOR THURSDAY.
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THE BEE:
PURGES
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CHAPTER XXI.
A Concert Under Fire.
The boys in the trenchwere told
that I had come to sing for them, and
so, with no further preliminaries, I
began my concert. I started with
iny favorite opening song, as usual
"Roamin" in the Gloamin'," nd then
went on with the other old favorites.
I told a lot of stories, too, and then
I came to "The Laddies Who Fought
and Won." None of the men had
heard it, but there were officers there
who had seen "Three Cheers" during
the winter when they had a short
leave to run over to London.
I got thfough the first verse all
right, and was just swinging into the
first chorus when, without the least
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'trench. A missile came in that some
u
oracer at once nauea as a wmzz Dang.
It is called that, for that is just ex
actly the sound it makes. It is like a
giant firecracker, and it would be
amusing if one did not know it was
deadly. These missiles are not fired
by the big guns behind the lines, but
by the small trench cannon worked,
as a rule, by compressed air. me
range is very short, but they are capa
ble of great execution at that range.
Was IJrightened? I must have
beenl I know I felt a good deal as
I have done when I have been seasick.
And I began to think at once of all
sorts of places where I would rather
have been than in that trench I I was
standing on a slight elevation at the
back, or parados, of the trench, so
that I was raised a bit above my audi
ence, and I had a fine view of that
deadly thing, wandering about, spit
ting fire and metal parts. It traveled
so that the men could dodge it, but
it was throwing off slugs -that you
could neither see nor dodge, and it
was a poor place to bet
And the one whizz bang was not
enough to suit Fritz. It was followed
immediately by a lot more, that came
popping in and making themselves as
unpleasant as you could imagine. I
watched the men about me, and they
seemed to be unconcerned, and to be
thinking much more of me and my
singing than of the whizz bangs. So,
........ kiM T fU tVir wa nnfVi.
mg for me to do but to keep on with
my song: I decided that I must really
Je safe enough, no matter how I felt.
But I had certain misgivings on the
subject. Still, I managed to go on
Willi l'J BU"(S, "U . '- -----.
enough to look at though, if I .was,
my appearance wholly belied my true
inward feelings.
I struggled through to the end of
the chorus and I think I sang pretty
badly, although I don't know. But I
was pretty sure the end of the world
had come for me, and these laddies
were taking things as calmly as they
were simply because they were used
to it and it was all in the day's work
for them. The Germans were fairly
Omaha "Tank" to Be Feature
Of Rotary Convention at K. C.
One of the "tanks" used in the third
Liberty loan drive in Omaha has
been shipped to Kansas City and will
be a big feature at the national con
vention of Rotary clubs there next
week. By use of it the, Omaha dele
gation will cotnmand prime attention.
Arthur Thomas' manager of the
Chamber of Commerce publicity
bureau, has been invited to go with
the Rotarians and attend to the pub
lic work for the tank and Omaha.
With Gus Renze he will inaugurate a
program of "stunts" to be performed
by the tank which will make the dele
gates from all other cities open their
eyes and carry home tales of the
greatness of Omaha and the enter
prise of Omaha Rotarians.
It was the intention to send the tank
overland to Kansas City, but it was
found to be too wide for some of the
bridges. It was shipped by freight
and a man went down to reassemble it
there.
Omaha to Be Represented at
- Meeting of Grain Exchanges
In New York next Monday, 4t a
mAlinrr ( Vm-i fA m a( TlAm OtlA CTT1 1 M
exchanges of the country, Umaha
will be represented by President Lin
Herholm of the Omaha Grain ex
change. At this meeting Chicago
Will aiicuifl lu nave wic uim-icwuoi
reduced between that city and Mis
souri river terminals.
At this time the differential is 5
cents a bushel. The claim of Chicago
is that this gives Omaha a pro
nounced advantage. At the New
Vrtrlr mt!nir if i rnntnrfd ihai
Chicago will ask for a reduction of
between 2 and 3 cents, making the
differential the difference in the
freight rates, instead of a flat sum,
as now.
The Omaha Grain exchange has in
structed President Linderholm to re
sist any attempt for a reduction of
the differential.
Tenshun! Beef Eaters; You
May Order Steak at Noon
If you take you meals at a hotel,
or a public eating house, to keep in
line with the orders of the food ad
ministration, you are permitted tol
order and eat beefsteak at the Thurs
day noon meal instead of at the
Tuesday night dinner, as previously
announced. The local food adminis
tration fixed upon Tuesday night as
the time for eating the beefsteakf but
later discovered that the national
order provided for Thursday noon
and consequently the change is made.
While beef eating rules apply only
to the public eating places, the food
administration has requested that
householders do their snare of con
serving. To this end it Jias been
ruled that one and a quarter pounds
of clear beef per week per person is
a reasonable allowance.
Doctor Says Wife Hampers
His Professional Career
-Dr. S. Goodrich Reed, answering
his wife's divorce suit in district
court, alleges she has been guilty of
cruelty and has greatly hampered
him in his endeavors to rise in the
professional world. He says she has
been "arrogant, haughty, flippant and
fault-finding" toward his friends, both
professional and personal, and that
this conduct has been detrimental to
his practice. He asks that her peti
tion be denied and that he be given
the divorce. : .
sluicing that trench byt now. The
whizz bangs were popping over us
like giant fire crackers, going off one
and two and three at a time. And the
trench was full of flying slugs and
chunks of dirt, striking against our
faces and hurtling all about us.
There I was. I had a good "house."
I wanted to please my audience. Was
it no a trying situation? I thought
Fritz might have had manners enough
to wait until I had' finished my con
cert, at least! But the Hun has no
manners, as all the world knows.
Along that embankment we 'had
climbed to reach the trenches, and
not very far from the bit of trench in
which I was singing, there was a rail
road bridge of some strategic impor
tance. And now a shell hit that
bridge not a whizz bang, but a real,
big shell. It exploded with a hideous
screech, as if the bridge were some
human thing being struck, and
screaming out its agony. The soldiers
looked at me, and I saw some of
them winking. They seemed to be
mighty interested in the way I was
taking all this. I looked back at
them, and then at a Highland colonel
who was listening to my singing as
quietly and as carefully as if he had
been at a stall in Covent Garden dur
ing the opera season. He caught my
glance.
"I think they're coming it a bit
thick Lauder, old chap," he remarked,
quietly.
"I quite agree with you, colonel," I
said. I tried to ape his voice and
manner, but I wasn't so quiet as he.
Now there came a ripping, tearing
sound in the air, and a veritable
cloudburst of the damnable whizz
bangs broke over us. That settled
matters. There were no orders, but
everyone turned, just as if it were a
meeting, and a motion to adjourn had
been put and carried unanimously.
We all ran for the safety holes or
dugouts in the side of the embank
ment. And I can tell ye that the
Reverend Harry Lauder, M.P., Tour
were no the last ones to reach those
shelters! No, we were by no means
the lastt
I ha' no doot that I might have im
proved upon the shelter that I found,
had I had time to pick and choose.
But any shelter was good just then,
and I was glad of mine, and of a
chance to catch my breath. Afterward,
I saw a picture by Captain Bairnsfa
ther that made me laugh a good deal,
because it represented so exactly the
way I felt. He had made a drawing
of two Tommies in a wee bit of a hole
in a field that was being swept by
shells and missiles of every sort. One
was grousing to his mate, and the
other said to him:
"If you know a better 'ole go 'ide in
it!"
I said we all turned and ran for
cover. But there was one braw lad
die who did nothing of the sort. He
would not run such tricks were not
for him I v
He was a big Hie'land laddie, and
he wore naught but his kilt and his
semmet his undershirt. He had on
his steel helmet, and it shaded a face
that had not been shaved or washed
for days. His great, brawny arms
were folded across his chest and he
was smoking his pipe. And he stood
there as quiet and unconcerned as if
he had been a village smith gazing
down a quiet country road. I watched
him, and he saw me and grinned at
me. And now and then he glanced at
me, quizzically.
"It's all right, Harry," he said, sev
eral times. "Dinna fash yoursel', man.
I'll tell ye in time for ye to duck if I
see one coming your wayl"
We crouched in our holes until
there came a brief lull in the bombard
ment. Probably the Germans thought
they had killed ui all and cleared the
trench,' or maybe it had been only
that they hadn't liked my singing and
had been satisfied when they had
stopped it. So we came out, but the
firing was not over at all, as we found
out at once. So we went down a bit
deeper, into concrete dugouts.
This trench had been a part of the
intricate German defensive system far
back of their old front line, and they
had had the pains of building and hol
lowing out the fine dugout into which
I now went for shelter. Here they
had lived, deep under the earth, like
animals and with animals, too. For
when I reached the bottom a dog
came to meet me, sticking out his red
tongue to lick my hand and wagging
his tail as friendly as you please.
He was a German dog one of the
prisoners of war taken in the great at
tack. His old masters hadn't bothered
to call him and take him with them
when the Highlanders came along and
so he had stayed behind as part of the
spoils of the attack.
That wasn't much of a dog, as dogs
go. He was a mongrel-looking crea
ture, but he couldn't have been
friendlier. The Highlanders had
adopted him and. called him Fritz, and
they were very fond of him and he of
them. He had no thought of war.
He behaved just as dogs do at hame.
But above us the horrid din was
still going on and bits of shells were
flying everywhere any one of them
enough to kill you if it struck you in
the right spot. I was glad, I can tell
ye, that I was so snug and safe be
neath the ground, and I had no mind
at all to go out until the bombard
ment was well over. The casual sort
of shelling I had had to fear at Vimy
Ridge was nothing to this. This was
the real thing.
And then I thought that what I was
experiencing for a few minutes was
the daily portion of these laddies who
were all aboot me not for a few min
utes, but for days and weeks and
months at a time. And it came home
to me again, an$ stronger than ever,
what they were doing for us folks at
hame. and how we ought to be feeling
for them.
The heavy firing went on for three
quarters of an hour, at least. We
could hear the chugging of the big
guns and the sorrowful swishing of
the shells, as if they were mournful
because they were not wreaking more
destruction than they were. It all
moved me greatly, but I could see
that the soldiers thought nothing of it
and were quite unperturbed by the
fearful demonstration that was going
on above. They smoked and chatted
and my own nerves grew calmer.
Finally there seemed to come a real
lull in the row above and I turned to
the general.
"Isn't it near time for me to be
finishing my concert, sir?" I asked
him.
"Very good," he said, jumping up.
"Just as you say, Lauder."
So back we went to where I had
begun to sing. My audience reas
sembled and I struck up "The Laddies
Who Fought and Won" again. It
Seemed, howeyer, the most appropri
ate song I could have picked to sing
in that spot. I finished this time, but
there was some discord in the closing
bars, for the Germans were still at
their shelling, sporadically.
So I finished and I said goodby to
the men who were to stay in the
trench, guarding that bit of Britain's
far-flung battle line. And then the
Reverend Harry Lauder, M. P., Tour
was ready to go back not to safety
at once, but to a region far less in
fested by the Hun than this one
where we had been such warmly re
ceived visitors.
(Continued Tomorrow.)
A Sharp Shooter
must have steady nerves, eood rich blood,
good eyesight, good stomach, liver and
kidneys. From 40 to 70 per cent, of our
boys were rejected on account of some im
pairment in their human mechanism. A
large percentage was rejected on account
of their kidneys. Backache is often caused
by kidney disorder, which means that the
kidneyB are not working properly. Poison
ous matter and urio acid accumulate
within the body in great abundance, over
working the kidneys. Hence the conges
tion of blood causes backache in the same
manner that a similar congestion in the
head causes headache. One becomes nerv
ous, despondent, sick, feverish, irritable,
spots appearing before the eyes, and lack
of ambition to do things.
In some people there are sharp pains in
the back and loins, distressing bladder dis
orders and sometimes obstinate dropsy.
The urio acid sometimes forms into gravel
or kidney stones. When the uric acid
affects the tissues, muscles and joints, it
causes lumbago, rheumatism, gout or
sciatica. This is the time to try Anuric,
double strength. The folkB in this city
who have been benefited or cured, are de
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by using "An-uric", the new discovery
of Dr. Pierce and his staff of the Invalids'
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backache, stiff legs, arms and muscles, and
an aching head (worn out before the day
began because they were in and out of bed
half a dozen times at night) are appreciat
ing the perfect rest, comfort and new
strength they obtained from Doctor
Pierce's Anuric Tablets, double strength.
To prove that this is a certain urio acid
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and bladder diseases and rheumatism, if
you 've never used the Anuric, send ten
cents to Dr. Pierce for a large trial pack
age. This will prove to you that Anuric
is many times more active than lithia in
eliminating urio acid. If you are a sufferer,
go to your best druggist and ask for a
sixty-cent bottle of Anuric
With Dr. Pierce!s Pleasant Pellets, there's
no trouble. They're made to prevent it.
They're tiny, sugar-coated anti-bilious
granules, purely vegetable, perfectly harm
less, the. smallest, easiest and best to take.
Put up in twenty-five-cent vials. They
cleanse and regulate the whole system, in
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gently, but thoroughly and effectively.
One little Pellet for a laxative three for
a cathartic Sick Headache, Bilious Head
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Attacks, and all derangements of the liver,
stomach and bowels am prevented, re
lieved and cured.
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BOPTOE
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will take iuch cases upon a guarantee to giv.
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nave perfected the beat treatment in existence today. I do not inject paraffine or wax.
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from business. No danger from chloroform, nhock and blood poison, and no laying up
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Established 1894
Special June Sale of
Tonleit RoiumA
For the Vacation and Hot Weather Period
YOU'LL do well to check over this list, the items you rte ed for the toilet and bath, and come here Thursday and
share in the saving advantages.
Bathing Caps,
39c
Special lot of bath
ing caps at S9e.
f 1 "
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Melbaline
Face Powder,
25c
Free 2 Cakes
Palm Olive Soap
With Bottle
Shampoo,
39c
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Kirk's Rose
Geranium
Toilet Soap,
12c
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Toilet Soaps
lergen's geranium, cake, 12.
Broadway bath soap, csks, lie.
Peroxide cold cream, 13.
Bocabelli castile, 15c.
English lderflower, 1 3c
Honey glycerins bath soap, 13c.
Cocoanut oil soap, cake, Be.
Woodbury's soap, cake, 22e.
Face Powders
Jardint Da Rose face powder, 50c.
Sweet orchid faes powder, $1.00.
Gardenia face powder, $1.00.
Luxor face powder, 75c.
Mid summer rose face powder, 50c.
Colgate's face powder, 50c.
Toilet Water
Racarma rose toilet water, $1.00.
Racarma lilac toilet water, $1.00.
Lov-Me toilet water, $1.00.
Melba violet toilet water, $1.00.
Melba piney wood toilet water, $1.25.
Hudnut violet scent toilet watsr,
$1.00.
Colgate's toilet water, 65c and 75c
Mid-Summer rose toilet water, 75c.
Talcum Powders
Page talcum powder, 14c
Lilac rose talcum powder, 1-lb. cans,
18c
Colgate's talcum powder, 20c
Yankee clover talcum powder, 25c.
Gardenia talcum powder, 25c.
Sweet orchid talcum powder, 25c.
Violet sec. talcum powder, 25c.
Lov-Me talcum powder, 25c.
Tooth Pastes & Brushes
Colgate's tooth pssts, 10c and 20c.
Pepsodent tooth pasts, SSc
Sanitol tooth pasta, 30c.
Euthymol tooth pasts, 25c
Norwich dental cream, 25c.
Kolynos tooth pasts, 30c
Tooth brushes, transparent, 25c
Tooth brushes, ivory handle, 30c
Tooth brushes, transparent. 35c.
Tooth brushes, ivory handle, 39c and
45c.
Perspiration Powder
and Lotions
Nonspi at 38c
Odorono at 27c, 54c and 89c
Odovan at 50c.
Mum at 27c.
Eversweet at 27c
Twilight lily at 25e.
Spiro powder at 25c
Summer Drinks and
Extracts
Applju, 6-ouncs 12c
Applju, '4 H -ounce 25c
Lou, 4-ouncs 10c
Loju, 16-ounce 30c
Loju, quart bottles ............. 60c
Cherry phosphate, makes 1 gal.... 25c
Cherry phosphate, makes S gals... 50c
Cherry Phosphate, makes 5 gal. . .$1.00
Grape juice, pint 25c
Grape juice, quart 50c
Bath Spray
$1.29
Good quality bath
Spray, special, $1.29
v
Bath Spray
$1.45
Extra size with
heavy tubing, $1.45.
Talcum Pow
der, 1 Lot
Ass'd, 8c
Ginger Ale,
Quart, Special
22c
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A New Shipment of Victor Records
Just Received From the Factory
mHE following list comprises those numbers on which there has been a tremendous shortage on account of their
X popularity.
We have been fortunate enough to secure a bountiful supply, but we would urge you to come in immediately
and make your selection while the stock is yet complete. New complete record catalogues ask for one, they are
free.
17767 "Drowsy Waters" Ha
walian instrumental
18467 "What Are You Going to
Do to Help the Boys!"
Popular song.
18029 "Cohen at the Telephone"
Comic.
18370 "Over There" Band se
lection. 18376 "Darktown Strutters Ball
Saxophone selection.
17808 "Aloha Oe" Hawaiian
instrumental.
18467 "Keep Your Head Down
Fritzis Boy" Popular
70117
64694
35630
35630
18404
song.
"The Lsddiss Who
Fought add Won" Harry
Lauder .
"There's a Long, Long
Trail" John McCormack.
"Oh, Boy" Fox Trot,
Smith's Orchestra.
"Gems From Going Up"
Vocal Medley.
"Wait Till the Cows Come
Home" Instrumental.
17710 "Honolulu March" Ha
waiian instrumental.
18352 "Just as Your Mothsr
Wss" Populsr song.
18138 "I Ain't Got Nobody
Much" Popular song.
17781 "Pasadena Day March"
Band selection.'
74684 "Aloha Oe" Alma Gluck
and chorus.
18436 "I'll taka You Back to
Italy" Ada Jonss and
Billy Murray.
Burress-Naah C. Fourth Floor.
18457 "Ths Ostrich Walk"
Jazz Band.
45130. "Over Thers" Nora
Bsyes
64773 "God Be With Our Boys
Tonight" John McCor
mack. 17677 "Fidelity March" U. S.
Marina Band.'
18861 "National Airs" Accor-
deon selections, by Pietro.
18460 "What Are We Going to
Do with Him, Boys"
Popular Song.
Manufacturers Sample Line Men's
and Boy's Bathing Suits
85c and $1.35
It's a cleanup of a big manufacturer's line at
greatly reduced prices. Two groups:
At 85c
One-piece bathing suits in black, navy, gray
and dark oxford, with contrasting stripes at neck,
armhole and skirt. Sizes 24 to 84 snd 34 to 46,
at 85c.
At $1.35
Cotton and wool mixtures one-piece bsthing
suits in black, navy, gray and oxford. Striking
novelty effects, in high colors, black navy and dark
oxford. First quality, and very special at $1.35.
Burf es-Naah Co. Main Floor
ON THE SQUARE
At the Elevator Thursday
Women's Sample Sweaters
$2.50 to $16.50
EXTREME values every one, sizes for wo
men, misses and children. Distinctive new
fashions for the street, seashore, motor or sports
wear in slip-over, belted, sleeveless coatee
styles, etc. Only one or two of a kind. Very
special Thursday, at $2.50 to $16.50.
Burfess-NatB Co. Mala Floor
Extra Special Price Reductions on
nammmeK0 Footwear
For Men, Women, Children and Infants
In the Down Stairs Store, Thursday
THE reductions are for two days only Thursday and Friday affording the season's biggest and best
shoe values.
Women's Pumps less than Price
In patent colt and gun metal, light soles, leather
Louis heels. Sizes to 4, B. C. D. widths, less than
Vi the regular price, $1.45.
$1
45
Women' White Canvas
Shoes, $2.85
High lace with covered heels,
light soles; cool, comfortable.
Good fitting shoes, pair, $2.85.
Children's Strap Pumps,
$1.95
Child's and misses strap pumps
white duck, patent kid, gun
metal. All sizes in this lot, at
$1.95.
Infants' Soft Sole Shoes
39c
Patent gray kid top,; patent
white kid top, all black kid, 39c.
Men's Shoes at
$3.35
Sample pair and short lines
black calfskin, tan Russian calf.
Wonderful values at $3.35.
ha-