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THE BEE; OMAHA. FRIDAY. AUGUST 23. 1918. OH , MONEY ! MONEY ! THB 8TOBY THC8 FAS. Stanley O. Fulton, multimillionaire, mas querading as "John Smith," la studying relative to whom he haa arranged to live tare aura of money. Hla lawyer, Ed ward D. Norton, haa been Instructed to end. six month after the arrival of John Smith In Hillerton, a check for 1100,000 to Jamea Blalidell and a check for an equal amount to Frank Blalidell and to Flora nialedell. Smith wishes to study them "before and after taklnc" wealth. CHAPTER VIII A Santa Claus Held Up TT was about five months after the .. w. ci r win Timii lAnnirc a. i y ranirv a t illUllUlUlllVtiBIl V., . W -J v. Fulton, had started for South America, that Edward D. Norton, Esq., received the following letter: "Dear Ned I'm glad there's only one more month to wait. I feel like Santa Claus with a box of toys held up by a snowdrift, and I just can't wait to see the children dance when they get them. "And let me say right here and now how glad I am that I did this thing. Oh, yes, I'll admit I still feel like the small boy at the keyhole, at times, perhaps; but I'll forget that when the children begin to dance. "And really, never have I seen a bunch of people whom I thought a little money would do more good to than the Blaisdells here in Hillerton. My only regret is that I didn't know about Miss Maggie Duff, so that she could have had some, too, (Oh, yes, I've found out all about 'Poor Mag gie' now, and she's a dear the typi cal, self-sacrirficing, self-effacing bearer of everybody's burdens, includ ing a huge share of her own!) How ever, she isn't a Blaisdell, of course, so I couldn't have worked her into . my scheme very well, I suppose, even if I had known about her. They are ' all fond of her though they impose on her time and her sympathies abominably. But I reckon she'll get , some of the benefits of the others' thousands. Mrs. Jane, in particular, is always wishing she could do some ' thing for 'Poor Maggie,' so I dare ; say she'll be looked out for all right. "As to who will prove to be the wisest handler of the $100,000, and thu$ my eventual heir, I haven't the least idea. As I said before, they all need money, and need it badly need it to be comfortable and 'happy, I mean, iney aren t reauy iuur, any of them, except, perhaps, Miss Flora. She is a little hard up, poor soul. Bless her heart! I wonder what she'll get first, Niagara, the phono graph, or s&mething to eat without looking at the price. Did I . ever write you about those 'three wishes of hers? "I can't see that any of the family are really extravagant, unless, per haps, it's Mrs. James 'Hattie.' She is ambitious, and is inclined to live on a scale a little beyond her means, I judge. But that will be all tight, of course, when she has the money to gratify her tastes. Jim poor fel fow, I shall be glad to see him take it' easy, for once. He reminds me of the old horse I saw the other day running one of those infernal tread mill threshing machines always go ing, but never getting there. He works, and works hard, and then he gets a job nights and works harder; but he never quite catches up with his bills, I fancy. What a world of - solid comfort he'll take with that hundred thousand 1 I can hear him draw the long breath now for once every bill paidl "Of course, the Frank Blaisdells are the most thrifty of the bunch at least, Mrs. Frank, 'ine,' is and I dare say they would be the most conservative handlers of my millions. B,ut time will tell. Anyhow, I shall be glad to see them enjoy themselves meanwhile with the hundred thou sand. Maybe Mrs. Jane will be con strained to clear my room of a few of the mats and covers and tidies I I have hopes. At least I shall surely have a vacation from her everlasting ' 'We can't afford it,' and her equally .everlasting 'Of course, if, I had the money I'd do it.' Praise be for that I ' and it'll be worth a hundred thou sand to me, believe me, Ned. "As for her husband-r-l'm not sure how he will take it. It isn't corn or peas or flour or sugar, you see, and I'm not posted as to his opinion of much of anything else. He'll spend Author of "Pollyanna." some of it, though I'm sure of that. I don't think he always thoroughly appreciates his wife's thrifty ideas of economy. "I haven't forgotten the night I came home once, to find Mrs. Jane out calling,' and Mr. Frank rampaging around the house with every gas jet at full blast. It sems he was packing his bag to go on a hurried trip. He laughed a little sheepishly I sup pose he saw my blinking amazement at the illumination and said some thing about being tired of always feeling his way through pitchdark rooms. o, as l say, i m not quite sure of Mr. Frank when he comes in to possession of the hundred thou sand. He s been cooped up in the dark so long he may want to blow in the whole hundred thousand in one grand blare of light. However, I reckon I needn't worry he'll still have Mrs. Jane to turn some of the gas jets down I "As for the younger generation they re fine, every one of them; and just think what this money will mean to them in education and advantages! Jims son, rred, 18, is a fine, manly boy. He s got his mother s ambi Hons, and he s keen tor college even talks of working his way (much to his mother's horror) if his father can't find the money to send him. Of course that part will be all right now in a month. The daughter, Bessie, (almost 17), is an exceedingly pretty girl. She, too, is ambitious almost too much so, perhaps, for her happiness in the present state of their pocketbook But, of course, that, too, will be all right, after next month. Benny, the P-year-old, will be concerned as little as any one over that $100,000. I imagine. The real value of the gift he will not appreciate, of course; in fact, I doubt if he even approves of it lest Ins privileges as to neals and manners be still further curtained. Poor Bennyl Now. Mellicent Perhaps in no one do I expect to so thoroughly rejoice as I do in poor little pleasure-starved Mellicent. I realize, of course, that it will mean to her the solid advantages of college, music-culture and travel; but I must confess that in my dearest vision, the child is reveling in one grand whirl of pink dresses and chocolate bonbons. Bless her dear heart. I gave her one five-pound box of candy, but I never repeated the mistake. Besides endur ing the manifestily suspicious disap proval of her mother because I had made the gift, I have had the added torment of seeing that box of choco lates doled out to that poor child at the rate of two pieces a day. They aren' gone yet, but I'll warrant they're as hard as bullets those wretched bonbons. I picked the box up yester day. You should have heard it rattle 1 "But there is yet another phase of the money business in connection with Mellicent that pleases me mightily. A certain youth by the name of Carl Pennock has been beauing her around a good deal, since I came. The Pen nocks have some money $50,000. or so, I believe and it is reported that Mrs. Pennock has put her foot down on the budding romance because the Blaisdells have not got money enough I (Begin to see where my chuckles come in?) However true this report may be, the fact remains that the youth has not been near the house for a month past, nor taken Mellicent anywhere. O course, it shows him and his family up for just what they are; but it has been mortifying for poor Mellicent. She's showing her pluck like a little trump; ' however, and goes serenely on her way with her head just enough in the air but not too much. "I don't think Mellicent's real heart is affected in the least she's only 18, remember, but her pride is. And her mother ! Mrs. Jane is thoroughly angry as well as mortified. She says Mtllicent is every whit as good as those Pennocks and that the women who would let a paltry thing like money stand in the way of her son's affectious is a pretty small specimen. For her part, she never did have any use for rich folks, anyway, and she is proud and glad that she's poor I I'm afraid Mrs. Jane was very angry when she said that. However, so much for her and she may change her opinion one of these days. "My private suspicion is tbat young Pennock is already repentant and is pulling hard at his mother's leading strings, for I was with Mellicent the other day when we met the lad face to face on the street. Mellicent smil ed and nodded casually, but Pennock he turned all colors of the rainbow with terror, pleading, apology and as sumed indifference all chasing each other across his face. Dear, but he was a sightl "There is, too, another feature in the case. It seems that a new family by the name of Gaylord has come to town and opened up the old Gaylord mansion. Gaylord is a son of old Peter Gaylord and is a millionaire. They are making quite a splurge in the way of balls and liveried servants and motor cars, and the town is agog with it all. There are young people in the family, and especially there is a girl, a Miss Pearl, whom, report says, the Pennocks have selected as being a suitable mate for Carl. At all events, the Pennocks and the Gaylords have struck up a furious friendship, and the young people of both families are in the forefront of innumerable social af fairsin most of which Mellicent is left out. "So now you have it the whole story. And next month comes to Mellicent's father $100,000. Do you wonder I say the plot thickens? "As for myself you should see me! I eat whatever I like. (The man who says health biscuit to me no.w gets knocked down and I've eot the strength to do it, too!) I can walk miles and not know it. I've gained 20 pounds, and I'm having the time of my life. I'm even enjoying being a genealogist a little. I've about ex hausted the resources of Hillerton and have begun to make trips to the neigh boring towns. I can even spend an afternoon in an old cemetery copying dates, from moss-grown gravestones. and not entirely lost my appetite for dinner I mean, supper. I was even congratulating myself that I was really quite a genealogist when, the other day, I met the real thing. Heav ens, Ned, that man had 14,472 dates at his tongue's end. and he said them all over to me. He knows the name of every Blake (he was a Blake) back to the year one, how many children they had (and they had some families then, let me tell you), and when thev 1 1 1 J 4 t . an aiea, ana wny. i met him one morning in a cemetery. I was hunting ior a certain stone and I asked him a question. Heavens! It was like set ting a match to one of those Fourth- of-July flowerpot skyrocket affairs. lhat question was the match that set him going, and thereafter he was a gushing geyser of names and dates. I neved heard anything like it. "He began at the Blaisdells. but skipped almost at once to the Blakes there were a lot of them near us. In five minutes he had me dumb from sheer stupefaction. In ten minutes he had made a century run. and bv noon he had got to the Crusades. We went through the Dark Ages very appropriately, waiting in an open tomb for a thunderstorm to pass. We had got to the year one when I had to leave to drive back to Hillerton. I've invited him to come to see Father Duff. I thought I'd like to have them meet. He knows a lot about the Duffs a Blake married one. 'way back somewhere. I'd like to hear him and Fither Duff talk or. rather, I'd like to hear him try to talk to Father Duff. Did I ever write you Father Duff's opinion of genealo gists? I believe I did. 1 m not seeing so much of father Duff these days. Now that it's grown a little cooler he spends most of his time in his favorite chair before the cookstove in. the kitchen; Jove, what a letter this is! It should be shipped by freight and read in sections. But I wanted you to know how things are here. You can appreciate it the more when you come. "You're not forgetting, of course, that it's on the first day of Novem ber that Stanley G. Fulton's envelope of instructions is to be opened. "As ever yours, "JOHN SMITH." (Continued Tomorrow.) O'HARA GAINS IN RACE FOR COUNTY ATTORNEY'S JOB Leads Abbott by Thirteen Votes . in Unofficial Recheck; McDonald Has Edge on Dunn. An examination of the primary vote in 168 voting precincts of Doug las county shows that N. P. Dodge carried only one precinct over Al bert W. Jefferis. Dodge's lucky precinct happened to be the Fifteenth of the Fifth, at Twenty-third and Vinton streets, where the vote was 26 for Dodge and 25 for Jefferis. This was one of the precincts where the Dodge organiza tion had special workers. An unofficial recheck of the demo cratic county attorney vote gives O'Hara, 1,938, and Abbott, 1,925. O'Hara, who is not superstitious, said he is not afraid of this lead of 13 This contest will remain in doubt until the soldier vote shall have been received and the official canvass com pleted. Another unofficial check of the vbte in 34 precincts, which comprise the First county commissioner district, shows 626 for Henry McDonald and 606 for Henry W. Dunn. "Sea Scouts" Division of Boy Scouts Is Organized A new branch of the Boy Scouts to be known as the "Sea Scouts," is be ing organized. The principal quali fications of this branch are that the applicant be over 14 years old, and a first class scout. - This branch will include a general course in naval activities.. There will be different grades of seamen just as there are different grades of scouts. . The "Sea Scouts" were chartered by congress June IS, 1917. Omaha Y. M. C. A, Worker Now Lieutenant in Army Milo T. Gates, formerly in charge of boys' work in the Young Men's Christian association, is making rapid advancement in Uncle Sam's army overseas, according to information received by his father, A. E. Gates of Columbus. He enlisted last January as an am bulance driver with a Red Cross unit from Columbia university, New York. He could not withstand the desire to join the fighting forces and asked for a transfer to the field artillery in the spring. He showed such aptitude with the fighting men that he was recently commissioned a second lieutenant. He has been assigned to a motorized battery of 75s. , Four-Year-Old Boy Sues ForsAlleged Auto Accident Robert Knutsen, as driver, and Rob ert Petersen, as owner of an automo bile which is alleged to have struck Simon Feldman, 4 years old, at Twenty-first and Burdette streets on July 8, are defendants in a $5,000 damage suit brought in district court by the boy's father, Samuel Feldman. Wife Refuses to Live With Husband, Is Divorce Charge Allegations that his wife refuses to live with him, that she is cruel and hampers him in his work are made by VV. B. Lano, city salesman for the National Biscuit company, in his pe tition for divorce from Hellen Lano, filed in district court Thursday- Franklin D. Miller Dies at .Swedish Methodist Hospital Franklin D. Miller, 2436 Patrick avenue, died at the Swedish Mission hospital Wednesday at the age of 75 years. He is survived by four sons, Clin ton R. and Hiram of Omaha; Burd of Minneapolis and Forrest of Salt Lake City; three daughters, Mrs. Ethel Dinuzzo and Mrs. L. Hoffman of Omaha and Mrs- Mabel Stocking of Salt Lake City. Funeral services will be held at the North Side Christian church this afternoon at 2:30, with burial in the old soldiers' circle at Forest Lawn. Six Omaha Boys Accepted For Training as Officers Applications of six Omaha men for entrance in the officers' training camp for artillery officers at Camp Zachary Taylor have been accepted. The men are now awaiting call. Those who have been accepted are: Kenneth F. Reed, 404 North Fortieth street; Edward S. Burdick, 3263 Arbor street; Theodore E. Wood. 892 Bran deis building; Leo F. McShane, 1906 Chicago stteet; Franklin R- Willsey, 204 South Twenty-fifth avenue, and Frank S. Selby, 1300 North Fifty-second street. Register Editor Resigns To Enter Eastern School Thomas Findley, editor of the Cen tral High School "Register," has an nounced that he will continue his education in an eastern school and has resigned the position. Take Plenty of Time To Eat If you eat too rapidly you are most likely troubled with indigestion and constipation. Eat slowly, masticate your food thoroughly. Then when you feel dull and stupid after eating, which shows that you have eaten more than you should, take one of Chamberlain's Tablets to aid digestion. -Advertisement. URGESS-tafeW. EVERYBODY STORE' Thursday, August 22, 1918.- -STORE NEWS FOR FRIDAY- -Phone Douglas 2100 Friday in the Down Stairs Store A Special Purchase of Mina Taylor DRESSES For Porch and House Priced at $149 JUST out of their wrappings fresh, new merchandise that is being placed on sale Friday at a price made possible by our being "on the job" at just the right time to pick up this lot of dresses at an ex tremely low price. 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Down Stairs Store Work Trousers Neat stripes, cassl meres, worsteds and fancy mixtures. Sizes 31 to 42 waist School Pants worsteds,' cassimeres and twills, in all the new colors. The value is exircmo. ....... Slipovers for boys or girls, in blue only. Sizes 2 to 6, at Wash Goods RemO nints I n cl u d i n g ing plain and fancy voile, tissue, wash suiting, poplin, ki mono crepe, organuic. in a large range oil colors and style J $295 98c 25c v2 PRICE Corset s elastic top, pink coutil, 'free hip, double steel, rust Iproof. ( Lace Front Corsets Q CAJ Medium top, long V X e DU 1 skirt, free hip, of pink 29c 9c 5c 2l2cfe I coutil. (Big Wonder triangle shaped wall mops with handles. (Men's Handker chiefs of 'ine cambric, all white, full size, Friday. Women's Hanker chiefs, white and col ors, embroidered corners and hemstitched. f Fancy Trimming J Braids in a variety of daintv natterns on I sale Friday, a yard. 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