THE BEE: OMAHA, .WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1918.
CAMPAIGN FOR
WAR WORK FUND
v EXCEEDS QUOTA
More Than Half Million Dollars
Subscribed in This Citv in
Answer to Request of
President Wilson.
Omaha Fund goes "over the top"
for the 50 per cent increase urged
by President Wilson.
Tellers from the banks worked
until late Monday night tabulating
returns from business districts, the
women's committee, schools, Vic
tory Povs and Girls., theaters and
South Omaha and it is officially an
nounced by Treasurer Urn. J. Load
that the fund is now over $500,000,
with several committees and dis
tricts to Ziear from. 'Large subscrip
tions came in Monday from: Amer
ican Smelting and Refining com
pany aul employes, $7,000; Mrs. Sar
ah Joslyn, $2,500; Chicago Lumber
company, $1,000; Schmoller & Muel
ler, $200; Union Carbide and Car
bon corporation, $500; Haskins
Bros, company, $200.
Close Campaign Wednesday.
The War Work campaign commit
tee has issued an appeal to both men
and, women workers to make a final
clean up of their districts so the cam
paign can be closed up Wednesday.
On account of the Victory celebra
tion the campaign is on nationally
until November 20. '
The Missouri Pacific freight house
went 100 per cent, giving oyer $1,500.
The following subscriptions were
reported Tuesday morning:
South SU1 bu.lnesg firms $5,389
Live .took commission firm 7,750
Uvt itock commission employes 1.600
Uv itork traders. ... 2,335
Chicago Lumber Co.....!''. l.OOo
J, B. Adams.. 100
Allen & Reynolds , 100
American Security Co 100
American Stata bank 200
Armstrong-Walsh Co 150
B. H. Arnold 100
Auto Electric Service Co 10s
01. F. Avery & Sons Flow Co 150
TtailAV rinntnl Prt 1011
Raker Specialty Co.. 100
Mrs. M. T. Bartow.... i..... 100
Irving F. Baxter 100
H. U Beard .l 200
Beddeo Clothing Co.: 100
Benson & Carmlchael 250
A. J. P. Bertsehy 100
"A. H. ' Bewsher 100
' Gleanora Blerbower 100
. Billings Dental Supply Co.. 100
T. W. Blackburn 100
Blackstone Oarage Co 100
The Alfred Bloom Co 100
J. P. Bloom Co.. T 100
B. Blotcky 100
Brallcy & Dorrance 10s
John P. Breen 100
0. H. Brwer 100
Dr. W. O. Bridges 150
Brlnn & Jensen Co 15o
Norrls Brown 100
E. E. Bruce (Additional Personal).. 185
Mr. and Mrs. Truman Buck 200
J, C. Bufflngton 100
Byron O. Burbank 100
Burns-Brlnker Co 100
II. P. Cady Lumber Co 100
S, S. Carlisle., 100
The K. B. Carrtgan Co 100
, Central Mirket ..." 100
('hallenege Co , 100
Clement Chase.... i 100
H. S. Clarke 100
W. M. Clement Motor Co 100
VT. O. CleVelnnd Co 100
uuy A. i.ouarci. ...... . juu
Dr. A. P. Condon. 10
W. J. Connell... 100
Elmer A. Cope 100
it.tp. Copeland 200
.loffc C. Co In 100
ThomaB. Crane loo
C. C. Crlss . ... 100
L. P. Crofoot 100
C. C. Crowell, Jr 100
J. M. Daughterly ...... 100
John Day Rubber & Supply Co.... 125
W. P. Deverell .... 100
M. A. Disbrow Co...1... 260
'A K. Doane... .. 100
DoddSx Lumber A.'o 100
Dolphln-JoneaOraln Co 150
T. J. Donahue 200
DourIhs Motors Co 200
iiouKias i-riniing uo jza
Douglas Shoe Store, lac 100
Mr. ami Mrs 9. B. Doyle 100
Drelbus Cnndy Co 100
Drexel Shoe Co 300
('. J. Dutton .Auto Co 100
Alfred O. tfUlck V 100
K. 12. Kltiott 100
Ralph W. Emerson 100
Kmpresa Theater Co t 100
Knsier Coal & Supply Co 100
Dtfsten Lithographing Co 150
Fred E. Perp 100
Flsk Rubbef Co 100
K. P. Folda 100
Fradenburg, Van Orsdel Ic Mathhews 100
W. A. Fraser..,..,.. 100
, Fry Shoe Co ' 100
Dan W. Gaines. .... 200
F. It. Gaines 100
; Rev. P. C.1 Gannon 100
- I. Oluck 200
. R, P. Goodrich Rubber Co . 100
' C. Z. Oould ' 100
Oraham Ice Cream Co 200
W. T. Graham.,... 250
. W. P. Gurley 100
MSA. Hall 100
IV W, Hamlltoa 100
i J. J. Haninhen 10tU
Jiearey t Hearey iuu
W. H. Herdman 1 100
-Herman Hcyn ,. 100
i UnlmeM.WIlrlhaher-Nnhirt Co 100
Horn Furniture Co 100
P. a Howell ...r. 100
Hudson Mfg. Co 100
W. L. Huffman Auto Co 150
llulse & Rlepen 77. 100
Lulu Bell Hunt '. 100
P. E. Her 100
Imperial Sash & Door Co 100
W. C. Jackson 100
A. R. Keellne 150
James B. Kelkenney. . . 100
Chaa. B. Keller 100
Thomas Kelly , ' 100
James C. Kennedy ..i. 100
Kent Burke Co 250
The Abandoned Room
By Wadsworth Camp.
He heard Maria's voice dimly:
"Take him home."
A hand touched his arm. With a
supreme effort of will he walked
from the room, guided by the hand
on his arm. And always his brain
recorded fewer and fewer impres
sions for his, memory to struggle
with later.
At the cloak room some on helped
him put on his coat. He was walk
ing down steps. He was in some
kind of a conveyance. He didn't
know what it was. An automobile
a carriage, a train? He didn't know.
He only understood that it went
swiftly, swaying from xside to side
through a sable pit. Whenever his
mind moved at all it came back to
that sensation of a black pit in which
he remained suspended, swinging
from side to side, trying to struggle
up against impossible odds. Once or
twice words flashed like fire through
the pit: "Tyrant! Fool to go."
From a long immersion deeper
in the pit he struggled frantically.
He must get out. Somehow he must
find wings. He realized that his
eyes were closed. He tried to open
them and failed. So the pit per
sisted and he surrendered himself,
as one accepts death, to its hateful
blackness.
Abruptly he experienced a momen
tary release. There was no more
swaying, no more movement of any
kind. He heard a strange, melan
choly voice, whispering without
words, always whispering with a
futile perseverance as if it wished
him to understand something it could
not express.
'What is it trying to tell me?
he asked himself.
Then he understood. It was the
voice of the wind, and 'it tried to
tell him to open his eyes, and he
found that he could. But in' spite
of his desire they closed again al
most immediately. Yet, from that
swift glimpse, a picture outlined it
self later in his memory.
In the midst of wild, rolling
clouds, the moon was a drowning
face. Stunted trees bent before the
wind like puny men who strained
impotently to advance. Over there
was one more like a real man a
figure, Bobby thought, with a black
thing over its face a mask.
"This is the forest near the
Cedars," Bobby, said to himself.
"I've come to face the old devil af
ter all."
He heard his own voice, harsh, re
mote, unnatural, speaking to the dim
figure with a black mask that waited
half hidden by the straining trees.
Why am I here in the woods
near the Cedars?" And he thought
the thing answered:
Because you hate your grand
father."
Bobby laughed, thinking h un
derstood. The figure in the Black
mask that accompanied him was his
conscience. He could understand
why it went masked. .
The wind resumed its whispering.
The figures, straining like puny men,
fought harder. The drowning face
disappeared, wet and helpless. Bobby
felt himself sinking back, back into
the sable pit.
I don t want to go, he moaned.
A lone time afterward he heard a
whisoer again, and he wondered
if it was the wind or his conscience.
He laughed through the blackness
because the words seemed so ab
surd. ."Take off your shoes and carry
fliem in your nandj Always do that.
It is the only safe way." ,
He laughed again, thinking:
"What a careful conscience!"
He retained only one more im
pression. He was dully aware that
. , , t TT 1 f
some time naci passea. ne sniverea.
He thought the wind had grown
angry with him, for it no longer
whispered. It shrieked, and he could
make nothing of its wrath. He
struggled frantically to emerge from
the pit. The quality of the Slack
ness deepened. - His fright "grew. He
felt himself slipping, slowly at first
then faster, faster down into impos
sible depths, and there was nothing
at all he could do to save himself."
"Go awayl For God's sake, go
away!"
Bobby thought he was speaking to
the sombre figure in the mask. His
voice aroused him to one more effort
at escape, but he felt that there was
no use. He was too deep.
Something hurt his eyes. He
opened them and for a time was
blinded by a narrow shaft of sun
light resting on his face. With an
effort he moved his head to one side
and closed his eyes again, at first
merely thankful that he had escaped
from the black hell, trying to control
his sensations of physical evil. Sub
tle curiosity forced its way into his
sick brain and stung him wide
awake. This time his eyes remained
open, staring about him, dilating
with a wilder fright than he had ex
perienced in the dark mazes of his
nightmare adventure.
He had never seen this place be
fore. He lay on the floor of an
empty room. The shaft of sunlight
that had aroused him entered
through a crack in one of the tight
ly drawn blinds. There were dust
and grime on the walls, and cob
webs clustered in the corners.
In the silent, deserted room the
beating of his heart became audible.
He struggled to a sitting posture.
He gasped for breath. He knew it
was very cold in here, but perspira
tion moistened his face. He could
recall no sufh suffering as this
since, when a boy, he had slipped
from the crisis of a destructive
fever.
Had he been drugged? But he
had been with friends. There was
no motive.
What house was this? Was it, like
this room, empty and deserted?
How had he come here? For the
first time he went through that
dreadful process of trying to draw
from the black pit useful memories.
He started, recalling the strange
voice and its warning, for his shoes
lay near by as though he might
have dropped them carelessly
when he had entered the room and
stretched himself on the floor.
Damp earth adhered to the soles.
The leather above was scratched.
"Then," he thought, "that much is
right. I was in the woods. What
vas I doing there? That dim
figure 1 My imagination."
He suffered the agony of a man
who realizes that he has wandered
unawares in strange places, and re
tains no recollection of his actions,
of bis intentions. He went back to
that last unclouded moment in the
cafe with Maria, Pare'des, and the
stranger. Where had he gone after
he had left them? He had looked
at his watch. He had told himself
he must catch the 12:15 train. He
must have gone from the restaurant,
proceeding automatically, and
caught the train. That would ac
count for the sensation, of motion
in a swift' vehicle, an perhaps
there had been a taxicab to the sta
tion. Doubtless in the woods near
the Cedars he had decided it was
too late to go in, or that it was
wiser not to. He had answered to,
the necessity of sleeping some-
where. But why had he come htre?
Where, indeed, was he? .
At least he could answer that. He
drew on his shoes a pair of patent
leather pumps. . 'He fumbled, for
his handkerchief, thinking he would
brush the earth from them. He
searched each of his pockets. His
handkerchief was gone. No
matter. He got to his feet,
lurching for a moment dizzily.
He glanced with distate "at
his rumpled evening clothing. To
hide it as far as possible he but
toned his overcoat collar about his
neck. On tiptoe he approached the
I if rH. ' i
Demand Made for
Elevation of M. P. Tracks
A resolution parsed by the Wesf
Leavenworth Improvement associa
tion, asking that the Missouri Pacific
railroad be compelled to elevate its
tracks at Forty-eighth and Leaven
worth streets was referred to the
committee of the whole at the Tues
day morning council meeting.
The original ordinance required
that the tracks be elevated here as
they were at Dodge street, but. ;on4
account of the war, the improvement
was postponed.
Reports that The Missouri Pacific
railroad has taken off the night
watchman at Fortieth and Forty
eighth - and Leavenworth streets
called for a notification from the
council to the railroad that these
watchmen be restored to duty.
Refuses Mexican Marriage
License WithoutJJivorce
Luciana Aalcaraz, Mexican wom
an, was disappointed when Marriage
License Clerk Furay denied her a
legal permit to'marry Jose Spinoza.
, The prospective bride stated that
she was 23 years old and was mar-
ried in Old Mexico when she was
. 16. Her husband left her four years
lgo and she explained that according
to her ideas of justice a woman
should be absolved from marital ties
if a husband remains away four
years. Mr. Furay explained that it
fwould be necessary tor her to ob-
divorce, .
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HON. LESLIE M: SHAW
Former Presidential Cabinet Official As
Secretary of the Treasury
Also Former Governor of Iowa
Recommends Nuxated Iron v
After His Personal Use of It
Dr. James Francis Sullivan, formerly physician
of Bellevue Hospital (Outdoor Dept.), New York
City, highly endorses action of Secretary Shaw
Says there are thousands of weak, nervous, run-
down folks who need just such a preparation as
Nuxated Iron to help build them up, but who do
not know what to take, and ,
of Secretary Shaw will
undoubtedly be the
means of giving many
people the very in
formation they desire.
In commenting on the
action of former Secre
tary of the Treasury Les
lie M. Shaw in authorizing the publication
of his endorsement of Nuxated Iron. Dr.
James Francis Sullivan, formerly phy
sician of Bellevue Hospital (Outdoor
Dept.), New York, and the Westchester
County Hospital, said:
. "There are thousands of weak, nervous,
run-down folks who need just such a
preparation as Ifuxated Iron to help build
them up but who do not know what to
take and Secretary Shaw's endorsement of
this remarkable product will undoubtedly
oe the means of giving many people the
very information they desire," says Dr.
Jamea Francis Sullivan, formerly physician
of Beltcvue Hospital (Outdoor Dept.), New
York, and the Westchester County Hospi
tal. 'Secretary Shaw is widely known and
his good faith and integrity cannot be
questioned. Therefore, his recommenda
tion of Nuxated Iron in public print should
inspire the greatest confidence among the
public at large- and serve as convincing
evidence of the genuine merit of this
preparation.
"The Formula of the composition of
Nuxated Iron is now being widely pub
lished and a carefu examination of it by
any physician or pharmacist should con
vince him that it is of great therapeutic
value, and one which we doctors fre
quently could prescribe with advantageyto
oar patients."
"Modern methods of cooking and the
rapid paee at which people of this country,
live has made an alarming increase in iron
deficiency in the blood of -American men
and women. For want of iron you may be
an old man at thirty, dull of intellect, pocf
in memory, nervous, irritable and all "run
down," while at 40 or 60 in the absence
of any organic ailment and with plenty of
iron in your blood, yon may still be young
in .feeling, full of life, your whole being
brimming over with energy and force.
"As proef of this take the ease of former
United States Senator Charles A. Towne,
who at past 68 is still a veritable moun
tain of tireless energy. Senator Towne
says : "I have found Nuxated Iron of the
greatest benefit as a tonic and regulative.
Henceforth I shall not be without it."
"Then there is farmer Health Commis
sioner Wm. R. Kerr of Chicago, who is
past the three score year mark, but still
vigorous, active, full of life, vim and en
ergy. Former Health Commissioner Kerr
says he believes his own personal activity
today is largey due to his use of Nuxated
Iron and that he believes it ought to be
prescribed by every physician and used in
every hospital in the country.
Former Secretary of the Treasury Leslie
M. Shaw says: "I have been taking Nux
ated Iroivfor some little time and feel
justified in recommending it las a --very
valuable I tonic."
Iron is absolutely necessary to enable
your blood to change food into, living tis
sue. Without it, no matter how much or
what you eat, your fed merely passes
through you without doing you any good.
You don't get the strength out of it. and
as a consequence you become weak, pale
and sickly looking, just like a plant try
ing to grow in soil deficient in iron. If
you are not strong or well you owe it to
yourself to make the following test: See
how long you can work or how far you
can walk withotit becoming tired. Next
take two five-grain tablets of ordinary
Nuxated Iron three times per day after
meals for two weeks. Then test v your
strength again and see how much I yen
have gained. Numbers of nervous, (run
down people who were ailing all the while,
have increased their strength and en
durance in two weeks' time while taking
iron in the proper form.
Maniifactursrs' Note Kusited Iron, which Is pre
scribed and recommended by physicians and which li
now being used by over three million people an
nutllr. is not a secretTemedr. but one which Is
well known to druraists everywhere. Unlike the
older inorgsnfe Iron products it is easily assimilated.,
uura not injurs ins leein, mase mem discs: nor
nnset the stomarh. The manufacturers ciisrantee
successful and entirely satisfactory results to ererr
purchaser or they will refund your money. It 1s
disnensed In this city try Hherman h McConnell
Drug Btoret and all other dniulstr'
door, and, with the emotions. of a
thief, opened it quietly. He sighed.
The rest of the house was as empty
as this room. The hall was thick
with dust. The rear door by which
he must have entered stood half
open. The lock was broken and
rusty.
He commenced to understand.
There was a deserted farmhouse
less than two miles from the
Cedars. Since he had always known
about it, it wasn't unusual he should
have taken shelter there after decid
ing not to go in to his grandfather.
He stepped throug'.i the door
way to the unkempt yard about
whose tumbled fences the woods
advanced thickly. He recognized
the place. For sometime he stood
ashamed, yet fair enough to seek
the cause of his(experience in some
mental unhealth deeper than any
reaction from last night's folly.
He glanced at his watch. It was
after 2 o'clock. The mournful
neighborhood. , the growing chill in
the air, the sullen sky, urged him
away. He walked down the road.
Of course he shouldn't go to the
Cedars in this condition. He would
return to his apartment in New
York where he could bathe, change
his clothes, recover from this feel
ing of physical ill, and remember,
perhaps, something more.
It wasn't far to the village on
the. railroad, and at this hour there
were plenty of trains. He hoped no
one he knew would see him at the
station. He smiled wearily. What
difference did that make? He might
as well face old Blackburn, himself,
as he was. By-this time the thing
was done. The new will had been
made. He was penniless and an
outcast. But his "furtive manner
clung. He didn't want Katherine
to see him like this.
(To Be Continued.) N
Volcano in Eruption.
Quito, Ecuador, Nov. 19. Thef
volcano of Tunguragua in the
southern part of the Ecuadorean
province of that name is again
snowing activity. Ashes are reach
ing uito. The volcano reaches a
height of about 16,700 feet.
POSLAM'S BALM
ENDS ITCHING
SOOTHES SKIN
For eczema you must have an efficient,
competent remedy to see true results. Pos
lam is so good for skin troubles that you
can make no mistake in trying it first and
for all. Apply right on the places that
burn, itch and harass ; they will be paci
fied, soothed, cooled. Poslam offers quali
ty to each ounce that cannot be equalled
by pounds of inefficiency. For every form
of eruption on the skin, pimples, scalp
scale, rashes, blemishes, burns, itching
feet.
Sold everywhere. For free sample write
to Emergency Laboratories, 243 West 47th
St.. New York City. '
Urore your skin to become clearer.
brighter, better, through the daily use of
Poslam Soap, medicated with Poslam.
Adv.
PUT CREAM IN NOSE
AND STOP CATARRH
Tells How To Open Clogged Nos
trils and End Head-Colds.
You feel fine in a few moments.
Your cold in head or catarrh will
be gone. Your clogged nostrils will
open. The air passages of your
head will clear and you can breathe
freely. No more- dullness, head
ache; no hawking, snuffling, muc
ous discharges or dryness: no strug
gling for breath at night.
Tell your druggist you want a
small bottle of Ely's Cream Balm.
Apply a little of this fragrant, an
tiseptic cream in your nostrils, let
it .penetrate through every air pas
sage of the head; soothe and heal
the swollen, inflamed mucous mem
brane, and relief comes instantly.
It is just what every cold and
catarrh sufferer needs. Don't stay
stuffed-up and miserable. Adv.
WOULD JUST DROP
ON KNEES WHEN
ATTACKS CAME
Had Awful Spells of Lumbago
and Lost Three Months
from Work' at a
Time.
"I am confident that Tanlac has
done me more good than all the
other medicines I have taken put to
gether,", said W. T. Beilharz, a well
known carpenter and general con
tractor living at 2000 J. street, Lin
coln, the other day.
"For the last seven years," he
continued, "I would have an awful
attack of lumbago that Came on
every fall and jput me out 6f busi
ness for two or three months. The
pain in my back was so terrible that
it would almost kill me. It would
travel through my sides and roundj
to my stomach and the agony I suf
fered can't begin to be described.
Spells of Weakness would overcome
me and I would just give out and
drop right down to my knees and I
would be laid up for two or three
months at.a time unable to do a
lick of work. I suffered from split
ting headaches most all the time,
and thought my troubles were
caused from rheumatism I had sev
eral years ago.
"When everybody- around here
began to come down with the ''flu'
I began to take Tanlac as a precau
tion, and I have not only escaped
the 'flu thus far but I haven't had
a sign of my old trouble lumbago
that came on me as regular as the
season came round. I felt so good
that inside of twrt weeks I was hard
at work and feeling just as sound
as a dollar. I am as hungry as a
bear and eat like a wolf, I sleep like
a log, haven't a pain nor an ache
about me and feel well and strong
and full of 'go' all the time. The
benefits I get from Tanlac can't be
measured in dollars, and I think it
is the greatest medicine ever
made." '
Tanlac is sold in Omaha by all
Sherman, & McConnell Drug . Com
pany's stores, Harvard Pharmacy,
West End Pharmacy, in South Oma
ha iy Meany Drug Co., in Benson
by Chas. H. Sprague, and the lead
ing druggist in every town. Adv.
,1
25 Off
on all
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