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THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1918. ' OMAHA TAKING MEASURES TO COMBAT THE FLU ; , t 9 S 4 r i I Merchants Act and Street Car Company wll Jlot Permit Overcrowding of Cars f by Patrons " , Everything is being done short ef a resumption of the absolute closing order to curb the influenza epidemic. All public meetings ex cept churcjh services have been called off. Public dances have been ordered closed until further notice. Crowds in pool rooms are restricted. Ninety-three death in Omaha ftom Spanish influenza were re ported to the city healtk commis sioner's office in the last five days. ' The street railway company has agreed to comply with the health commissionerVorder to keep all ventilators open and one window in ;ach car, regatdless of the weather. ' '; "Full Car" Signs. Efforts to restrict the passengers to the number for which there arc seats qii each car didn't work out very well during llje rushA hours. The company is now having cards printed, reading "Full Car." These will be displayed at the motorman's window when he gets a signal from the conductor that the car is full. The car will then proceed without stopping for more passengers un-til-some get out. The company will put on more cars to accom modate the people. "Two great things are apparent that everybody can do to curb thedisease," said Dr. Manning. . "One is to avoid , crowds every where arid always. Let them walk instead of riding wherever possible. If they must go where there is a crowd let . them remain there just '. brief a time as possible. Get 1 rloty of fresh air, breathe deeply. Car of Patients. ' "The other thing that will lower the death rate immensely concerns care of the patient whe already has fte disease. The majority of the doctors agree that he must not get ' tip until at least four days after the . temperature has become normal. Observance "of this rule will cut down the death rate 50 per cent. And, another thing, as long as the cough persists, the patient must be extremely careful, especially while any discharge H being brought up by the cough. . ; "Physicians know deplorably, lit tle about the disease, as was shown by the recent convention upon the epidemic in Chicago. But the above thingf we do know, and any person who disregards theserules , is a menace to the public health and a poor citizen." ,. - Hundreds of "flu" signs have been tacked- on houses throughout the city. i Dr." Manning urges' people who patronize restaurants to eat when the crowd is small. Let them go to lunch at 11:30 instead of 12 o'clock, he. says. Or else let them wait until the noon rush is over. ELECTED CHAIRMAN BED CROSS TOR NEXT YEAR. k fellpiiW 2R v "a V 1 4T4 Wyr MAJOR. R. S. VvjILCOX. Major R. S. Wilcox was elected chairman of the Omaha chapter, American Red Cross, at a meeting ot the executive committee Friday noon. He takes the place of Rob ert Cowelli who resigned. Admits in Court He is of No Use to Anybody or No Good to Hinjself Pop-eyed, saddle colored Harry Turner, afflicted with a hare-lip and impediment in his, speech, faced Tiicr Rritt in nnlic court Fridav. the 13th. He was charged with va-4 grancy. Despite the fateful combination of date, he was unterrified and told the court cheerfully that the charge gainsthim was as true as could be. "Yes, sah, I'm a snow bird," said he, when asked if. he used coke. "Ah snuffs snow when ah can get it, but the trouble is, jedge, it don't snenv often enough to suit me. VI hits do hop-pipe, and I uses de needle, drink rot-gut whisky and -1 reckon I'se got evry bad habit dere is. - ' No sah, jecfee, ah ain't any earthly" use to nobody." - ty jt. r f H . tiis canum coius-ssiuii u uusijUk pravity astounded the court,, and es . , peciaify as he asked no" clemency. , Judge Britf discharged him. Special Train Service is ' , Discontinued After Strike With the re-establishment of reg ular street car service on all lines, the Union Pacific and Missouri Pacific 1 shuttle trains, , operating between j Omaha and South Omaha, have been" discontinued. They made their last trips Thursday, afternoon and were taken off as soon as the street rail way strike ended. - . I The Uliion Pacific trains were ' run for the accofnmodatipn of pack Ing house employes and did a good ; . business. The Missouri Pacific f trains were in operation but two ' days. The nrsi aagc mai mcy iu business was light, but Thursday Vj, the cars were pretty well loaded on i all trips. New Brand of Bootleg Gets ; .v Same Treatment in Court '.. ' A aim KranH nf whiskv was On - exhibit in police court Wednesday. - when Belie ot tne unocrwonu took its place beside "Kentucky f and the other well known brands distributed by the bootleggers. nnirti nf thr'Mauat with the x v x . tKi wiri found in a suit case ; taken from William Johnsonr . a Benson carpenter. He .saia ne bought it in St Joseph, where he went on the advice of his physician to get some "flu" preventive. He was fined $100 and costs. Children's Jorals Code ; , -..to Be Taught Pupilsiere Copies of the-"Code of Morals for Children" by William J. Hutchins, or which he was awarded a prize of S 000, have been distributed to pub lic school teachers of the city. The rode aets forth 10 laws the laws of health, self-control, self-reliance, re liability, dean play, -duty, good workmanship, team work,1, kindness and loyalty, with amplifications of each law. Teachera will teach the lm t 'pap r ' V K: ' . M liuonaire rarmer, Guilty of Sedition, is Fined $2000 and Costs Federal Judge Woodroiigh Friday morning sentenced Thomas Kerl, found guilty of sedition on three counts, to pay a fine of $2,000 and costs. Kerl was convicted of saying that the American soldiers were a blood thirsty bunch and ought toy be working in the South Omaha pack ing plants. He also admitted circu lating German propaganda. Kerl owns W. farms near Oakland, Neb., and extensive property in Idaho. R. E. McFarland, lawyer from Coeur d' Alene, Idaho, where Kerl owns extensive interests, and Sen ator Norris Brown and Irving F. Eaxter of Omaha, represented the defendant iirthe trial. United States District Attorney Allen and his assistant, Howard Saxton, con ducted the trial for the government. Kerl is a scientific farmer and rancher. He is said to be enor mously wealthy. Woman Gets Reward From Realtors Because of Capturing Thieves Mrs. W. H. Capps, 2952 Harney street, was- today paid the custo mary $50 reward offered by the Real Estate board for information leading to the' arrest and conviction of any one found guffty of stealing plumbing from a house on which realtors have their signs posted.. Mrs. Capps, noticing suspicious ac tions on the part of two men in the house at 2960 Harney street, called the police, who caTTght the thieves with the plumbing material all piled up in the middle of the floor. Castelar School Teacher Dies Victim of Influenza Myrtle E. Busk. 29 years of age, died at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Busk, 3412 Haw thorne avenue, of influenza Thurs day morning. She was employed as a teacher in the eighth grade ot the Castelar school. , Miss Busk is a graduate of the Omaha High school, University of Nebraska and Wellesley college. Funeral services wil be hed at the home Saturday afternoon at 1 o'clock. -Aid Garden Work. Two cent per capita was all it cost to conftuct the garden work last season in seven Indiana cities in .which assistant county agents were placed. This amount paid for the supervision and office work con nected with the gardening campaign and for the plowing, etc. In the seven cities there were 129,000 gar dens that produced products valued at $1,550,000, the total cost being $11,933. Although the increase-, in total number of gardens in the state over the previous year amounted to 28 per cent, th estimated increas'e in the seven cities was about 60 per cent, which, it is believed, demon strates the value of proper super The Abandoned Room By Wadsworth Camp CHAPTER XXIV Fof long periods the district at torney and ' the detective were closeted in the library. Now and then tjiey passed upstairs, but no one, save Graham, seemed to care. Already the officers had had every opportunity to search the house. TfKj old room no longer held an in habitant to set its fatal machinery in motion. Yet Bobby realized in a dull way that at any moment the two men might come down to him, saying: ' "We have found something. You are guilty." The heavy ' atmosphere of the house crushed such forecasts, made them seem a little trivial. Bobby fancied it gathering deSisity to cradle new mysteries. The long minutes loitered. Doctor Groom made a movement to go. "Why should I stay?" he grum bled. "What is there to keep m$?" Yet he sat back in his chair again anjj appeared to have forgot ten his intention. Graham wandered off. Bobby thought he had joined Rawlins and Robinson in the library. . The only daylight entered the hall through narrow slits of windows on either side of the front door. Bobby, watching these, was, even with the problems night brought to him now, glad when they grew paler. Paredes, who had been smoking cigaret after cigaret. arose and brought his card tabled Drawing it close to him, he arranged the cards in neat piles. The uncertain firelight made it barely possible to identify thei- numbers. Doctor Groom gestured his disgust. Kath reine stooped forward," placing her hands on the table. "Is it kind," she asked, "so soon after he has left his house?" Taredes started. "Wait" he said softly. Puzzled, she glanced at him. "Stay just as you are," he direct ed. "There has been so much death in this house--who knows?" ' Languidly he placed his fingers on the edge of the table opposite hers. "What are .you doing?" Dr. Groom asked hoarsely. . "Wait!" Paredes said again. Then Bobby, scarcely aware of what was going on,-saw the cards glide softly across the face of the table and flutter to the floor. The table had lifted slowly toward the Panamanian. It stood now on two legs. V ' "What is it?" Katherine said. "It's moving. I can feel it move, benath my fingers. , Her words recalled to Bobby un avoidably his experience in the old room. v "Don't do that!" the doctor cried. Paredes smiled. "If," he answered, "the source of these crimes is, as you think, spirit ual, why not ask the spirits for a solution; xou see now quicKiy tne table responds. It is as I thought. There is sometliing in this hall. Haven't you, a feeling that the dead are iu this dark hall with us? They may 'wish to speak. See!" The table settled softly down without any noise. It commenced to rise again! Katherine lifted her hands with a visible effort, as if the table had yied to hold them against her will." She covered her face and sat trembling. "I won't 1 I- " Paredes shrugged hij shoulders, appealing to the doctor. The huge, shaggy head shook determinedly. "I'm not so sure I don't agree with you.' I'm not so sure the dead aren't in this hall. That is why I'll haye nothing to do with such dan gerous play. It has shown us. at least, that you are psychic, Mr. Par edes." "I have a gift." Paredes mur mured. ' "It would be useful to speak with them. They see so much more than we do." He lifted his hands. He waved them, dejectedly. He stooped and commenced picking up the cards. The doctor arose." . "I shall go now." He sighed. "1 don't know why I have stayed." Bobby got his coat and hat. "I'll walk to the stable with you." . He was glad to escape from the dismal hall in which the firelight grew more eccentric. The court colder and damper, , and even beyond the chill was more penetrating than , it had been at the grave that noon". Un even flakes of snow sifted from the swollen sky, heralds of a white in vasion, i "No nrbre slee'p-walking?" , the doctor asked when he Jiad taken the blanket from his horse and climbed into the buggy. Bobby leaned against the wall of the stable and told how Graham brought him back the previous night from the stairhead, to which he had gone with a purpose he didn't dare sound. The doctor shook his head. "You shouldn't tell me that. You shouldn't tell airy one. You place yourself too much in my hands, as you are already in Graham's hands. Maybe that is all right. But the district attorney? You're sure he knows nothing of this habit which seems to have commenced the night of the, first murder? - "No, and I think Paredes alone of those who know about that first night would be likely to tell him." "See that he doesn't," the doctor said shortly. "I've been watching Robinson. . If he doesn't make an arrest pretty soon with something back of it he'll lose his mind. He mightn't stop to ask, as I do. as Howells did, about the locked doors and the nature of the wounds." ' "How shall I find the courage to sleep tonight?" Bobby asked. The doctor thought for a mo ment. "Suppose 1 come back?" lie said. "I've only one or two uninvortant cases to look after. I ought to re turn before dinner. I'll take Gra ham's place ' for tonight. It's time your reactions were better diag nosed. I'll share your, room, and you can go to sleep, assured that you'll come to, no harm, that harm will come to no one through you.I'll bring some bookson the subje t. I'll read them while you sleep. Perhaps I 'can learn the impulse that makes your body active while your minds a blank. The idea of the influence of Par edes, which Graham had put into words, slipped back to Bobby. He was nevertheless, strengthened by the doctor s promise. To an extent the dread of the night fell from him like a smothering garment. This old man, who had always filled him with discomfort, had become a ranahl snnnnrc in hi difficult hnnr He saw him drive away. He studiea his watch, computing the time that must elapse- before he could return. He wanted him at the Cedars even though the doctor believed more thorouehly than anyone else in the spiritual survival of old passions and the power of the dead to pro ject a physical evil. ife didn't . care to go back to the hall. It Nvould do him good to walk, to force as far as he could from his. mind the memory of the ordeal at the grave, the grim, im pending atmosphere of the house.' LAnd suppose he should accomplish something useful? .suppose He should succeed where Graham had failed? So he walked toward the stagnant lUc. The flakes of .now fel'A thick er. Already they had gathered in white patches on the floor of the forest. If this weather , continued the woqds would cease to be habit able for That dark feminine figure through which they had accounted for the mournful crying after Howells' death, which Graham had tried u identify with ' the dancer, Maria. (To Be Continued Tomorrow.) Ten Thousand Dollar Suit 1 on Trial in District Court Mrs. E. L. Dodder's suit for $10, 000 against the Standard Accident Insurance company of Detroit for insurance carried by her dead hus band, is on trial in district court before Judge Sears. This is the third suit Mrs. Dbdder has institu ted against insurance companies. 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