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-TIE F.EE: OMAHA. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 13.. 1919. i INSURANCE CHI. Tfl Dllor niTro iu naioc Mil Ed Of ilUTllOBILE Insurance of,Cheaper Cars to Be Raised in Omaha March 'First Because of Nu- merous Thefts. . Due the great number of auto mobile thefts in Omaha .during the 'ast several months, insurance com panies operating in this section of tue country will increase their rates irom SO to 100 per cent on cars valued under $1,800, declared H. H. Lovell, local insurance agent, this morning. "This action is" based on tabulated losses by insurance companies," said Mr. Lovell, "and not upon the total number of cars stolen. The increase was decided upon by all of the com panies which insure cars in this sec tion of the country, and will be put into effect March 1. Cincinnati. Toledo. Indianapolis, Louisville, Denver, Milwaukee. Des Moines, Topeka, Lincoln and Coun cil Bluffs all are to receive better rates than Omaha under the recent ruling, it was said. Even Sioux City, the alleged headquarters of numerous "fences" for the , thieves, where wholesale thefts have attracted the attention of the entire section of the country, and where sensational disclosures involving policemen have been made, is given better rates than Omaha, decked Mr. Lovell. Insurance men regard this city as o'ie of the worst in the country with reference to the operations of auto mobile thieves, it is said. Omaha, Kansas City, Cleveland. JopUn, Tulsa, St. Louis and St. Joseph are put in the same class, declared Mr. Lovell. Resume Strike at Budapest. Basel, Switzerland, Feb. 12.- -(Havas.) The general . strike has been resumed in Budapest, accord ing to dispatches received here. Wit t'xh, the leader of the Hungarian so cialists, it is added, has been ar rested at Fressburg. "VIRTUOUS WIVES" 5 wen Johnson Sparkling oo- Novel, which is making hit ia th movioa. ClilLO DOESN'T LAUGH AUD PLA IFCOIISTI Look, Mother! Is tongue coat ed, breath feverish and stomach sour? "California Syrup of Figs" can't hnrm tender stomach, x liver, bowels. s A laxative today saves a sick child tomorrow. Children simply will not take the time from play to empty their bowels, which become clogged up with waste, liver gets, sluggish, stomach sour. Look at the tongue, mother! If coated, or your child is listless, cross, feverish, breath bad, restless, doesn't eat heartily, full of cold or has sore throat or any other chil dren's ailment, give a teaspoonful of "California Syrup of Figs,;" then don't worry, because it is perfectly harmless, and in a few hours all this constipation poison, sour bile and fermenting waste will gently move out of the bowels, and you have a well, playful child agani. A thor ough "inside cleansing" is oftimes nil that is necessary. It should be 'he first treatment given in any sick ness, i Beware of counterfeit fig syrups. Ask your druggist for a bottle of "California Syrup of Figs," which has full directions for babies, chil dren of all ages and for grown-ups plainly printed on the bottle. Look carefully and see that it is made by the "California Fig Syrup Com. pany.". Adv. COUNT FIFTY! 110 EIEURALQIA PJUH Don't suffer! Instant relief follows a rubbing with old "St. Jacobs Liniment" Conquers pain never fails. Rub soothing, penetrating "St. Jacobs Liniment" right on the ache fr pain, and out comes the neural gia misery. Here's a joyful experiment! Try it! Get a small trial bottle from your druggist; pour a little in your hand and rub it gently on the sore, aching nerves, and before you rea lize it in just a moment all pain nd neuralgia Jhsappear. It's almost magical, but the joy js, that the mis ery doesn't come back. No! The nerves are soothed and congestion is relieved and your neuralgia is over come. Stop suffering! It's needless neuralgia and pain of all kinds, either in the face, head, limbs or any part of the body, is instantly banished. "St Jacobs Liniment" is perfectly harmless and doesn't burn or discolor the skin. In use for half a century. Ach?, CHAPTER XXIV. ' In the air was the arrogant do minion of the new; fetish and ty rant of the sensation-craving crowd. Lazarc's was the newest restaurant, with the newest orchestra and" the newest dancing favorites to patron ize their dance hall. A new style had made last season's dresses grotesque, a new lace-brim hat was the magnet of all feminine eyes. About them the conversation ran on the new plays, the new books, the newest pianist, and the newest scandal. Nothing could survive six mouths in the forcing heat of this social hefthouse, where every luxury of the body was flaunted, where every sensation had to have novelty, where a brilliant, driven, pleasure-drugged society met in its search for the ex traordinary, for the bizarre for the thing that astounded. And she, Amy Forrester, had become one of them, as he had prophesied. How strange that Monte Bracken should bob up in her life at that moment! She was superstitious, as all women are in misfortune. There was something unnatural in this reminder of the past a sign and a warning! Per haps, after all, she was wrong all wrong. From time to time, as he continued his bantering attack with Irma and Gladys his glance rested on her with growing curiosity. What was he thinking? Did he remem ber? Once he spoke her name slurring it she was not sure but that he had called her "Mrs. Fos ter.'' If he remembered, there must be a touch of malice behind the amusement in his eyes. "If a woman's unhappy, she's lazy," said Fifi, closing the subject in her downright way. She rose "with a glance at her watch. "I agree, and I escape on the word," he said, laughing at Kitty's militant expression. He turned de liberately to Amyf holding out his hand. "I see you have just remembered me," she said. "Not quite that readjusted my memories," he said, smiling. And then, with that assumptidn of inti macy which never offended in him, ho added. Are you going to asK me to call?" "Flcase soon." She watched his as he made his adieux. He had not changed much if any. He had gained in authority a trifle thinner in the face and tinder the cheek bones. He had the same easy bearing toward life, the same tolerant amusement in his keen eyes; and yet there was a new note which arrested her attention a note of sadness, or if not qu;te that, of restlessness, of being un attached to life a seeking for some intangible help, which she detected for the first time' "What's this stuff about our being lazy?" said Kitty, who had been puz-; zled by the intricacies of the con versation. "Now that we are alone," said Irma. laughing, "let's tell the truth." "What do you mean to say a clever woman can do what she pleases that is, of course you know what I mean." The other burst out laughing. "Flirt to your heart's content? Certainly," said Irma. "Fifi has hit it we are just simply lazy. We take husbands for. granted. If we'd'give one-tenth the time to managing them that we do to playing around if we showed just as much cleverness with our husbands as with other men there would be no divorces." "Irma. you're a nice one to talk!" "My dear, when Rudy flies into a tantrum, blame myself. Let's whisper the truth; any woman can do what she wants and keep her husband, if she isn't too lazy to try." "Not always," said Gladys, "but, even then, with a little attention" "My Lord, I must be the limit then I certainly can't do itl" said Kitty naively. "I tried, but it was an awful bore. Who, wants a husband around all the time, tripping over your skirts? Jusbecause you're married, you don't have to treat &l men as though they were lepers!" At this moment, a boy approached with a telephone slip for Mrs. Chal loner, who tqok it, glanced at it, smiled, and rose to answer. , "I suppose you call that being clever," said Kitty instantly. "Gladys gets me. The number of men she can keep going without snarling the threads beats -me!" . Several younger men came in and joined their table Laracy, Pardee, vniinir Fortescue. and. finally. Tody Dawson, who drew up hir chair at4 Amy s s:de and looked unutterapiy melancholy and submissive, refusing to join lie chorus of raillery which always Centered about Kitty Light body's incursions into philosophy. Amy withdrew, too, from the conver sation, a prey to her thoughts. The discussion left her heavy-hearted. Was it true. that she, too, ws com ing to this light acceptance of mar riage? She felt like crying out: "Wait, let me think it over! Give tv.e time everything is rushing so. It isn't fair everything is being thrust upon me all at once!" "Lord sakes. Amy. if you're pining for vour husband as bad as that," said "Kitty Lightbody suddenly, "fly to him! You're worse than a girl when she's engaged." - - She roused herself hastily, defend ing herself with spirit against the laugh which followed. "Speaking of engagements." said laracy. "heard the latest? Fifi and Monte Bracken.' ' "Fifi?" said Gladys scornfully. "Fiti doesn't count! Men propose to her out of politeness. Fifi' s collect ing engagement rings." Irma and Amy looked at each oth er with the same impulse, the same question in their glance, and then uneasily away. "I don't believe it," said Mrs. Dcl labarre, frowning. "Fact?" said Laracy "They're to gether all the time." "Well, if we want to get the sec ond act," said Kitty, springing up, "time to be moving." Amy, who had stopped to greet an acquaintance, was momentarily de tained. When she reached the side walk, the others had gone; only Tody was waiting, ill at ease and de jected. "I'm sorry. They didn't want to wait," he said contritely. "If you'd rather I can take a taxi." She frowned and stepped into, the tar. motioning him to follow. "Now go for me," he said with a groan,'! deserve it, I know. I've called myse!fxevery name I could think of. She was in no humor to spare him. "Why didy ou do it? And before Gregory, too. What will he think?" "X know; I knowl" he said miser- (Copyri(ht. 1918. by LiHle, Brown ft Co.)' ably. "I lost my head like a double-barreled fotd that I am!" "But why say anything?" she said, exasperated. "Good Lord. Amy," he said, sur prised, "be reasonable! I had to say something." "Why?" "Well, you see at such an hour" He began to flounder, bit his tongue, and said desperately, "I had to give some explanation really." It came to her like a shock as though unconsciously Tody himself were pleading Andrew's cause that he, too, had realized that there was something undignified, something demanding an explanation in his presence under the conditions. She frowned. , "I suppose you told him the real leason?" said Dawson slowly. "Of course there was nothing else tod o." "Oh. Lord!" "You have made me exceed'ngly tmcomfortable exceedingly' N unhap py," she said. She looked at hini, angry that such an inconsequential element in her routine of pleasure should have the power to trouble her intimate tranquility. But she could not (let him suspec the gravity of the situation, so she said, "If Andrew wasn't perfe'etly wonderful, it .would have been more than disagreeable." "I'll do anything you say I'll go to h'm myself." "You'll do nothing of the kind," 'he said sharply. "The whole thing is ridiculous but it's over!" Arrived at the .theater, she hasten ed into the box.' Despite all of La racy's humor and the bantering of '.er friends, she felt too depressed to conceal her emotion. Their flip pancy annoyed her, their humor was stale; their assumption of worldli-. ness was ridiculous. She thought of J Andrew as he had Been in his anger masterful, trenchant, and unbend ing. "Good heavens, these are nothing but puppets!" she thought. "There is not one real man among them and we spend our time fighting over them!" At the close of the act, she rose, pretending a headache, and went home, refusing an escort. She wait ed alone jn her bedroom, trying to read, listening for her husband's re turn. At six, a message came from the office that she was not to change her plans, he would dine at the club. "He might have called me him self," she thought, staring at the. wall. Kvcn if she had been wrong, he might have made allowances for her every one always had. Hurt, ' weak, and rebellious, she dressed and went to dinner, a stiff affair, new acquaintances, where she was bored itid restless.. At 10 o'clock she left ahd hurried home, hoping. to find him back. Since their quarrel of the morning, she had done nothing but enmpare him to the men she saw about her. The new Andrew im pressed and awed her. And though at times she rebelled furiously against the tyranny of his uncom promising attitude, she felt little by little that this unsuspected strength dominated her. In half an hour of sudden authority, he had won more thaiv-in two ycars of lavish devotion. "I will do anything for him," she said to herself, in a flood of emotion, 'anyth'ng. I'll give this all up. if he really thinks I am wrong. I'll give up everything. I will go with him and lead his life, only only he must sav he's sorry. I can't give in utterly. No; I can't do that!" He had not returned. She went up to her room, slipped into a negligee and dismissed Morley for the night. Jt was almost 11. "He ought to be back soon," she thought, as she took up a magazine to tease the time along. But at the end of a moment she peKceived that she did not know what she was read ing. "But he is' wrong; he is wrong, too!" she said, dropping the periodi cal wearily. In the house, not a sound could be heard except the ticking of the little clock on her table. Outside, the street had gone to sleep, too. At most, a distant whir of motors or the (.cho of a passing train grew, swelled, tnd dwindled into the silence of the night. She felt alone, abandoned in the empitness. afraid as in her child hood she had been afraid of the peo pled dark, with a weak, helpless feeling of playing with forces she did not understand. At midnight, she heard the' heavy clang of the outer door, then his mounting steps on the marble stairway. Would he come directly to her roim? She held her breath and he.- pulse quickened. He passed. A moment later she heard the click (f the electric switch as he entered his bedroom. "He will knock in a moment," she thought, with her glance on the knob of the door, that, at times, seemed to turn slowly. ."Perhaps he thinks I'm asleep." She rose and moved across the room, humming to herself, that he might know she was up. N "He'll come he must come now!" she said, stopping, her hands pressed ever her breast to still the flurry ai her breathing. Minute after minute she stbod there, waiting Should she go in? Could she make the first overture? Her whole na ture rebelled against the thought. To do so was to admit her offending the greater. To make the first ad vance would be to renounce her old empire over him. "No. no; he must be the first! He must!" She stretched out her arms, and her lips moved with his name. He must know that she was there! If he loved her, he must feel that she was calling him to her! All at once she heard the click of the electric button, then the sud den groan of the bed, "He won't come he won't cornel" she murmered. "He knows I am here, waiting, and he won't come!" ' The room grew blurred before her eye She groped her way to her bed, fell on it, and buriett her head in her pillow. "He mustn't hear me. He shan't know how I suffer," she said to her hysterically. Yet her wish was con trary to her thought. Only a door separated them. Despite all her ef fort he must hear her, he must know that she was sobbing her heart away In the morning, when she. awoke heavy from a tormented night, the maid brought her this letter: My dear Amy: I am leaving on an early train, and perhaps it is better so. It ' does no good to talk over an ugly situation. There are, however, several things I must say to you. On reflection, I feel that I was wrong in giving orders as to whom yon might or might not receivje in your house. It is your house-land, in the second place, it is im possible to live on the basis of force. I shall therefore leave you full liberty fqr your actions. You will realize, I hope, the full re sponsibility this entails. I shall await your decision. ANDREW. (Continued Tomorrow!) f Abolish Pood Card System. Brownsville, Tex., Feb. 12. 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