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CHAPTER I
A Queer Place to Lire
The village near one end of Pleas
ant Valley where Farmer Green often
went to sell butter and eggs was not
the only village to be Been from Blue
Mountain. There was another which
Farmer Green seldom visited, be
cause it lay beyond the mountain
and was a long; distance from his
house. Though he owned the land
where it stood, those that lived thero
thought they had every right to stay
there as long as they pleased, with
out being disturbed.
It was in this villa that Frown:e
Caver and hia neighbors lived. It
was a different sort of town, too,
from the one where Farmer Green
went each week. Over beyond Blue
Mountain all the houses were built
in a pond. And all their doors were
under water. But nobody minded
that because like Brownie Beaver
everybody that dwelt there was a
line swimmer. - V
Years and years before Brownie's
time his forefathers had come there,
and finding- that there were many
trees in the neighborhood with the
sort of bark they liked (to eat such
as poplars, willows and box elders
they had decided that it was a good
place to live. There was a small
stream, too, which was really th-. be
ginning of Swift River. And by
damming it those old settlers made
a pond in which they could build
their houses.
They had ideas of their own as to
what a house should be like and
yery good ideas they were though
you, perhaps, might not care for
them at all. i They wanted their
h.uses to be surrounded by water,
because they thought they were
safer when built in th t manner.
And they si vavs insist . 1 that a door
leading into a house should be far
beneath the surface of the wuter,
for they believed that that made a
house safer too.
To you such an idea may seem
To you such an idea may seem
Very strata " it rv
very strange. But if you were chased
by an enemy you might be glad to
b able to swim under water, down
to the bottom of a oond, and slip in
side a door which led to a winding
hall, which in its turn 1 u inwards
into your house.
Of course, your enemy might be
able to swim as well as you. But
maybe he would think twice or evenJ
three tames beiore ne went prowi
ing through your crooked hall. For
if vou had enormous, strong, sharo
teeth with which you could smaw
right through a tree he would not
care to have you seize him as he
poked his head around a corner in a
dark passage of a strange house.
It Was in a house of that kind that
Brownie Beaver lived. And he built
it himself, because he said L. would
rather have a neat, new house than
one of the big, old dwellings that had
been built many years before, when
K great-great-grandfather had
helped throw the dam. across the
stream. J
The dam was there still. It was
so old that trees were growing on it
And there was an odd thing about
it; it was never fin'.shed. Though
Brownie Beaver was a young cha,
he worked on the dam sometimes,
like all his neighbors. You see, the
villagers kent making the dam wider.
And since it was built of sticks and
mud, the water sometimes washed
bits of it away; sq it had to be kept
in repair.
If I Brownie Beaver and his friends
had neglected their dam, they would
have -raked up some day and found
that their pond vas emnty; and
without any wntr to hide their
WHY
Does a Lightning-Rod Absorb
Thunder?
(Coprrtght, ltlO. bjr the Wheeler
Syndicate, Inc.)
Strictly speaking, a lightning
rod does not really absorb the
thunder, brtause the material
from which the rod is made can
not act as a deadener for sound
of this nature. But the fact re
mains that no thunder is heard
when lightning is carried off by
the rod itself. This is because
no lightning "discharge," in the
usually accepted sense of the
word, occurs.
The purpose of the rod is to
prevent the accumulation of a
destructive charge capable of
breaking through the air between
the thunder-cloud and the house
or other object on the surface
of the earth ' which is equipped
with the protective apparatus.
The pointed end of the rod,
thrust upward towards the cloud,
withdraws the electricity in a
practically continuous current,
and its function is analogous to
that of the safety valve on a
boiler. The latter prevents steam
from rising to a pressure where
it would burst the walls of the
boiler and the former keeps the
electricity from gathering in a
quantity sufficient to cause a sud
den and disastrous discharge.
Without this discharge there is
no production of thunder, and the
rod therefore prevents the cause
of the thunder, rather than dead
ening or absorbing it after it has
been created. . , r
BEAVER
! More Truth
By JAMES J.
TOO LATE NOW
When Doctor Osier said that men
Of forty years or mora
Could never do the work again N
They'd done in days of yore,
And that when middle-age decay
Began to sap their powers,
T'were best to ease them on their way
To better worlds than ours,
We sadly bounced an anvil off
Our aged grandad's chest,
And. with a faint reproachful cough,
He entered into rest,
And though it often made us weep
To see his vacant chair
Where afternoons he used to sleep
The sunlight on his hair,
Though home seemed quite a different place
Without the gentle cheer
Reflected in his kindly face,
For many a happy year,
That duty had been firmly met
'Twas comforting to know.
And so we stifled our regret
And said, " 'Tls better so."
But now we learn that forty years
Finds people In their prime
And that thereafter their careers
May well become sublime,
And that with goat-gland's artful aid
A man of seventy-two
Can very easily be made
As young and strong as new,
With an uneasy, haunting doubt
Our hearts begin to quake;
We fear that easing grandad out,
Perhaps was a mistake.
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. -THRIFT i
By diligent Industry the average citizen can now make two quarters
grow where one dollar grew before.
NOT MUCH HELP
Before getting jubilant over the scheme to run automobiles with
onion juice, drop around to the grocer's and inquire the price of onions.
THE MODERSf METHOD
'A ball player doesn't need to touch the bases if he has touched
the gamblers.
Trim, petite and gauzy-skirted, their dominion have exerted
doorways the: would have been safe
no longer. '
They would have had no place,
either, to store their winter's food.
For they were in the habit of cut
ting down trees and saving foe bark
and branches too, in order to have
plenty to eat when colj w Uher came
and the ice closed th.Ir pond.
Some of their food they carried
into their houses throu-"- - straight
hall which was made fpr thatverypur
posj. And some of the branches they
fastened under water, near the dam.
It was just like putting green things
into a refrisreVatt , so they will keep.
Now you see why Brownie Beaver
would no more have thought of build
ing bia house on dry land than you
would think of building one in a
Dond. Everybody likes his own way
best. And it never ence occurred to
Brownie Beaver that his way was the
lease bit strange.
Perhaps it was because his family
had always lived in that fa.hion.
Copyright, Grosset & Dunlap
Dog Hill Paragrafs
By George Bingham
THE circus at Tickville laft Sat
urday was right good, but on
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peanuts they carried only one ele
phant. Clab Hancock says some people
are getting so cultured in this day
and time they are even afraid to
snore out loud in church.
While out riding on his mule a
few evenings since Yam Sims acco
dentally rode off into a ditch just
thif. side of the oostofnee.. At the
time of the accident his mind was
away off yonder in Chicago, while
the mule was looking at a straw
stack on Musket Ridge.
The scientific blending of
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Then try thU approved remedy and aatiafy youielf of it beneficial in
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Than Poetry
MONTAGUE
Q
Tango Dancers Entertain
Passengers in Airplane
London, Oct. 24. While flying
2.000 feet above the English chan
nel, Miss Iris Clarke and T. C.
Askew, exhibition dancers, enter
tained the passengers in an airplane
traveling from Paris to . London
with a demonstration of the tango.
Eases
Colds
At once! Relief with
Tape's Cold Compound"
The first dose eases your coldl
Don't stay stuffed up I Quit blowing
and snufflingl A dose of Tape's
Cold Compound" taken every two
hours until three doses are taken
usually breaks up a severe cold and
ends all grippe misery.
Relief awaits you: Open your
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feverishness, sneezing, soreness and
stiffness.
'Tape's Cold Compound" is the
quickest, surest relief known and
costs only a few cents at druse stores.
It , acts without assistance. Tastes
nice. Contains no quinine. Insist
on Pape'sl
A Bad Cough
if neglected, often Iced to terioua trouble.
Safeguard your health, relieve yourdietree
and eootbe your irritated throat by taking
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Faroam Street
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THE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 25. 1920.
Trie'
THAT
CAN
HERE'S how to cause a 25
cent piece to leave a pack
age in which it is wrapped
and pass through a table.
The trick should be performed
while you are seated at a table.
The coin is wrapped in a sheet
of note paper, five or six inches
square. There's a particular
method of wrapping the coin.
The paper is folded, as shown in
Figure 1, the lower edge of the
sheet coming to within an inch
of. the upper edge. The side
shown in the illustration is to
ward you. The sides A and B
are folded back and the side C
is folded down.
The coin, apparently wrapped
securely, is really in an outer
fold. Turn the package over,
permitting it to fall to the mouth
of the fold or pocket. Grip it
through the paper, however, so
that it does not show. Tap the
package on the table to show
that the coin is still there. Reach
for a napkin with the hand not
holding the package, and as you
liroliicmirTihg.
AMUSEMENTS.
t DANCING
SODA FOUNTAIN
REFRESHMENTS
NOON DAY LUNCHEONETTE
SUPPER LUNCHEONETTE
Danelng Mattnee Thur.-St.-Sun.
Matinee 25e Adraiion Night SOc
GRAND OPENING next Thurg
day, October 28th
Tonight wiVk
' Mat. Wad. 4k Sat.
Geo. M. Cohao'a Conediaae la
THE ROYAL
VAGABOND
A Cohanlzed Opera Comlque
Company oi 75 Augmented Orcheitra
25 Song Hlta
Price Ev'ngi and Sat. Mat., SOc to
$2.50 Wed. Mat, SOc to $2.00.
Nest Sunday
"Buaineaa Before Pleaaure"
"OMAHA'S FUN CENTER"
f Ya f 4 JTi Daily Mat, 15c to 75c
JaXogftdegJ Nitee, 2Se to $1.28
The Show That Surer! Wlu Brrafu
JAMES E. FAI I y TrtUl II MUSICAL
COOPER'S rULa. I I Unn BURLESK
With th N. Y. Celt Direct From th All-Sum.
ar Rua at th Buutlful Columbia Theater.
Broadway aatf 47th St.
Bliotit Musical Ftvu W Ever Played.
Selling Out Twice Dally. No Advance la Price.
LADIES' DIME MATINEE WEEK DAYS
Sat. Mat. A Wk: Bobby Berry A Maids of America.
u $
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A. D. Compton
Democratic
Nominee
; For i
County Commissioner
(Re-election)
Election November 2d
This Office Is Voted For in
. Every Precinct in Douglas County
do, let the coin drop out of the
pocket into your lap. Cover the
package with the napkin and
a, at
pia
tie
lace it in the center of the ta-
Ask someone to strike the nap-
PHOTOPLAYS.
SQDC9
NOW
The Play That Stole the Public'
Heart
With an AU-Star Cat
AND THEN
A Sunahln Comedy
With a Hoet of Tastefully Filled
Bathing Suit. , .
PUT THE "KICK" -IN
WATER ,
AMCBEMENTS.
Matinee Daily, 2:18 Every Night, 8:15
L1GHTNER GIRLS A NEWTON ALEX
ANDER; BOB NELSON FRANK
CRONlNi JACK TRAINORt Charlea
Kenna; John Orren and Lillian Drew;
Teachow'a Cata; Mi loleen; Topica of
the Day; Kinograma. i
Matineeai 15c. 25c, 50e soma 75c and
$1.00 Sat. and Sun. Nightei 15c, 25c,
SOc, 75c, $1.00 and $1.25.
EMPRESS
TWO '
SHOWS
IN ONE
RULOFF eV RULOWA BALLET; MRS.
STAN STANLEY; TYLER A ST.
CLAIR; PRETTY SOFT; Photoplay
Attractioni "Sunset Sprarue," featur
ing Buck Jones; Chriati Comedy; Fox
New.
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for
kin. As he does so, cry "Presto!
pass!", reach under the table and
produce the coin. It is neces
sary to show the package einpty
by tearing it up. Unfolding it
would expose the secret.
Copyright, ICo, Thompson Feature Service
Parents Problems
i
Should a small boy of four be
taught to obey his sister of 17?
The boy should be taught to obey
certain rules, such as promptness at
meals, courtesy, etc. He should obey
ttife whether hi carenta are pres
ent or not. In their absence his sis
ter should remind him, if he is lor-
pnoTO-nTS.
Today and Tuesday
"THE LOVES
OF LETTY"
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Co-Operative
Cafeterias
Pay Dividend to Triote Who
Doth Work
II!
YOU will find ah added degree
of comfort in the room on a
chilly morning if you have a r
handy by to use. All you need do with a Portable Electric
Heater is to attach it to any floor plug or wall socket Every
plug and socket in the house taps a veritable furnace of heat,
ready to drive the shivers away with the press of a button or
the turn of a switch, if you have one of these handy portable
heaters in your home. , '
, When you want to dress, bathe, read or sew in comfort you
will find the warm rays of these Electric Heaters almost in
dispensable. See Display at the Electric Shop ,
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getful, in short, she should not com
mand him, but help him to keep up
the proper mark.
Hubby Doesn't Count.
London, Oct. 24. England's new
Chesterfield, Justice Summons, rules
as follows: "The true lady is never
rude to anyone except her hus
band.
PHOTOPLAY!.
Now Showing
Katherine McDonald
in
"Curtains"
A Story
of the
Underworld
"Where Civilisa
tion's Veneer is
thinnest; where men
do not weigh and
measure, but give
and take ; where
impulse is stronger
than reason; where
lust and love and
foe and woe play
together in the
game of life."
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