THE SiF.il : OMAHA. FFwinAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1921.
City in Dark as
Cables Burn at
Electric Plant
Origin of Fire Undetermined
Damage la Estimated at .
$3,000 Official Com.;,
mendii Firemen.
Omaha and' Ctruncif TIlufTs were
plunged into total darkness Wednes
day night at 5:58 when a fire of
undermined origin damaged the Ne
lraka i'owcr company plant
Sixth and Jones afreets.
Lights and power on the streets,
ia stores, hospitals, residences am.
every other place supplied by the
power company went out. Moving
picture houses had fr itop business,
Automobiles and strefl cars carry
ing big rush hour' crowds felt their
ways carefully through the dark'
. tned streets. -
Emergency equipment was called
into use in 11 minutes and the lights
in the downtown district went on
again. Some other parts of the. city
did not get light for three hours.
Estimates $5,0C0 Damage. '
Gas light,' candles and lantern
were used during the evening in
lesidences. ...
J. E. Davidson, vice president of
the company, estimated the damage
to the plant at $5,000. and the loss
ot revenue at about the samc.-suni.
He said several cables carrying
13.200 volt current to the South
dwc nareu tin.- An explosion re
sounded through the power . plaiu
with a flash ot ilamc. Cables and
their containers made of cajt iron
and porcelain were burned -ut in
t-tantly and no trace of them' was
lound alter the explosion.
Commends Firemen.
The explosion cut off the switches
which were.": supplying a 35,000
horsepower load to the users ot the
city. v-, t. ...
Mr. Davidson commended, tin
city fire department for its prorrip
work.
e said, also that the. entire
$6,000,000 plant- would have been
destroyed if the. governors on the
turbines and the safety valves on
the boilers had not worked per-
lectiy.
Injured Youth
Gives Thanks
Hastings Men Come to Aid of
Grand Island Boy Shot
IirEye by Playmate. .
Grand Island, Neb..- Nov. 24.
(Special;) Albert Peterson,' 15;
newsboy, -says he truly has some
thing to. be -thankful, for this year.
Two Hastings men,- A. R. Thomp
son, president of the Nebraska Na
tional, bank, andDr. . E. C. Foote,'
are responsible , for his. thankful;
MrTjiatii'psort: stepped',' frotn :a
train here recently and while-purchasing
paper, questioned Albert
about ;hi$- ey(, which was bandaged.
The beVy' told of having been acci
dentally shot' in the eye by an air
gun in the -hands of a playmate and
not having .funds with which to
have an. operation performed. The
boy explained that. his. earnings were
required '.by his widowed -rncither.'to
her meager earnings as a- seamstress
to support .himself and two younger i
brothers, . ...
The-banker was touched by the.
boy's plight and made arrange
ments .with. Dr. Foote to donate his
services while he paid the expenses.
An operation showed that the' sight i
of the-bty's.ofher, eye. would: have
been destroyed shortly had relief
not been gjveft.' A glass eye 'will be
made available- by 'he generosity
of the banker and the Hastings doc
tor. .. ,
Suffocation of 64 Moplali .
Prisoners Arouses Indians
London, Nov. 24. (By. The Asso-'
ciated Prcss.)Inquiry into the suf
focation of 64. Moplah prisoner re
cently while being transferred in a
closed railway wagon in the Madras
district of Ind'a, has revealed that
the -incident created a sensation
among the natives and provided the
Nationalist - press with effective
propaganda material. - -
By RUBY AYRES.
(Continued from YnitrrdKr.)
They, went back through the gar
den "and into the drawing room.
Anne walked over to the piano and
tat down, idly turning over the pages
of a tons that stood on the rack
The fortune Hunter stood at the
open window, smoking and watching
iter across the room.
"A penny for your thoughts," he
said suddenly. As she did not an
swer he, moved across and took tho
song from her hands, reading the
words on the open race aloud.
"When you're jog, jog, joggin' along
the white road
With your luck all upside down,
Well, you don't much care if you're
on the right road,
When you're bound for nowhere
town. ','.' . . :
I'm just as happy, in the byways,
-my ways
Wherever I may be
For there's no friend waiting along
the highways
For a vagabond like me."
He laughed, shrugged his shoul
ders, and laid the music down again
on the piano. "Jt, might have been
written about me," he said unthink
ingly, and went back to the window
and stood .looking into the garden
with moody eyes. .
What was he doing here when the
road was his place- the road where,
in spite of many hardships, he. had
known much simple happipess dur
ing his: wanderings? .
' "What are you ' thinking about,
John?" Anne asked. ' She was watch
ing him- across the , room..,wun
troubled eyes. He turned abruptly,
not' daring to trust himself to look
at her. " f'iSvas thinking that I must
get Tommy's bearskin," be said.
He went upstairs .to the ., attic,
where the moonlight was poking in
quisitive fingers among; John Smith's
boxes, -he words of the sorig ringing
lrt-his ears: ' ' ' ' "
'Torchere's no friend waiting along
. ,: tne-- nignway s
For a vagabond like me."
Would that be. true of him again
some day? he wondered. It almost
seemed as if it lay with him at this
moment to choose, as he stood thtrr.
hesitatmsr to open the closed lid ot
the box before him; then, suddenly
he moved, stooped and flung back
the lid, and going ,down on his knees
on the wooden floor, began slowly
to' take out the contents.
Clothes; most of them new, and
apparently unworn; a few books, a
few photographs of towns and wico
stretches of prairie, a number of let
ters and a diary on loose sheets of
paper. .
I he fortune Hunter took it up re
luctantly; perhaps this held all that
he wanted to know of the dead man's
life. '..: , ..;
Whv "hesitate, to read it when so
much was at stake? Why jib at the
last hurdle whin the prize was so
great? .- .. ;, ' , '
Almost unconsciously He found
himself turning the pages,; reading
extracts of the scribbled writing:'
: ' Tnlitffr, 'tptrfr frrttrr AfltiP.'
Tf only women would not be so'f&nd
of liero-worship'; if only they would
take a man at the world s estimate
of him ."." . : '; ;
. The Fortune; Hunter read on,
page -after page,- forgetting that it
must be getting late, and that down
stairs Anne waited for him; his face
was stern and set in .the. moonlight
when he reached the end of that, elo
quent, story, then , he flung it down
with a snort of contempt. '
Lord! 'I- thought. I was a wrong
un, but now. ....
For the diary had told many
things, and but little to the credit
of the man who had died . so trag
ically that September afternoon, and
the Fortune Hunter knew now that
it had not been love or loyalty .that
had brought hirh1 back to England
after -so many years,;' but because
there;had seemed to John Smith td
be no way of ridding himself of a
woman . of whom he had weaned I
long enough ago. ,
Reading on and on, the-- i-ortunfc
Hunter completely .orgot the errand
which had brought him upstairs.
until the mention of Tommy's name
in the1 diary recalled the boy and
the promised bearskin.
It lay in the too of the box next
the one which Tommy had .opened,
a great furry robe, into whose folds
more than one , book and packet of
papers ha3 worked its way.
I he fortune Hunter paused only
to give it a hasty shaking;, then,
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Arrives Jacksonville '8:45 am
(second morning) via Frisco. Line
and Southern Railway.
Dining car service . all the way.
Fred Harvey meals on the Frisco.
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with it bundled up under one arm,
he rushed away to the stairs. eager
to give it to the boy and get back
to the diary once more. In fact, to
eager was he that he failed to no
tice Anne,, where she stood -just
within the door of his room her
arms filled with flowers from the
garden. , . ,
She had come on an errand of
love, to place fresh blossoms )u t'le
old-fashioned vars in his room, and
at the sound of his step onthe stairs
had turned to watch him as he has
tily descended them. Her "eyes
glowed with pride and love as they
dwelt on the man to whom she had
given her heart. Instinctively she
ran forward and peeped over ' the
bannister for a glimpse of him as
h. crossed the lower hall.
And then she saw the photo
graph which lay, face upward, on
the top step. She remember having
almost .unconsciously rioted the flut
ter of something white falling from
the folded bearskin that was
him died up under her lover's arm.
The flowers fell softly from her
arms as she stooped to pick it up.
It was the photograph of a wo
man a very beautiful woman, ob
viously. And across the bottom of
it, in .clear, bold writing; were fro
words: .
"Dear John, with lov: from
Irenie.".
-In suite of the vague misgivings
and doubt she might have felt now
and then since the Fortu.ie Hunter
came. Jo Somerton. Anne never
really had distrusted him until now,
when 'she stood at the. top of the
staircase with the photograph in her
hand. '
He had said that there had been
no other woman in his life; and it
was a lie. The thought escaped her
before she was'aware of it, .and in
a oanic she tried to smother it.
John would never have lied to her:
there was some simple explanation:
she would show it to him, and he
would' laugh, and everything would
be right between tnem again.
And yet when presently she
heard his step ascending the stairs
she turned back into the room,
thrusting the photograph into the
bosom of her frock.
She i was afraid; - although she
would .not acknowledge St even to
herself, she knew that she was afraid
to question him. , ,s :
The " Fortune Hunter.1" came into
the room eagerly. "Have I been
long?i Tommy, kept chattering. He
put his hands . on her shoulders,
turning her round to him. "What is
it, Anne?" he asked swiftly.
She looked up, and away again;
she tried to laugh.
"Angry because you stayed down
stairs with Tommy? Of course not.
How foolish." .She put her hand to
her throat with a little stifling ges
ture. "It's so hot here shall we go
downstairs?"
"In a moment," he barred her way
to the door. "Something has. hap
pened since I went downstairs," he
insisted.' His eyes searched the room
swiftly for a clue. .."Anne,' tell me
what it is, dear?" . .
The tears rushed to her ' eyes '' at
the gentleness of his voice, bii she
brushed them angrily away. " '
There is nothing the matter.
nothing. Please let me go downstairs
it s so hot here, and my head
aches. ,
He stood aside ' then without a
word, and she passed' him," her eyes
avoiding his. . - -, ;
The Fortune Hunter looked after doing things that are not expected
her with a frown Something had! of me," he said quietly, and turned
happened, but what? He shrugged
nu shoulders, though there was
hue of pain between his eves.
Well, it would hat-e to come soon
er or later, he knew: the first doubt,
the gradual enstrangement, and then
then sooner he walked out of her
life the better,
He, went over to the gabled win
dow and' looked out; the road
wound through the trees and to
wards the town; the road by which
he had come to Sommcrton; the road
which some day he would take
again out nto the world
' Tommy called again from the bot
tom of the stair, "John! John!"
"Coming!" The Fortune Hunter
went slowly downstairs,
"Well what is it?"
Tommy raised a preoccupied face
from the task of arranging his bear
sk n over a sofa at the foot of his
bed.
"Nothing; only Anne asked me to
tell you that Ocoflry roster is com
ing to dinner tonight." He shrugged
his shoulders. "Such a bore. I sup
pose we it nave to dress for dinner,
all of us." He looked up with sudden
interest. "I say. have you got a dress
suit?" he asked.
The Fortune Hunter smiled cyni
cally. "I believe I have," he said.
Tommy looked embarrassed. "Oh
welT, I only asked," he. said apolo
getically. "I . know- you couldn't
have had much use for one bear
shooting.
"No," the Fortune Hunter agreed
aryiy. .
But he was rather pleased with his
appearance that evening When he had
fixed the last stud and struggled his
bow into place. - -
The mirror in his wardrobe door
showed him a tall. wcll-sctUD man
with immaculately brushed hair and
a well-cut dinner jacket, and he made
a wry grimace at his reflection.
"If things were only what they
secml" The thought went through
his mind. with great bitterness as he
went down to be introduced to Geof
fry Foster."! .
"Geoffry" it was Anne who ' in
troduced them "this is John."
There was a shy sort of pride in
her voice, and the'Fortune Hunter
was quick - to -sec the unfriendly
gleam in the other man's eyes as
they formally shook hands.
"Er pleased to meet you." He
spoke with a slight drawl. "Heard so
much about -'you, don't-you know,
but never thought we should see you
at Somerton."
- The Fortune Hunter met his gaze
steadily,.
"I've always had a reputation for
away to speak to Tommy, who had
limped into the room, looking very
cross and uncomfortable.
"It i all rot." he growfed as the
Fortune Hunter sat down beside him
"Why should we all dreis up I ke
Idiots, just because roster chooses
to come to dinner? '
"You don't like him?" Tommy
shniRgfd his shoulders,
"Oh, he's got a decent launch," lie
said evasively, .
(Contlnuffl la The IVe Tomnrrew.)
Star Foot Bailers Kept Out
Of Gfltne for Going to Trial
Auburn, Neb., Nov. 4. (Special.)
Deep gloom hovers over Auburn
This is the day of the Auburn High
school foot ball team's contest with
its ancient enemy, the Nebraska City
nigh school foot ball team.
And this morning. Miss Well
hausen, principal of the Auburn
High school, compelled four star
players of the team to check in their
foot ball outfits and remain out of
today's game as punishment for at
tending the trial of Mrs. Lucy Neal
yesterday afternoon instead of their
classes,
The boys are John Broady. cap
tain; Clarence Watkins, Rex Gage
and Jim G Han
!' A company is being formed fn
France to exploit the oil fields of Al
geria.
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people who find them
selves chronically const!-
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Dsln will srlre vou daily
elimination tn a mild. gentle
way without arlplno. and
soon medicines of all kinds can
be dispensed with. It It much better
than drastic carthartlcs, salts, min
erals, pills, etc.
DR. CALDWELL'S
SYRUP PEPSIN
THE FAMILY LAXATIVE
Thousands of old folks will only
take Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin. It
is a safe vegetable compound of Egyp
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herbs with pepsin. The formats is on
package. A dose costs less than a cent,
HALF-OUNCE BOTTLE FREE
Few escape constipation, jo wn if you ia
not rttpurt a taxdctvs at this moment let m
send you a Hall -Ounce Trial Bottle of my
Syrup Pcitn FREE OF CHARQE to that
you wul have ft handy when needed, iint
send your name ana address to Dr. W.
CalduieU. St Washington St.. MarnksUa.
1U. Wrmmetoday.
Present a Hartman
Wardrobe as a Gift
What could be mora appro
priate as a Christmas gift than i
a Hartmann Wardrobe Trunk?
They are renowned in the esti
mation of thousand of owners
for their serviceability.
Priced at
$42.50-$47.50-$61
and better.
MABT&aANEil Including tax
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every nurse Is relieved of aches from long hours on her feet she Is not at
her best. Her success is at stake.
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Importtnti , No ncbool Fildty. An id-$l timt
to outfit tht thildrtn lot 'cold HtMther.
The Original Children's Store
of Omaha Announces for
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Friday and Satu rday
Goats
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for Girls and
Misses
In two big sale groups
a. $9.95
Previously to $15.00
A timely sale of Rood, warm winter coat
for school and dress wear. ,The price
quoted means a real worth-while saving.
All of these coats are specially
designed along the most youth
ful lines to best become the
growing girl. :
Well tailored and lined throughout.
Belted models. In navy, brown and
heather mixtures. Sizes 8 to 14 years.
a: $13.95
Previously to $18.50
A group of" individual coats and all'
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) ' Nicely tailored of .chinchilla, .'.;
velvet, diagonal aad heather '
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Lined throughout. In navy, brown, Sor
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Sizes 8 to 14 yars. , -
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for Boys and Girls
The Pony Hose needs no In
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know Its wearing qualities.
Just received a shipment ot
inter weight. Double at the
knees, heels asd toes. Black
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Sizes 5'2 to 726Ims 8 to 11
55c 65
50c Hose
Three for $1.00
' Fine ribbed black mercerized
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' Second Floor .
Sale of
Boys' Shoes
at $3.95
Built for service and tbe boy
test that conies from kicking,
sliding and running.
Made of solid leather In
black and brown. Sites 10 to
2 and 2 to 5. Unusual val
ues and we suggest that you
shop on this special Friday.-
; MAIN FLOOR ,.
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$1.00
Extraordinary ; values for
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Tim Caps
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