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TJIK PEK: OMAHA. MONDAY, MAKCIl l W:. Woman Doctor Braves Dangers of Inland China (!!ifurni4 WmtMit P!iIi;iii KiiitN Oriental Arc Wry Fj?t in !ainui;n l lirltfr Ihjjinii. By EDNA LEE BOOKER. ii4't';l!i, ( l"iu. M if!i I, "IIkv iia the dancers til Vx" l'"dt-in- Scientists Accomplisli Transmutation of Metals Process Sought Throughout Ages Discovered Tung ten Changed Into Other KlementL by Use of Temperatures of 50,000 to 00,000 Degrees Possible to Break Up Atoms. fir 1k JtMfiai4 I'm. March l.'-Transinuu- i.iii l metal, auutslU throughout 't!ir . ., Iu finally bern accom- c.'ivfiil it '..iiiAim.-ril ii. m naifer-a ieste.t nctmi of 1 liin j. irait-lmu KoUrfaJ t a meeting of the middle wct- ... i., .1.. :,.,...,.. i,u I.., . i iiilr.l.irni mtum oi the American Client tr.m and rdan eh.ir, aii nuk ing nj jli.uI.ilrV jtloiie, ah iWik'i ilot'. Hot '1'CaW Chinese, lr . ti, Applcton, instructor m lrl'iiii', I'niversitv i( l'atif'nii4, tm Irmc i absence, returned Jlo Miaughui( alter opei'ing the lint i Inlilit-ti's health iliine in I liiiu. ill t I'-'iiipt -'" llmuu I'ro.iute, l)r Appleton, who i it leave of alienee I mm l ti(nmi,t. ha tome to t iiiiu to wotk tvitli the council on health education and it J in an- er to a call from the Hunan wemi-lirjrd to turn the baser metal into i.vl no.irty at Northwestern tint- UT.it)-, Tiiiilf.u ii, which i it"! in the f!a tut tit .l tleeiric light bulb, ha hrrii definitely and pertnaiie mly changed into another element, brlnm. ihmugli treatment in tem-li-r.tnfr of Ik t ween 50.1-Kl and t0. hh degree, it wa declared in a re lent tin ea-periiurnt conducted by Hi, Uirl.l I Wendt and C. K. jriiiti, working at ttic l'niverity oi Ch'raito. "It ine;iii that tite a!ehrmtt, wli en that the Atiiriican woman inane the tjat'gcroii and uncomfortable rip. Dr. Aptli toil, wlirn louud lit mild, were riiilit on one point that lie nature of metal could be tlisnKed." aid Dr. I'aul .V Leech br little mtiee at the Coiintil mi f (ir i lii.aeo ection of the client llenlth Education (iiarter. wa futl I U ul wxiety. in eommenting upon the of rntliuiam rrs.irduiR the t'linec p.im-r. "Unt. of course, it ba noth Nomiii. . mi; tu with the aertion of acal Easrer and Responsive. that the baser metal can be "The t'limre women are -aurr , iraifitinted into ntiietic goia. iid repoiiive." aid Dr. Anplcttw. 'i frit lh.it Xhrv miilf rtood every word I hmI. altlioiiKh I worked thronch an- inlet prrter and hv mean of rnhired chart. "They are eager to lc-rn and wet ciinie a clinic. We will Mrive to teach the women how to effectively combat infant mortatitv and the work which will he carried on bv the I tmatt Council on Health Kduca tion. will be atonff the line of the AVfll Pahiei' clinic of ISerkcley, Cal. "The council will teach the Chi nr$e mother, by examiniiiK and weighing thr babies, how to take bet ter care of them. Kvcrv month the ' mother will bring the babies to the clinic for examination and the rec ord of their development will be kept in a book. Intelligent Women. "Although I have worked in France. America and the Labrador I have nev.T found anv women as responsive a the eager, bright-faced, intelligent .vomcn of Cliangshc, China." v During the wir Dr. Applcton gained recognition for her heroic work among the children in France and won fame several years ago as being the first woman physician 'to practice in ice-bonnd Labrador. She is a graduate of Johns Hopkins uni versity and contributed scientific arti cles to a number of leading scientific publications. $90:doofTsiash is Made in Dawson County (riitinurd From I'm On..) say. "A good deal of the increase v as due to what might be called emergencies. We have five bridges in the county, and ran i into debt for them so that vc had to have a special act of the legislature to al-' low us to raise a special bridge fund of SoO.OOO to pay off 'warrants. This item will be dropped from the next levy, a will $5,000 spent last year in paying judgments. This much of the reduction is automatic, but the county board deserves cred it for cutting $10,000 from the gen eral fund and $8,000 from the regu lar bridge fund." Will Reduce Labor Cost. "The road fund last year amounted to $30,000." Mr. France continued. Lower material and labor costs will help reduce this expenditure onc fu'th. There will be a slash in the wages of road labor,. Instead of paying a man 35 cents an hour, he will be given 25 cents an hour here after, and a man with a team will 'get 40 cents instead of the old rate of 55 cents." This county clerk is emphatic in declaring that no other Nebraska county can match this $90,000 re duction, and yet he does not con sider it a matter for boasting, hold ing that most of the saving came automatically, through having paid i. ft old debts. This is a factor, how ever, that will operate in many other counties. Dawson county is one of the prize livestock feeding sections of Nebras-; ka. Its people have a good deaf of that push that is associated with western communities. There arc only three paupers on the county poor farm (which, by the way, pays for itself, possibly through escaping tax ation), and the people are not bent on establishing what has been called "a poor man's government." The spirit of wise economy has struck them, but there is no indication of a miserly policy that wouid set back their progress. Retain County Agent. Proposals to do away with the county agricultural agent, an expense of $2000 or so a year,, were voted down1 when urged before the tax payers' mass meeting. The school districts have yet to decide their fu ture policy; this is an important mat ter since 41 per cent of the total tax goes to the schools of Dawson coun ty. There probably will be econo mics here, but as yet there is no gen eral agitation for taking the saving cut of the teachers' wages. It is worth while to refer again to the table put out by the county board, showing. the apportionment oi the $841,000 which was raised by tax ation in 1921. The state took 17 per cent, the county. 26; the schools, 4t; cities and villages. 14; and mis cellaneous purposes a fraction. Reviewing the situation in this western county it becomes apparent that there is a new- interest in local finances, and that this determination of the taxpayers to look after their civic business promises to put money in their pockets. There is real value, too, in public and ofiicial statements by every po litical division showing the increase or decrease in expenditures, receipts, taxes and public debt. Compartson of one division with another, and of cne part of the state with others also will be helpful but all this will count for nothing if the people do not maintain a real interest in this im portant branch of the business of gOTtrntnent. . j I.T t.'-l-l f.. Co!...- 1Cr .VI 0hlivv. "It docs, however, actually blat the theory that the atom of ele ments, supposed to be absolutely in de.lruetible. cannot be broken tip by turn. It opens a vast new field to science and may result, in many far-rrachiiiR and important scientific development. We cannot yet fore see what these development may be. of course. "t'p until lf5, it was believed that no decomposition of elements was possible. At that time, however, it was discovered that radium, which is one of the about 90 known elements, naturally decomposes into lead. Na ture, however, performs that change, and until Dr. Wendt and Mr. Irion completed their experiments, man had never been able to produce a similar result. "The heat developed to break down the tungsten atoms and change them into helium is the greatest ever known hotter than the sun or than the hottest star known to astronom ers. The heat of molten steel is about 2,000 degrees: the temperature of the sun is about 9.000 degrees, and of some of the hottest stars about 50,000 degrees. Develop "Hottest Spot." "But these scientists have, by means of 'artificial lightning,' such as Dr. Cbarl h P. Steinmetz recently prodWcs, (developed the hottest known spt in the universe. "Astrouomeisl lm'e long known that while in general the materials which compose the sun and stars are the same as those known on earth, the list of substances and cbeniic4l element beHnur borter and ihorteit ltrn the hotter Mar are rmiiird, "On the brtllUnl v.ln'tc MueUh i.ir which are iii4vct l K4 at about .W.notl deuree., only the in plet elrinriiU are nrr.rut. They seem to ctnit entirely of the jtae hydroRren and helium. The heavier metal, ueh a iron, are not pres ent. "To determine whether tin wa due to decomposition by the great heat. Wendt and Irion reproduced ronditieiti .ucli a are on the Mar and actually uccecded in reaching a temperature twice a high a tiiat of the hotten Mar and found tlwt ordinary metal are decomposed in to the implc gases, particularly helium. Description of Method. ' "The method used was the atne as that used in producing artificial light ning, recently announced by Dr. Mcmmetx of Schenectady, and was originated bv Dr. J. A. Anderson of the Ml. W'iUon Solar Observatory at 1'atadcna, Cal. "Iteonsist in charging a Urge electrical condenser to 100,000 volts and discharging this large quantity of electricity at high fpeed through an extremely line metallic wire. The wire explodes with a deafening re port, a if struck by lightuing which, in a minor way, it is. The flash is about 200 time as bright a direct sunlight, but it lasts less than one hundredth thousandth of a second. The pressure developed is about 1,000 pound per square inch and the temperature is momen tarily over 50,000 degrees fahrenhcit. Under such conditions the' atoms which, compose the wire decom pose into simpler ones and the re sult is the change of metallic tung sten into gaseous helium. Means Great Advances. "One of the first laws of chemis try has been that the so-called ele ments are permanent and unchange able. The failure of the alchemists, after centuries of effort, to change such common metals as copper and iron into gold convinced chemists that the metals could not be decom posed. "Great advances, as the result of the work of Wendt and Irion in dis coveries on the nature of the mat ter that composes the universe' are confidently predicted." ' Dr. Wendt was born in Daven port, la., in 1891. He was educat ed at Harvard and in Paris, and was for a time engaged by the United! States Bureau of Mines to work on radium production in Colorado. He was a captain in the chemical war fare service and since then he has been associate professor 'of chemistry at the University of Chicago. n l n n neu cross uivcs Cash Prizes for Heroic Actions Two Youilii Get JIiglict Amount for Sating Three Women From Heath ly ' Drowning. The Dancino: Master 9f RUBY M. AYKES. t..fM..l )li) Wellington. March ll Award of ch prif to individual throughout the United .State for exceptionally tneritoriou action in life laving and rendering first aid to injured during 1"21 wa announced today at Amer ican Red Cro headquarter here. Kcd Cos lite avmg prim were awarded as follow: First prue. divided cuuallv be tweeu Wray Fannin. 19. ed Sand- point, Idaho, and William Johti-nu, IX, of Spokane, members of Kcd Cros life aving corp. who laved three women from drowning in Dia mond lake, 1'cndorcillc county, Washington. Second prize, Charles . kabis- ius of Ocean Beach. Cat., life guard and disabled war veteran, who went to the rescue of Francis Layne Doyle in a heavy surf at great persona! ri! and brought the victim ashore, Mr. Doyle dying of heart failure on the way. Girl Given Third Prize. By RUBY AY RES. J iett.lii, fe h t a'.r . V Mil--1. Mi.ahtfill (Mint, fauMlrf i'H, It Uiiimi krf riiw. tr !! k la. ImII. fU k ! lolinl k4MM 4ta. bMM.mal limh 4 lh MNO.t rkMhra Ika ih (mi, ttim Mil. na H flkfl h l.lM fill' HIM" fc" t Irl, With .). WltMt, t lrrl Uh., llahrlh' rUllr 111 far thai h I .Ui.rliif lra.br. I thai ka M rr ni mm Ilia! aha ta Mat la iMvrl klHt nam. lll.akHh'a .!. with ahaat aha aaa.la krr km. )tra. ' hrr Mar num. alia anrrla Ha. ola), kal ha Wa Hw lajngnl.a hr. Wall haaalh anaw., kul alia rJrrl. him. II rr Maria Ira m ka mly CIimj, aha fura la lhu my aaU ha a.arfallr anrrla rtm.lan. hha aa.ta.ra a"tiM!Mt.t villi l-nia haav, ft ajtaaaa hum. and ilia krr ham. ati.a aha auaJH larrta ll.ii.lna. ha iixWHdi thai ha .rliira la l.r aual a hvm. a II H lha alafl ieuniiHu.4 fioin .iui.i.) ) Scientists Attempt to Get Gold From Air Washington, March 12. Getting gold out ol the air is being attempted by the government at the New York assay office, according to a state ment by Director of the Mint Baker. Tests of a new process are going cn tlrerc, he declared, by which the rir, fcmoke and dust which escape from the molten gold and carry off minute particles of the precious metal can be refined so that none of the gold is lost. T.oorl nrotrress is being made in the tests, he declared and it thousrht that a considerable saving to the government will result, whiie extension of the method to com mercial plants should make possible the utilization of all gold employed in manufacturing. The tests being made in New York should be completed next week, Mr. Baker said, when it will be possible to demonstrate the actual amount ot cold that can be ex tracted from the atmosphere of the assaying plant. Gets Divorce From Wife Who Left After Three Days Fremont, Neb., 'March 12. (Spe cial TrleerainO "She left me three days after we were married,"' was the comnlaint made by Bernhard J, V'altcrs. Fremont, in- his application for a divorce, which was granted bv Judge V. y,r. Button. ; Mr and Mrs. Walters were mar ricd at Council Bluffs April, 5. 1921 Since Ausrust 22 1921, alters said his wife has been operating rooming house in Sioux City. An cther man he charged, was respon sible for her leavctaking. Mrs. Walters came to Fremont ibout a week ago with her 6-year-old daughter, saying that she wished to escape her former husband irom whom she was divorced. Her first husband was attempting to regain custodv of the child, Walters alleged. The husband's mother testified in confirmation of her son's testimony. Tacoma School Students Given 18-Day Vacation Tacoma, Wash., March 12. The school board cut the Gordian knot tied by the small police vacilla tion dispute here and decreed, an 18- dav, vacation m all public schools, Last month the city health depart ment ordered all pupils to be vac cinated on or before March 6 or to be suspended from school for 18 days. Superintendent W. F. Gciger, on March 6, announced that he had ordered all school principals to sus pend the order. Dr. Joseph Kane, city health officer, last night inform ed the members of the school board he would order them arrested unless the vaccination order was obeyed. President of Cotner Is Offered Kentucky Post Lincoln, March 12. Rev. A. D. Harmon, president of Cotner col leec of Bethany,' a suburb of Lin- coin, bas'been offered the presidency ot Transylvania college of Lexing ton, Ky., and said this evening he had the question of acceptance tinder consideration. Rev. Mr. Harmon has been president of Cotner six years. Omaha Bankers Lose ; in Debate at Detroit According to a wire received here the Omaha chapter, of. the American Institute of Banking lost by a de-r eision of 2 'to 1 in a debate with the Detroit chapter at Milwaukee, Wis. The question was whether the United States should grant inde pendence to the Filipinos. The Omaha debaters, who upheld the af firmative, were J. Kessler Tones of the Federal Reserve bank, V. Fhil h'p McBride of the First National bank, and E. C. Finlay of the -Live Stock National bank. This was the first of a series of debates to determine the champion ship of the institute. ' Another Oma ha team meets the St. Louis chapter at Kansas City April 14,. when the issue will be the bank of nations. Omaha will support the negative. . I Additional Funds for War Veterans Recommended Washington, March 12. An ap propriation of $17,000,000 for add! tional hospital facilities for disabled v.ar veterans is recommended In a bill favorably reported by the house public buildings committee. As originally introduced by Chair man Langlcy, the measure authoriz ed a $16,000,000 appropriation, but the amount was increased by the committee to take care of several additional projects. The bill, as re ported, does not stipulate where end how the money is to be expended, this being left entirely to- the direc tor of the veterans bureau, who. under provisions .of the measure, would control all construction work and architectural plans, instead of the architect of the Ireasury depart ment. British Military Critic Would Abolish Aircraft Syracuse. N..Y.,-March 12. Air craft as well as submarines should be suppressed, not only in war but in peace, according to Col. Charles C Rcpington, English military critic, in an interview. "Aircraft, like submarines, are an unmitigated curse," Colonel Repmg- ton said. They are of little practi cal value in peace. We could do very well without them. Ihc next war will' be fought in the air unless air craft are forbidden and no one can understand the destruction and havoc thev will cause. But I don't think there is going to be, any 'next war' for at least 40 years. New Trial Is Refused in $50,000 Damage Suit Beatrice, Neb., March 12. (Spe cial Telegram.) Judge Colby of the district court overruled the motion for a new trial on the personal dam age case of Arlie Culver against the union l'acitic railroad company. The case wes recently tried, the jury awarding the plaintiff a verdict for $50,000. Culver claimed lie was permanently injured while employed as a brakeman with the company. when he attempted to lift one end of a hand car into a box car at Ray mond. He is paralyzed from the waist down. Third nrire. Mis Dorothy Dav sou, h, ot wrocKton, .Mas.. lor plunging into a lake, fully clothe and rescuing Miss Doris Buchanan of Melrose. Mas. Fourth prize. Frank Muscett. Si! ver Beach, Wash., for rescuing Mrs. l-.dward Lee Taylor and her tw daughters from drowning in 30 feet of water at the edge of a log boom Prizes front the "William Howard Taft fund." which arc limited to per sons employed on railroads were as follows: First prize. J. E. Woods, conduc tor, Atlantic Coast Line railroad, for saving the htc of a baby near Lev tngton, S. Boy Saved Sister. Second prize, Frank Knight. 1.1, son of . VY. Knight, section tore man. Atlantic Coast Line railroad for saving the life of his sister, 2, by pulling her from in front of a moving tram near Cairo, Ga. Third prize, divided equally bc tween Engineer Tommic Orman Brakeman W. H. Davidson and Fireman Fred Thompson, employed by the Santa Fe railway, who saved tno Jite ot an iniant ai oan aoa. Tex. Fourth nrizc Henry Melton brakeman on the Atlantic Coast Line railroad, for rescuing a small girl from in front of a moving train at Wauchula, Fla. ' ' Four prizes were also awarded for meritorious first aid worx ot a gen cral character. Hughes Presented With Gold Shears Newspaper Men Make Gift to ' Secretary in Appreciation of 'Kindly Assistance.' Washington, March 12. Washing ton newspaper correspondents pre sented Secretary Hughes with a pair of cold desk shears, in token of their annreciaation for his "kindly assist ance to them in thek work," since assuming office. The gift was said to be unique in that it was the first ever, eiven a cabinet officer during his incumbency bv the newspaper men, who come m daily contact witu heads of administrations. The gift, which was appropriately encraved. was presented on behalf of the correspondents by Matthew F. Tighe, who has been "covering" the State department for more than 40 years. In delivering the shears, Mr. Tighe expressed the hope that the secretary would make the use of the gift that Alexander, made of his sword "in cutting the Gordian knots of international diplomacy," to which the State department head repueu that he was quite sure the corres pondents would not permit any knot, Gordian or otherwise, to es cape his attention. Secretary Hughes reminded the correspondents of the difficulty pub lic officials experience in maintaining the- proper contact with public opinion. "It isn't always easy to decide what should be done," he said, add ing it. should be realized that the government was not "trying to put something over" when it was found necessary to refuse information on subjects prominently in the public eye. . . Ray Zimmer Loses. Little Rock, Ark., March 12. Charles Rentrop of Fort Worth, Tex., defeated Ray Zimmer of Omaha, Neb., by winning straight falls in a wrestling match here. They are middlewcights. Steamships "I khall stay, too," lie answered. hc picked up her glove. "Very v eil I will go; but I will never for give you as long I Ike." lie made no iner. He followed her into the narrow hall, panted her and opened the front door. A taxici-b was coming up (lie rouJ, md he hailed it. "I would rather walk," Elizabeth began, but he ignored her and they drove away together. Llizabcth' throat ached with sob of bitter disappointment. Her ryes burned with unshed tears; she dared not raise them. KoyMou looked at her once or twice in distress, and at last he said awkwardly; "If you really wish to have danc ing lesson. Miss Conycrs, I shall be only to delighted to give you some, or arrange for you with someone eNe; but surely you can see the folly of making an acquaintance like that, and and going alone to a strange house." She looked tip at him then, and two big tears overflowed and splash ed down onto her coat. "You were there!" she said. "If you can go there, why can't I?" Pat Royston laughed bitterly. "The circumstances are rather dif ferent," he said. His face seemed to tighten with a sort of pain before he tic'dcd deliberately: "Vou see, Enid Sanger happen to be my wife!" "i'our wife!" Elizabeth echoed faintly. Such a contingency had nev er occurred to her, although she knew that Royston was a married man. and for the first time she real ized just how' impossible Enid Sang er was, just how cheap and tawdry was her smart finery, and she won dered helplessly why she had never seen it octore. "You did not know I was mar ried?" Royston asked. He was looking out of the window with a rather set face. Yes yes, I did," Elizabeth said faintly. "But but I never thought somehow She could not finish did not know what it was she wanted to say. There was a little silence, then Rovston said quietly: "You are much younger than I am. Miss Conyers, and, if you will forgive me lor saying so, you are very ig norant of the world. I should be glad if you will give me your word that you will not do this sort of thing again. You might have fallen into any sort of bad company. As it is oe shrugged his shoulders 1 am glad I happened to be there when you came." He looked round at her for the first time and smiled gravely. "Well, will you promise me not to be so impulsive again?" Elnrabcth had shrunk into her cor ner. Her thoughts were in a whirl, but her most active emotion was anger, not against Enid Sanger, but against this man for having mastered her. Will you promise me? he urged n very much the same tone he might have used to a child who has been naughty and seeks forgiveness. Elizabeth's face flamed; she sat up stiffly, turning to look fully at him. No, 1 shall not, she said. 'And tonight, as soon as you have cone. I shall go. too. I will not live with my aunt. She does not want me; she never speaks to me. If I was rich it would be different. You say I am ignorant, but I am not so ignorant as not to see when I am not wanted. I will not live with them I will not, 1 will not, I shall run away again just as soon as ever I get a chance; the very minute. Royston rose to his feet, let down the window, and, leaning out, spoke to the driver. Elizabeth watched him with fiery eyes. What are you ding? What did you tell him?" she asked. I told him not to take us back to our aunt's house vet. I want to talk to you. We will go somewhere nd have a little supper. You are tired and upset and I am not going to let you go home in this mood. Elizabeth laughed. "Home!" she said. "I haven't got any home. Ihcn she burst into tears. Royston took no notice and made o attempt to console her, but he was frowning as he sat staring down at the floor and he gave a quick igh of relief when presently Ehza- cth dried her tears. Arrival!. March 11. Orope Sea, Ham- S. C, Jl&rch 11. Pleiades, New York, burs. Charleston ""(Spore, Starch 6. Esther Dollar, San Francisco. Kobe, March t. Edmore, Seattle; 7th; Citv of Victoria, Portland. Melbourne, March 10. Peebles. Seattle. New Tork. March 11. Paris. Havre. Naples. March 3. George Washington, New Tork. Beren. MRrcn . stavenserrjora, -ew York. ... Alexandria. Jlarcn 10. Adriatic, new Tork. llarture. New Torlt. Slarch 11. T.a Ravoie, Havre: Algeria. Glasgow: Wimfrertian. Liverpool: Stockholm, Gothenburg; Ryn dam. Rotterdam; America. Bremen. Southampton. 31arch 9. Peninsula States, New Torlt. Liverpool. March 10. Caledonian, Boa- ton. Queenstown, March 10. Centennial State, New Tork. Kobe, March . Portland Maru, Port land. Or. Rotterdam, Itarch . Dinteldijk, San Francisco. Hongkong:. March 10. Silver State. Tacoma. Swansea, March 10. Klnaerdjik, Van couver. Buenot Aire, March 10. West Katan. Sen Francisco. Cristobal. March 10. Felix Taussig. I,oa Ang!. New Tork. March 11. La Bourdannias. KavT. New Tork. March 11. West Catansc. T.os Angeles: i'ameronia. New Tork; Fsequlpo. Caao. Sasonlo. Plymouth; Vauba. Rio Janeiro: Olypic Southampton. Southampton. March 11. Aquliania. Ntw lark. "I tuppoae )tu iliiuk I'm f-dl " ie naked ei top ti sob, "Xo," tid Koynon. .she atote a flame at hhn; It luoked unhappy she thought and !( Killed it. Mie bruhd tb !al tear t!etrniiiie'Hy iy. "I would rather so I'-eV iy aunt's than lt supprr with jou," he id. He laughed ratlier mirthlessly, "I dute av tun would, but I think it will be better for )ou tu have uj pcr with me, all the ime. We wilt go ti a ejn'rt place where nobody wilt tee ou wuh inc. II, voice wa sarcatie. i.li.abcih eau.lit him up quickly. "Vtm mean where t'obeidy will ee )ou with inc. she aid. He ahrucsrd hi ln il!c r. "If vou like t put it that wav. We won't quarrel about it again." The eab stopped and he opened the door. Elizabeth followed hint on the pavement. She wa really hungry und he did not want to wo home, but she hung back when lie opined the restaurant door for her to pre cede hint, "They'll all laugh at my clothe, she said rather pitifully. She saw the wave of color that rushrd to hit face. "Good I-ordl Do you think elothes are the only things that mat ter in life?" he aked angrily. "it serin at if they arc in Lon don," Eliaheih said, but she fol lowed w hen he led the way and was thankful' to find that the restaurant wa quite small and unpretentious and that there were very few persons present. Royston chose a table in the cor ner and handed her the menu. "I'lcase order what you like," but she shook her head. "I can't: you do it, please!" Her color came and went nervously. "I've never been in a place like this in my life." She was grateful to mm because be did not smile; grateful to bun be cause he ordered without further ar Liiment. It was only when the meal was finished and the waiter had brought coffee that Royston said: And now will you let me talk to you .' ialk to me He had been talk ing all the time, she thought, plati tudes about the weather and the food and a new dance that had jut arrived from America; but now bis whole manner seemed to change to great earnestness and be went on without giving her time to speak. I had a little sister very much like you. She's dead, but whenever you look at me there is something in your eyes that reminds me of Iicr, and so I hope will you try and look upon me as a a sort of big brother for a few minutes while I talk- to you?" Elizabeth's eyes fell. "Please go on," she said. (Continued In Tha Be Tomorrow.) T. E. Wroth, 60, Brother of Comedian, Expires Thomas E. Wroth, 60, brother of L. C. Wroth, restaurant man. and Ed Lee Wroth, Orpheum comedian, died at his home, 507 South Twentieth street Saturday after a short ill ness. When he came to Omaha in 1871 Mr. Wroth worked as a ferryman on the boat between Omaha-Council Bluffs. Later he wa employed by the Northwestern railway and was retired after being struck by a mov ing train. Funeral services will be held at 2 Tuesday afternoon at the Crane mortuary. Burial will be in Forest Lawn cemetery. Besides the two brothers above named, he is survived by the widow, Mrs. Hettie L. Wroth; a son, Clyde, now in Nevada, and two daughters, Mrs. Letha Viadenburg, Fort Crook, and Mrs. Ora Halle, Cleveland, O. The latest indictment against jazz dancing is that it causes warts on the feet. The charge was brought by the Massachusetts Chiropody as sociation, i . !rnini ludn bM, width wa rtewd fit will) alrikrii, inn.t i limn Hl killed, nultidii'g nril falei, it i thought. Al IliakPiil a command attjikrd i mine. p-iul eoni4iili wlm ting it feuding the ptou-ity wie defeated, ri;ht point id one luiiee being killed. Later I' e nunagrt tud two others' were t Ani out and ti. by the afuikri. Itu-iuti and B.noni are littered wild Iej I ami wounded, the uul ambiil.inee dme heiiiir insulin init even t iciume lbs fallen fioui the otieet. Men Armed With Grenades. At Jepf.town, eat of Job.niie burg. '.iKt siukrr amu-d with ham trenade and revolver. re bgluius M'adily to prevent the police from reinforrinie I'ordburs which is hard prred, Continuous tiring from thi nnarter ean be heard fioni renti.il Juhalllirsbuia;. An inniiioiu Intuit Ml Friday night and the liutiiini! wa siienendrd. At i daw ii Satuiday bombing un. dv n.iiuit iin wi rcMiinrd. nut llirie wa le small jtui dishting. neither party showing 4 ihioitin to at tack. Hoover (!liuiij;ri Program for Trip Tliroitli Vtl I'hofiiix, Ariz, March 12 Her berl Hoover, government repieenta live oil the Colorado rurr rniumii sioii. teli-gr.iphed state Water Com niisMourr W. S. Norxiel tlwt he do sired to go into executiee scM with other members of the comnii non immediately upon hi arrival it Fhoenix next Wednesday morning Secretary Hoover's message staten he lead changed hi itinerary to pro long hi western trip two or three day, lie Mid he plan to spend one dav in the Imperial alley be tween Maieh 18 and 20. before going to Lo Angele. He expect to be in Salt Lake on March 27. Otoe Counly Jail IVow I la .Record Number of Prisoner Nebraska City. Neb., March 12. (Snecial.) Tames Graham was sen tenced to 40 days and John Ohm- niaeht to 60 days in the county jail by Judge A. A. Bischof 111 the coun ty court after raids had been made on their homes in the city by police and members of Sheriff "Gus liver state agents and liquor found. The men pleaded guilty to the charges, Several other homes were raided by the officers, but 110 liquor found. The Otoe county jail at the present tune has 10 inmates, the largest Two South African Towns Fall Before Siege of Strikers l ime righting Ureal, Out on Hand Fellow ing Martial I.sw Situation in Johiiniu' Imrg li Oac. Hr lb AsMselalsaJ Tim. Johannesburg, Msnch 2. The Rand Pily Mad places Friday's cas ualty at 600, of whom 80 an be lieved to have been arrested. The casualties among the strikers are not known. The situation is retarded as some what improved. fa-pirllM, Johannesburg, Mirth !-. Follow iug the lull upon the declaration of martial law throughout the Hand tut Friday morning, systematic and wide prrad hBhting ha again broken out. I-' vents moved rapidly throughout the day and mot of the suburb of Jo liaunrsburit are now being controlled by the strikers who bate been re inforced, in some instances, by mounted commanders of Boar farm er armed with rinrs and bandolieis. Iletioni, which wa besieged, fell before the renewed as-nalt of the striker this morning. This town is only 20 mile from Johannesburg. lirakpan. U mile iitant, aMo 1 in the hand of the striker. Reports from other districts indicates defeat for the police with heavy casualties. Anxiety is growing in Central Johannesburg where the prospect i that the citiens will have to defend themselves from the revolutionary commanders which are pressing in from al! sides. An attack 011 the cen tral power plant already bat been made and newspaper and big min ing offices housed in a building known as Corner House arc threat ened. Trades Hal! Bombed. Airplanes reconnoitered above Benoni this morning after it cap ture. The machine guns drew a heavy lire and aviator Capt. Cairey Thomas was shot while flying at a low altitude over the town. The air plane of Captain Thomas was blown no iust outside of Banoni by the striker. Later an aviator flying number of prisoner confined there very low bombed and blew up the at one time in many years. 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"Health in Food" riuvr atrmfLhi an gyp Northwest Corner 16th and Frnra An Open Letter to Julius Rosenzwerg Dear Julie : ' You were the very first young man I got acquainted with, Julie; when I came to Omaha nearly twenty-five years ago, and began working for The Pantorium, and you have been one of my best friends, and just about our best Pantorium "booster," all these years. I remember when you got married back in 1899. Louie Bost -wick was your best man and Harry Bowen and I stretched the ribbons. We all did a good job, didn't we? Am wondering if you are going to invite us to your Silver Wedding, which will soon be in order? Well, Julie, you keep on boosting The Pantorium and we will keep on boosting your insurance game to reciprocate. YOU know we are the best cleaners and dyers in Omaha, and if any of your friends who send work to us ever get an. unsatisfactory job I am sure you will advise them to send it back and make us do it right or refund their money. That's how we have built our business and made a reputation of which we are very jealous. Well, so long, Julie; drop in any time and chew the rag awhile you're always welcome. Your old pal,