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Omaha daily bee., 1914-10-25

Lens Court TanEIes.
Referring 10 a terrible steamship
boiler explosion In New York seventeen
years ago. when sevcnty-fiye people were
injured. he cited one claim resulting from
Il which required almost seventeen years
OF court procedure before the claim
reached final adjudication and the auf-
ferer received any damage money for
his injury. In absolute contrast to such
slow and unjust settlement OF claims,
which still prevails under the Nebraska
law now In force. he cited a recent case
in Michigan. which showed the value OF
workmen's compensation laws in place
OF protracted litigation. Five days after
John Massett Minnesota laborer lost
his life his widow Gas awarded a weekly
income. based on his earnings, for the
rest of her hfe. She had filed no appli-
cation for damages The Minnesota COM
nilsson first learned OF the case by read
ing OF 1t in the newspapers the day after
Masset.'s death.
Concluding his arguments for the adop-
ton OF the law by popular vote, Mr. Cot
fey declared that the law PROPOSED fol
Nebraska IL II per cent higher In benefit
allowances for injuries than are the ,hrs.
most successful laws now in force a.
other states.
Mr.. Guye. In speaking against the pro
posed law, declared that all lAborinI
men favor the principles OF eompensa
ton. But he alleged that the proposes
law does not contain the principles o
true compensation. He said no commits
sion Of men was provided to conslde
claims, ana by providing for an equit,
court adjudication OF claims II does no
give Trial by jury.
He admitted that personal injury law
yers now get 50 per cent OF Judgment
won for woTkmen's injuries. but he sal
that under the new law. he thought III
injured workman would not get eve
as much as 50 per cent of what he nigh
secure under the old law. In other words
he thought tie compensation amount
provided In the. new law for various IN
suries were not large enough
He also asserted that Under the pre-
posed law, Insurance companies woul
reap a harvest and that Il would wor
calamity for working people. He cite
figures in trying 10 show that n
proposed Nebraska eompensations a.
not as large. nor for.a many weeks q
allowed In other states where eompensi
ton laws are IN force. He cited Ne
York figures. however and Mr.. coffs
declared that the New York law shoul
not be taken IN comparison. as Il va
not entirely successful
when Mr.. ouye tried 20 attack the NJ
braska Law on the ground that il max,
no specific allowance for the loss
fingers. toes, ana 20 forth. Nj. coffe
again called. he argument by pointin
out that an injuries which wholly (
partially 4ncapaeltats a workman, ha,
eanpensati0ns provided for them.
Omaha daily bee., 1914-10-25
uear,nr Ordered at Omaha.

WASHINGTON, d. c., Oct. A.--lSpe-
cial TelegramO-T Interstate Com
merce commission has ordered hearing
be held at Omaha November "A, by Ex-
aminer Flynn in the case of the Consoli-
dated Fuel company against Council
Bluffs and Quincy Railroad company
Omaha daily bee., 1914-10-25
My Cleansing, Healing Balm In
stAntiy Clears Nose, Head and
Throat - Stops Nasty Catarrhal
Discharges. Dull Headache Goes.

Try "Ely's Cream Balm
Get small bottle anyway. Just TO try
it-Apply a little In the nostrils and in
stantlS your elogged nose and stopped
Up air passages OF the head win open;
you win breathe freely; dullness and
headache disappear. BY morning the
eatarrh. eold-in-heed or catarrhal sore
throat viii be gons,
END such misery nowl Get the small
bottle OF "Eiy.s Cream Balm AZ any
Omaha daily bee., 1914-10-25

Bee Want Ads Are the Best Business
Boosters.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-03-07
Natures ~Ironies.

The irony of fate has had few finer
illustrations than that staged In the
western part of this country during
the last seven months.
A drouth, unrivaled for duration
and severity, held nearly a dozen
states in it's grip last summer, drying
up wells and streams, parching pas
lures, running crops. AS a result of
this drouth, hundreds of thousands OF
breeding stock or unfinished steers
were sent to market, because there
was no fodder to carry them through
the winter.
Having struck her blow, nature be-
gan to smile. She sent an open sea-
son which enabled farmers to do their
blowing at a time when the ground
usually is locked in frost. She follow
ed this favor with a series of snow
falls throughout the west, all of them
remarkable and one quite unprece-
denied. Melting snow will supply the
moisture too often lacking, good crops
are almost assured, and not for a gen.
Grafton has there been such good
range pasture as will be found this
summer. But the stock which should
fatten and multiply on that pasture
have gone to the stock yards.-Chi-
cago Journal.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-03-07
HOW TO TELL COUNTERFEITs

The hand is quicker than the eye in detecting
fraudulent bank notes. The feel of the dis
tinctive paper used by the government is the first
warning signal that the money rendered is bad.
This paper is distinctive not alone because Of the
introduction of silk fiber in the bill itself, but be-
cause Of the treatment the stock receives in print
ing. The silk threads are sometimes initiated by
pen-and-ink lines, but these do not bear close eX-
animation. The engraving has been the greatest
protection, for even photo-engraving fails to bring
out the proper color values, and retouching by
the craving tool makes the lines heavy and IT.
regular. Photography also fails in reproducing
the color of the seal, which must be washed in
with water colors, the black lines Of the engraving
showing through in counterfeits. The most dan
gerous counterfeit is that in which a genuine bill
of lower denomination is bleached out and a false
plate showing a high denomination placed upon
il. Here is a genuine bank bill. 1t has the feel"
The silk threads are present. If the engraving is
fairly we'll done and the color of approximate cor
~rectness 1t becomes a dangerous counterfeit, and
bankers are at once warned to be on the watch
for it, In this connection the CHECK letter often
comes into play. All government notes are print
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-03-07

American woman, wrapped up in her family, fol-
children generally are numerous, endures many
indignities rather than separate from her husband
and babies.
The United States knows them best and most
pleasantly through their representatives connect
ed with the diplomatic corps in Washington.
They are almost without exception representa-
tives Of the modern trend in Latin-American de-
velopment. They have won for themselves in
official society a regard based primarily upon
their own beauty and charm, and only secondari-
ly upon their official position.
One Of the most prominent of these women is
Nine. Pezet, wife of the minister from Peru. She
is considered a great beauty, and is a leader in
diplomatic society. OF equal charm and beauty
are Nine. Malbran, bride of the first secretary of
the Argentine legation; Nine. Suarez, wife of the
minister from Chile; Sonora de la Cueva, wife Of
the first secretary Of the Mexican legation; Nine.
de Naon, wife of the Argentine minister, and
Sonora Castrillo, wife of the new minister from
Nicaragua, who is a recent arrival at Washing
ton.
Among the younger Latin-American women who
have charmed social Washington, and whose beau.
ty vies with that of their northern sisters, are
Senorita Dona Luz Mendez, daughter of the min
lister from Guatemala; Senorita Marta Calvo. tai
ented daughter of the minister from Costa RIGA;
Senorita Amelia Mejia, daughter of the minister
from Salvador, and the young bride of Don Ale
Jandro Herquinigo, of the Chilean legation, who
before her recent marriage was Senorita Nal
vina de pena, daughter of the minister from
Uruguay.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-03-07

pillows, and the walls was plastered
with Cynthy's pictures.
"'Sold any of 'em, my dear?' l
asked.
mot yet, %auntie,' says Cynthy, but
l expect to Dol The public isn't
educated in art matters, you know.
If l chose to give them what they
wanted | could sell them all. Now
what brings you here, Aunt Lidy?'
I'm tired of the humdrum of
domestick life,' l told her. Your
Uncle Abe gets on my nerves. want
to live my own life and obey the i'm
pulses of my soul. That's why l come
to you
"Cynthy stared at me as if ! was
an animal. Then she comes up and
throws her arms round my neck and
kisses me, and | know she's the same
Cynthy.
1--WE had a party that afternoon, the
queerest folks. All the men wore
jaded looks and loose black ties, and
the women was dressed any old way.
The things they talked about I'd be
ashamed to tell you, but l didn't look
feazed.
"Auntie,' says Cynthy, when we
we're alone again, L don't know wheth-
err you'd care to have dinner with me
at the Eclectic club tonight. 1t costs
twenty-five cents and there's a dis
cussion afterward.'
whats it about?' / asks.
"It's called Should Women Have
Children says Cynthy, looking at
me.
"'Why, that suits me to the ground,
l I've always wanted to
know, What's. the answer?'
"'Well,' says Cynthy, some will say
yes and some no, and it will be a very
interesting debate
1T was. l was feeling sort OF
empty after the dinner, but that talk
filled me all right. I'd never heard
anything like it.
I'm afraid you must be shocked
auntie, with your old-fashioned ways,
says Cynthy, when we'd shook off the
art people and got home.
Shocked? / answered. why
Cynthy, ] feel the art rising in my
bones. That's the sort Of message
that the world needs. And to think
of the years we've wasted with your
Uncle Abe and that Poor dub, Fred
Holden, who don't know art from a
turnip. My, I'm glad he's laundering
after that Lucy Brown.
"Cynthy seemed quite shocked
what do you mean, auntie?' she asks,
So told her how Lucy and Fred went
walking out on Sundays and how the
neighbors was sort Of speculative
about EN- Cynthy didn't say much
more that night. | slept on the floor,
on Ave sofa pillows. didn't like it,
but she eve knew.
"Cynthy didn't seem quite SO bright
the next few days. Every time she
took me out I'd ask her, disappointed
IKE, If that was the best She could
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-03-07

AN ATTACK OF ART
ax eEoReE MuNsoN.

1T was some three years since I'd
visited Sister Emma, her living in
York state and me in Ohio, but when
she writ me to come and spend the
month of March, because she had
something important to say to me,
my natural curiosity overcome me,
and l packed my trunk and went.
Where's Cynthy?' / asked, soon as
! had kissed Emma and John.
That's what l writ you to come
about, Idly says Emma. She won't
come home
But you writ me she had gone to
New York to study art, and was com
ing home on Washington's birthday,
answered. And how about that
young man of hers, Fred Holden?'
Then the truth came out. Cynthy
had writ she wasn't coming home fol
a long time to come and she intimated
If Fred liked to wait for her he coult
wait and If he didn't he needn't. She
had an attack of art badly and was
living in a hall bedroom in New Yorl
and doing her own laundry, which IL
what art brings one to. And Emma
knowing how I'd always had a power
full influence over Cynthy, wanted MI
to go to New York and bring he
home.
"'How about Fred?' l asked.
Fred just mooned around town ant
didn't speak to anyone. l gathered
there had been some sort of quarrel
so thought it best to say nothing blu
to go to New York as soon as pos
sible. And a couple of morning
later l was knocking at Cynthy's doc
on the top floor of a filthy dark tene
ment place near Washington Square.
"'Come in said Cynthy. Why
Aunt Lidy, whatever brung you here
"Tll tell you later, Cynthy,' says
Meanwhile, have you got a bite c
lunch for me?'
"'Cynthy made tea ver the gas an
we ate sausage sandwiches together
Cynthy looking at me c%urious-like a
the while.
"1 sure do love sausage SAM
wiches, especially them forrin kinds
says l, and l sec a look in Cynthy'
eyes that told me l had got home.
forgot to say that the tiny room We
all fixed up with hangings and sof
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-03-07

show me. l said l wanted to hear a
real artistic debate. | didn't want to
know il women should have chill
dren, ! told her, but how many, and
why. The meals | put down was ter.
rible.
Aunty,i said Cynthy, at last, TAX
ing me by the shoulders, tell me, hon
estly, amt you shocked at alp
Why no. says l. I think it's love
ly to have the artistic spirit. My,
what do we care about those poor
creatures at homer
but, aunty, II do care about
them say Cynthy, strangling a sob.
"'But we've flung 'em overheard
says, executing a Pa Soul about the
room. We're the army of the future,
Cynthy, the army Of martyrs. We've
left home and husband and sweetheart
for arts sake. When're we going to
the club AGAIN.
but don't father and mother mind
me being artistic?" asks Cynthy.
They love IT, l answered. And
Fred says, he's glad he found out the
narrerDess of his soul, being only Q
country lawyer, or he might have
made your life miserable. Don't yor
want 'em to approve of your taking
to art, Cynthy?'
mo sobs Cynthy, 4 wanted Il
shock 'em, aunt. l hate art
"Hate art!' | exclaimed. 'Cynthy
you make me feel terrible. How an
l going to appease my hankerings
you're going back on me%
but it's different says Cynthy
now fairly crying. You've got Uncl,
Abe, and you were always contentet
at home, and now I've led you astray
at your age and made him miserable
and-Td never have left Monattah
only Fred told me If l did he'd neve
ask me to return, and l couldn't tax
that from him-but 1t all makes m
sick. Aunt Idly
$50 it does me, Cynthy,' I al
swered, And maybe l got that wron
about Fred Holden and Lucy Brown
Now l come to think Of 1t, it wa
Jack Higgins was going with he
My, Cynthy, what's the matter? Wha
are you hunting for?'
1.-The timetable answers Cynthy
Copyright. 1914. by w. G. Chapman.)
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-03-07

ed OF one denomination, four on a sheet, and are
lettered respectively A, B, C and D. Each note
bears a treasury number. If, when that number is
divided by four there remains one, the check let
ter should be A.; if two remains, the letter should
be B; If three, then c, and if there is no re-
mainder, d. If the result shows otherwise then
the numbering is wrong and the note is a coun-
terfeit. All denominations from 81 to $1,000 have
been counterfeited, as well as all our coins. The
most usual method of defrauding when gold coins
are handled is to saw the coins in half, extract
the interior, and fill with base metal.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-03-07

1t must be admitted that her wealth in worldly
possessions does add to her attractiveness to
many eyes. The continent is filled with impecuni-
and few would in the least mind marrying the
newest American girl because of her great
wealth. Still, even without her wealth she would
deserve all the praise that has been heaped upon
her.
The new American girl Of the Latin states is
strangely composite of the old and the new order
of things which her land has known. In the
modern worlds capitals and fashionable centers
she is indeed a woman of the present; but in
she is a woman of the past. In her
native home still persists an order of things which
in many respects is almost medieval. The stamp
of Spain, so strongly seen on her, is also seen on
the religion, the language, and the social creed
of this girl. The laws and the landscape of her
people alike are still dominated by this ancient
influence. Indeed, Spain itself has infinitely more
variety in speech and custom than is seen in the
vast territory it has peopled, and the people of
Valparaiso, Bogota, and Caracas speak better
Castilian than usually is heard in Madrid and
Cadiz.
Hence It Is that the woman has
but little of the freedom enjoyed by the Ameri-
can girl she now would rival. There still exists
between the sexes that armed neutrality which is
is a lottery. The would-be husband never sees
his wife alone until they are married. His nego-
tiations for her hand are largely because the
Roman Catholic church dominates all society. and
it recognizes no divorce, In addition, the Latin
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-03-07
WILLING FOR BOY TO HAVE 1T
It Was All Right So Long as Wife
Understood Just What Became
of the Rose.

Every morning the wife pins a
flower to his lapel as he starts for the
ofice--a rose when she has one, a
blossom of some palmer sort when
roses are scarce.
This morning she had a rose, but
she withheld the usual delicate atten-
ton, and for the first time he per-
ceived an ominous look in her eyes.
You never have the flower in your
buttonhole when you come home in
the evenings" began his wife, sarcas-
tically. How do you always contrive
to lose it?"
81 do not lose it." he replied. Il
wear the flower until l reach my desk.
| feel that that is far enough for a
plain business man to carry a flow
err"
After reaching your desk, what do
you do with the 1ower?" she asked.
81 give it away" he replied.
ITO the girl stenographer?" sug'
gested his wife, icily.
"Oh, no, / give it to the office boy
he answered.
Il beg your pardon, but you do not
give it to the Office boy" she retorted
with acerbity. You give it to the
st~enographer. l have seen 1t pinned
on her shirt waist every day that
have called at your office. l think
shall discontinue the flower"
In that case l shall lose an Office
b~oy-probably by suicide" remarked
her husband, meeting her indignant
eyes frankly. HE is head over heels
in love with the stenographer, and is
trying to make a hit with the flower
Hastily she pinned a rose to heI
husbands lapel, and said:
BE careful not to lose it-and give
it to the Office boy as usual"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-03-07

sewage can occur 1t is brought to
laboratories and prepared after the
manner used in Paris and London.
Half a dozen cases of malnutrition
among children showed marked i'm
provement after the second or third
treatments. Other patients respond
more or less markedly to the remedy.
The idea underlying the S Of the
sea water as an injection is that the
blood plasma Of all animals appears
to be very closely related and that
We, as land animals, owe our earliest
Origins to the ocean Real sea water
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-03-07
Flowers That Give Light.

Under certain conditions nastur-
tiums, suniowers, dahlias, tube-roses
and yellow lilies may be seen to glow
with a soft radiance, varying in color
and intensity. Only those flowers that
have an abundance Of yellow or or
ange shades exhibit this phosphor-
scene The best time to see the
light is after dark, when the atmos-
phere is clear and dry. The light is
sometimes steady, but often intermit-
tent and flashing.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-03-07

are suffering from malnutrition. The
water employed in Europe is literally
dug up from the bay Of Biscay and
later modified. under sc%rupulously
aseptic conditions. until it is in shape
to be injected into the sick child's
veins as a plasma, as the liquid is
termed,
Here, the water has been brought
up from q depth Of forty feet some
forty miles beyond the coast of New
Jersey. the precautions Of distance
anc depth being observed to make
sure that no possible infection from
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-03-07
Different nEront.n

A retired army officer was in his
back garden one day when a tramp
came round the end Of the house. I've
been at the 'front.'" he began, "and-"
The old officer beamed at him az he
interrupted to ask, have you, indeed,
my man? And were you wounded?"
NO" said the man, mo, sir, not exact
ly. But | couldn't make no n ear.
SO | come round to the back"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-03-07
SEA WATER AS LIFE SAVER
Brought From Oceans Depth and In
Jecfed Into the Veins II ls
Beneficial.

For several years the doctors Of the
world have had before them the ad-
vocacy of sea water as a life saver In
various diseases, the value of the rem
edy being largely based on the reports
made by DR.. Robert Simon OF Paris
and Doctor Quinton in London.
1t is used chiefly for infants who
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-03-07

accomplishments have won for you an enviable
position among the women Of the world.
In fact, you have worked your way up until in
recent years your supremacy has been unques-
toned. You are conceded the most beautiful, the
most accomplished, the most sought after wom-
en- in the world.
Beware! Your supremacy is threatened. Your
pedestal is insecure. The worlds admiration,
which you SO long have held, at some not distant
day may be transferred to the women of another
quarter of the globe.
Your competitors for the worlds admiration
are close upon your heels. They have come upon
you all unawares; so quietly, in fact, that it's a
two to one wager you don't even know who they
are.
Who are they?
The women of
Probably you won't believe this. You'll laugh
and say that the principal business of Latin
America is to raise comic opera revolutions, not
women capable of wrestling from you the laurels
which your beauty and charm have won.
II you think that way, just read what Mrs.
Sheriff., the wife of the American minister to
Argentina, has to say about the women of the
southern republics.
They dress better, look better and have finer
manners than any other women in the world" de-
clares Mrs. Sheriff.. They are enchanting crea-
lures, and now Europe is learning of their won
derful charm. They are fond of home life and
make ideal mothers, although they are not do
nestle to a sordid degree. They are as fond of
society as the women of the United States, only
they are absolutely without the faintest trace OF
snobbishness, which is probably due to their
breeding. They are vastly well informed and
we'll bred women, and strangely enough their So
cial obligations are never such as to interfere
with their home life. The women are good moth
ers and are devoted to their large families"
Europe, where the Yankee girl has so long ruled
a favorite, has fallen victim to the Latin-American
girls charms. Whether she appear in her favorite
Paris, or in other centers of fashion or recrea-
ton, she is surrounded by a crowd of admirers.
She has the entree to exclusive drawing rooms.
At her chateaux, which she loves to hire for the
season that she may entertain on her own &C
count. she is always sure of as many guests as
she desires. She is the Joy of continental mod
istes, and the despair Of those who would wear
gowns such as hers.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-03-07

Said the man with the concaye fa-
cial expression to his philosopher
friend: Don't ever again tell me that
the hand that rocks the cradle rules
the world. for since my wife has
Joined three debating societies, two
bridge clubs and a private dancing
class, that hand Is mine Exchange.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-03-07
Blood win TelI.

He-Those Brown boys are in bad.
Tom had to leave the state for graft
Ing, and now his brother Bill is ac-
cused of the same oifense.
She'll must run In the family; I
understand their father was q horti-
culturist.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-03-07
Probably.

Nodd-My baby had his picture
taken yesterday and, while | haven't
e it, they say it is as natural as
can be.
Todd-What view?
Nodd-I didn't ask, but ! suppose
it's a throat view.-Puck.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-03-07
Another THING.

How did you propose to support
my daughter, sir?" q didn't propose
to her I 0 support her at all. only
proposed to her to marry ma."-Reho-
both Sunday Herald.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-03-07

presents an affinity for animal life
which, because of the underlying ma
ture of both, is superior to any salt
water preparation man can make up
in his laboratories.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-03-07

"she has a complexion like tinted
porcelain" Eyes, ! know; she took
lessons in china painting. Cleveland
Plain Dealer.