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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-08-14
HERMANN TALKS
ABOUT REDS DEAL
Whether Club Will Change Hands OF
Remain in Hands of Present
Owners Decided Soon.
CALIFORNIAN HAS AN OPTION


CINCINNATI. o.. Aug. 12-whether
the Cincinnati base ball club win change
hands or remain In the hands OF it's
present stockholders will probably be de-
cided by next Tuesday.
when Warren NJ. Carter OF Pasadena,
Cal, was In this city not long ago." said
August Hermann. president Of tho Gin
oinnati club. here tonight, he asked me
IL thought he could purchase some stock
In the Cincinnati club. told him would
consider the matter and confer with
some of the stockholders and let him
know later. At a subsequent meeting l
told him Il could be arranged, and he
then asked me IL thought he could OBJ
tain the controlling interest in the club.
and told him he could II he was will
ing to pay the price asked. He said he
would like to consider It two weeks or a
month and Il will be a month next Tues
day since the conversation took place.
Figure Named.
There was a figure named during our
conversation, but at that time / did not
consider 1t in the form of an option. al
though believe that the figure is cor
rect and that Mr.. Carter or anyone else
WHO, alltI luNtStikhlAoh w AahN ~ - 49,
right. could purchase the controlling In
terest in the club for tho amount.
1T Is purely a business proposition
and does not mean that we desire to sell
tho Cincinnati club. II Mr. Carter pur-
chases the club for the amount named
II will mean q handsome revenue coS
those who desire to sell. as well as 2
good thing for those who remain In the
club.
After this conversation Mr.. Carter len
town, and have not heard from him nor
seen him since; therefore I was greatly
surprised today when was Informed that
he had made a statement that he had
an option on the controlling interest OF
the club.
Must stay ia League.
Furthermore. II the club is sold to Mr..
Carter. the condition was made that
would remain at the head of the club
and that the club would remain In the
National league
Mr.. Hermann stated further that he
has knowledge that persons who had no
authority had offered the controlling in
teIost In the club to the Federal league.
lie said there was absolutely no chance
for the club being in any league other
than the National.
Has Thirty Days option on Club.
PASADENA, Cal, Aug. 1s.-warren n.
Carter, city trustee of South Pasadena.
confirmed today report that he was
interested in a deal to acquire ownership
of the Cincinnati National league base
ball club.
II have a thirty-day option on the
club said Mr.. Carter. Il will decide In
a week whether shall exercise the
option"
Mr.. Carter refused to state the amount
of money involved. but intimated that
1t approximateld tl.o000OO.
THE transactions" said Mr.. Carter,
Contemplate purchase of exclusive own
ership of the club. meaning franchises,
park and property OF every description. 4"
Mr.. Carter said he procured the option
from the owners Of the Cincinnati club
while he was o ma visit to his old home
In Cincinnati two weeks ago.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-08-14
MISSOURI is CUTTING FARMS
Great Stretches Of Land Southeast
Of Manswa Are Being Eaten
Up Daily.
WILL SOON REACH CARR LAKE

The Missouri river has resumed It's ero-
sion Of the banks on the Iowa side south
east OF Lake ManRwa and the high.
priced farm land Is now disappearing at
the rate OF many acres n day. In the last
two days the current has cut INTO the
land distance OF 800 feet, and has gone
eastward nearly three-duarters of mile
since the cutting began a few weeks
ago.
Yesterday only forty acres OF the Ed
wards farm remained, and at the rate
II was disappearing during the after
noon mono OF II viii be left within an
other week. Tho farm a few weeks ago
comprised 100 acres OF land, valued at
800 an acre. Splendid crops OF corn and
small grain were growing on the land.
and yesterday acre after acre OF corn
that promised to yield seventy-five BUSH
els 20 the acre was falling into the
stream.
The river IL now only half mile from
Carr lake, the attraction OF the lO2-acre
park, known rs Island park, belonging
to the Council Bluffs park system. and
the probability seemed certain that the
main channel Of the current viii cut into
the lake. and may take the greater part
OF tho park land. Long stretches OF the
public highway have been swallowed w
and several houses and farm buildings
have been dragged back to save them. A
line OF telephone poles was moved twice
this week and yesterday was caught In
the general ruin and swept away.
George c. Clark of the Leonard Everett
company went to the scene yesterday
afternoon and returned after an inspec-
tion Of several hours. He wrote Mr..
Everett that farm house on the Ever
EFT land was doomed and doubted that II
could be moved In time to escape de-
struction. Mr.. Clark explained the case
of the rapid destruction OF the farm land
at the present time as being due TO the
fact that the river has now reached a
section where the subsoil Is all sand
which melts with extraordinary rapidity
under action of the swift current
mo one can realize the rapidity OF the
destruction unless he sees what Is going
on" said Mr.. Clark. THE current Is
rushing along with extraordinary rapid
ity and the sound OF the falling earth
into the water Il almost continuous. The
cutting Is different from anything / have
ever seen the river do. The point OF at
tack Is nearly a mile long, a huge ell
bow eaten into the rich farm lands. The
river is taking It off in regular slices,
peeling off the long strips from one end
TO the other. The earth will begin Ia
topplo into the stream at the upper end
OF the cut and a continuous succession OF
splashes will follow until the lower end
is reached. By the time the last big
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-08-14
Society Women See
Stecher Win Match

FREMONT Neb.. Aug. is.-(Specisl
Telegram.)--Joe Stecher defeated Mort
Henderson Of Altoona. Pa, in straight
falls last sight before crowd OF 400
PEOPLE. Stecher secured the first fall IN
five minutes and ten seconds, and the
second in three minutes and eight sec
cnds. He used the scissors md half nel-
son in each fall. II was stecher's fast
match in Fremont since he defeated Cut
ler July 5. and scores OF Fremont so
oiety women turned out to see the Dodge
bow
Henderson weighed ga and Stecher 900
pounds Stecher came TO Fremont from
Schuyler. where he played ball with the
Dodge team this afternoon. He did not
train for the match.
over 800 tractor men in attendance at
the tractor show here were guests Of
the Commercial club at the match.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-08-14
The Bees Fund for
Free Milk and Ice

The Bees fund for the hot weather
little ones continues to grow and to
spread helpfulness and sunshine.
There is no creed or color in its
distribution or its collection, as wit
ness the handsome contribution
from the Dunbar Social Athletic
club, composed Of local oOlOred
folk.
Contributions from 10 cents to 50
are solicited and will be acknowl-
edged in this column.
Previously acknowledged sass. ss
Dunbar sooiai-Athletic club. ia.so
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-08-14
"MOtor Madness"
Attraction at Fair

LINCOLN, Aug 13--(Special)- Lin-
coin and San Francisco will have the
opportunity to see Motor Madness" the
new attraction recently imported from
abroad.
Visitors to the Nebraska state fair VIII
get to sec the attraction. circular
stee, rail, twenty feet in diameter, is
suspended by ropes about twenty-five
feet above the ground. On this steel
rail two motorcyclists pursue each other.
To the motorcycles ropes are attached
and at the end OF each rope woman
hangs by the teeth.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-08-14

record before us requiring the Union
Pacific system TO short haul itself by
establishing the present parity OF fares
over the Denver a Rio Grande would be
Illogical and arbitrary In the highest de-
gree
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-12-22
ADD TO BEAUTY OF EARTH
Writer'S Tribute to the Tree Is Worthy
of Remembrance Throughout
the Ages.

Oh! Don Pepino. old trees in their
living state are the only things that
money cannot command. Rivers leave
their beds. run into cities and traverse
mountains for it; obelisks and arches,
palaces and temples. amphitheaters
and pyramids rise up like exhalations
at its bidding; even the free spirit OF
man, the only thing great on earth,
crouches and covers in its presence
It passes away and vanishes before
venerable trees. How many fond
and how many lively thoughts have
been purtured under this tree! how
many kind hearts have beaten herel Its
branches are not so numerous as the
couples they have invited to sit beside
it, nor it's blossoms and leaves together
as the expressions Of tenderness 1t
has Witnessed. What appeals to the
pure. all-seeing heavensI what simil-
itudes to the everlasting mountains.
what protestetions Of eternal truth
and ccnstancyI--9rom those who are
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-12-22
Nnnrish Your Nervea.

People OF a nervous disposition need
nourisning. nerve building diet.
Eggs served IN various ways. milk. CO
reals, etc, should be standard part
of the diet. Be careful OF lavish uga
of tomatoes or red beets. Supply your
table with quantities of sruit and fresh
vegetables and serve bran bread or
biscuit frequently. Should you nave
a tendency to obesity be careful TO
avoid an excess of starch and sweets.
Consult your physician about any es-
pecfal tendency that you know your
family or any member Of it TO possess
and. guided by his advice. eliminate
such foods as might be harmful. In
families where there is no special in.
disposition or hereditary tendency to
be considered let common sense guide
YOU, read up on dietetics ana keep
your table Tree from unhealthful com
binations and indigesuble foods. You
will find this study an interesting one.
but beware OF fads. A diet must be
varied to be wholesome. and it is bet
ter to use spices and condiments in
moderation than to let your table lack
favor from overzeaI in leaving out
everything that lie not prominently
wholesome.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-12-22
WORTHY OF STUDY BY ALL
Lessons Taught in the Book of Ruth
Should Find Comprehension In
Every Mind.

The Book of Ruth is the greatest
pastoral idyl in literature. It ia
founded on loving kindness. the low
ing kindness Of the Moabitess re-
vealed to her family, and the loving
kindness of Boaz, the wealthy Israel
tie, to Ruth, his kinswoman. 1t also
contains the germ of that great-heart.
edness which is the center Of the Cos
pei of Christian love.
It is a book that opens with tears
and famine and ends with the sound
of wedding bells. The story turns
upon the straightforwardness OF Boaz.
who showed kindness and manliness
to Ruth. a member of a nation that
was IsraeI's foe. and in that kindness
founded a new house, the house Of
Jesse ana David. the royal line that
begat a greater than David.
1t was first the mingling Of the
blood of the Jew and Gentle. symbol
ic of the cosmopolitan width OF the
Christian religion. It was the sign
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-12-22

the lower roliway group OF loggers
came stalking in their spiked boots
Behind them Murphy rocked excitedly
along in the tiny locomotive.
Sandry shut his ledger and stepped
outdoors.
What's the matter, Collins?" he
asked of huge man in the lead.
perfect type of the logger of the great
Northwest, sun-browned, hard-mus-
cled. why of figure and with the en-
durs nee ant power of bull elephant.
~ after enough. Them damned
Yella Pines sawed FIVE piles in tn
rollway an tore up two lengths Of
track"
Sandry went ahead down the track
and found state of things sufficient
to raise the ire of any riverman or
timberjack.
Where the track approached the roll
way it had been torn up bodily, the
ties and rails thrown into the narrow
slough, as evidenced by a few pro-
jecting ends, and the rollway itself, a
slanting floor of logs some two feet
thick supported ON a group of gradu-
ated piles, sagged in the center where
two piles had been cut and pried side
wise The lower edge also dropped
for the same reason. It had been the
work of pure malice, that he saw at
a glance.
Collins" he said as the mer came
up in sullen group, get to work and
see if you can raise those sawed sup
ports and pry them back on their
bases"
The gang went slowly down the
sharp bank of the tidewater slough.
Johnny Eastern" said one softly,
"all right. all right! Prize up roll
wayl My Aunt Maria!"
Sandry stood near, realizing his lin
itations and raging helplessly. watch
ing them lazily testing and pushing
here and there.
Hadn't we better just spike 'em
on to the sides?" asked Collins, with a
droll upward glance.
Sandry was about to reply when
John Daily slipped down from the track
beside him under the lee of the dam
aged rollway.
Collins" he said sternly, you get
back to camp and bring tools-peavies,
hooks, a couple of chains and some
picks. Bring a couple of axes, too
What do you mean by such business?"
Orders" said Collins with grin.
"You see. Mr.. Sandry." said Daily
apologetically, there's no fixin' such
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-12-22
CHAPTER v-continued.

Sandry was enjoying her succinct
precision of knowledge and express
sion.
And you've spent all these years in
the midst of this wet-blanket eli.
mate?'' he smiled, How in the world
did you do it-and keep your cheer
fulness?"
Son." said Ma Daily kindly. you
can knock the country to me. but
don't you go dom it where the men1l
hear you. Us web-feet are used to
the rain, but we don't like to hear the
Fasteners talk about it. It's a chip
on every Oregonian's shoulder You
don't want to queer yourself"
There was a note of genuine good
advice in the words and tone. and
Sandry got sudden Insight into sew
eral little happenings that had puzzled
him-for instance, the emphasized
wearing of blue shirts in a rain that
had soaked his overcoat, and a few
remarks about the fact that Oregon
rain didn't wet through
Thank you, Mrs Daily" he said
earnestly with a sudden feeling of
friendship between him and this
shrewd. kindly old general of men.
He turned presently to the girl
busy in the lampiight, her black head
shining. a shadow over her eyes,
'By the way" he said. IF you care
to you may ride Black Bolt whenever
you wish.
She nodded quietly. without flicker
of the pleased excitement he had ex-
pected in the light of her seeming pas
sionate love of the animal, but slow,
dull flush spread upward in her dark
face and her fingers trembled bit, he
fancied, on the reeds.
They trembled in all surety the next
morning. when, with a bride OF colored
and woven horsehair over her arm, she
entered the lean-to.
Black Bolt was a gentleman born.
Though he was wild as the girl for
the free air, the green slopes and the
yielding sod under his feet, he stood
still while she came up lightly, as a
cat springs, with a little soft alighting,
and they were gone, down over the
smooth slope of the valley toward the
lower rollway.
There were two interested specta-
tors to that splendid fiight-Ma Daily
from the .cook-shack porch, who wiped
her eyes bit and said aloud: BLESS
the child Wild-wildi But it's nat
ural," and Walter Sandry standing at
the south window of the office.
Did you like it?" Sandry asked her
amusedly that evening as he passed
through the eating room.
YES" said Siletz with her belying
quietness.
Il believe I've found study" he
said to himself as he went on. "a
worthy study in human nature"
And Siletz had found a new heaven
and new earth. Something wild with
in her that had ever moved restlessly
broke forth. glorious flower of &C.
stasy. Day by day thereafter she
loosed Black Bolt and sped into fields
of Elysium. lost to earth. intoxicated,
mad with the rush of wind and rain.
Always when she came back there
was the dusky flush il her face, the
sleepy iook of intoxication in her eyes.
Thus winter closed in on the lonely
camp in the mountains, blue-black and
gray with mist and rain and vivid
green with the new grass of the coast
country.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-12-22

timbers as them, not when they've got
to carry such weight. They'll have to
be taken out entirely an new ones
set"
81 didn't know" returned Sandry
frankly; won't they hold back the
work?'
"A day or so, mebbe. We can take
the fallers out an put them on with
Collins an the rest. There's enough
down to keep the buckers busy a day
or two, anyway We won't lose much"
do you think this is the work Of
the Yellow Pines people. Daily?"
Sure said Daily with certainty,
they've done worse than this before
now. Cut our best cable two years
ago and twice they've run the dinkey
off the track into the slough. They're
bad actors"
But what's the use" What do they
gain?"
They want to run us out of the
hills. Been at 1t for ten years. They're
just givin you hint as the new
owner"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-12-22
CHAPTER VII.
NInht Wind.


From that time forth Sandry began
to take a keener interest in SilctZ. For
one thing. he noticed that everyone
called her Sletz, with soft slurring
of the first syllable. tand he found him
self using the name which he thought
particularly beautiful. 1t was the
name of the reservation to the north
and of small part of the odds and
ends of tribes thrown in there by a
beneflcent government What was her
other name? He had always thought
of her as Ma Daily's daughter; and
yet. now that he came TO think of it.
she had never seemed akin to the easy
going, open-minded foreman who was
so like the old woman. She was alien
to both with her silences, her whimsi-
cal speech and her look of hidden fire.
One day in the late fall, when the
white mist and the evergreen of the
forest had got on his nerves unbear-
ably. Sandry left the Office and went to
the shed for Black Bolt. only to find
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-12-22
Growing Industry.

This country produces more tale and
soapstone than all the rest of the
world combined. The domestic output
has nearly doubled in the last decade.
and the comparatively uniform devel-
opment of the industry indicates it's
stability and gives promise for con
tinued increasing demand. Half of it
is S-9m New York, the balance chiefly
fro.h Vermont and Virginia. Soapstone
finds extensive use in commerce as
slabs for hearthstones. mantels, sinks.
etc. and when powdered as a pigment
in paper making. as lubricator for
dressing skins and leather. etc. The
fine granular or crypto-crystalline va
rieties are used for marking purposes
under the name of French chalk.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-12-22

him gone. He had meant to ride OFF
the fit Of blues. Failing that, he decid-
ed to walk it off, and struck up the wet
green valley to the north.
Almost Immediately the tumbling
hills closed in upon him and he found
himself in a wilderness of towering
frs, of dripping vine naples and mys-
FERROUS paths lost in the crowding
ferns. He was standing at rest in a
small glade carpeted with pine nee
dies and surrounded with ferns, when
he caught the sound of voices They
came from the dense wall of the woods
at his right and unconsciously he lis
tened, tipping his head and straining
his ears Presently a look of blank
ness spread upon his face.
One of the voices was familiar. soft
and sliding with minors, the voice of
the girl Siletz, and she was speaking
jargon.
Even as this amazing knowledge
was borne in upon him the tangle
parted and she stepped out before him.
A Siletz squaw followed her, a short
brown creature of comely features,
clad in brilliant flannel, a towering
pyramid of baskets slung to one shout
der. Nosing eagerly at the girls ell
bow stepped Black Bolt. while Coos.
nah brought up the rear. They per.
ceived him instantly and the Indian
woman turned away with a few gut.
turals which Siletz answered gently.
But in the moment that she had con-
fronted him, Sandry had seen her face
and received a shock.
Beginning just under the lower lip
and running downward to the base OF
the chin there stood out three blue
bars, each composed of infinitely tat.
tooed designs. Unconsciously his star.
tied eyes flew to the dark face of the
girl. There, on her lighter skin, tell
tale in its truth of outline, was the be.
ginning OF the same mark, broken in
it's inception by some mysterious
hand.
For a moment Sandry's head whirled
and a sort of nausea came over him.
Then he became conscious of her dark
eyes, level and calm, upon his face and
a thrill that sent the blood pounding
in his veins shot through him The
mighty trees around them, the eternal
majesty of the hills under the intimate
gray sky, the girl in her trim, sensible
attire of blue shirt, short skirt and
boots, with that sudden revelation OF
the wild about her. combined to sug-
gest the unreal. the mysterious, the
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-12-22
CHAPTER vi.
Trouble with the yellow Pines.

lTOuDlC WIFI tHC CllOW FtnGSs
Walter Sandry sat in the Office at
the slough's edge. busy with file and
ledger. Two months had passed and
something had lifted from him in
these two months; weight had light
cned. Where had been a huge dis.
gust. almost intolerable in its in.
tensity. for this rain-soaked land, there
had crept in an insidious admiration.
Often now he looked down the green
little valley sharply defined between
fits binding hills and felt the subtle
charm of the intimate shadows, the
near white dusk and the great trees
under whose orooping feathery boughs
there lay silence and sense of ref
uge.
Suddenly there came to him clam
or of voices. oaths and the throaty
tones of strong men in anger. Up from
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-12-22
The Christmas Card.

About hundred years ago the first
Christmas cards were used. These
were printed in london and consisted
of visiting card with the words.
A Merry Christmas printed on It..
Later the cards were made with lit
tie scenery on them and a picture OF
the robin. This bird was used be-
cause he is called the English Christ
mas bird and also 1.-THE Savior's Bird"
On account of the old legend regard
ing its red breast From this time
on the cards became more numerous
and Of more varied kinds.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-12-22
A CHRISTMAS VISION

On Christmas eve mid all the Joyous glee
That In my righteousness surrounded me.
l happened by some chance to turn mine
eye
Out through a window-wreath that hung
near by
And as I glanced through It into the
night
I seemed to see. lit by some holy light.
childish face with wistful, smiling lips
That thrilled me to my very fnger-tps.
Two eager hands stretched forth called,
as I'm stress.
To me TO carry help TO Helplessness,
And in the sad eyes of that child l saw
In all IT'S loveliness the Christmas Law
Not a command, no everlasting Must
Upon Reluctance for It's teaching thrust.
But Just a pleading hint TO him who runs
That all who suffer are Gods Little Onesi
And then the picture in the wreath was
gone,
And in IT'S place the Eastern star-bearis
shone-
The same that nineteen centuries ago
Led on the Wise Men with their heavenly
glow:
And cen as they wandered through the
drifts
And into lowly places carried gifts
To cheer, and give release. and pay my
due
Unto my Lord through them that surer
rue.
John Kendrick hangs. in scrIsner'A
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-12-22

now earth; they and their shrouds
and their collins. The caper and fig
tree have split their monuments, and
boys have broken the hazel nut with
the fragments. Emblems of past lives
and future hopes. severed names which
hottest rites united. broken letters of
brief happiness. bestre the road and
speek to the passerby in vain.-Wal-
ter Savage Lander.