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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-09-22

A For Sale ad viii turn secondhand
furniture into cash.
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ment. and then 10 tell him If they
failed to contribute to the supporter
their children. He sent most of the
men who appeared before him down
to the employment bureau with a re-
quest that they be given some kind
of employment. 5;ff
Judge Emily De Pinalf has been
Judge Bells right hand for many
years: She was in his Office when
he first wentsto 5pract icinE law after.
the explosion had robbed him or his
sight.
don't know how Il manage to
think just what he would. think
about cases. and other things,
unless II Is because q have been.
with him every day since he became
blind /" Miss De Pina1 said. One
could not help trying osaee for him
sandstrying toshelp him In every way,
And the work ID 80 inteFestinR. ne
asks me for my opinions. and "a
never feel bnd when Ia refuses ITO
act hem: IIe lies on my lIdg-
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cold blooded sort. but humane JUS
tice accom- panied by kind words and
several letters for positions. and in
a few cases. where his unseeing eyes
saw 1t was.snee ed----mones. I.
All of these cases were men who
were out Of work and who had fail
ed TO contribute nyfhing to the sup.
port of their chi! Judge Bell
knows just how hard emp oymant is
TO get at this time ofsthe year. He
sat patieptlE on the. bench while
these men told ;of days spent walk
ing the streets 6of Cincinnati Sin
search OF employment. When one.
would finish his story e. s udge. En-
lily would lean: over. send.a swift
silent finger message. and whisper
"a few words into the keen ears sxof3
Judge Bell The result inyariablys
was g kind tall to the prisoner and
a two weeks respite from al work
house sentence. and sometimes&;l
letter to the stat Scity free ems
ployment bureau Wi q reconn1en-
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blind, but IL they succeed in fooling
me they cannot get past Judge"
Emily.
She is. without a doubt the
brightest girl in the world and
K don't know how / would get along
without her. She has been with me.
SO long that she knows me better
than know myself. and rely on
her judgment. she sees for me and
explains it SO we'll that i know just
how everything looks
And she knows the law almost as
we'll as do. Sometimes after Il am
convinced that a prisoner is guilty.
IL ask her how should punish him
You might think that because She is
woman she would be tempted to
deal lightly with offenders. but she
is not. II they deserve it She recon-
mends the limit. and i am SO Well
satisfied with her opinions that
usually do What she suggests.
No. my handicap is not sd great
as most people think. OF course it
was hard when first lost my sight.
but you know. one can get used to
most anything. And the people here
whom have been associated with
have treated ME so well that at
times ! forget that I am blind. I
don't know Of one enemy in Cincin-
natl"
And ] was inclined to think that
he is right about that anyway, for
4 have never seen a man who knows
and is liked by more people Not
only around the city hall, but on the
streets Of Cincinnati he goes only
few steps when someone stops with
a Hello. Sam. how arc your And
you would think at once that he
would have TO ask who twas. But
voice again. then he has them
spotted.
Judge Bell has always lived in or
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Sent Story of Clusters Massacre

July For three hours he slept
Then he was aroused and returned
70 the Key For twenty hours he
\ sat at his desk and IL was o'clock
the next morning when he checked
on the signature of the last dispatch
in the old carpet bag.
Carnahan had sent eighty thou
sand words inthe two shifts and the
receipts Of his office in those two
days were $4,000. But before he
quit. Carnahan sent a news story to
three papers in the East. For two
days the Eastern papers had been
clamoring for story. but there was
no one to send it. Canadian could
not leave his official work. and there
was no other telegraph operator
within two hundred miles. Nor7was
there enough wire. To the New
Ocean and the St Paul Pioneer
Press he sent as much story as he
had strength to prepare. And that
was the way the news of the Gus
ter battle was sent ont.
As fast as they could arrive. spe-
cial correspondents hurried to Bis
marck to get the details OF the great
Story. Carnahan sent" for twelve
hours on one story When he had
finished. the correspondent, O'Ile1-
ley. gave him a $50 bill. The tolls
on the special dispatch amounted to
$500; there were TWENTY-FIVE thou
sand words. That was the longest
OF the news stories which Garnahan
sent
Carnahan handled the, official cor
respondence between President
Grant and General Custer, at Bis
marck, which preceded the Big Horn
expedition, and which always has
been supposed to have caused tho
recklessness on that fatal ride. But
that's a story Carnahan thas never.
told
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until January I, of this year, when
he Went cnEthe bench; Since then he
has made reputation for fair deal
ing, and speedy justice. He has
been known many times to help
financially prisoners. N HON his keen
senses detected were worthy. he has
obtained employment for hundreds
of men whom other judges might
have given Workhouse sentences.
He doesn't let 1eniency run away with
his better Judgment. however, and
when one deserves punishment and
comes before Judge Bell it is GER
Stainty that he will get what he de-
serves.
PERSONAL w. i do not think that a
workhouse sentence tends to inn
prove a man morally, said Judge
Bell. THE stigma of the work
house follows him through life. he
is made to hate the law. and man
who hates law and society is bound
to offend these enemies Men who
are given sentences go in with the
determination Of getting out in some
manner and many of them come out.
not cured Of their weakness. but de-
termined TO cheat the law and to
wreak vengeance on those who are.
responsible for the timerthey served
there.
Why should i send these men
who have no position to the work
house?. he asked. II believe that
the average American will work if
work is given him. I know at this
time Of the year that hundreds are
out of work To send them to the
workhouse would be not only an
added expense to the city. but would
be sometimes the ruination OF man
who would be a real man otherwise
And SO sat during this morning.
seeing Judge Bell mete out this kind
of Justice. saw him tell the wives OF
} the prisoners to go home and wait
until their husbands found employ
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dation from Judge Bell that this
man be given employment.

dation from Judge Bell that this
man be given employment
4 And it really makes you forget
that sou have always felt sorry for
one who is blind to see and talk to-
~ udge Bell. He is by far the most
S1oNfal man around the city hall ], he
never walks through the corridors
without being stopped many times,
his little remarks Of good cheer are
always on his lips. and 1t was hard !
formc to Tea7ize that he had been
robbed OF his valuable sense sight.
t5 How do Il manage TO tell whether
the. prisoners are guilty?' he said
when q sked him this. question.
~ Why do you think you could. tell
me a faisehood and get away with tt?
: Well. you couldn't Z. The moment
prisoner gets before me know
whether he is telling the truth or
not can tell from the tone ofshis
Iceswhether he is hardened ornots
number Of hem have tried to-
hoodwini me us because am
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JUDGE Samuel w. Bell
: and Miss Emily ID Pinal

near Cincinnati. lie is forrty-four:
years old, and has been, serving the
public since 1905. He was a ma
chinist before this. and still hold s a
membership card in one OF their or
ders. In 1888 while ut work. there
was a premature explosion of pow
der This robbed him of his eye
sight. not imme diately.5 but grad
ually. s!4s is35s,5l
He ~as born In Carthage, former
~. q suburb OF Cincinnati, but re-
Gently taken into the city After the
explosion he cticed law. and in
this capacitysin Carthage until cog.
then thfs illages was annexed to.
Cincinnati. He served III the city
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John NJ. Carnahan, one of the old
est operators In the service OF the
Western Union Telegraph Company,
the operator who for twenty-one
hours without rest sent the Official
and newspaper stories OF the Custer
massacre. has been pensioned and
allowed to return to his old home in
Wisconsin. where he will raise
chickens. During the later part Of
his career he has been in Montana
and Dakota.
At the time he was sent to the Of
flee at Bismarck. n. D.. then the
farthest west station on the North
ern Pacific Railroad. 1t was called
the worst town in the world He
objected. but the company appealed
to his loyalty All it asked was
that he get the Bismarck office run
ming right. IL Carnahan would do
that it would send him relief in
few weeks and lie might return here.
Carnahan yielded. He went to Bis
marck in 1873. The company kept
the promise after a fashion. 1t did
send him relief. but not until 1890.
For seventeen years Carnahan re-
NAMED at the frontier station. When
he left it was for Missoula, Mont.
where he eremained twenty-four
years. At the beginning OF the new
year Carnahan. after completing
more than fifty years work as an
operator, retired.
At Bismarck Carnahan sent out
one of the biggest stories in this
country-the story OF the Custer
massacre on the Little Big Horn in
July, 1876. The Bismarck garrison,
including many friends of Carnahan.
was in the Custer expedition. The
operator and the post surgeon rode
out from the post with the expedi-
ton when it started in June, 1876.
to punish the Sioux. They went
twelve miles with the Seventh Cav
airy. Then they turned back with
the last dispatch Custer ever sent
The night OF July the steamer
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A notable tribute TO English beer
was paid by the Abbot OF Monte Ca
5sino in a conversat ION with Lord
Houghton, reported to Sir Mouut-
stuart GRANDEUR. Discussing Eng
slish University reforms. the Abbot
expressed his hope that the British
the college founded in honor Of tho
.ever-blesseds Trinity at Cambridg
Lord Houghton inquired the reason
for the Abbot,s special aolfcftude.
and the answer given with q ges
ture or delight was UNA tale birra,.
s(Sucli a beer!9
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Lady jury.

We'll, how did you get along with
your jury of ladies q
They demanded some things not
chatting dish in the jury room and
had to go shopping every afternoon"
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1nent very much. but even without
my eyes he would be able to do
equally as well as he does now.
And Just as Judge. De Pinal
thinks. / thought and everyone else
thinks. Judge Bell divides his time
on the bench between the civil and
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criminal branches. and has been
successful in both courts. so success
III that other Judges when they are
rushed in their courts call on him in
preference to the remaining mem
bers OF the judicial stan OF tho mus
nicipal court
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! d: HjIil:isSch],esInlu1,e.,.

see the manager Of this slics.s
spredicts that every chorus Eiri ii S
land g. mi lionaira hiigb
keeping the girls istied n nm their;l1
$18 pef: Reel
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I sat on the bench with him one
entire morning, and although I saw
much of the under side" Of life, I
am quite sure that i did not see one
tenth Of the little details that count
as he did. and he is totally blind.
has been so for years. and yet he
has proved himself to be one of the
ablest judges In the municipal
courts Of Cincinnati.
He is Judge Samuel Nv. Bell, and
he has been on the bench since the
first Of the year. He has been to-.
tally blind since 1908. It resulting
from a gunpowdcr accident in No
svember, 1883, when he was a ma
chinist. 1t was not until May, 1894,
that this accident robbed him, then
he went blind in one eye. In 1905
he lost the second.
gS But what is lacking in vision is
more than made ZIP in other ways.
One would not know he was blind
so Keen is his sense of recognizing
things and people. He has but to
hear someone say, Hello SAM his
brow contracts, he reaches out and
calls by name this friend. and lie
numbers his friends by the thou
sands in Cincinnati.
And on the bench with him. pris-H
oners who come before him for JUS
tice see another. Miss Emily De
Pinal. called throughout the city
hall, Judge Emily. and judge she
lis. for it is through her eyes that
N Judge Bell sees and notes out jus
tice. Her fingers with their secret
code transmit to the hands of Judge
Bell the details. tell him what the
prisoner looks like. and Judge Bell
relies on her opinions equally as
much as he would on his vision.
But he tells principally by the
tone OF prisoners voice, and
counts on" Judge Emily's eyes to do
the rest. She explains to him by
her finger code in what manner the
prisoner acts when he is telling his
sIory.
E.IF'IlYERE A PRISONER BEFORE
3HIMIsNOULD TELL THE TRUTH
And I think from what I saw on
this morning, that ifs were aspris-
Scner before this blind Judge and his
young assistant, that a would most
certainly tell the. truth. One would
be almost afraid to tell else when
Judge Bell peers at one through un-
seeing eyes. Were 1t not for his as
sistant being on the bench with him
one would never know that he was
blind. unless he. had seen Judge"
Emily leadfng him through the cor
sridors Of City Hall
On this morning 4 saw Judge Bell
! and Judge I5mIly dispose OF more
than thirty "a lure 10 proTflie cases.
Y It was in this court that he ahapa
rehed to- reside over on this; day
and he melted out Justice. not the
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1915-07-23
New "Shower-Bath" Uniform.

OF firemen. The water supply is OBJ
tanned from the line OF hose in serv-
Ice through a one-halfinch hose con-
nection. The water passing through
this hose also operates a water motor
OF light weight which pumps fresh
air into the helmet through another
line OF half-inch hose.
The uniform was tested out in Gin
cinrati recently While the fireman
enveloped in IL stood in the center Of
a fierce fire OF wood coal oil and
shavings. spectators could not get
closer than twenty feet to the flames,
so intense was the heat But the man
protected by the "shower-bath" suit
remained in the fiar1es five minutes,
playing the hose. and was in no wise
injured.
II is considered quite possible that
this new idea can be adapted. so that
II will be of great use in cases where
IL is necessary TO send a large number
OF firemen to fight fire at a certain
point
A protector. mounted on wheels so
that il can be easily moved from place
TO place. might be constructed on the
same lines as the shower-bath uni
forms. but large enough 10 hold inside
its protecting walls OF falling water a
dozen or more fremen.
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Portuears New President.

At the age OF fourteen the new pres
ident OF Portugal. Senior Theophilo
Braga. was attending school by day
and working in a printing Office by
night. his home less ans being done in
the hours robbed from sleep. Still
he fourd leisure for rhyming, and
two months before his sixteenth birth
day the schoolboy-ccmpositor pub
lished "Fclhas Verdes," a volume now
highly priced by Portuguese book col.
lectCrs. Unlike most of the precocious
outpourings 4 genius. this contains
poeris of permanent value, and sew
eral editions have appeared since the
author attained to fame. Its publica.
ton secured him position on a news
paper. and by the time he was eight
cen he had saved enough money to
study at the University II Coimbra
1t was at Coinbra." Senior Braga
records. that | first became acquaint-
ed with my favcrite auth rs-Kant,
Hegel. Ccmte. Ranke, Macaulay.
Goethe. Shakespeare ana Hugo" And
II was at Coimbra that he wrote "A
Vision OF Time" the greatest poem
produced in Portugal since the death
OF Camoens.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1915-07-23
WAITED LONG FOR PROBATE
sster Twenty years Son Produces Fa-
TIERS Will-Teststor's Instructions
Had Been Obeyed.

Undiscovered for nearly twenty
wears after his death. the will OF Jo-
ham Michael Muller has been offered
for probate at Baltimore by his son,
John C. A. Muller. The testator died
March l3, 1896. having made his will
OIL May 81, 1889
The pape.. yellow and musty with
sge left all Mr.. Mullers property to
bis wife Elizabeth Barbara Muller.
she died Apri' 30. 1915. and her son
vas appointed administrator Of her
estate He mad known OF the exist
ence Of the will for several months
rrior 10 his mothers death. but since
al the property had been enjoyed by
Mrs Muller as her husband had de-
sired. Il was not thought necessary
10 probate the will at that time.
The son says the property will now
be divided between his two brothers
and himself. since his mother died in
iestate The exact value of the estate
has not been determined, but II is
made up almost entirely OF parcels OF
real estate.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1915-07-23
LIKE SHOWER BATH
FIRE Fighters May Be Protected
by Wall Of Water.
IN This Uniform a Man Need Havo
Little Fear OF the Fiereest Flames
Tests Have Shown it's
PractiesbIIity.

The newest idea in fighting fires iG
TO dress the fremen in shower baths.
These are uniforms fireproofed with
tiny streams OF water so effectually
That when clothed in one of them a
man can stand right I'm the midst OF
the hercest flames without suffering
any III effects.
The suit Is made OF freproofed can.
vas. Between the two thicknesses Of
the fabric. sewed al the neck. is a
perforated ring through which tiny
streams OF water are showered down
between the layers OF canvas.
The water finds outlets at the finger
tips and at the soles OF the feet
Through the perforated ring encir-
cling the helmet water drenches IL.
also the suit. like shower bath. With
such an arrangement a fireman can
walk right into hot fire
The uniform does net weigh more
than twenty-five pounds, and does not
add much to the usual service clothing
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neutrality-suspicious. Land Selling Company Cape Gadsau, Missouri
LOVE OF ART NOT REQUIRED
Mans Insensibility 10 the Beautiful
Understood When He Revealed
His Lies Occupation.

AS they passed the soldiers monu-
ment in the public square OF small
town. he turned TO his right hand COM
panion and said:
Pretty bad, Ell"
What's pretty bad?"
Why. this monument. Awful. isn't
II, to put those things up all over this
fair land? No art in EN-"
Il rather like EN-
Rather like 'em, Ell? ! suppose you
think that pile OF chimneys over there
is pleasing to the eyer
Not bad"
What do you think OF those fright
full advertising chromos on the land
scape?"
Pretty good"
You'd like the interior OF a New
York theater-l believe"
Splendid"
Ever hear OF art?"
Never"
DO you mean TO say, sir, that some
OF TIE sublimest notes OF the human
heart meet no response in your bo-
som? Have you no taste. no judg-
ment. no sense OF anything harmoni-
Gus? Are you lost TO the fitness OF
anything at all? Great heavens. sir!
Where did you come from? Who are
your"
T. sir. am the heartess wretch who
arranges the deathbed scenes in the
moving picture shows. Life.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1915-07-23
ModernlzIna the Roundup.

Each year seems to give the auto
mobile a new hold on life. The war
brought it to the forefront in a new
field. The soldier OF the present day
seldom makes long forced marches
like Sherman's march to the sea. He
travels by motor car. Az a result. the
automobile casualty list is tremen-
dous; the average life OF car in the
battle line is estimated at thirty days.
But 1t is not only the war zone that
has lost part OF its picturesqueness
through the use OF the automobile,
The latter has begun TO rob the an
nual cattle roundup OF some OF its
thrills by replacing the horse This
year has seen the ubiquitous car with
a cowboy at its wheel on our western
prairies. discouraging the cattle from
attempts to escape from the ever-nar-
rowing circle in the roundup. Many
steer which has given COW horse a
run must feel disconnected when IL
bucks up against the four-wheeled
steed.-Wall Street Journal.
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Police Would Get u.

The talk of parents at home about
conditions in the police department
made a deep impression on the mind
of a twelve-year-old boy who was be
fore Judge F. ]. Lahr in juvenile court
for stealing a bicycle. The court had
lectured the boy and his three com
panions on the disgrace OF stealing
and finally asked the boys what they
thought OF stealing
Now. suppose everybody we're to
steal" the court suggested, and then
what do you think would become Of
all OF our property"
oh the police would get every
thing" was the boys quick response.
Indianapolis News.
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INFORMATION EASY TO GIVE
psocy Happily In Possession OF
knowledge as TO Where One Vac
yum Was Located.

The good man had just been In.
formed by the only person who could
possibly possess the information that
be hadn't an ounce OF sense. that he
had never had an ounce of sense. and
that there was not the remotest
chance that he ever would have an
ounce Of sense
Having been assured on these
points the good man turned to his
paper, only to be interrupted by his
.oung son and heir:
Father said the boy, what is a
vacuum and where can | find one?"
Ny boy. replied the good man, IF
We are TO assume that your mother is
Qualified to speak on the subject, /
POSSESS the only real vacuum in the
heighborhood, and. for your further in
formation. II is situated just between
ny collar and the glossy open space
NheTe ! used 10 grow hair"
You mean your dome?"
les. my son. that is the family vac
uUm
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1915-07-23
Every Good Farmer
Should Take an Educational Trip
to Southeast Missouri

east Missouri. Men who
have in the last Is years
sold over 100000 acres Of
this same kind of land TO
over 1000 different people,
all of whom have made good.
They hare never foreclosed
on a purchaser or taken back
an acre Of the property.
Sales during May, 3,641
acres TO 81 different people.
Sales from February first to
July first, 9,454 acres 10 S4
different people. Can you
beat it? In tracts Of 40
acres up, 1919 cash, 10 an
nual installmcnts with SO
interest. Warranty deed
backed by over 100000
assets on the payment Of
only 1O% cash. Can you
equal it?
Write for full information
and free map. Address Dept.
A.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1915-07-23

Now in full bloom. Come
see our magnificent wheat
,rop. Threshing it every day.
Al fine clover and timothy
as YOU ever saw. Alfalfa
end corn you cannot beat
- Illinois or Iowa. See
them all now. 10000 acres
a. good, rich, alluvial cut
over bottom land, both
drained and undrained, level
as the Illinois prairie, rich
IS the Valley Of the Nile; no
rocks. hills or gumbo, but
mellow sandy loan soil al
WAYS works well, short mild
winters. long growing sea-
sons. abundant yields of all
siaple crops. Two crops a
gear IF Of the same land.
Land owned by Himmel-
berger-Harrison Lu m b er
Company, largest hardwood
manufacturers in Missouri,
LARGEST land owners in South