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Omaha daily bee., 1916-02-08
SMILING REMARKS.

why does that Pinkum girl make up
her face so strikingly?' asked Maude
She interfereS when she walks" re-
piled Maymie. She has to make up her
face to draw attention from her feet
Washington Star.
Why do you oppose reasonable
amount of preparedness?' demanded SEN
atoF Wonbat Amt you for it2'
Privately, yes stated Congressman
Fluhdub but I expect to trade my OBJ
jections for an arsenal for my district, or
wireless station at the very least
Kansas City Journal
Omaha daily bee., 1916-02-08
The Fine Art Of Skating
George n. sr0was IN the rndspsaAsns. =

Life - short art IL long; few arts are longer
than ne beautiful modern art Of skating But sx
pensfvo skating equipment and professional nstruc
ton VIII not aone. very quickly. make artistic
Skaters no matter how ardent the "crazo for dane
Ing on the ice. Any couple may have great fun in
watzing and In two-seppng with the sprawl and tho
chatter Of the old American locomotive figures. In
stead OF the quiet, rhythmic. gliding form and IN
the sunny winter out OF doors this vigorous exertio1
skates may be a exhilaratng and health giving
~ any sport the calendar; but Il IL not skating
according 10 the STANDARDS OF the latest develop
meuts OF the art.
These require patience. persistence and esthetio
sensibihtes-not much exceptional strength.
skin In the expenditure OF moderate force-not so
much expensive skates and costumes. the intelli
gent appreciation OF the problems to be solved The
and young but II is not to be bought; II IS TO be
won only by intelligent study. consistent practice
and some hard work. yet the struggle with the diff
cultfes IL the most fascinating the whole realm OF
combined physical and intellectual effort and the
Accomplishment is worth all the effort II costs For
claimed for physical sefexpresson in its most artistic
form, esthstic dancing. may be claimed with greater
force for arstic skating for the simple that
In skating. the gliding motion is continuous-there
not the unavoidable pauses that turn the grace
full poso. even for a moment into rigid pose This
superiority OF skating a OF physical self
expression IL ample justification for the effort needed
TO technical handicap Of skates; handi-
cap however. which IN these days OF improved tools
and instruction. If reduced TO a minimum. Balance
the skate-sdgo acquired. however the freedom
OF action IA skating quite complete swfmming
h than In dancing TO the perfect freedom OF
flying winch alas. Il yet attainabie by Ths
through the freedom OF skating. Is practically
limited
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1916-07-28

,vvking nc him steadliy. y ou've talked
to her for"
FOR heavens sake" he began,
keep the peace"
"Well, what have you just been do
ing?"
Ssh" he said. Listen to your fl.
~ther-in-law."
louder than ever, the orchestra having
begun to play The Rosary" to his
vast content.
II count them over, la-la-tum-tee-
dunn" he roared, beating the measures
with his fork. Each hour a pearl,
each pearl tee-dum-tum-dum- What's
the matter of all you folks? N'hy'n't
! you sing? Miss Vertrees, l bet a thou
sand dollars you sing! Why'n't-"
"Air. Sheridan she said. turning
cheerfully from the ardent jim. you
don't know what you interrupted.
Your ION isn't used to nay rough ways,
and my soldiers wooing frightens him,
but | think he was about to say some
thing important"
III say something important to him
il he Doesn't the father threatened.
more delighted with her than ever. by
right how"
"Oh, wait" cried Mary. "If they'd
only make less noise. l want Mrs.
Sheridan to hear"
shed say the same" he shouted.
Shed tell me l was mighty slow If /
couldn't get ahead o Jim. Why, when
l was his age"
You must listen to your father"
Mary interrupted, turning to jim. who
had grown red again. Hes going to
tell us how, when he was your age,h he
made those two blades of grass grow
Out of a teacup-and you could see for
yourself he didn't get them out of his
sleeve!"
At that Sheridan pounded the table
till it jumped. Look here, young LADY,
he roared- Some O. these days I'm
either goin' to slAp you-or I'm goin'
to kiss you.."
Edith looked aYhast; she was afraid
this was indeed toe awfal," but Mary
Eertrees burst into ringing laughter.
BOTH" she crial. Both! The one
to make me forgst the other..
But which" h. began, and then
suddenly gave forth such stentorian
trunpetings Of nirth that for onc the
whole table stopped to listen. 'Jim,"
he roared, If you don't propose to that
girl tonight III send you back to the
machine shop with Bibbs!'
And Bibbs-d0wn among the retain
ers by the sugar pump works, and
watching Mary Eertrees as a ragged
boy in the street might watch a rich
little girl in a garden-Bibbs heard.
He heard-and he knew what his ia
Tiers plans were now.
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gorgeous and d~earening and ryrtonl

gorgeous and d~eafening ana NetofNL
We could have lived a year on 1t.
think the orchids alone would have
lasted us a couple Of months. There
they were, before me. but l couldn't
steal EN- and sell 'em. and so-well, 10
I did what l could"
She leaned back and laughed reas-
suringly to her troubled mother. 1T
seemed to be a success-what I could
she said, clasping her hands behind
her neck and stirring the rocker to mo-
ton as n rhythmic accompaniment to
her narrative. THE girl Edith and her
sister-in-law, Mrs. Roscoe Sheridan.
were too anxious about the effect Of
things on me. The fathers worth 4
bushel Of both Of them. if he knew Il.
He's what he is. | like him She
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The Turmoil
BOOTH HARRINGTON
Copyright l9la, by Harper Il Brothers.

getting these, would renew his friend.
~ raillerics, OF perhaps, turning to
Mary Nertrees, who sat near him.
round the corne of the table at his
right, he would become autobiography
zeal. Gentlemen less naive than he
had paid her that tribute, for she was a
girl who inspired the autobiographical
impulse in every man who met her-it
needed but the sight Of her.
The dinner seemed, somehow. to cen
ter about Mary Nertrees and the jocund
host as a play centers about it's hero
and heroine; they were the rubicund
king and the starry princess Of this
spectacle>they paid court to each 9th
er, and everybody paid court to them.
Down near the sugar pump works,
where Bibbs sat, there was audible
speculation and admiration. "Wonder
who that lady is--makin' such a hit
with the old man." Must be some
heiress." "ieiress? Golly, l CUES I
couid stand 1t to marry rich, then"
Edith and Sibyl were radiant; AZ
first they had watched Miss Vertrees
with an almost haggard anxiety, won
dering what disastrous effect Sheri-
dams pastoral gayeties-and other
things-would have upon her, but she
seemed delighted with everything, and
with him most Of all. She treated him
as il he were some delicious, foolish
old joke that she understood perfectly,
laughing at him almost violently when
he bragged-probably his first expert
ence Of that kind In his life. 1t en-
chanted him.
As he proclaimed to the table. she
had "a way with her" She had, in
deed Al Roscoe Sheridan, upon her
right. discovered just after the feast
began. Since his marriage three years
before. no lady had bestowed upon him
so protracted a full view Of brilliant
eyes: and, with the look, his lovely
neighbor said-and II was her first
speech to him
Il hope you're very susceptible. M.
~Sheridan!"
Honest Roscoe was taken aback,
and, why" was all he managed to
say.
She repeated the look deliberately,
which was noted, with q mystiication
equal to his own, by his sister across
the table. No one, reflected Edith,
could imagine Mary vertrees the sort
Of girl who would really flirt'' with
married men-she was obviously the
opposite Of all that" Edith defined
her a thoroughbred" a mice girl;'
and the look given to Roscoe was as
founding. Roscoe's wife saw 1t, too.
and she was another whom IL puzzled
though not because its recipient was
married.
"Because" said Mary vertrees. re-
plying to Roscoe's monosyllable. And
also because we're next-door neighbors
at table, and it's dull times ahead for
both of us II we don't get along"
Roscoe was a literal young man. all
stocks and bonds. and he had been
brought up to believe that when a man
married he married and settled down.
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CHAPTER vi.

Mrs. Vertrees sat up for her daugh-
ter. Mr.. Vertrees having retired after a
restless evening. not much soothed by
the society Of his Landseers. But Mrs.
Nertrees had a long vigil of it.
She sat through the slow night hours
in a stiff little chair under the gaslight
in her own room. which was directly
over the front hall" There, book in
hand. she employed the time in her
w "reminiscences, though it was her
belief that she was reading Madame de
Remusat's.
Her thoughts went backward into
her life and into her husbands; and
the deeper into the past they went, the
brighter the pictures they brought her
and there is tragedy. Like her hus-
band, she thought backward because
she did not dare think forward definite
". What thinking forward this trou-
bled couple ventured took the form OF
a slender hope which neither Of them
could have borne to hear put in words,
and yet they had talked it over, day
after day, from the very hour when
they heard Sheridan was to build his
new house next door. For-so quick
~ does any ideal OF human behavior
become an antique-heir youth was of
the innocent old days, so dead! Of
breeding and "gentility," and no
craft had been more straitly trained
uron them than that Of talking about
things without mentiping them. Here
in was marked the most vital differ
ence between Mr.. and Mrs. Nertrees
and their big new neighbor. Sheridan,
though his youth was Of the same
epoch, knew nothing Of such matters.
He had been chopping wood for the
morning fire In the country grocery
while they were still dancing.
It was after one O'Clock when Mrs.
verhees heard steps and the delicate
clinking Of the key in the lock, and
then, with the opening Of the door,
Mary's laugh and, "Yes-if you aren't
afraid-tOmorrow!"
The door closed, and size rushed up
stairs, bringing with her a breath OF
VIVA ~ all ia AllO ucI IlOllltI >
room. YES" she aaid, before Mrs.
Vertrees could speak, he brought me
home!!"
She let her cloak fall upon the bed,
and, drawing an old ~red-velvet rocking
chair forward. sat beside her mother,
after giving her n light pat upon the
shoulder and a hearty kiss upon the
cheek.
Mammal" Mary exclaimed, when
Mrs. vertrees had expressed a hope
that she had enjoyed the evening and
had not caught cold "Nhy don't you
ask met"
This inquiry obviously made her
mother uncomfortable. Il don't" she
faltered. ASK you what, MaryY"
How ! got along and what he's
like"
Mary"
"Oh. it isn't distressings" said Mary.
And ! got along SO fast" She broke
on to laugh; continuing then. But
that's the way I went at 1t, Of course
We are in 2 hurry, aren't wei"
my dear. / don't know what TO-
''What to make ot %a~ything" Mary
lu11Aea for ~. 40 that's al righkl
Nsv ~ tell ~ ~ about 4 i -
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SYNOPSIS.

Sheridan's attempt to make a business
man OF his son Bibbs by starting him in
the machine shop end in Bibbs going to
a sanitarium. a nervous wreck. On his re-
turn Bibbs 10 met at the station by his
sister Edith. He finds himself an incon-
siderable and unconsidered figure in the
New House. of the Sheridans. He sees
Mary Vertrees looking at him from a
summer house next door. The Nertreeses,
old town family and impoverished, call on
the Sheridans, newly-rich. and afterward
discuss them. Mary puts into words her
parents unspoken wish that she marry
one OF the Sheridan boys.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1916-07-28
VII.

Edith. glancing casually into the
"ready-made' library, stopped abrupt.
~. seeing Bibbs there alone. He was
standing before the pearl-framed and
gold-lettered poem. musingly inspect.
ing 1t. He read It:
FUGITIVE.
I will forget the things that sting:
The flashing look. the barbed word.
l know the very hands that ding
The stones at me had never stirroa
To anger but for their own scars.
They've suffered 20, that.e why thes
strike.
I'll keep my heart among the stars
Where none shall hunt 1t. Gh. like
These wounded ones I must not b.
For. wounded. ! might strike IN turnl
So. none shall hurt mo. Far ana freo
Where my heart flies no enc shall Learn.
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7e Pounded the Table and Boone
. HE Echoes % Old Songs.

he knew that yoGas married people
might have friendships, IKE his wife's
for Lamhorn; but Sibyl and Lamhorn
never 'firted"--they were always very
matter-of-fac act with each other. Roscoe
would have been troubled IL Sibyl had
ever told Lamhorn she hoped b waa
susceptible.
"Yes-wefD neighbors," he 0lo,
awkwardly. Il I've across the street."
why, mol" abe exclaimed, and
seemed startled. "Yoor mother told
me this afternoon t1at you lived al
home" Slowly = deep color came into
her cheek.
mo-" be said: my wife and I lived
with the old folks the first year, but
that's al. Edith and Jim live with
them, Of course"
I'll zee" she said. the deep color
sttll deepening % she turned from him
- saw, utittea uDsa : card b4fors
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Here 10 a young woman, ono
Of the poor aristocrats, deiiber-
atcIy setting forth 70 capture a
rich husband. Perhaps Mary
will honestly fall In love with
Jim Sheridan and be happy in
her marriage. Do you think she
10 waping her warfare" In q
manner that will bring her sue
cess7
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1916-07-28

Does i seem - you that
! Edith Sheridan has enough Nno
!; stun In her soul % write ov6h
!: verse-sven though i wao ~veo. /
] ten when she Wao oovoUoooN
and now she's past twenty and
! rather hard7
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-01-13
Nebraska
Farmers Congress
At Grand Island
Reports Growth

GRAND ISLAND. Neb., Jan. l2-tSpc-
cial telegram -lnterspersed with music
by a local msnc quartet, the opening ses-
sion Of the Farmers congress to-
day was devoted largely to addresses.
Mayor Ryan welcomed the members to
the city and Charles +. Slatt responded,
addressing himself largely to a compar-
ison of city and fern organizations. In
cidental thereto he declared he had heard
commercial clubs crlticising and con-
demning farmers organizations. but never
heard a farmers organization blaming
city interests for organizing.
Charles S. Barrett, president Of the ma
tional organization, arrived from Georgia,
landing into one Of Nebraska's coolest
spells. He was especially grateful to the
Nebraska union for its extension of
material aid by way Of money TO south
ern members in the cotton depression
few months ago.
In his annual address this afternoon
President Gustafson stated that war.
!unfavorahle weather and stubborn resist
anCe by the opposition" had so much
delayed the progress of the union now
meeting for the third time but the 400
organized locals OF a year ago had
grown to 73l.
! Tho 1000 members Of a year ago had
grown to about twice that number There
were today eighteen county organizations
compared with eleven a year ago. The
growth Of the state exchange was much
more phenomenal. In the summer Of 1914
a room 2OX20 was occupied. Now a build
/ Ing 132 feet long and four stories high
was well filled by the different depart
ments of the exchange, through which
members buy direct from the producers.
over 100000 pounds OF binder Irvine were
thus sold this year.
There are at present foTty-two farmers
union cooperative grain elevators i'm Ne
hraska. The union has done much to bet
ter rural schools. President Gustafson eX-
horted the members to remain loyal and
the success of the organization is assured.
Secretary-Treasurer Ellis of Omaha also
rendered a report corroborating in detail
the statements of The president. Various
committees were appointed. An interest
ing paper by G. l.. Carlson of Norfolk
was read
Tonight the members were shown the
Nebraska resources pictures by Prof Con-
dra and listened to an address by Prof.
Bradford.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-01-13
0'ConnOr Claimants
Lose Case in Court
By Judges Decision

HASTINGS, Nep., Jan. 12.-(Special
Telegram. )-Judge Corcoran today disal-
lowed all heirship claims to the 100000
estate Of John o'Connor, recluse and al
legged reformed bandit. He took under
advisement the jurisdictional question Of
whether the suit to quiet title in the
state of Nebraska was prematurely
brought, since a suit over will Is pend
ing in the supreme court on appeal from
a verdict finding that the instrument was
forged.
Judge Corcoran supplemented his de-
cision with a scathing criticism of some
of the witnesses. The story of Mrs.
Amanda Brown of Asheville, N. c.. who
claimed to be a niece. read like tale
from the Arabian Nights" he said
II the testimony in this case had been
given before him in his own district,
Judge Corcoran asserted he would have
had the claimant and witnesses prose-
cuted for perjury. sour courts" he said,
should teach a lesson in the state con-
corning testimony OF this character"
Several OF the claimants announced
that they would appeal from the decision.
Attorneys will have sixty days in which
to file briefs on the jurisdiction question,
and the state will have thirty days i'm
which to answer. Judge Corcoran came
from his home in York to preside as a
substitute for Judge II. 8. DUNCAN, who
was disqualified by reason of previous
connection with the case
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-01-13
MAY HAVE TO PAY
FOR OLD METERS
General Manager Howell Discovers
City Paid for Meters Put In by
Old Company.
NOW PLANS TO GET COIN BACK

Many hundreds Of people in Omaha are
soon to be asked to nay for the old badly
worn and almost useless water meters in
stalled i'm the homes by the old water
company before the plant became the
property of the city.
General Manager Howell OF the water
board is planning or this move. f. d.
Wead. new chairman OF the Water board.
mentioned II casually at meeting OF the
omaha Real Estate exchange.
When asked to explain It he said that
the old company had installed a large
number of meters years ago at no cost
to the property owner, but had retained
ownership in the meters, lie said that
these were inveltcred when the plant
vas bought by tho city, and that there
fore they are now the property OF the
Metropolitan Water district and not the
property OF the owner OF the house in
which they are installed.
GrURns Greet Announcemnt.
Groans and EXPLANATIONS from the real
estate men greeted this announcement.
What will be the price-sll end some
thing, the same as those sold by the
board now?' asked member.
~ am not sure as to that" said MIR
Wesd but l understand they were in
ventoried at about SIS apiece"
Wouldn't it be good business, then"
asked J. IL. Robbins. TO throw the old
one out and buy one OF the new ones
cheaper"
This created a ripple of laughter, and
several suggested that the board be al
lowed to come TO the homes and take
out its old meters which It bought of
the old company at SIS apiece, and that
the owners buy the new ones at Sl1
rather than pay the price for the old.
Bills for pipe, Too.
Harry Wolf asked IL the home owners
were soon to get bills for the water
pipe, also installed by the old company,
81 admit l cannot follow that out
logically along the line with pipes and
an said Mr.. Wead
The subject came up only casually
through n discussion of some Water
board tactics with regard to requiring
owners to sign a guarantee OF the water
rent before the board ould turn on
water in a rented house. 1t was pointed
out by some that there is a tendency
at the water office when an application
for water comes in to send the tenant
20 the owner to get his signature to a
guarantee rather than TO call his atten-
ton to the fact that he may have the
water turned on by making cash de-
post as a guarantee. II was voted that
+. u. Wead as a member of the ex-
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-01-13
Schmidt Doomed to
San Quentin Prison
The Rest of His Life

LOS ANGELES. Cal. Jan. 12.-Mathew
A. Schmidt. convicted OF murder two
weeks ago In correction with tho dyna-
hitting OF the Times building five years
ago, was sentenced today TO life imprison-
ment In San Quentin prison.
Schmidt was sentenced after Judge
Frank r.. willis of the criminal depart
ment OF tho superior court had denied
the motion OF his attorneys for new
trial.
Asked II he had anything TO say before
sentence was pronounced. Schmidt pro-
duced a lengthy manuscript and read
thcrefrom statement In which he de-
clared he had nothing TO do with the con
spiracy OF James n. Mcnamara and
others to blow up the Times and that he
regretted as much as anyone the death
OF the twenty men killed In the bomb ex-
plosion.
\ stay OF execution was granted
schmidt until January % to give his at
torneys time TO perfect an appeal.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-01-13
GRANT PARSONS AT
HEAD OF BUILDERS
Nebraska Association Elects Off
GERS for Year and Selects Omaha
as Permanent Headquarters.
CONTRACTORS AT A BANQUET

Grant Parsons, Omaha, was re-
elected president of the Nebraska
Master Builders association at the
convention of the association yes
terday afternoon. II. II. Fallforf
Grand Island, was elected vice pres
ident; Erenest Rokahr, Lincoln,
treasurer, and Ray Gould, Omaha,
secretary.
The following directors were
elected: Ernest Rokahr, Lincoln;
Ray Gould. Grant Parsons, Omaha;
Peter Palmer, Oakland; w. j. Assem-
macker, Lincoln; T. Esslergard,
North Bend: H. H. Falldorf, Grand
Island; S. P. Wahlstrom, Wahoo,
and II. K. Olsen.
During the afternoon Harry Lawrie,
architect. Of Omaha, discussed the rela-
lions between the building owner, the
contractor and the architect. In the even
ing a banquet ot the contractors was held
at the Rome.
Permanent headquarters Of the associa-
ton are to be maintained in Omaha
Attorney Rosewater Talks.
Stanley Rosewater, attorney. discussed
he law and the contractor before the
convention at the morning session. lie
went with considerable detail into the
points of the law on which litigation is
most likely to occur to the contractor i'm
dealing with architects and building own
ers.
He advised the contractors TO take care
always to have the signatures of both the
owner and the architect before going
ahead with any change in the building
from what the original contract called
for. BY no means, he said, should they
go ahead with such changes on merely
the order OF either the owner or the
architect alone.
The speaker discussed the standard con-
tract documents now coming into pretty
general use throughout the country and
declared them the best of their kind he
had seen. Everything is clear and spe-
cific," he said. land very little is left
TO Interpretation and construction"
The association devoted most of the
morning to the reading and discussing OF
the articles of Incorporation. Some
twenty-five were present.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-01-13
ROY R. BARNARD SELLS
THE CALLAWAY QUEEN

CAI4LAWAY, Jan. 12-0Special.) --AfteT
having served in Galloway for the last
twenty-five years. fourteen of which has
been as editor OF the Loup Valley Queen,
which he was one of the founders Of
Roy r. Barnard closed a deal late Sat
urday evening in which ne stepped down
from the editorial harness and turned
the reins over TO James C. Naylor and
Harry b. Yates.
The new proprietors took charge of the
business on Monday morning. Both are
young men who were born. reared and
received their early education i'm the
Galloway schools, and both have been
successful business men in the town since
reaching manhood.
The future plans of the former editor
have not been given out, but it is I'M
derstood that he does not intend to be
out of the harness" for any length of
time.