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Reinsurance.

~ EN-. WILLIAM A. MANN. command
VI ing the I'd Brigade, was talking in
Laredo about the Mexican situation.
"Rea ssuring?" he said. Well, that
bulletin is just about as reassuring as
the BARRIERS remark.
Here, you be careful" patient
growled to a barber. That's the Sec
ond time you've cut me,'
Yes, yes said the barber, in sooth-
ing tones. so it is. but there. 1 al
ways deduct a nickel for every cut
Why, sir, it's nothing unusual for a
man to leave here quarter to the
goodn"
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a dozen. the next dropped to $3.50 a
dozen. and on the average the crop of
the year will net about 90 cents for
each and every cucumber sold. If his
figures are right, his cucumber re-
ceipts from the dollhouse this year will
be over $500. He picked Ill this week,
and the vines are still loaded
The prices of tomatoes are equally
high, and he has good crop under
glass.
This dollhouse is about thirty feet
wide and fifty feet long. 1t consists of a
great pit walled with logs to the sur
face of the ground and above that a
framework covered with glass, forming
glass walls and a glass roof. The house
is kept warm by wood fires, a hundred
gallon gasoline tank having been made
into stove for the purpose. The plants
are set out in beds upon low tables
which are connected with a network of
wires. The vines of the cucumbers and
tomatoes are trained on the wires.
They run up the walls and hang down
from the roof. Many of the cucumbers
are over ten inches in length and the
largest tomatoes are bigger than the
heads Of some babies.
X y
Leaving the hothouses, we took look
at the hogs. During the summer they
are kept in Enclosures out in the open,
although they have sleeping pens or
covered platforms on which they crawl
at night. In the winter they live in
the log memories which have been
turned into pig pens. The buildings are
warmed with good stoves, and the fires
have to be on day and night. There
are thirteen log buildings on the farm
and most of them are devoted to pigs.
Chicken Billy started into the hog
business with fourteen sucking pigs.
the most of which had taken prizes at
the agricultural fair at Vancouver. He
bought them there and shipped them
into the Klondike and they cost him
$50 apiece. or $3.50 in all. They arrived
in good shape and are now full-grown
hogs. They are Duroc-Jerseys, Berk-
shires and Yorkshires.
He keeps them for breeding only.
He has already had a number of lit
ters and sold them at a great profit. He
gets from SIS to $25 for each pig when
1t is six weeks of age-that is, ready
for weaving. He sold 100 last year.
I went with Billy from pen to pen to
examine the stock. 1t is said that a
man may be known by the way animals
act In his presence. If they like him he
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Overrefinement.

NNY LILLIAN DEAN HowELLS. thu
Wv novelist, was talking about
poet.
His work is overredned. overdelicate,
overnice," he said.
I'm short. his work reminds me of the
young husband who said to his bride.
at the end of the honeymoon:
Darling. I'll have to leave you eyery
but, to make the parting less abrunf'
I'll no longer take the Sis express. As
used to do-Tll take the $50 slow ac-
commodation.'
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Too Tolerant.

ID ISHOP CONRAD said at dinner in
" Newport News:
Some folks regard their sins in too
generous and tolerant a way. They're
like Cal Clay.
II said to Cal one day:
Calhoun. my man. Gen. Douglas has
positive proof that you looted his
chicken house last week. should think
you'd be ashamed to take communion
after such rascally deed as that
Nah goo'ness, sah,' said Cal, re-
proachfully, All wouldn' let a few
measly chickens stand 'twixt me an
de Lawd's table"
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his jaw, filling his shoulder with fine
shrapnel bullets and sinking piece
of the case in his side. The fire was
so hot that he could not get away, and
his only help was first aid" from his
comrades. He lay there until dark,
part of the time unconscious from the
loss of blood. Then he was removed
to an advanced base hospital and final
ly taken back to England.
Pettitt did not mind the cut in the
side or the bullet holes in his shoul-
der, for the surgeons picked the slugs
out, but they could not get the piece
of the steel case from his jaw and
blood poisoning set in. He would have
died but for an operation by great
London surgeon and the care of a
gray-eyed wisp of a volunteer nurse.
girl from Ireland. The doctor finally
found and removed the splinter of steel
and the girl took care of him, feeding
him through a tube. He knows he
would have died but for her care and
the doctor thought he would anyhow.
But for the girls sake he refused to
die, and now they are married
But even that could not keep him
away from the machine guns, and with
his wife's tears and approval he re-
Joined his regiment and again put his
sad news, for the Teutons had got"
Dawson and only four of his friends
were left to join the command when
they embarked, with $500 others. on
dition against the Dardanelles.
X
Certain congressman say that the
United States is invulnerabIe to attack
from any nation across the ocean. be-
cause it is impossible to land troops
and their impedimenta on an open
coast. One hundred and eighteen
thousand allies made such landing in
the face of Turkish army, excellent
soldiery, in numbers larger than this
country could mobilize in month. well
provided with field artillery and with
ten times as many Maxim Vickers ma
chine guns as there are in this coun-
try outside of those belonging to for
eign governments. drilled by German
officers and in strong positions selected
by those strategists. and the landing
rect and positive answer to any asser-
tion that one cannot be made. How
ever. the landing was not made easily
The Gloucestershires were among
those selected for the first party, in all
about 5000 strong. They were packed
anything that would f1oat-and under
a terrific fire from the feet approach
ed the shore. As they drew near the
Turkish land batteries opened upon
them, although fortunately their gun
merry was not good. AS the fiotiila
seventy -fve-pound packs upon their
backs. leaped into water up to their
chests and found themselves in a mesh
of barbed wire. Somehow they tore
their way through and scrambled to-
ward the shore as the Turkish machine
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Copyrighted. 1915 by Frank C. carpenter.)

Copyrighted 1916, by Frank G. Carpenter.)
DAWSON, Yukon Territory
E1HIS is the story of Chicken Billy
and his Ten Thousand Dollar
Potato Patch. 1t is the story OF
& young American who became
the poultry king of the Klondike. and
then went into farming with such sue
cess that he has one field of potatoes
that will bring in $4,000 this fall. That
is a sample of what farming can do
on the banks of the Yukon. and sug-
gestion of the fertility of Alaska as
well.
Chicken Billy is a good type of the
farmers of the far north. 1 first met
him yesterday afternoon. He called at
my hotel here in Dawson. A rough
looking young man of less than me-
dunn height. his face is bronzed from
the hot summer sun of the arctic and
his hands are horny with handling the
pillow. He wore a pair of rough boots
that reached to his knees. blue jeans
trousers somewhat the worse for the wear.
and shirt of f1nanel open at the neck.
that showed his brown chest. He was in
his working clothes, for he had brought
some of his crop of dollhouse vegetables
into Dawson for sale. He introduced
himself as William Anstett nicknamed
Chicken Billy, and asked me to go with
him up the river to look at his farms.
1 accepted the invitation. and have just
returned from the trip, the most inter-
esting 1 have yet had on the Yukon.
But first let me tell you som ething
about farming in the far north. Daw-
son is near the Arctic circle, and the
country about it is thought by many
to be snow and Ice the year round. The
fact is the winters last only until
April or May, and the short hot sum-
mers are almost perpetual daylight, so
that nature puts on its seven league
boots and works the greater part of the
night. AS to the farming in general,
the most of il is in very small patches.
There are gardens about the miners
cabins where they raise potatoes and
turnips, green peas and beets, and car
rots and celery. Last year one man
grew forty tons of turnips, or 1920
bushels upon a field of one acre, and
from another acre the same man raised
-561 bushels of potatoes. His crop of
vegetables all told weighed 200 tons.
Another farmer recently brought in a
caulifower which measured ten inches
teen pounds, and six heads of cabbage
which when put on the scales registered
100 pounds light. l have these figures
from Albert E. Lamb, one of the gov
eminent officials of Yukon territory,
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nITI,A

and unless the big one drops on top OF
you. you are safe enough.
The Germans seem to have been ~ ady
with all the new things. and are all the
time bringing out more. All the wise
men in France and England are study
ing how to meet them. and then the
Germans get out something new. They
sprang the big mortars on the allies
and smashed the forts. People thought
those big guns could not be trans
ported. but the Germans found a way
to do it. Now the allies have the big
guns and are moving them about as
well as the Germans do.
Then the Germans brought out liquid
FIRE. and until we found out how to
protect ourselves from 1t they were
ahead. Now every man in the trench
carries a respirator. and at the first
sign of the gas slips 1t over his head
and face. 1t consists of a hood with
protected peepholes for the eyes and
a covering for the nose and mouth.
saturated with chemicals that nsutra-
lice the gas. The men. to warn one an
other as soon as gas shells are coming.
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THE Story Chicken Billy and His $4,000 PacHow Boy
Made Good the KondEgg Dollar Each and Chickens $50 Den
Hay $40 IONA dollhouse and Its PsBg Money CucmbCows a$250
Head and Prces-A Dairy Sells
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CHARLES PETIT and Robert n Both Dallas Tex Served Eighteen
~ Months Belgium observation-disclosures Wounded While Manning
His Machine Received Honorable Dchagney United
States Fight When He Heard Mexican TThr Battles Against
the Grmans-Folu OF Their nendKi
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nnf@I HERE were six of US went
W to the war in Europe and
two came back; we're in the
q District Guard suicide
bunch" is the way the big Texan. Pet
tilt, sketched eighteen months of wild
life. fighting with machine guns in the
English ranks in France and in the
Dardanelles, and told that he and his
friend had enlisted in the District ma
chine gun company.
The two were Charles Pettitt, a big
boy. strong and reckless as a steer
from his native state, and Robert s.
Haney, from the same place. Dallas, not
so bulky, but very wiry and without a
shaky nerve in his makeup.
After eighteen months experience in
the British army with machine guns in
Belgium. France and the Dardanelles
they are now in the District company
to fight shoulder to shoulder with their
fellow Americans il so the fates ordain
Pettitt and Haney, recovered from
wounds which would have killed any
thing but bear or a Texan, left
Mitchell and Dawson in France, and
Smith and Dunbar in the Dardanelles-
dead
The six members of a machine gun
with the spirit of adventure and started
for the old world to get into the fight.
and what they found exceeded the Wild
est flight of their imagination Part of
the pact OF the war enthusiasts was
that they should take no money. They
worked their way on a cattle train to
New YORK, where. thanks to their stock
yard experiences they had no dificulty
In shipping on the Virginia British
snip carrying a cargo of $500 bellicose
mules. which. from their behavior dur
ing the trip. seemed to be kicking
against their destination
When they were about seventy miles
from Bristol the adventures observed
ten miles ahead another large freight
er on the same courEs Called away
for few minutes, Haney tried again
TO ind her on the horizon. She had
disappeared. sunk by a submarine.
Capt Edwards Of the Virginia. catch
Ing glimpse Of periscope. sent wire
less calls for help and drove his ship
at full speed on a ziszas course.
But" said Haney. they got US"
The calls brought to the stricken
steamer three French and two British
OF the submarine. The destroyers as
sisted the steamer into Bristol har-
Dor. and as soon as the cargo was dis
charEed the men started for an en-
listing once, where they were accept
ed for machine gun work and assigned
to the Sd Gloucesterxhires Haney was
made sergeant and the Others were
drafted into other crews in the same
regiment.
The Sd Gloucsstershires. stationed in
England. is merely a feeder-that is,
men from it are sent to fII the places
Of the dead and disabled of the I'd
Gloucestershires, the hghting regiment,
on duty In France. Thither Honey was
sent with his detail to the firing line
and in few weeks he was followed
by the ave others. They arrived just
before the retreat from Mons
On this retreat 1t was only the pluck
Of the individual men and the deadly
rain Of bullets from the Maxim-vickers
that by their slaughter held the solid
masses OF Germans from breaking the
.
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ebes Machine Fought

rear guard and so the whole English
defense
The fighting began about 8 o'clock
in the evening, was continued irregu-
nerve-and in the morning the Ger
mans began their assault. They came
in solid formation. like "A great river,
and the only way we could stop them
umn with bullets from rifles and ma
chine guns" said Pettitt. Il handled
one of the spitters. and it seemed to
me that whole punches would jump
into the air and topple when we open
ed on them. That was the time a
chap had to keep his head level and
know what to do if the gun. as they
all will. damned. A fellow must be
good mechanician and have his nerve
with him all the time.
In our regiment we had twelve of
these guns on the line. and without
them they would have had u.s. We
found a pile of Germans down in front
of US. the nearest body seventeen yards
were splendid fellowship men husky
and their discipline and order per-
feet. They made a continuous flow
against us, like a perfect machine, and
at that they came near breaking us.
There is no weapon like the Maxim.
Keep it running right and no troops
can stand against one. ] have heard
people say as a WOnQcTIul tnInS thaL
they had seen 800 Germans down in
front of six of them. l can believe 1t,
for l have seen worse slaughter than
that, but it shows how those Teutons
viii charge in masses in spite of the
punishment and keep up the rush half
a day at a time.
They, say that 100000 shells were
fired over our heads during the fighting
at Mons. II seemed so to me, but l
didn't stop to count them. shell fell
on bunch near me and killed more
than fifty men.
We, in the Gloucestershires, 1000
strong. were cut off from the main
body. In fifteen minutes we had dug
ourselves into the ground and for four
hours We sustained the attack. Then
the Black Watch and the Dublin Fusi-
leers came to our help, drove the
enemy back and helped US out of the
hole. They said that 10000 dead and
wounded men lay between the lines;
neither side could go out to them and
neither side would grant an armistice.
The stencil would knock you over"
AT Dickabush.' said Haney, I'VE cap
tured fve miles of their trenches and
took seventeen machine guns and
fourteen whizz-bangs. The Germans
the Maxim-Vickers, mounted a little
differently. on runners with handles
for two men to carry it by. but
very fine weapon. No man can stand
the fire of machine gun when IL is
running smoothly and handled rightly
The field artillery Is always search
ing for 1t. and that is the thing that
makes the business SO unhealthy. Aero
planes try TO spot them, and, once
located. the artillery pops the stuffing
out of them. That is the way I was
wounded They found my gun and
succeeded in dropping a shrapnel which
burst in the gunpit. putting me out
for some time.
in trench fighting the soldiers are
more afraid OF whizz-bangs than al
most anything else. They are little
fellows that throw a shell weighing
about eighteen pounds The shell comes
30 quickly that there 10 no time to
dodge or get out of the way When
one hears the report Of big gun he
has time to jump into the bombproof.
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nHEI HERE were six of US went
w to the war in Europe and
Ill two came back; we're in the
q District GuarI suicide
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-10-05
Brief City News


Platinum Wedding Rings-Edholm.
Have Root Print it---Nsw Beacon Prsss
Lighting Ffxtures-BurEess-Gi randen Co.
Savoy Cafe Open-New manage
ment. Prices reasonable.
Phone Bedford's New Coal Yard
lol7 NJ 23d. for Paradise coal. best
Tor furnaces. Doug. 115.
Mr.. Wilson viii Occupy the presi-
dents suite at the Fontenelle while
IN Omaha tomorrow. These rooms
were decorated and furnished
throughout by the Orchard & Will
helm company.
On Oberlin Glee Club--After close
competition Mr.. Soren A. Mathiasen,
son Of Mrs. Johanna Mathiasen, 4427
Howard street, anG a member Of the
class of II, at Oberlin college, has
been chosen hass on the Oberlin Glee
club for the current season.
To Be Taken 70 Norfolk--Labor-
ing under the delusion that she is
constantly being pursued by i'm
aginary enemies who seek to take her
life, Mrs. Emma johnson, a colored
maid at the California hotel, has been
adtudged insane by the insanity COM
mission and will be taken to the
asylum at Norfolk Thursday.
Furnishings for Two HOtels--Oma-
ha will soon have two newly furnished
hotels. The Orchard and Wilhelm
company reports that the installation
Of furniture, shades. draperies and
the laying of carpets in the Blackstone
hotel is progressing rapidly. The
same company makes a similar report
in regard to the new addition Of Ho-
tel Castle.
To Preach on Temperance--A tenn
perance sermon, will be delivered at
All Saints church Sunday at II
o'clock. Rev. DIR. William A. Was
son, a celebrated clergyman Of the
Episcopal church, will occupy DR..
Mackay's pulpit. DR.. WATSON is Fan
orator of national renown and has
devoted great deal of time and study
to the subject of temperance.
Fine Fireplace Goods-sunderland
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-10-05
Parrish Explains
About Stage Seats
For Wilson Speech

The erroneous impression has gone
out that tickets TO" the stage seats at
the Auditorium Thursday night for
President Wilson's meeting, may be
secured from E. V. Parrish, manager
Of the bureau of publicity.
They are Raging my head off for
tickets said Mr.. Parrish. That is
all wrong. | have no tickets for the
stage seats. This wrong impression
grew out of the fact that am to pro-
vide tickets for visiting newspaper
men in the press boxes to be ar
ranged there.
General admission to the Audi
forum proper will require no ticket.
This is open to first come first
served, and the doors are to be open
at o'clock. Tickets are issued only
for those invited to the stage seats,
and these must present their tickets
at the stage door entrance, on the
Howard street side"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-10-05
Inspector" Gets Two
Hundred From Him

How much money have you"
This was the question put to
August Rosengren OF Alexandria,
Mimi, by a stranger who rushed up
to him on the train as the Mime
sotan was on his way to Lincoln last
night. ..
Rosengren said he had $500, The
other wanted to see it, saying he
was an inspector. Rosengren showed
him the money. The inspector" re-
turned the roll and disappeared.
When Rosengren counted his money
he found about half OF it missing
Lincoln police arrested two men on
suspicion of having been connected
with the inspection" of Rosengren.
Robert Hyde, 2226 Howard street,
was robbed of SIS on the High school
grounds last night by a holdup man.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-10-05
DOESN'T EXPECT
TO GET ROAD SOON
w. J. Council Again Gives
Views on Street Railway
Franchise.
SEES LONG LITIGATION

Although he contends that the
street railway franchise expires Janu-
airy next, with reversion of all its
property to the city, Omaha will not
likely take over the street railway
company and run it Immediately after
the first day Of next January, accord
ing to the admission of w, J. Con-
nell, former attorney for the COM
pany, before the Economic league
last night.
81 can anticipate long line of liti-
cation growing out of this" he said.
1.-THE street car company will not
turn the franchise over to the city
the first of the year.
Must Protect City.
But the most important thing to
be done now is to protect the CITY;
see to it that the city holds every
right and privilege it now has, and
that it is protected for the future,
Whatever the city's rights are must
be determined by the courts and these
rights must be sacredly maintained"
Mr.. Connell went again into the
history of the incorporation of the
various street railway companies in
Omaha for a half century, all of
which in one way or another gave
way to the present Omaha & Coun-
Gil Bluffs Street Railway company.
The rights and limitations of these
companies, he maintains, were taken
over by the present company.
By an act of the legislature, the
first franchise was granted for a
horse railway in 1867. The franchise
was for fifty years. At the end of
that time, he holds, the wording of
the act provided, the said road, de-
pots and other equipment shall revert
to the city of Omaha.
Obtain Concession.
The following year, the company
according to Cornell, obtained in the
city council the passage of an ordi-
nance securing to itself all the
rights and privileges granted in the
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-10-05

franchise by the legislature. This
normally will expire January |, 1917,
The speaker gave the number OF this
ordinance as 100.
Later, according to the record Mr.,
Connell has compiled, came the Oma-
ha Street Railway company, the
Cable Tramway company, the Metro
politan Cable company, the Omaha
Motor company, and the Northwest
ern Street Railway company.
The franchises of these companies
largely ran for thirty years. most of
which would expire at various times
within the next few years.
One Exception.
The one exception, according to
the speaker, is the Omaha Cable
Tramway company, the franchise OF
which was granted May 10, 1883, for
a period of forty years.
Il doubt" said the speaker, IF the
present company can claim any of
the rights and privileges under the
franchise of this old company, but
even if they could, that would give
them an extension of franchise for
only ten more years from the present
time"
The meeting was held at the court
house
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-10-05
Buyer for Updike
Grain Firm Killed
In Motor Accident

Wahoo, Neb,, Oct. ESPECIAL
Telegram Ben Schulz, grain buy
er for the Updike Grain company of
Omaha, was instantly killed when his
automobile skidded, went into a
ditch and turned turtle mile south
of Yutan at 9 o'clock this evening.
He was going after his wife, who
had been visiting with friends on a
farm near Yutan.
The body was taken to Yutan. .
Schulz was member of we'll
known family in this part OF the
state.
Besides his widow he is survived by
his father and two brothers, all resi-
dents of Yutan.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-10-05
Be Careful to Park
Cars in Right Place

To the list of "don'ts' issued by
Police Commissioner Kugel, for the
benefit Of carnival visitors, captains
in charge of the various police sta
tons lay particular stress upon the
one concerning the parking OF autos
on the streets marked off for the
route of the parades. Machines left
on these streets will be towed off to
another street nearby, and owners
will have to hunt for them, if they
neglect the rule. s.
The police also ask that car owners
take the precaution of locking their
machines when they leave them, as
the 10Y riders" borrowing habit is
growing to alarming proportions.