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Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-16

State and national bank deposits in Nebraska
on March IS reached the huge total Of $446, 6,S76,-
600. The rush for bank charters needs no fur
ther explanation
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-16

Backyard vegetables will be just as nourishing
as those bought on the market and taste great
deal better, at least to the person who planted
j.,,
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-16
In Omaha Thirty Years Ago.

The 10000 members Of the 800
posts of the Grand Army Of the Re-
public in Nebraska are represented by
nearly 1000 delegates, who are here
to take part In the tenth state en-
campment.
The spring hunting season has re-
ceived a startling Inauguration If we
are to believe the stories Of making
the feathers fly which Charley johann
mes. Charles Fitchett, AL Hcwk and
Charles Lane told on their return
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-16

Apropos of Nets testimonial to Governor
Neville, it is trAe carly to give governor, in
office less than three months, a clear bill as hav-
ing "padc good" Here's hoping he may be en-
titled to il two years hence!
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-16

Confusion grows in the Postofice department
Every move labeled economy" actually swats
business with a mailed fist.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-16
\ SUNNY GEMS.

"A prohibition orator makes the state
ment that people In dry towns live longer
than the residents of wet centers. How
about that? ?"
mo; don't think they really live longer"
answered Mr. Jagsby. "It merely seems
Observation-Disclosures Age-Herald.
"I heard a sound" said one driver,
turning around.
ut was my wheel spoke replied his
funny companion.
But not with the tongue of the wagon"
retorted the first.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-16

II the tranmen are "hrm" and the railroad
managers will not bulge" Of course the inno-
cent public will get it in the neck. But one or
all may move.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-16

Some day perhaps the great, patient Amer
lean public will grow weary Of being the goat
in labor wars and swing few efficient hammers
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-16

Look out for foods in the Missouri valley
rivers this spring" is the warning Of our weather
man. Then we may console ourselves that we
will have no shortage Of the Crystal fud' after
May II
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-16

Taking at face value the British review o
U-boat activities, it is painfully evident the wet
are not making good the advance prophecies.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-16
For the Good Ship Omaha"

The Bees Washington correspondent very
pertinently suggests, "Why not name one OF the
new scout cruisers for Omahai" 1t is quite appro-
pirate this should be done. One Of the good old
battle wagons" Of the navy is the Nebraska;
that it is no longer in the FIRST line isn't the fault
Of the ship, and it has established some marks
in the annals Of the service that will always be
respected. Once steam frisate bore the name
Of Omaha in the navy and the fact that it fingered
in neglect at the Mare Island navy yard prevented
newer cruiser being named for the Gate City
some years ago. 1t has since been broken up and
relics OF the vessel are preserved at the Public
Library here Why should the name Of Omaha
be allowed to vanish from the naval rosteri Let's
get busy and induce the powers that be to give
US this distinction that is properly ours.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-16

war minister quits the cabinet!"-headline
No, unfortunately, it is in France this time-not
in the United States.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-16

Official statistics put out by Washington ex-
perts show an advance Of 10 per cent in retail
prices of food in 1916. The average consumer can
boost the percentage several notches and not
strain experience.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-16
Timely Jottings and Reminders.

Debating teams OF the University
Of Pittsburgh and Penn State college
engage in their annual contest this
evening at Pittsburgh.
Representatives Of Colgate univer-
city and Dartmouth college debate at
Hanover, N. H., this evening on the
question of the adoption of universal
military training in the United States.
The compulsory arbitration of dis
putes between organized labor and
corporations Is to form the subject
of a debate between teams of Swarth-
more college and Trinity college of
Durham, N. c., to be held this even
ing at Swarthmore, Pa.
A meeting of the Intercollegiate foot
ball rules committee is to be held to-
day in New York City. No changes
of basic nature are contemplated,
but number of suggestions for minor
changes in the rules will be made
and some, no doubt, will be adopted.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-16

II the Celestial empire actually breaks into the
melee on the entente side the celebrated partner
ship of the central powers with the Deity neces-
sarily dissolvcs.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-16

So far the much-prophesied spring drive shows
the greatest execution among warning cabinets.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-16
TODAY


Men should wash their heads once
a week; for women once fortnight
is sufficient,
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-16
This Day In History.

ImS DHS Ill HisCOrys
1751-James Madison fourth presi-
dent of the United States, born at Port
Conway, Va. Died at Montpelier, VT,
June 2s, 1886.
1S02-West Point Military academy
established.
1S35-Charter granted to the Clsve-
land, Columbus & Cincinnati railroad.
1S47--Lansing made the permanent
state capital Of Michigan.
1S56-The prince imperial, son Of
Napoleon III, born. Killed n Zulu
land, June I, 1879.
1S67-Henry Barnard wns appointed
first United States commissioner Of
education.
1sSS-solemn national funeral Of
Emperor William I took place in
Berlin.
= 1Sss-Three American and three
German warships wrecked by terrific
hurricane in the harbor Of Apia,
Samoa.
1Ss1-submarine telephone cable
from London to Paris completed.
1906-Thirty-five persons killed in
a wreck on the Denver & Rio Grande
railroad near Adobe, Colo.
1908-Freedom Of the City of Lon
don conferred on Miss Florence
Nightingale, the famous Crimean war
nurse.
1s12-The hulk Of the battleship
Maine was raised in Havana harbor
and sunk in the open ocean.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-16
The Day We Celebrate.

Inc Lay we SetcUfutc.
DR.. Robert s. Angin. whose chief
interest in life is mending defective
noses and ears, is busy receiving birth
day congratulations today. He chose
Canada as his birthplace and learned
his profession at Queens university
at Kingston.
Louis D. Carrier, chief clerk of the
Union Pacific railroad at Council
Bluffs, was born March Is, 1855, at
Geneseo;-ill He has been contin-
uously in railroad work since 1875.
Edward r. Sanderson, clergyman
and educator, now director of the
Peoples institute, New York City,
born in Cleveland forty-three years
ago today
Ethelbert D. Warfield, president of
Wilson college, born at Lexington, KY,
fifty-six years ago today.
Elsie Janis, popular star In musical
comedy, born at Columbus, O., twen-
ty-seven years ago today.
Henry B. Walthill, one Of the most
widely known of motion picture ac-
tors. born in Shelby county, Alabama,
thirty-nine years ago today
Clyde Milan, outfielder of the Wash
ington American league base ball
team, born at Linden, Tenn, thirty
one years ago today.
Patrick j. Donovan, manager Of the
Buffalo International league base ball
champions, born at Lawrence, Mass,
fifty-two years ago today.
Edward W. Gardner, former anna
teur billiard champion Of America,
born at Nantucket, Mass, sixty years
ago today.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-16

Why not battleship Omaha" even though
il can never anchor at this port?
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-16
Storyctte Of the Day.


DR.. Oliver Hobson was defending
certain appropriations.
Don't call these appropriations
pork barrel appropriations, he ex-
claimed. Though Pocatella numbers
only 517 souls. it can appreciate a
$4,000 postoffice as well as any
bloated metropolis could
f'Cut appropriations Of this kind,
gentlemen, and you wound your elec-
tors as cruelty as the drummer was
wounded at the Pocatella house.
This drummer, being very fond of
corn on the cob, ate ear after ear.
Finally the pretty waitress. after she'd
teenth ear, said tartly:
Don't you think you would save
half a dollar or so a day IL you
boarded at livery stable? Wash
ingtop Star.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-16

The revised Colombian loldup comes back to
the original sum Of s2s,0O0OOO. A raise Of
$lO,0OO'oOO in a few months affords tempting
margin for lobby expenses, incidental splits and
like incidentals.
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BAD ROADS VERY EXPENSIVE
Mile on Average Highway-13
Cents on Improved. -

There is no need of discussing the
Importance of good roads. They are
essential to comfortable travel, to the
economic production and distribution
of farm products, to the development
especially of satisfactory rural schools,
and to the improvement of the social
life of the nation. Bad roads are
very expensive possessions. 1t is es-
timated that it costs % cents under ex-
listing conditions to haul ton mile
on the average country road and only
Is cents on a properly improved road,
but this is not all the story. The di-
rect cost is very great and the indi-
rect costs are possibly greater. With
bad roads the farmer is compelled to
haul when he should be engaged in
other activities, while with good roads
he can plan his operations without
reference to the weather. The states
and the local units, as has been init
mated, have strikingly recognized these
truths by greatly increasing their ap-
an, by devising better
achinery-American Review of Re
views.
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CHAPTER vi.

The First Question and Its Answer
Roses instructive attitude toward
the group of young to middle-aged
married people into which her own
marriage had introduced her was
founded on the assumption that, allow
ing for occasional exceptions, the hus-
bands and wives felt toward each
other as she and Rodney did-were
held together by the same irresistible,
unanalyzable attraction.
Oh, there were bumps and bruises,
Of course! She had seen Rodney drop
off now and again into scowling abb
straction, during which it was so evil
dent he didn't want to talk to her, or
even be reminded that she was about,
that she had gone away flushed and
wondering, and needing an effort to
hold back the tears.
These weren't frequent occurrences.
though, and did not weaken her idea
that, barring tragic and disastrous
husbands, cold, mer-
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CHAPTER IV-Continued.


She refused to hear a word more
in those circumstances. I'm coming
straight down." she said, "and we'll go
somewhere for lunch. Don't you real
ize that we can't talk about it like
this? Of course you wouldn't, but it's
So"
Over the 1unch-table she got as de-
tailed an account Of the affair as Rod
ney, in his somnambulistic condition,
was able to give her, and she passed
it on to Martin that evening as they
drove across to the North side for
dinner.
"Well, that all sounds exactly like
Rodney" he commented. II hope
you'll like the girl! -
"That isn't what hope" said Fred
erica. "At least it isn't what I'm most
concerned about. I hope I can make
her like me. Roddys the only brother
I've got in the world, and I'm not 60
ing to lose him If can help it. That's
what will happen If she doesn't like
me-"
AS it happened, though, She forgot
all about her resolution almost with
her first look at Rose. Rodney's at
tempts at description of her had been
well-meaning; but what he had pre-
pared his sister for, unconsciously
of course, in his emphasis on one or
two phases of their first acquaintance,
had been a sort Of slatternly Amazon.
But the effect Of this was, really, very
happy; because when a perfectly pre-
sentably clad, well-bred, admirably
poised young girl came into the room
and greeted her neither shyly nor
eagerly, nor with any affectation of
ease, girl who didn't try to pretend
1t wasn't a critical moment for her,
but was game enough to meet it with
out any evidences Of panic-when
Frederick realized that this was the
Rose whom Rodney had been telling
her about, she fell in love with her on
the spot.
Amazingly, as she watched the girl |
and heard her talk, she found she was |
considering, not Roses availability as
a wife for Rodney, but Rodney's as a
husband for her. 1t was this, perhaps,
that led her to say, at the end of her
leave-taking: "Roddy has been such
wonderful brother, always, to me,
that I suspect you'll find him, some
times, being a brother to you. Don't
let it hurt you if that happens"
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"Oh, that's too bad" he said with
concern. "Can't you manage some
thing n
"Too bad!" said Rose in lively dis
sent. "It's too heavenly! I've got a
whole day just to enjoy being myself ;
being" she reached for his hand
and, getting 1t, stroked her cheek with
it being my new self. Portia used
to think faxed pretty well. But !
never was-don't you know?-right.
So, you see, it's real adventure just
to say-well, that want the car at
quarter to eleven and to tell Otto
exactly where want him to drive me
to. I always feel as if I ought to say
that If he'll just stop the car at the
corner of Diversey street, can walk"
He laughed out at that and asked
her how long she thought this blissful
state Of things would last.
Forever" she said.
But presently she looked at him
rather thoughtfully. "Of course it's
none of it new to you," she said,
mot the silly little things, nor the
things we do together-oh, the dinners,
and the dances, and the operas. Do
you sort of-wish I'd get tired Of it.?
Is it dreadful bore to your"
$50 long as it doesn't bore you," he
said; $50 long as you go on-shining
the way you do over 1t, and / am
where 1 can see you shine"-he took
hold of both her hands, $50 long as
it's like that, you wonder" he said,
"well, the dinners and the operas and
all that may be piff1e, but shall be
blind to the fact"
She kissed both his hands and told
him contentedly that he was a darling.
But, after a moments silence, little
frown puckered her eyebrows and she
asked him what he was so solemn
about.
Well, he had told her the truth.
But precisely as he said it, he felt that
he was not the same man he had been
six months ago. Not the man who had
tramped impatiently back and forth
across Frederica's drawing-room, ex-
pounding his ideals of space and lei
sure. Not the man who despised the
clutter of expensive junk. That man
would have derided the possibility
that he could ever say this thing that
he, still Rodney Aldrich, had just said
to Rose-and meant. And the terrify-
ing thing was that he hadn't resisted
the change-hadn't wanted to resist
didn't want to now, as he sat there
looking at the slumbrous glory Of her
eyes.
So, when she asked him what he
was looking so solemn about, he said
with more truth than he pretended
to himself, that it was enough to make
solemn to look at her.
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CHAPTER v.
The Princess Cinderella.

When the society editor Of "Ame-
rica's foremost newspaper" as in its
trademark it proclaims itself to be,
announced that the Rodney A1driches
had taken the Allison McCraes' house,
furnished, for a year, beginning in
October, she spoke of 1t as an ideal
arrangement. AS everybody knew, it
was an ideal house for a young
married couple, and it was equally
evident that the Rodney Aldriches
were an ideal couple for it.
In the sense that 1t left nothing to
further realization, it was an ideal
house; an old house in the Chicago
sense, built over into something very
much older still - Tudor, perhaps =
Jacobean, anyway. In the supplement
tary matters of furniture, hangings,
rugs and pictures, the establishment
presented the last politely spoken word
in things as they ought to be. If you
happened to like that sort Of thing,
IT was precisely the sort Of thing you'd
like.
The same sort Of neat, fully &C
quired perfection characterized the
McCrae's domestic arrangements.
Every other year they went off around
yhe world in one direction or another,
snd rented their house, furnished, for
exactly enough to pay all their ex-
penses. On the alternate years they
came back and spent two years in
come living In their house.
Florence McCrae was an old friend
of Rodney's and 1t was her notion that
1t would be just the thing he'd want.
Rodney knew for himself what the
house was-complete down to the
eorkscrews. And six thousand dollars |
a year was simply dirt cheap.
To clinch the thing, Florence went
around and saw Frederick about 1t.
And Frederick, after listening, nom
dashed of to the last
Of the Thursday club (all this
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Zone question more" said the
Frenchwoman,- land not an idle ole
you will believe that? Alors! You
love your husband. No need to ask
that. But what do you mean by lover
Something vital and strong and essen
tial-the meeting of thought with
thought, need with need, desire with
desire?
eyes," said Rose after a little
silence, "that's what I mean"
There was another silence, while the
Frenchwoman gazed contemplatively
out of the open window of the limou-
sine.
Then Rose said: "But you are go
ing to tell me what you meant about
American women"
Madame Grevflle took her time
about answering. "They are an enig-
ma to me-" she said. 81 confess it.
I haven't ever seen such women any
where as these upper-class Americans.
They are beautiful, clever; they know
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CONCRETE FLOORS ARE BEST
Poor Economy to Replace Worn-Out
Floors With Wood, Says Mime
nesota Highway Commission. -

1t is poor economy to build bridges
with wooden floors or to replace
worn-out floors with wood, the Mime
sofa State Highway commission says
in a late bulletin issued to county
boards and district engineers.
"The department is frequently re-
quested to inspect old bridges and de-
termine whether it is feasible to re-
place a wooden floor, because in a ma
jority of cases the old bridge is found
to be dangerous when carrying trac-
ton engines" says the bulletin. at
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GOOD
ROADS
ROADS IN NATIONAL FORESTS
Allotment Made to Each State for Inn
prcvement by Secretary Houston
California Leads.

Secretary Houston has announced
the amount allotted to each state from
the million dollars to be spent during
the fiscal year 1918 in constructing
roads and trails within or partly with
In the national forests. This money Is
part of the $10O00,OO0 appropriated
by the federal aid road act to assist
development of the national forests,
which becomes available at the rate of
S1,O00,0O0 year for ten years.
The allotments as approved are as
follows: Alaska, $46,354; Arizona,
S58,604; Arkansas, $1,000; California,
S140,98S; Colorado, $62,575; Idaho,
S108,730; Montana, s70,042; Nevada,
$19,296; New Mexico, $42,495; Ore
gon, s128,111; South Dakota, 5000;
Utah, $41,167; Washington, 1894;
Wyoming, $40,6S4. A total of $9,995
has been allotted to Florida, Michigan,
Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota
and Oklahoma. The group of eastern
Maine, New Hamp-
shire, North and South Carolina, Ten
nessee, Virginia and West Virginia.
In which the government Is purchas-
ing lands for national forests, receives
$21, 120.
In making allotments, it is explained,
10 per cent of the amount available
for 1918 Is withheld as a contingent
fund. One-half of the remainder has
been apportioned among the states in
based on the area of the ma
tional forest lands In each state, while
the other half has been allotted on a
basis of the estimated value of the
timber and forage resources which the
forests contain
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"Make Your FareweIIs Also, My
Child"

how to dress. For the first hour, OF
day, or week, of an acquaintance, they
have a charm quite Incompatible.
And, up to a certain point, they ex.
ercise it. Your jeunes files are amaz.
ing. All over the world, men go mad
about them. But when they marry
l.. :" She finished the sentence with
a ghost of shrug, and turned to Rose.
"Can you account for them? Were
you wondering at them, too, with
those great eyes of yours? Alors
Are we puzzled by the same thing ]
What is it, to you, they lack?"
Rose stirred a little uneasily. 81
don't know" she said, Except that
some of them seem a little dissatisfied
and restless. as if--well, as if they
wanted something they haven't got"
"But do they truly want it?" Ma
dame Greville demanded. 81 am
willing to be convinced; but myself,
find, of your women of the aristocrat
class, the type most characteristic is"
she paused and said the thing first
to herself in French, then translated
sis a passive epicure in sensations
sensations mostly mental, irritating or
soothing-a pleasant variety. She
waits to be made to feel; she per-
petually-tastes. They give stranger
like me the impression Of being per-
fectly frigid, perfectly passionless.
And so, as you say, Of missing the
great thing altogether. A few of your
women are great, but not as women,
and of second-rate men in petticoats
you have a vast number. But a wom-
an, great by the qualities of her sex,
an artist in womanhood, I have not
seem"
"Oh, I WISH" cried Rose, shat ]
knew what you meant by that!''
"Why, regard now" said the actress.
SIN every capital of Europe (and ]
know them alD, wherever you find
great affairs-matters of state, diplo-
macy, politics-you find the influence
Of women in them - women of the
great world sometimes, sometimes of |
the half-world They may not be |
beautiful have seen q faded woman |
If fifty, of no family or wealth, whose
salon attracted ministers of state;
hey haven't the education nor the lib
,rties that your women enjoy, and, in
he mass, they are not regarded-how
10 you y?-chivalrously. Yet there
hey are!
"And why? Because they are capa-
lie Of great passions, great desires.
They are willing to take the art of
seriously, make innumer-
BILE sacrifices for 1t, as one must for
ny art, in order to triumph in it."
Rose thought this over rather du-
iously. 1t was a new notion to her.
r almost new. "But suppose" she
bjected, zone doesn't want to tri-
mph at it? Suppose one wants to be
person, rather than Just woman"
'aThere are other careers indeed"
[adame Greville admitted, "and one
IN follow them in the same spirit
axe the sacrifices pay the price
ley demand. Mon DieuI How 1
ave preached. Now you shall talk
me. 1t was for tnat I took you |
ptive and ran away with you."
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EvanqeI of Good Roads.

The automobile is the evangeI OF
the good roads movement. Every sale
of a five-passenger touring car with
tires subject to sudden and disheart-
ening puncture means better roads and
more of them. Therefore, everyone
should buy touring cars because he
will then become good roads advo-
cate.
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cenary wives-which had to be adj
mitted as existing-marriag was a
state whose happy satisfactoriness
could, more or less, be taken for
granted.
1t was something that Simone Gre
vile said which gave rise to her first
misgiving that marriage was not, per-
haps-even between people who loved
each other quite as simple as 1t
seemed. No one has studied our lei
sured and cultivated classes with more
candor and penetration than this great
actress. She had
ample opportunities for observation,
because, while she played to houses
that couldn't be dressed to look more
than a third full, she was enormously
In demand for luncheons, teas dinners.
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Wanted for Nothing.

Good roads, according to Howard
Ram, are something which everybody
wants for nothing.
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takes a strong bridge to carry a con-
crete floor, but we find that after the
original floor has been replaced twice
with wood, on a light truss, the ex-
pense is as great as it would have been
to build concrete floor bridge, with
heavier steel, and any further expense
is a clear waste of money"