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Omaha daily bee., 1918-12-06

Round Oak Tables, with two
chairs to match, table 15
inches across top, IL inches
high; chairs 20 inches high;
set Of 8 pieces 1.75
Games! Games! Games! At
the game counter you can
find every Parker and Nc
Laughlin game published,
Pit, Rummy, Place, Flowers,
Flags.
Crokonole Boards, from
$50 to the fine de Luxe
boards, at 500
War of Wars, Polly Anna,
Parchuse Soldier games, Toy
Town games.
Washing sets.
Grocery store and depart
ment store games.
Don't fail to visit the game
counter.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-12-06

Table of Filet Nets, So
and 40 inches wide, an
excellent net for pretty
curtains, at, a yard 35c
Omaha daily bee., 1918-12-06

Doll House Furniture, parlor,
dining room, kitchen and bed
room sets $50 to ESQ
Have You Seen the New
Wolverine Laundry Set with
tubs, wringer, glass wash
boards and clothes racks? If
not, visit the Sandy Andy
counter and have the demon
strator show you the new
wash and sand toys.
What Are You Able to Build
With Your Blocks7 Castles
and palaces, temples and
docks. Rain may keep rain
ing and others go roam, but l
can be happy and building at
home, pig lock blocks, 1.25
to 800
Omaha daily bee., 1918-12-06

BEACON BATH ROBE
BLANKETS, size 72x90
inches, in d wonderful as
sortment Of Indian jacquard
and floral designs, neatly
boxed, with girdle and frogs
to match, at 4.50.
sILKoLlNE COVERED
COMFORTERS filled with
good grade white, sanitary
cotton, medium and light
colors, double bed size, ex-
ira value, at 2.50
SATEEN COVERED COM.
FORTERS filled with white
carded cotton, handsomely
scroll stitched in a variety Of
light and dark colors, extra
heavy winter weight, size Tx
"a inches; special, at 5.95
Omaha daily bee., 1918-12-06
Buy Toys Now--because

the days opportunity for good selection becomes lie
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-06-11
The Cause of Attack.

The Chicago Tribune enjoys first page attack
upon the management OF the postofice department
under Postmaster Burleson whom it accuses OF disor-
ganizing bungling the mail service in the interest
of economy, at the expense of the service. The
allegations are based upon Investigations made by the
Merchants Association of New York, which has been
busily engaged for time in attempting to enlist
the cooperation of the merchants associations and
chambers of commerce in many of the cities through
out the country, in bringing about general move
ment tending to dscredit the postal administra-
ton Charges are made against the operation of the
railway mail service rather than the conduct of post
Offices. although it is believed that the complaint
comes from the effect of the economy, which it is I'M
dersood has been introduced the operation of the
New York postofice, which Office up to now, has en-
toyed peculiar and novel privileges known to no
other cities the United States one of which was
evening free delivery service. This rather ex-
ceptonal accommodation, according to information
from New York recently ordered cut out, as the
result OF nearly years careful investigation OF the
entire postofhce service at New York by group of
trained and experienced postofce inspectors 1t is
said that out of this economy without impairment
of the service but rather the interest of stand
ardization a saving to the government OF approx
imately million dollars, realized.
The system of common sense retrenchment that
has been carried on under the present postofce adj
ministration has resulted in converting in the
duct Of postoces an deficit of something like
s17OOOOOO into profit of $7oOO,OOO In
other words, the postofce department is reduced to
business basis and in general sense, the service
has suffered.
The disarranged and congested condition of the
railroads all the country, due to the has
doubt caused delays in the mail service in the
manner that all means of transportation has been
affected, but at that the promptness with which
mails transported is quite in contrast with what
has been happening in the handling of express, and
as far as the part of the country
is concerned very little, any, complaint has been
heard in regard to delivery of mail.
So that New York seems to be the center of the
hubbub and line of what has been said the
of the grievance seems to be obvious
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-06-11
You're Not an American

If you object to the baker who does not furnish
the kind of white bread you got before the govern
ment restrictions went into effect.
If you unwilling to deny yourself Iuxuries,
curtsi necessities in order to be able to loan
more money to the government
If you fail TO meet demands on your spare time
to help in work.
If you try to take advantage of others because
of conditions
If you do not do your utmost to increase produc-
ton in the place where you employed.
If you listen to, or help to stir up dissenson
among your fellow workers.
If you do not talk patriotism.
If you make any complaint whatsoever about con-
veniences you miss result of the war.
Why, man, you cannot be too thankful that you are
citizen of the United States
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-06-11
THE BETTER WAY.
By Jessie Ethel Sherwin.

She was a snowflake in the mire,
a lily rooted on the rubbish heap,
an ethereal being nurtured among
people of the coarsest mold, with
an environment distinctly of the
slums and all the misery. want and
ignorance that there unto apper-
tanned.
Claribel, they named her, and she
had called old Jacob Roche grand
father" as far back as she could
remember. He allowed her TO grow
up like a weed.
To the children OF the city
grouped about the wretched settle
ment she had become champion,
guide and leader. Somehow she
had learned to read, and for doing
some errands for an old book store
proprietor she had been given a
dozen tattered picture volumes and
fairy stories. and after that she
was educator and entertainer for
her little ragged friends.
1t was a matter OF marvel and
mystery for Claribel when, one day,
her grandfather announced to her
that they were about to part, and
pointing to the little den of a closet
where she slept, informed her there
were some new clothes for her. -
why have we got to part. grand
father, and am ! to leave here for
good?" she asked.
And forever, and forget you ever
knew me, or Cassidy Corners, or
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-06-11
The Most Durable Chronic Disease.

Some time ago." writes a read
err, you stated that tuberculosis is
the easiest to cure of any so-called
incurable disease. / would like to
know how, If 1t is SO easy"
Surely l never put 1t that way.
think l said that tuberculosis is
the most durable of all chronic
diseases. And so it is, provided
the patient does not obstruct.
The essentials of cure are as fol-
lows:
l. The regular attendance Of a
good doctor throughout the illness.
2. A reasonable variety of whole
some food we'll cooked and at
tractively served, and no effort to
feed upon any one alleged
strengthening article.
8. ProlOnged-many months-of
rest in the open air, rest in bed
IL there is fever in any part of the
day, later on rest in a steamer or
porch chair. This is indispensa-
BILE.
4. Such medicines and other
remedial aids as. the attending ply
stefan may deem necessary for the
control of symptoms or conditions
arising from time TO time.
Given these four essentials. and
the disease proceeds to arrest it
self.
Now, why do so many victims
of tuberculosis fail to have the
disease arrested?
l. They grow to imagine they
know as much as a doctor, and at
tempt to treat themselves.
2. They seldom, oh SO very sell
dom, understand why they should
be kept in bed or in reclining chair
when they feel strong enough to
be taking exercise" And they
read a lot of pseudo-science about
the Importance of exercise-at the
very time when absolute rest is
life saving.
8. They take excessive amounts
of milk, or eggs, or some alleged
concentrated nutriment, all on
their own hook, or worse. on the
advice of some wIsacre acquaint-
ance with no medical training
whatever.
4. They waste good money and
precious time on all sorts of nos
trums. OF course no remedy yet
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-06-11
Taking Home to the Soldier.

The soldier to fight well. must have something
to fight for That something must be easily visual
lied 1t must touch him intimately and be consid-
cred vital to his welfare and happiness
This thing of fighting for ideal is all very well
but the average chap who goes out to shoot to
be shot requires some material stake that he
sders worth while and nothing fills the bill well
as a good home
Keeping IN close touch with home surroundings
is recognized by all begerents important to the
morale of it's fighting men. French and English
troops are given a Today furlough every four
months and provision is made for transportation to
their homes. 1t has proved a good plan for the
and also for the civilian population On the battle
field on the farm and in the factory better service
results.
1t is obviously out Of the question for the United
States TO bring home its men TO France except
in case OF wounds or sickness Transportation facil
tiles are so limited is utterly impossible
If time and expense did not enter as factor. This
being the case is necessary find substitute for
the privileges extended soldiers of other nations.
The question has been taken up by the depart
ment relief Of the Red Cross, which rec
ommends that every effort be made TO take the home
to the soldier across the Through gifts, news
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-06-11
THE DAILY SHORT STORY

that you were ever called Claribel.
1t isn't your name, it never was,
and it will all be explained to you
| a little further on"
Never in her life had Claribel
owned pretty gown until now.
Some feminine taste had selected
gown. shoes, hat, ribbon, gloves,
tasteful and appropriate. Even the
eyes of old Jacob sparkled at her
transformation as he placed about
her neck a chain and locket.
You must never lose that" he
told her. Il found it on you when
| picked you up on a doorstep"
But why WAS l put on a door
step. and why don't you tell me
more about myself?" asked CIaribel,
but old Jacob simply added that she
was going to lady who would do
all that when the right time came.
There ensued for Claribel a year
OF wonder and rare comfort. Old
Jacob had taken her 10 a widow
named Mrs. Dover. There Clarihel
found Dan Chesley. who claimed to
be her brother. and whom she had
often seen in close secret confab
with old Jacob. The man was sin
lister looking. the woman Claribel
disliked intuitively, but she was
at school most OF the time.
1t was when Claribel had learned
to write that she sent letter to a
person she had known In her days
or poverty. This was Stanley Dorr,
a poor musician. young man who
had more than once played his VIC
lin for the little group Claribel had
fostered. She had not forgotten him
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-06-11

The moment Claribel had over
heard all this she knew that Rob
ert Dorr was the father OF her mu-
stefan friend. Into her quick nina
came a decision 10 cater 20 the
fraud. and later-she had her plan
clever little counter plotter that she
was,
The old man accepted her Win
eagerness and affection Within
month she was his hearts delight
Gradually Claribel learned OF me
details of his senseless quarrel Win
his banished son. Through az
agent she had Stanley porr hunted
up. His father was stupeied one
day TO enter the library 20 ina MS
son and Claribel awaiting him.
In maze he listened 20 her con-
fession, with a softening heart no
realized his injustice 20 his son
Claribel had outwitted the human
ghouls who counted on using he'
Tor their netarious schemes.
Take back your son. dear, dear
grandfather" pleaded Claribel ana
can go back to rags and poverty
content and happy"
But IL was not 10 be. She hal
woven a strong chain OF love about
the heart Of Robert Dorr and %
would not let her go. And as 70
Stanley. how could he help but love
this noble. young girl, who hs'
thought only OF his welfare!
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-06-11
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
The BridegrOem's Health
CarfificafR.

1t would be a great help. per-
haps, to some mothers particular :
ly, of you can suggest how the
mother of girl contemplating
marriage may gracefully and mod
estly obtain a health certificate
from the prospective bridegroom.
Answer.-No young man worthy
of confidence would hesitate about
producing a health certificate
from a reputable physician, and no
mother need blush for her desire
to protect the future health and
happiness of her daughter. Do not
permit false modesty to interfere
with parental duty.
Shaking Palsy.
MY uncle, who is SO years old.
has what the doctors call Parkin-
sons disease. Kindly tell me
whether the health of his wife is
in any danger-that Is, whether
the disease is communicable.
Thank you for the many helpful
articles which l read daily in your
department.
Answer. - Parkinson's disease
(also called paralysis agitans and
shaking palsy is not communica-
BILE. The cause is not definitely
known, but it is possibly an i'm
pairment of function on the part
of some of the ductless glands.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-06-11
The Day in Davenport

Auto Party IN Accident Sunday
morning Mrs. Jepsen, her daughter
and son-in-law, started from Dav-
export to LeClaire to visit friends.
They were at Clark's crossing on
the outskirts of that town, when
their car skidded and went over the
embankment, landing eight feet be-
low at the mouth of a culvert. The
car was firmly imbedded against
the culvert, and the occupants, who
miraculously escaped injury, had to
crawl through the culvert in order
to get out of the wreckage.
Property Changes Hands. - An
important change in ownership of
Davenport business property was
announced yesterday when it be-
came known that Messrs. S. z.
Greenebaum of Davenport and A.
H. Blank OF Des Moines had pur-
chased the Garden theatre property
on Third street, between Main and
Brady. Heretofore the Scott Coun-
ty Savings bank had owned the
property and Greenebaum and
Blank have been the lessees.
Take Care on Main Street. AS
the result of police activity during
Saturday and Sunday nights 20 vio-
lators of various phases of the au-
tomobile ordinances of the city
were arraigned in police court yes
terday morning. The police flivver.
as usual, patrolled Main street hill
Saturday and Sunday nights. and
officers Schwinden. and Carroll,
who manned it, made most of the
arrests.
Open LeCIaire Park. - Daven-
ports first levee municipal band
concert Sunday night was memo
rable event. Thousands crowded
the paved Ievee and Antoine Lee
Claire park during the evening.
The value of municipal concerts in
the life of the community was en-
phasized in addresses by James W.
Bollinger and ex-Mayor Alfred C.
Mueller.
Court Decides Victor.-With both
factions claiming the nomination
for supervisor on the Republican
ticket an official check of the pri-
mary returns by the board of SUI
pervisors today will be required to
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-06-11

He was poor like herself, and she
mad grown to like him. She directed
the letter to his old lodgings, tell
ing him OF her new life but did not
receive any answer.
Then one day through her pres
ence in an adjoining room, unsus-
pected by Mrs. Dover and Ches-
ley, she was enlightened as TO the
reason for her being with them.
He whom she had called grand
father had died. When she left him
he seemed to have mysteriously OBJ
tanned large funds from some
source and made life a continuous
feast until IL overcame him.
And now Claribel learned that
her supposed grandfather knew no
more OF her parentage than her
self. Chesley had formed a scheme
TO adopt Claribel to an imposture
that would make her an heiress. A
very wealthy man named Robert
Dorr had quarreled with both of
his children. The eldest, a daueh-
ter had married against his will
and he had banished her. She and
her husband had died in the south.
their child later in an orphan asy-
lum, 1t was supposed.
The two specious schemers had
hoped to foist Claribel on the old
man as his granddaughter. They
had secured certain belongings Of
the dead child, had framed up
plausible evidence. They Intended
first to obtain a rich reward for the
recovery OF the child from Robert
Dorr and later use Clar'Nal TO ex-
tort money from.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-06-11
With Other Editors
The Fire in Germany's Rear.

The new and deeper" alliance formed by Ger
many and Austria had twofold object, to place Aus
trials entire military force at the disposal of the
German kaiser for the carrying out of his desperate
offensive in the west and to repress the growing
revolutionary forces in Austria
The Germans, it is commonly said are striving for
a decision in France before America arrives in
force on that front. But they have another reason
for the desperate bid they are making for victory
this year. Unless they can break the French and
British with the armies they withdrew from the east
if they forced to keep those armies in France
next winter-there is every likelihood Of a rising in
Bohemia that would disrupt Austria and might retire
the whole east against Germany. AS long as Ger
many had huge army on the eastern front it was
a repressve force against Austria's oppressed sa-
tonalties quite much it was against the Rus
slams. The Czechs, Poles and Slovaks we're held in
subsection by it, just the Lithuanians and the
other peoples of Russias Baltic provinces
But these people, although within the Austrian
empire, are Austria's enemies. They have the same
claim for nationality that subject Slav races Of
the south have. They ready to strike for indie
pendence whenever the fortunes of war seem to
promise any chance Of success When the Russians
came down into Galicia in the great drives of Mich
olas and Brusilof thousands and perhaps hundreds
Of thousands of Czecho-Slovaks Joined them With
the defeat of Russia, and while the German armies
remained In the east, Bohemia had to remain ouiet
1t did not fear Austria, for whose military poWer n
has the greatest contempt but necessarily it feared
the German armies which had made Poland and the
Baltic provinces desert and were prepared to do
as much to any province of Austria that dared IN
rTojcS
called TO join in the western offensive against
France, England, Italy and America Austria,s
armies are subject TO the same call and indeed are
now on the Italian front and may be modifying for
service in France
These Withdrawals present a new opportunity to
the Bohemans the greatest they have had since the
began. They have seized it A revolutionary
movement is certainly under way there Austria
has applied what force it 70 suppress it. but the
Czechs are in actual control of many districts the
Bohemian flag has been raised. and German defeat
in France would certainly be the signal for general
rising Of these and all the subject races in the Ans
tran empire, north and south This is the internal
situation in Austria that supplied the Austrian
kaiser's motive for the German alliance The sttua
ton in France supplied the German kaisers 1t will
be seen how the two bound up together and how
Germany must win in the west quickly or be forced
to turn and put another fire in the east-Kansas
City Times
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-06-11

President Wilson, while reviewing the Red Cross
parade in New York, was greeted by a Canadian
soldier invalided home from the front who had been
taken into the Canadian army despite the fact that
he was 54 years old when the authorities learned
that his son one of those that German soldiers
crucfed on a barn door What would you do to
stop such fendfsh things? Do you think it much of
sacrifice to pledge yourself to and to buy
savings stamps?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-06-11

determine whether John A. Read
ing or Charles Schick was nomina-
ted on June 3. The board convened
at IL o'clock today and expects to
complete it's canvass by o'clock.
Ask Afternoon Court. - Claiming
that they are often forced to work
Is hours a day and longer, mem
bers of the Davenport police de-
partment on night duty have asked
Police Magistrate Arthur G. Samp-
son to hold an afternoon session of
police court.
Marriage Licenses.-Martin Sis
sci, Upton, Iowa, and Esther GIL
brandt, Galesburg; ]. J. Turner,
Centerville, Iowa, and Edith Starr,
Davenport; Albert John Somen-
berg and Fern Burgoon, Davenport /;
Gustav Villa Claussen and Gather
inc Winter, Davenport.
Destroys War Garden2 - Acting
on complaints made by neighbors.
the food administration of the coun-
ty is investigating the case of w. D.
Leysky, 124 Cambria street, who is
alleged to have wantonly destroyed
his war garden several days ago.
o
Obituary RecOrd.-Mrs. Agnes C.
Denkmann passed away at the home
of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. \.
Courtney, 1922 Farnam street, at 7
o'clock Sunday evening after a long
illness. The deceased was born in
Davenport Jan. Z, 1881, and had
made that place her home her en-
tire life.
Henry Schollmeier, well known
farmer of Scott county, passed away
Sunday morning at $50 o'clock at
Mercy hospital after an illness of
three years duration.
Mrs. Carrie Evelyn Reynolds
passed away yesterday morning
at 9 o'clock at her home, zoos Eddy
street, after long Illness. The de-
ceased was born in Illinois April
Is, 1871. She came to Davenport
II years ago and had since resided
there.
At 5 o'clock Sunday afternoon at
st. Luke's hospital occurred the
death of Mrs Sarah Shoemaker,
wife Of Guy T. Shoemaker. Death
terminated long Illness.