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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-22

the humanizing influences of those
good old days. Today there is only
one small store, which serves as a
postofice, gasoline filing station
and general information bureau. At
the little railroad depot a flag is used
to stop trains when passengers wish
to depart.
"The De Sofa Pilot" of more
than 90 years ago, contained an ad-
vertisement of Abram Castetter,
who announced to the world that he
was a real estate and collection
agent In those days real estate
men were not dignifed by the name
of "realtor," as they are today in
Omaha. 1t may be said, however,
that De Sofa real estate enjoyed
quite a boom. Urban Cachelin,
who still resides in De Sofa, in his
10th year, stated that 90 years ago he
was offered several Omaha lots for
N equal area Of land on Broadway,
De Sofa. He informed his Omaha
friend that he would not consider
such proposition while he was in
his right mind.
While town lots of De Sofa are
not bringing a premium on the real
estate market today, farm lands are
firm and steady. Not long ago
Zachary Taylor Leftwich, resident
farmer, was offered S225 an acre for
some of his land.
Turning over the pages of the
De Sofa Pilot of 1857, references
may be read of the activities of this
promising community. Several
brick buildings were being con-
structed and P. c. Sullivan was
building a home on Fourth street,
34x34 feet in dimensions.
Prominent Omahans Lived in DeSota
One of the few buildings which
has survived the ravages of time is
the "old brick house" which was
built for the late Judge Wakeley in
1857. This building was the birth
place of L. w. Wake.ey, who now
resides in Omaha and holds an OFF,
cial position with the Chicago, Bur
lington & Quincy railroad. 1t is a
notable fact that nearly all of the
old residents OF De Sofa have given
a good account of themselves.
Judge Wakeley was appointed by
President Buchanan. and the late
Judge Doane, who formerly lived in
Decatur City before moving to
Omaha, was prosecuting attorney.
A story which is told in the hills of
De Sofa adyerts to barn dance
held there in the early days. The
49, 1H"Ar - he fourd in the coun-
tryside was being held in Jail on
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-22
War Diet for Germany is Most
Efficient Hun Anti-Fat Cure

Amsterdam, Sept. 2l.-War die,
in Germany has accomplished a
greater reduction of the corpulency
of the average German than all the
Merienbad cures, Russian baths and
drastic courses of exercise.
Obesity, writes Professor Albu in
the Berlin Lokal Anzeiger. has dis
appeared to an amazing degree,
especially in the urban centers. The
disappearance Of excessive flesh has
been more thorough than medical
treatment could have effected, says
the professor.
Brings Hope to Hopeless.
The war diet, he asserts, has been
an education and a cure for many
who had given up all hope. 1t has
upset medical representations that
were once regarded as incontro-
vertible.
Il have known people," says Pro-
fessor Albu, who in two years
time dropped 90 and 100 pounds so
that their friends scarcely knew
them. They could almost cut up an
old suit and make two new ones out
of the material without having to
bother about a clothes card"
Worry Helps Reduce Flesh.
The writer then repeats the now
trite remark that I'VE all eat too
much" and he adds that most cor
pulent persons involuntarily reduced
their girth without any injury to
their health whatever. He empha-
sizes the fact that this attenuation is
not due to under-nourishment alone.
A very great deal is due, he says, to
unaccustomed bodily exertion and
severe mental strain. Sorrow and
vexation, the thousand-and-one do
nestle worries and troubles caused
by the war tend to prevent the tor
nation of flesh. People at home are
generally more prone to giving away
to mental worry than the men in the
trenches. Hereditary obesity, he
adds. has in no way been cured by
the reduced war diet.
Professor Albu says he has found
a distinct improvement in the state
of health OF diabetes, who can now
eat with IMMUNITY bread, potatoes
and other foodstuffs that were for
merly taboo to them.
Starvation Cures Gout.
Suffererers from govt have also
benefited by the reduction in the
meat diet and by the enforced abb
stinence from alcoholic liquors.
Rheumatism, especially of the mus
cles, has also become rarer.
Indigestion has, in Professor
Albu's opinion, certainly improved
on the smaller bill-of-fare, which
has had beneficial effect on the ac-
tivities of the digestive tract.
All sorts of slight nervous all
ments. especially among women.
have disappeared because less atten-
ton is being paid to them in these
strenuous times.
OF great scientific and practical
value is the discovery that among
the soldiers at the front - sundry
nervous affections al the heart,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-22
By EDWARD BLACK.

During the autumn days which
glorify the great out-of-door world
in Nebraska an ideal, little journey
round about Omaha would take the
wayfarer to De Sofa, hamlet set
among the hills and trees of Wash
ington county.
Nature was in a prodigal mood
when this pleasing prospect was
fashioned and it is little wonder that
the Indians chose this locality as a
rendezvous long before the onward
march of civilization disturbed the
scene.
There is not much in this day of
grace at De Sofa to arrest the atten-
ton of the traveller who may be in
quest of the busy marts Of trade, but
to the one who can get away from
the humdrum of metropolitan life
for a respite in the realms of rural
retreat there is much to admire and
to observe. r...
Seeing Nebraska First. has been
suggested as a slogan which would
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-22

lips. But between times it was evil
dent that the others, those boys in
khaki, listened. All of them sat there
still intent. Not once but half
dozen times the preacher had to
pause, warned by the ripping clat-
ter of a big one, tearing by close at
hand. More than once, too, one of
them, exploding in the field along
side, flung its splinters into the gun
pit.
Asked to Come Back.
When the preachers talk was fin
ished, he picked up his pack and
bedding roll, his book Of texts safe
ly in his pocket. One by one the
boys in khaki came up to bid him
goodbye. $50 long, Doc" they said
to him. Come again soon, will
your"
you bet, boys" was the. reply.
Up the road as he hurried along
to the next place-a dugout in the
trenches-the shells were still BURST
ing in the fields. The preacher still
did not seem to heed them.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-22
10000 Green Men
Made in Short Time
Into Shipbuilders

Washington, Sept. 2l.-Records
of the United States shipping board
show that, through the education and
training section and the industrial
relations group, the Emergency
Fleet corporation has taken l0,000
absolutely green men and made them
competent shipbuilders.
Many never before saw ship.
Included among them are clergymen,
physicians, lawyers, college profess
sors, high school and grammar
school teachers, travelling statesmen,
clerks, street car conductors, real
estate agents, contractors, bank
clerks and insurance agents. Out of
such material as this, the yard in
structors are finding mechanical
ability which is being utilized to
build in record time, gigantic mer-
chant marine.
The Emergency Fleet corporation
has established Fl training centers
in the various shipyards and at these
courses in building ships are given
applicants, majority of whom
become competent workmen in
surprisingly short space of time. One
OF the largest of these training CEN
tiers is at Hog Island shipyard near
Philadelphia. At present about 1900
green men from all sections of the
United States are striving to ac-
quire the fundamentals of a special
lied trade in shipbuilding. The
trades taken up at the school include
riveting, chipping and caulking, drill
ing, roaming, ship carpentering,
erecting and the preliminaries OF
shipftting and pipeftting.
1t depends entirely on the indi.
vldual intelligence and application
OF the student how long it takes him
TO pick up the trade he has selected,
Usually it requires from two to four
weeks TOR student to prepare him
self, although some grasp the funda-
mentals in much quicker time.
After serving an apprenticeship of
~ days to two weeks in the train
ing school, the student is turned
over to production foremen and nut
to work on the ways in the shipyard
During the period of training. the
student earns from so to IS cents ner
} our. When they go into the shin !.
yard tor actual productive work the
amount they can earn depends on
their individual ability.
The education and training section
sun Is accepting students for this
training and is offering opportunity
to- men in all occupations to serve
the country by joining the necesaeap
work OF turnlsg out shiaA
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-22

than Bowler. Cachelin figures it
out this way: He insists that he
settled in De Sofa in the springtime
and during the next fall Bowler ar
rived and bought turnips which
were raised at the Cacheiin place.
Therefore, if Bowler bought tie
turnips, as claimed by Cachelin,
then somebody is mistaken. Bou-
vier says he has no recollection of
the matter and thinks that Cachelin
has his dates mixed.
In any event, Sam Bowler is
known throughout Washington
county and by many in Omaha. His
mother was present at the birth of
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-22

was nothing very smart, very swag-(
ger, about that uniform. 1t looked
as if its wearer often had slept in it.
Hello, Doc" the boys in khaki
said to him. Hello, boys" he re-
piled.
Talked Boys Language.
One does not remember the text
be gave that day. The preacher, in
fact, lacked much that would have
made him prominent and popular
in, say, a New York or Chicago
congregation. However, he had
something about him that many an
eminent divine might have given
much to possess. What it was one
cannot say readily. but all he said
his hearers seemed wildly to COM
prehend. He talked to them in their
own language-the language boys
can understand. They did not wrig-
gle or squirm or scuffle their feet
as boys do in church at home. They
sat intent. As l say, / do not re-
member what the text was he chose
that day. There was an Interrupt
ton just as he uttered it.
The shell-it was 77-came by
way of the woods mile or more be-
yond. One heard it coming before
it struck. Where it hit was 50 yards
or. more from the gunpit's edge.
Having finished the text, half of it
unheard, the preachers face turned
inquiringly toward the spot where
a shower OF earth, rocks and other
debris had assembled skyward in a
sudden belch of flame and smoke
and dust. The crash that came with
it shook ones teeth but the preacher
seemed not Jared. As rocks and
earth came thudding back to the
ground, his inquiring eyes turned
again to his congregation.
Some of the boys had stirred abb
ruptly. One lad at the edge of the
gunpit had gone rabbiting over the
crest, and now was hidden from
view. The preacher smiled, his bony
features expressive of whimsical
humor.
Crrrrrrk-Blam! thudded another
shell. The Hun evidently was feel
ing out the range.
"Boys, you know more about
these things than I do" said the !
preacher. Shall l 60 on or wait
awhile?"
Blam! went another she'll. This,
though, was further off.
go on, Doc" shouted back the
boys. |
One does not recall much Of the
sermon. 1t was punctuated at inter-
walls with those emphatic exclama-
ton points. One not accustomed
to wars alarms listened more to
those resounding Us than to the la
bored, homely, awkward figures of
speech falling from the preachers
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-22

Sunday Morning Offensive
Is Launched Before Dawn

They were waiting in the cold
black mists that proceed the dawn.
Crouched behind parapet of wet,
sticky, clinging mud they fingered
their guns, polished them upon their
sleeves, and stared into the inky
blackness as they waited for the
zero hour. .
An idle wind brought a tang OF
chill Fl I'm the north.
A slight sound broke the still
ness. The long row of shadowy
forms stiffened and listened, alert.
A noise, indistinct and indehnable.
came to the strainging ears-a noise
such as might be made by a man
crawling along the ground or some
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-22

1.-THE war must be pushed through
to a thoroughgoing conclusion. No
peace must be made until the seas
are safe from the Hun. That's the
sentiment in the navy" says Wallace
Mitchell, frst-class gun pointer and
coxswain on board the United
States cruiser. Seattle, who has just
returned to duty after spending his
furlough of three days in Omaha.
Mitchell, who is but 70, is the
son of Prof. Charles A. Mitchell,
head of the department of anthro-
pology of Bellevue college.
Although l left my ship and the
Atlantic seaboard just after the Ger
man peace proposal was made"
Mitchell said, nevertheless l know
the sentiment in the United States
navy. 1t is for a strong, just and
durable peace. Every jack tar afloat
that have met feels that the coun-
try has made too many sacrifices to
give Germany another chance such
as she had at Brest-Litovsk. We
were slow in getting into this war,
but now that we are in it, all Of
us in the navy feel that we've got
to fight it to finish"
Mitchell was the first Bellevue
college student and the first man
from the town of Bellevue to enlist
in the service of the United States
after the outbreak of the war. He
joined the navy a year ago last
March when he was only II. His
example was followed by over 50
Bellevue students in college at the
time.
The Seattle is on convoy duty
and is the flagship Of the squadron
with which she operates. Young
Af:lzf,a II
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-22

EYES," he chuckled, 81 always tell
the boys they know more about
those things than | do. That's so
they can light out if they like, and
not seem impolite."
Then he smiled anew, this time
at the distance. Queer, but they
always stay. They want some one
to talk to them. those boys. Kind
of pathetic. too. I've got a couple
of boys-boys of my own, you know
over there in the trenches. That's
what set me to thinking. Won
dered if they had anyone to talk to,
and that made me wonder who was
talking to all the other boys. So l
came along"
Just a Business Man.
Ny preacher, I came to find OUT,
was not even an ordained preacher.
He had been a business man in 4
middle western town.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-22

object being moved slowly through
water. Then it ceased and the sill
ence closed in utterly.
A pale glow became percepitable
in the east. Slowly, very slowly,
hidden objects took shape and were
recognized as fences, rocks, trees,
and body of water.
The men leaped to their feet of
one accord and the roar of guns
shattered the silence. Five volleys
reverberated to the far-hung skies.
No. 5, 6, and IA shot spattered on
the surface of the water like rain.
And from the midst of all this
small green winged teal arose
gracefully from the water. banked
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-22

"It's a great work." he said, "ouly
I wish sometimes l could speak
little better. It's wonderful the way
the boys like someone to talk to
them. 1t don't seem to matter much
what a fellow talks about; they're
crazy to hear him. Maybe it brings
en- a little nearer home"
I looked at him in the dusk. One
forgot for the moment his ungainli-
ness, that and the quaint uncouth-
ness of his speech. Many famous
men, women too, are over here talk
ing to the boys. The Y. M. c n.
brings them over on every ship; but
about this one man was something
I say any one would give to have
It was the exaltation of simple earn
estness. In the dusk, as he trudged
along, his face seemed to shine.
So the circuit rider of old has
come into his own.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-22

Tom Ouinlan, general manager OF
the Brandeis stores, and washed
Toms face for the first time. The
old Ouinlan home was two miles
west of the Bowler place.
Bowler relates that he drove an
OK team between De Sofa and Oma-
ha more than 50 years ago, making
the one-way trip in II hours, more
or less. Today he says the boys
make the journey in their tin Lizzies
in As minutes,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-22
Y at the Front Refuse
Have Their Sabbath
Service Interrupted by
Crash of Hun Shells
Sit Intent, Listening to
Homely Phrases of It.
inerant Evangelist Who
Had Come Far to Talk
to Them.
BY MAMMALIAN Foster.

Paris, Sept. 1.-The gunpit stood
at the end of little wood, artfrllly
hidden by a camouAage of Utter
woven branches twined into an tarbor
overhead. In the midst of this the
gun, blunt-nosed howitzer.j squat
ted like toad, its grim, significant
viciousness contrasting Strangely
with the quiet of the green fields
and the thicket surrounding, it. The
day was Sunday.
There are no Sabbaths IN this war.
The day was Sunday, true, but it
is the way of war that you do muir
der on Sundays or weekdays, seven
days in the week. Remembering
this, it was queer to see what was
going on in that gInpit. Fifty or
sixty khaki-clad boy were clustered
in the slight depression. Some sat
on their bunkers, resting their backs
against the gun carriage. Others
stretched themselves on the tramp
led earth and there were some prone
in the grass at the gunpit's edge.
War may not stop for Sundays, yet
these sixty Buys were there for Sab
bath Worship ...
Circuit Rider in France.
The preacher stood at the center
of the pit. He was man of so or
thereaboyits-tall, spare, angular.
with g.'izzled hair and STOPPING
shouldCrs--a plain, awkward fellow
ia nun of the people. Three gen.
erati9ns ago, any Sunday morning,
you might have seen one of his
kind. riding his rounds in the back
woods region Of some far western
community, bent on carrying the
Gospel from one outlying congrega-
ton to another. This was what this
man was doing too. His type may
long have passed in America, but
in France that itinerant evangel, the
circuit-rider, seems to have come
INTO his own again.
This one had ridden far today.
He had come up from behind the
ines, making his way to the front
by railroad and army truck. The
last few miles of the journey he did
afoot, trudging with his pack and
bedding roll along a shell-swept
road unsafe for any vehicle. As it
was, every now and then a she'll
would come trundling over the crest
of the hill nearby and fall with.
fiat, Gathering crash in the fields
alongside. The preacher however,
had not seemed to think of that.
The small leather-bound volume in
his hand-his book of texts--seem-
ed to occupy him more. 1t was a
serious business for him this bust
ness of his Sunday text. He must
pick one appropriate to the occa-
sion.
Uniform Dust Covered.
His congregation rose as he came
among them. His uniform, the same
as theirs, was rumpled and dishev-
elied. too. Dust and mud covered
it. Dust, too, covered his face, the
dust of the roads he had trudged
that day.As, for the man himself.
lank and ungainly, he stood there
filed with awkward shyness. One
would have said, certainly, there
was nothing very heroic in his
looks. r'.'
But the boys in khaki did not
seem to think of that. Most OF them
came forward to greet him person
ally. AZ he stretched out his hand
to them, the mussed, rumpled, uni
form gathered in ill-ftting hillocks
on his arms and shoulders. There
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-22

at sharp angle, and was off into
the rosy glow of the sunrise.
Its gone" shouted a man attired
in khaki, with big pockets, and =
belt crammed with shells.
Why in hell wouldn't it be-"
answered another. That's enough
to scare ANY duckw
The days hunting at Carter lake
had begun.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-22

Of a man looking at the skull
of a deceased person. 1t Ia
as follows:
"Behold this ruin! 'Tis a skull,
Once Of ethereal spirit full
This Morrow cell was life's re-
treat,
This s,ace was thoughts mys-
terious seat.
What hea"teons pictures filled
this sNot-- 49,
VIVA. d-enms Of pleasure long
forgot! -
Nor grief nor Joy, nor hope.
nor fear
Has left one trace Of record
there" -IBrD.
II Is our nurnose to nhh''sh.
from week tn week. selections
from tn's r-ert noot. Thn-e a~n
y Number of them IN our book.
Gems for thn E'reside."
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-22

stomach and intestines have often
completely vanished. The professor
ascribes this to a strictly regular life
in the open air In the field as well
as at home, especially among wom-
en-, tagging nerves have received
marvellous brace-up. ys
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-22
love.

A person secs aN sorts Of
funny thinss nv knen'-g his
ewes oren. THE other dew we
saw rnwho~ IN soroh-e-o
rv-otanhr'c shirt. trousers
s'~ck IN hieh-h"e'od hoo+s and
all the rest Of ". sl'''-g ~
'he hos'n-v counter OF the
pu-pasa-Nash stove. hrv,ng
fad'es' silk hose OF the finest
rra,itv and IN cons'dnra HE
nua nifty. CAN'T Won trst
i'm "'re Row h's "gaw viii
he the best-d-essed IN town
when he gets back home?
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-22
THE wEELY BUNDLE BEE
A. STINGER. EDITOR.
Communications on Lny topic
received, without postage or
signature. None returned.
NO ADS AT ANY PRICE
DECEIT.

The Germans have the
camouflaging Of their own de-
feats down to q fine point.
Instead OF saying I'VE lost the
towns of Schnitz, Bonner and
Wetter.'' they tell the people
the enemy remained In, pos
session Of the towns Of
Schnitz. Bonner and Wetter."
Last week the German Of
fetal REPORTS stated. "the
enemy followed the Germans
across the yesle." Makes 1t
sound as though the Germans
went acrossfthe Vesle in order
to get the enemy to follow
them,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-22
Reporters and
Their Ways in
Newspaper Office
Statistics Arc Compiled Show
Ing That While Many Are
Destroyed, Some Live to
Become Writers

One Of the odd biological
facts about the lower species
Of mammals Is that a cub re-
porter. when using someone's
typewriter in a newspaper Of
flee, invariably changes the
spacing and the margin holder
and invariably he (of she)
neglects to restore these things
to their former condition.
Another popularity Of this
species is that he Tor she) al
ways leaves notes, pencils and
other debris, lying on the Dor
rowed desk. Still. the cub re-
porter Is recognized by most
biologists as q human being
and capable In some instances
of development to a fair state
Of mentality. OF course, this
takes great patience such as Is
required to train seals and
other animals.
Many cases, In fact, are on
record, where 1t has been done.
Statistics OF murders. on the
other hand, indicate that this
course of training Is fraught
by many dangers, both to the
editors and to the CUBS
Out Of s,7S5 murders COM
mitted In the United States
during the year 1917, we find
that 1924 (more- than Is per
cent? Of the victims were cub
reporters who left note paper,
pencils, ETC., lying, around the
typewriters of editors on news
papers.
No Convictions.
These figures are startling.
They indicate that, the offense
committed by the cub report
ers was aggravating, for edi-
tors and writer's on newspapers
are Enthusiastically mild
men with tender hearts, men
who will stsrd r~"ch before
their Ire Is aroused.
When such me-. f.y to pieces
and commit murder 1t is evil
dent that the provocation
must have been beyond human
endurance,
1t Is Interesting to note that
there Is ne case on record
where a newspaper man has
been convicted for Staying a
cub reporter who habitu&lly
left note paper. pencils, hand
kerchiefs, pocket knives, pen
ell whittllngs. and other de-
bris around a borrowed type
writer or q borrowed desk.
In fact, many such newspaper
men have been commended
from the bench by the Judge.
Only 40 cub reporters were
destroyed by newspaper men
in Omaha last year. and. as II
was shown in each case that
the deceased had habitually
left notes. pencils. handler
chiefs, etc. on borrowed desks,
the police did not even arrest
the slayets
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-22
FASCINATING

Among the things worth re-
Numbering il the fact. as we
see In q scientific journal. that
THE mean energy OF one cubic
foot of sunlight Is about
o-eoeoe0oss3 OF a foot
p0una.~