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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-12-07

half-hearted theory of a phosphor-
escent emanation.
The tangle of footsteps near the
rear door was confusing and it was
some time before the three men
Strengthened and glanced at each
other, knowing that the doctors wis
dom was proved. For Paroles has
been there recently; for that matter,
might still be in the house. More
over, he hadn't hidden his tracks,
as he could have done, in the thick
grass. Instead he had come in a
straight line from 1.-THE woods across
a piece of sandy ground which con-
tanned the record of his direction
and his continued stealth. But in
side they found nothing except
burnt-out matches strewn across the
floor, testimony of their earlier
search. The fugitive had evidently
left more carefully than. he had
come. The chill emptiness of the
deserted house had drawn and re-
leased him ahead of the chase.
Il guess he knew what the light
meant" the detective said, as well
as he did that queer calling. 1t
compllcates matters that | can't find
woman's footprints around here.
She may have kept to the grass and
this marked-up path, for, since |
don't believe in banshees, III swear
there's been woman around, either
crazy woman, wandering at large,
who might be connected with the
murders, or else sane one who sig
nailed the foreigner. Let's get back
and see what the district attorney
makes of it,"
1T might be wiser not to dismiss
the banshees, as you call them, too
hurriedly," DR.. Groom rumbled.
As they returned along the road
in the growing light Bobby lost the
feeling he had OF being spied upon
The memory of such an adventure
was bound to breed something like
confidence among its actors. Raw
Inns, Bobby hoped, would be less I'M
friendly The detective, in fact
talked as much to him as to the doc
tor. He assured them that Robin
son would get the Panamanian I'm.
less he proved miraculously clever
He's shown US that he knows
something" he went on. Il don't
say how much, because | can't get a
motive to make it worth his while
to commit such crimes"
The man smiled blandly at Bobby
while in your case there's a mo-
tive at least-the money"
He chuckled
That's the easiest motive to I'm,
derstand in the world. It's strong
er than love"
Bobby wondered. Love had beer
the impulse for the last few months
folly that had led him into his pres
ent situation. Graham, over his
stern principles of right, had already
stepped outside the law in backing
Katherine's efforts to save Bobby
So he wondered how much Graham
would risk, how far he was capable
of going himself, at the inspiration
of such motive.
Go Be Continued Tomorrow
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-12-07
The Aband0nedRo0n1
By Wadsworth Camp

It's deep enough in the center"
he answered.
Shallow around the edges"
Quite"
Then he knew we were after
him." Groom said.
Rawlins nodded and ran his light
along the shore. A few yards to
the right ledge OF smooth rock
stretched from the water to a grove
OF pine trees. The detective arose
and turned off his lifht.
He's blocked u.s." Sc said. HE
knew he wouldn't leave his marks
on the rocks or the pine needles:
No way to guess his direction now.
DR.. Groom cleared his throat.
With hesitant manner he recited
the discovery of the queer light in
the deserted house, its unaccount-
able disappearance, their failure to
fad its source.
Il was thinking" he explained,
that Paredes alone saw the light
give out. 1t was his suggestion that
he go to the front of the house to
investigate. This path might be
used as short cut to the deserted
house. The rendezvous may have
been there"
Rawlins was interested again.
How far is it,"
Not much more than a mile.
Groom answered.
Then We'll 60" the detective de-
Cided. Show the way"
Groom in the lead, they struck of
/ through the woods. Bobby, who
walked last, noticed the faint mes
/ sengers OF dawn behind the trees
in the east. He was glad. The
night cloaked too much in this
neighborhood. By daylight the
empty house would guard its secret
less easily. Suddenly he paused and
stood quite still. He wanted to cal
to the others, to point out what
lie had seen. There was nc
| question. By chance he had accom-
| plishcd the task that had seemed sc
hopeless yesterday, He had found
! the spot where his consciousness
had come back momentarily to re-
cord a wet moon. trees straining If
the wind like puny men and a figure
in a mask which he had called hi:
/ conscience. He gazed, his hope re
treating before an unforeseen disap
pointment, for with the paling moor
and the bent trees survived that very
figure on the discovery of whose ma
ture he had built so vital hope
and in this bad light it conveyed tt
him an appearance nearly human
Through the underbrush the trunl
of tree shattered by some violen
storm Knocked him with its illusion
The dead leaves at the top were lik'
cloth across a face. Therefore, h,
argued. there had been no conspir
acy against him. Paroles was clear
as far as that was concerned. HI
had wandered about the Cedar
alone. He had opened his eyes a
point between the court and thu
deserted house.
Rawlins turned back suspiciously
asking him why he loitered. He con
tinued almost indifferently. He still
wanted to know Paroles goal, bu
his disappointment and its meaning
obseSsed him.
When they crept up the growing
light exposed the scars of the de
serted house. Everything was a
Bobby remembered it. AT the from
there was no decayed wood or veg
citation to strengthen the doctor
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-12-07
BoI.ds of Matrimony Become
IrkSome to Three Couples

Ella Camenzind filed suit for di-
vorce from Charles B. Camenzind, to
whom she was married in Crawford
Neb., July, 1917. She says he is
worth $4,000 and so she asks $4,000
alimony. Cruelty is the ground for
divorce.
Louie Vonier alleges cruelty in his
divorce suit against Grace Vonier.
The couple were married in Febru-
airy, 1912.
Jack Sims charges desertion in a
suit filed against Della. The couple
have three children.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-12-07
Prince Alexander Will Give
Approval to Union of SIavS

Paris, Dec. 5.-Prince Regent
Alexander of Serbia has received a
delegation from the national coun-
Gil OF the Jugo-Slav peoples, which
presented an address demanding the
union with Serbia of all Serbians,
Croatians and Slovenes formerly I'M
der the domination of Austria
Prince Alexander assented to the
proposal, according to Belgrade ad.
vices.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-12-07

nc of iron readily taken up by the blood the blood
s oct round ricred in color the cheeks pink the appetite
nroves and one feels full Of -nstead OF
tired before the day half DONE The take on lue and the
bodv feels that Jingle which gets from cold BATH want to
rv this new oc Tablet send 10 cents to the Surgical institute
RuFo Y and obtain trial package This 20centuy Iron tonic
sure to do you good Druggists sell ronc for sixty cents
Evening star., 1918-07-21

that to one Of alum and salt, and then
covering them with a paste made of
flour and the yolka of eggs mixed
with water. The eggs go into the
leather and cure it. The hide is then
dried. and afterward worked and
pulled back and forth to stretch and
soften it. 1t is finally smoothed with
hot iron. Some glove leather is
made in this way.
The demands Of the war call for
more or less leather which has been
treated after the chamois process. In
this the skins are thoroughly cleansed
with lime. drenched with bran, and
while still wet are oiled with hsh,
seal or whale oil. The oil works into
the skin, driving out the water. and
1t becomes a part of the material,
making it soft and spongy. Wash
leather is prepared in this way and
for this the flesh halves of sheepskins
are used.
The most OF the chamois is made
from the skins of deer. elk. buck. goat,
sheep and calf, the first three being
the best. FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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thing like 2o.ooo,ooo hides to produce
the leavy feathers, and about 100, ,000,-
600 other skins from which the light
er feathers are made. About one
fourth of this leather comes from ami
mails killed at home and the most OF
1t from the meat packing houses
which are today the chief source Of
domestic supply. The number Of cat
tie SO killed would I'LL bridge twice
as long as the one above mentioned.
and in addition we get the skins Of
more than 10000 calves. 100000
than 100000 horses and colts.
All these taken together make a
total Of about 34,000,0eo, animals,
whereas the number Of hides and
skins which go through the tanneries
are four or i've times as great The,
balance is imported and we pay for it
in the neighborhood Of $3.50, ,000, 900
year. At least that is what we paid
for the amount we imported In 1916.
the year before we entered the war.
During that year we brought in from
abroad the hides OF 100000 cattle
and those Of 100000 calves. The
goat skins imported numbered 6z,o00.-
900. and the hides Of horses and colts
represented an equine population Of
Io0.eoo The sheepskins from abroad
weighed more than 100, 10000 pounds,
and we had more than 1000, 900 pounds
OF raw skin from kanGaroos. This
raw material came from all the coun-
tries Of the world excepting those
with which we are at war and those
which no ship can now reach. About
one-hfth Of the hides were from Ar
Eentina nd Uuruguay. The sheep
skins came from Great Britain, China
and India and = large number Of them
were from the fiocks Of South Africa
and New Zealand. The kangaroos
came from Australia, for the kanga-
roo is fonnd nowhere else on the
globe. The horse and colt skins were
chiefly from South America and Brit
ish ports.
!. The raw materials Of the leather in-
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tanning mixture was oak and hemlock
bark cut from the trees Of the forest
nearby. and ground in a little iron mill
moved by a horse or mule. The hides
were soaked in water to soften them,
and after that the hair and bits OF fat
were .scraped of. They were then
tanned by putting them in pits with
layers of ground bark between them.
After that water was let in, and the
tanning material soaked from the bark
mixed with the water went into the
hide. giving 1t the preservative quality
which makes the difference between
raw skin and leather. In such tanning
the hides were often allowed to soak
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heels, (which are to be from oak,
union or hemlock sole leather of good
quality. free from holes or blem-
tshes which will affect the wear"
They specify how the leather is to
be cut. and give an infinite detail of
technical requirements which would
not be understood by the man out
side the tannery and the factory.
This letter is to give you some
idea of the leather industry which
Is now SO important in this time of
war. Leather has always been
valuable in warfare. Away back in
the stone age bowstrings were made
Of skin, and all the armies of the
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Low Standard Honesty.
cENAroR cHAMBERLAINwas /,

CENAroR cHAMBERLANwas talk
,ing about war profiteer.
II don't say the mans dishonest"
he concluded. but do say he has
q very low moral standard
He was playing bridge in Red
Cross tournament the other night.
His partner, a bishops wife, left the
call to him, and he made II diamonds,
but when he nut his hand down It
was found TOT Contain only two dia-
monds. both low cards
what on earth fnduced you to go
diamonds on such q hand as that?
the bishops wife asked.
:. Didn't You twiddle. your diamond
ring. ma'am. said the profiteer."
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dusty come mostly from the twenty
one countries at war with Germany.
The only question Of getting the ma
terial is ships. There are large SUP
plies Of hides In South America. We
have to have ships to get them to the
United States. There are large sup
plies in China, and the same 10 true of
Africa and Australia They have to be
sent over thousands of miles Of water
to our ports.
At present the United States and
Great Britain have pooled their inter-
ests in the buying of hides. They are
competed with by Germany, which Is
buying raw materials needed for war
fare In all the countries Of the world.
This Is notwithstanding they have no
means Of getting them out Of the hands
Of its enemies. It may have to sell the
hides later, for they win not keep in
definitely. and If SO 1t will be at high
price.
+ +
Just now the buying of this vast
product intended for leather is more
or less directly in the hands Of the
government. Uncle Sam is the chief
customer for all kinds of raw mate
rials. and yon might think It would
be easy for the men furnishing our
leather to get big rake-of from
every government order. It Ii not
Tho War Department has board Of
hide and leather control. and Its dollar
a-year employees include the leading
hide and leather men Of the country.
In Washington Is also an organisation
known as the Tanners Council, which
came together rs soon as we entered
the war to cooperate with the war
industries board and the War DEPART
ment in the purchase Of skins both ut
home and abroad and in all importa-
tions Of leather from other parts OF
the world. This council represents
many branches Of the leather indus
try. It has no capital stock, and 1t
pAyB no dividends. It is not . buying
or sailing organization. and it's only
object il to furnish the government
with information ~ to the supply of
leather materials both at homo and
4h1u8d, and to aid it in placing con-
tracts which will eliminate exofbitant
pEudts and most efdcientfy mobilize
the leather industry for the work Of
the w1r. Tho council costs the gov
erument nothing. and 1t is maintained
at the expense Of the tanners 1t is
ono Of many patriotic institutions Of
tho kind which have come to the sup
port Of the country in this time Of need.
An Of the government orders for
leather are f1ed upon the advice and
information of associations like this,
and every attempt is made to get the
best material at the lowest possible
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Furthermore. we must have vast
quantities OF leather Of one kind and
another for The harness Of the cavalry
and straps for the artillery and army
equfpmept a great deal is used in
automnhileR. motor trucks, and in the
machinery thak goes to the battlefield.
In tact, the waf now demands every
class Of good leather Tor one purpose
or another: and 1t comes from the OF.
COW and calf. the horse and colt. fhe
sheep and the l4mb, the goat and the
kid. N wen as frum the water buffalo.
and tho hog. and even the seal, all-
gator and kangaroo. :,
In addition to these items are the
many varieties Of leather used in the
industries making munitions and sup
plies and an sorts of goods for the Army
and Navy 20 that skins Of every descrip-
tion have part in the war
All Of this leather has to be made In
the American tanneriea- We have
hundreds Of them and they handle
each year the skins from which al
most s1.0oo,00o,oo0 worth of leather
products are made. They tan .some-
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In fact. we now get our tanning ma
terials from all parts of the world and
the different varieties are used in one
way or another for making the diff
ferent feathers.
We also do great deal of chemical
tanning, although this is chieny en-
pioyed for small >skins and light
feathers At present two-thiras Of the
glazed kid Is tanned by. the chrome
process. This consists OF treating the
skins with bichromate of potash to
which some shydrochloric acid, is add
ed BY this method the skins may be
tanned within few hours and the
leather produced is extremely soft
and pliable and Of a close texture. The
process was hrst used largely at Phil
adelphias and 1t has aided in making
that city one Of the chief leather man
ufacturing centers Of the world.
Another process of curing leather
which Ii largely used for certain va
rieties Of skins is tawing. This means
treating them after removing the hair
to baths of bran. and water, and after
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1t Is the same with the orders for
trench shoes which have already been
issued. The specifications for them
are SO many that they would I'LL
about three columns Of this news
paper. They relate to the kinds Of
leather used for the uppers, for the
outer soles. middle solee and inner
soles. They specify the leather for
every part Of the shoe, including the
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cost. In order to show you how care
fully the government works, ! will
cite some Of the specifications for the
feathers required for the shoes of the
soldiers. Take the new Pershing boot,
of which we are now making q million
and q half pairs every month. The
requirements for the sole leather de-
mand that 1t be made of good, sound,
dry or green-salted fne-haired hides.
It must be firm. solid and well rolled.
It must be properly tanned. filled with
good vegetable tanning, and when I'm
ished 1t must be acceptable to the
government.
The specifications state Just from
what part of the animal each kind Of
leather must come. This leather
comes from the bend. little section
of the back and side Of the beast SO
small that only five pairs of shoes
can be cut from each hide. You NAV
have heard Of sides Of leather. The
larger skins are cut along the
back into two halves or sides,
and each side IL divided into the
shoulder, the bend and the back,
The bend is the best portion Of the
back behind the shoulder. It makes
the firmest and best leather Of the
entire skin, and Is devoted chiefly
to the higher grades Of shoes. The
bend for the Pershing shoe must be
not more than hfty-two inches long
from the root of the tail and not
more than twenty-eight inches wide,
The wording fs such that there can
be NO question as to the character
Of material.
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for months. When tanned they were
taken out, dried and finished as the
needs of the market required. The
tanneries Of today do most of their
on large scale, and modern machinery
is used. There are special machines
for almost every process and for every
variety of tanning. There are machines
for manipulating the hide and for TAX
ing or the hair. A leather splitting
Jefferson was President, and now we
have splitting machines that can be
adjusted to the thousandths Of an inch.
By means Of belt as 1t whirls around
the thin steel knife sharpens itself on
an emery wheel. 1t will split hide
into sheets as thin as paper il re-
quired. There are also measuring and
cutting machines, which relieve the
tanners of mathematical computation.
Machines for stoning. polishing and
finishing leather were produced as
early as the time of the Mexican war,
and patent feathers and pebbled leath-
ers were first made shortly before the
civil war.
The materials for tanning have
changed, and certain new kinds Of
vegetable extracts are used which do
the work more quickly than the bark
Of the oak or the hemlock. There is
an acorn from Turkey and Greece
which has three times as much tan
min in it as the strongest oak bark,
and there are pods of certain South
American trees which are largely used
to make leather. Many other tanning
materials come to the factories in the
form Of extracts which can be readily
and cheaply mixed with water, and
there are also pastes and solid extracts
which can be dissolved by heat and
used for tanning. Sumach is also
largely employed. 1t is found through
out>the southern states and also in
Italy. Gambler is also tanning
shrub which comes from the Malay
archipelago. The extract is made by
boiling the shrub, and 1t is sent to the
market in blocks and tubes. Quebracho
Is another tanning material which Is
sold as an extract containing from so
to 10 per cent Of tannin. This comes
from tree that grows in the wilds Of
Paraguay. have seen men cutting the
forests for that purpose and shipping
the wood to market. One clutch comes
from the n1angrove tree OF the swamps
Of Borneo. and there is another cutch
which Is obtained from the acacia tree
Of East India.
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SOME USES
WELLINGTON BOOT BOOT
OF
PORTUGUESE LEGGIN,

distant past had leather shields. 1t
was with a sling made of leather
that the great Goliath was slain by
the boy shepherd David; and, long
before that, man had learned how
to cure all sorts Of skins. We know
pyramids, and that the Egyptians
tanned leather long before the
Israelites came to toll on the banks
of the Nile. In China specimens OF
leather have been discovered in COM
pany with other relics that prove
them to be over three thousand years
old. and we know that the Romans
tanned their feathers with oil.
almonds and bark. The first men
who came to America found the In
dian wearing skins cured with buf-
falo dung oil and clay; and as soon
as our forefathers settled here they
began to build tanneries and make
leather for sale Three years after
the Pilgrims set foot on Plymouth
Rock, Experience Mitchell and Francis
Ingalls, came from that place to Lynn
and Bridgewater and put up tanning
establishments. Experience Mitchell
ssisa led his a,t ~ Sppa IN
stayed overnight at the house Of
Simon the tanner and after what
was probably a meatless day had his
wonderful vision. You will find all
about 1t In Acts 10.5-16.
Shortly after the establishment Of
these first tanneries Roxbury. now q
part of Boston, became tanning CEN
ter, and other tanneries were estab-
lished throughout New England until
now there are hundreds Of them, and
the tanneries, shoe factories and 9TH
er 1eather-making plants Of one kind
or another employ more than 100000
workmen- and produce something like
SAA0 mn nm nf Inafhar cnndo
per annum. Tanneries were estab-
Hshed in the colony of Virginia al
most as soon as in that Of Massachu-
setts, and as the country grew they
spread throughout the United States.
They are now everywhere and the
establishments making leather goods
of one kind or another are in the
neighborhood of 1000. The value of
the annual product is more. than
81 900, ,000, 900 and the capital invested
In the industry is perhaps $500, 200. 600.
The business has been widely diversi-
fed and II is carried on through a
long series Of complicated machinery,
of inventions and new processes oof
one kind or another.
4
Every army has it's own footgear.
I have before mo photographs Of that
worn by the armies Of Europe now in
the collection Of the United Shoe>Ma-
chinery Company Of Boston. The
shoes and boots weigh from three to
i've pounds pair ana they take an
enormous quantity of leather. The
new Pershing shoe weighs about i've
pounds per pair. In another letter ]
shall describe it and show how 1t Is
made The hides and skins we use
in our shoes for the soldiers are
largely imported. Many Of them land
at New York. although q large number
are shipped to Boston and some to San
Francisco, New Orleans and Chicago.
They 60 from the ports to the tanneries.
where they are cured and made into
leathefs Of one kind or another.
: The methods Of tanning have great
" changed within recent years. The
tanneries of colonial days were much
like q small country griSt mill The
Evening star., 1918-07-21
Copyright 1918, By Ysant @. osrpenter.)

Copyright, 1918, By tf1nk g. Chrpenter.l
BOSTON, Mass.
= HAVE figured out the cattle
needed to furnish the shoes al
ready supplied to the Army. They
are SO many that If you could
Il bridge the ocean by a roadway
forty feet wide all the way from
Boston to France the animals would I'LL
the bridge and reach on to the trenches.
In this instance the cattle could be
driven nose to tail twenty abreast and
each score allowed ten OF twelve feet
of the length Of the roadway. By the
government specifications We can get
only five pairs Of shoes out Of each
hide. and the number Of pairs 30 far
made is in the neighborhood Of thirty
millions.
In addition to this Ia the great
amount of leather needed for saddles
and 1eggings This means the con-
sumption Of millions of cattle. and
also multitudinous pigs, for the best
leather for saddles and leggings
comes from the hog.
And then there are the gloves which
the soldiers use. They are made, Of
horse hides and colt skins. There are
also the jenkins or vests which the
air men. the Navy, and even the boys
in the trenches must have to keep out
the cold. Tho Jenkins are made of
sheepskin with the wool on. They
sessed by the soldiers.
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