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Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-22
Heartiest Thanks to The Bee
For the "Boys Over There

Omaha, Sept. 2o.-To the Editor
of The Bee: We now are in the
closing days OF our work in your
city and ! wish to take this oppor-
,unity to thank you and your staff
for the hearty spirit and, co-opera-
ton you have given the Salvation
Army war work in your paper dur
ms the dive" in your city. With
out your press it would be impossi.
Bile to get the news and educational
work before the public as it should
be done. .<.
You have stood by US loyalty and
we have appreciated this in every
way, and | want you to know that
personally, 1 extend to you my
heartiest thanks in behalf of the
Salvation Army-and the boys
over there"
HUGH A, KNOWLES.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-22
Once This Beauty
Had PimpIes
Stuart's Calcium Waters Proved
Ths. Beauty Comes From the
Blood and From No.
where Else.
Prove This With Free T.ial .
Package.

Plaster your skin all over and you'll
stop breathing in an hour. There is only
one way to remove pimples. biackheads.
eruptions and eczema with its rash and
itch, and that is by the blood. In Stuart's
Calcium Waters, the wonderful calcium sui
ph!de at meals serves to supply the blood
with one of the most remarkable actions
known to science. This is its activity in
keeping firm the tiny fibres that compose
even such minute muscles as those which
control the slightest change Of expression,
such as the eyelids, lips and so on. 1t is this
substance which pervades the entire skin.
keeps it healthy ana drives away impnr
ties. Get 50-cent box of Stuart's Cal
cium Waters at any drug store and learn
the great secret of facial beauty.
A free trial package will be mailed If
you will send the coupon.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-22
Soldiers Uniforms Sent
to Omaha to Be Cleaned

Fourteen big truck loads of uni.
forms arrived the other day at the
cleaning establishment of Dresher
Brothers from Camp Dodge to be
cleaned. In order to complete the
big job for Uncle Sam the cleaners
will work all day Sunday.
This is only small part of the
work Dresher Brothers are doing
right along in the line of keeping
the soldiers nifty looking. Ninety
thousand hats and caps from'the SOL
diers at Camp Dodge have been
cleaned by Dresher Brothers since
that camp was established.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-22
IS OF LAND
BE Modified
FOR FARM LABOR
All Boys Between ACES of IS
and 10 Must Register
Nov. ID for Next
c,,s.. -

November IA has been set by the
United States Department of Labor
for the registration OF boysmho on
that date have attained the age of IS
years and 7 months, and who are un-
der the draft age, in the United
States Boys Working reserve.
Statistics show that during the
past summer fields were implanted.
crops unharvested and fruit rotting
on the trees because farmers could
not secure sufficient help, while near
ly 100000 able-bodied boys, old
enough to do light farm work or
gather and pack fruit, either re-
NAMED idle in the cities or were
employed in non-essential occupa-
tons.
To guard against a possible repe-
tition of these conditions, plans have
been made to mobilize this army of
boys for work next summer where
they can best help to win the war.
They will not be sent away from
home without the consent OF their
parents. but those who go away
from home will be under the super
vision OF government representatives
who will see that they are adequately
paid, we'll cared for and not over
worked.
Directors OF the Boys Working
reserve from all of the states met
In Washington during the past week
and completed plans for the training
through the winter of boys of regis
tration age in order that they may
be placed next spring where they
will be, of the most value to the
country.
Details Of the registration in Ne
braska will be announced on the
return from Washington of Leonard
w. Trester, federal director for Ne
braska, within few days.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-22
Funston Boys Eager to
Get Into FRAY in France

Lieut.. Clifford H. Boyles, 4lst
United States Infantry, Camp Fun
ston, is in the city on leave visiting
with the home folks. His father,
Fl. B. Boyles, president of Boyles
college, motored down to the camp
last week. bringing the lieutenant
back with him. The latter is en-
thusiastic over the fine progress
made by the soldiers who are in
training at Funston and says tina,
the boys are growing impatient
waiting their turn to go "over there"
and merge themselves with. the great
american army when it starts for
Berlin.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-22

chimes. This exceeds the record
for any previous fortnight. i
These long distance raids have
been directly against poison gas and
airplane factories, railway stations
and docks and sidings.
Aerial assaults over the battle
area have been numerous. Acting
in conjunction with the Franco
American offensive, IS separate
raids were made between September
IS and 10 against important enemy
airdromes and vital railway juno
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-22
British Make Great
Record in Bombing
of German Positions

London. Sept. 2l.-Achievements
of the British air forces in the last
week have been among the most re-
markable of the war. Sixty tons Of
bombs were dropped on German
territory in FIVE days by British ma.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-22
were
tons Thirteen OF them were
against the Metz-Sablon railroad

Altogether British airnnen have
dropped 10 tons OF bombs az the
western battle trout in the course
Of a week, exclusive of the expio.
sives dropped in Germany. Nine
teen tons were dropped on Bruges,
Ostend and other German costal
defenses in air fighting, during
which II enemy. machines were de.
stroyed and nine disabled, while ,hys
British planes we're lost.E
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-03-01
M'ADOO WILL MOVE FOOD
Asks Hoover to Name Location of Sup
plies and He Will See They
Are Hauled.

Washington, Feb. 23.-Differences
between William G.. McAdoo, director
of transportation, and Herbert Hoover,
food administrator, over the reason
for the delay of food shipments to the
coast, reached a new climax on Fri
day. Mr.. McAdoo, in a letter to the
food administrator, called on him to
show where the food was. The letter
reads:
Dear Mr.. Hoover:
"You are, as / understand it, the sole
purchaser in this country, Of food sup
plies for the allied governments. You
must, therefore, know the location Of
the food supplies which you from time
to time purchase and the ports in this
country to which you desire such sup
plies shipped. If you will notify me
from time to time Of the location OF
the specific supplies and the pOrt or
ports in the United States to which
YOU wish to have the supplies trans
ported, I will guarantee the necessary
transportation, subject alone to inter-
ruptions from billiards. and foods.
ST wish to reassure the country by
saying that so far as transportation Is
concerned. there is no danger of suf-
fering from a serious food shortage In
the eastern part of the country.
Cordially yours.
''W. G. M'ADOO."
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-03-01
j. s. MEN CAPTURE
q TEUTONs IN RAID
Two Officers and Twenty Others
Taken by Yankees.
NO CASUALTIES FOR U. S.
Number of Enemy Killed and Wound
ed During Action in Chemin Des
Danes Sector-Americans
Aid French.

With the American Army in France.
Feb. 26.-An American patrol in the
Chemin des Danes sector, in conjunc-
ton with French patrol, penetrated
a few hundred yards into the German
lines and captured two German OIL
GERS, twenty men and one machine gun.
There was some sharp fighting and
wounded. There were no American
casualties. The FrancO-American pa
troll was under command of French
officer.
The news quickly spread along the
American front and developed q keen
competitive spirit among the men.
The Boche artillery got the range OF
a village late Saturday afternoon and
shelled it vigorously. The streets were
full of officers and men.
Artillery Opens Quickly. !:
With the arrival of the first shell
they vanished into dugouts and bitches.
One officer found he had jumped into
the exposed side Of ditch. When a
shell exploded near him he scurried
into house and signaled the Ameri-
can guns.
The Yankee artillery began pounding
the Germans, who soon ceased firing.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-03-01
BIG U. S. GUNS USED IN ITALY
War Department Says Heavy Artillery
Is Also Being Used Against
Huns In France.

Washington, Feb. 26.-American-
built ordnance of the latest type and
heaviest caliber-10-inch, 12inch and
14-inch rifies-are in service on the
sector of the western front held by the
American army and on the italian
front, it was learned at the war de-
partment on Monday. The general be-
lief has been that very few American
heavy guns were in Europe.
The guns sent to Italy include a
number of 14-inch rifles, both of the
As and 50-caliber.
Reports from Italy say the results
achieved by the heavy American ord
nance already has ELECTED expressions
of admiration from the Italian gun
ners
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-03-01
"FIapdoodIe" Universal.

BOOSTERS have used it simply and in
genuously, but by mankind 1t has been
raised almost to the level of an art and
it has been extensively used from long
before the days of Solomon for pur-
poses of evasion, promotion, argument
and self-advancement. There is scarce
~ department of human activity that
is free from it. It is a rhetorical de-
vice that is literally and shamelessly
used by the lover, the business man,
the professional man, the society woE1-
an, the critic and the craftsman, and
even the clergyman has been known to
descend to it's employment upon occa-
sion. The routine evidences of flap
doodle in ordinary intercourse are mo-
notonous, but in it's most highly Guilt
waited forms it is found in art, liter
allure, criticism, politics and statecraft.
It is the most common commodity in
the world, and about the most serious.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-03-01
FILM SPREAD OVER WATER
Thin Sheet on Surface Has Properties
That Are Very Like Those of
India Rubber.

1t seems not to be generally under
stood that the surface of all water is
covered by film of the water itself,
which in its action is not unlike that
of a thin sheet of india rubber, says
Edward Bigelow, the scout naturalist,
in Boys Life. TIC comprehend this
one must imagine the rubber to be so
thin as to be transparent. The surface
of the water itself is elastic and under
tension, so that needle, though heav-
Ter than the water, may be fioated on
the surface.
Several interesting experiments may
be made with the elasticity of this
film. One of the best is to place two
slender Splinters of wood side by side
on the water. Now drop little alcO-
hOl between the splinters. This alco-
hol will Immediately break the surf
ace film between the splinters, and
the pulling force of the remaining film,
since there is nothing between them
to hold them, will cause the splinters
instantly to fly apart.
Another interesting experiment is to
white thin, slender splinter, pointed
at one end somewhat like boat. Place
tiny bit of gum camphor on the rear
of this splinter and the gum will de-
stroy the surface film SO that there
will be no pull in the rear. AS there
is pull in the front not balanced by
one in the rear, the tiny boat will run
forward as rapidly as the camphor
can dissolve the film in the rear.
Some interesting little magic
tricks might be developed from these
experiments which would surprise
and instruct your friends.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-03-01
Mot All Love silence.

DIR. A. A. Brill of New York tells
of a musical genius who complained
of insomnia, which he maintained to
be due to street noises in the city and
cricket and night calls in the country.
Many persons who become hypersen-
sitive to noises blame their troubles
on the sounds. This very patient could
listen with rapture to music and yet
believe that noises kept him awake!
Some of the greatest apostles of ST.
lence have shown themselves in need
of noise. For example, John Stuart
Mill, who was an enemy of all noise,
hired a boy, according to Doctor Brill,
to beat a drum next to the room in
which he worked in order to stimulate
his thoughts.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-03-01
SENATE PASSES RAIL. BILL
Administration Measure Is Approved
by Viva Voce Vote--Wide Pow
ers for President.

Washington, Feb. 23.-The admins.
tration railroad bill passed the senate
on Friday by viva voce vote.
Before passing the measure the SEN
ate adopted a resolution of Senator
Cummins of Iowa directing the govern.
ment to take over all short line roads
representing an investment of $1,000
600 or more.
The important provisions of the bill
as passed in the senate are:
1. The president is to fix the rate OF
compensation for the railroad owners
for the use of their property on the
basis of their average earnings for the
years 1915. 1916 and 1917.
1t is estimated this will involve the
payment by the government to the
owners of $3.50, 100000 each year.
The bill now goes to the house
where general debate on a similar
measure has practically closed, and
where almost hundred amendments
are pending.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-03-01
0DIUM ATTACHED TO CARD
Numerous Explanations as to Why the
Nine of Diamonds Is Called the
Curse Of Scotland.

While the nine spot Of spades is
looked upon as fatal and vindictive
card in the trying of fortunes, it is the
nine of diamonds that bears the odium
of being called the curse of Scotland.
All writer's agree on the card, but as
to the cause of the stigma attached
to it there is a diversity of opinion
and it is difficult to decide which of
the many theories is correct. One the
Dry is that after the Culloden strug-
gle the duke of Cumberland picked
up nine of diamonds from the floor
and wrote. on it an order for the death
of the insurgents. To clinch this ar
gument, it is declared that the identi-
cal card is preserved at Slams castle,
AberdeenShire. Another explanation
was that Scotch member of parlia-
ment, part of whose family arms was
the nine of diamonds, once voted for a
malt tax for his country. Still another
view is that diamonds represent roy
atty and every ninth king of Scotland
having been a tyrant and curse fur
nishes the key to the mystery. One
writer explains it by stating that the
last queen of Scotland taxed her SUBJ
jects heavily to pay for nine jewels
for her own adornment. The ''last
queen of Scotland" in her own right
was poor, pretty Marie Stuart, against
whose memory has been tossed the
mud of countless accusations by her
bitter critics, and she might as well
bear the nine o. diamonds SANDER
along with the others.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-03-01
Spiders Ride on Back of Flies.

There is an aspect of spider and fly
relations which fabulists and natural
lists alike have overlooked. A CORE
spondent who has brought the mi
croscope to bear on many houseflies
finds that the parasite upon that hate
full insect is often an immature spider.
Too weak yot to spin it's web it makes
the fly it's win~ed palfrey, and courses
from place to place at the will of it's
captive; either until Pegasus perishes
naturally, or presumably until the rid
er is able to make a meal of his charg-
err This, if confirmed, seems to carry
us step further SR the study of par
R.itism and commensaslsm.-London
Chronicle.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-03-01

Force Twelve to Kiss Flag.
Nokomis, ILL.,, Feb. 23.-Twelve men
suspected of disloyalty were forced to
kiss the flag here by men who visited
their homes.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-03-01
UTAH BOMB PLOT UNFOLDS
Further Evidence Shows Conspiracy to
Free War Prisoners and Kill
Guards at Fort Douglas.

Salt Lake City, Utah, Feb. 26.-Fur-
Their evidence of what is believed to
have been a plot on the part of Ger
man civilian prisoners in the third
war prison at Fort Douglas to kill the
officers and guards Of the prison COM
pany and to consummate q delivery
of the aliens through the use Of high
explosive hand grenades came to light
when another bomb was discovered IN
che compound.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-03-01

President Wilson paid high tribute
to the patriotism of farmers. declar-
ing their work equally as important as
that of the soldiers in uniform. His
statement in part follows:
'To increase the price of wheat
above the present figure, or to agitate
any increase of price, would have the
effect Of very seriously hampering the
large operations of the nation and or
the allies by causing the wheat of last
years crop to be withheld from the
market.
"It would, moreover, dislOcate all
the present wage levels that have been
established after much anxious dis
cussion and would therefore create an
industrial unrest which would be harm
full to every industry In the country.
81 know the spirit of our farmers
and have not the least doubt as to the
loyalty with which they will accept
the present decision.
SIN order to relieve the farming in
dustry as far as possible from further
drains of labor, the new draft regula-
tons have been drawn with view to
taking from the farms an even small
'er proportion of men, and 1t is my hope
that the local exemption boards will
make the new classification with a
view to Tightening the load upon the
farmers to the utmost extent.
'"The federal railway administration
is cooperating in the most active, in
telligent and efficient way with the
food administration to remove the diff
ficulties of transportation, and Of the
active movement of the crops. Their
marketing is to be facilitated, and the
famers given the opportunity to real
ize promptly upon their stocks"
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-03-01
PRESIDENT WILSON FIXES
PRICE OF WHEAT FOR 1918
1920 BusheI in Chicago Remains Min
imum-Higher Cost Would Hit
u. S. and Allies.

Washington, Feb. 25.-Important
steps in the food situation were taken
here.
President Wilson issued a proclama-
ton guaranteeing every farmer a mini
mum of So q bushel for 1918 wheat.
He also indicated that farmers will so
far as possible be exempted from the
draft.
With No. 1 Northern Spring as the
basis, the price of the spring crop Is
fixed at the various buying centers as
follows:
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-03-01
DIsLOYAL OFFICER PUNISHED
Capt. D. A. Henkes Dismissed and
Sentenced to Confinement at Hard
Labor for IS Years.

New York, Feb. 25.-Capt. David A.
Henkes, Sixteenth infantry. O. S. A.,
has been sentenced to dismissal from
the service and confinement at hard
labor for 25 years by general court
martial held at Governors island.
Henkes, who is of German descent,
endeavored to resign his commission,
saying he did not care to fight against
relatives and friends.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-03-01
Iowan Fined by Food Chief.

Burlington, Ia, Feb. 27.-Peter
Lamp, proprietor Of IN elevator at Ma
pleton, H., and reputed TO be the
towns wealthiest citizen was penal
lied $3.50 by j. T. Deems, Iowa food
administrator, for selling wheat with
out substitutes.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-02
DR.. Smucker Celebrates
Five Years. Work as
Stevens Memorial Pastor

The fifth anniversary of his pas
torate at the Stevens Memorial
Methodist Church, was celebrated
yesterday by Dr. Clayton Albert
Smucker with a series of special an
niversary services held in tfSs
church edifice. Bishop Joseph =.
Berry, senior bishop of the Methc~
dist Church. preached the sermons
at the morning and evening services,
giving solid. logical talks in which
were contained many bits of GOOD
advice
Corporal Humphrey J.. Roberts, -
Welsh soloist, who wears the khakiN
sang several solos at the services
with fine effect. Other special music
was presented.
Much credit is given to DR..
Smucker, the pastor of the church.
for his energetic work in building
up the membership and finances of
Stevens Memorial Church until it Is
one of the leading congregations of
the city. The pastor spent his early
life in Chicago, filling quilts in Ohio
and later coming to Pittsburgh
where he was pastor of the Smith
field StReet Church. Five years ago
yesterday he became pastor of the
| local church and has won many
friends by his livewire work here.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-02
THE OTHER MANS
WIFE Is CLEVER
Dual Standard Provides the
Theme For Stirring
Melodrama

THE other Mans Wife" play on
the dual standard OF living, featur-
ing Adelaide Thurston. was well re-
ceived by n fairly large audience at
the Orpheum theater Saturday night.
Benedict McQuarrie a Richard Rams
gate, alias Dick Harding, the profii-
gate, supported his part we'll. rs also
did Eveta Knudsen in the character
OF Nellie Ramsgate, the wife. Miss
Thurston interpreted the difficult role
of RoXanna Hampton with ease and
facility.
The characters OF the play are
somewhat conventional, and The
other Mans Wife" is melodramatic
rather than tragic. Moreover. the
dual standard of living motif serves
only as a background and the real
issue is in sense avoided. The
piece Is, nevertheless, most interest
ing.
Richard Ramsgate, a young profil-
gate who goes under the assumed
name of Dick Harding, seduces Nell
lie, a beautiful young girl. and after
Il false marriage performed by his
chauffeur in the guise OF a clergy
man, dishonorS her. Ramsgate has
also promised marriage to an Italian
flower girl, vino dies through grief.
Richard thereby incurring the hatred
of the girls brother who swears
Vengeance.
In order to avoid the Italians
clutches Richard makes hasty trip
to Europe, and is reported as killed
in an automobile accident. Mean
while. Nellie reforms with the aid of
her friend, RoXanna Hampton, Il
cabaret singer. and she seeks em-
ployment in the Office of George
Ramsgate. a lawyer and highly re-
spectacle man. George Ramsgate
finally marries Nellie. unconscious of
her dishonor inflicted by his brother.
The first act opens with Nellie and
RoXanna, happily situated as friends
in the home of George.
During the progress Of the play
Richard. the protiigate, returns to
find his brother married, as he views
it, to one adventures and housing
another, With the secret of their
past lives Richard tries to eXtort
money from the woman, attempting
To secure n large sum from his troth-
er through Nellie. George learns of
his wifes guilt, but their happiness
is redeemed. while Richard re-
ceived his Just punishment by death.
at the hands of Tony.