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Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16
Bouquet of Live Human Interest Stories About People
Eligible Omaha Bachelors

to get married for the last 20 years
but he just never gets around to it.
It's just too much trouble TO go up
to the court house and get the liz.
cense."
No, we don't believe that in view
of the record of a busy life Mr..
Saunders has been a state senator
FIVE terms. He was deputy city treas
urer for four years. He is president
of the Saunders Kennedy Building
company, president of the Saunders
Investment company and has vari-
GUS other real estate interests.
Some Lodgeman, Too.
He has been a member OF the
board of governors of Ak-Sar-Ben
for several years. He is high up in
Masonic circles, being a Scottish
Rite Mason and member Of the Mys-
tic Shrine. He is active in the af-
fairs of the Elks lodge. He's a men,
Der of the Omaha Country club,
Happy Hollow club, Omaha Athietif
club, Chamber of Commerce =
His political honors have included
memberships on the county, state
and congressional central commit
tees. He was an alternate to the ma
tional republican convention in Chi
cago in 1912.
In spite of all these activities he
has time for the social graees and
he says he is Gust waiting till the
right lady appears"
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16
Danish Count Prefers Plain
American Mister to Title
Heir to Vast Danish Estate
Served in U. S. Army and
is Now in Business
Here.

America, "the pot of gold at the
foot of the rainbow" to her thou
sands of oversee visitors, finds in
many a champion of her cause, as
is shown in the case of Count c.
H. Won Knuth, formerly of Den
mark, who recently returned from
Texas with his honorable discharge
from the United States army and
has resumed his business i'll and
around Omaha. @
Count Won Knuth he is in name,
but in all save the slight accent, he
is a muchly Americanized count.
1t was that ever the same story
the magnetism of individual free
dom that drew the first continental
visitors here.
Il did not want to work my life
out for the government nor adhere
to the conventions established for
me-" said the count as he stood in
the lobby of the Henshaw and told
of his early life. hemmed in by
etiquette Of tradition. handed down
from early years, of the school,
open only to those of his family; of
his censored voting, recreation, un-
til he came to look at America
through the eyes of the diplomatic
representatives as "ths end OF the
rainbow"
Reason the second followed in
the army.
"For six years I was lieutenant
in the Danish army under my
father" continued Count Won
Knuth. "As the business of life, my
family was obsessed with glamour
of the army and as the oldest in the
Won Knuth family that was my lot.
Il warned them l would run away
but no one credited it until one
night, an English friend secretly
sent a boat across from England,
and as secretly carried me away. l
remained in England for two weeks,
and as the boat left for America, /
sent a telegram to Denmark"
In The Land of the Free.
The next chapter finds the count
in 1914 adapting himself to Amerl-
can customs and coming to Blair,
Neb., a Danish settlement, where
he commenced to work in true
American fashion.
But ever-suspicious, title-appre-
hensive Yankees demanded proofs
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16

come a Philadelphia lawyer before
he became an Omaha lawyer. Judge
Brewster was attorney general un-
der President Grant.
Much Of his bashfulness disap-
peared during his law experience
in the City of Brotherly Love. His
courage grew to the extent that he
could look at a pretty girl without
being confused. On a fateful day
he rode up to Hollidaysburg and
told his seminary girl that he be-
lieved he would like to live in the
great west of which she had told
him, but he did not want to make the
venture alone. He wasn't afraid to
travel alone, but just didn't want to
be so far away from home without
somebody who would remind him of
home. There was more of it, but Mr.
Baldrige has forgotten the text of
all that he did say, but the seminary
girl agreed, so they were married
and then travelled westward.
The accompanying picture of Mr.
Baldrige was taken during his last
year in the university. Recently he
recovered the picture through an
Omaha friend who found it at the
Frank Ankeny ranch in western Ne
braska. Mr.. Ankeny had taken the
picture to his home many years ago
when he visited in Hollidaysburg.
But I just wish I could remember
how l proposed" Mr.. Baldrige said.
Perhaps Mrs Baldrige may remem-
Der what ! said
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16
When They Wooed and Won
By EDWARD BLACK.

Once upon a time H. H. Bald
rige was a hashful young man at
tending the law department of the
University of Pennsylvania. He was
50 bashful that when he found him
.self within a mile of a pretty girl
be almost lost his powers of ar
ticulation. and he dashed wildly for
home. He relates that he was so
bashful that he would not play post
Office or spin the plate at social
gatherings in his home town, Holli-
daysburg. And he admits that he
was Philadelphia lawyer before he
heard the call Of the west
He attended the university in
Philadelphia and observed weekend
trips to his home in Hollidaysburg.
The beginning of the end Of his
bashfulness began when he met a
seminary girl whose home was in
Peoria, ILL.,, and who was attend
ing school in Hollidaysburg. She
Told him of the west and of its OPP
portunities for a rising young at
torney.
Il just can not recall how I did
propose, but of course I must have
proposed in some manner" he stat
ed, looking at a picture of Judge
Benjamin H. Brewster on wall Of
his Office.
Most men are able TO recall some
circumstance of their proposals, but
Mr.. Baldrige declared that his men,
DRY had not served him we'll in this
instance. But he recalled that his
seminary girl interested him in the
west. and that after they were mar
ried, they journeyed together out
to where the west begins" to the
land of Ak-Sar-Ben.
He referred reminiscently to his
youthful days, and his bashfulness,
in connection with the picture OF
Judge Brewster on the wall. When
he had completed his law course he
went to the law offices of Judge
Brewster and asked if there was an
opening for a young lawyer. Not be-
ing impressed at first by the bash
full manner of the caller, the Judge
offered no encouragement. As Mr..
Baldrige was leaving the Office, the
Judge asked his name.
Are you the son of Malcolm
Baldridge of upstate!" asked the dis
tinguished lawyer.
Il am, SIT" replied Mr.. Baldrige.
Well, | always have room in my
Office for a son of Malcolm Bald
rige," was the surprising reply of the
judge. Thus aid Mr.. Baldrige be-
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16

"Charlie" Saunders is F. F. N
He is a son of the late Hon. Alvin
Saunders, governor of Nebraska ter.
ritory and later became United
States senator from Nebraska.
So, you see, he really is First
Families of Nebraska" man. He was
born in Mt. Pleasant, Ia, but came
with his parents to Omaha at very
early stage of his existence.
He was educated here and in CO.
lumbia and Cornell universities. He
was private secretary to his father
while Ahe latter was a United States
senator. After two or three business
ventures he decided that Omaha was
about the best place on the map and
he settled down here in 1886 and has
been here ever since.
Still Bachelor.
But he is still a bachelor. He's a
very busy bachelor, girls. We don't
need to believe one of his friends
who says, Charles been intending
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16

Of those claims to the Won Knuth
name. They were given them, and
much to perhaps the surprise of his
America-seasoned friends this new
ly-arrived from Denmark realized
what he said and entering soon into
the real estate business, he found
in "Yankee-land" what he intended
to find.
Pictures tell of his other life, on
the we'll known Won Knuth estate
the picturesque ranch of several
thousand acres together with the
hunting reserve that boasts a for
ester, as the stories of old, and
where hundreds of pheasants are
diligently raised for the annual
hunting season, staged there.
go back? Yes, for several
months when / am thirty-for a
man is not of age there until thirty
but to stay? No, America is free.
and / am not disappointed in her."
assured this Utopia seeker, but
she must go back to the times be-
fore the war She is different, for
fighting does not belong to this
country. The olden lands forced
her into it. The kaiser drilled it
into US that he could lick the world.
1t is an obsession there. but Amer
ica-she must not breathe that air.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16
Deborah Society to
Give Dance for a New
TaImud Torah School

It's war and Red Cross work fin
ished, members of the Deborah So
ciety, numbering 500 Jewish women,
will give a dance in the municipal
Auditorium Tuesday evening, the
proceeds to form the nucleus of a
fund for a proposed new Talmud or
Hebrew school building. Mrs. Ben
Handler, president, and Mrs. J. ].
Blank, chairman of the ball commit
tee, have the arrangements in
charge. Desdunes' band will furnish
the music.
The Hebrew school at Twenty
first and Burt streets, where relig-
ious instruction is given, has an en-
rollment of $50 children and five
tutors. School hours are after those
of the public schools, from 4 to 8
p. M. Rabbi Morris Taxon and DR..
Phillip Sher superintend the work.
The Deborah society is an aux
iliary Of the Talmud Torah society
which maintains the institution.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16
Motion Laid on Table
Not Debatable, Says
Hubby LeGngweII

Mr.. Lefingwell was accompanied
to a hospital by his wife, who in
sisted that she would be present
when her liege lord underwent an
operation.
The surgeon made a motion with
his hand which was understood to
mean that all was in readiness and
that Leffingwell should present
himself in a recumbent position on
the table forNwhat was coming.
Mrs. Lefingwell demonstrated
against what she believed was I'M
due haste, offering some trivial ex-
cuse to sustain her position.
Don't you know that a motion
to lay on the table is not debat-
able2" testify retorted Lehingwell.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16
Cold Going Up in
Price; Under Output
Is Given as the Cause

If you are contemplating matri-
mony, you may have to pay a little
more for the plain gold wedding
ring for your bride than if you had
decided to marry a year ago.
The price of gold jewelry of all
sorts is on the rise. This is due to
a decided falling off in the gold outl
put Of the world due to the interior
ence of the war in mining activities.
The gold output of the United
States in 1918 was the smallest in
20 years and that of silver was the
smallest since 1918, according to re-
cent estimates made jointly by the
United States bureau Of the mint
and the geological survey,
The report shows that in 1918
there were 3,313,373 fine ounces of
gold produced of a value of $685.
4o3,500. The output of silver was
67.879. 206 fine ounces of a value of
SCI, 879, 200. The value of silver is
based on the government buying
priceof ST an ounce.
The gold output of 1917 was val
ued at $83,7s0,700 and that of silver
at 81 ,740,362. This would indicate
a. falling off in gold production for
1913 of $15,257, 200 and that of sill
yer of $3,861, 156.
California led the states in the
amount of gold produced last year
with Colorado next and Alaska
third. Among the silver states, Mon
tana was first with Utah, Idaho and
Nevada following in the order
named,
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16
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In 1925.

In 1925.
-Four boxes of cigars and three
packages of smoking tobacco were
captured by State Tobacco Hounds
Smith, Jones and Brown in the
home of Abner Twiggins last night.
The raid was cleverly planned by
the sleuths and Twiggins was
caught in the very act of smoking
with a man who gave his name as
Jennings Perriwinkle.
They were examined at the police
station, where Twiggins declared
that he had laid in the stock of ci-
gars and tobacco before the national
anti-tobacco law went into effect,
May /, 1923. However, he could
not explain where his friend, Peril
Wrinkle, got the cigar which he was
in the act of smoking when the off
GERS arrived on the scene.
Twiggins' bond was fixed at $l5,-
600 by the police magistrate. Per-
twinkle was held as material wit
ness under $4,000. Neither of the
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16
Commissioner fowl
Has to Explain to His
Mother Why He $ Late

Despite his So years, Commits.
sioner Roy FOWL had a bad quarter
of a minute with Mother Towl
Monday AFTERNOON. He had to ex-
plain to his mother, Mrs. E. B
FOWL, why he was more than one.
half hour late in reaching the Oma-
ha Woman's club for the talk he
was scheduled to give. Mrs. Towl
was in charge of the program.
Members of the club waited
quietly for half of the time he was
late, then Superintendent Weirick
of the welfare board filled in, and
then the women had a desultory
discussion OH proposed club
house, just to fill time.
Mother FOWL was anxiously wait
ing for her son and met him az the
door.
But "son" had an explanation, SO
it was all right
"If you can get by mother, you
can get by lot of other people"
was his laughing comment.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16
THE STREET CAR MAN
submitted

We sing of the gallant soldier lad,
And the sailor who braves the sea,
While tales told of knights of old
In the days of their chvalry.
The poets sing till the echoes ring
Of the rustic who tis the land,
But word is heard
In praise of the street man.
Out of his den in the early dawn,
In the rain, in the sleet and the snow,
Ahead of the sun ere the day has begun,
Hungry he has to 60
With his eye the track and his soul in sack,
With his mind the air and the sand
He swallows bun at the end of his run,
That's the meal Of the street man.
He hears ali the fussng and passengers edssing,
He's blamed when the power goes down;
When he says Forward please" the passengers freeze
In their tracks and grumbe and frown.
No Sunday for him. for his week never ends;
His worries don't understand.
To stay the job and take care of the mob
Is the lot of the street
Stop and consider before you berae,
| ask in humanitys name;
I'm betting dime if he isn't on time
There's reason, and he's not to blame
He's as human you and his pleasures few,
So treat him as well as you can.
Just hand him smile every in while,
He deserves 1.-THE STREET CAR MAN,
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16

A. NJ. Wizards famous painting,
"The Spirit of 70" has nothing on
The Bees own art offering, 1919
Victory Loan Pep"
The Omaha Chamber OF Com
merce fife and drum corps, drum
majored by the ubiquitous ii. II.
L0yeli, made its debut in stirring
fashion at the Victory loan luncheon
Tuesday to the extreme awe and de-
light G. ? p of all present and
not deaf
z But the rehearsal Monday night
explained why Instructor c. B.
Mapes wears a lean and hungry
look aud, like Cassius, smiles not.
High up in the Chamber Of Com
merce, where the earsplitting sounds
would not call the police, the TWEEN
ty-odd mamhers gathered. They're
odd all right. short ones. tall ones,
slim ones, fat ones, red-haired and
uo-harcd; scarce two Of them
match! (But. Oh, Boy! Wait till the
uniforms comcD
1t was the night of the Jascha
IIeifetz concert. but no dulcet tones
Of silver and gold. to be likened to
the music of falling water, as Henri
eta Rees would have it; but noise,
more noise and NOISE rose to the
heavens from the 18th floor of the
w. o. w. building.
"Heifetz sure has nothing on US"
chortled Ernest L. Glover, chief
bugler-and the reporter agreed.
who's going to teach me how to
play?" was the plaintive plea of
Charles w. Sambaugh
Don't Have to Know.
"You don't have to know how.
There's so much noise anyway, no.
body will know the difference" adj
vised big Boss Arnold Borglum,
i can't get on this belt" ex-
claimed "Slim" Henry Batter,
struggling into his drum harness.
mo wopderl Who told you to
cat so much chicken at dinner?" was
c. B. Adair's unsympathetic re-
Spouse.
what are my duties as quarter
master-sergeant?" Victor White
wanted to know.
Read Article 50, Boy Scouts
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16

manual on duties of officers" sug-
gested Lowell, the major.
So the dignihed, white-haired
White went off into a corner filing
on his fife:
Jack
and hill, etc.
Jill the
went up
The roll Of the drums was worse
than all the thunder claps in crea-
ton combined with the ungodly din
on the western front during a heavy
engagement, but remember, they're
just beginning.
Some Real Champions.
William A. Cory, bass drummer,
had it all over the Scotch giant of
the band in Omaha during Ak-Sar-
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16
'Sufs Never Suffered
in Silence, Judge
Tells in Erin Joke

Federal Judge Martin ]. Wade Of
Iowa invariably prefaces his serious
public talks by offering few stories,
One of his favorite yarns goes some
thing like this:
mot long ago I heard a suffra-
gette discoursing on the rights OF
women. She said, For years and
years women have suffered in a
thousand ways
"A little Irishmana sitting in the
rear Of the hall stood up and ex-
claimed, i know che way in which
thsy have not suffered
owe should like TO hear what it
may be, my good man. the suffra-
gette replied.
"'They have never suffered in ST.
lence, the Irishman responded"
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16

Miss Helen Huffman and Mr.. Wes-
sci Shipper, The announcement
says in part:
The groom was nicely deco
rated in white and green.
The bride was handsomely
gowned in white messaline, and
carried beautiful bouquet of
white carnations, while the
groom was dressed in blue
serge.
SEEMS QUEER!
We thought ali coal was black,
and we don't understand about this
Victor White Coal company"
A VIOLET.
To The Squawk, Neigh, Neb. :
Thanks for them kind words. Only
our overpowering modesty prevents
us from reprinting them.
g o
Need a Driver for Your Airplane2
lad in London Times)
FLIGHT CoMDR., Raj. exceptional
i flying experience, sportsman, travelled
extensively, OFFERS SERVICES as PILOT
TO PRIVATE GENTBEMAN.--Box P.5g
The Times.
o
Thanks, ]. X. II.
FOUNDING sets of Teddy Bears" be-
tween the school house and Gustafson's
store. Owner may have same by paying
for this ad,-Ad in Sargent Leader.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16
Streetcar Motorman on
Weekdays; Sunday Ye Poet

The general idea of poet is that he's longhaired,
high-browed fellow of sad demeanor but there few
that upset this popular idea altogether There's running
the BensonAlbrgh line every day except Saturday and
Sunday motorman On Saturday and Sunday he pulls
the Fort Crook extra" His is Harry Boyd and
rary to expectation jolly young fellow with ordi
hair cut and CHEEKY smile for every meets Har
ry turned the following little poem, which is dedicated to
his pals" of Vnton barn. to sporting editor and
told him he could do with he pleased He pleased to
turn it to the Bug page editor and it sherewith
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16
Lawmakers Sing the
Wearing Of the Green
as Congress Adjourn,

Every congressman at the final
meeting of the 65th session in the
house of representatives stood up
and sang the Wearing of the
Green" according to a letter writ
ten by Kathleen O'Brien, Omaha
girl who is attending a series Of in
structions conducted by the Nation
al Labor bureau.
Representative Donovan OF Rhode
Island led the throng in singing, and
Justify their voices rang out:
They're hanging men and women.
for the wearing of the green II
was an inspiring sight" Miss
O'Brien wrote
Her home in Omaha is at an
Cunning street
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16

| Ben in 1917, with his wonderful evo-
lutions and revolutions of the drum
sticks. George D. Wolfe qualified
as champion southpaw drummer .of
the world and E. E. Wise demon
strated that he is a good "drummer"
in other lines than retail grocery.
The bugler practiced on the army
reveille. If the Fort~Omaha boys
ever hear if they may be tempted to
oyersleep in the morning in order to
give these amateur buglers a chance
to practice.
Il can't get 'em up, I can't get
'em up, I can't Set 'em up in the
morning"
But {. L. Hopper got EN- up
he told them the drum corps uni
forms might go up from $1l to $40,
G. c. Edgerly,s DR.. G. M. Max
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16
Cannot Afford to Have :
Anybody Get His Goat,
So He Pays Old Debt

The latest bit of levity to go the
rounds of the lawyers refers to an
experience of which Attorney Ar
thur c. Thomson was the beneh-
ciary on Wednesday.
Mr.. Thomson held a judgment OF
$3.50 of long standing against an
Italian to whom he wrote that if
the money was not paid he would
get the Italians goat.
The Italians wife walked into Mr..
Thomsen's office with ne money,
explaining that the family goat sup
lied the children with milk and that
its loss would be serious blow.
Mr.. Thomson did not know that
his debtor owned a goat.
There, little lamb-chop.
Don't you cry.
You'll be a dollar
BY and by-New York Mail.
There, little veal chop,
Don't you cry,
You'll be a chicken
BY and by.-Cleveland Press.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16
Sure, Her Father Is a
Church Worker; Is He
Not Church Janitor9

my papa is a churchworker,"
boastfully announced Marjorie to
her companion on their home from
school.
my papa is a churchworker, too"
retorted Alice, with nose tilted at
the proper angle.
what does your papa do in the
church," asked Marjorie.
Hes the janitor," proudly replied
Alice,
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16
Departed GLORY.

what are these curious inscriptions,
professor"
"Cuneiform writing OF the ancient
Assyrians."
Can you read IT."
"Oh yes"
'Ts It fact or fletion?"
Fiction, as a rule. Now, this block OF
stone bears the proud boast Of king that
his fame will never die, yet there isn't y
street or a public square on the face OF
the earth that Is named FOR him now
Birmingham Age-Hsrald
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16

men was able to give the bond and
they are held in Jail.
This traffic must be stamped
out" declared Judge Ivory in refus-
ing to make the bonds lower. "The
only way we can do it is by dealing
with offenders in manner COM
mensurate with the enormity of the
crime"
Twiggins had the cigars and to-
bacco cleverly concealed in his
home. He had built false back in
a large refrigerator, and in this the
cigars and tobacco were concealed,
and at the same time kept moist.
1t is said that an iceman with whom
he had dispute last week gave the
officers the tip which led to the big
haul.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16
Any Other Nominations

= Nominated for membership in the
Society of Unnoticed Notables:
Vice President Marshall of the
U. S. A. "
President Poincare of Ia belle
Frawnce.
King Gawge V.
William G. McAdoo.
w. ]. Bryan.
Novel Dress for a Bridegroom.
An anonymous assistant sends us
a copy Of the Diller (Neb.) Record,
containing news of the wedding of
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16
Al Cry of Anpwish.

Something should be done to stop
advertisers from depicting such
luscious lemon pies. We don't know
anyone who can bake 'em as good
as they look in the pictures.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16
ABIE'S ADVICE

Some people are too thenkful-
like when they send you a telegrem
COLLECT" thenking YOU
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16

for moneh you sent
them for a loan.
Talk is cheap some
times, but not on the
long distance tele-
nhone.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16

we'll, Frank Buckingham, F. B. All
drege, Otto Becker and L. F. Hen
derson are among the other star
noise artists.
Little Jean Borglum was unani-
mously elected mascot. She was
present with father at the rehearsal
and actually enjoyed it.
AS for the rest of the auditors
two headaches were recorded next
morning. One belonged to w. A.
Ellis, secretary pro tenn.