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Omaha daily bee., 1922-03-04

and have taken II. ! feel 80 well
and strong and can do every BIT Of
my work and not q pain in my back
now. ! recommend your medicine
and you can usc this letter ~ . testi-
monial." - Mrs. PHIL. MAsER, SOL
Winslow st.. 81. Paul. MINI.
just another cssc where a woman
found reliefby taking Lydia Z. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound. Many
times these tired, worn-out feelings
and pains about the body are from
troubles many women have. The Veg.
etable Compound Is especially adapt
ed for just this condition. The good
results are noted by the disagreeabls
symptoms passing away one after
another.
Lydia Il. Pinkhsm's Vegetable
Compounds Woman's Medicine for
Womcn's Ailments. Alwaysrelisblc
Omaha daily bee., 1922-03-04
Bedford Electric Plant
Sold to Clarinda Firm

Shenandoah, Ia, March 81 (ope,,
cial.)-The Bedford Light, Heat ana
Power company plant, when mas
been owned by the Continental uas
and Electric company the last TWO
wears and operated in connection
with the Shenandoah plant, has been
scld to tl,e Lee Electric company OF
Clarinda.
The current for operating the Bed
ford plant has been purchased from
Clariflda and that proved al unsat-
;sfacto.y arrangement. 0. K. 10.
man. formerly of Shenandoah, Will
continue as local manager.
Omaha daily bee., 1922-03-04
North Platte City Officers
Tnspect Muny Improvements

North Platte, Neb., March j
(srecial. al.)-Mayor Evans and meln-
bers of the city council are on
a tour Of inspection OF several Ne
braska towns. The object OF the trip
IS to gain information relative to
street paving, water plants and iight,,
ing systems. The cities to be VISITED
vii! include Lexington, kearney.:
Grand Island, Hastings, Norfolk and
Omaha.
Omaha daily bee., 1922-03-04

snli,lsd 70 ons.hali OF the net profits
ai the company above 10 per cent
oa the capital invested, The city az
iaTney aud others say they believe a
strict accounting will show that the
city has a considerable sum due u
each year under the provision.
Omaha daily bee., 1922-03-04
Mrs. Willette Shook Enters
Plea of Not Guilty TO Murder

Lincoln. March 3.--Mrs. Willette
Shook, whom the police declare adj
mitted she stabbed her husband TO
death 10 days ago. was arraigned IN
district court aud entered plea OF
not guilty to murder in the first de-
gree. The day OF trial was fixed for
March 20.
Omaha daily bee., 1922-03-04
The Dancing Master
BY RUBY NJ. AYRES.
tespyriaelE is!fl

Gomez bur. as II was. her one long
ing Was 20 escape.
She ate her supper In solitude. her
mind full Of plans by which she
could get away.
Dolly had looked into her room
for few minutes before she wenI
10 the dance, she wore a new iroek
tina, made Elizabeth's heart ache by
reason OF is sheer daintiness.
In her widest ianeies she had
never dreamed OF anything hall SO
beautiful. She looked al Dolly almost
with reverence,
IL hope you will have a good
time" she said when her cousin
turned TO 60, Dolly laughed care
lessly. -...a.
81 dare say | shall. but Neil Farm
er and ] have qnarreled. dare say
We shall make ], up again some day,
but We don't speak now. I've got
another boy"
"Oh' said Elizabeth blankly. She
was longing TO ask after Pat Roy
ston, but could not find the cour-
age.
She was still awake when the
clock struck ?, aud she heard her
aunt and Dolly return from the
dance: heard Dolly's tired. iretiul
voice and her auni's sharp reply.
She was amazed when presently
the door was cautiously opened and
Dolly's voice whispered her name.
"Elizabe,h-are you awake, Eliza
beth?' Elizabeth sat up in bet
"Yes." she whispered back;"yes-
is anything the matter!'
II want to talk 10 YOU. Do you
mind i | put on the Light"
mo"
Dolly found the switch and closed
the door behind her.
She looked very pale and tired
as she stood there at the loot oil
the bed. There was a pink rose
dying in her frock and her eyes
were heavy for want of sleep.
"You do look tired" Elizabeth
said. "And-why are you carrying
your slipperss"
81 don't want mother to hear me
come up to you so | took them
off," Dolly sat down on her cousins
bed, and for a moment there was
silence; then she said in a desperate
kind OF voice:
Elizabeth, have you ever been in
trouble--dreadful trouble?'
Elizabeth shook her head.
"No-I don't think So" she said.
Dolly leaned forward; there was
a hard look in her eyes.
well, | am nowP she said. She
gripped Elizabeth's hand i'll both her
own; they were hot and burning.
81 am, and you've got to help me-"
"Iw Elizabeth thought she was
dreaming. why, how can | help
your" she asked, amazed.
Lend me some money; you've
got 100 pounds. | know, and you
can afford to lend me some of it.
III pay you back--I swear ] will
and / must have it. | must have it
by tomorrow and l daren't tell
mother; she'd be furious-she'd half
kill ME if she knew. Pm in debt
and if | don't pay don't know
what will happen. Elizabeth, you're
not going to refuse? l thought Un-
Gle Robert would have left us some
thing--it would have been all right
then-the mean old beast"
"Uncle RobertW echoed Elizabeth
blankly. She knew that Dolly had
only seen her uncle once during the
last IS years, and SO it seemed pre-
posterous that she should have, ex-
pected him to remember her in his
will.
CONTINUED in The Bee Monday
In China chauffeurs and automo-
bile mechanics seem to ruin spark
plugs more frequently than any other
parts Of the machine.
Omaha daily bee., 1922-03-04
$4,000 Bond Of Alleged
Burglar Is Forfeited

Glenwood, Ia, March 5.-(Spe-
eial.) - Roy Hughes, charged with
breaking and entering in connection
with the Hastings, Ia, burglary last
fall, did not appear for trial and his
$4,000 bond was forfeited.
Omaha daily bee., 1922-03-04
Girl Singing in
Church Is Shot
by Masked Man
Cripple Stays Widow for Re.
mons,ra,ing With Him for
Drinking-Youth Killed
in Rum Battle.

Portland. Ore, March 5.-Mrs.
Williamene Fuller, ", . member OF
ST. Stephens proeathedral choir, was
shot and seriously wounded last
right at the church by a masked man
who entered while the choir was
praetieing, ordered its members 10
put their hands up and then fired
without waiting for them 10 do Il.
The man escaped.
Murdered by Blaekmailers.'
Oakland, Cal, March 3.--Laurence
Jorgensen, oil, wealthy bachelor, was
found dead in a gas filled room in his
apartment here last night. A note
pinned TO the door, apparently writ
ten by Jorgensen. said he had been
murdered by blaekmailers" and
asked the police TO prosecute two
men whom Il named.
The note also stated: -#
This is not a case OF wanting 10
commit suicide"
Another note, which the police in
terpreted as indicating that Jorgen-
sen first had intended TO hang HIM
self, said:
"Please do not cut me down until
| am dead. as cannot live"
The police announced they would
try to 6nd the two men mentioned
TO learn ii they could throw any
light on the matter.
Man Shoots Woman, Kills Self.
Sacramento, Cal. March 3.--Earl
Clark, 20, crippled elevator operator,
shot and killed Mrs. Emma Rust. 3S,
wealthy widow, when she remon-
strated with him for drinking, and
then sent a bullet through his own
brain in her home last night. He
was dead when police arrived. Clark
was a frequent visitor at the Rust
home in company with his mother,
according to Mary Ellen bort. To-
year-old niece OF the slain woman.
Smugglers in Battle.
El Paso, Tex, March 3.-Santiago
Cooper, "a, was shot and fatally
wounded late yesterday in what the
police believe to have been battle
between liquor smugglers. The fight
occurred in the Mexican quarters a
few blocks from the Rio Grande.
About Is shots were fired.
Attracted by the shooting, Police
man c. Ming ran to the scene and
found Cooper standing in a doorway,
pistol in hand. Ming's command to
drop the weapon was answered by a
shot. The policeman returned the
FIRE. Both men shot three times,
when Cooper dropping his weapon,
darted down an alley. The policeman
pursued, firing as he ran. A block
from where the chase began, Cooper
dropped face down on the ground.
Omaha daily bee., 1922-03-04

% tired, worn-out
feeling and pain.
full periods. fused
To get up with .
pain IN my head
and pains In my
lower parts and
back. Often | was
not able to do my
work. ! read in
your little book
about Lydia T.
Pinkhsm's Veg
|etAble Compollnd
Omaha daily bee., 1922-03-04
Glenwood Man Fined $3.50
on Liquor Nuisance Charge

Glrnwood, laa March J,-tspe-
cial, Fired X. MIXERS. arrested last
September ior maintaining an alleged
liquor nuisance in his residence,
Omaha daily bee., 1922-03-04
,D,tnfisnansr.
WOMAN COULD
NOT WORK
Made Strong and Well by
Lydia E. .Pinkham's Veg.
etable Compound

81. Paul. MINI. --''l took Lydia r.
P,nkham's Vegetable Compound for
Omaha daily bee., 1922-03-04

where 4 Is claimed a small stllI and
. small aRlannt Of liquor was found,
pleaded guilty before Judge Moed-
ruii and was fined $3.50.
Omaha daily bee., 1922-03-04

SYNOPSIS.
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sisssiss sss sity asssiss. thsy tske k~s
10 bali, She fe<is kesaiy the contrast
sst-e~a bss dossy, bsss made fsosk
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500. fhs ssaiy psssss ts the gathering
~hs sahss pisy ss.ss hss is rst n.y stss.
shs trt~ss with ssGs saecssss 10 tessh
hss 90 s.ass. Siisss~sh's relatives tell
hss thst he 10 . daasiss tSsshssI that he
ts ~asssisa. .sa that enc IL sss 10 msss
hiss ss.is. k1isssetk's uAsis. ~tth shess
she ssaae hes he@s. dies. oa hss ssy
hems she ~se~ts No, stos, but he soes
not sesssnise hsss Walter sn~sth pso-
leaves her esiy loo pounds she de-
issniaes 10 SO Go issdsa sad nsa some
.s, ss ears . living. Nos 50 o. Nth
the stss5i
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-08-29
The Interchangeable Villain.

No villain really looks the part, according
to popular fancy in America, unless he wears
black mustache. blond adornment for the
upper lip will not do. No one can be villain
with smooth fale. Though facial trimmings
have pretty muth gone out Of fashion in this
country movie audiences remain obdurate.
No black mustache, no villain; the decision is
irrevocable An explanation Of the odd cir
cumstance is offered BY Chicago university
professor, who suggests that the persistent be-
lief that a dash OF hirsute blackness above
mans mouth denotes wfckedness goes back to
ancestral folk tales in southern Europe. The
blond races from which Englsh-speaking peo-
pies sprang lived in constant fear Of black
bearded men from southern Europe They came
through the years to associate villainy with dark
hair, and this constant fear came down through
the generations in the form of folk lore and leg
ends of black whskered maurauders on mighty
efrands of mischief So, If the professor has it
right, the villain Of the movie. being the blood
descendant of the villains of early ancestral
days, must run true, to form when it comes to
facial adornment.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-08-29
TOn1Sif1SSuvS

If winter comes, will the>plumbers be far
behind?
German motorless plane flew two hours
Wish we could, get motorless auto to do that.
Shark seen at a bathing beach may have
been hotel man swimming
Beauty secret: Keeping your nose out of
others business prevents it from becoming
fat
Little 1922 booze is aged in the wood Many
of its drinkers are
Suppose the husbands and ex-husbands of
some movie star struck out for seniority
rights?
Stamp collectors met in Massachusetts. No,
they are not postmen.
Many man going along on easy street
turns off into Wall Street and gets lost
War not only threatens in Europe but a
Wisconsin man wants to confiscate spooners
, autos.
Funny things happen Illinois couple has
been married 66 years without shooting each
! other.
Wonder if man on a used motorcycle
needs peddler's license?
| South Dakota jail-breaker left farewell
,, poem This is carrying poetic license too far
! Hunt the bright side Rain strikes make
lmail-order packages late.
! Professor says there is no sin. Then VIVA,
| is II for some men to take the money?
| Some towns have all the luck. Detroit
quack doctor got caught
| Laugh and who laughs with you depends
upon what you laugh at
| In the fall very 1oung mans fancy turn:
| to thoughts of school
Ship captain beat-his cook to death There
is more freedom on the sea than on the land
Americas champ mail sorter is girl. Yo,
haven't seen her picture because she doesn'
work in bathing suit
|. Sixty-four United States college girls wen
by air from Paris TO London and that is highe
education.
FOhlo man claims train missed his car twt
inches. Suppose the train had been ahead q
time?
swell neishborhoql is where street is .
| Largest dam in south nearly complete. -
news Item 1t must be about the weather.
Five paydays hath September
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-08-29
The Fading Of Fame's Flame.

Jesse James. one Of the headliners III the
Missouri Who's Who of yesteryear, seems to be
slipping. Pilgrims no longer plod to the hum
BILE ST. Joe cottage where he got his start into
~the next world with his boots on. For long
time the spot where Bob Ford ended the ca
reer of the daring Missourian was shrine for
swarms OF the faithful who yenerated the mem
ory of that noble knight Ct the road who was
never too busy to rob bank or shoot super
fuous citizen. CaretakeTs garasred honest
fees for showing visitors through the house and
depleted the lumber supply selling rounds OF
the chair on which the ilustrious James stood
while the equally illustrious Ford plugged him.
Na,x. all is. changed. The house is falling into
decay and the visitors are few and far between,
and the stock of chair rounds needs no replen-
ishment and the surplus may yet serve use
full purpose as fuel for all honest kitchen fire.
1t might be thought that the local historical So
ciety would be distressed by this, but not so.
The society has resolved that no particular ben
eft can insure toi the city or state from the
preservation Of the habitation. 1t is sound
resolution.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-08-29
New Dances.

Jazz dancing steps are passing out. This
is announced in New York at the convention
Of the National Association of Dancing Masters.
They say that the popular dances this winter
will be the Tango fox trot straight waits, can
ter and hesitation steps Grandma, remember:
ing the stately minuet, will look over the win
ter program and say, What do you call jazz?'
Lewis H. kretlow, 80-year-old dancing master
of Chicago, comments: II notice an increasing
tendency among young people to improve the
dance themselves They are taking more in
terest in dancing gracefully. Jazz music has
had a marked effect in degenerating the dance"
Another veteran dancing master at the New
York convention is Major Ned Gaynor. He is
81, but can still walk. on eggs. The major says
Eighty per cent of the faults of position on
the dancing floor are chargeable to the girl. 1t
seems as ii the girl Of today cannot dance I'M
less she has death grip on the neck OF the
man. The trouble is the average girl doesn't
know how to dance. She learns at schools
run by promoters who have no conception of
I; the art Of terpschore." The thing most dane
ers lack is knowledge of proper posture. says
| Miss Walz, at another dancing convention.> "In
standing it should be heel to step-that denotes
social equality. Heel to heel denotes inferi-
! GRITTY. Legs spread apart either standing OF
sitting, spells vulgarity. Slouching should be
avoided by holding the diaphragm in. Ii these
things were kept in mind vulgar dancing would
soon be forgotten" Miss Walz must know
what she is talking about Recently she staged
a dance in Philadelphia attended by $4,000.
Dancing is very important subject in mill
ions of lives. More people are interested il
stepping off to music than are interested in tn,
tariff or conference on international law. S,
1t goes with baseball, golf movies and HON,
brew. Humanity is IS per cent emotionah fiv,
per cent intellectual. After all, it may be hap
pier that way.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-08-29
The Poison Drink.

Wood alcohol now is killing $50 and blind
ing A Americans year. This is the report
by the Russell Sage foundations committee for
prevention of blindness The figures, however,
cover only the known cases. The unknown
victims of wood alcohol number many more.
Many relatives and friends of victims try to
conceal the real cause of death, and in some
cases succeed" says thescommittee's secretary,
Mrs. Winhred Hathaway. Obviously, she is
right. For more than half of the 100 fatal
cases of wood alcohol poisoning, reported to
her committee in the first, six months of this
year, were in three states-New York, New
Jersey land Pennsylvania. Smuggling hoocA is
common along the sea coasts As you get
farther inland the liquor keeps getting harder
to secure which means worse quality.
In Pennsylvania the known deaths due to
wood alcohol last yea1 totaled 81. Figuring on
a population basis, wood alcohol fatalities in
all the states combined would be around 800 a
year. Including unreported cases.. wood alco-
hol's death toll probably exceeds $500 year.
The national government stands convicted OF
criminal negligence in not taking real steps to
prevent the use of wood alcohol as beverage.
Any high grade chemist could find way. Be
fore manufacturers were permitted to super
clarity wood alcohol for use in the arts and
allied professions any one with a sense Of smell
could detect wood alcohol a yard away. Now it
Is refined until, in adulterated form, 1t smells
like old Kentucky rye. Only chemist can de-
tect 1t. Why not color all wood alcohol black
or restore its natural ordor: The Chinese
would solve the problem Nv hehead ding anv ona
selling wood alcohol for a beverage. That, Of
course. 10 mot humane enough for u.s. We
Americans prefer to spare the bootlegger and
kill the victim. The United States government
should look into this matter. Life has to b
made fool proof tor . certain psr cant OF the
poonlnffom
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-08-29
y Rehabilitating Veterans.

The work the federal government is doing
In rehabilitating disabled soldiers of the World
war is little understood or appreciated by the
public at large. At the present time there are
10000 students receiving instruction In schools
and colleges throughout the country as well as
In business establishments. shops and on farms
Every one Of them has been found by medical
authorities to be disabled either physically or
mentally. Ninety per cent OF them are en-
listed men, representing every creed, nation
ality and race, and half of them have at least
one person dependent upon them. Some OF
them have as many as seven dependents. The
education work is under the direction Of the
veterans bureau and has already advanced to
such state that many men have Completed
their courses, and others are graduating every
day. 1t is the desire Of the government that
every employer shall be made acquainted with
this large source. OF trained workers Every
vocation is represented, and in every large in
dustrial center an employer can obtain addi-
tional competent personnel in a short time by
communicating with the veterans bureau in
Washington.
The graduates of the government schools
Are not permitted to terminate their training
until they have proved themselves skilled
workmen ami able to meet the practical re-
quirements of the vocation in which they are
engaged. The courses vary in length from one
to four years. with an average length OF two
years.
1t is erroneous to suppose that many OF the
men are suffering from less Of limbs. Stats
Tics com niled nv the vetorans' hurnan sho~
that lesA than two per cent Of the men in
training have suffered amputatton. The rest
bkvs rsestvsd disabtltrea such u sAzasaAl Or
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-08-29
Daily Poem
BIZ BERTON RRAuEy
IT'S INITIAL.

MUTUAL.
When He and She agreed to wed
According to Dan Cupid's whim.
her friends say as they always said.
don't see what she sees in hir,"
While his friends tear her limb from limb
He's made blunder, they aver.
And SO they say, with acrid vim. -
Il don't see what he sees in herr"
He hasn't any business head"
Hes much too fat" or else "Too slim, i,
why didn't she take Bill insteadr'
Il don't see what she sees in HIM"
And his companions, dour and grim
Greet all her actions with y slur.
And sigh. while tears their eyes bedim.
don't see what he sees n herr"
MY dear. her senses must have fed
He isn't in the social swim"
Her future dlls me full of dread"
don't see what she sees in him,-
She has no style. She isn't TRIM
This marriage ought not to occur"
Poor Jack"-or Mike or George or lin
4 don't see what he sees in her."
They'd cry, were he q seraphim,
Il don't see what she sees in him.~
They'd Sigh, VAate'er her character.
e111t "a Rh& h eees In herr"
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-08-29
The Daily Short Story
, vas to be balanced by herl success.

vas 10 De DaAanced Dy herf success.
On the second Monday she re-
turned to her first point of attack.
It was a cafeteria. You know them.
Perhaps you remember your first
experience. You start with a tray,
MAKE your first selection judicially,
then, responding to nudge from
an advancing tray, seize something,
anything, sidlc-along, catch sight of
, a neighbours choice which looks ap-
petizing, take ditto. The pursuing
tray speeds you up again, and you
grasp the first dessert your hand
touches, and sit down. You find
you have Waldorf salad, roast pork
and apple sauce, apple cake and a
baked apple, and wonder why your
guardian imp hadn't added apple
jack.
! Dora filled her tray and wound
her tortuous way among the for
midable array of tables, scanning
the hundreds of faces in search of
an inspiration, as she told me. 1t
drew her as irresistbly as a taut
cord to a table at whicfsat a blue
eyed, sleek young man, eating a
bowl of crackers and milk with
sponge cake IN the side. Dora said
the minute she looked at him she
knew she'd got her man.
i And she had, but not just as she
expected.
!, She ate her lunch as nonchalantly
as she could, with her heart pound
ing like a bell clapper the while
ishe concocted her scheme,
! The man seemed singularly indif-
!fercnt to his surroundings. He ate
. deliberately and with apparent rel
. ish An old offender, surely. When
he had finished he opened small
change purse ond Dora caught the
. blaze of diamonds from a wcman's
: ring. Here was proof of her clever
, ness. She made ready to trail him
, On his way out he evidently
!. changed his mind. went back for a
piece of pie, and sat down at diff
Iterent table. Then she made her
: fatal blunder. She determined te
/ telephone an o. k. to headquarters
AT the door of the booth she goi
t messed up with her umbrella, hand.
| bag and things, the way you will
. :you know. There was a nice, kind
looking old lady awaiting her turn
, She saw that Dora was nervous
: and gave up her place and offered
J to hold Dora's things.
: Then things happened.
Three minutes after her message
: to headquarters, came another
!, This is Russell. Send wagon in {
+ hurry to Blank Cafeteria"
: When Dora stepped out of thu
booth the bland young man was en-
/ gagged in earnest conversation witt
: the kind old lady, and was holdins
? her bag and paraphernalia. Per
) thaps you can picture her feeling.
Iwhenx he most gently, but firmly
: asked her to accompany them
''orly as q Witness" he smiled.
= 1t turned out that Dora's suspec
was James Russell, chief detec
Tive, just back in the city, and tina
: day had been put on the case be
! cause of wavering faith in her
| After seeing her photograph he de
cided to follow her. He saw tn,
kind old lady" empty Dora's bag
! and so captured Crafty Liz" tn
WANTED pickpocket.
81 He gave Dora all the credit, be
. cause she hit Upon the right place
? but then it was a case of love a
4 first sight, SO what could you ex
pect? .
You knew she married him didn'
you.
Il The ring? Oh. his mothers, takel
, it to be cleaned,