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REMODEL ROAR OF CANNON LHE O Attention, All You Swimmers, TAHA FOR NINE HONTHS Water Base Ball Game is Here, | Hundredth Bombardment of Ponl-n-} | ¥ it’s in style J3EIGS have it Our Great Semi-Annual Sale Continued for Monday Unrestricted Choice of the House To the base ball fan who has teen)only exciting, but extremely funny to| Mousson About to Commence, but | Matching the signs of “rain” and “wet| the spectators. Conch Tommy Muls of ) People Are Unconcerned | Krounds” on the scoreboards for tha fast| 'he high school will umpire the first| k A [ five weeka the term o water haso bat | *40e Any Woman’s Suit in Stoc i Pete Wendell. formerly swimming ia p- " 4 | IGNORE SHOT AND SHELL|wib not excite much enthusinam, for he | sructor at the Carter Lally oloh and 64 AT | I — | has had enough of that sport, but to the| the Central Young Men's Christian as- | A w m s Coat [n Stock | (Correspondence of the Associated Press) ! awimmer and aquatic performer that | soclation fh Chicage, has been engaged ny o an Soon the merry sound of { PONT-A-MOUSSON, May 24—~Pont-a-|title should instantly arouse Interest. | by the Omaha Aquatic club to coach the ' /hammers and the busy rasp of |||Mousson s approaching its hundredth | Aud water hase ball is here. It 1s & new | Omaba squad. Wendell fs an expert | Any Sllk Dress mn our Stock saws will resound and i a few ||| Pombardment. It has heard cannon con- | sportand no games have yet been played, | swimmer and & good ball player and | — o c— g: soun h a fe tinuously for nine months, been shelled |but enthusiasm among natators has al- | declares he will have his team in good weeks this ground floor and ||| intermittently during the whole of that|icady reached the highest pitch, and & | er ugh shape te lick the spots off the these windows will look like perfod, and dally part of It; it shows | game between the Omaha Aquatic club, | Blutfs boys | some ugly scas here and there, but life | a newly organized swimming cluo. and| He has chosen the following lneup to those of a metropolitan trade | ®oes on as usual. Those merchants not|(a team from the Council Bluffs T-oung |represent the local club: Olgar Rensen CHOlCE CHOICE palace. serving customers are sunning them-| Men's Christian assoclation has been | gren, Willlam Westlund, Willara Hays, —_— e N B X | selves in thelr doorwavs. Boys playing | carded Hareld Hubner, Barl Bullock, Arthur ut—big gaps must be made marbles on the Place Duroc stop only to| The first two water base ball games| Douglas, Barnest Cathro, Walter Bastinn in the stock in the meantime-— salute gravely a detachment of infantry marching through to take its position in will be played at the Councll Blufts Kow- ing association June 12 and 13. Tomorrow ond Pete Wendell any price on most everything After the first games are played two omr 8¢ Sale at $15.00 has grown to have a most the Bols le Pretre. A group of women|the Omaha club will have its men out| teams will be formed by the Omaha club. P-s-oifiey nd justly %0, for we have always given the —just to olean up. on the cathedral stops, surrounded by | for practice, and a big crowd of :wim- | In addition to the above nine the follow. Soll SRR ¢ offer—any garment in stock at $15.00. Wo their children, are knitting and chatting | mers are planning to attend to sce just | ing are members of the Omaha club who have mever gone throngh the stock and taken out the better ones, calmly. how the game is played. play the game: Swhde Anderson, Ajax bat INCLUDE EVERY GARMENT In the sale, regardless of cost. . Meanwhile the cannon roars to the east| Platforms six feet square are placed in | Anderson, Harry Wanberg, Bill Brock- Naturally the sate Saturday reduced the stock considerably, emo e ln T taivat | ok b e LT (BOMIENEY, 208 | Ny SafEy VMt Web Willlanth but there are still nniimited numbers of remarkable bargains and —— | Chateau Saline, to the north toward| pitcher's platform and the catcher's ||lul-1l Harry Willlams, Win Schrum, Claud you will be well repaid by coming Monday. Metz, to the northwest In the Bolse 16| form are larger so that the umpire can | S8chrum, Ray Denell and Warr n Mteh s { o | Pretre, and to the weat toward St. Mihiel. | stand on the former and the batter on| If the club makes a success of the pame . . a e ces In one day eighty shells foll in the|the latter. The game is played just ex- | efforts will be made to play teams In The Sults Ranxed in VQlue to $50,00 town, adding one more to the fresh|actly like base ball except that a cork | Kansas City, Des Molnes, St. Joseph, | name of the spot, for every inhabitant of { Aroused on Continent by | ah of Rapurtkala, Indtan prince SUITS High or LOW&N;‘k" d vv orkmen Come N"H‘,;Mn”"m T Brave Soldiers. | asked the feate department to help the OO0ATS g}lgh;lyksofled wl;llflgo | diseretion. Sal e police Tecover his cash bo ; 7 Each in s Turn. 584 ieportast pADRre, which, De. save | DRESSES orth Regularly Palm Beach Skirts. .$4.50 ON ALMOST Everything in Stock Before the Just Imagine Buying BOYS’ and GIRLS’ graves in the cemetery and increasing the devastation. The villagers have dis- tinguished a new note in the formidable { concert playing all about them. It is the | voice of the big French guns that have ocommenced pounding the southern forts of the fortified camp of Metz. They know | where they are, but no one mentions thé “Bach one in his turn,” said a non- the suburb of St. Michel. going to get theirs—and how | going to get it, though!"” “Tit for tat,”” he added to the landlady coming in from the kitchen to serve him. | Throvgh the door she opened the kitchen { was seen to be open to the mky. "It | doesn’t matter a bit when the weather's ! ®00d," satd the landlady. “In fact, that 0ld range seems to work better than ever In the open afr, but when it rains it | kicks lke sixty.” ““Now they are they are ball is used. The game is sald to be not 8joux City, Lincoln and other citfes | CANADIANS PLEASE EUROPE Different View of North America, FRENCH ARISTOCRATS AT WORK resolution of Canadian soldiers has given in Europe rather a difrerent of North America 1o many people wno be- fore had not the occasion to consider this continent was brought to Ottawa by Dr R. J. Manion of Fort Willlam, Ont. view Dr. Manion had an unusual exper'ence, | Three months ago he pald his way across the Atlantio, bought his uniform, offered his services as surgeon to the Fritish Red Cross in Paris and found there was CASH BOX OF MAHARAJAH IS STOLEN AT SALT LAKE CITY WASHINGTON, June 6.—-The Mahara- were stolen from the room of his secre- | naked the British ambassador to enlist the ald of the State department and his | | request was presented today, Balley wervice ranks supreme. | $7.45 Bgrgs CLEAN- UP SALE The Coats Ranged in Values to $37.50 The Dresses Ranged in Values to$37.50 LINGERIE WAISTS A Special Lot of 35c Worth up to $20.00 commissioned officer, dining off & half tary i a hotel in Salt Lake City last | e STTITD ¢ (Correspondence of the Assoctated :oss.) | Thursday { demolished table in a characteristic old | ( % | provincial auberge, across the bridge In| OTTAWA, Ont., May %.—Word that the! The Maharajah, now In Pasadena. New Middy Blouses, $1.00 OB &'\ DOV Palm Beach Suits. .$10.00 New Wash Dresses. .$4.95 Stomach Trouble of Long Standing Yields to Duffy’ o e The kitchen in question had been vis-|NO opening. He l'"' protfered a NI"”‘ in “ll’ people who have { | ited by a twelve-inch shell, and all that|©ne of the Anglo-French hospitals and ! | was left of it was the range and chimney. | cCepted. He found himself a member of for years from the terrible effects § | The partitions separating the. dining room | the surgioal stalf of a hospital estab- a disordored stomach are loud of » and the bar were riddled by fragments. | !ished In the historlc Chateau de Rim- their praise of ’s Pure h }‘ Erand New) LOW as The bar itself had had its back broken | berlleu, the property of Count de Ber- An astual sere emongh pr 'Ifly [ $12.00 | and the tables and chairs were in various | stages of demolition. thune, seven miles north of Complegne and but four miles back of the French line, saving of from 30 to 40 per cent, s Wl Whiskey; for, give te the strength and perfoct action Imagine Buying Good, Used but Serviceable Sewing Machines For as little as $1.00, and First Grade Used DROP HEAD SEWING MACHINES At as $ towas $7.50 Hundreds of sewing ma- chines besides those listed here are ready for early purchasers at prices that would have ap- peared ridiculous until now. Every item in the sewing machine accessory and sundry department 1is strikingly re- duced during this sale. MICKELS' NEBRASKA CYCLE C0. Cor. 15th and Harney St. ‘Best Sporting News iight in The Bee day by day ®ull box scores of all big leagues. | Sport cartoons that hit the bullseye | el pation of a siege later on. structed a rallrond behind these plateaus, | brought up guns by train, fired a fnw shots, then drew the guns away with- | !out walting for Verdun to reply. The | battle of the Marne put an end to this | desultory attack and since then the | pressure on Verdun has gradually turned {upon Mets, Watt for Heavy Mortars, Students of the military operations de- |claro that the French have been within |long range of the Sommy and Wagner I(pru for several weeks and could h.,\a' attacked them with heavy artillery at [the time they began bombarding the | rallroad line at Amaville. The entire dis- tance between Verdun and Metz is only thirty-seven miles. it is supposed that they were waiting for the new heavy English mortars, from which great things are exvected. ] The fortres¢ ot Metsz, like that of Ver- dun, is surrounded hy heights affording |admirable ' protection and commanding | long distances of approaching ground. | |In the time of the French possession of | Alsace-Lorraine it was supposed to be | "hn strongest fortified place on the | |frontier. The Germans began to | | strengthen it immediately after 1571, The work was finished in 1890. Another transformation, during which a number of new forts were built, began in 190) and was not yet completed at the out- |break of the war. The place is now defended by twenty. five modern forts with many intervening | redoubts .and secret field works. The | southernmost forts are the Sommy and Haesler, Which adjoin each other on the right bank of the Moselle' and the left bank of the Seille, and Wagner on the right bank of the Sedlle. It is supposed to be the forts of Sommy and Haesler that are now being attacked. The for- mer is one of the most recently con- structed forts of the fortress; it is only three and three-quarters miles from Ar- naville, the frontier raflroad town that has been bombarded since December. It is not supposed that the French have In view an assault upon Metz. They are | simply tmproving the opportunity af- forded by the progress of their lines to inflict all the damage possible in antiof- ——— Loulsville Club Elects Officers, LOUISVIL ., June b.—(Speefal.) —The Commerclal club met last night | and elected officers for the ensuing year. Paul Fitsgerald was elected president, W. F. Diers, vice president; H. L. Ar- ends, second vice pregident; Fred H Ossenkop, secretary; Walter Blake, Jeanuger,. | Countess what they conceived to be their duty all these terrible times. In the hospital wo- men who had been waited upon all their lives cheerfully performed tasks they would not require of their maids. They accepted the hospital routine of night and day watches tered to the needs of the woundel sol- diers of all ranks. Among others who served were Mr. and Mrs, Gray of Cam- bridge. He acted as an orderly and she &8s & nurse. They pald the hospital $200 | & month; they gave it the service of a motor and thelr chauffeur, and they per- | sistently bought all sorts 'of things for the institution. One of the finest char- acters and one of the most useful per-| sons about the place was Rev. Mr. Gedge, a Chureh of England clergyman from York cathedral. He performed the dual duties of orderly and chauffeur, driving as an ambulance & car given by his con- gregation for that purpose. Only on Sun- day was he the clergyman, and | shall always remember with admiration the calm reverence with which he conducted service one Sunday through the din of a terrific bombardment. “Just ten miles away, at Fayel, was another of these Anglo-French hospitals where master and man, mistress and mald worked side by side, humbly and faithfully. The Fayel hospital is run by Helena Gleichen, & cousin of King George of England, and by Lady Wemys, daughter of the British ambassa- | dor at Paris. Dr. Lapthorn Smith of Mon- treal is one of the surgeons at Fayel. Our chief surgeon, or medicine chgf, at Chateau de Rimberlieu was Dr. Merlin, a member of the Frenoh Chamber of Deputies, and the surgeons under him were un Englsh-Spaniard from Jamaica, a Scotchman and myself, a Oanadian. Those who came to us ware French sol- dlers of every rank, and all of them pa- tlent and cheerful. Their one idea was to mepd and get back to active service, | That they would return to the lines they matter of course.” took PERUNA For over forty years it has been used as' A "TONIC AND STOMACH REM- EDY. Peruna aids the ap- petite and gives new life to digestion, nd faithfully adminis- | 2407.09 Cuming St. Banish Summer Foot Misery painful stage. The feet burn, louses, all summer. it you will consult with me. ate relief. effect—of the allment, and base my Service. 117 North 16th Street, THE POSTOFFION IS OPPOSITE Dangler llolary Flame Gas Ranges around, “‘Dangler Rotary Flame." This is the only improve- ment of any value that has been made in gas stoves in ten years, and believe us, this is an improvement. you own some stook in the gas company, you'll appreciate the bi saving of this wonderful patente burner. Ice Bavers. or white enamel. John Hussie Hardware Co. ‘‘If you buy it of Hussie, it's right."’ With the coming of hot weather, the varions forms of foot ills reach their most and cal- ingrown nalls, corns and bunions become more unbearable during the You will not need to suffer in this way My special study of the orthopraxy of the foot enables me to adjust appliances that give immedi- I deal with the cause—not the upon sclentific and orthopedic principles. See Stryker for Foot Comfort Douglas Shoe Store After you have looked all come and see the values are stable. ing “hard times.” Unless Alaska Refrigerators Sanpitary. Odorless and great Either plain lining Prices— $8.50 to $37.00 cost you. Buy-a-Lot and lot. work in value. THE DOUGLAS SNOE STORE, An Undisputed Fact Omaha is considered one of the live- liest real estate cities in the world. Its times when the rest of the country is hav- There is no safer investment for money than Omaha ground. There is no more llkel);éalace to put money and be assur: a few years you can sell the rop- erty for twice or thrice w Just now THE BEE, in its Thirty-Day is drawing the attention of thousands to the desirability of buying a lot or a house Many are taking advantage of the very low prices which are be- ing made on real estate by dealers and are getting genuine bargains which they will have the satisfac- tion of seeing increase and grow Are YOU one of these? They don’t drop in that in t it Campaign What a fright you must have had,’ Nine homes will wsoon i . Fiehin ““We had a telephone connection with iga Ae ! ease is invariably conquered. N sald the sergeant. bubble over with music and i |, ¥es" replied the simple old woman. | the trencies and we could see the flash melody. A is an ideal corrective of indiges Then, too, there’s a discount ||| I was afrald the range was busted.’ SURE Shel o P Tomorrow we place on Read i gor says: of TWENTY per cent on ANY ||| Sol o i "'h""’ that of all lh? b sale # Player Pianos at the what Mrs. Lorin . pirit of Frontler. was the ncarest to the linel lowest prices you have ever M ] S ¥ ¥ Man’s Bieycle in the house. Such s the spirit of these frontier | Manion. ‘“There were sixty bads in the heard of. Some have heen “Datfy's Pure Malt Whiskey eu Excellent used Motoreycles || folks who have been bombarded for nine | pospita). It was maintained under French used for demonstrating, oths h y’ i i 'y are golng at $125, $100, §80, ||/™months and have witnessed some of the | myjgary qirection largely by English ers taken In exchange, every me of stomach trouble from which &/ $70, $50 and at as low as $25. ||/ Tomcntous developments of the glgantic | yoney. The nurses and orderies, almost one now guaranteed to be suffered for three years, After taki; ! duel b"";el'v‘l the 9:"‘;‘“” wp""‘“" ‘:" without exception, were persons of perfect. ’l'lu-!r names are their recommendations, Every one a several bottles, I can truly atteibui Bicycle and Motorcycle Sun- ;{:':"{: ‘:ha ;:'.":h',"s:";un :."'m: wealth, of prominent French and Euglish lifetime bargain. my complete recovery from stot dries are to be had now at dis- || countering. y familles, and many of themi were titled. Your Terms Are Our Terms trouble to Duffy's Pure Mait."—Mrs, VE sl ‘Two of the nurses were daughters of the counts ranging from TWENTY ||| The German armies invading France oL, de ' Barthiine, thé W ot thie B. Loringer, 6727 Market M to FIFTY per cent. wera unable to use their forces to the | COML de Berthune, the owner of the Here Are Some of the B Phtiadelphia, Pa. best advantage over so short a front as ' Electrical Goods, Edison the boundary between France and Ger-| F0Ee, another the Marquise de Cha- $250 Chase & Baker Cabinet Player. .. MRS, B. LORINGER, 2 bannes, another Miss Neville, grand niece $300 Planola Cabinet Player ...... .e Phonographs, Vacuum Sweep- many. That is one of the reasons given | Tord Heaothatialas. anothe TR | £500 Clongh & Warren Player Plano ... ’ ars, “Atts. B9 46 MIIATLy, 2y i) by, DURLaR sxpesta foc. shie, Vidlhtion, S8 Nt UL e S pes AL o0 Brec $550 Schmoller & Mueller Player Piano. . . u s ur e a s °y i duced prices during sale. fr’;“ll“:i‘r“"‘"“iy IM B“““": by b'];‘:“:"" No one on the staff receives remunera- $700 Stuyvesant Planola Plano vt fon MU et heat aaheris | ions irutendithay wemtsibute’ fhens 099 60 $800 Wheelock Planola Plano . Hanism of the st ! {to plvot on Mets and wheel around $000 SBchmoller & Mueller Player Piano. |- a natural food tonic which lnvlnrn nervous mechanis through Belgium into France over a | 2% & month for the privilege of doing inducing .cflvn in the rle juleu [ mnt th. to:? you ut will the tedi o d often ufipl $750 Emerson Player Plano ... dlgest natural ataus the, gtomarh, Ia not required th substan vast front. e tediius, exacting and often ufipleasant t to_its f W rk is the case with orflnu.y rem lu. The German left resting on Metz was | Work whioh is required of nurses and SLESO: Janier. PSS Diam0 ) Who' tak "hutr poontul tn Thter be ‘ore meals and on Teti ] at once engaged with the French center | Orderlles in every hospital. The ambu- Beantiful Gold Watch Set FRE® with every Player Plano pur- usually look onc. Tore upon life with & sound stomach and & b i resting on Verdun. The crown prince's | }Ances were motors belonging to these chased this week or if you will Mlldvlu thaln:t‘r‘go‘r;: ;».'-’:'?M“" That's why so many |army, coming Into France by way of | Nurses and orderlies. The domestics of purchaser and we sell them you receive a Gold Watcl lor your “.Ot .""' ‘ l.. '.“" {Longwy, attacked Verdun on two sides | the institution were chiefly their maids trouble. ) p It succeeded in demolishing Troyon, an | O servants or chauffeurs. Free Bench, Scarf and Selection of Music, with every instrument, Sold in SRALED BOTTLES ONLY. Beware of imitations, linterval fort between Verdun and Toul, | “There may have been a few paid do- 5 i {but the only fort around Verdun they | mestics, but certainly no ome on the "'.“" Pl‘n‘ c.. NOTE &2 $o8, Duttre from yeur looal mm | were able to attack was Douaumont, | Staff from the chief surgeon down re~ us, 'we vmuumm.hmn. and the French clalm not a shell struck | ceived a wage. e, home. Admires Arlatocrats. 1311-13 Farnam Street This bombardment was effected from “I left Canada a good democrat and Exclusive Representatives for the Aeolian Planola Piano, @ sort of neutral zone to the north, | return as 1 left, but T must confess feel- o | Wwhich nelther slde has occupled—consist- | ynus of admiration and respect for the . | ing of two small plateaus called Les aristocrats I met in this hospital doing : Jumelles de Ornes. 'The Germans con- 5