Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 14, 1915, Page 7

R —-— \ strata of marl and sand, and beds of Strange Story of Amber By GARRETT P. SERVISS. | ey | Among the industries serfously affected | by the great Furopean war, that of am- ber mining should be included. The great- est deposits of amber known to exist lie along the shora of the Baltic sea, and particularly in the province of East Prussia. Amber is one of the most romarkable- s u b - rtances found in the earth's crust Tt is fosslized resin, possessing such strong elec- trieal properties that the ancient Greek name for it, electron, s the origin of our word electricity. On ac- | count of these properties amber was for- | merly belleved to possess wonderful pow- ers of protection against disease. | Everybody is familiar with its use for pipe-stems and mouthpleces, for which | purpose it is unrivalled and also for mak- | ing beads and other ornaments of per- | sonal adornment. Many persons still have confidence in the ability of a string of | amber beads to ward off throat troubles from the wearer. In anclent times am- her was muoch employed in the making of small figures and effigles. Pliny has recorded the fact that, in his time, little human figures carved out of amber some- times sold at higher prices than were commanded by the strongest and healthi- est slaves. The Phoenicians pald visits to the Bal- tic amber beds, and in the time of Em- peror Nero a Roman expedition to the rame locality brought back more than six tons of amber. Humboldt ascribed to | the amber trade a very great influence in opening up a connection between the northern and southern shores of Europe. | Not only was amber carried around by sea, but it also passed from people to people across Germany and through the Celtio territories on both sides of the Alps, to the Po walley in Ttaly, and across Pannonia to the lower valley of the Dan- ube and the Black Sea. There is no doubt that amber is the fossilized gum of trees of the pine family, | 1 but precisely what the apecles was from which the gum was mainly derived is | still an unsettled question. These trees must have grown in abundance along the | Baltio coast in the Tertlary Age, probadly | at least 3,000,000 years ago. At that time | the climate of northern Europe was much warmer than at present. Great changes of level afterward occurred along the edge of the sea, and vast forest were sunk, Parts of tree trunks are sometimes found in association with the masses of amber. The gum must huve been very moft, or Hquid, when it was exuded, be- cause insects are often found embedded | in the amber, and the story of their struggles to escape is sometimes graphl- cally exhibited, a leg or a wing being found detached from the body to which it belongs. It is & curious fact in entomology that the earliest fossil ants known have been found embedded in the amber of the Bal- tic. These ants, although some of the genera are now extinet, closely resemble their descendants of today. Other insects found in amber are various species of flies, some very delicate in structure, epiders, centipedes, moths, eto. Formerly amber was gathered along the shores, having been cast up there by the waves. But for the last 200 years it has been mined, shafts being sunk through clay and lignite, into a stratum called blue earth,” where the amber most abounds. This stratum, which is four or five feet thick, extends outward be- | neath the sea, and the masses thrown up | on the shore are broken off by the waves from the projecting edges of the blue earth below the low tide. The storms of autumn are particularly effective in | loosening and casting ashore masses of amber. The pleces are of irregular size and form, varying from the magnitude of a marble to that of a man's head, and welghmg from a few ounces to twelve or fifteen pounds. There is a mass of nearly eighteen pounds in the Royal Museum in Berlin. Although the Baltic shores in East Prussia possess the greatest known | deposits of amber, some have been found in many different parts of the world, Instance, along the Adriatic shores Poland, on the Sicilian coast near | in clay deposits near Pari in Catania, in) Vineyard, Nantucket, Gay's Head, Cape | Sable, several Places in North Carolina, | and at Camden and Harrisonville, N. J Near the last-named place a slab of am- | ber was found an inch thick, twenty inches long and six inches broad. | { | | { ble for the trip. By accld |to meet the litle Amesbury girl. China, and in this country, near Martha's | “Blue-Ribbon Winners” .. WEDNESDAY, T S (i - A | ki JULY wyright, 191 14, 1115 Intern'l News Servic / A / ) yite, {f Il i "lv \ Two of the finest things in the world—a beautiful, throughbred girl and a beautiful, thoroughbred dog, fine eyes and hearted, honest, loyal—a bit of wealth to have at your hearth, as real as a gold coin is wealth—NELI. BRINKLEY, 0. L LS 2 R, T 2 T By Gouverneur Morris and Charles W. Goddard Oopyright, 1915, Star Compeny. Synopsis of Pevious Chapters. After the tragic death of John Aines- b rostrated wife, one of Amer- dies. At her death an t_of the interests kidnaps the 'beautiful 3-year-old baby girl und brings her up where she sees no man, but thinks she is taught by angels who instruct her for her mission to reform the world, At the age of 18 she (s suddenly thrust into the world where axents of the interests are ready to pretend to find her. The one to feel the loss of the little Amesbury girl most, arter she had been spirited away by the Interests, was in ommy Berciay. Fifteen years later Tommy goes to the Adirondacks. e inter are responsi- t he is the first she fortn trom her paradise as Celestia irl from heaven. Neither Tommy nor la recokn each other. Tominy finds It &an easy matter Lo rescue Celesua from Prof. Stllliter and they hive in the mountains; later they are Lursued | by Stilliter and’ escape to an island where they spend the night That night, Stiliter, following his dian gul reaches the island, found Celestia and Tommy, but did not’ disturb them, In the morning Tommy goes swim, During his absence “Stilliter at- tempts to steal Ceiestla, who runs to for help, followed by Stilliter. ne latter at once realizes Tommy's pre dicament dvantage of it by taking not only Celestia's, but Tommy's In- clothes. Btilliter reaches Four Covners with Celestia fust in time to catch au express for New York, there he places Celestia in Bellevue hospital. where her sanity is proven by the ~authoritier Tommy reaches Bellevue just before Stil liter's departure Tommy s first aim away from Htilliter. levue Tomm, hotel to take costume. But father to keep her was to get Celostia After they leave is unable to get lestia in owing er he persu When he into the hands of white # gscapes and xocs to live with a poor fam- hen their fly by the name of Douxlas |son Freddie returns home he finds right in his own house, Celestia, the which the underworld has offere ward that he hoped to get Colestia secures work in a large gar- mant factory, where a great many girls are employed. Here she shows her pe- cullar power, and makes friends with all her girl companions. By her talks to the girls she is able to calm a threatoned irl tor a re- | Strike, and the ‘‘boss” overhearing her is moved to grant the rellef the girls wished, tor a | 1 terfe of wealthy mining men, who agree to send Celestia to the colllsrivs. e v work in the coal mines off a threatened struck a heavy blow a paradise | room band, reached for the whisky bottle and poured cussion. in those crimes should he punished camé 80 eloquent after her second drink | Tommy (who drank nothing) the tor liquor. | he feeling rightly that they were sufficlently | primed for the time being seated reached for the whisky bottle and Tommy laid his After being disinherited, Tommy sought He tries to head by taking the Barclay, who re- The strike is on, strike miners' leaders to see uses to listen to them. and Tommy discovers a plan of the own- ers to turn a machine gun loose on the nen when they attack the stockade. This sets the mine owners busy to get rid of | Tommy NINTH EPISODE, Mrs. Gunsdorf félt as If she had been between the eves. her God-llke champion of labor only a hypocrite and A yny? For a moment it seemed water. She put the telegram back in its as If her knees had turned to and herself to- the front having more pocket, gether, pulled once entered She seated herself somewhat betweem Tommy and he and _with a hand that heavily hus shool, +he herself a stiff drink. Fresently be- gan to take an animated part in the dis- No one ever remembered her to have been so bitter against capital and the crimes of capital, or so imaginative the invention of by whieh She be- norrors of whiskey, that for the first time Tommy found himself regarding her with a certain admiration. It was 5 o'clock when the sitting broke up With everyone excent Gunsdorf and worse had business elsewhere and his guests out of the house, Gunsdorf hustled Tommy and Mrs. side by Gunsdorf side. Mrs, remained Gunsdorf hand on her and sald Don't. What's the use?” Her arm trembled under his hand “I'm sick.”” she said in a thick volce; arm “slck." ““That stuff won't help any. I'll go for the doctor." “T'll be all right. I'm faint. That's all To Tommy she seemed to be making an effort to pull together. “It's the air in this reom.” he said ‘Let me take you outside.” She seemed to acquiesce, and he helped out difffculty, for the stair was very narrow, he carried her up to the room which she shared with her husband, and lald her on the bed. Then he was for leaving her, but she had fiung her arms about his neck and was holding him tight. Her eyes had opened and shone brilliantly in his face. without a word, turned out of the room and down the stair and marched took his coat from its hook and put it m, laid his hand on the knob of the ront door, hesitated, turned on his heel and went back up the stair. He had closed the door of Mrs. Gunsdorf's room behind him, Now he knocked on it, and in a stern voice, for youth and Innocence are very stern, said: ‘Mrs. Gunsdorf.” There was no answer. He raised his volce & trifle. Do you need the doctor, or don't you>" This time she answered him I don't need any doctor, and you can €0 to hell." Tommy shrugged his shoulders, went to his own room, bolted the door and pre- pared to read till supper time. But he couldn’'t read. The new problem which had suddenly risen in his life was too disturbing ardice not to open the door, that Tommy He | By DOROTHY DIX. ( A young man, who avers he s of a | sentimental mature, complaina bitterly | about what he calls the commercinlisa- '||All1 of matrimony, He says scornfully that in these days | | girls do not marry | {for love, as their | | granamothers diq, but that they re- | | gard marriage as a | business proposi- tion, and that un- less & man can of- fer them a comfort- | | | | Her checks and temples were crimeon, |uble living they and there was no longer any fear of him | will have nothing 1 in_her or shame of him. He further i For a moment, so innocent was TommY | 41leges that when | he thought that her sudden fainUBE'|. man asks the | sickness had culminated in & sort of fit, {poqns gy 0 and it was not until he felt that her Mps | 0o pin ape were greedily seeking his that he realized | |\ "ol his pesition | by | He shook himselt free, not gently, and | MOV 10 ":m:l': and what his pros- pects are This the young man considers shock {ing, and he opines that the reason that 80 many men don't marry is because they | cannot find any of the sweet, old fashioned maidens who agree with the poet that love Is enough and who never ask for Bradstreet's blessing on their marriage. I think this matrimonfal cynis like | &00d many other cynics, doesn't under stand the situation at which he scoffs. | In the first few place, there were mercenary marriages made never so a8 are made today. The woman of the past had to marry for & home and a meal ticket Also she had to marry to escape de pendence and to have any individual place in the world | { In our grandmothers’ days the only S \e heard Mrs. Gunsdo - Presently he heard Mrs. Gunadorf stir- | goinpyi oceupations open to women were | | ring fn her room. Bhe came out and| prv-Shergfri o T 4 dva ‘dunn--(u service, tactory work, sewing | rorengt iy S I {and teaching. Al were miserably ill- | Bestdd | paid, and so it grandma wanted a decent | i SR S G SRR N living she had to marry it. Also an old | by b Bt | maid was a figure of fun, despised, put “No. I'm not oing to do that. But I|'Pon. the fringe on some family that et tind niedk saiad ninne ke Ntia E.n-m‘v want any appliqied edge of ]nmr; Silence. ‘Then Mrs. Gunsdorf relativas. | “Please don't—won't you open the| B0 If grandma desired a home of her | B0or? Woe: ebh. talls: Settan. own and position in society, and to be ad- | It seemed such a confession of cow-|mMired and respected, she had to marry | an establishment, no matter what Inrl‘ opened it, and they faced each othor |©Of feeling she had about the gentleman | across the threshold iwho produced the wherewithal ! It was the liquor,* she said 'm | The net result of this was that vuvnunl |like that when I drink. If you won't go | shamelessly married, whether thoy loved | awny, 1 won't drink any more or not, because marriage was the only | | Her hair was disheveled and she had [open door to a career and livelihood doubt a thousand in | Without jor a slack Individual { Just | in the | stead | mist in a morning sun Commercialism of Matrimony The girl with a job can afford to marry | for love, and the mau that she says to can rest In perfect satiafaction that he fs loved for himself alone, and loved greatly, because the girl of today thinks a good long whila before she sur- renders her individual pocketbook and freedom. The working girl doesn’'t marry ki to get somebody to pay for her hats and | gowns. On the other hand, she expects to renounce most of these frivols by marrying, for observation has taught her that the woman who emrns her own clothes generally h many inore of them than the one whose clothes are given her by her husband. As for the cynic's caustic arralgnment of girls who ask thelr prospective hus- bands what they are making, why should they not? It is surely a question of some iraportance to a woman to know what and what the resources of the firm are | golng to be, and what the prospects are g0Ing to be, and what the prospects for | the future are. No senstble man would be a fool enough to put his all Into an enterprise without making a few inquiries about It. It wouldn't suffice him to know that the gentleman interested in the project with him had soulful ey and white teeth, and broad shoulders, and a taking way. He would want to how much the man made, what enorgy he had, whether he was one of the men with inftiative who would Le sure to get along who would slways fall short of success Burely ir on earth good hard, practical horse sense is needed it is jon of a life partner. and it gues much for domestic happiness in the future thai girls have begun to try to find before marriage Whether a man can support a family or mot, in- of walting till after marriage to find out that he can't In poetry and novels know anywhe: out romance s all | that a young couple neels to start house- but in real life it takes a and unless that is forth- romance melts away like Nobody 18 sent! mental when he is hungry and culd and shabby. And when the Lill collector be gins pounding on the door Cupld beats it out of the window. It takes a full stomach as well as a full heart, to inspire lovemaking. There are keeping upon, bank account coming the trulsms ns old as civiliza Do You Know That sort of a partnership she is going into, | and | tion, and it doesn't kill romance, it pro- motes romance, to bear them in mind, Of all disastrous marriages none more | quickly ends in mieery and disiliusion- | ment than those which are not sup- ported by an adequate financial plank, and it girls have acquired enougn senss |to fnquire into the state of a man's pocketbook, as well as lis affections, be- fore they marry It's going to do more than any other one thing to stop diverce. If this is what the commercialization ‘ol matrinmony means, then the commer- clalization of matrimony meets a long- felt want. Let's have more of it 10WA WOMAN - TELLS OTHERS How Lydia E. Pinkham’s Veg- | etable Compound Carried Her Safely Through | Change of Life. Cedar Rapids, lowa. —*“At the Change of Life the doctor said I would have to e €1V Up my work and s ] take my bed for . some time as there was no help for me but to lie still. I took Lydia E. Pink- ham's Vegetable Compound and kept up my work and now I am over the Change and that is all T took. It was better for me than all the doctor’s medicines I tried. Many E:oph have no faith in patent medicines t I know this is good.''—Mrs. E. J. RickE™e, 354 8th Avenue, West, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Such warning symptoms as sense of suffocation, hot flashes, headaches, back- aches,dread of impending evil, timidity, sounds in the ears, palpitation of the heart, sparks before the eyes, irregu- larities, constipation, variable appetite, weakness and inquietude, and dizziness, are promptly heeded by intelligent wo- men who are approaching the period in | life when woman’s great change may her tu her feet. and toward the door, |been erving we b B e val wre e a 3 | Th ate Sir Francis Campbell is the | factory catches on fire, and the work (more and more heavily against him, untff |sway, he'd skin me alive. 1 won't | riage, literally sold themselves in mar il " Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com- room is soon & blazing furnace. Celestia | it took real strength to keep her from |trouble you any more. ge, where one woman does now. For M ‘pound invigorates and strengthens the IS a0 Y oRaDe /iR ke (ther Sirls. | salilog. 1p the frent Ball she-apoeared | She loaked vesy: frightoned asd. eath- | ibe first time In the higtory of the world | g, 0y net profit on vodka sales in female organism and builds up the weak- p ries her out, wrapped in a big roll of |10 collapse entirely. Her head dropped |etic ; women are free to follow the dictates of |, o.ouivimey umounts to more than one- | ened ncrvous system. It has d re way to satisfy | con backward a3 1 her neck had been sud Thén you'd better fix yourself up,” |thelr own hearts in matrimony, because | .cite. of ner totul revenue -~ safel carried wants is through -ase || Tare, "tieunE, Celsatig from the (ire, | denly disiocatad. and she lurched against [suid Tommy. You look as if~mell you (with ll the avenves of gainful occuse Y | many women safely through this, crisis, s Wwho Undertakes to persuade him o zive| Tommy with ell her welht as If you'd make your husband sus- | tion that have opensd up before the | Paraffine-wax models are mads of| If there are ( he want ad pa, f Th ke v ) to mive “ > pages o e | up the girl Tos umy refuses, und Celca'ial It was necessary. he felt. o go for the t something or other feminine sex the modern girl can support | every new British battleship laid down, | you don’t understand write Lydia . Try a wanis Sies (e wed hev Uyectiy. Me (8| docter st out wuld not lea s perself as well as the average husband | anc these models are tested in a tank | E, Pin . ee want ad.| "ot do this, as he has no famd:. Stiiiter . { s L né Bes L iniee Colentin ta & €0 her 1ying in the front hall. 8o, nut with mi et S | ia likely to do | specially erected for the purpose. dential) Lynn, Masr