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THE B OMAHA, Have Root Print It—Now Heacon Press. Lighting Fixtures—Burgess-Grandon, Sunday School Opems—Temple Israel Sunday school opens Sunday at 10 o'clock Kesp Your Money and Valuables in the American Safe Depos 17th St, Bee bullding xes rent $1.00 for three months. Open from 9 a. m. to 6 p. m. Two Ask Divorce—Mrs. Flora B, Nice 1s suing John E. Nice for divorce, alleg- ing cruelty. Mrs. Violet Bristol charges Samuel Bristol with non-support. * “Today's Complets movie Program” elassified section today, and appears in The Bee EXCLUSIVELY, Find out what the various moving picture theaters offer. Talks to Baitors—E. V. Parrish, man- ager of the bureau of publicity, attended the meeting of the western lowa editors at Woodbine, Ia., Friday. He addressed the convention. Regular Services in Kountze Memoriul Lutheran church, Farnam street and Twenty-sixth avenue, every Sunday morn- ing at 11 o'clock and evening at 8 o'clock. All are welcome. For Safety First In Life Insuranco see W. H. Indoe, general agent State Mutual Life Assurance Co. of Worces- ter, Mass., one of the oldest, 7l years, and best companies on earth. Held on Susploton—Leona Edwarcs and Roscoe Plerson, arrested on sus- picion of having robbed Frank M. Frantz at Eleventh and Capitol avenue of $5 in cash and a draft for $170, are being held for investigation. Survivor of Lusitania—Michael Dran. han, a survivor of the Lusitania disaster, is in Omaha visiting P. J. Corcoran, 2510 i street, South Side. Dranahan, who is a farmer living at Vail, Ia., lost a sister brother-in-law in the wreck. Ohristensen Discnarged—C. M. Chris- tensen, 201 Cuming street, whose saloon was ralded Friday night and he and sev- eral customers arrested for gambling, proved to the judge that they were doing no such thing, eo the outfit was dis- charged. Stiver Back from Inspeotion Trip— €. B. Stiver of the department of internal revenyes has returned to Omaha after a tour of this territory. He has been gone for a week, during which time he has seen nearly all of the collectors under him in Towa. Signal Men Here Sunday—Going to the Pacific coast, 150 of the railway sig- nal men of the United States will be in Omaha fifteen minutes Sunday afte noon. They will arrive at 1 o'clock over the Northwestern and go out over the Union Pacific. Mand is Injured—J. Uvick, 258 h Thirty-second street, a Creight W student, sustained a severely ...erated hang when he let if protrude from an open window of a street car and the car brushed a wagon. He was attended by Dr, C. B, Foitz. Chinese Minister Here Monday—Fn rounte from Washington to San Fran- cisco, Kal Fu Shah, Chinese minister to the United States, will be in Omaha Monday morning. He will arrive at 7:30 over the Northwestern and leave for the west immediately over the Union Pacific. Bound Over to District Court—Bessie Woods, colored, 108 Bouth Thirteenth street, was bound over to the district court with bonds fixed at $600, for re- celwng stolén property. When her place was ralded several days ago by the po- Hce several stolen auto tires were found in the establishment. Stoner to Take Migh's PFlace—Chiel Yeoman G. Stoner, who is to take the place now held by Chief Yeoman High at the local navy recruiting station, has arrived in Omaha from San Francisco. High will remain in Omaha for another month, when he will leave for San Fran- cisco, Loses Valuable Pin—Mrs. E. B, Lorig, 2210 N street, was formerly in the posses- slon of a very valuable diamond brogch, which she left at home Friday morning when she started on a shopping tour. She returned in the afternoon and discovered that the brooch had disappeared. Mrs. Lorig offers a reward of $2 for its return. Open Omaha Office—Douglas Ken- nedy has arrived in Omaha to open of- fices here for the American Tellurian Manufacturing company of Portland and attle. This company makés and sells device for teaching astronomy in the public schools, and Mr. Kennedy expects 10 open offices in Omaha as a distributing center of the middle west. File Attorney's Lien—Brome & Brome, attorneys, who filed a suit for Miss Lucille West, in which she asked $15,000 heart balm from Charles W. Shatfer, secretary of the Lion Bonding and Surcty company, have filed a lien for # per cent of the expected verdict. The lawyers ¢laim one-half of “any amount recelved by the plaintiff from the de- fendant in said action.” Billousness wnd Constipation. It is certainly surprising that any woman will endure the miserable feel- ings caused by billousness and constipa- tion, when rellef is so easily bad and at so little expense, Mrs. Chas. Peck, Gates, N. Y., writes: “About a year ago I used two bottles of Chamberlain's Tablets and they cured me of billousness and consti- pation.” Obtainable everywherd. All Aruggists.—~Advertisement. Holdup Men Shoot For Fun as They Rob Without waiting to see that their com- mang had been obeyed, two masked rob- Ders, one negro, other white, who held up the Louis Ravitz grocery at Twenty elghth and Binney last night, began shooting. They made several holes in the celling and the wall, and frightened several customers. They escaped, taking $5 from the cas) register The same two holduo men 1obbed Sum Bablor, 918 Tweuty-fourth rtreet, of #4 MAKE YOURMONEY WORK Will You Admit That your spending abit is master of your desire to save? We'd all like to save money, but some of u can't resist the inclina tion toward extravagance. Get your will powei working. Then some of your money will be workizg for YOU, Our bank is opem on Saturday nights from 6 to 3 o'clock, Start a savings account and get the help of our 4 per cent Interest, PACKERS NATIONAL BANK 50 OMAHA NEBR t Vaults, 218 . | THE MAGIC CITY| 0ld Cobblestone Paving on West L Street Torn Up to Prepare for Brick. WORK TO BE STARTED MONDAY FINAL BAND CONCERT. | A final band concert of the summer will be given at Mandan park fo the Maple avenue district this after- noon at 2 o'clock. Refreshments will be served by members of the South Side Improvement club, The old cobblestone paving on West L street, from thy stock yurds to Thirty- {third, has been torn up (o make ready | for new bridk pavament about to be laid by the clty. Inree Immense piles of con crete for mixing are now plled at the | corner of Thirty-third and L streets. The { work of mixing and laying the iisture {Will be started Monday morning. West @ Saloon Ralded, Detective Andrew Lestaski and Officer [ Barney Cogan jast night rulded the sa- {loon of John Sudyka, 2715 ¢ street. Ba- | sides Sudyka, a Jer, Joe Peatia, Twenty-seventh Q streets, tud five inmates were taken. Thev wore K. Me- Kune, 2522 8 strest; Anton Skovg, 2018 Ar- bor street; John Bartman, Thirty-ccord and F strees; Gennyo Elska, 2117 Q street, land Valent Vresk, Twenty-seventh cnd R streets. The ra‘'l was made at 8.30 o'clock. All inmat anl propriet were | later released on bLonis. | Horsethief ets Busy. W. Bates, a farmor, liiing at Thirty- | sixth and U streets, ressriel ts the po- lice yesterday moming that an unidenti- fied thief had stolen his horse and Lukgy | sometime yesterday wiila tie latter was hitched near his home. The horse was a bay. Two bales of hay were In the buggy when taken. Tha poalice are look |ing for the man. | Mra. W. F. Moore Entertains, | Mrs. W. F. Moore entertained a num- ber of friends at her home, %2 North [Forty-tourth street, Friday evening. The |evening was spent in music and singing, {after which Those present were: | Misses— |Josephine Curtis {Lucy Schlesser |Helen Fitzgerald ellie Carroll Silvie O'Nell Martha_Yost Bessie Miller ool Misses— Blizabeth Padget Evelyn McLaughlin CGrace Wehner Lauretta Wehner Cora Storm | Mrs, J. McLaughlin | Mrs. W. F. Moore | refreshments were served. ! BRIEF CLI‘_Y NEWS 7HAPPEN[NGS ]N - V,NBartender First to Hit Trail, The first Omaha man to “hit the trail,” did so last night at the Sunday taber- nacle, and that gentleman was a bar- tender, Although no trail hitters have been called for yet, this individual whose name s withheld for strategic purposes, hit the path—and hit it hard. It happened this ‘wise, He was making for a seat to the rear of the bullding just previous to the open ing of the services, when some person loosed a foot into the aisle, and he tripped on the extremity and dove Into the bright | fresh shavings. C. 8. Rockholm, Eleventh | and Dodge streets, says he has no idea, who it could have been “Well, let's see what's he's got," ex- | claimed a purple-plumed girl of the| streets, who with a companion entered the corridor around the sides of the building. The pair leaned on the ralling and with cynical smiles made disparaging| remarks during the evangelist's opening | statements. Hy the time his sermon was well under way they were laughing at his expressive slang, one fuintly venturing, “he’'s pretty good at that." It was when Sunday held the crowd | with his solemn and pathetic trulsms | that the slowly but rows. As he cheeks began veneered surely ot to the pair show fur- | ‘and the girls of that town the redlight district and | went weeping to mother's arms, the woman with the purple plume, gulped hastily and with a sob, whispered, "For | d's sake Mame take me out of here. And they left quietly, the speaker weep- ing openly, and the other seeking to | comfort her wound up, deserted back “Billy” Sunday will have walked more | than twenty miles on the platform of the | tabernacle before the of his cam- | paign in Omaha, {f he continues his pros- entent athletic form of preaching \‘ record taken during three sermons in cluding that of last night, shows that he averages 676 at each service. Fig uring these at an average of thirty inches each, he covered a distance of 1,40 feet or more than a quarter of a mile upon each oceasion | During these sam: sermons, Blly" | pounded the pulpit 222 times or an aver age of seventy-seven times at each serv- fce. The average length of the sermon of “Billy” have been about 6,00 words, room, nicely decorated houses to responsi- ble party, well located, close-in, Merrill, northeast’ corner Twenty-third and M The “Blindness of Virtue,” a moving picture of six reels, written by Rev. Thomas B. Gregory, for the General Film company, will be shown at the Besse theater house tomorrow afternoon and evening. Good base burner and gas heater for sale cheap, 1619 North Twenty-seventh Bryan Nixon, star tackle for the South Side High school foot ball equad, arrived in from near Ord, Neb., yesterday after- noon. The athlete had been working dur. ing the summer on the farm of a friend in the vicinity ¢ Ord Jack Rabb, young South Sider, who sustaine en leg and a bad cut on the sc sterday morning in a street car accident at Fourteenth and Harney streets, is reported to be recovering at his home at Twenty-first and H streets. FOR RENT—Five-room house. Cheap rent. 913 North Twenty-first street. Bellevue college opens next Tuesday ! morning at § o'clock. Beveral alumni jof the South Omaha High school will at- mong _these are Misses Helen . Marje Krug, Ruth Derbyshire, and arwood Richardson and Cyril “THE BLINDNESS OF VIRTUE" comes to the Besse theater tomorrow. The picture is in six parts and Miss Edna Mayo and Bryant Washburn will have the star parts, the production is for to- morrow only. Matinee, 10 cents; evenings, 2 cents Nieman-Wilson W edd - A complete surprise to her friends, | Miss Norma Nieman, daughter of Mr. and ! Mrs. G. W. Nieman, and popular high school girl, was married to LeRoy Wil | son of Omaha at the home of Rev. J. W. ! Kirkpatrick, %1 North Twenty-third | street, last Saturday evening. The even- ing after the ceremony was passed at the home of the bride's parents at $06 | North Twentfeth street The couple left on their honeymoon trip to Wichita, Kan, and western No- braska last Monday morning. Mr. Wil- son is connected with the Corn State Serum company and is a nephew of Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Jones, with whom he | has made his home since a smail boy. | He is a graduate of the South Omaha | High school, | _ Ladies’ Wal} i Bhoes, all ‘the latest lasts, in lace or| button. Our prices are below those of | same grade in the uptown stores. Try us. | CRESSEY. | Markey-Putman Nuptials. i Miss Evangellne Anna Putman, former | high school girl, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank 8. Putman, was married to Arthur M. Markey Wednesday morning at Bt. Bridget's church. Rev. Father Ballew performed the ceremony. ! Some seventy-five gucsts attended tho | wedding breakfast served immediately | after the ceremony at the home of the | groom, Twenty-fourth and F streets, | South Side. Father Ballew acted as toastmaster, and among those who gave toasts were the eider Markey and James | Hoctor. | The bride wore a tafetta gown beauti- | fully trimmed with lace. She carried a | bouquet of bridal roses. Miss Mayme Humpal acted as bridesmaid, while James Hoctor was best man. The couple will journey to Lincoln on | their honeymoon trip, following which | they will make thelr home at Twemy: | {sixth and F streets, after September 12. | Our Hoyw' Shod,” “American Boy” and Scout”’ shoes are without any question the best shoes made for service and style. | Sold only at Cressey's, in South Omaha. Big Four on Firing Line. A meeting of the Big Four club was held at the home of Theodore Korbmaker, treasurer, last evening, to discuss pros- pects for the South High school foot ball | team. Principal 8, W. Moore of the high | school was invited to attend. The announcement that Van Arthur- ton, star halfback of the squad, would return to school next Monday after de- ciding to leave the high school entirely, bas checred the members up. Every ef- fort will now be made to secure eligibility to play, foot ball for Ralph Leach, veteran | quarterback of the squad, whe is down in a last years study. Startling “Moral Play" South Omaha. The most widely criticised play of its type—that is the distinction of “The Blindness of Virtue,” the English moral play, which has been produced in films by Essanay, and will be shown at the Besse theater tomorrow. This great play teaches of the stupidity of virtues which lead to vice. It convinces that the great- est danger the young girl can be sub- jected to grows out of her ignorance re- garding certain problems of the maturing | body. And this lgnorance s laid on the | head of her mother—whose great duty it {18 to open her eyes. Etfe, the girl who | protrays ignorance, is played by Edna | Mayo. Bryant Washburn plays opposite her as Archie, the minister's protege and | “Steel is coming to | of Effie. Admission matinee, vening, 2) cents. The play is v Lomorrow on'y. Our Girly' Dr School ghoes will please you. A stock of all kinds. in lace or button. CRESSEY. Office space for rent in Bee office, 2318 N street. Terms reasonable. Well known cation. 1. South Magle City Gossip, | A basket social will be given at the| First Presbyterian church at Twenty- | hird and J streets tomorrow evening at | o'clock Wanted hoy with horse to earry paper ¢ southwest part of Bouth Oinaha ply at Bee office, 2818 N street, South ymaha. Garwood Richardson will return fiom a week's vacation visit at Minord this even- ng. He will attend the fall sesvom of Bellevue college, opening Tuesday even- ing. We can install an ofl heating plant. _Call us. Heating and Plumbing Co., #1 N. St. Tel. Bo. 6l | Willism Farmer will be buried this aft-| ernoon in_the Forest Lawn cemetery, | chapel at Twenty-fourth and K streets, at 2 o'clock this afternoon FOR RENT-Two-rooia and one five- burner in Robert 'fal Agent Stoley of the Burlington road will appear in police court Mon- day morning at 9 o'clock, against the | two men arrested by himself Friday morning on a charge of stealing from iboxcars on the tracks along the Gib- son stretch below Riverview park. One of the men is alleged to_ be the gang- ster, who shot him last Mni/. inflicting | #ix ‘separate wounds, confining him i | the hospital for three months. Cost of the Sunday Campaign Given Out by Committee For the Information of the public of Omaha and vicinity the executive com- mittee of the Sunday campalgn presents the following carefully estimated budget of the entire Sunday campaign: Grading .. Tabernaclo X Rent of grounds 1,798 Two-thirds salaries of workers, not including Mr. Sunday. aees .. 8,000 Hotel expenses for Mr. Sunday and €O-WOrKers ...........: .. 2,000 Stenographers, caretakers, watch- men, ete. . 760 | Postage 20 | Printing .00 0 Nursery and hospital 250 Electric light ..... 750 Transportation cees 500 Women's and young people's work. 2,00 Incidental expense 1,000 Totals T WE Chairman Executive Committee, Many Maneuvers To Get “Tab” Seats The usher who stands at Exit 13 as- serts that a “clever’” bit of maneuvering for a good seat was executed by a woman visitor to the tabernacle last night, “I am very, very hard of hearing" | quoth the woman, “would you please be so kind as to get me a seat near ihe platform?" “Is that so?" softly. “Yes. I replied And he got her the seat. Cop Could Very Soon | Discover Just Where “Hello, 1 this the police headquarters?’ | shrilled a woman's voice last night over | the telephone. “It is," wae replied ‘Well, say, send an officer up to Twen- ty-first and Howard—there's a baby yell- ing o loud that we nelghbors are being made almost insane." | What's ths address, lady?" | “Send the cop up to the neighborhood, and he'll find it, all right,”" she answered, hanging up the receiver. Billy's Raps at Church “It is an insult to Goa and s disgrace to allow children to grow up without throwiag Ohristian influences around whispered the usher very can hardly hear at all," she “The church today is too stingy. Yo | strugyle along, just meeting the ourrent expenses, with men in the congregation able to pay all the o 'rrent expenses by themselves. You don't give much to missions.’ ; “If we prayed right we wonld raise men from sin and bring them forth into the light of righteousness. If the churoh | today would quit her cussedness, mu tl. | tudes would be converted.” | “Bvery man who has helped to Mght up the dark places of the world has been & praying man. I never preach a ssruon until I've soaked it in prayer. Never. Then I never forget to thank God for helping me when I preach.” “I think lots of churches wray for sal- vation, because they merely wan: to built up their own congregations.. I don’t believe God pays attention to such elfish prayers. Ob, the curse of self. ishuess! The Lord dying for religion, for religion pure and undefiled.” “One reasom Ghod doesn't b'ess some churches is that they are too narrow. Their people are s ingy, t00. Home peo. ple are too stingy for God to listen to them. Don't spend everyth ng you make on yourself. Give some of it to Ged, ‘for nnto the least of these'—you kmew the rest.” “Now, I don't object to seelng fine clothes if you can afford them. I make Bo kick awainst wesring dlamcnds if you can afford them. I like to see peo- ple well-drersod and rest. But don't come to church dressed uv in hundreds of dollars’ worth of clothes and them | drop & mickel into the o:llection pats. Tia being stiagy.” LOADS OF CLANS FOR OMAHA ELKS Feast Spread for Delectation of | Members and Friends Excels All Others. JOY SUPREME AT KRUG PARK “Let's see—about 30,000 little neck clams, 500 pounds of npr!nz’ chicken, 200 pounds of sweet pota- toes, 200 pounds of new potatoes, 400 | pounds of cob corn, 100 gallonsg of | chowder, 400 pounds of crabs and | 300 pounds of blue fish—'bout lmwl' many Elks do you think that would | feed?” ruminatively asked John| Siple, the man who put on the Mui clam bake at Krug park yesterday. “‘Oh, about a million, I guess answered Siple’s friend. "’l‘llo«ol Elks are spinning around so lively now that they look like two million,” “Nope, your'e wrong," asserted Siple “It only took about 500 Elks to eat up that big bunch of fodder!" Siple came here all the way from Provi- dence, R. L, to put on the bake, He im- ported all the necessities, and the fifth annual clam bake here under his direc- tion proved to be the most successful, After the Elks got through eating, they gave thelr attention to a program ar-! ranged for thelr benefit. James Norcroas, 4 years old, and the seventh man in the United States to become an Elk, was on hand to tell a few stories. Norcross has been appearing at the Orpheum for the lnst week with his partner, Colonel Samuel Holdsworth, 64 years, in a sing- Ing sketch, Although he is the seventh man to join the Biks, he is the oldest one alive today. The big crowd at the park cheered him to the echo. Dan Coleman and Phil Peters of the Hastings' show at the Gayety furnished a bit of amusement, and so did Dick O'Kane and Tommy Lyman, entertainers | at Riverside club. A lively ten-round exhibition bout be- tween Tommy Dixon of the Dixon School of Manly Art, and John Cashill of St. Paul, was one of the big features, Mayor Dahlman refereed. Madimolselle Hotstuffo, Ben danseuse, also POSSIBLE CHANCE SUNDAY MAY DRINK SELF TO DEATH In spite “of his almost superhuman power of endurance and iron constitution, | “Billy” Sunday, it 1s said by physiclans, | cannot hope to live ten years more at the most, at the rate he is going now. And the evangelist said last night that he is going to “pass in his checks" on the firing line. There s a possible chance that he may drink himself to death. Inside Sunday's | stand is a shelf holding a two-quart | water pitcher. At the end of each ser-| mon, and sometimes in its midst, he reaches down, pulls out the pitcher, and | holding 1t in both hands, drinks in great gulps, while the audience laughs and claps, Sunday would pay slight attention to | his health if he had “his way" In the | Sunday household. He told the newspaper men they could see him any time he wasn't preaching. But “Ma’ Sunday is his boss, and she overheard the remark. | “Well, T just guess he won't,”” she said, her eyes flashing. “There's golng to be | some system here. And I'll see that ‘Pa’ has regular hours.” And “Ma” won. From “Billy’s" Bat “rll bet my life against a slug cent/ that there is many a man here bound ‘n| chains of vice.” the performed. Ak-Sar- | | | “@od pity you for all you got to show for selling your soul to the devil. You are a fool. You are a fool. Take i§ from you are a fool.” | “Are you nursing a Are you nursing and fesding that which will wreck your life and wreck you upon the shores of passion, notwithstanding all the Wwrecks you| have seen of those who have gong down the Unp?” | “Some men are so rotten and vile that| they ought to be infected amd tak: al hath in carbolic acid and formaldebid — | “A lot of young women ho'd your- elves too cheaply. You are scaTed t0 death for fear you will be what the world calls an old maid” “The devil has B0 tune except the spit- toon, and I want to tell you right now, if I were some women I would mot clean their old spittoon out for them If they made a hog trough out of it. It they want it cleaned, let them clean i$ themselves.” 1 say to you, yousg girl, don's go wi'h | that @Godless, Godforsaken, sueering young man that walks the streets smok. ing olgarettes. Me would not walk ‘he streets with you if you smoked ciger.| ettes. But you say you will marry him a4 reform him; he woull not marry| you to reform you™ ‘God makes & little humor, as evi. denced in the fact that he made fhe| monkey, the parrot, the donkey—and some cf you yeopl | dectsion MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1915, 'KEEP BAN UPON ILLINOIS BOOKS IN SOUTH SIDE SCHOOL | But He Does It in Odd Way su: n et with Services of Dr. Day, Field Veterinarian. BULLA RE-ELECTED PRESIDENT That the ban on live stock from the territory about eastern Illinols, whe the hog cholera and foot and mouth Asecase broken out afresh In the last month, should not be lifted was the of the Nebraska live Stork Banitary board, which met at last Wednesday noon. President J. M Bulla of the Omaha stock yards presided and led the discussion. “Apparcntly nothing definite from the meeting of representatives from the fmportant stock growing states of the west, held here some months ago, when we ably discussed the situation and a on a practical policy,” Chafrman Bulla sald yesterda ‘My colleagics from the states co-operating in this campaign seem to have dropped the mat- ter, but that does not mean that I am going to drop it Another meeting will be called mighty soon and reports from state veterinarians and exporty handed In to a general committee and submitted to the National Hoard of Con- trol The proposition was discussed briefly at the meeting at Lincoln, but nothing was done except to look forward to an other union moeting of states. The very fact that there is but very little of the disease gorm existing In the entire coun try and that so strong and consistent a fight has been made on its growth has made local stockmen look up and demand immediate action. At the meeting of the state board, Colo- nel Leonard of Pawnee (ity was re ceived as a new member of the board Bulla was lected president at the tion of officers that followed the nvening of the commission, J. H. An- derson was electod secretary, The Aerv- fces of Dr. C. M. Day as fleld veter!- narian were dispensed with by a majority of the board voting. A successor has not been eclected yet The meeting adjourned without further action being taken. Chairman plans to call another meeting the first Wednesduy fn October, at which the mat- ters governing the quarantine action will be discussed in detail George Sunday Hears Call While Listening To Roving Speaker It your father was a noted evangelist and ho went about the country preaching here and there and everywhere, and— If he hag won thousands to salvation, and his fame was known from one ehd of the continent to the other, and— If he appealed to every class, condition, then— You would imagine he would have con- verted you, wouldnt you? Well, “Billy" Sunday didn't convert son George, It was 1oarnad lasy night. No. s The cldest son of the evangelist's brood Wwas converteq over a year ago by a rov- Ing evangelist preaching in Indiana, Prior to that George was just “a good boy.” He was an athlete, too, playing football for Cylver Military academy, near Winona Lake, Ind., and he coached one of the western university basket bail teams, He looks the part, with his broad shoulders and his lithe form. A year ago he heard the message and was converted, gave up the automobile business and smoking, and Jolned his father in the evangelical field, have stock every Lincoln | | | has come | Bulla | | | | of books, parti | of the schools are to be urged to attend. e Sanitary Board Dispenses | Under Direction «f Public Library Board Literature for Children Will Be Distributed Soon BUILDING UP CIRCULATION The Omaka library s paying particular | attention to the South Omaha branch and 18 attempting to bulld up the clreulation ilarly among the children of the schools there. About S0 volumes of children's books are being sent to Cor- | rigan, Highland, Lowell, Madison, South | Franklin and Westal be ing at such a distance puth schools, thes: from the Omaha branch as to make it hard for the children to secure books direct from the branch. The other schools will be | visited by sentatives of the library, whe will attempt to Interest the childron | and who will explain to them+the way to | ket books. Books are to bo added to the library at South High school to supplement the | library already there, and particular at- | tention Is being given to the reference work in connection with the school work me by the students, Beginning in October, Mias Katherine Abbott will tell children's stories once a week in the lecture room of the South Omaha branch library and the children The reports read at the meeting of the Library board Thursday evening show an increase during the last year in every branch, despite the Saturday afternoon | and Sunday closing. The reference room | shows an Increase of 1987 readers over | the year previous, No comment was made at the meeting about the closing of the library Saturday afternoons and Sundays, A “For Sale" ad will turn second-hand furniture Into ca “Billy" Quite Foxy | At Handshake Game After every one of hia sermons “Billy" Bunday s surrounded by people Who have llstened to him, and they keep com- ing up as long as he will stay on the. job and shake hands with them. As he has his body trained to ®o through the stunts that mark the deliv- ery of his sermons, o he has his hands and arma trained so that it is apparently no exertion to him to shake hands with thousands—hundreds at a time, The handshake 18, too, of the strenuous rt, the evangiist's krip veing lke that of a vise. He was asked lest night iIf he felt no effects from tue many grips he bestows. “No, my right hand is as hard as nalls,” he answered. Pointing to the top of the platform stand, which he beats up with his fists at every meoting, he sald: “Ill split that with my right hand it you pay for it." But vears of experi ence have taught the revivalist the same system that marks his sermons, He al ways tries to grasp the extended hand first. Then he just premses the four fin- | gers extended, not allowing the others to wedge his hang between the thumb and palm, Should an enthusiast catch him nap- ping on his system and get a firmer grip than the Bunday system ocalls for, “BIllY" immediately brings his left hand into play, and pries loose the hand that has grasped his right. ““They got me fre- quently, however,” he said, “and some- times they pull me clear off the platform but I can always spring up again and keep going until the end.” ?yfm:mrmwz Labie ol iy M U LAST BIG DEN SHOW ON HONDAY NIGHT Samson's Hosts Are Preparing for the Big Carnival on Fifteenth Street. CARPENTERS ALREADY AT WORK/ The last chance to see Ak-Sar-Ben's show at the Den is at hand. The last show and initiation of the sea- #on Is scheduled for Monday night, Sep- tember 13, This will be designated as Omaha night. It is the hope of the board of governors' that the entire membership of 2,654 will be| present on that occasion. While it is designated as Omaha night, that does notl mean that no visitors are allowed. Omaha members are still privileged to bring any| | out-of-town guests they may have: but it is especially desirable that the Omahal crowd get out for this occasion, The carnival dates are rapidly ap- proaching, and already the smarl of thel rip saw and the clatter of hammer is' heard on Fifteenth street where the| board enclosure for the carnival grounds is being buflt. The archea entrances are also being constructed, and within an< other ten days a vast change will be seen; on the streets where the carnival is to' be all aroar beginning September 2. Extent of Grounds. The carnival grouhds will extend from Howard to Leavenworth streets on Fif. teenth street. They will take in practi- cally all the vacant ground within that distance, and will include Jaockson andl | Jones streets from Fourteenth to Stz teenth streets practically. The main entrance |a to be at Fifteenth! and Howard streots, right in front of the| Auditorfum. Another entrance {8 to ba! constructed at Sixteenth and Jones streets for the convenience of the South Siaé people. A colonnade of white i to run from Fifteenth and Howard to Fifteenth andi Douklas streets with myriads of lights. Word has just been received from the| Wortham show people that they will have elghteen of their colebratetl shows on the) carnival grounds instead of the fourteen originally counted on. More Horses. Horses, horses, they are still .scarce for the parades. Charles Karbach, who! 18 In charge of this feature, is crying for more horses for the many knightly riders) that will need them to set the parade off properly. The Invitations for the ball have been prepared and will be majled out before! long. Cougha and Colds Dangerouns, Don't wait, take Dr. King's New. Dis- covery now. It will help your eough and soothe the lungs. 80c. All druggists.—Ad- vertisement BILLY SUNDAY, JR., WRITES ABOUT PUTTING UP JAM Mre. Sunday was happy yesterday over a letter from “Willy,”" one of the Sun- day boys, in school at Winona Laeke, Ind. Willy stated that Nora, the hired girl, had put up peach jam. Putting up peach jam and eating peach jam are two ofl the most int\ resting things in life just at present to li-year-old Willey. Mrs, Sunday expects to make trips from, Omaha to Winons Lake to see the chil-l dren every two weeks, while the Omaha campalgn {8 in progress and In fact alll through the winter, no matter where Mr, Sunday Is preaching. BRI L. 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