Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 18, 1916, Page 7

I'HE BEE: OMAHA TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1916, ¥ BRIEF CITY NEWS J 'ownsend’'s for Sporting Gools™ (’ Lighting wixtares—Burgess-Grandem. Have Root Print I+ Now Beacon Press. To Borrow Momey on Real Estate, see J. H. Dumont, Keeline bullding. “Today's Movie Program” classified section today. It appears in The Bee EXCLUSIVELY. Find out what the va. tlous moving picture theaters offer. Start Spanish Class—A beginners’ class in Spanish will be organized at the i Young Men's Christian assoclation Tues- day evening. A thorough working knowl- edge of the language will be taught the vusils of this class. v Press Olub Banguet-—The Omaha Press club is to hold a dollar banquet at the Rome hotel at 6 January 18. Attorney J. W. Woodrough is to be the guest of the evening and is to address the club on “‘Some Phases of Newspaper Litigation.” Money that Counts—The Visiting Nurses' association has expressed its hanks to the people of All Saints chureh or thelr donation of $65 to be used in the work of the Visiting Nurses. This asso- b iation is very busy at this time, when the demand for nurses is so great. Bleotricians to Nave Permite—T. F. Crawford, J, P. Brown and 8. Gatewood, representing local No. 22, International rotherhood of Electrical Workers, have addressed & communication to the city councll, requesting an investigation of the enforcement of an ordinance which provides that all members of their craft working here shall have city permits, Suig Over Patent Righte—Harry O. Palmer, a special master in chancery, heard tne mrguments of attorneys for the New York Scaffolding company ngainst Egberth Whitney of Omaha in the federal building. The plaintiff 1s noeking to recover rents and profits from v 1+ type of scaffolding which Whitney clatms to have invented and which the ’ New York concern claims is an infringe- { | 1 i ment on scaffolding on which it owns the atent rights, Retail Clothiers of Nebraska Here Next Month } Plans are nearing completion for the annual convention of the Nebraska Re- tail Clothiers' asrociation, to be held at 1iotel Fontenelle February 15 and 16. Be- sides the noonday luricheon at the Com- relal club in Omaha the convention will close with a tanquet at Hotel Fonte- nelle Wednesday evening February 16. The committee having in charge the arrangements, promise to have men with national reputations and experts in their particular work present at the convention to discuss with the retallers matters of o'clock this evening, | RESTORATION OF ~ DOWN-AND-OUTER Major McCormick Finds Job for a i Destitute Man, Who Makes Good with a Vengeanoce. | |RETURNS TO HOME IN SOUTH | An astonishing case of a “down- | and-outer” restored to decency. posi- tion and home is brought out in the work of the Volunteers of America. | Into the headquarters, 114 Fif- ! teenth street, came a shivering man, |the most wretchedly and abjectly destitute that Major and Mrs. Mc- Cormick had ever seen. On his face was a month’s growth of coal- | black beard. He had no sox and his | half-frozen feet were throughy his miserable shoes. His coat was but- tonless and held together by safety pins and his ragged trousers were pinned to the coat in lien of suspen- ders. Major McCoPmick gave him & bed n the lodging house. The next morning the “walking scarecrow” came into the office and sald Wants Work tor Lodging. “I am very grateful to you for that night's lodgin and breakfast and I would like to repay you. Have you some work that 1 can do around here?" His speech was correct and his voice softly modulated. The major was aston- ished. “What can you do?’ he Inquired “l am a good stenographer and type- writer,” said the unknown The major wondered what sort of man was conceled under that black beard and those rags. He determined to find out He took the man to the Volunteers' store room and fitted him out with clothing. ‘Then he gave him money and told him to get & shave and haircut. When the man returned he was transformed. A good looking young fellow he was with perfect manners and he Immediately pitched into the work ajor MeCormick dictated several letters and he took the dictation and transcribed it on the type- writer with speed and neatness. Given a Position. For several days he worked there, quiet, willing, efficlent. In this time the major had seen the Union Pacific raflroad about him and he was offered a position, which he accepted, at a good salary. Word has come from his family in Richmond, Va. It was one of the lead- ing families in that city, and the young man expects to return there soon when he has regenerated himself. nterest to them. The manufacturers and wholesalers of Omaha are giving the banguet. C. C. Wescott, Plattsmouth, secretary of the association, together with F. H. Barcley, Pawnee City, president, are handling the work of arranging the neces- sary d Is. They are being assisted by the publicity committee of the Commer- sial club, as well as the by local lothiers. f Farm Tractors One Feature at the Implement Show The new concrete floor in the base- ment of the Auditorium has been fin- ished, sprinkled with sawdust and sand and left to dry. The farm tractors pull in Wednesday for the tractor feature of the Mid-West Implement show. Dozens of big tractors are to be exhibited. The implement show and convention is p to open Wednesday. This will be the first year that farm tractors have been exhibited, although the implement show has been held here for a mnumber of Years. A stray tractor was exhibited here d there in the last two years, but never has a definite section of the Audi- torium heretofore been set apart for the { exhibit. So popular have the farm trac- tors become in the last elghteen months or two years that It is asserted an im- plement show can no longer be a repre- sentative implement show without its big, full sized section for farm tractors. Our Jitney Offer—This and Be. Don’t miss this. Cut out this slip, en- close with 6c and mall it to Foley & Co.. Chicago, 1ll., writing your namg apd ad- He stated that an unhappy love affair tirst started him on the downward path. He left a good home and fine position and Jjust wandered about for several months, and was on the point of self- destruction when he wandered into the Volunteers’ hall that cold day. Recent Storms Do Not Cause Any Loss of Stock on Ranges “The recent storm worked little hard- ship upon the ranchers, farmers and stockmen of Nebraska and eastern Wyoming,” asserted George W. Holdrege, general manager of the Burlington, who is in from ten days spent in the range country, “I was up through western Nebraska and Wyoming last week,” said Mr. Hold- | spoonful ‘of rege, “and while the storn was severe and the weather intensely cold, it was nothing to what it would have been if there had been a heavy fall of snow. There ware no stock losses sustained by the farmers and stockmen. There was not enough snow to prevent the cattle getting out onto the range, though dur- ing the worst of the storm all the ani- mals were close fed. “Conditions in the range country are different from what they were a fow years ago. In the old days cattle had to shift for themselves during storms the same as when the weather was pleas- ant. Now when a storm comes on the cattle are housed and fed just the same as down In this locality. The result is that losses are insignificant. “All through the range country live stock of all kinda looks fine. The ani- mals are in good flesh and are wintering well.” dress clearly. You will receive In return a trial package contalning Foley’s Honey and Tar compounds, for coughs, colds and croup; Foley Kidney Pills, for pain in sides and back, rheumatism, backache, kidney and bladder allments, and Foley Cathartic Tablets, a wholesome and thoroughly cleansing cathartic, for con- stipation, biliousness, headache and slug- gish bowels. Sold everywhere.—Advertise- ) went. Kiddies Are Warned Against Skating Over Carter Lake Toe Hummel, head of the park depart- ment, advises parents to warn their small kiddies against skating at Carter lake while the ice cutting s in progress, ‘There are various other skating places throughout the city for the youngsters Safety first,” said Mr. Hummel, In connection with th skating at Hane- com park it is stated at park headquar- ters that Officer Sudds has asked the | city prosecutor for complaints against a group of “‘roughneck” youths who have been making lfe miserable for small boys at the Hanscom park skating pond. DIETZ LUMBER COMPANY MEN HOLD ANNUAL MEETING Thirty-five traveling salesmen and yard managers for the C. N. Dietz Lum- ber company are now in session for two or three days in what O. W. Dunn, general manager, calls a get-together meeting. The first day is devoted to general sub- jects, such as “Charging and Checking Accounts,” “Service and Quality, “Community Development,” *Co-Opera- tion, Salesmanship, Collections. The second day will consist of symposiums of ten-minute talks, with discussions by men especislly selected by reason of sheir experience in certain directions The entertainment feature of the gath- ering is not lost sight of, the men being taken to the Boyd Monday and the Orpheum Tuesday night These are annual meetings. and have I Leen found, while costing money. to be | very beneficial lo all comcerned, it is asserted. VOLUNTEER FIREMEN GATHERING AT CRAWFORD Volunteer firemen of the Nebraska towns are gathering at Crawford, where today the annual winter meeting will be held. An attendance of & couple of hundred is expected, The Northwestern is carrying large delegations of firemen from Fremont, Humphrey and Norfolk, besides smaller delegations from twenty- five to fifty towns. The delegations from Fremont, Humphrey and Norfolk each have a special car. Cuticura Stops Itching Instantly Trial Free. Just Bathe with the Cuticura Soap, dry and apply the Cuticura Ointment ' For Eczemas, Rashes, Itchings, irritations, pimples, dandruff, sore hands and baby humors, Cuticura Soap and | Ointment are supremely effec- tive. Relief is immediate and healment, in most cases, is com- plete, speedy and permanent. | Sample Each Free by Mall | | | With 32-p. fi.'-" request. _Ad- aress e ll-\:..r'l 18, Bos- l May- Irwin to Pléy Boyd's Next Month Manager Burgess of the Boyd has just received from the Shubert offices in New | here on February 11 and 13, presenting hor latest success, “No, ®, Washington | Square.” Miss Irwin's engagement this |time will have something of uncommon | Interest locally, because her leading Juvenile is George Clark, an Omaha boy, | who has made good as an actor. KING-PECK STOCK Omaha Department Store Purchases $138,000 Stock and Fixtures of Bankrupt Firm. WILL HOLD A BIG SALE SOON The stocks and fixtures of the King-Peck company, clothing mer- chants, have been sold to J. L. Bran- deis & Sons. The sale was made by Amos Thomas, trustee. after the sale was ordered by the federal court, where bankruptey proceedings were started |agalnst the King-Peck firm. Last week announcement of the sale to B. W. Willett of New York City was made, but Mr. Willett dropped out and the Omaha firm obtained the stock and fixtures. The stocks and fixtures carry an in- voloe value of $138,207.40, This is one of the largest sales of a complete stock ever made in Omaha. The Brandela stores now have thelr em- ployes engaged in moving the stock from the King-Peck location at Sixteenth and Howard streets, to the purchasing firm's establishment. The transfer will take two or three d Soon ter all of the stocks have been moved a special sale of the articles, which inciude suits, overcoats, hats, shoes and all other men's furnishings, will be held. The inaugural date of the sale will be announced later. All of the employes of the King-Peck company have been employed by the Brandeis stores to augmest their own force in conducting the sale. Mr. Peck will also assist the Brandels management in the sale. Everyone Should Drink Hot Water in the Morning Wash away all the stomach, liver, and bowel polsons before breakfast. To feel your best day in and day out, to feel clean inside; no sour blle to coat your tongue and sicken your breath or dull your head; no constipation, bilious attacks, sick headache, colds, rheuma- tism or gassy, acid stomach, you must bathe on the inside like you bathe out- side. Thig is vastly more important, be- cause the skin pores 4o not absorb im- purities into the blood, while the bowel pores do, says a well-known physician. To keep these polsons and toxins well flushed from the stomach, liver, kidneys and bowels, drink before breakfast ecach day, a glass of hot water with a tea- limestone phosphate In it This will cleanse, purify and freshen the jentire alimentary tract, before putting more food into the stomach. Get a quarter pound of limestons phos- phate from your pharmacist. It is nex- pensive and almost tasteless, except a sourish twinge which is not unpleasant. Drink phosphated hot water every morn- ing to rid your system of these vile pols- ons and toxins; also to prevent thelr formation To feel like young folks feel; like you felt before your blood, nerves and mus- cles became saturated with an accumula- tion of body poisons, begin thi pent and above all, keep it up! As Boap and hot water act on the skin, cleansing, sweetening and purifying, so limestone phosphate and hot water before break- fast, act on the stomach, liver, kidneys and bowels.—Advertisement. QUICK RELIEF FROM CONSTIPATION AR Get Dr. Edwards’ Olive Tablets. That is the joyful cry of thousands since Dr. Edwards produced Ollve Tab- lets, the substitute for calomel, Dr. Edwards, a practicing physician for 17 years and calomel's old-time enemy, discovered the formula for Olive Tablets while treating patients for chronie constipation and torpid livers. Dr. Edwards’ Olive Tablets do not con- tain calomel, but a healing, soothing vegotable laxative. No griping is the “keymote” of these Httle sugar-coated, olivecolored tablets. They cause the bowels and liver to act normally. They never force them to un- natural action. If you have a “dark brown mouth” now and then—a bad breath—a dull, tired feeling—sick headache—torpid lver and are constipated, you'll find quick, sure and only pleasant results from one or two little Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets at bedtime. Thousands take one or two every night just to keep right. Try them. 10c and %e per box. All druggists, The Olive Tablet Company, Columbus, Ohio- ‘ TODAY'S BEAUTY HELP I You can keep your hair at its very best by washing it with & teaspoontul of can- throx dlssolved in & cup of hot water, afterward rinsing thoroughly with elear water. Ome finds that the hair dries quickly and evenly, is unstreaked, bright, |soft and very fluffy, so fluffy in faet, that it looks more abundant than it is and so soft that arranging it becomes s pleasure. This simple, inexpensive sham- |poo cleanses the hair and scalp thor- | oughly of all dandruff and dirt, and leaves | & clean, wholesome feeling. All scalp ir | ritation will disappear, and the hair will be brighter and glossier than ever befare ~Advertisement GOES 10 BRANDEIS WAR SHOULD LEAVE - RELIGION STRONGER Christian Nations, Charging Them with Hypocrisy. WAR TO PU}iGE THE NATIONS | Bishop Frank M. Bristol, in an ad | dress before the Omaha Ministerial unfon, arraigned the so-called Christian nations of the world and flercoly charged them with |tense. hypocrisy, assumption of moral superfority, egotistical super lativity and drowsy self-compla ceney." “But the great world war in which | Bcoteh Presbyterians are trying to cut the throats of German Luther {ans and Russians of the Greek | ehureh are trying to blow Austrians |of the Roman church into eternity, {18 no proof that Christianity is break ing down,"” he declared. "It is proof | “pre Poultr York word that Miss May Irwin will play | Bishop Bristol Arraigns So-Called ' that the pretense of Christianity is breaking down and leaving the real Christianity to continue unhampered when this awful war is over He urged the full practice of the preaching of Christ. He advocated the victory of non-resistance Al tariam a Crime, If war is right, then the Sermon on the Mount is a joke," he declared, “‘and it the Sermon on the Mount fs right then militarism I8 a crime I8 the golden rule all fudgs and non sense or only parly fudge and nonsenss There 18 too much weak-kneed christian ity Mke that of tho meek brother who told his congrogation ‘unless you repent of your sins, in & measure, and belleve In Jesus Chriat It were, you will all Ko to hell, so to speak We haven't had the age to put into practice ¥ whole goapel of Christ There I n hypoerisy of the natlons, as of the people The docfrine of turning the other cheek when one has been smit ten in preachad 1 the pulpit, but In life we amite back. Jesus sald, ‘Al that take the aword shall perish by the sword Tarnel took the sword and perished by it s0 aid Babylon " The groat war Is going to purge the nations. Already there is overy evidence Egypt, Greece, Rome Purge the Nations. hi Fifteen years ago a man of sixty, broken in health, found himself out of a job and with less than $500 in the bank. Today he owns, near Topeka, Kansas, his own poultry farm. | Bngland o pragime toduy aa he has never prased | LeaZY Livers Come from befors The churches of Germany, | L.gy le[ns -sometimes i e e heaving peopte na they | from food follies' that tax the haven't been in & century. overworked digestive organs. Our country pt out of war by a| araclous l'r:\:’hirn . r:ml :wm |-.'umem.y Get back to Nature by eating will be In a position to give a new im-| Shredded Wheat, It puts pulse to the missionary movement after) the war | you on your feet when everything else fails, It sup- plies the muscular energy and mental alertness that put DR. CONNELL SALUTES HIS TEMPORARY BOSS | W pmpener el 4| you in fine fottle for the day's Last Saturday Commisstoner Iugel, | Work. Delicious for breakfast I L, " | with milk or cream, o for forntn, leaving Commissloner Hummel in | luncheon with fruits, Made at charge of hin work " Farly thin vm-ln'mu Dr. Connell reported Nlflx‘r. Falls, N. Y. to his temporary boss, with the obsequious L Ing What shall T do today? Gat out and ge bumy Here It s K00 and 1 don't suppose you have turhed s Nek this morning, rep! Mr. Hummel, | With mock serfousness | All right, boss, 1 Just wanted to know, meekly replied the health commissioner PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS City Commissioner Butler b Ottawn, 111, to attend the fu y It gives him a good living. Was it easy? No, it was a struggle. But he has won by applying to poultry raising the hard- headed common sense of a practical farmer— the same kind of sense you find every week in The COUNTRY CENTLEMAN What this man has done, an inspiration to every man, young or old, prosperous or jobless, is told in the January 22nd issue of Gentleman. It is just one incident in the poultry news and the poultry knowledge which this great national farm paper brings week by week. he Country THE POULTRY CALENDAR is a weekly reminder and guide for everyone who keeps chickens. schedule for every detail and gives the best methods for the fancier, the commercial egg and meat producer, and the amateur. It provides a timely And this is but one of twelve regular departments ( that give you definite mation about each of, valuable ideas and infor- the departments of your farm—fruit, live-stock, dairying, market garden- ing, farm buildings, farm cooking, sewing, etc. And every week there are from six to ten special articles by special farm investigators. Send the coupon to-day and The Country Gentleman for get ayear 57 issues-for only $1 Or subscribe through any recognized Curtis Agent - o