Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 27, 1916, Page 11

{ SOME BASEMENTS FILLED WITH FILTH Chimney Sweep Tells of Some of the | Conditions Which He En- counters. THEN THEY WONDER AT DISEASE “How could a dirty, black-nosed chimney sweep have em opinion on scarlet fever that anyone would be hound to respect?" That might be the first question asked if this mpn with his black broom, his arm full of black sacks, Lis rope and plumb bob, and his lit- tle tin of furnace cement, should dare venture between city councll and nedical men, Yet there are chimney §weeps, hlack #s midnight, that have opinions. They » not carry them to the council, and they do not attend health They are too busy sweeping chimneys Loosen Th Ton ", But get them down into a deep base ment, let them bore around on the inside of your furnace after they have crawled hrough the chimney several times, and They begin to feel at home. 1ime to step down into the basement n bucket up-side-down and squat on it for a half hour, these fellows will loosen up and talk, Here are snatches of conversation on these besmudged fellows poured out while digging at a furnac flue Hascom park district conferences of in the “You know I'm s pretty dirty guy, with all this soot on me, but this is n dirt | after all. No germs will survive in this soot, , But, say, you should see some of the basements ! have to work in. Why I find basements under fine respectable | mansions that are so rotten that even a himney sweep can herdly live in them long enough to fix a furnace or clean a fine Basement & Dumping “Why, say man, they just make a dumping ground of the basement for every old kind of junk from rotten po tatoes to last year's apples, from dirty wet chicken feathers. to rotten .squash, from dead rats and mice to general gar- bage, and you could not believe the stuft one finds plled up in basements under ap- parently respectable homes, {Now what seems funny to me is that Ground. veople* dare not throw the least bit of bage ar junk in_the afley. but they ave to pile it In the basement where hey must live In Jts fumes night and lay. No, if you throw the alley, a bucket of ashes n maybe only to' make a locent path over the mud, the health guy idles out o his motercycle and threatens o ehirck ‘you in jail it you don't pick liose ashes all up. Bu an fill your celflar to the beams with ashes, old shoes, mildewed vegetables and rot ton old ‘clothes, and the health officers Pess you by ow."1 don't know much about scarlet | fever; but 1 do keep my basement clean, If you have | TRIAL LAWYER OF STREET CAR COMPANY RESIGNS | | | | W. J. CON Omaha Battalion Of National Guard Plans to Give Show turn | | Under the direction of Sergeants Keat- ing, McKnight and Fishburp., the Omaha battalion of the Nebraska National guard is preparing to give a minstrel show at the Boyd theater in March, probably shortly after the federal-inspection of the Omaba guardsmen At the last weekly drill a Boosters’ club was organized to further the project, the intention In giving the minstrel show | being to create greater interest in the Omaha battalion of the state militia and to draw the members into closer relations with each other. The “show” as planned will conaist of a series of minstrel songs, dances, and offerings by the more talented members of the local guard, and will conclude with a spectacular production, utes in the Trenches," in which practi- cally the entire battallon will partict- pate. The Boosters' club is entirely managed by the enlisted ¥ and is warmly en- dorsed by the office compnnies. of the four Omaha “Twenty Min- | THE BEE: FROM CAR COMPANY Attorney Leaves Legal Department of Street Railway Co. After Twenty-Five Years' Service. HAS BEEN THE TRIAL LAWYER W. J. Connell, trial lawyer for the sireet railway company, one of the | most active and aggressive corpora- tion attorneys in the middle west, hu‘ resigned after a service of more than twenty-five years | | From the time Mr. Connell successfully | | defended the old Omaha & Councll Bluffs and Bridge company against a damage | suit for $190,00, to the present, he has tought hundreds of cases against the vompany before jurles. He 8 the oldest | attorney who is seen regularly in local | courts. Mr. Conmell stated that relations be- tween him and the officers of the come pany had been uniformly pleasant and | that his action was not the result of any controversy. Has His Own Reasons. “I resigned on account of reasons of my own,” he sald, “and my resignation has been accepted, It was unconditional and 1a effective at once.” The board of directors of th& company passed the following resolution: “Resolved, That in accepting the resig- nation of Mr. W. J. Connell as ttorney for this company, this board records its appreciation of his efficlent and faith- ful services and expresses its regret at the termination of his employment.’ Practically all cases on the street rail- way docket in which plaintiffs were ready | for trial have been disposed of up to date, " this docket being in better con. dition now than for several years, ao- cording to court officlals. CAN'T FIND DANDRUFF Every bit of dandruff dlsappears after one or two applications of Danderine | rubbed well Into the scalp with the fin- ger tips. Get a 2-cent bottle of Dander- Ine at any drug store and save your hair. After a few applications you can't find a particlg of dandruff or any falling hatr, and the scalp will never itch.—Advertise- ment. SIUMACH AGTING UP? JUST TAKE A LITTLE CONNELL RESIGNS | | beria | shielded OMAHA, THURSDAY, Thousands Die in Prison Camps of Siberia of Hunger SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. % —Th, of German and Austrian prisoners in war Russian concentration camps 8 wore desoribed “‘as starving and dying from exposure in the bitter cold of the Siberian winter” by F. W. Wake field, a San Franclsco business man, who arrived today in from the orlent on the steamer Shinyo Maru. He traveled through Siberia after his marriage in Honolulu last summer to the former Mrs John D. Spreckles of San Franciace When 1 was in Tehita, Siberin,” said Mr. Wakefield, “iast November pris oners in a camp there already had died from exposure and want of sufficlent nourishment. Thelr condition was piti able and the Russian government, it was told, could do nothing. ‘“There were about 35,000 prisoners there shambling about with their German Austrian uniforms in themaselves with In all of Siberia there were thousands of prisoners given ald or they will die. 00 and tatters. Some animal skins hundreds of They must be 1 This is the binder Jones JANUARY 1916 START T0 EXAMINE PUPILS TODAY Nurses Will Visit 2500 Absent Schoo] Children to Determine the Cause WILL CHECK ALL STUDENTS Principals of public schools are preparing for Superintendent lists of absent pupils for the use of school nurses who will visit homes of oll absentees and determine causes of As soon as the lists have today they will be handed to the nurses, who will start their work this morning. It is ertimated the visits will require four days. absence been received These nurses will be empowered with authority to obtain the desired information. ‘There are seven nurses now on the school staff. At least three more will be engaged this week ™ l;ll\ff‘ 2 This is the blacksmith who said ‘“‘tomorrow”’ he’d fix the binder Jones Nearly 2,500 children are absent at this | time. Examine New Students. Next Monday morning, which will mark | the beginning of the new semester, all ohildren In the public schools will be ex amined and new entrants thereafter will be required to furnish oertificates of health | A eard index systam will be maintained of all children who are kmown to be 11l or who have Indications of fllness. It is stated that this will be the beginning of a systematio system of medical Inspec | tlon In the public mchools. | This afterncon Superintehdent Graff |will “address the principats in the auditorium of the Central High sehool his particular thought to be of medical Inspection and general vighance from a health standpoint NELSON SUFFERS INJURY BY FALL UPON WALK Oscar Nelson, Fourteenth and Howard stroots, suffered a fractured leg last night when he fell on the and Farnam streets sidewnlk at Twelfth Sen Stgn Youth, | Another ball player has been added to | the runks of the Washingtons in the per son of Frank Parks, a semi-pro infielder from Atlanta, Ga | heard the Gray Hair Dark Look young! Nobody can tell if you use Grandmother’'s simple recipe of Sage Tea and Sulphur, Almost everyons knows that Sage Tea and Sulphur, properly compounded, brings back the natural eolor and lustre to the hair when faded, streaked or gray; also ends dandruff, itching scalp and stops falling hair. Years ago the only way to et this mixture was to make it at home, which is mussy and troublesome. Now- sdays, by asking at any drug store for Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Compound,” you will get a large bottle of this famous old recipe for abaut 60 cents. Don't atay gray! Try it! No one éan poasibly tell t you darkened your halr, as it doos it s» naturally and evenly Yéu dampen a sponge or soft brush with it'ana draw this through your halr, tak- Ing one amall strand at a time; by morn- Ing the gray hair disappears, and after andther application or two, your hair becomes beautifully dark, thick and glossy.—Advertisement. 3 This is the farmer who offered his sho when he blacksmith say “‘tomorrow’’ he’d fix the binder Jones broke. 4 And this is the shop that Jones set up when he saw how quickly the work was done in the shop of the farmer who offered help when the blacksmith wanted Al 1 think inspéction of basements is as neceasiry as: ispection of electrical wir- | ing, or inspection of fire escapes in hotels. | If_germs breed in filth, then they are; neremging thelr tribe pretty fast in the | rbior ty of basements; for, as I say, L Jon't;mind the, goot, of the chimneys, but L bate fo work in some of the rotten base- PAPFS DUPEPSIN Burlington Wil Instant Relief fro Finish Short Line | -~ Early in the Spring IGeneral | Managor Foldrege last night | gave out the following statement relative | to.the construction of the Chalco cut-off, | ) 10 be buflt from the main line, just west of the ¢lty, and to the Ashland-Sioux City | line, the junction to be formed at Yutan, in Saunders couaty: “It has been decided by the Burlington | Railroad company to renew connrucllon‘ soon as weather conditjons make it « possible upon the Chalco-éut-uff. This wirk ‘was well under way in 1915, in ac- | until next day to fix the binder Jones broke. e Jones now saves time and money by repairing all his- farm equipment, and even his wife’s cooking utensils, in his own shop. ; ) How he planned it, how he built it, what tools and |} b machines he put in—all s%eciflcations and itemized costs ' —are told in a Practical Farm Repair Shop, on page 201 of the January 29th issue of | e COUNTRY | The Country Gentleman covers all the practical con- veniences and equipment of the farm in a regular depart- ment. It gives building plans—short cuts—news about new devices that can be bought or made in spare hours— a lot of brief but complete ideas brought together on one m indigestion, Gases, Sourness, | Heartburn or Sick, Upset Stomach~Try It! “Really does” . bad stomachs in|it's truly astonishing—almost marvelous, order—"really overcome indiges- | and the joy Is its harmiessness. tion, dyspepsia, gas, heartburn and sour-| A large fifty-cent case of Pape's Dia- ness in five minutes—that—just that—| pepsin will give you a hundred dollars’ makes Pape's Diapepsin the largest sell- | worth of satisfaction or your druggist| ing stomach regulator in the world. If [ hands you your money back. what you eat ferments into. stubborn| It's worth its welght in gold to mem lumps, you belch gas and eructate sour, and women who can’t get their stomache undigested food and acid; head is dizzy | regulated. It belongs in your home— and aches; breath foul, tongue.coated;|should always be kept handy in case of your insides filled with bile and indi-|a sick, sour, ‘:peet stomach Auring the gestible -waste, remember the moment | day or at night. It's the quickest, surest “Pape’d Diapepsia” comes in contact with | and most harmless stomach regulator in the stomach all such distress vanishes.|the world.—Advertisement. cordance with a promise made to a spe- cial committee of the Commercial club. Work .was temporarily suspended in 1915 | ol meéount of the unusual financial con- | difions thrdtghout the country. It is the intention now fo complete the line at as | carly a.date.as practicable.” | The construction of this gives Omaha | another-short line into Bioux City and | brings the northern part of Nebraska into closer touch with Omaha and fts markets. —_—— Transfer of Stock - 0f Novelty Company 8:Mandelson, president of the Novelty company,: has sold his, interest in the compern, and has retired. C. P. Frils, vick president, of Craig, also sold his ones quéitoe interest. The stock is taken over Ly M. Ktasne, secretary, and H. Beren- steji; dreasurer.- The business will con- tiné in the same location under the same | (Owned and Controlled by the U. S. Government) Get the Grip Poison out of Your System back to its normal state of health and energy. A clear, dry, mild and brac- ing climate. All the out-door sports — riding, driving, motoring, horseback, walk- The grip's not over when you get out of bed —you don't seem to be able to get back your strength and spirits— the grip won't let go. Make it let go—come to Hot Springs, - tit H. Krasne wil succeed 8. Mandel- | Ark. It has . ing, golf and i i A T 5 Ak W e (oo ) 86, 69 04 page. This department is called The the beau- the past and |8 K o A ervation . we're .proving i to hundreds now that the radio-active hot waters of Hot Springs of Arkansas will work wonders in eliminating i the grip poison from the sys- | tem and in putting your body liantsocial life. Fine hotels. Good and rea- sonable board- ing houses. Come and rest —recuperate—enjoy yourself. Note: The waters are nof recommended for pulmonary troubles. §. Mandelson Intends to' devote part of his time to his department store at Ne- ka ' City for the present. Mr. Frils is ‘ngaged in the genera| merchandise Lusioess. Elwood Purchases " Brown Trpck Firm J. W. Elwood, president of the Walter G. Clark company, has bought the com- plete plant of the. Brown Truck Manu- facturing company of Ralston and is pipaning to enlarge it and to launch an | etfensive manufaeturing business. The consideration was $25,000. At present the plant manufactures all inds of trucks for warehouses, packing housea, wholesale and department stores and creameriss. Mr. Elwood expects to make -8 national advertising campaign and to Increase the business on a large scale, he announced yesterday. ROUND THE FARM And beside the special articles by farm experts, each week, there are eleven other regular departments. These departments discuss (and ask you to discuss) your crops, your dairy, your livestock, your poultry, your wife's housework, etc. Business Men's League, Hot Spring, Ark. Please send booklets. Special—Low Round Trip Rate o vt o Toom M ountain R, . 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