Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 9, 1916, Page 26

i ' drawn in any episode, 3—D Wh THE GRIP OF EVIL! New Serial Story Deals With This Question in Most Interesting Manuer. PATHE SERIAL BY L. TRACY A specially invited audience of Omaha movie men and newspaper .micn were treated to the first three .episodes of “The Grip of Evil,” the - new Pathe serial story, which is soon to appear in The Bee, at the Strand theater Thursday morning. Starting with the question, “Is Hu- manity in the Grip of Evil?” Louis ‘Tracy, the English novelist, has writ- ten a serial story in fourteen install: ments that fairly teems with heart interest and intense action, The prob- Jem is discussed through-a' picturi: tion that cannot but interest the cas- ual play goer or the student of social problems. In the beginning the son of a _ wealthy Englishman is disowned and disinherited, because he marries be- low his'station. His father offers him money which he spurns and taking his wife goes to America and secures a position in an iron foundry. His wife dies when the son is born, and John Burton wanders aimlessly about and is killed by an explosion, His son is rcared in the atmosphere of the steel, mill and becomes a leader amoug the laborers, Because of his, infatuation for the mill owner's daughter he settles a strike, but is suspected by the union men of foul lay and loges his place at the mill, ust as he is racked by desperate emotion a man from England finds him fo announcs that his grandfather has died and left him a big fortune and a title. % Young John Burton, now wealthy - and bearing a title, becomes the cen- ter of the ,}hirmn succeeding epi- ~ sodes in which he deals with all classes ‘in his: study to ‘determine if “Humanity is in the Grip of Evil" Each episode is a complete story fea« turing Jackie Saunders ‘and Hugh Bottomly. In each event, there seems ~ to be something that. tends to prove . that humanity is in_“The Grip of Evil,” and yet there i8 nothing over- The pen of ~ Louis Tracy has treatéd the subject ~in an interesting manner and the pic- tures illustrate just the kind of events inyone-v‘huld agree were lupgemn: every day, Announcement of the ap- arance of the story, “The Grip of vil,” will soon appear in The Bee, Interesting and Varied - Program Offered at H _The Hipp' this -week offers teresting and varied program. ing_todyy the offering is Hol- ook Blinn'\in “The Weakness of 2°.n" It is thY story of a young man jiose fove of ‘the careless and fast fife has such a hold on him tha often does wrong . things. Finally, save his wife from further trouble b?d u} clear the situation, he kills imself, AR Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday the offering will be he Sweet in “The Dupe.” The action is very in- teresting. 5 3 Fridn; and Suuflhs . the Hipp {‘idflfit fig its plmo!u ‘Donald Brian e Smugglers.” man’ ng Paris has Jost his wife's $20,000 neck- lace. To gnnnt her being d pointed he. as purchased a paste i tation for 20 cents. The woman eceived, but as they are about to ve Paris the man is up against t to know what will happen when the customs officials tell them the inp! an evil old gypsy. Thursday the feature will be “Brit- ton of the Seventh,” a military story of the plains, and with it “The Ruse,” a tale of society and business. The military story has the Custer massa- cre for an incideht, The story is by Cyrus Townsend Brady. Friday and Saturday will be shown “Gloria’'s Romance,” which is grow- i'ng in popularity with photoplay ans. Hopper and Tincher Chased by a Lion When De Wolfe Hopper and Fay Tincher appear in the scenes with a lion in “Sunshine Dad,” the offering at the Rohlff theater today, they were not acting. It was mi’hty serious business with them. It required weeks of patient, nerve-racking effort to get the lion to do the things he had to do in this picture. He wasn’t a loveable lion at all, and he hated bath tubs. When you have seen the won- derful mystery of this play and have grasped its cleverness and tingling quality, you'll begin to realize that it stands out as one of the big motion picture features of the year. For the balance of the week the offerings are as follows: Monday, seventeenth chapter of “The Iron Claw.” Tuesday and Wednesday, William M. Thompson and Anna Lehr in “Civilization’s Chiid.” Thursday, return engagement of Billie Burke in “Peggy.” = Friday, Theda Bara in “The Eternal Sapho,” while Saturday is Laff Day with Keystone Favorites and Pathe News. Strand Program Is Usual ' Varied, Interesting Bill Three feature productions hold forth at the Strand this .week com- mencing today, when the attraction is William H. Thompson and Charles Ray in a story called “The Dividend,” that touches a responsive chord in all of us, namely, father love. A Key- stone will amuse you, while a Pathe weekly is also scheduled. Dainty Lillian Gish, for Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, in “An In- nocent Magdalene,” a story of old Kentucky. There's Spottswood Ait- ken, Mary Alden and Sam DeGrasse supporting Miss Gish, Besides, one of those,funny Keystones, Friday and Saturday, Theda Bara in a modernized, Americanized version of “East Lynne.” The cast is headed by Stuart Holmes and Fox kiddies. 0ld Mill Is Interesting Attraction at Krug Park One of the most interesting of all the attractions to be found at Krug park is the Old Mill - Picturing "'f front of a gigantic Dutch wind- mill, so common in the old country, a sceng' is bgwght to the eye that is ve_? ‘realistic, b his attraction is a ride in a boat to practically all the civilized. world, and in passing ‘through the water- ways many interesting ' things are shown, he scenes portrayed' are made from paper mache and picture e | places in ‘the land of the setting sun; a Swiss mountain village; a Japanese tea garden in Tokio; grottos in the Mammoth Cave, with huge pieces of talactite’ 'and | stalagmite vividly shown; the latl of the polar bear, and deep sea’ fish, and other scenes equally nteres Program at Dundee Is -+ Varied for the Week The program at the Dundee this week is:interesting and varied. Mon- N | day Theda Bara'in “The Serpent” is the feature o‘fierin%. 3 “Prof, Wise Guy's Trip to the Moon." Tuesday, 'Ef/ianlle presents “Sunshine Dad.” "Wednesday the Tuesday show is repeated, Thursday, ‘Alice Brady in"“Tangled Fates” and Wanted a Husband.” " Friday, Billie Burke' in “Peggy.”. Saturday, William H nccomfinnied by Thompson and Anna Lehr in “Civili- zation's Child," an Ince production, together with' “Henry's Little Girl,’ a Nestor comedy. Walker Whiteside on Lothrop Bill Today The Lothrop today and Monday is offering Walker Whiteside in “The Melting Pot." This is an adaptation of the play by the same name in which Mr. Vghi(elide appeared to advan- tage on all the prominent stages of the country, A Keysstone cpmcdy, “The Snow Cure” accompanies the feature, Tuesday, House Peters in “The Great Divide” = Wednesday, Billie Burke in “Peggy.” Thursday, little Viola Dane in “The Inftocence megklace is an imitation. His en- deavors to hide the necklace and the yarious. ways in which it turns up form a good comedy. our Changes on Muse _Bill for Coming Week The Mause offers four changes of gram this week. Today the offer- g is l{ Petrova in ““The Scarlet ‘'oman,” ' The play was written es- pecially for Mme. Petrova, as are. all of the features in which she is appear- ing at the present time, In the pro- duction more than two hundred -per- _gons are shown in many scenes, in- cluding Lallet dancers and cabaret | entertainers who appear in the big ¥ urant -scene. | x”l‘:«d and Wednesday the Muse af ents "The Flames ol Johlgnus" ‘a Lubin feature photoplay with Nance 'Neil in- the leading role. In the play Miss O'Neil plays both the part of Ruth.” Friday, William H, Thomp- son in “Civilization’s Child" Satur- day, Metro presents “’lfhe Black Fear, . ’ , Talks With Screen-Struck Girls By BEATRIZ MICHELENA—No. 14 April, 1916, by Beatriz Michelena.) P n my last “talk” I tried to answer 1 who wanted to know why so people had a bad name for pic- re dctrésses. 1 told her, you re- ber, that it was because people usually looking for thedbaq in 7 assanun ) Others an (i because the ‘i the limelight, they had the better ‘opportunity to rnd _ere what little _ there was and to elaborate upon it, In this same ob- | P! mfi@fl, we ma; find & very u::;’i' the thing that snaps a girl's moral fiber. Many a girl has crumpled be- fore the finger of suspicion, Another thing to remember in this same connection is that, because of THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JULY 9, 1916. 0’s Who and What’s What in the ‘Moving Picture Industry of Today By JAKE MITCHELL, Manager Laemmle Film Service, Omaha, To show the growth of any industry it is necessary to go back a number of years. With the moving picture industry it is only necessary to look back about ten years, as that really is the beginning, although moving pictures were exhibited before then. Ten years ago the exhibitor was not supposed to know anything about this picture or that. He simply went to the exchange and took whatever was handed to him, and he was happy enough to take whatever he got. To- day it is changed. The exhibitor is a business man who does his shop- ing with intelligence. He first earns the class of pictures his patrons like and goes about the task of finding as near as possible that kind of a picture or picture service, A year or so back there was a clamor for the big production, and at present we find a great many ex- clusive programs on the market. Some are very successful and some are not; however, on the whole the average merit of the pictures are of a high order. \ Many houses which have failed on the large productions have come back to their own by running the regular programs and vice versa, It is not always the fault of the service, but the district in which the theater may be_located. The motion picture industry today represents the outlay of many millions Airdome_Bills Good Features and Comedies A first run General Film company feature and comedy program has been contracted for the Airdome at Fairnam and Thirtieth streets. There will be at least one, and usually two comedies in this program every night. The Sund#y night. program will be a Knickerbocker Star feature, pfesent- ing Lois Meredith in “Spellbound,” in five acts——the scene being laid in In- dia. *There wil& also be a Vitagraph comedy entitled “Here Loving Re- lations.” Monday night a Selig three- reel drama, “The Reprisal,” featuring Jack Pickford, ‘and two' comedies, one a Vitagraph and the other a Vim, will make up the program.. Many Features at Airdome This Week Clara Kimball Young will be pre- sented this evening at the Rirdome in “The Feast of Life,” a drama de- scribed as being full of passion and intrigue. Monday, Alice Brady will be shown in “Then FIl Come Back to You;” Tuesday, the feature will be “The Price of Happiness,” with Mary Boland. Wednegday, “The Shadow of Doubt.” Thursday, “The City.” Friday, “The Daughter of the Sea,” and Sunday “Fate's Boomerang.” Good Screen Program At the Omaha Theater At the Omaha today the bill calls for “Base Ball Bill,” “The Mark of a Gentleman” and Hulda, the Silent.” Monday, Frank Sheridan in “The Struggle.” Tuesday, “The Scarlet Mark” Wednesday, Mary MacLaren in “Shores.” Thursday, Bruce Mc- Rae in “The Chain Invisible.” Fri- day, “John Weedham’s Double,” Sat- urday, “The Man Across the Street,” comedies, and “Sports of the Rajah in Mysterious India.” Show Good Picture at Orpheum Theater Today “The Criminal's Thumb,” featuring Alexander Gaden and Lucille Taft, will be presented at the Orpheum to- day. It is a story of a man with a spatulate thumb. Comedy and “Reel Life"” will be a part of the program. Monday will be shown rothers Equal;” Tuesday, “A Man's Sins;” Wednesday, fifth episode of “The Secret of the Submarine” and “Win- dow of Dreams;” Thursday and Fri- day, Triangle productions, and Satur- day, “A Modern Sphinx.” Hippodrome Program for Coming Week Interesting Starting today, “Peg O’ the Ring” holds the screen, together ! with Mutt and Jeff cartoon and four other recl®, Monday the offering is “A Temperance Town” and Sis Hopkins in “A Baby Grand” Tuesday Henry King in “Spellbound.” Wednesday “A Song in the Dark” and “A Dollar Down.” Thursday “Carew and Son.” Friday “The Rich Idler” and other features. Saturday “The Reprisal” and “Otto’s Legacy.” “ “Fate’s Boomerang” on Bill at the Grand The Grand is today offering “Fate's Boomerang,” with Mollie King in the leading role, Monday the offering ig Billie Burke in “Gloria's Romance,” in addition to “Excuse Me,” a strong feature comedy-drama. Tuesday the Grand presents Marguerite Leslie in “The Qaestion.” The program for the rest of the week is also an inter- the foolish gossip about picture peo- ple, there are a lot of hair-brain men who have come to a conclusion that they may take any liberty they wish wili; a girl, so long as she is a film actress, and, I am sorry , there are a few thoughtless girls who en- coprage this opinion ‘through what they term “harmless flirtations.” I would ask these girls to remem- ber that picture acting demands just as much dignity and respect as any rofession, and, if they do not treat it so, they are playing false to it and to their sisters in the work, ~# These “harmless flirtations” have always made me boil. It isn't that I'm narrow or “piciu bout such things, but, as a usual thing, the very ttitude and state of mind vt the man in these affairs are an insult to a girl's intelligence, There is no con- it ceit 80, p tuous as that of the 3 He carrics a supercilious ty and treats the girl tal - ity, nnpsll( ‘some ‘firlyncomu esting feature bill, Interesting Program At the Alamo Today The program for the patrons of the Alamo today is very interesting. The fifth episode of “Peg O' the Ring” i own, together with three , including “Love “A College Boomer- ang,” “The Devil's Image.” For the rest of the week the program includes g_aily changes of dramas and come- ies. “The Galley Slave” Is 'Today’s Bill at Farnam Today the patrons of the Farnam will be treated to a feature picture with Theda Bara in the leading role. he story is entitled, “The Galley ve,” Theda Bara continues: to in- terest agdiences everywhere, and those who missed “The Galley Slave” will fin!'ilu today’s Farnam program inter- esting. e e T of dollars and while it seeméd to be nothing more than a fad in the past, it is now on a solid basis. Strange as it may seem, the margin of profit is about the same as in any other legitimate business and the stories of fabulous salaries and profits are for the most part only well organized publicity stuff. True there are quite a few screen actors and actresses who receive a large sum for their work, but I believe as M. H, Hoffman, general manager of the Bluebird com- pany, said through the. columns of one of the largest weekly papers, “The Play's The Thing.” The public wants to be entertained, and are not s0 much concerned with who is in the picture as to what that particuler per- son does.to make the story a suc- cess. I have always made it my business to watch every program on the mar- ket and believe that I am as much a friend of the photoplay as anyone in ‘or out of the business, I think I buy more movie tickets than the average patron because I like them and get a lot of pleasure and informa- tion from them which I never could get otherwise, There are some pro- ductions that I could never see enough of. It seems to me that the moving picture industry is doing more for the uplift of humanity and education than the public imagines. At the same time ‘it is putting it in the form of amustment. There is no other in- dustry that can boast of the same achievement. Journeys With Photo Players Bessie Barriscale, the Nymp star, is taking advantage of the opportunity to show us what a capital little come- dienne she is. In the five reeler now under way at Culver City, Miss Bar- riscale has a part full of light touches which she knows just how to put oyer. Remember her parts in “Bullets and Brown Eyes” and~ “The Mating?” Well, this part will give the same sort ot quiet enjoyment they did and what more could anyone ask? Charles Ray will support Miss Barriscale in this feature. Cleo Madison has had her little holiday, just a few days to rest up. She spent it with her sister, Helen, at home. They are good companions, these two, and finds lots of comfort in each other’s society. Helen is more of less of an invalid, but keeps housc, and they manage to gkt lots of fun out of life. Miss Madison will direct and take the 1ead in a West Indian drama, starting towards the end of the week. In this she will impersopate a little slave girl and the photoplay is full of pathetic interest. She is at her best in these character studies and loves to play them., Henry B. Walthall is expected to pay a visit to California some time in the near future to take a look at some of his investments near the sea shore. Possibly the friend who circulated the rumor of his visit had the wish in mind and indeed his many friends on the coast would be delighted to have him among them if only for a few days. It ‘s doubtful if any actor in the profession has more honest-to- oodness friends - than this same enry Walthall, Grace Cunard and Francis Ford have been taking a good rest, the first A fforestration in Nebraska Prom—f_ises Mouch . Wealth Where Barren Sandhills Now Ruje BY EUNICE HASKINS. Forest culture is an art. Nebraska has a state forestration commission to look after her forests, Originally three separate areas of land were withdrawn from the public domain, and under proclamation issued by President Roosevelt, they were designated as the Nebraska forest reserves, to be devoted to the work of afforestation, “Afforestation” means the act of turns ing ground into forest or woodland. This was done by the first Norman kings in England to afford them the pleasures of the chase. The conception of afforestation for Nebraska, and its fulfillment, is due to the late Dr, Bessey of the state uni- versity, It was through the efforts of Dr. Bessey that the first work of af- forestation with coniferous trees was ¢!one'm the sand hills of Nebraska. By “coniferous” is meant those trees that bear cones, as the pine and fir. This first experiment of planting conifer~ ous trees was in Holt county on land belonging to Prof. Bruner of the state university, who last year was desig- nated Nebraska's most’ distinguished citizen. This first experiment was so successful that Dr, Bessey urged upon the federal government the adoption of a forestry policy for the state of Nebraska. Consequently three areas were set aside for afforestation. These areas became known as the Platte, the Dis- mal or Loup, and the Niobrara divis- ions of the Nebraska National forest reserve. The Platte division was loca- ted in Grant and McPherson counties and contained 325,000 acres; the Dis- mal or Loup division was located in Blaine'and Thomas counties and con- ;annl:dd8§,0(')coha:rcs; the Niobrara was ocated in Cherry county and - tained 124,000 ;cnl!el. ? i . In 1903 a nursery was established in the Dismal or Loup.division on the south bank of .the Middle Lou river, a mile and a half west of Hal- sey, on the Burlington railroad. This became known as the Halsey reserve or division, and is now known as the Bessey, in honor of Dr. Bessey, who was at the head of the department of_bot:.ny. and forestry at the state university at the time of his death. “This nursery now has a capacity of 1,500,000 plants annually and approxis mately 500,000 of these plants are dis- tributed free, upon request, to settlers in western Nebraska., In the sand hills, 2,500 ‘acres have been planted. In a great measure this work was a novel departure in so far as the United States was concerned, and the forest service had not had the benefit. of previous experience with similar conditions to guide it in its work. Owing to climatic and soil conditions, the available species of trees for plant- ing had to be tested out, To make afforestation in the sand hills a success, the bureau of fdrestry realized that the results obtained must, be upon a commercial basis—it would have to be conclusively demonstrated that trees could be grown into tim- ber to net a profit. A new government nursery has been started in Cherry county, south of Wenzel, and -the original name of Niobrara has been changed to Mor- sum, $1,401 was turned over to the state for county, school and road pur- poses and the balance was placed with the state secretary of agriculture for building roads and trails for the bene- fit of communities in and about the forest reserves. The total receipts from the national forests last year were nearly $2,500,000 ! The bureau of forestry says: “Jack pine, in twenty years, should make one first class and one second class post per tree. These may safely be valued at 8 and 4 cents, respectively, or 12 cents per tree. Suppose, then, that 2,500 trees are planted per acre, | at a cost of $8 per thousand. Of these 80 per cent are jack pine and 20 per cent yellow pine. Suppose again, that 80 per cent of the jack pine and 60 per cent of the yellow pines succeed. The 1,600 jack pines, cut at twenty years, give a gross income of $192 an acre, This is sufficient to cover the cost of plantation, with 4 per cent interest, and protection of 10 cents per acre per year and leave a net annual income of $4.87. The 300 yellow pines per acre are left, and being freed from interest- bearing debt, may be grown to almost any age with reasonable assurance of profit. While these are rough calcula- tions and subject to error, it is not dif- ficult to see that the growing of tim- ber on the sand hills, bothgfor minor and major products may be on a profitably safe financial basis, and may be putting the land to a consider- ably higher use than for grazing.”’ ~ In southeastern Nebraska the osage | hedge fence is passing and in its place T0 FINISH MONASTERY Cradle of the New Bulgaria Is Bridge Which Separates from Ancient Bulgarian Kings. WAS. OVERCOME BUT ONCE (Corresponidence of the Assoclated Press.) Rila, Bulgaria, June 12—"“The great task of Rilsky Monastery is about to be finished,” said Father Eugenius to the correspondent, “This monastery is the cradle of the new Bulgaria. It is the bridge which spans the period of suffering and subjugation which divides the Bulgaria of today from the great kin;dom of the ancient Bul- garian kings.” Father Eugenius is the head of this religions institution, one of the world's famous ménasteries, which is located about fourteen miles from Rila, His predecessors have presided over as many as 300° Greek Catholic monks. Today the monastery houses only thitty-five. “During the rule of the Turks, the monks from the monastery were sta- tioned in every Bulgarian town and large village, teaching, the Bulgars their language and keeping alive their faith,” continued the stalwart su- perior, “Since then conditions have changed, Today our church. has been re-establishéd and the government maintains good schools. With that has passed the necessity of keepin, 1 ton, in recognition of the services of the late J. Sterling Morton. of Ne- ‘braska City. to forestry and conserva- tion. The first seeds were planted this year, The Morton nursery will have a capacity of 500,000 trées a year:, The Platte division was eventually opened to settlement, as a soil sur- vey showed a large percentage of it to be classified as agricultural land. Seventy acres covers the total experi- mental work ever done upon the Platte division, and less than 15 per cent of this acrea‘g]e was planted to hardwood stock, the balance was in pines, and two or three years ago when a count was made, it showed more than 75 per cent of the trees to be alive. So successful has been the work of afforestation in Nebraska that the federal government now feels warranted in undertaking similar work upen its sand land in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan, The rec- they have enjoyed for a long time.|ords -of the foresty bureau show a Since leaving the University company, | greater annual growth than anything they have received several good of-|of which the bureau of forestry has fers, but are making their choice with |a record of in the Rocky mountain great care. Several capitalists in Los | region—this, of course, comparing Angeles offered to put up a good sum | similar species. of money to exploit this very popular Beginning with the 1915 planting pair, but the offer has not, so far, been | of trees, three-year-old seedling trees accepted. Both aver they intend to|were used. These seedling trees were have some recreation before starting | obtained from the secd cones pro- anything at all, although it looks as|quced from the first trees planted. though their plans would be made within the next few days. A soil survey-of the Platte division showed a large percentage of it to be classified as agricultural land, and in The wits of the Los Angeles photo- | consequence it -was thrown open to play colony—and they are numerous | settlement. —Ilove to invent new names for the artists, They have a new one for Myrtle Stedman: “Parmanent Para- mount Pallas Picture Performer.” It really looks that way, too; new per- formers come and go, but Miss Sted- man ‘steadily sticks. “What, is more, she seems to get younger all the time!l What is more, the clever woman seems to be essentially a Paramount program artist and it looks as if she yvo‘;xld continue to wave—so mote it be. Good Program Billed At Princess This Week Harry Carey, King Baggot, Grace Cunard, Francis Ford, Alice Howell, Ella Hall, Flora Parker De Haven, Mary Fuller, Eddie Lyons and Lec Moran will all be seen this week at the Princess. In today's play, “Com- mittee of Credentials,” a thrilling scene is shown when a rider goes to his death over a cliff. The accom- panying comedies are “Getting the Goods on Gerti¢” and “A Conflicting Conscience.” Monday the feature is ‘““fhe Man Across the Street,” with King Baggot. Tuesday, cleventh epi- sode of “Peg o' the Ring;” Wednes- day, “Pirates of the Air" and “{n:klls of a Great City;” Thursday, Ella Hall in “The Love Girl;” Friday, “The Seekers,” and Saturday, Mary Fuller in “Behind the Veil.” Big Feature Billed At the Diamond Today “The Man from Manhattan,” fe: turing William Stowell and Rh Mitchell, \will be presented at the D mond todly. Monday the feature Tuesday the fifth epi- ‘Tlllm Secreltfl‘ of wlrhbt S{!}m shown * wi ¢ Lion' ednesday; “Her Father' . will be seen:, ! fi%fi:ndl{nl 'l!hugxb," ; Iron Mitt and “Reel Life.”, Thursday, Experts who have seen practically all planting done by the forest service throughout the national forest regions in the United States pronounce the Nebraska forest to be the most successful and promising in the United States, and congress has increased the appropriation available for forest work in Nebraska, which allowed for the establishment of a second nursery i the state. The Ne- braska legislature also appropriates a sum_of money for the work of the State Forestation commission. 1n 1910, a substation for experimen- tal agriculture was established at Val- entine, Cherry county, and there about 2,000 trees have ben planted in sand hills. This number is made up of cottnnwoods, Norway pop- lars, box elders, honey locusts, black locusts, American elms, green ash, hardy catalpas, Russian olives, a few cedars, and about 500 rock pines and jack pines. A new bulletin just is- sued about this substation says that the Norway poplar, cottonwood npd box-elder of the quick growing varie- ties are best, though the cottonwood and Norway poplar are short-lived. The American elm and the honey locust have done best of the slower growing deciduous trees. Of: the coniferous trees, the rock pines have done best. In all of southwestern Nebraska tree planting is never thought of as forestry. All small streams are well lined with native timber, and there is scarcely a farm home that is not surrounded by grove and orchard. The towns and villages have such fine growths of well trimmed drees that they are like parks. Almost every | the large numbers we had: formerly. . Thousand Years Old. “Rilsky Monastery was founded by Ivan Rilsky between 946 and 1,000 A, D, Ivan of the Rila Desert, as he was called, wag an ascetic, who acquired the reputation of being a wise man. He is said'to have lived in a cabin near the site of the present monastery. Invited orce to visit the court of the king of thé Bulgarians, Ivan replied that the king had better come to him. Around ‘this man of force soon col- lected a number of disciples. With them he‘founded the monastery. King John Shishmann, ‘in 1379, explained the superior, gave to the monastery the entire surrounding, then consist- ing of farge forests of beech, oak and pine, covering the slopes cf the Rila thountain range. At the same time the monastery was granted the right of autonomy. A parchment some six fae.t in length is cisplayed as proof of this, & Stltan Murad continued the estab- Mishmregit in its' rights, as-a token of which he presented the - monastery with a_five-foot candle of wax, which is-also still to be seen in the library of the monastery. Little by little the wealth of the institution increased, so did the number of its buildings. In 1832 the monastery was aimost totally destroyed by fire, nothing remaining intact with the exception of a tower built in 1337. In rebuilding the mon- astery the old walls' were made use of and care was taken to preserve the original Byzantian archiecture. Four Stories High.' Today the establishment forms an irregular quadrangle around an in- terior court of about 8,000s quare yards Most of the wings are four stories high, Lofty arcades, supporting the ga%lcries which give connections to the 300 rooms and halls of the build- ings, give the whole a majestic aspect. In the center of the court stands the ALY is being built strong and ‘neat wire fences. The pioneers set out the osage hedge fence as carly as possible after their arrival, and it was not long com- paratively until these fences were large enough to trim and furnish all the posts needed locally, and for a good many years a good many cars have been shipped out annually. At Stella Dick Curtis ships from cight to ten cars annually. At the price land has become in the older settled portions of the state, as in Richardson county, farmers. feel that they cannot aff’(;rd to allow a edge fence to grow and rob the fer- tility of the soil for a rod or more into the field. Besides the orchards and groves afford windbreaks and the demand for posts -is not so great locall{.‘ In pioneer days, the only tim- ber of importance was along the Mis- souri fiver, or bigger streams, forest fires from time to time killing all that which would start along the small streams, Pioneers hauled lumber from the Missouri river as far west as near Pawnee City, a distance of thirty-five or forty miles. And some pioneers, who did not live too far away, would buy a piece of timber along the Mis. souri and in the winter go there and get posts and building material. As to the hedge fences, some, are killed by trimming to the ground and burying over with straw and dirt, and a stump puller is used by some farm- ers. A well-trimmed hedge is a thing of beauty along the roadside, but when such a fence is ill kept it is very unsightly. chapel of the monastery, and over the steep red-tiled roofs of the quadrangle peep the snow-covered peaks of the Rila range, of which the Stag and King summits, 9,300 feet above sea level, are the highest. Not_all the Turkish sultans were the friends of the monastery, Thus it happened that the seclusion which Ivan Rilsky had .sought became time and again the only protection Bulgars from the vicinity had against the perils of war and misrule. The mon- astery may be reached over a pass from Samokoff, but its principal ap- proach lies through a fourteen-mile gorge from-the village of Rila. These two approaches could be easily de- fended by a small number of men, On. just one occasion was the monastery overcome by military force—in 1835 the Serbian fuedal lord, Chrl, entered it. The tower of the monastery is the monument of his conversion. It was he who erected it. Three decades ago Rilsky monaster: often became the refuge of the Bui- garian comitadjes, who had their headquarters in the Rila forests. Even today the monastery is nearly seventy miles from the railroad, as inacces- sible as ever, and far removed from the beaten trail. The institution owns approximately 148,000 acres of land, of which about 7,400 acres are under cultivation, the labor being done by hired men. “All you see here is ours,” said Father Eugenius, pointing to the fields in the gorge, the splendid beech and oak forests, and the mountain glades still covered with snow. “We have about 2,500 sheep, 100 cows and more than 100 horses,” Asked what was done with the rev- enue from the forests and the fields, the superior said part of it went to the traditional custom of lodging asfd feeding free all charges, and, for three days, all strangers passing that way, and that the remainder was given to schools and seminaries. “We know little of the war here,” he said, “thouglr we get mail regu- larly. We follow our devotiohs and hope and pray that the strife will soon be over. The good monks of Rilsky were reminded of the war, however, last night when your aute- mobile snorted its way up the gorge.” The chauffeur had negotiated the ninety-horse power machine through a desolation of water-washed boulders, along the impetuous mountain torrent, and then, through a dense forest of beeches and conifers. The monastery was reached about 8 o'clock in the evening, and as the machine rumbled through the great courtyard most of the thirty-five monks rushed from their cells to witness the unusual event of an automobile invading the holy precincts of fiila. The superior had already retired as he was to celebrate mass at 3 o'clock in the morning, so Brother Nicofer welcomed the guests, served a meal of cold beans flavored with mint, cold prunes, and bread, and then assigned the Associated Press correspondent the best but one apart- ment in the monastery—that one be- ing the quarters reserved for the king. Brother Nicofer said that never be- fore had an American jornalist been in Rilsky monastery, and he ex- plained the simple fare by stating it was a week of fasting at the institu- tion, and hoped that the visitor would sleep well. e 8@, The Most Expert tional Wild West Show. July 20, 21, kind of a deciduous or evergreen tree will grow and do well. However, the last few years various pests have tarted to work on fruit trees, and spraying has become ' necessary. Isnplo and box-elder comprise the 'Gets. Bit,” a | majority of the trees in the towns. - Last year the state of Nebraska re- ceived gl.%l from the receipts of the national forests for one year. Of this HERE THEY COME From All Quarters of the Earth Horsemen, Lariat () % Throwers, Marksmen, etc.—for the Sensa- " “FRONTIER DAYS” and “ROUND-UP” at the R Douglas County Fair Grounds _ 22 and 23 Under the Auspices of the AK-SAR-BEN, NOTE—This show is run to help partly detray the expenses of the Great Pageant to be held here this Fall, Reserved Seats on Sale at Beaton's Drug Store, 15th and Farnam Merritt's Drug Store, Rose Bldg.