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About The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923 | View Entire Issue (May 10, 1923)
T RED CLOUD, NEBRASKA. CHLB WitMIIH.IHIIIIWH WW nwwMiBMimiiwwip'iiii1 1 iiw unwiin riTai xifnrw XtmiVG WMWWVHITWWrVfmwm '-ii..uiij.Piiuiunj Fjuitunannnuun mi mm m:?zz Some folks think they are demo cratic Juat liucnudu they eat pie with a knife. Tho ownership of one automobile is a liability, tho ownership of two 1h a calamity. Ono froubio with' this-world iu that too many people want full liino pay lor half time work. One reason 1 havo ho hutch troublo Is that 1 ilou't like womun, but all the women llko mo. A road hog Ih the chap who grabs tho good stretch of road that you icant to iiho yourself. JUI union men are not radical reds, aclthcr do nil farmers wear chin whispers ahd say "Ily lion." A normal wifo is ono who is not jnirprlHed when sho sees how pollto tier husband Is to other women. Ono nice thing about being at homo Is that you don't have to reach for money every time you cat a meal. Von old married men, do you ro aiembor how sheepish you felt tho Crst time you had to buy safetyplns? Jack Sweet suggests that ono way to stop chock to check dancing is to make tho eating of onions more pop ular. Fred Howard is so modest Unit ho always retiren to another room when ever he has occasion to change bin ml ml. I can sco that I am going to imvo to put np with another long, dry summer. Hop Is again ten cents a bottle. Whenever n man is absolutely cer tnln that ho can't do anything wrong he should try running a newspaper awhile. One of the objects of this column Is to loll some of tho neglected truth about the printing and newspapor business. ff the averngo man talked as big (o other folks an ho tells his wlfo ho docs he would wear black eyes all the time. Tho man who doesn't beliovo in aorlving on Sunday should never try to spend tho day driving a second hand lar t debtor who can't pay or doesnt rtint to pny ulwajs cusses tho flinty hearted creditor who . tints him to sot Ho up. mil Maupln B.iyB there are threo score women iu (living who begin to count on their lingers whenever a thst baby arrives. Ono reuson so many men aro true to their wives is because they aro so old and fat that they aro not attrac tive to other women. For Sale: A good sot of second land false teeth, .lust right for a dainty little month. Apply to the editor of this column. Ic always makes me mad when 3omeono does mo dirt and then apol ji'Izch befoio I have a chance to tell tjim wh.it I think of him. Y could have written nnother Fpasm t( legislative news this week, but it i. mid have been ridiculous to tell what tho legislature is doing utter it v. all. done. Do you remember how you used to mealc Into tho barber shop to look at the 1'ollco Gazette? Well, you can ico better pictures nowadays in any lamlly magazine Every once iu a while I get ,0. let ter from Homoouu who wants to buy i good county paper for $200 down and tho owner take his chnnco on getting tho rest of It. Over a thousand bills woro intro duced In tho Into legislature and only '3S of them passed. And still some folks aro unreasonable onoush to caU thesossion a failure. A now law in Is'chrusku allowa preachers ami charitable workers to rtdo freo on railroads. I know sev eral price cutting printers who corn tv'r the latter classification. Last year the government Issued more thou a half billion postal cards. "o wondor there tiro so many near lighted postmasters. U doesn't pay to tell your wifo all ihout ypur business .iff n Ira unless jm atv losing moaoy. Hank Liggett jmiyj thero will bo roro rocniv" In tjifyrard intra whon t.i tfrja,,, got jo 'wearing enrsots jgain. Tluuk'iin make room foi half a dozen ordinary sized folkB If ko will wear a corset. Something to Tbi;. About By I !. WALKER tii 15 ofj) chicle rr natural Inclination in man, -- when he is lout In the woods, or is lloiimlerlug mound In business for which he Is not ojiallllod, Is to move In a circle. The currier pigeon lllos .straight to his (li"-tliiiilloii; the Iioi.se goes nil Hiilded through the darkest night to his siuble. A man may have genius or merely ordinary talent, but If he cannot move .straight ahead, think clearly and keep his mind upon his work, he is plodding around ami around, arriving-at the end of the year at about the same spot from which he started, still befuddled, and dechledly less courageous. Such h man, and there are thousands of them, Is not built for success. lie Is apt to take no reckoning of his prog ress until some one beside him who has been thinking effectively In straight lines moves up to where opportunity Is greater and reward Is rlchitr. This rude awakening cntises but a temporary shock to his numb sensibili ties, lusting perhaps it day or two, but producing In him no material change for the belter. If nny serious doubt its to his ability should come to him tit such u time as tills, It Is instantly banished as too burdensome, and he continues his aim less trot in the old circle. Ho doesn't nsk himself whether ho Is dependable, whether he thinks eon strttctlvolj or whether he thinks at all. He doesn't nsk whether he Is given t watching the clock and stealing away frequently from his work to In hale the aroma of Ills favorite cig arette. He doesn't ask whether lie in nil hts time In his present position lias made a single suggestion of value- to his employer. Ah, no! He bus the faculty of avoid ing dubious obligations, especially those that would be likely to Impose upon him an additional stroke of work, or Interfere with his plans for pleasure among his night associates. Such n man is not qualified for .straight thinking or straight going. He Is not caimble of handling things with Intelligence and In the depths of his heart he knows It. Ho Is a failure, and for no other reuson In the world than his own per verseness In moving in the old circle wandering about the best part of his life In the wilderness. ((J), 1911, by McClur Krwapaper Syndicate.) o Avoid Affectation. It Is highly desirable that you should be one iniin. nil of one piece, and appear outwardly such as you urc inwardly. William Law. O Stnjjes of "Life." Life is rather' a state of embryo a preparation for life. A man Is not ionipletely born until be has passed through death. Franklin. O Has Anyone Laughed At You Because irrHDL r. PBYSBR You like Qod muulc? You have a reputation for liking good music; you don't like sub stitutes. You get more enjoy nient mid fodder out of an eve ning at a symphony concert than out of "Jnay." You know that 11 lance iinf out of Hcethoon. Mozr.il or Hrnhnis not only makes .ti over If'you are tired but g)es you your money's worth for 11 month. Whj should you ejre If they laugh? You have liked good "Jazz," maybe, that Is written with artistry and melody yet on the whole you like what Is culled "good music." Rejoice over It. You taste of the Muff that gods are intidu of and you are the luckiest of mortals, for goil food Is rare today. SO Your net-away Is here: ABk your friends, "Wh.it music lives longer and why, Dar danella' or 'Alda'?" and "Why do the nost llonly popular tunes die in a few minutes?" 'Nuf said. ( bjr McClure Newiptiper Syndicate.) (Mi IS ENftlUrK BYE AFI:EC1S WHOLE ECDY Why Routine Examination of School Children Is Imputative Is Ex. plained by Authority. Pr. de Sehwelnltz, in llygclu, first points out thai only ubmit ! per cent of eyes are entirely normi'l according to optbal standards. At Mrth nearly all ejos are far-sighted. Near-sighted eyes most commonly make their ap pearance from the sixth to the tenth jour of life, Hint Is to say especially during si hool .vents. Such errors when marked gle rise to eyestrain or "weak eyes." While It Is true that few eye-) are absolutely normal, many approach It so closely that for all prnetieal pur poses tl.ej may be consMered normal. They do ;iot give rise to dlsioiufort, and correcting glasses are not required, at least. In younger jours.. Hut it must be realized further that good vision and painless eyes do not neces sarily exclude eyestrain ; and eyestrain may caue headache, pains In various parts of the body, twitching of tho face, night terrors, nervousness, Indi gestion, nnil many other symptoms. The need for the routine examination of the eyes of school children Is there fore clear, and the possible effects of failure to recognize the fact of eye trouble are pointed out. These effects are not limited to the eye Itself. "The eye Is not conllned, as It were, to n lit tle urea of its own, subject to diseases and defects unconnected with the rest of the body. Quite the contrary. It Is most intimate in its relations to the rest of the body." "The problems which surround It, whether they re late to optical faults or to disease, are meilleiil tiollein, and must bo solved v. lib Ibis fact always In view." SELF-PITY SHOWS WEAKNESS Can Properly De Set Down Not Only as a Dad Habit, but a Poison- ouo One. Have you among your friends or ac quaintances any men or women who are always pitying themselves? If so, you can set them down as weaklings. Self-pity Is self-destruction. Self-pity saps one's self-reliance. Self-pity breeds dospnlr. The strong don't In dulge In self-pity. They are too busy thinking and working ami talking con structively. They are Intent on attain ing some object, some goal. They are so engrossed In practicing self-help that they have no time to waste on self-pity. Self-pity Is not only a bad habit; It Is u poisonous habit. It hurts self and It disgusts others. The person who Is chronically guilty of self-pity hasn't In him the spirit of self-sacrifice, and without self-sacrifice no human being cun qualify to go far or rise far. Self pity reveals u lack of self-discipline! We all encounter difficulties and dis couragements; we all have ambitions thwarted. I'.tit we do not let discour agements discourage; we do not give up bemuse balked and thwarted time nml again; we do not wear our occa sional streaks of pessimism on our sleeve or on our countenance. We keep 11 stiff opper lip. We wrestle on. And we smile on. We don't become er bali'i We inu, IrMurdly wince, but we don't lllnch. We don't pour tales of v oi t-itii the e:it-i of others y.-i know toev have troubles enough of tin Ir tww. We ri'fi's'o to be cowards. We re fuse to wear the white feather. We stiho t l" urn. We become men. We are me:;.--forties Magazine. Clerk's Oni-Cylinder Mind. "I usually l;:in.v what I want ami when I (! I ask for it expllclty," said tie Man Who Crumbles. "Yesterday I entered a p.ilnt s( ;-e and to the clerk who offered to wal: on me I said: 'I want a quart of while paint, best qual ity, for wood to be 11-vd outside. "The cleric noo.ii.mI puzzled. He studied a moment and asked: 'How much do you want';' 1 told him. He seemed siitlsiled uml after a brief pause asked: Mir.erlor or outside?' I again supplied the Information. Ho made no objection but still sought In formation. Mining to use It on wood?' lie suggested. I assured him that I In tended t. smear It on my window frames and they are of wood. "I thought the transaction was ubout to be closed, but the cleric was still In doubt on one point. 'What color?' he asked cheerfully. I satisfied his curiosity and he got the paint for me. Stupid? Not a blr. He simply had a one-cylinder mind. I had supplied too many facts for him to assimilate at onco." New York Sun. Sociability an Asset. A political candidate, on paying a second visit to the house of a doubt ful voter of the agricultural class, was very pleased but somewhat surprised on hearing from the elector that he would support him. "Clad to hear It," said the candidate. "I thought you were against me." "I was at fli-M." said the other. "The other day when you called here and stood by that pig sty and talked for half an hour you didn't budge me an Inch. "lint after you had gone away, sir, I got to thlnKur how you'd reached ,our hand over the rail and scratched the pig's back until he lay down with the pleasure of It. I made np my mind then that when it man wits so ciable as that with a poor fellow crea ture I wasn't the man to volu against him." Harper's Magazine. Chemistry Examination. Profe.-S'.r - it.it Is Au.c. ? Student 11 it's right" on my tongue. Protestor (alarmed) Spit It out; pit It out ; 'It's urscn'c. Feat of Clipper Ship of a Gen eration Ago Recalled. Sovcrelgnjif the Seas Averaged 3! Knots an Hour, for Eleven Days, Back In 1853. The recent announcement that the Leslatlian. the world's second largest .ship and the largest llylng the Amer ican tlag, on hi-r completion would probably bre.ik all records for speed 'across the Atlantic, recalls tho seven tieth miniver ary last month of a roc ord made b the great clipper shl,i .Sovereign of the Seas, Hying before the winds In the South 1'aelllc, In which she made a n.u In It days averaging l.'t-i knots, or '.i'M miles, every li I hours. The Sovereign of the Seas had been built the year before In the Ktist Uos ton yard of Donald McKay, whose famous brother, Lutichlan Mclvuy, coiniuaiided the ship on her most memorable passages. A lofty three skysall yurder of 11,421 tons, the Sov ereign of the Seas was then the largest and unquestionably the swift est and tno.st powerful sail slilp In the world. She tiad gone out to the I'uclhV on her niulden voyage, as most of the clippers of that time were accustomed to do, sailing front New York on August , 1852, for San Francisco. In a squall In the South Pacific the huge ship carried away her fore anil main topmasts and foreyard. Hut Captain McKay had a strong crew of Kit) men, 1 of them able seamen, and under his skilled leader.slilp the Sovereign was fionpletely remasted and re-rlgged at sea In 11 days arriving out at the c 'den (late In n line passage of 10'5 du.s from Sandy Hook. I!ttt for tho dismasting she would have broken all Cfipr i!r..-ii records for that season of the yc.tr. Iiixtcad of running across to Chinn, as the clippers often did, to reload for the Atlantic coast, the Sovereign of the Seas crossed only to Honolulu and there' obtained a curgo of whale oil, taken on the I'aclllc grounds by whule ships from New Kngland. It was on Ibis passage southward for Cape Horn that the Sovereign performed the memorable feat of running .'1,502 miles In 11 days, in strong winds nml gales, continuing unceasingly. In the four days from March 1(5 to March 10 In clusive the mighty clipper ship sailed 1,478 miles, or, ullowlng for longitude eastward and difference In time, an average of 1.rVi knots. No ocean steamer of that period could have done thin. On one duy, March 18, the Sovereign of the Seas Is credited with an average speed of 17 2-3 knots for 2i hours. In the Atlantic on this pas sage light and moderate winds pre vailed, but the Sovereign of the Sens passed Sandy Hook only 82 days out from Honolulu. Through those memorable 11 March days of IS.".'! In the South I'aclllc the art of sall-shlp handling obtained Its npotheiisls In the work of Captain Mc Kay, his four mates and his hundred seamen. Never before had such sail ing been seen: never again will It be witnessed, because no such tall, keen .slilpn as those Yankee clippers will over again be constructed. Steam has sounded their doom mil the end of the kind of crews that manned them. Your New Home. (As you picture It after listening to the advice of your home-owning friends.) , It will be a colonial cottago In the Tudor Cothle style, revealing the French chnteau Influence nnil iMiiboi ly ing the best features of the English manor, California bungalow mid Adi rondack lodge. It will be heated by hot air, hot water, steam, electricity and gas; It will have a tile, slate, shingle, terra cotta, asphalt, asbestos and thatched roof and will bo painted In quiet tones of purple, green, red. yellow and pink. The house will con tain tunny bedrooms, to encourage one's relatives; and very few, to dis courage them. The living room will be long, low, high, wide and narrow, treated In the Kniplro, Italian Kcmiis Mince and late Flemish manner, with stralglit lines, a broken frieze and a footless pediment. Your home' will be situated on a wind-swept hill top on low ground In the midst of a dense wood, ten tulles from the station and within easy walk ing distance of your otllce. From Life. Betty Explains. "Now, Hetty," said her grandpa, try ing to be severe, "tell 1110 why you didn't put that dime Into the plate at church this morning. I like to see a little girl give cheerfully and not let her right hand know what her left hand doeth." "Well, grandpa,'' said Hetty, who Is very fond of candy, by the way, "that's Just the trouble. My right hnnd thought my left hand was putting It In and my left bund thought my right hand was, and so between the two 'if them It didn't get put Iu at all." Hoston Transcript. . Rebuking. Helen. Tho girls were calling upon their "I'M'u'i -iri'irs, ' . 'r ''rst 'llt for sev eral weeks. Naturally they felt they must tell all the news they could pos sibly think of, so talked Incessantly. Helen had the floor, telling all about tho terrible ailments she had been troubled with for a long time. Hetty Ann tried In vuln for a chnnee to tulle. Finally she exclaimed: "Aw, 'Helen, you're olwiiyw bniggln' on your t 1 n V5 vi nace Orders Now .1 Tfe e Mallone VVWVVrVVrfWVUV.V.V.VAVAVAV.VV.VVJrfV.W Advantage in Comparison I When the development In Ni-braslcti Is compared with that of older states, many or wiileu XeliniNkn fur outclass is, It is lint fair to take into con&lilei ntton the duration of ibis development. It was three hundred years ago that the Pilgrims made their historical land ing at Plymouth Koclc. About one himdtod hikI twenty year's later th.re whs considerable pioneering this side r .1.- ah 1 1.1..1 i....ii..... v uio hiiviiviiiv iiit,iiiutiiiiij,r.-i tended westward .,.., 1 i 1 . Hut Nebiacka has only been a state llttysix yeats and the early jours of its , .statehood were deeply saturated with ' J no ""'i'1 " '"'"i.v places is making pi imitive pioneer conditions. In the a""" rapid progi ess Hint it is n great shiut spun of fifty yeais compared with 1 ""-'I"111'1-' "' stilting up the farmer to tl.e peilod thtougli which her sistni- "Utlon to get prepaied for the first cu'-stati-r, have passed, Nebraska lias cane l1" tt a position or distinction urn hj ( The pitutoes that were planted early tin-in all. , coming up nicely and healthy look- The wonder stte fur Us rapid de- inn so liy the middle of .June they ex-Vi-liipmelit Is Oklahoma, nut not 11 re I'eCt mnie new potatoes and a jniiug fry lisd furnl-bul Oklahoma with uiiimd about ihnt tune or e en aov Mitic no wenlth in minerals anil oil. If. icquir , one but a very frtstnlmu. person would eil oulj enterprise to turn these slotvd object to. up resources Into the chuntiels of com- ni-icp. So Oklahoma became juleUly the meccii of money seukuis desiring to c in veil quickly the hidden treasuies into the coin of the rea ha lf wnsiUlTeieni In Nobuiskn, for Ne- braska had only the soil iu Us virgin , , , 1 1 .1 1 1 state, and those who occupied tho land . , ,,, ,tii,i ,1 were bomeseekers. 1 bey tilled the, soil with such equipment as they could provide. They were limited in fliian c'ihI resources very limited. They lucked experience in this climate and longitude. They possessed hope and faith and energy and all these were required. The rich did not come to Nebraska in those early days except In such sections hs offered promise in the cattle business on a large scale. The land was peopled by earnest, thoughtful folks who were willing to work and who began the process of home building and farm develof tnent ben: on the raw prairie. There were many dissappolntmeiits iu those early days, many tiagelies, bit there grew up a sturdy people who ciiiVHi'ted these prairies into well ord ered farming communities. T01l.1v the products of Nebraska farms in grain, lny and live stock, reach a prodigious figure, beyond the mind to comprehend Gicat matlccts havo been developed on its eastern border and thriving to.wis and cities scatter throughout the state, the result of this progressive agricul ture which the people of Nebraska have fostered 'Ibis ins all come within the life time of many thousands of present day residents without the aid of mines or oil wells or pleasure retort develop ment. It has all come from tho soil nnd tho brain and brawn ot thepatient, indu.strlous people No other state has had a development comparable to this. We have n right to contemplate this achievement with piideatid coutl denco. Foresight Kansas Pickups SMITH COf.NTV .1. O l'rice spent Sunday with and Mrs. George lthorer. Mr Mrs. Lloyd Wadley returned to her home iu Falrbury, Nebr., after a week's stay with her uncle, Ceo. Ilhoror nud family. Newell Merritt and wife of Lebanon spent Sunday with Earl Abbott and wife. M. D. Lanniguu of Smith Center and Miss Velma Carr spent Sunday evening with the Ilobt. Lannlgan family. L. O. Vance and wife of Lebanon were Sunday visitors at the homo of tielr daughter, Mrs. Ernest Freeman. Mrs. Ilobt. Lanulgau and family and Mrs. Hex Hollhan and buby Kathyln wore weekend visitors at Fred Lanni gan's near Smith Center. F.d Lull aiuf wife are tho proud par outs of u baby girl dated from May Itrd. K. H Spurrier county commissioner I transacting business in Smith Cent er this week. Yes, Garber's Is The Place! To Buy Wall Paper, Paints, And Electrical Supplies. The best place for Picture Framing. Loal r - Gelady Co. Northeast Pawnee Unless addilotiHl heavy ruins occurs nil the farmers are ready to start iu full blast this week. The soil beiiitf too wet up to the present but if the weather Is favorable all will be finish ed tip in stillloient time. Not wl.h- standing their lateness iu stinting- a9 f,,rmws '" Kl;el,' owtn to t,,e ' c,',l"-"9 '". a.o well equipped witli liorso (IohIi ami those who have not enough boise flesh havo loth of mule flesh which is iust as irood I , . , . J l mean for farming purposes. Messi.s A. Williams, E. J Klllot and ityan witli their families attended church at lied C oud lait Sunday. K C. Leadubiand. his brother Jim, H Moliler and J. Collins autotd to S uilh Center last Thursday. t ...., Jake Williams wjs attending to bus! ... , .. i ' n.'ss matters 111 Ltjlmoon hsI Fidav. Frank llyan hauled a load of hots last Satuiday to luavale. Hoy Myers was in Iielli.ire with a load of hogs last Fridaj. Loren Blair was iu Inavule last Sat unlay for 11 load of coal. Earl Hitter and wife were visiting with Roy Myers and wife last Monday. Hennle Mohler, wife and family, Ed. gar Leadabrand and Miss Elsie Harber were in Ked Cloud last Saturday. Mrs Everett Myers was visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Alex McDonald one day last week. Mac.fones and wife wcte in Lebanon the end of last week tleorge.Johnston w-.s lu Red Cloud last Saturday doing bis trading. - Lewis 1'agett and wife were tit Worn er last Friday doing their trading'. Stephen Oouldiu was visiting with Everett Myers and wife one dtij- last week. Joseph Uyan and Herb Harber were visiting with Con McCoalelastSuuday. OUli HOY The imagination of boys exceeds tho dreams of men. Hoys are imi tators and their youthful minds de velop many interesting and fantastic situations in which they have a part. Many a lnd, with a rooster feather stuck in his cap. has ridden a broom stick around the back yard a mitf.ity general, leading a number ess and victorious army. Ask a boy his judgment on a mat ter of import; instantly he displays a spirit of responsibility. Show him a kindness; you have made a friend. Take an interest !n his welfare; you are making a man. Where is tho grown-up without treasured recollections of the kindiv interest of some other grown-up, back in childhood days? Where is the man or woman, who in youth did not, through misconception, worry over trifling or imaginary situations that would have been quickly dispelled had some one of mature years sensed the matter and offered n word of ex planation. When hoys understand that there is as much call for sportsmanship in the gamo of life as in athletics, and that the possibilities for honors are infinitely greater they are in a fair way of development. I-ct the reader try the experiment of a half hour's chat with a hoy, his by, or anybody's boy. and note tho of feet on tho boy and on himself. He will lie encouraged to repeat the ex perience. Foresight Clark Crow drove to Republican Tuesday morning to spend the day with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Crow. Kvorett Hawkira went to Hastings Saturday nu.rning for a nort vhi: t'fter spending tho past week he-o visiting with 'his nbrents, Mr." and Mrs. T. W. Hawkins. j' i