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nue Services Sunday at 11 a mf and
Wednesday at 8 p m Reading Room
open all the time Science literature
on sale
Evangelical Lutheran Regular
German preaching services in church
corner of E and 6th street east every
Sunday morning at 1030 All Germans
cordially invited
RevWm Brueggeman
607 5th st East
Pneumonia follows a cold but never
follows the use of Foleys Honey and
Tar which stops the cough heals the
lungs and expels the cold from the sys
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CITY CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENTS
Cong keg ati onal Preaching at 11
and 8 oclocK Sunday school at 10 a
m Christian Endeavor 7 oclock
Prajer meeting Wednesday evening
at eight oclock The public is cor
dially invited to these services
Rev R T Bayne Pastor
Episcopal Preaching services at St
Albans church at 11 a m and 730 p
m Sunday school at 10 a m Com
munion 1st Sundays 11 a m 3rd Sun
days 745 a ra each mouth All are
welcome to these services
E R Eakle Rector
Catholic Order of services Mass
530 am Mass and sermon 1030 am
Evening service at 8 oclock Sunday
ichool230 p m Every Sunday
Wm J Kirwin O M I
Methodist Sunday school at 10 am
Sermons by pastor at 11 and 8 Class
st 12 Junior League at 3 Epworth
it 2t at 645 Prayer meeting Wed
flewiHy isight at 745
Bryant Howe Pastor
Baitj t school at ten oclock
am i iiiinjr at 11 a m and 745
p m B Y 1 U UJ p m Prayer
meeting and Bible study on Wednesday
at 8 p in A most cordial invitation is
y tended to all to worship with us
Francis E Jams Pastor
Evangelical Lutheran Congrega
tional Sunday School at 930 a m
Preaching ar 1030 a m and 730 p m
by pastor Junior C E at 130 p m
Senior C E at 700 p m Prayer
meetings every Wednesday and Satur
day evenings at 730 All Germans
sordially invited to these services
Rev GustavHenkelmann
505 3rd street West
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flow to Beal the
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IrTOVEHTiSlNGl
A l NEWSPAPER
WHJ OFFICE
There Mr Man dont cry
They have broken your heart I know
And the trade that you had which
made you glad
is a thing of the Long Ago
But still you can get it back
There is hope for the man who tries
To recover your trade you have got to
wade
Right in and ADVERTISE
Bread in Politics
From the days of Joseph down the
only well populated country which
had enough grain to satisfy its own
consumers was Egypt rich beyond
the record of any other soil this side
of Paradise Ferrero in bis history
of Rome shows the transcendent po
litical Importance of corn in all times
Feed your people king or demagogue
else they wijl overthrow you For
the masses from furthest antiquity to
most recent days there has never
been any torch of dissatisfaction re
bellion and anarchy like a shortage of
bread
3EGGS CHERRY COUGH
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MEANS HARD WORK
RAILROAD MEN HAVETHEIR OWN
TROUBLES IN VINTER
Many Difficulties In Keeping Trains
to Schedule Time Contingencies
That It Is Impossible for Offi
cials to Foresee
Running a railroad at any season
of the year is far from childs play
Xp Jl
Even when skies
a r o fair and
tracks clear there
is a deal of work
about keeping the
hundreds of en
gines and thou
sands of cars that
go to make up the
rolling stock of
any line of con
sequence mov
ing harmoniously
There are sched
ules that must be
observed into the
working out of
which enter count
less details and
upon the failure
of any one of them hinges disar
rangement of the entire order of
things delay possible loss of prop
erty and not infrequently sacrifice
of human life
When a severe winter comes upon
the scene the troubles of summertime
seem as nothing and railroad men
are confronted by problems whose so
lution requires the utmost vigilance
and a high degree of executive abil
ity They have but one thing to do
keep the trains running and run them
just as close to the original schedule
as possible And it is in living up
to this requirement that they encoun
ter difficulties of which the public
generally knows nothing and ap
parently cares less
Admittedly nothing is more aggra
vating than having to wait for a train
unless possibly it might be rushing
I j excitedly out to the station gate just
in time to see the last coach disap
pear in the distance and learn that
you were some 30 seconds late But
if travelers knew the labor involved
in keeping things moving even in a
seemingly erratic manner they would
take a more charitable view of the
matter and marvel that the men en
trusted with the task succeed in do
ing so well as they manage to
Contingencies that cannot be antici
pated or guarded against arise in a
single moment causing confusion
from one end of a division to the
other A flange on a wheel to a
heavily loaded freight car breaks and
a half dozen cars are ditched tying
up all traffic in at least one direction
and playing havoc with schedules un
til the wrecker has been hurried to
the spot and the road cleared A
hot journal and they occur even in
zero weather may necessitate stop
ping a train out in the open country
and one man hurrying forward and
another back from the train regard
less of wind or weather to guard
against the j possibility of collision
while other members of the crew rem
edy the difficulty Some part of the
locomotive may go wrong making
temporary repairs imperative and
blocking traffic until the engine is
once more in shape to proceed Trains
from other roads may be late at
connecting points the chances for de
lay are practically unlimited and each
presents a problem that must be met
and settled in its own peculiar way
according to the needs of the occa
sion never for an instant losing sight
of the fact that the entire division
is directly involved in the settlement
Railroad Claims
Representatives of the claim depart
ments of some of the big railroads
were before the house committee on
interstate and foreign commerce re
cently One of them testified that
last year he settled claims amounting
to more than a million dollars against
his road
Isnt it a fact asked Representa
tive Townsend Rep Mich that
some roads never pay a claim until
thoy have to
Yes it is admitted R L Calkins
claim agent of the New York Central
railroad But that sort is getting less
all the time The railroads are begin
ning to realize that the sooner a claim
is paid the better it is for both the
road and the claimant
Mr Calkins said that occasionally
the roads were asked to pay damages
on freight never received or improp
erly billed or invoiced
I remember one claim for valuable
oil paintings that had been shipped
over our road as rabbit skins he
said
Guatemalan Railroads
There are over 400 miles of railroad
now in operation in Guatemala and
various extensions are in prospect
One of these contemplates the build
ing of a line from Zacapa on the
Northern railroad about one hundred
miles from the sea to Santa Ana on
the northwestern frontier of Salvador
where it will conect with the British
railroad already built and thereby
with the capital of Salvador Much of
the coffee now grown in that republic
will thus find an outlet to the Atlan
tic of which it has long been in need
and it is highly probable that the bulk
of the import trade to Salvador will
also be conducted along this route
Scientific American
All American Built
Locomotives of the Chinese rail
roads are like the rest of the rolling
stock American built
I ON A BRAZILIAN RAILROAD
Excitement of Trying to Distinguish
Birds from Orchids in Run
Through Flowery Paradise
Tliirty four miles in three hours as
a run fcr an express train strikes one
as qner but that is the regular sched
ule between Sao Paulo Brazil and
Santos Incidentally the road de
scends 2000 feet in those 34 miles
The time would be better but for
the fact that a part of the distance is
traversed by a cable which is de
liberation Itself It was originally
planned to make the road all steam
but according to the American con
sul at Santos the route map submitted
by the engineers looked too much like
the ice after a figure skating contest
The stockholders protested and got
the cable section
But no one save a man late for
his homebound steamer says a
writer in the Travel Magazine is
justified in coir plaining of the slow
ness of the cable division You skirt
on viaducts cliffs that would be bare
and forbidding in other latitudes but
which here lift in mile long walls of
verdant tapestries
You wind through gorges amid a
reckless riot of tropical vegetation
that casts a weird green light like
that of an ice cavern and sets you
planning to come back on foot the
next day to explore at your leisure
the leafy vistas opening to right and
left and revealing tantalizing glimpses
of their dewy depths
You see a glint of color on a limb
of a gaunt pala tree in the identical
spot where a cluster of bright polished
parasitic looking leaves leads you to
believe there should be an orchid and
while you still hold it with your eye
down it flutters with a wild scream
You pelt a pack of cards at a bird
perched a few feet from the track on
a rotten stump and discover an in
stant later that you have dealt to a
dummy in the form of a flower more
splendid than you ever dreamed
flower could be Then you become so
absorbed in the classification of
orchid birds and bird orchids that only
the timely jerk your seat companion
gives your ceattails saves you from
being guillotined by a half fallen
bough that comes rat-a-tatting down
along the car windows
This short bit of composite rail
road running down from Sao Paulo to
Santos through scenery lovely enough
to warrant its acquisition by a fairy
syndicate for subdivision into Titan
ias bowers is the artery through
which flows nearly the whole coffee
output of Brazil more than half of
the worlds supply This in the90s
often amounted to over 10000000 bags
a year m excess of 25000 bags a day
Sprinkler for Railroad Bridges
As is well known very often in the
dry season a railroad bridge or trestle
is destroyed by fire from the engine
of a train or from some other source
In order to avoid this a railroad in
Oregon has put a sprinkler on one of
Trestle Protected from Fire
its trestles which keeps off the dan
ger It is in the form of a pipe which
runs the full length of the structure
between the tracks having at short
distances apart holes from which the
water comes out in sprays thus keep
ing the fire from gaining any headway
The Pathfinder
Grinding Tire Easy Matter
If an engineer tries to stop too
quickly his wheels are likely to slip
and spin That is likely to mean
grinding a tire These steel tires are
expensive and the possibility of
grinding a tire flat is the bane of the
life of the engineer and fireman
Grinding a wheel even to the thick
ness of a needle will start it to
pounding
The greatest danger to the wheels
is in applying the air too quickly and
trying to stop the train too suddenly
You watch and you will notice that
lots of times an engineer will let his
train run past the station and apply
ing the emergency brake stop to lock
the brake shoes instantly A sudden
application of the brakes usually
means that the wheels will slip on
the rails and when a locked wheel
slips it is almost certain to make the
tire flat Grinding a tire often means
30 days for the engineer
Will Open Up Rich Country
A new railroad company has been
organized to build a line from Teziu
tlan state of Pueblo through the state
of Vera Cruz to the port of Nautia
The 2500000 gold capital has all
been subscribed The line will de
velop a region rich in fruit sugar
coffee oil etc and the freight on the
lemon trade alone will pay the ex
penses of the road A branch line will
also be operated between Papantla
and Misantla
Oldest Wabash Engineer Dead
James Clark the oldest engineer on
the Wabash died recently at Moberly
Mo He was born in Cambridge Eng
land January 17 1S39 He entered
the service of the North Missouri
fnow the Wabash road when he went
HAVE TO MEET COMPETITION
Waterway Traffic Materially Cuts
Down the Income of the Dutch
Railroads
The railroads of Holland seem to
have a pretty hardscrabble time of it
Water competition that of the canals
and of the Rhine has always been
their bugbear Even now after 50
years of struggle for business the
railroads carry only ten per cent of
Dutch freight
From Amsterdam alone there are
not less than 150 lines of local steam
ers that go regularly to every port
of the country providing a daily serv
ice or rather a nightly service
which enables them to deliver freight
from almost anywhere to anywhere in
the country every morning It Is only
when the canals and rivers freeze up
in exceptionally cold winters says
Moodys Magazine or when in sum
mer there is unusually low water
that the railroads get for a short time
any considerable part of this traf
fic
Although the country is almost
everywhere on a dead level construc
tion has been rather costly on account
of the great number of bridges re
quired For example between Am
rterdam and Rotterdam there are no
less than SO bridges of which eight
are swing bridges
Sometimes the bridges required to
cross the numerous and intersecting
canals are practically viaducts of a
mile or two in length and long
stretches of bridgework like that
across Lake Pontchartrain at New Or
leans or the approach to Galveston
are not Infrequent
All the lines In the country are now
operated by two companies the Com
pany for the Exploitation of the State
Railways and the Dutch Iron Railway
Company The total length of all the
lines is less than 1600 miles of which
the state operates about 900 and the
Iron Railway Company about fi60made
up of 205 miles belonging to the state
290 owned by other companies and
165 miles of its own lines
There is considerable competition
between the two companies which
taken in connection with the sharp
competition of the rivers and canals
insures a very good service Each
company pays a rental to the state
for the lines belonging thereto which
it operates and each must share with
the state in its profits over five per
cent which in face of the competition
the extremely low rates and the excep
tional handicap under which the lines
are worked is highly creditable to the
management In 1908 dividends were
only three per cent
Laugh on the Brakeman
There is a brakeman on a Chicago
Northwestern morning train run
ning south from Milwaukee who is
fat Corpulent well padded with
flesh and similar temporizing terms
do not explain his state of being
fat does
Everyone was feeling rather grouchy
the morning after the recent blizzard
because the engine of their train had
gone off with a snow plow the train
was delayed and the passengers were
on the edge anyway because of bad
service on the street car lines and
snowbanks they had had to hop over
on their way down says the Milwau
kee Wisconsin
The fat brakeman came from the
smoker into the next car and mur
mured to one of those passengers be
cause of the reception he had in the
smoker
They are all jumping on me an I
aint to blame that the trains de
layed Even Mr C naming a well
known pork packer who is a daily
patron of the train jumped on me
fit to kill
A wit who sat nearby caused a
laugh by remarking in a sepulchral
tone You want to look out for him
he thinks youre a hog
Running on Time
It is a common saying among rail
road executives that they can make
all sorts of rules about running trains
but that they have to put a man in
the bushes beside the track to see that
they are obeyed Every railroad in
America is striving after the thus far
unattainable to have all its pas
senger trains always on time Among
every other 100 men who become fire
men only 17 are ever made engineers
quotes the author Out of every 100
engineers only six get passenger runs
The next time you see a white haired
man on the cab of a big passnger lo
comotive dont wonder at all at his
wnite nair but make up your mind
that he has the goods or he wouldnt
be there It is a case of the selection
and the survival of the fittest It
takes nerve to run the fast trains
these days and if any one of a dozen
people down to the man who spiked
the rail has made a mistake you ride
to certain death
Era of Steel Cars
The Union Pacific is another rail
road corporation which has decided
that all future orders for passenger
equipment will be for steel cars This
policy should be universally adopted
It is also announced that within two
years practically the entire line of the
Union Pacific will have been double
tracked and equipped with the block
system Springfield Republican
Japanese Line Completed
By the opening of the last section
of the Kyushu railroad the Grand
Trunk line of Japan has been com
pleted from Sapporo on the north to
Kagoshima on the south a distance
of 1300 miles The first part of this
line to be thrown open was the
to Moberly and was made an engineer Yokohama section which began to
in isGl J carry passengers and goods in 1872
ANNOUNCEMENT OF GENERAL PLANS
For Work of the Nebraska Boys aad
Girls Clubs in the Home Experiment
through County Organizations
under the Direction of the
County and State Super
intendents
The state superintendent has arranged
to cooperate with the county superin
tendent in conducting some Bpecial
work with the county boys and girls
clubs in agrioulture and domestic sci
ence The work in agriculture will in
clude nn Acre Corn Contest an Ear
to Row Corn Contest a Husking Con
tent a Potato Acre Contest a size of
Seed piece Potato Experiment and Ex
poriment in Sweet Pea Culture
In connection with the experiments
and contests bulletins will be furnished
numbers These will include pamphlets
on selection and testing of seed corn
planting cuitivat on and harvesting of
corn on weeds and methods of destroy
ing them oa insects and potato culture
rue work in cookery will inolude
aome of the best methods of cooking
and serving nutritious foods and the
canning and preserving of some of the
fruits and vegetables in season each
month An opportunity will also be
given for work on butter making and a
oullutin wiill be provided on sanitation
tnd care of milk and cream churning
and care of butter
In sewiug the work will be the mail
ing of articles which are necessiryand
njof itl Dilrinn f ha vant inafmnfinra
material and directions will be sent to
sach member of the club Some special
vork will be provided for each month
tewing book of instructions and ma
terials for practice will be provided each
member The instructions and direc
tions will be for practice such as will
enable the members to make the various
articles which will be included in the
work during the season
A meeting is called by the county
superintendent May 9 at the court
house for boys and girls in the county
under twenty one years of age whether
in school ob not All who are inter
ested in the work of agriculture and do
mestic science are invited to be present
it the meeting become members of the
lub and receive directions and supplies
for carrying out the work
Enrollment cards will be provided at
the meeting and members may begin
work at once The work will be planned
so us not to interfere with the regular
school or home work of the members
but to give them some definite and prof
itable work to occupy a small portion
of their time during the season
Air A E Nelson director of the Un
iversitj Short Courses in Agriculture
and Domestic Science during the past
season will represent the State Depart
ment of Public Instructions at the meet
ing and will outline the plans for con
ducting the work
The Sound Sleep of Good Health
The restorative power of sound sleep
can not be over estimated and any ail
ment that prevents it is a menace to
Health J L Southers Eau Clair
Wis says For a long time I have
been unable to sleep soundly nights be
cause of pains across my back and sore
ness of my kidneys My appetite wzs
very poor and my general condition wa8
much run down I have been taking
Foleys Kidney Pills but a short time
and now sleep as sound as a rock I eat
and enjoy my meals and my general con
dition is greatly improved I can hon
estly recommand Foleys Kidney Pilla as
I know thuy have cured me
A McMillen
D ANBURY
Joseph Dolph and John Wicks took
Mrs Dolph to Lincoln Wednesday eve
ning to be doctored
Prof Morris has organized a piano
class here and gives them lessons on
Wednesday
All was quiet around theM M Young
home Wednesday night when all of a
sudden there was a loud rap and when
the door was open there was a large
number of the lodge people there with
well filled baskets to remind her that it
was her birthday After a few hours of
enjoyment there was a bountiful lunch
served At about 1130 oclock the
oand boys appeared and played a few
-elections After they partook of the
lunch they all departed wishing MrB
ioung many more happy birthdays
Mr and Mrs Rea Oman stayed all
night at the M Young home Wednes
day night
J L Sims was an Indianola visitor
Wednesday
Mrs Albert Ashton took the train for
home Thursday noon
HalDeMay is working over in Mc
Cook for C L DeGroff Co
John Wicks arrived Monday last for
a few days visit
Tom Austins mother arrived Tues-
dav last hoinrr nollaJ I t x
ious illness of her son
Devizes Kas home talent play wil
give an entertainment in the
house Saturday night
The ladies aid society served lunch in
the old Batian building Saturday
There was a large crowd
out to the
hard time hop in the hall Saturday
Lebanon is thinging of organizing a
band there soon
A B Gibbs of Lebanon
business Saturday
opera
was up on
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