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Mayo Green of Danbury was a bus
iness visitor in town between trains last
week
Frank Fields has resigned bis position
with Powell and Nilsson as he has been
appointed Enumerator of Census for
Danbury and Gerver Precincts
Joe Nietzel of Falls City is a new
hand on the ranch moving here the
first of the week
Miss Grace Rodabaugh of Logan
Kansas is visiting her brother Mel and
her sister Mrs E E Blake
J E Dodge and wife were County
seat business visitors on Monday
D Gockley and wife visited their
son T F and family north west of
town last Sunday
County Attorney Sidney Dodge of
MoCook was in town a few days last
week
The printers devil was off duty Fri
day and Saturday helping the telephone
lineman with his work
Powell and Nilsson shipped six cars
of sheep to Lincoln last week This
finishes up their shipments of the 5500
head fed here this season
Wm Solomon and his crew of sixteen
men are making rapid progress on the
new alfalfa mill
A D Lingo and Geo Daniels have
quit the ranch the former moving on a
farm near Lebanon and the latter on a
farm west of Cedar Bluffs Friday
Grandma Eifert of Beaver City was
an over Sunday visitor with her son and
family
Mrs Ella Roesch and two children
from north east of Danbury were here
betwe3n trains on Saturday
J H Wicks was a business visitor at
Holdrege Friday and Saturday
Mrs A M Shorey returned recently
from a visit with relatives at Thomas
Oklahoma
J N Wicks formerly of Norfolk but
now of Omaha visited his brother Jake
one day last week
Will Miller and wife from north of
Danbury visited at W H Eiferts on
Sunday
D C Boyer and family of Danbury
were in town Sunday guests at the
Eifert home
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Boys Question Enaed the
king and Almost Put Stop to
Banquet
Daniel H Grady the brilliant young
Portage lawyer comes to Milwaukee
almost every week and usually has at
least one new story to tell says the
Free Press of that city This Is the
last one Mr Grady passed out for the
delectation of a group of Democratic
politicians
Col Jim Burke of Mauston was
an enthusiastic Irishman and an ora
tor who believed in using the floor
as long as he could keep it on the rare
occasions when his fellow townsmen
permitted him to make a speech The
colonel responded to the toast The
Emerald Isle at a big St Patricks
day banquet some years ago and he
made good his ancient reputation as a
long distance talker After recalling
the history of Ireland during all the
distressful centuries with close atten
tion to details the speaker paused for
breath The audience was glad of the
respite
And now Ive told ye a few of the
great evints of the glorious history of
the ould sod said the colonel mop
ping his brow Is there anny wan
who wishes to ask anny questions
A little lad at the far end of the
room stood up timidly
If Oimnot out of ahrder he piped
shrilly if Oim not out of ahrder Oid
loike to ask just wan question
Very well said the colonel Id
be happy to answer if I can
Well thin said the lad would
yez he so kind as to tell me what
toime o the night or the marnin it
Is said the lad
The hand struck up the Wearin o
the Green to head off the Incipient
riot
Table Rapping New Fad
What in the world is that noise
asked a visitor as a continuous dull
thumping sounded just over her head
That is the family above us said
the hostess They are interested in
psychical research and are making a
table rap as they often do of an eve-
ning Yes It is quite annoying but
they are good neighbors and we dont
complain JJ The two daughters of the
house are quite expert in this line
and last week a society woman hired
them to entertain her guests for an
evening They tell me it was a great
success
FOLEYSHONEYm
toos the cough and healslun
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Undisturbed Femininity
Women may be catty in little
things yet they have a childlike trust
in each others honesty said the
man If they hadnt they could
never have sat serenely through the
situation that faced several of them
the other night at the opera I had a
balcony seat Beside me sat a woman
who discovered at the end of the
first act that she had lost her purse
She thought it had slipped to the seat
in front The woman occupying that
seat stood up shook her wraps and
looked under the seat but couldnt
find the purse
Still it may be here some place
she said My own bag has slipped
down to the seat in front of me Ill
get it when the opera is over
Then other women began to hunt
for handbags and purses that had
fallen Some found them others
didnt But nobody seemed to
mind They had a perfect faith that
the things would turn up later and
settled back tranquilly for the second
act Imagine a lot of men letting
their purses He around like that
No Beggars In Copenhagen
Copenhagen Is a city of 500000 In
habitants During a weeks stay I
have seen no seller of matches or
bootlaces no gutter merchant no
blind or other afflicted persons about
the streets asking for alms not one
single sign of distress due to poverty
I have explored the artisans quarters
by day and late at night There is
not a single spot in the whole of
Copenhagen that could be compared
even remotely to the slums in our
large towns There are no unem
ployed hanging about the street cor
ners no unkempt women standing idly
at the doors no ragged and dirty
houses with dirty or broken win
dows mended with bits of paper and
a ragged apron or a torn bedcloth do
ing duty for a curtain Denmark let
ter in London Express
Oslerizing Society
A friend from Denmark who de
clares he knows tells me that the late
king and queen of Denmark put down
their undoubted and even extraordin
ary youthfulness of appearance and
character to the fact that they never
had anybody about their court who
was over 40 years of age Any gen
tleman or lady over that age was sup
perannuated The Gentlewoman
So Careless
Child Mamma mamma my piece
of bread and butter has dropped on
the buttered side
Mamma to nurse Mary I must
beg that you will be more careful to
butter Elsies bread on the right side
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REFUSE TO BE DISCOURAGED
Japanese Taken Either a3 a Race cr
as Individuals Are Ever
Optimistic
The Japs are the most optimistic
people on the face of the earth Kick
a coolie and he will get up smiling
tax him and he will wonder why he
wasnt levied upon long before give
him a disaster and he will say it
might have been worse He knows no
discouragement Few races in his
tory have been so heavyily taxed as
have the Japanese to overcome the
cost of the last war They look upon
their huge debt lightly and when the
government told them they would
have to pay it they laughed cheerfully
and went at it Commercial activ
ities were doubled even trebled A
smart legislative body put exceedingly
heavy taxes on cigars and tobaccos
luxuries all Japanese forego In do
ing this the white foreigner was made
to help out the struggling masses
Horses are as rare in Japan as buf
falo are in this country to day One
may walk a dozen blocks down the
principal street of any Japanese
metropolis without seeing a single
horse The owners of what few there
are pay dearly for the privilege of
keeping them The friend of man in
most other countries here the horse
is- judged mans worst enemy If the
country were overrun with horses
thousands of rickshaw coolies would
be out of a job Now a condition in
which people are out of jobs is not
good for any country and particular
ly Is it bad for war debts as it lets
them run on indefinitely drawing
princely interest Bookkeeper
THE WOMAN AND THE DOG
Simple Explanation That Made Crowd
of Frightened Men Look Rather
Foolish
A crowd gathered at Tenth and Bar
ton streets to watch a handsome fox
terrier that was running about nose
in air White froth was running from
the dogs mouth
Hes mad yelled a fat man
Tlio fox terrior stood in the center
of the group with wide open eyes
either too mad or too frightened to
move
At this juncture the policeman ar
rived A dozen voices began to tell
him that the dog was mad that it
must be killed that it had been snap
ping at the children that it began to
froth when it passed a pool of water
and how best to shoot
A tall quiet looking woman pushed
through the crowd and started toward
the dog A dozen men yelled at her
two or three men grabbed at her
She picked the dog up and started
out of the crowd The policeman
stopped her with
Madam that dog is mad He must
GREAT LOVE
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STORIES
of HISTORY
By Albert Pay son Tcrhunc
i i l t y If - V U JMLJ Hir Ji mmai
Antony and Cleopatra jj
Copj rljut jy tUuAuiuor
The banks of the River Cydnus at
Tarsus were lined with gaping
crowd one day in 41 B C Ah eyes
were centered on a barge that slow
ly made its way upstream Tins ves
sels like had never been seen The
hull was covered with beaten gold
The oars were of silver and swayed
in time to the soft throb of music
The sails were of purple silk and so
richly perfumed that their fragrance
reached the shore On a divan under
a cloth-of-gold canopy that covered
part of the deck lay a woman red
haired decked out in priceless jewels
and arrayed to represent Venus Boys
dressed as cupids fanned her On
either side of her divan reclined cour
tiers apparelled like mermaids demi
gods and other mythical personages
The red haired beauty on the divan
was Cleopatra Queen of Egypt She
was sailing to Tarsus to confront a
stern judge Mark Antony ruler of
half the world
Rome had grown mightily since the
days of the early kings It had now
long been a republic Julius Caesar
had strengthened and enlarged the
state making himself dictator of most
of the civilized earth He had been
slain by assassins Mark Antony
his closest friend -had formed a league
with Octavius Caesars nephew and
together they had punished the assas
sins and made themselves masters of
Rome Antony the stronger of the
two seemed about to oust the young
Octavius and seize the reins of world
empire for himself But while he
was in the east something happened
The Judge
Turns Lover
that wrecked all
his splendid
caieer Cleopatra
queen of Egypt was accused of hav
ing aided Caesars slayers Antony
at Tarsus sent for her to come to
trial on that charge Knowing An
tonys weakness where women were
concerned she came not like a pris
oner but as a goddess At sight of
her as she sailed up the Cydnus An
tony forgot his resentment his of
fice as judge his hopes of world mas
tery From that moment he was the
red haired queens abject slave Turn
ing his back on Rome lie went with
her to Egypt
There the man who had won death
less renown as general statesman
and orator entered on a life of lux
ury and wild extravagance He not
only pardoned Cleopatra but pro
claimed her his wife despite the fact
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Foam she said contemptuously
Thats a cream puff he was eating
St Louis Post Dispatch
gave her rich provinces and kingdoms
that belonged by right to the Roman
republic The two lovers held feasts
that were the scandal of the world
At one of these Cleopatra dissolved
and drank a million dollar pearl They
wandered disguised as workman and
chambermaid into the slums by
night They pretended to be a god
and goddess and made their flatterers
adore thme as such Antonys ene
mies at Rome headed by Octavius
made the most of all this to weaken
the former heros power Once or
twice Anthony was roused from his
lethargy and returning to Rome tried
to forget Cleopatra But always he
hurried back to her His wife was
dead and he married the sister of Oc
tavius But he soon deserted her and
rejoined Cleopatra
Finally Octavius seeing that the
once mighty leader was no longer to
be feared declared war on him and
Cleopatra Then for a moment An
tonys former martial genius flared
up He met Octavius in a great sea
battle off Actium Cleopatra sailed out
to witness the fight As the two
fleets clashed Antonys skilful tactics
seemed about to defeat his foes But
suddenly Cleopatra for a mere whim
ordered her galley to leave the battle
as if she were in panic flight An
tony left his warships to take care of
themselves and hurried after her fear
ing she might be wounded His fleet
being leaderless was easily put to
rout by Octavius Antonys last chance
was gone He realized what a fool he
had made of himself For three days
he sat alone in despair his head in his
hands and none dared come near him
Then he crept once more to Cleopatra
for consolation
The fickle queen saw that Antonys
cause was lost So she wrote to Oc
tavius secretly offering to make peace
with him Octavius answered that
she could best please him by killing
Antony She knew Antonys character i
and his wild weak worship for her
self So instead of murdering him
Antonys
Suicide
outright she had i
word sent to him
that she was dead j
Antony has lost all for love of her
Now he thought he had lost her too
So he stabbed himself Dying he was
carried to Cleopatra and breathed his
last in her arms whispering vows of
eternal devotion Cleopatra tried next
to capture Octavius heart But Cae
sars nephew was shrewd and cold
blooded The charms that had so eas
ily won Antony had no effect on him
He declared he would make Cleopatra
walk in cha ins behind his chariot
through Rome Sooner than do this
the unhappy woman killed herself by
poison forcing a deadly serpent to
sting her arm
Octavius relented to the point of al
lowing her to be buried by the side of
the man who had thrown away honor
fame power and life itself for her
worthless sake
wunirnmm
would use nvj candles
Fireworks Instead of Lanterns Is the
Recommendation of Railroad
Critic
Says a correspondent of a recent
gathering of railroad men called for
the purpose of devising safeguards
against accidents on the line
Instead of the skyrocket proposed for
use at night I advised them to pro
vide their trainmen with Roman can
dles that could be Ignited by a blow
or by pulling off a cap etc The fire
balls discharged from the candle
would give warning along a railroad
up and down the track Every one ot
a train crew could use the candle so
that a train would not depend for pro
tection on the vigilance faithfulness
activity or good luck of the one mau
now usualy sent hack to Hag or sig
nal an expected train
The ordinary lantern employed for
the purpose is a pitiful contrivance to
depend on for the safety of a railroad
train and its passengers at a time
when fractions of a second may bo
all that intervenes between a fatal col
lision and safety The candle would
not be subject to all the weather In
fluences wind rain snow etc or
the innumerable accidents to which
the lantern man is subject before he
gets back far enough to stop an on
coming train It would act Instantly
and could be used on a moving train
as well as on the ground Its succes
sive flashes oven on a curve or be
hind trees etc are so much mora
conspicuous than the feeble light of
a lantern or tower light that it would
be ridiculous to institute a comparison
between them Every locomotive and
passenger car should have a few of
the candles within reacii of any one
on board for use in an emergency
They should prove more efficient than
the track torpedo and are so cheap as
to deserve no consideration on that
score
The advantages of the Roman can
dle for use on railroads have been
called to the attention of the present
public service commission who gave
scant attention to the proposal Since
I first tried to have the plan taken
up there have been a countless num
ber of collisions which would in all
probability have been prevented by
the use of the pyrotechnic signal In
one such collision the wife of the pres
ident of the Pere Marquette railroad
lost her life President Spencer was
killed in another crash and Spencer
Trask was the last prominent person
to suffer Evidently the proposal
made in the early days of railroading
to insure safety by compelling a di
rector of the road to ride on the loco
motive would not answer for this age
Dangers Railroad Men Face
On the heavy mountain grades Its
all day with the engine crew if a
train gets beyond control said a
veteran railroader That is some
thing that may happen any minute
and is pretty near sure to happen if
the brake shoe burns off You will
notice that on the passenger trains
out there a brakeman stands on
every platform when going down grade
to grab the hand brakes the instant
they see that the air has failed to
hold a train Start a heavy passen
ter train at the top of a long moun
tain grade let her go and shell be
making a hundred miles an hour be
fore the bottom is reached maybe
on the rails but more likely through
the air
Of course the west hasnt any mo
nopoly on the danger There are dan
gers a plenty for the fireman or en
gineer on any run freight or passen
ger in the middle west or the easL
In the locomotives of the standard
type the big modern engines the cab
is built directly over the driving
wheels That means that the con
necting rods are just below the cab
Those connecting rods are terrible
things when they break and they do
break sometimes and - are apt to
come thrashing up through the floor
of the cab and knock engineer and
fireman to kingdom come Then a
cylinder head may blow out or any
one of a hundred different things may
happen which will mean injury and
i ossibly instant death to the two men
who have the locomotive in their
care
A Hero
A particularly interesting sort of
hero sprang like an apparition in a
spectacle into the view as a coal and
coke railroad train was pulling out
of Leiter in West Virginia a few
days ago It is Conductor L B
Coombs and the springing was lit
eral for seeing in the doorway of a
house a babe of two years old with
its clothing afire he leaped off dashed
up to the door fighting off a dog that
tried to bite him crushed out the
flames with his bare hands and then
sprinted for the train which he caught
on the rear platform Thats all but
what quick wit and what quick ac
tion it involved Thats a man to be
equal to any emergency And he could
never have thought of it as anything
heroic It was essential manhood
New York Evening Sun
Crow Broke Into Engine Cab
A most unusual accident happened
to Edward Gessler a Reading railroad
engineer one day recently While
Gesslers train was running through
Lorane at a mile a minute clip a big
crow that was flying across the tracks
was struck and came crashing through
the heavy glass on the engineers
side of the locomotive cab Gessler
was painfully cut about the face and
was unable to continue the run
Wages of English Brakemen
The maximum wage of brakemen on
English railroads has just been fixed
at S7TS a week
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