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    LINCOLN NEWS
The funeral of Mrs. Elizabeth Mas
ton. widow of the late Geo. A. Jfaston,
was held from the Newman M. E.
Church Thursday afternoon, the Rev.
A. J. McAlister officiating. He wras
assisted by the Rev. M. A. CcClen
don of the A. M. E. Church. The de
ceased was a widow of a former pastor
of the Newman Church. Mrs. Maston
died peacefully. She leaves to mourn
her loss a daughter, Mrs. Ida Allen,
and a son. Geo. L. Maston. She had
many other kinsmen of far distance.
The deceased was 69 years of age at
her death. Special music was ren
dered by the choir under the direction
of Mr. J. E. Jeltz.
R. H. Young, W. G. M. of Nebraska,
made official visits to Hastings and
Grand Island this week in the interest
of the Masonic Grand Lodge.
The Rev. A. J. McAllister enter
tained the Rev. H. W. Botts at lunch
eon Sunday.
Mrs. Delia Alexander underwent an
operation in the Lincoln Sanitarium
last Tuesday. She had one foot am
putated on account of the setting of
gangrene. She is reported as doing
well.
A social was given at the residence
of Mr. and Mrs. G. iley Friday night
for the benefit of Mt. Zion Baptist
Church. A large gathering turned
out.
The Rev. J. A. Broadnax of Kansas
City, Kans., and Mr. J. R. Lemme of
Omaha, were visitors in the city last
week.
Mr. Perry R. Warner of Omaha was
in the city last Thursday night. He
left Omaha the following Saturday
evening for New York from which
port he will sail for Africa. Lincoln
wishes him well.
Messrs. J. L. and J. T. Wright were
in Omaha Thursday night. Mr. J. L.
Wright is Supreme Chancellor of the
K. of C.’s in this state. He installed
officers in those lodges for the en
suing year.
The Mission will hold its special
services and program at Mt. Zion next
Sunday afternoon. Mt. Zion will hold
its Talent rally Sunday.
The Rev. H. W. Botts entertained
the Mission at the parsonage Thurs
day night. The meeting was very
successful.
Mr. and Mrs. Guy Wiley entertained
the Utopian Art club at their home
Tuesday night. A large attendance
was on hand. The following officers
were elected for the ensuing year:
Mrs. Odessa Patrick, vice president;
Mrs. E. Johnson, secretary; Mrs. Ma
mie Griffing, asistant secretary; Mrs.
L. B. Alexander, treasurer; Prof. W.
R. B. Alexander, chaplain. The club
will meet Thursday, February 9, at
the residence of Mrs. Ollie Ray and
E. Bush.
Mrs. Jennette Marshall returned
home from Atchison, Kans., Thursday
where she went to attend the funeral
of her grandmother.
John Gibson, president of waiters’
club, died Monday night after a long
illness. Funeral announced later.
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si months to seventy years of age.
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MAN BEATEN BY ANTS
Perform Engineering Stunts Sur*
passing Human Feats.
New York Subway Insignificant In
Comparison With Insects’ Tunnels—
Wonderful Works of Cutting
Ants in Texas.
New York.—The subways and tun
nels under the Hudson and East rivers
have attracted attention throughout
the world, and by some have been
named as one of the greatest engineer
ing feats in this era of wonderful feat*.
Man has all the machinery that sci
ence could invent to assist him, cement
and stone to make the tunnels water
proof, instruments of precision to help
him in driving the tunnels or subways
in the right direction and at the proper
level below the water line or street
level.
It is Interesting to compare this
work of man with similar works of
the cutting ants in Texas. Compare |
the work of man with all his ma
chinery and instruments ami that of
the ants with only their jaws and per- :
haps one pair of legs which they use
at a time, the size and length of the
tunnel with that created by man, and,
lastly, the relative size of the ants and
man. and you must admit that taking
all things into comparison the work
of the ants is of far greater magnitude
than that of man.
Dr. Henry McCook states that Gen
eral Fountain, while stationed at Fort
Clark, noticed that the troop garden
was constantly being raided by these
ants, which stripped the vegetables of
their leaves, compelling them to aban
don the garden. Another locution was
selected, surrounded by an irrigation
ditch, but before long the auts again
appeared. The officers thought that
they had tunneled under the water, and
one of them, skeptical of their ability
to accomplish such an engineering feat,
investigated. He drained the irrigat
ing stream (some four or live feet
wide), dug up the bed und traced the
insects' trail from their point of enter
ing the garden to their old nest on the
opposite side. There are also other ac
counts of their making galleries under
the water.
A farmer near Austin, to get rid of
depredations of Hit immense colony of
these ants near his home, had set his j
men to dig it up. To reach the central i
nest he had traced the ants from a
tree Inside his home premises, which I
they had stripped of leaves, to a point
669 feet distant.
The nest occupied a space as large
as a small cellar, the lowest and main
cave being as large as a flour barrel.
From this point radiated the avenues
over which the ants marched on their
raids.
Doctor McCook, with the assistance
of a civil engineer, proceeded to sur
vey the main course of the insects. In j
some places the tunnel was us deep ns
six feet beneath the surface, the aver
age depth being about eighteen inches.
At the “exit hole,” 484 feet from the
nest, the tunnel was two feet deep.
Besides this main line there were two
branch tunnels which deflected from
the trunk line to gain entrance to a
peach orchard 12f> feet distant.
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CASKET SEIZED FOR DEBT
Detroit Constables Remove Corpse
When Undertaker Can't Get
$500 Fee.
Detroit, Mich.—Funeral services for
Mrs. Vincent Deiegluski were inter
nted by fwo constables who removed
Dziegluskl chased hhn from tha
house with a gun, Lappo says.
Constables acting on a writ of re
plevin issued to Lappo by Justice John
M. McKinley went to the house to
serve it.
The body was placed on a couch.
The casket and rugs were taken from
the house.
Buenos Aires Wars on Disease.
Buenos Aires.—Sunrise every morn
ing finds Buenos Aires, in the down
town section In particular, fresh
washed, clean as a Dutch housewife's
doorstep and smelling like a hospital.
This is a result of the thorough wash
ing given all the streets every night
and the liberal doses of disinfectant
that are spread about in order to
check communicable diseases.
Stories of
Great Scouts Watson
©. Western Newspaper Union.
TOM HIGGINS’ GREATEST FIGHT
WITH THE INDIANS
Tom Higgins wus a noted Illinois
ranger during the War of 181". One
morning near Fort Hills tiie Indians
ambushed Tom's company and killed
several of them. As they tied to the
fort, Higgins stayed behind, vowing
that he would get at least one Indian
before he retreated. He got Ills In
dian, but just us he was preparing to
mount his horse. Hunger Burgess, who
was lying on the ground wounded,
called out to him: "You won’t leave
me to the Indians, will you, Tom?"
Higgins stopped and attempted to
lift Burgess onto his tiorse, but the
frightened animal jerked the reins
from Tom’s hand and dashed madly
away.
“You’ll have to try to crawl to the
fort, Burgess,’’ said Tom, "anti 1 will
stay behind and keep redskins off."
As Burgess crawled away, Higgins
ran In another direction to lead the
approaching Indians away from his
wounded comrade. In a few minutes
he was surrounded by the savages and
they wounded him in the leg as tie tied
into a deep ravine. He was nearing
the fort when three Indians rose up
before him. One of them Bred and
the ranger fell, wounded for the sec
ond time.
With a wild yell the Indians rushed
at him with uplifted tomahawks, but
Higgins rose once more and shot one
of them dead. The other two then at
tacked him with spears and toma
hawks. Tom defended himself with
his knife until he was knocked to the
ground by a blow from a tomahawk
which cut off one of his ears.
Finally the ranger tore a spear from
the grasp of one of the Indians and
thrust It through the body of the oth
er. He was pulled to his feet us the
savage fell. The surviving warrior re
treated toward his rifle and Tom, un
daunted by his wounds, staggered aft
er him. The unequal combat tiad been
seen by the people In the fort, but they
were afraid to come to his assistance
until a brave woman, named Mrs
Pursley, cried out: “I will not see
such a brave man die!”
She sprang upon a horse and started j
to Higgins’ aid. Shamed by her ex
ample, several men galloped after her.
They reached the ranger just as a
large party of Indians were ready to
swoop down upon him. They threw
Higgins, fainting from loss of blood,
across a horse and carried him back
to the fort In safety.
Higgins did not recover from til |
wounds for many years, hut in his old
age he was given a pension for his
heroic act and was made a doorkeeper
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HEROINE FACES
DIFFICULT JOB
■‘A. E. F.” Frawley, With 17
Wounds, Must Prove She
Is Still Alive.
OFFICIALLY REPORTED “DEAD”
Several Installment* of War Risk In
surance Paid to Family—Now
Everything Possible Is Being
Done to Correct Record.
San Antonio, Texas. — America's
greatest woman World war hero, Miss
Alene E. Frawley, who has been
wounded and shot, buried alive and
bombed, and carries seventeen wound
stripes on her coat sleeve, now is fac
ing what she calls the toughest job of
all—that of proving to the world that
she is still alive!
And all this bemuse, following the
bombing of an emergency hospital In
the trenches at Chateau Thierry, she
was officially reported “dead" in the
government war casualty records.
“A. E. F."—that's what the boys
“over there” called her, because of her
initials—headed for Frunce two
months after the United Slates en
tered the war. She joined up with the
Ninetieth division us a member of the
United States army nurse corps.
Survives Hospital Blast.
Then tilings lagan to happen
rapidly. Wound stripe after wound
stripe went on her sleeve. At Tours
a hospital was blown up. All but two
persons in the building were killed.
She was one of the two. In another
case a piece of shrapnel broke her
finger, caromed and killed a man.
Fourteen other wounds came, all
while she was on the front, aud then
the "fatal" blast when the trench hos
pital was blown to pieces. "Killed in
action” was the report after her name.
In the meantime American soldiers
dug her out of the ruins and took her
to a hospital, where she remained un
conscious for twenty-seven days. A
year and eight months later she left
the hospital and was sent to the
Walter Iteed General hospital at Wash
ington. Miss Frawley’g mother and her
step-father had long believed her dead.
Several installments of her war risk
insurance had been paid to the family.
Then came a telegram stating that
Miss Frawley’s “body” was being sent
to the hospital. Wondering why a
"body” would be sent to a hospital, the
parents went to Washington, where
they found Miss Frawley alive but
feeble.
Shortly after Miss Frawley was
taken to San Antoido to recuperate In
a cottage just outside the military
reservation of Fort Sam Houston.
At that time she weighed 86
pounds and was able to walk only on
crutches.
Today she weighs 162 and has dis
carded one of the crutches.
Fighting to Change Racorda.
And, in the meantime, everything la
being done to blot out the record that
she was “killed in action." Mrs. Fraw
ley has made affidavits that Miss
Alene E. Frawley is her daughter and
not an Impostor and the wheela are
beginning to turn that will straighten
out the mixup. Miss Frawley believes
Miss Frawley was born near Roch
ester, N. Y. Her own father was a
doctor and her mother was a trained
nurse, before going to Europe Miss
Frawley had served as nurse In the
Philippines, China, Hawaii and in
Panama.
Besides her seventeen wound stripes
this greatest womau hero wears a dis
tinguished servl e cross, the French
croix de guerre and many other lesser
decorations.
THIS MAN IS REAL GENIUS
Invent* Auto Attachment That Will
Pluck and Cook Stray
Fowl.
Havana, Mo.—A new flivver inven- j
tion was displayed on the street hero
by a man giving the name of Ole
Olson.
The invention Is patterned after a
street ear guard. When the driver
runs over a chicken or turkey the
fender scoops up the bird, runs It past
the engine fan, » hlch is arranged with
knifelike blades that dress, clean and
cut up the fowl. The victim then
lands in a pan attached to the engine,
where it is cooked by heat from the
exhaust pipe. Water from the radia
tor slowly drips on the bird so that
gravy is made.
Several prospective buyers of stock
in the Invention made a trip through
the country. On their return, when
the hood of the engine was raised,
more than 30 pounds of dressed,
roasted meat wag found.
Child Coughs Up Nail.
Two years ago little Milford Olson, \
son of Mr. and Mrs. C. V. Olson, Spoon
er township, swallowed a shingle nail. '
The nail could not be located In the j
air passage, and not causing the child |
any discomfort, the Incident was for- j
gotten until recently, when he was j
seized with a fit of violent coughing
snd the nail came hurtling out of his
mouth.
Kills Large Horned Owl,
Burnham, I’a.—Bert Walker the
other day shot and killed a great
horned owl that measured 42 Inches
from tip to tip. near (ilgmoney Park.
He will have It mounted.
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Jeakln’s Barber Shop—All work
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