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HEfllNGFORD HERALD.
HEMINGFOKD, BOX BUTTE COUNTY, NEIJ., MAY 1 3, I9O9.
Hemingford Happenings.
Grant Alexander camo here from Cali
fornia Wednesday for a short visit with his
mother and friend, V. M. Fosket.
Norton Brown, who works at Rapid
City, is here visiting his folks for a week,
Dr. Eikncr, wife and daughter sojourned
to Alliance in Frohn's auto Tuesday. Bert
Hopkins also accompanied them.
Wm. Hollinrako went to Crawford on
business Friday.
John Morris and family camo in from
Dunlap Wednesday after a load of ranch
supplies.
Mrs. Ira Phillips was in from their
claim in Sioux county Wednesday.
Mr. Lester drove up from Alliance
Tuesday, bringing with him a team of
horses,
Fred Neeland and Brad Fenner from
Dunlap were in town doing some shopping
Wednesday.
Captain Hunter was here from Andrews
for a brief visit last week,
Herman Basse from Crawford came
here Monday to be in attendance at his
brother's funeral Tuesday.
Fred Strong is slowly improving from
his recent illness.
The town folks did some fine work filling
in the streets leading to the depot.
Nellie Carter came up from her claim at
Bayard Wednesday for a visit with her
parents.
Mr. Burns from Marsland was here on
business Friday.
There will be a box social at the school
house in Dist, 14 Friday evening, May 21.
It is to be given by the teacher, Jessie
Leavitt, and everybody is cordially in-'
vited.
Harry Jones and wife autoed to Alliance
on business Friday,
Gale Price is quite sick with pneumonia
at present.
Dr. Little is quite sick wiih pneumonia
and typhoid fever. Dr. Single from Al
liance is here treating him.
Billy Mounts came up from Alliance on
his motorcycle Sunday.
D. E. Dixon was here from Blair and
bought somo land out near Tom Hopkins.
He expects to move his family out here in
the near future.
Clark Olds is improving slowly from his
.recent illness, which we are all glad to
bear.
Rev. Ellis went out to Dunlap to have
preaching in the school house Thursday
evening,
Mrs. Sherwood went out to visit a couple
of days with her niece, Mrs. F. A. Nee
land. Sylvania Potmesil and Nora Brown
journeyed to Alliance Thursday to do some
shopping.
Mr. Thompson and family came here
from Germany Friday and are going to
make their home with A. C. Iverson's at
present.
BUYERS and
SELLERS
We Get Them
Together
HLJTTON, Hemingford
Potato
Hoosier Press Drills
SuK'ey and Gang; Plows
Wire Wire Wire
Barb wire, poultry netting, woven hog wire,
smooth wire, telephone wire. You can get
just what you want
Anton Uhrlg
HEMINGFORD, NEBR.
N..
Livery
and Feed
in connection
Mr. and Mrs. George Osborno went to
Alliance to do some shopping Saturday.
Mike McLusak who has been here visit
ing his sister-in-law, Mrs. Jim Hollinrake,
for the last month, went back to his home
in Iowa Saturday.
Mrs. Glarum came up from Alliance
Saturday to visit until Sunday with her
husband, who is a plasterer here.
Mr. Tuttle and Tom Tuck wore up from
Alliance on business Saturday.
Ross Enyeart got his leg broke while
chasing a horse Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Neeland moved up from
Alliance Tuesday,
Mr. and Mrs. Bressee came up from
Rushville in an auto Tuesday to see Dr.
Little.
We hear that Oscnr rouse's new hou e
is nearly completed. It looks kind of
suspicious, Oscar.
Bert Carr went to Alliance Monday on
business and to visit with his wife a couple
of days.
Corn Will Grow in Montana
President L. W, Hill of the Groat
Northern railway company will demon
strate that corn will prow in Montana as
well as in the corn belt, since the move
ment to breed corn for particular soils and
climates has been successful in producing
a-type 'of corn which will ripen in north
ern Wisconsin.
From tho National Corn Exposition Mr.
Hill has secured prize ears of corn from
the various zones which have conditions
similar to those in-Montana, and will, have
this high grade seed planted in that state.
"I will bring Montana corn to the next
exposition," said Mr. Hill. "I am going
to have an exhibit in Omaha if I have to
grow corn under glass."
If corn can be grown successfully in
Montana, there is no question about it be
ing grown successfully in the rich soil of
Box Butte county.
Wanted to Buy
I wish to buy of o ners, several good
quarter sections of land in Box Butte
count. Does not have to be located
adjoining. Must be good, desirable
laud. Send legal description in first
letter. E. K. Mayiiucii,
19 4 1113 H. St., Lincoln, Nebr.
Dr. Allen, dentist. Opera house blk.
col w. m. mm
Auctioneer
Hemingford, Neb.
Makes a specialty of stock sales. Mat
ters pertaining to general auctions
carefully attended to. Dates for
sales mav be made at The Alliance
Herald office. Satisfaction guaranteed
Planters
The best
on the
market
FROHNAPFEL
Hemingford, Nebraska
Funerals
attended
with
Hearse
MARSLAND.
The farmers are planting a large acreage
of wheat and oats this spring. They have
their seeding nearl all done,
There is an unusually large crop of colts
and calves this spring,
Mr. and Mrs. Carroll Tolman made a
pleasant trip to Horse Shoo Bend where
they got many beautiful trees to plant in
their yard.
Mrs. Pierce ot Belmont has just returned
from loWa whore she left her sick father
much better.
Mr. G. M. Birns was in Alliance on
business two or three days this week.
Mr. Tolman has been planting fruit
trees, shrubs and plants on Miss Gertie
Tolman's farm this week.
Mrs. Lee Gregory of Belmont, Miss
Ethel Gregory and Fred Elsworth visited
the people in the vicinity of Marsland
Sunday last.
Sinny Side school house and S. Trus-
scll's- new buildings are having a new coat
ot paint this week.'
S. Davis camo down from Crawford and
boucht four fat cows from Jim Tolman.
Tom Hunsaker has been out of town all
tho week assessing.
Geo. Hichew has just made a trip to
Wyoming to visit his wife and daughter.
They will soon move on their ranch in
Box Butte county.
Mrs. Geo. Gregory visited Mrs. Woodie
Sunday last.
Charlie Evans has just purchased a now
horse weighing tvvonty-tvvo hundred
pounds.
Vet Scoofield returned from Wyoming
where he has been quite sick. He expects
to stay at home this summer.
Mr. Marble is building a new house on
his farm west of town.
CONGRisSMAlTGARDNER.
Massachusetts Man Who Figured as a
Leader of the "Insurflcnts."
Congressman Augustus P. Gardner
of Massachusetts. Who was one of the
leaders In the movement for revision
of the rules of the house of represent!!
tlvcs. Is 11 son-in-law of Senator Henry
Cabot Lodge. He Is now serving his
fourth term in congress nuil has made
n mark ns n man of Ideas and hide
pondonee. Last December Mr. Gard
nor Introduced n resolution which innj
be said to have brought to a liimiif
tho movement for revision of the rules
and rallied the forces of the so called
"Insurgents." It was n motion that
the secretary of Htuto be' requested to
ascertain whether the British house of
commons had recently appointed a
committee to consider revision of Its
own rules. A few days later Mr. Gnrd
ner moved to discharge the commltteo
to which the resolution had been re
ferred from further consideration of
it, ns no action had been taken on it.
The effect of this was to bring the
resolution squarely before the house,
and to the amazement of almost every
one Mr. Gnrdncr's iriotlon was carried
by a vote of 140 to 184.
Mr. Gardner quickly saw tho advan
tageous position he was In and moved
to nmend his resolution by striking
out tho senteuce referring to tho secre
tary of state and the house of com
mons, so that the resolution as it stood
amended contemplated the appoint
ment of a committee of eight members
to consider tho revision of the rules of
the house of representatives.
It was one of the most ndrolt parlia
mentary plays thnt had been seen In
the house for years. An Innocent res
olution of Inquiry, academic almost In
Its purposes, had by a stroke of the
pen become the sling in the hands of
David that was to overthrow Goliath
Mr. Dalzell threw himself In the
breach with n point of order, his point
being that when Mr. Gardner struck
out the llrst part of the resolution he
changed Its character and It was no
AruCBIlS V. OAKDNEIt.
louger privileged. Mr, Gnrdner argued
that his motion was still prhilegcd,
but Mr Cannon ruled ugalmt him, and
from this ruling he took nu appeal.
This brought the matter to n climax,
and the speaker was sustained by 149
to 130. Lntcr tho resolution on Mr.
Gardner's own motion was laid ou the
table. 107 to 42, which had the effect
of killing tho whole proposition.
Mr. Gardner was not at all cast down
by his experience. He called It the con
gressional Hunker Hill. "We were
benten," lie said, "but out of defeat
will come liberty (or the house."
Mr. Gardner was Iwrn In Bostou In
1805, Is n Hnrvnrd graduate and serv
ed in the Spanish war ns cuptaln and
assistant adjutant general on the staff
of Geueral James II. Wilson.
TiffiMST
WAS PLANTED
By
George ll.Pi.card
a&s33aaai5s&
Copyright, 1903, bv American Press Asso
ciation. ANY hnvo been out
spoken in their
lulinlrntlon fortho
bountiful forest
of Noarburg ns It
stands today, but
few know Its his
tory. Its Brett t
triMJS HllggOHt tlm.
primeval wilder
ness, but 1 1 111 0
was w h o 11 tho
hills which they
now glorify wert
ns bare ns an
Arizona desert,
although tho soil
was not infertile.
That was In the
early dawn of the middle apes. When
Philip of Elstor took n notion to build
a ureal ensue on ono or 1110 iree ue
muled heights above tho noisy Nimr It
Blood out in splendid solitude, n noblo
work of man domed tho .crowning
chnrm which naturo n)ono could fur
nish. 1'hlllp realized nil this when his
princely nbodo wns finished and he
and his family had moved into It and
nil wns settled. That ho had tnndo n
mlstnko ho would not ndmlt oven to
himself, but ho spent hours in looking
down enviously on tho great trees
which made a sylvan paradlso of the
lowlands on tho opposlto Bide of the
river.
It made him mhappy, of cours In
tlmo It would have become his Borcst
grief If something cIbo lind not stepped
In and forestalled It. That something
was tho trying conduct of his only
child nnd heiress, the Princess Iinrbe,
It was not because she was not benu
tlful nnd clover nnd altogether satis
factory In most respects. She was all
these, nnd Infinitely more Tho Prin
cess Bnrbe had ono lamentable fault
when It came" to choosing a husband
she could jiot make up her mind. That
of Ilself Is n snd weakness even In nn
untitled maiden. For a prluccss It Is n
positive cnlamlty. . ,
Suitors flocked to tho Nnnrburg In
troops. Barbo's beauty nnd wit were
the luro for nil the eligible young men
In tho country, nnd Philip of Elster's
wealth nnd position did not make his
heiress less attrnctlvo. They came to
tho Nnnrburg prepared to conquer, but
lhirbo couldn't or wouldn't got Inter
ested In them. Sho might hnvc had
her pick among tho best of thorn, but
when it camo to tho tost she could not
sottlo on him.
"Why don't you choose for me?" sho
laughed when her father tried to con
vince her of her dnngcr of becoming
a spinster.
"I am too old n fox to bo cnught in
such n trap," ho deelnrcd. "If that Is
the cause of the dclny you will die an
old maid suro enough. Choose you n
husband! Not I! Not until tho Nnnr
burg stands In n forest of Its own!''
Tho princess wns grently amused at
her father's vehemence. "Should I
wait for that," she said, "I nm nfrnld
tho habit of slnglo blessedness would
have become so strong that I could not
shako 11 off."
More In sorrow than In nnger Philip
went his wny, nnd nlmost before ho
wns out of sight tho princess hit on n
plan to divert him from his regret over
tho forest nnd his disappointment over
her dilatory matrimonial performances.
It came to her us a sort of Inspiration,
and she was so pleased with it that
Bhe resolved to proceed at once to car
ry It Into effect. Sho summoned her
maid.
"Llsbeth," she asked, with nn Inter
est that caused tho faithful servant
to marvel greatly, "aro there any suit
ors today?"
"Mere than one, my dear mistress,"
answered tho maid. "Even now tho
Union Ihuuo of Eppcl is ascending to
tho cnstle with n retinue,"
"He Is persistent," laughed tho prin
cess. "I fancied I had disposed of
him."
"Ho Is very handsome," sighed Lls
beth. "ne Is far too well aware of the fnct,
Llsbeth. I am curious to know why
he has returned to the castle. When
ho enters tell him thut I will seo him.
Yes, I will see him although I told
him I hoped I had seen tho last of
him."
Half an hour later llruno wus deep
In tho business of convincing tho prin
cess of the su
periority of his
affection for her
over anything of
tho kind in the
market.
"Since you aro
willing to do
such stupendous
things for in.,
sake," sho Inter
rupted U i m
sweetly, "1 am
going to in'!; you
to prove your
friendship hi a
very simple fash
Ion. if you are
half as fond of
me as you pro
l'LANT TlinEESCOnE
fess to be, plant
ACOKNS."
threescore acorns on the cnstle height
so that ray father mny be a trifle com
forted." Baron Bruno nccepted tho ofllco with
an alacrity which was a generous trib
ute to his splendid youth and devo
tion. When he hnd accomplished the
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tnsk he returned to tho princess ami
demanded his rownrd. .
"I tlmnk you from my heart," Bhe
said, her lovely eyes downcast "You
havo done mo n gallant service, nnd 1
will requite you. I nm ready to prom
ise you that whon thoso ncoms hnvo
grown Into umbrageous oaks our Aved
ding fenst Blmll bo Bcrved bonenth
their gratoful shade."
With a low bow nnd without 11 word,
ns been mo n gnllnut gontlomon, the
baron accepted his fnto and left her
presence. Fortunately for him, the
crusades wiped out his disappoint
ment. On the afternoon of the very nam
day Uerthold of Unkcl climbed to tin
Nnnrburg on precisely the same or
rnnd. Uerthold wns n wnrrlor. exf-oet,
Ingly blond, musculnr nnd good to lo '
upon, nnd everybody In tho cnstle, In
chiding Its lord, looked on htm with
n good dcnl of respect.
"If It Is ns you nvow," snld tho prin
cess In nnswer to his keen nnd ardent
effort to persuade her to name tho
day, "I nm sure you will be glad to
ronder mo n tiny service go nnd plant
on tho treeless hlllsldo threescore
beechnut a no that my poor old father
mny know that ho Is not without sym
pathy In this shndolcss altitude."
Uerthold wns only too glad to com
ply with fills reasonable request, nnd
when he hnd dono so ho returned to
ltnrbo, the light of Joyous anticipation
on his handsome face.
"You have pleased mo mightily," tho
princess admitted. "I should bo an
ingrntc wero I to neglect to ofTcr you
some return. Listen, then. 'When
thoso cunning llttlo nuts hnvo grown
into sturdy trees I will go with you to
your cnstlo of Unkel."
When Uerthold realized that for once
the princess meant It ho was exceed;
lngly Borrowful, for ho remembered
that, llko the oak, tho beech Is a very
leisurely growing tree, what ho ac
tually did was to found a community
of Uonedlctlno monks nnd becomo tho
nbbot.
Then followed Oswnld of Erb, who
plnnled walnuts, but was too Impatient
to nwalt their fruition; Gunthcr of
Alton, who consented to strow nn ncre
with tho winged snmnra of tho maple,
but scorned to wait cveh for that
speedy growing tree; Henry of Thur
Ingen, who transplanted more than n
hundred bnby firs from tho lowland to
the hilltop, but declined to be patient
until they should become oven Christ
mas trees, and nt lenst a dozen others
who could not wnlt to renp the fruit
of their sowing.
Last of all camo Wnlt her of Sehlif.
zen. Unlike the others, he wns not
provided with n
surplus of phys.
leal ntfrnctlons
being rather un
dersized, p n I e
faced and bowed
slightly, ns be
en mo a student.
When he made
his appearance nt
tho Naarburg In
tho gulso of n
suitor everybody
pitied him, and
there wore nu
merous prophe
cies that his case
would bo dispos
ed of speedily.
I SHALL HKMAIN If Jlfl nof hon-
HEnE." nenso. Presently
It became apparent that tho princess
found him vastly Interesting. Perhaps
that was because he did not woo her
openly, but talked most entertainingly
of about every BUbJect under tho sun
save tho tender passion.
"Is the llttlo bookworm's fnto to be
thnt of the others?" nsked Philip, with
n great sigh of dl.stnsto for the entire
business.
"I think he does not care for me,"
replied Iinrbe forlornly. Her father
chuckled slyly, for he knew thnt sho
hud met her mntch.
But she did not yield without n
show of reslstnnce. When Wnlther
proposed, ns ho did eventually, sho
nsked for nn nrmlstlce. Then she pro
ceeded to search all the works on bot-
nny which wero In tho cnstlo library
to find the most speedy growing treo
nnd finnlly settled on tho poplnr.
"Very well," snld Wnlther when sho
Imposed the customnry condition. 'I
shall remain here and water tho new
plantation with my tears."
"If you intend to do anything so ab
surd ns thnt," she retorted, "I will nb
solve you."
This Is tho only nccount worth men
tion of tho origin of tbq magnificent
forest of Nnnrburg.
Sowina and Planting.
Experimental brondenst sowings
were mndo during tho yenr In twenty
seven forests In the nren of Idaho.
Montana, Washington, Oregon, Wyom
lug, Colorado, Utah and New Mexico.
The total area sown wns 131 ncres, of
which forty-seven wero In the Ulnck
nills national forest.
About 700,000 trees were planted last
year by tho forest service In Ne
brnskn. Knnsns. Colorado, New Mex
ico, Arizona, Utnh, Idnho nnd Cnllfor
nln. There nre now growing nt the
planting stntlons over 2,2(30,000 trees
which will be rendy for plnntlng In
1000. Sufficient seed wns sown In tho
Hiring of 1008 to produce 4,000.000
healthy seedlings.
Receipts From Foroit Service.
Tho forest service Is ono of the
branches of the government where
everything Is not outgo. Last yenr
the receipts from sales of timber, graz
ing fees nnd permits for speclnl uses
of forest rosources nmounted to $1
842.2S1.87, nn increase of $271,222.4i
over the 1007 figures. The per acre
receipts from tho natloual forests were
a llttlo more than 1 cent, less than S
mills under tho per acre cost of ad
ministration and protection of TJncIa
Sam's forests.
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W I i n t
III I MiJtt ' I'
The Value of
s at Sea.
t!ov Wireless Telegraphy and Submarhw
Signaling Havo Co-operated Recently
to Effect Rcscuo of Thoso
In Peril on Ocean.
w
IUKLHKS telegraphy and the
suhuinrluo signaling system,
working In co-operation,
saved many lives which
were Imperiled by tho collision be
tween tho steamships Florida nnd Itc
publlc and tho sinking of th latter
vessel. SInco this incident, which ex
cited so much attention to tho vnluo of
these new Inventions, their value hns
ngnln been demonstrated In tho enso
of the Old Dominion liner Hamilton,
which collided with n enr barge off
Old Point Comfort. By calling for ns
Blstnnce with her wireless apparatus
sho wns nble to summon to her rcscuo
within five minutes n fleet of tugs,
which towed her, bndly battered, but
still ntlont, to her pier.
Another case In point Is thnt of tho
Amorlcnn liner St. Louis, which broke
her rudder out nt sen nnd wns able to
ndvlso her owners of tho fnct and be
In tho wny of nsslstnnco If needed.
Wireless telegraphy nnd nubmnrlno
signaling, both Inventions of the past
fow yenrs, have robbed tho sen of
mnny of Its terrors, for no longer Is
u ship powerless to summon help when
disabled on tho sen, even Id mldoccnn,
and, If sho can keep afloat a llttlo
while, from nil quarters tho rescuers
nro Btiro to come ns fast ns their
high speed mnchlncry can urgo them
onward.
Much hns been said about tbo won
derful work douo by tho wireless sys
tem In tho rescue of tho Republic's pas
sengers nnd crew through tho courngo
nnd skill of tho ship's bravo operator.
Jack Blnns, and his faithfulness In re-
DtnECnON INDICATOnAND nEOKIVIHO TK&
KrilONK LIHrKNlNOICOH A BIONATj TH
THAN8MITTICU TANK.
malnlng nt his post regardless of his
peril. Not so much has been told about
the work of the submarine signaling
apparatus In bringing aid. This did
not only nil expected of It. but even
more. The captain nnd nnvlgators of
tho Baltic report that the Hepubllc was
using her sound signaling apparatus
for communication under water at tlm
tlmo of tho collision and continued us
ing It until she wns found by the Bnl
tlc. Wireless blgunls summoned help
from very distant points, nnd the sub
marine signals enabled the rescuers to
locate exactly tho distressed ship, By
uso of the submarine system the Re
public wits nble to ascertain from tho
Nantucket lightship, which was equip
ped with submarine signaling appara
tus, her exact posltlou. nd this Infor
mation sho sent broadcast by v Ireless.
It was In this way that the Baltic lo
cated her, the latter vessel knowing Its
own position nt all times by means of
Its, receiving apparatus and the subma
rine bell on tho Nantucket lightship.
Tho submnrlue signaling system wus
Invented ubout eight years ugo through
Ideas worked Out by tho late Professor
Ellshn Gray and Mr. Arthur J. Muudy
of Uoston. It depends on the well
known fnct thnt sound signals aro
transmitted under wnter with absolute
accuracy nnd that under water sound
Is not subject to the same obstacles as
to transmission as aro afforded In tho
open nlr by varying densities of the at
mosphere, banks of fog or cloud, etc.
The ship equipment consists of n bell
for signaling and n device for picking
up the sound from the water and trans
mitting It electrically to an observer
on tho bridge or In tho pilothouse.
Tho bell Is how usually placed In a
tank lusldo of the ship to securo Its
protection from accident The compa
ny is developing n device by which It
Is expected tho sound may be carried
a longer dlstunce, thus euabllng ves
sels approaching each other In a fog to
glvo amplo warning of their proximity
nnd also afford opportunity to maneu
ver nnd nvold each other.
A feuturo of tho Itepubllc rescue was
tho fuct thnt tbo signals of the Repub
lic reached a vessel 200 miles away,
the Freuch lluer Lorraine, which camo
at once nt the call of tho distressed
Although other ships were nearer and
reached the Republic llrst and took off
her passengers nnd crew, tho Lorraine,
despite her distance from the place
where the Republic was nt tho tlmo of
tho collision with the Florldn, would
havo been on tho scene ikirly enough
to have rescued the Imperiled ocean
travelers had no other help arrived
and had she been able to locate exact
ly tht sinking vessel.
Signal