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This New Year Is Leap Year
John Snoddy, Pres.,
P. S. Showers, V. Pres.
May Snoddy, See. & Treas.
NELSON FLETCHER
FIRE INSURANCE AGENCY
By ROBERT DONNELL
THE yenr 1012 N a leap yonr.
Query: Why Is a leap year?
Why did the chicken crow
(he rond? To pet oti the otli
r side.
Maybe th:ii s why the year leaps.
Anyhow, Flint's the use to bother
about such n tangled mathematical,
astronomical, scientific question as to
why Felirunr.v has nn extra day every
four years- Hold on there, now! It
hasn't. It has an extra day only
when flic number of the year la divisi
ble by four. Hold on again! Even
that Is not s'lictly title, for the year
1900. TVhlch was divisible by four M
long ns It lasted, was not a leap year.
The reason was Hut po and look It up
In the public library. Celebrate the
New Year by flndiiiK out Just how
leap year came about. This story has
to do only wl'li leap year matchmaking.
Albeit It Is nowe become a part of
the common lawe, In rejrarde to so
cial relations of life, that as often
as every bissextile year doth re
turn, the ladyes have the sole priv
ilege, during the time It contlnucth,
of milking love unto the men, which
they do, either by wordes or lookea,
as to them It aeemeth proper; and,
moreover, no man will be entitled
to benefit of elersry who dot he In
any wise treate her proposal with
slight or contumely. From a Hook
1'ubllshcd in Shakespeare's Time.
Also Represent the
Nebraska State Building
and Loan Association
MALARIA
headache, biliousness, in
digestion, rheumatism,
pimples, blotches, yellow
complexion, etc., are all
signs of poisons in your
blood. These poisons
should be driven out, or
serious illness may result
To get rid of them, use
Leap year Is ladies' year. Yes; only
year out of four when the ladles have
the privilege of popping the question,
and even then thoy don't do it. There
la a prevalent fiction to the effect that
girls propose to young men during leap
OoprrlcM by Amerlran Press Asso
ciation, 1U.
ungallnnt gentlemnn shall present the
fender damsel with a new silk dress.
There Is a reservation, however, that
the right to claim this penalty de
pends on the circumstance that when
she pfopoiicd the damsel was the
wearer of BCMM iettl oat, which
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Bedford's
Black-Draught
the old, reliable, purely
vegetable, liver medicine.
Mrs. J. H. Easier, of
Spartanburg, S. C, says :
" I had sick headache, for
years. I felt bad most of
the time, I tried Thed
ford's Black-Draught, and
now I feel better than
when I was 16 years old."
Your druggist sells it, in
25 cent packages.
Insist on Thcdford's
eriiEnnATR thk :.ew tkab by fihdtkh
OCT JUST HOW i.ka'p YEAH COMKH a bom
years. It is nothing hut a fiction, how
ever. That is, they don't propose any
more ih leap year than they do in oth
er years. As n matter of fact, girls
do a large share of the proposing any
how larger than most of us Imag
ine Perhaps they do It with their
eyes Itutto'.d of their voices, lait it is
a fa t that women are the real pro-
If von don't hetlCTfl It Just keep
ynttr ; open -R'l witch, "Drink to
me oalj with thine eyes" is not a valu
IMI The eyes have It always wheu
the Hiolion "to live" Is put, provided.
f en u se. she really loves yoo. oh.
Iwfrhfttl and love sii k swalu!
let there eomes eternally buck this
seedy old SU rl -1 ll Hill to the efl'e t
that in leap year woiueu propose mar
rinCB to men do It deliberately by
rord of mouth. Now. lot's lie sepsl
hie. Did you ever know or hear au
theutl-ally of a wouiuu who took ad
In Front of the Checkered Front Stable
you can nearly always see a rig getting
ready to start out. We will send one any
distance, for any purpose, at any time.
We answer all calls promptly
and will be glad to serve vou in anv wav
in which a rig is required.
H. P. COURSEY. Prop
PHOKB in
I I CP
HI WAIIB OF TUB LADIES.
(or a little of the lower portion of
which) aba must exhibit to the gentle
man, the understood idea being that
the silken dress shall cover the petti
coat and thus assuage dire feminine
Indignation at the rejection of her of
fered hand."
Wherefore It behooves us bachelors
or widowers-lii this new year to be
ware of ladies whose scarlet petticoats
peep out when they cross a wet street
or climb Into an automobile or carriage.
Albeit, as often as leap yearre
dothe occure. the woman lioldeth
prerogative over the menne In mat
ters of courtship, love and matrl
monle; so that, when the lady pro
ponent. It shall not be lawful for
Ilia man to say her nae. but shall
cntertainn her proposal! In all gude
curtpsle. From the Statute In the
Old Saxon Code.
According to the old 8nxon code, as
quoted above, no man may refuse a
maiden who proposes In lenp year
without being discourteous. Therefore
It Is to be taken for granted that If
any damsel or dame mnkes love, with
proposal of matrimony, to nny bach
elor or widower said victim must in
cept the "suggestion" or forever after
he held discourteous to the fair sex.
Leap year truly Is an ancient insti
tution. It was created, we nre told, by
no less a personage than 0. Julius Cne
sar, who announced to the world that
"all Gaul la divided into three parts."
The late Mr. Caesar in the year 40
tacked the extra day in the calendar
on to February, and for his services In
thus giving a local habitation mid a
name to the day that bad been wan
derluc around every four years with
out where to lay Its head the future
calendarists honored him by naming
the month of July for him Julius.
July.
Seven hundred years ago. which was
l.'JOO years after Caesar's dust wax
turned to clay, to stop a hole to keep
the wind away, as somelxaly quaintly
remarked, leap year was the subject
of lawmaking A Scotch statute of
the year 128 reads thus:
It Is statut and oidalnt that during-
the relne of her nialst blevsit
majestic ilk forth year, known as
leap year, Ilk ii, at. Ion ladye of baith
high and low estalt shall have lib
erty to bespeak y man she likes;
albyll, If be refuxes to take her to
be wlf, be shall be mulcted hi the
sum of one pound or less, as
his estatt lual be. except and awls
If he can makr it appear that he Is
betrothed to one women, und then
he shall be free.
X. SCOTT
AUCTIONEER
Graduate Missouri Auction School
Dates may he left at Herald of
fice. Alliance, or write me at
LAKESIDE, NEBRASKA
PRKSt.NI IMP. TKNDKH HKA KTI-'D HAMBEI.
WITH A NKW HI! X l)Kk-S.
vantage of this presumed leap year
privilege' Ten to one y u never did.
and hi io ar will.
A idy ha-i 'b privilege. ".ays one
of tin; AT. (Ms Wl.o .jnC things for
granf't Juat bacitt they i.:tw ic.-aya
heard so and so, ;,i i.. ffrr
sjprttng marri;:ge la.-twecn li. d
a la belor a.-ijaJUiian e. In tic u
iX hia rcfuaU: the i tualty u tlBAtt kf
Mr. Taffa New Yaar'a.
President Tuft will be a weary man
before New Year's day Is over, but no
doubt his perennial smile will conceal
the fact. Every year the president gives
a New Year's reception at the White
House. Au Ingenious statistician has
figured that he shook n mile of hand'
nst New Year's day. and this time he
Ui".v have mora than u mile of simk
lug. Last Jan. 'I the statistician wrote
us follows:
"The Tuft Icmdshake yesterday was
a long onu. It is climated that all
the tuMB If raised one above the oth
cr would be taller than the cuiliiicl
be'Llits of KitTel tower, the Met
rooliian Lift tower, the Singer build
lag. the Washlnglon BSOOPWIli ami
St l'cier's dome, in Koine.
"The piesident BbOofe the hands of
ILS7S paraona In three Imiii The nv
ernge lenirth of n ha ml Is seven Inches
The total length of the hands shaken
computed on this basis Is MuOSS inch
v, or 3 2 feet 1 inch, or over half a
mile.
"T!ie I'.iffel tower Is (iW feet high, the
ItftropoHtSM tOWtt tr7 feet, the Singer
building 8U feet, the Washlugton
nioiitiuieiit BA feet and St. Peter's
dome 330 feet, a total of 3.130 feet, as
against the president's handshake of
U0g feel high, or as long aa you wlah
to uoiupnte lt.M
What doth it Profit
a Man
to buy his overalls for a
few cents less if he cannot
bend oyer in them and must
remove them before he can
sit down?
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