Walt Mason
flarden Sans
Ob, luscious greens! Young beets
and beans, fresh peas and new po
taters! With fork and spoon, morn,
eve, and soon, we push them In our
craters! The pale wax bean is good,
I ween, and succulent and tender;
the carrot red is thoroughbred, the
onion's clothed in splendor. When
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Something About
Government Ownership
No.
America has private
ownership and operation
of telephones; one prov
ince in Canada has tried
government ownership.
Here is the record:
January, 1908 Gov
ernment purchas
ed Bell Telephone
property in Mani
toba. March. 1908
Rates for certain
classes of service
increased 25 per cent.
March. 1910 Chair
man of telephone commis
sion declared rural rates
were too low and would
be raised.
March, 1911 Time lim-
Bell Telephone Sennce Has Set the
Standard for the Rest of the World.
NEBRASKA TELEPHONE COMPANY
International I
Manure Spreaders
The I H C Line
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MACHINES
Sudan, Rmmti
HaeaWe, Haver
Ukae. Stackers
COBN MACHINES
Heaters, f ickara
Biaam, Caltintart
Eastlafe Carters
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noontime comes my stomach hums
at least I hare that notion; and as I
throw the greens below it trembles
with emotion. Sometimes it stalls
at codfish balls, and balks at beef
or mutton, at corn beet hash and
kindred trash, and hints that I'm a
glutton. But I mar pass down gar
den sass until I'm tired of chewing;
my stomach makes no cranky breaks
we eat of pie and meat, the doctors
oft Inform us; in summer days we
stupid jays devour the things that
warm us. Fresh garden sass, good
it still is up and doing. Too much
Because of oar uaique organization we
are able to turn out superior job printing
quickly and satisfactorily. "We employ
only printers who are experts. Our plant,
the most completely equipped in western
Nebraska, is in a position to turn out any
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when you can get the kind that satisfies
for the right price. Phone 340 and we
will call. Mail orders given prompt attention.
Nebraska
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it on long distance calls
reduced from three to two
minutes.
Nov., 1911 Chairman
of Telephone Commission
reported $150,000 loss for
year, with no provision
for depreciation.
June, 1912
Public distrust in
government man
agement forced
Telephone Com
mission to resign.
July. 1912 An
increase of 20 per cent in
rates put in effect.
The rest of Canada is
retaining private owner
ship after the bitter expe
rience of Manitoba.
irvester
CTEEL frame on steel wheels that
is the lasting basis on which Inter
national manure spreaders are built. All
parts, including box, beater, spreading
mechanism, apron, are built by experts,
using best materials, from careful designs
based on field tests.
Every detail is strong and durable, built
for long life and ease of draft Among the
features that will interest you are these: Simple
rotected beater driving mechanism, all of steel;
oad carried on rear axle, insuring traction; reversible
gear and worm; low, easily loaded box, with ample
clearance underneath; end gate, preventing cloggaug
of beater while driving to the field; etc
All styles are in the! II C preder line, high and
low, endless and reverse apron, and various sizes
for small and large farms. Our catalogues will tell
you more. Write for them and let us tell you also
where you may see I H C manure spreaders.
Company of America
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IBwssIm Oibom Dm
sparrow grass, the onion, beet and
lettuce these are the things to eat,
by Jinps! then health will not forget
us. So let us swat the garden plot,
and rob it of Its treasures; oh, let us
feed on yarn and weed, and taste the
simpler pleasures.
WALT MASON.
TIIK lll'IXFIUH.
The bullfrog has a widespread
voice, the loudest ever born; his
singing makes the world rejoice and
chortle In a horn. .When to their
nests the swallows wing their way,
as does the dove, the cheerful bull
frog starts to sing a lay of home and
love. He warblee like a frog or
bull down In his swampy lair, and
people plug their ears with wool, and
storm around and swear. The frog
obeys no rhythmic rules, and folks
who hear him, say, "We'd rather
hear a thousand mules when they
rear up and bray." Each night be
stirs up human ginks to wild, on
seemly wrath, and yet no doubt the
bullfrog thinks he's cutting quite a
swath. Perhaps he mutters to his
frau. as Is the wsy of males: "Don't
talk about your robins now, nor yet
your nightingales! In some things
I do not excel," the modest bullfrog
cries; "I doubt if I could dig a well
or make crabapple pies; I do not
boast about my skill at making gin
ger beer, but when a song is on the
bill, I feel I have no peer!" And
I've met men and women, too, just
like the bullfrog host; the very
things they cannot do are those of
which they boast.
WALT 4IASON.
HOME LIFE
Man builds a large and stately
home, and freely spends his coin ,f or
ornaments from Greece and Home,
and art work from Des Moines. He
wants a home to daze the crowd that,
rubbering, goes by, a home of which
he may be proud until he comes to
die. And, having built his stately
shack, whose cornice scrapes the
stars, he lets it idle stand, alack, and
lives in motor cars. In winter, to
some southern clime, you see him
gayly flee, and in the good old sum
mertime he bikes off to the sea. The
cobwebs gather on the walls that
once were span and spick, and In the
noble, arching halls the dust's three
inches thick. To one who's learned
the dizzy chase, a home seems flat
and 'stale; he only needs it as a
place where he can get bis mall. The
home life, as we know it, Jars the
rich men and the swells; they have
their homes in motor cars, and
yachts and big hotels. The gorgous
palaces they build, with minarets
and domes, and with the spoils of
Athens filled, are anything but
homes. Our home life's in the hum
ble cot where cheerful workmen
dwell, who cultivate their garden
plots, whose healthy children yell.
WALT MASON.
TIIK OLD STOItY
There's always something, and re
peat, to make us weep and sigh; we
're looking for big crops of wheat,
then comes the Hessian fly. "Vast
tracts of grain," the papers claim,
"are ruined by this pest, and farm
ers, weary of the game, are moving
further west. And thus the splend
id prospect ends all estimates have
shrunk." And nearly all such talk,
ray friends, is piffle, con and bunk.
The farmers fear the price will
slump, if prospects seem too bright,
and bo such fairy tales they pump
into the jays who write. You'll see
the stately wheat stacks r'se at har
vest time, don't fear; and none will
miss what Hession flies have spoiled
for us this year. And scores of bog
ies that we hate, that wear and tear
the mind, are flaunted by some sel
fish skate who has an axe to grind.
When we behold a thing of fear, it's
Bafe to bet, by jings, that there's a
speculator near who sits and pulls
the strings.
WALT MASON.
TUB WAY IT GOES
.Most all the big men in the land
came up from small beginnings; in
youth they toiled to beat the band,
and wisely used their winnings. But,
having won the victor's crown, their
senses seem to wander; they keep on
salting dollars down for Idle heirs to
F. M. BROOME
Ex-Receiver United States
Land Office
V. S. LAND ATTORNEY
Towasite and Realty Agent
Office Norton Block
Alliance, - Nebraska
LAKD TO TRADE
I have 160 acres, 3 miles from
Bayard, under the Tri-State canal,
to trade for Box Butte county land.
J. C. McCORKLE, Alliance, Nebr.
latfsm
squander. The self-made mn too
often cries, "My Algernon, dear lad
die, won't have to bust his hooks
and eyes, and labor like, his daddy."
So Algy Idnfs upon the earth, expen
sive, pallivanty, and when grown up
he Isn't worth three whoops in Ypsl
lanti. He leads a life of gilded ease,
all fooliBh fads pursuing, and yet the
blind old daddy sees no harm In what
he's doing. Far better for poor Al
gernon if he had harsher masters,
who'd make him rise at break of
dawn and earn his own riastres. A
life of idleness and sloth is scorned
by men who've sweated, and fev will
ever cut a swath who pampered are
and petted. Whene'er I hear of gild
ed youth receiving unearned riches,
I say, "The lucky lad, forsooth, Is he
who's digging ditches."
WALT MASON.
BUY AT HOMK
Kersmith & Kickshaw deal in wax
and Chinese eggs and carpet t'tcks.
They are good sports in every way;
they cough up money every day to
make the town a better place In
which to live and push your face.
They hire a dozen clerks or more,
who wait on patrons in their store.
Our cross roads burg they would up
build, and see it with glad people
filled, and to that end they blow
their scads like truly patriotic lads.
But when we need of eggs a few, we
send away to Timbuctoo; and when
a carpet tack we wish, it's shipped
from Ypsilantl, Mich. Each has the
notion in his dome that things are
best away from home, and so we or
der hods and hats, and humming
birds and Maltese cats, from stran
gers in some town remote, who
would not know us from a goat. We
ship away our hard-earned kale, and
get our fourth rate junk by mall.
Say are we seers, or are we fools?
Those strangers don't support our
schools, or keep the peeler on his
beat, or help to pave Commercial
street. They do not paint the vil
lage pump or build a fence around
the dump. If our old burg were
blown away they wouldn't care a
bale of hay. Kersmith & Kickshaw
ought to get the local trade, already
yet.
WALT MASON.
WILD OATH
You're sowing wild oats, William
Henry Fitzjames, you're playing,
with others, the dissolute games;
when you should be sleeping you're
still on the jump', a-paintlng the vil
lage clear down to the dump; and
ancient tradition looks foolishly kind
on chaps like yourself who are going
it blind; it says, "Let them frolic
like lunatic goats, for youths must
be youths, and must sow their wild
oats." But merry carousers who ca
per and prance must pay for the fid
dler when done is the dance. Alas
for the oats that you carelessly sow!
You find they are thistles when
started to grow, and though you may
live for a cycle, my friend, they'll
prick you and sting you right up to
the end. I sowed fifty bushels of
oats that were wild, and while I was
sowing I recklessly smiled; I laugh
ed at the future and lilted gay tunes,
and now I a mold I am harvesting
prunes. With aches in my body and
grief in my soul, and doctors and
druggists despoiling my roll, the
wearisome knowledge my conscious
ness totes, that all my troubles are
due to wild oats. Be wise in the
morning of life, oh, be wise! And
sideBtep the bait of the father of lies.
For wasting the moments and sow
ing wild oats will lead you to chew
ing the husks with the Bhotes.
WALT MASON.
i-toldirrti Invude Fa no
About 100 officers of the Nebras
ka National Guard invaded the Uni
versity Farm at Lincoln last week
and declared martial law in their
camp. The object of the formida
ble intrusion of the military com
mands amidst the fields and herds,
however, was only a peaceful school
of instruction under the direction of
Adjutant General Hall.
Cattle KxterimenterB Wanled
Farmers who are willing to assist
in the collection of data regarding
the feeding of live stock are being
sought by the Nebraska College of
Agriculture. Many experiments are
conducted with beef and other ani
mals from year to year, but owing
to limited funds, only Bmall num
bers, comparatively, may be used in
the experiments. As the animals
have to be kept in close quarters and
are disturbed by the thousands of
visitors annually at the farm, the re
sults, altho accurate, are not obtain
ed under the more ideal conditions
of the home farm. The college
wishes to obtain widespread inform
atlon from feeders who are willing
to cooperate. This will make possl-
data from much larger herds than
the experiment station could main
tain. Anyone Interested should ad
dress the animal husbandry depart
nient of the College of Agriculture,
Llucola.
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ATTORNEY
AT LAW
ALLIANCE : : NEBRASKA
Spring Blood and System Cleanser
During the winter months Impur
ities accumulate, your blood becomes
Impure and thick, your kidneys, liv
er and bowels fall to work, causing
so-called "Spring Fever." You feel
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purities and restore your health,
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Start a four weeks' treatment It
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YOUNG CHICKS
mt ksl
treabt more
than any other
ctatt. It la
MUmatrd flitl of
hatched Mch
year lea than 400 readi imriteuhl (Ira. Ortno
reme oners raiM, aauallr. 90 of chick hitched
Gcrrmuone keep the bowels rat alar. H prevent
diarrhoea, fram overdrinking of water: tram eating
muaty or (polled food, etc. It should be elves la
drinking water twice I week from the da the arc
hatched. It stop the loss. Every chick that dlea
tun bad If lataina pmsi ha tkanM. Evaty ehaaaaavae
viU ear lae mm af a entile at GtnBeeeae.
Oae Hat eel, m evaca, at aaakw'aar entailer
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General
Contractors
We Construct
CEMENT SIDEWALKS
or anything In the
Cement Line
Brick Work, Tils and
Plastering
Old Fashioned Fire Places
and Mantels
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Phone 249 Alliance, Nebr.
HOW CHILDREN GROW
Children prow by nourishment not
overloaded stomachs or rich foods but
qualities that are readily converted into
hfe-sustainintf blood; too often their
digestive powers cannot procure these
qualities from ordinary food which results
in weakness, dullness and sickness.
If your children are under-size, under
weight, catch cold easily, are languid,
backward, pule or frail, give them Scott's
Emulsion which is pure medicinal nourish
ment. It sharpens the appetite, builds
healthy flesh, firm muscles and active
brains. Scott's is growing-food or
children. Refuse alcoholic substitutes.
Strengthens Weak and Tired Women
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Do you feel tired and worn out? No
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stomach, liver and kidneys. The
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gist.
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Hauler Bros.
Dr. L. We,Curtis
Prepared to treat all
domestic animals
Phone 633
Alliance, - - - Nebr.
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