Ncbv aska Advertiser
W. W. SANDERS, Prop.
NEMAHA, .... NEBRASKA
COACH OF PUUE ELEVEN
ROUND THE CAPITAL
Informnllon nnu Gossip Picked Up Here
and There In Washington.
Chicago Record-Monild: Ambassu
dor Hill will continue to ambuss.
Tho czur la Haiti to liuvo o dozen
crowns. IHb liead lies uneasy cukiukIi
with one.
"All In favor of iifiplo dumplings
please rise," Buys tlio Baltimore Sun.
Tho nyos have It.
Men will have to buy tho dominion
of tho ntr with blood. That wan how
tho land was won and the sea.
And now coniCB tho pigskin further
to divert attention from tho rhino of
Bnvlng tho country. HoHton Herald.
No ono objects to tho directolro
gown provided II. does not look an If
tho lower part of It had cnught on a
nail.
"No woman who wears a 'rat' shall
become my wife," says an Ohio cob
logo professor. Hough on rats, for
sure.
Esperanto, of course, is not a dead
or ovon a dying lunguuge. Its "rat
tling In tho throat" Is an auricular Il
lusion. A Chicago princess who Is stranded
In Paris finds It. Is mighty little In the
way of groceries that she can buy on
her title.
Wo nro worried about where they
aro going to put tho gasoline stations
for those now air machines. Atlantic
Constitution.
Tho Russian minister of commerce
Is named Shlpoff. It is to bo hoped
for tho trade of tho country that he
lives up to it.
Keir Hurdle advises Americans to
"go Into politics." They do. Hut not
like u (lock of silly sheep with some
agitator for bell-wether.
"Hats no longer aro worn In tbo
linlr," says a woman's magazine. No,
they seem to bavo boon supplanted
by thoso llttlo rows of mice.
It in hard to tell which tastes bet
tor, tho first pleco of (lanky, juicy,
spicy, ralsiny niliico pic In the fall, or
tho first cucumber in the spring.
Probably that Milwaukee hermit
who refused to wash for eight yours
was not a teetotaler and consequently
did not want to encourage any undue
Intimacy.
Of courso plants aro capable of feel
ingB. Hasn't the corn ears to hear and
tho potatoes eyes to boo? Haven't you
heard tho trees moan and seen the
roso blush?
An insurance man says there aro
19,500 women in Now York who aro
past 75 years of age. This Is not sur
prising; there art lots of chorus girls
In Now York.
Flowers may havo memories, but as
long as tho corsago bouquet and tho
honeysuckle on tho porch can toll no
tales what does it matter? Louisville
Courier-Journal.
A man in Oes Moines buys his mother-in-law
(lvo pounds of candy ovory
wook. Tho scheme should work and
Ib safer than tho slow poison plan.
Detroit Freo PreBs.
Now that tho North capo's cliffs
have been desecrated by tho brushes
of tho advertising painters wo almost
wish that Peary would novor give
them a chance at tho north pole.
A perfectly good imitation of a Car
negie horo medal is offered to tho man
who has road all of the political plat
form b, Bpoochns of acceptanco and
campaign books. Louisville Courier
Journal. "Auto-BUggostlon" 1b recolvlng con
slderublo attention from scientists.
Did you over catch tho monologuo of
tho man on his back in the dust trying
to coax tho machinery of ono of tho
snorting go-dovlla?
An up-to-dato farinor In Connecticut
insists on having a (lying machine
clauso In his iuBtiraiico policy, arguing
that flying machines aro quite as un
certain as tornadoes, for you novor
know what or when thoy aro going to
strike.
A Philadelphia heiress alleges that
sho went through a mock marriage
with an Amorlcan for tho purpose of
kooplng her parents fiom purchasing a
foreigner with a tltlo for hor. Wo can
hardly bollovo her story Is true, bo-
causo It Is roportod that hor mother
huB forglvon her.
Tho govorninoni is going to lay n
molasses road In Massachusetts. That
Is, It will propore a binder for ma
cadam roads tho basis of which will bo
tho rcBlduo of sugttrouno manufapluro
n by-product for which tlioro Is a
present no known use. Hut Isn't there
some danger that tho small boys and
glrla will carry off tho road for all-day
suckers or somo other terrible things?
No New Furnishings
WASHINGTON. Have sympathy
for MrB. Roosevelt, wlfn of tho
president. She, of all beloved wives
lit tho land whoso husbands havo an
income moro than sufllclent to afford
a hurt) living, is most to bo pitied.
Every other such wife In tho land has
added something to tho house since
returning from hor summer spent
away from home. There Is probably
not another woman In tho land who
has not added at least ono pleco of
furniture, had n room papered, bought
now curtaliiB for at least ono room,
added a rug to the children's bedroom
or has dono something of that kind.
Hut Mrs. Roosevelt has no addition to
boast of.
When sho got back to the Whlto
Houso not long ago she found every
thing jiiBt as it was when sho went
Changes Likely by Coming New Mistress
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MAN, mere man, rules tho furniture
and tho arrangement of things In
tho Whlto House. In this Instanco, tho
moro man is Col. Charles S. Hromwell.
Ho Is a young engineer so youthful in
appearance that tho silver oaglo on
his shoulder straps, indicating tho
rank of colonel, certainly looks like a
stray bird. Ho is a colonel only while
ho Is in charge of tbo Whlto House.
Congress in railing to provide for
any now furnituio or anything else
now this year remembered Hint It is
tho custom when there is n new first
lady of tho land In tho Whlto House
for all tho authorities to bow low and
ask her pleasure in regard to things.
Mrs. Raosovelt choso tho present un
pleasing blue of the blue room to re
place tho delicate baby blue brocado
on tho walls of that apartment during
tho McKinley administration. She nlso
Capital Laundry War Is Taken to Court
rHERE is war among the wushers of
the American statesmen's shirts
and collars and cuffs. Alleging that n
combination has been formed among
the local laundry concerns of Washing
ton, tho purpose of which is to drive
out of business all compotlng estab
lishments, in violation of tho Sherman
anti-trust net, tho Model Laundry Com
pany of this city, through its attorney,
has filed n request in tho form of an
Injunction, in the supreme court of tho
district, praying tho court to restrain
tho association, tho Washington Latin
drymen's exchange, from interfering
with its business.
Eleven other laundries of the city
aro named as defendants.
Many Disasters in Coal Mining Industry
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ACCIDENTS in coal mines of tho
United States during tho last cal
endar year resulted In the death of
3,125 men and Injury to 5,311 moro,
according to statistics made public
by tho geological survey.
Tho death record among tho coal
miners during the year was greater
by 1,033 than In 1000, and Is said to
havo been tho worst year in tho his
tory of the coal-mlnlng industry.
Tho llguros do not ropresont the
full extent of tho disasters, as reports
wore not received front some states
having no mine Inspectors.
West Virginia reported tho heaviest
death rate In 1907-12.35 per 1,000 am.
ployos, and this state also showed tho
lowest production for each life lost
05,909 tons. New Mexico stood next
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in the White House
away. Some painting had been dono
inside and out, but that Is all. It
might just as well not havo been
dono, becnuse tho new paint Is Just
like that which It replaced. Whero
Ivory white greeted her oycB last win
ter it will do so again this season.
Whore tho tint was cream or buff it
will still bo cream or buff at the tlmo
when sho gives It up to Mrs. William
on March 4, 190!).
Now wouldn't it got on your nerves,
careful housekeeper, to know that you
could not do anything to change tho
look of things; that you couldn't movo
the chiffonier over Into another cor
ner, or get rid of the curtain in tho
dining-room that looked bo good when
it first came to your view, but now
has grown almost hideous?
Hut that Is Mrs. Roosevelt's fix pre
cisely. Congress last winter did not
make any allowance for new furniture,
carpets, rugs or hangings of nny kind.
Tho allowance was merely for mainte
nance. That, of courso, covers any
repairs that may bo needed to furni
ture, hangings or draperies, but it
does not permit "the introduction of
now things.
selected furniture less ornato than tho
Louis XVI of the McKinley regime.
Col. Hromwell In submitting his es
timate this year for tho probable cost
of maintenance and renewals at tho
White Houso during the fiscal year
ending June 80, 1010, set tho flguro at
?50,000, or $15,000 more than tho cur
rent fiscal year.
That menus that $15,000 will be at
the disposal of tho now mistress next
summer. Innstnuch as the appropria
tion bills for tho year beginning on
July 1 must all bo passed beforo
March 4, a moro nod from tho new
first lady of the land, if she has any
particular idea of how things should
be done, will be sufficient to get moro
money for her, even if her husband
has not been Inducted into office.
With $15,0000 start with, the new
first lady will be able to get new
dishes if she docs not like tho kind
used by tho Roosevelt family, and
probably havo tho wall coverings In
several of tho rooms changed. In a
pinch it might be made to cover tho
cost of n few bits of furniture to take
tho place of the ugly stuff in tho east
room.
Tho complainant alleges that in tho
defendants' efforts to ruin the busi
ness of the Model Laundry Company
they have attempted, and in some in
stances havo succeeded, in employing
drivers of tho Model Laundry Com
pany, through whom a greater part of
tho laundry business is controlled, and
have made threats to establishments
soiling laundry supplies that they
would be boycotted in the future by
m.embors of tho exchango If they con
tinued to sell their goods to the com
plninnnt. For many months the laundries of
the national capital have attracted the
attention of the official clement in tho
city. Dinnors seven nights a week
havo made a great demand on immac
ulate dress shirts, not to speak of the
other accessories of a statesman's
wardrobe. Last winter a Pennsyl
vania congressman introduced a bill
making it a penal offenso or some
thing of that kind to tear shirts, etc.,
in tho wash.
on the list with a death rate of 11.45
and a production of 77,322 tons for
each life lost. Alabama was third
with a death rate of 7.2 per 1,000 and
a production of 92,535 tons for each
life lost.
Statistics do not bear out tho popu
lar idea that most mlno disasters re
sult from explosions. Of the total
number reported during tho last year
9(7 deaths and 313 injuries resulted
from gas and dust explosions and 201
deaths and 1 1G injuries were caused by
powder explosions.
Tho chief cause of death among
tho miners, tho report explains, was
due to the falling of mine roofs and
coal. Such disasters caused 1,122
deaths and 2,111 Injuries.
E. W. Porker, chlof statistician of
the survey, asserts that much benefit
will result from tho action of congress
in appropriating $150,000 to investi
gate mlno disasters. Ho says one of
tho greatest needs of tho coal-mlnlng
Industry Is tho enforcement of mili
tary discipline In tho operation of the
minus.
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Fred Speik, a Pupil of Coach A. A.
Has Charge of the
PASSING OF JOE GANS
ENDS VARIED CAREER
Colored Wonder, AlwayG a Figure in
Lightweight Championship,
Now a Has-Becn.
Tho sun of fame set on one of the
most spcctucular pugilistic careers In
the history of tho prlzo ring when
Nelson a mere physical entity, a per
sonified iron jaw, an embodied punch
tester, a quantity which might bo
stamped with little moro than the
purely physical for tho second time
battered down Joe Gans, and thereby
closed tho last chapter In the history
of this famous colored lighter at
Colma.
Cans was a real factor. He stands
out before tho world as a man who
was a self-confessed cheater, a person
who burtercd even his own gooll name
for tho chance of a little loose change,
a prevaricator and stronger than that,
and for everything that In a pugilist
of Integrity is considered impossible.
Yet, from the. llameB of his past,
cleansed in the eyes of tho public, he
won back tho championship. Not only
that, but, despite his color, he was
a popular fighter, and won his way in
to the game as an able exponent of it.
Exposure of dishonesty In almost
J any sport, professional or amateur,
is certain to bo followed by loss of
reputation and standing and ultimate
oblivion; yet Gans not only survived
his own story of his early shortcom
ings, but was never more popular In
his entlro career than after he told
the San Francisco newspapers how
he had cheated the public in the Mc
Govern, Britt and other contests.
The mind of man fails to fathom
such things. It may be possible that
the fighter was among that number
of great history makers whoso ability
at his one specialty was such that
his shortcomings in other respects
wero condoned.
Puglllstlcnlly, Gans died at the age
of 34 not so udvanced a period of
life but that ho might have been sup
posed to have retained his best form.
Fitzsimmons did it at a much later
stago of his career. But then the
freckled one was 27 years of ago when
he entered upon his real ring career,
whereas Gans was but 16 years old
when he began to attract attention.
Since that time Gans has been fight-
ping for his livelihood and the end
of a seesaw approximates tho story
of hlB lifo in the ring.
For years Gans has been a light
weight champion factor, but his cele
brated relapses continually prevent
ed him from rising to any safe degree
of celebrity. Years ago ho was be
lieved to be tho best man in tho world
at his weight. He always had the
edgo on Frank Erne, who wns then
champion, but Gans lost to him the
first time through manipulation, ac
cording to Gans' own story. When
they subsequently met again. Gnus
put it over the clever white boy in
one round.
Chase Will Remain Outlaw.
If reports from San Jose, Cal., arc
correct appearances Indicate Unit Hal
Chase, the former first baseman of the
Yankees, who quit tho team tho latter
part of last month to return to his
California homo, intends to make good
his statement that ho was through
with tho east and major league base
ball. It Is said that the Boston Amer
ican league team, through its western
agent, had made Chase a good offer to
Join that club.
According to report tho Red Sox
management wont so far as to offor
tho first baseman tho captaincy and
managership of the team for noxt sea
son if ho would refrain front playing
outlaw ball and join tho ranks under
John I. Taylor. Chuso Is said to havo
turned down tho proposition and re
iterated his farewell statement.
Wonder.
I novor wander to seo men wicked,
but I often wonder to see lliein not
itBhamod Dean Swift.
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S.agg, of the Chicago University, Who
Purdue Football Squad.
MANY NOVELTIES PREDICTED
IN THIS YEAR'S FOOTBALL
Coaches of Big College Elevens Ex-pecte-i
to Spring Startling Play
To Develop Forward Pass.
If tho football season of 1908 does
not produce several times as much
novelty and science In the way or new
plays as any of its predecessors it
will not bo the fault of the coaches
and players who represent the east
ern "Big Five" Yale, Harvard, Prince
ton, Pennsylvania and Cornell. At
every ono of these institutions there
has been shown a disposition to rush
tho season. Rudimentary knowledge
of the game is not being Ignored, but
It Is being rushed along and made sub
sidiary to the strategic side of the
game. That this is so Is proven con
clusively by the manner in which vet
eran players of former days have been
flocking back to assist in building up
new offensive tactics.
Tho forward pass is certain to be
productive of the most startling
revolutions this fall. Without ex
ception all these coaches are work
ing with it as the basis of their new
plays. It has now been a part of the
rules for two years, but this time has
been required to familiarize players
with Us basic principles. Its possibil
ities have not by any means been ex
plored to their limit.
Accuracy in throwing and catching
the forward pass will bo tho keynote
to success with this play this fall.
When tho play was first introduced it
did not matter a whole lot how much
accuracy there was in the play, be
cause it was in such an Indiscriminate
manner. Then the play was used very
much as the resort of tho weaker and
Inferior team, which trusted largely
to luck in making the play a success.
But this year a team is so restricted
In the use of the play that it must
be developed to a high degree of per
fection to be a winner. First era
phasis must be placed on develop
ing several players who can throw
the bull any given distance with
enough speed and accuracy to en
able ono of his team mates to re
cover It without fumbling. The
change in the rules, whereby a fum
bled forward pass can be recovered
only by tho player who fumbled It on
tho passers side, makes this point
doubly important.
It has been one of the Inexplicable
things ,of modern football that so
much poor passing and poorer catch
ing of tho forward pass should be tol
erated by up-to-date coaches. At any
rate coaches appear to havo realized
the handicap this weakness has been
to winning teams, and wo may look
for a radical improvement this fall.
NOTES OF THE DIAMOND
Kid Elberfold has behaved unusually
well for the manager of a team that
only wins a gnmo every now and
then.
According to thoso who know, the
famous Ed. Walsh is drawing only
$3,500 for his services as tho White
Sox's star twlrler.
Joe Cantillon doesn't frequent the
coaching lii-es as often as of yore.
Ho does most of the directing from
tho bench,
Catcher Street of the Washington
team, enjoys the nickname "Gabby"
because he's always talking.
Umpire with Good Reputation.
It looks os If Umpire Perrlno, of tho
Pacific Coast league, would prove a
vulunblo addition to Han Johnson's
staff of arbitrators. Nothing but
pralso Is heard for tho Callfornian.
Outfielder Cravath of tho Boston
Aniorlcans formerly played in tho Pa-
ci'fic Coast league. When asked tho
other day about Perrlne, ho had tho
following to say: "Perrlno is an ex
cellent olllcial. Ho uses oxcollont Judg
mont, and while bolug master of the
situation at all .lines, he knows how
to get along wtilt the playora"
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