The O’Neill Frostier «... . ■■■ - - -■ .at D. H. CRONIN, FmMMimv O'NEILL,NCBHAB The kaiser refuses to listen to tni revolutionary strains of the “Mar seillaise.” Since bo came to the thron« he has never allowed the French na tional hymn to be played at his court, at any of the state theaters or by any German naval or military band. When he entertains the French ambassador at dinner or receives him In state and wishes to pay him musical honors, h< orders the musicians to play the old "Marchs de St. Denis," which la In ev ery sense of the word a Bourbon hymn. There are said to be at least 13 worn en In Boston receiving a salary of $10, 000 a year. Several of them are mem bers of the Business Woman's club, which Is the newest ciab In that city. Though organised leas than a year ago, this club now numbers Its members by hundreds. The object of the club 1» "to promote the common Interest ol women actively engaged In lines oi work directly connecting them with the business life of the community." A public test was recently carried on In the Thames of a new life saving Jacket. During the demonstration thl* apparatus was used by a woman and three men. The garment consists of a loose sack, about the length of an or dinary lounge Jacket, having a ribbing fitted with a substance of gr eater buoy ancy than cork. It Is so constructed that the heads of the users are com pletely out of the water, thus permit ting them to take food while In the water. There has been a marked Improve ment in the Sicilian sulphur Industry during the years 1910 and 1911. wber 4 15,584 metric tons were exported. Tht Improved demand for brimstone is at tributed mainly to Improved condition! of the wine market In wine growlnj countries. There Is also some Increast In the use of brimstone for lndustrla purposes, as In the rase of Sweden where It Is used In the preparation ol wood pulp. The Indifference of Europeans to the aesthetic Interest of the American peo ple is strlnklngly manifested In the announcement that the quaint bridge of boats across the Rhine at Cologne is to be replaced by a modern steel I structure. The mere convenience of the people of that city Is allowed to offset the advantages to the American tourist of reveling tn the romantic associa tions of this relic of a past age. Within the next day or two th« British Beekeepers association will at tain an object for which they have beer working for the last 20 years—the es tablishment of an educational apiarj under government auspices. All thai Is now wanting for the completion ol the scheme Is the arrival of six colon ies of bees at a small lnclosure whict has been prepared near the owl houss In the soologtcol gardens. A fine of $100, the first to be Im posed under the wireless telegraph law of 1910, was recently collected from ths captain of the coastwise steamer Sa bine, for sailing without a wireless op erator. The law requires all vessels that carry more than SO passengers and crew and go 290 miles or more without ■topping, to be equipped with wireless apparatus and to have a wireless op erator. The heaviest of all the cars on a lim ited train Is the dining car, which h ordlnally of a weight In excess of th« other car* by 10,000 or 16,000 pounds Between the ear construction and tht necessary kitchen equipment and lei box contents a full slsed standard din ing car tops the scales at 140,001 pounds when ready to make lta cus tomary run. The total sale of the Aroostook (Me.) potato crop of 1911 Is estimated at be tween 14.990,000 and 15,000,000 bushels leaving between 2,000,000 and 3,000,001 bushels that were sent to the starcl factories, used for seed and food pur poses here In the oountry or lost. Il Is figured that for crops sold the aver ago price was over t2 a barrel. The man who polished the first sheet of plate glass manufactured In the Uni. ted States died a few days ago. Hil name was Samuel Lewis. Mr. Lewli learned the trade of polishing plati glass In England before he came t< the United States. He went to worl for John B. Ford when he arrived It thlB country. Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, whosi reign began In 1411, Is crodlted by his tory with the Invention of fixed am, munition. In his cartridge bullet anf charge were united In a paper case It was not, however, until 1860 that tht first successful metallic cartridge wot patented—by an American. The Chautauqua Institution put q n'w emphasis on religious activities uus year, and to further this purpos< has created a new office, that of dlrec tor of religious work. The Rev. Dr, Shaller Mathews, head of the dlvlnltj school of the University of Chicago it to occupy the post. Cleveland once made a Joke. An ef fusive southerner burst In upon hln and exclaimed loudly: "Mr. President I owe you an apology." "What for?' ■aid Cleveland. "For not having callet upon you earlier, sir.” "Well." Bail Cleve and, curtly, “I haven't been lone some. At Winfield, L. I., ground has beet broken for a school for women, it wnlch plumbing, building, masonry an? other similar tradcH will be taught There will be room tor* 150 student! end more than half that number havt already been enrolled. In the French aerodome at Villa caublay a woll known aviator took ui on his monoplane his little son, wh! thus made his debut In the air at th, age of three years and a half. Western Oklahoma contains .-argo ■eposlts of gypsum than any state ti the union, it has been estimated thni there are 125.000,000,000 tons of tht material In sight In the state. Every German town will hereafte »eep a record of hard drinkers and doc tors Will have to report all person! who are addicted to habitual intoxica tion. An International exposition of book making and Its allied arts and science: •rill be held In Germany lii 19)4. The shrinkage and evaporation o! food when cooked by elecirlcty is ubou' one-third as great as when other nieth ods are used. Funds raised by popular subscrlptloi have given Pittsburgh. Pa., the thirt largest telescope In the world, a 30 Inch refractor. American gardeners suffer from thi fepredations of the gopher, a rat tine burrows In the soli and eats the root! of plants. There are more than 4,000 brewen 9* the United Kingdom. SUBURBANITES WILL PAY 5-CENT RATE ON ELECTRIFIED LINES State Railroad Commission Qives Company Right To Raise Its Fares. Lincoln. Neb., Aug. 12.—On and aftel September 10, unless the state railway commission’s order is appealed from, the Lincoln Traction company will put a partial zone system of fare collection Into operation In this city and vicinity The company will be permitted to charge passengers on Its College View line east bound to any point beyond the Intersection of Thirtieth' and Van Dorn streets a straight 6-cent fare and passengers on the Normal line getting on within the city limits and traveling beyond the Intersection of Thirty third and Sumner streets a similar fare. Passengers traveling from within the city to University Place or Have lock are also required to pay the faro of 5 cents straight Such Is the effect of an order Issued by the state railway commission today. The same rates ap ply on incoming cars. The following provision is attached to the above order: "That no change shall be made on any of the other lines as to the Issuance of school chil dren's tickets under the same condi tions as now existing aud that passen gers riding between University Place and Havelock In either direction, but not paslng the city limits of Univer sity Place westbound, and passengers passing between College View and Nor mal In either direction on the direct line, but not beyond the limits of Nor mal westbound, shall be permitted to travel at the present rate of Bix for a quarter fare.” On that part of the order relating to the amount to be set aside monthly for maintenance and depreciation, Commissioner Thomas L. Hall con curred, but the rate change did not meet with his approval. The order and opinion of the commission were writ ten by Commissionctr H. T. Clarke, Jr., and were concurred in by Com misloner H. J. Wlnnett. The commission finds that the straight 5-cent fare between Lincoln and suburbs will Increase company revenues $8,000 per year, but that with this addition the corporation will earn but 6.2 per cent on the physical valua tion fixed by the commission, $2,244, 649. DORMANT FRANCHISE IS REVIVED BY PROMOTORS Lincoln, Neb.. Aug. 12.—Another complication has been added to the contest for water power rights on the Loup and Platte rivers. Some years ago what Is known as the Fremont project was started. This proposed to lake water from the Platte south of Schuyler and develop It Into power at Fremont, for distribution over the east ern half of the stute. This scheme lan guished for lack of capital, but some preliminary work was done, and the permission of a former board of Irri gation was obtained so that work need not be completed until 1916. L. D. Richards, of Fremont, and at torneys and engineers for the Kountze Bros., bankers of Omaha and New York, are here trying to find out if the Fremont Power company’s title Is good. The attorneys think it Is. Kountze Bros, are also behind a claim for wat er filed months ago by Engineer Charles Ross, of Omaha, but this 1b be ing vigorously disputed. It Is sus pected that they will drop this claim if the record in the matter of the Fre mont company is clear enough to just ify them pinning their chances of pri ority to that franchise. PASSENGER EARNINGS DON’T 8HOW SIGNS OF DIMINUTION Omaha, Neb.. Aug. 12.—At the office of the state railway commission the claim made by the passenger agents of some of the railroads that the au tomobile Is making serious Inroads In to tbelr passenger earnings Is gently pooh-poohed. Secretary Allen says that It is un doubtedly true that the use of auto mobiles In making summer trips and visits between folks In different towns la doubtless depriving the railroads of some revenue, but that nevertheless the figures on file with the commission show that the number of passengers carried and the amount of money earned Is steadily Increasing each year. During the year 1811 the seven rail roads in Nebraska received In pass enger revenue $13,196,180,95 and a total passenger train revenue of $16,682,099, 12. There were carried 10,750,475 passengers, or an equivalent of 63G, 939,484 passengers one mile. In 1909, there were 9,625,492 passengers carried, paying a passenger revenue of $8,468. 671 and a total train revenue of $10, 235,250. CHOPPING UP THE STREETS TO BE UNDER OFFICIAL EYE Fremont, Neb., Aug. 12.—Careless excavation In FremonCa paved streel sections prompted a lively session ol the city council and the outcome is a drastic ordinance by which the city will take over all activities pertaining to digging In the streets. Members ol the council, spurred on by muny com plaining citizens, declared that thous ands of dollars worth of damuge had been done to Fremont's newly paved sections by workmen for plumbers, th« gas company and others thut have oc casion to tear up the streets In order to reach pipes. The ordinance will b« unanimously passed, but It was per mitted to pursue the usual course ol three readings. SEVEN YORK BANKS UNDER ONE CONTROL York, Nob.. Aug. 12—Control of seven banks of York county. Including the First National bank, of York, has been sold by George W. Post to C. A. Mc Cloud and stockholders of the Farm ers' National bank, of York. The sale was on account of the falling health of Mr. Post. The Institutions affected are the First National bank, of York; the First Trust company, of York; the First Na tional bank, of Hrudshaw; the First National bank, of Benedict; the Farm ers' and Traders' bank, of Warn; the Bank of Lushton. the Blue River batik, of McCool, and the Bank of Thayer. MARINE BAND WILL APPEAR AT FREMONT 1- reutont. Neb.. Aug. 12.—Fremont's I oiTHn• tviaI club, which was stung by an ai-rui lane company that fulled to furnish a single successful flight at a t'lri" days' aeroplane meet last fall, wii' att-nipt to S( t Itself right with the pti. lie by giving a free bund concert re October 4. The i'riited States mu cme band, of Washington. D. C„ has Ik cit t nguged for the occasion. OSCEOLA—The rai„ ,hat fell hors IftFi night was four and a half inches, Ti ls wakes a total of seven liK-ter within 36 hours. r-»*— NEBRASKA NEWS NOTES REWARD—Annual convention of the Nebraska and Wyoming districts of tht Lutheran Missouri synod Is to be held at Reward August 14 to 20, Inclusive. More than 300 pastors, teachers and lay delegates, representing 300 congrega tions. will meet In St. John's Lutheran church here. Dally morning session* •f the convention will be devoted to reading and discussion of doctrinal pa pers. Business matters concerning the church will occupy attention of the del egates at the afternoon meetings. CENTRAL CITY—Mrs. W. H. Hone meyer, of this place, was almost in stantly killed and two men and a baby were Injured when an automobile In which they were riding was struck by a motor car on the Union Pacific rail road near the town of Polk. The acci dent occurred at a crossing of the rail road, the occupants of the automobile apparently not seeing the approaching motor car. The automobile was wrecked ajid the motor considerably damaged. LINCOLN—R. D. Pinch, proprietor of one of the leading cafes of the city, was robbed of $150 shortly before 3 o'clock yesterday while standing on the corner of Eleventh and O streets. Three men performed the act In plain sight of the passing crowds. The robbers made their get-away by way of a street car and want to the Burlington depot, whence they escaped In some manner as yet unexplained by the police. No clew has yet been found. LEXINGTON—In a case tried he™ by a special term of district couf?, with Judge Grimes of North Platte presiding, wherein the state was trying a young man by the name of Young for murdering an Indian by the name of Blackhawk, the Jury was unable to bring In a verdict after being locked up for two days and two nights. The killing occurred at Gothenburg, Neb,, about a month ago and there was no eye witness. LINCOLN—I* K. Holmes, aywell to do brlckmaker, died last night from In juries received by being run down by an automobile. Holmes Uvea In the suburbs and was crossing the road to his home when run down by a machine driven by E. W. Truman, a laundry man. Truman says the electric lights from an approaching machine blinded him so that he did not see Holmes In time to stop. LINCOLN—Gilbert Hart, sent up from Dodge county, stepped out of the state penitentiary yesterday at the con clusion of a two year term for horse stealing and Into the arms of an of ficer from Michigan, who will take him back there to spend 12 years for a similar offense. Hart was sent up in Michigan for IB years. After he had served three, he was given a parole, which he Immediately broke by leaving the state. or-iiiaivrj—rorresi nryam, a young farmer living near Holmesville, was probably fatally injured by falling on the handle of a pitchfork which had been left sticking in the ground. He was working on a threshing machine ut his place, ahd as he went to Jump down he became impaled on the fork handle, which entered the abdomen from the lower extremities almost a foot. He Is 25 years of age. LINCOLN—Rather than submit to the extortion attempted by owtiero of land adjoining the state school for the deaf and dumb, at Omaha, the state board of public lands and buildings has decided that It will rent farm land upon which the youth attending that institution may experiment with corn and wheat growing. The owners wanted 31,200 per acre for fanft land. BENNINGTON — Fred Wendt, a farmer living four miles east of Ben nington. fell from a load of grain and broke his neck, dying instantly. The accident happened at the homo of a neighbor, where Wendt w-as assisting In the threshing. Wendt was about 35 years old. He leaves a wife and four small children. SCOTTS BLUFF—Dr. A. G. Emerson, who attempted suicide, and who also administered poison to his son, was given a hearing before a sanity com mission and was declared insane. Sher iff Aaron has taken him to the stlfte in stitution at Lincoln. Both he and the boy hnve recovered from effects of the poison. WEST POINT—The West Point Milling contparty hus abandoned all hope of ever being enabled to restore the dam at West Point which was completely destroyed by the floods of last spring. They are Installing s steam plant an.l in the future will de pend altogether upon steam power tc vun the mill machinery. ' BENNINGTON—Word from St. Ed vard, Neb., tells of the serious Injuries suffered by Mr*. James Killian, for merly of Bennington. A team of mulei hitched to a grass mower ran awa> with Mrs. Kitliah on the seat. She w-as thrown out, her hand cut off, her kfe severely lacerated and her body was bruised. LINCOLN—Three hours after she at tempted to stimulate a kitchen Are with kerosene, little Marie VanKlahck, ll years of age. died in a hospital. In het terror, she fought off attempts to heal out the blaze, and when she wrenched herself out of a rescuer’s hands she left part of her flesh in his grasp. DAKOTA CITY—Charles T. Barto, an old resident of Dakotu City, while engaged in a friendly scuffle, had the misfortune to slip and break his arm in two places. As he is just fO years old. the shock id proving very great. He lias been removed to Wakefield, Neb., where his relations are living, NELIGH—G. E. Ward, Bert AY. AVat tles and G. AY. Wurtsbaugh appeared before Police Judge CasBidy en com plaint of Officer Jackson for fractur ing the speed ordinance. Being the first offense, they were given the min imum fine of 31 and ousts, which was nHicl. pniu. NICKERSON—Miss Linda Roth and Guy Spangler were quietly murrled and left for N'eleigh to spend their honeymoon with relatives. The groom is a well-known young business man of this place, and the couple Will rr.cko their home hare. ULYSSES—Material for the con struction of tie Iron bridge across the Platte river near Edholm has been shipped to that place by the lUVrlingtoti company and work will begin In the near future. NORTH BEND—Rainsford Brown e'l. the well-known Sounder* county hti"«eman, has bought the Ea.-Om rece de tvx property and will retire soon from the farm, taking up residence hire. WEST POINT--Albert Wagner, p well known citizen and a native of West Point, died yesterday ut the of 39. of tuberculosis, after some yta>* of suffering. He had been connected with the city police force in various capacities for so’Me timo and was g man of sterling character unu attain mer.ts. LINCOLN—It will cost the s-nte <"•! Nebraska £100,000 for coal for h-.a’v.. purposes ut the vailous state iu* -.'.u tions the coming year. The V'n-\*. o> cuUie lands and bulldinrs * - * j..c ) risked Its award of corthtv ts ..or of th.-i Institutions, local i.VtVa- -y'dw* iliv Ivin;; favofs