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Going to the polls to vote, like going
to church, is a privilege and not a
duty to be imposed by statutory en
actment
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Bread tickets are being distributed
in Germany on account of the war;
they are being distributed in the
United States on account of the* Un
derwood tariff.
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Aviation is all right within certain
limitations, but when carried to the
point of acrobatic performances in the
clouds to amuse the wonder lovers
there ought to be a stop put to it if
the judicial arm can reach that high.
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Many'women substitute puppies for
babies, but registering a dog as a
voter is a new use for canine intelli
gence. One of the Terre Haute
election crooks confesses to having
made out an application for registra
tion in the name of a dog and that it
was voted by a negro.
An exchange says that Canada’s
sales of merchandise to this country
last year under Dr. Wilson’s “tariff
for competition” increased (as com
pared with the figures of the year be
fore) by $34,445,610, while this
country's sales of merchandise to
Canada fell off by $21,267,312. It
works that way.
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“Lots of men are thrown out of
work,” says Thomas A. Edison, “be
cause we have depended upon Europe
for things we should have gotten our
selves.” A periodical devoted to the
sugar industry thinks our sweets the
biggest item of foreign expense, there
being $100,000,000 a year sent abroad
for sugar, a large amount or all of
which could be kept at home if* we
went at it right.
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A lady at Neligh whom town gossips
had accused of poisoning a dog took
the matter so seriously to heart that
she makes public denial through the
newspapers and threatens prosecution
for libel. Less things than a dead
dog sometimes stir up a big neigh
borhood feud with serious conse
quences. If the dog slayer will come
up this way and start operation we’ll
put him on The Frontier’s subscrip
tion list as a premium for his work.
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If House Roll 341 becomes a law
tax payers that have been making a
kick on imported law suits will be
pleased. The bill provides that non
residents of the state shall not be al
lowed to use the courts against the
property of non-resident corporations
which may be found within the state.
Quite a number of these cases have
been brought to Holt county, the
plaintiff’s getting service on non
resident corporations by garnishee
proceedings, which can be done with
any railroad having traffic trans
actions with other railroads in or out
of the state.
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Usually when Jim Hill has anything
to say on industrial conditions the
people sit up and listen. The Great
Northern magnate contributes his
opinion to the wide spread discussion
of proposed increase in railroad rates
and naturally enough sides with the
railroads. More than that, he de
clares that the bulk of American rail
road companies are right on the verge
of financial ruin, that unless relief is
granted by increased rates the crash
will soon come. The situation is
probably not as bad as railroad men
try to make it appear and no doubt
they will adjust themselves to the
diminished dividends without having
to close the depots.
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A woman victim of a drug habit
killed herself the other day in Omaha
because she could no longer get the
drug, heroin, since the federal dope
law became operative. She became
addicted to the drug, the papers gave
out, hy^the prescription of a physician
thirteen years ago. The drug victim
is indeed in a sorry state. They were
made victims in many cases by care
less or unscrupulous doctors and now
the federal authority steps in and
takes the drug from them without pro
viding any means for the care or
treatment of the poor unfortunates.
The law is a good one and will result
eventually in wiping out the dope
Musancei hut congress should have
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gone a little farther and made pro
vision for the treatment of such as
cared to avail themselves of it.
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AT LINCOLN
Lincoln, March 23.—The end of the
thirty-fourth session of the Nebraska
legislature is finally in sight, though
perhaps three calander weeks will
elapse before the final adjournment.
During the past week the Senate
joined the procession looking to a
wind-up by appointing a sifting com
mittee, which will select the
measures upon which the Senate will
spend its remaining hours.
The Senate compilmented President
pro tern Kohl by extending him the
privilege of selecting the sifting com
mittee and naming him as the chair
man thereof. The sifting committee
as appointed and confirmed by the sen
ate consists of Kohl, chairman; Mat
tes, Bedford, Grace, Buhrman, Spencer
and Ruden, the last two being the re
publican representation on the com
mittee of seven. The committee took
charge of the general file on Tuesday
of last week and has been in charge of
sifting out the measures to be con
sidered since that day. The House
sifting committee began one day in
advance of this, so that legislation for
the past week has been entirely in the
hands of the sifters.
As an actual fact the Senate did not
seriously require the services of a
sifting committee, as the Senate work
was well advanced and very satisfac
tory progress had been made, as the
following data will show: The Senate
had 296 of its own bills for considera
tion, this being the number introduced
in the senate. Of this total the Senate
on March 20 passed 135; had killed
74; had in the last stages of consid
eration 33; leaving only 54 Senate
bills in the hands of standing commit
tees, where most o fthese will expire
largely for the reason that their intro
ducers on later consideration have
lost interest in them and in many
cases do not desire their further prog
ress.
Out of a total of 194 bills received
from the House, the Senate had, at the
same date, passed 46; killed 4; and
had the remainder pending on general
file or in committee. Senate statistics
show that this is a good record com
pared with previous sessions and
stamps the Senate as a serious and ef
fective working body.
While both houses are passing bills
at a lively rate, the only thing certain
at this stage of the game are the bills
ethat have passed both houses and
been signed by the governor, as scores
of measures will pass one house and
fail in the other from this time on.
The measures recently signed by the
governor, thereby becoming laws in
due course, are the following: H. R.
4, permits building and loan associa
tions to loan up to $25,000 to an in
dividual; H. R. 119, county boards
oversee the poor instead of justices
of the peace; H. R. 292, provides for
taxation of real estate mortgages in
the hands of state banks, instead of
exempting such by deducting from
bank capital stock when taxed; H. R.
208, abolishing office of county coroner
and divides the duties between county
attorney, clerk and sheriff; H. R. 194,
provides work for county jail and city
prisoners in cities over 6,000, or coun
ties over 20,000; H. R. 158, part of
state aid bridge fund may be used to
purchase bridges already constructed
and privately owned. It is said this
law is aimed quite definitely at the
purchase of bridges in the neighbor
hood of Ashland and Louisville. H.
R. 122, amendment to code of civil
procedure; H. R. 114, reducing capa
city of county highway bridges from
20 tons to 16 tons; H. R. 78, amend
ment to civil code procedure; H. R. 53,
firemen's exemptions to be good any
where in the state for five years after
issue; H. R. 284, relates to removal of
division fences; H. R. 304, requires ex
press companies to properly house live
stock.
Une oi tne legitimate results oi tne
wholesale manufacture of bills by the
so-called “Legislative Reference Bu
reau” was made manifest during the
week. Competent observers attribute
the flood of bills, more particularly in
the house, to the work of this bureau,
which stands ready to grind out bills
at the mere nod or eye-wink of any
member. Over 750 bills were intro
duced in the house at this session de
spite the constitutional provision
which reduced the bill period from 40
days to 20 days. Instead of improve
ment in the reduction of bills the flood
was about the same as before, owing
to the kindly assistance of th refer
ence bureau in grinding any chance
thought of a member or any of his
constituents into a bill for a law.
Many of these are in consequenc of an
extremely trival or decidedly local
character and get but little considera
tion beyond the standing committee,
where they take up the time of the
committee to the ^disadvantage of
more important legislation. The past
week in the house begins to show the
culmination of this situation as per
the following figures: On one day the
house committees reported 38 bills, of
which 21 were reported for indefinite
postponement; on another day 28 bills
were reported from standing commit
tees of which 18 were reported for in
definite postponement, and one other
day out of 3ix reports, five were for
indefinite postponement. This is suf
ficient to indicate in a general way the
results the state is reaping from the
costly fad known as the Legislative
Reference Bureau.
The house has killed by indefinite
postponement on a vote of 58 to 31 the
Osterman uniform right-of-way bill,
which required a railway right-of-way
to be generally of the same width
across a country. It wa saimed pri
marily at the Union Pacific and most
of the support the bill had came from
Union Pacific territory, where the
question possesses fairly general in
terest. The house also killed by a vote
of 67 to 15 the bill for stock yards
commission to attend to the shippers’
interests in various ways at the big
markets. The railroads committee of
the House made a cleaning during the
week by indefinitely postponing prac
tically all the bills remaining in its
hands. Among these were the pas
senger rate bill raising fares to 2%c
per mile, on which bill five of the rail
road presidents of the big western sys
tems appeared before the committee.
At the same time there also went to
its grave the bill proposing that rail
ways should supply track scales at
many shipping points for the protec
tion of shippers in ascertaining orig
inal weights at loading points. There
was strong demand for this bill, or
some ntodification of it, from all over
the state, but apparently to no avail.
The house also killed the summer
junior normals, which have provided a
handy income during the vacation
months for favorite “professors.” The
$14,000 in the last sessions apporpria
tion bill did not appear in this year’s
bill and apparently nobady had the
nerve to attempt to stick it in, so the
prespect is strong that the mid-sum
mer Christmas gift to those who have
been of the inner circle will be denied
them this year, and if they accumulate
any “extra money” during the summer
vacation they will actually have to
work for it.
The Reuter House bill permitting
laymen to practice in the probate
courts was defeated in the Senate dur
ing the week by a vote of 16 to 17.
This bill was bitterly opposed by the
lawyers in both the House and the
Senate, as it encouraged the theory
“every man his own lawyer.” The
lawyers denied this strenuously, in
sisting that they were merely endeav
oring to protect the dear “pepul” from
their own folly.
The Senate committee on finance,
weys and means has been busy during
the week listening to the initial roars
of disgusted heads of state depart
ments, members of the lower house
and interested citizens on the iniqui
ties of the general appropriation bill
as passed by the House. The bill as
it passed the House was called a meas
ure of economy, but was more nearly
a bad bungle of an effort to play poli
tics in the guise of ecenomy, and
points more directly to inefficiency in
public service than to anything else;
It goes without saying that the senate
must materially increase these appro
priations in the interests of the pub
lic service or permit it to suffer for*
the next two years. So plain was thij
intention of the holuse leaders in play
ing their game that a member of
strong Senate leaders were at first inf
favor of passing the bill exactly as it
came from the House, and permit the
House to carry the odium of a crippled
and inefficient public service. That;
this was not the best way to meet the
situation became apparent to senators
on further consideration, and there is
no doubt that the Senate will after full
hearings endeavor to revise the appro
priation bills to meet the bona- fide
necessities and preserve full ef
ficinecy of state departmens, at the
same time conserving strict economy.
The Senate thinks it will risk the con
clusions of intelligent public opinion
on any necessary increase of an appro
priation for state activity.
Consolidation of Omaha and suburbs
seems now reasonably assured, the
Senate bill having passed the House
72 to 25, with an amendment providing
for an election in all the cities to be
called by the governor. This will de
lay consolidation two or three months,
but aparently makes it inevitable.
S. F. 6, the Omaha electric lighting
bill, offering public lighting through
the Omaha water board, has been rec
ommended to pass in. the house and
now seems an assured result. It was
amended by the house to include a
scheme for the purchase of any exist
ing electric light plant.
House and Senate spent Monday in
routine work. The Senate passed the
Mallery bill prohibiting false billing
of freight and express matter, also
Mallery’s bill giving commission form
of government to cities from 1,600 to
5.000. The House passed the bills to
notify jurors by mail; for relie fof
Sarpy county for expenses incident to
the escape of convicts from the pen
three years ago; defented candidate
at primary can not run by petition at
election for the same office; amended
law for professional nurses. The cele
brated “cigarette bill,” permitting sale
to adults, was defeated 30 to 68. This
bill has been in three sessions and
still fails to gain the approval of
enough members to pass.
ODD EMIGRANT CASE
Barred Alien Doomed to Travel the
Ocean.
New York, March 19.—Excluded
from America, rejected by Brazil and
apparently doomed to travel the ocean
as a guest of the Lamport and Polt
line steamers until the United States
immigration authorities concede that
he has recovered his mental
equilibrium, Nathan Cohen is in New
York again today, after having com
pleted two round trips from New
York to Buenos Ayres.
Since last May Cohen has been a
wanderer upon the face of the ocean.
His case is an odd one in the annals
of deported immigrants. Assorting that
Brazil was his native country he first
arrived in New York in May, 1912,
and went to Virginia to set up a little
store with a relative. His santiy was
questioned and the immigration of
ficials ordered his deportation to Rio
Janerio, whence he came. He was
first shipped south last May but Brazil
rejected him and he was carried on to
Buenos Ayres and thence back to New
York. Efforts to land him were futile
and again he made the round trip to
Buenos Ayres, returning yesterday on
board the steamship Vasari.
In all he has traveled 33,740 miles
on one $46 ticket. It is now asserted
that his mental balance has been re
stored and an effort was again to be
made to land him here. If it fails, he
must start south again on March 27.
—Norfolk News.
Horse Pasture Mixture.
A mixture of 8 pounds of alfalfa
and 12 pounds of brome grass makes
splendid horse pasture, in fact a past
ure which i sreasonably safe for any
kind of stock. The seeding should be
done early in the spring, April pre
ferred. The most satisfactory way to
seed brome grass is by hand. The
seed bed should be well firmed down,
and a harrow should precede and fol
low the seeder. The alfalfa can be put
in with a broadcast seeder or drill.
The first year the brome grass will
grow rather tall. However, the al
falfa will hold its own and come on
vigorously in a year or so. Blue
grass will soon work in and the three
grasses give an ideal pasture for
horses of all kinds.—Extension Bul
letin 28, Nebraska Agricultural Ex
periment Station.
Free Storage Tank Sketches.
The department of agricultural en
gineering at the University Farn
will send sketches, estimates of cost,
and bills of material for a concrete
storage tank having a capacity of 115
barrels. Sketches may be had of
several types of tanks, either round
or retangular, having a sloping
shingled roof, flat roof, or concrete
slab roof. Anyone sending for
sketches should state whether the
tank is to be round or retangular, the
exact kind of roof, and also whether
he expects to use steel rods or wire
fencing for reinforcement.
MOTORIST AT R. R. CROSSING
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seems to have made up his mind to
“take a chance.” These four people
were added to the list of victims of
foolish driving. Now, this physician
did not even have the excuse that he
was hurrying to see a patient; he was
out for a pleasure ride! And yet we
sometimes think of the doctor as a
thoughtful man, who oft on his lonely
rides, considers the uncertainities of
life and the narrow boundary that lies
between life and death.
Tried to Beat Train to Crossing:
This class of accidents is the most in
excusable of all. Occasionally, it is
true, a man might feel sluggish in
mind or body from illness, or cold, or
loss of sleep, and so fail to notice a
train. But this fellow who sees the
train coming and then takes the risk
of trying to beat it to the crossing, I
must say his case does look almost
hopeless. But if he hasn’t been killed
already, let’s try to get him to mend
his ways. A certain man, his wife,
infant child and three lady friends
were riding in their machine. It was
dark when they came to a crossing.
A passenger train, rushing toward
them, threw a bright gleam from the
engine’s headlight. The driver, against
the advice of others in the car, spurred
ahead to beat the train to the sross
ing. But he failed. Both himself and
his little child were kiled. His wife
and the other ladies were terribly in
jured. Further comment on this case
is unnecessary.
iriea to cross Alter cates were
Down: A man, with his wife, half
grown daughter, and another married
couple, friends and neighbors, were
returning from the city. When they
reached a crossing on the outskirts of
town, they heard the crossing bell ring
and noticed that the tower-man was
lowering the gates. The driver was in
a hurry,—that same old hurry, as of
ten as not purely imaginary—so he
opened wide the throttle and darted
under the descending gates. In the
cemetery of the home town a tomb
stone bears his name and names of his
wife and child. His automobile was
carried sixty feet on the engine pilot!
The two visiting friends escaped with
severe injuries.
Forgot the Other Train: A farmer,
driving alone, came to a crossing over
double tracks. A freight train was
approaching and he prudently stopped
to wait for it. While he watched the
freight cars go by, a passenger train,
coming from the opposite direction on
the other track, whistled, while yet
some distance away, as a warning to
persons on the highway. The farmer
certainly heard this whistle, but it
seems to have made no record on his
mind, for when the last car of the
freight train went by, he drove be
hind it onto the crossing. At that
moment he was struck and killed by
the passenger engine. This accident
happened because the driver’s mind
was centered on just one thought—to
cross as soon as the train which block
ed him got by. He neglected to look
for the train coming on the other
track.
These accidents—typical examples
of many that keep continually coming
to our notice—serve to illustrate the
manner in which death is taking heavy
toll each year from the franks of
motorists. Can we not help to take
away the reproach that rests upon
drivers who disregard caution and
needlessly risk their lives at railroad
crossings? If we know only one man
who does not realize the enormity of
the wrong doing of risking human life
through any of the foolish acts to
which we have referred, let us work to
convert him from error.
Most of you gentlemen are ardent
devotees of the pleasures of motoring.
You have experienced the practical
benefits of owning motor cars; the
wonderful speed, the saving of time—
these are things of moment. But re
flect, the space taken up by the rail
road track is small. It will not take
long to slow down—to stop, when
there is doubt about the way being
clear. LOOK and LISTEN before
taking the irrevocable step. These
precautions are not only important,
they are necessary, and in simple
justice to yourself, to your family, to
the passengers in your car, they
hould not be omitted.
Lynx Killed Near Bassett.
Norfolk News: While George and
Frank Kofton, sons of Joseph Kofton,*
.iving seven miles northesat of Bas
sett, were hauling hay they saw what
they supposed was a large wolf in a
grove on the Kofton ranch. The boys
started the dog after it and the sup
posed wolf immediately went up one
of the largest trees. The boys were
surprised to see such a performance,
and while one of them went home to
get a gun the other boy and dog kept
the animal up the tree. They shot it
but didn’t know what it was. It was
brought to town and proved to be a
very large Canadian lynx. It had
tufts on the ears two and a half inches
long and paws large as a man’s hand
and weighed sixty pounds. Fred
Prelle, an old-time hunter and trapper,
bought it, skinned it and will have it
mounted. As far as known here this
is the first Canadian lynx killed or
seen in Nebraska. The supposition is
that it came down the Missouri river
and then up the Niobrara.
FINAL NOTICE
After giving the proposition due
consideration we have decided to con
duct our business on a Strictly Cash
basis, with no delivering, thereby sav
ing the expense of delivery boy and
bookkeeper. This will enable us to
sell a better grade of meat for less
money.
For the convenience of our custo
mers we will furnish coupon books,
to those who want to use them, $5
books at $4.75 and $10 books at $9.50,
cash in advance. Yours very truly,
SANITARY MEAT MARKET.
Commends the Films.
The films of the Nebrasa conser
vation and public welfare commission
created widespread comment in Ten
nesee. The story of wheat, the live
stock pictures and the scenes on the
state fair grounds were sent for by
the Tennesee agricultural boosters.
Secretary Mellor has received letters
praising the moving pictures, and
commending the method of exploiting
the resources of the state.
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