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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 21, 1916)
THE O’NEIL FRONTIER D. H. CRONIN. Publishf. rf'NEILL.NEBRA8K/ Ore of the things that make New Tork nn Interesting city is the practice of some shopkeepers of putting in their windows attractive goods with price labels. An arresting instance of this sort was seen recently In a Broadway Jeweler's window. Here was a finger ring of diamonds and an emerald, price $12,600; a marquise shaped diamond ring, $4,250; pear shaped diamond pen dant, $2,260; diamond earrings. $5,800, and a galaxy of other resplendent gems to appeal to the frequenters of tha "Great White Way." At the other ex treme of the social scale for the buy ing public aro the push carts of New Vork's east side, equally interesting In their way. On one of these cartt in Canal street an astonishing variety of things mechanical was found—among others, clocks and watches, music box es, all kinds of tools and Rt least a score of second hand cameras of vari ous makes. _ At Ann Arbor, Mich, workmen recent ly repaired the outside stairs of old University hall. The building was con structed in the ‘70s, and complaint was made at that time that the stairway was too narrow to permit the co-eds to Cs comfortably, as the era of the psklrt was on them. The stairway, though rebuilt, is as narrow as the orig inal passageway. Mohammedans are supposed neither to drink wine nor to eat pork, but Allbed-Hamoun, dethroned sultan of Zanzibar, who now Uvea affluently In Paris, has a bold and original way of doing both. At the table he places his Koran beside him, urges "Oh, holy pro phet, may thy Koran protect me," and falls to with a will. Beventy-elght gold watch fobs have been awarded employes of the Southern Pacific railroad who did efficient safety first work during the last year. The prizes are won under a point system, credit of so many units being given for suggestions which are classified as to value and the number of prize points merited by each. When Mrs. Mary E. Peters, age 66, of Millville, N. J„ became the bride of James McNeal, age 68, the bride was given In marriage by her mother, Mrs. Jane Facemler, age 99. The maid of honor was Miss Blanche Hughes, granddaughter of the bride, and the bride's grandson, Harvey W. Hughes, was best man. Since the beginning of the European war American diamond buyers have shown a rlvlval of Interest In the dia mond fields of Brazil, which have at tracted a considerable number of buy ers. The Brazilian garimpelro, or native diamond miner, has seen prices rising steadily under the competition of the foreigners. Mount Tolshan, a famous sacred mountain of China, which has long been denuded of woodland, Is to be refor ested by the government. There it was that Emperor Shun offered sacrifices to heaven 2,300 years before the Chris tian era. The feast of the tomb was this year celebrated as an arbor day In China. Emory Anderson, of Syracuse, N. V„ who weighs 260 pounds, saw a pheasant on the ground, pursued it and finally caught it by making a flying tackle. After he recovered his breath friends told him that the open season on pheas ants had not begun and Mr. Andrews therefore bad to give hie bird to O'* soo. The queen of Norway dresses economically to the point of shabblnesH, spending only $1,000 a year for her clothes. The queen of Spain Is the must extravagant o'f European royalties for her wardrobe, which costs more than $16,000 annually. Both are English prin cesses and first cousins. The one-mtle derby run annually on watermelon day at the Arkansas valley fair, Hocky Ford, Colo., was this year won by a woman jockey for the first time on record. Juunita Edgar rode N! Ormondo home ahead, the mile being covered In 1:48, good time on the Santa Fe racing circuit tracks. Rutebeauf and Jean de Meung were the two most noted poets of the Thir teenth century The former was an ex ponent of evfrjr form of poetry and prose, and Is the oldest representative of personal poetry In France. Rute beauf died In the year 1280. The first carload of sillco-manganese ever produced In California, and as far as recorded ever produced In the United States, has been shipped to London. The substance takes the place of ferro-sitl con.und ferro-mangnneso in the manu facture of high grade steel. In order that Mrs. Elizabeth Evans, age 35, of Pittsburgh, the mother of eight children, may share the Edwards estate without facing possible legal complications, Mrs. Elizabeth Edwards, wealthy Mt. Washington woman, has adapted her. Gardner Miflen, age 88, a veteran mason, of Washington, N. H„ has be gun the mason work of the now house of Dr. William Snow. He is to buikl two fireplaces and chimneys and put on ■tore than 400 yards of plastering. Tbe Importation into Australia of ex plosives containing more than 50 per cent of nitroglysertne has been prohib ited, except after the consent, in writ ing. of the minister of state for trade and customs has been obtained. While boring for oil near Port Eliza beth. South Africa, hot water was en countered in such volume at a depth ol MOO feet that drilling operations ceased. The well developed a never falling supply of water. Saco, Met, Is now without a hotel, a manufacturing concern having leased the only building of the kind for ac commodations for Its employes, who oould not find quarters elsewhere in the city. Prof. E. Livingston Barbour, of Rut gers college, who was the prohibition candidate for United States senator from New Jersey, was unable to vote, as he failed to register. Cottage homes for married teachera are being provided by the school auth orities of Washington state, with the hope of making the life of the rural teacher more attractive. A gray squirrel skipping along the high voltage wire which supplies power to a rubber mill In Rockland. Mass., connected with Its tall a second wire, causing an explosion which startled the residents and eet fire in the woods. A Chicago physician has invented ap paratus vuli which he says he can tell whether n person really Is hungry or whether his appetite, a nervous phe nomenon. is active. ■During » recent (hinder storm In Lansfonl, p»., llghtn'ng ip ick u tele ’ UNIVERSITY GRADUATE DEFEATS OLD LAWYER Moves Into County After the Primaries and Polls Three to One Vote. Lincoln. Neb.. I )*•<*. 18.—Attorney Hencral Reed is doing some private gloating these days. He has lust heard thnr A. K. Moon* the county attorney of Loup county, who defied the attor ney general when the latter insisted the law he better enforced in that county, was beaten three to one fen* re election. and by a university student who had moved into the county since the* primary. 'he attorney general sent a special prosec utor to Loup county, and when he failed to get an indictment against i iv man the attorney general was after Mr, Moon wrote a letter to Mr. Reed that curled the latter’s languishing locks. The man who heat Moon was Orville Ohatt, who graduated in .Tune and moved to the county and thus doubled the number of attorneys. '•wmrtlK UUV1 LCUUtn IO GRANTED A PAROLE Lincoln. Neb.. Dec. 18.—Mrs. Chris tina Rrelun, convicted in the local courts of bootlegging, will not go to jail. Instead the court paroled her to tlie probation officer. The evidence disclosed that her husband is disin clined to labor and placed the burden of supporting the family upon his wife’s shoulders. The police received complaints, sent a decoy and got the needed evidence. Mrs. Brehm de clared she did not know she was vio lating any law, and in fact did not expect to get money for the liquor she had sold the police spy. who was rep resented as a sick friend. BAN ON LOTTERIES. Lincoln, Neb.. Dec. 18.—The terrors of the law lurlt for those enterprising citizens who are conducting lotteries and raffles in the state where the prizes are merchandise or meat birds. The attorney general has notified a man in Webster county that ho cannot dispose of an automobile that way and since he made the announcement pro tests against similar drawings are coming In from various sections. The law officer of the state warns the newspapers that if they even mention who won the federal government will get them. SEEK JOBS FOR STATE SOLDIERS HOME SOON Lincoln, Nel> , Dec. 18.— Many of the Jobs which members of tile national guard held when they w'ere summoned to the army last spring have been filled. The discovery of this fact hatf led Adjutant General Hall to seek the co operation of Commercial clubs, busi ness men, contractors and merchants in an effort to find places for the men who will return to the state within the next 10 days. General Hail believes that when the need of the men is understood and the fuct that they have been sacrificing in the Interest of the public a generous response will come. The free employ ment bureau of the state has offered Its services, and askH all who have any Jobs to give out to send word to Lin coln. RAILROADS WIN FIGHT TO RAISE LUMBER RATES Lincoln, Neb., Dec. IS.—Omaha, Lin coln and Des Moines lumbermen and the South Dine association has lost out In Its effort to prevent the rail roads increasing the rate on lumbet from the south. The old rate of 26 cents from the yellow pine districts oi the south is now 26t4 cents, and the same ratio holds on hardwood and cypress from other sections. The In terstate Commerce commission has held that the rates are Justified. The increase will mean that the lumber trade of this section captured by the southern pine men in recent years will swing back to the northwest, unless the increase is absorbed by the mill men. The increase means about 87H cents per 1,000 feet. SIGHT OF OLD HOME MAY RESTORE HER MIND Lincoln. Neb., Dee. IS.—In the hope that a removal to her old home In Den mark may restore her mentally, the physicians who have had ctulrge of the case of Miss Rina Thorsen, have em ployed two nurses and they will sail with their charge in a few weeks. Miss Thorsen belongs to one of the beRt fam ilies of Denmark, and was takon ill while on a visit to relatives In Nebras ka. At a hospital here, where she has been a patient for months, every lux ury has been provided for her. The nurses expect to obtain permission to visit the hospitals back of the war fronts of Rurope, and may serve a short time In the service of one of the belligerent countries. - ♦ TRAVELING SALESMEN KICK. Lincoln. Neb.. Dec 1S.—Commercial travelers have lodged a formal com plaint with the state railway commis sion against passengers having to cross one or more tracks to boat'd TTninn T'acifio trains. It is alleged that ■passengers have to cross at least onr and often both or the Union Pacific’s tracks and that this Is not only danger ous, hut also inconvenient, passengers often having to stand exposed to the weather for several minutes awaiting their train. -dfce — ATiT.KN-TCber M. Swift has sold hfa So acre farm northeast of here to FW M Browned for S'. 1*0 an acre. The now owner will move onto the* place In the spring. AUiKX Cllen Tniby and Mias Fern UN terback, both of this place, were married In Sioux Fiiy. la.. Thursday. They will make their home here. l’j.M KrtSOX—Robert McPherram has Hold place north of here to ft. Vanllnden foi $11'.'* per acre. In Java Dutch government engineer have built a toad bridge more than 1«f feet long and pith a central span of more than 00 feet, entirely of bamboo An electric knife for tailors lias been invented that cuts only a few thick noss-'M of cloth instead of the 20 oi more cut by machines used in cloth ing factories. After roasting 100 pounds of beef weigh only r»7 pounds. A Trenton (X. .1.) company has posted a notice that a 5 per cent weekly bonus will be paid to the men for punctuality. Kvery employe not late at work will receive per cent extra. Rlclnrd ForneKus. of Uarrodsbury Ky.. though only ;j.x ye ars of a»e, i.- th< father of 17 children, 12 beys and flvt i: Iris. Fully nine-ten tin* of t.jic inav>a?nc tlc!cs on how to choose a husband o how to manage one are v\ itten b* j»p nste: accord:ns to one j »-J* editor. [RURAL HIGH SCHOOLS FOR CITY SCHOLARS Parents Will Soon Send Chil dren to County Institutions, School Head Asserts. Lincoln. Neb.. Doc. 16. -According t' Superintendent of Public Instructor Thomas, in his biennial report to tilt governor, it will not be many year: until city parents will be sending theii children to rural high schools. A. present only about one-fourth af many country children get a higl school education as do city brer youngsters, but the era of building rural high schools that has set in wil change conditions. Mr. Thomas submits figures show ing that there attended the high schools of the state 32,525 children, oi which 6,849 were from the country dis tricts. This is an increase of 2,797 ovei the preceding year and represents the results of the "better schools” cam paign conducted from his office. Mr. Thomas says there are at least 30,000 boys and girls in the country districts to whom a high-school education shall be made available. The law that per mits these to be sent to city high schools, where tuition is given at cost. Is not popular in the rural districts be cause parents object to sending their boys and girls of high school age away from home even to get an education. They have been roused to the neces sity and possibility of getting the fa cilities at home to give this educa tion to them, and the superintendent thinks in time the city schools will be outstripped in number and equipment. ■ 1 ♦ NEVILLE DISLIKED WAY LANGHORST TALKED, REPORT Lincoln, Neb.. Dec. 16.—Friends of Governor Neville say that Chairman Langhorst’s turndown for the food com missioner appointment was due to the brusk way in which he forced his claims upon the new executive. I.anghorst is said to have told the governor that he would have to explain to the people of the state why he was not willing to reward the man who led the democratic forces to victory. He is also reported as having told the governor that the reason he did not want him in the office was because he did not want the law en fored against those who might try to get near beer past the food and drug Inspection department. Langhorst's friends do not deny that something of the sort was said, but they insist it was after the governor had told the state chairman that he did not intend to appoint him. —A— WOMAN JUMPED FROM TRAIN TO SAVE SELF Lincoln. Neb., Dec. 16.—Mrs. Jose phine Wickousha, the Chicago woman who Jumped out of a Pullman car near Aurora a week ago, has sufficently re covered from her injuries to be re moved to the home of her sister in Cambria, Wyo., who came for her. The woman told the officials that someone attacked her in her berth and to save herself she put up a window and leaped eut. Her sister explained the mystery of how she was able to get away by saying that the woman was afflicted with epilepsy and in one of her attacks Imagined she was made the victim of an assault. FARMERS HAVE WAY TO BREAK CAR SHORTAGE Lincoln. Neb., Dec. 16.—It won’t bo long until armed posses of grain deal ers will be putroling the right of ways of all Nebraska railways in search of -mpty box cars. The other day the Burlington started a train of 34 empties from the Missouri river. What hap pened at Filley is typical. Nine were dropped at that station and the Farm ers’ Klevator compuny broke the Sab bath filling them. News of the good luck of Filley traveled all down the line. Grain dealers telephoned to Filley and found it was true. Then they tele phoned the state railway commission to know why Filley could get cars and they could get none. The railway com missioners telephoned to Filley and wanted to know how they got the cars They got no satisfaction, but now they are doing their best to prevent the rail roads from discriminating in the future by ordering distribution to be made under the auspices of the commission. COUNTIES OWE $42,201,000. Lincoln. Neb.. Pee. 16.—Nebraska counties have bond Issues of $42,201,000 according to a compilation made by the auditor. Douglas county owes more than half, of $22,000,000, of which $17 - 000.000 is the city of Omaha. The state itself owes nothing. The bonded indebt edness is divided as follows: Counties $3,425,000; precinct, $245,000: city anc village, $28,231,995; school district, $9, 123,114; drainage and irrigation, $1,* 179,000 —e ■ WEST POINT—Mrs. Bernard Clatanoff. «9. one of the oldest women In Cuming county died at St.,Joseph's home for th< lged. She was born In Oldenburg, Ger mtuy In 1S2S. The family came to Ameri ca In 1S71. The funeral services were hek today. MONTEREY—-The eldest son of Joseph Kilencrt, of Monterey, met with a serious incident by the running of a nail iri hb sye. He was taken to Omaha, where th« ■yeball was removed. RUSSIANS INVESTING HEAVILY IN TRACTORS London, Dee. 15.—A Petrograd dls patch to the Central News agency say; ;hai a representative of the ministry o' agriculture addressing an agriculture* congress announced that during tin current year 300 tractor engines liar been bought abroad for Russia. Before the war such machines were scarcely known m the empire. The speaker salt that in addition 90,000 rubles had beer spent for harvesting machinery, the de mand for which was continually grow, ing. He also declared that huge deposit* of phosphates had been discovorec which would meet the deficiency hith erto supplied by importations. According to Dr. Samuel Johnson, the best book ever written on gun. breeding was "11 Cortcgiano." by Cus tiglionc. This little volume was firs', published by the Aluint Press at Veil, ice in 1528, an.l before the close of tha' century more than 100 editions were issued in English, French, Spanish and German. A portable vacuum cleaner of Eng lish invention can lie. used as a seat table, cabinet, music stool or pedestal The Chinese government lias sent students to the Philippines to study scientific forestry as conducted by Americans. A new mailing machine driven by ar electric motor seals envelopes and at taches s tamps at a rate of lj.000 ai hour. Successful experiments with cotton growing have been carried on in thi canal zone by a North Carolina man. rO NAME MURSCHELL FOOD COMMISSIONER Langhoist, State Democratic Chairman, Fails to Receive the Appointment. Lincoln, Neb.. Dec. 16.—Democratic fltaie Chairman Langhorst is not to bo state food commissioner under Govern or Neville. Langhorst met the governor elect in Omaha Tuesday and was there in formed that he would not get the ap pointment. Otto Murschell. of Ord, who had the backing of Arthur Mullen and Senator Hitchcock, will tie named com missioner. Murschell is "wet" and fought prohi bition; Langhorst is "dry" and sup ported It. As the food commissioner has control over drugs, lie is a part of ‘.he machlsery of prohibition law en forcement. Langhorst was made chairman be cause lie was a Brvan democrat, and his selection had the desired effect of placating a lot. of the Bryan followers and making it easy for othe-s to swal •ow the ticket. He won the most sweep ing victory the democrats ever gained in the state. Mr. Langhorst's friends say that his inger Is not due to his failure to land he appointment, as he has a good busi tess of his own in Elmwood. He is angry because, when the governor in formed him of the fact that he would •tot he selected, he also said he did not two anything to the democratic stilts ■ommittee. ARIZONA OFFICIALS ARE CALLED BY GOVERNMENT Omaha, Neb., Dec. 16.—According to testimony introduced today in the fed eral court, where the U. S. Dive Stock company and the Omaha Land Sc Investment company are defendants on a charge of using the mails to de fraud, 51 bills of sale were issued by members of those companies, calling for 10,855 "wild horses,” then purport ed to be running on the range in Co conino county, Arizona. The county recorder testified that 51 such bills of sale were recorded with him from 1910 to 1913. The same official stated that at no time were there more than 3,500 horses of all brands on the range. He assert ed further that 25 other bills of sale were presented to him, which were not recorded. Four county officials from Flagstaff. Ariz., were in the federal court today ax offer testimony as to bills of sale, number of horses on the range and taxes assessed. John Chisholm, a ranchman of Co :onino county, testified that he had oeen asked to catch some of the "wild oorses” for the alleged victims, but he pad refused, "because he could not nake any money running down bron oos, even at $25 a head,” the price he asserted he was offered. C. H. Bardwel], of Ohanut.e, Kan., an til dealer, testified he went to Flag staff to look for 50 horses he and his orother purchased. A week's riding over ;he range in company with four other purchasers of "wild horses” was with out result. "I saw a couple of small bunches of horses," he said, "but could not get flose enough to them to make out the Drands. Later I saw two horses bear ing the brand I bought. One was nitched to a wagon and the other was s. saddle horse.” CHIROPRACTORS AGAINST PLAN FOR ONE BOARD Lincoln. Neb., Dec. 16.—War has been Jeclared by the Nebraska association pf chiropractors against the plan of ‘.he regular medics of the state to merge ill of the various boards that pass on the applications of doctors to practice. The chiropractors say that this is a shrewd scheme to put them out of busi aess, because such a board would nat lrally be controlled by representatives tf the older branches of healing and that It would be a rare thing for a .■hiropractor to secure a license to prac tice at its hands. At present there are hree boards, each passing on quali .'ications of healers who are attached ;o the respective school of practice. GUARDED STATE’S INTERESTS AT WASHINGTON HEARING Lincoln, Neb.. Dec. 16.—Attorney Jeneral Heed is back from Washington, where he and five other lawyers for :he state looked after Nebraska inter ests in the lawsuit brought by the state >t Wyoming to prevent the state of Colorado from impounding waters for rrigation for the benefit of water right owners who had filed later than did the Wyoming men. Mr. Reed believes tiie 'ederal courts will wipe out state lines ind direct that priority shall govern -ights regardless of where they are lo ;ated with reference to states. Wyom ing is doing the same thing with Ne araslta. and if Colorado wins here will be a suit between Nebraska and Wyom ing. NEBRASKA BEE KING RETIRES AFTER 40 YEARS Coleridge. Neb.. Dec. 16.—After more than 40 years in the raising of bees and the production of honey, Mr. and Airs. A. Gibson, octogenarians of this city, are retiring from the work and will dis pose of their apiaries. This year the tged couple produced more than 4.000 pounds of comb honey which sold at from IB to 25 cents a pound. The Gib sons have been operating 60 hives with no o'itsme help. Mr. Gibbon is one of the pioneers of northeastern Nebraska, having settled at Ponca in 1876. later making his home at Dixon. Ten years ago he came to Coleridge with his swarms and oc cupied a house and acre of ground near the town’s limits. NEGRO CONFESSES CRIME. Omaha. Neb.. Dec. t6.—.lames White, alias Hicks, the negro who was yes terday identified as the one who last Saturday night assaulted and perhaps fatally injured Mr. and Mrs. John Ken nedy, in their home in Council Bluffs, is said by *'ie police to have made a complete confession of the crime. He Is said to have implicated another negro, but the police have little con fidence in this feature of the confes sion. For motorcycles there has been in vented a pump that automatically tills a tire with air as a machine is running. Dr. G. T. Neal has a razor said to be about 200 years old. it was used by Gen. George Washington's bodyguard in shaving the general at the time he was president of the United States. Dr. Neal uses the razor regularly. Some prices of commodities in 1830 as shown by u ledger kept by Atito Wat son. of Iiarwinton. Conn., follow: Bar rel of eider. 75 cents: three pecks of po tatoes, 20 cents; be»f, 4 cents a pound; five dozen eggs, 42 cents; milk, 3 cents a quart. New York is to hr,re r new hotel it* •1C AAA AAA TO RAISE CAMPAIGN FONDS IN NOVEL WAY Nebraska “Suffs” Inaugurate “Save Your Paper and Rags” Movement. Lincoln. Neb.. Dee. 15.—In order to finance their campaign In 1918 for suf frage. the state association devoted to that purpose has inaugurated a “save your paper and tags" campaign. Every housewife who believes in suffrage is to hang two sacks on her back porch as receptacles for the paper and rags that are a byproduct of housekeeping. These will be collected and stored in warehouses that it is expected will be donated by owners of empty buildings in the various towns. Paper is finding a ready market at $10 a ton for com mon paper and $26 a ton for magazine and book paper. Rags bring $2.25 per 100 pounds. The women expect in the next year to raise $10,000 in this manner. — ♦ — STATE MAY TAKE OVER NORMAL AT FREMONT Lincoln. Neb.. Dec. 15.—A fifth state normal school is among the possibili ties. On January 4, H. Clemmons, owner of the Fremont normal, becomes state superintendent and a member of the board. It is gossiped in educational circles that this will be followed by the state taking over the Clemmons school. A significant fact is that the state normal board, in apportioning funds, has left $347,000 available for new buildings. The Fremont normal can be secured for $175,000. The money 'eft for new buildings would erect two good ones at each normal, and that number is not needed now. The .85 of a mill levy for state nor mals will yield $1,000,000 the next two years. For maintenance, the board has set aside $180,000 for the Kearney nor mal; $:i0i!,000 for the Peru. $125,000 for the Chadron. and $140,000 for the Wayne school. —■♦— ARREST JANITOR'S BROTHER AS BURGLAR SUSPECT Lincoln, Neb.. Dec. 15.—Four hundred dollars were stolen from the vault of the Hall Land company, which was accidentally left unlocked when the cashier left at night. Both doors were locked, and the fact that only a dupli cate key could have gained entrance led to a search for Paul Dennison, who had been assisting his brother, the reg ular janitor. He was missing from town. Detectives located him at a small town near Lincoln. He had in his possession the sum of $418, some of the silver he carried being wrapped in packages that the cashier identified. The man was arrested and brought to the city. LAND COMMISSIONER SLAPS BACK AT STATE AUDITOR Lincoln. Neb., Dec. 15.—Not to be outdone in politeness by the state au ditor, who, in his biennial report to the governor and the legislature, rec ommended the abolition of the land commissioner's office and its consolida tion with the auditor’s office. Land Commissioner Beckmann, in his bien nial report, will • ecommend the aboli tion of the auditor's office and its con solidation with the land commissioner’s forces. He argues that since the in surance department has been taken away the auditor has but routine du ties to perform that can be done in other offices. The auditor is a demo crat. The commissioner is a repub lican. —4— STINGING RETORT MADE TO STATE COLLEGE DEAN Lincoln. Neb., Dec. 15.—The Inno’ cents society, so sternly rebuked by Dean Kngeberg, executive chief of the state university, for failing to preserve order at the Cornhusker celebration banquet, comes hack with a stinging retort. The members insist that the dean spoke from hearsay, whereas he and other members of the fculty should have been present. They say that one faculty member replied, when asked to buy a ticket, that he considered it a disgrace to be asked to attend such an affair. The Innocents say they did the best they could, and they demand that the dean be more specific in his decla ration that the majority of the 13 members of the society were not worthy of public respect or confidence. Was the Doci a Suicide? From West’s Docket. The mere finding of a dog’s body near a railroad track raises no presumption as to ! the cause of its death according to the holding in Alabama Great Southern Rail road Co. vs. Price, X8 Southeastern Re porter, Gfl2. No one saw the dog killed, nor did the evidence show that there were any marks or bruises on the body. Judge Wade, delivering the opinion for the Georgia court of appeals, says: ‘‘All things that live must die. and so too ah living things will die a natural death, un less some extrnne-'Us cause or agency in tervenes, and a dog is not exempt from the operation of the universal rule. We may sirnu-?* that the particular dog we tirc'lnierest'- ' n may have had some dead ly poison adnrr ho ' d to It either by ac cident »m i • T-tion. and th*> poison may have o- =t m- ed its life just as it neared the railroad t* ck. in proximity to which 1 its body wa • 'nurd - ov the dog may have died from ‘b* art f:.llure' (that comprehen sive tf’m often used by the med’eal profcsrlon to account for mysterious and sudden lepirrures from (hi- little world), or fr*»m any one of many different natural causes; fo: the poetic expression. ‘Death hath a th" i*ar»d doors to let out life.’ ap plies equally as well to the canine as to the human race, in fact, whatever may be the legal rule, in the al semce of any circumstances? leading to a contrary infer ence, ever- death is assumed to be from natural carve*." To infer that the dog was struck by the train, "we would be compelled." says the court, “to Judd ji:di dally that tne very atmosnher-* : in rounding a railroad train is sis deadlv as th-d said to emanate from the Das tree, and that a railroad com pany can be held liable for death sup posed to have resulted solely f'-om the pestilential breath of its locomotive.” One of the curious heritages of the war is a little park that was established by tiie Germans in southwest Afrit a for preserving the Welwitschla mira bilis. a rare plant that is especially no table for its complete adafdation to the desert conditions of its native soil. The plant has a trunk only a loot nigh and live or six feet across. It may grow for more than a century, but has pnlv two leaves, which may reach a length of six feet and a width of two or thr*»e feet, eventually splitting up into nu merous long shreds. Increased cultivation of the sea is to be a 1 nature in Great Britain’s return to industrial life, and papers read at the late British association meeting dealt with the importance of the in shore fisheries showing that a consid erable national asset can be developed by judicious extension of shellfish pro din tion. shrimping end prawning, white bait and sprat fishing and herring fish ing and curing. Two Frenchmen have invented a pro cess for treating photographic nega tives by which the effect of the stereo scopic relief is produced in pictures. FRENCH GAIN TWO < MILES III VERDI SEIZE 9,000 MEN { General Petain Hurls Army o-f | 100,000 Men Against Ger man Line, Advancing on Six-Mile Front. 80 CANNON ARE CAPTURED Numerous Villages, Important Works and Strong Positions Go Down Before Rush of Victorious French. Paris, Dec. 18.—The number of guns captured from the Germans in General Nivelle’s victory on the Verdun front, as counted up to the present, is 80, ac cording to the latest reports reaching Paris. More than 9,000 Germans were made prisoners. The French advanced about two miles on a six-mile front. Tlie French plan of attack was drawn up by General Nivelle. now the com mander in chief, with the concurrence i of General Petain, who at the time was j his superior officer. The assault proper ) was left to General Mangan. It was made by five divisions, or close to 100, 000 men, under command of such lead ers as General De Maud-Hay and Gen eral Dupassage. The front which the French infantry had held since the recapture of Douau- , rnont, and Vaux, ran thus: The southern slopes of Pepper Hill, east of the Meuse, between Eras and Vaeherauville, Haudremont wood, ^ Haudremont quart ies, the region north Tf of the village. Fort Douaumont, the quarries northeast of Fort Douamont. The small wood southeast of Fort Doua umont, Hardaumont wood, the village of Vaux and the fort of Vaux. Behind that line General Nivelle had distribut ed groups of powerful batteries which for 70 hours before the attack ham mered the German positions, particu larly those on Pepper Hill and at Hard oumont and Bezonvaux. French Held Heights. From the positions occupied by the French it may seen that they were installed on a series of heights, some dominating the German positions, but others being under the direct fire ol their opponents. To improve ans strengthen their line it was necessary to wrest from their adversary the fa mous Pepper ni 11, Louvemont, the crest j of Hill 372 which commands Fosses A wood. Da Bauche and Hassoule wood. W north of Douaumont fort, as well as ~ the important works at Hardaumont west of Does mount and north of Vaux; and if possible, the village of Bezon vaux, most of whoses houses are in the Woevre. The church of this village is on the southern slopes of Hill 329. upor the other side of which lies the villags of Ornes, one of the first towns carried by the Germans at the beginning oi their victorious advance. Five Divisions Attack. Promptly at in a. m„ the five attack ing divisions, each of which covered a front of one and one-quarter miles, ad vanced behind the screen fire of guns of all calibers. They swarmed rapidly into the German trenches. The German troops in these positions, surprised by the suddenness of the attack, offered comparatively little resistance. In the village of Vaeherauville, where the Germans had installed a quantity of machine guns, the struggle was sharp, but none the less short. More to the east the French fonnationR charged the slopes of Peopei Hill, carrying all be fore them. As they rushed to the attack the soldiers cheered and from time to time the Marseillaise roared by the str-ng throated poilus, could Vie heard above the chorus of the cannon. vaermans iviaKe **na oreaK. With Vacherauville and Pepper Ill'll lost It became evident to the Germans that resistance would be futile and they retired in fairly good order. On the Vacherauvllle-Beaumont road, however, French troops suddenly appeared in the rear of the Germans. The French had crept along a small ravine running from Pepper Hill to the toad. On seeing the French tile Germans bolted, throwing away their rifles, knapsacks and pouch es. From the top of the bill the French could see them running and, shouting with joy, they dashed after them. Half an hour later the French reached the extremity of the .Louve mont crest, close to the village of the same name. Here the French troops joined hands with the formations which had started from Haudroniont wood and had progressed almost as rapidly along the eastern side of Pepper hill and the Bras-Louvemont road. Louvemont was stormed out of hand and a large con tingent of prisoners was rounded up. By this time the Germans were sur rendering freely ail along the line and the • -mmuuieation trenches were choked with prisoners going to the rear. East of Louvemont another division reached the Louvemont-Azannes road. South of the angle formed by this road at the southeastern horn of the Fosses wood, 4 sharii tussle took place for possession of Hill 373, but here again the Germans went down before the vig orous efforts of their assailants, aban doning the ground and leaving many dead and several bundled prisoners. The advance swept on over Hill 37L' as far as Ohurnbrettes farm, at the other edge of Fosses wood and carried it. Many G tors Destroyed. -* Northeast of Limiauniont the ad vance of the French troops was equally rapid. The woods of La Handle anil Hassoulc ami the Hardaumont posi tions were carried successfully. Har daurnont work was completely demol ished by shell fire, and coaid give no support to the Gorman formations, which fell back upon it in disorder. All the woods mirth of the work were occupied by the I'reneh. who pushed on as far as the village of Bey.bn.aux. By 11 o’clock dll guns had fallen into tile hands of the French; by noon. 40 guns: by » o'clock, 75 had been counted, ex clusive of those destroyed. Having accomplished the task set for him. General Mangin. profiting by the disoi ganlzarion of the German ranks cause!; by the abrupt attack, sent out exploring parties, who put out of action most of the guns north of Vnchernu ville and Louvemont and in Losses nnd Caurieres woods. '--d *~ OVERRUN RUMANIA. Berlin, (by wireless to Sayville). Bee. 11G. —The Teutonic forces in Rumania jure continuing their advance all along i the front, it is announced in today s (War office statement-. Two thousand ■more prisoners have beta brought in. Hn 1 'obrudja the Russians have retired.