D. H. CRONIN, Publisher. O'NEILL. NEBRASKA The garret fn which the engli.-rcrtug genius James Watt pursued his median ieal studies le to be removed intact If its- llile from Its position on the top of ttleathflaiL. Hail, England, wheto Watt gpent lila last yearn, and recrectcd in the gentral memorial buildings to be opened In Birmingham where the Watt centenary frelebratlon Is being held. When Watt Idied the garret iras locked up arid re mained unopened for about M years and leven now It is still in eiactly the same ss,million as when Wan worked In it- The ■piece of iron Watt ws_- last engaged fn turning lies on the lathe. The ashes of this last fire where Wat; need to do Ul* jnwn cooking because of hie wife’s objec tions to seeing her husband “looking like (a blacksmith,'’ are stiff fn the grate; the .last lump of coal la fn the scuttle. The Hutch oven Is In Its place over the stove and the fry ing pan la which be cooked his meals Is hanging CM Its accustomed nail. The farmer’s task of making two blades gniw where one had grown before is be coming increasingly difficult In England. (Turin laborers tiefore the war received (4 ja week; now they get ltd Every horse must have a weekly half holiday. If S ■horses are employed on a farm this repre .eentr an annual loss of $750. Before the war steam ploughing cost $1.7i per acre, ft now costs $4.50. Coal before tho mar •eost $5 a ton; It now costs $1150. Nitrate of soda hag advanced from $15 a ton to JIZc binder twine from $175 a ton te $6641, nd blacksmiths', carpenters and sad Idlers work Is from 150 to S00 per cent Ihigher. On top of all tld* the farmers' fax has been doubled. Russia. "What does the police strike 13 Boston man?" says Kilim Boob "It means that .he men who have been employed and taken their oaths to maintain order and {suppress crime as the servants of alt the people are refusing to perform that solemn fluty unless they are permitted to ally ilielhselves with, affiliate themselves jwlth, become members of, a greet organ isation which contains perhaps S per cent ■of the people. Now If that la done, that its the end, except for a revolution. Oov lernment cannot be maintained unless R )tas the power to uoe foroe.” Hos Angeles has new traffic laws, which provide that: Extending the arm straight from the shoulder Indicates that vou are going to turn to the left; point ing upward, that you will turn to the right; pointing downward that yon will pnM to a stop. The distance from point nf Intersection being equaL cars from the right have the right of way; cars must stay at least IB feet apart on country roads: when parked, both wheels on one side of the car must be within two feet of the curb and on downtown streets. It 1s forbidden to turn In the middle of the ■block. Investigator* of German propaganda, 'have found that what appeared to be an 'old and worn copy of the works of Ho mer went to an Influential Hindu proved to he a volume of attacks on British rule In India. Only the first few pages of fhe bc*»k were printed with the words of Ihe ancient poet. The remainder, though in Creek type like the beginning, wag (filled with the diatribe. ■ The forthcoming centennial number of the Arkansas Gazette, of Little Rock, em phasises the comparative youth of the nowsmperi west of the Mississippi river. Of uT the newspapers now published in the vrestorn part of the United State* there Is only one older than the Arkanua* Gazette. The 8t. Louis Republic traoeg |Us hittory back to 1808. On the Atlantic coast the Annapolis Gazette and Mary land Gazette date back to 1717. 1 The Lettish situation to geeupylng the {attention of the English authorities. It {has been learned that the Letts received offers of German assistance In January [last ra. Isaned by the United States Bnreati of Kdncation. Washington, D. i allotted to him for planting and tend-i ing a little garden of his very own. All kinds of outdoor games can bei played in the yard and the children' can romp to their hearts’ content. For the young children, games with a rub ber ball or with bean bags are the best. Older children enjoy having a swing, but it is likely to be dangerous for the little ones when they are running heedlessly about. Play Materials. Almost all children have wooden blocks of one kind or another to play with and they scarcely need to be shown what to do with them. They love to make such things as houses, trains, trolley cars, buildings, bridges and furniture. Any materials that lend themselves to representation of this kind are a delight to children. Kindergarten tablets (round, square, oblong and triangular pieces of wood of the dimension of one inch) can be used for representing many things;: also colored sticks and slats of differ ent lengths, and seeds of different varieties. A catalogue of klndergar- , ten materials will be sent upon re quest by Milton Bradley Company, Springfield. Mass., or by E. Steiger dE-•*“ Co., 49 Murray street, New York. In the same way, children enjoy representing objects in clay, and by drawing and painting. Clay work, however, is better left for school by mothers who have much to do, as work in this material requires consid erable attention and direction. Please pass this article on to a f-.end and thus help Uncle Sam reach all the mothers of the country. The Origin of Wheat Grant Allen, in Colin Clout’s Calendar. The original parents of all our cereals were grasses of one kind or other, often belonging to remotely different groups, but almost all indigenous inhabitants of the central Asian and Mediterranean regions. The pedigree of wheat, the most important of all our cereals, is somewhat obscure. It has varied to a greater degree from its humble original than any other known artificial plant. Fortunately, we are still able to recover the steps by whibh it has been developed from what might at first sight appear to be a very unlikely and ill endowed ancestor indeed. The English couch grass, which often proves such a troublesome weed in our own country, is represented around the Mediterranean shores by an allied genus of annual plants known as goat grass; and one of these weedy goat grasses has now been shown with great proba bility to be the wild form of our cultivated wheat. It is a small dwarf- ( ish grass, with very pretty seeds, and not nearly so full a spike as the cereals of agriculture. When man first reappears in northern Europe, after the great, ice sheets once more cleared away from the face of the land, we find him growing and using a rude form of wheat from the earliest moment of his reestablishment in the desolated plains. Among the pile villages of the Swiss lakes, which were inhabited by men of the newer stone age, we find side by side with the polished flint axes and the hand made pottery of the period several cereals raised by the lake dwellers on the neighboring mainland. The charred seeds and waterlogged shocks disinterred from the ruins of the villages include millet, barley and several other grains; but by far the commonest among them is a peculiar small form of wheat. J A Bishop and a Senator. From tiie Fes Moines Register. "To me it is appalling that a man with a township mind should presume to dis cuss national questions,” said Bishop Homer C. Stunts, speaking at Grace Meth odist church during the Methodist con ference last night, with regard to tile address of Sehator Hiram Johnson at the coliseum Monday evening. Without mentioning the senator’s name, lie said that it pained and disturbed him that a man should come to Dos Moines— or. for that matter, to any other city—and make s.uch statements as were made Mon day evening at the coliseum.” i _r ^ T_ A Russian Amazon Who Cried. From the New York Times. Out of the chaos there comes, now and . again a human note to remind us that ele-1 mental nature will probably endure. On the Murmansk railway front, Canadian troops captured a party of bolshevists in the red guard uniform, among whom was a young woman of '22, Olga .Semenova I'utointzeva, fully armed and with a ban doleer of cartridges across tier breast. She submited mutely to being disarmed; hut when her captors took a little scrapbook of pictures she broke down in tears. Tills scrap book contained only a number of photographs of babies cut from maga zines. Mme. Petomtzova left Petrograd on April 4 to join her husband, who was in the red guard. In order to remain with him she donned a uniform and joined the fighting In the action in which sho«was taken, at Urosozero, she was separated from Petomtzeff, who escaped. Questioned as to her interest in the photographs, she at last explained that she had had a child, who died, and of whom, owing to the disorder of the time, she could get no photograph. So she was collecting photo graphs of children of his age, intending to keep the one that most resembled him. ,YVhen the Associated Press correspondent 'cabled these homely details, Mme. Petomt zeva was serving as cook for a Canadian mess. A great philosopher to the contrary not withstanding, clothes do not make the man—nor yet the woman, liven war may not wholly unmake them. --- Life on Mars. I have heard a learned professor say that Mars has living folks, while another gifted guesser hailed his argu- I ments as jokes. And they fussed around and wrangled like a pair of locoed cats, and they got their wires all tangled, and grew sore beneath their hats. Some indorsed the learned professor, held as gospel his belief, ctaie stood up for t'other guesser. helping ! ini yawp and beef. And row became a riot, so the whole bun»K went to jail, where they had a frugal diet that was void of toast on quail. You may climb the highest steeple with a telescope in hand, and you cannot tell if people drill around on Martian land. There's no earthly way of , roving if inhabitants are there; so your argu ments, though moving, are butspiffle and hot air. So we waste the moments precious, chewing rags the livelong day, letting habits vain enmesh us. when we should be baling hay. Wheth er Mars has people on it, 1 protest, we'll never learn; but this world of ours, doggone it, has inhabitants to burn; here they are, where Nature flung them, on a prehistoric day, and our work is here among them, not a billion leagues away. ---- -*■ -- W Flyers Disturb Church Goers. From the Los Angeles Times. Church members In one of the Lua Angeles suburbs are asking aviators to fly high on the Sabbath day. The roar of the engines and the whirr of the pro pellers when they pass Only a few hun dred yards overhead disturb the peaJW'fi’> r _ -w conduct of the Sunday services. When a * man is slumbering peacefully in his favor ite pew he doesn't like to lie startled by the sounds of a human buzxard droning outside his window. When the preacher la describing the miraculous flight of Elijah on his chariot of fire it is disagreeable to have the children smile pityingly at poor poor 'Lijo in comjiar'son with the evolutions of the birdman spinning over their heads. It seems odd for the church folk to urge flying high, but they are doing it so far as the Sunday aviators are concerned. Told at Last. From the Boston Transcript. VA woman can't keep a secret," de clared a mere man. "Oh, I don't know,” retorted the lady) “I've kept my age a secret since 1 was 21.” "Yes, but one of these days you wIllV give it away. In time you will simply \ have to tell it.” \ "Well. 1 think that when a woman has. kept a secret for 18 years she cornea pretty near knowing how to keep it.” The Lonesome Bard. ® From the Louisville Courier-Journal. "Oh, who will walk a mile with me?'" JpfMI sings the poet. Nobody! JyBJ| Get out of the way. Honk! Honk! HHc' A man charged with misdemeanor ii o®! |f I Los Angeles court last week, loft his with the jnug< HI p, of tin- J2T bai, i-«H jKi» did not happen u hare. 8K