Nebraska Newspapers

    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 <m condition that thoae German troops
jdesrt-Ws at remaining should be allowed
Ito srtfle In that country. The Letts, how
ever, did not desire thus to become a
jgtats dependent upon Germany or to form
a channel through which Germany would
ibe able to communicate directly with
The well known Swiss novelist, J. C.
Herr, of Zurich, one of the most popular
(8»li» writers of German language novels,
varlleeH In Swiss paper* that the war
lias killed the German novel and that lie
jfa virtually ruined. He auks Swiss news
papers for employment la writing political
and literary article* or otop editorial
'work.
w new me Boston police struck recently,
'one of the volunteers a» first aid was a
tl4-ye«r*nld boy in knickerbockers, who
(took up his place «A one of the busiest
icornef* and b" can to direct traffic. At
(first he was laughed at* but when the
militia arrived, they found the boy, Frank
{CasHcll, was doing such good work that
,they Isft him on the job
I A correspondent calls attention to the
(fact that “a certain popular safety razor
(Which sells for $5 can be sold by the army
^quartermasters in a khaki case, with six
[extra blades, for $1.75, and concludes:
-“Why prosecute a Greek corner grocer for
Vnaking an extra penny on a pound of
pug&r when the prices wo pay for many
’articles of daily use ha.» no relation
jwhatrver to their value?
, A man prosecuted in Los Angeles for
’taking a yiung woman from Boston to
'Los Angeles in violation of the Mann act.
Is attacking his indictment on the ground
■ that it did not state that the young woman
‘in question was “a female of the human
^family."
* To the present S36 profiteers have been
[convicted by I he British and have paid
'.fines amounting to $20,000 while four have
'served terms in prison. The newspapers
t insist that more prison sentences are
[needed to bring the Mgh price traders to
itheir senses.
• This is “clean up week” in Chicago.
:Smoko Is the subject lip for discussion at
[conferences being held at the city hall
|Jn order to impress upon business men,
(manufacturers, janitors and the general
’public of Chicago the necessity of ending
■/the smoke nuisance.
i At the campfire of the New York police
/force last week, the men applauded when
(Commissioner Enright sold: “1 believe I
;tm understating the number when 1 say
(that fully iO i*?r cent of you men have
assured me that you are not in sympathy
]wlth the striking policemen of Boston."
: The American Defense Society has urged
*«he mayors of 250 cities to list the names
*oi citizens able to operate street cars,
•power plants and other public utilitieji
[for service in case of a general strike
such as is threatening Boston.
Complaint is made in London that Jap
anese manufacturers are using British
.trade marks on goods made for sale in
.China.
The goat is taking the piace of the cow
as a milk provider In CECcho-Slovakia.
The armies stripped the land of its horses
jam! cattle. Goats are cheap, mature and
^reproduce quickly and furnish nutritious
milk.
a Wisconsin airedale pup recently
•.sprang at the throat of a highwayman
Jwho was about to fire at the dog’s mas
ter. and vas killed by ttio bullet which
• was intended for hi.s master.
* St. M • had. Alaska, will entertain the
-Ejsquiii <» f-re ■ with tho United States
4, . . F»-an^.v It consists of one sol
fUier, Brivaie saggaa, who inat
(|g a “Tory good Amorlcan boy." .
NEBRASKA TEAGHER
IS F|1D GUILTY
(Serious Charge Was Preferred
By Young Woman—Wife
Shows Loyalty to
Husband.
Wayne, Neb., Sept. 29—J. M. Wiley,
a resident of Wlayne for about nine
years and last year connected with the
commercial department of the publia
schools was found guilty of miscon
duct after a trial in the district court
here this week.
The charge was preferred by a Miss
Kate Adams, 26, who was also con
netced \Wth the schools, but a resident
of Holt county. The wife of the pro
fessor stood loyally with him through
out the trial. He is said to be about
45 years old. He has recently been
Jiving in the southern part of the state.
Numerous other convictions, mostly
for minor offenses, have been had dur
ing the week. John Wright and John
Nugent were each convicted of carry
ing concealed weapons, Wright also
being convicted of transporting booze.
W is understood state agents of Iowa
havg been here, ready to take these
men back to that state on charges oI
violating the liquor laws should they
not be convicted here. They are local
men.
Ed Broscheit entered a plea of guilty
to the charge of forgery. His offense
was signing the name of Fred Eick
hoff to a check for $50 which he cashed.
ANGRY PARENT RELENTSi
EL0PER8 ARE FORGIVEN
Norfolk, Nebl, Sept. 29.—A mental
picture of hi* daughter, pretty little
18-yeur-old Edith Wright Cades, who
eloped Monday with John Cades, an
employe of the Sweetland ice cream
parlor behind the bars in Omaha
caused Bert Wright to relent and give
the couple his parental blessing, ac
cording to word received in Norfolk,
Wednesday. Cades and the young girl
had been married at Madison prior to
catching the train for Omaha. The
Irate father enlisted the aid of the Nor
folk police to apprehend the eloping
couple.
The Omaha police were asked In a,
telegram to meet the couple and hold
them for the sheriff of Madison county.
Cades and his bride were arrested as
•oon us they alighted from the train.
They were taken to the eity Jail where
Cades was lodged In a cell and his
young wife placed In care of the police
matron.
Wright relented when he discovered
that hie daughter has been arrested
and caused the warrants to be quashed.
Cades is a returned soldier. He has
been serving with the American army
In France and returned home only a
abort time ago. His wife was formerly
employed at the Killian store.
GOVERNOR REFUSES TO
ACT IN OMAHA SQUABBLE
Lincoln, Nelg, Sept. 29.—Governor
McKelvie drove the last spike into the
hopes of Omaha city officials that re
moval proceedings would lie instituted
against Municipal Judge Holmes of
Omaha city council with leniency while
acting as police magistrate.
The governor In his letter today
practically confirms the report of At
torney General Davis, made public a
few days ago, in which the attorney
general, after making an investigation,
concluded the evidence did not war
rant action by state officials in the case.
The apecltlc case mentioned was that
Judge Holmes tore up a complaint
against one Frank Maloney chargee
with illegal possession of liquor, alu.
ft fused to prosecute. Omaha’s prose
cuting attorney admitted to state of
tlcials that no other action had been
brought against Maloney in the police
Court or any other.
NORFOLK TO PUSH
FOR A NEW HOTEL
Norfolk, Neb., Sept. 29- -Tue first In
timation that lucre Is official bucking
to ‘.'no movement to travel the Norfolk
Coiumbus road was made here when
M. Black, division engineer In charge
Jtale's exploring apparatus is in this
territory, declared that the present in
tention of the road builders Is to gravel
that road. He declared that there may
be enough money left In the road fund,
lor this work and for that reason the
state's exploring apparatus is n this
vicinity. State geologists, he says, arc
busy in this vicinity with a view of
finding gravel deposits close to the road
and if the travel is located the road will
be surfaced with that material. Mater
ial from the gravel pits east of the city
is also being investigated with the idea
of purchasing it for road work.
NEBRASKA FLOUR MILL
DESTROYED BY FIRE
Lexington, Neb., Sept. 29. The en
tire flour milling plant of the Datto
Valley Milling Company at Gothen
burg, near here, was burned last night.
Tlie buildings burned included the pow
sr plant, office, mill and elevator, tho
latter containing 85,000 bushels of
wheat. The total loss is placed at
(200,000, partly insured.
EXTRA DIVIDEND.
Cleveland, Ohio. Sept. 26.—Directors
of the American Shipbuilding Company
today declared the regular quarterly
dividend of 1% per cent on the com
mon stock and an extra dividend of
2*4 per cent payable November 1 to
stockholders of record October 15. It
also declared the usual 7 per cent divi
dend on the prefferd stock, payable in
four quarters.
CHIN YUN BENG NEW
PREMIER FOR CHINA
Washington. Sept. 28.—Kung Hsin
Chau, premier and minister of finance
of China, retired from office yesterday
the state department was advised to
day.
He was succeeded ns premier by
General Chin Tun lieng and as minister
of finance by the former vice minister.
LA Shili jHay.
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NEBRASKA WOULD
ENTERTAIN KING
Governor Extends Pressing In
vitation to Eulers of Bel
gium to Visit the
State.
Lincoln, Nob., Sept. 27.—Invitations
have been Issued to the king and queen
of Belgium to visit Nebraska by Gov
ernor McKelvle. The governor sent
the following message to the secretary
of state at Washington: "On behalf
of the state of Nebraska, I desire that
you shall convey to their majesties, the
king and queen of Belgium, a most cor
dial Invitation to visit our common
wealth during their sojourn in this^
country, and to assure them that it
shall be the pleasure of the state and
the people to accord every evidence of
Hospitality and good will during their
jtay here.”
The governor sent the foUowlng com
munication to Adjutant General Paul:
“I am informed of arrangements which
have been made for a visit to our state
in the city of Omaha, October 26, by
their majesties, the king and queen of
Belgians.
"It is my desire to extend to our hon
ored guests the courtesies of the state
during their stay here, and I shaU re
quest you to convey this information to
the mayor of Omaha, with the fullest
Information that the state will be glad
to co-operate with the city of Omaha
In entertaining the royal party."
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SAYS MILK PRODUCERS
DEMANDING MORE MONEY
Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 27.—Farmers are
asking more for dairy products, ac
cording to J. R. Roberts, president of
the Roberts Dairy company of Lincoln
and Sioux City. Mr. Roberts was a
witness at the state hearing on the
cost of production and distribution of
such products, conducted by Secretary
Stuhr of the department of agriculture.
He testified that he is now paying $3.50
a hundred pounds for milk that tests
4 per cent butter fat, but the farmers
are asking for more money. He said
that Prof. J. H. Frandson, head of the
dairy department at the state farm,
had suggested that $3.85 a hundred
should be paid now for milk. He in
dicated that producers might want $5
per hundred before winter is over. The
witness corrected the published state
ment that his company would make
$40,000 this year. He fixed is at $30,000.
He said that the company had bought
as high as 12,000 pounds of surplus
milk a month at a cost of $300 merely
to keep farmers on the list so that it
could depend on a constant source of
supply. This surplus is manufactured
into cottage cheese. The retailers who
handle the milk of the company get a
profit. They buy it for 12Vi cents a
quart and sell it for 14 cents.
POLICEMAN HELPED TO
MAKE OUT BAD CHECK
Fremont, Neb., Sept. 27.—Ed Yager,
19-year-old youth from Chicago, pulled
olf a new one In Fremont when he went
to the Fremont police station and from
one of the policemen borrowed a blank
check and had the policeman fill in the
blank space with the amount he want
ed to draw. This amount was $20.
Later in the day Yager forged the
name of Otto Ibsen, a Fremont milk
man, to the check, and cashed it at the
store of .1. K. Vogelsang, a local mer
chant. Vogelsang complained to the
police when he found the check was
worthless and Yager was arrested. He
Is held in the county jail awaiting for
mal arraignment.
NEGRO NOW DENIES
HE KILLED CONDUCTOR
Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 27.—Leo Darling
has backed down on his confession that
he killed Conductor R L. Massey at
North l’latte early Tuesday morning.
When brought to the Nebraska state
penitentiary the negro denied that he
had killed the Union Pacific trainman.
When Darling was stripped at the
prispn two $10 hills were found con
cealed in his clothing. The negro wore
a gold chain about his neck. In re
sponse to a question of the warden
he said that it was given to him by
his sweetheart. Darling was brought
to the penitentiary lest angry citizens
should lake him from the Hall county
Jail and lynch him.
HIS PARENTS IN POLAND
WERE VICTIMS OF “FLU"
Fremont, Neb., Sept. 27.—Sam Block.
Fremont merchant, today received a
letter from his old home in Sudorgen,
Poland, informing him that his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Barney Block, died two
years ago this month from the "tlu’’
epidemic. This was the first.letter
Block had received from Poland since
1914. It was written by his sister,
who says that work and money has
been plentiful, but food scarce and
medical supplies impossible to obtain
at any price. Sudorgen is close to the
German line.
MAN WHO GOT AN
ELECTRIC SHOCK LOSES
Fremont, Neb., Sept. 27.—After dis
missing the city as defendant, then the
ex-mayor and ex-chief of police, then
the chief of the Fremont fire depart
ment, Judge Button In district court
dismissed the whole list of defendants
and ordered a verdict of no cause of
action in the suit of Grant Spe, former
city employe, who claimed $15,000
damages because Fremont firemen
gave him a shock on a door knob In
the firemen’s parlors during the Are
men's convention in 1917.
GOVERNMENT SUPPLY
STORE HAD BIG RUSH
Omaha, Neb.. Sept. 26.—A company
of armed troops was rushed from Fort
Omaha to help police handle the crowd
of 6,000 men. women and children who
stormed the city auditorium at the op
ening of the army store here yesterday.
Order was restored with difficulty.
Only 3,000 persons could be served, and
it was estimated that 6.000 were turned
away. Goods worth $20,000 were dis
^ fused _of_ before noon, •
H CUM NEWS
Various State Departments at
Lincoln to Give Out Matters
of Public Interest and
Importance.
Lincoln, Neb., Sept 26.—Governor
McKelvie has corrected an error. He
denies that he has placed a curb on
any of the department chiefs concern
ing the giving out or news. Omaha
papers and one Lincoln paper roasted
the governor, but it was through a
misunderstanding. It appears that one
of the bureau chiefs misconstrued an
informal discussion of the subject of
disseminating news and this lead to
statements that there would be less
publicity in the future.
"No formal order has been Issued
forbidding bureau chiefs from giving
out news” said Governor McKelvie.
"The question of publicity and news
discrimination by departments under
the code bill was discussed by secre
taries of departments. It was sug
gested that matters of policy for which
a secretary is responsible should not be
given out by bureau chiefs. These mat
ters should be left for the secretaries
alone to make public. But in the mat
ter of facts and figures and the rou
tine work or matters of record In an
office can be made public as in the
past by the bureau chiefs or heads of
divisions or departments. There has
evidently been a misunderstanding
among appointees on this question.
There is no disposition on my part to
prevent reporters from obtaining news
in regard to public affairs. In fact, the
records of the departments will be
so kept In the future that reporters
will be able to get more news of public
affairs than formerly.”
Governor McKelvie was referred to
as a “czar” by correspondents for the
Omaha papers before the misunder
standing was corrected.
NEW EPISCOPAL BISHOP
INSTALLED AT OMAHA
Omaha, Neb., SepL 26.—Rt. Rev.
Earnest Vincent Shayler, D. I)., was
enthroned as Episcopal bishop of Ne
braska in Trinity cathedral before a
congregation which packed the big edi
fice to the doors.
The vested choir of more than 50
men, women and boys proceeded up the
aisle, followed by the clergy in their
full Episcopal robes.
The procession was led by John Tre
vakis, bearing the cross. Then came
the following clergymen:
Rev. C. N. Worden, A. H. Marsden,
C. B. Blakesly, C. Edwin Brown, O.
Corbett, Thomas J. Collar, T. ,T. Mack
ay, Dean Tancock, M. S. Leete. secre
tary, John Albert Williams, Dean
Tancock, M. S. Leete, secretary of the
diocese and last of all. Bishop Shayler.
Rev. Mr. Leete bore the bishop’s staff
of office, or crosier.
Bishop Shayler made/ an earnest ap
peal for the "old fashioned” religion
and he concluded by outlining an en
thusiastic program for united work by
all the churches of the diocese.
TWO MORE RELIEVED
FROM BEING DEFENDANTS
Fremont, Neb., Sept. 26.—Two more
defendants have been released by Judge
Button in the suit for $10,000 brought
by Grant Sec, who claims he was per
manently injured by a trick with elec
trical apparatus played on hirn during
the state firemen's convention in Fre
mont IS months ago. Some days ago the
court dismissed the city of Fremont as
a defendant. Dismissal has now given
former Mayor Wiley and Ex-Chief of
Police J. A. Welton. This leaves three
firemen, Chief Hurry Morse, Harry
Strufye and Will Launder, as the de
fendants. See claims he was per
manently Injured when he grasped a
doorknob through which an electric
current was flowing. Dozens of fire
men who were at the city hall during
the convention received a similar
shock.
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FRIDA7 WAS REAL HOODOO
DAY FOR THIS MAN
Nevada. la.. Sept. 26.—Friday was an
unlucky day for Joe West, farmer, og
near Story City. During the late aft
ernoon while oiling a corn shelter bi
got Ills arm caught in a gearing and
it was so bady mashed that amputa
tion was necessary. The flesh and
bone below the elbow were severely
crushed and lacerated.
It had been a Jonah day from early
morning until late in the afternoon for
West. During the forenoon he had
fallen off a grain wagon and his head
was injured; in steering the tractor
engine out of the yard he hit an ob
struction and received a severe hump
on his arm; then came his accident
with the corn sheller. But to cap the
climax, while he was being carried up
on the elevator at the Story City sana
torium, something went wrong with
the elevator and the car, with West
inside, dropped for a considerable dis
tance and he received a severe jolting.
TEACHER—HOG RAISER TO
PROMOTE SWINE SALES
Fremont, Neb., Sept. 26.—Miss Emma
Meservey, Fremont school teacher for
25 years, who resigned over a yeur ago
to go into the business of breeding
hogs, held a "dispersion sale" today and
it was very successful, the total run
ning into several thousands of dollars.
Miss Meservey, who has worn femin
ineals and raised her own pigs, says
the task is rather toe strenuous for a
woman. She will quit pig raising, but
not the hog business, for she sees a big
opening in the field of promoting sales
of blooded hogs. Hereafter she will
devote her attention to the advertising
end of the game, she says.
NEGRO CONFESSES KILLING
MAN HE TRIED TO ROB
North Platte, Neb., Sept. 26.—Leo
Darling, a negro was arrested here and
according to Union Pacific railroad
detectives ami local police, confessed
to the murder of R. L. Massey, veter
an Union Pacific conductor, who was
found dead here after being shot throe
times. Darling, according to officers,
said he shot Massey when the conduc
tor resisted being robbed. Massey’s
home was at Omaha.
Training Little Children
Simple Devices for Keeping Children Happily Occupied and Mentally
Active—They Also Help to Make Mother’s Tasks Easier.
•nutations by mothers who hare been )rin<)ergartn<>ra. Isaned by the United States Bnreati
of Kdncation. Washington, D. <X, and the National Kindergarten Association. 8 West
Fortieth Street. New York.
r-BY MRS. KATHARINE CHURCH SOLOMONS.
E routine duties of the wife and
nother are the same in practi
cally all homes. Food has to be
Surchased and prepared; the house
as to be kept clean and in order;
there is shopping to be done, also sew
ing, mending and washing—a big item
in families with young children—and
there are the children.
Very often the mother would seem
to have little time or strength to spend
ether than in attention to the chil
dren's actual physical care and re
quirements, and yet by a little wise
thinking and arranging she can start
many plays and occupations which
will not only give the children pleas
ure and teach them how to do things
hut result in a quieter, easier and
mors joyous task for herself.
The Home Atmosphere.
One of the most helpful factors in
the harmonious development of
mother-and-child life is a right atti
tude of mind. It is, of course, lyost
desirable that it be one of content
ment and peace; but too often moth
ers, in addition to the work of house
keeping and the bearing and rearing
of children, are obliged to contend
with problems of sickness and family
disagreements. Hawever, if she can
meet such situations with intelligence,
courage and self-control, she will cre
ate a home atmosphere which will be
measureless in its influence.
The Yard.
▲ yard can be made an ideal play
Sound at a moderate expense. Play
g in sand appeals more than any
thing else to children of three and
four years. It will engross and keep
them occupied for hours at a time.
Therefore, the first thing to put in the
yard is a sand box. This can be done
by nailing four boards together, and
partly embedding them in the ground.
Babies should not be allowed to play
by themselves in the sand until they
are old enough to know that they
should not put it in their mouths.
And none of the children should be
permitted to throw sand, because of
the danger to the ayes.
Discarded cooking utensils and a
few tin spoons give the children an
opportunity to imitate mother’s fasci
nating operations in the kitchen. In
warm weather they can have water
to mix with the sand. This makes
i the play all the more real and en
grossing.
Older children find many more
things to do with sand. They pile it
up and make hills out of it, dig hole*,
and fill them with water, or make
representations of the many thing*
that children love to play and think
.about.
Pretty patterns can be made In,
damp sand by drawing with a stick.:
by pressing stones, pebbles or seeds:
into it, or by using such objects a*'
grooved shells or the rim of & cup.
Gardening Is one of'the most whole,
some and healthful ways in which
children can be employed.^ Each child
may well have a space In the yard>
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.”
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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.
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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.
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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