Nebraska Newspapers

    THE O’NEILL FRONTIER
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P. H. CRONIN, Publisher.
O'Neill. Nebraska
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"School Life,” one of the official
publications of the department of ed
ucation, which Is sent free at the ex
pense of the government to school of
ficers throughout the nation says the
democratic nominee for the presi
dency favors better pay for teachers
and greater opportunities for educa
tion. and quotes editorially: ‘In a re
cent letter to the Commissioner of
education, Governor Cox wrote:
" ‘You may rest assured that my in
terest In the cause of education will
oever lag.’ ”
Plans have been made for the an
nihilation of the herd of buffalo on
Buffalo Island, in Great Salt Lake, as
the animals are not a paying invest
ment One hundred of them will be
killed during the coming winter, their
carcasses sold to butcher shops and
their hides tonned for robes. The herd
is said to be the largest in the United
States and with its passing will go
the only group that is retained in a
wild state.
There is an old church on John
street New. York city, very near
where the recent bomb explosion took
place, whose clock was presented to
the church by Wesley himself, has
been ticking steadily for 153 years.
The works are said to be of wood, but
no one has examined them. No in
formation Is obtainable as to whether
or not the clock was stopped by the
bomb.
The District of Columbia pays its
school principals the highest salaries,
followed by California, Arizona and
New Jersey in the order named. Ne
braska pays the lowest. Maine,
Michigan, Indiana and Iowa together
with several southern commonwealths
are also classed among the “poor pay
ing" states.
Nyack, N. Y„ won’t take the word
of Washington as to what its popula
tion is. Washington says the old town
has lost 269 Inhabitants during the
last 10 years, and Nyak, counting on
its fingers, knows better. The board
of trustees has ordered the police de
partment to count the Inhabitants of
the town, first of all.
The neuro-psychiatric society, re
cently in session in Milwaukee, decid
ed that "It preventive measures are
not taken, the United States will be a
nation of neurasthenics within 60
years. The stress of living and the
continued uncertainty of the times
are Weakening the nervous systems
especially of young men and women."
Two Frenchmen, who quarreled re
cently in China, arid wished to settle
the matter "on the field of honor,"
were persuaded by their friends to
fight the duel with fire hose, both
principles belonging to the volunteer
fire brigade. The combat lasted 16
minutes.
Fashion centers say that high bar
ber rates are changing the fashion in
hair cuts. Everybody wears it longer.
And, confides one barber, “a great
many who formerly thought that they
could not shuve themselves have dis
covered that they can.”
The abundunce of fish in the Sea of
Galilee Is to this day the wonder of
travelers. Most of the fishing done
by the Syrians involves the use of
nets probably identical In construc
tion with those of the apostles.
The wine grape, which was said to
be suitable for wine only, has been
found to be marvelously adapted to
the making of Jellies, marmalades,
syrups, breakfast foods, confections
and even a certain kind of bread.
A Massachusetts professor is soon to
attempt sending a rocket to the moon,
Just to prove the practicability of the
method. He says the chief reason
the work is proceeding slowly, is lack
of support.
"Watch out! Something big is go
ing to bust in the east this week.”
An employe of the West Milwaukee
shops ot the St. Paul railroad shops
made this remark to a fellow worker
last Monday.
A motor car driver of Rio de
de Janeiro recently offered a special
Thanksgiving mass because he had
completed hi* 10th year as a motor
car driver without being involved in
any accident.
Because congress, in writing the
code for the District of Columbia,
used the term “man” in connection
with Jury duty, it is ruled that wom
en can not tpialify for Jury duty
there.
Paris is quite offended because
Mary Pickford called Paris skirts
“too short.” The only explanation
Paris can think of is that the ankles
of the American girl must be, "well—
robust!”
One director of a state employment
service is not convinced that em
ployes are interested in saving
money. They prefer the fee paying
agencies.
Two thousand soldiers have been
placed on farms comprising 480,000
acres in southern Alberta by the Cal
gary branch of the soldier settlement
board since the beginning of 1919.
During the last eight years the
United States government has built
up a secret police and Investigative
organization which 1s costing consid
erably more than 150,000.000 a year.
lluring the laat year the deaths of
pure bfooded Hawaiian* totaled 1,009,
while there were *76 births. There are
approximately 25,000 pure blooded
Hnwalians living on the Hawaiian
Islands.
A bill baa been introduced in the
British parliament to cheek divorces.
One provision calls for Jail terms for
both male and female corespondents
In divorce suits.
The American association of the
baking industry aims at a $1,000,000
Institution for tha development of
(scientific bakers. Four hundred thou
sand dollars «M pledged in one day
this week.
Announcement has been made that
a process haa been discovered by
which artificial wool nan be produced
from cotton waste. The new ma
terial has, it is understood, been
subjected to severe Oests by tho tex
tile department of Ihe Iscedu (TJ">k -
la^d) university, wfcertf It has bees
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TWO CROPS GROWN
Nebraska Farmer Successful
in Producing Second Crop
of Potatoes, Both
Being Good.
Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 4.—Two crops
of potatoes from the same plot of
ground in the same year represent
the results of the efforts of Heniy
Lonam, a farmer living near Palmyra,
to lessen the h. c. of 1. Commission
men say they never heard of It be
ing done before. The ground used
consisted of two acres, and the first
crop was planted March 25 and har
vetsted July 4. The second crop was
planted July 10 and the potatoes
therefrom were dug on September 25.
The total yield was between 400
and 500 bushels. They are of the
Early Ohio variety, and were fine
specimens. Mr. Lonam said he had
n< ver heard of two crops the same
season from the same ground, but
the conditions were so favorable that
he thought he would make the ex
p« riment.
PHYSICIAN BARRED AFTER
38 YEARS OF PRACTICE
Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 4.—After hav
ing practiced medicine for 38 years
or until she has attained the age of
80, Mrs. Elizabeth C. Turnell, of Kear
ney, finds herself barred from any
further efforts to heal the sick of
her neighborhood. She cannot prac
tice any more unless she takes four
year course in some medical college,
and at her age she doesn’t think it
worth while.
The situation arose because of her
failure to file with the state medical
board, when it was created by law
2!> years ago, the certificate to prac
tice she had on file with the county
clerk of her home district.
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PHONE COMPANY BALKS
AT BEING “ALARM CLOOK”
Lincoln. Neb., Oct. 4.—By notifying
the public that its operators would
no longer act as alarm clocks for
sleepy citizens, the Lincoln Telephone
Company has roused considerable
wrath. For years It has run a call up
system on the hotel style, ringing the
subscriber’s bell at the hour 're
quested until the said subscriber got
up and promised to stay up. It says
this is no part of a, telephone com
pany's job. and that the annoyance
and cost are such that it would be
cheaper for it to buy alarm clocks
for those who desire that service. It
is suggested as a compromise that it
charge 5 cents a call.
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MYSTIC WORKERS MUST
PAY HIGHER ASSESSMENTS
Omaha, Neb., Oct. 4.—Increase of
lssessmcnt rates, amounting to ap
proximately 150 per cent, was voted
at the closing session of the Mystic
,Vo iars of the World here Thursday
iftcrnocn. Former rates ranged from
:j cents to $1 a monlh, according to
go. The new rates amount to from
1 u S3 a -month.
According to Secretary Leo Car
oil this action will not bring the or
dir up to the required 100 per cent
ctuarial solvency, but is a step in
that direction and fulfills legal re
quirements.
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KNOX COUNTY FAIR
DRAWS LARGE CROWDS
Bloomfield, Neb., Oct. 4.—In spite of
the cold weather, the Knox county
fair drew u big crowd. The exhibits
of dve stock were especially strong
this year and the showing in the
household and fine arts department
was above the ordinary.
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LINCOLN—Otto Liebers tuts returned
from Wyoming with the body of ills
brother. Carl Liebers, returned soldier,,
who was tile victim of a murderous As
sault near Riverton, at the hands, pre
sumably. of.robbers. No trace lias been
found of flue robbers and killers. The
automobile which Liebers was driving
along a country road when assailed, has
bi en found in Denver.
BROKEN BOW—Walter Wagner. 40,
a resident of this city, was crushed to
death when the east wall of the sower
trench in which he was working, < aved
in, forcing him to the west ’ wall and
almost entirely covering him with dirt.
His assistants, Frank Moore and 1‘. C,
Glen, were badly, though not seriously.
Injured. Wagner leaves a wife and
child.
LINCOI>N—The annual state conven
tion and show of the Nebraska Potato
Improvement association, will be held
at Kimball November 10, 11 and 12, ac
cording to H. O. Werner, secretary of
the association. A feature of the show
this year will be the exhibits of certi
fied Nebraska seed potatoes.
FRANKLIN—The county commission
ers have ordered a special election for
October 28, to determine whether Frank
lin shall be named the county seat or
whether that honor shall remain with
the town of Bloomington.
ALLIANCE—Elver Koch, year-old son
of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Koch, was
drowned in a slop barrel when he es
caped from his mother’s vigilance.
BARTLEY—Reports indicate that the
heavy winds of the last week are blow
ing out the early sown wheat badly as
the ground Is very dry.
The soviet has mobilized the en
tire population of Petrograd and com
pelled them to go to the forests and
cut wood; and even under this meth
od, it is estimated that the city will
have only a sixth the fuel necessary
for this winter.
NEBRASKA PRICES ARE
ON THE TOBOGGAN
Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 2.—Potatoes are
quoted at $1,50 per bushel wholesale
here touhy and, Michigan apples at
1C twits per pound retail, a drop of
pearly 50 per cent under last week's
price.
Rice is wholesaling at 5 cents per
pound below the quotation two weeks
ago. Sugar is rivaling rice on the
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FOR OPPOSITION
Northwest Nebraska Territory
Seeks Rail Extension to
Connect With Sioux
City Markets.
O'Neill, Neb., Sept. 29.—Resolu
tions condemning the Lincoln Com
mercial club and the members there
of for officially opposing the exten
sion of the Burlington railroad from
O’Neill to Thedford, Neb., because it
will give Sioux City access to trade
territory not now served by any rail
road, were adopted by the board of
directors of the Nebraska, Colorado
and Wyoming Development associa
tion at their meeting here this week.
Every resident of the territory
comprising a strip 90 miles wide and
extending through Holt, Rock, ljrown
and Blaine counties, at present with
out railroad facilities, will be notified
of the action of the Lincoln Commer
cial club in deciding to oppose the
extension, and in requesting the
Omaha chamber of commerce to as
sist it in defeating the project. Stock
men, merchants and owners of some
of the most fertile land in Nebraska,
which at present can only be used for
grazing, because of lack of a rail
road, will be requested to remember
the unfriendly attitude of Lincoln.
The association at present has an
action pending before the Interstate
Commerce commission to require the
Burlington to build the road. The
road will shorten the distance to
market by several hundred miles
from points west of Alliance, in ad
dition to giving the country through
which it runs an outlet it does not
now possess.
The resolution protests against the
Lincoln club’s action, asks a valid
reason for the opposition, and con
demns the unfair tactics being em
ployed. It declares the club should
not be permitted to prev<?nt the de
velopment of large sections of ag
ricultural and live stock raising ter
ritory for reasons of avarice and
greed. The Omaha chamber of com
merce also is to be asked if it has
consented to join the Lincoln club
in opposing the development of north
central Nebraska.
The resolutions were presented by
Mayor C. M. Daly, of O’Neill, secre
tary of the association, and carried
unanimously.
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SOCIALIST PARTY AGAIN
TO .BE ON BALLOT
Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 291.—Secretary
of State Amsberry has decided to ad
mit the socialist party into political
fellowship again by giving it a place
on the ballot. Once upon a time the
party polled 10,000 votes in the state,
but later dropped out of official ex
istence. He received a certificate
some time ago stating that Debs and
Steadman had been nominated at a
national convention, but he was un
able to place their names on the offi
cial ballot for the reason that the
party has no legal standing in the
state.
Now comes George F. Bastedo,
chairman, and William Mehrens_ sec
retary. who affirm that they officiated
at a mass meeting In Omaha which
complied with all the provisions of
the law relating to new parties. This
will give it a place on the ballot, but
no state ticket was named.
ASK FOR PARDON FOR
CONFESSED CATTLE RUSTLER
Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 29.—Lon L.
Guy, who was landed in the peniten
tiary Monday, to serve a one to 10
year sentence for cattle stealing, is
the beneficiary of a petition for par
don presented to the governor by his
attorney and signed by a large num
ber of influential citizens of Scotts
Bluff county. Guy was convicted last
January, but has been held as a wit
ness against Ben Roberts, a wealthy
cattle man, whom he accused of hav
ing secured his services in lifting cat
tle from the ranch of an absent neigh
bor. Roberts was acquitted by a jury
last week. Guy’s sentence was dated
back to last January, and under the
' parole law he is eligible to release
within a short time. The petition
contains the names of county and
peace officers.
TWO WEDDING CEREMONIES
FOR GREEK COUPLE
Bridgeport, Neb., Sept. 29.—Al
though married in New York upon the
bride's arrival in America because
otherwise immigration authorities re
fused to permit her to land, Joseph
Spourgitis and Miss Nicolotta Costel
la were remarried here by the rites of
the Greek church, a month after the
civil marriage in the east. Spourgitis
who came to western Nebraska sev
eral years ago and has made good
as a farmer, sent his intended bride
the money to come to America from
Greece. She*was denfed admission
to the United States however because
she could not speak the English lan
guage.
In addressing the supreme council
of 33d degree Masons this week. Vice
President Marshal said: "To call the
vice president an official is an out
rage. Bring your son up to' become
a president of the United States but
don't train him for the vice presi
dency. Give the lad a fair chance,” and
"Search your soul and see what you
can find to- do that this country shall
endure, for there are none who can
and will keep America safe better
than you."
WINSIDE SOLDIER’S
BODY 18 LAID TO REST
Winside, Neb., Sept 28.—The body
of Sergeant Roy C. Reed who died in
France, arrived in Winside Sunday
morning, accompanied By a guard of
honor from Fort Crook. The body
was taken to Carroll for bnrial Sun
day afternoon and was accompanied
by a great procession made up of rel
atives and friends of the family. The
services at the grave were conducted
by ReV. J. Bruce Wj'le, of Winside.
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DOWNFALL CAUSED
BrWHJTE MULE'
Assistant Cashier in Bank
Forged Checks—Surren
ders to Omaha ,
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Police.
Omaha, Neb., Sept. 30.—Harry J.
Buckeye, who claims to be the son of
a wealthy Canadian rancher, surren
dered to the police here impelled by
a guilty conscience. He told Captain
of Police Dillon that he had been as
sistant cashier of the Connell State
bank of Connell, Wash., on which he
had forged three checks. He claims
to be a discharged soldier of the
“Rainbow Division,” having served in
every major action of the unit.
When asked why he had passed the
checks he said it began with the "red
wine’r of France and ended with the
"whjte mule” of the U. S.
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HF.LD FOR ASSAULT
ON 10-YEAR-OLD GIRL
Columbus, Neb., Sept. 30.—Charged
with assaulting-Carol Hill, a 10-year
old girl. Wm. Hulsebus, residing near
Monroe, was arrested and brought be
fore the county court. He secured
his release by giving a bond to ap
pear in district court.
The incident occurred while the girl
was walking to her home a short dis
tance from Monroe. A man in an auto
offered her a ride and she accepted.
Instead of making the turn to the Hill
home she charges that he drove to
Cherry creek, stopped the car at a
point where the road winds through
a grove of trees and attacked her.
The defendant maintains that he is
innocent and that the officers arrest
ed the wrong man.
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GIRL HID IN FIELDS
FOR TWO WHOLE DAYS
Sargent, Neb., Sept. 30.—Elsie Ad
kins, an orphan who has been living
with Mr. and Mrs. Tom Shannon for
several years, disappeared from home
while her foster parents were attend
ing the Ord fair. After two days
search for her, the girl suddenly ap
peared at a neighbor’s house and
asked for a drink. She said she had
been hiding in a cornfield. She had
some fancied grievance about her
- work and intended to run away, but
not knowing where to go, she secret
ed herself in a cornfield. The girl is
17 years old.
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NEBRASKA MAN SLAIN
BY MOHAMMEDAN TRIBESMEN
Araphoe, Neb., Sept. 30.—Carl
Toomey who made his home here
for several years and who went to
Syria, his former home, to bring his
wife and family to this country, was
massacred by savage Mohammedan
tribes in June, his brother, William
Tqjbmey, has been informed. Carl
Toomey was about to bring his family
to this country when the world war
broke out and stopped immigration.
The fate of his wife and children is
not known.
Anything But America.
From the Milwaukee Journal.
Is there no end to the pleas to vote
for this man or that man in the inter
est of some country—any country, so
long as it is not the United States? La
Tribuna, an Italian republican paper,
published in Newark, scolds the repub
lican party as follows: »
Is the republican party appreciative
of the importance' of this vote when it
faile to recognize the psychology of the
Adriatic question and does not make
capital of it for its own sake and for
the sake of peace and humanity?
In other words, is it considering Italy
enough? And another Italian paper,
published in New York, also republican,
says:
The American citizens of Italian
origin will have the privilege of saying
their word against the anti-Italian pol
icy of the democratic party, which has
denied Italy the fruits of her hard la
bor during the war which she right
ly earned through her victory.
The Italian citizen who has sought
American citizenship has not renounced
entirely his right to be an Italian.
Then an American election must be
come a question of other nations’ in
terests, and since it cannot be both,
other nations' interests only.
So far no one hears of a movement to
vote as an American group, but if this is
to be the course of our politics, that
will come, too, and with a far stronger
emphasis than in the old days of
Knownothingism.
Sees Another War.
From the Springfield Republican.
Thank God for Senator Moses, espe
cially for his barbaric candor. There
is no moonshine idealism about him.
The "next war’’ is coming, and he’ll be
ready to welcome it. So he said in New
Y ork:
Am I willing that the United States
should enter the next war? I say yes,
although I do not know when or where
It will be, but I am willing that the
United States should enter as she has
entered all wars, from the promptings
of her generous heart.
OPEN WIRELESS CIRCUIT.
Buenos Aires, Sept. 29.—Wireless
communication between this city and
Nauen, Germany, was inaugurated to
day with the transmission of a mes
sage from Natlen.
ANOTHER MFG. COMES IN,
MENS COLLARS CHEAPER
Chicago, Sept. 29.—A large middle
western manufacturer of men's col
lars today announced a 12H per cent,
price reduction.
TOO WARM FOR OYSTERS.
Bivalve, N. J., Sept. 29.—They're
putting the oysters back to bed.
Warm weather dulled the public’s
appetite for ’em so boatloads of bi
valves are being dumped into the
oyster beds.
NEW FLIGHT RECORD.
Chicago, Sept. 29.—A new record
for a non-stop flight between Omaha
and Chicago was made today by Pilot
H. H. Rowe. His plane, whi. ii war
carrying mails covered the ms.anec
In three hoiifk and 29 >ntnutv.a.
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Our Foreign Loans Which
It Is Proposed to Cancel !
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To Reach $12,000,000,000 in 1922 When Interest Pay- I
ments Are to Be Resumed According to Agreement.
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•• I By Arthur Sears Henning. „ _
"Washington (Special to The Tribune.) The allied governments will
owe the United States nearly $12,000,000,000 for loans made to them during
the war by the time they are scheduled to resume interest payments in 1922.
Negotiations are still in progress between Great Britain, France and
the other allies on the one hand and the United States treasury on the
other in regard to placing the loans on a new basis with interest due, but
unpaid, included in the principal.
The United States loaned a total of $9,534,622,043 to nations at war
with Germany, distributed as follows:
Debtor Loaned Repaid
Great Britain .$4,277,000,000 $64,164,007
France . 2,967,477,800 12,147,000
Italy . 1,631,338,986 .
Belgium . 338,745,000 10,000
Russia . 187,729,760 .
Czecho-Slovakia . 60,624,041 .
Serbia . 26,780,466 606,000
Roumania . 26,000,000 1,794,180
Cuba . 10,000,000 500,000
Greece . 10,000,000 .
Liberia . 26,000 .
By virtue of the accounts repaid the total outstanding principal of the
loans is now $9,455,401,528. Cuba is paying its interest regularly. Russia
paid interest up to November 15, 1917. The other debtors paid interest in
full up to the spring of 1919 when they deased to pay on account of the
unsettled exchange situation and sought a three years’ suspension of in
terest payments, now the subject of the negotiations with the treasury
department. The debtor nations undertake to pay in full eventually both
the principal and the interest in arrears, compounded semi-annually.
The interest accruing between April, 1919, and May, 1920, totalled $463,«
215,613, distributed as follows:
Paid
Great Britain .$211,828,890 $1,200,333
France . 139,904,272 1,810,441
Italy . 79,596,669 .
Belgium . 16,822,078 .
’Russia . 9,399,365 .
Czecho-Slovakia . 2,515,004 .
Serbia . 1,340,606 .
Roumania . 1,163,359 .
Cuba .. 600,686 251,369
Greece . 144,808 .
Liberia . 969 .
Up till May 15, 1918, the various loans bore Interest at varying rates
per cent., but on that date, by arrangement with the respective foreign
governments a uniform rate of 5 per cent, has been fixed for all loans.
Interest becomes due every six months, two-thirds being payable on
May 15 and November 15, respectively, and the remaining one-third on
April 15 and October 15. The arrangement whereby the total interest due
every six months be split into a two-thirds and one-third payments was
made mutually by the debtor governments and the United States treasury
as being more satisfactory to both parties. In the case of the debtor gov
ernments it gives tftem greater freedom, both as to time and the number
of securities or amount of exchange to be purchased, while it enables the
United States government to retire on a more even basis a certain number
of short term treasury certificates of indebtedness, thereby avoiding in
both instances, an undue disturbance of the money market. ,
The proceeds of the payments of interest and principal by the allied
nations will be employed by the treasury department to retire Liberty and
Victory bonds. The total amount of the loans, if paid in full, with inter
est, will enable the treasury to retire approximately half the national debt
created by the war.
j How Henry Watterson Went j
j Down. j
From the Los Angeles Times.
"Marse Henry” Watterson is one of the typical Americans who will g.
continue to live for at least a generation after he is dead. He wrote edi
torials for the Louisville Courier-Journal for more than a quarter of a
century and has published a volume of personal memoirs; but some of the
most piquant and possibly the strongest things which he has written exist
in the form of personal correspondence and will not be published during
his lifetime. -
Colonel Watterson was the heart and soul of the Courier-Journal, which
was so dominated by his personality that he was generally believed to be
the owner and publisher. As a matter of fact, he never owned but a small
amount of the stock of the publication; but the paper was so popular and
the property so profitable under his editorship that his personal opinions
on the leading questions of the day were synonymous with the policies of _
the Courier-Journal.
There canqe a day, however, when the men who had labored with him.
for the glory and the prosperity of the "new south” during the reconstruc- ,
tion period were dead; when the majority of the stock of the paper passe
into the hands of the younger generation and when new owners sought to
impose their policies upon the veteran journalist; and that day piecipi
tated an explosion that tore into shreds the organization of the Courier
Journal. Perhaps the new owners were not to be blamed. They sought
, to keep the publication abreast the trend of thought of the new era, to dis
card the sectionalism and the prejudice in which were embodied the pic
turesqueness and the chivalry of the old south.
The old order was passing, but Colonel Watterson refused to jom
procession. If Dixie was to be engulfed in a tidal wave of new ideas, "Marse
Henry" would go down with the ship. He would stay by the tattered en
sign and let those who would take to the lifeboats.
Colonel Watterson fought every threatened invasion of the home as.
savagely as though his own domicile were attacked. He clung to the be
lief that a woman's name should seldom appear in the columns of the daily
press except when she was married and when she was dead; and when tne
women organized a political movement for universal suffrage he combatted
it with all the verbal'weapons in his armory. To him the very word suf
frage was filled with venom. Better a shameless bolshevist with bis riltn
and his folly than an unwomanly woman. The editorial columns o
Courier-Journal waved in the vanguard of the anti-suffragists like
plumes of Henry of Navarre. ...... . .
About the same period the advance guard of the prohibitionists mowa
upon Kentucky and the dark day came when prohibition enforcement o -
cers were detected sleuthing about the mint bed in Marse He > S
den. Colonel Watterson donned his battle uniform and enteicd the edi
torial sanctum ready to repel the invaders. On defk jas a brl^ com
munication requesting him to attend a meeting of the board of dire-tors of
Se courier-Journal.8 There he was informed that the new owner was a
leading advocate of prohibition, that his wife was an ardent suffi agist ana
■ ti nt they had made a peremptory demand for a change of policies in t
They held Colonel Watterson in the highest esteem; they had no de
s re to depose him; but they were constrained to request him to modify
his editorials in conformity with the trend of the times and the opinions of
the owners. While lie had been guarding his mint bed other hands had
11U1'* M -M-se"I tenry,ndeceived the deadly thrust without wincing. He was
too chivalrous to rush into print with a denunciation of the new owners
and the chanced policy. He expressed his dissemt with an epithet as con
clusive as that credited to Cambrcnne on the night of Waterloo and retired.
r ater he wrote to the new owners his resignation, embodying in it a.
few personal observations, concerning prohibition and woman suffrage^
Two or three persons who were fortunate enough to see a copy of that
leUer say it is "Marse Henry's" masterpiece. But it will not appear m
nubile nrint while Colonel Watterson lives.
Tlmt resignation was the last broadside of the torn but unyieldta*.
chivalry that died fighting, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, when pro
hibition and woman suffrage swept over the south After it was written
"Marse Henry” broke his pen ur.d threw his inkwell out the window in the
direction of a suspicious character, still sleuthing about the mint bed in
biS Happy the next generation. They will read something superior to the
I "l^iy cf the Ancient Mariner.”
Arvother "Farm” Bureau.
From Guaranty Trust Co.
The .American Farm Bureau Federa
tion has announced its intention to ask
congress to establish immediately a
credit for Germany and other central
European countries equar to the fund
now held in this country as the net pro
ceeds of sales of the alien property cus
todian. It is asserted that funds from
this source which must eventually be
turned over to Germany and her former
associates total nearly $1,000,000,000 and
that a credit vof that amount can theie
fore be granted without further increas
ing Germany’s indebtedness to the
United States. In support of the plea
for such a credit it is pointed out that
Germany has need of certain raw ma
ter'als in order to get on an efficient
producing Laris and that we now have
surplus stocks o£ some of th^se matert
ials* The world’s reserve stock >f wool
is unusually large, being about a full
year's suppVy. X-ailv all cf ttki cjui>
Plus Is of the coarser grades »n« t nas
accumulated because Germany and A us
tria have not bought and consumed their
usual amounts. The accumulations ofi
coarse wool have affected^the price of"
the finer grades downward with tUa re
sult that In this country# where about
half the wool produced te fine wool,
every pound of which 16 ne ded for
clothing, the grower is un&ble to obtain
in the open market a price that will yield
him the cost of production. The current
wool clip l£* therefore being held for
higher prices, thus tying up large
amounts of credit and prevent ng prices
of woolen goods from receding?. It is.
held that a credit to Germany would
provide an outlet for coarse wools and
would prevent enormous lo*se* to wool
pioduccrs here.
Not There.
From Liondon Tit-Bits.
“And we’ll giow old together, dear
est . ’ ’
iter father’s voice from v tair$—
"Well, you needn't st&Pt dciiuj, .. down
there, reed yen*-*'’