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Nineteen members of the Haddon
county (N. J.) club incorporated the
club’s premises and their own little
residence colony as the village Tavi
stock this week, to evade the local blue
laws of the village to which the district
* formerly paid taxes. Then it had an
election. Nineteen voters registered;
19 candidates entered for the 19 elec
tive Jobs, and 19 were successful, each I
with 19 votes. There were 19 nays to
the anti-Sunday proposition.
In issuing an injunction against the
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of
America, prohibiting the picketing of a
shop against which the union had de
clared a strike. Judge J. Van Sicken of
the supreme court in Brooklyn blames
both capital and labor for their oppres
sion of one another, according to which
ever happens to have the advantage of
prevailing economic conditions. The
court upheld the right of employers to
make individual terms of employment
with their workers.
The Paris post of the American Le
gion is considering a protest to the
French authorities against the use of
the United States uniforms, brought
over for the A. E. F. but sold with
many other things to the French gov
ernment, as it is being employed in
that city. Among other uses, it has
been issued to street sweepers and gar
bage haulers; and miles of the cloth
of which it was made has been sold to
taxicab companies to upholster their
cabs.
Collection of United Ktates income
taxes from Americans resident In Mex
ico will be contested in the United States
courts. One suit will be filed on behalf
of Americans whose Income is derived
and expended In Mexico and the other
on behalf of Individuals whose Income Is
partly derived from Mexican sources.
The amount of taxes affected is less
than $3,000,000.
Forty-nine persons have been killed In
Ireland while attempting to escape from
custody since January, 1910. The num
ber of men interned in Ireland In 2,079.
No women are interned. The number of
persons serving sentences for offenses
arising out of the disturbed state of the
country is 963.
At least 28 alleged bogus divorces and
annulments are known to have been
sold by Robert F. Miller, now being
sought as the alleged operator of a
“divorce mill” In New York city. It is
said that Miller had a staff of 10 girls
to act as “co-respondents” when the
fake divorces were framed up.
Julius H. Barnes, head of the United
States Grain Corporation during the war,
believes that problems bearing on the
marketing of the nation's grain crop
could be satisfactorily solved by forma
tion of a national marketing council,
through which producers and dealers
could work out their differences.
Judge Bandts last week raised the bail
on a building he had ordered closed for
violation of the prohibition law, when
Its owner offered it as a residence to
a man with a wife and 10 children evicted
for non-payment of the Installments on
their home.
Purchase of 8.00f) acres of farm land
In Portuguese W<*st Africa for a dem
onstration farm and trades school for
African negroes on the model of Hamp
ton and Tuskogee institutes has been
made by the Board of Foreign Missions
of the Methodist Episcopal church.
Russia's outstanding need today Is
production and this need cannot be met
to any appreciable extent under a gov
ernment which repudiates Its contracts,
the right to private property, and the
rights of free labor, says a trade sur
vey of New York bankers.
Judge Handle, the fearless, says: "It
Is a mistake to sneer at the law. It is
up to us to give the prohibition law a
fair chance to show us whether it Is any
good or not. As long as the law is on
our books It Is up to us to enforce It
instead of trying to find ways of evad
ing It.*’ '
Rather than accede te a proposal for
a wage reduction of 20 per cent., strik
ing members of the building trades un
ions of Walla Walla, have derided to
form a co-operative association to con
struct buildings for whoever desires
them at the actual cost of material and
tabor.
Schoenbrunn, the imperial chateau,
once home of Maria Theresa, and where
Napoleon Bonaparte planned his 1805
and 1808 campaigns In Austria, will be
turned over to the people of Vienna as
a public monument and recreation
ground. Belvldere palace, another
chateau, may become a gambling ca
sino.
The New York Times says "there
never was any break between President
Wilson and Colonel House, and that
Colonel House is completely tn the dark
an to the reason of Mr. Wilson's sudden
change In hia attitude toward him.
Claiming that ahe and her five chil
dren have been placed in a position ol
want because three Cleveland men
gambled with her husband, a woman is
suing the three men for the amount
they won from the head of the family.
Illiteracy Is said to be decreasing in
the south. In Alabama, where the 1810
census showed R to exist In 22.9 of the
total population over 10 years, the 1920
census finds It lowered to 16.1. In Ar
kansas the drop was from 12.S to 9.4.
* According to the Boston Transcript,
China suggests that the American min
ister to that country be a first class
man, able to handle the questions with
Japan and Great Britain that are be
lieved sure to arise in the near future.
Fifteen London clerks, mostly women,
drawing salaries between-$900 wid $2,000
a year, are effected by the ordgr of the
•tate department In Washington that
diplomatic missions abroad must get rid
of all non-American attaches by July 1.
The government of Japan has invRed
Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood to visit that
country before he returns to the United
States from the Philippines, and per
mission to accept has been granted the
general.
After hearing German objections to
certain pension charges, the repara
tions commission has decided that the
administration expenses of (tensions
should not be included in the allied
claims.
Railroad wages for 1920 totaled $3,733,
815.196 the Interstate Commerce commis
sion announces Reports of back pay
are not complete and therefore the fig
ures are somewhat below those to appear
in the final annual report.
- The first all water shipment of Cal
ifornia lemons and oranges has arrived
In New York. The cost of water slik>
ment was found to be practically a cent
a pound less than by mil
Peasants of western Galicia have set e.
new fashion of using the cat-o-nln*.tails
to rebuke a legislator who failed tr,
carry out the wishes of the voters of his
district.
Divine Sarah wishes to fly to England
on Saturday for a tour beginning next
week, but If the project is carried ou<
it will be in face of the opposition ol
the family, principally her son, Maurice
says a Parts cable.
DEAF AND BUND,'
BIJUI
Doable to Hear or See She
Plays Difficult Composi
tions with Great
Ease.
Brownvllle, Neb., April 12 (Special)
•—Helen Smith Martin, who 1* both
deaf and blind, expects to become a
concert pianist, according to word
reaching friends of the family, who
formerly lived here but now reside at
Olathe, Kan. Although deaf to musi
cal sounds and blind to the notes. Miss
Martin Is already able to play Beetho
ven’s "Moonlight Sonata," and Mo
zart’s "Minuet." She Is a student also
of literature, history and home eco
nomics.
WILL CONTEST LOST
BY ONES BRINGING SUIT
Benkelman, Neb., April 12 (Spe-)
dial),—The contest of the will of
Herman Cannon, heard before Judge
Hamilton here, was decided in favor
of the son, Elmer Cannon. The in
strument was drawn at McCook in
1917. This will gave the widow one
third of the csfate, the son. Mur
ry Cannon’ $5; a daughter, Mrs. Ab
hie Howard, $5; and the remainder
of the property to the son, Elmer.
The will denies Elmer Cannon the
right to dispose of any part of the
property.
The son and daughter who were
left with 25 each contested this will
and declared It was not the last one
which their father made. During the
four years proceeding his death, Can
non had made four wills, withdraw
ing each one as its successor was
filed. The estate is one of the largest
in Dundy county.
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NELIGH BOY IN SCHOOL
AT AMES, IA., DISAPPEARS
Neligh, Neb., April 12 (Special)—
Frank Wulf of Neligh, who Is at
tending school at Ames, la.. Is re
ported missing by the school au
thorities. He wrote his mother he
was to visit relatives at Des Moines
during a short vacation. When he
did not return to school. Inquiry dis
closed he had not been In Des Moines.
Relatives fear foul play or that he
has suffered a nervous breakdown
from overstudy.
NAMED HEAD OF
PENSION OFFICE
essptwe
Washington Gardner, phuopiphcd
at th White Houaa recently.
Washington Gardner haa be- i
appointed commissioner of pensions
by President Harding. He la a vet
eran of the Civil war, hails from
Michigan a.id was formerly a mem
ber of the lower house of congress.
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RIGA—Peasant riots in western
Siberia are reported in Moscow ad
vices today. The peasants have re
vived the so-called “Green" army and
have occupied Tobolsk, cutting off the
town from the trans-Siberian rail
road, the advices say.
SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH—The
Western Macaroni Manufacturing
Company factory here was practically
destroyed Sunday afternoon when fire
of unknown origin which is believed
to have developed in the basement of
the building while the factory care
taker was at lunch, did damage esti
mated at $150,000.
MEXICO CITY.—Major Pablo Ra
mirez and Lieut. Jacobo Gonzales
have been sentenced to death by
court martial on the charge of having
started a rebellion in the state of
Puebla. Augustin and Ignoclo Michel
and several followers were killed yes
terday in a clash with federal troops
near Autlan. state of Jalisco. Augus
tin was the leader of a small rebel
band.
two womeVburned in
GEORGIA CHURCH FIRES
Atlanta, Ga., April 11.—Fires made
necessary by the low temperatures re
sulted In the destruction of two
churches in Georgia Sunday and
damage to another, causing possibly
fatal injuries to two young women.
SETTLE CUSTOMS JOB.
Tribune Washington Bureau.
Washington, April 11.—Early settle
ment of the customs collectorship for
the lies Moines office is expected.
William Hanes, veteran politician and
friend of Senator Cummins, is under
stood to be In the lead.
New canning factories are being con
structed in British Columbia to handle
this year's fruit crop. Official esti
mates place the 1921 berry crop at 500
cars, or bO per cent, larger than last
.veer's maw wuduuUtMl letrTd.
NO PROSECUTION
FOR YOUNG WOMAN
Though She Gave False Testi
mony That Sent Man to
Jail She Goes Free.
JScottsbluff, Neb., April 11 (Special).
County Attorney Grimm announces
that there is little likelihood that
Marie Dawkins, who has admitted
she gave false testimony in the trial
which convicted Jack Guyton of rape,
will be prosecuted for perjury. Miss
Dawkins has been released from cus
tody and has gone to Sidney. She
came back here following her sign
ing of an affidavit which she gave to
Guyton's attorney, admitting that she
told her story on the stand to save
herself. She had charged that Guy
ton lured her to his room by a note
saying an old friend was ill and that
he had forcibly detained her for sev
eral hours. In the affidavti she de
clared she had gone to his room vol
untarily, according to an agreement
they had reached the day previous.
HANGS HIMSELF AFTER
AN AUTO ACCIDENT
Aurora, Neb., April 11 (Special).—
Lawrence Tyler, a young farmer,
hanged himself in a barn at the Clay
ton ranch on the Platte river. Tyler
was working for E. L. Clayton. He
was to have been married soon to a
young woman of Central City and
had bought all his furniture.
An investigation showed his auto
mobile lying bottom up where he had
overturned it when he missed a cul
vert 50 yards from the house. It was
difficult to see how he could have es
caped being crushed to death. He
had apparently gone from the place
of the accident directly to the barn
where he secured a rope and com
mitted suicide.
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NEBRASKA PRIEST GOING
TO EUROPE; MAY STAY
Hartington, Neb., April 11 (Special).
—Father Hehbach, pastor of the Con
stance Catholic church will sail for
Europe the latter part of this month
where he will remain indefinitely. He
is undecided as to whether he will
return to this country or not. Father
Joseph Hundt will be in charge of the
parish.
GAVE FALSE TESTIMONY;
NOT TO BE PROSECUTED
Scottsbluff Neb., April 11.—Marie
Dawkins whose testimony convicted
Jack Guyton of assault, and who later
by affidavit and further testimony re
pudiated her trial story, has been re
leased from custody. According to
County Atorney Grimm, there will he
no prosecution on the charge of per
jury, as he Holds others who insti
gated her stories more guilty and
considers they could not be convicted
on her testimony.
CROFTON PRIEST HONORED
ON RETURN FROM EUROPE
Hnrttngton, Neb., April 9 (Special).
—Father Boschek who recently re
turned to Crofton from Europe where
he visited relatives and toured the
devastated regions was given a rous
ing welcome home. A program was
given In his honor. Father Boschek
then spoke for nearly two hour» upon
conditions in Europe.
MINING INDUSTRY SOON
TO BE BACK TO NORMAL
Chicago, April 8.—The metal min
ing industry will be "on Its feet" with
in six months. This is the belief ex
pressed today by John T. Burns, sec
retary of the American Mining Con
gress, In an interview with the Unit
ed Press, after returning from a tour
of the leading mining districts.
"Paralysis of the industry has cost
countless millions of dollars," Burns
said, “but there is a general feeling
of optimism and confidence as to the
future in the gold, silver, copper, lead
and zinc fields.” The most encourag
ing information. Burns said he ob
tained. was of a gradual increase in
efficiency of labor.
LATIMER RECOMMENDED.
Washington. April 9.—Appointment
of Capt. Julian L. Latimer to be
judge advocate general of the navy
has ben rcommended to the president
by Secretary Denby. Captain Lati
mer is commandant of the 7th naval
district and the naval station at Key
West, Fla.
The Safer Way. -
From the Boston Transcript.
"Dad, ' said the financier’s son, run
ning Into his father's office, lend me
9600."
"What for, my boy?"
“I’ve got a sure tip on the market."
"How much shall we make out of It?”
asked the old man cautiously.
”A couple of hundred sure," replied the
hoy eagerly. "That’s A hundred each."
"Here's your hundred." said his father.
"Let's consider that we have made this
deal and that It has succeeded. You
make 9100 and I save 9500."
The Solution.
From the Kdibnurgh Scotsman.
l.ittle Girl—If l was a teacher. I'd make
everybody behave.
Auntie — How would you accomplish
that?
Little Girl — Very easy. When girls
was bad I'd tell them they didn’t look
pretty: and when little boys were bad
I'd make them sit with the girls, and
when big boys were bad 1 wouldn’t let
them s’.t with the girls.
SPEAK TO FARnTbUREAU
FEDERATION MEMBERS
Hurorr, S. D., April 9 (Special).—J.
M. Anderson, of St. Paul, member the
committee of 17, and J. T. Belk of
Henry, member New Grain Marketing
board, will speak to a farm bureau
federation meeting at Huron Monday.
The South Dakota delegation to the
Chicago conference reports the mat -
keting plan adopted unanimously.
MEUSE II
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Nebraska Legislature Finally
Adopts Measure Enabling
Farmers to Borrow on
Grain.
Lincoln, Neb., April 9.—.Bypracti
cally a unanimous vote, the house
Thursday passed the senate farm
warehouse bill. It authorizes the is
suance” of county warehouse certifi
cates to farmers storing grain on their
farms. Farmers may borrow money
on these certificates but the lender is
protected by law. The serrate con
curred in amendments and the bill
now goes to the governor.
The special committee authorized
by the senate two months ago to in
vestigate alleged extravagance and
duplication in the administration of
the state's (affairs, has completed the
draft of its report and probably will
submit it to the senate today.
The senate today killed the bill
seeking to extend the female labor
laws to cities of the second class and
to villages.
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RAILROAD DETECTIVE
WOUNDED BY TRAMPS
Grand island, Neb., April 9.—In a
gun battle in the outer yards of the
Union Pacific at daybreak yesterday,
between a small party of tramps and
Arthur Eaton, Union Pacific detective
the latter whs seriously though not
fatally wounded. The tramps escaped.
Eaton discovered the tramps trying
to break the seal of a refrigerator car.
Drawing his gun he ordered the men
to stop. They immediately opened
fire Nine shots were sent at the offi
cer while the latter emptied his gun
at the tnamps. The officer fell. One
bullet had entered the left arm above
the elbow, shattering the bone. The
other entered the chest. A third
grazed the officer's head.
A switching crew hearing the shots
rushed to the scene, carried the offi
cer to the city on the switch engine
and he was at once taken to the gen
eral hospital.
AN UNUSUAL ANSWER
TO DIVORCE PETITION
Omaha, Neb., April 9.—In answer
ing his wife’s petition for divorce,
Roy Card, a carpenter, acting as at
torney for himself today filed an
unique petition.
In It he says that the plaintiff is the
"finest and best woman in the world,
truthful, loyal, loving and good, in
fact all tlnat a wife should be," and
further states that "anything the
plaintiff says is true and the defend
ant will abide by any decision the
plaintiff makes.”
He states that any cruelty he in
flicteH on the plaintiff was uinten
tiortal and declares the only reason
he failed to support her was because
she deserted him 11 months ago.
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ATTEMPTED SUICIDE
BY DRINKING CAMPHOR
Fremont, Neb., April 9.—Joseph
Wolf attempted suicide by the cam
phor route, taking a four-ounce bot
tle, but he only suffered a different
pain.
Wolf has been suffering with heart
trouble for months and was despond
ent. He had not been working for
three months. He appeared before the
landlord of the Winsor hotel and said
he had taken camphor and wanted to
die. Physicians worked with him for
several hours and saved him with a
stomach pump. Wolf is a single man
and had been employed on the section.
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FIERCE—Frank A. Warner, attorney
for Miss Clara Barts of Pierce county,
who asks $10,000 damages from Frank
Voecks, prominent young Pierce coun
ty farmer, for alleged breach of promise
states that the case has been settled oui
of court and that Voecks and Miss Barts
are to be married soon. The case was
to have come up for trial Wednesday in
district court at Pierce.
WEST POINT—The municipal elec
tion held Tuesday resulted in the choice
of the following officers: Mayor, John
Clatanoff; clerk, Miss Surah E. Lln
dale; treasurer, Frank Miller; engineer,
R. H. Kerkow; police judge, W. J.
Paaach.
FINE LAW POINT IN
FIGHT FOR INSURANCE
Lincoln, Neb.. April 5 (Special).—A
fine point of law was debated at
length today in supreme court, When
Omaha police broke into a room
from which hud proceeded the sound
of shots, they found a man named
Ward, dead, with a revolver by him,
and his wife dying on the bed.
He carried a $5,000 accident insur
ance policy in the Aetna company,
and his heirs sued on the theory that
the presumption of law is that a man
does not ordinarily commit suicide,
and that this presumption obtains un
til it is proved to the contrary. Their
attorneys argued to the court that
ft was just as reasonable to presume
that the woman killed her husband
and then herself, because the wound
in the man was in the breast, where
men seldom lodge a bullet intended
for self-destruction, while the woman
was shot in the head, the ordinary
mark for suicides.
The lower court instructed the jury
for the company, and on the appeal
the heirs argued that they had a right
Co have the jury pass on the fact
of who was the moving factor in the
tragedy. For the company it was
urged that "the” reasonable presump
tion is the one that governs and not
"a” reasonable presumption.
ALLEGED DIAMOND‘FENCE’
SURRENDERS AT CHICAGO
Chicago. April 8.—A countrywide
search for Isadore H. Starr, diamond
cutter, w'ho is Alleged to have acted
as a fence in the $1,000,000 union sta
tion mail robbery here two months
ago, ended today when Starr surren
dered himself to the federal mar
shal. He was released in $10,000
ponds.
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j Conditions in Central Europe. |
[From a review of Coningsby Daw
son’s "It Might Have Happened to
You" (John Lane Company), written by
Herbert Hoover 'for the New York
Times. Mr. Dawson’s book is just off
the press; he is still engaged in his
relief work. The conditions he describes
are of today, since the author has been
at his post less than four months.]
TJhe spirit in which this work was
conceived and executed puts it into a
class by itself. Mr. Dawson came to
the American relief administration at
the end of November, 1920, asking
how he could best serve the cause of
humanity and of the United States,
with especial reference to the care of
children. He had just emerged from
the shadow of threatened tragedy in
his own family. Despite every care,
he had been forced to watch his own
child fading dangerously near the
border-line from the effects of mal
nutrition. Finally science triumphed,
the slow convalescence began, and
there was quickened In himself and in
his family a new realization of kin
ship with universal childhood, parent
hood, life in its elemental emotions.
He wanted to do. something, make
some sacrifice, for other people’s
children, and he left home at the
holiday time to begin his long, hard
pilgrimage through the world of sor
rows that lies In eastern and central
Europe. As a soldier, he had staked
his life against armies which came
from several of these countries, and
In the beginning of his story he says:
That I should write In this spirit,
pleading for our late enemies, may cause
a alight amazement in a public that has
read my war books. My reason—I will
not say my excuse—is that I have visited
our late enemies’ need, and in the pres
ence of human agony animosity ceases.
One ceases to wonder how far their suf
fering le the outcome of their folly; hie
eole aspiration is to bind up their
wounds—especially the wounds of their
children.
To those who say "They wouldn’t
need to starve if they would get to
work,’’ Mr. Dawson replies tartly.
“You are probably exactly the kind
of person who, had you been born in
central Europe, would have gone to
the bottom first," Mr. Dawson tells
the reader:
You belong to the middle or upper
classes. You are highly intelligent and
specialized. You turn from working
with your brains to working with your
hands. Everyone In your- class would
be doing the same thing. There would
not be enough manual labor to go
around. * • • In the face of national in
solvency your former thrift would not
avail you. Your investments would be
so much worthless paper. You might
have hoarded actual cash, the wav the
peasants do in their stockings. 'Even
this nerve would soon be exhausted,
since by reason of the depreciation in
currency it would take 100 times more
money to purchase any service or com
modity than it once did. In starving
central Europe, It is the doctors, pro
fessors, engineers, artists, musicians,
business men. lawyers—the intellectual
wealth of the nations—who have been
the first to perish.
Mr. Dawson points out that there
is a tendency on the part of every in
dividual to imagine himself immune
from natural laws. Thus even the
most sympathetic person finds it dif
ficult to believe that his children,
might possibly be in the same situa
tion as those children of Vienna whom
Mr. Dawson describes:
Today I visited a soup kitchen of the
American relief administration, where
meala are dally prepared for 8,000 chil
dren. » • • The sight was a disgrace
to civilization. Within the building at
wooden tables sat an army of stunted
pigmies, raggedly clad and famished to
a greenish pallor. They ranged from
babyhood to adolescence, but there wae
not a child in the gathering who looked
more than 10 years old. They didn’t
talk. They didn’t laugh. They were
terribly intent, for each of them
crouched, with animal eagerness, over
a roll and a pannikin of cocoa. The
etench from these starving bodies was
nauseating.
“These children," he says, “were
most of them not born when the war
was started. They had no voice in
our animosities. They did not ask to
be brought into such a world. Many
of them have never known what it is
to be warm and not to be hungry. To
them joy is a word utterly meaning
less. They have always been too
weak to laugh or play. Two years
after our madness has ended, they
are still paying the price of the adult
world’s folly.”
Mr. Dawson’s observations are not
confined to Austria "The needs of
Hungary are as pressing as those of
any European country,” he writes.
Everywhere, Mr. Dawson reports, it
is the children who are the chief
sufferers. In the mountains of
Czecho-Slovakia little boys and girls
roam from house to house in order to
obtain food. The children of War
saw are in as desperate a plight as
those of Vienna. They are dying of
tuberculosis and of malnutrition. He
continues:
The American Relief administration,
which has become a part of the Europ
ean Relief Council made up of eight
great relief agencies in America, is try
ing to keep pace with the strides of
famine. The British "Save the Children
Fund” is concentrating on Austria. The
American and British Society of Friends
are operating in Germany. • • • We
are all doing something, and none of
us is doing enough. For the moment alt
of us are trying to save children be
cause, whoever else was guilty, they, at
least, are innocent of offense. But there
is something cruel in leaving their par
ents to die of hunger.
I agree with Mr. Dawson that it
is pitiful to feed only the children, to
ignore the adult populations;” Mr.
Hoover writes in conclusion; “but this
latter is a problem far beyond the
possibilities of private charity. Of
children alone, we Americans are
feeding 3,500,000, and the Red Cross is
supplying medical service to vast
numbers.”
fBunt grStinkinpSinu
[National Crop Improvement Service.]
LTHOUGH every farmer is being
severely taxed by the smuts of
graiD, they are easily prevent-,
able, and while it would be somewhat
radical to insiat that a law should com
pel farmers to look after their own
interests, yet perhaps in some localities
this would be the only effective way of
correcting the evil.
Smut is inexcusable.
There are two kinds of smut which
attack most of the grain: the smut
which enters the kernels, showing a
sickly gray black through the hulls, is
the one which does the most damage.
In wheat it is called bunt or stinking
smut. Many fairness call it "blight”
or some other indefinite disease. It can
be readily detected, however, by scrap
ing heads of kernels with a penknife
on a piece of writing paper. The ker
nels will be found filled with the black
powder which is the stinking smut. It
has a characteristic odor aiid so unde
sirable is it that the government has
placed it in • separate grade.
Education and the Alien.
From II Cittadino, of Akron, Ohio.
Let us begin by educating our chil
dren in American schools and letting
them have the full benefit of the edu
cation jppportunities which this country
offers to all; let us see to it that they
grow up cultured and efficient, regard
less of the tact that their parents may
not have had any education at all. Let
us, ourselves, begin to learn the English
language on the first day we land on
American soil, and let us remember
that it is this language only which will
be of service to us, and that only
through our own merits will we win
good “luck” and will we be able to ele
| vate ourselves to the heights to which
we aspire. If all Italians would keep
these ideas firmly in mind there would
be more of us who would obtain posi
tions or hold office in the state and na
tional governments.
The Germans, Poles, Irish and Jews
have all learned these practical ideas
long ago, and little by little they have
gained a foothold in the first ranks of
the country, both in business and in
politics. There are 5.000.000 Italians in
the United States; there are 1,200,000 in
New York state alone, and none of
them, or least very few. have been per
suaded of the value of thorough Ameri
canization.
The new congress does not contain
even one member of Italian extraction.
This also Is partly due to the fact that
Italian organizations and associations
of mutual benefit teach their members
to respect and revere Italian ambassa
dors and consuls, but they do not un
derstand that our future and our wel
fare lie in this country and that our po
litical independence can not be attained
by paying homage to the representatives
of the Italian government, but that it
must be won by learning the language,
customs and laws of this country. It is
time that we Italians began to hover
about American institutions and to ad
mire them. If they should In some
■light way be defective, let us co-oper
ate with the others and try to improve
them, but let ue always be respectful.
■Incere and honest
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Smutted wheat has to be washed aft
the mill, and even then there is danger
that it will contaminate the flour botb
in appearance and in odor.
The formaldehyde treatment is very
efficient because the seed bears the fun
pis spores of the disease. In some local
ities it lives over in the ground, but not
usually.
Any fanner can add to his insurance
and more than pay for his marketing
expense by being sure that he does not
propagate smut for himself and for his
neighbors at any time.
The other smut, called the "open
smut,’’ is more easily detected because
it destroys the entire shape of the head
of grain but fortunately it is not sc
prevalent nor so dangerous. This smut
can be treated by the modified hot
water treatment, which must be care
fully done according to directions to be
had at your Agricultural College, or you
are in danger of destroying the germi
nation of ybur seed if too hot, or allow
ing the spores to remain alive if ton
cool.
The Decadent Kings.
From the Kansas City Star.
The barbarism of uncivilized apes?'
seems fo have lingered among the kings
of France: Louis XV was heartless and
cruel, and the spirit of his court re
flected his own cruelty. It happened
that the king was feeling bitter towards
M. de Chauvelln, one of the court of
ficers. They were seated at cards one
evening, and Chauvelln, who sat next the
king, was seized with a fit of apoplexy.
He choked, gasped and then slipped
from his chair almost at the feet of the
king, who did not even turn his head
until one of the players at his table ex
claimed: "M. de Chauvelln Is ill."
Louis Idly turned and gazed down at
the rourtier, then resumed his playing.
"111?" he murmured indifferently. "He
is death Take him away. Spades are
trumps, gentlemen.”
The game went on as if nothing had
happened, while the servants picked up
the body and bore It from the room.
There was no excitement, save when the
dead man's heel caught in a bit of lace
in the gown of a lady in waiting "Man
nerless even after he Is dead," she cried,
and with a contemptuous gesture jerked
aside her garment.
A Clever Husband.
From 1 xjndon Opinion,
Wife—Mrs. Jones has another new
hat.
Hubby—Well if she were as attractive '—
as you are. my dear, she wouldn't have
to depend so much upon the milliner.
An observing marriage clerk says
marriage is getting to be a business
proposition, instead of a love affair.
C.irls of 18 or 19 used to marry boys of
about their own age, or maybe 24. Now
they know a boy of 21 can’t support
them, so they are picking older men.
He cites his license record to show that
the average marriage age for women is
now 21, and that of men 36.
A cable from Wales says Unite*
States coal owners are offering Ameri
can coal to France and Italy at less
than half tb« present price of Welsh
coal.