O’NEILL FRONTIER
IX H, CRONIN
O'NEILL, WEBRA8KA
Paderewski has decided to sell hi*
California ranch and declare his Inten
tion of going back to Europe, as he la
deeply cmcerned for the safety of Po
land, and fears another bolshevlst In
vasion Is Inevitable unless the present
famine cause* the overthrow of the so
viet government. Paragraph 88 of thw
Versailles treaty gave Germany an ad
vantage that the former premier does
not believe was Intended. "Under this
paragraph,” he explains, "any person
born In upper Silesia, whether a resi
dent of the district at the time or not,
waj entitled to vote at the plebiscite,
and 200,000 German subjecs crossed Into
upper Silesia to vote."
The American Bar Association was
told that on April 1, 1920, 135 persons
previously Indicted for murder were
awaiting trial In Chicago. In 104 cases
the accused were at liberty on bond. The
situation was brought to the attention
of the courts with the result that four
Judges then In the civil courts volun
teered to sit In the criminal court and
try cases until the murder docket was
cleared. The trial of these cases re
sulted In the sentencing of 12 to hang
and 12 to the penitentiary for from one
year to life. The effect on the num
ber of murders In Chicago was electrical.
Immediately the murder rate there
dropp 51 per cent, where It has since re
mained.
Delegates representing Great Britain,
France, Belgium, Italy and Japan ore
greatly disappointed that they were hot
able to persuade Mr. Brown, In charge
of the American committee for relief
of Russian famine sufferers, to Join In
international relief of Russia and submit
to the control of a central body. Mr.
Brown adhered to Mr. Hover’s first
declaration that the American commis
sion will handle Its work Independently.
The practical speaking and writing of
Chinese for commercial purposes has
been added to the language curriculum
of New York University.
What Is said to be the first banking
system organised for ruroal school chil
dren In the United States will be estab
lished In Duluth schools wheel the fall
term open*. Banks will be placed In
each of the 160 rural schools for ths en
couragement o fthrlft and saving among
the 6,000 pupils. Deposits In the schorf
banks will be sent eacli week to the
county superintendent of schools. Money
so deposited may we withdrawn only on
wrltton roquest of parents.
The wartime restrictions that required
Americans in England to spend moat of
their tlmo standing in line reporting at
police stations, which forbade the rais
ing of window curtains after dark or
the striking of matohes out of doors
during the night, and which prescribed
what people In England should eat.
Should not drink, and might BRy to one
another, wer® removed at midnight, Sep
tember 1, by an order In council.
At a special election In Plainfield, III,
this week In which three rotes were
coat, it was decided to annex the farm
of L. A. Ilartsong to the Plainfield
sohool district. Mr. Hartsong acted as
Judge and Mrs. Ilartsong was the clerk
and counted the ballots cast by herself,
ber husband, and Edward Strong, an
employe on the farm. The election was
necessary to permit two Ilartsong child
ren to attend the Plainfield school.
The London Morning Post has discov
ered that King Arthur, Instead of being
a heroic Briton, was In reality a Dutch
man, says the Philadelphia Public
Ledger. lie Is described as "a filibuster
ing PYleslander, who had rebelled
against the Roman empire and waged a
constant guerilla warfare against his
Teutonto rivals In England." The same
authority shatters tradition by asserting
that the Irish hsro Brian Born was a
Norseman.
A Berlin correspondent cables that
Washington's reported stand that Ar
ticle VIII means In the Berlin treaty ex
actly what It means In the Versailles
treaty (1. e., that Germany accept re
sponsibility for the war) runic- as a shock
to the Wlrth government, which fears
that when It develops that the German
government made no attempt to protest
against the Incorporation of the "re
sponsibility for the war" sentence In the
treaty that a largo part of the press will
train their guns for a new onslaught on
the government.
One thousand German workmen are
now dynamiting the fortress and naval
harbor built by the ex-kalser on tne
Island of Heligoland, In Kell canal, as
required by the Versailles treaty. The
work will take two years. It took Wil
liam II eight years to build It. and It cost
60,000,000 gold marks; and It will prob
ably cost about 4,000,000 geld marks to
dismantleld It.
Unemployed persons In other cities are
warned to keep away from New York by
the commissioner of public welfare. Na
tive New Yorkkera will be given prefer
ence In the aid distributed by the may
or's committee on unemployment and
by Its sub-committees. The situation
among the sailors Is so grave It Is
planned to call upon the shipping board
to man all Its ships In the future with
American crews.
Sunday school rooms In 40 or more
Boston churches will take the place of
old fashioned voting places at the De
cember city elections because of the ad
vent of equal suffrage, the board of elec
tion commissioners announces.
Australia Is vigorously pursuing Its
policy of practical repatriation of for
mer service men. To date 24.000 have
•ettlcd on the land. The federal govern
ment is now raising $60,000,000 by moans
of a national International loan for the
extension of the various forms of repa
triation.
What to do with the 300,000 to 400,000
Russlnn refugees who are now scattered
throughout almost every state In Eu
rope will constitute one of the most
complicated problems - to be solved by
tlis second general assembly of the
League of Nations which convenes
September 6.
The American steamship St. Louis
fitted out ns a floating exhibition hall
With samples of tho products of 300
leading American manufacturers, will
leave New York next January on an
American sales premotion trip to 60 for
eign ports. The slogan of the enter
prise ts "I'll T?ll tic Wot Id."
In spite of the scarcity of houses In
New York, and many thousands out of
employment, an average of 600 families
a week find it necessary to borrow
money to move.
New lork notel keepers are protesting
egglnst tile proposer! nation wide ban on
beauty contests, because, they say, the
bashful winners nearly always took an
Immediate trip to the metropolis, with a
chaperone, to “view all points of inter
est,"
The number of marriages in Prance
has doubled .the number of births in
creased, while fewer deaths are regis
tered in 1920 than in 1913. France Is en
couraged.
"Court convenes at 9:30," says sev
eral signs on roads leading Into Quinoy.
Maas., as a warning against fast drlv
ld«.
VERILOF JURY
Nebraska Rancher To Do Life
Term in Prison for Death
Of His Wife Last
April.
North Platte, Neb., Sept. 20. — A
jury In the district court at Tryon,
McPherson county, Saturday found
William Morris, 60, a ranchman, guil
ty of murder In the second degree
for the killing of his wife April 10
last.
Testimony at the trial, which occu
pied most of the week, was to the
effect that Morris was brutal toward
Mrs. Morris. The defense claimed
Mrs. Morris was killed by being
dragged by a horse she had attempt
ed to ride. District Judge Tewell
sentenced Morris to a life term In the
state penitentiary.
COLLIE STARTS ENGINE
OF AN AUTOMOBILE
Auburn, Neb., Sept. 20.—Mrs. Ray
Blaunt, wife of a farmer living near
here, had visions of auto thieves
when she was awakened from her
sleep by the noise of a running mo
tor in the garage, where investiga
tion disclosed the door securely shut
and the padlock in place on the out
side.
■ Gaining an entrance by another
means, Blaunt was greeted by a large
collie dog perched alertly in the front
seat. Having been shut up with the
car, the collie had jumped into the
front seat and accidentally stepped
on the starter.
FAIR AT WALTHILL
HAD BIG ATTENDANCE
Walthill, Neb., Sept. 20 (Special).
^The Thurston county fair, held
here last Thursday, Friday and Sat
urday, was largely attended despite
the rainy weather. Governor Me
Kelvie was present one day and gave
an address. The feature of the fair4
was bail games each day. The results
of the games were as follows: Walt
hill 3, Wisner 0; Walthill 3 Wake
field 4; Walthill 6, Thprston, 0.
AGED INDIAN WOMAN
DEAD AT MACY. NEB.
Many, Neb., Sept. 20 (Special).—
Poncasa Big Elk, probably the old
est member of the Omaha Indian
tribe, died at the age of 108 years.
She was the wife of John Big Elk,
and was born near Homer, Neb. Her
father was Halgaha and her mother
Mazzaenza. A sister, Mrs. Silas
Woods, lives southeast of Macy. The
funeral was held here.
M'DONALD, EX~POSTM ASTER
OF PENDER, IS DEAD
Pender, Neb., Sept. 20 (Special).—
B. F. McDonald died in his home in
Thurston Saturday night. He was
Btate senator from thla district In 1891
ftnd later postmaster of Pender.
RELATIVES DOUBT THAT
SHE MARRIED COUNT
S&... iSSSSlSSSS
Miss Vtofa Krauss, said to be the
most beautiful Kiri in New York and
a spectacular figure in the sensational
investigation of the Khvell murder,
has, according to reports just received
from aboad, rbeen marled to Count
de Vallombrosa, heir to the Dukedom
of Couie. The report is discredited
by her relatives.'
ABANDON SINKING SHIP.
New York, Sept. 19.—The freight
steamship Malden, badly damaged
last night in a collision off Montauk'
point, with the freighter Jo nancy,
was abandoned Sunday in a sinking
condition. Her crew was taken aboard
the Jonaney.
ICHANG 7s ATTACHED.
Peking, Sept. 19.—Renewed at
tacks on Ichang. a treaty port in
Hupeh province, by Szehucn forces
are reported In a wireless received by
the foreign office from Ichang. The
attacking forces were driven out of
the city when General Wu Pel-Fu ar
rive dwith reinforcements.
It is Rtated that the soviet finance
commissariat has begun printing notes
of 26.000. 60.000 and 100,000 roubles. The
largest notes now In circulation are
10.000 roubles, which have in Russia to
day the purchasing power of about *1.
LOCK TRW CASE
TO NIGER COURT
Alliance Man Not Satisfied
With Award Made on In
• structions of Judge
Woodrough.
JRliance, Neb., Sept. 19 (Special).—
An appeal to a higher court will bo
taken by George Mollrlng, who, on
behalf of his wife, sued the Burling
ton Railway company for $3,209 for
a lost trunk and was awarded $100
by a Jury here. Federal Judge Wood
rough Instructed the Jury that under
the transportation act of February,
1920, no more than $100 could be al
lowed for property lost In transit un
less a higher value was placed upon
It at time of shipment. In that case
a surcharge of 10 cents per 100
pounds was declared necessary. Mrs.
Mollrlng failed to do this. The trunk
Is alleged to have been filled with val
uable wearing apparel.
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TWO MEN WHO FLED JAIL
ARE CAUGHT AT EMMETT
O’Neill, Neb., Sept. 19 (Special).—
Robert Bailey and Maynard Bailey,
who broke Jail at Albany, Mo., where
they were Imprisoned for automobile
stealing, were arrested by Sheriff
Duffy at Emmett, Neb., Thursday
night. They were running a garage
at Emmett and were arrested there
on charges of stealing automobile
accessories. Following their arrest in
that town the sheriff received in
formation on their record In Missouri.
Robert will be taken to the Nebraska
state penitentiary in Lincoln and
Maynard will be returned to Missouri,
1a ea id
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CHILD IS DROWNED
IN FARM WATER TANK
Crete, Neb., Sept. 19.—Harry E.
Rlthmeter, 4-year-old son of Mr. and
Mrs. Fred Rithmeier, living four miles
northwest of town, was drowned in a
water tank on his father’s farm.
The little fellow was fond ot play
ing in the water and his parents had
been extra careful, realizing the dan
ger of the tank. However, the boy
slipped away and was out of sight
only a short time when an older child
came running to the house and ad
vised the parents that Harry was in
the tank. It was too late to save the
child.
MUNICIPAL COAL YARD
STARTS OPERATING
Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 19—The mu
nicipal coal yard was officially opened
without coal Thursday morning. The
price to the consumer on the one
brand now speeding from mine to
local bin is $10.50 f. o. b. cellar. Or
ders will be taken on recommenda
tion. There will be no samples until
the first car rolls in. The purchaser
will be allowed as many guesses as
he or she desires where the coal comes
from. Commissioner of Streets Bry
an, manager of the project, declines
to give the source of the output.
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"NOT A DIME, JUDGE,"
AND HE GOES TO JAIL
Omaha, Neb., Sept. 19—“Not a dime,
judge; I won’t give her even a nickel
for a cup of tea,” declared Fred Prior
when ordered yesterday to pay his
wife $20 a month alimony.
Prior refused to change his mind
and he was taken to a cell in the
county jail, where he may spend six
months unless he apologizes to Judge
Troup. Prior is a manufacturer of
kewple dolls. He was still obdurate
In jail this morning.
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WEST POINT, NEB., SOLDIER
TO BE BURIED TOMORROW
*
West Point, Neb., Sept. 19 (Spe
cial).—The funeral of William Bet
tenliausen, a soldier who died in
France, will be held here Sunday
afternoon. Services will be in the
home and the Lutheran church. The
Arthur Mack American Legion post
will attend.
NO FAIR WEATHER
FOR DAKOTA FAIR
Rain Kept Huron Attraction
From Being Best in State’s
History.
Huron, S. TV, Sept. 19 (Special).—
Rain Friday continued to keep thous
ands of persons fnpm the South Da
kota state fair, which, had weather
been favorable, would have been the
best attended fair in the history of
the state, in the opinion of officials,
inclement weather has prevailed-since
the first of the week when the Taif
started. Approximately 7,000 persons
attended Friday while about 12,000
were visitors the same day a year
ago. Races were called off Friday*
for the fifth time. A fireworks dis
play was on the program for Friday
night.
SURPLUS OF EASTERN S. D.
Pierre. S. D., Sept. 19 (Special).—
From reports the eastern part of the
state will ship in round numbers 4,000
cars of potatoes this fall. Most of
these will be handled through the Co
Operative Potato Marketing associa
tion. with headquarters at Watertown,
WATERTOWNHAS^EAVY
RAIN THIS MONTH
Watertown, S. D., Sept. 19 (Spe
cial).—Rainfall here since September
1 reached over seven Inches with a
near cloudburst at 2 o'clock this
morning that brought the total for
last night to two and one-half inches.
Portions of Fairmont addition were
so flooded this morning that children
could not go from their homes to
school. It is the heaviest September
rainfall since official weather bureau
records have been kept here.
HESITATES ABOUT
SPECJALSESSION
Governor of Nebraska Inclin
ed to Go Slow in Asking
Legislators to Repeal'
Any Laws.
Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 17.—Gov
ernor McKelvie is alleged to hold a
different Idea from the members of
the statute commission in the matter
of a proposed extra session of the Ne
braska legislature. The governor has
not yet given any indications that he
intends to comply with the request of
the commission to call a special ses
sion for the purpose of repealing
duplicate laws passed by the 1919
legislature. The commission has
urged speedy action because it al
leges that It must complete its work
soon.
It Is reported that if the governor
should heed the demand he would not
call an extra session until the end of
the year, and that would be too late
to help the staute commission. It has
been indicated that the idea of the
chief executive of an extra session
would be one called to repeal any
statute the law makers may want
to wipe off the books, instead of
one to repeal certain laws to be spe
cified in the call.
It is hinted that if the governor
should act later in the year in call
ing the legislators together and give
them the authority to repeal any
statutes they might want to knock
out, an effort will be made to repeal
the four laws which were recently
suspended by referendum petitions
and which will l e voted upon by the
electors in the fa 1 of 1922.
It has been indicated that such a
move would be "good” politics to
repeal the laws instead of lettlng -the
voters of the state get a whack at
them. The four laws have been sus
pended and referred by a petition
signed by the Farmers’ union, the
Nonpartisan league. Farm Bureau
federation and by labor union mem
bers.
One law authorizes the state de
partment of trade and commerce to
limit the number of bank charters in
communities where the department
may indicate there is no necessity
for additional banks. Another amends
the primary law taking from voters
the right to select party committee
men and the -ielegates to conventions
and centers much power on conven
tions. A third law requires registra
tion of voters in country precincts.
The fourth is the anti-picketing law,
put over by Omaha business inter
ests. The bill was signed by Gov
ernor McKelvie over the protests of
the leaders of organized labor in the
state.
TEACHER SHORTAGE IN
NEBRASKA IS REPORTED
Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 17 (Special).—
General unemployment has apparent
ly not affected the teaching profes
sion in Nebraska, State Superintend
ent Matzen reports that there is a net
shortage of 473 rural teachers and
50 high school teachers. There Is
however, a small surplus of grade in
structors reported by the superin
tendent.
He reports a shortage of 10 rural
teachers in Dixon county; 16 in Da
kota; five In Thurston county, and
three in Antelope county. The coun
ty superintendents over the state are
expected to communicate with each
other in securing a proper readjust
ment of teaching forces. If there is
a surplus of rural, grade or high
school instructors in one' place and
not a sufficient number in another
place, Superintendent Matzen points
out that the county superintendents
can co-operate greatly to the mutual
advantage of teachers and pupils.
•4AD DITCH BUILT;
NOW CAN’T PAY FOR IT
Bayard, Neb., Sept. 17/—In 1918 the
city of Bayard entered into a con
tract with the United States govern
ment, the Farmers’ Irrigation district
and the Alliance Irrigation district for
the building of a drainage ditch down
Wild Horse canon to the west and
north of Bayard. The ditch W’as built,
Bayard was to pay $32,000 for the
construction in a period of 20 years.
The city has paid something like $3,
000 on the contract. This year was a
sticker. There was no way that the
money could be levied. The man who
would talk bond issue would prob
ably be shot, residents declare.
Efforts are being made to find a
legal solution to the problem.
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DIXON GIRL KILLS SELF
BY TAKING STRYCHNINE
Dixon, Neb., Sept. 17 (Special).—
Miss Selma Welburn, daughter of
Samuel Welburn, city engineer of
Dixon, committed suicide here Thurs- -
day by taking strychnine. No cause
is known for her act.
SCHOOL FIGHT TO
END IN COURTS
Sioux Falls, S. D.. Sept. 17.—The
consolidated school fight which for
some time has agitated the residents
of the Baltic district is to reach the
courts in a series of damage suits, H.
A. Vstrud, former superintendent of
public instruction of South Dakota,
has engaged counsel and will bring
action for damage against a number
of men who signed a petition asking
that Professor Vstrud -be removed
from the principalship of the Baltie
consolidated school.
IOWA MAN KILLED FALLING
THEN WIFE DIES FROM GRI5F
Council Bluffs, Ia„ Sept. 17 {Spe
cial).—The death in Bakersfield, Cal.,
of Henry Overslee, formerly of Coun
cil Bluffs, from a fall was followed
Thursday in Bakersfield by the death
of his wife resulting from shock and
grief over his death.
Another Zion City woman had to pay
a $10 fine last week for wearing a waist
that was six Inches below the collar
bone.
Will the Cattle Trail Come Back? j
By Frederl o J. Haskin,
A herd of several hundred cattle
recently reached Denver from a
ranch hundreds of miles away, by the
samo method that cattle were brought
to market In the days before rail
roads were built. Although a rail
route was available, and although it
would have got the cattle to market
In a fraction of the time they ac
tually occupied In getting there, this
herd was driven overland as millions
of cattle were driven in the early
days. Half a dozen cowboys, with a
pack outfit to carry their supplies and
beds, drifted the cattle slowly across
mountain and plain, letting them
graze there every evening, “riding
herd’ upon them every night to
guard against theft and stampede,
carrying out every detail of the tech
nique that was evolved when the
whole west was one vast open range
without a rail upon it.
It was a restoration of an ancient
"tnd picturesque scene, but it was
lot staged for any sentimental rea
)on. These cattle were driven to
narket overland for the good practi
)al reason that they were In that way
irought to their destination for about
one-fourth of what it would have
cost to ship them by rail. It looks
as though inordinately high freight
rates might bring back into use the
"long trail” over which the nation’s
beef traveled to market under its
own power for more tha® half a cen
tury.
The cowboy is such a typically and
traditionally Yankee figure that many
Americans do not realize that the
American cattle business is really
Mexican in its origin and moved slow
ly from the far south to the north.
In the early part of the last cen
tury there were no catlfc in all of the
west north of the H\o Grande. Down
in old Mexico, on the other hand,
there were enormous herds of scrub
by longhorn stock which had been
introduced by the Spaniards many
generations before.
Meantime a hungry Yankee civili
zation was growing up in the eastern
half of the continent. Cattle were
rgised on the eastern farms, but not
nearly enough of them to feed this
growing nation. Enterprising Yan
kees down In the southwest began
to see that there was a future In the
raising of cattle in the west for sale
in the east. Accordingly they be
gan stealing the herds of the Mexl
tans, bringing them across the Rio
Brande and founding herds of their
»wn in Texas. They not only found
It easy to steal cattle, but they also
found that when these cattle were
brought north they grew larger and
fatter than ever thoy had on the hot
southern ranges.
It was easy to get the cattle and
easy to raise them, but reaching the
market was another matter. At
Diplomacy.
Prom the Wall Street Journal.
Senators eager to score a point in de
bate speak contemptuously, and Incor
rectly, of a diplomat as one "sent abroad
to lie for his country."
They have not even the moderate en
dowment of letters necessary to see the
point of the Elizabethan Sir Henry Wot
ton’s pun. The verb to “ly” was used
as meaning staying, or sojourning, at
a place. In the contemporary memoirs,
and much later, we read that the writer
"lay at York” before proceeding on his
journey. It was correct to say that a
special ambassador had been sent to the
French king’s court and that he contem
plated "lying" at Paris. Wotton knew
the double implication of the word, but
he did not mean that ambassadors were
liars. He was a diplomat himself, and
knew that the competent envoy could
and should get his end without lying—
by diplomacy, in fact. Wotton’s phrase
was "to ly abroad,” but he Is unlver
‘iy misquoted by those who never even
irii his name.
The Use of Language.
mi "Talk of the Town” Boston Herald
Te saw this sign in a Boston lunch
,m of the stand-up-and-grab-ft kind
—bn the milk container,
"Don’t forget to agitate.1’
Nothing bad about that. Boston and
most of the Bay state, has always ad
mired the English language. Up in Shel
burne Palls there used to be a school
teacher who thus defined rhetoric to her
class:
"Rhetoric is that study which learns
us to speak and write not only correct
but elegant.” ,
The recent battle for the middle
weight championship turned out to
be a fiasco, and now the New Jersey
boxing commission has ordered
"Tex” Rickard to hol£ up Wilson's
share of the purse, pending an ex
planation of his lackadaisical meth
ods in the ring. Should crookedness
be unearthed everyone guilty should
be barred from the game, boxing
lends itself quite readily to “fixing,”
and nothing will serve to kill public
interest so quickly as a few more
exhibitions like the Wilsou-Downey
fair.
It is worthy of comment to note
at the hotel and restaurant men of
fEoux City are willing to lead off
in the effort to hold down room and
food prices during Interstate Fair
week. Furthermore they want com
plaints made about overcharges by
any of tile members of their associa
tion, so mistakes or had faith can be
remedied promptly. All Sioux City
wants the visitors to have a good
time and to leave with the best of
feelings.
The Kansas Industrial court Is puzzled
over the problem of how the small coal
mining companies of the state, paying
nigh wages • And operating on a small
?cale, can sell coat at $1 a ion less
than the tig • orators with greater mar
keting .^chities and lower wages.
All talk about getting beer back
through taxation overlook, „«,e fact
that there is an ISth amex Anient to
the constitution. Congresr yrst will
have to put a new interprr.ition on
the word “intoxicating” at/, congress
is “dry " I
tempts were made to drive then*
across to Louslana and tall them, and
also to ship them from gulf port*
to eastern markets, but ail of these
attempts failed. When tne civil war
broke out the plains of Texas were
swarming with cattle for which there
was no market. Their owners had
unlimited beef, but very little money.
You could buy a cow for $L.
During the war these herds were
forgotten and multiplied untended. '
After the war the plains swarmed j
with unbranded cattle worth little or 1
nothing. Men of foresight hired cow
boys and began rounding up and
branding this wild stock. It was ex- "
citing business, for the cattle were
as wild as deer. A cow or calf be
longed to the man who could put his
brand on It first. Incidentally, the*
way was prepared for the long war
between the rustlers and the cattle
barons which presently began. Soon
the men who bad begun early had
great herds under their own brands,
while the newcomers had none. They
wanted to continue the business of
branding stock whenever it was
found unbranded. Owners of cattle
chose now te regard this as theft.
Hence a war which continued for a.
quarter of a century.
Meantime the herds pushed steadily
farther and farther north. The great
transcontinental railroads were now
Building and had founded western
termini at Dodge City, Wichita,
Newton and other towns in Kansas,
rhese became shipping points for cat
tle. Besides the cow towns, the oth
er great market for beef was tha>
Indian reservations. The government,
by that time (in the ’70s) had rounded
up most of the Indians and put them
an reservations, and whisky and con
sumption had not yet reduced their
numbers greatly. Hence Uncle Sam
bad thousands of Indiana to feed, and
he fed them largely on beef. Prob
ably the longest cattle drives and
the most profitable one3 were made
from the southern ranges to the In
dian reservations in Montana and the
Dakotas.
Some cattleman with political pull
would get a contract to deliver a cer
tain number of three-year-old beef
steers at a point in Montana on a.
certain day. He would organize a
trail outfit, go down into Texas or
Mexico wl\.ere cattle were cheap, buy
bis steers, and drive them half the
ength of the continent.
Of course, the old days of the long
trail will never come gack. There
ire a thousand fences across it. But
:he western cowman still knows how
to drive cattle long distaneeo and get
them to the market in good condi
tion, too. Unless freight rates drop
:here will probably be many long
lrives in the next few yoars.
The chemists, gathered In a conven
tion far more important to the world
than any disarmament conference, «ra m
talking of real things, harnessing th®
Bun’s power, and the energy of our re
volving earth. What they talk of thi*
year they will do another year. To har
ness the sun that men once worshiped
will be no more remarkable than har
nessing the lightning that men one®
dreaded.
If we saw microbes, living on the rim
of a great driving wheel, building littl®
engines on the rim, instead of harness
ing the wheel, we’d pity them. We ar®
living on a driving wheel, the earth, and A
Instead of harnessing that wheel w®’'"^'
build little windmills to catch the breeze.
The moon is the donkey engine of our
earth ship. It puts forth its power ire
the tides. We might as least harness
that force. We liv^e on the sun, since it
creates all the food we eat. But, ex
cept In making photographs, we utiliz®
none of its vast power, sufficient to pro
vide with energy 3,000,000 planets Ilk®
ours.
In New York, 25 years ago, at “old
Delmonico’s,” Nicola Tesla, holding up>
his claret glass,'said to this writer:
“If you could release the farce that
holds together the atoms in this glass, it
W’ould run any factory in the world for.
a long time.”
That sounded like dream'lng. Now
every educated child knows that Tesla,
was right, and chemists are seeking th®
method of unchaining the atomic force.
That matter is made of atoms, atoms
made of electrons, and those electrons
of pure electricity, chemists now know
and prove. So, in an iron bridge, or
steel rail, there is nothing more sub
stantial than electricity. And what that
is, we don’t know. But we shall know.
How much power has the sun? Plenty.
It illuminates and heats all within our
solar system. Forty-five years ago John
Ericcson, who built the Monitor, calcu
lated that on a strip of earth 8,000 mile*
long and one mile broad the sun’s heat
would operate, for nine hours every day
22,300.000 solar engines, each of 100
horsepower. * More than 2.000.000,00®
horsepower—which means that some day
power will be as free as air.
It would be a bad thing now—men ar®
not ready or fit to be set free from hard
labor. They will need its wholesome dis—'
cipline fox* centures longer.
Dr. Charles Avery Roremus, in a.
learned and human (rare combination)
analysis of the work and discussions of
the chemists, says truly that it would
be a calamity for men to know to®
much, too soon. "Man’s intellectual de
velopment needs for his true advance
ment the balancing effect of a higher
moral state.”
He says that in Egypt, where civiliza
tion started, because the crops wer®
sure, it costs only $3 to raise a child to
maturity. That will Interest those that
pay an obstetrician $1,000 before they
see the child and pay out $10,000 mor®
before the child is 10 years old.
The child of the rich American cost*
too much—the spending injures th®
child; making it feel too important. Tho
Egyptian child was too cheap. Human
beings ara educated by selfish sacrifice
and struggle for their children.
One divorce to five marriages is Chi
cago’s record for the year ju3t ended.
' UUUH can. uuuio -V < Cilia tt IRHIIIU
Tuesday. Good news for the south, and
the whols country. Interested, if only*
selfishly, In southern prosperity. If cot
ton goes to 30 e^tits it will be si ill'bet
ter news. The increased price amounts
to nothing, so far as the user of cotton
cloth is concerned—unless middle men
multiply the 30 cents by 10, in the manu
factured prleo. as they bid In tho war.
What worries the allied nations
about the threatening break up of
the German republic is whether the
resulting states will assume tbeir
shares of the Gorman debt.