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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 13, 1921)
O'NEILL FRONTIER D. H. CRONIN O'NEILL. NEBRASKA The Hurricane. The sun goes down, a lurid, formless glow, A sighing hush upon the hamlet falls; The cow bells slowly move to pasture gate, And like an echoed voice the herdboy calls. A silent haste about the cottage stirs. The fowls are 140 and locked within their keeps; The morning glory, spent with heat and thirst. Furls up Its petals soft and tiredly sleeps. Distinct upon the 1.111 a rider swift, By llng’rlng shafts of sunlight boldly limned. Flees from the boding spirit of the dusk To waiting village, warm and candle rimmed. 9 The cattle paw the soil In strange un unrest; Wl>*-eyed with mute lips forming not a word. Do kin and neighbors question grave ex press. And make reply with not a sentence heard. Upon the air the scent of flying earth; The muttered sound of many waters pent; The frantic rush of light, unanchored things; The orchard neath a mighty conflict bent. The doors and windows, barred by trem bling hands, With creaks and groans uphold the stout defense; An up-torn tree, a menaced, fearful span; A darkness grim, pulsating and Im mense. But fury passes, like a sudden whim, And hark! A patter at the fretted pane! The storm expends Its ruthless mad de sire. And peace and grateful rain swept roofs remain. —Maude De Verse Newton (Reprinted from Kansas City Star). Well Nourished Children. Dr. Fritz Talbot, of Boston, thinks we need a definition of good nutrition now that the subject bulks so large in public attention. He Is referring to good nu trition of children. To begin with, the child must be well nourished and well developed, but in addition there must be dry, clear eyes; smodth, glossy hair; soft, smooth skin without eruption; bright facial expres sion; mouth, kept closed; ability to breathe easily through the nose; clear hearing; ability to stand and sit erect with back straight, shoulders not sag ging; abdomen held In, not protruding beyond chest; firm flesh covered with a moderate amount of fat; musculature good, muscles well developed and not flabby; color of the mucous membranes and of the skin reddish pink; no circles under the eyes, and, finally, an air of vitality, elasticity, and Joy which Is characteristic of childhood. Tho scale for height and weight which he prefers Is that of the National Child organization. This scale takes into ac count age and allows considerable varia tion In height and weight In accordance with racial stock and family peculiari ties. The amount of food a child requires Is more for each pound of weight than is required by an adult, For example, the calories needed per pound at different ages are: For boys, 6 years, weight 44 pounds, calories per pound. 36; 8 years, 83 pounds, 36 calories per pound; 10 years, 64 pounds, 36 calories per pound; 12 years,, 76 pounds, 36 calories per pour .2; 18 years, 132 pounds, 28 calories per pound; adult, 160 pounds, 22 calories per pound. Children who are very active need more calories than quiet ones. Growing, active children likewise require more lean meat or its equivalent per pound of weight than adults do. A great many children suffer from lack of sleep. A child 12 years old re quires 11 to 12 hours sleep. In summer because of the short nights children habitually get too little sleep unless par ents exert themselves to see that the rules are carried out. /Among the more frequent errors In the diet of children are excess of candy and sugar in the diet. He also thinks that children eat too much fat as a rule. He does not mention tea or coffee. Even long after Edward Fitzger ald's famous translation of the "Rub aiyat" had established a place for it self In the world of literature It was with the greatest difficulty that he was persuaded to permit his name being used on the title page. He maintained that all the credit should go to the Persian poet. Such modesty wou'd be startling today. MaJ, Gen. John F. O'Ryan, the only national guard oftlcer to command a division In France, is opposed to giv ing veterans preference in the civil service. Ho wants to know why those who enlisted against their will and came back greatly benefited should claim special consideration. His attitude will enliven the discus sion. That Famous Dish. From Answers, London. * A traveling- fair had visited the lltth country town and a fete had been ar ranged, and a tlower show, and every thing pointed to a very gay day to be enjoyed by all. Farmers from far and near were ex pected to come Into the town, and much trade was expected to be done by the local tradesmen. One of the. leading shopmen went to the nearest city to buy a supply of stuff to sell during the fete. His wife stayed at home to attend to the shop In his absence. The first thing that he bought was a quantity of confetti. He sent that home and telegraphed to his wife as follows: “Am sending 100 pounds of confetti. Watch for It!" Next day he received this telegram from his wife; I "5-onfettl Is here. How do you cook Pre-natal Influence is blamed for the uncontrollable desire of an east ern youth to take automobiles with out permission. Before he was born, his mother had a great desire to own •n automobile. The boy Is of re spectable parents, and made no at tempt to dispose of cars. Buy that far now >f yen have a fever. IIS NEBRASKA Bureau of Securities Says Of. fer of Polish Paper at Cur rent Prices Means Loss To Buyers. Lincoln, Neb,, Oct. 11 (Special).— Director TouVelle of the state bureau of securities has issued a warning to Investors against purchasing Polish bonds that are being offered in the state at $17 when the market price is but $2.60. The bureau has no Jur isdiction over the sale of foreign bonds but the officials believe it is thier duty to call attention to the facts. !ttr. TouVelle says that in the literature that is being sent out stress is laid on the normal exchange value of the Polish mark, which was 23.80. The bonds offered for $17 are 10,000 mark bonds, which if paid off at the normal exchange would mean the in vestor would get $23.80 for his $17, or about 11,000 per cent. The latest quo tation of the Polish mark is .00026, which would make a 10,000 mark bond actually worth $2.60, or about one seventh of what the syndicate is ask ing. Mr. TouVelle advises all persons desiring to invest to look up the mar ket quotations before parting with their money. FARM BUREAU AGAIN SOLICITING MEMBERS Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 11 (Special).— Under the direction ot J. N. Norton, chairman of the executive committee, the work of soliciting farmers to Join the farm bureau has been resumed. The work has been suspended In order to allow the United States Grain Growers a clear field with the agri culturists. Two plans of organiza tion will be followed. Forty-five counties were canvassed In large part last year, and this winter the work In them will be continued. In the re maining counties the regular organi zation work will be followed. Officials of the bureau believe that with the good work done by its repre sentatives In Washington and the success they met with In getting; through farmer legislation will make It easy to get new members. NEBRASKA BAPTISTS IN ANNUAL CONVENTION Norfolk, Neb., Oct. 11 (Special).—A large number of Baptists from all over the state are here attending the annual convention of the church. The meetings end next Thursday. The most Rev. J. J. Harty, arch bishop of Omaha, arrived here Sat urday for his episcopal visitation of the Catholic church of this city. 1 ♦ ; Deserts Capital Society }• } For College Career}. lift** Miss Ruth Wallace, daughter of the secretary of agriculture, and Mrs. Wallace, who has deserted society In Washington and entered college In Baltimore. The Jeweler and the Beetle. From Scientific American. The Pharaohs of old Egypt had their scarabs, and In collections and museums we may still see these curious Jewels. But modern times have not Been any material use of Insects or insect pat terns In the Jeweler’s arts. Today, how ever. there Is quite a vogue In Paris calling for the incorporation in pendants, necklaces and pins, not of the mere counterfeit presentment of insects, but of the actual Insects themselves, pre served In one way or another. The Parisian Jewelers follow here the lead of the Egyptians, in that they employ for the most part exotic coleoptera (In the vulgar tongue, beetles) of warm and Iri descent colorings. —I The war department contemplates a national defense act under whose regu lations thousands of World war veter ans would be assigned for duty iu the reserve army frame work. WELLING, N. Z.—New Zealand will be represented at the Washing ton conference on limitation of arm aments and far eastern questions, Prime Minister W. F. Massey stated today. DETROIT.—The state Is ready to proceed with the trial of Herman F. Kademacher, a former policeman, charged with murdering his wife, Ger trude, by throwing her Into Detroit river from the Belle Isle bridge last Thursday night, Allen W. Kent, as sistant county prosecutor announced * ida y. ' Nebraska’s Chief Executive Has Another Letter from Federal Reserve Sys tem’s Head, •Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 9 (Special). Governor AIcKeivle has made public i long communication from Governoi Harding, of the federal reserve sys tem, with whom he has been in a long distance controversy over the ques tion of whether the federal reserve banks have not been favoring the in dustrial east against the inter ests of the agricultural west. The letter of the banks' executive con tains a long analysis of loans made by the institution, and he points out that it shows the charge is not true. Gov ernor AIcKeivle will have a bank ex pert go through it for the purpose of checking up on it. He says that a cursory examination does prove one criticism urged against the federal re serve banks, and that was that it forced liquidation in this section of the country harder than in others. It is pointed out that the report shows that the largest reduction of loans was in the district in which Nebraska is Bituated, $53,000,900 for the year. WIFE SAYS HUBBY TOO OLD FOR HER Omaha, Neb., Oct. 9.—When Zella Duhlgg, 20, married r>. C. Carbaugh, 44, In Tekamah. Neb., May 18, 1920, she did not know he w'as 24 years older than she, she asserts. At the end of three weeks, she learned the truth, however, her dreams of happi ness disappeared and she went to her mother’s home at Coffman, Neb., »c ccrdlng to Zella. She is now in the Salvatior Army rescue home in Omaha, and Car baugh has opened fight in district court for a writ of habeas corpus to have his former bride returned. When informed that Carbaugh had instituted action to have her returned she replied: "1 won’t go back to him. WThy, he’s older than my father. All I want from him is my winter cogt, wrist watch and school books—and to be left alone.” According to Matron Lillian Ness, of the rescue home, the marriage was annulled through the efforts of At torney Grace Ballard, of Washington county. —♦— STATE RESISTS EFFORT OF NEBRASKA BAKERS Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 8 (Special).—De positions taken on behalf of the state have been filed in district court in the case brought by the bakers’ asso ciation of the state in which they quct ceeded in temporarily holding up the law passed last winter fixing standard weights for bread. The principal claim of tile bakers is that the law is impossible of enforcement, because its provisions make requirements that they cannot follow. The depositions were taken in Chicago, where a simi lar law is in effect. They are from men and officers familiar with the workings of the law. They say that the bilkers there are complying with the standard weight law and find no trouble in getting the loaves to cor respond. BELIEVED KILLED IN BATTLE, RETURNS HOME Columbus, Neb., Oct. D.—Roman Rybinski, officially reported as “killed in action at the first battle of the Marne,” yesterday walked into Amer ican Legion headquarters here and the first man he met was Mark Burke, former sheriff of Platte county and who was in charge of the draft board when Rybinski left here to be at tached to the 89th division. He states that he was gassed, and, having a dislike for hospitals, did not go to one until compelled to by hia condition. After getting temporary relief he left the hospital and at tached himself to another outfit with evident credit to himself and the ser vice as evidenced by his papers. —♦—* ANOTHER OMAHA BANK HEAD IS INDICTED Omaha, Neb., Oct. 9.—William V. Matthews, president of the now de funct Pioneer State bank of Omaha, was indicted by a special grand Jury on charges of embezzling J.IOO.OOO and with ‘"kiting” checks between the bank and the Denver State bank of Denver. The latter charge is that the al leged “kiting” was done through the Guaranty Securities companies of Denver and Omaha. Mr. Matthews who was one of a number to be in dicted by the grand jury’s investiga tion of stock and other transactions, furnished bond. TAKES POISON AND CREMATES HIMSELF York, Neb., Oct. 9.—Bernard Lin quist, about 25 years of aye, living west of Lushton, committed suicide Thursday by taking strychnine. He then took a ladder and pitchfork from the house to the field. Climbing on top of a straw pile he dug a hole and buried himself, setting fire to the stack of straw. The body was re covered before the fire reached it. ~ - P. E. O. SISTERHOOD IN ANNUAL ELECTION Kansas City, Mo., Oct. 8.—Mrs. Bertha Clark Hughes, of Omaha, was elected head of the P. E. O. Sister hood*Ut a closing meeting of the con vention here. Miss Patience Beatty, Los Angeles, was named second vice president, and Belle M. Musser, Den ver, was elected national organizer. The women decided to build a me morial librafv at Mount Pleasant, la. Children in One Family Expire Within Few Minutes of Same Time — Tinder Quarantine. Grand Island, Neb., Oct. 8.—Two children in the family of Peter Jor gensen, at North Loup, died within half an hour of spinal m | Ingitis Tuesday. A daughter, aged 6, had been ill four days from what was be lieved to be tonsil trouble, and men ingitis did not develop until Tuesday morning. She died within a few hours. Twenty minutes later her little broth er, aged 2, died from the same dis ease. Two cases have been quarantined in Grand Island under the same name, though City Physician Ryder declares the cases In reality to be infantile paralysis. Several days ago there was one death in a family soutli of Alda. Another child in the same family was stricken, but has recovered. At Shel ton there have been a few lingering cases since the outbreak last summer, when the motion picture theaters were closed, but the disease is being care fully watched and is making no prog ress. SHOOTING IS RESULT OF FAMILY TROUBLE Rapid City, S. D., Oct. 8.—Albert Schultz, a young man ( £ about 30 years of age Is in the ljcal hospital under the care of a physician and Amlel Haack is in the custody of the sheriff as the result of a shooting af fair which took place on the ranch owned by Haai^:, six miles from Scenic. The story goes that Haack, who has been away from his wife and children because of domestic troubles for the past year, had recently re turned from the eastern part of the state and went last Sunday to see how his family was making it. Upon his arrival at the ranch, it is alleged that Schultz, who is a half brother of Mrs. Haack and was staying with the family, went into the house and returned with a 32 revolver, which he gave to Mrs. Haack. According to the story told by the officers, Haack made an effort to get hold of the gun and in so doing the shot was fired which struck Schultz on the left tfrist also breaking the akin on hi3 chest. The attending physician stated last night that Schultz was not in any danger and would be able to leave the hospital in about three days, al though his left wrist would be crip pled. USES SAFETY RAZOR BLADES TO SLASH SELF Fremont, Neb., Oct. 8.—Olaf On stad, 44, ex-bartender and former clerk in a local cigar store, cut and slashed himself with safety razor blades on his side, the veins of his left arm and his throat in an attempt to take his own life. He was discov ered in his room at the Windsor hotel when another guest saw blood stains leading into the bedroom. Three deep gashes were sliced in Onstad’s side with the sharp blades, but failed to cause death. The man then attempted to sever the veins on his left arm by slash ing four deep cuts. This method of suicide was not effective enough and, standing in front of his mirror, On stad started to cut away at his throat. The blades reached every part of his neck but the juglar vein. When found by police he was lying in a crumpled heap in a pool of blood and the entire room showed evidence of profuse bleeding. Despondency, due to lack of work, although he had a 3500 bank account and ill health, is believed the motive for suicide. He is expected to live. NEWSPAPER LIBEL SUIT UP ON A DEMURRER Watertown, S. D., Oct. 8.—Argu ment on a demurrer entered by the defendant In City Attorney A. L. Sherin's $25,000 libel suit against the Herald, weekly newspaper here, was heard in chambers court by Circuit Court Judge W. N. Skinner. The dte murrer was based on the allegation that statements complained of by the city attorney did not constitute libel and that there was therefore no cause for aeticn. Judge Skinner heard the oral argu ments of both defendant and plaintiff and took the demurrer under consid eration for future decision. —■♦— IS FOUND DEAD !N DEEP GRAVEL PIT Grant. Nob., Oct. 8.—The body of Edgar M. Doty \va3 found in a gravel pit one and a half miles west of Grant, where he was killed recently by a cave in oi loose earth. He came here from Juanita about one year ago and was in the employ of the John son Implement Company. He left town for a load of gravel and was not missed until the following morning. —^— LAD PULLS GUN OUT AUTO, IT GOES OFF, KILLS HIM Kearney, Neb., Oct. 8 (Special).— Sidney Adams, 19, was accidentally shot and killed here Thursday upon his return from a hunting trip. He drove his auto into the garage and turned to pull out his gun from the car. The gun was discharged and the load penetrated his chest. U. S. JURY MAY PR03E ALLEGED BLUE SKY FIRMS Lincoln, Neb.. Oct. 7 (Special) — A federal grand jury probably will be culled upon to investigate the ac tivities of alleged blue sky compa nies and their promoters when it meets in Lincoln, October 18. This state ment was made by Don W. Stewart, assistant federal district attorney here, Thursday. Offending individuals may be reached through charges of using the malls in a scheme to defraud, it is hinted. ! 888 .. ===^=========s=====sr 1 The following statement concerning the Muscle Shoals enterprises is made by the Mississippi Valley association, the organization of business and other civic spirited men whose purpose is to advance the development of the Mississippi valley. The association appointed a committee, with engineer ing experts among its members, to investigate the Muscle Shoals problem to acquaint its own membership and the public with the unbiased facts con cerning this project and Henry Ford’s offer to buy it from the government. The association had given its endorsement to the Muscle Shoals project in 1919, having been convinced that it was a worthy undertaking, the comple tion of which would aid largely in the development of the valley territory. The committee was therefore instructed to determine w'hether the project should now be completed and put into profitable use, or abandoned and the large sum of money which had been expended upon it charged off as a loss incurred by the world war. The report says: The committee found that both nitrate plants had been practically com- _ Pleted and that the largest of them was in successful operation at the time the armistice was signed. They found that all told the government had spent as of June 30, 1920, $105,221,238.51, The committee also found that the uncompleted dam at present com pletely blocks the navigation of the upper Tennessee river and its tribu taries, upon which stretch of the river there are great deposits of coal, iron ore, marble, slate, phosphate rock, zinc, and immense forests of hard wood timber, all of which raw materials are badly needed by the rest of the coun try, and with the cheap water transportation which the completed navigation Improvement of the river would permit, these valuable materials could be transported by water to the different sections of the valley to the great ad vantage of the country’s Industrial welfare and prosperity. They also found that by the completion of the dam—at an estimated cost of about $20,000,000 —approximately 600,000 horse power of hydroelectric energy would be created and made available for the operation of the nitrate plants In time of peace, In the production of fertilizer materials for the enrichment of the soil throughout the United States, and also for the industrial and municipal use of the numerous important cities in the different states within the ra dius of which such power could be transmitted. Furthermore, these great nitrate plants, while being usefully operated in time of peace, could be held in reserve by the government for the manufacture of high explosives in tlma of war, thus securing the benefit of their use for the purpose for which they were planned; which was to make us independent of the imported nitrates which we have heretofore been compelled td use, and upon which we are still dependent. The suggestion made in congress of "scrapping” these great plants, upon which 100,000,000 of the people's dollars had been spent, was re pugnant and unthinkable to the members of our committee, when they realized the great possibilities which their completion would bring in bene fits to the country at large. The committee, therefore, made a unanimous report recommending tha immediate completion of the dam and the operation of the enterprise, in the belief that the government would find a way to interest some capable and responsible party, or parties, in taking it over, when finished, and continue its operation and thus convert a big war loss into a parmanent and profitable investment which would greatly benefit the whole country. The judgment of the committee has already been fully justified as a splendid offer for the entire property has recently been made and which has been in the hands of the secretary of war since July 14, for hi3 consideration. This offer has been made by Henry Ford, who agrees to take over the entire project and— throughout a period of years—to repay to the government every dollar it will have expended upon the big undertaking of building two power navi gation dams at Muscle Shoals. Mr. Ford, proposes that if the government will complete Dam No. 2, which stands more than one-third completed, and if the government will agree to build Dam No. 3, 17 miles above Dam No. 2, which, if completed, will develop 250,000 horsepower of electric energy, making a total at both dams of 850,000 horse power, which will be the largest single power project development in the world, he will lease both dams for 100 years. Further more, the building of this additional dam will at once make 150 miles of the upper Tennessee river and tributaries navigable and put them into use a» carriers of commerce, largely at the expense of a private individual, which ia an unusual procedure in the improvement of our navigable waterways. The "interests” opposed to the acceptance of Mr. Ford’s offer claim that the additional dam (No. 3) will cost more than $8,000,000. Suppose it does the government can well afford to pay a reasonable part of its co3t in order to secure the benefits which the navigation of this important stretch of tho Tennessee will bring to the country. As soon as the two dams are completed and *15ower Is ready to serve, if the government will agree to lease for a period of 100 years to Mr. Ford, he will make annual payments for the lease of the two dams of $1,680,000. He further agrees to create a sinking fund from which annual payments will be made to the government throughout the period of 100 years, which payments within the period named, will reimburse tho government for every dollar it will have expended upon the two dams, their navigation and power facilities. In the chief engineers’ report to the secretary of war, dated July 22, and in which report the chief engineers rec ommends to the secretary that Mr. Ford’s offer be accepted, he, in part says: “Tho total payments of all kinds to the government proposed by Mr. Ford during the period of 100 years, aggregate $214,540,000. It further leaves at the end of 100 years 850,000 h. p. developed, with improved navigation of 150 miles of the Tennessee river and its tributarie, all tree of any e°st t° V?® United States. [The government lias spent $105,221,238.51. Mr. Ford will pay back twice this amount.] The present navigation improvement in the Muscle Shoals stretch of the Tennessee river consists of two lateral canals, one a little over 1 Vi miles in length, with two locks, and another nearly 14 miles in length with nine locks. The average annual cost of maintaining and operating these two lateral canals, for the past 30 years, has been $53,079.43. The completion of dams No. 2 and 3 will do away entirely with the use of the existing canals and locks, and consequently, the $53,000 annual cost of their maintenance and op eration will be saved to the people, a3, in addition to the large sum of money which Mr. Ford agrees to pay for the lease of the two dams, he offers to pay $55,000 annually, throughout the period of his lease, for repairs, maintenance and operation of the dams and the government locks which are to be con structed, thus transferring to Mr. Ford the burden which has been and is now being born by the taxpayers of the country. Mr. Ford, further, agrees to furnish the United States free of charge throughout the period of his lease, the electric power required for the operation of the locks, thus cheap ening the cost of transparting the freight that will be carried upon the Ten nessee river for the next 100 years. Mr. Ford proposes to purchase outright the two nftrate plants and to put the largest of them-piant No. 2-.nto use for the manufacture of fertilizer products which he agrees to sell to tho farmers of the United States at a price not exceeding 8 per cent. abo\e the aCl*He further proposes to sell for industrial purposes, at a reasonable price, a certain proportion of the water power to be created, to those who may wish to use it in the large area of the country to which it can he transmitted, which will add largeiy to the development of the resources of that portion of the United States and create new wealth, the taxation receipts from which will benefit our entire country. The only opposition to the completion of this great undertaking comes from the selfish interests who are now producing small quantities of ferti lizer materials and who do not want to encounter the competition that will be created. They are pressing their opposition in spite of the lessons of the war which demonstrated that no country can successfully fight a war of offense or defense without its own domestic supply of nitrogen for explosives. This opposition opposes the completion of Dam No. 3, in the face of the fact that the United States has paid a bill to Chile for nitrates, since 1867 to July, 1919 aggregating $821,183,624.12. This opposition is so selfish that it ignores the fact that the people of this country have paid as export duty on nitrates shipped from Chile since 1867, to July, 1, 1919, of $163 647,780.68, and if wo estimate the same 10 years increase in shipments of Chilean nitrates to tho United States our bill to Chile since 1SG7 will stand in 1928, on the basis of nitrogerf consumption doubling every 10 years, at $1,400,044,545.18. Mr Foul’s offer must be given to the congress for its decision. A major ity of its members are, undoubtedly, fair-minded, honorable men. They will have all of the facts before them and now that they are offered an opportun ity to avoid the waste of $100,000,000 of the people's money and to convert a nnssiblo war los3 into a safe and sure investment, the returns from which will' insure lasting benefits lo the people of the country. The whole country will await their decision with keen interest. No other offer is before them and their action should be prompt. The only probable bidders for the prop erty are those interests who have done their utmost to discredit and depre ciate the project and have been insistent upon the "scrapping” of the entire work already completed. The “interests” that are making objections to Mr. Ford’s offer are claim ing ffcat his outright ofrer of $5,000,001) for the two nitrate plants, is not enough In the light of what has been done with other similar war projects, the price offered for the Muscle Shoals enterprise seems cxremely liberal and especially so when Its promised developments for the good of the coun try are taken into consideration. ........ ., The “Old Hickory” smokeless powder plant, built during the war near Nashville Tenn., tho largest in the world, which cost $80,000,000 was sold for S3 500 000’ and the government loses all of its ownership and rights to the Lj’ . ’whereas Mr. Ford proposes that the Muscle Schoals nitrate plant No. 2 «PhMI be reserved for the use of the United States whenever needed in time of war. It Works Both Ways. From the Detroit Free Press. After all. it is no more reprehensible for women jurors to be lenient with young men culprits because they are good looking thah it is for men Jurors to be lenient with pretty women who are on trial. Boccaccio’s Tales. From the New York Herald. The bones of Boccaccio have been found. I.et them rest. Dead men tell no tales—like Boccaccio’s. A Surmise. From the I-oulsville Courier-Journal. "Why isn't there more building?" "LbOks to like the capitalists are b a strike.* k _ The death of Engelbert Humper dinck, famous German composer of operas, deprives the world of music of one of its foremost figures. His most famous work, ‘‘Hansel and Gretel,” is remarkable for the almost fairy grace of the music, a quality which Humperdinck seemed able to impart to all of his soores. A Fort Dodge man who has kept a dally weather record for half a century prophesies an open winter and a beau tiful October for Iowa. President Harding started another word going last week. It la "muni ments,” and It's In tbe dictionary, marked "obsolete.”