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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (May 24, 1923)
THE FRONTIER D. H. CRONIN, PUBLI8HER. tV. C. TEMPLETON, (Editor and Butinas* Manajar. ggEILLi NEBR A8I<^ Only four nrxt-ciass passengers wer* on the Red Star liner, Vree|and, from Antwerp to New York recently and they had the wh.'S ship and Its band to themselves. There were 45 stewards at their beck and call, a full orchestra giv ing two concerts dally, a barber, a bar tender and other servitors to dance at tendance on them. The barber said he didn’t give a single shavo on the trip and only three'halrcuts. The bar served only nine bottles of Seltzer water. Just now the American tourist tide Is heeded Europe-wards. There are comparatively few Europeans financially able to travel these times. » Wild animals In captivity live at night a* Imaginative life entirely different from their dull day hours when the cur ious filo by In front of their cages, ac cording to R. T. Pocock, superintendent of the Zoological Gardens of London, who Is about to retire after many years of service. At night the inborn habits of the jungle show themselves In strik ing fashion, and the beasts throw off the sleepy venoef of Indifference they seem to adopt when humans stand in front or their enclosures and si>eculate upon want might happen were the animals suddenly given their liberty. A girl marathon dancer who sticks to It for a 24-hour day performs an amount of physical work about equal to that of lifting a ton to twice the height of the Woolworth building or three times the altitude of the Washington monument In the same period of time. It is equiv alent to lifting herself to a height 8,000 feet or more greater than that of the highest mountain on earth These results are obtained from the figures given In a study of "Energy Transformations During Horizontal Walking" by Dr. Francis G. Benedict, of the Carnegie Institution of Washing ton. The treasures of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts are guarded each night by two giant police dogs who are trained to refuge to aocompany anyone but the watchman who has charge of them. At Intervals each night they are led through the darkened galleries. All employes hav« been cautioned against remaining In the building after hours because of the danger of attack by the powerful canines. But for the Intervention of the watchman recently, an official of the mu seum, who stayed until late In the eve ning, would have been torn to pieces. Without the camel the hot deserts of the Old World would He unpeopled and unknown. In the hot, dry desert re gions tho oamel Is the horse, the cow, and the sheep of tho herders and trad ers. He carrl“s all the burdens, he fur nishes flesh and milk for food, and his hair or wool furnishes material for weaving cloth. At night In camp the little children of the chief get cups of the oamel's thick, cheesy milk, mixed with water. On the chief's table Is cooked camel flesh. Tho herders wear robes and turbans of brown camel’* hair cloth. The master sleeps under a camel's hair tent Echlln Gayer appearing with Cyril Maude In "If Winter Comes” and in his off-stage momenta Is an expert geneolo glst, has been commissioned to prepare a history of the Coffin and Starbuck families in the United States, who are all descended from one William Gayer, who died at Nantucket In 1710. Mr Gayer, who is of the English branch of the family, already has traced more than 1,800 descendants. The Coffin and Star buck families, through Mr. Gayer's work, will be able to trace descent through William Gayer of Nantucket back to Edward I. The first woman doctor of history on record In this country has Just been oall ca upon at the Sorbonne to come up for her degree. She la Mme. Madeleine De fies, 28, a native of St. Lo. Her father is an Inspector of schools and himself a historian of some mark. Mme. Derles, who was educated at Caen university was subsequently employed in the Army museum In Paris, and thpn entered the teaching profession, m which she Is still engaged. * Jn tlie house of commons considerable discussion took place regarding the tele phone service'In rural England. Develop ment now Is confined practically to the towns and cities, the total number of rural stations being 6.200. The post master general expressed hts willlngeees to do everything practicable to extend the service, though he refused to con alder proposals that rural communities be permitted to provide In any way for their own telephone Installations. French women married to Americans during the war and now seeking di vorcee and restoration of their French citizenship will be provided for under a Jpedal ruling of tfke ministry of Justice. Until now they have been classed as women without a country. Abandoned by their husbands or declining to go to the United States themselves, they have been unable to oentract new mar riage ties or obtain papers giving them Irgal status. Several Danish trade organizations tOVfrnm<'nt to pro test to the United States against the rulln* °r the supreme f?"!1 ,of the United Stats*, which they hold Is contrary to international law. nnnwJiM^r *lso at,ked ths government to approach other governments with a view manner n® tllem 10 Pr°test in a similar Six hundred Inventors hav* submitted models and drawings in the contest for prizes of $10,000 and $6,000 conducted by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for the best de ylnce to accomplish humane slaughter ing nf animals for food. It was an nounced today. Electricity figures in many of the devices submitted. It is expected that 100 architects and •oulptors from America will attend the first term of Fontalnbleau’s new Ameri can high school of the fine arts. The term will open June 26. The French Ministry of Fine Arts has placed at the school's disposal the remodeled theater In the Fontalnbleau pa!a?e, destroyed toy fire 60 years ago, as a lecture room and studio, _ T° ,th® f'exibtIIty of the drive of a ' ‘l^bt lrioto,r oar. a novel demon T ma?,e recently nt Seattle, vi a*n. An ordinary hunting case rvat k , Vth the lid op<“n wa« placed “it the brick pavement of a level streef ana the motor car slowly driven forward. Barely moving, the car crept forward i «?«» the left front tire touted tKd o. the watch. Then, even more slowlv the car advanced until the lid was forced down and snapped shut. Upon backing away from the timepiece, the driver picked it up and offered It for examination, and It proved to be un damaged. Sugar Is the leading “quick fuel" to keep muscular energy going, according to George Mallory, one of the party which climbed Mt. Everest to an gltl tude of 27,000 feet and who came to this country on a lecture tour to raise funds for a new attempt to scale the peak year. He related how lemon drops peppermint candles and chocolate were the principal articles of diet of the party that climbed within 200 feet of the sum ■tlt of the w—Id’s highest mountain. United /y jrtean line* will place six •tealnsh!; i jA Mrvloe between the Pa cific coast and North European ports The service will be t , continuation of that formerly managed for the Arner' cen-Kaw»il*n company which withdrew It* ve***!r * <e weeks ago. PBOFITEEHG IT Ti ' President of Nebraska Medi cal Society Resents Charge Made by University Professor. Lincoln, Neh., May ' (Special.)— Denying that the doctors are prof iteering and saying that due notice would be taken in resolutions later of a criticism of Professor C. J. Shirk before Wesleyan Btudents, President Bailey, of the state medical associa tion, at the opening meeting took due recognition of the charge. Dr. Bailey declared that the phy sician does much free work, that he is interested more in helping human ity than collecting dollars, and that it is unjust to single him out whan it is a fact that few doctors ever get rich. GOVERNOR HAS TROUBLE MAKING APPOINTMENTS Lincoln, Neb., May ' (Special.)— Governor Bryan has not yet put to gether, to his satisfaction, the puzzle pieces of the code that he has taken apart. One of the rumors is that in spite of the fact that W. M. Maupin, editor of the Gerlng Midwest, and a former Bryan employe, is a candidate for labor commissioner, the plum will go to F. M. Coffey, an official of the State Labor Federation and a former labor commissioner. STATE’S EXPENSES ACTUALLYNO LESS Nebraska Accountant Com piles Appropriations Made at Becent Session of Legislature. Lincoln, Neb., May (Special.) State Accountant Sommers has pre pared for Auditor Marsh a compila tion of the appropriations made by the last legislature, which total $2, 600,000 less than for the 'previous biennium. He points out, however, that this does not represent any act ual saving In the expenses of govern ment for the reason that $2,000,000 of the difference is represented by an appropriation for soldiers’ relief two years ago and most of the remainder Is federal money the state won’t get because It did not vote to match as many dollars on road building as two years ago. The state will have to raise by tax ation, $13,570,000. Prom cash, federal aid and special funds It will require a sufficient sum to make the total $21,191,000. Two years ago the total was $23,377,000. The increases total nearly $1,000,000 on various items, while the reductions. Including the $2,000,000 soldiers’ relief and $400,000 less for roads, total $3,468,000, mak ing the net reductions $2,473,000. CONTRACTORS DEMANDING CERTAIN EXEMPTIONS Lincoln, Neb., May ' (Special).— The Allied Contractors, _r Omaha, in an effort to secure a reduction of $75,000 in their taxation assessment In 1922, have launched an attack in supreme court on the intangible tax law. That statute provides that In determining the actual value of stock of corporations for the purpose of taxation as intangibles, the assessor should deduct all property otherwise taxed. The law also says that bonds and warrants of municipalities shall be taxed. A few months ago, however, the supreme court decided that all evi dences of indebtedness issued by the political subdivisions of the state were exempt under the constitution and thereby held void that part of the law which listed them for taxa tion. The Allied Contractors claim that If It Is not allowed to deduct the $75,000 worth of Nebraska city bonds and warrants it holds It will be pay ing tax on them, contrary to the court decision. It insists that the part of the law declared void was the induce ment for the passage of the entire law, and being void) the whole law Is bad. The state maintains that as the statute says deductions can be made , only upon property that has been taxed, and that as these bonds and warrants have not been taxed and are not taxable they cannot be de ducted. APPOINTMENT OF MEARS iS BUT TEMPORARY Wayne, Neb., May (Special.)— Owing to the death or F. L. Neely, who recently had^ been appointed postmaster here, but had never tawen over the active duties of the office, the civil service examining board has called another examination to fill the vacancy on the eligible list. Grant Mears, member of the house of rep resentatives, of Nebraska, has been appointed acting postmaster, until the result of the new examination is known. Mr. Mears will take the of fice over at once relieving Albert Berry who has been postmaster for the last eight years. —f TEACHER SCALDED WHEN PAN OF WATER TIPS OVER Osmond, Neb., May ~ (Special.)— Miss Lucy Eld wand, of Butte, Neb., principal of the high school here, will be unable to walk for months, the result of being burned with hot water. In gome way a roommate knocked the pan of water from an oil stove, the water going on Miss Edward's legs and feet. Although under the doctor’s care, she stills fills her position, being carried back and forth Jrom the school building. " MILEAGE CLAIMS BEING HELD UP Nebraska State Auditor Be lieves Some Officials Mak ing Unnecessary Expense. Lincoln, Neb., May "* (Special).— Secretary of State Pool has refu*ed to approve the claims of a number of state appointive officers who want pay at the rate of 8 or 10 cents a mile for the use of their privately owned automobiles. Governor Bryan has asked the auditor to suspend further action until he can determine upon what policy to adopt with re gard to these expenses. The auditor is inclined to question the validity of some of the claims. He wonders why two officers from the same state Institution ask mileage for two trips when one, in one car, would have taken care of the business. He also notes that when an officer visits the statehouse and the postoffice on the same day he marks up two sep arate trips from the institution. Most of these are from officers of the in stitutions around Lincoln. Previous administrations have discussed this question, but nothing was ever done to change it. —-f— SEWAGE DI8POSAL IS PROBLEM AT FREMONT Lincoln, Neb., May' - (Special)— Mayor Green and eight other city of ficials and employes of Fremont have appealed to the supreme court from an order of Judge Post fining them for contempt of court. The city has been dumping its sewage in Rawhide creek for years. Farmers across the lino in Douglas county secured an in- 1 junction against this use, and won in the supreme court. The city had two other alternatives, but decided each was too costly. One was to use a closed sewer eight miles to the Elkhorn river or a closed sewer, that would have to be elevated, to the Platte, three miles away. Instead' it secured expert advice and put in sep- j tic tanks. The farmers said this was j not in obedience to the court decree, and had them arrested for contempt. The city officers insist that it was a reasonable compliance and have come to the supreme court to get its opinion about it. MEARS TO BECOME WAYNE POSTMASTER Wayne, Neb., May The postof flce here has just received word from Washington, D. C., that Grant S. Mears, representative in the legisla ture from Wayne county, has been appointed postmaster to suceed C. A. Berry, whose term has ejyfired. F. L. Neely, who had been appointed post master, died before his commission arrived. Mr. Mears was sheriff of Wayne county for many years and has served several years in the state legislature, having been one of the house leaders during the late session. -4 - SHERIFF HAS TESTS MADE OF BOOZE Lincoln, Neb., May " (Special).— Sheriff John Kellow, of Knox coun ty was in Lincoln, Monday, consult ing the chemist of the department of agriculture in regard to chemical tests of liquor and mash which he is having made for use in six different liquor cases in which he caused ar rests to be made. Fo«r (of the arrests were made at Bloomfiel'd. BLOOMFIELD FIREMEN SAVE FARM HOME Bloomfield, Neb., May ~ (Special) —The Albert Gerdau farm nome, near here, was saved from destruction by fire when members of the Bloomfield fire department hastened to the scene with the chemical wagon. The fire started between the walls and its ori gin is unknown^ LEGISLATORS TO GET EXPENSE MONEY JULY 1 Pierre, S. D., May - Members of the South Dakota legislature will not be able to draw their $200 expense al lowance, which Is provided to cover the expense of living in the state cap ital for the two months of the session and Is for all members of the legisla ture with the exception of those who permanently reside in Pierre, will not bo available until July 1, 1924, ac cording to another opinion handed cfcown by the attorney general’s office. Senate bill 316, the general apro priation bill, includes the $200 ex pense appropriation and is carried in the column of figures of funds made available for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, according to the opin ion, but “the journals of the legisla ture do not disclose that there was any amendment to make such fund available during the second year of the biennium,” the opinion recites. “The bill filed with the office of the secretary of state and authenticated" the funds are made available for the second year of the biennium and will not be available to the legislators un til after July 1, 1924, the attorney gen eral stating that the decisions of tire supreme court are all in favor of the enrolled and engrossed bill unless there is something in the journals to contradict it. It is another case of error in enrolling and engrossing. The inquiry was made by State Auditor E. A. Jones. PLEADS GUILTY TO CRIME, RECEIVES 5-YEAR SENTENCE Cedar Rapids, la., May <U. P.)— Nelson Abodeely, charged with a murderous assault on Samuel Kacere last January, pleaded guilty in dis trict court at Marion today and re ceived a sentence of five years in the penitentiary at Fort Madison. This sentence is in addition to the one to five year sentence given Abodeely a few weeks ago when he was tried and found guilty of as saulting his wife with a hatchet, the same weapon he used on Kacere. TWO MOTHERS IN FICHTFOR CHILD Real Parents Would Prevent Girl Going on Stage—Case on Trial in Omaha Courts. Omaha, Neb., May -Tw# wom en, one a real mother and the other the foster mother are fighting In court here for the custody of a beau tiful and talented 11 year old girl. Charging that the foster mother, Mrs. Mary Kerrigan, Is planning a movie career for her daughter, Mrs. Iva Gannaway, 28 years old, real mother of Doris Clooney Kerrigan, filed suit in district court, asking custody of her daughter. She also claimed that the child was beaten by the Kerrigan family. Little Doris, who is playing the leading role in an amateur produc tion, is said by Miss Grace Abbott, directing the play to be a child prodigy. "I wouldn’t let my girl go to Holly wood for anything in the world,” Mrs. Gannaway declared. "When I saw' her all painted and powdered on the stage I had to cry. I am afraid for her. The Kerrigan's don’t love her or they wouldn’t put her on the stage.” Doris has been in the Kerrigan family for 10 years but she was not legally adopted until 1921. She de clared hotly that she would never re turn to her real mother. “Mrs. Ker rigan has been the only mother I have ever known and I want to stay with her.” PYTHIANS OF NEBRASKA ELECT NEW OFFICERS Hastings, Neb., May —The grand lodge session of the Knights of Pythias of Nebraska elected W. L. Elswlck, of Crawford, as grand chancellor. Other officers named were: Vice grand chancellor, Hugh Fletcher, Schuyler; grand keeper of the records and seals, W. H. Love, Lincoln; C. H. Kollig, of York, and H. E. Hyman, of Winulde, were among delegates chosen to the su preme lodge. C. J. Scherman, of Hastings, was elect)d treasurer. The Pythian Sisters elected Rose Barnes, of McCook, as grand chief. The past chiefs elected the following officers: President, Mrs. Dudley, Lincoln; vice president, Mrs. Ander son; secretary-treasurer, Mrs. Wil cox, Lincoln. PROFESSOR CROSS TO BE SPEAKER AT DIXON Dixon, Neb., May 11 (Special).— Commencement of the Dixon public schools begins with the baccalaureate sermon Sunday night, May 13. Ad dress and conferring of diplomas on May 17, is by Prof. S. X. Cross, of the normal school at Wayne. Nebraska Supreme Court Asked to Decide Question —Case Involves $14,000. Lincoln, Neb., May ' (Special).— The supreme court had put up to it Thursday the job of deciding who owns a crop of volunteer wheat, which is wheat that grows without any con scious seeding on anybody’s part. Thomas Johnson owns 240 acres of land in Deuel county that he leased In 1918 to Warren Wright. After the latter had harvested his crop for 1919 he secured an oral lease for another year. When he went to plow the land late that fall, he discovered a lot of volunteer wheat in the process of growth, and he did not disturb it. Wright went to California for the winter and Johnson, hearing nothing from him, leased the land for 1920 to Harvey Lindley. When the latter went on the land in April he found a vigorous wheat crop growing, and Johnson told him to let it stand and they would divide it 60-50. Just about the time the wheat was ready to har vest, Wright came back from the coast, and had it all cut when the other men discovered the fact. They replevined it, and the lower court de cided that Wright had no claim on it. The latter appealed to the supreme court, and insists that he had not abandoned the land because it was necessary, in view of the vigorous crop growing, to do anything more than he did. Wheat at that time was worth $2.30 a bushel, and the volun teer wheat run 20 bushels to the acre, making the stake in the lawsuit $14,000. CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR MEET AT HARTINGTON Hartington, Neb., May -Special). _E. P. Gales, general secretary of the United Society of Christian En deavor, of Boston, was the principal speaker at the one day “conven tionette,” held here Thursday. This will take the place of the regular spring convention and is a forerunner of the international convention to be held in lies Moines, July 4 to 9. questions legality OF GOVERNOR'S VETO Lincoln, Neb., May (Special).— Political circles were' interested in the claim being made by republican leaders that Governor Bryan waited too long to veto H. H. 537, the republi can code revision bill, and that for that reason it became a law without his action. The bill, however, shows that it was vetoed on Saturday following ad journment, and that this brought it within the time limit imposed upon him for action, although it was not Idled with the secretary of state ^ntll Monday. *~JheJ!/amad Cou) I %-S [National Crop Improvement Serv'.ex] RUBBERNECKED, wander ing cow becomes Grade A. prime beef every time one of them Is killed by a train. Judg ing by the price tho railroad com pany' Is compelled to pay for it. Grandfather did not have to do it, but now the cow has to be fenced In and fenced out. Evory" year there is tremendous damage done to cultivated fields and young Orchards by roving bands of nonde script cattle, particularly in the South, where free-range stock con stantly Invade the groves and gar dens, and cense almost Incalculable damage. This free-range stuff is usually tick-infested, tough, wild, and an altogether inferior, unprofitable* animal. If these animals were behind strong fences, on good pasture,, they would get along better, andb growers of cultivated crops woul<& have a better chance. By running: the stock on fenced range, certain*, fields ean be utilized for growing: feed, and a good finish given the cattle before marketing, which* means they will bring a. much high er price than the gaunt, long horned “antelopes” now sometimes sent to market. + + + ♦+♦ + ■»»♦♦«♦♦ + + + ♦♦ * ARE COMMISSION ♦ ; MEN DISHONEST? J + •- + 4- By a Michigan Reader. 4 4- 4 + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + When you ask that question, the reply will depend on whom you ask. Nine times out of 10 the fruit, vege table or poultry shipper will say, with some heat, that commission men are all thieves and robbers. But this is like saying that all lawyers are liars. There Is about as much truth in one statement as in the other. For reasons which will appear later, I feel competent to judge and I confidently say that there Is no more dishonesty among commission men as a class than there is among any other class of men. Let me give you a few leaves from my experience book. For the past four years I have been the local representative for a well known commission man on South Water street, Chicago. During that time I have made many trips to his place of business and always spent Saturday on the street to see what was going on. As the stores close at noon on Saturday, I always spent the afternoon in my employer’s office and closely noted his way of making re turns to his shippers. In all the four years of close observation I have never caught him in a dishonest act. I visited many other stores on the street and I believe that the majority of the men are honest. Of course, there were some rascals, but it was noticeable that their trade was very light and mostly confined to stuff bought by their local men. They re ceived very little on consignment. I wish I could speak as well for the shippers, but candor compels me to state that there were many tricky qnes among them. Barrels of apples and bushels of pears marked first class had a few nice fruits on the face and the remainder of each pack age was filled with culls. Crates of berries were found to have empty boxes on the bottom, and it was a common practice to put big berries on top an$ small, misshapen berries in the bottom. Hampers of beans had an inch or two of nice ones on top, and scalded, wilted ones-on the bottom. I often watched my employer when the wagon-loads of produce were brought up from the docks or depots. Every package was numbered with the shipper’s number. As the man unloading read ofT the number, my employer placed a blue pencil-mark on the package. He had three dif ferent marks. The helpers carried the packages into the store and plac ed them In three plies according to the pencil-marks. A buyer would come in who was buying for firms that dealt with wealthy people. He wanted the best and was willing to pay the price. His packages were in variably taken from pile 1. Another buyer, representing a firm dealing with working people, wanted good stuff but couldn’t pay the price of fancy goods. He was served from pile 2. Pile 3 went to Italian and Jewish peddlers, and the leftover stuff went to the canners. Now you readily understand how two men shipping the same day to the same commission man, would re ceive widely different returns. The shipper whose shipment went to pile 3 had acquired reputation of ship ping poor sti^ poorly put up; while the man whose consignment went on pile 1 had the reputation of always shipping an honest package, well put up. A new shipper’s packages were Inspected closely for days' to get a line on his output and his brand ol honesty. One thing I discovered early In the game; that was, that when a man kicked about his sales, even thougli his goods were below grade, It would never do to tell the man the facts Always he wound up by calling com mission men thieves and robbers. I am a farmer and hold no brief for commission men, but I hope to cor rect a very wrong impression. Put up an honest package and mark it plainly according to contents and you will rarely have grounds to complair of the dishonesty of the commissior man. Senator Lenroot is perturbed ovei the future of Hawaii because alreadj Japanese compose two-thirds of the population and as time goes on theii predominance will increase. Bui what grounds has he for believing that the Japanese will not make loyal American citizens? Such ar experiment has never been tried. Marriage of Fractions. From the Boston Transcript. •*My half-brother Is engaged to mj wife’s half-sister.” "When will they be made one?" ROCK-a-BYE BOSSY. That cows give more milk If they listen to music at mllking-time, is th® positive statement of Dr. C. B. Mc Nary, superintendent «f the Caswelb Training School, Kinston, N. C., after several weeks’ experimenting with s*. phonograph in the dairy barn where several score of animals were milked! daily. One cow, Butter Girl, gave during: one week with music, 344.7 pounds of milk, as against 333.4 pounds in, c*. week without music. In three week® with music there was. little variation,, then the music was stopped, and that, week Butter Girl fell to 316.6 pound® of milk. Another cow, Evelyn, gave 229.9* pounds of milk during a week with* music, and the week following when* the phonograph was shut off, fell to 206.7. A third cow, Louise, gave 392.5 pounds of milk in a week without music and jumped to 419.3 pound® when she listened for a week to sue!* tunes as “Wait Till the Cows Com® Home,” “Rock-a-Bye-Baby,” etc. Dr. McNary says that music wllS not prove of much benefit to a smalB dairy of three or four cows, but a* phonograph in a milking shed wher® several scores of animals are milked^ Is an asset that can not be sneezed at„ Some time ago, Dr. McNary declared to health authorities at Kinston and to federal and state veterinarians that, cows milked to music would increase-* their flow of milk, as music has a. tendency to sooth their nerves. He will continue the tests at Kinston. GARBAGE SPREADS DISEASE AMONG SWINE. Feeding of garbage, and neglect or* the part of farmers to use the seruir* treatment, caused 123 outbreaks oiT cholera In Maryland last October, ac cording to Dr. I. K. Atherton, iiu charge of hog cholera control work In that state. Investigation of the 123 case?* showed that 58 occurred In territory-' where the disease had not formerly appeared, and that 65 occurred in in fected localities and were due to ther spread of the disease. The source of the disease could be traced in 33 of the 58 cases which occurred in un infected localities, and in 31 instances* wos found to be due to garbage feed ing and in only two, cases to the im portation of new animals. Fifty-five of the 65 cases, due to the spread of the disease in the in fected territory, could have been pre vented, as owners of the herds had? been warned of the presence of hogr cholera nearby, but refused to usee serum treatment as a preventive un til too late. Because autolsts thought four wom en who frantically waved them to stop* were bandits adopting a ruse to over haul and rob motoring parties on tho» highway, dozens of autolsts passed up so. jjroup of society women of Sacramento, ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ 4 4 4 ♦ MAN’S WORKING HOURS. 4 I ♦ 4 i 4 Millions of Americans ar* 4* : 4 ashamed of their common sense; 4 4 at least, they do not assert it. 4" 4 It is during the active eight 4" 4 hours of every day—from 8 to 12 4 4 in the morning, and from 1 to 5 4 4 in the afternoon—that the world 4 4 is made or unmade. What we do 4 4 at night conventions and club 4‘ 4 meetings is largely piffle, and 4" 4 harmful piffle at that. The train- 4' 4 ing a man receives during his 4 4 working hours, when he Is wide 4 4 awake, decides his fate; what he 4’ 4 hears on Sunday, and at night, 4 i 4 he usually sleeps through. During 4 | 4 a man’s working hours he is a 4 4 philosopher, and estimates things 4 i 4 with such correctness and intelli- 4 | 4 gence as he can command. From 4 j 4 8 In the morning until 5 in the 4 4 afternoon, on week day3, lie 4' 4 hears the voice of God. • • • 4 4 During his working hours he 4 ! 4 takes his rewards and punish- 4 | 4 ments, and sees life as it 4 | 4 really is. Every minute from 8 4 j 4 in the morning until 5 in the 4 [ 4 afternoon a million Valuable 4 | 4 kindnesses are performed, a mil- 4 4 lion valuable lessons are im- 4 4 parted by the active workers. 4 4 Monday is a man’s worst day, 4 4 because of the idleness of the 4 i 4 day before. Work is man's 4" 4 greatest blessing, and he handles 4 4 it so well that he has advanced 4 4 front a low beginning to the pres- 4 4 civcilization, which would be 4 4 voted magnificent were it not for 4 4 the preaching of Idlers that it is 4 4 disgraceful. 4 ♦ 4 4444444444444444444 A Prolific Writer. From the Writer’s Magazine. Arnold Bennett’s astonishing literary Industry—equaling the industry of An thony Trollope—is reflected in an entr;®' In his diary. "This year I have written 335.240 word* grand total. Two nunCred and twenty four articles and storiee and four install ment* of a serial called ■'The Oates of' Wrath’ have actually been published^ and also my book of play*. ’Polite Farces.’ My work included six or eigh* short stories not yet published, also tha greater part of a 56,000 word serial* ’Lov* and Life.’ for Tillotson’s and tha • whole draft, 80.600 words, of my Stafford shire novel, Anna Tellwright’."