Nebraska Newspapers

    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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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[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.
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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,
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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
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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’."