OFFICE NURSE GIVEN ESTATE !'3T' Wyoming Doctor Who Diea In Omaha Revealec] Ro* mance by Will Omaha, Neb. Feh. %-A romance between a doctor and his office nurse, broken by death, was recalled yes terday when the will of Dr. A. B. Dane, former Laramie, Wyo., phy- 1 Biclan, was fl'ed for probate In county court here. The will disregards the widow, leaves $500 to a stepdaughter, and the balance of a $10,000 estate to Miss Vera A Sydenham, who had been his office assistant and nursed him dur ing his last Illness. Dr. Lane spent several months as a patient In an Omaha hospital, where the will was executed. Before his tlineus. Dr. Lane bad sued for divorce, alleging his wife refused to live In Laramie. The suit was to have been heard on the day of his funeral. Dr. I.ane had made^ provisions for her in a cash settle ment, It Is said. In Laramie, it was understood that Dr. Lane had planned to marry Miss Sydenham following a divorce. COLERIDGE PIONEERS WEDDED FIFTY YEARS Coleridge, Neb., Feb. (Special) —Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Cave celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in ft ciulet way at their home here, al though on account of being well known throughout Cedar county they received many congratulations. They were married at Clinton, Iowa, and lived there about IS years when they came to Cedar county and lived on n farm northeast of here for a few years, finally locating In Coleridge where they have resided for GO years. INGROWN TCE NAIL CAUSE OF HIS DEATH Columbus, Neb., Feb. .<—Patrick Buckley, 79 years old, retired Union blood poison resulting from an in Mrs. Nellie Dolan of Columbus and lood poison resulting from an In grown toe nail. Amputation of the leg several days ago did not stop progress of the poison. Buckley en tered the employ of the Union Pa cific in its store department In Omaha In the late ’70s, serving there until twenty-two years ago, when he came to Columbus. He continued in the company's employ hero until he was retired on a pension nine years ago. Ho leaves tw’o daughters, Mrs. Lizzie Dolan, of Omaha, and Mrs. Nellie Lolan, of Co'umbus, and rre sor., J. A. Buckley of North Platte. TO ERADICATE DREAD DISEASE Cattlemen of South Dakota Are Agitating County Area Plan Pierre, S. !>., Feb. -Special)— The provisions of senate bill 85 which would permit tuberculosis eradication In county areas of the state on peti tion of more than 50 per cent, of the livestock owrers of the county end the levying, by the board of county commissioners, of a tax to not exceed 2 mills, was the subject of discussion at n meeting of the Joint livestock committee itnd the farmers and cat tlemen of the two houses this week. < The subject was discussed at con siderable length both by .he mem bers of the legislature and 1 y R. K. Whitlock, field representative of the Sioux City Livestock Sanitary bend, who went Into the subject In detail as to what has been accomplished in Iowa and other states tributary to the Sioux City market. He .I'd not tspeak on the subject as to the de rails of the bill but only on those phases to show whut might lie ac complished. He came to the city for the purpose of speaking at the tnvi (tation of those Interested in the mea sure. i The bill will probably be changed to meet South Dakota conditions and it is expected there will be a change ,ln the per cent, required to call for a county-wide cleanup, probably b0 per cent., and other changes will probably be made. The body, at the meeting was en tirely too large to accauipllsn any thing definite and as a result It was decided that the chairman of the house and senate committees on llvj ouTH select a small commutes to embody Into the bill such feature? os jyere die .mss/.d. •«. *” The ger.5T«T -.pinion whs that a cleanup of this kind would be brneh clal and could be accomplished with little frlet'on should certain changes tbe made in the measure.* The bill will be changed and will probably be able do get to tile floor of the houses for general discussion this session. YANKTON DEBATER8 TO HAVE FIRST CONTEST Yankton. S. D.. Feb. (Special)— Yankton high school will open its debating season Thursday night when the local affirmative trio meets the Centerville negative here, and the Yankton negative team goes to Centerville. HOWARD ORGANIZES A JUVENILE BAND Howard, S. D., Feb. Special)— The Howard Juvenile band which was recently organized through the ef forts of F. W. Tuttle, has started with a membership of 46. Prof. A. R. Thompson, of the Madison high school faculty, has been engaged as instructor and weekly rehersals are now in progress. Because of a shortage In rye, corn and vegetables in Spain, the king has prohibited the distillation of alcohol from sugar beets and forbids the use of alcohol diatiiled from grains In the wine industry. REWARDED FOR GIVING ALARM Negro Convicted of Man slaughter Has Sentence Re duced by the Judge Falls City. N. laid off for the winter, under a highway department policy which Is the target ot much criticism, Patrolman Cleorge Pedlt on trunk highway. No. 18, north of Wor thington, refuses to allow snow to Interfere with the users af his section. He Is out with his team and (grader every day at hls own ex pense. ' PIONEER RESIDENT OF FULDA IS DEAD [ Fulda, Minn., Feb. (Special)— Lamed Coburn, 72 years old. a pio neer of Murray county and fur many jears a resident of Fulda, Is dead ut Lake Crystal, Minn., where he has lived with hi* daughter, Mrs. Blanche Wilson, for the last two years. The body Is being shipped to his child hood home at Vermont. •->» _ WOULD NOW BAR EASTERN POULTRY Mitchell, S. D., Feb. .—Members of the South Dakota Poultry and Pet association, through Its resolu tions committee, which made public Its report, will Join other mldwest ern states In urging an embargo against shipments of poultry and eggs Into this state from eastern states Infected with the European fowl pest. The poultry industry In South Da kota, the resolutions point out. gives promise of a glowing future and the association members have re solved to do vll In their power to encourage nfi! breeders and fight disease, carried by Importations. THIEF GETS NEW CAR CASH AND RAINCOAT » Mitchell, 8 D., Feb * -A thief who had an eye to business and was an exceptionally fast worker stole a two months old coupe, bellonging to A. 13. Biggie of Mitchell early Sunday evening. In the car waa a new suit case, containing a new suit of clothes. In the tram ers of the suit was a ten dollar hi 1 In the tank were ten gal lons of jasoline, and a great deal of extra o luipmrnt was parked In the rear o* the car. Thus far no trace of the car. the doilies or the ter. dollar? has been found. BAR SPONSORS ESSAY CONTEST Nebraska Association Would Incite New Interest in Fed eral Constitution > C ‘ _ Ponca, Neb., Feb. * (Special)—The Nebraska State Bar association, through its citizenship committee. Is stimulating the members of the bar to activity In carrying out the par pose for which the committee was formed, that of re-establishing the constitution of the 1’nlted States in the minds and hearts of the people, by their second annual high school essay contest and Its first teachers’ college essay contest. There are 18 judicial districts In the state and each district represents a unit in the high school contest. The Eighth district comprises Cedar, Dixon, Dakota and Thurston coun ties. All regularly registered students attending high school are eligible to enter the contest, and the essays are to be completed and submitted to the Judicial district chairman by April 15. The three best essays in the dis. trict are awarded medals, and the winning essay will he entered in the state contest. The writers of the three best essays in the state con test will he awarded medals and the school represented by the best writer will be awarded a large silk Amer ican flag by the state association. SUE TO RECOVER PART OF FATHER’S ESTATE Lincoln, Neb., Feb. (Special)— The four children of Edward Rich mond, who died in Cedar county 3!> years ago, have appealed to the su preme court from a decision of the district court denying them recovery of their homestead. The ir mothar was named administratrix in 1887. By order of the court she add the land to David Darland, who still owns It. The children claim that Darland has held all these years un der color of title and that that sort of a sale does not divest tlicin of the farm, now grown valuable. The court below said they rested too long on any rights they may have had. MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION HOLDS MEET AT WAYNE Wayne, Neb., Feb. —The North western Ministerial association 1)"Id its monthly meeting in the Wayne Baptist church, Monday morning with the Bev. Stephen Yomm and Bev. B. H. Murten of Wakefield, F. K. Alien, John Grant Shtck, Fenton C. Jones and Coy Stager, of Wayne, and Li. B. Keckler, of Winslde, pre sent. After a brief business meet ing. Bev, Stephen Yemm read an in teresting paper on "Kvangelism." A year's program lias been arranged. LEGISLATOR IN INSANE WARD Was on Tout of Inspection When He Was Acciden tally Locked in Lincoln, Neb., Feb. —Representa tive Frank Taylor of Pawnee county, was lnadvertenty locked up in the Lincoln hospital for the insane while one a visit there Saturday, it became known today, and was detained until he could convince ttie authorties of his indent tty. Mr. Taylor was one of the members of the house state Investigations com mittee which inspected the Institute Saturday. In one ward he met an old acquaintance from Table Rock, and they chatted for a half hour, while other members of the committee con tinued of. their rounds. The conversation finished. Rep resentative Taylor attempted to leave, but found the door locked. He fin ally got word to the keeper, and was released. MOKE INTEREST IN AUTOS THAN FARM MACHINERY Kearney, Neb., Feb. » —Fifteen car loads of autos were snipped to the community of Miller last year, while only two carloads of farm Implements went there, according to'Burlington railroad reports. The place Is one of the best live stock shipping points on the road's Black Hills branch, sending out last years 171 cars of hogs, 156 cars of cattle, 52 cars of corn and one car of rye. - _ BOY OF SIX YEARS EXPERT TRAP DRUMMER Bedford, la., Feb. —Billy Crum Is only 6 years old. but he Is an ac complish d trap drummer. He plays In the Bedford band and orcheslstra and handles all of his drums and traps Pkp a veteran. William is also quite a sinnger and Is a much favored soloist in this coimrvrltv and vicin ity. lt*‘ helped the bard of Bedford broadcast from KKNF recently and gave solos which delighted listeners. Other soloists were. Gti> Thomp son. baritone; Dr. D. E. Woodard, bass, and Miss Baryl Rhodes, sopra no. The band Itself consists of 2 4 pieces, directed by \V. W. Mitchell. GETS NEW TRIAL AT DUBUQUE Dubuque, la., Feb. -4.—Oliver Lieb, convicted of the slaying of John Kirkpatrick, wood chopper near Cas cade, la., will be brought back from the penitentiary fer a retrial of the case, granted on his appeal to the supreme court. He was sentenced to life Imprisonment following Ills conviction in November, 1923. Since the first trial Theodore Lali? and David Kirkpatrick, the wood chop per’s son, star witnesses of the state, have been ktllcd, I.ahr in an auto mobile accident and Kirkpatrick In an accidental shooting Facts, Not Bluff, Surest Way to Get French War Debt Settlement on Way By Chester H. Rowoll, N. E. A. Correspondent The sooner we can bring this French debt question from mor als down to facts, the more hope there is of a sensible settlement. Senator Borah’s moral showing, therefore, that the French ought to pay, following Deputy Martin’s moral showing that they ought not to do so. may hayq neutralize^ both moralities out of the question, ana so cleared the way for a practical show-down. the French had to go through this with Germany. For six years they demonstrated morally that Germany ought to pay. The argument was perfectly good, and nobody denied it; but it produced nothing. The real question was not whether Germany OUGHT to pay, but what Germany COULD pay, and how. As •oon as they asked the right question, the answer was simple. It is the same with France and America. The sooner France eomes down from the moral bluff that she ought not to pay to the practical confession that she cannot pay, the better for her joul, as well as for the actual settlement of the question. That raises a question of fact, capable of ascertainment. Then some modified Dawes plan can be agreed on, by which France will deliver to our collector in Paris whatever it is found she can afford to pay, and he will transfer to us whatever part of that we can afford to accept. But cherish no illusion that wre shall ever get all, or soon get any, of what is owed us. We will get what we can. That is all we can get. France will get something unwelcome, but salutary —the revelation that she is undertaking to play a role in Europe larger than she has the resources to sustain. So long as the question of the American debts can be evaded, so long the other situation can be concealed. The truth is un welcome, but it is cheaper to find it out now than later. It is argued that because we made a separate peace with Ger many, we should also make separate arrangements for payments. We did! We arranged, separately, to share all the rights, and to be exempt separately from all the resjmnsibilities of the Treaty of Versailles. Now we have got this recognized by the other powers, too. They agree that we shall have our share of the Dawes payments, and we do not agree to have any share in collecting them. What more could wTe do separately? If Germany defaulted on us separately, we should have to en force collection separately—which is exactly what the objectors insist we shall not do at all, separately or jointly. As it is, our fellow-creditors assume all the responsibilities of collection, while we share only in its benefits. The nearer to 200 per cent. American you are, the more clear the righteousness of this will appear. TODAY BY ARTHUR BRISBANE * The use of plain English in an art. a-nd such plain English is visible from the "window of this express train, as it rushes through Clinton, a thriving settlement in South Caro lina. A big sign beside the highway *eads: “Confers, scalawags and bums lon’t like Clinton.” “The heart knoweth his own bit terness.” The scalawag recognizes himself and passes on rapidly in this warm hearted south. They let you know Just how they feel. Their hospitality is overwhelming, and so is the other thing. " • Our provincial statesmen shudder ing at the words "communism,” and “bolshevism,” will have no relations with tlie Itussian government. Washington says to Russia, “you must not presume to govern your country in your own way. We shall have nothing to do with you, as long as you insist that the common man is rhor? important than the dollar he earns. And anyhow, we won’t have anything to do with you until you pay your late czar’s debts to our bankers.” Other countries are less particular. Italy, France, England say, "we don’t like Russia’s government, but we want Russian business,” and they make commercial treaties with Rus sia. Most interesting of all to this coun try are treaties with Russia recently made by China and Japan. Even our kind of rtatesmen ought to see a meaning aud a danger in an alliance that includes Japan, Russia and Chtna. Russia alone occupies one sixth of the globe's surface. China has at least 600,000,000 in habitants. They can fight and are not afraid to die, you can teach them to run a flying machine, and drop bombs. Japan is the equal of any nation on earth in manufacturing ingenuity, in fighting and in many other ways. Japan hates the United States be cause we refuse to let Japan regu late our Immigration laws. Russia hates the United States on general principles, foolishly, because of her communistic doctrines that won't last, but with some just cause in view of the fact that we Insist on telling her what kind of government she must hav.e and seek to boycott her. What do the statesmen In Wash ington think would happen if China, Japan and Russia should form a little combination to teach the United States a lesson? As to the ultimate result, there Isn't any doubt, but unfortunately as the first and Immediate result, there Isn't any doubt either. Those first results would be very painful. 1 i “ I This country is as thoroughly dis armed as Germany at this moment. Men marching up and down with guns don’t count in war any more. Battleships and silly coast defense guns mean nothing. If Asia, united with Russia, should attack the United States, It wouldn’t be with battleships sailing up cloae to be fired at by our coast defense guns. If Asia and Russm ever come our way they ■will come through the air. And this country, according to the testimony of our own officers, hasn’t got all told more than 20 fighting fly ing machines, ready for action. Only the other day Russia bought Quick Work. From the Vancouver Province. He had been dining too well, and, hailing a taxi, he crawled gingerly In side. after fultcrlngly giving the driver his destination. It happened that the opposite door had been left unlatched by the previous fare, and, stumbling against It. the In ebriated one fell outside again. He picked hniself up wth great difficulty, and accosted the driver. “Thatsh pretty quick work,” he said; •'how mush do I owe you?” After receiving $4,600 in compensa tion from five firms for Injuries re ceived within IS months, a laborer in London was tent to jail for 11 months because in his later reports he said Jhat he had never hud an accident he me. 3 00 of them from one. ;f the best European makers, Fokker. Japan is turning out 500 fighting airplanes every month. Twenty five times as many as we have altogether. She has big freight ships and battleships on which to send her fighting airships within striking distance of our coast. Or they could fly here in 60 hours. Mr. C. H. K. Curtis remarks, with editorial solemnity, that Russia, Japan and China, united bf treaties, “might put out bf kelter the balance set up by the Washington treaty.” Mr. Curtis means that a union of Russia, China and Japan, might up set the results of that silly Washing ton conference, in which the United States agreed with England, Franco and Japan to keep things balanced in the Pacific ocean. But the possibility of upsetting the very shaky l’acifio balance Isn't the Important thing. The serious possibility becomes clear, when you contemplate the pleasant time that the Japanese might have, if they came here through the air leading 1,000 Rus sian, Chinese and Japanese flying ships, to see what they could do to a few dozens of American cities. That would be an Interesting ad venture for the Asiatics and Rus sians. Many of them would enjoy "teaching a lesson to the arrogant American dollar kings.” But at first it wouldn't be a plea sant adventure for the United States. And that is the very thing that threatens the United States at this moment. Every government official from the president down bears a heavy re sponsibility, and later on may live through an unpleasant conference if he falls to give this country adequate preparation for defense. The presi dent, fortunately for the country, la deeply interested. But it’s time to begin buying and building fighting airships. Our nation says to Japan. “You must keep your people out of hera” and to Russia, *‘wa despise you and your government, and assume the right to tell you what government you shall have." A nation talking in such fashion should be able to make good its words. A nation that dictates to other na tions ought not to sit as this nation does, like a fat grocer, swollen with his own profits, sunning himself in his doorway, with no weapon for de fense at the mercy of the first inter national gunman that may come along. Old Farm. The empty house yawns gloomily Up at the empty, cloudless sky; The scorching August sun-rays beat On a dull wilderness of heat. The pump Is crumbling, red with rust; The door Is silver-white with dust. No hay-rlcke, Joggling homeward, pass; A chipmunk scuttles through the grass. The burdock and the ragweed keep Corners where roses used to sleep. The crazy windows leer and stare At ragged trees that once were fair. And, still, beneath that empty sky It stands In changeless dignity. Few things 1 know are quite aa grave As any house—or quite as brave. —By John V. A. Weaver, In Scribner’s. Net Crowed. From the Montreal Star. Miss Wiggs—Yes, sir, I always goes to church when you preaches. Vicar (flattered)—I um glad to hear that, but why when I preach? Why not every Sunday? Miss Wiggs—I'm always sure of get ting a good seat when you preaches, sir. _ _ _ Railroad freight rates in Switaerl tnd will be reduced more than one-half to BO per cent, of pre-war schedules for short distances while those for long hauls will be 20 per cent, below the ante-bellum figures Instead of 20 above us now. Nearly 100.000 automobile tires a day are made in Akron. Take5 „ LaxativoX (BromD I V Quinine ! tablets rdpr The tonic and laxative effect of Laxative BROMO QUININE Tablets will for tify the system against Grip, Influenza and other serious ills resulting from a Cold. 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