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INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM IN
f LOWER BRANCH.
IS BY MILLER OF CUSTER
Some of the Provisions of the Measure
—Other Doings in the Nebraska
Legislature.
Miller of Custer county introduced
f iu the house the much talked about
bi^ for a proposed constitutional
amendment providing for the initia
tive and referendum. The bill pro
vides that upon a petition signed by
8 per cent cf the voters of the state
filed with the secretary of state, ask
ing for certain legislation, that officer
shall submit the question to the vot
ers. The petition must be filed four
“ months before the general election
and it shall contain a full text of the
proposed legislation.
For the referendum it is required
that a petition signed by 5 per cent of
the voters of the stat° shail be fiied
with the secretary of. state within
ninety days after, the adjournment of
the legislature asking that the law en
acted be set aside.
Bills to be passed upon by the peo
ple shall have for an enacting clause:
‘ Be it enacted bv the people of the
state of Nebraska.” The governor
sha!1 have r.t power to veto any law
enacted l:y the people.
Reciprocal Demurrage Bill.
A reciprocal demurrage bill will be
drafted by a joint subcommittee of the
joint railroad committee of the legis
lature to embody features that may
bring closer relations between ship
pers and railroads iu Nebraska. This
was decided upon after a session of
the joint committee to listen to rail
road experts. Demurrage was dis
' ussed by Arthur Hale of Chicago,
chief of -he bureau cf statistics of
the American Railway association,
•ar service department and formerly
superintendent cf the Baltimore &
f Ohio railroad, ar.d also by A. W. Dick
w son. assistant superintendent of
the car service department of
the Buriiniton railroad of Chicago.
The side cf the sheppers was pre
coal dealers.
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W. H SMITH
Secretary .o* the Nebraska Senate.
Opposes Change in Pure Food Law.
The Loose-Wiles Biscuit company of
Omaha is opposed to any change in
the pure feed law and it has mailed
the following letter to members of the
[ Omaha delegation in the house:
We understand that a bill has been
introduced under No. 222 which will
modify the existing state food law in
such a way that it will give manufac
urers outside of the state privileges
■ allowed those located within the
;tate.
We beg to say that we are satisfied
with the pure food law now in force
and we will appreciate it ii you will
vote again?: the bill above referred to.
We have a large investment in the
state and trust that you will encour
age us by all awing the pure food laws
to remain undisturbed.
Sunday B~se Ball Still Dead.
Seheele of Seward lost out in an at
tempt in the house to get his Sunday
ease ball bill recommended for pass
age. Seheele had denatured his
measure to the extent that it pro
vided the games could be played out
side of the limits of a city, but it did
not .help the matter.
Constitutional Amendments.
By a vote of 19 to 12 the senate
passed S. F. No. 15, by Tanner of
Cou?las. to give the governor the
-ight to designate newspapers in
which the secretary of state shall
publish proposed constitutional amend
ments. This means that this pie will
go to democratic papers for a couple
o-f years at least. Giving out of this
patronage has heretofore been in the
Anti-Di'-crimination Bill.
Senator King's anti-discrimination
bill passed the senate by a vote of 32
\o 1. The bill was aimed especially
against the line grain elevators and
the big creameries. It prohibits any
company from paying different prices
for the same commodity in different
parts of the state, in order to oust
some local independent company. It
was charged that line elevators would
pay a very high price for grain in
localities where there was an inde
pendent farmers’ elevator, until they
oreed the independent concern out.
* Treasurers Object to Bill.
The Humphrey bill which provides
that old taxes shall be collected first
and that the last receipts given by a
public treasurer shall be prima facie
evidence that all prior taxes have
been collected, is attracting consider
able attention. The treasurer is re
sponsible under his bond for the col
lection of taxes and should he issue
a receipt for taxes for a current year
* and other taxes are due on the prop
erty, the owners would be relieved
from the payment of the back taxes
and the treasurer be responsible.
LIQUOR REGULATION.
A Measure that Is Approved by Tem
perance Workers.
Senator Miller of Lancaster intro
duced senate file No. 209. a bill that
has been approved by temperance
workers. Tbe bill provides that coun
ty boards may grant license upon the
application of a majority of the resi
dent freeholders of the town, If the
county Is under township organization
and if it is not under township organ
ization then upon petition of a major
ity of the resident freeholders of-the
precinct. The applicant must be a
man of good character and standing
and a resident of the state. The price
for a county license shall not be less
; than $500. Such board has no power
to grant a license in any city or in
i corporated village or within two
miles of the same.
In counties having 150,000 inhabi
tants the county commissioners may
grant or refuse license within two
! miles of any city in the county.
! In all cases the power to grant a
license shall be subject to the follow
ing conditions: When petitioned by
not less than 20 per cent of the qual
ified voters of the county, as shown
by the votes at the last state election,
praying that the question of prohibi
tion in the county be submitted, said
question shall be submitted at a spe
cial election, which shall be called
' in ten days after the filing of such
j petition and held not less than sixty
I days and not more than ninety days
j after filing of sa d petition. Several
! petitions may be joined together and
i constitute one petition. Ten free
i lioiders are to verify on oath that they
believe the signature are genuine.
The form of the ballot shall be
Against saloons in - county,”
and “For saloons in - county"
with a square following each propo
sition therein the voter may make a
cress. The laws and rules of county
and state elections shall govern and
the expense shall be paid by the same
authorities that pay for county and
state elections.
Important Road Bi+4.
The joint committee on highways is
preparing a bill that is intended to
be in harmony with Senator Laverty’s
bill for state supervision and state aid
in road building. The committee is
revising Laverty’s bill, but in addi
tion it will introduce a bill of its own
to create the office of county high
way commissioner. Senator Ban
ning of Cass, chairman of the senate
committee on highways, says it is de
sired to have a county highway com
missioner who shall appoint a deputy
for each road district. The deputies
shall be responsible to the county
highway commissioner and that officer
shall answer to the county for the
I work under his control." The county
highway commissioner is to. be the
county surveyor or some other suit
able person.
Congress Memoralized.
Senator Howell’s resolution, mem
oralizing congress to expend $500,000,
000 for the improvement of water
ways, rivers and harbors in this coun
try, and for the construction of re
servoirs for irrigation, was passed by
the senate.
Favor Taxation cf Mortgages.
The house recommended for pass
age the bill by Taylor of York to tax
mortgages on real estate, after a hard
fight against the bill by Brown of Lan
caster, Clark of Richardson and Mc
Coll of Gage.
Sink's Bill Recommended.
The failroad committee decided to
recommend John Sink’s fifty-car train
bill for passage, but it is doubtful if
Mr. Sink will recognize anything more
of the hill than the number and en
acting clause. It: was not any snap
judgment, that vrhich the railroad
committee took, when it decided to
simplify the bill. It was after four
long, veary sittings that final action
was taken.
In the first place the bill is not to
be a firty-car train bill at all. but a
sixty-five car train bill. In the second
place the bill as amended will provide
that the railway commission may re
move this limitation whenever in it3
judgment the removal of the iimita
’ tion is in line with better train ser
vice.
City Comptroller Bill.
The senate passed the bill which re
peals the act of the last legislature
making the county comptroller ex
officio city comptroller, in cities of the
metropolitan class.
The Com>ris’'ion to oCrtroi.
Stoeckar of Douglas county would
place in the hands of the State Rail
way commission practically complete
control over eevry public franchise
corporation in Nebraska, and to that
end he has introduced H. R. 239. It
provides that no corporation operat
ing under a franchise shall extend
that franchise or exercise any of its
rights without first having ortained
the consent of the railway commis
sion. No corporation operating under
a franchise shall assien. transfer or
lease, nor shall it make any contract
or agreement affecting its franchise.
Advertising Amendments.
The bill introduced by Senator Tan
ner of Douglas county, providing that
the governor shall instruct the sec
retary of state in what newspapers to
advertise the amendments to the con
situation, passed the senate, the com
bined force of republicans, against it,
making the vote of 19 to 12. It was
this bill which the republicans so bit
terly contested in the committee of
the whole, because the secretary of
state who has done this in the last
few years is a republican, while the
governor is a democrat.
Experiment Stations.
The two bills providing for the es
tablishment of agricultural experi
ment stations in the extreme west and
northwest were passed the house.
They provide appropriations of $15,
000 each for the establishment of
such stations. The purchase of a sec
tion of land in two suitable localities
is provided for and these are to be
used as demonstration farms in
charge of experts. In a way they are
junior agricultural colleges, their
particular purpose being to promote
the agricultural and live stock
NEBRASKA III BRIEF
NEW8 NOTES OF INTEREST FROM
VARIOUS SECTIONS.
ALL SUBJECTS TOUCHED UPON
Religious. Social, Agricultural. Polit
ical and Other Matters Given
Due Consideration.
Dr. G. L. Roe assumed his duties as
superintendent of the feeble minded
youth at Beatrice, succeeding Dr. Os
born. Louis Werner, appointed ste
ward, also resumed his duties.
At a recent meeting 6i the carpen
ters’ union of Nebraska City it was
decided to adept a new schedule of
wages. After June 1, 40 cents per
hour will be demanded.
Farmers should all have telephones.
Write to us and learn how to get the
best service for the least money.
Nebraska Telephone Company, 18th
and Douglas streets, Omaha. “Use
the Bell."
Dr. M. D. Baker cf Tildea, broke his
arm in attempting to “crank” his au
tomobile. He was immediately taken
’o the hospital, where Dr. Campbell
waited on him. Both hones of the
right arm were broken.
Professor Phillips of the depart
ment of forestry of the university has
tendered his resignation as member
of the university athletic board, and
it has been accepted by Chancellor
Avery.
P. H. Blakenship. Burlington agent
at Blue Springs, has mysteriously dis
appeared and no trace cf him can be
found. He left home at 12 o'clock
at night with a friend, intending to
go to the station for an express pack
age and nothing has been seen of
him since.
A three-span bridge across Pigeon
creek on the Omaha road between
Winside and Hoskins burned and tied
VP traffic between Norfolk and Sioux
City. Passengers and mail were
transferred. The cause of the fire is
unknown.
The Dempster plant of Beatrice has
received Clio orders for windmills
from points in Nebraska. Kansas,
Missouri and Iowa as a result of the
late blizzard. The plant is working
day and1 night at present to fill the
orders.
The Northwestern depot at Dakota
City, was broken into but nothing of
much value was taken by the burglars.
About twenty-five cents in pennies
and eight dollars worth of rebate
checks is all that Agent Pranger
missed.
“Salmon made me ill,” wrote Elmer
Zook a few minutes before he died a
lonely death in a house on his farm a
few miles from Auburn. Finishing
this brief statement he dropped back
on a canvas cot and peacefully suc
cumbed.
In district court at McCook, Bell
Hall. Minnie Brown and Ruth Barry,
three keepers of disreputable resorts
pleaded guilty to selling liquors ille
gally and were fined $250 each and
costs, amounting in each case to over
$aoo.
William Hughes, living eight miles
northeast of Humboldt, delivered one
hundred and ninety-eight hogs on the
market in that place. ' Thirty-two
teams were used in delivering the
hogs. They averaged about two hun
dred and sixty pounds.
The general merchandise store of
j Henry J. Bauer at Gilead was robbed.
Entrance was gained through the roof
of a stock room in the rear of the
store. About $200 worth of jewelry
and cutlery and some dry goeds are
missing.
An inquest was held bv the coroner
cn the body of a man found near the
railroad track west of Powell eight
miles west of Fairburj'- From papers
found on his person it appears that he
was E. B. Ellis of Denver. Colo., and
that he was cn electrician.
A very successful and interesting
farmers' institute was held at Ogalla
la. M. J. Leonard of Bertha was
president, and C. E. Phillips of Glen
rose secretary. Among the leading
speakers were O. Hull of Alma, Pro
fessor Hunt of Syracuse. Miss Rowan
of Lincoln. The meeting was under
the auspices of the University of Ne
braska and the Ogallala farmers’ in
stitute.
John W. Mackle of Austin. Minn.,
has bought a one-half interest in the
Tecumseh Mill & Elevator cnfhpany
with George E. Hotchkin. of Tecum
seh. the present manager of the plant.
Mr. Mackie Is an experienced miller
and for the past few years has been
managing three mills, one at Austin,
one at Red Cedar, and one at Dodge
Center, Minn.
Mr. and Mr. John C. Wood, living a
couple of miles north of Table Rock
received a message telling of the death
of their son-in-law. Harry Wright, who
was killed instantly in an accident in
the railroad yards in Green River,
Wyo.. at which place he was night
switchman for the Union Pacific rail
road. He leaves a wife and three
email children.
The Hardy bone mill located just
east of Kearney, was burned. The
mill was not running and the cause
of the fire iB unknown, unless tramps
set the fire. The machinery was bad
ly damaged, and the fertilizer and
feed stored in the mill was all de
stroyed.
The residents of Hooper are much
interested in the singular coincidence
in that the wrecking of the new
school building by the wind recently
happened just one year almost to the
hour after the building it replaced
was destroyed by fire the twenty
seventh of January last year.
William K. Stockton, one of the
oldest men in York county, a resident
of Waco, and a pioneer of the coun
ty, died last week after a short ill
ness. The deceased was born in
1809 and htd he lived a few months
longer he w-ould have been just 100
years old.
Joel Nelson of Shickley has passed
the examination it. “Esperanto" and
has received his diploma from the
Esperanto Association of North Am- i
erica. He is the second person in !
Nebraska to receive his diploma this
year, the other being the Rev. John A,
Bennett of Crest on.
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If scientists could only sink a test
tube down into the center of the earth
they might be able to ascertain more
accurately just w hat is going on with- j
in the far interior and might more ]
nearly tell what is going to happen on j
the earth's crust. The appalling dis
aster in Italy has forced home again
the fact that the earth is really a
high-pressure boiler, with intermittent
■ruptiens and t arthquakes which carry
destruction to rnan and the works of
man. What with volcanic eruptions,
arthquakes and tidal waves occurring
in some pilaces, what is to prevent sim
ilar unexpected outbreaks in others?
Nothing at all. under similar geo
graphical conditions.
These and many other questions and
answers have probably arisen in the
mind of every speculative man and
woman since the dawn of the new
year, when the full extent and horror
of the Italian disaster began to be
fully realized. And it is scarcely to be
expected that very much consolation
will be derived therefrom, or even
from the statements of some scientists
regarding this earth's internal trou
bles. their alarming causes and prob
able disastrous results.
It is not very comforting, for in
stance, to be solemnly informed that
we are living to-day oil the outer shell
of a high pressure boiler, which leaks
badly in certain weak spots and
“blows cut” with alarming frequency,
along a certain weak plate which is
geographically known as the "earth
quake belt.” *
If you take a map of the world and
draw a broad line straight across the
Pacific ocean, from the Philippine
islands to Panama, thence across the
Atlantic ocean through the British
West Indies to Spain and Italy, thence
continuing across Europe and Asia to
Japan, and on to the starting point in
the Philippines, you will see exactly
where the earthquake belt lies.
There are other minor belts, one of
which passes southward along the
coast of California and Mexico and the
west coast of South America. There
are evidences observable to-day in
practically all piarts of the world of
other earthquake belts in which tre
mendous geological changes and up
heavals were wrought in prehistoric
times.
Even New York city is in an earth
quake belt. At some time, probably
thousands and thousands of years ago,
a mighty earthquake split asunder the
rock that united what is now the
Island of Manhattan to the Palisades
of the New Jersey coast. That earth
quake formed the Hudson river.
Earthquake belts are admittedly
weak spots in the outer crust of the
earth—the high pressure boiler on
which we live—and there is no evi
dence that any of them were ever per
manently repaired.
Prof. Edward Suess. the eminent
Vienna geologist, predicted a few days
ago that eruptions would follow the
earthquake and tidal wave in southern
Italy. He attributed the earthquake to
the sinking of the earth's crust, other
wise a buckling of the boiler plates, in
the zone of which the Lipari islands
are the center. He declared that as
the process of sinking went on the
Calabrian and Sicilian highlands on
either side of the Straits of Messina
would be submerged, only the highest
peaks remaining above the sea. The
strait, he said, would thereby be great
lv widened.
Prof. Suess is of the opinion that
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the earth's crust is gradually shrink
ing everywhere. There is consolation
to he found, however, in his further
remark that the life of the human
species will he too short to make this
i her.omenon important to mankind.
The average thickness of the earth's
crust, the boiler plates, is generally as
sumed to be 50 miles and its average
density to be about five times that of
water. Scientists have estimated that
the downward pressure at a depth of
50 miles belov the surface of the
earth is somewhat in excess of half a
million pounds to the square inch. It
is a safe conclusion that within a
large portion of the earth s crust there
exist pent-up gases, particularly steam,
under a pressure equal to that exert
ed by the most powerful high ex
plosives.
Wnen a high explosive is detonated
the amount of pressure depends upon
the volume of gases liberated and the
temperature of the gases. Nitro
glycerine, exploded in a space where it
could not expand, would exert a pres
sure of probably from 300,000 to 350.
000 j>ounds to the square inch. The
pressure would certainly be less than
half a million pounds to the square
inch, although the temperature of the
gases would equal the boiling point of
steel. Consequently, with a 500.000
pound force holding in check a 350,000
pound force which is continuously ex
erting itself in an effort to burst the
earth's crust asunder, it is reasonably
safe to assume that the stronger force
will continue to prevail, for some time
to come at least, and that there is not
the slightest danger of the earth blow
ing to pieces.
Unfortunately, as the appalling rec
ord of earthquakes shows, there are
many very weak rpots in the earth's
crust. Deep down under the crust,
where water has entered through
faults, to be entrapped and highly
heated, with no room for expansion, it
dissolves the rock, and as under the
enormous pressures it forces its way
through narrow crevices to new posi
tions it cuts new channels in the gran
ite floors, just as in glacial time sub
glacial streams cut passages through
the ice.
Consequently, when the eruption of
a volcano takes place, relieving the
pressure in the deep passages under it,
there is a rush toward the outlet of
streams of superheated water made
syrupy with stone in solution. As
these streams of silica-charged water
find vent at the volcano the expansion
of the pent-up stream takes place with
explosive violence, forming volcanic
dust and pumice stone, which are
belched forth in stupendous quantities.
Then portions of the earth’s crust,
which have been resting upon a sup
port of steam under dynamite pres
sures, naturally sag and shift when
those pressures are removed or ma
terially lessened.
The vast amount of solid matter
ejected at times from volcanoes is dif
ficult of comprehension. The great
volcano Krakatoa had been extinct
for ages when, in 1883, its top blew
off with a shock felt clear through the
earth, and with a blast that sent a
wave of air around the earth three
times, while the fine volcanic dust did
not entirely settle out of the atmos
phere for more than two years, as was
indicated by the unusually brilliant
display of red sunsets. It is estimated
that more mud was ejected from the
mountain on that occasion than the
Mississippi river discharges in 250
years. This was the greatest volcanic
eruption in historic times. The dis
tance is not too great nor the time
too remote for the eruption of Mont
Pelee to have caused the earthquakes
of San Francisco. Valparaiso and King
ston, while possibly Vesuvius may
have played a material part.
SUPERSTITIONS OF THE GREAT
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Men of Remarkable Mentality Not
Free from Them.
A man more absolutely governed by
pure reason than Lord Macaulay could
not well be found. But in his diary
he refers to an after-dinner talk about
the feeling which Johnson had—of
thinking oneself bound to touch a
particular rail or post, and to tread
in the middle of a paving stone. And
he adds: “I certainly have thfs very
strongly.” In cne of his Hibbert lec
ture Max Muller said to the students:
Many of you. I suspect, carry a
ha’penny with a hole in it for luck.
1 am not ashamed to own that I have
done so myself for many years.”
Chaj-les Dickens refused to lie down
unless his bed were placed due north
ana south. He gave notice of the
rule before arriving at a friend's
bouse or a hotel, but a compass was
always handy in his baggage to make
sure. Miss Justin McCarthy has told
how Parnell gravely checked her stir
ring coffee “the wrong way,” and in
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sisted that she should take another
cup. A gentleman of Portrush sent
Lord Roberts an old horseshoe when
things looked ill in South Africa.
I Gratefully acknowleding it, the gener
al added that he would keep this
horse shoe in company ‘ with one I
picked up the day I entered the Orange 1
Free State, and another I found at
Paardeburg the day before Gen.
Cronje surrendered."
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Korea to Make Exhibit.
Korea will be represented at Seattle
by an exhibit of brass wares, carved
woods, linens and silks. An exporter
in Seoul is preparing a fine exhibit for
the 1909 exhibition to show the prog
ress of the Pacific country.
Severe Test.
"They tell me you are trying to
lead a better life.”
"Well?”
“I was just wondering what you
would say when you slipped down in
}k pool of water.”
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Displacing a Bore,
“Christmas ain't what it useter be,”
sighed Amos Barker, cross-legged be
mna the grocery
stove.
“What's the
matter, Ame?”
asked Hiram Wig
gins, rubbing his
cold hands before
the open door of
the heater, "didn't
nobody give you
a necktie ner a
pair of • slippers
this Christmas?"
“I remember,”
continued Amos,
disregarding the
raillery, "one
Christmas when I
was a boy, 1 got
a pair of copper
toed boots with
red toiis, a sled
with a race-boss
picture on it, a
sack of candy and
peanuts, a pair of
mittens knit by
granny and—”
"And a lickin',”
interrupted H i -
ram. “all in one
day: ”
"But now
Christmas hez
come and gone
agin—an’ the' land
is full of sorrer
and trouble. Th'
trusts hez boosted
th' cost of every
ming, ana in t nicago th price ot tur
keys fer New Year's is twenty-four
cents a pound. Think of it, Hi., twen
ty-four cents a pound!”
"I see,” said Henry Butts, joining
the duet at the stove, "that Al. Hick
son has married Nona Grubb, his
step-mother's daugh’er."
"That makes Mrs. Hickson her step
son's mother-in-law,” figured Hiram.
"And her own daughter's mother-in
law.” added Henry.
"Let's see,” estimated Al., ‘‘the bride
is now her husband's step-sister, isn’t
she?” looking pointedly at Amos.
"As I was saying—” broke in Amos.
"Sure,” cried Hiram, lighting his
cob pipe, "and the groom is his wife’s
step-brother."
Th trusts hez—” tried Amos
j again.
"And the groom's father is the fa
ther-in-law of his step-daughter,"
chimed Al., winking at Hiram.
"And—”
"Say,” growled Amos, getting up
suddenly, "be you fellers crazy er gist
plain dura fools?” starting angrily to
ward the front_door.
"A happy New Year to you. Amos,”
sung out Hiram as the door closed
upon the pessimist.
"Haw. haw!” laughed Al. ‘‘Now,
Hi., we'll have a nice little visit t’geih
er. What'd ye git fer Christmas ?”
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On the Wing.
."What is the shortest day?" asks an
exchange. A holiday, of course.
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A New York physician says kissing
must go. Quit yer kiddin’; it’s all the
go now out where I live.
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pur wore-/<
fey.
“I do not love thee as of yore,”
sings a Milwaukee poetess. All right,
Maud, that makes one thing less to
explain to my wife.
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It's funny what one little letter will
do sometimes. A Missouri newspaper
said last week: “Everybody seeias to
have the Christmas spirits!”
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A Nebraska editor tells of a woman
who got an automobile in her Christ- j
mas stocking. What a shockingly large
le—er, stocking that woman must
have.
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"Don’t rock the baby to sleep,” says
a woman's magazine. An Iowa editor
says he didn't, but he will give $2 to
know who spilled those tacks 0:1 the
stairs.
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A man will sit in the rosy light of a
colored shade and lose his head com
pletely over some fragile, dainty bit
of femininity strumming idly on a
guitar string while her mother is out
in the kitchen working like time over
the supper dishes. That’s one reason
why the demand for hired girls is
greater than the supply.
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On the Spot.
A scientist says that “if the earth was
flattened the sea would be two miles deep
all over the world.” After due meditation
a Kansas editor gives out the following:
“If any man is caught flattening out the
earth shoot him on the spot, and don't be
too blamed particular what spot. There's
a whole lot of us in Kansas that can't
swim.”
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Advertising a Cemetery.
An old newspaper man who has lately
gone into the photographing business
says: “I find that photographers rarely
advertise, but I'm too old a newspaper
man not to believe in it for everything.
I'd advertise if I was running a ceme
tery—quiet rooms, clean beds and plenty
of fret heat.”
A Social Animal.
Man, just as Lord Tlaeon avers, is a
social animal, and inveteralely so, else
the natural difficulty of always walk
ing up to the hostess saying: “I’ve
had such a lovely time!” must have
long since proved insurmountable._
Puck.
A Needed Improvement.
A woman wants a divorce because
he* husband made her walk to meals. •
Those dirigible balloons now adver
tised here are not coming any too noon.
—K. Y. Herald.
To Enjoy
the full confidence of the Well-Informed
of the W orld and the Commendation of
the most eminent physicians it was essen
tial that the component parts of Syrup
of Figs and Elixir of Senna should be
known to and approved by them; there
fore, the California Fig Syrup Co. pub
lishes a full statement with every package
The perfect purity and uniformity of pro
duct, which they demand in a laxative
remedy of an ethical character, are assured
by the Company’s original method of man
ufacture known to the Company only.
The figs of California are used in the
production of Syrup of Figs and Elixir of
Senna to promote the pleasant taste, but
the medicinal principles are obtained from
plants known to act most beneficially.
To get its beneficial effects always buy
the genuine—manufactured by the Cali
fornia Fig Syrup Co. only, and for sale
by all leading druggists.
ALL OF ONE KiND.
Have your poems been read by
many people?”
“Certainly—about twenty publishers
that I know of."
CHILD HAD SIXTY EOILS,
And Suffered Annually with a Red
Scald-Like Humor cn Her Head.
Troubles Cured by Cuticura.
“When my little Vivian was about
six months old her head broke out in
boils. She had about sixty in all and
I used Cuticura Soap and Cuticura
Ointment which cured her entirely.
Some time later a humor broke out be
hind her ears and spread up on to
her head until it was nearly half cov
ered. The humor looked like a scald,
very red with a sticky, clear fluid com
ing from it* This occurred every
spring. I always used Cuticura Soap
and Ointment which never failed to
heal it up. The last time it broke
out it became so bad that I was dis
couraged. But I continued the use of
Cuticura Soap, Ointment and Resol
vent until she was well and has never
been troubled in the last two years.
Mrs. M. A. Schwerin, 674 Spring Wells
Ave., Detroit, Mich., Feb. 24, 1908.”
Pot.er Drug & Cbeaj. Corn., Sole Props., Boston.
Looking Forward.
Mr. Wiggins, being in a frivolous
mood, was giving a burlesque imita
tion of palmistry—pretending to
read his wife’s fortune In her palm.
Six-year-old Ruth was listening with
intense seriousness, but neither of
them was noticing her.
“And, finally,” he concluded, after
the usual recitals about a dark maq. &
light man. a journey, and a large for
tune, “you will live to a great age.”
'Thank God!” broke in Ruth, clap
ping her hands ecstatically. “Then my
children will have a grandmother!"
Come Get Your Medicine.
If that little bit of three-cornered,
half-jointed, pin-headed squirt with a
big automobile and a size three head
on his miserable, slanting shoulders,
who turned the corner of Ferry and
Main streets on two wheels the other
ofternoon. and nearly sent three pedes
trians into Kingdom Come, will call
at this office we'll tear his scrawhy
soul to pit-ces and lick him to a "fraz
zle" after the most approved Roose
veltian methods. He knows who we
mean.—Buffalo News.
Enforced Economy.
A friend of Pat's was caught in a
shower near his cottage and asked
shelter from the elements. Pat opened
the door. One of the first things the
friend saw was rain coming steadily
through a hole'in the roof.
“Pat, boy,” said he, “for why don't
ye fix th' hole in th' roof?"
“The hole in the roof, is it?" asked
Pat, spearing for an excuse. “Oh. vis.
I would, ye know, but whin th' rain
is cornin' in I can't fix it, an' whin it
don't rain it don't need fixin'."
NO MEDICINE
But a Change of Food Gave Relief.
Many persons are learning that
drugs are not the thing to rebuild
worn out nerves, but proper food is
required.
There is a certain element in the
cereals, wheat, barley, etc., which is
grown there by nature for food to brain
and nerve tissue. This is the phos
phate of potash, of which Grape-Nuts
food contains a large proportion.
In making this food all the food ele
ments in the two cereals, wheat and
barley, are retained. That is why so
many heretofore nervous and run down
people find in Grape-Nuts a true nerve
and brain food.
“I can say that Grape-Nuts food has
done much for me as a nerve renew
er,” writes a Wis. bride.
“A few years ago, before my mar
riage, I was a bookkeeper in a large
firm. I became so nervous toward the
end of each week that it seemed I
must give up my position, which I
could not afford to do.
“Mother purchased some Grape-Nuts
and we found it not only delicious but
I noticed from day to day that I was
improving until I finally realized I was
net nervous any more.
“I have recommended it to friends
as a brain and nerve food, never hav
ing found its equal. I owe much to
Grape-Nuts as it saved me from a
nervous collapse, and enabled me to
retain my position.”
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read “The Road to Well
ville,” in pkgs. “There’s a Reason.”
Ever rend tlir above letter f A new
one appears from time to time. The
are cenuinr, tme, a ad full of liomsa
interest.