Loop City Northwestern
J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher
LOUP CITY, - - NEBRASKA
Justice and Charity.
Jewish charity will not be true to
Itself until it recognizes, and, having
recognized, crys aloud so that its voice
be heeded, the half is not greater than
the whole. Mankind must be in the
saddle and ride things. Property is
less than man. Justice is more than
charity. The charity of to-day ought
to become the justice of every day, de
clares Rabbi S. S. Wise, in an address
before the National Conference of
Jewish Charities. The only preven
tive charity is justice, and justice is
not charity. Charity can never rightly
become more than the complement
and crown of justice. Millions for
charity and not one cent for justice
must be superseded by: Everything
for justice. This conference must
bring much abused, but little tried,
justice into better repute. Upon our
age this conference must press the
prophetic note: Justice, justice shalt
thou pursue. It must reassert the
command of Micah: Do justice and
love mercy. Before mercy, justice!
Justice ever and mercy superadded!
Is not much of charity necessitated by
social injustice, the apparently cure
less injustices of the present order?
What injustice hath done justice alone
can undo: what injustice hath un
done, justice and not charity shall re
store.
Freak Pillars of Society.
But it is a social philosopher, me
thinks, who should be most grateful to
Curio Hall. Its existence spells safety
for the existing social order, declares
R. L. Hart in the Atlantic. Think you
it is the progress of enlightenment
that sanctions and perpetuates our
scheme of human relationships? Far
otherwise. Rather is it the survival
of benightedness. So long as endures
the gallery of ‘'exclusive living oddi
ties.” with pitiful blockheads to gape
at them, so long will there abound
those scullions, scavengers, stokers,
flunkies and wretched wage-minions
upon whose docility we depend for our
maintenance. Given intelligence to
perceive the joke implied in their ado
ration of abnormalities, they might
detect the huge, historic, practical
joke played upon them by destiny. At
long, long intervals—for us happily
long—they get fleeting glimpses of its
point. When that occurs, there re*
suits the process known as revolution,
which Charles Dudley Warner defined
as "turning society over, and putting
the best underground as a fertilizer.”
“For God's sake, go and see my wife
and babies, and do what you can for
them,” wrote a stranger to a high offi
cial of the Salvation Army, the other
day. "I can’t help them, for I'm just
out of jail, but I'm going into a lumber
camp to see if I can do something.
But don’t you think of me. I don’t
deserve any pity or sympathy. Only
please do what you can for them.”
The appeal was promptly heeded; but
a gift of food and clothing did not
close the case, and the official s report
showed how far-sighted and sympa
thetic is the philanthropy of the pres
ent time. “I'm trying to get at the
man who wrote that letter,” he said.
"There’s good stuff in him. He's worth
saving.”
Letters mailed in the United States
for Germany, and dispatched direct,
and not via England or France, are
now two cents an ounce or fraction of
an ounce. Persons who wish letters
for Germany sent by England or
France (the quickest route) must fully
prepay postage thereon at the Univer
sal Postal Union rate of five cents.
The reduced rate applies only to let
ters mailed in the states and terri
tories of the United States, including
Alaska, on the mainland of North
America, and does not extend to let
ters mailed in Hawaii, Porto Rico, the
Philippines or other possessions of the
United States.
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The fact that more than a hundred
freshmen in a western college have
been obliged to enter a spelling class,
because each of them misspelled 20 or
more words from a list of 200 of no
great difficulty, has led to some in
quiry at other colleges. Of ten promi
nent institutions of learning, one re
ports that one-tenth are poor spellers,
and two declare that they must put
one-fifth into that category. Of the.
others, some say that the spelling is
"fair,” one declares it to be “atro
cious,” and three say that the stand
ard is “high.” The pupils in the tech
nical schools are much poorer spellers
than those in the colleges.
Hereafter the steamship companies
bringing immigrants to America must
provide about seven cubic yards of air
space for each person. The object of
this rule, which was lately enacted
into law by congress, is to prevent the
overcrowding of the steerage and the
consequent danger to the health of
those who have to travel in that nart
of the ship.
Chicago milliners have declared
against big hats. Hats off to the Chi
cago milliners!
One of the most striking functions
of armies and navies to-day is their
usefulness in rescue work. On the
day after the terrible earthquake in
southern Italy and Sicily a flying
squadron of battleships and regiments
of troops were sent (o the stricken re
gion. It was their trained men, not
their guns, that were needed.
There is no good and sufficient rea
son why you should mind your jwn
business if other people will pay you
more for minding theirs.
THE PROFESSIONS
AND GOVERNMENT
PRESIDENT - ELECT TAFT
TALKS OF INFLUENCES
THEY MAY EXERT.
SHOWS DUTY OF THE CITIZEN
Address Before the University of Penn
sylvania on the Present Relation of
the Learned Professions to Political
Government Coupled with a Eulogy
of the Life and Works of George
Washington—The First President’s
High Character as a Man.
Philadelphia, Feb. 22.—Hon. William
H. Taft, president-elect of the United
States, was the principal speaker at
the exercises in the University of
Pennsylvania, commemorative of the
birth of Washington.
He chose for the subject of his ad
dress the “Present Relations of the
Learned Professions to Political Gov
ernment.” He discussed at consider
able length the influence which the
learned professions, in this day, have
upon national and municipal govern
ment. He outlined luminously the
part each of the important professions
plays in a government by the people
and compared their influence, one with
another. In brief part, he said:
“It is the duty of every citizen to
give as much attention as he can to
the public weal, and to take as much
interest as he can in political matters.
Americans generally have recognized
these duties, and we find active in po
litical life, men representing all pro
fessions, all branches of business and
all trades. I propose to-day to invite
your attention to the present relation
of each of the learned professions to
politics and government
Ministry Placed First.
“The first profesison is that of the
ministry. Time was in New England,
and in every other part of the coun
try under the influence of its tradi
tions. when the minister of the Con
gregational church, in addition to that
of his sacred office, exercised a most
powerful influence, which was of a dis
tinctly political character. His views
on the issues of the day w'ere consid
ered of the greatest w-eight in the com
munity in which he lived, and he
ranked everyone as its first citizen.
This was in the days when New Eng
land might almost be called a ‘theoc
racy;’ when it was deemed wise and
politically proper to regulate by law,
to the minutest detail, the manner of
life of men. and as these laws were un
derstood to be framed in accord with
moral and religious requirements, the
minister of the community was the
highest authority as to w'hat the law
should be and how it ought to be en
forced. Great changes have come over
our methods of life since that day.
Then the ministry, because of the re
wards in the way of influence, power
and prominence, attracted the ablest
of educated minds, and the ability and
force of character were where power
and influence resided. But the spread
of education and independent think
ing, the wide diffusion of knowledge
and news by the press, the enormous
material development of the country,
the vast increase in wealth, the in
crease in rewards and influence of
other vocations, the disappearance of
the simple village life, have all con
tributed to change radically the posi
tion and influence of the ministry in
the community. To-day it is not true
that that profession attracts the ablest
young men, and thi3, I think, is a dis
tinct loss to our society, for it is of
the utmost importance that the profes
sion whose peculiar duty it is to main
tain high moral standards and to
arouse the best that there is in man,
to stir him to higher aspirations,
should have the genius and brilliancy
with which successfully to carry out
this function. Of course, the profes
sion of ministry is supposed to have
to do largely with the kingdom of the
next world rather than with this, and
many people expect to find in the rep
resentatives of the profession only
an other worldliness and no thought
of this. This, of course, is the nar
rowest view of the profession. What
ever the next world, we are certainly
under the highest obligation to make
the best of this, and the ministers
should be the chief instruments in ma
king this world morally and religious
ly better.’ It is utterly impossible to
separate politics from the lives of the
community, and there cannot be gen
eral personal and social business mor
ality and political immorality at the
same time. The latter will ultimately
debauch the whole community.
Has Made Improvement.
« “During the administration of Mr.
Roosevelt, and under the influence of
certain revelations of business immor
ality, the conscience of the whole
country was shocked and then nerved
to the point of demanding that a bet
ter order of affairs be introduced. In
this movement the ministers of the
various churches have recognized the
call upon them to assist, and they
have been heard in accents much more
effective than ever before in half a
century. The greatest agency to-day
In keeping us advised of the condi
tions among oriental races is the es
tablishment of foreign missions. The
leaders of these missionary branches
of the churches are becoming some of
our most learned statesmen in respect
of our proper oriental policies.”
Judge Taft, discussing teachers, said
that '’their relation to politics and gov
ernment is of the utmost importance,
though indirect.” He went on;
Fog Filters.
“All London public buildings are
now erected with fog filters,” said an
architect. “They are essential. Lon
don's yellow-brown fog, made of the
smoke of a million soft coal fires,
smells of sulphur, irritates eyes and
throat and causes headache. It pene
trates houses. Waking on a winter
morning, you can't see across your
bedroom for it.
“So now ail public buildings filter it.
The air is drawn in at one orifice only,
and fans hurl it against curtains of
“The next profession is that of the
teacher. Of course, the great num
ber of teachers are engaged in pri
mary and secondary instruction and
in industrial or vocational work. Their
relation to politics and government is
of the utmost importance though in
direct. It is, and ought to be, their
highest duty to instill in the minds of
the young girls and boys the patriot
ism and love of country, because the
boy is father to the man and the pa
triotism of the extreme youth of the
country may well determine that of
the grown men. The effect of an in
tense patriotism which thrills through
the nerves of the boys of a country Is
illustrated in the immense strength
which Japan derives from it. No one
who visits that interesting country or
comes into contact with the Japanese
can avoid seeing its patriotism. The
term ‘Bushido,’ is a kind of apotheosis
of patriotism. The joy with which
Japanese give up their lives in defense
of their country has its foundation in
a real religious feeling, and is most in
spiring to all who come to know it. It
should be full of significance to those
of the teaching profession who become
responsible for the thoughts and ideals
of the young.”
To the writer, in whatever capacity
he may labor, Judge Taft attributed
great influence, either for good or for
bad.
Judge Taft paid a high tribute to
the profession of medicine, because it
had contributed to the preservation
of the health of all the people. He
pointed out that the profession had
been exalted by its great discoveries
and by its assistance in the expansion
of our government in the tropics and
in the construction of the Panama
canal. He said:
Medical Profession Eulogized.
"The triumph which has been
reacht'd in the name of the medical
profession in the discovery as to the
real cause of yellow fever and malaria
and the suppression of those diseases
by killing or preventing the propaga
tion of. or the infection of the mos
quito. is one of the wonders of human
progress. It has made the construc
tion of the Panama canal possible. It
has rendered life in the tropics for im
migrants from the temperate zone con
sistent with health and reasonable
length of life, and it has opened pos
sibilities in the improvement of the
health and strength of tropical races
themselves under governmental teach
ing, assistance and supervision that
were unthought of two decades ago.
Sanitary engineering with its proper
treatment of water, making it whole
some and harmless with its removal
of the filth and sewage and its con
version of what was noxious into most
useful agencies, all confirm the gov
ernmental importance of the profes
sion of medicine and the kindred tech
nical profession of chemistry, engin
eering and all branches of physical re
search. So marked has been tills inf
crease in the importance of the- med
ical profession in governmental agen
cies, that the doctors themselves have
organized a movement for the unifica
tion of all agencies in the federal gov
ernment used to promote the public
health, in one bureau or department,
at. the head of which they wish to put
a man of their own or kindred branch
of science. How near this movement
will come in accomplishing the com
plete purpose of its promoters, only
the national legislature can tell. Cer
tainly the economy of the union of all
health agencies of the national gov
ernment in one bureau or department
is wise. Whether at the head of that
department should be put a doctor of
medicine or some other person must
depend on the individual and not on
his technical professional learning or
skill. It is the capacity to organize,
co-ordinate and execute that is need
ed at *the head of a department, and
not so much deep technical and pro
fessional skill. It is the ability to
judge whether others have such tech
nical or professional skill that the
head of the department who makes
the selection of the members of his
department should be endowed with.
However this may be, it is becoming
more and more clear that the extend
ing of governmental duties into a ter
ritory covered by the profession of
medicine is bringing physicians more
and more into political and govern
mental relation, and we may expect
that in the next decade they will play
a far greater part than they have here
tofore; and it is proper that they
should.”
Washington’s Greatness.
After mentioning the great good, in
actual results, accomplished by many
technical professions, Judge Taft con
sidered in extent the profession of the
law, which, he said, ‘‘Is in a wide
sense the profession of government.’’
He said that lawyers often were se
lected to carry on governmental work,
because the executive faculty was a
very marked attribute of the modern
lawyer. While he realized that there
were defects and weaknesses in the
profession of the law, he regarded it
a3 the most Important in its relation
to political government. In conclu
sion, he said: "National exigency
seems to call forth the men peculiarly
fitted to meet the requirements of the
situation. Such were Lincoln and
Grant during the great civil war. Such
was Washington in the revolution, the
anniversary of whose birthday this
university appropriately makes its Com
mencement Day. He was not a law
yer or a doctor, or a minister. He was
a leader of men. His pure, disinterest
ed patriotism, his freedom from small
jealousies, his marvelous common
sense, his indomitable perseveranco
and patience, and his serenity and
calm under the most trying circum
stances, gave him the victory—a vic
tory which could be traced not to bril
liant genius or professional training,
tut to that which, of all things, is the
most to be pursued and desired—to
Lis high character as a man."
cotton six inches thick. It is forced
through these curtains. It comes out
cn the other side, for distribution
through the various rooms, a fairly
clean, pure, transparent air. But the
white filter curtains! Every day they
must be changed. It only takes an
hour to gray them, and by nightfall
they are as black as ink.”
Too True!
If a man is a Bohemian be quite sure
that his next words will be: “Say,
old chap, can’t you lend me a dollar?"
A TALK BY MU. BRYAN
ADDRESSES A JOINT SESSION OF
THE SENATE AND HOUSE.
MEASURES THAT HE FAVORS
Steps Taken for Remedying Defects
in the Primary Law—Miscellan
eous Legislative Matters.
In representative hall, which was
crowded, lobby and gallery, William
J. Bryan addressed a joint session of
the house and senate. In his address,
which lasted for one hour and forty
minutes, he advocated the passage of
the following bills, now pending:
Appropriation for a Lincoln monu
ment.
Liberal appropriation for a state
historical building.
A bill for the initiative and referen
dum.
A bill for a school of citizenship at
the university.
A bill for the Oregon primary plan
of electing senators.
A bill for the publication of cam
paign contributions before election.
bill for the physical valuation of
railroads.
The committee bill for the guaranty
of bank deposits. .
He opposed the bill providing that
the teachers in the state university be
Qualified to become beneficiaries of
the Carnegie pension fund after hav
ing taught continuously for twenty
five years, or for fifteen years, when
the teacher is G5 years old.
Mr. Bryan advocated the passage of
the bill limiting the amount of money
a candidate for office may spend in
his campaign.
Defects in Primary Law.
While both the house and senate
have taken steps to cure some of the
minor defects of the primary election
law by the passage of amendments
covering these points, the first ques
tion which has given serious trouble
was taken up in the house with the
Kuhl bill, which seeks to cure the dif
ficulty of calling the platform conven
tion after the primary and the selec
tion of committeemen by the candi
dates.
This bill, house roll 159. was dis
cussed in the house committee of the
whole, but the questions involved were
considered serious enough to have the
bill passed over for more extended
discussion.
The bill provides for calling a con
vention before the primaries. The
delegates to this convention are to be
selected on the old caucus plan. At
the same time and in the same way
precinct, county and state committee
men are to be chosen. The state con
vention is to draft the platform and
decide whether to indorse or not in
dorse any proposed constitutional
amendments. It is forbidden to take
any action of any character with ref
erence to candidates.
Objection was raised to the method
outlined for the selection of commit
teemen. It was urged that they
should be chosen by direct vote at
the primaries instead of by caucus.
It was declared that the old plan of
selecting them would have the tenden
cy of putting the party machinery in
to the hands of the political bosses.
Constitutional Convention.
The bill calling for a submission to
the people of Nebraska of the propo
sition of calling a constitutional con
vention was passed by the senate by
a vote of 23 to 9. The bill provides
that the question of calling a conven
tion shall be submitted to the people
in 1911, and that if they vote in favor
of it the uext legislature shall pro
vide for calling the convention to for
mulate a new constitution to supplant
the present one, which has been in
force for a third of a century.
Bills Postooned.
On recommendation of the commit
tee on medical societies the senate in
definitely postponed a bill appropriat
ing $12,000 for the maintenance of a
state bacteriological laboratory. It
also indefinitely postponed a bill to
admit licensed druggists of other
states to Nebraska without an exam
ination.
Pure Seed Bill.
Considerable discussion was evoked
in the house over the pure seed bill.
This sets a standard for the purity,
freedom from weed seeds and viabili
ty of agricultural seeds. The ques
tion which is tormenting a good many
of the members is whether the bill is
one which will be advantageous to
the farmer or to the seed houses.
Representative Miller, who introduced
It. declares it will be a benefit to the
farmers, but there is a considerable
opinion that ho may be mistaken on
the proposition. Several small coun
try merchants have written protests
against the bill' that it will put them
out of the seed business and give the
big seed houses a monopoly.
Qualification of Electors.
Shoemaker of Douglas county, who
heretofore has tried to get the legisla
ture to submit a constitutional amend
ment on the qualification of electors,
has at last got a measure recommend
ed for passage. His Jjill provides for
a constilutional amendment that all
foreign born male residents 21 years
old may vote after six months in the
state, city and ward .or precinct, upon
taking out. their first papers, but that
at the end of five years they must be
come full-fledged citizens, or the right
of franchise is taken away from them.
Bank Bill in Demand.
When the banking bill was read the
second time in the house 2,000 extra
copies in pamphlet form were ordered
printed for general circulation. The
demand already for these bills is enor
mous. Practically every member of
the legislature has a whole bunch of
requests for the bill when it is print
ed. Fifty requests have been made
to the governor from officials of other
states for a copy of the bill. The cost
of printing in pamnhlet form will be
considerably less than the regular bill
form.
APPROVE BANK BILL,
Full Committee, However, Makes
Some Changes.
The joint committee on banks
agreed to the banking bill as pre
pared by the subcommittee, and an
nounced that the bill would be intro
duced in the house Wednesday. The
measure was read section by section,
and each member of the committeo
agreed to its provisions, after making
one or two minor changes..
The guaranty fund was changed
from a levy equal to one-half of 1
per cent on the average daily depos
its, to be followed by semi-annuar
levies of one-twentieth of 1 per cent,
to two levies of one-half of 1 per cent,
made July 1, 1909, and January 1,
1910, and followed by semi-annual
levies of one-twentieth of 1 per cent.
A further provision is to the effect'
that from July, 1909, to January, 1910,
the guaranty fund shall never be less
than one-half of 1 per cent of the av
erage daily deposits. If for any rea
son the funds should be depleted be
low this amount the state banking
board shall make levies on the capital
stock, which shall not be more for the
year than 2 per cent of the deposits.
After January, 1910, the fund shall
never he less than 1 per cent of the
average daily deposits.
The immediate payment provision
in the bill is as follows:
"The claims of depositors for de
posits shall have priority over all
other claims, except federal, state,
county and municipal taxes, and sub
ject to such taxes shall be a first lien
on all the assets of the banking cor
poration from wh!ch they are due,
and then under receivership, including
the liability of stockholders, and upon
proof thereof, they shall be paid im
mediately out of the available cash
in the hands of a receiver.
“If the cash in the hands of the re
ceiver, available for such purposes,
be insufficient to pay the claims of
depositors, the court in which the re
ceivership is pending or a judge there
of. shall determine the amount to sup
ply the deficiency and cause the same
to be certified to the state banking
board, which shall thereupon draw
against the depositors’ guarantee fund
in the amount required to supply such
deficiency, and shall forthwith trans
mit the same to the receiver, to be
applied on the said claims of the de
positors.”
The banking board shall consist of
the governor, attorney general and
auditor, the governor being given full
power to make all appointments,
which shall include: Secretary of the
banking board, at $3,000 a year; clerk,
at $1,500 a year; unlimited number of
examiners, at $1,800 a year; to be paid
out of the general fund of the state.
The bill specifies that the reserve
fund shall be 20 per cent of the depos
its, of which three-tenths shall be in
cash in the vaults, and in towns ex
ceeding 25,000 population the reserve
shall be 25 per cent, of which three"
tenths shall be in cash in the vaults.
Savings banks shall have a reserve of
C per cent.
A. majority of the directors of any
bank shall reside in the county or
counties adjacent thereto and they
shall own one-tw'entieth of the stock
in banks of a capital of less than $50,
000 and $3,000 of the stock in banks
of over $50,000 capital.
The bill carries the emergency
clause.
House Favors Capital Punishment.
The house went on record as favor
ing capital punishment when the Ra
per bill to amend the present law so
as to provide life imprisonment, in
stead of hanging, was defeated.
Help for Weak Districts.
House Rule 123,' by the committee
on schools, was recommended for
passage and ordered engrossed by the
house committee of the whole. This
appropriates $75,000 for the aid of the
weak school districts and limits the
amount which any one district may
receive to $250. As at first intro
duced the appropriation was $115,000.
Constitutional Convention.
The senate committee of the whole
by a vote of 17 to 11 recommended for
passage Senator King’s joint resolu
tion providing for the submission to
the people of the state of Nebraska
the proposition of calling a constitu
tional convention, the vote to be sub
mitted in 1911, and if carried the next
legislature to provide for the calling
of the convention. However, as a
three-fifths majority is necessary for
passing a resolution of this nature, it
is not thought that it will pass when
it comes to the third reading.
Senator King argued that Nebraska
has had the same constitution for a
third of a century, and that the state
and conditions had outgrown it. He
said that many laws that were up be
fore the present session, such as the
bill to provide for the raising of the
state fund by taxing corporations,
were unconstitutional under the pres
ent constitution, and yet were impor
tant laws, and were really necessary.
He declared that the governor had
enough work for three men, being on
so many boards and holding all sorts
of offices, from that of game warden to
the head of the state.
Friend of Dumb Animals.
Taylor of Hitchcock has come out
as the friend of dumb animals, and In
the house he introduced three or four
measures in their interest." In H. R.
384 he provides against coursing or
turning loose any dumb animal for
the purpose of allowing dogs to chase
it. H. R. 385 provides a penalty for
any person who leaves a wounded
dumb animal in a public place to die.
H. R. 38G provides for the care of
dumb animals injured in railroad
wrecks, and H. R. 387 forbids picking
fowls while still alive.
A New Bank Measure.
Senator Myers of Rock county, a re
publican, who favors the guaranty of
bank deposits, introduced a new bank
ing bill into the senate which simply
amends the present law, so as to pro
vide for ttie guaranty of bank depos
its. However, Mr. Myers does not
provide for as large a guaranty fund
as the democratic bill. Senator My
er’s bill provides for an assessment
every- six months of one-eighth of 1
per cent of the bank deposits, to estab
lish a guaranty fund. This continues
until the fund reaches $50,000.
NEBRASKA IN BRIEF
NEWS NOTES OF INTEREST FROM
VARIOUS SECTIONS.
ALL SUBJECTS TOUCHED UPON
Religious, Social, Agricultural, Polit
ical and Other Matters Given
Due Consideration.
Cupid of late has been very busy
in and about Beatrice.
William Steele of Nebraska City. 72
years of age. was stricken with paral
ysis at his home in that city and died
shortly after.
Three Norfolk men cashed bogus
checks for Wm. Wright, of Omaha,
now being hunted for bigamy. The
victims were D. Rees, |20; James
Fierce, $20, and William Berner, $J(>.
The “curfew ordinance” was passed
by the city council of Seward. This
will require the youngsters under the
age of 16 to be under the paternal roof
in good season at night.
Herman fterold, one of the oldest
and best Known citizens, died at his
home in Plattsmouth as the result of
a tree falling upon him which he had
just cut down.
Seme details of the approaching
meeting of the Southwestern Nebras
ka Teachers’ association are being
given out. McCook is the place of the
meeting, which will be held Thursday,
Friday and Saturday, April 1, 2 and 3.
County Attorney Ramsey of Cass
county filed a complaint against John
Clarence for the murder of John P.
Thacker on Jan. 15 last, near the vil
lage of Union, in that county. The
complaint charges Clarence with
murder in the first degree.
Fire destroyed all the buildings on
the west side of the square at Garri
son, consisting of four frames and one
brick building. The fire started in
Will Vanderkoll's hardware store
while he was attempting to light a
gasoline lamp.
At a meeting of the beard of super
visors of Fremont county a resolution
was adopted approving of the bounda
ries of the proposed new drainag;e dis
trict, directing the election of seven
directors and fixing March 16 as the
date of their election.
Farmers in the section of the state
about Arborville have placed high
values on their farms, many as high
as $100 per acre, and all are selling.
Some who have sold are investing in
Deuel county, Nebraska, lands, while
others are buying in Texas and North
Dakota.
Mrs. Edward Wehn dramatically
killed herself a- Seward. Setting fire
to her house in several different
places, she went to the garret, lighted
her own clothes and hanged herself to
a rafter. The firemen quickly put out
the flames, and after a search found
the woman's partly cremated corpse.
Twenty Fremont men have farmed
a syndicate and will develop several
thousand acres of land in Tevas, with
the object of converting it into a fruit
farm. They will send P. B. Cumings,
former manager at Fremont for the
Nebraska Telephone company, to su
pervise the development and Mr.
Cumings will move to Texas.
Corn sold on the Omaha cash mar
ket Thursday for more than five times
the price quoted by men who bought
it at their country elevators out over
Nebraska fifteen years ago, this
montl^ Yellow corn brought 59%c
and white corn as high as 61%c. This
is not merely a quoted price, but
many car loads were sold at 59@6H£c.
George Bickert, a young German
farmer residing four miles southwest
of Elntwcod, received a terrible injury
to his left eye that may result in los
ing the sight of that member. He was
trimming up the trunk of a tree he
had just felled, w’hen a short limb
flew up, striking him fairly in the eye.
cutting the eyeball.
Word was received in Alliance from
the southeast hills that Frank Eich
thaler and his 17-year-old son were
lost and frozen to death during the
recent severe storm, while en route,
from Alliance. The family had only
recently taken up land in that section
and was not very familiar with the
country.
Nebraska will send a representative
delegation, headed by Gov. Shallen
berger, to the seventeenth National
Irrigation Congress in Spokane, Aug.
9 to 14, when government officials and
experts in their lines will discuss for
estry, deep waterway, reclamation of
swamp and arid land, good roads,
home building, education and other
problems.
Beniamin Marquis, who was arrest
ed in Kansas City on the charge of
negotiating a worthless check for
$800 through the Bank of Holstein,
in Adams county, was brought to Has
tings and will be arraigned. He says
he is in debt between $12,000 and
$15,000, most of which is represented
by what he terms overdrafts on the
Bank of Chappelle. in Deuel county.
Monday morning John Bolander of
Florence, a farm hand, drove Willard
Shipley’s team to Omaha, and neither
Bolander nor the team has been seen
since. Mr. Shipley is offering a re
ward for the return of the team, and
would not mind seeing Bolander again
for a few moments.
Charles Bott of Norfolk, aged 3, bled
to death, making four children in the
family of John Bott to die within ten
days. Three succumbed to scarlet fe
ver, the last bleeding to death as a re
sult of his condition following lever.
The four dead were half the children
in the family.
Record-breaking prices for cash
grain were paid on the floor of the
Omaha Grain exchange Wednesday
morning of last week. The Trans
Mississippi Grain company sold a car
of No. 2 hard wheat at $T.06%. the
top price paid for any grade or kind
of wheat in the local market this year.
Sheriff Gillan of Seward county and
D. E. Rivers were at Lincoln to look
for a man who has been employed by
Mr. Rivers to sell brooms for him.
The fellow sold ninety dozen brooms,
for which he collected the money and
has not been heard from since. The
loss to Mr. Rivers is about $225.
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How to Make a Bad Back Better.
Women who suffer with backache,
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WHERE HE STOOD.
Percy—Do yon think your father
would object to my marrying you?
Pearl—I couldn’t say. If he’s any
thing like me he would.
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nth LOC AL APPLICATION'S, a* they cannot Kick
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Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Thoughtful Child.
They are considerate youngsters In
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tle boy whose grandmother had ^ust
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he duly posted: ’’Dear Angels: We
have sent you grandma. Please give
her a harp to play, as she is short
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London Tit-Rits.
Bmportantto Mothers.
Examine carefully every bottle of
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infants and children, and see that it
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* Invention of Porcelain.
At a display of porcelain in China
an exhibitor said that Chinese lltera
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lain to a period some 25 contures be
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before the seventh century of this em
The Only Way.
Mrs. Sunflower—Pete Green am get
ting to be quite ari artist. Dey say he
am wedded to his art. Do yo' think yo’
could be wedded to yo’ art, Sam?
Sam Sunflower (with a yawn)—
Wall yeas, if art could cook a good
iinnah en take in enufT washing to
'teep me in tobacco money.
Asthmatics, Read This.
If you are afflicted with Asthma write
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which you will he grateful the rest oi
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O Happy Beast!
Johnny—The camel can go eight
days without water.
Freddy—So could I if na would let
me.—Harper’s Bazar.
Red. Weak. Wenry, Wntrry Eym
Relieved by Murine Eye Remedy. Com
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Try Murine in Your Eyes. At Druggists
As we grow older it is very com
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schildhood.
Stiff neck! Doesn't amount to much,
but mightv disagreeable. You’ve no idea
how quickly a little Hamlins Wizard Oil
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It makes a woman awfully tired to
see a man make a fool of himself
aver any other woman.
Lewis’ Single Binder cigar—richest, most
satisfying smoke on the market. Your
dealer or Lewis’ Factory, l’eoria, 111.
Some men have no excuse for being
sober when the lid Is off.
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A man is never so utterly unoriginal
as when he Is lovemaking or praying
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