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Loup City Northwestern J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher LOUP CITY, , - NEBRASKA EYES HURT 3Y STRONG LIGHT Intensity of Illumination a Bad Thing for the Human Organs of Vision. A good deal has been heard of late of the injurious effect of certain forms of lighting on the eyesight; and our comparative ignorance of what are known as the ultra-violet rays of the spectrum has made them an obvious scapegoat. But it is equally likely that human eyesight suffers from the mere intensity of illumination which is afforded by artificial light. In an ordinary room in which the sun's rays do not actually penetrate, the daylight which filters iu is often as low as one-tenth a candle-power for each square inch of illuminated surface. It may even be as little as one-huu dredth, and certainly is no greater than that, in the rooms of Queen Anne houses where the walls are paneled and the small windows have small panes and heavy wooden frames. The intrinsic brightness of nearly all arti ficial lights is much greater than this which accounts for the injurious ef fects they produce on the eyes if lo cated within the range of vision. Only Two Fires in 70 Years. The city of Cartagena, in the Re public of Colombia, is one spot where the business of being a fireman is no great drain on the nervous system, according to Joseph K. Duffy of San Francisco, who spent some months ir Cartagena. “There have been two fires in Car tagena in the last 70 years,” Mr. Duf fy said. “One man who now is grow ing old says his father remembers as a small boy when a house in the town was burned. That was an accident. The other fire, which happened recent ly. say about a dozen years ago. was believed to have been of an incen diary origin. "But these fires did not destroy the houses in which they happened, be cause the houses are built of stone. All that can burn is what is inside This felicitous state of affairs Is as cribed by some of the inhabitants to the influence of San Pedro Claver. a priest of Cartagena a couple of cen turies back, who within the last ter. years was made a saint.” Played Before Mendelssohn. Elghty-one and an organist still and a woman at that! This old-age prodigy—away back in the ’308 she was an infant prodigy—is a London er named Ellen Day, who, according to M. A. P., still displays amazing ' igor and vitality. For seven and twenty years she has been organist °f Christ church, in the Westminstei part of the English metropolis; be fore taking this position she played at another church in the same bor ough for 18 years. As a child she displayed her gifts before Liszt, Mendelssohn, Chopin and Queen Victoria. Mendelssohn, indeed was so pleased with her playing ot some of his compositions that he wanted to take her to Leipsic and su pervise her further musical education there, but his offer was not accepted This organ-playing octogenarian has never married. Keeping Time in Holland. “Railroad time, as we generally un derstand the phrase in the United States, is a little ahead of the ‘town' time, but in The Hague, the quaint old capital of Holland, all private and un official clocks and watches are kept 20 minutes fast,” said Gerald Wal thall. “When it is noon in the railway sta tion, postoffice and other government buildings of The Hague the timepieces in the shops and the watches of the sturdy burghers show 12:20 p. m. Just what reason there is for this I don’t know, although I asked enlighten ment in many quarters. It seems a custom that has been handed down for generations, and the Dutch are too conservative to change the ways ol their progenitors without some migh ty inducement.—Baltimore American. 'Twas Ever Thus. The nurse was wheeling the child along in the baby buggy. Two ani mals also occupied the buggy. They were stuffed. The child held one tenderly in her arms. She cooed to it. The other was strapped inertly to the side of the buggy, without ca ress, without cuddling, looking sadly out on the weary world with wide glass eyes. The stuffed animal in the arms of the child was a possum. The unca ressed animal strapped to the side of the buggy was a Teddy bear. Would Have Home Course. Mrs. Julian Heath presided at the meeting which was held the other day in New .York for the purpose of urg ing the-creation of a federal bureau to instruct mothers in the care of their homes and families. Jamaican Women Want Ballot. The latest part of the world to be re ported as making a commotion in fa vor of giving women the ballot is the British West Indies. In Jamaica the other day the legislature killed the bill enabling women to vote by the slen derest of margins. Instead of being discouraged, the women of Jamaica de clare their willingness to fight a hun dred years or longer for their rights. Where Germans Lead. The Germans are the world's great est chemists. Forests of British Columbia. Official estimates state that in Brit ish Columbia there is an area of forest and wood land aggregating 285,554 square miles. All over this extensive area are large sections, each of many square miles, owned or leased by American syndicates and controlled by American capital. The available tim ber area of Vancouver island alone amounted to 8,000,000 acres. Always a Popular Toy. The boys of ancient Egypt played with toy soldiers. IS MADE BY DR. BESSEY OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY. “MADE IN NEBRASKA” CARDS Superintendent Bishop Certifying to County Superintendents Semi Annual Apportionment. ' In a letter to Deputy Commissioner of Labor Maupin, Dr. Charles E. Bes sey of the University of Nebraska makes a suggestion that will be of in terest to Nebraskans. Dr. Bessey sug gests that at all future fairs, state and county, the exhibitors of goodE manu factured in Nebraska make the fact known by attaching "Made in Nebras ka" cards to all sucu exhibits. He says that this custom is followed at all of the fairs held in the Dominion of Canada and believes that u could be followed to great advantage in Ne braska. Dr. Bessey was led to make this sug- j gestion by learning from the last bi- j ennial report of the bureau of labor and industrial statistics that Nebraska manufacturing institutions turned out! $151,000,000 worth of finished products! in 190*, a large proportion of whit h was made up from raw material fur-1 nished in Nebraska. Nine million del-j lars were paid in wages to the work-1 ers in these manufacturing institu tions. and to this enormous wage roll I should be added the wages paid to; workers in other than strictly manu facturing plants—railroad men, print ers. pressmen and other skilled work men. The total wage roll would doubt less exceed $20,000,000. "Nebraska’s place in the agricul tural world is well known and abso lutely sure,” said Deputy Commission er Maupin today. "Why not proceed now to let the world know that we are progressing along other lines of pro ductive endeavor?" . State School Apportionment. State Superintendent Bishop is cer tifying out to the various county super intendents the semi-annual school ap-1 portionments. which amounts to a total of $293,192.49, or $0.79272 for each pupil, there being 309,855 school j children enrolled during tne last si* months. One year ago the apportionment amounted to $334.376.t>8. The amount allotted to Douglas: county, out of this apportionment this year was derived from the following sources: State tax. $2,381.49; interest nn school and saiine lands soid, $90.- i 099.53; interest on school and saline lands leased, $o<.308.64; interest on! bonds. $117,301.43; interest on state warrants. $12,866.65; from the sale of fish and game licenses. $3,050; district bonds. $134.98; final dividend from the miffalo county bana, $o0.10. Armory Funds Apportioned. At a meeting of the state military board the legislative appropriation for armory rent for companies of the Ne braska national guard was apportion-1 ed. The brigade headquarters, each.' of the two regimental headquarters and each of the two regimental bands j is to have $100. Companies of the' hirst regiment are to have $259 each; with the exception of company L. Omaha, which is to have $400 a year. Company A at Kearney. C at Nebras ka City, D at Fairbury and F at Lin FIXING ASSESSMENTS. Northwestern Case Deferred for a Short Time. The state board of assessment came very near assessing the Northwestern railroad, but owing to the fact that Land Commissioner Cowles had been called away from the meeting, an ad journment was taken for a few days, no action was taken on the motion by Governor Shallenberger to increase this roal $4,000 a mile. The Northwestern is now valued at $33,600 a mile, and the governor moved that the valuation be placed at $37,500 a mile. This motion was seconded by Auditor Barton. The motion was discussed infor mally while awaiting the return of the land commissioner. Treasurer Brian said he was ready to vote for the increase, but he had given the railroads to understand that if the road was to be increased he would give the nianother opportunity to ap pear and make further argument. For this reason he was in favor of a delay. The value of the Pullman company was fixed at the same figure as last year, $12,500 for the Standard cars and $S,000 for the tourists. Auditor Barton moved to value the Standard cars at $15,000 and the tourists at $10,000 and his motion was seconded by the governor, but the other three members of the board voted to leave this corporation at its present assess ment. The car companies were as sessed at the same figure as last year, though the mileage was reduced from 150 miles a day to 100, which will boost the values somewhat. The total valuation of the Pullman company will depend upon the number of miles these cars have rim in Nebraska. This has not yet been figured. In his talk for an increased valua tion of the Northwestern the governor called attention to the fact that the Northwestern is assessed at $6,700 a mile, while the Missouri Pacific is as sessed $7,440 a mile; the St. Joseph & Grand Island at $6,500 and the Rock Island at $8,507. The Northwestern, he insisted, was out of proportion to the other roads, and therefore should be increased. Treasurer Brian an nounced that he would vote for the in crease. though no figures had been submitted to show that the road was assessed too low. May Have Dispensary. The excise hoard is seriously think ing of appointing an agent or drug store to dispense liquor for medicinal, sacramental and mechanical purposes and grant a license to no other firm or store. It is said to be the idea of the board to permit whoever gets the license to sell the stuff upon the state ment of the purchaser that it is for the purposes enumerated. So far. however, no one has been appointed and the police are still raiding places and bringing in beer and boozers under the law. Fitting New Office Rooms. The third floor of the state house not otherwise used is being cut up in to rooms for the use of the supreme judges who have not already been pro vided for. The State Railway com mission has been given the use of the senate chamber in which to care for its work in discovering the physical valuation of the railroads. Premiums for Kid Corn Raisers. The Nebraska State Board of Agri culture is offering $150 in premiums'to the boys under 1& years of age who grow the greatest number of bushels of corn to the acre during 1909. The money is divided. $50 to first. $25 to second.*$20 to third? $15 to fourth. $10 to fifth and $5 each to sixth to elev enth. Stock Judging Bui.'ding to Be Erected on Nebraska State Fair Grounds. coin, ah of the Second regiment, art to have $300 each, while the two Oma ha companies of this regiment, G and I. are to have $400 each. Companies B. H, K. L and M get $250. The sig nal corps at Fremont Is given $250 and the hospital corps at Lincoln gets $300 a year. This is the first apportion ment. Dr. Clark Threatens State Board. Dr. A. W. Clark, head of the Child Saving Institute at Omaha, has noti fied the State o3ard of Public Lands and Buildings that unless the , board accepts as an inmate a child named ! Maxie, now in the Saving Institute, he will turn loose the war dogs of1 publicity and gave tne facts to the people of .the state. Dr. Clark gave tae board until June 1 to get right. Gift Goes Begging. Lewis M. Seaver, secretary and treasurer of the National Humane al liance, has made a trip from New York to Lincoln to find out whether or not the people of Lincoln want the thou sand dollar drinking fountain for ani-' mals sent by the alliance more than' a year ago. If it is not wanted here, Mr. Seaver says that he will be very glad to take it to South Omaha, where it is wanted, and that he has more than forty applicants on the waiting list. The fountain has lain for a year unpacked. Called on Lincoun Long Ago. Addison Wait, deputy secretary of state, last week celebrated a birthday by recalling that just torty-five years ago, on his eighteenth birthday, he called upon President Lincoln in the White house and talked with him. Mr. Wait’s company was at that time in charge of Fort Whipple. He and four companions secured a furlough and went to Washington and called upon the president. As he left them me president remarked: “We are going to wind this thing up soon, boys, end you can go home." Pioneers to Meet. The Nebraska Territorial Pioneers will hold the next reunion in this city September*"6-7. The meeting will open the evening of September 0 with a memorial service held in honor of deceased members of the organiza tion. September 7 there will be a picnic dinner at the state farm. A Long Tramp. Four young men attending school at Wesleyan started on a BOO mile tramp to Cascade. Col., located at the foot of Pike's Peak. They are members of the Y. M. C. A. and will attend the summer conference of the different Y. M. C. A associations of the middle west which is to be held at Cascade. June 8 to 16. Club Test of Liquor Law. The right of the excise board of the city of Lincoln to enact and enforce a rule prohibiting bona fide incorporated clubs, organized for beneficiary or so cial purposes, from incidentally fur nishing liquors to their members, is to be tested in the supreme court of the state at the earliest possible date. The case made up in district court and which will be carried to the higher tribunal as soon as the transcript can be prepared, is that of the state against John S. Gipson, president of the Waiters’ club. Suit Is Dismissed. On the motion of the plaintiff and at its costs, the slander suit for $60, 000 damages brought by the Wood men Accident association against Sen ator F. W. Bartos, was dismissed in the district court. The association brought suit on the ground that the statements made by Senator Bartos concerning the association, its officers and its methods of doing business, were not in the line of his duties as a legislator, but were caused by per sonal enmity and were slanderous in | their nature. NEBRASKA III BRIEF NEWS NOTES OF INTEREST FROM VARIOUS SECTIONS. ALL SUBJECTS TOUCHED UPON Religious, Social, Agricultural, Polit ical and Other Matters Given Due Consideration. Western Nebraska has of late . re ceived some fine rains. Hebron has taken steps to provide a complete sewerage system. Arrests in Kearney have been ma terially lessened since the lid went on. Weitkaaip's hardware store at Vv ins low was broken into and about $100 worth of knives and cutlery taken. Charles Jacobs, who escaped from the penitentiary was captured by Mar shall Goble near Prairie Home, and brought back to prison. Henry Bucholtz, a young farmer living in the western part of Merrick county, was adjudged insane at a hearing of the the insanity board and has been taken to the asylum at Hast ings. A requisition was issued for the re turn of J. H. Storrs, alias .1. H. Mc Carthy. The latter was arrested at Seattle and is charged with the em bezzlement of the funds of the Horn estate. *-ittie c.0win liranam, of Kremonr, 4 years old. was pulled out of a rain barrel just in the nick of time. While piaving on the back porch at the home of H. A. Ward, the boy fell headfirst into the barrel. Although only one-half of the aver age vote was polled for the proposed issue of $100,000 bonds for the new High school building at Hastings, the proposition was defeated by a major ity of votes. Hutch Willard, who was being held in the county jail at Chappell on a charge of horse stealing, made his escape. He was given his liberty for a few moments, improving the oppor tunity to make his get-away. Norris Brown is preparing to re open the Senator Brown residence in Kearney. The daughters. Lucile and Jane, are at the Nebraska university, and will return to Kearney with Mrs. Brown at the close of the school year. The ease of State of Nebraska vs. Frank Tomka for violation of an in junction of the court was heard in court at Madison. Tomka admitted having violated the injunction alleged and the court adjudged him guilty and lined him $100 and costs FtostolBce employes axe (planning several interesting entertainments for the postmasters of Nebraska, who meet in Lincoln in their seventh an nual convention June 8. 9 and 10. E. R. Sizer, postmaster In Lincoln, Is president of the organization. In federal court at Uncoln James Martin declared that he had been ar rested and imprisoned in Nebraska City merely because he "was a nigger and had $f>00 in the bank" He is su ing William Liebold and Otto Jensen for damages to the extent of $11,000. Details have been received of a murderous assault on Dave Bailey, a former Central City boy. in Seattle, \vash. As a consequence of his be ing mistaken for a wealthy citizen of Seattle he was held up, robbed, choked,' slugged, thrown into a lake and half drowned. Misses Gretcben Spencer and Miss Vivian Rector, two young women of Nebraska City, who have been in Chi cago for the last three years preparing themselves for the stage, have gone to New York city to accept a position with one of the leading companies, which travel out of that city. Deputy SherifT W. C. Condit, of Dodge county* has his left foot cut off at the ankle by a train at the Union depot in that city, white trying to save the life of Frank Kent, a young man temporarily insane, who was be ing taken to Lincoln for treatment. Kent also had a leg taken off and sus tained other injuries which will prob ably prove fatal. The recent heavy rain played havoc with the dam of the Albion electric light company, across the Beaver. The dam was put out of commission last1 fall and the company installed a steam plant to take .us place until repairs could be made. The company last winter expended thousands of donara and a vast amount of labor to put the dam in shape again and had just com pleted its work. The sanitary conditions of the meth ods by handling cream In a large num ber of receiving stations are of such a nature as to require the attention of the State Pure Food commission, and an official notice has been sent out by Commissioner Mains that wherever conditions exist that will render cream or milk unclean or un wholesome, or where a sample of cream or milk has been taken before it has been thoroughly stirred, or where any false or unfair test has been made, the operator of such sta tion w'ill be subject to prosecution under the pure food law and his per mit will be cancelled. Twenty graduates will go out of the High school at Oakland. The board of education of Grand Island has instructed a committee to investigate the cost of a manual train ing and domestic science department and it is expected that the same will be installed as part of the high school curriculum for next year. At the school bond election held in Clay Center there were 149 votes for and 33 against. The proposition Is for $12,000 anti the proceeds will be used to build a duplicate of the pres ent structure, or rather to double the size under one roof. W. R. Rodgers, a sailor from the battleship Nebraska, is in Kearney visiting with friends, while his ship is in dry dock undergoing repairs at the Brooklyn navy yard. Rodgers was on the recent cruise around the world. The board of heauu of the city of North Platte has promulgated rules for the health of the community. Among other things public drinking cups are prohibited, stables must be cleaned daily and manure put in fly proof boxes or barrels, food jhall not be displayed on sidewalks unless pro tected from flies or dirt and rum mage sales are prohibited. THE SELECTION AND TESTING OF SEED CORN Method of Going Into the Field before Harvest Time ana Selecting the Choice Ears—By Logan Owen. Prize Winn ing Ears. In obtaining seed corn from places at a distance it is always best to se cure It in the ear, because in this form it can be picked over, judged and all ears that are not suited for planting may be thrown aside, while if it is shelled no such selection can be made. The selection of seed corn by the farmer from his own crop is generally accomplished in one of three ways: First, by picking out the seed after the corn has been cribbed; second, by selecting the best ears while gather ing. and third, by going into the field before harvesting time and selecting the most desirable ears. Of these three ways my experience has shown the last to he the best, because a bet ter selection can be made when that is the only aim in view and when the entire plant, and not simply the ear, ,an be considered. Whatever the method, more seed than is really need id should be selected, in order that a second "weeding out" of the poor est i ars just before planting may still leave enough good seed. On our, farm we have tried still another method for obtaining the best •eed corn—namely, to grow it in a special plot of ground. We used the following method: Take any number of selected ears—say 50, for example —and plant them in 50 separate parallel rows, one ear to the row. This makes it necessary for the plot of ground to be at least 50 corn rows wide, and it should be long enough for the planting of about two-thirds of an ear in each row. If possible, this ground should be as far removed from other fields of corn as can be, to pre vent outside pollination. To further protect from foreign pollen we have round It a good plan to take the re maining one-third of the selected corn aud use it to plant a border around the breeding plot. Before the pollen matures every alternate row is detas seled, to prevent self or close pollina Two Best Ears. tion; also any stalks in the rest of the rows that are imperfect to a marked degree in any way should be detas scled. All the seemingly good ears from good stalks, in good position on the stalk, should be gathered from the de tasseled rows. Out of all these ears first pick out the best ones for nest year's breeding plot. From that re maining the best ears can be selected for next season's seed corn for the main crop. In regard to the type of ear to se lect for seed the following points are essential: The main object in view is the production of as large a quantity of grain to the ear as possible; the ear should be cylindrical in shape, about ten inches in length and inches in circumference. Both ends should be well filled out with large kernels. The rows of kernels, as well as the kernels themselves, should be closely pressed together, in order thnt the ear will be compact and solid. Kach ear can be readily tested for weight by weighing the entire ear first and then the shelled corn ob tained frorh it. The grain should con stitute from 85 to 90 per cent, of the whole ear. The kernels should be as nearly uniform in size as possible, to insure a good,even stand; they should be wedged shaped. The vitality of the corn should al ways frays be tested. Improper dry ing and storing away of seed corn very often lowers the vitality of the seed, but if it is thoroughly cured and kept dry no injury is likely to take place. We have found it a very satis factory method to string the corn and tie it up in the barn, provided it is well covered. In the spring, before planting time, every ear should be tested, especially when there is any doubt as to its vitality. We have a box , fixed for this purpose; it is four feet long by three feet wnde by six inches deep. We have bored holes through the sides two inches from the bottom and 2‘-2 inches apart; through these holes we have stretched fine wire, noth lengthways and crossways, thus dividing the box into 2%-incb squares. At one end these rows of squares are numbered: along one side the squares in each row are numbered. When ready to test the corn, we get enough moist, rich dirt to fill the box up even with the wire; next we number the ears to be tested. For example, the first ear is marked ear one, row* one; the next, ear two, row one. When we have enough for the first row, the first ear in the second row is marked ear one, row two, and so on. When the ears are all numbered, take four or five grains from different parts of each ear and plant them in the square with the corresponding number. In this box we can test about 275 ears at one time. Of course, the box can be larger or smaller, as the case may de mand. MAKING MONEY RAISING SKUNKS How the Animals Are Bred and Why their Breeding Profitable.. Skunk farming is becoming an im portant industry in some parts of the United States, and yet the man who suggested it was regarded as mentally unsound. To-day there are hundreds of such farms on a paying basis. The average skunk produces a quart of oil and the fur or skin always brings a good price, fashion regu lating the value. At the present time the skins which are the most valuable are the darker ones. A pure black skin is worth from $1.25 to $2.50, ac cording to the quality and size; a striped skunk skin brings in the mar ket about 50 or 60 cents, while those with a part stripe are worth in the neighborhood of a dollar. It has been figured out that a man who understands skunk farming can begin on 20 skunks. 15 females and five males, and in a few years he can have a healthy bank account. It is not difficult to calculate how rapidly these 20 skunks will increase in num ber. Say you begin work early in the fall and that in December they breed. At once you have an increase of 120 skunks, putting the average of each litter at eight. In June they breed again, and if the same ratio of in crease be kept up, at the expiration of a year and a half you will have 7.495 skunks. Put the pelts at one dollar each, the pelts of 200 male skunks would bring $200; the oil at 50 cents an ounce would be worth $800. Then figuring as was done on the increa.se in skunks, at the expiration of a year and a half you could kill 3,700 male skunks, the pelts of which would be worth that many dollars. The amount of oil gathered from this number would be 29,600 ounces, worth just $14,800. At the expiration of four years you would have killed 1.890.000 males, the pelts of which would be worth $1,890,000, and the oil. 15.120.000 ounces, worth $7,560,000. And you would still have 3,700,000 skunks left! It is not surprising that skunk farming is being taken up throughout the country, and if it was possible to deodorize the skunk the industry would be even more popular. Dry Potatoes for Food.—According to the Magdeburgische Zeitung, Consul Frank S. Hannah says that the recent experiments in the drying of potatoes under the auspices of the imperial in terior department has had such good results that a new and important field of activity may be offered for the Ger man farmers. The potatoes are reduced by this process to about one-quarter of their original weight and can be kept in good condition in this compressed form for an indefinite length of time. The military authorities have made thorough experiments with this prod uct and have become convinced that its nutritious value is fully equal to that of corn, and that the dried pota toes can take the place of one-third of the former ration or oats. Seed Bed for Hay.—One of the prime essentials in growing a root crop of any kind is to have a good seedbed. The land should be rich in potash and lime, with large quantities of available nitrogen. This holds good with all root crops, with possibly the exception of the sugar beet. Cultivation should begin with the ylowir£ Plant Investigation.—The bureau of plant industry, a branch of the depart ment of agriculture, has been quite successful during the past season in breeding a wilt-resisting watermelon. Wilt is a serious disease in the melon belt, entire fields being destroyed. The bureau has developed a thoroughly re sistant variety which was grown last season on 15 acres of infected land. It has been demonstrated by the bu reau that the gumming fungus or shot hole disease of the peach can be en tirely mastered by proper Bordeaux spraying. On the Pacific coast this is the worst of the peach diseases. Farm Co-operation.—Farmers are adopting the plan of exchanging work, and I think it is the best thing that ever happened, as they get to know each other better and the different ways of working are brought out. Farmers should grow more children. Farmers’ Families.—It is estimated that there are about 7,000,000 farmers’ fr.milies in the United States to-day, taking the word farmer In its broadest sense, and including all families living in the open country. Many men who start toward sin cess never get there because they stop on the road to accept to > many congratulations. NOT A MATTER OF LOYALTY. Simple But Insuperable Reason Why Subject Could Not Kneel Before His King. One fancies that few types of men. can. from time to time, have afforded royalty more amusement of a quiet sort than provincial mayors of Kng land. •From the Foreland to Pen zance," by Clive Holland, contains the story of a mayor of Weymouth who. during one of the visits of King George to the town, was destined t>> afford ‘comic relief" to a ceremony of some importance. The occasion was the presentation of an address of welcome to the king, and we are told that the mayor, on ap proaching to present it, to th • aston ishment and dismay of all, instead of kneeling, as he had been told to do, seized the queen's hand to sh tke it as he might that of any other lady. Col. Gwynne, the master of the cere monies, hurriedly told him if the faux pas, saying: "You should have kneeled, sir." • "Sir, 1 cannot," was the rep!/ "Everybody does, sir," hotly asserted the colonel. The mayor grew red, and evidently much upset, exclaimed: “Confound .*, sir. but I've got a wooden leg." History records that "a smile suf fused the face of her majesty, and th* king laughed outright.”—Youth's Com panion. Laundry work at home would be much more satisfactory if tii ■ right Starch were used. In order to g’t the desired stiffness, it is usually neces sary to use so much starch that the beauty and fineness of the fabric is hidden behind a paste of varying thickness, which not only destroys the appearance, but also affects th*> wear ing quality of the goods. This trou ble can be entirely overcome by using Defiance Starch, as it can be applied much more thinly because of its great er strength than other makes. Quite True. Marian, a little three-year old is very stubborn. One day, when she was fretful, her mother, wishing to engage her mind, attracted h«r atten tion to a cow in a vacant lot and asked what it was. Marian replied, "hoss" (horsel and stubbornly refused to give in Her mother, wishing to get a correct an swer without scolding, asked What eats grass besides a horse?" "More boss," was the quick response.—De lineator. Household Hint. “Do you know how to use a chafing dish?” “Yes.” answered Mr. Sirius Rarker. “I have some novel ideas on the sub ject." “What are they?” “The best way I know of to use a chafing dish is to punch a hole in the bottom of it, paint It green and plant flowers ?n it.”—Washington Star. Starch, like everything els;*. is be ing constantly improved, the patent Starches put on the market ill yerrs ago are very different and inferior to those of the present day. In the lat est discovery—Defiance Starch—all injurious chemicals are omitted, while the addition of another ingredient, in vented by us, gives to the Starch a strength and smoothness never ap proached by other brands. Athleticism Extraordinary. “Why,” said the first athletic blast er, “every morning before breakfast I get a bucket and pull up 90 gallons from the well.” "That’s nothing." re torted the other. "I get a boat every morning and pull up the river."—Unl versalist Leader. Succinct. Justice O'Halloran—Have you any children, Mrs. Kelly? Mrs. Kelly—I hov two living an’ wan married!—Judy. Nebraska Directory KODAK FINISHING i'.t.i.: : . attention. All supplier for the Amateur • -11 v fresh. Send for catalogs® and firishing t»r THE ROBERT DEMPSTER CO.. Box 1197, Omaha. Neb. PLEATING Dyeing andcleaning Kuchin?, Buttons, etc. Send for free price list .and samples. IDEAL PLEATINu CO., 302 Douglass Blk., Omaha, Neb. TYPEWRITERS^^?.’. from 25% to 75% on ai! makr». Send for l«irpe list Number 5. iRepairiugr of all kinds CEMTRAl TYPEWRITER EXCHATJc. Cr.iha. THE PAXTON Rooms from $1.00 up single, 75 cent J CAFE PRICES Ion 1*1 REASONABLE JOHN DEERE “ff BEST Insist on having them. Ask your local dealer, or JOHN DEERE, Omaha, Sioux Falls, DO YOU WANT CASH , , exchange Bngines, Boilers. Motors, Dynauinv A\. . and special Machinery for the31111. Klevat.nr . r.tm ery and Laundry. Complete Heating. L.»thi;ng. ..r Tower Plants installed. PETERS & EDHOLM CO.* Omaha. Neb. DRAIN TILE Drnin your land* a n d m a k t* t h v jo valuable Hollow Building: Blocks, Brick, Tile Roofintf at;-l i kinds of Paints and Colors. Omaha Br ck. Paint &Tile Co., Works 2nd and Hickory Sts.. Omaha. \eb PARMER’S COFFEE Slue Package 20c?5.r Handled by all Un»cers. Guarantee I •*» *ive satisfaction. Imported, Toast't and Picked »«v F. D. PARMER CO., Omaha, Nebraska TYPEWRITERS Si» 3* to 4 Mir»»price. Caah or time i«v munta. Ken ted. rent apnlteK. Weablp sanywncre for free examination. N<» ,1*. Ppooit Writ* fct-blic !.*r*ain lUt an.l l».P.8wi.»M|«.,«I Wtodau RI.1* Oaika 1 AUTOMOBILE TIRES and Tube*. Larpe stock. Want .vour boom****. Write for prices. PIONEER IMPLEMENT CO., Tire Department, Council Bluffs, Iowa. Bold by the Best Dealers. We will Bend to pupil* and teachers on receipt of 13eta. In stamps, a UHnoH. hard maple, brass educed rule. JOHN G. WOODWARD * CO.“ThsCandy Man'’CouncllBluffs, is.