TO HEAD BANK OF TURKEY
Hy the establishment of a national bank Tur
key has taken a decisive step towards reform and
order which all Europe is watching with interest,
and England with the keenest interest of all, for
the bank has been floated thiefly with English
capital and its president appointed "at the request
of his majesty’s government,” in the person of
Sir 11. Kabington Smith, who will resign his
present appointment of secretary to the postoffice
and proceed to Constantinople soon to take up
his new duties.
Until now the Ottoman government has been
at the mercy of two foreign banks, the Ottoman
bank and the Deutsche bank, and whenever Tur
key got into pecuniary difficulties and found her
self without the wherewithal to pay overdue sal
aries to government otlicials. or the troops v.'ere
yu me ^)ge ol mutiny without their money—a not at all infrequent occur
the huriied oft to one or other of these concerns and humblv begged
a tonn t® pacify her creditors.
wt.» however, Turkey is regenerating her system of government and
nenccforth will have a regular budget, so such a state of affairs will no
iong< r be necessary, and the national bank, as soon as it gets into working
order, will perform rhose financial transactions which the two foreign con
• oiriH lormeily carried out. These will be of an extensive character, embrac
ing those of an industrial, commercial and land-mortgage bank, and it is
intended, also, to make it a channel through which foreign capital shall be
attracted to the country lor the development of its resources.
It will not be Sir Henry’s first experience of Turkey. Before his appoint
ment ag secretary to the postcffice he was British representative on the
t otiijitil of the Ottoman Public Debt for three years, and the experience
gained curing that time will doubtless prove of great value to him iti his
present position. Besides (hat. he lias served in many parts of the world
in the British civil service.
After an education at Eton and Cambridge university, where he took
several honors, lie began his public life as-examiner in the education depart
ment, afterward becoming private secretary to Mr. (afterward Lord! Goschen
when- hancellor of the exchequer. In 1894 he went to India as secretary to
the then viceroy. Lord Elgin, for five years, and in IS99 was sent to Natal
on a financial mission.
Me lecame a knight commander of the Bath in 1908. and he also has the
1 urhie.fi < rder, first-class Osruanieli. He is 16 years old and is a tall, broad
shouldered. youthful-looking man. with a brown mustache and brown eyes
under a clever overhanging brow. His wife comes of diplomatic stock, also,
being tte daughter of Lord Elgin. He married her in 1898 while holding
the i < 11 of secretary to her lather in India.
j WORLD’S BIGGEST FARMER
David Rankin is the biggest farmer in the
world. "Lots of men have more land thar I,”
says .Mr. Rankin, “but they use it for cattle
ranges only. Mine is a farm." .Mr. Rankin nei
ther raises cattle nor furnishes range. He buys
the raw steers from the plains and fattens them
until they are worth twice what he pays for the
"li-eders," as they are called. He never sells any
com. either, because by feeding it to cattle, ac
cording to a minute calculation of his own, he
gets more ample returns. Nearly to years ago
Mr. Rankin, then an Illinois farmer, discovered
that land on one side of a state line was se ling
for $20 an a< re. while he might buy any amount
on the other side of the imaginary dividing mark
for less than a third of that amount. But real
estate men told him that no railroad would ever
vo n* .,r me .Missouri lands, but lor all tliat ho sold Ills farm and bought all
ho <* old of tho land at $h an acre. Recently ho took an inventory of his
possess.* ns in the neighborhood of Tarkio. Mo., where ho bought tho cheap
acreage, and it. showed that he owned Jo,610 acres. 12,000 fattening hogs.
b.000 cattle, S00 horses, more than 100 cottages, in which the employes of the
big farm were housed, great quantities of farm machinery and the like. Mr.
Rankin comes of Scotch-Irisli ancestry. Ho was born in Indiana in rural
poverty, and he got his start in life trading a colt for calves and raising the
latter into steers. To-day, in addition to his farm, he owns an implement
factory, a municipal water system, a telephone company, a bank and other
enterprises, and when the notion takes him he adds S.'O.OOO or so to the
endowm« nt of Tarkio college, a Presbyterian schocd in his home tow n, which
has known his generosity to the extent of $250,000.
T
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HIGH RANK FOR DUKE
When the duke of ihe Abruzzi returns to Italy
fiom mountain climbing in India, in the uear
future, he will be promoted to the rank of ad
miral in the Italian navy and put in command of
the naval arsenal in Venice, according to infor
mation from naval officials.
These same officials assume that the duke has
given up hope of marrying Miss Katherine Elkins.
Hut in this assumption it seems most probable
that the v» ish is father to the thought. The duke
is as far as ever from being on good terms with
King Victor Emmanuel, Dowager Queen Matghe
rita and others of his royal relatives who oppose
bis marriage to the American girl. Nothing could
prolong the duke's quarrel with his kin but his
continued determination to wed the woman he
loves.
Ccographers all over the world are lauding the duke for his ascent of
the lefty Himalayan peak, K2, or Mount Goodwin-Austen, as the Royal Geo
graphical society named tlie mountain in honor of the first explorer of that
region.
K2 >s the highest mountain in the world, save oue. It is 28.2.'>0 feet high,
only 72# feet lower than Mount Everest, which rises to the blue higher than
any other part of the earth. The duke reached the height of 24.000 feet on
Mount Goodwin-Austen, and this is a record in mountain climbing, eclipsing
that of l»r. Graham, who. in ISSll. reached the top of .Mount Kabry in the
Himalayas, an altitude of 2:1,900 feet.
FIRST WOMAN CORONER
In these days of suffragists and suffragettes
women are filling all sorts of offices, but it re
mained for a St. Joseph. Mo., woman to become
the original "lady coroner."
The duties of the coroner of Buchanan county
have for several weeks been performed by Mrs.
C. F. Byrd, whose husband tills that office when
he is at home. Just now Dr. Byrd is visiting the
exposition at Seattle and is enjoying his vacation
with the assurance that the emoluments thereto
accruing are not escaping the purse of the Byrd
family.
Since Coroner Byrd left home there have been
an unusual number of coroner’s cases in St.
•lostph and the county, and in each of them there
has been a prompt response by Mrs. Byrd, who
was legally commissioned as his demits iiufn™
Dr. Byrd s departure. Mrs. Byrd has been summoned to investigate half a
dozen suicides, the same number of fatal accidents, and has officiated in two
cases of murder.
"] haven’t found the duties of coroner especially disagreeable.” said Mrs.
Byrd. "In the absence of my husband I look upon the work as my regular
business and I try to dispatch it in a businesslike way. I am pleased to
know that 1 have won the commendation of the other authorities and have
not been criticised by the public.
• Of course I am not a graduate of medicine or surgery, and in eases
where it is necessary that an autopsy tie performed 1 deputize a physician,
but there are not a great many such cases."
Vagaries of Genius.
Shakespeare could not use a type
■writer in composing his plays.
Longfellow never wrote while eat
ing.
• Robert Louis Stevenson insisted
upon holding his pen in his right hand.
Sir Francis Bacon would not use a
fountain pen under any circumstances.
Doctor Johnson was never known
to eat ice cream.
Mrs. Hetnans did not wear peekaboo
waists.
Dante never called his “Inferno"
history.
Charles Dickens always walked up
stairs.—Life.
Troubles of His Own.
High pitched, angry voices rever
berated through the house.
“1 just knew.” hoarsely muttered
the skeleton in the family closet,
“there was going to be a quarrel be
tween them; I could feel it in my
bones'”
In the last ten years 325,000 per
sons have emigrated from England to
the farms of Canada.
BR.'Xir A
CULM
ACR03&
CKL/WOHA
THE RIVER HEAR CUVEL/WO.
i mrint BOT-rom r/r/?”
Rivers are great studies. They are
as changeable as a woman, yet ever
keep in the same general course. Con
fined within certain limits with moods
that vary, they wander on, obedient
to the laws that hold them to their
course. They are sometimes tempes
tuous and careless as men, wiping out
at one sweep the farms that have
claimed their ancient channels and as
serting once again the full sweep of
their individuality. Sometimes they
sleep the peaceful repose of a babe
At other times they burn away and
leave but the bed, from which the fe
; vered waters %ise again to commence
’ the elemental cycle of vapor, cloud
; rain, rivulet and river. And each of
] these rivers has its own individuality.
| Some are long; some large; some
! deep; some shallow; some quiet;
! some turbulent.
j The Arkansas Is not long enough to
be classed among the longest rivers
j of the world, though among the tribn
! taries to the F'athcr of Waters it is
i second only to the Missouri. It is not
I large and does not spread out the ac
cumulated waters in wide sheets; yet
at times, when the Aztec rain gods
pour out a deluge and the lower
courses are fed by the inflowing
creeks and rivers, its magnitude is
majestic, inspiring, destructive. Nor
is the channel deep. For the moun
tain pebbles and the rich, red sand
and the plain white sand and all other
varieties of sand from the mountains
to the gulf are constantly filling in,
scooping out, rolling aud gliding
down the swift current, piling in bars,
building up islands or leveling the in
equalities of the bed. And the flow is
| strong; the sweep of the waters is a
mighty power, unharnessed, to go on.
ever, to the sea.
>\ nether at the snow peaked springs
where it rises in the Rockies and goes
dashing down the mountain defiles,
whether fretting its way between the
; man-bui!t walls through the city of
Pueblo or gliding through the pebbly
foothills, whether winding its silvery
way across the Colorado and the Kan
sas plains or gliding on between the
Oklahoma bluffs and hills, whether
watering the mistletoe bedecked elms
or the ranehrakes in the state whose
name it bears, the Arkansas has a
beauty, a charm, that makes one love
to dwell thereon. Anywhere along its
course its acquaintance may be made
: —a sort of chance acquaintance—and
I one feels a nobler, wider sentiment,
i like that which comes from the con
! tact with a broad, free-minded man.
! However, since it cannot be consid
ered as a whole, let the acquaintance
be narrowed to that beautiful sweep
of the stream Rowing between the
Osage reservation and Pawnee coun
ty. Okla., where on one side or the
other, and sometimes both, farms
have been hewn from the wooded
valleys; where the sandstone bluffs
rise, sometimes 50. sometimes 100
feet, with niches where the great
| horned owl. the peregrine falcon and
; the huge turkey vulture find a nesting
! site, and where, in olden days, the
I eagles reared their young. Here the
: red waters hurry down, down, down,
| with a swish that mingles with the
rustle of the leaves, the shrill of in
j sects and the cries of birds, in one
sweet symphony that drowns the
j troubles, the stress of life, and gives
; new vigor to the one who can sepa
' rate himself from his business or his
strife, as he learns new things first
hand from God's great book.
Here along the bottom roads the
great cottonwoods rise, with massive
pillars that reach up and up, over a
hundred feet, just right for a giant's
walking stick. Great pecan trees,
huge burr oaks, walnuts, hickories
and three or four smaller varieties
| of oak. black, white, red and chin
j qtiapin. are here. Then there are
! great haekberries with the corrugated
and winged bark, aud here is that
beautiful b ack coated member of the
rose Tamil? which has been designat
ed br the natives as the sbittim wood
of the Sacred Book. The wood is
hard, the hardest of the forest trees,
with the possible exception of the
persimmon; but the persimmon sel
dom gets beyond the bush size,
though there are some large trees.
Here, underneath the taller growth,
are the black haw bushes, while grow
iDg out of the bluffs are Juneberries,
both prizes for boys, but insipid to a
mature appetite. And along dose to
the stream are the few remaining ce
dars which were uncut by telephone
polers before the land was open to
settlement.
To climb among the bluffs, to in
spect holes left by disintegrated fos
sil trees; to listen to the tufted tit
mouse's golden call; to see the
“mountain boomer" scamper along to
the sheltering rocks, where he leaves
his tail in plain view and, doubling
back, pokes out his head to see where
the danger lies; to look at the ferns
clinging to the rock, is rejuvenating,
inspiring, life giving. There are at
least seven varieties of ferns. The
abrupt perpendicular walls clothed
with the resurrection fern are .passed
by unheeded when the heat dries up
the fronds brown and inconspicuous
i like the hands of a paralytic; but the
rains come and the face of the bluff
is spotted with great dark green
patches where the mass of separate
fronds blend in green drapery. And
there, on the north side of a huge, wet
rock, is the walking leaf, camptosorus
cbiaophillus. the slender, leaf-like
frond, a drawn-out arrow head, whose
long whip cracker end takes root in
the moss and liverworts aud starts a
new plant. Of the spleenworta there
are two species; one small, growing
out on the under side of cool, wet
overhanging rocks; another, tall and
slender, living more in the open. And,
clinging to me side of the canyon, are
ferns a foot or more high and sub
divided—a sort of magnified edition—
varying, however, from the two small
er species that can be found growing
all about the woods. The most singu
lar, however, is the very small,
dwarfed one on the edge of lime
rocks—frond and all bnt a couple of
inches long with wiry stems like the
maiden hair, which spring back and
fortli with their sprawling, scattered
double compound frondlets an eighth
of an inch long, dark green above aDd
white underneath, with whole masses
growing from a perfect nest of fine,
black rootlets imbedded in the cracks
of the rocks.
From the blufTs one can look out
across the tree tops to the other side,
where the Osage hills, wave upon
wave, reach as far as the eye can
see, with here and there a deadening,
where the leaves of the girdled trees
make a brown patch on the land
scape. Fields freshly plowed or coy-'
ered with corn and cotton stretch
away in the valleys, while the nearby
hills still bear the scattered growth
of oaks and hickories. And far, far
awny the bold prairie expanse, with
here and there a clump of trees to
break the contour, can be seen indis
tinct in the distance. And the river
banks, with fringes of willow, the
white cottonwood limbs, the glisten
ing bars, and the water ever gliding
on and on.
Keep interested in Something.
Many old men break down and be
come childlike because they abandon
business, and thus lose much of their
every-day interest in the world around
them. It is not uncommon for old peo
ple to take up courses of study and
successfully pass through them. All
such occupations serve to keep the
interest alive in something besides
mere selfishness, and do more toward
warding off "the blues" than all the
medicine in the drug stores.
HER THREE ESSENTIALS
Smartest Looking Girl at Resort Gave
Most Attention to Hair, Feet
and Corsets.
“You’re about the smartest looking
' girl on this piazza,” remarked the old
i bachelor to the bronze-haired girl at
a nearby summer resort. “How do
you manage it?” As he knew she
worked for a living 50 weeks in the
year, she didn't mind.
“I'll tell you,” she confessed, “be
: cause you can keep a secret and you
know I don't have much money to
spend. I have just two good points
and I make the most of them. And
[ then I always wear fine corsets.”'
“Huh!” he ejaculated. "What are
the alleged good points?”
; She smiled cheerfully: “Hair and
feet.”
He instantly surveyed each and
I nodded his approval.
“So,” she went on, “as I can’t afford
much in the way of gowns, etc., I
i blow myself on shoes and stockings.
which are much cheaper and quite as
noticeable.”
^es. he asserted; “the way you
wear them.”
"Then.” she continued serenely, “I
get the latest style of hair the min
ute it comes out. That keeps people
so busy looking at my pufrs they don't
have time to notice my dress.”
But the—er—corsets?” he suggest
ed, as she rose to go.
“An absolute necessity,” she smiled
back at him.
Discovered at Last.
Certain bacteriologists have been
enlightening the public as to the value
of tears. A good cry, they say, that
washes the face with tears, is an ex
cellent antiseptic bath. Owing to the
large percentage of sodium chloride,
or common salt, which they contain,
they ^sterilize the delicate mechanism
of the eye and render harmless the
bacilli which may have found lodg
ment on the cheeks.
NEWS NOTES OF INTERE8T FROM
VARIOUS SECTIONS.
ULL SUBJECTS TOUCHES UPON
Religious. Social, Agricultural, Polit
ical and Ot!~-e> Matters Given
Due Consideration.
The Labor day picnic in Lincoln
was declared off on account of rain.
Rainy weather very much interfered
with attendance at the state fair.
Governor 8hallenberger has ap
pointed from Nebraska 125 delegates
to the dry farming congress that
meets in Raleigh. N. C., November 4.
Miss Ixxiise Mears. professor of
geography at the Peru Normal school,
has returned to Nebraska from a sum
mer in Minnesota, where she has been
studying geology at the university
and the St. Croix interstate park.
At Sidney Sheriff McDaniel arrested
Lee Weihn on the strength of a tele
gram received from Sheriff John D.
Miller of Neligh, Neb. Weihn is
wanted for disposing of mortgaged
property.
Jasef Barcal, aged about 50. a pros
perous farmer and an old resident, liv
ing two miles southwest of 1 .inwood,
committed suicide by banging him
self to a tree near his home. No cause
for the deed is known.
Notwithstanding the large amount
of money on hand the first of the
month, State Treasurer Brian does
not desire any more state depositories
and last week turned down the ap
plication of one bank that had writ
ten to the governor regarding the
matter.
An accident resulting in the death
of Harry Paulsen, the 15-year-old
stepson of Henry Burgard. occurred
on the latter's farm, two miles north
of Bloomfield. Mr. Burgard and the
boy were stretching a wire feme
when the wire suddenly broke, strik
ing the young man on the head.
I he seventh annual state conven
tion of the Nebraska rural carriers
was held at Columbus, the following
officers being elected: ,J. II. T£a(p 1
of Table Rock, president; I t!Jg
of Columbus, vice presidenid^Tj'. A.
Martin of Cheney, secretary; W.
Wheeler of Hastings, treasurer. Dele
gates to the national convention at
Rochester, X. Y.: C. R. Itarber of
Stromsbi’.rg, Xeb.; C. A. Martin of
Cheney and O. ,T. Bleekman of Cozad.
• B. F. Blythe of Ellis has died a
damage suit against the Rock Island
railroad in the sum of $1,742.40.
Plaintiff stares that on July 4 he de
livered ninety-eight head of cattle to
the company to be shipper} toi the
Chicago stock yards which did
reach their destination until J i aj’
consuming twenty-four hoursij£]iM •“
time than was necessary, and owing
to the natural shrinkage and lower
market asks judgment in the above
sum.
Auditor Barton has received infor
i mation that the Fraternal Order of
j Owls of Indiana is organizing lodges
I in Nebraska without first having ap
j plied to the insurance department for
; a license or permit. Should the com
! pany not do an insurance business it
■ does not require the license and
I neither would there be any state su
j pervision of its affairs. Mr. Barton
j has received a letter from the insur
| ance department of Indiana that the
company is not licensed by that de
I partment.
Chicago dispatch: At the summer
convocation of the University of Chi
cago last week there were 207 gradu
ates and fourteen associates, mostly
teachers from out of town who took
a summer post-graduate course.
Among them were John Wible Baum
gardner (Ed. B.), Alliance; Arthur
Howard Sutherland (Ph. I).), Grace
Abbott (Ph. M.i, John Martin Fred
erick Heuman (S. K.). of Grand is
land; Emma May Miller (two year
certificate), Lincoln; Fred Williams
Gaarde (S. B.), Minden.
J. W. O'Brien, state fish commis
sioner. says a Xebraska City dispatch,
has been here several times with his
car and each time secured a carload
of bass ranging from two to six inch
es in length from the ponds on the
east side of the river. There are mil
lions of these game fish over there,
and since the river has become low
they have been left in the ponds, and
as the water is shallow there is no
trouble in getting all of the game fish
needed. Many of them have been
taKen to umaha and other points,
where they were placed in lakes.
With all the pomp and solemnity
that attends a royal funeral, or a
man who has spent a life in many
different countries, a memorial cere
mony was held over the grave of Ma
jor Frank North near Columbus. The
chief figure in the proceeding was
Colonel William F. Cody, for many
years a friend and partner of the
dead man. Twenty-five different na
tionalities marched from the grounds
where Colonel Codvs’ Wild West show
was holding forth to the cemetery.
The annual meeting of Nebraska
pioneers closed with a series of
speeches at the state farm, chief of
which was an address by Governor
Shallenberger and a dinner, served
also at the farm. About ISO pioneers
and friends attended the meeting.
.Northwestern Detectives Stewart of
Omaha and Lawrence of Chicago en
tered the home of Mrs. Mary Alshire
In Norfolk and found $600 worth of
merchandise alleged to have been
stolen from Northwestern freight
cars. William Alshire. her son. led
the detectives upstairs and escaped
through a window. v
During an electrical storm lightning
struck the Enoch house in Humboldt,
one of the landmarks of the city, and
did much damage to the roof. Fortu
nately it did not set fire to the struct
ure and none of the inmates, all of
whom were sleeping, were hurt.
The state board of public lands and
buildings will go to Grand Island to
investigate the reports of inmates of
the home that the institution is not
properly conducted and that goods
delivered to the home are not always
in accordance with the contract.
Governor Shallenberger, at his own
request, will accompany the board
LATE PRIMARY VOTE.
Two Counties Fail to Indicate Num
ber Cast.
The total vote of the state cast at
the late primary was 93,374. This
total does not include llorril and Val
ley counties, which, though reporting,
failed to indicate the total vote case.
The following shows the official totals
as far as the board figured:
Supreme Judge.
■fames R. I Van «t«*m.).21.SS3
K. F. Good Idem.). tit.806
John J. Sullivan Mem.). 22.906
James R. Dean (pop-). 2,849
K. F. Good (pop.). 2,850
John J. Sullivan (pop.). . 2,915
Francis G. Hamer (rep.-i. 16.591
Kdward K. Duffie (rep.). 12.280
John O. V,*ise)- trep.). . 10,17
Samnel H. Sedgwidc < cep. (. 22.62
K. C. Calkins (rep.). 18.x:
John B. Barnes (rep.). 21.tv
Jacob Fawcett (rep.). 16.97
Joseph K. Cobbey (rep.). 15,6,
A. G. VVolfenbargrr (pro.). 2‘
R. I,. Slaple (pro.). 83
Regents State University.
Charles T. Knapp (rtcm ). 22.795
Charles S. Allen (rep. I. I0.H27
W. <5. Whitmore (op ). to.80S
l). C. Cole (pop.). 2.966
Reaent to Fill Vacancy.
Harvey K. Xewbranch Idem.). 22.422
Frank I.. Haller (rep.). 42.246
Much Cash in Treasury.
At the close of business ori the last
day of August, according to the rec
ords of the office of the state treasur
er. he had in his vault cash to the
amount of $42,976.66. cash items which
were represented by Fremont bonds to
the amount of *27.000 and checks to
the amount of $108,299.48. The state
depositories were carrying all the
money they are entitled to carry under
the bonds they have given. Included
in this amount in the vault was a
government warrant to the amount of
$40,000.
September 1 the treasurer paid $40.
000 for North Platte bonds and bought
$o5,000 Elgin bonds, which reduced
his holdings by that amouut.
The office of the secretary of state
was a revenue getter this last month,
there having been paid into the of
fice a total of $130,637.60. This sum
was divided as follows: Articles of
incorporation, $120,065.25; notary com
missions. $62; motor vehicles license.
$832.10; brands recorded. $16.50; cer
tificates and transcripts. $50.50; cor
poration permits, $9,020.25. This does
not include several thousand dollars
paid to the office under protest.
In Horticultural Hal!.
The exhibits of fruit in horticultural
aVal! at the state fair were fully as
this year as in the past. The
fruit was noticeably clean. • ree from
work of insects and fungtfe diseases.
The apple show was particularly at
tractive and as large or larger than
ever before. Saline. Washington and
Johnson counties were represented by
fine exhibits in the county collective
class, premiums being awarded in the
order named. Individual collections
were large and attractive, first pre
mium being awarded E. F. Stephens.
Northwestern Does Well.
The aunual report of the Northwest
ern railroad, filed with the state rail
! way commission, shows a good in
crease in the amount of business done
in the year 1909. compared with the
year 190S-19O7, notwithstanding both
passenger and freight rates were re
duced by the legislature of ' 907. Op
erating expenses for 1909 were more
than in 1908 and less than in 1907
per mile, but in the aggregate were
greater than for either 190; or 1908
The great increase in 1909 is shown
in the number of passengers c arried
one mile.
Stock Subscription Refunded.
The railway commission has ordered
the Miller Telephone company to pay
to Mrs. L. A. Xortlirup what money
she had paid for stock and dismissed
the case. Mrs. Xorthrup complained
that, though a stockholder in the com
pany, she was refused service. At a
hearing held at Miller it was brought
out that after paying $20 into a mutual
fund for the construction of the line,
each stockholder was assessed $10 and
later $fi. but the complainant had
failed to pay the assessment.
Dr. Peters Resignes
Dr. A. T. Peters, head of the de
partment of animal pathology at the
state agricultural college, has tendered
i his resignation, effective January 1,
1910. He has been offered the direc
| lorsbip of the Illinois state biological
laboratory at Springfield.
Harlan Man Pardoned.
Governor Shallenberger lias com
muted the sentence of Oliver Stephens
. of Harlan county to expire November
j 2.7. this year. Stephens was originally
i sent, to the state prison for two years
for stabbing a neighbor in a fight, but
■ the supreme court cut the sentence
in two and the governor did the same
I thing to the remaining year.
—
Dr. A. T. Peters Resigns
Dr. A. T. Peters, professor of ani
mal pathology at the university farm
has resigned his position to take ef
fect .ianuary 1, and has accepted a
position as director of the state bio
logical laboratory at Springfield. 111.
The complaint of W. F. Diers against
the Missouri Pacific to force that road
to install a telephone at the station
at Louisville has been dismissed by
the state railway commission.
Insurance Men Worried.
Insurance men are worried some
what over the intimation from the
auditor's office that all examinations
of insurance companies may be pub
lished in full after a few months.
Auditor Barton has said nothing in re
gard to this, but the rumor has gone
forth and some credit is being given
it. Some of the local agents say that
such publication would injure their
business and would give competitors
unfair advantages. They also assert
that bank statements are not made
public.
Stand Up For Nebraska.
"We Nebraskans do not boost
enough,” says Governor Shallenberger.
"We have everything in this state that
goes to make up a great common
wealth, but we do not. as a rule, talk
it enough. If we boasted and boosted
as much as some of the other west
ern states which do not begin to have
the wonderful resources we do. Ne
braska's population should he doubled
in a very short time. I noticed on
our recent northwestern trip that al
most every person we met lold of the
wonderful resources of his country.
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BIG PROFIT MADE ON LAND
Which Can Be Bought for a Mere
Song in the Little Snake River
Valley, Routt County, Colo.
A ten per cent profit on a valuation
of over $200 an acre is what is being
made now by farmers in the Little
Snake River valley in Routt County.
Colorado, and lands similar in quality
and with gilt edged water rights are
now offered by the State of Colorado
under the Carey Act at Jilo.oO per
acre on ten years’ time.
This land will grow in abundance
oats, potatoes, sugar beets and all
other grains, grasses and root crops,
and is suitable for all kinds of fruiL
except possibly the most delicate of
tree fruits.
The land is sold in tracts of 40. 80.
120 and 160 acres to citizens of the
United States, or those who have de
clared their intentions of becoming
citizens. There is no drawing in con
nection with this land; first come,
first served being the policy.
If interested, write to the Routt
County Colonization Co.. 1734 Welton.
street, Denver, Colorado, for Tull in
formation as to the land, special ex
cursion rates, etc.
WHY NOT?
One of the preachers has asked th*
members of his congregation to bring
their canary birds to church. Why
not try to save some of the parrots?
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WHAT IS PAINT?
The paint on a house is the extreme
outside of the house. The wood ia
simply a structural under layer. That,
is as it should be. Unprotected wood,
will not well withstand weather. But
paint made of pure white lead and
linseed oil is an invulnerable armor
j against sun and rain, heat and cold.
Such paint protects and preserves,
i fortifying the perishable wood with a
complete metallic casing.
And the outside of the house is the
j looks of the house. A well-construet
! ed building may be greatly depre
j dated by lack of painting or by poor
! painting.
National Lead Company have made
it possible for every building owner
to be absolutely sure of pure white
i lead paint before applying. They do
j this by putting upon every package
I of their white lead their Dutch Boy
Painter trademark. That trademark
; is a complete guarantee.
True Thrift.
! “When visiting a certain town in the
, Midlands,” says a medical man. "1 was
| told of an extraordinary incident
wherein the main figure, an econotu
ica! housewife, exhibited, tinder trying
| circumstances, a trait quite character
| istic of her. It seems that she had by
mistake taken a quantity of poison—
i mercurial poison—the antidote for
which, as all should know, comprises
the whites of eggs. When this anti
, dote was being administered, the order
! for which the unfortunate lady had
| overheard, she managed to murmur, al
! though almost unconscious. "Mary.
Mary! Save the yolks for the pud
dings ! ”—Tit-Bits.
What’s the Matter with Baby?
“I wonder what makes baby cry
| so?" said the first friendly person.
"Perhaps a pin is annoying it," ven
tured another.
"Or else it’s hungry," said a third.
"Or teething." said another. "You
can't do anything for that."
"Aw, look at the way he's kicking,
j and see how his little fists are doubled
| up,” put in Bobby. “He wants some
\ body of -his own size to fight with,
j that's what he wants."
Sub Rosa.
She—She told me you told her that
secret I told you not to tell her.
He—The mean thing! I told her
not to tell you I told her.
She—I promised her I wouldn't tell
vou she told me, so don't tell her 1
told you.
PRESSED HARD
Coffee's Weight on Old Age.
When prominent, men realize the in
jurious effects of coffee and *he change
in health that Postum can bring, they
are glad to lend their testimony for
the benefit of others.
A superintendent of public schools in
North Carolina says:
"My mother since her early child
hood, was an inveterate coffee drinker
and had been troubled with her heart
for a number of years, and com
plained of that ‘weak all over' feeling
and sick stomach.
"Some time ago I was making an of
ficial visit to a distant pari, of the
country and took dinner with one of
the merchants of the place. I no
ticed a somewhat peculiar flavor of
the coffee, and asked him concerning
it. He replied that it was Postum.
"I was so pleased with it, that after
the meal was over, I bought a pack
age to carry home with me, and had
wife prepare some for the next meal.
The whole family liked it so well, that,
we discontinued coffee and used
Postum entirely.
"I had really been at. times very anx
ious concerning my mother’s condition,
but we noticed that after using
Postum for a short time, she felt so
much better than she did prior to its
use, and had little trouble with her
heart and no sick stomach: that th<^
headaches were not so frequent, and
her general condition much improved.
This continued until she was as well
and hearty as the rest of us.
“I know Postum has benefited my
self and the other members of the fam
ily, but not in so marked a degree as
in the case of my mother, as she was.
a victim of long standing.”
Head “The Road to Wellville,” in.
pkgs.
“There’s a Reason.”
Ever rend the above letter? A nrir
one appear* from time to time. Ther
ore genuine, true, and full of buiuui
Interest.