Nebraska Newspapers

    loap City Northwestern
J. W. BURLK1GM. Publisher.
'•CL'P CITY T . - NEBRASKA
FROM DAY 10 DA!
general news and notes
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A WIDE AREA IS CGl'ERED
Er-ibraccg a Condensation of Events
la Which Reader: Generally Are
Interested.
Fci tvjn
!: • t«:io.*!ic tally r-->»rt 1 .1 Nica
ragua that ('apt Godfrey FnwU-r. for
UH-riy of the ('cited State*, army, who
< •:u3i:tnd'tt General CfemnetTo s ar
tillery in Ho* err-.g.-rjent at Ti tua on
Tuesday. has ui.-d from his wounds.
Th-- reply of the French t 1. eminent
*• wc- t.-mry Kill 's piojKi .. .or the
• -.tra!:ratios ol the Man. 11:1 in rail
i. >*. which was oiBiuiu: tied to
Washington two we. V* as < follows
tin* In.. * already it... 1 .1 11. news
-p; ’ ■ ’.•!». uati ■>. t ..it I' .nee de
• -v t.i Hr.- ■>' R .--i;t and
.iprri ,i> t' . p.,.: s i-jo t mt -rested
.n the matter.
V t -on (Pur: 1 «li-, '■ 1. h> way
• tv- ."Sjiaiii.-h l.oniter. -avs that
' ■ eo. ri tru n: apparently greatly
sfturbed !iy the d:s. in r> ol a w ide
-pread revoiut’onary plot. tries.s ot
u-tmti are I- ng made daily, t’on
-l.-uUal infnrination has reached the
authorities that a iargo of arms and
aaiu<!.niti.>t. for the revolutionists is
b>w brought tram Germany.
lir. Cbarl.-s W. Wallace, who is in
1 option on leave o; ni seiiee from the
I nrterstty of Nebraska, granted last
• h'uikcr to permit him i<i pursue
yihakt-s|M-ar«au Todies will have the
tories of hi- research published in
tlo- March number of uae of the
Amerii an magazines.
The Kngi'-h set Unit o. th* Ameri
can Navy I. ague r»!ehr::*id Washing
• m * birthday by a tl liner it> London.
K Newt in i'rane. former ire-idem of
tin- Ain< T..au .--■>< i.-k, presided, hav
:ug eu ins right J c.n I. G: tilths, the
kuit-r rail consul g-n :al. anu on his
1 William Phil: »- -■■ere! ry of the
American embassy.
General.
The venerable Colonel <1 >rd«m of
M.s---tippi made his fare* -H adJre^s
the .*•• uat* H:s sue. • - •: has been
chosen
Battling Nelson will tak<- on “Cy
i >ne" Thompson tor a ;urty-!r. e round
f.ght at San Francisco.
I* K Thompson oi N drank a is
;«s«( ■! with the industrial outlook
ut M*-*ieo where he is interested in
railway development.
I'nited States Marshall H K. Love
«. Maska arrived in Seattle on his
way to Washington to testify before
the ItalllnjcerPinrhot oiuciitter.
Si* jie-iple were killed in a snow
slide :n the Bitter Root mountains,
Montana
I*.-arjr may he asked f-i s ibmit proof
l#f his discovery of the pole.
Th t * * British government suc
sfuily overcame the initial attack
of opposition forces.
Th* Nova Scotia !• cloture as
-eaibleii in regular session and was
pen-d with th*- customary cere
monial.
KR’Tuious expansion in postal busi
r.e>> i« pr-dict*d by Representative
Week*.
K- i»rcseniative Helm oi Kentucky
•Hacked the ship subsidy bill In a
vigorous speech.
There is a grand army of 76.673
f. lcphone operators in th*- country, ac
cruing to a report suhtjiilted to the
-efiate l»y Secretary Nagel of the de
lta-intent of commerce and labor
IVi ins who live in < ii:*-s and have
not mail Iwns in front of their resi
dence are liable not tn receive any
mail after Jun*- *0. lull. <’«*rtainly
they will not If a provision of the post
office appropriation bill becomes a law.
ktbert Nier of S.vn Francisco joined
twenty churches in a week and swin
dled the pastors of each of them on
'be pi. .* 1 *t be tid just moved into
the city and was destitute.
•Senator IVrkitis or California was
1n his s* at in the senate for the first
Utne in more than si* weeks. His
absence bad been d ie to an injury to
his spite . received by tailing on the
k*.
>*tL'. -»r Tlllm.-in W improving and
;t is now believed be will fully re
cover
The ar-.ay pm-ihits in the Pbilip
t->e.-* continue »’*h great interest to
■ it *»*ecj»t the native* in the moun
tain*. who are iri. 1 letted.
kYank V Dunn, t rutisment for years
l' a theatre al and port ing man. died
at h - home ;u l*o-< i e.~tor. Mass.
nator Itrown of Nebraska, in a
delivered in the senate, dif
end wish Uoveraor Hughes on the
income tax amendment.
The house by a vote of 112 to 8$ do
'ide-d to make pr o. -n for all Indian
warehouse* now exit.: ing.
Pre-ldent Taft was the principal
•p. ;;k*r it tie* h j*l.!n(ton birthday
banaoet in New York.
Senator C, twford submitted an
imrndtu. t.• to ilo- rivers and harbors
1.111 pro|io mg I-- appropriate fl.OOO.
to -re * permanent six foot
kann.-t betw.- n Kansas City and
stows City.
At St. l.oif* William \V. Lowe was
*,.-M in $2 i <’ « l ond for the federal
grand jury after a preliminary hearing
to the charge of robbing the mails
UU-r holding up a Missouri Pacific
train near Kureka ‘a January.
Vi- . A ul S .TUian appointed a
Coli:u:t« • to ;u-. * ' :gate the high cost
A living.
Pi.'Ji; mg Ir- h < n resumed between
cat.mm*Bl tow and insurgents in
Vimragua
The MursafrCti* enheim syndicate
(•***1 alt:« d u» a *. Bate committee its
xctlvi:» it Alaska.
It has been learned at Mare Island
navy yard that the cruisers West Vir
ginia and Maryland were both in pool
condition when they reached San
Francisco from the orient.
The tt ms of thirty members of the
United States senate, twenty-four re
publicans and six democrats, will ex
pire a year hence.
Senator Lodge said the facts will
b- brought out in the investigation
concerning high prices.
President Taft was the chief guest
and speaker at the Hoard of Trade
banquet at Newark. N. .1.
Senator Beveridge introduced a bill
roviding for the permanent retention
bv the government of the Alaskan coal
lands
A delegation of Kentucky negroes
ealed upon President Taft and urged
the appointment of Albert S. White
a negro lawyer of Louisville, as min
ister to Hayti.
A decision by the supreme court in
’hi case of the tobacco trust may be
| delayed ar.d linked with that of the
Standard Oil company.
The bill granting right of way to a
pipe line across the public lands of
Arkansas for oil and gas from the
fields of Oklahoma was favorably
acted upon by the house committee
on public lands.
The movement for a Masonic tne
tnoriul to George Washington has
taken definite form at Alexandria. Va.
Decisions handed down by the
' 1'nited States supreat* court show
I that substantial progres has been
! made in regulating r:u.roads by state
authority.
The president has withdrawn tlie
: nominations of names constituting tiie
! customs appeals court.
Amt racite coal-carrying roads were
| declared to be in a conspiracy to
stifle trade.
Th - French steamer General Chnn/.y
vva> wrecked off th - coast of Minorca
and one hundred and fifty-six lives
were lo.-t.
Tiie house concluded consideration
of the Indian appropriation bill, which
it passed practically in the form
recommended by the committee on In
dian affairs.
In t lie German reichstag Dr.
Stresemann, a member of tiie na
tional liberal party, referred with so
solicitude to the American exhibition
of machinery to be made ia Berlin
the coining summer.
The McComber bill to provide for
set -nd homestead entries was ordered
favorably reported by the senate com
mittee on public lauds. If enacted it
would allow second entries under the
homestead laws to be made by any
person whose first entry had been
, forfeit* d or abandoned.
Washington.
Uncle Sam ought to pay regular
fare for his postal clerks who ride in
the railway postoffices, in the opinion
of E. O. McCormick, assitant traffic
director of the Union Pacific-Southern
Pacific lines. As it is the clerks ride
free.
With the strict injunction that lie
was not to be represented as favoring
votes for women. President Taft ac
cepted an invitation to address the
opening session of the annual conven
tion of the national American women's
suffrage association, to be held in this
city April 14.
A dinner in honor of President Taft
by Secretary Wilson of the depart
ment of agriculture was described by
’tie attendant guests as ‘one of the
most beautiful dinners ever given in
Washington."
Sen:r >rs Brown and Burkett intro
d-d resolutions from the Knights
of Columbus of Greeley and Lincoln
demanding proper postal facilities for
the official organs of fraternal so
cieties. The Knights of Columbus
iTint a fraternal paper and they fear
that under the postal regulations they
will not be allowed to carry adver
tising in their columns.
Congress, having much to do, is
putting in full time.
Representatives of grain exchanges
made their plea before a house com
mittee.
The Omaha Commercial club is anx
ious that the date on which certain
features of the corporation tax law
take effect be extended until such
time as the supreme court passes on
the several cases now pending as to
the validity of the law. Resolutions
setting forth the appeal of the Omaha
organizations were introduced by
Senator Burkett.
The house passed the Indian appro
priation bill.
Regulations extending until May 15,
the time lor homesteaders to establish
residence on lands in several western
-dates, were issued by the interior de
partment. in accordance with an act
recently passed by congress.
Personal.
An avalanche has overwhelmed
H'lifsdal, on Isa Fiord, twenty-three
persons being killed.
The Johnson-Jeffries prize light will
take place in San Francisco July 4.
Went Taft called .Senators
! Smoot and Aldrich on the carpet.
Critics scuff at the statue of Senator
Harlan, recently set up in statuary
hall.
\Y J Bryan was given a reception
at Santiago and dined with President
Moutt.
Washington's birthday was quite
generally celebrated throughout the
country.
Six hundred policemen listened to
■ an address from President Taft at the
1 Waldorf-Astoria. New York.
Barring any unforeseen ooinplica
‘ tiun* physician* say that Senator Till
: man w ill now gel well.
Senator William Alden Smith of
Michigan, who was operated on for
appendicitis, is sleadily improving.
The serv.ee of nearly 200 employes
I or the treasury department at Wash
1 ington will he dispensed with July 1.
Kx-Covernor She Id no declares for
- ate-wide wrol lotion in Nebraska,
i w ith exemption for cities mustering
thre*‘-iiflhs vote for saloons.
Miss Mabel Boardman, the friend
and confidante of Mrs. Taft, has en
ured hear and soul info the discus
on of th<* problems relating to the
increased oust of living.
LABOR INCOKGRESS
NATIONAL BODY IS MAKING
SLOW PROGRESS.
NO TALK OF ADJOURNEMENT
It is Believed, However, That the
President’s Measures Will Finally
Receive Favorable Action.
Washington—Although congress has
been in session nearly three months
none of the leaders of either party
has come forward with a prediction of
when tinal adjournment may be ex
pected. The uncertainty is due
chiefly to the opposition that has
developed against some of the ad
ministration measures and the fact
that debate Is likely to continue ior
many weeks in connection with
nearly every one of the president's
bills.
Regardless of the fact that the dis
cussion probably will be extended
over a long period on most of the
bills on which the president has his
heart set. it is believed they will
ultimately be enacted into law. This
is true as to the interstate commerce
hill, two of ’ft,conservation measures,
court ‘ a falSlslatlon aud pos
doctor. alii0,100(1 bil,s- 11
ame, clos^ tae objec;s
has retrenator Bever
i rhe senate meas
-minion that it will
The sen:\atiejfal testimony given by
former Chief Forester Pinchot before
the secret investigating committee ap
pointed to sift the charges and
countercharges between Mr. Pinchot
and some of his associates and Secre
tary Ballinger and some of his assist
ants in the Interior department is at
tracting unusual attention. Mr. Pin
chot will continue on the stand when
the committee resumes its session
Tuesday. The committee will meet
Tuesday, Friday and Saturday of this
week and the indications are no other
witnesses will testify during that
time.
The senate cost of living investiga
tion committee has completed its
working program and it is likely that
day and night sessions soon will be
held. There is still a minority va
cancy on the committee, no democrat
having been found willing to succeed
Senator Chamberlain. It has been
suggested that Senator Percy may
have this important task thrust upon
him when he arrives this week to
succeed Colonel James Gordon of Mis
sissippi. Practically no business will
be done in the senate except the con
sideration of appropriation hills until
after the vote on Thursday on the
postal savings hank hill. Senators hav
ing charge of the administration
measure do not care to bring them
up until the postal savings bank bill
is out of the way.
The next bill of importance to he
considered is the interstate commerce
measure. Already it has been report
ed from the committee, but the report
of the majority has not been prepared.
The fact that it will be accompanied
with the views of the minority fore
casts a bitter fight. Whether the
democrats will join Senators Cummins
and Clapp in opposition to the Taft
Wiokersham hill is not yet clear. The
democrats themselves say it probably
will be necessary for them to hold a
conference before any party program
can be announced.
An explosion in the Trojan powder
works in California killed and injured
a number of persons.
The senate leaders are taking
stock of the Taft policy bills and are
preparing to smooth out the creases.
Secretary Wilson Authorizes Placing
of Seven Hundred Thousand Head.
Washington.—The amount of stock
which will be authorized to graze on
the national forests during the season
of 1910, in accordance with the deci
sion of Secretary of Agriculture Wil
son, shows an increase in the total
number, as comprred with last year,
of approximately 200,000 cattle and
horses and 500,000 sheep and goats.
The total allowance for the coming
grazing season is 1,957,000 cattle and
horses and 8,323,000 sheep and goats.
Bryan on the Way Home.
Buenos Ayres.—William Jennings
Bryan left here Sunday for the United
States by wray of England.
Tariff Issue, Says Mack.
Buffalo.—Chairman Norman Mack
of the democratic national committee
makes it evident in the March num
ber of his magazine, the National
Monthly, that he believes the tariff
and the high cost of living are to be
two of the principal issues of the
democratic congressional campaigning
of the present year.
Still Believes in Cook.
Washington.—“I shall believe that
Dr. Cook, the explorer, is an honest
man until there is definite proof to
the contrary,” declared Maurice F.
Egan, minister of Denmark, in an
address here to members of the Uni
versity club.
Another Bomb in Chicago.
Chicago.—“Bomb No. 36” was ex
ploded Sunday night in a West Side
grocery store. It wras said the bomt
followed letters demanding money.
Gondokoro, Soudan—Colonel Roose
velt and Kermit, together with the
members of their shooting party, who
arrived here Saturday evening on the
Belgian gunboat Bovich, spent Sunday
in resting up, their experience during
the last few days in search for giant
elands having proved rather fatiguing.
An effort was made Sunday to -secure
from Colonel Roosevelt a statement
on politics and public affairs general
ly, but he emphatically refused to dis
"uss these matters at the present
time.
NEBHASKA HAPPENINGS.
State News and Notes in Condensed
Form.
Through the efforts of H. J. Enders
a choral society has been organized in
Tecumseh.
Ex-Governor Sheldon arrived at Ne
hawka from his Mississippi plantation
early Sunday moruing.
The Fremont granite brick and Fre
mont cement blocks manufacturing
concerns have consolidated their in
terests and will operate a joint plant.
George Boulton, a well known
farmer of Juniata, dropped dead
Thursday afternoon while unloading
grain. He had been stricken with apo
plexy.
Rev. Mr. Friar of the Baptist church
of David City has opened evangelistic
services assisted by Rev. Mr. Mc
Dowell. evangelist cf the Baptist
church.
Twenty-eight persons have filed suit
for the $25,000 reward offered by the
Union Pacific for the capture of the
Overland Limited train robbers, and
twenty fill file suits. Harrel Whit
aker of South Omaha, nine years of
age, is the latest to appear as inter
venor in the United States circuit
court. He asks $5,000.
More school room is needed In
Grand Island, despite the fact that
about five years ago a $00,000 high
school building was erected and is
now occupied by some over 200 schol
ars. The board is considering the
purchase of another block of real es
tate five or six blocks from the pres
ent high school building.
Mrs. Elizabeth Long, who has been
an old resident of Nebraska for the
last forty years, twenty-six of which
have been in Dorchester, passed he;1
ninety-fifth milestone St. Valentine's
day. She was born in Ohio February
14. 1815. She still has good health,
and her doctor says he thinks she will
live to see her hundredth birthday.
Horses are in great demand around
Dorchester, and are bringing high
prices at public farm sales. A young
mare sold a few days ago brought
$301, whilo Henry Nelson received
S290 for one. E. G. Maxfield got $290
for a four-year-old mare. $3St> for a
team of eight and nine-year-old
mares and $115 for a nineteen-year-old
mare.
A movement is now on in Kearney
to put in several blocks of paved
streets. Several petitions are now out
and the chances arc good for much of
ibis work. One petition has received
the required number of signers. The
material used for paving will be brick.
Mayor Patterson declares that there
will be fifty blocks of paved streets
before the first of next year.
Fremont’s fine, new $75,000 Y. M. C.
A. building was in danger of serious
damage from fire for a few minutes
Wednesday night. Someone careless
ly tossed a lighted match into a waste
basket and n few minutes later a
merry fire was burning the magazine
table in the reading room. The fire
hose with which the building is
equipped was brought promptly into
use with the desired effect.
Wednesday morning Charles E.
Simpson of Riverdale built a fire in
the stove of his residence and then
went to see a neighbor living near by.
A few minutes later the stove became
too warm and caught in some inflam
mable material lying close to the stove
and the house was completely de
stroyed along with the contents. Mr.
Simpson was a bachelor and lived by
himself.
The board of directors of the Farm
ers’ Grain & Live Stock company of
Oakland are busily engaged on plans
for the erection of a new elevator to
take the place of the one recently de
stroyed. In spite of the heavy loss in
grain and the total destruction of the
elevator, the company is in a very
flourishing condition. A 100 per cent
dividend in stock was declared at the
annual meeting and in addition a 10
per cent cash dividend. The new ele
vator is to be modern in every respect
and is to be fireproof, and will have
a capacity of about 05,000 bushels.
Collector Hammond of the internal
revenue for the district of Nebraska
has forwarded to Washington the
first installment of returns from cor
porations that are subject to the new
corporation excise tax. This install
ment consisted of the returns received
at the Omaha office February 1. They
were forwarded to the office of the
commissioner of internal revenue,
where the work of preparing assess
ments is progressing. They con
stituted the reports of about one
seventh of all the Nebraska corpora
tions that must make an '{recounting.
Under the law, every corporation that
was in existence at any time during
the year 1909, of for the whole year,
must file a return before March 1. and
the penalty for failure to do so is
very severe. Although less than two
weeks remain for forwarding these re
turns to the collector of this district,
there are fully three-fourths of all the
Nebraska corporations yet to be heard
from.
The question of voting a five mill
levy in Custer county for the purpose
of building a new court house to take
the place of that burned some time
ago, is now uppermost in the minds of
the people. The election is called for
March 1.
Many farmers in Buffalo county are
now busy picking the last year's crop
of corn, which they were unable to do
earlier in the year on account of the
heavy snows. Some fields will scarce
ly be husked before the stalk cutter is
put at work clearing the ground for
the bumper crop expected in 1910.
Rev. C. L. Dix, the present M. E.
pastor at Ericson, has received a call
to take a responsible position in the
ministry in Ohio and will leave for
that state soon. Rev. Mr. Dix has
been in the Nebraska work two years
coming here from Columbus, O.
The Crawford high school has or
ganized a new literary club called
the Demonsthenean literary club. It
meets once a week. Besides regular
literary work, the study of parliamen
tary law will be taken up, conducted
by Supt. H. Reimund. The club will
give a program once a week.
ONLY NECESSARY
TO TREAT STOMACH,
SAYS cooper:
The new theory advanced by L. T.
Cooper relative to the human stomach
has attracted such widespread atten
tion that the public in cities visited by
the young man has been joined by
many physicians in a discussion of his
beliefs and medicines.
Mr. Cooper says human health is
dependent almost entirely upon the
stomach. He says that no disease can
be conquered without (irst alleviating
all stomach disorders. He further says
that most men and women of this gen
eration are half-sick owing to degen
erate stomachs. And lastly, he claims
that his New Discovery medicine will
rejuvenate the human stomach in 90
days.
Cooper has been traveling from one
city to another, conducting in each
what he calls a campaign of educa
tion. For the past year he has met
the public in the larger cities of the
country, and his success has been
phenomenal. Thousands of people have
Hocked to his headquarters wherever
he has gone, and the sale of his medi
cine has been beyond anything of the
kind ever before witnessed.
Possibly the most interesting fea
ture of the attention this young man
has attracted is what his army of
followers, whom he has converted to
his beliefs through his medicines, have
to say on the subject. The following
statements are from two well-known
residents of Chicago and Boston, re
spectively, and the enthusiasm of
these is characteristic of Cooper's ad- |
mirers generally.
Mrs. H. B. Mack, of 3201 State
street, Chicago, says; “I have been
suffering for 12 years from a combina
tion of stomach trouble, catarrh and
constipation. I had a gnawing pain
in the pit of my stomach, a sort of a
dull pain that I could not quite under
stand. Then there was a dull head- j
ache, and my mind seemed to be wan
dering continually. 1 could not eat,
and what little solid food I did eat I
could not retain on my stomach. I
tried every remedy 1 could think of,
and also tried out a number of patent
medicines, hut without any apparent
result. It was through one of my
friends that I heard of Cooper’s prep
aration, and ! immediately decided to
try some of it. It is two weeks since
I took my first dose of it, and I feel
like a new woman. The headache
seems to have disappeared, and the
pain in my stomach, along with it.
The medicine is worth its weight in
gold, and 1 want to thank Mr. Cooper
for what he has done for me.”
Mr. Edwin F. Morse, of 20 Oakley
street. Dorchester, a suburb of Boston,
says: "For three years I had not a
well day. My stomach was in fright
ful shape; the mere thought of food
would nauseate me. and 1 really had a
horror of anything to eat. All solid ;
food would cause me extreme indiges
tion, bloating and gas on my stomach,
and nothing tasted right. Some time
ago I got some of this Cooper's medi
cine, about which there is so much
talk. I actually feel as well and strong
as a boy ever since the first bottle.
Every sign of stomach trouble has dis
appeared, and I have a hearty appe
tite and eat threh square meals; every
thing seems to taste good. Anyone
who knows what chronic indigestion
is can appreciate what this means to
me. I consider this the most remark
able medicine I ever heard of.”
Cooper's New Discovery is sold hv
all druggists. If your druggist cannot
supply you. we will forward you the 1
name of a druggist in your city who I
will. Don’t accept “something just as j
good.”—The Cooper Medicine Co.. Day- '
ton, Ohio.
Talkative Woman.
Hewitt—Some men talk and don't
say anything.
Jewett—Yes, my wife is just that
kind of a man.
Beautiful Post Cards Free.
Semi 4e stamps for five samples of our
very best Cioid and Silk Finisli Birthday.
Flower and Motto Post Cards; beautiful
colors and loveliest designs. Art Post
Card Club, 792 Jaekscn st., Topeka, Kan.
Whatsoever you do not wish your
neighbor to do to you, do not unto
hint. This is the whole law. The rest
is a mere exposition of it.—Jewish.
Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup.
Forchildren teething, softens the gums, reduces in
tkumuation.allays pain, cures wind colic. lioea bottle.
When a youth begins to sow wild
oats it is time for father to start the
thrashing machine.
ONLY ONE "BROMO QITNINE."
That is LAXATIVE BROMO gUlNINK. Look for
tin* signature of 11. \V. (iROVK. l.'sed the World
over to Cure a Cold in One liay. 25c.
Many people want assistance—and a j
few really need it.
—
DATEftlT YOPR IDEAS. They may bring too
rMIK.HI wealth. f4-page Book Free. Est. 16SG.
Yittgenld AOo.. Pat.Attys..Box K. WashingtonJ).C^
CASH FOR PROPERTY wherever located. If
vou want to boy. sell or exchange write ns.
SORTBWBSTKRX'BISISESS AGKSCY* Minora poll*, Minn.
Baby Smiles—
When He Takes
tut utst m\aut m ^ugus^%ds
if &> pleasant that he Ele» it—and contain, no opi- I
,li ate*. There b nothing like it for Bronchitis, I
iW Asthma and all houbie* of the throat and lungs. 1
!9> A Standard Remedy f or half a century.
____ AH Pruggfyta. 2S Cantu —
NEWS FROM THE CAPITAL CITY
Items of Interest Around the State
House
Call for Farm Help.
“We have more calls for farm help
than we can supply,” said Deputy Ea
bor Commissioner Maupin Thursday.
"Especially is this true of the calls
for unmarried men, although we have
plenty of applications from farmers
who want married men. But right now
we have on file a hundred or more ap
plications from farmers who want
help. If there are any unemployed in
the cities who want farm work, this
bureau can find them the jobs in
short order. Every mail brings as ap
plications from farmers, but we are
unable to supply the demand.
“We have numerous rerpiests from
married men for farm positions, in
fact, too many to supply. But farm
ers who want unmarried help are too
numerous for the supply on hand. And
we can't strike an average. With the
near approach of spring the demand
for farm help grows stronger.
“Farm wages have shown a much
greater increase in the last ten years
than wages in the trades. For un
married men there are farm jobs
awaiting with a $30 a month wage at
tached, including board, lodging and
washing. For married men the wages
run from $25 to $35 with house, cow,
garden patch and fuel Supplied in ad
dition. This is an increase of from
25 to 40 per cent over the wage that
prevailed a few years ago. and is
much greater than the wage increase
in the cities.
“Unemployed men who want farm
situations are invited to write to the
bureau of labor and they will be fur
nished with a list of farmers who are
asking for help. That is as far as the
department can go. Applications from
outside of Nebraska will receive last
consideration as this department
seeks first to take care of Nebraskans.
“In the meantime the bureau of la
bor requests all farmers wbo want
help to correspond with it. We want
to make this department a clearing
house for labor.”
Laymen’s Missionary Movement.
March 15-17, a convention of the
Laymen from seventy-five c'ties and
towns in south Nebraska, will be held
in Lincoln. This convention is part
of a great nationwide movement start
some three years ago in New York
City, contemplating the evangelization
of the worid in this generation. That
the movement has gripped the minds
of the men of all evangelical churches,
is evidenced by the great interest in
the conventions already he'd. Those
who attend this convention will be
richly repaid. The auditorium has
been secured for the opening banquet
on the evening of March 15, and it is
expected that 1,200 delegates will be
present at this time. The addresses
at the dinner—the opening session—
are very strong and are worth the
whole time and money expended. The
ablest speakers on the missionary plat
form in America will be present and
participate. Delegates should be pres
ent at the opening session and remain
until the convention Is adjourned.
Railroads Resist State Laws.
The introduction of testimony by
the state in the suits in federal court
involving the validity of the Aldrich
commodity rate law and the 2-cent
passenger fare law was continued
Wednesday at the state house before
Commissioner Pearsall. The state,
through Attorney General Thompson
is endeavoring to see that the freight
and passenger rate laws are reason
able. that tht railroads are charging
to interstate business more than its
just share of the expenses cf opera
tion. The railroads charge nearly 14
per cent of the expense of operation
to interstate business while the inter
state tonnage is only 4.64 per cent, or
more than three times as much on a
tonnage basis and twice as much as
the state admits is just.
General Grant Declines.
General Frederick D. Grant has
written that he must decline an invi
tation to speak on politics at the Ep
worth assembly at Lincoln. Neb., dur
ing next August, because of the army
maneuvers at Pine Camp, which he is
to command. Deputy Secretary of
State Addison Wait, a member of the
Grand Army of the Republic, joined
in the invitation and received in re
ply a regretful declination. General
Grant said in his letter:
‘‘I am deeply touched that you
should have thought of me and beg
to accept my grateful thanks with
many repeated regrets that it will be
impossible for me to have the honor
and happiness of accepting your kind j
invitation.”
Credit is given the Lincoln hositpal
corps of the Nebraska national guard
in the final report of Capta'n Heavev,
the regular army officer who inspected
the guard for the war department. He
states in his final report that he found
the hospital corps a most splendidly
drilled organization, so much so that,
he was surprised that the national
guard of Nebraska has such ?n organi
zation. He said if there was any wav
of comparing this company in dr'll j
with infantry companies it might be a [
question as to whether or not it is as
well or better drilled than any infantry
comnnny in the Nebraska national j
guard.
_
State Railway Regulation.
The difference in state and inter
state rates on the Rock Island was
shown by U. G. Powell of the railway
commission, who has been on the
witness stand for two days in the
railroad rate cases pending in the
that a car of oil shipped from Frank
lin, Pa., to San Francisco was carried
at a rate of 6.7 mills per ton per mile
and a shipment horn Omaha to Fair
bury was carried at a rate of 24 mills
per ton per mile. Asphalt was ship
ped as an interstate shipment for 4.13 j
mills and an intrastate shipment from |
Omaha to Fairbury at 26 mills.
Closes Telephone Station.
The railway commission has isseud
tn order permitting the Nebraska
Pelephone company to close its toll
!t;Uion at Melica, Sarpy county, and
to cancel its Blue Springs toll rate
schedule and to make its Wymore
-ates apply to Blue Springs. Commis
■ioner Cowgill went to Valley Tucs
lay to hear the application of the
Oouglas county Telephone company
o increase rates. Another member of
he commission will go to Cieighton to
tear a similar appiieat'on from the
lamp Dewey Telephone company.
OWES
HER
LIFE TO
Lydia E. Pinkham’s
Vegetable Compound
Chicago, 111.—“I was troubled with
falling and inflammation, and the doo
torssaiu 1 coma no®
get well unless I
had an operation.
I knew I could not
stand the strain of
one, so I wrote to
you sometime ago
about my health
and you told me
./hat to do. After
taking Lydia E.
Pinkham’s Vegeta
ble Compound and
Blood Purifier I ain
to-day a well woman.”—Airs. William
Akklns, 988 W. 21st St., Chicago, 111.
Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com
pound, made from native roots and
herbs, contains no narcotics or harm
ful drugs, and to-day holds the record
for the largest number of actual cures
of female diseases of any similar medi
cine in the country, and thousands of
voluntary testimonials aro on lilt in
the Pinkham laboratory at Lvnu,
Mass., from women who have been
cured from almost every form of
female complaints, inflammation, ul
ceration, displacements, fibroid tumors,
irregularities, periodic pains,baekache,
indigestion and nervous prostration.
Every such suffering woman owes it to
herself to give Lydia E. Pinkham’s
vegetable Compound a trial.
If you would like special advice
about your case write a confiden
tial letter to Mrs. Pinkham, at
Lynn, Mass. Her advice is free,
and always belpfuL
Thompson’s Eye Water
THE WORST.
Mrs. Blink—The worst is yet tr
come.
Mr. Blink—What time does your
mother arrive?
Premature Repentance.
The sick man seized his wife's hand
in his feeble grasp.
“Please tell me the whole, awful
truth at once,” he begged, gaspingly.
"Oh, William!” cried his wife, “it’s
all right, at last. The crisis is past
and the doctor assures us that you
will recover!”
“Is he absolutely sure of that, my
dear?”
“Perfectly.”
“Well, then, darling, please do thi
for me at once. Run and telephon*
to my partner that I didn't mean w hat
1 said yesterday about not foreclosing
that mortgage. He’ll understand tha*
I must have been out of my head
What It Meant.
“Robbie,” asked the school mistn
“what does history mean when it say
that in the country’s pioneer days
some of the settlers didn’t have a io< ‘
over their heads?”
“It means that in them days th
woman couldn't afford any merry \\id
ow hats!”
What She Ought to Say.
She — Speaking correctly. John
should I say “1 will have a new bon
net,” or "I shall have a new bonnet?
He—Speaking correctly, absolutely
correctly, my love, you should say. ;
won't have a new bonnet.”—Illustrate ’
Bits.
People who do just as they please
never please their neighbors.
A GOOD CHANGE
A Change of Food Works Wonders.
The wrong food and drink causes a
lot of trouble in this world. To
change the food is the first duty of
every person that is ill, particularly
from stomach and nervous troubles.
As an illustration: A lady in Mo. has,
with her husband, been brought around
to health again by leaving off coffee
and some articles of food that did
not agree with them. They began us
ing Postum and Grape-Nuts food. She
says:
"For a number of years I suffered
with stomach and bowel trouble
which kept getting worse unutil I was
very ill most of the time. About fou
years ago I left off coffee and began
taking Postum. My stomach and
kowels improved right along, but I was
so reduced in flesh and so nervous that
the least ihing would overcome me.
"Then 1 changed my food and be
gan using Grape-Nuts in addition to
Postum. I lived on these two prin
cipally for about four months. Day
by day I gained in flesh and strength
until now the nervous trouble has en
tirely disappeared and I feel that I
owe my life and health to Postum and
Grape-Nuts.
“Husband is 73 years old and he was
troubled for a long time with occa
sional cramps, and slept badly. Finally
I prevailed upon him to leave off coffee
and take Postum. Ho had stood out
for a long time, but after he tried
Postum for a few days he found that
he could sleep and that his cramps
disappeared. He was satisfied and has
never gone back to coffee.
' “I have a brother in California who
has been using Postum for several
years; his whole family use it also be
cause they have had such good results
from it.’’
Look in pkgs. for the little book, “The
Road to Wellville.” “There’s a Reason.
Ever rend the above letterf A uev
one appear* from time to time. The*
nre cenuiue.. true, aud fall of human
Interest.