Nebraska Newspapers

    THAT UP/6C
a town
“Cne da; after school John Lewis.
tm the performance of his janitoria'
duties, mounter a step-ladder in the
hall outside the superintendent's ofhce
the brtter to dust tne transom. Otovi
holy ne had to look in. He says he
saw Super ntendert Barnes in the act
t' hissing, er being kissed, by Inca
Armstrong. "
1 iiIS is tbe i:ar> story of
the ki>s that upset a town
'} 3.3 cot.-art.rd hard, as Cap
-/ 4 tain Obctiar says, that half
^igjf th# folks dont know
•" «better they re foot or a
b* • aa k wfc.rh. com ins fro® •"
server of the law. carries weight. The
i»»c is the snappy litlio tillage of
Freeport. L I
f.tee the primary incident. and as
as rdirect result thereof, the author
ities at Albany hate been appealed to
twice, the police bate been called
upon to perform «mergency duty, lour
n»» n hate lust their official Jobs, there
tas been a strike, parades through
the town, a placarding of fences and
bars.* with statements and warnings,
mas* meetings of citiacss. men and
worn, a ». ke. and a general condition
of sock persistent turmoil that no one
woaid ao muck as think of predicting
what's gr.rg 10 happen neat, accord
ing to a correspondent of the New
Terk World
By start.ng with the kissing Inci
dent. it Is easier to set matters down
It something like order.
Arthur E Barnes, a Colon college
man tali, angular, red headed and
Cisco to wearing stiff starched white
laws ties bow-knotted at his Adam's
appte. as superintend sat of the Free
port schools had offices in the high
•crook One day after school John
Lewis, la the performance of hia Jani
torial dut.es. mounted a step-ladder in
the hall outside the superintendent's
off tie 'he better to dust the transom.
Otriocsly he had to look In. He says
fee saw Superintendent Barnes in the
art of kissing, or being kissed, by Iner
Armstrong, s demure and willowy lit
tle teacher Now. this incident, which
ta no part of the high school currlcw
has and nowhere mentioned by the
serrata. was communicated to the
school board But the midsummer
wacs-ira was approaching and the
k <* authorities. ha» ag In mind the
gossip which naturally follows on the
sery heels of a story of an indiscre
Ooo did not take prompt action
in the Rcie of Joseph.
Barnes t meeif admitted the kiss
leg. H! if that be was tbe recipient
there* f instead of being tbe kisser.
He fcnhrrmoce credited it to a hys
t* rica! outburst on tie part of the
young ’es<-ter doe to her delight at
bar ns been st.-cwaaful la an examina
tion lee pr »Jhoaon in which be bad
aided her
l!«t it hadn't looked That way to Jan
•tee Ltw.s nr to t.s assistant. Eddie
Smith.
tVhe* -be schools closed the roans
teacher wont away from Freeport,
and dnr;rg tbe !osg summer drone
the school board turned tbe matter
oeer ia Its oflk-ial ooileotire bead and
finally derided that Superintendent
Barnes' admitted qualifications for
nriooi direction, coupled with bis ser
era! years of aerrice. should not be
disregarded So be was re-engaged
Icr another year
And Ha ones came back with bis
white lawn tie to tbe scone of tbe
"incident" at tbe beginning of tbe fa!’
term Bat tbe young woman didn't
Th-'-w some of tbe townspeople
nought owt Janitor Lewis and his as
sistant. tad eren at urper grade
youth or two for a more detailed ac
count of what bad taken place within
tbe taperin' nd*-nt's room They got
It Smith nonfirmed I>ewt* The boys
confirmed Smith
Trouble for Superintendent.
Tbe next more as the circulating
«f an appeal to tbe s*aie superinten
| dent of education to compel the Free- |
port board of education to rescind its I
contract with Barnes.
Some of the townsfolk announced
j that they would withdraw their daugh
ters from the school until such time
as Barnes had been given his walk
:ng papers Barnes stood pat when
i th« terin begtin Having been exoner- j
ated by the school beard and his con
tract renewed, he went about his du
ties quite as if nothing had happened
Not so industrious John Lewis or Ed
T. Smi h Their respective brooms
and dusters were placed In other
bands, which some of the warmest
supporters of the school board now
bei:eve to have been a tactical mis
take. Neither man was guilty of any
thing except seeing the kissing, un
less guilt at-ached to talking about it.
So. at the beginning of the school
term, Barnes was very much present
and Inez Armstrong and the janitors
very much absent.
Formal charges were made soon
thereafter to Dr J. S Cooley, school
commissioner for Nassau county, by
a committee of Freeport citizens that
Barnes was morally unfit to continue
tn village school work. The testi
mony of the janitors was made a part
of the formal bill. It was both gen
eral and circumstantial It was not
confined to recounting one incident,
but carried Barnes through a year,
during which period, as set down, he
had been a party to other acts not a
recognized detail of school superin
| tendency.
Testimony Contradictory.
At the hearing before Commission
er Cooley one witness testified that
be had placed himself in as near as
possible the position occupied by the
janitor on the occasion when he had
! seen the superintendent and the wom
an teacher together, and he gave it as
his opinion that Smith could not have
seen the kissing or noted the mani
festations of hysteria This might
have carried some weight were it cot
1 that the superintendent bad admitted
the kissing.
Another witness told of Barnes’ ex
cellence in higher algebra, which like
wise did not seem to have any fixed
bearing on the incident. There's no
algebra for kissing.
The overwhelming weight of the
»vldencc against Barnes was accepted
by Dr. Cooley, who two days before !
fhristmas declared officially that
Barnes was unfit to teach.
Having been exonerated by the lo
cal school board and engaged for the
new school year. Barnes promptly ap
reaied to the state superintendent to
‘'ave the county commissioner's de
I clsion set aside.
The office of superintendent being I
r ow vacant, the Freeport school board
appointed Principal Roy Leon Smith
of the hlc*i school to act as superin
tendent pending the determination of
Barnes' appeal, and In the event of it
being decided adversely to him to con
tinue until such time as a permanent
successor to that officirl could be se
cured.
Sraith, who had remained silent i
during the period when Barnes was fn
the limelight, and having a rather pro
nounced opinion of the way the kiss
ing incident was handled by the
school board, made public a letter ad- I
dressed to that body In which he de
clined the temporary appointment to
the vacant Barnes post, saying he did
not care to serve under the board.
This brought the row *o Its second
and more spectacular but happily
cleaner stage, which began on Jan. 5.
LEADER HAD NONE TO FOLLOW
ki«ifTtti entry Koveir.CRt Decidedly
•f Little Moment While Cas
tro Was in Power.
This talk about radio haring
fotignt a battle the other day In Vene
■kU was * about foundation. I
barn'd la Washington." said a man
who baa spent much time in South
America. The fact is nobody reemi
aw know where Castro really is Any
bow. fTI but there are some Venezue
laws who are lying awake nights for
fear be is somewhere near them.
When be was lying ill at Mara to that
time ft** rearm ago. and dispatches
were being sent oat under date of
Willemstad. or Port of Spain, or Mar
unique every other day that he had
|aat died or was fast going to cash In.
I was la Caracas One night at the
Cuorordia Hub. one of the famous so
dai organizations at the Venezuelan
capital, a lot of men sat up all night
watting far the ttgephone to give
them the news that bo had passed
•way the cext day none of them
would admit that he had been In the
club that night.
“Every holder of a government of
fice had to be a pronounced partisan
of the dictator s, and the state of ter
ror in which peaceably minded citi
zens lived would be a revelation to
Americans who have never had the
opportunity of seeing what life in the
average South American republic Is
like. But the night before I left La
Ouayra the mayor of the little town
forgot himself
“That was Macquetla. which is the
first station on the railroad going
from the coast up to Caracas. There
bad been a fete of some kind, and
the mayor In heading the celebration
had worked too hard over the local
wine. He suddenly decided that he
waa through with that man Caatro
and offered to lead an army up the
beach to Macuto. which was not over
three miles away, and rid the country
of the usurper Volunteers respond
ed so reluctantly that the mayor
found himself, when he was ready to
start, both commander and army, but
be set out cussing Castro and shoot
ing a pistol. He soon had the little
■
The school board, of whlc': Samuel R
Smith—the third of the name of
Smith In the controversy—is presi
dent, dismissed Principal Smith, hold
ing that his conduct in making public
his letter was discourteous and—in
subordinate.
The hoard did not want to lose the
principal, but it did want to pre
serve its own dignity. It urged him to
withdraw the letter and make such
an apology as the circumstances, as
the board saw them, seemed to de
mand. Bui the principal couldn't see
It.
On the morning of January S. when
Smith appeared opposite one of the
two Spanish-American war cannon
that stand on the high school lawn,
his namesake of the school board ap
, peared on the firing liue and told the
principal he must not enter the school.
I Some of the big boys and more splrit
! ed girls, having heard this, decided
that they, too. would absent them
j selves and thus protest against the
removal of the principal. Certain of
the louder instruments of the high
school band were secured from the
basement and the scholars started on
a combined frolic and strike.
Enter Village Police Force.
Here Captain Bunbar of the village
police force of fourteen brave and
earnest men is introduced. He as
sumed the task of keeping the under
; graduate body within bounds, which
he did largely by moral suasion.
The parade swung round the corner
by the house where former Assistant
Janitor Eddie Smith, who, oddly
enough, considering the happenings of
the past year, is suffering with an eye
trouble, sat fiddling at the window,
and thence to the offices of the sev
eral beard members.
Before nightfall they had bought all
the tin horns in town and had se
cured banners upon which their ult -
matum—“Prof. Smith or No School
—was painted.
The next day the teachers found
more empty desks than before. The
strike had grown. Some of the par
ents were sympathizers with it
On Jan. 10 Sigmond Opera House
on Main street was the scene of a
mass meeting which took the double
form of a protest against the removal
1 of Principal Smith and a demand that
the school board resign. There was
ginger in the speeches. Almost as
many women were present as men.
That very night a dispatch came
down from the state capital announc
ing the dismissal of Superintendent
Barnes’ appeal. It contained the offi
cial comment. "The rule of moral
conduct on the part of teachers must
be held to with absolute rigidity.”
which every one accepted as quite in
line with the town’s policy.
Petitions for Principal Smith’s re
instatement were displayed for sig
na'ures in four parts of town and gen
erously signed. They were presented
at still another meeting.
Whole Thing Summed Up.
In all of the doings growing out of
the removal of the principal the op
portunity has not been permitted to
pass without a dig at Barnes and
caustic comments on the way he tried
to explain his indiscretion by saying a
hysterical little school teacher up and
kissed him.
But with Barnes somewhere In the
west and the little school teacher re
ported as happily married, and Lewis
satisfied that he did his full duty in
reporting the cutting up. and Eddie
T. Smith getting another job, without
as much as losing a day, but tempor
arily confined to the house with irri
tated eyes and a tuneful fiddle-—with
these characters in the controversy
eliminated the troubles will be
straightened out by and by.
"Freeport people have got enough
sense to handle the school question."
observed Captain Dunbar, “but I’m
not on the job of predictin’ when
they’ll do it. I'm a police officer. Po
lice officers are paid for police duty,
not for predictin’."
Good Marksmanship.
A prominent American, traveling
abroad, was the guest at a royal hunt,
when hares, pheasants, and other
game were driven before the emperor
and his followers, and the servants
picked up the victims of the sport.
Among all the members of the hunt
ing party, the American alone had no
trophy to display.
"How does this happen?” asked
some one.
"Where game is so plenty,” replied
the American, gravely, “the jperit of a
marksman seems to lie in hitting
nothing. So I fired between the
birds.”—Housekeeper
A Soft Answer.
A story is told of a landlord on the
north shore. A guest, seldom satis
fied. came to him and said: “Mr.
Smith”—that was not the landlord’s
name—"Mr. Smith, your coffee is rot
ten.” The landlord shook him by the
hand. “Thank you. sir; thank you.
I haven’t had my breakfast yet and
I'll skip the coffee this time. Much
obliged."
Feminine Mystery.
Another thing—if it is true that
birds of a feather flock together, why
does a pigeon-toed girl wear ostrich
tips?—Galveston News.
I town standing on its head In excite
ment.
"Somebody sent word to the garri
son of a little post on a hill that the
mayor was on the warpath and a file
of soldiers came down on the run and
met the doughty warrior before he
had got away from the last cafe In
Macquetla. took away his gun and
locked him up in the cuartel. That is
the only case of a rebellion of one
that I beard of while 1 was in the
country. It required the imbibing of
a lot of false courage to overcome the
terror Castro Inspired."
Use of Cement Saved Bridges.
At Hamburg there are two bridges
the masonry of which was threatening
to fall In ruins, being traversed by
innumerable cracks of varying size.
A remarkable process has Just been
made use of to rejuvenate these
bridges. A number of boles were
bored throughout the structure so as
to give access to tbe Interior and
cement wss injected by pumps under
pressure Reports on tbe present con
dition of U>« two bridges are favor
able.,
FLYING BOAT WHICH GOES A MILE A MINUTE
THIS is the first photograph of a new amphibious craft built by Glenn H. Curtiss and just successfully tested
at San Diego. Cal. It will swim over water at 50 miles an hour, or fiy through air at 60 miles an hour, chang
ing from one element to the other at the will of the operator. The "flying boat" is like the hydro-aeroplane only
that it has two planes in its equipment. It is believed that it can easily be handled on board a battleship.
GUN MAN TO RETIRE
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Bob Dean, Terror of Criminals,
to Be'Evangelist.
Arkansas Sheriff Is Determined to
Supervise Execution of Man Who
Killed Marshal Before He
Takes Up New Work.
St. Louis.—llob Dean, known for
years as a “bad man" and a dead shot,
who has killed ten men in his time
and has himself been shot thirteen
times, who is acting now as deputy
sberifT of Mississippi county, Arkansas,
will soon lay aside his guns, give up
his duties as officer of the law and go
forth into Mississippi, his native
county, and preach the gospel of
peace and gcod will to the rough men
who have known him hitherto only as
a man ill to trifle with.
This change of life and front Bob
Dean decided on Sunday night, Decem
ber 17, at the close of a three weeks'
revival service conducted by Kev.
Chambers Mannering. who converted
Dean early in the meetings. It was
during the closing of the services that
the deputy sheriff arose and said that
he intended to lay down his pistols
and take up the Bible.
There is only one reason for the
delay. He is not ready to assume his
role as preacher until he has closed
his career cs an officer of the law by
officiating at the hanging of Henry
Coates, now in Jail at Osceola. Ark.,
awaiting execution. Last April Coates
shot and killed Marshal R. L. Fergus
on of this town, and so seriously
wounded Bob Dean himself that he
la.- In a Memphis, Tenn., hospital for
three weeks, his life hanging by a
thread. By a special dispensation of
the governor, at the request of Sheriff
C. B. Hall, the latter official will re
linquish his duty as sheriff on that oc
casion and allow Bob Dean to do the
hanging of the man who wounded
bim.
bo soon as his “ancient enemy is
hanged Dean will take up his ministra
tions.
Coates was discovered a few miles
from Osceola in the act of tying up
his boat and taking on a cargo of
whisky. Upon the officer’s demand to
give himself up Coates had the boat
push off and replied with a volley of
buckshot from his shotgun. Both offi
cers returned the fire, their shots
going wild. The second volley by
Coates, however, felled Dean, and an
other instantly killed Ferguson, whose
body pitched headlong into the river.
Five days later the dead body of
Ferguson was found 25 miles down
the river, and on the following day
came the news from the Tennessee
side that Coates had been captured.
The declaration of Dean that he will
renounce his iormer life after spring
ing the gallows on which Coates will
hang has awakened much local curi
osity. and that there will be an im
mense crowd present in Osceola when
the hanging comes ofT is a certainty.
Steals Burglar Alarm.
San Francisco, Cal.—Betrayed by a
burglar alarm he had stolen, Joseph
Sullivan was captured by detectives
attracted by the clanging of the gong,
and was sentenced to three months in
Jail. Sullivan purloined a suitcase be
longing to T. D. McGovern, inventor
of a burglar alarm. In his haste to
get away. Sullivan did not stop to ex
amine the contents of the grip, and
was about to make his escape when
the delicately balanced alarm went off.
The clanging could be heard for a
block.
MAN REGAINS HIS SENSES
Chandler Regers, Who Puzzled Seat
tle Doctors, Tells Who
He Is.
New Bedford. Mass.—Awakening to
bis real Identity for the second time in
fourteen years, Chandler Rogers of Se
attle, Wash., "the man who forgot."
found himself at the Emergency hos
pital here surrounded by a group of
physicians, who are studying his
strange case.
Fourteen years ago a man giving his
name as Earl Keller drifted into Se
attle. secured a position, courted many
women, one of whom he subsequently |
married. Several months ago he was
found suffering from pressure of the
brain. Physicians trepanned his skull.
The patient announced after the effect
of the anesthetic had worn off. that
his name was Chandler Rogers and it
was found that the previous fourteen
years of his life was a blank. He
could not even remember that he had
ever been known as Keller.
On December 26 he went to Boston
to visit his sister. Mrs. Florence W. j
Walling, whom he had not seen for |
fifteen years. A few days ago he
made arrangements to enter the Seidls i
institute at Portsmouth. X. H. Later
he was picked up in the streets here
and taken to the hospital where he
was treated for 36 hours before he
awoke to his real identity for the sec
ond time. His watch and money were I
missing and he believes he was robbed i
while he was suffering from his j
strange mental lapse.
Find Bullet in Appendix.
Lawrenceburg. ind.—Stricken with
appendicitis while on a hunting trip, j
Benjamin Kramer died before help i
could reach him. Surgeons found a j
loaded cartridge in his appendix.
CITY IS BOOK CENTER
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Chicago Is Greatest Distributing
Station in America.
Competition Not Only In Selling But
Buying School Publications Has
Caused Many Scandals in
This Business.
Chicago. — Chicago's supremacy
among cities in most branches of com
mercial utilitarian production it under
takes is so well known as to over
shadow whatever excellence It may
have in pure intellect. The municipal
ity has bad to struggle to extend its
reputation of being artistically in
clined, but even with the comparative
success it has attained in that direc
tion few persons know that Chicago
has erudition to scatter about the
country. Yet this city is known, in
fact, as the greatest distributing cen
ter of educational books in America.
Publication of school books is a mys
terious process, as far as the general
public is concerned. In this business
there is competition, and fierce compe
tition, too, not only in selling, but in
buying as well. Competition in sell
ing has more than once occasioned
scandal and formal investigation; in
buying it is another thing entirely.
The Three R’s company, for in
stance. persuades the authorities in
Jonesville that the Alphabet company's
school readers la use there are in
ferior to a new publication of the
“Three R’s." Therefore the latter gets
the opportunity of selling its own
readers in Jonesville. taking old and
dog eared Alphabet company readers
In exchange, making therefore a dis
count of perhaps 20 per cent, on the
price of the new books. At the same
time the Alphabet company has oust
ed Three R s company’s histories from
^ Smithfleld schools, receiving the
students’ old textbooks in partial pay
ment.
These two deadly rivals here find a
common basis in protection against
their enemy, the second hand dealer.
Rather than have these books, ac
quired by exchange, sent through the
dealer’s hands to undersell new books
in other cities, each companv is will
ing to exchange with the other and to
buy at a good price any copies that
may be left over after the exchange.
This price may be much larger than
the discount given for the books in
the first place.
But the second hand dealer Is not to
be put out of business in this way.
Hundreds of thousands of new and
used school books are brought yearly
into Chicago by the five firms en
gaged here in that form of trade. They
are acquired from retail dealers whose
market has failed through a new de
cision of a local school board and
from the smaller publishers who havo
taken books on a discount basis and
have no exchange agreement with the
original publishers.
30 Below, Man Wears Straw Hat.
Minneapolis—While the thermome
ter hovered between 25 and 30 below.
R. W. Ricketson won a wager of 25
cents by wearing a straw hat. Rick
etson was born in Alaska.
CANCEL NUPTIALS BY TURNS
Sweetheart and Lover Have Similar
Ways to Get Even—Third At
tempt Refused.
Washington. Pa.—Miss Louisa Tim
mins. seventeen years old, of Mount
Hope, started for this place with her
relatives to wed Sherman Webb.
Webb disappeared from the train at
Arden station, and there was no wed
ding.
Thanksgiving day was the day set
for their wedding, but Miss Timmins,
who was visiting at West Alexandria,
sent word she was having such a good
time that the wedding could wait.
Webb became angry and declared the
engagement off.
The two became engaged again and
set the wedding day for Friday, but
this time Louise was fooled. Some
person suggested a third attempt to
get married to Louisa, but she said
there would be no third time.
DISOWNS CHILDREN TO WED
Eastern Widow Ships Four Little
Girls to Idaho Foundling In
stitution.
Boise, Idaho.—Rather than miss a
chance to remarry, a widow some
where in the east put a shipping tag
on her four little girls and consigned
them to the Children's home foundling
institution in this city.
The name of the mother is with
held by Superintendent Christian of
the home, but he learned after an in
vestigation that she had spent $1,800
life insurance and $1,600 left to the
children by their father, and wished
to be relieved of their care, that she
might get another husband.
"To the Children's home—Please
care for these children.” she wrote,
and pinned the note on the dress of
the oldest girl, aged 11, as she bundled
them onto the train. The youngest
was four years old.
DOCTOR HAS 80,000 PATIENTS
He Boasts of Having the Largest
Clientele.of Any Physician in
the World.
London—A physician with eighty
thousand patients, according to his
cwn statement, is unusual even in these
days of big enterprises. He is Doctor
Jelley. who practices in Hackney and
its vicinity, where he is known, as
he is throughout London, as ”the
threepenny doctor."
Doctor Jelley told about his gigantic
business.
“1 have had eighty thousand patients
this year.” he said. "I am not at the
leek and call of every one I have
the biggest practice in the world."
| At Poplar, where he had been for
five weeks, the roadway was crammed
and hundreds had to go away. Since
be bad been in Hackney the death rate
bad been lower. He did all the work
himself. He knew some people who
would wait outside his door for two
or three hours.
The trouble was in a great many
cases, be said, that as his fees were
so low people let monetary considera
tions affect them in applying to him.
He did his best, but could not give
them all bis attention.
Music-Loving Cows.
Milwaukee. Wis.—J. Gilbert Hlccox.
bank directod and farmer, producing
milk of quality, has discovered that
the use of a cheap phonograph has
increased the producing value of his
herd of seventy blooded cows two
quarts each a day. As the milk sells
to the exclusive set at 12 cents a
quart, this makes his music worth
$1,000 a year to the farm. He tried
the experiment on the theory that
music at milking time would make the
cows less inclined to be nervous. He
was right Bossy, under the soothing
influence, yielded all the milk she pos
sessed. Waltz music proved the most
satisfactory from the cow standpoint.
R«« time agitated rather than quiet- j
ed the bovine nerves.
NEW ORDER FOR TROLLEYS
Massachusetts Commissioners Will
Compel Cars to Carry Lifting
Jacks to Lessen Fatalities.
Boston—Half of the street railway
ears operated in Massachusetts must
be equipped with lifting jacks of 15
tons capacity by July 1, according to
an order issued by the railroad com
missioners. Distribution of these jacks
is expected to provide a speedy means
of relieving injured persons caught un
der the wheels of street cars and to
hasten the clearing of tracks in break
downs.
Bit Her on the Ankle.
Media, Pa—After deliberating an
hour and a half a Jury awarded Mrs.
Elizabeth S. Snowden of this place,
$25 in her suit against Dr. Morton P.'
Dickeson, a neighbor, whose pet
monkey, Timmle, climbed into Mrs.
Snowden's house and'bit her on the
ankle while she was taking a bath.
The monkey was declared to be vi
cious.
PECULIAR LINE OF COMFORT
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Most People Who Have Been Afflicted
With Colds Will* Recognize This
Type of Human Hyena.
Binks—Got a cold, I see.
Jinks—Yes, a little one.
“You ought to be very careful. That
cold needs attention.”
“Think so?"
"It has a regular graveyard sound.”
‘‘Good gracious.”
"Awfully dangerous time for colds.
Influenza, pneumonia and quick con
sumption everywhere."
"Eh?”
“Yes, a friend of mine took a cold,
not half so bad as yours, last week,
and in three days he was dead!"
“My stars!"
“Fast. The doctor said my friend
might have pulled through if he hadn't
worried so much. Take my advice
and try not to think about it.”
Unjustifiable Suspicion.
The colonel had caught Rastus red
handed, coming out of the hen coop
with three fat pullets under his coat.
"So," he said, "I’ve caught you at
last stealing my hens, have I?"
"Whut, me, suh?" replied Rastus, in
pained surprise, “Why, Marse Colonel,
suh, I hain't a-stealin’ no hens, suh."
"Then wrhat are you doing with
them under your coat?" demanded the
colonel.
"Why. Marse Colonel, hit look to
me so like it war gwine to snow, suh.
dat ah went out to de coop to bring
dem hens in by de kitchen fiah, suh,
to keep ’em from gittin’ froze, suh,”
said the old man, with a deep sigh, to
think that his honor had been sus
! pected.—Harper's Weekly.
—
Certainly.
Guide—No one has ever been able
to find out what the Sphinx stands
for—whom it represents!
American Tourist—That’s nothing!
We’ve got a lot of congressmen home
the same way!—Puck.
Smokers find LEWIS' Single Binder 5o
cigar better quality than most 10c cigars.
There never was a man as important
as a bride expects her husband to be.
Anyway, a spinster can pretend that
| she would rather be her own boss.
To sweeten
the stomach,
aid digestion,
THE BITTERS SHOULD BE [
I YOUR FIRST CHOICE. i
IT DOES THE WORK. |
Try it Today All DruI^itU. |
Nebraska Directory
DIIPTIIRF CURED in a few days
ilUl I UllL without pain or a sur
gical operation. No pay until cured. Writ#
UK. WRAY. 307 Bee Bldg, Omaha, Neb
THE PAXTON
Rooms from 81-00 up single, 75 cents up double.
CAFE PRICES REASONABLE
DRY CLEANING & DYEING
Best in the West. Write for booklet.
Express paid one way on $3 orders.
Dresher Bros., 2211*13 Farnsm St.,Omaha, Neb
DOCTORS
MACH & MACH
DENTISTS
Formerly
BAILEY A MACH
Ird floor Paxton Blorfc
DlAHA XKBBASKJ
B«t equipped Dental Office* in Omaha. Reasonable pncea.
Special discount to all people lhranc outside oi Omaha.
We pay high
est prices for
Hides, Furs,
lts,Tallow and
Wool. Write for our price
list and tags today. We have no
Branch Houses. GREAT WESTERN
HIDE & FUR COMPANY, 1214-1218
tones Street - - Omaha, Nebraska
Bell Telephone
Service
With its Long Distance con
nections, reaches nearly every j?
city, town and village, giving |
instant communication near or I
far, which emergencies as well
as business and social needs j
demand.
Talking over the Long Dis
tance Lines of the Bell System
may be much less expensive
than you think. Ask our
nearest agent for information
regarding rates or service
connections.
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