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' J. W. BI/RLEIGH, Publisher i
Loup city, • • Nebraska
KWS OF THE WEEK
CONDENSATIONS OF GREATER OR
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i BOILING DOWN OF EVENTS
National, Political, Personal and Other
Matters In Brief Form for All
Classes of Readers.
Congress.
Democratic senators hope to be
able to hold up Taft’s appointments.
Representative Browning introduced
a bill for a comprehensive currency
system.
Senator McCumber introduced a
bill to repeal newspaper publicity
law.
The house banking and currency
sub-committee decided to take testi
mony of persons at hearings to be
gin April 6.
Repesentative Clayton introduced a
bill authorizing the supreme court to
regulate procedure in common law
cases before federal courts.
Director Stratton, of the bureau of
standards, opposed before the house
agriculture committee a bill for regu
lation and tax of oleomargarine.
Senator McCumber introduced a
bill to pension former presidents as
tommanders-in-chief of the army at
110,000 annually and $5,000 for former
president’s windows.
A bill that would establish a free
Inail delivery in cities having second
and th*rd class postoffices was intro
duced by Representative Griest of
Pennsylvania.
The first bill introduced in the
house was one by Representative De
forest of New York to pension former
presidents and widows of former pre
sidents.
Chairman Clapp ot interstate com
merce committee, announced an effort
would be made to reach an agreement
on a report recommending amend
ments to the anti-trust law.
A voluminous bill that would reor
ganize the personnel of the naval es
tablishment and the marine corps wat
introduced by Representative Padgett,
chairman of the house committee on
naval affairs.
Estimates for running the govern
ment during the fiscal year of 1914
was submitted by t'e secretary of
the treasury. ' They aggregate $23,
415,455, an increase of $72,078,248
over 1913 and include $56,766,992 for
river and harbor improvements.
Senator Works has prepared for in
troduction in the senate a bill making
it a felony for any person or corpora
tion to interfere with another person
or corporation obtaining financial aid
in the organization or carrying on of
any intestate business.
State and Treasury department of
ficials are prepared to urge upon con
gress the passage of stringent laws
for the suppression of promiscuous
traffic in opium, cocaine and other
narcotics in accordance with the con
clusions of the international confer
ence held at The Hague several
months ago.
Genera>.
Congressman Frank P. Woods of
the Tenth Iowa district is seriously ill
with penumonia.
Judge Archbald will take no per
sonal part in impeachment proceed
ings against him.
The customs court decided to hear
arguments January 14 regarding the
;wood pulp and paper case.
American and English volunteers
are working energetically against
cholera in Constantinople.
The United States supreme court
declared the Union Pacific-Southern
Pacific merger to be illegal.
Secretary MacVeagh has about
completed preparations for a change
in size and design of the currency.
An investigation of alleged viola
tions of the internal tax laws in the
manufacture of oleomargarine was
begun by the federal grand jury at
Chicago.
Cameron Forbes, governor-general
of the Philippines, in this country for
the last nine months convalescing
from a severe illness, left Washington
for San Francisco to sail for Manila.
A cabinet crisis has arisen in Tokio
over - the refusal of the minister of
war, Lieutenant General Uyeherh, to
accept a cabinet decision rejecting
the scheme for increasing the mili
tary forces in Korea.
Religion was declared the most po
tent agency for the settlement of dif
ficulties between labor and capital be
fore delegates to the meeting of the
federal council of churches of Christ
in session at Chicago.
Fire in a Muscatine, Iowa, lumber
yard caused $40,000 damage.
The Austro-Hungarian and Italian
ministers at Athens protested to the
Greek government against the bom
bardment of the Albanian town of
Aviona.
Total contributions for the Taft
e&mpaigu were close to the million
mark.
Col. H. G. Catrow of Dayton, O., of
the Third Ohio infantry, national
guard, was chosen commissioner gen
eral for the international rifle match
es to be held at Camp Perry, Ohio,
next September.
M. Jusserand, the French ambas
sador to the United States, announced
at a meeting of the French institute
in New York a gift of $100,000 from
James Stillman, banker, of that city,
to the School of Fine Arts in Paris,
Franfce.
The selection of Major General
Hamilton as adjutant general of New
York was announced by Governor
elect Sulzer.
"Fifty years ago John J. Ingalls of
Atchison ran for lieutenant governor
of Kansas and lost. Last month his
youngest son, Sheffield Ingalls, ran
for the seme office and won.
While rebels overrun districts of
'"Mexico, property-owners are not al
lowed to arm for eelf-protection.
An Iowa man who unwittingly fur
nished an Indian lkjuor, for which, he'
was fined and imprisoned, was grant
ed pardon by President Taft.
Woodrow Wilson says he is keeping
an open mind, and wants advice from
anyone.
The Hamilton club of Chicago has
undertaken the task of bringing re
publicans and progressives together.
Lieutenant General Torauchi, gov
ernor-general of Korea, was appoint
ed premier of Japan.
An armistice was signed between
Turkey and the members of the Bal
kan allies, except Greece.
Congressman Norris objects to se
cret hearings of federal cases before
masters in chancery.
Eight were killed and a number in
jured in a wreck on the Pennsylvania
road in Ohio.
Democratic senators may oppose
confirmation of recent nominations of
President Taft.
The Great Northern railway has in
creased its capital stock from $210,
000,000 to $231,000,000.
Mayor Fitzgerald of Boston says
the government may be compelled to
own the coal mines.
It cost the democratic committee
more than a million dollars to elect
Wilson and Marshall.
The design has been accepted for a
magnificent monument at Washington
to Lincoln.
Attorney General Wickersham says
the Sherman anti-trust law is effect
ive in criminal cases.
Governor Blease of South Carolina
a second time proclaimed his belief
in the law of lynching.
Implement dealers, one a Nebraska
man, testified against the Internation
al Harvester company.
The house, without a dissenting
vote, passed the bill providing for a
physical valuation of roads.
Railroad men have evolved no plan
for the divorcement of the Union and
Southern Pacific properties.
Setting as a court of impeachment,
the senate began the trial of Federal
Judge Robert W. ArchbaH.
A bill looking to Philippine inde
pendence was reintroduced in the
house.
An agent of the International Har
vester company admitted the expendi
ture of money to kill a bill.
Germany stands ready to go to the
aid of her ally, Austro-Hungary, if
conditions become threatening.
President Taft’s attention may be
called to what is declared a violation
of neutrality on the Mexican border.
Phoebe Davis, known to playgrowers
the country over for her long time im
personation of the role of Anna Moore
in “Way Down East,” died at the her
home in Larchmont, N. Y.
Peter Pravata, who escaped from
the Houston, Tex., penitentiary last
December, after serving seven years
of a ninety-nine year sentence for
murder, is locked up at Yonkers, N. Y.
Two masked highwaymen, armed
with revolvers, entered the depot In
Salt Lake City, compelled the ticket
agent to open the safe and robbed It
of about $300.
An endowment of $500,000 for the
big sisters’ movement for the care of
the homeless and wayward girls of
the Protestant religion is expected
from Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt.
Foreign Minister Sazanoff intro
duced a bill in the Russian council of
ministers for the establishment of
Russian consulates at Pittsburgh,
Seattle, Nome, Honolulu and other
places.
Mrs. Minnie Laduque of Dallas,
Tex., was acquitted of the charge of
murdering her husband, W. H. La
duque, last summer because of his at
tentions to other women. Her’s was
a straight case of "unwritten law.”
President Taft is seriously con
sidering making a fifth trip of inspec
tion to the Panama canal zone. The
president is greatly interested in the
construction of the canal and it is
known that he would like very much
to see the progress that has been
made since his last visit there.
“There is no danger of a panic but
the exorbitant price of money is tight
ening up business,” declared Repre
sentative Jefferson Levy before the
house banking and currency commit
tee, which took up his resolution di
recting the secretary of the treasury
to deposit $50,000,000 of government
funds in national banks.
Albert S. Gillett, founder and for
sixty-five years the president of the
Girard Fire Insurance company of
Philadelphia, died in Washington,
aged 94 years. Mr. Gillett had been
a resident of Washington for nine
teen years, although he retained his
business connections in Philadelphia.
His death was due to old age.
Five hundred and seventy-six thous
and eggs are reported to have been
thrown on the market at a loss of 2
cents a dozen by Chicago dealers.
Thousands more were offered with no
takers. Commission merchants say
the price of storage eggs is not near
the bottom yet and predict that with
more than a million and a half cases
in storage eggs will drop nearly 10
cents a dozen before the new year.
Personal.
Lucile Cameron (white) and Jack
Johnson (black) were married at Chi
cago.
Governor Blease of South Carolina
reiterated and emphasized his belief
in lynch law.
President Taft, in a second message
to congress, said be was done with
tariff tinkering.
Representative Norris intoduced a
bill providing for publicity at govern
ment anti-trust hearings.
A. G. French of Elmdale, N. D.,
under indictment for embezzlement,’
was arrested in New York.
Andrew Carnegie on bis 77th birth
day said the world was getting; better.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson
made what will be bis final report.
Finish of the California count In
dicates that Roosevelt has popular
plurality but not all of the electors.
Senator-elect Norris is preparing
a bill proposing to prevent in future
secret bearings before masters In fed
eral cases.
The Nebraska suffrage association,
in session at Omaha voted to get wo
man suffrage before the people of the
; state at the election in November,
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SENATOR PLACEK IS PLANNING
FOR THEIR EMPLOYMENT.
SET THEM TO MIKING BRICKS
He Would Also Have Dipsomanics’
Systems "Sweated Out” by Steady
and Honest Labor.
A solution of the vexatious convict
labor problem which has worried
many past legislatures is to be pro
posed at the coming session by Sen
ator Placek of Saunders county. He
has made a thorough study of the fun
damentals of the prison labor problem
and declares he believes in the mak
ing of brick by a certain per cent
of the convicts. The results sought
for, both in a financial way and in a
moral way, will be better achieved
than by the pursuance of any other
plan thus far suggested by legislators.
Senator Placek proposes to have
the state establish its own brickyard
at which the product may be made for
the state direct for use in erecting ad
ditional buildings at various institu
tions. In the event that there is no
need for this, Senator Placek believes
that the men could be kept at work
manufacturing paving brick for use in
constructing better highways over the
state.
Nor does Senator Placek provide
alone for convcts. He declared that
dipsomaniacs sent to the state hos
pital for treatment should be worked
in the plant, and that the "sweating
out" would do more to relieve their
systems of the effects of liquor than
many of the cures now utilized for
that purpose. In detailing the plan
which he now has in mind and which
he will incorporate into a bill at the
coming session, Senator Placek said:
“A modern brick yard, employing
from fifty to seventy-five convicts, can
produce 60,000 paving brick or 80,000
building brick per day. Sixty thous
and paving brick per day for 300 days
would produce 18,000,000, and at $15
per thousand make a total money
value of $290,000 per annum. Eighty
thousand building brick per day for
300 days would produce 24,000,000
brick at $10 per 1.000, or a money
value of $240,000 per annum. The
state should make its own brick for
state buildings. One can safely esti
mate that the state can use 5.000,000
brick annually for extending the vari
ous state institutions and thereby
save $35,000 annually on that item
alone.
Only seventy-nve convicts wouiu
be necessary to produce this enor
mous amount of money, and the bal
ance of 450 convicts can be used for
laying brick in building paved roads
over the state. At present only about
200 convicts are steadily employed by
contractors at 55 cents per day, earn
ing the state about $30,000, which
sum does not cover the maintenance,
and the state is compelled to pay a
deficiency of $15,000 to $25,000 every
two years, and in addition thereto pay
for machinery, improvements and ad
ditions.
“For the past ten years bills have
been introduced aqlting for an appro
priation of $50,000 to $75,000 in cash
and providing for issuing of bonds to
the extent of $200,000, payable in
from ten to twenty years, and draw
ing interest at 5 per cent, while a
modern brick plant, including land,
and buildings for housing the con
victs can be established for from
$75,000 to $100,000. There is just as
good shale in a certain part of Ne
braska as anywhere, and we can
make just as good paving brick as at
Galesburg or Purrington. I have in
mind a tract of land having the very
best shale, which can bo purchased
for $200 per acre, and it would take
seventy-five to one hundred years to
exhaust it. V>'e have also about sixty
dipsomaniacs confined qt the hospital
for the insane who spend their time
in idleness, and, if necessary, put
them to work also; and I believe that
the sweating process is the best
remedy for driving liquor out of the
system yet discovered.
Martin Files Bond.
The bond of Attorney General Grant
Martin is the first of the state officers’
bonds to be filed with the secretary of
state. It is for $50,000 and is in favor
of the American Surety company of
New York.
Lumbermen Are to Visit Panama.
Colon and the Panama canal will be
the destination of the Nebraska lum
bermen when they make their annual
trip following their convention to be
held next January. They will leave
Lincoln January 21 and arrive in New
Oleans over the Illinois Central Janu
ary 25, sailing the following day.
They expect to be absent three
weeks. Reservations have already
been made for seventy-five and 'it is
expected that there will be one bun
dled in the party.
Bonds for Equipment.
The Chicago & Northwestern Rail
way company has made application to
the Nebraska State Railway commis
sion for authority to issue equipment
trust certificates in the sum of $10,
000. The funds to be used for the
purpose of new equipment. These
bonds are issued and taken up by an
intermediary company, which issues
the money to the railway company
from time to time as it is needed to
buy new equipment and the railway
company nays ofT the bonds in ten in
stallments of $1,000,000 each.
Land Nearly All Taken.
Indications are that practically all
of the free land in this state has been
taken. The report bearing the date
of December 1 shows on that date
there were nineteen sections in the
Valentine land district Bubject to en
try. This land is nearly all In the
central portion of Cherry county,
twenty to twenty-five miles from rail
road. It is all sandhill land, but is
said to be excellent for grazing. It
can be filed upon under the provisions
of the Kinkaid law that allows 640
acres to the applicant.
rates of woodmen.
Consul Talbot Says Members Will
Be Protected.
Head Consul Talbot of the Modern
Woodmen issued a statement in Lin
coln relative to the return to the in
turn to the insurance rate effective
in that order before the head camp
sought to readjust the rates. The
statement is to be given in full in the
current issue of the order’s official
paper. In part Mr. Talbot says:
“To relieve the members from any
undue anxiety or concern with refer
ence to their particular certificate or
status, I want to assure every mem
ber that it is the determination of the
executive council that no member of
this society shall suffer injury or in
justice because of any transfer that
may have been made, or of his pres
ent condition in the fociety brought
about by his compliance with the new
rate by-law complained of. The head
clerk will, as rapidly as possible,
take these different conditions up as
business will permit, and properly,
fairly and equitably adjust them so
that no neighbor will have just cause
to complain. To this end it is pro
posed by the executive council that
pending said appeal and until further
directioons, to discontinue writing
any new business upon the new table
of rates or to receive or to permit
transfers of old members to any of
the new rates adopted at the Chicago
head camp.
“The method of this transfer back
to the former condition will be by the
neighbor returning to the head clerk,
C. C. Hawes, Rock Island, 111., his new
certificate with the request that he be
restored to his former status. Those
members who have filed with the head
clerk their application for transfer to
one or more of the new plans and
have not yet received a new certifi
cate will have returned to them their
old certificate and they will be car
ried at their former rate. Any mem
ber who has been written upon the
new plans and joined the society
since May 1, has the privilege to re
turn his present certificate to the
head clerk and receive in lieu thereof
a certificate based upon the old by
lawand rate.”
Senate Good Enough for Hoyt.
Samuel Hojrt of Gordon has issued
a circular, which has been received
at the state house, in which he calls
upon the lower branch of congress to
vote itself out of existence. He
claims that the United States senate
is competent to make any laws neces
sary and the president should en
dorse them. He says that the aboli
tion of the lower house of congress
would save the country $5,000,000. He
further suggests that three senators
be elected from each state and that
the country be divided into three dis
tricts, with a senator from each dis
trict, which would make a body of 144
senators, making a better and more
stable form of government. With
such a condition “we can trust in God,
the president and the senate to enact
just laws for all.”
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Governor Selects Road
Governor Aldrich has designated
the Omaha-Lincoln road by way of
Ashland as the one to be improved as
a post road under a recent enactment
of congress. The government has set
aside $10,000 to hid in the improve
ment of fifty miles of road in Ne
braska, providing that the state or lo
cal subdivisions along the selected
route will furnish double that amount.
Johnson Visits in Lincoln.
Herbert Johnson, a Lincoln boy, and
now cartoonist on the Philadelphia
North American, is visiting his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Johnson of
this city. Mr. Johnson is a graduate
of the State university and cartooning
came to him so naturally that he took
it up as a vocation and without any
special instruction has made good.
Good Job Awaits Some One.
There is an opportunity for some
one who understands birds and officce
work to get a $2,500 job from the
government. Chief Game Warden Mil
ler has received word that the govern
ment desires an administrative as
sistant in the game preservation de
partment.
Oil inspectors Report.
The report of the state oil inspector
for the last month shows cash on
hand at the beginning of October to
be $1,200; receipts of the office for
the month. $5,081.80, making a total
on hand at the end of the month of
$6,281.80. The disbursements were
$1,353.04.
Lincoln Democrats Want Peace.
Lancaster county democrats want a
place on the new board of cont'ol
which will be appointed by the new
democratic governor. One of the
most prominent men mentioned for
the place is William Foster, who was
a candidate for the legislature and
was defeated.
Boys Break Records.
Reports already received at the of
fice of the State Board of Agriculture
in the boys’ corn contest conducted
annually by that board indicate that
all records tor corn production in Ne
braska will be broken by the boys
this year. Fifteen reports show an
average yield of seventv.nine bushels
per acre, which is nearly three times
the average yield for the state. Four
of the fifteen report over 100 bushels
per acre and tw’elve are over sixty
bushels per acre, while the highest
yet reported is 126 bushels.
Rehearing of Bank Robbers’ Case.
May Woodworth, said to be a resi
dent of Omaha,, and who avers that
she is a friend of Bank Robbers Har
ry Forbes and John Evans, at present
serving terms in the state penitentiary,
has filed a petition with the state su
preme court, asking that the convictB'
case be reinstated before that tri
bunal. Both men, who were pals of
the late “Shorty” Gray, are at present
serving 'twenty-eight-year terms for
complicity in the Giltner bank rob
bery which occurred eighteen months
ago.
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HOUSE COMMITTEE WILL CON
TINUE INVESTIGATION.
THOSE SUMMONED TO APPEAR
Impeachment Trial in the Senate and
Other Matters in the Two Houses
of Congress.
Washington.—The resumption of the
"money trust” investigation Monday
and a hearing Tuesday on the
O’Shaunessy resolution for a con
gressional investigation of the Grand
Trunk & New York. New Haven &
Hartford railroad Operations in New
England promise to divide congres
sional attention this week, with the
Archbald impeachment trial and the
consideration of general legislation in
the two houses.
Before the end of the week it is ex
pected two inquiries will be under
way, the campaign expenditures inves
tigation by the Clapp committee and
the “shipping trust" inquiry by the
house committee on merchant marine.
Bankers aud financial men from
New York, Baltimore and Pittsburg
are under subpoena to appear before
Chairman Pujo's "money trust” inves
tigation committee during the week.
The trial by impeachment of Judge
Robert W. Archbald of the commerce
court, which began in the senate last
Tuesday, wearied a majority of the
members of that body by the end of
the week. Efforts will be made this
week through the medium of longer
sessions to hasten the presentation of
testimony. With scores of witnesses
still to be heard members of the sen
ate are skeptical as to the possibility
of concluding the trial before the
Christmas recess.
Appropriation legislation will hold
the right of way in the house. It is
expected that the legislative, execu
tive and judicial bill will be completed
and passed during the week and that
consideration of the Indian appropria
tion bill will begin. The senate com
mittee on appropriations has kept
abreast of developments in the house
on the legislative bill and it is be
lieved the measure can be ready for j
the senate within a few days after
the senate committee receives it. That
committee probably will make j
changes that will add several mil
lions of dollars to the measure.
General legislation, aside from ap
propriation bills, will receive little at
tention in either house or senate this
week.
PLEADS FILIPINO’S CAUSE.
Secretary of War Condemns Those
Who Would Cast Race Off.
Washington.—Unsparing condemna
tion of those who would from “mis
placed sentimentality or lazy self
interest” cast the Filippinos upon the
world in the state of helplessness and
before they had acquired the full
benefits of American civilization, is
a strong feature in the annual report of
Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson.
Many other subjects of interest are
treated in the report, such as the re
lations of the National Guard to the
army, the improvement of the army
tactical methods, the inadequacy of
the present reserve law and the cry
ing need of citizenship for the Porto
Ricans.
Bull Moose Special.
New York.—Col Theodore Roose
velt and 150 other progressive party
leaders and members left the Grand
Central station for Chicago Sunday
on a special train of ten cars from the
rear of which in electric letters was
emblazened “Bull Moose Special.”
The occasion of this mid-winter poli
tical activity was the proposed solidi
fication of the new party and the lay
ing of plans for future campaigns.
To Free Filipinos.
Washington. — Despite President
Taft’s vigorous disapproval in his
message to congress of the pending
bill purposing immediate autonomy
for the Philippines and absolute inde
pendence in eight years, several pro
minent democrats are preparing for
its consideration in the house.
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Wilson Cannot Go.
Washington.—I became known Sun
day that President-elect Wilson has j
declined to accept President Taft’s
offer to place at his disposal one of
the navy’s big battleships to make a
trip to the Panama canal zone. He is
too busy.
Wolves Attacking Cattle.
Steamboat Springs, Colo.—Heavy
snows and extreme cold have driven
pack of gray wolves out of the tim
ber and many cattle are falling vic
tims to their attacks.
Former Lincoln Teacher Dead.
Grand Rapids, Mich.—Mrs. Mabel
Cleveland Hastie, aged thirty-five
wife of Dr. J. D. Hastie, died very
suddenly after an illness of but three
hours. She spent most of her girlhood
in Nebraska, being a graduate from
the state university in 1899.
Jonathan Scott Hartley Dead.
New York—Jonathan Scott. Hartley,
sculptor of the Daguerre monument
in Washington and of monuments and
statues in many other cities, died of
appendicitis, aged sfxty-seven.
Official Vote of Michigan.
Lansing, Mich.—The first complete
figures on the presidential vote in
Michigan was given out by the secre
tary of state and shows that Roose
velt carried Michigan by a plurality of
66,768 over President Taft, the latter
being second in the race.
Watch Robbers Loot Bank.
Quincy, III.—While guests of a near
by hotel, who were awakened by the
reports, stood watching them, four
robbers blew the safe in the Perry
state bank at Perry, 111.
QUEEN ALEXANDRA’S CHARITY
British Home and Hospital at Streat
ham Now Inadequate, Owing to
Her Majesty’s Efforts.
Queen Alexandra of England has a
pet charity in the British Home and
Hospital for Incurables at Streatham.
Pounded in 1861, the institution soon
became totally inadequate to care for
the enormous number of cases which
same under its province.
In 1863, however, according to the
Bystander, Queen Alexandra, then
princes of Wales, became a liberal
supporter. Through her donations
ind the influence of her patronage
Funds poured into the hospital until
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Queen Alexandra s Charity.
it gained a sound financial basis. For
many years it was situated in Clap
ham road, but in 1894 the buildings be
came so crowded that new' quarters
were sought at Streatham. The pres
ent building cost in the neighborhood
of £27,000, which was subscribed by
the public.
The beneficiaries in the home are
all persons of what the British term
the middle classes—persons whc>
shrink from charity and who prefer
death to a life in a paupers’ home.
They are known as guests of the in
stitution, and their number includes
university graduates, army and navy
officers, members of the medical and
legal professions.
A new wing is being added to the
hospital, which is to be called the
Queen Alexandra wing, by permission
of the queen.
TEN-YEAR-OLD GIRL MARRIED
Husband. Who Is Twenty-three Years
Old, Gives an Appropriate Present
to Young Bride.
Thibodeaux, La.—Agnes Callahan,
ten years old, was married the other
day and quit the third reader class In
the public school here. Her husband
is Paul Dietz, twenty-three years old.
The girl wore short dresses during the
ceremony, but immediately after an
nounced she would have the gowns
lengthened as she was a married wo
man now. The priest who performed
the ceremony was opposed at first on
account of the age of the prospective
bride, but because the parents of both
of the contracting parties insisted that
the wedding should take place he final
ly was prevailed upon to conduct the
ceremony.
The bridegroom as wedding present
to his youthful bride presented her
with a huge doll. The wedding was
the result of a courtship begun when
the bride was a baby.
WHERE IS BATTING HEINE?
Zimmermans Have Million-Dollar Es
tate to Split Up and Cub Hero
Isn’t Mentioned.
Kansas City, Mo.—Hundreds of let
ters from Zimmermans in all parts of
the United States who seek to share in
the $1,000,00 estate of J. K. Zimmer
man, formly a cattleman of Waco,
Tex., have been received by Judge J.
E. Guinotte of the Kansas City pro
bate court.
Mr. Zimmerman, a bachelor, died in- |
testate in Excelsior Springs, Mo., on
October 6. S. B. Strother and F. P.
Neal, administrators of the estate,
also received a flood of letters.
To date the administrators have
listed twenty-seven heirs who claim a
part of the estate. They are investi
gating the claims of scores of others. |
The estate is to be divided among ne
phews and nieces of the deceased. It
consists entirely of notes secured by
real estate and chattels.
GIRL IS GROWING A NOSE
Katherine Godfroy of Fort Wayne Un
dergoes Operation Which Prom
ises Success.
Fort Wayne, Ind.—Katherine God
froy, three years old. is growing a
new nose, and the materials are the
left floating rib from her body and
flesh taken from the right forearm.
A year ago the child lost her nose
through an accident. Three weeks
ago physicians decided upon a novel
operation. The floating rib was re
moved from the chest and buried in
the forearm, where it was allowed to
remain until flesh grew about it.
The forearm was then bandaged
tightly to the child’s face, where it
will remain until the flesh and bone
unite with the forehead. The final
step will be cutting the forearm loose
from the built-up nose and the plac
ing of skin to prevent scars. Thus far
every step in the operation has been
successful.
PAINTS PORTS OF 1700
Elmer E. Gurnsey’s Notable Decora
tion* Uncovered to New York
Public.
New York.—A notable series of dec
orative paintings on the walls of the
reception room of the New York cus
tom house was uncovered to public
view. The work is by Elmer E. Garn
sey of ’White Plains and represents
ten ports of the world prominent at
the end ot the seventeenth century.
The ports depicted are Amsterdam,
Curacao, Fort Orange (now Albany),
New Amsterdam (now New York), La
Rochelle, London, Port Royal (Jamai
ca), Plymouth (England), Cadiz and
Genoa
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TROUBLE IN DINING ROOM
Little Mixup Between Ladies Accept
ed Philosophically by the Tor
pidville Landlord.
“At one time yesterday it looked
like we was going to have a little
trouble here in the dining room, but it
didn’t come to nothin' much,’’ related
the landlord of the Torpidville tavern.
“Maxine and Sylphie, the young lad
ies that are waitin’ table, got to squab
blin’ about a p’int of etiquette, or the
merits of their respective fellers, or
something that-a-way, as ladies is
everlastin’ly doin’, and Sylphie, I reck
on it was, told Maxine, or mebby Max
ine told Sylphie—anyhow, one told the
other that she wasn't no better than
she ort to be. And Maxine, or
Sylphie, whichever it was, got sorter
fussy about it and answered that she
was too, and she didn’t care who knew
it! And then they kind o’ tied in on
each other and went 'round and 'round
as it were, and it took ’em quite a
while after it was over to wash the
ketchup and broken glass out of their
cofTers, as they call their hair. But
that’s all it amounted to, and there’s
no use in firin’ ’em, for ladies will be
ladies and there ain’t no help for it.”
—Kansas City Sun.
Transmigrating Turkey.
“The only time T ever believed in
the transmigration of souls was one
frosty November afternoon on my
Indiana farm.”
The speaker was George Ade, the
humorist. He continued:
“It was a day or two before Thanks- %
giving. The trees were bare. The
fields were a russet brown color. To
ward me over those russet fields
strutted a very plump, very large,
very young turkey.
“Then it was that an ardent belief
in the doctrine of metempsychosis
seized me.
“ ‘You,’ I said to the superb bird
‘you are now a turkey. And you will
die tomorrow. But, cheer up. Your
next transmigration will be into the
body of a humorist not unknown to
fame.’ ”
Thanksgiving Querry.
A little girl on awakening Thanks
giving morning was asked what she
was thankful for.
“Oh. a big turkey dinner and no
school,” was the prompt reply.
"But,” inquired her mother in sur
prise, “are you not thankful that you
have papa and mamma?”
“Oh, I can be thankful for them any
day.’'
Plain Facts.
"Men are a lot of four-flushers.”
"How so?”
“They tell a girl that all they want
is to bask forever in the sunshine of
her smile. And after marriage they
expect her to cook, mend clothes,
keep house and do an endless lot of
plain hard work.”
Just Betcre the Battle.
“AVould you marry him if you were
me?” *
"I'd marry anyone that asked me, if
I were you.”
Its Cause.
"Why, do they want corporal pun
ishment restored in the schools?"
“To whip the young idea into
shape."
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