Nebraska Newspapers

    the Loop City Northwestern
5 ” J. w. BURLEIGH, Publisher
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Loup city, • • Nebraska
EPITOME OF EVENTS
PARAGRAPHS THAT PERTAIN TO
MANY SUBJECTS.
IRE SHORT BUT INTERESTS
Brief Mention of What is Transpiring
in Various Sections of Our Own
and Foreign Countries.
Congress.
Senator Hoke Smith spoke in sup
port of the Lever agricultural educa
tion extension bill.
Senator Bristow introduced a. bill
for preference primaries for appoint
ment of postmasters.
The senate passed the bill appropri
ating $5,000 for a statue of Pocahon
tas at Jamestown, Va.
The house passed the Burnett liter
acy test immigration bill to bar im
migrants over 16 who cannot read.
President Taft submitted for ap
proval of the senate nine names for
members of commission to industrial
relations.
Senator Bourne was elected chair
man of joint congressional commission
to promote federal aid in highway con
struction.
The house convened at noon on
Thursday and adjourned at 12:17 p.
m., owing to lack of quorum, until
noon, January 2.
• The house agriculture committee by
ft tie vote deferred action on the Le
ver bill framed to encourage the oleo
margarine industry.
The senate court of impeachment
resumed trial of Judge Archbald at
1:30 p. m. Thursday, and adjourned
at 3:46 .p m. until January 3.
A message from President Taft per
taining to postoffice, interior, agricul
ture and commerce and labor depart
ments was read in the senate.
William H. Hearst, testifying before
♦he campaign funds investigation
committee, produced several new let
ters bearing on political activities of
John D. Archbold and Standard Oil
company.
The Interior department expendi
tures committee of the house adopted
a report censuring Robert G. Valen
tine, former commissioner of Indian
affairs, for his conduct prior to his
resignation.
The house banking and currency
\ subcommittee decided to report un
favorably the Levy bill to relieve
(stringency in the money market by
placing $50,000,000 from treasury in
na\i°nal banks.
v Genera*.
Oa/verncr Wilson admits he Is at
■wofirk framing up a cabinet.
A seizure of eight cars of ‘ sweated"
oranges was ordered at Chicago.
The first step was taken in the
house looking to the inauguration of
Mr. Wilson.
President Taft explained to people
of the south his purpose in visiting
the canal zone.
Congress must amend the seal act
if herds in the north Pacific are to
be protected.
Justice Emlin McLane, of the Iowa
supreme court, has been invited to
fill the temporary vacancy of the Ice
land Stanford university, according
to an announcement at Iowa City.
Joseph Lomax, who is said to be the
oldest Mason and also the oldest
newspaper editor in the world, cele
brated his one hundred and third
birthday at the home of his daughter
In Indianapolis.
According to the final returns can
vassed by the state board of can\as
sers, the equal suffrage amendment
lost in Michigan by a majority of 760.
A decision to permit the confirma
tion of army and navy appointments
before the holiday recess was reached
by a caucus of democratic senators.
The government, began suit against
the Southern Pacific Railroad com
pany at Los Angeles to recover lands.
Cherokee freedmen are declared to
have equal rights with full bloods in
distribution of land.
As a result of the anonymous threat
to dynamite the Denver mint. Direc
tor George E. Roberts has warned the
superintendents of all mints in the
country to observe rigid measures of
precaution against violence.
Among tne forty live blue iox from
the Aletian island which arrived in
Seattle, bound for a breeding farm in
New Brunswick, are a number of sil
ver greys, which the owner values at
more than $1,000 each.
Incoherent speech, cut short on his
lips when the hangman slipped the
black cap over his eyes and sprung
the trap, Carlo Battista, a member of
the black hand, met death on the
scaffold at Montreal for the murder of
Salvatore Mariano.
Russia is obstructing the negoti
ations in connection with the loan to
China of $125,000,000.
In a short time the common drink
ing cup will have been abolished in
all the Burlington trains and depots
in Nebraska.
The entire male Greek colony of
Keokuk, la., numbering 100, will sail
from New York to take part in the
Balkan war.
The sale of Red Cross Christmas
6eals throughout the United States
this seasonn will bring between $400,
000 and $500,000 to aid in the fight
against tuberculosis.
His majesty King George V of Eng
land was elected an honoorary mem
ber of the New York Yacht club.
Everett P. Wheeler of New York
argued in favor of sending the canal
dispute to The Hague court of arbi
tration.
Brigadier General Theophilus Fran
cis RodenboouTh, U. S. A., retired,
died at New York in his seventy-fifth
year.
The lord lieutenant of Ireland au
thorized a denial of the report that
the Irish crown jewels, mysteriously
stolen from Dublin castle in 1907, had
been replaced.
Five men terroized a Missouri town
and robbed a bank of $5,000.
Comptroller Murray says hia plan
is to make every bank a strong bank.
The United States is unlikely to be
called upon to mediate in the Balkans
troubles.
John P. White, pres'dent of the unit
ed mineworkers of America, has been
re-elected.
Chief of Police McWeeny says Chi
cago can have a wide open New Year’s
eve celebration.
J. P. Morgan told the house com
mittee there could be no such thing
as a money trust.
Former Senator Foraker says the
letters Hearst read were stolen from
the Stanard Oil files.
Capt. John Watson, of the Eighth
cavalry, stationed at Augur barracks,
Jolo, was killed by a Moro.
With nothing to gain by delay.
Turkey is expected to be willing to
resume peace negotiations.
Thirty-five horses were burned in a
barn fire at Hastings, Neb., causing
a loss of perhaps $40,000.
Peace negotiations at London were
delayed because of Turkey’s disincli
nation to treat with Greece.
Commissioner Dennett, of the gen
eral land office, says “professional lo
caters” prey upon the public.
President Taft will not delay in ap
pointing a successor to Whitelaw
Reid as ambassador at Ixtndon.
A portrait of Benjamin Franklin,
painted by Chamberlain in 1762, was
sold at auction at London for $14,000.
President Taft told congress he was
not playing politics in placing fourth
class postmasters on the classified
list.
The board of estimate voted to
spend all the money necessary to give
New York City one of the largest
municipal dock systems in the world.
It is said that President Taft will
leave to President-elect Wilson the
appointment of a successor to White
law Reid as ambassador to Great
Britain.
Clifford Wood, a Des Moines sign
painter, chose the exit of a crowded
street car as the place to shoot his
divorced wife, and there and then kill
liitnself.
The proposed law against dime
novels and senational literature has
been received with favor by the ma
jority of the federated states of Ger
many.
The Portuguese government has au
thorized the American and British
Protestant missionaries to undertake
the teaching of natives in Portuguese
Africa.
Frank Crouch, accused of having
kidnaped the grandson of L. I). Gale,
a wealthy New York banker, ob
tained a license to marry the mother
of the child, Mrs. Laura Gale in Den
ver.
Secretary MacVeagh has again sus
pended the Treasury department or
der, which was to have become effect
ive Friday, imposing a countervailing
duty on split peas and flour from
Germany.
Eighteen women participated in a
conference at Topeka, Kan., of about
200 state leaders of the progressive
party, at which a provisional organi
zation was consummated.
The Pan-American Society of the
United States and the Mexico Society
of New York joined in honoring Don
Pedro Lascurrain. Mexican minister
of foreign affairs, at a luncheon.
John D. Rockefeller, who for several
years has been a golf devotee, played
the best game of his life, he says, on
the links at the Pocontico hills, cov
ering the nine-hole course in 43.
One man was killed and two oth
ers injured when a runaway freight
car, after going two miles at terrific
speed, crashed into a caboose of the
Kansas City Southern railway at the
depot at Neosha, Mo.
Counsel for John Robert W. Arch
bald made a vain effort on Thursday
to conclude examining witnesses for
the defense in the impeachment pro
ceedings against him. When it be
came evident that this could not be
accomplished the court adjourned to
January 3, when Judge Archbald will
take the stand.
The validity of the Chicago city or
dinance, fixing the size of loaves of
bread was argued before the supreme
court. Harry Duddenson, in behalf
of Mathias Sehmidinger, a baker, con
victed of having made a seven-pound
loaf when the ordinance limited the
size to six pounds, contended, among
other things, that the ordinance was
discriminating against Poles and oth
ers of foreign birth, who are accus
tomed to buy bread in seven-pound
loaves.
John T. Butler, one of the dynamite
defendants, was ordered sent to jail
for alleged perjury.
Personal.
President Taft appointed a commis
sion to make a study of air craft.
Judge If. H. Knight of Chicago, who
went to Florida to spend the winter,
committed suicide.
Robert G. Valentine, former com
missioner of Indian affairs, was re
buked ire a committee report.
Turkish Admiral Hali Pasha was
killed in the recent naval engagement
with the Greeks.
President Tatt’s trip to Panama
will keep him away from Washington
until December 31st.
Miss Helen Gould's marriage will
take place sometime in January. *
President Taft's Christmas will be
spent on the isthmus of Panatna.
Senate republicans are insistent
that some action be taken on presi
dential nominations.
Theodore Roosevelt spoke at a sil
ver jubilee reception in Huntington.
N. Y., in honor of Dean John C. York.
Rear Admiral Andrews would re
vive historic uames for new battle
ships.
President Taft left Washington for
his tiual look at the canal
Woodrow Wilson feels his reform
work should begin’ in New Jersey.
A. G. French of Elindale, N. D.,
under indictment for embezzlement,
was arrested in New York.
The socialist candidate for congress
from the First South Dakota district,
EM M. Jacobson of Sioux Falls, spent
2 cents for his campaign.
President Taft commuted to one
year the two and a half-year sentence
of Clarence D. Hiliman, a wealthy
real eatate dealer at Seattle,, con
victed of using the mails to defraud.
STAB BOH COW
SHOWN AS UNPROFITABLE AND
SHOULD BE SOLD.
WHAT TESTINC HAS REVEALED
Two Hundred Thousand Bovines That
Do Not Give Proper Recompense
for Their Feed.
Two hundred thousand Nebraska
cows do not give enough butter fat in
their milk t*o pay the feed bill and the
product of 500,000 more can be easily
doubled by proper methods of care
and feeding, says Prof. J. H. Frand
sen, head of the dairy husbandry de
partment of the University of Ne
braska.
This statement is based upon the
work of the Douglas county Cow
Testing association for the past year,
The farmers of this county have been
tveigning milk and testing for butter
fat In co-operation with the experi
ment station, and valuable data havfe
been obtained. One herd of ten cows
shows a net profit of $1,032.88, while
another similar herd of ten shows only
$57.82 profit. The scales and the Bab
cock tester show the difference and
identity the unprofitable cow.
“Sell the Star Boarder,” says
Frandsen.
The creamery butter product of Ne
braska is now in excess of 30,000,000
pounds annually and is increasing
rapidly. This does not take into ac
count the ordinary product known as
“country butter,” The dairy experts
clairt} that this amount can be easily
doubled without materially increasing
the expense of operation, by better
methods of feeding and care and the
use of the test for butter fat.
The results of the cow testing work
In Douglas county have been publish
ed in Bulletin No. 129, which may be
obtained free by addressing the Ne
braska Experiment Station at Lin
coln.
Rsfuses to Build a Depot.
Edson Rich, attorney for the Union
Pacific railroad, was at the state house
and served notice on the railway com
mission that the company would re
fuse to obey the order of the commis
sion to build a depot at the town of
Gandy. The Union Pacific line passed
by the town, which is the county seat
of Logan county, and built its depot
at a new town called Stapleton, about
three miles away. The business men
of Gandy entered a protest before the
railway commission with the result
that the road was ordered to build a
sidetrack and small station at the
nearest point to the townabout a mile
distant. The matter will probably go
to the supreme court.
South Omaha Officials Ousted.
For misfeasance and malfeasance in
office, Police Commissioners John J.
Ryan and Joseph Pivonka of South
Omaha were ordered ousted from
office in a decision handed down by
the state supreme court. The decision
took the nature of a confirmation of
the opinion of Referee Silas A. Hol
comb of Broken Bow and practically
marks the close of one of the most
bitter fights between the friends of
law and order and “gang” politicians
of South Omaha.
Big Exhibit for Lincoln.
A big exhibit for Lincoln at the
first annual show of the Nebraska
manufacturers' association in Omaha
next March is to be planned at a meet
ing of the industrial extension com
mittee of the Lincoln Commercial
club. Eight Lincoln manufacturers
have rented space at the show and
the plan is to consolidate this in one
part of the Omaha auditorium.
Governor Prints His Message.
Governor Aldrich will have his mes
sage printed in pamphlet form and
presented to the members of the legis
lature, when the session begins. In
this way he believes much time wrill
be saved as formerly the legislature
has had to wait until after the mess
age was printed before they could get
it into their hands.
More Taxes In 1912.
Forty-five counties of the state paid
more taxes for the years 1912 and 1911
than for the years 1910 and 1909, ac
cording to a report made by State
Treasurer George. The remaining
forty-seven counties paid less taxes
during the same period than for the
previous two years.
County Treasurer to Meet.
County treasurers, numbering about
one hundred strong, are to gather in
Lincoln January 28, 29 and 30, for an
nual convention. Such was the word
sent the Commercial club from P. A.
Sommerlad, who Is president of the
state association.
County Seat Decision.
The act of 1895, providing for re
moval of county seats, was declared
unconstitutional by the state upreme
court and the act of 1875 was held to
be operative in this state. The opinion
was given in the Franklin county seat
fight which has been waging for the
past year. The void act provided that
three-fourths of all the votes cast cn
the question should be necessary to
removal of a county seat where it had
been located in one own for ten years
or more previous to the passage of
the act.
Marsh-Burke Gets Verdict.
The Marsh-Burke Coal company was
awarded damages of $38,000 against
J. H. Yost, owner of a string of Ne
braska coal yards. H. L. Laird, secre
tary of the Northwestern Coal Deal
ers’ association, and Harry M. Boyer,
sales agent of a producing company
that was alleged to have cancelled its
contract with the Marsh-Burke com
pany, were also defendants. The ac
tion was brought in district court. The
Marsh-Burke company charged that a
conspiracy had been formed to ruin
Its business.
MUCH MONEY WANTED.
Demand for Two Million More Thart
Last Season.
If the coming session of the legisla^
ture listens to all the state depart
ments and state institutions and votes
the appropriations the amount will
run up to $6,873,968, according to re
ports now filed with the governor!
This is nearly $2,000,000 more thaq
the total appropriation of the last ses
sion.
Among the larger amounts that will
be asked for by the different depart
ments are:
StaSe University .$1,529,800
Normal training in high
schools . 125,000
Aid to school districts. 125,000
Institution cash fund. 245,24^
Orthopedic hospital . 130,600
Insane hospital, Lincoln.... 305,00f|
Insane hospital, Norfolk. 166,400
Insane hospital, Hastings.... 445,200
Institute Feeble Minded.... 164,600
Boys’ Industrial school. 163,000
Kearney Normal school. 159,200
Peru Normal school . 197,300
Wayne Normal school . 124,020
Chadron Normal school .... 96,500
School for the Deaf . 97.800
Penitentiary . . 147,000
Soldiers’ home. Grand Island 184,800
Soldiers’ home, Milford. 66,900
Railway commission . 100,500
Supreme court . 114,080
The different state officers are ask
ing for amounts as follows:
Governor ....$25,080
Treasurer . 26,280
Auditor . 37,400
Insurance department . 25,680
State superintendent . 26,280
Secretary of state . 39,300
Land commissioner. 26,800
Attorney general . 39,680
The increase in appropriations ask
ed in many of the state institutions
is due to the fact that they have been
enlarged during the biennium just
closing, and therefore the expense of
conducting them is greater. There
two new institutions which were not
in the list two years ago, the tubercu
losis hospital at Kearney and the
state xtormal school at Chadron. The
Chadron school is asking $96,500 and
the Kearney hospital $41,240.
Prison Board Report*.
Secretary Joel A. Piper of the state
prison board, in his biennial report to
the governor, states that the parole
law and the indeterminate sentence
law have brought good results, and
the board is well satisfied with the
record made by paroled prisoners. Up
to the present time 88 per cent of the
prisoners paroled have led good and
useful lives. Since July, 1911, the,
prison board has recommended par
dons for twenty-nine prisoners and.
paroled eighty-three. “Since organi
zation, 375 applications have been
filed for their consideration, classi
fied as follows: For pardons, 113; for
commutation of sentence, 02, and for
parole, 200.”
Favors Missouri Plan.
The Wisconsin plan for an amend
ment to the constitution of the state
to better provide for taxation legisla
tion, giving the legislature wider
scope in taxation matters, was adopt
ed at a special meeting of the Tax
Reform club in Lincoln. This amend
ment will also be favored by the tax
ation commission of Nebraska, and a
committee from the tax club went to
Omaha to urge the Omaha Economic !
club to get behind the movement for
its adoption.
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Good Roads Bill Drafted.
Legislative committees represent^
ing the state automobile association,
count}- officials' organized good roads
association, conservation bodies, or
ganized agriculture and simliar inter
ests held an all day meeting in Lin- 1
coin last week at which provisions of ,
a good roads law were discussed and !
agreed upon. Considerable progress ;
was made, but more work is necessary
before the bill is shaped for action.
Boys’ Corn Samples*
Samples ot corn grown by the Ne
braska Boys’ Com clubs in competi
tion for the Union Stock Yards prizes
continue to arrive at the general of
fices of the yard company in South
Omaha. Elton Stone of Lyons, who
has. held the record until now with
103 bushels for an acre yield, has had
to give way to two other lads. Paul
Kruse of Ulysses, who now holds the
enviable record as the best corn far
mer in the state, grew on his acre a
few pounds more than 112 bushels.
Will Ask For Appropriation.
The board of control of the Home
for Dependent Children will ask an
appropriation of $42,000 from the leg
islature for the next biennium. At
the beginning of the biennium there
were 281 children under the care of
the home and 141 have since that
time been admitted. Of those dis
charged fifty-one have gone out by
adoption, seven have died, one mar
ried, thirtyjthre<ei returned to their
pc reals, one attained yitis majority,
nine have been sent to other institu
tions.
Civil Service Examinations.
The United States civil service com
mission announces the following ex
aminations to be held q.t Lincoln,
Grand Island. Norfolk. North Platte,
Alliance, Nebraska City and Omaha:
January 8, assistant agriculturist in
farm economics (male); January 8,
engineer and plumber (male); Janu
ary 8, entomological assistant (male);
January 8, laboratory assistant in
physics (male); January 8, scientific
assistant in plant physiology (male);
January 8, laboratory helper, candy
making (male).
Insurance Department Reports.
According to the report of Insur
ance Commissioner Pierce on opera
tions of that department for the past
two years taxes and fees amounted
to $266,962, or more than $22,000 in
excess of the previous biennium col
lections. The $25,000 appropriated by
the 1911 legislature was sufficient, for
the first time in many years, to pay
the cost of operation of the insurance
department and in consequence, ac
cording to Commissioner Pierce, there
will be no deficiency claim brought up
at the coming legislative session.
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ARE WITHOUT AGREEMENT FOR
GOVERNING BUSINESS.
FIRST TIME IN EIGHTY YEARS
Abrogation of Treaty With Russia by
Congress Uusettles Long Stand
ing Trade Relations*
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Washington.—The termination of
Russian treaty, abrogated by congress
because of Russia's attitude upon the
passport question, which becomes ef
fective January 1, leaves the two na
tions for the first time in eighty years,
without an agreement to govern their
trade relations and presents a situa
tion unprecedented.
Except as a consequence of war, the
United States has never before under
taken to continue on friendly terms
with another nation in the absence of
any treaty relations, after it lias once
enjoyed that connection. Na urallytae
great business interests of both coun
tries have displayed the greatest
anxiety to know upon what footing
they may continue their operations
after December 31, but as far as the
Washington government is concerned,
it has net been able to secure much
enlightenment, and officials have been
obliged to deny requests for special
information from inquirers. The re
sult of many months' careful consider
ation on tlie subpject has left the offi
cials themselves in the dark, except
as to the broad conclusion that the
status quo so far as it relates to
trade may remain unchanged provid
ing neither country does anything
that might be regarded as discrimina
tory against the other.
It appears that the sole effect of
the termination of the treaty as to
tlie United States so far as can be
now forecasted will be to deprive Rus
sian consuls of the right to admin
ister estates of Russians dying in
America and to deal with disputes be
tween the captains and crews of Rus
sian vessels in American ports. The
great volume of trade between the
two countries, whicli according to the
figures to the bureau of trade rela
tions aggregates this calendar year
about $50,000,000, is expected to re
main unimpaired, though there are
some indications that the Russian
government contemplates some
changes in its tariff laws that may un
favorably affect the importation of
agricultural implements, and perhaps
cotton. So long as these increases are
of general application, however, and
are not directed specifically against
American products, they cannot be
regarded as discriminatory and as
warranting retaliatory measures.
STEAMER’S CREW DROWNED.
Twenty-Seven Members of the Ship
Florence Go Down.
St. Johns, N. F.—Twenty-two of the
twenty-seven members of the crew
of the Furness line steamer Florence,
from Halifax. N. S.. fcr St. Johns, lost
their lives in the wreck of St. Shotts,
during a northwest gale last Friday.
Five exhausted survivors who reach
ed land in a boat brought the new's to
Trepassey Sunday night. The steam
er carried no passengers.
Foreign Trade Breaks All Records.
{Washington.—The foreign trade of
the United States in 1912 will exceed
all previous records. Figures jus
compiled by the bureau of statistics,
department of commerce and labor,
indicate that the imports of the year
will approximate $1,800,OOP,000 against
$1,063,000,000 in 1910.
Shoots Wife, Then Self.
Auburn, Neb.—John Heinricks of
this city committed suicide Sunday af
ter killing his wife. Heinricks had
been drinking heavily and shortly af
ter 3 o'clock he rushed into the house
and shot his wife with a shotgun and
a few minutes later fatally shot him
self through the head with a 32 cali
ber rifle.
Panic at a Picture Show.
Brussels.—A film caught fire during
a cinematograph performance at Bar
raqus, near Menin. The flames spread
with great rapidity, causing a dread
ful panic. The total number of killed
was twelve, while twenty were in
jured. Many of the victims were wo
men and children.
Violent tartn shocks.
Turin.—Two violent earth shocks
occurred Sunday at Messina and Reg
gio di Calabria. Sicily. The disturb
ance caused a great panic, although
there were no casual ities.
Fire Drill Averts Panic.
Springfield, Mo.—A fire drill pre
vented a panic of 400 children here
when a blaze was discovered in th^
auditorium while Christmas exercises
were progressing.
Oscar W. Underwood Is III.
Washington.—Representative Oscar
W. Underwood, leader of the house,
Is confined to his home by a severe
cold. He has not attended to his du
ties on the ways and means commit
tee, of which he is chairman, for sev
eral days.
Woman Losses Her Jewerly.
Kansas City, Mo.—Miss Nina Hanna
reported to the police that while she
was away from home robbers entered
and stole $7,000 worth of jewelry from
her apartment.
Suicide in County 'Jail.
Mason, Mich.—George Brown, 27
years old, awaiting transfer to the
Ionia reformatory to serve a two to
five years’ sentence for breaking into
S, store and stealing a pair of shoes,
drank poison with fatal effect in the
county jail.
Labor Law Violation.
St Louis, Mo.—Federal warrants
were issued Friday for the arrest of
George and Nicholas Tompras, broth
ers, on charges of violating the
United States contract labor laws.
OLD HOME OF SIR REYNOLDS
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Wonderful Landscape Scenes Are D»
scribed in Verse by Noted
Poets.
London.—All artists and lovers of
paintings will be interested to know
that Wick House, on Richmond hill,
once the residence of the great paint
er, Sir Joshua Reynolds, is, like many
other noble mansions in the neighbor
hood, in the market. It is situated on
that wonderful terrace at Richmond,
whence one of the most perfect views
of marvelous scenery in southern Eng
land can be obtained. Poets and novel
ists, as well as artists, have tried to
describe its perfections. No wonder
the beauty-loving eye of Sir Joshua
was attracted by the scene. He or
dered the architect, Sir William Cham
bers, to build for him this house on
the site of an old cottage, which was
demolished in order to make room
for the artist’s dwelling place. It has
been much enlarged since Sir Joshua's
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Home of Sir Joshua Reynolds.
time. From the window of the draw
ir.g room he painted one of his very
few landscapes. And what a wonder
ful view it is which is commanded by
the terrace! The beautiful River
Thames is seen like a gleam of silver
descending through the rich landscape
and curving round the foot of the hill,
its banks thickly wooded. Ham
House, the historic seat of the earl
of Dysart, Petersham, and Twicken
ham are in sight, end far away in the
dim distance rises the round tower of
lordly Windsor, and on the left the
outline of the Surrey hills. The poet
Thompson described this scene in
: his ‘ seasons,” when the beauties ol
j "Summer” inspired his pen:
Here let us sweep
! The boundless landscape: now the rap
tured eye
1 Exulting, swift to huge Augusta send;
; Now to the sister hills that skirt her
plain;
' To lofty Harrow now. and now to where
Ma.iestic Windsor lifts his princely brow
In lovely contrast to this glorious view.
He goes on to describe where :
j '"silver Thames first rural grows."
| “Ham’s embowering walks,” and the
matchless vale of the great river
j Pope lay ill on his deathbed when
| Thompson wrote, and so he points to
j the Muses' haunt, Twltnam's bowers,
and implores to heaven the healing ot
his friend, and then proceeds to re
| count the other beauties of the scene
Another great writer has told us
about them. Sir Walter Scott In the
| “Heart of Midlothian," makes the
! duke of Argyll and Jeanie Deans
i alight from the carriage to conteni
plate the wondrous landscape. We
need not retell the grand description
j painted by the great writer; but when :
the duke tells Jeanie that there is
j nothing like in Scotland, Jeanie re
marks on the fine breed of cows, but j
; adds: "I like Just as weell to look at j
j the craigs of Arthur's Seat and tha
. sea coming in ayont them, as at a’
■ thac muckle trees.” It would never
! do for "auld Scotland" to be beaten.
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CAN’T ESCAPE HIS SHADOW
Englishman Unable to Prosecute Man
Who Follows Him Everywhere
He and Wife Go.
London.—A remarkable story was '
related at the Highgate Police court ;
by a young man who applied for a
i summons against another man. He
told the magistrate that some months
ego he summoned the man for threat
ening him, and the man was then cau
tloned. Since that time the man had
persistently followed him and his wife |
about wherever they went, although i
they lived at Finchley and he at
Crouch End. The man never siid any
thing to them, but simply followed
them, and when they went indoors he
walked up and down outside watching
the house.
"The man is quite entitled to the
use of the road,” said the judge, "and
in following you and your wife he is
offending against no statute. He is
quite within the limits of the law.”
GUN BETTER THAN SERMONS
Methodist Missionary Tells How His
Prowess as Hunter Won
Over the Hindus.
San Francisco. — Skill with a
big game rifle has contributed much
to his success as a missionary, in the
opinion of the Rev. H. A. Musser. who.
with his wife and their two children,
arrived from the orient on the Tenyo
Maru. Eight years ago, a3 district
superintendent of the Methodist Epis
copal church, he went to the moun
tains and jungles of central India.
”The meek and mild type of mis
sionary is slow to gain the confidence
of the Hindus.” said Mr. Musser.
"Much of my success was due to the
fact that I was of assistance to the
natives in a physical sense. I have
hunted lions, tigers and elephants,
and I believe the barking of my gun
has done more for the missionary
cause than my preaching."
Deserted 27 Years: Is “Widow.”
Pittsburgh, Pa.—Whether a woman
who has not Been her husband for 27
years can consider herself a widow, it
has been decided by a jury here that
“she can.”
Anna Duclanery was charged with
perjury and bigamy. She had obtain
ed a marriage license to wed Joseph
Glesilieiski and said she was a widow
Married life was not smooth for the
Duclanery-Giesileiskl combination and
the husband brought bigamy charges
against his wife.
At the trial It developed that the
woman had been deserted by her ffrst
husband 21 years before she came to
America from Austria and she has
been here six years.
CANADIAN EXHIBITS AT LIVE
STOCK AND LAND SHOWS CEN
TER OF ATTRACTION.
The hats were doffed to Canada
during the two weeks of the Lang
Show and the week of the Live Stock
Show at Chicago. Willing to display
its goods, anxious to let the people of
the central states know what could
be produced on Canadian farm lands,
and the quality of the article, Hon.
Dr. Roche, minister of the interior
of Canada, directed, that sufficient
space be secured at the United
States Land Show, recently held, to
give some adequate idea of the field
resources of western Canada. Those
in charge had splendid location, and
installed one of the most attraccive
grain and grass exhibits ever seen
anywhere. Thousands, anxious to get
' back to the land,” saw the exhibit,
saw wheat that weighed 68 pounds to
the measured bushel, oats that went
4S and barley that tipped the scales
at 55 pounds. The clover, the alfalfa,
the wild pea vine and vetch, the rye
grass, the red-top and many other suc
culent and nutritious varieties of wild
grasses demanded and deserved from
their prominence and quality the at
tention they received. The grain in
the straw, bright in color, and carry
ing heads that gave evidence of the
truth of the statements of Mr. W. J.
White of Ottawa, and his attendants,
that the wheat would average 28 to
35 bushels and over per acre, the oata
55 to 105 bushels, the flax 12 to 28
bushels, were strongly tn evidence,
and arranged with artistic taste on
the walls. The vegetable exhibit was
a surprise to ;Le visitors. Potatoes,
turnips, caobage—in fact, all of it
proved that not only in grains was
western Canada prominent, but in
vegetables it could successfully com
pete with the world.
One of the unique and successful
features of the exhibit was the suc
cessful and systematic daily distribu
tion of bread made from Canadian
flour. It was a treat to those who got
It. Canadian butter, Canadian cheese
and Canadian honey helped to com
plete an exhibit that revealed in a
splendid way the great resources of
a country in which so many Amer
icans have made their home.
A feature of the exhibit was the
placards, announcing the several re
cent successes of Canadian farm
produce and live stock in strong com
petition with exhibits from other
countries. There was posted the
Leager Wheeler championship prize
for Marquis wheat grown at Rosthern
In 1911, beating the world. Then I.
Holmes of Cardston entered the com
petitive field at Lethbridge Dry Farm
ing Congress, and won the wheat
championship of 1912, beating Mr.
Wheeler with the same variety of
wheat. Hill & Sons of Lloydminster,
Saskatchewan, in 1911, won the Colo
rado silver trophy for best oats grown,
competed for in a big competition at
Columbus, Ohio, in 1911. The produce
of British Columbia at the New York
Land Show in 1911 carried off the
world’s championship for potatoes,
and incidentally won a $1,000 silver
trophy, and then, but a few days ago,
the same province carried off the
world’s prize for apples at the Horti
cultural Show in London, England.
But that was not all. These Cana
dians, who had the termerity to state
that corn was not the only feed for
finishing high-grade beef cattle, en
tered for the fat steer championship
at the Live Stock Show in Chicago a
polled Angus—“Glencarnock Victor”'
Nearly 300 entries were in the field.
"Glencarnock Victor” didn’t know a
kernel of corn from a Brazilian wal
nut. There were Iowa, Illinois, Ne
braska, Kansas, Minnesota, Wiscon
sin and their corn-fed article, deter
mined to win, bound to beat this black
animal from the north, and his “noth
ing but prairie grass, oats and barley
feed,” as his owner proudly stated, but
they didn't. Canada and McGregor &
Sons, with their "Glencarnock Victor,”
won, and today the swelldom of Amer
ica is eating of his steaks and roasts
—the champion steer of the world.
But once more the herd of cattle
that won the Sweepstakes at the
same show was bred and owned by
the owners of “Glencarnock Victor,”
fed only on prairie grass, oats and
barley, near Brandon, Manitoba. The
royal reception given to Mr. Mc
Gregor on his return to his home
town was well deserved.
Omission must not be made of the
wonderful and beautiful display of
apples made by British Columbia, oc
cupying a full half section of the
great Land Show. This was in per
sonal charge of Mr. W. E. Scott, dep
uty minister of agriculture for that
province, who was not only a host to
those who visited the exhibit, but
was also an encyclopedia of informa
tion regarding the resources of that
country. With 200,000 Americans go
ing to weetern Canada this year, it is
pleasing to know that so many from
this side of the line can participate in
the honors coming to that new coun
try.—Advertisement.
Same Thing.
"So you have given up getting mar
ried?”
"Yes: and you have given up your
auto. What was the reason of that?”
"Cost of upkeep.”
“That's what influenced me."
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