The Loop City Northwestern
J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher.
LOUP CITY, - - NEBRASKA
NEWS OF THE WEEK
CONDENSATIONS OF GREATER OR
LESSER IMPORTANCE.
A BOILING DOWN OF EVENTS
National, Political, Personal and Other
Matters in Brief Form for All
Classes of Readers.
CONGRESS.
Speaker Champ Clark celebrated
his sixty-second birthday on March 7.
The senate passed the military ■,
academy appropriation bill carrying j
$1,125.000.
Senate passed over president's veto
Webb bill to prohibit shipment of
liquor to dry states.
Senator Sheppard introduced a bill
to forbid change of size and color of
present paper money.
Senate passed naval appropriation
bill, with an amendment to authorize
the construction of two battleships.
Representative Hobson of Alabama
w ill introduce a bill asking for an in
vestigation of the Washington police, j
With the names of the new’ cabinet
known beyond doubt, interest in con- |
gress has turned toward President
Vilson's next appointments.
The house struck from the army ap
propriation bill the provision placing
the San Monica, Cal., soldiers' home
tinder the supervision of the war de
partment.
The last act of James Wilson as
secretary of agriculture was to rein
state C. G. Klliott as chief engineer of
drainage investigation in the Depart
ment of Agriculture.
Although the known casualties for
inauguration day and night in Wash- |
Ington reached a total of 400, few }
were serious, and most of them were j
of a minor nature.
A life-sized bronze bust of himself '
will serve to remind James Wilson,
retiring secretary of agriculture, of his i
sixteen years of service in that de
partment when he returns to his home j
in Iowa.
President Taft signed the bill ere- !
ating a Department of Labor, with a
cabinet portfolio. President Wilson's
nomination for this position will be
William B. Wilson, now a retiring
representative in congress from Penn
sylvania.
Tales of indignities and affront from <
the crowds and indifference and laugh- j
lng comments from the police were re- '
counted before the senate committee j
investigating the alleged lack of pro- j
tection given the great suffrage pa
geant of last Monday.
Speaker Clark was renominated,
Representative Underwood of Ala
bama again chosen chairman of the j
ways and means committee, the en- i
tire democratic personnel of the tar- j
iff-making body named and all the
house olficials renominated at a har
monious six-hour caucus of the dem
ocrats of the house of the Sixty-third
congress.
The order of President Wilson that j
office seekers must file theii^ applica- j
tions with the head of the department j
In which they desire positions, had at !
least one effect, it almost swamped !
Secretary William Jennings Brvan, j
whose acquaintance with many hun- :
dreds of citizens throughout the length
and breadth of the land, seemed to
warrant that the “Commoner” would
act as intermediary for the "patriots” j
desiring jobs.
GENERAL.
The National convention of the As
sociated Sororities was held in Iowa
City, la.
The Lower Austrian Discount com
pany has granted to China a loan of
$ 15,000,000.
The case of Clarence S. Harrow,
charged with perjury at Los Angeles,
has been given to the jury.
Richard C. Cushing, former mayor
of Omaha, died at his home at Los
Angeles, recently, at the age of “0.
A bill making electrocution the
death penalty instead of shooting or
hanging was passed by the Utah sen
ate.
The Turkish fortress of Janina, the
key to the possession of the province
of Bpirus, with its garrison of 32,000
men, surrendered to the Greek army
after a defense which forms one of the
most brilliant points of the war.
While flying a kite at Portsmouth,
Va., Sidney Bright, a 16-year-old boy, I
was instantly electrocuted. The boy
attached a thin wire to the kite in
stead of string, and when the kite fell
across an electric wire eleven thou
sand volts passed through his body,
killing him instantly.
Suits under the Sherman anti-trust
law to recover $1,921,011.99 -from the
National Fire Proofing company of
Pittsburgh, Pa., were filed in federal
court in Cleveland by attorneys for the
Great Eastern Clay Products com
pany of South River, N. J.
A salary of $7,500 a year for Joseph
E. Tumulty, who will be President
Wilson’s secretary at the White
House, has been assured.
It has been announced that all the
Balkan allies have individually ac
cepted in principle the mediation of
the European powers for the conclus
ion of peace w’ith Turkey.
For nearly half an hour a force of
sixty Mexican soilders engaged six
teen United States troopers of the
Ninth cavalery under Lieutenant Mic
haelson on the international boundary
line at Douglas, Ariz., unUl probably
six of the Mexicans had keen killed.
Cook County, Illinois, commission
ers are fitting out a gymnasium with
dumbbells and exercises so that jurors
may keep in trim during long trials.
Several hundred Arabs attacked an
Italian post at Tripoli, but were re
pulsed with heavey losses. They
left thirty-five dead and carried off
others in addition to the wounded.
The town of Jolo, P. I., has under
gone incessant attacks by the Moros
for the last two weeks.
United States circuit court has de
clared the Eastern States Lumber
Dealers’ association to be an illegal
combination.
The first territorial legislature is
in session in Juneau. Alaska.
A seat on the New York Stock ex
change was sold recently for $45,000,
the lowest price recorded since 1900.
Yeggs recently blew the safe of the
Orpheum theater at Des Moines and
got away with $2,000 and much val
uable jewelry.
The Colorado house has passed a
bill requiring physicians to report
cases of tuberculosis to local health
officers.
Governor Ralston of Indiana signed
the joint resolution which ratifies the
amendment to the federal constitu
tion providing for direct election of
United States senators.
Acceptance by President Woodrow
Wilson of the honorary presidency of
the American Peace and Arbitration
league has been announced by the
league.
Sixty-six of the crew of the Ger
man torpedo boat “S 178” were
drowned when the little vessel was
rammed by the cruiser Yorck in the
North sea.
More than 30,000 women in Chicago
are receiving a salary of $5 or less per
week, according to reports made by
the investigators of the senate white
slave commission.
New York health authorities have
given Dr. F. F. Friedmann of Berlin
permission to test the treatment
which he claims is a cure for tubercu
losis.
it is learned tnat one oi rue mst
philanthropic acts of Mrs. Woodrow
Wilson since she became lirst lady of
the land is a gift of $500 to Goucher
college at Baltimore.
Fifty mutinous Arabs belonging to
the Turkish regiments guarding the
peninsula of Gallipoli and the Dar
danelles straits were shot recently as
an example to the others.
Dr. F. F. Friedmann, the German
physician, lias accepted the invitation
of the King Edward tuberculosis in
stitute in Montreal to demonstrate his
treatment.
The government's $1,000,000 claim
against Chicago packers and others
for taxes alleged due on colored oleo
margarine sold as uncolored has been
compromised by Secretary MacVeagh
for $101,100.
Unless congress interferes, the or
ganization of the customs service will '
be revolutionized beginning July 1.
As one of his acts President Taft
sent a message to congress announc
ing the redistricting of the service.
The first week of Huerta's adminis
tration in Mexico has seen notable
improvements in the general situa
tion, but it is apparent that many
weeks must pass before complete or
der is restored.
Leading a 22-year-old donkey and
wearing a khaki uniform, B. H. An
derson of Butler, Pa., left for Portland
to settle an election bet made on
Theodore Roosevelt by walking from
that city to Portland, Ore.
The Rock Island has created a new
office, that of horticulturist and agri- j
culturist. and appointed E. R. Ben
nett, professor of agriculture of the
Agricultural College of Colorado, as
the head.
One-half the butter in cold storage
in Chicago is adulterated in violation
of the internal revenue laws, the adul
teration consisting of water moisture
in quantities of from 16 to 35 per j
cent of the actual weight of the but- i
ter.
During the period of competition,
or before the International Harvester j
company came into existence, the i
price of binders dropped approxi
mately $200, but since 1902 the price
has advanced about $5, and the im
provements in the binder have not
been so great as prior to that time.
SPORT.
Last winter Dr. Roller wrestled 110
matches in 130 days.
Albert Cahn, state billiard cham
pion, has been challenged for a match
at 18.2 by Harry Symes, of Omaha.
Beatrice High school basketball
team defeated South Omaha High at
Beatrice by the score of 15 to 0.
A bill legalizing twelve-round box
ing contests was passed by the Mon
tana senate and was sent to the gov
ernor for his signature.
Battling Nelson and Frankie Whit
ney of Cedar Rapids, la., fought ten
rounds in Atlanta, tla. By previous
agreement no decision was rendered.
President McGill of the Denver
club denies the report from Milwau
kee that Outfielder John Beall will be
turned over by Cleveland t.o the
Brewers.
Former Lightweight Champion Ad
Wolgast and “Harlem” Tommy
Murphy of New York, who fought
twenty rounds to a draw in San Fran
cisco, February 22. will meet again in
a twenty-round contest either April
12 or 19.
Elaborate arrangements are being
made for the opening of the base ball
season in Omaha.
March 13, Bill Rourke and twelve
members of the Omaha baseball team
will start for Oklahoma City, where
the training camp will be established.
Ray Bronson of Indianapolis, welter
weight championship claimant, knock
ed out Leo Kelly of St. Louis in the
second round of their scheduled eight
round fight.
Blaine Durbin, former Omaha twir
ler, expects to return to California in
the spring and re’oin the strong inde
pendent team maintained at Oroville.
Des Moines has purchased lnfielder
Steve Brewer of the Auburn club of
the Mink league for a trial.
Reports are that Joe Wood, the phe
nom Boston pitcher, has been boosted
to $7,500 for the coming season and
Tris Speaker, outfielder and slugger,
to $9,000.
Another American Bowling congress
record was established at Toledo
when Louis Huebner of Chicago, roll
ing in his individuals, scored 287 in
his game.
A move has been launched in the
State league in favor of enlarging it
to make a ten-club circuit. President
Felt of Superior has mailed out letters
to the boards in the various towns on
the loop to gain their sentiments.
POLICE GUARD
SUFFRAGETTES
EGGS ARE HURLED AT THEM AT
MEETING IN ENGLAND.
TALK OF DUCKING SPEAKERS
Deafening Din Makes Speakers'
Words Inaudible—5.000 Per
sons Assemble.
London.—The suffragettes held
meetings again Sunday in Hyde park
and on Wimbledon common. They
would have met the fate of last Sun
day's meetings at the same place,
when it required a strong body of po
lice to escort them to safety, but for
the fact that large bodies of mounted
and foot policemen were in attend
ance.
Five thousand pe'rsons assembled in
the park and swarmed about the
speakers' platform, and by a deafen
ing din prevented any word of "Gen
eral" Mrs. Flora Drummond's speech
being heard. The pressure of the
surging crowds at length became so
great that reinforcements were sum
moned. Mrs. Drummond and her col
leagues were rescued from their per
ilous position with some difficulty.
At Wimbledon similar scenes were
enacted. Scarcely a word uttered by
the speakers was audible, .and they,
too. had’ to be protected.
Another meeting at Hempstead
Heath was still more disorderly.
Miss Brackenbury announced her in
tention of speaking for an hour.
This she succeeded in doing, but her
discourse was inaudible. Eggs were
thrown at the speakers and the meet
ing finally broke up in the greatest
confusion. Many suggested ducking
the speakers in a pond.
Bohemian Day at Show.
Omaha. — Nearly 2.000 Bohemian
lodgenten and members of Bohemian
fraternal organizations, together with
a like number including their families
and friends, Sunday gave to the
"Made in Nebraska” show what will
probably prove to have been its big
gest day, in point of attendance. The
Bohemian organizations, co-operating
toward that end, have worked for
weeks to make "Bohemian Day” at
the show one to be remembered.
President Wilson Takes Hand.
Washington.—President Wilson will
take a hand himself in framing legis
lation with congress. With the co
aperation of party leaders in the house
and senate, he proposes to work over
tariff, currency and other important
measures even before they are intro
duced and to lend the weight of the
administration to the support of the
bills.
Low Wages Cause of Crime.
Chicago.—Edward Hillman, general
manager of the department store that
bears his name, declared before the
Illinois senate commission on white
slavery that low wages is one of the
chief contributory causes to the fall
of women and he named $8 weekly as
the minimum upon which a girl might
support helself without undue strain.
Don't Want Families at Canal.
Panama.—After the first of April
the isthmian canal commission will
place obstacles in the way of employes
intending to bring their families to
the isthmus by withdrawing the pres
ent reduced rates of transportation.
This action Is rendered necessary by
reason of the serious congestion in
the employes' quarters In towns in
the canal zone.
Will Settle Firemen’s Dispute.
New York.—Three men will meet in
this city to arbitrate under the Erd
man law the difference between fifty
four eastern railroads and their 35,000
firemen.
Pope Pius Improves.
Rome.—A marked improvement was
noted in the condition of Pope Pius X,
both the inflammation of the throat
and the hoarseness being considerably
diminished.
Bible Conference at Atlanta.
Atlanta. Ga.—Delegates from all
over the south have gathered here to
participate in the fifteenth annual
Bible conference. The conference
embraces all protestant denomina
tions. The sessions will continue ten
days.
Young Harriman in Finance.
New York.—William A. Harriman,
son of the late E. H. Harriman, en
tered the financial world when he was
elected a director of the Harriman
National bank here.
General Wood to Continue.
Washington.—Secretary of W'ar
Garrison ordered Major General Wood
to continue under his original desig
nation as chief of staff of the army
until further orders. The action is to
give President Wilson more time to
fully consider the matter.
New Strike at Boston.
Boston, Mass.—The cloakmakers’
union which has .1,000 members here
and is affiliated with the internation
al garment workers, has declared a
strike.
Propose New Primary Rule.
Topeka, Kan.—The state senate
passed a bill providing that if a new
political party is organized, or is in
process of organization in Kansas, it
can place the names of its candidates
on the official primary ballot if in
dorsed by 2 per cent of voters.
Campaign in Sonora.
Nogales, Ariz.—The campaign
against Huerta's forces in Sonora
was begun when state troops pro
ceeded south from Hermosillo, burn
ing bridges.
NEBRASKA IN BRIEF.
Coming Events In Nebraska.
April 4 and 5—Annual Y. M. C. A.
iJdoor Athletic meet, Omaha.
May 8 to 10—Annual Convention
Mississippi Valley Historical Associa
tion, Omaha.
May 20, 21 and 22.—Thirty-seventh
Encampment G. A. It., Fremont.
The new school house at^ Royal has
been dedicated.
The Methodist church at Fairbury
is being rebuilt.
Ogalalla fire department was organ
ized recently with thirty members.
The Omaha Grain Exchange receiv
ed 1,309 cars of grain in February.
District court is in session at Wa
hoo.
Logan county is on the eve of a
county seat war.
The flour mill of Broken Bow is to
be reopened.
A new banking building is being
erected at York.
Wolves have been killing calves and
pigs near Callaway.
An election for postmaster will be
held at Broken Bow March 15.
Alliance celebrated its 25th anni
versary recently by a banquet.
A fire in the Omaha postoffice re
centlv did slight damage.
The roller mills it Oxford were re
cently damaged by fire.
George G. Mullin, early settler of
Cuming county, died at West Point.
There is reported a great scarcity
»f corn in the Sutton vicinity.
The Table Rock Commercial club
has a membership of ninety-three.
Mrs. Ephriam Young, a pioneer of
Adams county, is dead.
Lushton was visited by a fire winch
did $8,000 damage. ,
Joe Carr of Lincoln and Tommy
Murphy of Denver fought ten rounds
at Wilber recently.
Hartington is now well equipped
for water, having recently completed
a new system.
The new nickel has made its ap
pearance in nearly all Nebraska
towns.
W. P. Killenbarger of Merna has
been appointed assistant state veteri
narian.
A. G. Bernard of Nebraska City
has been appointed assistant state
veterinarian.
The Fidelity Life association of
Lexington has been given permission
to do business in Nebraska.
H. Johnson has sold to W. J. I.age
an eighty-acre farm between Elk
horn and Bennington for $8,000.
Meetings agitating railroad exten
sion have been held at Milburn. Wal
worth, Doris, Brewster and Taylor.
Auto service has been put on the
Star mail route between Sargent and
Almeria.
Fire loss of from $3,000 to $5,000
was sustained at Chester when the
new M. E. church caught fire.
John Wagner of Hooper dislo
cated his shoulder by falling from a
chair.
Brown county is leading all other
counties of the state in the number of
permits issued to destroy beaver.
Citizens of Greeley are circulating
a petition asking for an election to
vote on the liquor question.
A. Swart, formerly in charge of the
recruiting station at Sioux City, has
been transferred to Omaha.
Congressman Stephens will leave
Washington March 10 for Nebraska
and will remain until April 1.
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Carpenter,
living near Valley, celebrated their
golden wedding anniversary recently.
Marked changes in the bookkeeping
of the state institutions are to be made
July 1.
Charles E. Hall has been appoint
ed vice president and general man
ager of the Nebraska Telephone com
pany.
The lands of the North Platte for
est reserve in McPherson and Grant
counties will be thrown open to set
tlement October 1.
The farmers of Buffalo and adja
cent counties, during October, Novem
ber and December, have received
$25,000 for poultry alone.
Hooper is considering the public li
brary proposition and an organiza
tion is being formed for the promo
tion of the undertaking.
Seneca has fallen into line and
sent out a bunch of boosters to swell
the popularity of the sand hills coun
try.
An infant, son of Frank Chapek.
who lives near Weston, was burned
to death in a fire which destroyed his
home.
The case against Sheriff Gus Hy
ers of Lancaster, in connection with
the killing of Roy Blunt, has been
dismissed.
Some of Ansley’s citizens are pro
testing against the slot machines
and other devices for luring the fes
tive nickel from the pockets of the
unwary.
The Ravenna city coouncil at its
last meeting amended the water or
dinance, reducing the rate from 25
cents per 1,000 gallons to 16 cents per
1,000 gallons.
Fred Wallace of Kearney was re- j
cently appointed assistant superin
tendent at the Kearney Industrial
School for Boys.
It is given out at Burlington head
quarters that the double tracking of
the company’s Omaha-Lincoln line
will begin this spring and as soon as
the condition of the ground will per
mit.
A pathetic scene was witnessed by
the passengers on Burlington train
No. 43 coming into Alliance when the
1-year-old daughter of Pola Surawleff,
a Russian immigrant, died in her
mother’s arms.
John H. Marble, one of the newly
appointed members of the interstate
commerce commission, was formerly
a student at the University of Ne
braska.
The “get together’’ movement of
western congressmen resolved itself
Into an effort to get another western
member on the next ways and means
committee.
N. B. Sweitzer of Neligh has been
named to make the survey and ap
praisement of lands in the Fort Nio
brara reservation preparatory to that
area being thrown open to entry and
purchase.
SENATE HAS TOO
MANY EMPLOYES
PROTEST OVER LEGISLATURE'S
EXTRAVAGANCE DIES OUT.
HELP COSTS $360 A WEEK
House Has Eighty-Two and Senate
Seventy People Employed As
Assistants.
Lincoln.—Early in the session vari
ous republicans, including the state
auditor and several elective officials,
were making loud protests over the
fact that the house employe list was
mounting up to a point where the
number of employes exceeded the
number allowed by law. Now that pro
test has died down into nothing more
than an unobserved escape of hot air.
Here is the reason:
An examination of the records of
the auditor’s office shows that the
house is carrying eighty-two em
ployes, just the number allowable un
der the state laws. At the same time
the senate, whose committee on ac
counts indicated it would use its own
judgment in the matter, has seventy
employes—or twenty-two in excess of
the number allowed under statutory
enactment.
The difference amounts to about $60
a day or $360 a week, and figured on
the several weeks that the extra list
has been carried will reach close to
$3,000 over and above the legal
amount allowed help for that body
during the session.
Thus the senate with 33 per cent as
large a membership as the house is
1 using 85 per cent of the number of
employes used by tne lower body.
When the matter was being thresh
ed over at great length early in the
session the auditor objected to the
heavy list sent up front the house. La
ter on he made a similar kick about
the senate's extra employes. The at
I torney general, who was called upon
| for an opinion in the matter, decided
that the legislature was its own judge
in the matter and that if it voted sums
! sufficient to pay the employes it could
have as large a list as it desired. The
| house, however, stood pat and pruned
its list to conform with the legal re
quirements. This the senate refused
to do, the members of the expendi
tures committee declaring that it
would “pay as many as it used and
would use all it wanted to.”
Bills Passed by the House.
IT. R. 552, by Hostetler: Teach sub
ject of food and diet in eighth, ninth
and tenth grades of public schools.
Passed, 52 to 32. after emergency
clause had lost, 57 to 28.
H. R. 325, to increase poll tax to
$3 and permit it to worked out,
postponed.
H. R. 367. bridges built by two
counties shall be paid for by both ac
cording to their valuation; indefinite
ly postponed.
The following were recommended
' for passage:
H. R. 323, permitting farmers to
farm unused portions of the road ad
joining their farms.
H. R. 324, county to levy.road tax
in road districts.
H. R. 278. bridge plans to be fur
nished counties by state engineer.
When counties dispute over loeat
Ing or contracting for bridges to be
constructed by two counties. Each
shall have one vote and state engineer
one vote.
To Increase Police Pension.
Senate File No. 32, by McFarland of
Douglas county, which increases the
pension of the police of Omaha to $50
a month after a service of twenty
years, when they shall have reached
the age of 50 years or over, was or
dered engrossed for third reading and
passage.
Reclamation Act Not Favored
Operation of the federal reclama
tion act under its present provisions
does not find favor with the senate, a
resolution passed by that body ex
pressing the hope that congress
would see fit to alter the law in such
a way that twenty instead of ten an
nual payments shall be allowed on
land acquired under the act.
General Deficiencies Bill.
The general deficiencies bill was
introduced by Chairman Husch of the
deficiencies committee. It carries a
total of $148,000—somewhat less than
was feared earlier in the session.
Carrying Weapons Misdemeanor.
The house passed the bill by Sugar
man, reducing the crime of carrying
concealed weapons, making it a mis
demeanor.
To Support Extension Bill.
In an unanimous decision announced
in the wake of a recent session, the
Board of Regents of the State univer
sity have agreed to support the Me
issick bill providing for the extension
of the big school on its present site.
The regents’ statement outlines the
course of the removal fight briefly,
and ends with an appeal to all friends
of the institution to get behind the bill
and to urge that an adequate appro
priation, provided for in the house
measure, be made for carrying on ex
tension work.
Franchise Bill Quickly Killed.
Killed and buried in less than fif
teen minutes was the fate of lenate
file No. 340, the bill that would have
given electric light free and unregu
lated entry into any city or town in
the state. No person appeared before
the senate committee on roads in sup
port of the measure, and Senator
Heasty, who introduced it asserted he
did not care much swhat became of it,
as it was introduced merely by re
quest. Many members joined Senator
Wolz in a successful effort to see that
the measure was quickly slain.
CAT UPSET NEW REPUBLIC
Tabby Scandalized Monks of Mount
Athos, Forbidden to All Females, by
Becoming Mother of a Family.
Salonica, European Turkey. — Eu
rope's latest and smallest republic has
grown out of the Balkan war. It is
Mount Athos, the sacred peninsula
near Salonica.
It contains nothing but 21 ancient
monasteries founded by Russians.
Greeks, Bulgarians and Servians in
the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
All overhang the cliffs of the Aegean
sea and the monks go up and down
from the shores in baskets worked on
pulleys by their brethren.
So sacred is the peninsula that no
female is allowed therein, not even a
cow or hen. Neither milk, cheese nor
eggs can be had.
Some time ago peasants employed
by the monks to help till the land
An Ancient Monastery on Mount
Athos.
| smuggled in wives disguised in trous
ers, but the monk; angrily expelled all
S they detected.
The abbot of the older Russian mon
astery kept a cat. which recently dis
graced the island by having kittens.
All the monks held a court to try her,
j declared she had broken the sacred
| rules and had her drowned. The ab
j hot was reprimanded for taking in the
cat before finding out whether it was 1
I eligible for admittance.
Some of the monasteries are very j
i strict and never allow the inmates to
! wash even their hands or faces, or to
j go outside the gardens, which are said
to be very beautiful. Others contain
j the oldest Greek manuscripts in the
: w-orld, supposed to be able to fill gaps
in the Epistles and other parts of the
New Testament.
The idea of making Mount Athos a
republic came from Russia, anxious to
keep her influense in Macedonia, and
is unwelcome to Bulgaria, tired of tu
telage and used to consider the church
as a political factor, now of less im
portance than before. But the other
allies pressed Russia’s proposal be
cause they felt jealous of Bulgarian
domination in that sacred territory.
Delegates from all the allied states
will meet in Salonica under the Rus
sian consul and draw up the new re
public’s laws. The patriarch of the
Bulgarians, who hitherto has lived in
| Constantinople, probably will live on
i the peninsula.
GOTHAM SEEKS ‘FLY SWATTER'
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Fame of Teacher in Cleveland Normal
School Brings Offer From
the East.
New York.—Dr. Jean Dawson, a
woman teacher in the Normal Train
ing school of Cleveland, is recom
| mended as an official fly swatter to
the board of estimate.
The appointment is urged by Dr.
V\ illiam Henry Hale, superintendent
of public baths in Brooklyn.
Dr. Hale says Dr. Dawson has rid
Cleveland of flies, which now is known
as "the flyless city.’’ Bring her to
New York, he urges, and she will
work wonders here, too. His letter to
the board reads:
"To get the best results work must
begin before spring, so that the com
paratively few mother flies who sur
vive may be killed before laying eggs.
Success can only be obtained by co
operation of several city departments
with the health department.
"As Miss Dawson has demonstrated
an efficiency for this great work,
which is comparable with the elimina
tions of yellow fever from the Pan
ama canal zone. 1 suggest that she be
hired by the city."
The board intends to let Comptroll
er Prendergasl wrestle with the sug
gestion.
PREFERENCE FOR WIDOWS
North Dakota Farmer Accumulates a
Family of Thirty-Seven Children
Through Matrimonial Daring.
Grand Forks, N. D.—Father to thir
ty-seven children is the distinction
possessed by H. T. Hertsog. a rancher
farmer living near Palermo. Three
times has Hertsog married widows
with large families. Mr. Hertsog is
seventy years of age, looks like a man
of sixty, takes care of thirty-five head
of cattle and eleven horses, grew 1,200
bushels of grain last year and hauled
it to market himself.
Eagles Fly Off With Man.
Rome.—A goatherd named Giovan
ni Sanui was pounced upon by two
eagles while tending his flock in the
Aosta valley recently. Despite his re
sistance the eagles bore him to a
height of over 30 feet. Then, startled
by his cries, they released their hold
Another goatherder found the man un
conscious in a field. He is in a hos
pital, semi-insane, and suffering from
severe lacerations on the head and
shoulders inflicted by the talons of the
eagles as well as from a fractured leg
Cat Causes Divorce.
San Francisco.—Because he fed the
family milk to the cat and locked it In
the bathroom for safe keeping. Mrs
Jacob Fox recently got a divorce from
her husband, a physician.
TWO WOMEN
SAVED FROM
OPERATIONS
By Lydia E. Pinkham’s Veg
etable Compound—Their
Own Stories Here Told.
Beatrice, Neb. —“ Just after my mar
riage my left ride began to pain me and
the pain got so severe at times that I
suffered terribly with it. I visited three
doctors and each one wanted to operate
on me but I would not consent to an op
eration. I heard of the good Lydia E.
Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound was
doing for others and I used several bot
tles of it with the result that I haven’t
been bothered with my side since then.
I am in good health and I have two little
girls. Mrs. R. B. Child, Beatrice, Neb.
The Other Case.
Cary, Maine. — “ I feel it a duty I owe
to all suffering women to tell what Lydia
E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound did
forme. One year ago I found myself a
terrible sufferer. I had pains in both
sides and such a soreness I could scarcely
straighten up at times. My back ached,
I had no appetite and was so nervous I
could not sleep, then I would be so tired
mornings that I could scarcely get
around. It seemed almost impossible
to move or do a bit of work and I
thought I never would be any better
until I submitted to an operation, but
my husband thought I had better write
to you and I did so, stating my symp
toms. I commenced taking Lydia E.
Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound and
soon felt like a new woman. I had no
pains, slept well, had good appetite and
could do almost all my own work for a
family of four. I shall always feel that
I owe my good health to your Vegetable
Compound.”—Mrs. Hayward Sowers,
Cary, Maine.
The Wretchedness
of Constipation
Can quickly be overcome by
CARTER S LITTLE
LIVER PILLS.
Purely vegetable^^
—act surely and
gently on the
liver. Cure
Biliousness,
Head
ache,
Dizzi
ure
4
CARTER'S
MTTLE
IVER
PILLS.
ness, and Indigestion. They do their duty.
SMALL PILL, SMALL DOSE, SMALL PRICE.
Genuine must bear Signature
HER ONE WISH
“Mammy, let me show you some
self-raising umbrellas.”
“No use, man. no use.”
“How about self-raising window
shades?”
"No good to me; but, mister. If
you'll tell me how to tuhn dese heah
fohteen bad chillun into self-raising
pickaninnies ah’U be yo' friend foh
life.”
Neglected Opportunity.
Mrs. Crabshaw—I notice that a
pound of Swiss cheese seems to go
further than a pound of any other
kind.
Mr. Crabshaw—That's probably be
cause the storekeepers haven't yet hit
on a plan to weigh in the holes.—
Puck.
Other Means.
It isn't necessary to have an auto
mobile to run down one’s neighbors.—
Salt Lake Desert News
It’s Always
A Good Thing
To have a
Clear Horizon
at both ends of the day.
A dish of
Post
Toasties
for breakfast and again at the
evening meal opens and closes the
day with a dash of sunshine.
Toasties are bits of hard, white
Indian Corn, first carefully cooked,
then rolled thin and crinkly, and
toasted to a delicate, appetizing
brown.
Not a hand touches the food in
manufacture, and it is ready to
serve direct from the package—to
be eaten with cream or milk—and
sugar, if desired.
Post Toasties taste deliciously
good and are richly nourishing.