The Loup City Northwestern
J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher.
LOUP CITY, . - NEBRASKA
WEEK’S NEWS
IN PARAGRAPHS
ITEMS GATHERED FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE WORLD.
EVENTS HERE AND ABROAD
Epitome of a Week’s Happenings Con
densed for the Perusal of the
Busy Man, and Arranged In
Classified Form.
Washington
Franklin K. Lane, secretary of the
interior, has had bestowed upon him
the title of "'Lone Chief” by a dele
gation of Blackfeet Indians from Mon
tana, who called to present him with
a pipe of peace and a buckskin tobac
co bag.
• • •
John Skelton Williams of Richmond,
\'a„ was appointed assistant secretary
it the treasury to succeed Assistant
Secretary Robert O. Bailey.
• • •
Secretary Garrison of the war de
partment was the first to bare his
»rm for vaccination under a general
irder issued by himself for the inocu
lation of all employes of the depart
ment. The order was issued because
(wo cases of smallpox have developed
imoug employes.
• • •
Speaker Champ Clark was admitted
lo practice before the Supreme court.
He does not expect to practice before
the court in the immediate future at
least.
That there must be peace in the !
Latin-Amefican republics and that j
this peace must be maintained with- >
out any steps toward personal ag
grandizement, is the keynote of a '
statement by President Wilson out- j
lining his policy toward the Central I
and Southern American republics.
• • •
Secretary of State Bryan has been
invited to take charge of the Young
Men's Bible class in the First Pres
byterian church Sunday school,
Washington, and in consequence the j
membership of' the class is going up
by leaps and bounds. Mr. Bryan has j
not yet accepted.
• • •
The nomination of John H. Marble j
to be a member of the interstate com
merce commission was confirmed by
the U. S. senate.
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Domestic
Charles Bright, living near Wash
ington, 111., while reading a paper, fell
off/ his chair and broke his neck.
• • •
Wholesale Indictments and arrest
of more than sixty men—many of
them declared to be well known in
the insurance field—will follow the
startling confession made in South
Bend, Ind., by Benjamin Fink, al
leged “traveling fire bug” of the "ar
son trust,” according to Assistant
State's Attorney Johnston of Chicago,
to whom the confession was made.
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Broadening the scope of its Investi
gations, the Illinois senatorial vice
commission will tour the east, visit
ing the principal cities of New York
and Pennsylvania in an effort to stim
ulate a nation-wide inquiry and effect
federal legislation on the minimum
wage for women. The expenses of the
trip wil be borne by the state.
• • •
After discovering flames in the Mot
ley public school in Chicago, during
the absence of the principal, two
boys, aged twelve and fourteen, acting
on their own Initiative, sounded the
large fire gong which sent 1,200 chil
dren and twenty-one teachers march
ing in orderly procession to the street.
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Dr. A. G. Six, a prominent physi
cian of Lawrence, Mich., shot and
killed himself a few minutes before
he was to have consulted with au
thorities regarding a mysterious fire
which destroyed his home, in which
his wife and daughter were burned to
death.
• • •
Forest fires that still are burning
have destroyed thousands of cords of
bark and timber and have entailed
heavy losses to the farms of the Blue
Ridge mountains, Virginia.
• • •
Ten thousand members of the Chil
dren's and Misses’ Dressmakers' union,
mostly girls, went out on strike in
New York, demanding a 50-hour week,
better pay, and the abolition of tene
ment house work. The strike is an
aftermath of the general garment
workers’ strike.
* • •
Two hundred girls employed in the
iron mills at Pittsburg, Pa., owned by
United States Senator George T. Oli
ver, went on strike for more wages.
One thousand more are expected to
walk out unless the wage scale is
modified.
• • •
Thirteen persons were killed and
property valued at several hundred
thousand dollars destroyed by a wind
ind rain storm which swept portions
of Louisiana, Texas, Alabama, Missis
sippi and Tennessee.
• • •
After confessing that he murdered
Miss Ella Brooks, seventy years old,
of Ulster county. New York, five years
ago, John Babbitt, aged fifty-two, fa
tally slashed his cell mate in the jail
at Portsmouth, N. H., and then cut
hia own throat.
• • •
Penitentiary guards with blood
hounds are searching for J. E. Kim
brel and Joe Petty, two life termers
who escaped from the Georgia state
prison after digging their way to
safety with nothing but a heavy iron
It was reported at Youngstown, O,
that an Erie freight train hit a west
bound street car on the Mahoning Val
ley electric railway, killing three and
injuring fifteen persons.
• * *
Supreme Court Justice Bijur of
Washington, D. C., signed an interloc
utory decree of divorce in favor of
Mrs. Eric B. Dahlgren against her
husband, who is a son of Rear Ad
miral Dahlgren.
• • •
Rev J. M. Dunlavy and Rev. Theo
dore Hanson, clergymen of the Meth
odist church, unable to obtain action
by the police department against a
“joint” or illicit saloon in Kansas City,
Kan., raided the place themselves,
bought beer, carried away evidence
and sent the proprietor into court.
• • •
The New York Yacht club has de
clined the challenge of Sir Thomas
Lipton to race for the America's cup.
• • •
The house bill abolishing capital
punishment in the state of Washing
ton was passed by the senate. It is un
derstood Governor Ernest Lister will
approve the act.
• • •
The “dry” forces won several vic
tories in Minnesota, according to re
turns from villages in various sections
of the state where municipal elections
were held. What is considered the
most important victory was won at
Stewartville by five votes. Women
were active in the campaign.
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The country for several miles
around Aetna, Ind., was shaken and
hundreds of persons frightened when
300 pounds of guncotton exploded at
the Aetna powder mills.
• • •
The Kansas senate at Topeka de
feated the eight-hour bill for women
wrhen it was placed on its final pas
sage. The bill was defeated through
the efforts of members from country
districts where such changes in work
ing hours would entirely disarrange
business.
• • •
William J. Bomhardt, assistant fore
man of the gang of stevedores who
w-ere loading the dynamite into the
Alum Chine in Baltimore harbor when
an explosion caused the death of more
than forty persons, the serious injury
of three score more and property loss
of over $400,000, has been arrested.
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Personal
Under the will of Ferris S. Thomp
son, who died in Paris on February
18, Princeton university will receive
82,000,000 of the $3,000,000 estate.
The Salvation Army in New York and
in San Francisco will receive $50,000
each and Mer^y hospital, Chicago, will
get $10,000.
• • •
Secretary of State and Mrs. Bryan
have leased Calumet Place, one of the
most historical residences in Washing
ton, the property of Mrs. John A. Lo
gan, for their Washington residence.
• • •
Frank Johnson Goodnow of Wash
ington, D. C., was appointed chief ad
viser to the Chinese government in
the reform of the constitution.
• • •
Madame Sarah Bernhardt, the world
famous actress, had both ankles
sprained in an automobile accident in
Pico Heights, on the outskirts of Los
Angeles, Cal., when her machine, In
which she was being driven to the
theater, collided with a heavy truck
and was badly wrecked.
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The national child labor conferencs
opened In Jacksonville, Fla., Sherman
C. Kingsley of Chicago presiding over
the first session.
• • •
That former President WUUan
Howard Taft may become president ol
Johns Hopkins university in Balti
more, Md., is a contingency that it
being looked upon 4s quite possible,
as the matter has been discussed by
members of the board of trustees.
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Foreign
Oxford won the annual boat race
with Cambridge on the Thames by a
quarter of h length. Cambridge took
the lead at the start and was half a
length in front at the middle distance.
Oxford overhauled her in the last
quarter mile.
• • •
Two sergeants of the army aviation
corps were fatally injured in a colli
sion between machines in midair at
Rheims, France. The accident oc
curred in the course of maneuvers by
a ‘11014113'' of five aeroplanes.
• • •
Constitutionalists overthrew the
federal garrison at Nogales, Sonora,
and are in possession of the border
town after a fight which continued
with little abatement for twelve hours.
Casualties are estimated at 100 dead
and twice as many wounded on both
sides.
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The Greeks have occupied Para
mythia. in Epirus, thirty miles south
west of Janina, and Margariti, near by.
The crown prince in a message from
Janina says the Greek forces will con
centrate at Paramythia.
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The British sailing vessel Glenaloon.
bound from Argentina to Hamburg,
foundered in the North Bea off Heligo
land island. The ship is a total loss.
The fate of the crew of 36 is unknown.
• • •
The Austrian government demand
ed, through its minister to Servia. that
all Servian troops be immediately
withdrawn from the siege of the fort
ress of Scutari, near the Montenegrin
frontier, and which is to become the
Albanian capital under the plans
adopted by the European powers for
an autonomous Albania.
• • •
Terrific dynamite explosion wrecked
the town of Arder in Ayrshire, twenty
miles from Glasgow, Scotland. The
number of dead is not yet known. The
injured number hundreds. The ex
plosion occurred at Noble’s explosives
works. For a radius of several miles,
it had the force of a destructive earth
quake.
• • •
Four gas operators, all of them
residents of Calgary, Man., employed
by the Western Canada Natural Gas
company, were asphyxiated in the Nan
ten gas plant.
NINE ARE KILLED
TWENTY-ONE HURT
TWO COLLISIONS ON UNION PACI
FIC EARLY FRIDAY MORNING.
ENGINEER HUNS PAST SIGNALS
Railroad Officials Order Thorough In
vestigation.— Accident During
Terrible Blizzard.
Gothenburg, Neb.—Nine are dead,
one is missing and is thought to have
met his death, and twenty-one are
more or less seriously injured as a re
sult of two strangely similar rear-end
collisions on the main line of the
Union Pacific railroad in Nebraska
early Friday morning.
The first disaster was directly in
front of the passenger depot at Goth
enburg at 3:37 a. m. Union Pacific
passenger train No. 12 ran past two
automatic block signals and crashed
into the rear of passenger train No.
4, both east-bound. Four were killed
and twenty-one injured.
The second collision, occurring at
almost the same time, was identical
in character with the first. Extra
east-bound freight No. 501 drove into
the rear of extra east-bouDd freight
No. 504 at Herdon station, twelve
miles west of Sidney. Conductor Ray
Phillips and Bcakeman C. M. Cradit,
both of Cheyenne, of No. 504, and
three stockmen were killed.
As an indirect result of the Gothen
burg wreck Flagman Dorcher of
Grand Island may have lost his life.
A report from North Platte says that
it is believed he was blown into the
Platte river from the bridge near the
place.
He was sent out ahead of the re
lief train sent from North Platte
about 4 o’clock Friday morning to see
if the bridge was safe for the pass
age of the train. That was the last
seen of him and searching parties are
now scouting along the river, expect
ing to find his body.
The Dead.
At Gothenburg:
Edmund R. Oustenhautt, a travel
ing man from Salamanca. N. V.
August Meyers, Lake View, la.
Mrs. August Myers. Lake View, la.
Mrs. Edith Hoon Stockweli, Chey
enne, Wvo.
At Herdon Station:
Ray Phillips, conductor train No.
504, Cheyenne.
C. M. Cradit, brakeman, train No.
504. Cheyenne.
Three unknown stockmen.
One of the most terrible blizzards
ever experienced in western Nebras
ka was sweeping across the line
when the two catastrophes occurred,
but the railroad officials make no at
tempt to excuse the engineers on this
account.
Engineers at Fault.
Joe Sykes, assistant to General
Managaer Ware, says that the auto
matic block signals were in perfect
working order, and that if they were
not they would rest at. “danger,” thus
slopping all traffic. He also says
that the company’s rules require that
in cases of storm the engineers pro
ceed with “great caution,” and that
they must see and note every block
signal light, even if . they have to
come to a complete stop to do so.
That both engineers supposed to be
so grievously at fault ran past at
least two block signals is practically
established.
Immediately upon hearing of the
wrecks, the Union Pacific took steps
to take the public into its confidence
in placing the blame squarely where
it belongs. Edson Rich of the legal
staff, promptly notified the state rail
road commission, asking that mem
bers of that body attend a public in
vestigation at Gothenburg at 9
o'clock Saturday morning. Commis
sioners Clarke and all, with U. G.
Powell, the commission's account
ing expert, left at once for Omaha.
Last evening they departed in a spe
cial car for the scene of the Gothen
burg wreck in company with General
Manager Ware. The interstate com
merce commission was also notified
and asked to send representatives
and is presumed to have done so.
Sunday morning at 9 o’clock an in
vestigation of the Herdon wreck will
be held at that station by the samfe
officials.
Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary, the
Arctic explorer, has consented to be
come president of the American
branch of the Scott memorial fund.
Court Affirms Anti-Lottery Law.
Jefferson City, Mo.—The Missouri
state supreme court has affirmed the
constitutionality of the law prohibit
ing lotteries, policy games or other
games of chance and betting.
Pope Pius Is Improving.
Rome.—Pope Pius continues to im
prove in health slowly, but steadily.
The pontiff now takes regular nourish
ment. The decreased irritation in the
throat and bronchial tubes enabled
the patient to talk with his sisters and
Mgr. Giovanni Bressau, his secretary.
Secretary Garrison Vaccinated.
Washington—Secretary of War Gar
rison was the first to bare his arm
for vaccination under a general order
for all employes in his depart
ment to be vaccinated.
Send Wireless 2,400 Miles.
Washington.—The scout cruiser Sa
lem, which has been at Gibraltar mak
ing tests of the navy wireless station
at Arlington, Va., has sailed for
Hampton Roads, prepared for addi
tional tests enroute. The Salem re
ceived message from Arlington.
Woman Pleads Before Supreme Court
Washington.—Ellen Spencer Mus
sey of this city won the distinction of
being the second woman of the su
preme court bar to argue a case be
fore the court.
NEBRASKA IN BRIEF.
Coming Events In Nebraska.
April 1 and 2.—State Yeomen Con
clave, Lincoln.
April 4 and 5—Annual Y. M. C. A.
Indoor 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. R„ Fremont.
The Methodist church at Fairbury
is being rebuilt.
Central City Commercial club’s an
nual banquet will take place March 28.
The March term of District court i6
in session at Beatrice.
A bible institute is in progress at
the Y. M. C. A. at Fremont.
The Missouri river at Omaha is now
clear of ice.
Ed Fye of Aurora has been ap
pointed deputy game warden.
A Chautauqua will be held in Mc
Cook next summer.
There is reported a great scarcity
of 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 which
did $8,000 damage.
Joe Carr of Lincoln and Tommy
Murphy of Denver fought ten rounds
at Wilber recently.
The new nickel has made its ap
pearance in nearly all Nebraska
towns.
Twelve robberies and one attempt
at highway robbery is the record for
the past ten days in Lincoln.
Morris Horton, a resident of Table
Rock and vicinity for forty years is
dead.
Hastings expects more than 200 to
attend the annual banquet of the
Chamber of Commerce.
At a special meeting held at Has
tings the school district voted in fa
vor of bonds to construct a $2S.0C0
school building.
An infant son of Frank Chapek.
who lives near Weston, was burned
to death in a fire which destroyed his
home.
Since the close of the basketball
season at Bellevue the students have
turned their efforts to the spring ath
letics, baseball and track.
Woodmen Circles over the state
will hold elections in April to name
delegates to the national convention
in Springfield, 111.
The engineering department of the i
Burlington will be moved from Lin
coln to Omaha, according to an official
announcement.
For brutally beating his 5-year-old
child, George Smith of Omaha was
sentenced to thirty days in the Doug
las county jail.
Bert Pickrel pleaded guilty to sec
ond degree murder at Seward and
was sentenced to twenty-five years in j
the penitentiary.
L. G. Bemis of Wymore, while em
ployed on the Burlington bridge
south of Fremont, suffered painful
injuries when a he‘avy piece of pil
ing fell on him.
Vice Consul D. E. Young, who for
merly lived at Firth and is now’ sta
tioned at Amsterdam, is seeking pro
motion to a consulship under the new
administration.
Senator Hitchcock has received
from John Polian, secretary of the
Omaha Central Labor union, a pro
test on behalf of union cigarmakers
against a reduction in the duty on
cigars.
At the first meeting of the board
of directors of the newly organized
Eastern Fruit Growers’ association,
which was held at Auburn, Ernest M.
Pollard of Nehawka was elected pres
ident.
Nebraska has 54,000 acres of
orchards and Nebraska and three
states in the west north central fruit
district, raise 21,000,000 bushels of ap
ples a year.
A bill appropriating $23,000 with
which to buy a farm for Mrs. Roy
Blunt, wife of the Sarpy county
farmer who was killed in pursuit of
an escaped convict, last March, has
been introduced in the legislature.
Caught beneath the falling w-all of a
building w-hich they were tearing
down in Omaha, W. S. Saunders, was
so badly injured that he may die. He
is at St. Joseph’s hospital with one
leg broken in two places, his skull
badly fractured and his whole body
bruised.
After discussing for nearly three
hours the political situation from its
many standpoints sixty-five church
men of Hastings at a meeting in the
Y. M. C. A. building, the federation of
churches adopted resolutions oppos
ing the entering of the political fight
as an organization.
Koarney citizens held a double elec
tion recently, voting on the questior
of granting saloon licenses for tin
coming year and on extending a new
franchise to the Kearney Water and
Electric Power company. The saloon
supporters were victorious and the
proposition to grant a new franchise
was beaten by an overwhelming ma
jority.
W. D. Howard of Council Bluffs,
traveling salesman for a hog cholerr
remedy company, committed suicid*
in his room at Hastings by shooting
himself in the head with a revolver.
Governor Morehead has signed
House Roll No. 197. by Bollen, author
izing the condemnation of land foi
state fair purposes adjacent to the
present grounds.
Johhny Gording, who has been slat
de for the last month or so as man
ager for the Beatrice State league
club, has slipped one over the plate
by signing up in the same capacity
for the Columbus State league team.
The Plattsmouth lodge of the
Knights and Ladies of Security cele
brated their seventeenth anniversary
recently.
At a congregational meeting of the
Presbyterian church of Madison it
was voted to erect a new church in
the near future, the cost not to ex
ceed $15,000.
The proposed issue of $30,000 in
bonds for a new high school at Loup
City was defeated by two votes.
The basket ball game played at
Kearney between the State Normal
and the Hastings .college resulted in
the defeat of the visitors, 40 to 15.
MOWE VICTORY
FOB THE PEOPLE
Upsetting of Western Classifica
tion 51 Means Much.
RAILROADS LOSE BIG CASE
Chairman Thorne of Iowa Commit
sion Tells How the Shippers and
Consumers of the West Bene
fit by the Decision.
Des Moines, la., March 13.—The peo
ple of the United States have had
Iowa to thank for a number of ex
cellent things, and to the list must
be now added an achievement that
means a great deal to the shippers of
the entire west from the Missisippi
to the Paci^c. Especially are those
shippers under obligations to the Iowa
state board of railroad commissioners
and Us chairman, Clifford Thorne.
This achievement is the suspension
and revision, by the interstate com
merce commission, of an entire freight
classification, known as Western clas
sification Xo. 51, and on March 31 the
Beveral hundred changes made to con
form to the commission's order will
go into effect. Shippers and consum
ers alike will benefit by the revision.
Iowa Leads the Fight.
Iowa’s commission was by no means
alone in the good work, but it took
the initiative in the case and assumed
the chief part of the burden of pre
paring and trying it. Sixteen western
state railroad commissions united in
the fight, and Mr. Thorne was the
chairman of the committee represent
ing them. He gives much credit to
Benjamin L. Jacobson, who had gen
eral charge of gathering the evidence
and preparing the specific cases for
trial, and to A. D. Beals, Iowa's rate
expert.
Mr. Thorne today had this to say of
the big case and its outcome:
“One day during the summer of 1911
I was seated in a hotel parlor in Mil
waukee. In one end of the room there
were sixteen men in their shirtsleeves,
talking and listening occasionally to
a person standing in the center of the
room: two or three minutes were al
lowed to the gentleman talking; he
took his seat and another person told
a short story; and so on, during the
course of the whole day.
Powerful Group of Men.
“This small group of men exercised
more power than any other similar
group, perhaps, in the United States.
Some nine hundred railroads, large
and small, interested in traffic be
tween the Misslsippi river and the Pa
cific coast, have organized what they
call a western classification commit
tee of about eighty-five members.
These eighty-five men have selected a
sub-committee of sixteen men. This
sub-committee, which is dominated by
one or two individuals, determines the
freight ratings on over 7,000 articles,
on which 35,000,000 people have to
pay traffic between about 20,000
towns, located between the Mississip
pi river and the Pacific coast. This
is one of the three Important classifi
cation committees in America, the
other two being the official, covering
the northeastern portion of the Unit
ed States, and the Southern.
"For the first time in the history of
American railroads an entire classifi
cation of one of these three great
freight classification committees has
been suspended by the federal govern
ment. And the committee I have de
scribed has been making a revision of
Its former work. In accordance with
the decision which was rendered by
the interstate commerce commission
recently, known as the decision in the
case of Western classification No. 51.
The railroads have just submitted to
the commission a list of several hun
dred changes In this classification to
conform to the commission’s order.and
these will go into effect March 31.
The opinion in this case, next to the
one rendered in the express case, is
perhaps the longest ever written by
the interstate commerce commission.
The case is of national importance.
Many of its features are unique, and
of profound concern to the consumers
of the country.
Sixteen States United.
“Many shippers and shippers’ or
ganizations were parties to this case.
But perhaps the most interesting fea
ture was the fact that on behalf of
the consumers the railroad commis
sions of sixteen great states appear
ed. These states were Illinois. Wis
consin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri.
Arkansas. Louisiana, Texas, Okla
homa, Nebraska, South Dakota, North
Dakota, Colorado, Nevada, Washing
ton and Oregon. On the one hand we
had the representatives of some nine
hundred railroads, and opposed to
them the representatives of sixteen
state governments, with the interstate
commerce commission as the deciding
tribunal. The hearing in the case
lasted about a year.
“Western Classification No. 51 in
volves more changes than any other
tariff publication ever issued by Amer
ican railroads. The ■work done in
preparation for this issue is said to
have cost the railroads approximately
$500,000.
Most Important Phases.
“Of the many phases of the deci
sion the first in importance are the
rules and regulations. The carriers
proposed many changes. These are
applicable to every city, town and
hamlet west of the Missisippi river.
The state commissions made objec
tions to fourteen of these rules, and
changes were made or ordered in
twelve of them.
‘ A concrete illustration of these
concerns the dunnage allowance.
Prior to the issuance of No. 51, the
carriers permitted the shippers to use
lumber and boards to prop up machin
ery in a car, the railroads hauling 600
pounds of such lumber free of charge.
No. 51 abolished the dunnage privi
lege, and the commission ordered It
i reinstated. When one considers the
thousands of shipments that are made
annually, the importance of such a
ruling can be appreciated.
“Another change of importance to
the western half of the United States
concerns green hides. The carriers
put in a rule permitting them to re
fuse to take green hides for shipment.
We pointed out that they could be
stored or handled in live stock cars,
and not contaminate other commodl
; ties, and claimed that the carriers
should be compelled to accept the
same for transportation. Our position
was sustained by the commission.
Minimum Kate Kuilng.
"Several hundred advances were
proposed by the railroacte in minimum
weights. They announced their pol
icy to be the establishment of mini
mums upon the physical capacity of
the c .rs, refusing to take into consid
eration the commercial conditions
surrounding the transportation.
Carload Mixtures.
“One of the most important parts of
this case concerns carload mixtures.
The carriers proposed the elimination
of carload mixtures on 234 articles,
and proposed changes restricting car
load mixtures on more than three hun
dred other articles. One of the most
important changes affecting carloath
mixtures, which serves as an illustra
tion of the effect of such changes,
concerns binding twine. Prior to the
issuance of No. 51, the carriers per
mitted binding twine to be shipped
mixed with agricultural implements,
all of which took carload rates. In
No. 51, they proposed to apply less
than carload rates on all shipments of
binding twine made in this manner
This would have caused an advance
of about one hundred per cent in the
freight rates on binding twine, and
more than ninety per cent of all bind
ing twine shipments, we were told
by the largest shippers in the. coun
try, would be affected by this hundred
per cent advance.
“As indicating the policy of the
carriers, thirty-two articles had car
load mixtures granted to them, while
over five hundred articles were totally
eliminated from carload mixtures, or
the mixtures were changed or re
stricted. The interstate commerce
commission has ordered the carriers
to pursue diametrically the opposite
course. Instead of restricting mix
tures, they are instructed to make
them more liberal.
"In addition to these changes in
rules, the commission made specific
orders disapproving advances on a
long list of articles. The decision in
this case is the most epoch-making
on elasiflcatlon matters ever render
ed by the interstate commerce com
mission.”
MUST LOVE THE LITTLE FOLK
Otherwise the Girl Who Adopts Pro
fession of Children's Nurse
Will Not Succeed.
The great essention for any girl
adopting the profession of children’s
nurse is that 6he must have a great
love for the wee folk, to be able to
enter into their feelings, to sympa
thize with their sorrows and joys. A
child’s nurse must not be a cynic.
She must know the importance of lit
tle things to children, must know
that the molehills of grown-ups are
the mountains of boys and girls. Now
adays the children’s nurse must be a
comrade and companion as well as
mentor to her young charges, but the
latter role must never be over-empha
sized.
It is well, too, for any girl desiring
to become a nurse of this kind to go
somewhere and obtain the proper
training for the position. It is a big
advantage when seeking employment.
Briefly, the nurse of children must
be able to superintend the children's
health, their good, their clothes and
their lessons—not at all onerous du
ties to the girl who is fond of chil
dren.—Exchange.
Not Long to Wait.
Bumble—Why didn’t you get on the
water wagon?
Rumble—No seats left.
Bumble+-Oh, well, if you persist is
the notion, you will find a seat later
—Judge.
Books Speak.
Books carry with them a charm of
their own. They speak of cosy indraw
ings about the evening lamp. Few
things add so much of warmth and
liveableness to a room as shelves of
"used" books.
Saving Time.
"Roosevelt Named for 1916.” But
why stop there? Why not for 1920.
1924 and 1928? It would save both
time and the cost of holding conven
tions.—New York Evening Post.
Envious and Unable.
Tarrytown naturalists report a hen
which attempted suicide because she
was unable to lay eggs. Some one
must have shown the poor fowl what
eggs are fetching.—New York Even
ing Sun.
Modest Man.
Tailor—“You have inherited a lot
of money; why don’t you settle my
bill?” Owens—“My dear sir. I won’t
have It said for anything that my new
ly acquired wealth caused any depart
ure from my simple habits.”
Removing Grease From Paint.'
A paste made from ordinary whiting
applied wet and permitted to dry be
fore it is rubbed off, will remove
grease from paint without injuring
the latter.
His Position.
He was a minister of the old school
and was catechizing the children on
their biblical knowledge. "Who was
Isaac?” at length he asked. “Please,
sir,” replied a small girl eagerly
"Please, sir, he was Rebekah’s man.”
Those Bills.
“Yes, Indeed, it’s astonishing how
many people call to see me when I’m
not at home,” remarked Mrs, Trifle.
"It’s always that way on the first of
the month," replied the lady from next
door with a very knowing smile
Cleaning Ivory.
In cleaning ivory knife handles, rub
them well with half a lemon dipped in
hot salt. This will make them beau
tifully white. After this treatment they
should be well washed in cold water
and thoroughly dried.
A SUGGESTION.
. *
“Man is but clay, after all.”
“In order to keep up with the times*
I suppose a modern man ought to ba
made of reinforced concrete."
Perils of the Aviator.
During one of the aviation meets
a young woman went through the han
gars under the guidance of a me
chanic. After asking all the usual
foolish questions that aviators and
their assistants have to answer during
a tour of inspection, she wanted to
know: “But what if your engine stops
in the air—what happens?” Can’t you
come down?” "That's exactly the
trouble,” responded the willing guide.
“There are now three men up in the
air in France with their engines stop
ped. They can’t get down and are
starving to death.”
BURNED AND ITCHED BADLY
539 Lincoln Park Blvd., Chicago, 111.
—“A year ago I received a very severe
burn on my left arm. I caught cold in
it and it was all sore and ulcerated.
The sore was as large as a silver dol
lar. It was all red and inflamed and
bad pus running out of it. I suffered
terribly from burning pain; could not
sleep for two weeks it burned and
Itched so badly. I applied - Salve,
- Salve and a salve my druggist
•ecommended as his own, but got no
relief. I then commenced using the
Juticura Soap and Ointment. I bathed
the burned parts with Cuticura Soap
and applied the Cuticura Ointment on
a linen bandage. I got relief from the
arst, and my arm healed nicely. I was'
soon able to be at work again. Had I
ised Cuticura Soap and Ointment at
Srst I would have avoided lots of suf
’ering.” (Signed) Harry Junke, Mar.
), 1912.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world. Sample of each
tree, with 32-p. Skin Book. Address
yost-card “Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston.”
Adv.
They Got Left.
John and Betty, aged five and four
years, had started on a railway jour
aey with their parents on Monday, but
reached the station just in time to
tear the engineer ring his bell and see
the train pull out of the station, leav
,ng the family behind.
Next Sunday John and Betty were
started out on the way to Sunday
school. When they were half way
there the bell rang, and presently they
came regretfully back.
“We got left,” they announced.
Anyhow, Boy Had the Right Idea.
An overgrown schoolboy who found
English grammar entirely beyond him
was given the sentence “The girl pur
chased a hat” to diagram.
“Now, of what word is ‘hat’ the ob
ject?” asked the teacher, encouraging
ly.
"Hat is the object of girl,” stam
mered the youth.
“Perhaps you’re right;” replied the
teacher.
Corrected.
“Bliggins always knows the latest
story.”
“Not the latest,” replied Miss Cay
enne, wearily, "the longest.”—Wash
ington Star.
Its Nature.
“What's the weather report?”
“Blpwing great guns.”
"Great report!"
No, Cordelia, a criminal lawyer isn’l
necessarily a criminal.
IN A SHADOW.
inveterate Tea Drinker Feared Par
alysis.
Steady use of either tea or coffee
)ften produces alarming symptoms as
.he poison (caffeine) contained in
:hese beverages acts with more po
ency in some persons than in others.
“I was never a coffee drinker,”
writes an 111. woman, “but a tea drink
sr. I was very nervous, had frequent
spells of sick headache and heart
trouble, and was subject at times to
severe attacks of bilious colic.
“No end of sleepless nights—would
aave spells at night when my right
side would get numb and tingle like
i thousand needles were pricking my
flesh. At times I could hardly put my
tongue out of my mouth and my right
?ye and ear were affected.
“The doctors told me I was liable tc
oecome paralyzed at any time, so 1
was in constant dread. I took no end
3f medicine—all to no good.
“The doctors told me to quit using
tea, but I thought I could not live
without it—that it was my only stay.
I had been a tea drinjier for twenty
five years; was under the doctor's
care for fifteen.
“About six months ago, I finally
juit tea and commenced to drink
Postum.
“I have never had one spell of sick
headache since and only one light
attack of bilious colic. Have quit hav
ing those numb spells at night, sleep
well and my heart is getting stronger
all the time.” Name given upon re
quest.
Postum now comes in concentrated
powder form, called Instant Postum
It is prepared by stirring a level tea
spoonful in a cup of hot water, adding
sugar to taste, and enough cream to
bring the color to golden brown.
Instant Postum is convenient;
there’s no waste; and the flavor is al
ways uniform. Sold by grocers every
where.
A 5-cup trial tin mailed for grocer's
name and 2-cent stamp for postage
Postum Cereal Co., Ltd., Battle Creek.
