IEVS BFJE WEEK
CONDENSATIONS OF GREATER OR
LESSER IMPORTANCE.
II BOILING DOWN OF EVENTS
National, Political, Personal and Other
Mattera In Brief Form for All
Classes of Readers.
, WASHINGTON. ,
Representative Francis Burton Har
rison of New York has been selected
for governor general of the Philip
pines.
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Senator Randsdell has given notice
that he will Introduce an amendment
to strike out of the tariff bill the pro
vision making free sugar in 1916.
• * *
Speaker Clark has appointed the
members of a joint commission to in
vestigate Indian bureau and of the
commission to investigate tubercu
losis among Indians.
* * *
The Bristow amendment to the su
gar schedule, proposing a graduate
duty, was defeated 34 to 39- The Bris
tow amendment to abolish immediate
ly the Dutch standard sugar test was
adopted.
• * *
Free raw wool is the next fight
chead on the tariff bill in the senate
and it probably will be reached be
fore long, the cotton and flax sched
ules having been practically disposed
of.
• • *
The senate postoffice committee
recommended to the senate, in exec
utive session, that the nomination of
Thomas Fox as postmaster at Sacra
mento. Cal., be confirmed.
Protest against the administration
currency bill is expected to be the
result of a conference of bankers
from all over the country', which will
begin at Chicago. More than 350
bankers are expected to attend.
• • *
Charges which, if sustained, may
lay the foundation of another im
peachment in the senate, are made
against Federal Judge Emery Speer
of the Fifth Georgia circuit, in pa
pers considered in a carefully guard
ed session of the house judiciary com
mittee.
• • •
Senator Penrose introduced a reso
lution requiring President Wilson to
take the necessary steps to place
United States troops in Mexico to
protect American lives and property,
such a step to be declared by the sen
ate as, in no way, an unfriendly act
toward Mexico.
• • •
Secretary Bryan will spend two
days early in September stumping the
third Maine congressional district for
William Pettingal, the democratic
candidate. This was announced fol
lowing a conference at the white
house between President Wilson. Rep
resentative McGillcuddy and Repre
sentative Palmer of the congressional
campaign committee.
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DOMESTIC.
The production of silver in Mon
tana in 1912 was 12,731,638 ounces,
valued at $7,829,959, against 11,885,
196 ounces in 1911.
• * •
The cost of the silk mills strike in
Paterson is figured at $10,000,000, but
this does not include the adverse ad
vertising given to the city.
* * *
Benton McMillan, former governor
of Tennessee, has left New York for
South America to take up his duties
as United States minister to Peru.
* • •
Colonel William F. Cody, “Buf
falo Bill,” has instituted an action
against Gordon W. Lillie, “Pawnee
Bill,” in the Denver district court
charging Lillie with fraud in the
conduct of the Buffalo Bill Wild West
and Far East show.
• « *
Kansas stockmen, owing to the ef
fect of thf drouth on the corn crop,
will ask the removal of the tariff duty
on Argentine corn, so it may be im
ported into this country and fed to
Kansas stock.
* * *
Italian immigrants, as they become
Americanized, eat less and less maca
roni and spaghetti, according to At
torney Benjamin N. Breding, in an
endeavor to account for the financial
difficulties of the Italian-American
Macaroni Manufacturing company of
Chicago.
* * *
Martin H. Glynn was officially rec
ognized as acting governor of the
state of New York by the board oi
trustees of public buildings when new
rooms in the capitol were designated
as “the executive chamber” for its use,
* * *
When the last man laid down his
shovel, it was estimated the work
done in the Missouri good roads cam
paign. had it been paid for, would
have amounted to $1,500,000. Better
■till, an unquenchable desire for bet
• ter highways has been kindled, ac
cording to leaders.
• • •
As a result of a hitch in negotia
tions between present holders of the
America cup and Sir Thomas Lipton,
it is considered extremely likely that
the 1914 contest may yet be called
off.
• • *
The production of ocher in the
United States in 1912, according to
the United States geological survey,
•was 15,269 short tons, valued at $149,
289, compared with 11,703 short tons,
valued at $109,465, in 1911, an In
crease of 5,566 short tons in quantity
and of $29,824 in value.
• • *
Six million members of fraternal be
nevolent societies and $8,000,000,000
of insurance were represented at Chi
cago at the meeting of the National
Fraternal congress and the Asso
ciated Fraternities of America.
Los Angeles. has just completed a
municipal wharf 50 by 1,600 feet.
• * *
Railways of the world at the close
of 1911 represented a total capitali
zation of $56,950,229,364.
# • •
F. Drew Maminetti, companion of
Maury 1. Diggs in the flight from
Sacramento to Reno with Mffrsha
Warrington and Lola Norris, will
face a jury next Tuesday.
• •
Owing to an injury To his right
hand which Freddie Welsh received
while training, it has been announced
that his bout scheduled for labor day
with Willie Richie for the lightweight
championship of the world had beeD
indefinitely postponed.
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Twenty-five percent of the 25,000
women workers of Kansas City re
ceive less than $6 a week, the wage
needed for a ‘'bare existence,” accord
ing to a report of the board of public
welfare, made public today. The re
I port is based on two years of investi
gation.
* * *
For the second time within a month
a boy was killed at St. Louis, in an
explosion caused by dropping a light
ed match into a barrel of whisky,
the last victim was Charles IVild, 3
year-old son of Charles H. Wild, a
saloon owner.
• * *
Edward Morton, an inmate of the
state reformatory at Jefferson. Ind.,
stabbed and killed Charles Bartle,
another inmate. Morton said he bore
Bartle no ill will and that he stabbed
him so that he could be sent to the
Indiana state prison at Michigan City,
where the prisoners are given to
bacco.
• * •
Mrs. W. L. Velie of Moline, 111.,
wife of a wealthy manufacturer of au
tombiles, and Miss M. J. Lillie, Mrs.
Velie's traveling companion, were ar
ranged in Hoboken and held under
$500 bail each to answer ciiarges of
smuggling and failing to declare
jewelry, furs and lingerie brought
over by them on the Kaiser Wilhelm
11, August 21.
WAR ECHOES
General Leon., Jurado, governor of
the state of Falcon, attacked and com
pletely defeated the rebel followers
of General Cipriano Castro at Coro,
according to an ocial announcement.
All the officers commanding the rebel
forces were captured and are now on
board a Venezuelan gunboat.
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The constitutionalists of the state
of Sinaloa. Mexico have begun an ac
tive campaign, according to official
statements, and already have driven
the Huertistas from Topolobampo
and have captured Mocorito. The ad
vance of the insurgents upon Sinaloa
City and Culiacan also was reported.
.» * *
A step to protect Americans and
all foreigners in constitutionalists
territory was taken by Acting Ameri
can Vice Consul W. H. Blocker, at
Piedras Negras, Mex., in protesting
formally to constitutionalists leaders
against the destruction of the mining
town of Lampactios, Coahuila, last
Saturday, when about $1,000,000
worth of property—much of it French
owned—was destroyed.
FORFIGN.
London has 17,000 policemen and
more than 10,000 soldiers to maintain
law and order in a city of about
4,600,000 population.
* * •
Revolver shots were fired by ban
dits at King Charles and Queen Eliza
beth (Carmen Sylvia) of Rumania,
[ as they were riding in an automobile
near Sinaia, a fashionable health re
sort in Rumanit in the Carpathian
mountains, according to special dis
patches. Neither were injured.
* * *
The novel sight of an airship tow
ing a disabled companion was wit
nessed at. the Aldershot. The British
army dirigible Eta and a naval air
ship were out maneuvering when the
machinery in the latter vessel became
disabled. The Eta attached a hauser
to the other dirigible and towed her
to the factory for repairs.
* * *
Not a Chinaman in Panama has
complied with the new law requiring
the registration of all Chinese in the
republic before September 1. Ou
Yang Ken, Chinese consul general at
Panama, will, it is reported, be given
his exequater because of his alleged
delinquency in not presenting the law'
in proper light to his countrymen.
* » •
The eighty-third birthday of Em
peror Francis Joseph, which he is
spending at Ischl, an upper Austrian
summer resort, was celebrated
throughout the dual monarchy with
great festivities.
Count Stephen Tisza, the Hungar
ian premier, fought a sword duel with
Marquis Pallavicni, a lieutenant in
the Austrian army. Both were slight
ly wounded. Their quarrel arose over
the marquis' charges that the pre
mier had t-ied to influence witnesses
in a recent libel suit. •
* * •
Imring the first two months of 1913
Belgian exports of automobile chassis,
completed cars and spare parts
amounted to $883,880, against $093,
Slfi last year. Imports totaled
$175,458.
* • •
Mrs. Jarvis Deining, formerly Miss
Elsie Gergory Jackson of Washington,
has been, honored by the French gov
ernment with the ord^r of Officer des
Palmes Academiques for her work in
connection with the Maternity 'hos
pital at Dinard. France. It is a dis
tinction rarely bestowed on a woman.
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Two automobile bandits visited the
Communal Savings bank at Wihelms
burg, a suburb of Hamburg, murdered
the cashier and escaped with a sat
chel full of bank notes and several
thousand dollars in currency.
V * *
A typhoon raging at Hong Kong at
tained a velocity of 105 miles an hour
and when it was at its height caused
the gunboat Willaington, attached to
the third division of the United
States Asiatic fleet to fire distress sig
nals. A tug towed the war ship to
shelter.
HUERTA WAVERING
MAY RECONSIDER HIS REJEC
TION OF PEACE PROPOSALS.
CRISIS SAID TO RE IMMINENT
Mexican Executive Faces An Empty
Treasury and a Dissatisfied
Army, Say Reports.
Washington.—The Huerta adminis
tration in Mexico may reconsider its
rejection of the American proposals
to restore peace in Mexico and ar
range a new basis for negotiations
with the United States before next
Tuesday. Strong intimations to this
effect reached Waslwngton along with
the information that the financial con
dition of the Huerta administration
was such that a crisis was imminent
Should the Huerta government de
cide to negotiate further, withdrawing
its contentions as expressed in the
Huerta note replying to the proposals
communicated by Mr. Lind, President
Wilson in all probability will not read
his message to both houses of con
gress on Tuesday as he intended.
The president made no effort to
prevent the house from adjourning
until Tuesday. It had been supposed
that he would read the message on
Monday and would ask the leaders in
congress to arrange a joint session.
Failure to send any word to the lead
ers was interpreted in official circles
as meaning that the United States
had practically given the Huerta gov
ernment until Tuesday to make up its
mind finally as to what it would do.
Faces Mutinous Army.
European diplomatic pressure, it is
known here, is quietly at work in
Mexico City in an effort to convince
Huerta officials that the policy of the
United States is being approved
abroad. The failure of the Huerta gov
ernment. with its empty treasury, to
obtain funds abroad through the fail
ure of the recognition of the United
States is pointed to by the diplomats
as likely to continue pending a more
respectful consideration of the Ameri
can proposals. It is learned also
from authoritative sources that the
Huerta government is facing a mu
tinous army, dissatisfied because no
pay has been forthcoming for weeks.
Vote on M. W. A. Rate.
Rock Island, 111.—Count of the ad
visory vote of the membership of the
Modern Woodmen of America taken
as a result of the opposition to the
increase in rates, ordered by the Chi
cago convention, was completed at
the head office here. It shows that
out of a total membership of 900,000,
only 48,732 expressed their views.
The vote was: For old plan, under
which the society is now operating.
26,085; for an increase, 10,733; for
Chicago plan rates, 6,613; for ade
quate rate based on the society's own
experience, 3,697; for national frater
nal congress rates, 357; for step rate
plan, 293. Officials expressed sur
prise at the lack of interest displayed
by th membership.
Thaw's Chaffeur Weakening.
Sherbrooke, Que. —* ‘'Gentleman
Roger” Thompson, the New York
chauffeur, held under the dominion
immigration laws as having aided
Harry K. Thaw, legally a lunatic, to
cross the Canadian frontier, an
nounced from his cell that he was
‘ up against it” and that if the Thaw’
family did not come to his rescue he
would, perhaps in justice to himself
be forced to tell all he knows about
Thaw's escape from Mattewan and
thus complicate the proceedings
under which Thaw’s lawyers hope to
obtain his release on a writ of ha
beas corpus.
Yosemite Open to Autos.
Yosemite, Cal.—Yosemite National
park will be opened to automobiles.
The order admitting motor cars was
received by Major Littebrant, super
intendent of the reservation, from the
department of the interior at Wash
ington.
Convicts to Get Pay.
Columbus, O.—-Convicts serving
terms in the Ohio penitentiary or
their dependents will be given com
pensation for their labor on and
after September 1.
Harrison Is Confirmed.
Washington.—The senate has con
firmed the nomination of Francis
Burton Harrison of New York as gov
eronr-general of the Philippines. The
Philippine commission reported the
nomination favorably and it was con
firmed without opposition.
Rush Work on Cruiser.
Portsmouth. N. H.—Orders have
been received at the navy yard here
to rush work on the cruiser Montana,
which is undergoing her annual over
hauling.
Davis Portrait Unveiled.
Jennings, La.—Before a represen
tative gathering from all parts of
this parish, an oil painting of Jeffer
son Davis was unveiled. This parish,
formed by the division of the impe
rial Calcasieu, is named after the
president of the confederacy.
Asphyxiated in Basement.
Chicago.—John Lappere, thirty
nine years old, a wealthy real estate
dealer, was found asphyxiated in the
basement of his home on the north
side.
Ready to Defend Acts,
Washington.—Federal Judge Em
ory F. Speer of Georgia, charged with
official misconduct in papers filed
with the house committee on judic
iary, will attend any hearings that
the committee may have to take evi
dence on the case.
Asked to Open Exposition.
Washington.—Senator Lea has
asked President Wilson to open the
national conservation exhibition at
Knoxville, Tenn, with a wireless mes
sage from Arlington. \
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BRIEF NEWS OF NEBRASKA.
Sunday basebalt was defeated a»
Ansley.
J. D. Bishop has assumed charge as
postmaster at Pdru.
A petition is in circulation for a
new county jail at Beatrice.
This year’s alfalfa crop is of ex
cellent quality and well matured.
A carload of home grown grapes
was shipped from Peru last week.
Columbus is making it warm for
bicycle riders who use the sidewalks.
North Platte will have an autumn
fair and festival September 17, 18 and
19.
J. A. Yagar of Fremont will have
charge of the fruit exhibit at the state
fair.
Every efTort is being made to make
Lincoln German day a complete suc
cess.
Webster county citizens are dis
cussing the question of a new court
house.
A flower yarade will be one of the
features of the Big Four fair at Fre
mont.
Apple buyers are already in the
southeast Nebraska orchards making
contracts.
Fremont lost out on its fight for a
share of the appropriation for agricul
tural shows.
Rev. Frank Smith and wife of Hast
ings have gone to Japan to engage in
Missionary work.
The Better Babies contest of the
Nebraska state fair has already at
tracted 225 entries.
Joe Dolen at Glenville lost a couple
fingers when he- got his hand caught
in a corn shredder.
The Commercial, Ad and Merchant#
clubs at Fremont will merge and be
come^one organization
The Minden Commercial club is
pushing the proposed irrigation ditch
to be put in in that vicinity.
Levi Hitchcock, a Falls City fruit
man, is proudly exhibiting a peach
nearly four inches in diameter.
A big program has been made up
for Omaha and South Omaha day. Fri
day, September 5, at the state fair.
Francis Brooks, a Lincoln boy, was
seriously burned while attempting to
fill an automobile tank with gasoline.
Camping out at the state fair will be
a popular feature, according to appli
cations already made for reservations.
Harrison Anderson, a Seward car
penter, fell from a scaffolding twenty
feet high and had two ribs and a leg
broken.
Henri de la Roche, an aviator who
was injured in a fall at Omaha a
couple of weeks ago, died at a local
hospital.
Nebraska railway men expect a
slump of business during the next few
months, owing to the shortage of the
corn crop.
R. L. Ewing of Madras, India, has
been secured for the position of sec
retary of the University Y. M. C. A.
at Lincoln for the coming year.
Farmers near Parsons are baling
their hay as soon as it is cut, the
grass being so dry that the usual
“curing'’ process is not necessary.
A class of seven boys from the
Congregational church at Weeping
Water with their teacher, M. M. Red
enbaugh, will take a hundred mile
hike through eastern Nebraska and
western Iowa.
As a result of three small children
playing with matches in a haymow,
the barn belonging to J. S. Temple
ton, and containing a carload of hay |
belonging to Ray Lilly, was almost to- i
tally destroyed by fire at Wahoo.
Y'ork high school will conduct an ex
perimental farm in the future, the
school board having leased from the
city a part of East Hill park for that
purpose. The course in agriculture
will be conducted along the lines of1
the state school.
The state fair at Lincoln, September
1-5, will be the scene of a larger num
ber of free attractions than ever be
fore. Liberati's band, ten grand opera
concert stars and eight different
vaudeville attractions head the list.
The speed program and the iflreworks
will also break all previous records.
The Burlington has arranged to run
a number of special trains to Lincoln
during the state fair, September 1 to
6, inclusive.
The rural free delivery carriers of
Saunders county held their first an
nual picnic at the high school park in
Wahoo Sunday.
Eight thousand people of Lincoln
and suburbs attended the annual gro
cers' and butchers’ picnic at Capita!
Beach Thursday.
Wilber Chamberlin, a six-year-old
boy at Nelson, fell to the bottom of a ;
thirty-foot silo pit, and died after suf
fering two hours.
One of the novel sights at the state !
fair will be the exhibit of Shetland j
ponies.
During a severe storm at Hum- i
phrey, Mrs. John Bruckner was I
struck by lightning and rendered un- I
conscious for half an hour.
Charles Shafer, residing four miles
southeast of Beatrice, threshed fiv?
acres of oats, which yielded seventy
eight bushels to the acre.
Mrs. Frank Eberhard, living two
and one-half miles east of Pierce, was
frightened to death when a bolt of
lightning struck the house she was
living in.
Douglas Wallenburg was drowned
while bathing in a sand pit near Cen
tral City.
Herman Benein, a young German
farmer living in the vicinity of Diller
was drowned in the Little Blue river
near Steele City Sunday morning.
John Haman, a Fremont man, has
been making experiments with Egyp
tian wheat and believes that he can
prove that Nebraska soil is admirably
suited to growing it. Mr. Haman says
the wheat would grow abundantly in
the sandy soil along the Platte, where
other crops are produced under diffi
culty,
Neligh was struck by a disastrous
electrical Btorm last week that caused
considerable damage.
George Brenton was instantly killed
at Neligh when a wagon loaded with
brick passed over his body.
Sam Agursky, an Omaha tailor, at
tempted to end his life by the gas
route, but the timely use of a pulmo
tor frustrated his designs and he still
abides with us.
As Louis Lovett, a Johnson, county
farmer, was resting under the shade
of his wagon, the team started up and
both his legs were broken as the
wheels ran over him.
BIG DfUGHOHTEST
BUTTER SCORING EXHIBITION
'FOR THE STATE FAIR.
GOSSIP FROM STATE CAPITAL
Items of Interest Gathered from Re
liable Sources and Presented k»
Condensed Form to Our
Readers.
Extensive plans are under way for
making the dairy exhibits at the state
fair this year bigger and better than
ever before. These exhibits will in
clude the butter scoring exhibition
which will attract those interested in
the dairy industry of the state. Rules
giverning contests are as follows:
1. The department of dairy hus
bandry of the university to furnish a
five pound butter tub. together with
liners, shipping tags and report blanks,
express prepaid, to butter makers up
on request. The tub, when filled, is to
be returned to the department, ex
press collect; the report is also to be
made out and sent at the same time.
2. Upon receipt of the butter, all
marks indicating ownership will be
removed.
3. Exhibitors are limited to one
entry.
4. Each must give method of manu
facture.
5. All entries must be in before
August 29. As soon as the report of
the judges has been made, the result
of work will be mailed to each con
testant.
6. The butter is become the prop
erty of the department.
Nebraska Impeachment Case.
Impeachment of Governor Sulzer by
the New York legislature recalls Ne
braska's contribution to the record of
other governors of American states
who have been impeached.
David Butler, first governor of the
6tate, w-as impeached by the lower
house of the legislature. March 1,
1871, found guilty by the senate June
1, ar.d removed from office. Of the
seven impeached governors in 137
years history, he was one of three
found guilty.
Curiously enough, Kansas and Ne
braska were the only states north of
the old Mason Dixon line, until the
present, which had impeached their
governors.
As in the case of Governor Sulzer,
the ^roubles of Governor Butler were
house impeached him on several
counts. One charged misappropria
tion of $16,000 of state funds and on
this alone was he found guilty. Others,
upon which he was acquitted, charged
that he had arranged with purchasers
of state lands and with contractors on
state buildings, whereby he received
a part of the amount involved in the
transaction. Several such incidents
centered about the construction of the
old state university, the building
which is still the main university hall.
The house preferred its charges on
March 1, 1871. The senate convened
as a court of impeachment March 6
and cited Governor Butler to appear
March 7. Managers of the case for
the house were J. C. Myers, J. E.
Doom and DeForest Porter, with Ex
perience Estabrook as counsel. Gov
ernor Butler’s counselors were Clin
ton Briggs, John I. Redick and T. M.
Marquette. The president of the sen
ate could not be present and resigned,
whereupon Senator Issac E. Hascall
of Omaha was elected president to
preside during the trial.
After six weeks dreary testimony,
the senate found Governor Butler
guilty of misappropriatng the $16,000
of state funds, the vote being 9 to 3.
It was declared that he had taken
this amount out of funds from the sale
of public lands and had used it in the
construction of a $20,000 mansion in
the outskirts of Lincoln, which Is now
the home of the Lincoln Country club.
He offered to deed to the state, land
then worth little, but which later sold
for $60,000. The offer availed noth
ing and he was immediately removed
from office.
More than thirty counties of the
state have applied to the state en
gineer for bridge plans under an en
actment. of the last legislature. Sc
great has been the demand, according
to the state engineer, that his drafts
men have not been able to keep up
In their work.
Agricultural High Schools.
Alliance, Alma, Aurora. Beatrice,
Blair. Fairfield, Gothenburg, Hastings.
Holdrege, Kimball county high school,
O’Neill. Pawnee City. Red Cloud,
South Omaha, St. Paul, Stromsburg,
Tecumseh, Wahoo and York are high
schools which have qualified under the
Shumway act passed by the last^iegis
lature to share in the $15,000 appropri
ation for the promotion of agricultural
instruction. State Superintendent Del
zell hue therefore designated them as
agricultural high schools.
Free transportation of wheat and
other grain for seed will be asked of
the Burlington railroad on behalf of
farmers cf southwestern Nebraska.
Half a dozen successive failures in that
section, augmented by a visitation of
grasshoppers this Season have left
many of the inhabitants in a bad con
dition. S. S. Powell of Stratton called
at Governor Morehead's office for the
purpose of outlining plans for making
a formal request upon the railroad.
The matter will likely be taken up by
the executive and the railway com
mission.
The board of control has been
asked to liberate Henry Chamberlain
of Vian, Cherry county, from the Nor
folk asylum. His brothers living at
North Platte say he is not insane and
that he wag not properly committed
to the asylum. He testified for the
government against persons charged
with land frauds. Soon thereafter he
got into an altercation and assaulted
a man with a jug. He waS arrested
and sent to the asylum without a
hearing, according to his story- Once
be was paroled, but Cherry county
people had him sent back to the asy
STYLE WRITING HEREDITARY
Science Wakes Up to a Fact That
. the Public Have Long
Ago Realized.
London.—Non-scientific persons have
long realized the remarkable similar
ity in handwriting of members of the
same family, sometimes lasting for
half a dozen generations, and now,
it seems, science is at last waking up
to this suggestive fact in heredity.
Sir Rickman Goodlee. president of the
Royal College of Surgeons, said:
“I have lately been reading old let
ters dating back to the early part of
the eighteenth century, and I have
been struck with the way in which
mere handwriting is handed down
from father to son, and mother to
daughter.
"It is possible to trace quite clearly
my great-grandfather’s writing in that
of my cousins and my father’s and my
own. If mere handwriting is thus
transmitted, together with the tone of
the voice and the shape of the nose,
the question arises whether any one
need be ashamed of his defects, sorry
for his misdeeds, proud of his suc
cess, or satisfied with the conscious
ness of virtue. We may feel the long
arms of our apelike ancestors stretch
ing out of the past and molding our
characters. We may read all that
has ever been written about free will
from the time of Aristotle, and we
may hug the notion that our actions
have been predestined from the nebu
lous state of our planet.
"But it makes no difference to us.
We are still doggedly convinced that
by taking thought we can add one
cubit to our stature, or at any rate
prevent it being one cubit less.”
FINDS HEADLESS GIRL AT SEA
Fishing Schooner Captain Buries Body
of Woman Clad in Expensive
Clothing.
Boston.—The discovery at sea of
the headless body of an expensively
dressed girl was reported by Capt.
Charles White of the schooner Jennie
Gilbert, upon his arrival in port from
a sword-flshing trip. To the captain
it appeared that the head had been
skillfully severed with a sharp
knife.
The body was picked up July 16
about 170 miles from Boston, in the
track of both ocean and coastwise
steamers. It evidently had been in
the water but a short time. Capt.
White described it as that of a well
nurtured girl of from sixteen to twen
ty years. The clothing gave no clewf
to the identity o' the wearer. Captain
White says he wrapped the body in
canvas and sank it in the sea.
CHURCH FLAG UP ON SUNDAY
j Old Glory Gives Way Only for This
Christian Banner on Sabbath
Morning.
Washington.—In whatever corner of
the world Old Glory waves there is
only one banner to which it gives way,
and that is the church flag. On Sun
day morning at all the United States
naval stations and at other points
where the navy hold sway and on
every battleship and gunboat of Un
Blue Cross Above Old Glo'y.
cle Sam s on every sea may be seen
this snowy pennant, with its blue de
vice, shown in the accompanying pic
ture, flying above the Stars and
Stripes.
Only while the church services are
In progress does the starry flag sur
render its supremacy. When the
worshiping is concluded the “Banner
of the Blue Cross" is lowered with
fitting ceremonies and the Red, White
and Blue Is restored to its head. In
the picture is shown the main building
at the Mare Island naval station at
Vallejo on San Francisco bay in Cali
fornia, with the church flag flying
from the staff in the foreground.
Was a Wife for a Day.
Milwaukee.—“It was worth the
money to be a wife, even \f it didn’t
last long. I'm no spring chicken any
more, and I did want to be some man's
wife.” So declared Mrs. Violet Adam
son, thirty, of Stonefort, 111., after her
husband of a day had disappeared
with |500 of her money. She appeal
ed to the local police for aid.
Kills 300 Rats in Barn.
Columbus, O.—The largest catch of
rats In the history of Geauga county,
Ohio, occurred on the farm of A.
Boswell, when 300 rodents were cor
ralled and killed. The victorious army
consisted of Boswell, his son and a
visitor.. The rats were found by the
men when the floor of the farm build
ing, 14 by 16 feet, was torn up.
Suggestive Dress Bad.
- Spartansburg, .S. C.—Rev. Stephen
A. Nettles, editor of the Southern
Christian Advocate, declared that It
would be far better for the women to
follow the custom of many African
tribes, who are robed In nothing more
than beads, than to wear the sugges
tive dresses that are so popular at
present.
MOTHER
SO POORLY
Guild Hardly Care for Ch3
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Bovina Center, N. Y. - " For six year*
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my health was very
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I had pains in my
back and was so
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doctored with sev
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Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com
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do most of my own work now and take
care of my children. 1 recommend your
remedies to all suffering women.”—
Mrs. Willard A. Graham, Care of
Elsworth Tuttle, Bovina Center, N. Y.
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pound, made from native roots and
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drugs, and today bolds the record of
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If yon have the slightest doubt
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ble Compound will help you,write
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(confidential) Lynn,Mass., for ad
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The Wretchedness
of Constipation
Can quickly be overcome by
CARTER'S LITTLE
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Purely vegetable
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Head
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Dizzi- . .
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SMALL PILL, SMALL DOSE, SMALL PRICE.
Genuine must bear Signature
I PROBABLY AN EVEN BREAK
Minister Seemed to Have Braggart’s
Prowess Sized Up Just About
in Correct Shape.
’’The Gettysburg encampment, sad
as it was. was not all sad," said
Col. Allen Harkness, a veteran of
Portland. "Many a good war story
was swapped between the north and
the south at Gettysburg.
"I myself told a good story about a
veteran braggart. The braggart was
always cracking up his prowess at
Gettysburg and Chickamauga and
other battlefields, and one day a
group of fellow-townsmen fell to
thinking about him.
“ ’There’s one thing,’ said the doc
tor, ’that Id like to know. I'd like
to know for certain just how many
of the boys in gray Jake really and
truly did get away with.’
" ‘Well, I can’t speak on oath.’ said
the minister, with a twinkle in his
eye, but it looks to me, doctor, when
you come right down to hard pan.
as if Jake probably killed just about
as many of the enemy as the enemy
did of him."
Plays No Favorites.
"Is Perkel a fair weather friend’"
"Yes. He'll steal anybody’s um
brella when it rains.”
A man is in a bad way if he is unfit
for his own society.
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Uncle Sam’s last big land
opening—1,345,000 acres of rich
prairie land thrown open to white
settlers. 8.406 homesteads of 160 acres
each are wait n^. Located in Northeast
ern Montana, just north of the Missouri
River, on the main line of the Great ^
Northern Railway. Rich, sandy, loam
soil capable of raisins: 20 to 30 bushels of
wheat and 40 to 60 bushels of oats per acre.
Register at
Glasgow, Havre or Great Falls, Montana
Daily Sept. 1 to 20 inclusive
Drawing at Glasgow, Sspt. 23
This land baft been appraised at $2.r0 to #7.00
per acre. Can be taken up uuder Uuited States
Homestead laws.
rprr Illustrated map-folder and full inform
T ation about this big land opening will
be sent free if you write at once. Send a postal
or letter to
E.C. LEEDY,
General
Immigration Agent
Dept. 0000
Great Northern Rj.
ST. PAUL, MINN.
TANGO
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