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    NEWS OFJHE WEEK
CONDENSATIONS OF GREATER OR
u LESSER IMPORTANCE.
A BOILING OOWN OF EVENTS
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National, Political, Personal and Other <
Matter* In Brief Form for All
Classes of Readers.
’ ' WASHINGTON.
Secretary McAdoo declined to re
move the office of collector of internal
revenue for the Second district of
Wisconsin from Washington to Wau
aau.
• • *
Charles M. Branson of Lincoln has
been appointed to the position of in
ternal revenue collector of the canal
zone. The office carries with it a
•alary of $2,500.
• * *
President Wilson has signed the
urgent deficiency bill, carrying ex
emptions from the civil service of
deputy United States marshals and
deputy collectors of internal revenue.
• • •
Democrats, republicans and progres
sives of the house are going to pre
sent a wedding gift next month to
Miss Jessie Wilson, the president's
daughter.
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Such loaded confections as rum
balls, brandy balls and mint lozengers,
which are hollowed candies filled with
spirits, hereafter will be subject to
special taxes applying to rectifiers of
liquor and to retail dealers. Com
missioner of Internal Revenue Osborn
announced his decision to impose the
tax.
• * *
Proposed increases in freight rates
on building, curbing and paving stone
from points in Minnesota to Kansas
City, Omaha and other Missouri river
cities were held by the Interstate
Commerce commission to be unrea
sonable. Existing rates were ordered
continued.
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Secretary of State William Jennings
Bryan predicted that the Owen-Glass
currency bill would pass the senate
with a larger majority than the Un
derwood tarifT measure in a speech at
Camden, N. J„ in the interest of the
candidacy of Governor James P.
Fielder. Ht told the audience that
the national administration looked to
New Jersey to give a vote of confi
dence in President Wilson.
• • •
A government controlled and oper
ated-central bank, to dominate the fi
nancial system of the country, has
entered the legislative arena as a
rival of the administration regional
Teserve currency plan. Frank A.
Vanderlip, president of the National
City bank of New York, explained
the new plan to the senate banking
and currency committee. He had
evolved the new scheme as a result
of conferences with members of the
committee whom he said had express
ed approval of such a plan.
DOMESTIC.
The ministers of Montana, In con
ference organized the “law enforce
men and public welfare of Montana.”
to combat vice in the state.
* • •
David Bartlett for six years lieuten
ant governor of North Dakota, died
at Boston. Mr. Bartlett ".as stricken
at his home, Cooperstown, N. D., sev
eral weeks ago with hemorrhages of
the brain and went east for treatment,
but recently suffered another attack.
• • •
The supreme council of the Ancient
and Accepted Scottish Rite of Free
Masonry of the southern jurisdiction,
in session at Washington, elected the
following officers: George F. Moore
of Alabama, lieutenant grand com
mander; former Senator Henry M.
Teller of Colorado, grand prior;
Charles E. Rosenbaum of Little Rock,
Ark., grand chancellor, and Charles
F. Buck of New Orleans, grand minis
ter of state.
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President Wilson's treatment of the
Philippines problem was both ap
proved and condemned at the confer
ence of Friends of the Indians and
Other Dependent Peoples at Lake Mo
honk. N. J.
• * *
The "graceful abandonment” of the
Monroe doctrine by the United States
was advocated by Homer Clyde
Stuntz, resident bishop of Buenos
Aires, Argentina, of the Methodist
Episcopal church in an address before
the city club at St. Ixrnis.
• • *
The University of Wisconsin has
undertaken a scientific investigation
of the bedbug to determine whether
the annoying insect is a factor in
spreading disease, particularly ty
phoid fever.
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Men who devote the best years of
their lives to service among the In
dians, the Filiipinos, the Port Ricans,
and the natives of Alaska, are gath
ered at Mohonk Lake to attend the
thirty-first Lake Mohonk conference
of Friend of the Indians and Other
Dependent Peoples.
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The New York senate has unani
mously confirmed Governor Glynn’s
nomination of James M. Lynch of
Syracuse, president of the Interna
tionay Typographical union, as state
labor commissioner.
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Reports to Commissioner of Indian
Affairs Sells stated that 10,542 acrea
of oil lands offered for lease in the
Osage Indian reservation in Okla
homa bro gbt a bonus of $505,315, be
ing an average of $48 per acre. This
tonus is in addition to a royalty of
one-sixth of the oil production
• • •
The Missouri State supertendent
of insurance ruled that it was unlaw
ful for life Insurance companies to
date policies prior to the dale of ap
plication. He held that auch a prac
tice was discriminatory.
Baltimore is rooting up cobblestone
pavements and putting down asphalt.
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Columbus, O., netted $23,000 from
garbage last year, while St. Louis
paid $400,000 to take it away.
• • •
Chicago leads the largest twenty
two cities in the United States in the
percentage of increase in automobile
accidents in the last five years.
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Negotiations have been closed by
an English syndicate for the pur
chase of extensive coal land and min
ing property in the New River dis
trict of West Virginia, at a price said
to approximate $50,000,000. About
5,000,000 acres of land and ninety-six
counties are involved in the transac
tion.
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Between 230 and 280 miners were
entombed by an explosion in mine No.
2 on the Stag Canon Fuel company
at Dawson, N. M. The entombed
men included General Superintendent
Frank McDermott of the mine and
several other American miners. The
cause of the explosion is unknown.
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Taking of depositions for use in the
trial of the government’s suit against
the Bell Telephone companies of the
Pacific states to force the defendant
corporations to sell competing sys
tems they have absorbed was begun
at Seattle by Constantine J. Smyth,
special assistant to the attorney gen
eral.
A blanket indictment, charging
Harry K. Thaw and four others with
conspiracy in connection with his es
cape from Matteawan state hospital
for the criminal insane in August, was
returned by the grand jury at New
York. It will be used as a weapon by
William Travers Jerome in his effort
to extradite Thaw from New Hamp
shire.
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From thousands of chrysanthe
mums being grown in the white house
conservatories and in the green
houses at the department of agricul
ture for the approaching white house
wedding, one aristocrat of that plant
family—an entirely new creation now
being developed—is to be named after
the bride. Miss Jessie Wilson.
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Millions of dollars for the federal
government depends on the outcome
of the corporation tax cases up for
argument before the supreme court.
Stratton’s Independence Mine, ol
Colorado, and the New York Street
Hallway receivership cases will be
heard and the decision in each will
be awaited wTith interest by the
moneyed world.
FOREIGN.
Serious fighting has occurred at
Talipoa, in Mindiano, between the
tribesmen and the Philippines’ scouts.
So far, it is reported, live scouts have
been killed and eight wounded.
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An “arson squd" of militant sufTra
getes set fire to and destroyed the
sports pavilion of Briston university.
They left the usual tell-tale suflragette
literature scattered about the grounds.
An interesting feature of Colonel
Roosevelt’s visit to Rio Janeiro was
his inspection of the Oswaldo Cruz
Institute of Pathology find Bacter
ology. He was shown through the
laboratories for which he expressed
his admiration, and acquired some in
formation on the use of quinine in
connection with his expedition into
the interior of Brazil.
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The steamer C'entenial, which left
Muroran, Japan,, six years ago for San
Fransico with a cargo of sulphur and
was never heard from again, is re
ported to be fast in the ice of Saga
hilan island, Okhotsh sea, Siberia. A
Russian expidtion bound through the
Okhotsh sea discovered the missing
vessel with lifeboats gone, the name
partly obliterated and its iron work
corroded. There was no sign of a
human being on the ship.
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Chancellor o fthe Exchequer Lloyd
George believes that a measure giving
the parliamentary suffrage -to women
in the British Isles will become a law
within a short time but not during
the present parliament. He said this
in reply to questions put to him by a
deputation from a number of suffrage
societies. ‘‘But I want to say.” he add
ed, "that the militant tactics adopted
by a section of the women have con
verted many peoples indifference into
something like bitter hostility.”
* * *
George E. Hacknet. president of
the Braddock memorial park associa
tion, received a message from King
George of England, thanking the as
sociation for its courteous treatment
of the visiting English army officers
at the Braddock monument unveil
ing.
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The steamer Westkusten which left
Vasa, in the Gulf of Bothnia, in a gale,
ran on a reef and forty-four passen
gers were drowned. A single survivor
was picked up by the steamer Carl
von Linne.
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Violent earthquakes in Nicaragua
shook the cities of Managua, Masaya
and Granda. The alarmed population
deserted their homes for the public
squares and open spaces. One build
ing collapsed in Jalteva.
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The German empress attended the
formal opening of the International
Tuberculosis conference at Berlin.
Delegates from twenty-two nations
were present. Her majesty in accept
ing designation as a patroness of the
conference said she was "intensely
interested.
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Victoria Mary SackvlUe West,
daughter of Lord and Lady Sackville,
was married in London to Harold
Stanley Nicholson, son of Sir Arthur
Nicholson, undersecretary of state for
foreign affairs.
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Eight ringleaders of the cannibals
who recently murdered John Henry
Wernea, a German-American minerol
oglst, while he was at the head of an
expedition searching for radium in an
unexplored region of New Guinea,
have been arrested by a patrol, ac
,i cording to a dispatch from Papua.
HANDS OFF MEXICO
PRESIDENT WILSON WILL NOTI
FY FOREIGN POWERS.
TOOEFINE COUNTRY’S POLICY
Will Regard All Interference in Mexi
can Affairs as Unfriendly to
This Country.
Washington.—Tho United States
government is preparing to notify the
nations of the world generally that
any interference in Mexican affairs
will be regarded as unfriendly to this
government.
President Wilson, Secretary Bryan
and Counsellor John Bassett Moore ol
the State department have exchanged
ideas as to what the proclamation tc
the world should express. It will be
communicated to foreign governments
everywhere in line with the policy es
tablished earlier of keeping other na
tions informed of every step taken in
its handling of the Mexican problem.
The proclamation or note also will
serve, it is understood, as an explicit
definition of the policy of the United
States toward the de facto authorities
in Mexico, reiterating the principle
that recognition can only be given to
governments on this hemisphere
founded on law and order.
Matter in Abeyance.
It was expected that it would only
be a matter of a few hours when the
proclamation would be made public,
but later it was practically decided
to hold the matter in abeyance for
several days, at least until after the
elections in Mexico. Two things, it is
known, have contributed to’the deter
mination of the government to define
its policy—the presentation by Sir
Lionel Carden, the British minister to
Mexico, of his credentials immediate
ly after Huerta had proclaimed him
self dictator and the dispatch of sev
eral war vessels to Mexican waters.
The British embassy here, at the di
rection of the foreign office, officially
advised Secretary Bryan that the
British government pronounced as un
authentic the now famous interview
credited to Sir Lionel, expressing the
view that the United States did not
understand conditions in Mexico.
Strike Breakers Fired Upon.
Calumet, Mich.—The Duluth, South
Shore & Atlantic evening passenger
train, carrying strikebreakers for the
Calumet and Hecla mining compnies,
was fired on. supposedly by strikers,
about a mile from Hancock. Soldiers
and deputies on the train returned
the fire. No one on the train was
hurt. It is not known whether any
of the men who fired at the train
were hit. The train ran through a
scattering rifle fire for three-quarters
of a mile. Those in the train tore up
car seats and barricaded the windows.
Several hundred shots were ex
changed.
Confesses to Robbing Rockefeller.
New York.—Mrs. Evelyn P. Ruther
ford, a bride of a month, was arrested
on an indictment charging her with
cashing 100 $20 coupons on Southern
Pacific 4 per cent bonds belonging to
John D. Rockefeller. The young
woman before her marriage was em
ployed In the coupon department of
the Southern Pacific railway. She
is said to have confessed to having
spent $400 of the proceeds on her
trousseau and to have returned the
balance to the Southern Pacific com
pany.
Steals to See World’s Series.
Boston.—Back from New York,
after spending $1,000 in viewing the
world’s baseball series, speeding be
tween New York and Philadelphia in
a high powered automobile and dining
luxuriously, Edmund V. Lane of Rox
bury pleaded guilty In the municipal
court to the larceny of $4,818. Lane
is 20 years old. He was treasurer of
a co-operative association in a store
where he was employed as a clerk
and is alleged to have been stealing
from the funds of the association
Bince last July.
Escaped Reindictment.
August, Ga.—No re-indictment of
Thomas E. Watson, the Georgia edi
tor, and one-time presidential candi
date was contained in the report of
the federal grand jury.
To Study Labor Problems.
Washington.—The new federal in
dustrial commission empowered by
congress to inquire Into the economic
conditions in the United States held
its first meeting her4 and elected
Frank Welsh of Kansas City perman
ent chairman.
Fighting at Montency.
Mexico City, Mex.—Fighting is re
ported to be in progress in the ouV
skirts of Monterey. Rebels are said
to have made a dash and taken some
of the outlying positions.
Little Girl Bitten By a Hog.
Iowa City, la.—Attacked by an in- i
furiated hog, the mother of a dis- !
trubed litter in a barnyard, little Ver
na Schlichter, age 9, was biten from
head to foot in a score of places and
may die. The surgeons fear that blood
poisoning will ensue.
Killed During Riot.
Philadelphia.—In a battle between
striking garment workers and oper
atives who declined to Join their
ranks, Abe Kalpan, 19 years old, was
shot and killed.
Admits He is an Anarchist.
Oakland, Cal.—First naturalization
papers were denied to CCear Prego, a
cement worker, who came from Italy,
when he admitted that he was an an
archist. He declared he would rather
continue to be one than become a
citizen of the United States.
Another Earthquake Shock in Panama.
Panama.—After a lull of twelve
days another servers earthquake
shock occurred here. The populace
rushed from their houses to the open
hut no damage waa done.
BRIEF NEWS OF NEBRASKA.
S. Drake of Kearney lost $13,000 in
negotiable notes on Omaha streets.
Hastings has started in on a war
against clgarets-and the “makin's.”
Dr. T. E. Casterline, editor of the
Edgar Sun, is dead, after a lingering
illness.
Fremonters have organized a musi
cal art society with a membership of
over 100
John Metz of Seward had both bones
in his right arm broken by the kick
of a horse.
The annual convention of the Ne
braska Christian Endeavor union is in
session at York.
Superior is about to come into pos
session of one of the finest parks in
southern Nebraska.
Martin I. Aitkin, a leading citizen of
Lincoln, is dead at that place, after an
illness of over a year.
Gus Runhke of Macon was thrown
from a horse and dragged seventy-five
yards, killing him almost Instantly.
Henry Stroh was instantly killed in
the’ Union Pacific yards at Grand
Island when he was struck by a switch
engine.
N. W. Bacon fell while descending
the steps at the Congregational church
at Hastings, breaking his left leg near
the hip.
Benjamin Andrews, an Omaha man,
dropped dead on the street a block
from his home, stricken with heart
failure.
Ten sons and two daughters were
present at a recent reunion of the late
William Kaiser family in Saunders
county.
M. Shartzer, Thomas Dunne, Martin
Swanson and George Vanosdall were
injured in an automobile accident near
Greeley Center.
There is a fight on amongst the milk
dealers in Lincoln, and consumers
stand for a chance to reap some of the
benefits of the row.
Channel cat and croppies to the
amount of ten thousand have been
placed by the state fisheries in the
waters around Wahoo.
Mr. and Mrs. George F. Work of
Hastings celebrated their golden wed
ding last week. Many friends and
relatives were present.
An alleged practical joker with an
exaggerated sense of humor has been
victimizing Lincoln undertakers by
sending in "fake” calls from suburban
districts.
Mrs. J. L. MessiCK oi Hastings, wno
suffered ptomaine poisoning from ice
cream last summer, is dead at her
home, following a third stroke of
paralysis.
Winter wheat in Adams county is
said to have the rankest growth for
this season of'the year in history, and
many farmers are pasturing stock in
the fields.
Thirty-five steers in the herd of
Kent & Burt at Genoa were poisoned
to death by feeding on pig weed, in
which it is thought prussic acid had
developed.
The fourth annual German day cele
bration at Lincoln came to a close
Thursday afternoon with the ending of
the combined historical' pageant and
flower parade.
The Broken Bow Chief is advertis
ing for the owner of a quilt which the
recent cyclone left at the home of a
subscriber eight miles from the near
est point in its path.
Apple trees in the orchard of A. S.
Chapman at Surprise have borne two
crops-of fruit this season—the last
one, however, being prematurely cut
short by the frost..
Nebraska university gathers ijs stu
dents from over the entire world. The
iatest to arrive from the other side of
the globe is Indu Prakash Banerji, a
Hindu from the University of Cal
cutta.
A $7,000 fire developed when the
handle of a lantern broke as George
Hauptmann was about to enter his
silo near Plymouth. The burning oil
spattered over some alfalfa, 200 tons
of which were burned, together with
the barn and other buildings.
Mrs. H. A. Thompson of Kearney fell
down a flight of steps to the cellar
and received a number of cuts and
bruises which rendered her uncon
scious for some time.
“Billy," for five years firehorse at
engine house No. 1 at Lincoln, made
his last run to a fire Sunday afternoon
when he was instantly killed in a col
lision with a street car.
Victoria Renner, a 7-year-old Hast
ings girl, was rendered totally blind
for several hours as a result of tem
porary paralysis of the optic nerve
when she fell on a walk in the school
yard at that place.
Norfolk will get the next meeting of
the Nebraska Blacksmiths, Horse
shoers and Wheelwrights' association.
Charles Gellespie, an insane patient
from Nemaha, who was being taken to
the Lincoln asylum l)y Deputy Sheriff
Broady, jumped or fell from a Mis
souri Pacific train near Nebraska City
and was killed.
Impersonating a judge and sheriff of
Lancaster county, two men buncoed
Charles and Theodore Strelow, broth
ers and aged bachelor farmers, near
Lincoln, out of $230 on the pretext that
they were taking a cash bond for their
appearance In court.
The German-American alliance has
decided to make German day at Lin
coln a permanent annual affair.
Lincoln has gone into commercial
lighting, and is furnishing the com
modity to a number of patrons.
An effort upon the part of Hastings
grocers to secure an ordinance charg
ing truck peddlers $5 a day for solicit
ing in the residence district was unani
mously defeated by the council.
The epidemic of rabies among Om
aha’s dumb animal population, pro
nounced by City Veterinarian Hall
several weeks ago to be the worst in
hi3 experience in the city, is over.
The Lutheran convention which has
Just adjourned at Wahoo will meet
next year at Deshler.
A Lincoln woman who registered
for land at Broken Bow says that the
consideration shown ladies who de
sired to register was marked. They
were given place in line and aided in
registering in every way possible.
No horses in the state have been
found thus far to be affected with the
disease which ravaged several Ne
braska counties a year ago and which
wSis thought to have been caused by
mating second growth grass following
the early fall rains.
STATE'S RESOURCES
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LIVE STOCK AND LAND VALUES
OF NEBRASKA.
GOSSIP FROM STATE CAPITAL
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Items of Interest Gathered from Re
liable Sources and Presented in
Condensed Form to Our
Readers.
Hon. Charles W. Pool, deputy com
missioner of labor, has just issued
'Bulletin Xo. 27 of the Nebraska State
Bureau of Labor and Industrial Statis
tics." It is a concise and comprehen
sive volume containing information in
a condensed form regarding the state’s
various industries, its manufacturing
interests, live stock and crop produc
tion. Population and land values, and
a thorough epitome of county statis
tics, together with a well-written his
tory of Nebraska as a territory and a
state. Information regarding every
item has been gathered from thorough
ly reliable sources, and can be relied
upon as being authentic.
Amongst other important matter
found within its covers, the bulletin
contains the following data regarding
the state’s live stock assessment and
its gain in acreage and land values:
There are 920..081 horses in the
state valued at $73.30 on the average,
96,590 mules that are worth $90.90
apiece, 1.940,192 cattle with an aver
age value of $29.40, and 1,762,602 hogs
valued at $9.75, according to the
figures just totaled by the state assess
ment board, with the grand assess
ment roll for the present year as a
basis. All of the values are higher
than last year. There are 4,000 less
horses in the state, however, than
there were in 1912 and 5,000 more
mules. There are about 60,000 less
cattle than when the 1912 figures
were garnered in by assessors over the
state.
Although there was no real estate
revaluation for the present year,
values of this class of property show
an upward climb. Improved lands
that averaged $37.50 an acre in value
last year have leaped ahead to $46.70.
The average in the entire state in
creased in the year from 21,201,835 to
21.326,665 acres. Unimproved lands
fell off from an average acre valuation
of $9.15 to $8.30. The total value ol
all lands, both improved and unim
proved, increased from $1,246,345,22$
to $1,256,221,730, a gain of more than
$10,000,000 in the twelve months.
Studied Single Tax System.
Details of the operation of the modi
fied single tax system adopted by sev
eral Canadian provinces were pre
sented to the state tax commission by
Director A. E. Sheldon of the legisla
tive reference bureau. Mr. Sheldon
made a six weeks' investigation of the
system during the past summer and
familiarized himself with points which |
he was requested to detail to the tax
body upon his return. According tc
his statements to the commission
about three-fourths of the present
population of the four western pro
vinces has migrated there in the Iasi
ten years. ‘ Never before in the his
tory of the civilized world has so large
a population, with so many of the tools
for development and so large a credit
in the borrowing centers of the world
taken up such a large area of fertile
land in so brief a time. The product
of these factors has been an extra
ordinary development of land specu
lation.” he said.
The Oats Crop.
For 1913 the acreage devoted to oats
in Nebraska aggregates 2,019,096, ac
cording to the estimates of the state
board of agriculture. The production
is 52.222,066 bushels and the cash
value of the crop for the year amounts
to $17,233,281.78. The estimated pay
roll of the Nebraska manufacturers
last year was $15,622,204. Thus the
Nebraska oat crop for this year would
meet a year's payroll with almost two
million dollars to spare.
, The university Y. M. C. A. has
started Its annual campaign for funds.
Three thousand five hundred dollars
is the amount of money needed. It is
hoped to raise $1,500 of this amount
from the student body, $500 from the
faculty, $1,000 from the citizens of
Lincoln, and $500 from alumni.
Government Serum Station.
The government serum station, lo
cated at the state university farm, will
turn out a million cubic centimeters of
hog cholera serum this month and will
to some extent catch up with the de
mand which has been very heavy in
Nebraska this summer and fall. The
government keeps a drove of hogs at
the station for the manufacture of
serum and for bleeding purposes
This serum is sold to the farmers at
the cost of 1 cent per cubic centi
meter, which is just what is costs th<
government to make it.
Many Hotels Are Inspected.
Nine hundred and fifteen hotels res
taurants, rooming houses and apart
ments have been inspected by thf
state hotel commission since that body
came into new powers. Total col
lections for the first six months of the
department's existence were $2,974,
according to a report handed out by
Commissioner Ackerman. Salary of
the commissioner in that time has
amounted to $752, and his traveling ex
penses totaled $106. Deputy inspec
tors drew $511 in salary and $502 in
traveling expenses.
Rural Credits Will Get Attention.
Rural credits and a more efficient
system of farm marketing will receive
the especial attention of the federal
agricultural experts durifig the com
ing year. Advices concerning this de
cision has reached the state board of
agriculture. T. A. Hunter, secretary
of the National Economic Research
society, announces that a careful
study of these subjects Is now in pro
gress. It is announced that they are
considered two of the most important
rural questions of the present time.
TREES GO WITH GOOD ROADS
Washington School Teacher Contrib
utes Striking Appeal In Federal
Bulletin—Of Much Aid.
—
Good roads and their relation to
the welfare of humanity, and the re
lation of trees to good roads, are the
subjects with which Miss Susan B.
Sipe, a teacher in the James Ormond
Wilson Normal school and at the
head of the school garden work, deals
In a pamphlet just issued by the Uni
ted States bureau of education. The
bulletin is entitled "Good Road Arbor
Day” and advocates the planting of
trees in connection with good roads.
Miss Sipe points out that often
trees are disliked along the sides of
bad roads because they prevent the
mud from drying quickly after a rain.
This forms no objection when the
roads are good, however, it is point
ed out
Reasons for planting trees by the
roadside are given by Miss Sipe:
“One has only to pass from the
glare of the dust and heat of the long
stretch of unshaded road on a hot sum
mer day to the relief afforded by trees
to know the value of roadside plant
ing. This same physical comfort
comes to horses as well as to man.
“The effect of trees on the road it
self is seldom thought of, except to
■thf disadvantage of the trees. ‘They
keep the roads from drying out after
wet weather,' is the usual charge. On
a poorly built road this Is true. They
are an aid on a well built one, if not
planted too close. Roots constantly
taking in water assist in drainage.
That which is a protection from the
sun is also a shelter from rain. The
tree tops break the force of driving
rains, thus preventing washes in the
road. This more than counterbalances
the occasional drip marks that are
seen.
“The most Important use of trees
by the roadside is the prevention of
dust. Dust is the cementing material
in macadam roads, and if it is loosened
and blown away, the road suffers.
Properly planted, they form wind
breaks and prevent snowdrifts. They
make the road cooler by day and
warmer by night and serve at night
to mark the road.”
Dr. Philander P. (’laxton, United
States commissioner of education, has
the following to say by way of intro
duction to the book in his letter of
transmittal:
"One of the greatest needs of our
country is good public roads. The
reason we do not have them wherever
needed is not primarily because of the
cost of building them, for in the last
quarter of a century we have spent
more money for other things than
would be required to pay for the
building of good roads to and through
every place having any considerable
population. Our annual mud tax is
greater than would be the tax neces
sary to pay the interest on bonds to
build good roads.
“The roads are not built because
the people do not understand their
value nor comprehend how much
beauty they would contribute to the
country and how much pleasure to
life. It is largely a matter of senti
ment and ideals. These are most eas
ily created in childhood . What one
would have in the state of tomorrow
must be put into the schools of today.
Not only should we build good roads,
we should also make them attractive
and comfortable to travel over. In
many European countries this is done
by planting the roadside with rows
of trees.
“On some of the broader and more
important public highways there are
double rows of trees on either side.
The eye follows the road across coun
try not as a broad white band, with
heat shimmering above it or dust
hovering over it, but by rows of state
ly trees covered with foliage in the
summer, their bare branches sil
houetted against the sky in winter.
On many of the roads fruit trees are
planted. These add to the fruit sup
ply of the people and to the resources
of the state for the upkeep of the
roads. This tree planting by the road
clde has not yet become common in
this country, as it should.”
EARTH ROADS MOST POPULAR
Doubtless Will Be Commonly Used In
Rural Districts Because of Their
First Low Cost.
(By H. R. FLINT. University Farm. St.
Paul. Minn.)
The earth road will doubtless be
commonly used in rural communities
for many years because of Its low
first cost. The ever-recurring prob
lem of upkeep on such a road can be
solved very largely by the use of the
so-called split-log drag.
Anyone who can use tools reason
ably well can build one of these drags
at a cost of four to five dollars for la
bor and material. Very few tools are
required in making the drag, and its
use is as simple and cheap as its con
struction. If desired, metal drags can
be purchased at ~a somewhat greater
cost from manufacturers of road ma
chinery.
Careful use of the drag on a road
that is already In reasonably good
condition will almost entirely prevent
trouble from ruts, mud holes or dust,
and give good service at a reasonably
low cost.
Improving Dairy Cow.
Regular, careful, quiet milking will
permanently improve an animal as a
milk producer and will increase her
flow.
Money Out of Pork.
The great secret in making money
out of pork is to raise the pigs rapidly,
and keep them growing.
Lessen Ugly Horses.
If there were fewer whips in the
world there would be fewer ugly
horses.
CHILDREN LOVE
SVDDPJF FIGS
It is cruel to force nauseating,
harsh physic into a
sick child.
Look back at your childhood days.
Remember the “dose” mother insisted
on—castor oil, calomel, cathartics.
How you hated them, how you fought
against taking them.
With our children it’s different.
Mothers who cling to the old form of
physic simply don’t realize what they
do. The children’s revolt is well-found
ed. Their tender little "insides” are
injured by them.
If your child’s stomach, liver and
bowels need cleansing, give only deli
cious “California Syrup of Figs.” Its
action is positive, but gentle. Millions
of mothers keep this harmless “fruit
laxative” handy; they know children
love to take it; that it never fails to
clean the liver and bowels and sweet
en the stomach, and that a teaspoonful
given today saves a sick child tomor
row.
Ask at the store for a 50-cent bottle
of “California Syrup of Figs,” which
has full directions for babies, children
of all ages and for grown-ups plainly
on each bottle. Adv.
Nothing to Retail.
De Garry—Won't you give me a
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Madge—Or, pshaw! I like a man
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Judge.
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You feel different as soon as “Pape’s
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store. You realize in five minutes how
needless it is to suffer from indiges
tion, dyspepsia or bad stomach. Adv.
An Advantage.
“The aviator has one advantage over
the chauffeur.”
“What is that?”
“He has no pedestrians in his way."
DOCTORS DID
NOT HELP HER
But Lydia E. Pinkham’s Veg
etable Compound Restored
Mrs. LeClear’s Health—
Her Own Statement.
Detroit, Mich. — “I am glad to dis
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my suffering and
pains. For two years
I suffered bearing
down pains and got
all run down. I was
under a nervous
strain and could not
sleep at night I
went to doctors here
in the city but they
did not do me any
good.
“SeeingLydia E.
Pmkhams Vegetable Compound adver
tised, I tried it. My health improved
wonderfully and I am now quite well
again. No woman suffering from fe
male ills will regret it if she takes this
medicine.”—Mrs. JXmes G. LeClear.
836 Hunt St, Detroit, Mich.
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flammation. I went to him for a while but
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have two little girls. I have had no re
turn of the old troubles. "—Mrs. Chas.
Boell, 2650 S. Chadwick St, Phila.,Pa.
Don’t Persecute
Your Bowels
Cut out cathartics and purgatives. They aie
brutal, harsh, unnecessary.
CARTER’S LITTLE
LIVER PILLS
Purely vegetable. Act,
gently on the liver,
eliminate bile, and J
soothe the delicate^
membrane of th^
bowel. Care^'
Constipation,
Biliousness,
Sick Head- . _
ache and Indigestion, as millions know.
SMALL PILL, SMALL DOSE, SMALL PRICE.
Genuine must bear Signature
JOHNL.THOMPSON SONS* CO.,Troy,N.Y.