FOR IRE H MU
NEWS EPITOME THAT CAN SOON
BE COMPASSED.
MANY EYENIS ME MENTIONED
Ho-**e ana Foreign Intelligence Con
densed Into Two and Four
L «e Paragraphs,
WASHINGTON
It baa leva asauuiicH that the ap
t -.*• m« of *he t ViiifTmiuun! I' a ion
for Woeus Suffrage tor* affiliation
• itS Urn National American Suffrage
AAOur atom had been reje cted
e • e
ciu.rtaa* leaver of the house com
r.itob agriculture baa completed
awl a ill report to the house the an
seal apt a Itarai appropriation bill, j
It agg regale* SIS>47>dS
. . e 9
Howe aaodwH* to the bill for a
I -e federal riimlgn to Bcht hog
cholera aad doctrine a home disease,
•e-e accepted by the cew.tr The j
hill t ie goe* to Provident \Vii»ou for •
mg; atom.
The thirteenth of Secretary Bryan'• I
peace ’rvaties. that with the Dotului- ,
at republic. haa been signed The
t»o nation* agreed to auho.it for in- j
•eat .«ation fee at inaat one year all
*«►»: n# mbirb eaanoi be *e'ti«*d by !
diploma? kr tuna da
(ou • -■ <*ial cfflrieocy is oo the
• ate- and the ahole »yatetn of do
lus the people* bur w-sa ia breaking
do* a under the constantly growing
Oct—-ads ua it. Sana tor Boot mimed i
the senate <* an arraignment of the
reach* of he committee system
Op;- .t oo to the Omen bill to :eg
plate stork eK harge* took the form !
ff a a»oi eiuent to drop the measure !
At s a.— i «. of the *--nat« banking
(oaaBiit'ee plana for ita future nrtll be j
diM-u-sed It la not as adminiatr* |
tum bill and President Wilton Uar ;
refrained from nd .eating bis (ten
tlllo Um> M'tifM b»::d.t, mho {
• r*« k-<J tho Cumin• tunnel mod un»
•d lb* draw of t+termi Vmericans. :
tzf fu'ilshd tb* latest knot m the 1
Mnieu tacgla aith hi* capture by j
I e 'HI Sub* trooper* is Sen Xeil
«o itflcmb of Itrer departments of
tbr aoteramen: nr* searching ar
etlor precedents to determine '
* tan: lb; abaft do with him
. . .
Ik>r.ti$i bate b«u before Com- 1
b.MMOtr XsCfcord on appireatioa tf j
tb* Penns; ivasia railroad and the !
Kor'ber* Central ml! »a> to Ibe in j
coemrre commission for re- I
fee! fro* tb* operat m <4 that pro- ■
»i* turn of tb* Piua* canal net mhlch I
re-. ..rem btenuu wirmdf U> dive«t
ttemte!)** of esrEertftip or control
of Ke»n>*!iip and otter mater Jun be
tor* Joly i. l»lt
DOMESTIC.
^bo Palermo® a.Ik strike, which
b ed lour iiioalb». tost the luanuiac j
turer- SJO.r-■ .090 and tbo murker* $f.. '
IMM*%. I
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Mrs. Ciertr jd* A. Lee. mho mas re- |
email' named chair man of the Demo- ;
entie Si*-* cumin, urn* of Colorado,
aa;» 'bat abe U a ' machine poiiti- ■
tsat B> this she aays she due* not
mess a corrupt body, out an organ- ]
tranwn pure m pnoripi* and certain j
In purpose..
A bloc, j Petra**-* refused to testily
r tb* .nqoeat into tb* murder of
Theresa Hollander, formerly bis Mali
m mbo mas beaten to death with a
piece of s antlmc in a cemete y near
her bom* in Aurora. 111. Pet rase* is
under arrest is connection a .tb the
crime.
Th»- N»» \ <-ri Chamber of Com
■trn* ha* u ^ a nwHutno deciar
iu the Sherman ant:-trust is* as
ftnai.y nterprn-d and elucidated by
ft* (shed Stal»- supreme court “it
proving mure satiafnctory and more
rfertrre" that the propo**-d new leg
ooa pending ia congress
C*Wi Bower*. rrpub.itaa »ongrca*
Biu from Kentucky. told tile Boston
City Ink that U»e uaiy »ay to pre
tent another democratic adtn.ni.-ar*
Uuc >u to "hate the republicans
aos. u> Ri«e>eli for the presf
•nrr He predicted that the demo
crats mould he Tittoriova in the next
ructrwKeal election*, hut there
«<oM he republican gaiai.
The case* of four officers and ©m
ployes of the Western Fuel company,
on trial at San Francisco for alleged
fraud* against the government in ob
taining customs rebates, have cone to
the Jwt.
Shipper* of sand and gravel pre
sented taeir evidence to the inter
state . ommerce commission against,
the a per cent increase rater asked by
the Carters railroad They told the
cvmtcusstss the rate increases would
mean serious loss to the sand and
gravel men
With a glass of champagne almost
1 hi* .ip* W I lata Jennings Bryan
«M prevented from Cringing the wine
a Vi York by the quick action of
L * wife, who handed him a glass of
hater instead.
A tax of I per cent per ton on all
col mined by tk. principal operators
fa Colorado at ace the strike began
be- Sept© ‘iher has beea u*ed to pay
ghe expenses of guarding the miner,
mrurtcng to the testimony in Denver
gyf ( U Baum before the bouse in
**»•> iia'bto co*®iit*v
ns 'he beginning of the fiscal year
•here wore C.i"i rural free delivery
root** in opemttof- served by sub
Slant;a - iv tbs asms number of car
atth aanusi saiansd aggregat
ing trtJTT.ut- - »
New York state has 1,236,150 per
sons employed in factories.
• • • •
At least 225,000 women and girls
work in manufacturing establish
roents in Pennsylvania.
• • •
A resolution announcing opposition
to amalgamation w itb any other party
was adopted at a conference of pro
gressive leaders from all parts of
Wyoming at Casper ,
• • •
There are said to be nut three
states in the union where women
may no* practice law. Virginia, Arkan
sas and Georgia. Women have pass
ed the examinations for the bar in
Georgia, but have not been allowed
to practice
• ■ •
The women's eight-hour law in Den
ver has been made very sweeping in
its application and now includes
bookkeepers, stenographers and cash
:«‘rs. who are employed in mercantile,
mechanical and manufacturing es
tablishim ns
• • •
A motion to quash indictments re
turned last November against eight
officials and agents of the Florida
Fru...t 1-aids company, charging them
with misuse of the mails, was denied ;
in the Kansas City federal court by
Judge A. S Van Valkenburgh.
At a mass meeting held under the
ausp i • > of the Federation of Rouma
nian Jews of America at New York,
resolut.ons against the passing by
the Fnited States senate of the Bur
nett immigration bill, now before that
body, in jts present form.
• • •
The famous armour collection of
\\ Siam Henry K.ggs. consisting of 2,
'• pieces and said to be the finest
n the world, ha- been given outright
to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
according to announcement by the
museum director in New York.
A strike of 2S,(MK* longshoremen,
was ordered by the Greater New York
council of the International Long
shoremens union after a meeting be
•we»n officers of that organization and
rt-pre*-* ntatives of the slate board of
mediation and arbitration in Hoboken
Bichloride of mercury can be sold
a’ re-ail in New York after March 1
onl> upon prrscriptoin of physician,
it has been decided by the Board of
Health. As an additional precaution,
the tablets must have the word "po
sion stamped upon them and must
be kept in containers labeled “poi
foa "
• • •
I-awyers who appear before legisla
tures and other public bodies ostensi
bly as advocates of the people, while
in reality carrying fees in their
pockets as the secret agents of some
corporation or other interested party,
were criticised by Prof. William H.
Taft in a lecture before the students
of Boston t'niversity I .aw school.
• • •
The lower house of the Mississippi
legislature at Jackson adopted a reso
lution congratulating Cnited States
Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma
upon his happy deliverance from the
snares of political enemies and the
triumphant vindication of his spotless
name." Senator Gore is a native ol
Mississippi and was at one time page
in the irfeer house of the legislature
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• • •
Charges that business agents of
the Electrical Workers’ union and the
Glaziers' union had extorted t hen
-sands of dollars from Chicago real es
tate men were made in a statement
in a statement by Maclay Hoyne
state's attorney. The state's attor
ney said that the union agents had ap
proached owners of buildings being
constructed and demanded money be
fore work would continue. On seme
occasions, he said, the owners were
told that the men at work did not be
long to the regular union and in othet
incidents threats were made to tear
out parts of the work unless money
was paid A score or more ot builders
were victims, it is alleged.
FOREIGN.
Tania Lave Madagascar, is to have
a port at a cost of $3,000.00. to b«
constructed by Frenchmen only.
• • *
With a population only two-thirds
as great as the United' States. Ger
man) has 1.000.00 more labor unian
members.
• • •
In Japan girls in spinning factories
work on an average thirteen to four
teen hours, and those in weaving fac
tories "ourteen to sixteen hours.
• • •
A bill for the enfranchisement of
women in the Union of South Africa,
which was introduced into the house
of assembly, was defeated on the first
reading by forty-three to forty-two.
• • •
Perth. Scotland, where golf is now
a municipal institution, is the city
where the first act was passed in 1424
by James 1 forbidding the playing of
"golfe. futehall or other Elk unprofit
able sport es.”
• • •
The diamond industry of the Nether
lands and in Belgium is in a serious
situation, there being over 5.004 dia
mond workers out of work in Amster
dam. while the situation is said to
be as bad or worse in Antwerp.
» • •
A dispatch from St. Petersburg,
says the hoy Taranthevitch. son of a
law court official at Zhitomir. Russia,
who was alleged to have been the vic
tim of a "ritual murder' at Fastoff,
was seen at Zhitomir on February' 10,
according to the report of the police
of that town.
* * •
The influx of foreign labor into Den
mark shows an increase from year to
year.. During the last summer there
were 12.632 foreigners engaged in
manual labor in this kingdom, 2,675
men'and S.957 women.
• • •
By a considerable majority the
German imperial parliament adopted
an appropriation of $50,000 for ^he
Olympic games to he held here in
15*16. The appropriation was reject
ed by the budget committee on Janu
ary 15. hut upon a reconsideration all
i but a few voted for the appropriation.
AMENDMENTS LOST
SENATE BACKS UP WILSON’S
FOREIGN POLICY.
MAY NOW CONCLUDE TREATIES
Believed Way* is Cleared for Renewal
of Arbitration Agreements With
Other Nations.
Washington, D. C.—By defeating
amendments to general arbitration
treaties pending renewal with. Great
Britain. Japan and six other nations,
the senateAook the first decisive step
in the policy of the administration to
lift the United States from what of
ficials have characterized as its "iso
lated position” in foreign relations.
The supreme test of strength in
the treaty controversy came on an
amendment to the Spanish treaty
urged by Senator Chamberlain of
Oregon, which would withhold from
arbitration such important interna
tional issues as immigration, the
question of admitting aliens to domes
tic schools, affairs involving the Mon
roe doctrine and the provision of the
Panama canal act exempting Ameri
can coastwise shipping from tolls.
This amendment was rejected by a
vote cf 13 to 40, more than two-thirds
majority.
This result is regarded by admin
istration leaders as marking the end
of the controversy over the govern
ment's foreign policy and assuring
the ratification of the treaties which
expired more than a year ago with ■
Great Britain. Japan. Italy, Spain, ;
Norway, Sweden, Portugal and Swit- !
terland.
Indian Fund Cut $2,000,000.
Washington. D. C.—The annual In
dian appropriation bill, carrying
$9,619,737. a reduction of $2,165,127
from tiie bureau estimates, passed
the house. Representative Harrison
of Mississippi succeeded in having
eliminated a provision for a per cap
ita payment of $100 to the enrolled
members of the Choctaw and Chicki
saw Indians of the five civilized
tribes entitled to share in the tribal
funds held in the treasury depart
ment for them. The house had re
fused to make the provision apply
to the Mississippi Choctaws. The
bill now goes to the senate.
Officials Guilty of Bribery.
St. Paul, Minn.—Martin Flanagan,
former chief of police, and Fred Tur
ner, former chief of police, and Fred
Turner for city detective, who were
tried jointly on an indictment charg- j
Ing bribery, were found guilty. Coun- ’
sel for the defendants announced !
that the case would be appealed. The
indictment charged the acceptance of
$3,000 from a woman whose resort
was to be given police protection.
Flanagan and Turner recently were
tried on a similar indictment, but
were acquitted.
Felix Diaz at New York.
New York.—General Felix Diaz,
one of the heads of the revolt, in
which the government presided over
by Francisco I. Madero was over
thrown. but who recently was forced
to flee from Mexico, reached here
from Havana. The vessel arrived at
quarantine at too late an hour to ad
mit of its being passed by the health
officers. General Diaz is a nephew of ,
former President Proflrio Diaz.
Had Hundred Descendants.
Waukegan, 111.—Mrs. EHen Jen
sinson, 105 years old, died at Uei
home here of old age. She was bom
in Ireland and came to this country
sinty-one years ago and settled in
Waukegan. She was the mother of
seven children, had forty-four grand
children. fifty great-grandchildren
and four great-great-grandchildren.
Big Gift for Missionary Work.
New York.—The board of foreign
missions of the Methodist Episcopal :
church announced that it had reoeiv
ed a gift of $175,000 from a donor •
whose name is withheld. The money. !
the largest single gift ever made to ,
the board, is to form a permanent
endowment fund for mission work.
School Bonds Defeated.
Loup City, Neb.—At the school
election the- proposition to bond thte
school district for $2,500 to build
east and west wings on the present
high school building, was defeated by
thirty-one votes, the returns showing
205 for and 118 against.
Pastor Charged With Arson.
Detroit, Mich.—The Rev. J. A. Cot i
tam, pastor of a church at Dearborn,
a suburb, has been arrested on a war
rant charging arson. It is alleged
that he burned his parsonage.
Canal Ready in the Fall.
Washington.—President Wilson ex
pects ships to be passing through the
Panama canal this coming fall and be
fore the forma! opening in January.
He let it be known for that reason he
was confident congress would appeal
the exemption clause.
Underwood Receives Appointment.
Washington, D. C.—E. Marvin Fn
derwood of Atlanta has been nomi
nated by President Wilson for assist
ant attorney general in place of Win
fred T. Dennison.
First Giant Squad.
New York.—The first squad of New
York National league club players j
have left for Marlin, Tex., where the
Giant's training camp is located.
Oatch-Larry McLean was the only '
regular in the party. Additional mem
bers of the team will arrive later.
Walton Is Acquitted.
Hartingion, Neb—H. E. \£alto» of
Wynot. Neb., accused of killing JTbhn
McFadden in a Wynot saloon last
summer, has been acquitted of the
i charge of manslaughter.
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BRIEF NEWS OF NEBRASKA
Diphtheria at Wymore is gradually
subsiding.
The Tecumseh Commercial club is
to be be reorganized.
A farmers’ society of equity has
been organized at Western.
Weeping Water will pave several
blocks of its business streets this
spring.
Mayor Mayer advocates Installation
of electroliers in the residence district
of Beatrice.
Laurel Freeman, near Elk Creek,
cut off his thumb while engaged in
cutting wood.
The Burlington’s commissary de
partment has been moved from Lin
coln to Kansas City.
John Knoell. former county treas
urer at Fremont, has been appointed
deputy county assessor.
Forty-nine merchants have reserved
space in the midwinter industrial
show room at Fremont.
L. G. Riser, near Ravenna, was seri
ously injured by the sudden fall of a
tree which he was cutting down.
J. A. Gillan, who has been nine
times sheriff of Seward county, has
entered the race for county treasurer.
The Cfrd Commercial club enter
tained the numbers of the Nebraska
Fire Prevention association at a lunch j
eon.
February 15 was observed as Men's j
Sunday in Albion. Special meetings
were held in the churches of the
town.
The first concert of the Fremont |
Musical Art society was given the
First Presbyterian church Monday
evening.
Farmers in session at Belvidere or
ganized a local union of the farmers
society of equity, with thirty chartet
members. ^
Leo Brocktrop of David City got his
hand caught in the gearing of a corn
shelter and will lose his thumb and
two fingers.
The schools in the village of Lush
ton, in the southwest part of York
county, have been closed on account
of smallpox.
Arch Colhapp. a Tecumseh carpen
ter. fell from a fourteen foot scaffold,
but escaped with a few more or less
painful bruises.
The thirty-eighth annual encamp
ment of Nebraska Grand Army of the
Republic will be held at Grand Island.
May 13. 14 and 15.
The Peoples State bank or Anseimo
is a new commercial institution just
organized by business men and farm
ers of that vicinity.
Ice dealers at Fairbury have been
unable to fill their storehouses. An
artificial ice plant is depended on to
relieve the shortage.
The woman'# club at Madison en
tertained their husbands at a three
course dinner at which seventy-five
guests were present.
Frank Morrissey of Dawes county, a
student at the state university, has
received an appointment to the naval
academy at Annapolis.
The farmers' union at Snyder has
formed a stock company, capitalized
at $40,000, to take over the Snyder
Mills and El?vator company.
The Rev. Snowdan, pastor of the
Methodist church at Harrison, has re
signed and accepted a charge with
the Episcopal church at Crawford.
An epidemic of the dreaded ‘‘corn
stalk" disease has broken out among
horses around Stella, several farmers
having lost valuable horses from this
sickness.
J. L. Waterman of Bethany hssbeen
elected to fill the vacancy caused by
the recent resignation of Miss Mira
Davison as assistant principal of the
Shubert schools.
Kearney will be the only Nebraska
city outside of Omaha to be visited by
the Merchants’ and Manufacturers'
association of Milwaukee on their an
nual western trip.
Mrs. George Knapp, sister of Mrs
T H. Tibbies of Omaha, was fatally
wounded by the accidental discharge
of a shotgun in the hands of her hus
band, on their farm near Fte, Monona
county, Iowa.
Ed Adams, engineer at the Edgar
electric light plant, was found critic
ally ill at the plant, unable to summon
assistance, and no hopes are held out
for his recovery.
.Mrs. taa wortcmgton. wno was
badly burned several weeks ago by the
explosion of a coal oil lamp, died as a
result of her Injuries at her honv^ in
Lincoln Thursday.
Judge E. M. Stenberg. Swedish con
sul in Omaha for twenty-five years
former justice of the peace, police
judge and county commissioner, and
a pioneer resident of the sitv is dead
at his home in Benson.
Myrtle, the infant daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Richardson, died at DeWitt
from burns received when she fell
into a pail of boiling water that had
been left on the kitchen floor.
Mrs. Elizabeth Van Dorn, a pioneer
of Stromsburg. is dead, leaving sev
enty-five direct descendants. She had
twenty-nine grandchildren, all living,
and two great-great-grandchildren.
Sixteen hundred people attended
the first home-coming festival of the
Christian churches of Lincoln. Have
lock and Bethany at the city audi
torium at Lincoln. Six churches were
represented.
A range at the home of George
Teten at Nebraska City exploded, de
molishiag it and blowing a portion of
It through th? wall of the kitchen.
Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Snyder, who '
have lived at Kearney for twenty-nine
years, celebn-ted their golden wed
ding anniversary last week. Four chil
dren and fifteen grandchildren were
present.
Entirely denuded, except for a cor- |
set. by fire that caught in her clothing,
Mrs. Margaret Adams, the wife of Dr.
Arthur D. Adams of Florence, re-,
ceived burns that probably will cause
her death.
Ice twelve inches thick is being
harvested a; West Point. A full force
of men and teams are at work.
The town of Hooper is in darkness
owing to the breakdown of the light
ing plant. The plant is soon to be
sold under a mortgage, so repairs may 1
not be made at present.
The volunteer fire department of
Kearney gave a benefit ball on Lin
coln's birthday, the proceeds going to
the W. C. T. C. hospital. This hos
pital has been kept up by local aid
for the past fifteen years, and each
year the firemen have given a ball for
the benefit of the institution.
LAWS GOVERNING
AGRICULTURAL SEEU
INCREASE IN APPRAISEMENTS OF
SCHOOL LANDS.
GOSSIP FROM STATE CAPITAL
Items of Interest Gathered from R*
liable Sources and Presented in
Condensed Form to Our
Readers.
Western Newspaper Union News Servica.
The pure food commission has just
issued Bulletin No. 113. regarding the
pure seed law. which covers the sale
of agricultural seeds, among which
are alfalfa, barley, blue grass, brome
grass, clovers, corn (sweet and field),
flax, millet, oats, rye. sorghum, timo
thy and wheat.
Every parcel, package or lot of agricul
tural seeds containing one pound or more,
offered or exposed for sale in the state
of Nebraska for use within this state,
shall have affixed thereto in a conspicu
ous place on the outside thereof, dis
tinctly print'd in the English language in
legible type, not smaller than eight point}
heavy Gothic cape, or plainly written, a
statement as follows:
The name of the seed.
The name and address of tlse seeds
man.
Statement of purity if below standard
fixed by law.
Marked standard if so or above.
Place where grown.
All agricultural seeds must be true to
the name under which they are sold.
Seeds containing noxious weed seeds
such as dodder quack grass, wild mus
tard. Canadian thistle, wild oats, corn
cockle, cannot be sold or offered for sale
In this state. Certain other weed s«*eds
shall be considered as impurities in agri
eultural seeds if present to the extent of
more than _ per.pent, but s ich seeds can
I*- sold if labeled wo show the percentage
of such seeds present. Sand. dirt, chaff
broken seeds and seeds not capable ot
germination are also considered impuri
ties. Seeds below standard, except irf
the case of noxious weed seeds, can be'
sold if labeled to show the pereenUtge of
impurities and germination.
The law fixes a fee of 50 cents foi
making the analysis of seeds submitted
to this department.
The penalty for the violation of the
pure seed law of Nebraska is fixed in the
law The enforcement of this law is in
the hands of the food commission and
the department is now fully **qulpped to
liar.dle such seeds as are submitted for
analysis.
Address all samples of seed for
analysis and requests for copies of the
law to Clarence E. Hprman. Deputy
Commissioner. Nebraska Food. Drug.
Dairy and Oil Commission, Lincoln.
Nebr.
Leases Much School Land.
School land leases covering several
thousand acres in Caster. Sherman
Dawson. Lincoln and Howard coun
ties have been authorized by the board
of educational lands and funds, at
valuations exceeding the original ajv
praisements in the aggregate by $3,000
The Custer county lands were re
viewed by State Treasurer George, and
those in the other four counties by
Land Commissioner Beckman. In How
ard county, one tract was increased
in its appraisement from $20 to $40 an
acre, and another from $27.50 to $45
A piece of thirty-six acres in extent,
in Dawson county, was boosted from
$17 to $26. These were the only radi
cal increases. One tract In Lincoln
county was reduced from $15, the val
uation found by the county appraisers
to $13. The remainder were listed at
from $7. the minimum allowed by law
up to $21. In most cases there was
a raise of $1 to $2 per acre over the
values found by the county appraisers
Soil Fissures Threaten Crop*.
Surface cracking of the *heat land
soils in different parts of Jhe state
threatens injury to the crops in some
sections through the loss of soil mois
ture. Where possible, it is advised
by the state college of agriculture that
the surface of fine sandy loam soils be
rolled. If it is firm, harrowing may be
preferable. On the silt loams and
loam soils the state experiment sta
tion has found it usually better to roll
Harrowing, although effective, is like
ly to be destructive to the growing
crops. Farmers wishing additional in
formation on the subject may- obtajn
it by writing to the bulletin depart
ment at the University Farm. Lincoln
for press bulletin No. 30, entitltd.
“Rolling Winter Wheat.”
Services of an additional regular
army instructor have been secured by
the Nebraska national guard, accord
ing to word received by General HaJJ
from the war department. He will be
detailed to work with various com
panies for indefinite periods. The-offi
cer will be subject to orders from the
state guard headquarters.
The athletic managers of Nebraska
and Kansas universities have entered
into agreements providing for football
games and track meets between teams I
representing the two institutions for
the next two years. The 1914 football j
game is to be played at Lincoln. No
vember 14. and the track meet for this
year will be at I-awrence on a date yet
to be decided upon. There had been
reports that athletic relations be
tween the two institutions were to be
suspended. Emphatic denial was
made at Nebraska university that any
such action w as ever contemplated.
Impure Butter an Extravagance
The extravagance of producing
cream and butter under unsanitary j
conditions is one of the things that is
being emphasixed at the second an
nttal short course of the creamery j
butter makers in session at the state
college of agriculture. Special empha
sis is given in training men in prac
tical work as station operators, fac
tory men and butter makers. Owing
to its practical nature a representa
tive number of the dairy and creamery
men of the state are in attendance.
The coming of cool weather will aid
the fruit grower, declared Secretary
J. R. Duncan of the State Horticultu
ral society. The fruit men have no
relish for a warm March. Such a
month is likely to be followed by
frost in April or May.. Peach or-j
ehards are reported in excellent con- 1
dition.
Ceorge S. Clair, the convict who i
disliked to obey prison rules on
church attendance, has taken it all
back, and has notified Warden Fenton
that hereafter he'll be good and a j
regular attendant at chapel.
GUN THAT SENDS “LIFE ROPE"
One of the Latest Appliances Adder1
to Equipment of Modern Fire
Department.
New York.—This is the “life rope
pun." one of the latest appliances
added to the equipment of the modern
up-to-the-minute fire department. It
is to be used as the last resort at fires
in tall loft buildings or skyscrapers,
which cannot be reached by the ordi
nary ladders carried by the fire de
partments or when the firemen are
prevented from snatching their quarry
from burning buildings. The gun is
Life Rope Gun.
an ordinary one. whose barrel is cut
off almost at the stock. To this is
fitted the "bullet.” This is a tube
to which is attached a thin but very
strong line. A cap is used in the fir
ing of the gun which goes off like any
ordinary gun. Picture to yourself a
fire in a factory where many of the
employes are cut off from every ave
nue of exit. Picture them standing at
the windows frantically calling for
help while the firemen below stand
helpless because their ladders were
not long enough to reach the endan
gered people. Under th'ese condi
tions. it requires a mighty cool head,
a clear eye. and a steady hand to
reach the folks standing at the win
dows at any moment in danger of
falling into the roaring furnace as the
fire is gaining headway Robert
Adamson, the new fire commissioner
of New York city, has found that his
department is just full of men with
all these requirements, so he feels
that when the order is given to bring
out the life rope gun. the fire hedged
in victims will be rescued, for all the
men are experts in the use of the
gun. When the gun is fired, the "bul
let” goes speeding on its way. carry
ing the string with it. The endan
gered ones find after drawing it up
that a heavy cord is attached thereto.
This life rope is fastened to any con- j
venient place, and then the endanger
ed ones come sliding down the rope
to safety.
OLD PAVING FOUND IN PARIS
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Relic of Philippe Auguste Dating
From Twelfth Century Dug Up
in French Metropolis.
Paris.—Examples of the paving of
Philippe Auguste, king of France, to
ward the end of the twelfth century,
have been brought to light by excava
tions in Rue Saint Jacques, close to j
the Sorbonne. In 1185 the king com
plained of the unpleasant and muddy |
approaches to his palace near N'otre j
Dame, and ordered that all streets
should be paved at the expense of j
the residents. In compliance with his |
order heavy slabs of stone, th^ee and !
one-half feet square and six inches
thick were laid down.
The ones excavated were found at
a depth of seven feet under the exist
ing roadbed. They have smooth bev
eled edges and when fitted together
make a causeway over 14 feet wide
They bear marks of the passage of j
chariot w heels about four inches wide.
The stones are to be preserved in the
Cluny museum and search is being
made in the vicinity for further relica
of the period.
Everyone Must Pay Toll.
Trenton, X. J.—Under a new Penn
sylvania law. toll will be demanded of
everyone who crosses over Delaware
river bridges. Funerals are no long
er exempt, and even the body in the I
hearse must be paid for.
Would Aid the Unemployed.
Chicago.—In asking that $1,000,000
be appropriated by the city to give
work to 100.000 men. Dr. Axel Gustaf- J
son said that the United States waa
losing $35,000,000 a day because 5.000,
000 are idle.
Indiscreet Marriages a Curse.
Metuchen. X. J.—Declaring that in
discreet marriage among poor person?
is a curse, the Rev. F. Fenton, recent- |
ly appointed overseer of the poor. !
announced he will oppose all such
unions.
Little Dog Dies of Grief.
Alton, 111.—Left Behind in charge of j
caretakers when his mistress, Mrs. !
Xcrdahl Colburn, married and moved
away, •Trixie,” a fox terrier, died of
grief. He was buried in a silk-lined
coffin.
$100 for Soup Stain.
Chicago—Mrs. Francis N. Hurley,
wife of a state senator, recovered $100
damages against the Congress hotel
because a waiter spilled a bowl of
noup on the train of her new gown.
Better cookies, cake
and biscuits, too. All
os light, fluffy, tender
and delicious as mother used
to bake. And just as whole
some. For purer Baking Pow
der than Calumet cannot be had
at any price.
Ask your grocer.
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Good Reason for Selling.
A well-knowi lawyer had a horse
that always stopped and refused to
cross the bridge leading out of the
city. No whipping, no urging, would
induce him to cross without stopping.
So he advertised him:
"To be sold, for no other reason
than that the owner wants to go out
of town."
FRUIT LAXATIVE
FUR SICK CHILD
Cwritn ftf Cine^
‘•California Syrup of Figs’’ can’t
harm tender stomach,
liver and bowels.
Every mother realize^, after giving
her children “California Syrup of
Figs" that this is their ideal laxative,
because they love its pleasant taste
and It thoroughly cleanses the tender
little stomach, liver and bowels with
out griping.
When cross, irritable, feverish or
breath is bad. stomach sour, look at
the tongue, mother! If coated, give a
teaspoonful of this harmless "fruit
laxative." and in a few hours all the
foul, constipated waste. Bour bile and
undigested food passes out of the bow
els. and you have a well, playful child
again. When its little system is full
of cold, throarsore, has stomach-ache,
diarrhoea, indigestion, colic—remem
ber. a good “inside cleaning” should
always be the first treatment given.
V illicns of mothers keep “California
Syrup of Figs” handy; they know a
teaspoonful today saves a sick child
tomorrow. Ask at the store for a 60
cent bottle of “California Syrup of
Figs,” which has directions for babies,
children of all ages and grown-ups
printed on the bottle. Adv.
The girl who marries the first .chap
w ho proposes misses a lot of more or
less valuable experience.
Make the Liver
Do its Duty
Nine times in ten when the liver la
right the stomach and bowels are right.
uid Distress After Eating.
SMALL PILL, SMALL DOSE, SMALL PRICE.
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