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About The Loup City northwestern. (Loup City, Neb.) 189?-1917 | View Entire Issue (March 26, 1914)
FROM MANY POINTS EVENT* OF THE DAY HELD TO A FEW LINES. * LATE EVENTS BOiLED DOWN Pcra&nai. Political. Foreign and Other Inte*' pence Interesting to the General Readers. WASHINGTON. The Huroatt immigration bill has bees reported fktoraMr to the senate. It retain* the hprtn test. Some of beta.* be 1 tear* President U Ison may *««. • on t bat ac-oant • • • As ddaub-atrali.m hill mending to taetty year* the time tor repayment b- pjhpt user* ua so • eminent irri ga'toe |Cojerti passed the senate * -toot.- material amendment A simi lar bill .* pending in ’he bouse • o • hater, sloe at fitil serv ice to prac tical all federal offices, including cmilee- ..*■# of cistosu and all post- j masters, has been proposed to Presi dent Wiisom hjr Richard H. liana of Caasbr.dge. Mass and of the Nation- . a. •» •ier> ice Reform league • • • hvin^i’ 'or eaconption of abor *; .■„# «m ms anti-trust legislation »e»e dint-j sued at conferences be ts#--a p*.-ident tlumpers and Secre nn V - -**o»n cf: he Americna Federa .11 of l^abor and Speaker Clark • • • Prsssdrmt W'i.soc ha* approved the r*-s- • xje at congress conveying track# » the captain and < re» of the Ace rirat steamer K ran land for the nsrw cf eigbtpmiae u««* f? burse ig steamer Voiturae The at brers and an «ill alao get medals • • • 1»r , of tw year m proposed i-ci* IsLaaa to • ti.pomer nrb Male to im |e**e -he caw conditions oo convict *c.4e roods of other stares That art tr. |— i-d on its onm. was indorsed by J*re»jdeot Gtampers of the American 1‘edera-aoa of labor before the sen s'' "t -erstate commerce committee • • • <Nt tie :rmM that The Bail more ■ A tbt-o railroad mould receive 12**. f* • a es -haa it deserved for it* prop erty ta the rttiairy of the I'nion sta tu*. hers President \YYsoo refused to approve awards made by a ror.dt-mt.a ties Jory fur ".he act|ni*::ioti of land be-meet the capital and the t'Bioa s-a’MW to he used for a plaza. • • • 1.' « ns Jer nsoclutsone pending to P •• adc a coaMtfntiMtal amendment f«r *l. .vt-rl prohibition, the senate •sea -ter on judiciary ha* appointed 1 a ■>whroansi"ee r-omastisg of Sena tor* * hilt on. chairman. Hetcber. St. e, K ht aud IKllimcham This -e mill hold hearing* on the s..sjert to begin April Id .• • • Ge e B»eBt oa net-ship of M»ntire>- ] Id T man Jeffemaa*’* V r*tnia borne, ertor hr purrfcanr or b> rondetaua u* »aa leoxsaf in a itsolution fa terabit reported by the senate hands, eomua-tte Beprosentatae Jef fers.s, luety of Xem Yurt tarn as it. and Mr» Manse I.Yttietos baud* the move-j mean to* t* m <i«>au* .»c by he govern- ' aseot. • • • ■After a »lauroos defease by Sena tor Lodge wpttbitcax. trf tbe expendi ture* in r*rin* tor Mexican soldier* i and ether refugee* interned in Texas | and i «j'nrtUL :b* senate passed the fa a* Cehcseeey bill, carrying a to tal of more ihaa fld.taat.ttou. half a a !w uf shicb was added by the ; aenate appropriations coataii’tee for the maintenance of the refuge# * a" a »r atiio t»,et:«» ha.e been made by §•*»-ideal %t iia<m to confer in the near 'u<ure aith Senator Hughes aad heaiatt of tbe boose aterested in ! ehtaiaiag a prorision in the proposed ne* ant:trust iegtalatuje nhicb mould ex* .- .pt .he apermtion* of labor unions and tmagsrs! h e farmer* organ its - t«B» frmsm pro ary attorn under the ► —e tvaa Sam1 or other statutes.. DOMESTIC. *. 1 - mo opinions tendered the Or* s s oupeetm* court upheld the Oregon *: r morn mage is* and the >n hour la* b»dh passed by the last legiala tuts a • a > x udicta*#i*:» mere ref-rood at Ymar m seams! Mem ton C. Doughterty. brwr superintendent of schools of Peer * charging bite with forgery of •CSMtel at p • • • Seiea .xiMidaiM fur mayor and •rtffot candidates for oouncilmen mi see* n to. oat ton at the local pri mar-. -tort asm in St Paul U is St . Pa- * Star election under the con; station charter. • • • *» *£ien (totem Starr, one of tbe found*'* mt Han House and widely known as a settlement marker, was placed cm trial in Chicago on the chant- of rests' n« an officer Kiss iMarr s arreat wan one of the Incidents unaaectod mith a strike of man reuses at a < "fewaao retauruat so. Captain John A Kish of Sow York • a* aeateocrd to &«e year* is the federal ywioott at Atlanta for burning fcta yacht Berta. la Bdgm~o«n harbor we Ounder -I IM*. ia order to o!> gain •!«.<** «n*oranee money. • • • The go%er_»m-i regulations re garding the adeofarittre and sale of oAommnormo nre aa strict that the • autothto* of the -a• charged against Jut* T ioito an- others were in pnaoihie. it d**aed at their trial • ae Chimne federal coen by their ntso'no. John Barton Payne. • . - The federal grmwl Jury at t ouncil j fUadt* h»«*. r*t«r*ed an indictment aaaiao! Marry H. thoodiing. proprietor „< . Coosa-fl iSuft mail order toaie. ttZ. bt a»su^ of the mailt by cir rrJ^r »t* catling ndeer aem„tt About Jf*0 arrests for counterfeiting , are made in the L'. S. each year. • • • Gold filled teeth have been found in the jaws of akele'oat exhumed in Pompeii. • « • One factory in Ohio makes 360.000, oOu bungs yearly froi: lO.OtHl.OOO feet of popular and oak. • • • Indictments were returned at Chi cago against Henry Siegel and Frank S. Vogel, department Store bankrupts. • * • The .eel or battleship No. 39, which will be the mo t powerful fight ing machine of the superdreadnought class in the United States navy, has beeu laid in the Brooklyn navy yards. • • • An ar-'nvmous cash gift of $50,000 -.as been received at New York by the boat] of foreign missions of the Methodist Kpiscopal church, to be added to the permanent fund for the care of retired missionaries. • • • Holding that the title of Indians to the submerged lands of Lake Michi gan had never been recognized, and further, that what rights they had had were re.inquished when the aborigines voluntarily left the land. Federal Judge ( arpenter in Chicago. ruled ad versely to ln-i:an claims on filedin aid along ’he lake front :n Chicago. • • • i*elega: . ns from several western states me’ at St. Joseph. Mo . and or ganized the Pike's Peak Oceun-to «»cean highway. The plan is to build a road which will n:u through Illinois from Spriugreld to Hannibal. St. Joseph. >1. atid Colorado Springs, to riie Pact coast It is to connect with a r- ..u :r m rhe east at Spring field. • m m By o-der of Emory Lattaner. state • »'ij,eriif. noef of tanks, the Ohio j Saving:- bar* at Liberty Center. O., i the Karmers and Merchants bank at Cus’er. O.. were turned over to the state tanking department for liquida- j non. Depositors, with deposits in ; both, tanks aggregating approximate- j y may not be paid in full, Mr Lattaner said. • • * The M a room Wireless Telegraph company of America won a victory in the New York federal court which, ac cording •o is officers, gives the com pany almost complete control of the ; field c-f wi-eiem telegraphy. The company won an infringement suit -£«:r.. • ,e National Electric Signall g company of Pittsburgh, involving baric ]«tems granted to Sir Oliver le*dgo. the Br.'ish scientist and Gug e tno Marconi, the Italian inventor. • * • Colonel John A Hall, who has been commanding officer of the military in tie coal str;i*e zone of Voncouver is land s nee ihe nots of last August, has resigned because of differences with officials of ti:« government at Victoria and Ottawa. His resignation was ac eepted by Colonel Sam Hughes, minis ! ter of militia, a; Vancouver. When Colonel Hall took The field last Au 1 gust he trad* a d’splay of military au thor it;. that the civil officials consider ed excessive. - A FOREIGN. There has been an immense in j crease in the imports <f sewing, knit- | •'.ns and embroidering machines in , < 'faina in the past three years. • * * Eighty 'hree persons were killed by the earthquake which oeurred ii\ the prefe»-’ure ot Akita, island of Hondo in Japan. Kite hundred persons were injured and many are missing. • • * The Turkish government has de cided to adui.t women to the iiniverat ty. where special lectures in hygiene, domestic science and women's rights • ill be delivered for their benefit. • • • . Among the Alps there are several po>tcffice« at a height of 6.000 feet. One le»ter box. from which the post man makes our collections daily, is nearly 10,<w‘6 feet above sea level. • • • Because laindon's fogs at times -enough reduce the supply of gaso line in that city by preventing the | arrival of vessels carrying it, it is probable that a pipe will be built from the mouth of the Thomas into the, city. * • * Senator Bei. ;u Villanueva has a ncunced that for persona! reasons he had decided definitely to decline the L't.ited States. He had Qteen selected to carry out the duty of thanking the I’nited Spates government for its par ticipation n the Argentine centen nial. • f • The German crown prosecutor at Berlin has begun the prosecution of several faith healers in connection with the death recently of two promin ent actresses. Krau Xuscha Btttze and Frau Von Arnauld Pierriere of the Royal theater. The women suff ered from a chronic disease, and it is alleged, were induced to dismiss their attending physic-tan and submit to the 'aith cure, with fata! results. The famine district of Hokkaido, in Japan, covers more than a million sure* which are devoted to rice cul ture and genera- farming; the loss ha* amounted to about |10.0«0.0tKl and S4.0OO persons are in need of help, • • • Among the silver masters of Shef field. England, it is rather an estab lishment practice to encourage the employment of families. It is more the rule than otherwise that a father working in the silver trade will ap prentice his children to that trade as they arrive at working age. • • * Tokio government will in April next start the work of laying a railway between Supingkai and Taoanfu and another line from Kaiyuan to Kail ung. The expenditure is estimated at $10,400,004 gold. ; • * • More than 1,004 perished in the in undation of the towns o^Stanitza and Achtyrskaja. Russia by a tidal wave from the sea Azov. The wave struck the towns during a Tiolent hurricane which swept the province of Kuban. More than 150 persons also were drowned is floods in Yazackaja. MAY HAVE'RUCTION’ SITUATION IN ULSTER BECOMING ACUTE. TROOPS ARE SENT TO SCENE Britisl^ Government Determined to Keep Order, is Sanding its Regulars to Border. London.—"War in Ulster" is the startling headline which the sensa tional London newspapers are dis playing in the blackest type. The government has began to place its. regular troops in Ireland so that they may be in a position to deal with any situation that may arise. The army council some time ago considered the possibilities of home rule strife and instructed Lieutenant General Sir Arthur Henry Pit-troy Padget. who commands the Irish gar risons. to take necessary precautions to maintain order and safeguard prop erty. A general redistribution of the forces in Ireland therefore has begun. Two Regiments from South. Two regiments were sent from the south to reinforce the, Ulster garri sons. while the troops ia Ulster were moved to .new stations in conformity with the custom that in the event of hostilities or rioting, soldiers should not be compelled to encounter people with whom they had formed friend ships. In pursuance with the same rule some Irish recruits were sent from the Armagh recruiting station to England. When inquiry was made at the war office concerning the report that a hundred army officers in the Uurragh amp had resigned rather than serve m Ulster. War Secretary Seely's sec re tary admitted that similar rumors tad reached the war office and that appropriate measures would be taken to deal with the situation. Another Suffrage Amendment. Washington—Woman suffrage came to the fore in the senate again and a new resolution was proposed by Sen ator Shafroth. to take the place of the one defeated. It would require states to decide the suffrage question for themselves, whenever 5 per cent of the voters petitioned for it. The first fight developed when Mr. Shafroth asked to have the resolu tion sent to the suffrage committee. Senators who voted against the for mer resolution wanted it to go to the judiciary committee, but were beaten. .17 to 25. Earth Swallows Two Men. Pottsville, Pa.—The earth opened and swallowed two miners and a work shanty on the mountain side at The Kehley Run colliery at Shenan doah. and although large forces of men have been put to work, both in side the mines and at the surface, no trace of the men or building can be found They may have been dropped a distance of 500 feet, or any portion of it. and it may require weeks to learn their fate. A third man work ing near the shanty at the time saved himself by grasping a steam pipe and hanging on until help arrived New Altitude Record. .Tohannisthal.—An altitude record of 12.303 feet for a flight with three passengers has been established by Robert Thelen. a German aviator. The previous record for a flight in an aeroplane earn ing three "passen gers was held by the French aviator, Garaix. who on March 2 attained an altitude of 10,800 feet at Chatres. $4,600,000 Indebtedness Canceled. St. ixtuis, Mo.—Federal Circuit Judge Sanborn has approved the agreement by which the receivers of the St. Ixmis & San Francisco rail road canceled an indebtedness against the road of nearly $4,000,000 and relinquish ownership of two sub sidiaries in Louisiana to the syndi- j cate that promoted them. Cracksmen Get $18,000. Nashville. Tenn. — Robbers blew I jpen the vault in the First National b,anb at Gallatin. Tenn.. thirty-five miles northwest of Nashville, stole $18,000 and escaped. The explosion created a lire in the vault which pas sersby discovered. Meanwhile the robbers had fled. Fosdick Declines Nomination. Raymond B. Fosdick, former com missioner of accounts of New York City, has declined President Wilson’s jffer to become commissioner of im migration at the port of New York. Bank Cashier Arrested. Charlotte, N. C.—H. C. Smith, •ashier of the Goldsboro Savings and Trust compauy. was arrested charged with being $75,000 Bhort in his ac counts. Strikers Are Released. Trinidad. Col.Sixteen of the twenty ■wo strikers held for a wt-ek ia con nection with the killing of Neil Smith, a non-union coal miner, whose body was found near Suffic'd on March 8. have been released by the military authorities. Six were held. Another Aviator Is Killed. Salisbury. England.— Another of ficer of the royal flying corps of the British army was killed here, lieu tenant H. F. Theeby of the Duke of Wellington's West Riding regiment. For National Prohibition. Washington.—To consider the reso lutions pending to provide a constitu tional amendment for national prohi bition. the senate committee on judi ciary has appointed a sub-committee consisting of Senator Chilton, chair man: Fletcher. Shields and Borah. Independence Day for Women. New York.—The National Woman Suffrage association has appealed to President Wilson to establish the first Saturday in Hay of -each year as { “Woman's Independence Day." BRIEF NEWS OF NEBRASKA A tennis association has been organ ized at Plattsmouth A farmers' society of equity has been organized at Garrison. Farmers in the vicinity of Howe re port much damage to winter wheat. Wallie Harvey, living near Harbine, died in his buggy en route home from Jansen. The Southwest Nebraska Teachers' association will meet at McCook. April 1. 2 and 3. Ord will vote on saloons, pool halls and Sunday ‘baseball at the coming spriug election. The Portland Cement company at Superior will begin operations about the middle of June. ton Taylor of Auburn last the^sight of one eye by being struck by the limb of a tree he was cutting. A group of McCook men have or ganized a company to prospect for oil in their section of the state. The Nebraska Postmasters' associa tion will hold its next annual • session at Lincoln. June 9. 10 and 11. Crop experts say that the blanket of snow left by Wednesday's storm in sures a bumper crop'of wheat. Ixjn Taylor of Auburn lost an eye when a chip from a stick of wood he was cutting hit him in the face. Peter Metterling of Fremont had his face badly disfigured, when a clock, falling from its shelf, struck him. A *40.000 bond issue for a new high school building will be voted upon at Madison at the spring election. Old time performers on the fiddle, banjo, guitar and aecordeon will hold a tournament at Omaha next week. Fire thought to fc? dne to defective electric wiring caused a loss of *5.000 in St. Francis academy at Columbus. Ten cases of diphtheria were discov ered in one family during a recent in spection trip of Omaha health officials. The golden w edding of Mr. and Mrs W. J. Farris was celebrated at Albion, where they have been residents since 1SS2. Hastings club women hare rented a tvreive-roomel house and an old peo ple's home will be established within a few days. Ernest Grace}', a ten year-old Wahoc boy was killed when a pile of tele phone poles on which he was playing, toppled over on him. The city council at Geneva has turned down a petition asking for the submission of the saloon license ques tion at the spring election. The winner of the West Point high school declamatory contest was Miss Grace Herman, who was victorious over thirteen competitors. Gage county supervisors have decid ed not to employ a highway commis sioner. The matter has been under consideration for some time. Patrick Kelly of Anselmo. who was bom in Ireland. March 5. 1S14. still re tains his faculties to an astonishing ex tent and is able to be about daily. Delegates from twenty-eight chap ters were in attendance at the con ference of the Nebraska D. A. R. a? its session at Fairbury last week. Frank Smith, a machinist, fell from a car in the Burlington yards at Lin coln. was caught under the wheels and died in a few minutes after being picked up. A coyote which has caused frequent flurries of fear in the vicinity of Fre mont for over ten years, was shot by A C. Jensen. The animal weighed forty pounds A new commercial organization, composed of the old commercial chib, the ad club members and the retail association, will be known as the Fre mont Commercial club. The pastorate of the Congregational church at West Point, which has been vacant since the removal of Rev. Thomas Kvans to Irvington, has been tilled by the selection of Rev. David Tudor of Beemer Fire at the home of Mrs. Addie Beebe at Fremont' destroyed several cases filled with historical papers and magazines collected by that lady, who had devoted the larger portion of her life to getting them together. The schools of Buffalo county will erect a building at the couuty fair grounds this spring to be used exclu sively for the exhibition of work done in the country schools. W. C. Farrand. one of the oldest school teachers in the state, died re cently at Clarks. He was 63 years old and had taught school thirty-five years, most of the time in this state. William Zutter. a prominent farmer and stock raiser, residing near Desh- ; ler. accidentally shot himself through the head with an automatic gun. dying instantly. He leaves a wife and four children. C. F. Vinson, janitor of the First National bank at Fairbury. discovered a stick of dynamite in a shovelful of coal which he was about to throw into a furnace. Art Asher was fatally injured by tbe explosion of a dynamite bomb with which he was doing some blasting near Pleasanton Two companions were also badly injured. A force of engineers is working ont from Yutan. making surveys for the proposed construction of the connect ing link between Chaleo and Yutan to connect Omaha up with tbe Sioux City Lineoln branch of the Burlington. The Harrison Theatrical Co., for tbe benefit of good roads, played "A Black Heifer" at the opera house to a full house, netting somethmg near $75. R. O. Allen, editor of the Bradshaw Monitor, was held up and relieved of his "roP" during a recent visit to Fair bury. The hoid-up man was later ar rested and given ten days. After a lively discussion, the Hast ings Ministerial association went on record refusing Christian Scientists permission to be represented with a card in the church directory at the Clarke hotel, which was placed in the lobby a few days ago. During a fit of despondency, result ing from continued ill health. W. S. Wallick. a retired fanner near Tamora. suicided by shooting himself with a revolver. The 2-year-oid son of Bert Xewton. near Brownville, was probably fatally injured when a shotgun fell from ^ peg on the wall and was discharged, the load striking him in the side. Richard Huerdine. aged 50 years, died Tuesday at his home in Lincoln. Mr. Heurdine fell off a cherry tree in his yard last Jnly and received a broken back and since then has been enable to leave his bed. NAMES COMMITTEE FIRE COMMISSIONER MAKES A PLEA FOR SAFETY. GOSSIP FROM STATE CAPITAL Items of Interest Gathered from R* liable Sources and Presented in Condensed Form to Our Readers. Western Newspaper Union News Servlca. Agricultural Committees Appointed. President Roberts of the board of ag riculture has appointed nine commit tees to look into and report to the board upon the conditions anl require ments of various matters pertaining to agricultural development of the state. The committees are as follows: Live stock—Charles Graft. J. A. Ollis and H. V. Riesen. Dairying—Jacob Sass. R. M. Wolcott and V. Arnold. Poultry—William Foster. J. A. Mc Ardle and J. A. Ryan. Horticulture—P. Youngers. C. G. Crews and W. W. Cole. County fairs — George Jackson, Charles Mann and Z. T. Lefiwich. i Rural and agricultural education— E. R. Purcell. W. B. Banning and J. H. : Taylor. Agricultural extension E. R. Deniel son. Wtlliam James and C. H. Rudge. Induction—L H. Cheney. T. B. Keedle and C- H. Gustafson. Marketing—L. W. Leonard. Geo. F. ■ Dickmrn add W. C. Caley. The appointments are endorsed by Secretary Melior in a letter sent out to the members of the committees in | structing them as to their duties Fire Commissioner Makes a Plea. State Fire Commissioner \V. S. Rid ! gel! has written to Merrick Lease, president of the fire insurance rate making board in Omaha, to suggest I that insurance agents be instructed by i their companies to comply with the ruling of the state fire commission in regard to permits to insured to store gasoline in buildings. Many companies operating in the larger cities of Ne braska allow their agents to attach permits to policies. These permits give the insured leave to store ten gal lons of gasoline in the insured build ings The state fire commissioner has control of inflammable and combus tible material and has ruled that no one can keep more than five gallons of gasoline in a house. If more than five gallons of gasoline is kept on hand it must be buried underground. The fire commissioner suggests that local agents chang" the form of their poli cies or permits to conform to this rule. The number of fires from gasoline is so great that such a rule is considered necessary in the interests of safety. Want Assignment for Farm Work. Warden Fenton is besieged daily by large numbers of inmates who want to be placed on the list of some thirty five 'arm bands now assigned for farm work at the state prison. The head official is choosing his men from the standpoint of efficiency. About 2.">0 acres will go under the plow in a few days. Forty acres are set aside for garden purposes. Two-thirds of this plat will be in potatoes. The warden is hopeful of raising 2.500 bushels of spuds for his charges. Fifty acres is in winter wheat, forty will go into oats and more than a hun dred into corn. It will require sixteen work horseS at steady grind to accom plish the spring work on the farm. Fairs Will Fail to Get Exhibits. At least fourteen county fairs will not be able to get the exhibits offered by the agricultural extension service . of the university farm for the use of county fairs next fall. To date there are about four applications for each of the six available exhibits. Applica tions are being sent to Henry Pickett at Wahoo, Xebr.. secretary of the ex-! hibit committee of the Fair Managers’ association Final selection of the six fairs to be visited this year will not be made until May 1. The fairs at which the university exhibits will be shown will be determined by a com mittee of the Fair Managers" associa tion. in consultation with Nebraska university farm authorities. The Nebraska press association will have an outing and business meeting at Epworth Lake park. Lincoln. June IS to 25. Main Causes of Dependency. Enumerating the causes of depend ent or homelessness. Miss Etta Ca ton, state agent for dependent chil dren. declared in a paper read before the second annual conference of state and local health officers at Lincoln that drunkenness and immorality or the social evii arc the main causes. She gave figures based on a hundred cases taken in hand by the home for dependent children. In forty-nine of these cases drink was one of the causes of trouble and in sixty-six cases the social evil played a part. Reliable reports from ail parts of the state that people are shooting ducks leads many lovers of hunting to the conclusion that the federal game regulations are a farce so^fer as en forcement in Nebraska is concerned. State Game Warden Rutenbeck Is ready and willing to co-operate with the federal authorities, but he has been unable to get any definite in formation as to what is desired of him. As a result he is making but little ef- ' fort to enforce the federal regulations against spring shooting of ducks and geese. Wheat Acreage Larqest Ever Known. Estimates of the w inter wheat acre age in the state show that the total ! may reach 3.300.000 acres. Reports | received by the Nebraska state board ( >f agriculture show that the largest ! crop in the history of the state has been sown. In 1913 the acreage was 3,022910 and the total for 1912 was 2,S40.75$. The wheat crop for 1913 ! was estimated at 60.434.472 bushels, ind the government estimate of the per cent still on the farms was 22 per tent for March 1. i MAKING A SPLIT LOG DRAG Anyone Can Make One to Cost From Almost Nothing lo $2-50. Depend ing on Materials Used. A subscriber in Latah county, Idaho, asks us to give him a plan for making a split log drag for working the roads in his county, and also wants to know how to use one. says the Western Farmer. The drag may be made of a log, say eight feet long and 12 inches through, j split in the middle, or of two pieces of j sawed oak or other substantial wood, 2 by & inches. After a log is split, giv- I ing two flat, faced slabs, bore three two-inch holes in each slab, as shown in drawing: connect the slabs, facing j the same direction, with three stakes or rounded 3 by 3s long enough to ; leave three feet of space between the slabs after the connecting pieces have been driven into the holes. Two or three planks can be nailed to these ! pieces, affording a place for the driver to stand, and. at the same time, strengthening the drag. I'se a chain or strong rope for attachment to the double-tree. Supposing the drag to j face west, and assuming that a chain is used, fasten one end of the chain to j or around the left hand outside con necting brace, letting the chain pass over the top of the slab. If attached to the face of the slab, near the left hand end. the chain would interfere with the movement of dirt toward that end of the drag. The drag is run at an angle of about 45 degrees, so that dirt can be thrown toward one side. The other end of the chain must be fastened to the face of the front slab near where the right hand connecting piece comes through, and not around the connecting piece, as it is in the illustration. ishoe about three feet of the bottom edge t right hand side* of the front slab with a piece of iron or steel of the right length, about three inches wide and a half inch thick, with one edge sharp or beveled. Put it on securely, letting the sharp edge project about half an Inch below the edge of the slab. This shoe will enable the drag better j to shave the surface and cut down the I hard ridges which are usually met on roads that have not been kept 6mooth. A good drag will cost from almost nothing to $2.50. depending on the ma 0 1 Split Log Drag. ’ terial and construction, and last five to ten veare. Anybody can make one. Roads should be dragged 10 or 12 , times a year. The time is after each soaking rain, so that the drag will ; form a smooth mud coat on the sur- ‘ face. When the frost is leaving the ground is an excellent time; the drag ■ should be in use from then until win ■ ter. The work does not interfere with ; j rain ary farming operations, as when ! it is the right time to drag the soil is too wet or the conditions unsuited for : many kinds of field work. It is diffi | cult to invent a good excuse for not " dragging. Used at the right time and j . with proper frequency on practically ail types of earthy soils and those of the clayey or rolling sections, the drag will make roads smooth, hard and con ! vex—the three fundamental character f tstics of an ideal dirt road. The pro i ce*s will form a sort of shell or casing | ; over the surface which will shed water ' like a roof, and by distributing travel over the entire area, instead of con t fining it to the center, the shell wilt constantly increase in solidity. At the outset, dragging cannot be done so rapidly as when the road has been shaped up by several sweeps of the drag; after this preliminary work, the Job can be done in baif the time orig inally required. Any boy and farm ’ team can operate the drag. Listen and Build. One good road is worth a dozen ar guments in favor of better highways, and therefore the people should listen to the arguments and then build. Do It New. One writer says: “On the spare | days improve the roads.” This is a poor plan. The best thing to do is to improve* the roads without wait ing for the spare days. If one waits ; until everything else is done the roads ! never will he taken care of. That's ' the trouble with most communities. Use the Drag. There is no method of maintaining a road in good condition so effec tive and so economical as the constant use of the drag. No sick headache, biliousness bad taste or constipation by morning. Get a 10-cent box. Are you keeping your bowels, livei and stomach clean, pure and fres with Cascarets, or merely forcing passageway every few days wit Salts, Cathartic Pills, Castor Oil o Purgative Waters? Stop having a bowel wash-day. Le Cascarets thoroughly cleanse and ref nlcte the stomach, remove the sou and fermenting food and foul gases take the excess bile from the live and carry out of the system all th constipated waste matter and poison In the bowels. A Cascaret to-night will make yo feel great by morning. They wor while you sleep—never gripe, eicke: or cause any inconvenience, and cos OEly 10 cents a box from your stort MJlions of men and women take Cascaret now and then and neve have Headache, Biliousness, Coate Tongue. Indigestion, Sou? Stomach o i Constipation. Adv. 13.000 Miles in Submarines. Two submarines of the E class, Ai 1 and AE 2. are to leave Portsmoutl , Eng., in a day or two for Australi; making the journey of about thirtee thousand miles under their own o power. They will stop at Gibraltai Malta, Aden, Colombo and Singapon ai d then proceed via Batavia. As far as Singapore they w ill be ei coned by H. M. S. Eclipse Ther i they will 4>e taken over by H. M. S Australia, which will escort them t i Sydney. The majority of the crew c i 4" are Australians, who have been i : England for instruction. “BOUND FOR WESTERN CANADA’ A PRAIRIE SCHOONER SLOGAN THAT STARTED FROM NEBRASKA. Four horses abreast attached to < red painted prairie schooner, will windows and a protruding stovepipe : with the words. "Bound for Canada,' oa the schooner's side, was the objec of considerable interest as it passec 03 the way northward from Nebraska a snort time ago through the town? in Nebraska, South and North Dakota | After some weeks of strenuous travel i ing in this way, Mr. J. F. Jensen made j tiie overland trip from Jameson, Ne braska. and with his little family made the regular customs entry at North I Fortaljj in the province of Saskatche 1 wan. Their destination was Willow Bunch, a district that Mr. Jensen had selected as one in which it was 1 possible for him to work out bis for ; t ine. He located on a good half sec | t.on of land, and intended putting on it some cattle that would fatten on the wild prairie grass that grows so luxuriously in that district. In addi tion to this his purpose was to culti j \ate a portion of it and raise wheat. | cats, barley or flax. In short, a life devoted to mixed farming was what he had in view and it is easy to un derstand that he will make a success of it, and in a year or so will attach tome more land holdings. Although his beginning may be small, it may safely be said that Mr. i fensen, like thousands of others who have begun life in western Canada on no more and with probably much less, will prosper. He will not be far from a line of railway. Schools will he close j.t hand and other social conditions so necessary in a new country are avail able.—Advertisement. Still in Doubt. 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Besides beautifying the hair at once. Danderine dissolves every particle of dandruff: cleanses, purifies and invig orates the scalp, forever stopping itch ing and falling hair. But what will please you most will be after a few weeks' use when you will actually see new hair—fine and downy at first—yes—but really new hair—growing all over the scalp. If you care for pretty, soft hair and lots of it. surely get a 25 cent bottle of Knowlton’s Danderine from any store and just try it. Adv. The Proper One. “How is the company going to pay for all the divers they must employ?" • Naturally, out of the sinking fund.” Once in a great while you will meet i woman strongminded enough to ad mit that her shoes are too smalL