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“SAMPLES PACKED SEPARATELY” When forty mothers, each with a baby, descended on the 1'niversity settlement temporary nursery at the emergency workshop for women in New York, the problem was where to put the babies. It was solved by the gift of a number of wicker clothes baskets, which were fitted with small mattresses and pillows. VICTORIOUS CARRANZA TROOPS T _ J* ^ ;-&... ........... *.., .. Company of Carranzistas who heroically defended one of the trenches Bear the Rio Grande at Matamoros against the attacks of Villa's troops and captured four of the enemy's flags. REPUDIATE PLEDGE NOT TO FIGHT British prisoners of war, captured by the Kronprinz Wilhelm, being transferred from a tug boat to the dock at Newport News to take the British ship Cassandra to England, where they planned to enlist and go to the front despite a promise given to Captain Thierfelder not to do so. They asserted the pledge was given under compulsion and so not binding. NEW DAREDEVIL OF THE AIR Art Smith, the young Indiana aviator, who has been doing most sensa tional stunts in the air at San Francisco since the death of Lincoln Beachey. He recently made 22 loops in one flight. KARL BITTER'S LAST WORK This heroic statue of Henry Hud son. which will be erected on Spuyten Duyvil hill when cast in bronze, is the last completed model by Karl Bitter, the sculptor who recently was killed in an automobile accident. WILLIAM BARNES. JR. William Barnes. Jr., Republican po litical leader of New York state, as he appeared at Syracuse when his libel suit against Colonel Roosevelt was called for trial. Thoughtless Explanation. “You say this will be your farewell appearance?” asked the interviewer. “Yes,” answered the eminent ac tress. "I shall retire from the state, never to return to it.” “What is your reason for such a decision?” “My manager thinks it better for business to make every* other tour a farewell engagement.” • __ A Catastrophe. "There was a terrible train wreck in our neighborhood last night” “What was it?” “Some boob at the party stepped on my wife's fish-tail party gown.” GREED OF THE CUTWORMS Most Dreaded Robbers of the Garden That Work Only in the Night. In Farm and Fireside a contributor writes about cutworms. The ravages -of cutworms are fully described and definite suggestions as to how to get rid of them are reported. Some of the remarkable facts about cutworms are included in the following extract taken from the article: “Cutworms are true burglars. "As long as the day lasts they re main in hiding under sticks, stones or trash—or even below the surface of the ground; and as soon as night fall^ they come forth to steal the lives of tender plants. “It is a wiBe precaution on the part of these insect burglars to hide during the day, for they are smooth and plump and just the sort of food titbit birds are always looking for. If these night prowling rascalb would only stop and | satisfy their hunger by eating the plants as they cut them down, they would be less rascally. But no! They go on appeasing their voracious appe tites with merely what they bite out in cutting down the plants; thus a dozen plants lie flat and wilted in the morning sun, sacrificed for one lata dinner. ‘In this respect the cutworms re semble dogs which kill more sheep in a flock than they can eat.” You can feed anybody flattery if you keep a sober face. UMI. REGENTS ORDER STRUC TURES TO COST $400,CC0. BESSEY HULL15 TO BE BUILT Attorney General Reed Issues Ruling Regarding Assessment of Banks. Lincoln.—The University of Nebras. ka Board of Regents authorized the first two buildings to be constructed on the city campus under the plans for university extension. They are the Bessey hall and the chemistry build ing. eacli to cost $200,000. The board also selected the site for the new dairy barn at the state farm. The junior medical college in Lin coln has been abolished, it being the intention to give these courses at Omaha. The hoard made plans to construct the new $150,000 hospital bui.ding at the Omaha Medical col lege authorized by the legislative ap propriation. The department of for estry was abolished at the university and a department of poultry estab lished at the state farm. Assessment of Banks. Attorney General Reed has issued a ruling that requires county assess ors in appraising the capital stock of banks to give its “franchise va'u“." This means that not only the p;#d up and book value of the stock, sur plus and undivided profits shall be figured, but that the assessor is also to take into consideration anything else that may affect the value of the stock. The real estate and all tangi ble property is to be added as a part of the capital stock value. The real estate is then to be deducted and taxed separately. The ruling takes cognizance of and is issued in view, of the corrective law passed by the last legislature, repealing the exemp tion that banks previously had as to real estate mortgages. After Session Talk. Senator Jack Grace of Harlan county, a member of the last and preceding senate, was a caller at the state house last week and in a dis- | cussion of the statement made by Senator Quinby of Omaha that the senate had nineteen “wooden In dians" in it at the last session, the statesman from Harlan remarked. ‘T don't know about the wooden Indians, but I know there was one wooden head in the senate and he came from Omaha.” Speaking of the work ot the last senate, the senator said he believed the record of that body would stand up well with the work of other senates in the past. “One thing is sure.” said Senator Grace, j “if the state of Nebraska had had only one body, the house, and no sen ate, as Senator Quinby advocates, there is hardly an institution of the state but what would have been crippled for funds to run it or have been compelled to sacrifice its effi ciency because there would not have been funds to run it on a business basis. May Ninth Mothers' Day. Following the custom of the last few years Governor Morehead has is sued a proclamation designating Sun i day, May 9, as Molhers’ day and asks j that a fitting observance of the day ' be followed. The proclamation in part follows: “Gratitude is one of the cardinal j i virtues: to remember gratefully acts j of kindness bestowed is an evidence j of true nobility: to exemplify this ' by word or deed is commendable in all. One day of the year has been se ' looted in which this may be shown in a manner that must tend to make ourselves and other better. It is the day wherein we show by some out ward token how dearly we esteem the one who gave us birth, and watched over us in our infancy and youth, and who has at all times been our best friend. That friend is moth er. The day is intended to start in the'mind splendid recollections of the past, and will make that Sunday more sacred than it otherwise would be. II would be well if special men tion of the day be made in all the churches throughout the state. 1 therefore recommend that Sunday, the 9th day of May, be observed as Mothers' day and trust it will be re cognized as generally as circum stances will permit.—John H. More head.” Signal Officer* Service School. The War department has author ized Adjutant General Hall of the Ne braska national guard to send the officers of the signal corps to the serv'ce school for that branch of the service, to be held at Fort Leaven worth. Kas, June 5 to 15. Florence Left Out. Governor Morehead has issued another Greater Omaha annex ation proclamation, which excludes the village of Florence from the op eration of the annexation election. The governor's new proclamation cancels the one issued on April 24, and provides for an annexation elec tion which affects only South Omaha and the village of Dundee under S. F. No. 2. Florence not being sup plied from the gas plant in the city of Omaha with its gase, does not come within the provisions of the bill. Guard May Take Part in Parade. Adjntant General Hall will grant permission to the first battalion of the Fourth regiment of the Nebraska National Guard, with the band of that regiment, to participate in a pa rade in Omaha, June 14. George E. Begrow, chairman of the program committee having in charge the en tertainment of the Travelers’ Protec tive association, which meets in Omaha at that time, made the re quest and the same was granted. The band and the battalion both are lo cated in Omaha. YOUR APPETITE Your digestion, your gen era) health will all be greatly benefited by the timely use of Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters. It is compounded from abso lutely pure ingredients and those best known as real aids to the Stomach, Liver and Bowels. It exerts a general tonic effect and helps Nature promote health and strength in the entire digestive sys tem. Try a bottle today but be sure you get HOSTETTER’S Stomach Bitters MUST HAVE SHOCKED JUDGE What He Regarded as ‘'Dribblings” of Hay Was All He Was Go ing to Get. A distinguished member of the Unr.ed States judiciary has discov ered that he still has something to learn in the direction of agriculture. He bought a farm as a summer home for his family, and finds especial delight in walking about the place, commenting on the condition of the crops, and in many ways showing his interest in his new possessions. One evening during the summer he was strolling over the farm. The hired man had cut the grass during the day—a very thin crop—and left it on the ground to dry. The judge saw it, and calling his man, he said: “It seems to me you are very care less. Why haven’t you been more par ticular in raking up this hay? Don't you see that you have left little drib blings all around?" For a minute the hired man stared, wondering if the judge was quizzing him. Then he replied: "Little dribblings? Why, man, that’s the crop!" i Stand More Hugging. Patience—You know an Eskimo maiden can stand more hugging than we American girls. Patrice—I wonder why? “Oh. the fact that Eskimos have two more ribs than any other human face has been discovered by an Eng lish scientist.” Not Interesting. ‘ Millions of germs can lodge on a pin point." said the man who is al ways getting excite^ about some thing._ * Well,” replied Mr. Growcher, "it doesn't concern me. I never encour age anybody to swallow pins.” Illustrated. “Old mat Jinks is very slow in all his ways.” "Is he?” "Yes. Instead of planting a running vine on his wall he has put there a creeper. Speaking of Position. Patience—How does your father stand on woman suffrage? Patrice—He wants to sit on it. About the time we imagine that our cup of happiness is going to run v>ver it springs a leak. “Not guilty” isn't always an inno cent remark’ Some people who pretend to be orig inal are not even good imitations. {?=.--. ' = BEAVER FERRY BOAT Youngster Made Good Use of Mother’s Back. Lover of Animals Gives Some Inter esting Particulars of the Life in a Colony of the Industrious Little Animals. One May morning I concealed my self behind a log by the pond, within twenty feet of the largest beaver house. I hoped to see the young beavers. Presently a brown nose appeared between the house and my hiding place. As a mother beaver climbed upon one of the spruce logs thrust out of the water, her reflection in the wa ter mingled with spruces and the white clouds in the blue field above. | She commenced to dress her fur—to ' make her toilet. After preliminary I scratching and clawing with a hind I foot, she rose and combed with fore I claws; a part of the time with both forepaws at once. A few mornings later the baby beavers appeared. The mother at tracted my attention with some make believe repairs on the farther end of the dam, and the five youngsters i emerged from the house through the i water and squatted on the side of the I house before 1 saw them. For a mo ment all sat motionless. By and by one climbed out on a projecting stick j and tumbled into the water. The oth I ers showed no surprise at this acci ■ dent. The one in the water did not mind but swam outward, where he was caught in the current that started to carry him over the dam. At this stage his mother appeared. She simply rose - beneath him. He accepted the oppor 1 tunity and squatted upon her back with that expressionless face which beavers carry most of the time. The I youngster sat on his mother’s back as though asleep while she swam with ; \ him to the house. Here he climbed off in a matter-of-fact' way, as though a ■ ride on a ferry boat was nothing new : to him. uuring me summer, a majority or J the Broken Tree beavers abandoned the colony and moved to other scenes. A number built a half-mile down stream, while the others, with one ex ception, traveled to an abandoned beaver colony on the first stream to the north. Overland this place was only half a mile from the Broken Tree, but by water route, down stream to the forks, then up the other stream to the colony, the distance was three miles. This was an excellent place to live, and with but little repair an old aban doned dam was made better than a new one. All summer a lone beaver of this colony rambled about. Once he returned to the Broken Tree col ony. Finally he cast his lot with the long established colony several miles down stream. Occasionally the remaining Broken Tree beavers did daytime work. While I was on the lookout one afternoon, an old beaver waddled up the slope and stopped by a large aspen that had I been left standing by the other work ; ers. The bottom of this tree was | heavily swollen. The old beaver took j a bite of its bark and ate with an ex pressionless face. Evidently it was good, for after eating the old fellow scratched a large pile of trash against the base of a tree, and from this plat form gnawed the tree off above the swollen base. While he w'as gnawing a splinter of wood wedged between his upper front teeth. This was picked out by catching it with the double nails of the second toe on the right hind foot. This aspen was ten inches in diameter at the point cut off. The diameter of trees usually cut is from three to six inches. The largest of their cutting that I ever measured was Torturing Twinges Much so-called rheumatism is caused by weakened kidneys. 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Dix, secretary of the state executive committee of the Young Men's Christian associa tion, took a deep interest in its de velopment and spent much time there assisting in the formation of a strong and active branch of the association. One story he tells is of an aged moun taineer, who, after the railroad trains had begun running regularly ventured down to see for himself some of the wonders of which he had vaguely heard. He stood on the rude platform and watched the train pull in. After a few minutes it backed up a little way. “What d’ye think uv her. Uncle Pash?’’ asked one of the loungers. “Wal, I kin see how th’ ingyne mout pull them thar kyars,” said the old man, thoughtfully, ''but what gits me is how them kyars pulls th’ ingyne." —Louisville Times. Extra Pay. “Willie.” said his mother on her return from a shopping expedition. I told you if you were good while I was out, you might have a piece of candy, and now I find you’ve taken all there was in the box.” "Yes, mamma," replied Willie, "but you've no idea how very good I've been.” An Example. "People of this quiet, cold-blooded disposition, don’t get into rows.” “I don’t know' about that. Noth ing could be more phlegmatic than the oyster, and he's continually get ting into broils and stews.” The Old Excuse. “You ought to know better, nv child, than to pitch into a tipsy man. Now you've fixed your husband and he's gone oft.” "But I didn’t know he was loaded." Traveling in Safety. Smith—If you don't own a motor car, why are you wearing goggles? Smyth—My wife has hatpins. Wouldn’t Repeat. Hick—This match won t light. Hike—That’s funny. It lit all right a minute ago.—Michigan Gargoyle. Occasionally a workman is willing to admit that his boss knows almost as much as he does. 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