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S BRIEFLY TOLD LLIGENCE HERE GATHERED COVERS WIDE AREA. iTEB OR LESSER IMPORT d*a What Is Going On at Wash ington and in Other Sections of the Country. —■ ■■ ■ WAR NEWS. A manifesto opposing conscription |L has been Issued at London by a com ■hparatively small number of members ■ of the British parliament. • • • A Coalition cabinet has been fc formed in France to take the place Sfeof the ministry of Premier Vivianl, ■L Which resigned. • • • The Berlin war office announces ■ that during October more than 40,000 Wr prisoners were captured on the Rus t sian and Serbian fronts. The Petrograd correspondent of the London Daily Mail says Russia has L imposed a war tax of from 5 to 50 cents on every theater ticket. 4 * • • German financial authorities are preparing for a new loan of $2,500, 000,000, the prospectus for which will fee issued in January, according to a tpopeniiagen dispatch. • • • London reports that seventy-five thousand British soldiers and 3,200 officers were removed from Gallipoli peninsula because of Illness between April 25 and October 20. * • • At a meeting In London in behalf of the fund for the relief of Jewish vic tims of the war in Russia, it was an nounced that there were 1,500,000 Jews starving in Russia. The Liverpool Post publishes a list of twenty German ships, aggregating more than 38,000 tonnage, sunk by British submarines in the Baltic sea, between October 11 and 23. • • • Before the great European war be gan Vladivostok had more than 100,000 inhabitants. Today its population is less than 75,000, so heavy have been the calls of the Russian army upon the men of eastern Siberia. * * * A correspondent of the Berliner Tageblatt in Greece is quoted as de claring that prominent Greeks are ex ercised over the possibility that the entente allies intend to occupy Ka vala, and that the Greeks are increas ingly resentful regarding the attitude l of the British and French in Saloniki. 1 * * * The Canadian government has given out a statement of expenditures on ac count of the war which says that Can ada’s war expenditure for next year will be very large. About $1,000 per man is calculated as the costs of raising, equipping and maintaining Canadian troops at the front and un der arms in Canada. • * • The Russian foreign office, in a statement just issued, places on rec ord that Russia is ready to recognize the territorial enlargement which Greece needs in Europe and Asia Minor, as well as the justice of Rou mania’s right to realize its national ideal. Russia is ready to proffer a friendly hand to the Bulgarians when they take their place on the side of the entente allies. GENERAL. The New York budget for 1916 will be about $214,000,000, or approxi mately $15,000,000 higher than that of 1915, according to a semi-official esti mate. • • * Miss Blanche Walsh, actress, who in private life was Mrs. W. H. Trav ers, died at a hospital in Cleveland, O. She had been playing in vaude ville in that city. * * * Herman Ridder, treasurer of the democratic national committee and publisher of the New York Staats Zeitung, died suddenly at his home in New York. * * • New York, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania defeated suffrage for women by overwhelming majorities a Jin elections held Nov. 2. This was a * first popular vote on the suffrage question in the eastern states. • • • Announcement was made in Boston that the American Woolen company had closed a contract for 1,000,000 yards of blue gray uniform cloth for a foreign government, the name of whiclf was withheld. * * • Voters of Detroit, Mich., rejected the proposition to purchase from the Detroit United railway the street car lines and property within the one-fare zone. The plan, which to be success ful required a two-thirds majority, re ceived less than 50 per cent of the votes cast. • • * Despite the fact that more saloon licenses were renewed this year than a year ago in Chicago it was said by brewers that 1,000 fewer saloon keep ers are doing business at this time than a year ago. • • • Germany and Austria can stand the t strain of financing the war longer 'Rcthan can her enemies, in the opinion ■W John J. Arnold, vice president of jjfethe First National bank of Chicago, |^§rho spoke at the Nebraska bankers’ at Omaha. • • • reported in New York that agents are trying to float in untry a credit loan of about ,000, for eighteen months, at 9 to be spent entirely in this for supplies. The sixteenth son of President Yuan Shi Kai of China was born recently. The president now has thirty-one chil dren. • • • Twelve persons were burned to death in a fire which destroyed a three-story tenement house in Brook lyn, N. Y. * • • Tan Shi Van, a Chinese, convicted in New York of opium smuggling, died at the federal prison at Atlanta, Ga., of starvation, after refusing for near ly two months to eat. Tan Shi Yan refused to eat from the day he entered prison. » * * The tremendous increase in the price of dyestuff due to the war, was indicated when a keg of Methylene Blue was offered at a sale in London of lost property. The keg, weighing 150 pounds and worth $60 before the war, was eagerly bid in at $1,550. * * • Homeseekers have filed on 119,000 acres of the 149,000 acre3 in the Gosh en Hole district, recently thrown open to entry. The filings in that section, it is said at Cheyenne, are the heav iest in the history of Wyoming, al though much larger segregations have been opened to entry. • * • A plea against militarism in the United States was voiced in an ad dress at Topeka by Arthur Capper, governor of Kansas. Governor Cap per asserted that “in this wild hyste ria for preparedness, the west is keep ing its head, but the nation as a whole has lost its balance for the mo ment.” * * * United support of a program for national defense was asked by Preak dent Wilson in an address before the Manhattan club in New- York, in which the president declared that the United States has no thought of conquest, but that in these times of conflict it must lodk to its security and to the protection of the principles for w'hich it stands. SPORTING. Nelly the Great, a 2-year-old trotting filly, made a new world's record for a half-mile track at Springfield, O., when at a breeders’ meeting, she stepped a mile in 2:15%. The former record was 2:16 • • * The West Virginia liquor cases testing the validity of the federal Webb-Kenyon law restricting ship ments from wet to dry states were re stored to the docket of the supreme court for second argument. * * * The tests of the oil burners on board the great superdreadnought Ne vada, proved very successful during a trial trip off the coast of Rockland, Maine. It is the first battleship of the navy supplied with oil burners. • * • In one of the greatest football up sets of recent conference history, Chi cago defeated Wisconsin 14 to 13 at Chicago. A missed goal from touch down with Eber Simpson kicking, ac counted for the 1 point difference, for each team scored two touchdowns. • * • Dario Resta won the 100-mile auto mobile race for the Harkness gold challenge cup and S5.000 cash at the Sheepshead Bay speedway track New York. His time for the distance, 56: 55:71, establishes a new American record, and an average of 105.39 miles an hour. • • • Chamberlain broke loose in the sec ond period of the Ames-Nebraska foot ball game at Ames, la., and single handed scored enough points to give the Cornhuskers a one-sided victory. 1 Nebraska won 21 to 0. As in the Notre Dame game, Chamberlain was most of the Nebraska team. WASHINGTON. The State department has received word that Brand Whitlock, the Amer ican minister to Belgium, is prepar ing to return to the United States for a vacation on account of ill health. * * * The Arizona anti-alien labor law has been declared unconstitutional by the supreme court. The supreme court’s decision affirms the decision of a special circuit court which also held the law unconstitutional • • * The total resources of 7,613 nation al banks on September 2, according to a report by Comptroller of the Cur rency Williams, exceeds by more than $424,006,000 the greatest resources ever shown by any previous call in the history of the national banking system, and amounted to $12,267, 090,429. • * * Nebraska lags behind every other state in the union, save one, in the improvement of public roads, accord ing to a bulletin issued by the depart ment of agriculture. This bulletin shows that of the 80,388 miles of pub lic road in Nebraska only 250 miles, are surfaced roads. North Dakota alone shows as small a percentage. * • • Prosecution of Robert Fay and oth er persons connected with the alleged plots to interfere with the export oi munitions from the United States to j the allies in Europe will be under- | taken by the department of justice. » » * Ordinary receipts of the federal government increased about $11 000,000 during October, compared with that month last year, their total being $55,343,113. The principal in crease was in ordinary internal reve nue receipts, which totaled $33,818, 637, an increase of about $9,800,000. * • • Although the Department of Com merce has agreed to co-operate with the new American Overseas corpora tion, it was learned that there has been no formal governmental ap proval of the project through the State department. * • * Combined earnings of the twelve federal reserve banks for the three months ending September 30 amount ed to $599,813, while the current ex penses for the same period were $394,630, according to figures made public by the federal reserve board. SUFFRAGE IS BEATEN VOTES FOR WOMEN DEFEATED BV BIG MAJORITIES IN EAST. FIRST POPULAR VOTE ON ISSUE Amendment Loses Three to One In Pennsylvania—Prohibition Re jec-ted Again in Ohio. New York.—New York, Massachus etts and Pennsylvania defeated suf frage for women by overwhelming ma jorities in Tuesday's election. This is the first popular vote on the suf frage question In the eastern states. New Jersey, the only other eastern state that has voted on the question, defeated the proposition at a special election on October 19, by a majority of 56,000. In none of these four states will the women have the op portunity of getting the suffrage prop osition before the voters again for some time—four years in New York; five in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and two in Massachusetts. The anti suffrage voting appears from the re turns thus far given to have been the strongest in Pennsylvania, where the ratio is roughly estimated as high as three to one against suffrage. Massa chusetts appears to have been next with a ratio of about two to one, while New Y'ork state, as had been expected, from the fact that the campaign had been waged so strongly there, had the closest ratio, of about four to three. Notwithstanding the heavy anti suffrage majorities, women leaders claim to see some reason for jubila tion because it was realized that tho states where their cause was on trial were considered conservative strong holds.. One general phase of the voting is that the anti-suffrage ratios were quite as strong in the large cities, where the suffragists naturally centered their campaigns, as in the rural dis tricts, where there was less cam paign activity. New York City, with oniy 161 districts missing out of 2,079 districts, gave 302,233 against suffrage as compared with 212,486 for the amendment at Buffalo, the second largest city in the state, Rochester. Albany, Troy, and a majority of tire cities of the state went against suf frage by unquestionable majorities. In Boston, the anti-suffragists show ed overwhelming strength, while in Philadelphia, the ratio in most of the election districts first heard from, in dicated a vote of ten to one in oppo sition to giving women the vote. The voters of New York also de feated unequivocally the proposal to adopt a new state constitution. The vote against this measure is estimated at 250,OCO at least The state of Vir ginia elected a state legislature pledged to enact measures in 1916 pro hibiting the sale of intoxicants. Democratic successes were recorded in Mississippi. All the candidates of this party for both branches of the state legislature were returned. Returns from the election in Mary land indicated the election of M. C. Harrington, democrat, as governor, over O. E. Weller, republican. Republicans Win in Bay State. Boston.—From all indications Sam uel W. McCall, republican, was elect ed governor of Massachusetts, defeat ing Governor David 1. Walsh, demo crat, in a close contest. The balance of the republican state ticket was elected and the republicans made a net gain of twelve seats in the lower branch of the legislature, with no change in the senate. The woman suffrage amendment was defeated de cisively. With thirty precincts miss ing, the vote was: Yes, 147,260; no, 270,788. Ohio Votes Wet Again. Columbus, O.—For the second time in two years, Ohio voters rejected a state-wide prohibition amendment to the constitution. Estimates based on partial returns show that the pro posal was defeated by a majority which may reach 40,000. Last year’s majority against prohibition was 84,000. Detroit Against Purchase. Detroit.—Detroit voters rejected the proposition to purchase from the Detroit United railway the street car lines and property within the one fare zone. The plan, which, to be successful, required a two-thirds majority, received less than 50 per cent of the votes cast, according to available figures. Food for British Prisoners. London.—Travelers arriving from Scandinavia say reports are current there that the British government is now supplying food to British prison ers in Germany. Soldiers Immune From Divorce. London.—Divorce cases against of ficers and men serving at the front will have to stand over until they re turn to Great Britain. Such was the decision of Justice Deane when asked to serve divorce petition upon an of ficer at war. Coal Sells at $30 a Ton. Rome.—The price of coal having risen to $30 a ton, arrangements are being made to Import coal from Japan, where it is obtainable at 6 yen ($3) a ton. A Sharp Fellow. The weather man’s a crafty one. And though we seldom heed him. He works on such a clever plan. He makes us think we need him. Inefficient Efficiency. ‘‘Dismiss that new efficiency ex . Pert, ’ thundered the corporation presi dent. Why?" queried the managing di rector. “He’s insisting that we save money by not having wrecks rather than on the wages of switchmen.” FARM HORSE FILLS IMPORTANT PLACE A Money-Maker on Any Farm. (By C. M. SCHULZ.) When the active working season on the farm will have a little let up, the farmer can have a moment to spare to ascertain of what value his brood mares have been. He will remember, in the first place, that they have each given birth this season and have raised to weaning age a nice promising colt that bids fair to develop into a good salable horse later on. These youngsters are increasing in value and as they are yearlings now will help to make their living next season as two year o-ds. The brood mare$ have also done much farm and road work. Probably I make a mistake in cred iting each mare with a colt every ye*; so it is safer to say that count ing for accidents a mare should aver age two colts every three years. It would be rather a hard matter to say just what product she will give her owner each year of her working and breeding life. So much depends on her quality and especially upon her capacity as a sure breeder and like wise as a good mother. Mares, like cows, differ greatly in their flow of milk and many times a medium-sized animal with heavy milk flow capacity will raise a bigger and better colt than a much larger ani mal whose milk flow is insufficient. The practical horse breeder and the farmer of experience is well aware of these facts and one will often be sur prised to see farmers keep breeding mares that to the uninitiated appear to be indifferent specimens. Say that a farmer has bought a mare in January for $150. She is five years old and he breeds her in March. The stud fee is $25, but the money is not due unless the mare proves to be in foal. The colt has cost $25 at birth and at weaning time, four months later, he would be worth, if a good individ ual and a good grade, say, $40. By next spring he should be worth $75. and at two years old should bring $100 to $125. Now he can be put to work. From then until he is four years old he should earn his feed—say $75 a year—and give a profit of $25 per year, although $50 wou’d be nearer the mark. At four years of age he should be worth $200, Judging from the way well-bred, well-broken and well-kept horses are row selling. We will say that a breeder is lucky enough to have raised a pair of four year-olds, sound, good lookers, hearty, with snap and style, weighing from 1,200 to 1,400 pounds each, for the pair $400 can easily be had in any of the big markets. These are not fanciful figures but aro based upon actual experience of everyday farmers of breeding, raising and selling colts. Every farmer should, if possible, keep one or more good brood mares, not fcroken-winded, worn-out, city hacks, but sound, well-shaped, well bred animals that possess indlvidal merit and whose progeny will sell readily when the dealer comes along. Any breeder cf experience knows well that almost as much depends on the brood mares as upon the stallion in the raising of any breed Of good horses. Many colts take their conformation from their mother, espeeiaily from their shoulders back. For instance, if a mare has wide, ragged hips, her colts are most liable to tniierit this tendency. Many colts also inherit their dispositions from theb* dams. Brood mares should be sound, of quiet disposition, strongly Ymilt, and they should be well cared for. The mare can be worked up to a week or two before the colt is dropped. In fact, she is better off for the regular exercise, but she should be handled by a careful man, who will not excite her, and Bbe should have a roomy box stall for her sleep ing quarters. Although many may disagree with me, I am firmly convinced from nearly 30 years’ experience cm breeding farms, that it is a risky business pur chasing aged mares, who have spent the best years of their lives doing work in the cities, and trying to make brood mares of them. In the first place when a mare has arrived at that age, and has never had a colt, her chances of getting in foal are lessened each year. Furthermore, it Is safe to say that a reasonable proportion of these mares have slunked their colts, and for this reason they have been sent from the farm and sold in the cities, where they can do excellent work. FENCING FOR SHEEP IS TOUGH PROBLEM Most Sheep Raisers Use Woven Wire From 30 to 40 Inches High—Put Barbs on Top. (By E. RUSSELL. North Dako'a Agricul tural College.) The fencing problem has always loomed up big to the beginner in rais ing sheep. It is not, however, a very difficult one if it is undertaken in an intelligent manner. It does pot re quire a heavy fence to hold sheep, though barbed wire will not make sat isfactory sheep fence. Most sheep raisers use a fence constructed of woven wire from 30 to 42 inches high, with five to nine horizontal wizes and 16 to 20 stays to the rod. Any fence coming inside these limits, if put up with a post each 14 to 16 feet, will prove satisfactory for sheep. If a 40 inch woven wire is used it should have at least one barbed wire on top of it. It usually pays to put one or two \ barbed wires on top of the woven wire, j however, as this will make a fence | that will turn horses and cattle as j well as sheep. Clay Soil Fertility. *To keep the fertility of clay soils it is necessary to add considerable vegetable matter. This is best done by using all available manure and in addition by turning under an occasion al second crop of clover or other legume. Even in the natural state clay soils rarely contain much hu mus. The supply of phosphorus is also limited and should he Increased by the addition of phosphate fertilizer to sup plement the farm manure. Picking Chickens. Instead of dipping fowls in scalding water to get the feathers off—if you will use that poor way of picking—put boiling water in a wash boiler or some big vessel, lay sticks on the top of it to set the fowls on, then let the water boil hard. The steam will loosen the plumage without wetting it. Turn the birds over and over until the feathers come off easily. Do not leave them over the steam long at a time. Consumption of Poultry. It has been estimated that 250,000, 000 chickens and other kinds of poul try are annually consumed in the United States. Poultry Most Profitable. Poultry keeping is more profitable than dairying—for the man who likes poultry better than be does. cows. Benefit of Trap Nest. The trap nest has destroyed the peace and happiness of the slothful en TRIED CURES FOR POULTRY DISEASES Avoid Leg Weakness in Chicks by Proper Feeding—Remedy for Swelled Head. Leg weakness in (thicks is often due to the food being of a fattening na true, and the bedim, in consequence, become too heavy for the muscular strength of the chick’s legs. There should be bran fo the soft food that la fed, It being om of the best bone and muscle foodn that could be given. Afflicted chick!? (should be given quinine water dvlty—made by dissolv ing five grains ot quinffie in a quart of drinking wfftir. Also add bone meal and charcoAi, and also give green food daily. Very often fowls, from some unex plainable cavse. will become afflicted with .swelled h”5td and fever. Ex posure to a draft of air. while roost ing at night, however, is the most com mon reason, in which case the eye nearest the draff becomes first af fected. In itself, swelled head is not roup, but when tr-o lumps appear it is one of the first e*»:ges of that disease. A very good treatment is to mix one part spirits of ^lrpentine and four parts of sweet oT. With this anoint the head, face ar c! comb daily. Then give, twice a da’, a pill composed of equal parts of bte-mide of potash and quinine—the pill to weigh one grain. Add, in addition, a teaspoonful of chlorate of potsth to each quart of drinking water. The looseness of the bowels of a fowl general!?'i? clue to something it has eaten. Iicftase the amount of middlings in tho hash, and add a teaspoonful of charcoal every day to each quart of Soft food. Fowls should have charcoal at ’■east twice a week. Concrete fat poultry Floor. In making g, concrete floor tor the poultry house or collar, have the earth as firm as the uafural condition, tamp it if you please, sjread two inches of coarse sand, wet ft down and apply the concrete while wet three-fourths inch thick. It wTU hold for all pur poses except driving on. Winter Wallvw for Hens. Don’t forget to father In road dust or sifted coal ashen, so that the hens will have something to wallow in this winter. * Capacity of Colony House. With the portab;e colony house 25 hens are about as many as can be kept in one flock, sod In the perma nent house 50 hens are the limit Utility of the 8ilo. The man that doubts the utility of the silo is the man that hasn't one. What Came Up. "London's a dreary sort of place, and the smoke's something awful!" the returned countryman was telling his ewed village friends. “It's so thick, the air is, that I wonder anything grows there. 1 planted some corn in a box on my window sill, to remind me of home, and what do you think came up?” “One suggested wheat, while anoth er thought oats more likely. But most of them remained silent, looking at their venturesome friend with re spect. 'All wrong!” said the returned trav eler, presently. “A policeman came up and told me to take the box down at once!” -- Not for Himself. Donald, a boy of ten years, had been sent to an apothecary store and told to get a package of cigarettes for his father and a rubber nipple for his baby sister’s nursing bottle. The druggist declined to give the boy the cigarettes fearing that he wanted them for him self. Indignant because of this im pugning of hi* veracity after he had said that the cigarettes were for his father, the boy said: “Huh! I s’pose you think that the nipple is for me, too, don’t you?”— Judge. Motor Troubles. “I suppose you find tire troubles the most expensive item in the upkeep of your touring car?” “No, I can’t say that I do. With me the big expense is attire trouble. My wife and daughter can’t go on a fifty-1 mile trip without laying Hi a new stock of dry goods.” Can’t Beat ’Em. "The boss notified me last night that I’m to have a raise in salary." “Good for you. Take my tip, old man, and don’t tell your wife about it.” “Oh she knew about it two weeks ago. The boss’ wife told her.” i . . Improving an Opportunity. Burroughs—I know a man who, looks so much like you that one could ! hardly tell you apart. Lenders—You haven’t paid him that fiver I lent you three months ago, have you?—Boston Evening Tran script. Friendly Suggestion. Alyce—I'm learning to paint on china. Grayce—Don’t you find it hard to become accustomed to such a hard surface? The Worst Way. “What sort of fellow is Jib worth?’’ “Very impractical. He’s the sort of man who would elect to take a sight seeing trip in a submarine.” His Idea of It. Johnnie—Paw, when does a man get to be too old to learn? Paw—When he gets too old to marry. His Uppermost Thought. Mrs. Blank—How had I better have my new dress made? Blank—Small in the bill. .. » NOT SUITABLE FOR THE NAVY Would-Be Sailors Hardly Understood the Duties Required of Fighters on the Ships of U. S. They tell a story about a certain secretary of the navy who had never seen a ship, and who exclaimed, when he began to explore a man-of-war, “Good gracious, it’s hollow! This is an unlikely yarn, but it is a fact that there are people who apparently know as little about a ship as a Sioux In dian. Some weeks ago a man visited the receiving ship Wabash, lying at the Charlestown (Mass.) navy yard, and said he would like to ship, but would not enlist if he could not be given work to which he was accustomed. He was not enlisted, for he would be useless. He was a paperhanger. Another man went aboard and asked to see the captain. He was in formed that that official was very busy. He then made his errand known to the officer of the deck. He wanted to enlist and care for the cap tain’s horse, for he was a stableman. Another wanted to enlist as a ship's roofer, and once a gardener called to obtain employment. Flowers and gar dens are scarce on board of a United States man-of-war, so he failed to en ter the service. Welcome Change. “You look very smiling this morn ing, Binks,” said Harkaway. “I guess I ought to be. I went to a fortune teller last night and she prophesied immediate financial re verses,” chortled Binks. “I fail to see anything very joy ous in that,” said Harkaway. "You would, if you knew anything about my finances,’’ said Binks. “I tell you right now that if they don’t reverse pretty dinged quick I’ll be busted.” Steals 500 “Movie” Tickets. When Peter Packa. fifteen years old, was arrested yesterday on suspicion of having attempted to rob a store, it was found that he had 500 tickets to the United States Garden theater, a moving picture house, in his pockets. "I just unscrewed the binges off the box office door and took ’em,” he told the police. “I'd have had free movies for more'n a year if you feller's hadn’t got wise to me.”—New York World. Emulation. "Mrs. Comeup has got a spaniel water dog.” “She has, has she? Then I’m going to make your pa get me one of them air ocean greyhounds.” In Days of Yore. Daughter—When father was young wasn't he more romantic? Mother—He was less rheumatic.— Judge. Sentiment. She—Do you realize what a girl's first kiss means to her? He—Yes—lots more like it. What Did She Mean? He—I am going to kiss you when I go. She—Leave this house at once, sir! Nothing Stops ' This Man The man with vigorous, virile health, and a clear } mind, who brushes away obstacles, and rejoices m overcoming difficulties, is bound to succeed His is the joyous outlook on life. Physical and mental conditions like these come largely through propier eating—“Food makes the man." Now it is a fact — attested by food experts — that the modern dietary is woefully lacking in the very elements that put success into a mam. They sure the mineral salts—Phosphate of Potash, etc. White ■ bread is almost wholly lacking in them. But there is one food that richly supplies these vital elements, and that food is Grape-Nuts Made from whole wheat and barley. Grape-Nuts contains all the nutriment of the grain, including the valuable mineral salts, it is easily digested, is concen trated and has delicious taste. A daily ration of Grape Nuts along with other food helps build vigorous bodies and keen brains. “There’s a Reason” —sold by Grocers everywhere