Nebraska Newspapers

    MAY IMPOSE THE TAX
ailUNG IN CASE APPLIES to
NEBRASKA
UTE NEWS FROM E4PIT0L
it*—s :» .r-r-a interest Gatne-ed
fro — H .:i Sc urges Arcana tfi#
State Houae
W * t'r.j ,e Newk service.
•*•> of a tale Fool is much in
ter ill a decision o. me v «i.ni
>•- -preme court, in a case irom
'Ula where a state law imposing
as c- or cx»ise tax on corpo
Tu ij:..- a ing an interstate business,
-us-d -p n their capital stuck, was
upheld
~■ i-. n appears to be on th<
s*m point w an b Judge T C. Muager
•-1 b* t •< Mates court recently de
<-•-<* m ts. • of ’ne -rate of Nebraska
a* aga ast the Rack island railroad
Be r-’ary o: state Fool, with the as
awtat e of the state legal depart
men' had sued to recover the maxi
tn-r tax of for three years
pa- tBsteau »! the |;.ib a year ten
de-.-i and pa.d by the railroad com
pair
Attorney* tor the R..- k island have1
»un -_n d their intention oi appeal
-t-T t.u: in - rw o ft he supreme court's
o- • in the faUfnmia ca.-e this
tna* a l - • — proceeding Secre
1 I written to Washington
' t a j f the court's opinion, in
• me 1. w sely it may
'<• the Neb-:is»a litigation
't • nttos of the Rock Island.
*n l j.• Muttger overrul-d. was
hai t at# of Nebraska eann >t tm
* t..x -a any more of the capital
-’ * i Lac empl .ywd in the busi
n* - -if the rai.-oad corporation in this
-'a'- lie he-d that it must pay on
c, retire capi'al stock, the tax not
b».re tied n tt» property in the
►'at- t:ut !<■* the privilege of doing
bit elite* s here
Peas Su a -j m Nebraska
At a re * *.' u»- • eng of the Lincoln
• • - u ■ tab. there >ui a general
a. ..a uf the convict road law
a •• ! !' -he late legislature The
--re an appropriation of $.‘»tU'O0
i 1- u-e-i by *he U ard of control in
the pari, base ,.f a He and equipment
•f a ji .nr lor manufacturing purposes, I
> r»vi for th-- u>« and benefit
• sta’e in th<- empb yruent of con i
net* at the penitentiary Following
r»p •*“» tr im I»r Condra and Prof
hatt>arn of the state ur.. -sity. State
Kng.&eer Johnson and other*, the club
adopted r»-., .non- urging the hoard
of control to investigate the use of
• mn> ■ labor ts the va-ious states
• fl. *fc* . i~a of ptrting Into effect
seta-e t > V KKi, and 'hat such part
uf fu t appropriated and now
a 1*1 »: .e a- may be necessary-, be ex
ts r. led !< r the purchase of a site, ma
rt tfiery and equipment for the opera
"ion ' * piah’ for the making of brick,
nr fe-*;:g tber road building rna
•ert. and thu- conserving the re
• ur e* of *ur s'ate and further urges
the t* i-rd of i&trol to purchase such
tu tuner und equipment as is nec
e-ssary to t as.e the convict road law
Ofaflths
State Fair inc-ease* Production
Tt V. hr.i-«.a sta'e fair board it
going ahead »ith its plans for the
!h!" !».• ••-garcUess of war tondi
ttMM
Indite - -he board expects the
'r ’ -f rn an important serv
»< - *i the nation, inasmuch as Sec
tr'vrr K R Danielson pointed out
•e t* expokitton always tends to
it, - re* -e production of Nebraska's
farm*
"It ha* been the experience of
( anada said Mr Danielson, who
ha- just reminded an investigation
there 'hat war ha* increased in
tere in the fairs, and all of the
• as jt province# reported the
larr • a"- - dan •• last rear in their
history **
Ac-eape Is Much Inc-eased
Ar: t -no of 21 per cent in the
Nebra.-ka acreage devoted to oats;
t f »: per cent in the acreage for
*nd 5* per cent in corn is
■■ t» »t ib 'he monthly crop report
•sue! *■ the Nebraska state board
of aim ’utv Thi* does not take
eto b utt 'he thousands of acres
d-vo'ed to -leans this rear and the
Mg ik-t-u* in gardens.
Tf. report indicate* that much of
'he ava; able land in the state, which
•»o ... 'lowed to remain idle in
!"■ rears has been utilised in
>ig drive to increase the food
V" ' non of the Fornhusker state
“'em md central Nebraska will
tit ihiadly prove Nebraska's big
t ' id .. -«e- the flrsj report show
Irg the lews' amount of crop dam
•g • -i du» to the severe winter
and the largest increases In acre
age
The repo" sounds a warning to
Nebraska tanners to make sure of
their wheat seed for next fall.
W Not Be Enough Seed Wheat
-antj.- in Nebraska will not
ie»C- e ugh wheat to make seed
’ r n, n rear's crop is the startling
* ■' • •ri’ of the committee, recentlv
*: ;• • ed to take an inventory of the
v at ■ ret,r» and prospects this year
Tt>e I'm- !»•*« ha* Just made its re
l' - ' ’ t-< lustra is that there
> res of winter wheat
; ’*■' lt- prin*. one-tenth of
that son Added to this that which
•arvired is rejected Io ^ buJ 50
per
lent ia a* rood e nditioa as the ten
year average at this time
Sev. .U* r. roads into the ranks of
ten e . lu jtors in Nebraska have al
res ;> b ~n mad* by the war. according
to reports reach tig the state superin
tet ':-1 ■ t cft< e. and it might not be
surpr: - ng if spec lal branches of work
• oukl Ei»e to be discontinued. Dr.
rirn-E m* e»i»-<is that the male por
■OB of the trashing forces of the state
w.H be ttimed badly as a result of
ta-usteenag for war service.
lit half a dozen places Nebraska ed
wcators have already offered their
t-rrt. » to ec presid' u: for military
•* ' I
CLASSES IN CANNING
Th.rty Two-Day Courses in Systematic
Instruction
The cla.-ses in canning held re
cently at the state university and
last we*-k at Wesleyan mark only
:Le beginning of a systematic in
-'ruction in canning thruout the
' ate of Nebraska which is being un
ii* -taKen by the university exten
tun service. During the month of
June about thirty schools, each
main’aining two-dav courses, will be
ablished in Nebraska cities.
Nebraska university opened its
-< hool with an enrollment of over
Wesleyan followed with about
seventy five At universities all uni
versity women were admitted to the
-purses, but the summer schools
will be open only to those promising
to give volunteer service in teach
ing other? In short, the extension
servire, which furnishes only expe
rienced feathers in home economics,
is endeavoring to instruct instruc
tors All women taking the course
pledge themselves to repeat the
course for others, either in their
locality or among the members of
the organization which they repre
?ent Exact record of the work thus
done will be kept.
Plans for State Fair Exhibits.
The Nebraska state horticultural
~ iety held its annual meeting at the
I.imiell hotel Friday night Plans for
'he state fair horticultural exhibit j
•• • re di-< u-sed and a committee, con
-i-ting of Prof I F Howard. L. C j
1 hapin and Grove Porter, was ap
pointed to take care of this exhibit
and plan its arrangement and new
features The society also prepared
tne premium list The secretary's
* "t sh .wed a fair fruit crop over
th»- state The large fruit is in fine
>nditi .a A bumper crop of apples
it exp- ted The small fruits have
sufiere ] m re or less from freezing
last winter Grapes were the hardest
hit It was said that only a 50 per
ent cr p can be expected. The offi
> ers for the coming year were sworn
into . f? .e They were as follows;
President. Prof I F Howard. Lincoln;
first vice president. L. C. Chapin. Lin
oln: second vice president. D C.
B'i-=. Minden: treasurer. Peter Young
ers. Geneva: secretary. Grove Porter,
Nebraska City These men. with W.
A Harrison of York. A M Shubert of
Shubert and J J Brown of Geneva
are the new board of directors.
State's Finances in Good Shape
The balance in the general fund
has increased from $156,. to $27>.
according to the monthly re
p..r- of State Treasurer Hall.
The total balance in all funds in
■ rea-ed from $1.20n.r.fi0 to $1,525,000.
The temporary school fund has in it
$411 0—one of the largest for ap
p. rrionment ever made.
Treasurer Hall is certifying the
mount of the present app rtionment
• S’ate Superintendent Clemmons,
who will distribute it according tc
the pr visions of the new law It
wi!' be based on the enumeration of
- hool children in each district in
stead of daily average attendance
in school
Educational trust funds invested at
•he present time amount to $9,940.
369. not including the $500,000 which
tie s-a*e recently spent for liberty
bonds.
_
May Uae From Activities Fund
Out of the 3-4-niill tax levy for spe
cial activities of the state university !
and its branches, made by the last :
legislature. salaries and administra !
tive expenses may lawfully be paid, ]
according to an official opinion given
by Attorney General Reed at the re- j
quest of Dr P L Hall, one of the
members of the board of regents. Here
tofore the salaries have been paid out
of the general maintenance fund
Nebraska's winter wheat crop will
be less than 10 per cent of the yield
last year. This is according to care- j
ful statistics compiled under the di
rection of George Coupland, food con
servation member of the Nebraska
council of defense
Anticipates Draft for N. N. G.
Draft of able bodied citizens be
tween 19 and 45 to fill the ranks ol
the Nebraska national guard is antic! i
pated by Adjutant General Phil Hall j
President Wilson has power to enforce
a draft for this purpose independent
of the -elective draft authorized un
d«r the recent army bill.
The adjutant general says that the
Nebraska troops are about 700 men be
hind war strength—about 400 in the
Fifth regiment and 300 in the Fourth
regiment The draft, if the president
see- fit under his authority to exercise
i». will be a strictly military conscrip
tioi; differing in its volunteer char
actertotics from the civilian draft.
The two Nebraska regiments have
nl> a month and a half before being
mustered into federal service This
muster will alsc include about 100 na
-ional guard reserves, created under
-he national defense act of June 3.
1916
Two hundred and twe-ty-five local i
farm labor agencies, operating under
a central bureau at Lincoln, main
•ained by the federal government, have
been organized in Nebraska to aid
in the work of securing necessary help
ers and placing them where needed
About sixty of these are at county
seats and the remainder in other
towns More are being organized
daily Each community leader will re
port weekly to the county agent at 1
•he county seat and the latter will in
turn send in a report for the county
to Supervisor Rhoades at Lincoln.
For Referendum of Limited Suffrage
Blank petitions for the referendum
on the limited suffrage law passed
by the last legislature are now be
ing mailed out from Omaha, on' let
terheads of “the Nebraska associa
tion opposed to suffrage." This let
terhead bears the names of about
thirty women, some cf whom are
the wives of prominent men in Lin
coln. Omaha. Fremont and other
cities of the state. Mrs. Edward
Porter Peck Is chairman. Mrs. William
A. Smith secretary, and Mrs. C. C.
George treasurer.
MINOR NOTES FROM ALL
PARTSJtf NEBRASKA
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.
June 15 to 24-—Nebraska State Holi
ness Association camp meeting at
Lincoln.
June 1S-20—Nebraska Press Associa
tion Annual Convention at Omaha.
June 18 to 24—National "Red Cross"
Week.
June lb—Annual Meeting State Phar
maceutical Association Meeting at
North Platte.
June 19-20—Nebraska State Sunday
School Convention at Omaha.
June 25 to 27—International Ass'n.
of Railway Special Agents and Pte
lice Meeting at Omaha.
June 20-29—Semi-Centennial Celebra
tion at North Platte.
July 28 to 28—State Tennis Tourna
ment at Superior.
August 0 to 18—Farm Tractor Dem
onstration at Fremont.
September 3 to 7—Nebraska State
Fair at Lincoln.
Joe Spiser. 14 years old, 562G
South Twenty-third street. Omaha,
pinched a two-year-old Easter egg too
hard. It exploded and he was over
come with the smell. He was uncon
scious for more than two hours and it
required the work of Police Surgeon
Shanahan with the pulnmtor to bring
him to. It has always been the cus
tom of the family to save all Easter
eggs.
Recruits to the Nebraska National
Guards will serve only during the
war emergency, according to orders
from Washington. The effect of tliis
order, it is believed, will tend towards
bringing the Fourth and Fifth Ne
braska regiments to full war strength
within a very short time.
O'Neill citizens have finally con
cluded that tile sandy streets of the
town cannot he made into sightly
boulevards without living paved. Bus
iness men along the main street pe
titioned tlie city council to establish
a paring district, which they did.
Work will begin soon.
G. C. Porter, of Omaha, state secre
tary for Nebraska of the socialist
party, resigned his position, declar
ing he could not sympathize with cer
tain elements within the party to op
pose conscription.
The badlj decomposed body of Joe
Dresvo, drowned in the Blue river
near Crete. May 2ti. was found reeent
!y. Drevo had gone fishing tlie day
he was drowned. A $60 reward was
offered for the recovery of the hody.
Dodge county farmers are rushing
grain to elevators. Wiliam Settles,
prominent farmer. living near Morse
Bluff, sold 11.000 bushels of corn for
$1.52 a bushel, receiving a total of
$16,720.
Eleven new members have enlisted
in company G at Hastings, bringing
tiic company up to eightv-five men. A
special effort is being made to recruit
to war strength by July 1.
«»ne prominent farmer of Richard
son county estimates that 40 per cent
of his winter wheat crop was saved
and declares this may he a fair esti
mate for the entire county.
Gibbon has organized a company of
home guards with a membership of
thirty. The town lias already con
tributed twenty men to fight for
Uncle Sam.
Red Cloud is to pave six and one
half blocks in the business district.
The bids are to he opened June 29.
Mrs. Phillipu Ranks, who diet! sud
denly at her home at DeWitt, was
tlie mother of nineteen children.
York's volunteer fire department
has purchased $1,000 worth of Liberty
loan bonds.
The heavy rains in the vicinity of
Auburn have necessitated the re
planting of many acres of corn.
Contract has heen let for paving
two districts in the residence part of
Superior with asphalt.
A delegation of Knight Templar
from North Platte escorted the hody
of Colonel William F. Cody (Ruffalo
Bill) to his last resting place when
the remains were interred in a
grave Wasted from solid rock on the
top of Lookout mountain, near Den
ver, on Sunday. June 2. The cere
mony was attended by 10,000 people.
A total of $3,400 has been subscrib
ed in the east central district of Ne
braska toward the Y. M. C. A. war
work fund. Committees have under
taken to raise $4,000. and they are
confident of getting this amount.
During a heavy electrical storm at
Kimball, the fourth toe of one of Mrs.
Barrett’s feet was taken off by light
ning, and her daughter. Mrs. Butter
field had her heel split open, when
lightning struck the Butterfield home.
Mrs. Barrett’s toe was taken off as
clean as if had been amputated with
a surgeon's knife.
The York Board of Education has
elected Prof. Janies B. Crabbe. of
Laramie. Wyo.. superintendent of the
York public schools for the ensuing
year.
Roy Markham, treasurer of the
High School alumni at North Bend
and prominent young merchant, was
drowned in Clear Lake, near Xortli
Bend. Searchers found his faithful
dog sitting beside his clothing.
A charter has been granted for the
new Citizens’ State hank, recently or
ganized at Lyons, with a capital
stock of $.'>0,000. A new building site
is to he erected as soon as possible.
A deal has been closed for a plant j
to be installed in Thedford to furnish
heat, light and power for public use
in the town.
For the first time in more than I
twenty years snow fell in this state in
June. A large area of the western
part of the state was covered with
snow to a depth of one to three
inches June 2.
A Farmers' Fnion Co-Operative as
sociation has been formed at Verdon.
its purpose being to sell and buy
grain, live stock and all farm prod
ucts.
Hundreds of acres of corn in Dodge
county were washed out by recent
heavy rains and will have to be re
planted.
County Judge E. M. Slattery of
Dawes county bound over S. Maloney,
H. Wolf. \V. S. Dolan, t!us Tylee, P.
Winkler and C. W. Pipkin, all of
Omaha, and Alton (1. Fisher, L. K.
Mote and O. 1. Day of < 'hadron to the
district court, bond being fixed at
$o00 for each defendant, on charges
of conspiracy to blackmail County At
torney Ed <'rites of Dawes county
and Mrs. Robert Hood of Chadrou.
after one of the most dramatic ses
sions ever held in the county court at
Chadron. Trial of the case was set
for June 17J.
Charles H. Tully, ,V» years old. pio- I
ueer stockman and prominent member
of the democratic party, died at his
home in Alliance after a sudden at
tack of apoplexy. Two days before
his death. Mr. Tully had received me
tification of his appointment . a
member of the newly created perma
nent state forestratiou commission by
Governor Neville.
Notwithstanding refusal by state
authorities to allow the sale of stock
until after an Investigation by a geol
ogist, citizens of Red (’loud are pro
moting the P.ig Chief Oil and Gas
company to bore for oil in the vicin
ity. and have decided to go ahead
with the work. It is said chances of
finding oil around Red Cloud are very
favorable.
————
HERMAN BLACK.
Ihiblisher of the Chicago Evening
American, who will deliver an ad
dress at the annual convention of
the Nebraska Press Association at
Omaha. June 19.
A flag which had been raised over
tiie school house in District No. 17.
Sherman township Gage county,
with appropriate ceremony and left
flying to the breeze during the night,
was found the next morning torn to
shreds and tied to the door knob of
the school house. The sheriff is look
ing for the culprit, who will he stern
ly dealt with if caugiit.
D. F. Ensign, the young man who ,
was beaten by a mob after making an
unpatriotic remark in Omaha, after
being released from jail, appeared at
one of Omaha’s recruiting stations
and wanted to enlist in the National
Guard. The National Guard refused
to take him. “We need men. but
we don't want such men." he was 1
told by the officer.
Holdrege. Columhos. Chadrnn. Bea
ver City, Orleans, Oakland. Arcadia.
Bostwick. Hebron. Arthur. Decatur
Clay Center. Pender. Cambridge. Wa
hoo, Madison. Portsmouth. Nelson.
Syracuse, Clarks. Hemingford, Almu
and Omaha have offered to raise com
panies for the new Sixth Nebraska
regiment, recently authorized.
The foundation for the new Meth
odist church to lie erected at Ames
has been installed and work on the
structure has begun. The edifice will
cost $3,000.
North Platte is to hold a Semi
Centennial celebration during the
week of June 2o.
Cellars were filled with water, out
buildings blown away, trees uprooted
and heavy damage done to gardens |
and crops in eastern Nebraska by a
terrific wind and rain storm that vis
ited tiie region last Tuesday night.
Almost the entire town of Papillion
was deluged under five feet of water
as the result of a cloudburst, which
caused Pappio creek, running through
the center of town to overflow.
Much of the corn that was planted
early around Ord was washed out by
the recent heavy ruins and a great
deal of the corn is slow in sprouting.
In spite of the cold, wet weather,
and. although many farmers over the
state have had to replant their com.
corn crop prospects for this year are
much brighter than in any previous
year, according to railroad crop re
ports.
The Mitchell Comnninity club pass
ed a resolution at its last regular
meeting giving its unqualified endorse
ment to the Scoftshluff County Coun- i
oil of Defense, recently organized,
and the State and National Councils :
of Defense.
Harold Edgerton. a 14-year-old An- j
rnra !>oy. upon completing his first
$100 in the savings hank at once
made application for a Liberty bond
from the Fidelity National bank. This ,
$100 represents fourteen years saving
of gifts end earnings on the part of
the boy.
The Lincoln Commercial club has
gone on record favoring the use of
convicts on Nebraska roads. a*d
urges state authorities to engage in
the making of brick or other suitable
road building material under the law
passed by the last legislature.
At the Nebraska yearly meeting of :
Friends at Central City a campaign j
was launched for $75,000 to be appro
priated for the joint endowment com
mittee of the college and church ex
tension boards.
The Alfalfa Land company of Hay
Springs reiterates its offer of 10.0*10
acres of land free to anyone who
would use it for agricultural pnr- S
poses. The land is situated in Sheri
dan county.
Omaha has annexed two more sub
urbs, Benson and Florence, and now
claims a population of 214,000.
PERSHING IN EUROPE
VANGUARD OF OVERSEAS CON
TINGENT SAFE IN WAR ZONE.
PARTY GIVEN GREAT OVATION
Sailing of Pershing and Staff Kept
Secret.—No Announcement As to !
When Troops Will Follow.
London.—A British trans-atlantle
steamer came slowly into her mooring
in a British jiort last Friday morning
with tlie most interesting complement
of passengers she ever had carried
during her years of plying between
American and English ports.
Tlie passengers consisted of the
staff of the First division of the
American army that will co-operate !
with tlie British and French armies on
French soil in the world war—General
John .T. Pershing and ids personal
staff and the officers of the genera!
staff, numbering nearly sixty.
There also were on hoard about
seventy private soldiers, a clerical
force of the same number, u score of
British officers from Canada and a
large party of adventurous civilians,
including several women.
The voyage over from America was
an uneventful one. No submarines
were encountered. Tlie weather was
good and the sea smooth.
American destroyers convoyed the
ship all the way. British destroyers
met them 100 miles off the Irish j
coast.
The coming of tlie American sol
diers Imd been kept secret outside the
official circles, and there was no
crowd gathered at the pier.
Tiler* was. however, a large group
of Britisli admiralty officers at the
landing station to welcome the van
guard of the first contingent of Ameri
can troops to aid the allies in their
battle for liberty. Pershing aud his
party were given a great ovation at
tlie British port and upon their ar
rival in London.
Two Hundred in Party.
Washington.—Major General Per
shing. whose safe arrival in England
has been announced, lias with him
108 officers, enlisted men and other
attaches. The party sailed more than
a week ago without any publicity be
ing given to their departure despite
the fact that it was known to some
American newspapers. Reports from
Paris declared sites for the camps of
American troops had been selected.
Presumably General Pershng will in
spect these and make complete ar
rangements for tlie reception of his
troops.
No information as to the composi
tion of the American force, or when j
it may be exported to reach France,
has been given out beyond the original
statement that a division of regular
troops supplemented by a regiment of 1
marines would be sent at the earliest
practicable date.
Quake Destroys Towns.
San Juan I Vs Sur. Nicaragua.—Sar.
Salvador. Santa Tecla and neighbor
ing towns and villages were destroy
ed in an earthquake which lasted
throughout Thursday night of last
week, according to advices received
here from the president of Nicaragua.
Volcano in Eruption.
Washington.—Dispatches from Am- j
erican Minister Lone at San Salvador, I
sent while the volcano of San Salva
dor was erupting, said part of the city
had been destroyed hy fire, and that
great damage was done.
San Salvador is about three miles
southeast of the volcano of San Sal
vador and is the seat of government
of the smnllest. but most densely
populated, of the republic of Central
America.
More than 200 persons have lost
their lives in San Salvador in the last
two years as the result of earth- ;
quakes.
Rigid Economy Necessary.
Washington.—America's 1917 wheat
crop, as forecasted June S by the De
partment of Agriculture, will fall far
below normal, despite a pros]>ect for
more than an ordinary yield of spring j
wheat. A total yield estimated at i
6T>0.<*00.000 hushels will give the coun
try 16.000.000 hushels more than last
year’s crop, hut with the heavy de- !
mand from abroad and virtually no ;
reserve store, it will not meet war
needs unless the country practices the
most rigid economy. The department
forecasts a spring crop of 2<s?.rt00.000
hushels, a hig yield, but estimates of
winter wheat production give a crop
of only 373.000.000 bushels. 7.000.000
more than was forecast from the May
1 condition, but still far from the
normal yield.
Socialists Threaten to Secede.
San Bernardino. Cal.—California
socialists will wthdraw from the na
tional party unless the anti-draft res
olution adopted at the socialist con
vention April 7 is repudiated, accord
ing to a statement made here by X.
A. Richardson, member of the state
executive committee of the socialist
party of California, who was the so
cialist candidate for governor in j
1014. Richardson said he had sent
notice to that effect to the national j
secretary of the party.
Training Camps in Poor Condition.
Chicago. III.—Congressman Fred A
Britten of Chicago, member of th
house committee on naval affairs
with a number of physicians inspected
sanitary conditions at the Great Lake
naval training station. Only 800 men
out of S.200 are fully equipped. Two
hundred men were without any uni
forms whatsoever. Only 2,600 rifle
were found, whereas there should be
from 8.000 to 10,000. A detention
camp supposed to accommodate only
3G0 men holds between GOO and 700
daily.
FRIENDSHIP IS TRUE WEALTH 1
This Fact Was Recognized by Unusual
Legacy Made in Will of Late
Justice Lamar.
Tn the will of the lute Justice Lamar
of the United States Supreme court
there was one very unusual legacy. He
bequeathed his friendships to his fam
ily*.
"To my family," the will runs. "I be
queath friendships many and numerous
in the hope that they will be cherished
and continued. True friendships are the !
most valuable of our earthly posses
sions. more precious than gold, more
enduring than fume. . . . As Henry
Drummond has well said, ‘Friendship
is the nearest thing we know to what
religion is !* "
Tiie family that inherits such wealth
is truly rich, observes a writer in the
Youth's Companion. But it is a legacy
that must be used if it would be pre
served. Friendships cannot be locked
away in safes or lent to historical ex
hibits and museums. Like love and
faith and courage, they belong to that
intangible treasure of the soul that
must be kept from destruction by con
stant service. It is not alone material
things that "rust doth corrupt.”
How many of us have let slip
through busy or careless tiugers the
beautiful and glowing friendships of
our youth? We did uot mean to do
it; indeed, we have often regretted
the loss until, as the years pass, the re
gret gradually fades away. And if that
is true of our own friends, how fur
more true of our fathers' friends! Ye;
there have been families where friend
ships have passed down from father to
son for several generations.
There is food for thought here. How
many fathers are building up flue and
loyal and serviceable friendships that
they can with pride and gratitude be
queath to their sons? How many moth
ers are storing up like treasures for
their daughters? The question does
not end there. How many young peo- j
pie of today are fitting themselves to
receive such legacies? How many in
all the varied and urgent calls of life
are heeding the challenge to make
themselves worthy of friendships by
being loyal and fine tempered and gen
erous friends themselves?
“A man that hath friends," the old
book of wisdom declares, "must show i
himself friendly,” and again. “Thine
own friend and thy father's friend for
sake not."
Women Melting Prejudice.
Fifty years ago trained nurses were
unknown in this country. In 1ST3 cer
tain ladies of New York decided to es
tablish a school of nursiug at Bellevue
hospital. Mrs. Joseph Hobson, who
was one of the founders, says in her
book, “Recollections of a Happy Life
“Strange to say, doctors were our
chief antagonists, the doctors of the
Bellevue medical board. Not all of
them, by any means, but enough to
hamper and hinder and add to our dif
ficulties."
The “conservative doctors” were es
pecially trying. “VYe were ignorant
women interfering with what was
none of our business" . . . and
“they were utterly opposed to our in
terference." A year later the same j
board passed a resolution heartily in
dorsing the work.
In the same way many Englishmen
opposed Florence Nightingale; and at
the beginning of the present war the
offers of service from woman doctors
were not accepted. Now women in
England are being urged to take med
ical training.
Before women take up any piece of
work which up to that time has been
done, well or badly, by men, they ure
required to expend a great part of
their time, energy and money on get
ting permission to try.—Woman's Jour
nal.
Had Their Tickets.
Mary Ellen, the colored maid, had
been carefully instructed by her new
mistress in a number of things con
cerning which she appeared to be pro
foundly unenlightened. Particular
6tress had been laid upon the proper
manner of receiving visitors and of
informing the mistress of their pres
ence in the house.
Perhaps altogether to much had
been said about it or perhaps Mary
Ellen had stage fright at the crucial
moment, for when the first callers
came after Mary Ellen’s advent into
the family she “ushered" them only
as far as lust inside the hall door.
Taking the cards they gave her, and
leaving the visitors standing there, she
went to the foot of the staircase and
shouted:
“Mis’ Gallatin ! Oh, Mis' Galatin !
Der's two Indies down here dat's come
to see you and dey’s fotch dere tick
ets.”
Sun-Heated Water.
Seventy-five per cent of the homes
In southern California, it is said, have
solar heaters, which furnish the hot
water for domestic purposes. The ar
rangement is simple, and consists of
water pipes placed on the roof of a
house under a glass top and under
neath them some sheets of copper
painted black. Under the rays of the
sun the water expands, creating a cir
culation thereof in the pipes until the
water reaches the boiling point, and
it will remain hot for more than 48
hours aftet the sun stops shining.
It is not often that there is any fail
ure of sunshine for more than two or
three days, and as a consequence there
is hot water sufficient for all pur
poses with rare exceptions throughout
th? year. The cost of a solur heater
is not great, and a handy man cun
make one for himself.
A Valuable Machine.
Brite—I see they have invented a
machine that measures the millionth
part of an inch.
Plodder—By jingo! That's the very
thing to size up that part of my boy’s ;
brain which tells him where he put his i
cap.
Going Back Too Far.
Marion—I see by the pai>ers that a
woman has just been arrested for a
crime committed in 1870.
Myrna—That kind of news makes |
me nervous. When I was a little girl I
I played the corRet.
The Reason for
Toll Charges
Less than one-fourth of the
telephone subscribers make three
fourths of all the long distance
telephone calls.
The long distance lines are used
only occasionally by the large
majority of telephone subscribers.
For this reason a charge w made
for each long distance call instead
of meeting the expense of provid
ing this service by increasing the
local telephone rates.
If we gave fre» long distance
service it would mean that all
telephone subscribers would pay
the cost of maintaining the long
distance lines which are used
generally by only a few.
TAMMANY IS 128 YEARS OLD
Famous Political Organizat.on of New
York Was Founded by William
Mooney, an Upholsterer.
Tammany is 128 years old. On May
12, 1789, William Mooney, an uphol
sterer, who previously had been active
as one of the Sons of Liberty, founded
in New Turk what was intended to he
a patriotic and social organization, the
secret society of St. Tammany, or €'<»
lumbian order, which in lsor> was regu
larly incorporated as a fraternal aid
society.
It was divided into 13 tribes, each of
which had its separate totem. The of
ficers became known as the gruud sa
chem. the sachem, the sagamore, or
master of ceremonies, and the Wis
kinski, or doorkeeper.
In 1811 the society built its first hall,
and in 1867 moved to Tammany hull,
in Fourteenth street, where it has been
ever since. Early in its history Tam
many began to take an active part in
politics. Aaron Burr is supposed to
have been its tutor in the ways of poli
tics, and in 1800 the society took part
in its first campaign, being insmimen
tai in carrying New York for Thomas
Jefferson.
The name Tammany is adapted from
that of an Indian chief. Tamanend. of
the Delaware tribe, who was famous
for his virtue and wisdom. lie died in
1740 and was buried in New Britain
township, Bucks county. Pennsylvania.
Tammany was one of the earliest so
cial organizations in America. The
members in the early days were accus
tomed to dress in Indian costume.
His Threat.
A month or two after the war start
ed a collier entered u large hotel on
Tyneside and ordered refreshments,
saying: “Big prices noo; Aa might as
weel lie a big mun.”
On discovering that the waiter was
a German, the irate pitman, choking
with anger, leaped to his feet, ran the
affrighted Teuton to the door, and as
sisted him into the roadway with his
foot, and then, wheeling round upon
the trembling, expostulating proprie
tor, he spluttered:
“Man. if iwor ye dare te set a thun
derin’ Jarman te wait on me agyen,
Aa’ll twist ye an’ him roond yor aan
necks, an’ ram tli’ pair o’ ye haufway
doon yor aan throats until thar’s nowt
te be seen ov ye but th’ ends ov yor
dirty shirt-collars stickln’ oot ov yor
bloomin' red eyes. Noo ye knaa wheat
te expect if ye de!"—London Tit-Bus.
He Got the Job.
“Why did you leave your last posi
tion?’ asked the boss, sizing up the
applicant for a Job.
“You see. sir, 1 was fired—”
“What do you mean coming to me
for a Job, when you were fired?”
roared the other.
“I merely meant to say, sir. that 1
was fired with an ambition to work for
you.”
Some 200 female textile workers
have been deported from Ghent by
the German authorities.
A Wise
Move
is to change from
coffee to
POSTUM
before the harm
is done.
“There’s a Reason”