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\We Man Without I C) A Country @ ; & Edxuard Everett Hale SECOND INSTALLMENT. If I !.: <t eily pr.-vrvtd the whole u( thi- jtij- r. there w..u!.| lie un break In !!.* Is nf m> sketch -»f this *t'ir> l**r('ap;un >■ w. if it was h*. haisl.s! it tn his sui-ifssor in tlie dart*- ami tie t«» his Tlie rule adnpted nil Iseird llie ships on *1.. h 1 have met "The Man without a t'outitrj ' was, I think, transmitted from the le.- uiinj. No mess like) tn hate lain iH-rtuamtitly, because his (•reset. ■ ut off ad talk of home or of the pr—i-it nf return, of |silitles or letters of peace nr nf war—out off ne>r«- than half tin- talk men like to hate at sea. Hut it was always thou.-Se < »• l.ard that he should never m.—t th- r--'t f ti' except to touch l»nt» wwl we finally - ink into one sys tem. He was tmt |-rttiltted to talk a rh :t. ';nti uni'— an olkecr was by. M ith nt!.. rs he had unrestraiutsl in ter*..ar-. a~ far a- 'lo-.v and he chose. Hut h- grew shy. thoittk he lutd favor ite*: 1 »i> nt»c. Then the captain always .. -•.• ! hitu to dinner mi Men day. K- cry m.«s in suo Vision took up th - con in i»- turn. Aeeord in*t I*' tie - • of tin sjtl|i you had him at y»ur .».s m*»re <*r less often at dimer Hi« iir*-ak: -t he ate in his •>wn •: .'■■■ hi always had a still t* r-susi whan was where a sentinel, or sari.,'!) i • :h - v . »• Ii. <mild see the d*»*r A ml *..-r -isi* In* ate or s r sailors had ai.jr sj„ . i .n'i.ti* atimi. they were |s*r in -* ■! t.* : a site "1*1: .a-Buttnus,'* us tley Ti. Xolau was sent h - r. a ! the men were t**rl*. :• <i t.. ak of hn::sc while he -!*t Th*-) :. i.d him “Plain Butt* n»." in-eause while In* always •-tews- tn w.-ar a r*-sul ti**n array uni form. le- Was BK |s-ntlittcd tn Wear «le- arm* te.tt.ui. t..r the reason that it bt*re eiile-r the initials or th** in • ■ -.U I.' li* IIJ’l ’li-- * •* U~Ja I r. ■ ■t-.-r. -,—n after I joined tU«*' navy. I - . - • *m shore with miiim* of tin* * .» . r -r* {■• : i «.ur ship and from tin- fir.it, w:*n-. which u«- lm<l tnet at Alflftftlidrm. W.- had leave (o make a party aft ; . I th) fy m tael*. A- »- jogged along some of h S '■■< iking about No la**, s i.eoi*.- told the system whc-h a» adopted from ill*- firs! about hi* l»». • and otb r reading. As he wr.» a' ti.v-r |~ : itted to go on ***•:• . v a though i he teasel lay In |n»rt for tl. ’i - hi* time, at the best, hung \y . and ev. rjlssjy was per mltfeil To !• | ! :a lo.L>. if they were b>< p*jbli»h-d in A merle* and made no n. tn. se were common «i igh 'i the obi day*, wheti people in Tie • r bea;-ph.-re talk.-l of tin* I :..l«s. > :ite* *.* liitb- a* we do of Carai i v. He h I almost all the for eign p. j»-r* Ilia! riiw into the ship, s..itfte-r .it later: i*,:jr sfurl-nl}' must go e..r theta fir*», and rut out any advert.~ tit or stray par graph that k . *• : T.» A:ie Uight In the ft-.d’t *.f He of Viifmbsiti*s battles, or ««*• * .Tig'* - is poor Nolan »• cl’: 1 nd great hob- bMlU-fe on the bw< k of j* e.. ,,f that (taper there bul . a an it•!v ri• tit of a packet tor V ■ i rk ..r a scrap from the; presid it's n - -ge. 1 say this was • be fij*t r i .-Vj-r heard of till* plan, at.’i »-T. 1 ; r 1* I bud enough, and more tlma et ugh, to do with. I re tie lil*. ise poor Phillip*. Who wa« of t*m- t*arry, *o<*li tis tlie alltt- ‘ Mon to r. -..din* » - mi d told a story of *• i it. g a I, • li iutplM-iMsI at tlie i . je of i„« ‘ II •;* uij Nolan’s first vo- tg- 1 .< I* the only thing 1 ever lifth:nl c bed it Ti. * ,m -el bi d dime the civil Tb- i_ tth it. Kngltsh admiral i I., r. -.-t ..nd tb* n. leaving for a n. I'hil . n it I. i’ow.vI a lot of Kiiglish b * * |r-• -:« f.u-.-r. which, ill those il - - ,!i ‘i*s| In tie *e. was quite a v», tall kinoug them a* the Ih-vtl ftftHM • i li-f was the l-ay of tin- l.a-l M - tei; ’ ti ley had all of them !.■ ■ d 'nil v. la li .'t of them hail • ie-v -r scs-n. 1 think it could not have I** ! published long. Well, nobody ibo bt it r« e. .md tie ntiy risk of any- j tl. M.t ! in tli.it. though I'liillips su. . d stiaw bi d cut out the l ■ j. ;»-*i ‘ from Mial..-s|»-wre before be i«T NoSait have it fus-ausc he said. “The l v . hi ought to Ih* ours und. ' i one day." So No lan u * i**n oiled to join ihe circle •t 'I »f Tin in sat : load. l-ei-td. •j.- i. ib. stn-h things so often ftotk. but wb-o 1 wa- Voting we got rid of « g T deal "f I’M so. Well. - • ini Nolan Mm* ;: i i" tin- b. r* ; aad he read eery • H ■« I know. No body tit tb - ' •- k-i -vv a line of the pftpto. only it -*; * : II tn-tgic and l«>r o« r ciavalrv and . .« ti n thousand yvwrs ag». t**»>r Nolan read steadily threegb li ti :h c stopped a min ute ril.d di i g .. ui tin a be gat .rb- a *i- bt 1 what was nwtar Iir*-attw» tlaM* the ma: . with aoul an Betid, W i* *rt<t to klfuelf hath mM ;> «m«w im|* --.Me t.. us that any !«.!» i-iit h*-:inl th!' for the first time; f.ut ail tie-'- Ml"** ‘I then, ami j„»,r Noian Man self went on. still un rMt»r|oUsl> uf iueehatUenlly— Tut ta my *'»n. n.> nat.vc land! Th.a they all saw aomething was U> I*> ; ln»* he «t|*er|«Ml to get through. | sU|^.r» tuttesj a little pale, hut y,. yart huth ne'er within h!:a Iwrnad. r > t- • haft, tut: -I V, « .abdrr.w* on » toreiga strun.!’ I L l.e-je to rathe. *0. U.arK hlui Well |;. this U-ie tn-ti were all l*e gUtCbiditM!-f»- wisUiug 'here was any way to make him turn over two pages; j but he had not quite presenee of miml for that; he gagged a little, colored crimson, and staggered on: F.>r him no minstr. 1 raptures swell: High though his titles, proud tus name, I: u'.dless his wealth as wish ran claim i Despite ttiese titles, power and pelf, n.t wretch, concentered all in self,— aud here the poor fellow choked, could not go on, hut started up. swung the book into the sett, vanished into his stateroom, “and by Jove.” said Phil lips. “we did not see him for two mouths again. And I hail to make up some beggarly story to that Knglish surgeon why I did not return his Wul tcr Scott to him." That story shows about the time when Nolan's braggadocio must have broken down. At lirst, they said, he took u very high tone, considered his imprisonment a more farce, affected to enjoy the voyage, and all that; hut Phillips said that after he entne out of his stateroom he never was the same man again. He never read aloud again, unless it was the Uilile or Shakespeare, or something else he was sure of. But it was not that merely. He never en terini in with the other young nu n ex actly as a companion again, lie was always shy afterward, when I knew him. very seldom spoke, unless he was spoken to. except to a very few friends, lie lighted up occasionally. 1 remember late in his life hearing him fairly el.Kjuent on something which had been suggested to him by ■ lie of l'leehier's sermons, hut gener allj he had the nervous, tired look of a heart-w..und>-d man. When Captain Shaw was coming i -if, as I say. i; was Shaw—rath er to the surprise of everybody they made on. of the Windward islands, aud lay off and on for nearly a week. lii buy* said tin- ofhcers were sick of salt junk, am! meant to have tur tle s,,up before they came home. But after several days the Warren came to tic- same rendezvous: they exchanged signals: she at to Phillips anil these homeward-lMiuml min letters and pa pers. and told them she was outward bound, perhaps to the Mediterranean, and t<xik jxxir Nolan and his traps on the boat hack to try his second cruise. He looked v. . v blank when he was told to get ready to join her. He had known enough of the signs of the sky to know that till that moment he was going “home." But this was a dis 1 in< : ■ ... something he had not thought of. perhaps, that there was no going home for him. even to a prison. And this »..s the first of some twenty such transfers, which brought him sooner or later into lialf our best ves sels, hut which kept him all itis life at least some hundred miles from the country lie had hoped he might never hear of again. It may have been on that second cruise—it was once when lie was up tin- Mcdltcrraucap—that Mrs. Graff, ihe celebrated Southern beauty of tlc'e days, danced with him. They had been lying a long time in the Bay of Naples, and the officers were very intimate in the Knglish fleet, and there had In . ti great festivities, and our men. thought tin y must give a great bail on hoard the ship. How they ever did it on hoard the Warren I am sure I do not know. Perhaps it was not the Warren, or perhaps ladies did ton take up so much room as they do now. They wanted to use Nolan's sta' -room for something, and they h.ned to do it without asking him to tite ball: so the captain said they might tisk him. if they would he re s|M>usible that he did not talk with iIn* wrong ix-ople. “who would give him intelligence.” So the dance went on. the finest party that had ever been known, I dare suv; for I never heard t—r—:--:-n—7-3 Turned a Little Pale but Plunged On. of n man-of-war bull that was not. For ladies they had the family of the American consul, one or two travelers who had adventured so f ir. and a nice bevy of English girls and matrons, per haps Lady Hamilton herself. Well, different officers relieved each other in standing anil talking with No lan in a friendly way, so as to be sure that nobody else spoke to him. The dancing went on with spirit, and after a while even the fellows who took this honorary guard of Nolan ceased to fear any contretemps. Only wlym some English lady—Lady Hamilton, as I said, perhaps, called for a set of "American dancers.” tin odd thing hap pened. Everybody then danced enu tredancc*. The black band, nothing loath, conferred as to what “American dimces” were, and started eff with “Virginia Reel.” which they followed with “Money-Musk,” which, in Its turn in those days, should have been fol lowed by “The Old Thirteen." But just as Dick, the leader, tapped for Ms fiddlers to begin, and bent forward, about tr> say, in true negro state, “ *?Jie Old Thirteen,’ gentlemen and Indies!” as he had said, *’ ‘Virginay Reel,’ if you please!” “‘Money-Musk,’ if you please!” the captain’s boy tappet- him ■ m the shouUler. whispered to liPff, and he did not cr.nounce the name sf the dance; he merely bowed, began on the air, and they all fell to. iue offi cers teaching the English girls the figure, but not telling them why it i had no name. Rut that is not the story I started to tell. As the dancing went on. No lan and our fellows all got at ease, as I said, so much so that it seemed quite natural for him to bow to that splendid Mrs. Graff, and say: "I hope you have not forgotten me. Miss Rutledge. Shall I have the hon or of dancing?" He did it so quickly that Shubrirk, who was by him, could not hinder j him. She laughed and said: “I am not Miss Rutledge any longer. Mr. Nolan; but I will dance all the same,” just nodded to Shuhrick. as if to say he must leave Mr. Nolan to her, j and led him off to the place where the dance was forming. Nolan thought he had got bis chance. He hud known her at Philadelphia, and at other places had met her and this was a godsend. You could not talk in contredanees, as you do in cotillions, or even in the pauses of waltzing; but there were chances for tongues and sounds, as well as for eyes and blushes. He begun with her travels, and Europe, anil Vesuvius, and i—s:--. There Appeared Nolan in His Shirt Sleeves. the French; and then, when they had worked down, and had that long talk ing time at the bottom of the set. he said boldly, a little pale, she said, as she told me the story, years after: “And what do you hear from borne. Mrs. Graff?" And that splendid creature looked through liim. Hove! how she must have looked through him! “Home!! Mr. Nolan!!! I thought you were the man who never wanted to hear of home again!” and she walked directly up the deck to her husband, and left poor Nolan alone, as he always was. —He did not dance again. I cannot give any history of him in order: nobody can now; and. indeed. I am not trying to. These are tile tra ditions. which I sort out. as I believe them, from the myths which have been told about this man for forty years. The fellows used to say he was the "Iron Mask;" and poor George Pons went to his grave in the belief that this was the author of ‘"Juniu*." who was being punished for his celebrated libel on Thomas Jefferson. Pons was not very strong in the historical line. A happier story than either of these I have told is of the war. That came along soon after. I have heard this affair told in three or four ways, and. j indeed, it may have happened more than once. But which ship it was on I cannot tell. However, in one. at least, of the great frigate duels with 1 the English, in which the navy was really baptized, it happened that a round shot from the enemy entered one of our ports square, and took right down the officer of the gun himself, and almost every man of the gun’s j crew. Now you may say what you 1 choose about courage, but that is not a nice tiling to see. But as the men I who were not killed picked themselves urni im- s (MMijutr w ITt* Celt* • Tying off the bodies, there appeared ! Nolan, in liis shirt sleeves, with the 1 rammer in his hand, and. just as if he had been the officer, told them off with I authority, who should go to the cock- j pit with the wounded men. who should stay with him, perfectly cheery, and with that way which makes men feel sure all is right and is going to he right. And lit' finished loading the gun with his own hands. Aimed it. and i hade the men fire. And there he stayed, captain of that gun. keeping j those fellows in spirits, till the enemy ' struck, sitting on the carriage while i the gun was cooling, though he was exposed all the time, showing them easier ways to handle heavy shot, mak ing the raw hands laugh at their own blunders, and when the gun cooled again, getting it loaded and fired twice as often ns any other gun on the ship. The captain walked forward, by way j of encouraging the men, and N'olan touched his hat and said: (TO BE CONTINUED.) Which Was Which? Jimmy’s mother had told him to stay near the window and watch for the bride and groom and come and tell iter when lie saw them coming. After waiting for some time his patience was rewarded, but he forgot to run and tell his mother. When they were quite near he suddenly remembered and called out lustily: “Mamma, here comes tlie bribe and the gloom.”— Christian Herald. - ' A pneumatic hammer for tamprog j paving stones has been invented. THE SIGN OF THE RED CROSS Mill ions and millions of stricken people in devastated Europe must depend on the activity of the Red Cross society alone for the most meager necessities of life—just enough to keep body and soul together. The Red Cross organization is the universal helping hand. But in order to extend this hand to the sorrowing and afflicted, it must have your support. In fact, if you would do your part to relieve the suffer ing in the world, you can do it most directly and efficiently through the Red Cross. Become a member today. Give one dollar—two dollars— five dollars—as much as you can. RED CROSSNEEDSFUND “Drive” for $100,000,000 Opens Throughout Country. New York and Chicago Will Give at Least $40.000.000—Every Region Must Be Generous Now. Uncle Sam is calling for a Red Cross fund of $100,000,000 to enable the Red Cross to give the proper care to the sick and wounded, the homeless and the desolate when his men get into the lighting in earnest. New York city has promptly pledged itself to “raise one-fourth of whatever sum is needed,” and is now collecting the money. Chi cago will be asked for something be tween $5,000,000 and $10,000,000, the levy based on population and credit rating. Mr. O. T? Towne has been appointed by Washington as director of the Red Cross war fund campaign, for the cen tral division, and will open a drive for the money in nine states as soon as it has been determined just how much he needs. The money will be raised by sub scription among the various chapters, and it has been arranged that each chapter shall have one-fourth of what ever sum it raises. Mr. Towne hopes that the country will raise enough to give the national organization its full $100,000,000 over and above what the chapters retain. The Red Cross is compelled to raise its fund from the people because it has so small an endowment fund—less than $2.000.000—while Japan, for instance, has more than $13,000,000 in her fund, the income from which pays all ex penses. The money is necessary to keep up the supplies and equipment of the base hospitals, and for relief work in war. Yankee Ingenuity. In all of the American- Red Cross hospitals and American ambulance sta tions in France are to be found in genious contrivances to save the lives and limbs of badly maimed soldiers. One such apparatus, apparently a tan gle of weights and pulleys and rubber bands, holds up the legs of a patient whose lower limbs have been broken in three or four places by shell explo sion, and prevents the bones from growing together improperly. Another, which looks like a mass of small rub ber drain pipes suspended from a bag, irrigates deep wounds which have be come infected and which must be con stantly drained and cleaned with an antiseptic solution if the patient's life Is to be saved. I OUR RED CROSS IS NOT AIDING ENEMY NATIONS NOWADAYS Patriotic Americans who have been helping the Red Cross have of late been making anxious inquiries as to whether the humanity and the neutral ity of the Red Cross would constrain it to send food, medicines and hospital units to Germany. “I want to give to help our boys, and the stricken people of France and Bel ! gtum and Serbia,” many a one has j written in; “but I don't feel like doing ] anything if the Germans get part of it.” Americans need be under no appre hension. Not a cent of Red Cross con tributions is going to Germany, or has gone there since the war was declared by the United States. General Per [ shing has gone to Europe to convey to j the kaiser Uncle Sam’s compliments in I the form of shells and American bay ! onets. but the Red Cross has no part in : that except to care for such of Gen eral Pershing's men as may need care. The matter of sending Red Cross supplies to Germany was brought up in the recent Red Cross war council in i Washington. Charles D. Norton, one of the members, answered inquiries thus: “The answer is exceedingly simple. We do not purpose to be tried for trea son. We do not purpose to lend aid and comfort to our enemies. We mean to attend our own American Red Cross affairs.” Former President Taft, who is chair man of the executive committee, sup ported' this view. He said that when 1 wounded Germans fell into the hands of the American Red Cross they will I get the same treatment as our own men; but that it would undoubtedly be treason to send supplies to Germany as we did before we were forced into the war. So Americans can give freely, know ing that every cent is for our own and our allies’ wounded, and not for the enemy. Red Cross Trench Work. Red Cross surgeons and orderlies | give first aid to the wounded in little underground dressing stations in the front line trenches. In these dark, wet places, cold and ill-ventilated, it is sometimes necessary to perform major operations—such as an amputation, for instance. War records in France show that as many Red Cross workers as in fantrymen are killed by enemy fire in the trenches. Red Cross field service requires courage of the highest order. Soldiers have the stimulation of fight ing and giving the enemy shot for shot j and blow for blow. The others don’t. An Odd Sweater Closing. Are you tired of the sweater with a belt which turns 'into a sash at the front or side or back? Then listen to this odd way of finishing the sweater, and go thou and do likewise. Knit your sweater from a solid color and finish it with white knit covered buttons. One button will come just about the waistline, and just below it the sweater belt will fasten. The belt should be measured carefully and each end of the wide belt gathered into a loop of wool. Just behind the loop a covered button is placed on each end nnd the loops are intercrossed and fastened over the buttons on the op posite belt ends. Thus m the front of the sweater is a group of three white buttons, forming a pretty trimming and fastening at the same time. Idleness Fills Up Time. “Too much idleness, I have observ ed, fills up a man's time much more completely and leaves him less his own master than an$ sort of employ ment whatsoever.”—Edmund Burke. HAS CASHJO SPARF STATE FUNDS ON HAND NOW EX CEED $2,002,000 LATE iiEWS_FROM CAPITOL items of “eneral Interest Gathered from Reliable Sources Around the State House Western Newspaper Union News Service. State Treasurer George E. Hall’s ! monthly report shows a total of $2,005, I 881.75 in the state treasury. The bal ance on hand one month ago was $1, ! 523,555.96. The unusually large amount now on hand includes funds which should have been paid out during the : month but which are still in the treas I ury. The total included $411,000 of : temporary school funds which ordi I narily would have been paid out but for a delay in the office of the state | superintendent in making the appor j tionment between counties. The money has been apportioned and will be paid I to counties as rapidly as the warrants I are presented to the state treasurer The total now on hand also includes ; I $500,000 of funds paid to the govern- ! I ment for liberty loan bonds. The gov- j | ernment has notified the state that i j its subscription for the $500,000 for j liberty bonds is still carried by the state treasurer as cash because the government has not yet returned the $350,000 which is to be paid back to : the state. The treasurer's report shows a total of $222,000 in the permanent school fund and other trust funds available ! for,investment. With the, return of ! $300,000 from the federal government I at least $500,000 will be available for | investment. The state board of edu | cational lands aud funds has a large i amount of ciiv and school district | bonds offered to it for sale and much ! of the available funds will soon be I invested. Land Commissioner G. L. Shumway has asked the board to in vest $100,000 in federal land bank I bonds, but the board has taken no i action. _ The State Guaranty Fund With the addition of about $93,000 as the semi-annual assessment on state banks for July 1. amounting t0 one twentieth of 1 per cent of their aver- I age deposits for six months ending on | June 1. the bank guaranty fund of Nebraska has been swelled to a total | of $1.565,P3S. It is just six years since | the first assessment was levied, and i fn that time the fund has been drawn j upon twice for the payment of de i positors in failed banks. Total deposits in about 900 banks at ; the time their last reports were made j to the state banking department a | month ago stood at $208,000,000. Their . average deposits for the six months , were something under $200,000,000. Within the past year, deposits have I grown about 50 per cent. Final Registration Reports. Governor Keith Neville received ■ notice from Marshal Crowder at Wash- ! i ington, D. C.. that final official reports j, on registration under the draft law , from Nehraska counties must be In ! the hands of the officials at Washing- < ton by not later than July 7. so that drafting can start immediately after. . Governor Neville had previously re ported Nebraska's registration, but late arrivals of cards from men out of j | the state, and in some instances where ] eligibles failed to register, have ] swelled the totals in some counties, j These cards have been held at the 1, governor's office as they were re ceived. but all of them will now he forwarded to Washington. -- < Will Have Enormous Potato Crop i , Some insight into the enormous po-! < tato crop which Nebraska will contrib- \ ] ute this year to the nation's big food , drive is afforded by the monthly crop : report of the Nebraska state board of agriculture, just issued by Secretary E. R. Danielson. A month ago Mr. Danielson pointed out that the acreage in Nebraska de voted to potatoes had been increased 90 per cent or nearly double that of ; any previous year. Now, with the potato crop practically ••made.” twen j ty-one of the ninety-three counties in j the state report 100 per cent for the ! condition of potatoes. Mr. Danielson estimates that Nebraska will yield j twice as many potatoes as ever before | in its history and far beyond the needs I of the state. a rm&io vuuuij 111 lllC OUUC ported the condition of the potato crop below 80 per cent, while the majority of estimates ranged from 90 to 95 per cent—an unrivalled outlook in Ne braska. __ As the result of activities by spe cial agents whom Governor Neville sent out to discover violation of the prohibitory state law, -more than two dozen arrests have been made in Scotts Bluff. Cedar and Dakota coun- ; ties and the illicit importation of liquor from Wyoming- and South Da | kota has been effectively broken up. — Nebraska Women Urge Prohibition The women's committee of the state | council for national defense in session Saturday at the capitol, unanimously passed a resolution to send to Presi dent Wilson a telegram which read as follows: "The patriotic women of Nebraska assembled at the state capi tal for the purpose of forming a wom en’s committee of the council of de fense, respectfully appeal to you to insure the conservation of food prod ucts by the prohibition of grains and fruits in the manufacture of beers and wines as well as in distilled liquor. Assessed Valuations Increase Twelve counties th^t have reported assessed valuations to Secretary O. E. Bernecker of the state board of as sessment show a total increase of $2, i 874,278 in assessed values, of which only $271,855 is on account of improve ments on real estate and the balance, $2,602,423, is the increase on personal property. Real estate is valued only once in four years for assessment pur poses, but improvements are valued every year for assessment. The total assessed valuation of all property in t’-:o state '.art year was $5,27S.OOO. STATE SCHOOL APPORT r <* ———. Semi-Annual Distribution of F Support of Schools. State Superintendent Clem: partment was delayed In ma fhe r,-mi-annual apportionin': temporary state school fund ; of the amounts payable to ea- h m the state was not filed in th auditor s office until June 2r> Treasurer Hall certified to th I superintendent June 1, that a t. $411.344.1.1 v. available for app ment. The law r--iuires the sta perintendent to (jje app* ment within twen: y y afte** re ■ ing the state treasur* - -ertificate January the state ,ii indent" fice by mistake apj n (..j $98.1. more than was in the tun. This error was corrected by the s . ndent's office in June by deduct!: :ount from the funds to be appor - Hi? time. The following show each county is to receive state temporary school fun support of public schools: <’x)untic3 Amount C.*untie> Adams.$ 6.1ft* 71 Johnson ... Antelope ..... 5,469.54 Kearney ... Arthur . 8*<» 14 1\- ;h . Banner. 694.55 Keya Paha .. Blaine. 895 >3 Kimball ... Boone. 5,015.77 Knox. Box Butte ... 2,617.04 I.au< «n>tcr Boyd. 3. ou7.lt. IJncola ... Brown . 2.714.5* Logan . Buffalo. 7.256.02 Loup . Burt . 4.326.2* Madison Butler. 5.507 McPherson . . Cass . 6.676.64 Merrick .... <V«iar . 5.1*7*'. 17 Morrill ... Cha.se . l.'.v .2 .\:mce ... Cherry . 5.515 46 Nemaha ... chevenne _ 2.520.22 Nuckolls ... Clay . 4.965.1!' Otr*e . 4 Colfax. 4.2ft* 4* Pawnee .... Cuming . 4.*‘.*7.*7 Perkina ... Custer. in.7*;*. > Piteliw . J'akota . 2.535.2.: Pierce. Dawes. 3.21".‘.'I Platte . Hanson. 5.1!*. 7' F *lk . Deuel. »:<1 Red Willow Dixon . 4. Richard* Podge. 7.199.!*1 K** k . Douglas . 36.315.91 1 Sullne. Dut.dy . 1>*;7 * 7 * Sarpy .... Fillmore. 4.9<»:;.i.*8 Saunder«« . Franklin .... 3. "■.*;. If* S«-otts Bluff Frontier. 3.697.29 Seward .... Furnas . 4.444 Sheridan - 4 Gage . 9.56 k.91 S!.- .n an . Carden . 2.**4** S-"'ix . Garfield . 1.604.7* s‘A.nt.»n . Gosper . 2.-2 Thayer ...... Grunt . 516. U1 Thomas . *.- • ley. 3.4' - : r • n .... Hu.! . 6.61 K.54 Valles . Hamilton .... 4,754.85 " * in . 3. 7 V Kay. - . 1,r,55 75 5'* ‘ -ttr . -1 Hitchcock ... 2.524 ' Nv: - licit . 7.:> oh York . Ho ker . ro7 22 H* ward . 4.55! Jefferson .... 5.631.49 Total .$411 Will Help Select Ewes Arrangements have been mail by the university to help farmers in tin: purchase and selection of brc ling ewes at the South Omaha stock y , . - South Omaha is quoting 90- to bn pound westerns at around 8>_ cent rhese are mainly short or broken mouthed but are otherwise sound * , >■ hat under farm conditions would profitably produce another lamb and ■lip of wool. How to Write to Soldiers Instructions as to the proper manner if addressing mail to American ~ : iiers now in France, are given to the mblic through orders given out by th postal administration. Letters, postal cards and printed natter for transmission to the United 3tales expeditionary forces in Europe ire subject to the United States domes ic classification. Mail addressed to nembers of the forces should bear complete designation of division, regi uent, company or organization tc ivhicb addressee belongs as well as tame and address of sender and be ully prepaid by postage stamps af ixed. Senders should not attempt t lesignate on envelope the location ol init. For example, the letter should lie ad Iressed: “John Smith, jr., Company x. -Infantry, American Expediti n try Forces.’’ Postmasters will forward nil mai natter addressed to the expedition orces to New York. A national agen< y tas been established at Bordeaux ■’ranee, for conducting postal service n connection with the United State roops. luly 19 Is Vaccination Day July 19 has been designated by ’hairman J. H. Bulla of the live stock anitary board and State Veterinariat . R. Anderson as “vaccination day' or all hogs in Nebraska which have lot been previously inoculated witk inti-cholera serum. A proclamation o that effect has been sent out an ill swine owners and breeders art isked to vaccinate on the date men :ioned, if they have not already dons to. . Supplementing this announcement the state veterinarian is writing tc local veterinarians asking them as 3 matter of patriotism and good citizen ship to scale their charges for service pn that day 50 per cent. Steps are ilso being taken to secure a special liscount from serum dealers in ordei to encourage a universal observance pf the day. Anotner circular sent out from tn« state veterinarian’s office, addressed tc railroad managers and others, say« ;hat all pure bred cattle shipped intc Nebraska from other states without ertificates showing that they havt been examined by federal or state of ficials and found free from tubercu osis must be placed in quarantine and :ested for that disease within sixty lavs after their arrival. This is to be done at the owner's expense. Where cattle come in under cerr rate, their credentials must be for w arded immediately to the office of the ive stock sanitary board at Lincoln During the month of June the cash balance in the state general fund of Nebraska has again climbed above the half million mark, and State Treasurer Hall’s books show it at $512,000. This is very nearly the maximum that will be attained during the summer, as most of the heavy tax collections have nowr been made and receipts here after will probably fall below the out go. When the cash balance starts fall ing off. it w-ill continue to dwindle fot five or six months, as new taxes levied this year will not begin coming in be fore December. Sends Returns on Registration Completed figures on registration in Nebraska of men subject to draft have been sent to Washington by Governor Keith Neville pursuant to instructions from Marshal Crowder. Out of the 118,307 men listed in Ne braska as subject to draft, 110.598 are white American citizens; 1,434 are colored citizen; 6,189 are aliens, and 938 alien enemies. More than half the number is listed ^s having relatives dependent up- > them for support. The number is re corded as 56,870.
