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"WM. .» *ti* man under arrest T* “That'* I*r*4e*uur Flaii«era. quite a muted evtilhl.' ' What mas hr arrested forT" “He :* charge*! mtth trying to d* •cruet recruittug Hr | .a ■****! a recrclt : g sta'.WB m!«-*- a stage lo-auty wu» ki'*:ac every man m ho enliste*i and shouted. *S«of» ; -ting m.unah! Think «tf tht n•* ><*« run from germs!"” Jut! So W tit you think of s*h enqe. for farmer*'*" “Just the thing. Then the hired m: • «uld *t ..*• himself for going tsh.: g at a buoy seaaou on the ground that hr mm* fiats harvesting." Icvtwd. •In be tel! y.n» an the bright thing* hi* pyaput* have I«m saying?" "Tern” -What did ;ia ■>?" ~1 u4d him children should be see* and not beard frota." A Welcome Chmaa. Young play* tight—What did you think «f my eitraa*? Critic— It «» very welcome. Retort Discourteous. Stu*- YoO don't deserve a good wife Her I*asband— WeU. I got what J did. Non rub it in.--Judge. Ms Knows It. "Ma. what is the g«««se step?” Y it father demonstrate* It even time he dances with me." Puts Price on Bed. That the ears of llttie children an qtt<--a to pick up the strange term1 they bear their parents use is indicate! in an incident in the household oi Judge I leery of eity court, says the In dlanapolls News. Mr*. I leery had been shopping witt her little daughter and when they re turned home, the daughter started t« “ortl" everything in the house as #h« had arm the clerk# do. When she reuched a bedroom sin announced that she viiuM sell the bee far "ten dollars and ousts and pena hm.* On* little word may make a nea friendship or break an uid one. The frigate bird spends most <*f ltl life on the srlng /If I was , the grocer Id sell . nothin' but ^Tbasties FEiV USES. UI: FiESIS G31LE3 BOWK Fen.rra- p" rt,**L foreign ,„d 0ther l*U ttnoe »r.»ere,t.ng to th« Ceeer* Ftiztrt U- S Tertonic War Hews. ''**■ l*** train, ag «.f a» latioti. anil T> 1 ^*1 * uuu iiM"di«*I utdts 4** r*su m I-riiiM r t«« Mart lilt* . a <•[ of ftniluugr fcui.—.. . I,*- (U |nM., • • • AU j» i ou> imug to take public ‘ ' l-r«'at«- • ui;»U.j i.t.-ui iu In*-- of war k"’*1 ur'~ k.d b> the IH-jbinluent •1 Labor to enroll >u the newly form •sl |-U w oerviee reserve. • • • >. »•! . the American steamer 4'r:-‘ i.j a Umtutu submarine, and t:.c k: . ..k of three :n.*n, one of lh**tn Aiwn.ua. and the injury of two ■' ‘*f tie- natal armed guard. ha» tna ann..uae.d. • • • A dry zone Bvt- miles wide, unless ,-e ;s a ,-ity ..r tow a within that 1.t. ;s to l»e thrown around all ‘ he mobilization "r training of :• •• * uieier new regulations made 1*- at th.- War department. A r ... >. t all mail addressed to - . - - . r- • ■:' the American ex I- r> force I-- hand.-d in at l«'st • f * r pr :•■ r weighing and rating. ..'.old iu*ultlc*etiit |ioelage. i - .. . j i«j |iit. po-totJii-o depurl twtt. • • • Pro- !, nr Wit— n lias issued a proc ir. •!: ,ng German li.sur •mj.an,.-* from doing further tie*-- in marine or war risk insur t • • In the 1‘ni’ed Slat*-- and forbld An eri> an insurance companies iron. rv.asarlng with fbera. • • • That an Am. rhua navy vessel had tig. - i what apparently was Hie peri ►. •«• of a submarine near Hampton J: !* uas rejM.rted *o the navy de par- meet. It is a known fact tiiat l 1- r- re operating farther from their h ! — » th .n previously. • • • Th. rtilted St::tt-s ht*< )n*en ..ffi.dal !tr m ••d hy t’o* allied governments t. participate in the inter-allied inn f. to he held in I n- hut has dtsi.h d it wtil not ho necessary to tm . • -t in su< h meetings not direct ly :.f.tl.i* .-.ontry's part in the war. • • • |*n - "iet.: Wilson ha- Issued a proclamation drafting the entire na tional g .r.rd of the country into the f- -,d S': •• * army t«» date from Aug. f. ■ .-x* and nl-o calling the regiments «M’t for s.-tive service. Thl- completes the last step necessary to make the entire national guard available for duty in Frau. e. General News. llu:.dr. 1- of government troops v.ere holed :n Francisco Vila'- attack on I'errai. Flnhunhua. just recently, tig t<> arrivuls from Parral, wb«* readied El Paso. Texas. • • • pc .dolphin hot.-!- and restaurants ar.: follow New York's lead in omit ting Iwcf from their mentis on ai Jm- »’ on.- day a week in the near fu ture. With a js.p i atioo of 6jW.185, New T*«rk City lead* its nearest competitor _Ghiengo—by nearly 3.000.000 peo ple aernsding to a new census esti mate. • • • Tests made in the l nivorsify of Kan-a* bacteriologist laboratories of sample* of court plaster thought to have lieeti inoculated with tetanus germs tiave failed to reveal any such bacteria. • • • A call for the celeb ration of the birthday of Lafayette September 0 h - * t en iss a-.j from New 1 ork. Mu !i. pab.'tes Were asked to eo-operate with jwtriotlr societies in honoring the BM-morT of the great Frenchman. • • • An agreement to settle the judg tr. nt of f2.'C.0ntt in the ci.se of D. E. |/tf ue and company against Danbury, Corn hatters. member* of the United Halt rs of North America has been rea. bed. The settlement was for njv pr .xlmately two-thirds of the amount of the judgment. • a • Emma Goldman and Alexander Berk B: n anarchists, were ordered released | fr ,tu prison on $2T..(«g* hall each by United States Supreme Court Justice Brand els when he granted a writ of error in their eases in Washington. • • • Governor Harrington of Maryland Issued a proclamation requiring unem ployed ablelselied men between the age* of is und 30 years, in the state, to register on or before August 20. The governor is determined those who do not fight shall work. • • • Tb. government will withdraw ail guards frota Nebraska August 1. sub j,- -r to reservations of the command of the • . utral department, according to a letter received by Governor Ne able from Secretary of War Baker. • • • Over one thousand members of the Tndtistr: • Workers of the World or gal itatlon. "ho were dejK.rted from Bi*te**n Arir.. are to be held at Co lumbus N. M.. and housetl and fed at state expense until the federal au thorities take charge. • • • Huron. S. !*.. has captured the pro posed million dollar co-operative packinr plant which is being promot ed by a number of jtrominent farmers and business men of North and South Dakota. UVUXU VI The Texas potato crop, which has < ' • n marketed, brought price— rang g from to S3 per bushel and averaging SU.S1 per bushel. • • • Xinc Kansas counties and the city of T..j»*ka will not have to furnish a single man for the first contingent of the now national army, according to the* county draft quotas. • • • The Ilev. William (••Billy") Sunday was arrested for exceeding the speed ttiit in bis automobile at Portland. < *re. Sunday was on his way from his ranch at llood River to Portland when arrc-tnh The driver was fined $5. which was paid by the evangelist Washington Notes. President Wilson pardoned the six teen suffragists who were serving a sixty-day sentence in the workhouse at Occoquan. Va.. for picketing in lront of the White House. • * * According to a bulletin issued by the federal farm loan board percent loans to farmers of the United State are being approved by the board at the rate of over half a million per day. ♦ * • The German |»olitieal cri-is centers principally on the question of peace and internal reform, according to a re\ iew of State department advices issued by the committee on public in formation. • • • S«s-rotnry Daniels asked congress for a deficiency appropriation of?10t), 000.000 mainly fur additional destroy ers and submarine chasers and to >I>eed up work on the building pro gram. • • • Reports that the activities of the Industrial Workers of the World In the west recently had been financed by German go!<] have failed of sub stantiation after an exhaustive inves tigation by agents of the Department of Justice. • • • Representatives of fifteen farmers’ organization conferred with members of tlie food administration and adopt ed resolutions protesting against tlie plan of senate leaders to fix a price of SI.".' a bushel for wheat in the food control hill. * • • W. .1. short!.ill of York. Neb., secre tary of the National Council of Far mers’ Co-operative associations, rep resenting about -UNt.noo grain farmers. s.*nt to every senator a letter demand ing the prompt passage of the food control bill. * » •* Sixteen woman suffragists, arrested while participating in the woman's parry Rastile Day demonstration in Washington in front of the Wh'te T1 »uso. were sentenced in police court to serve sixty days in the District of Columbia workhouse for obstructing the sidewalks. _____ European War News. There is persistent reports in Buenos Aires that a rupture between Argentina and Germany is imminent • • • Following clashes between govern ment forces and Maximilists at I’etro grad the list of casualties, so far as is ascertained, comprises six persons killed and 238 wounded. • • • The British dreadnought Vangard ha* iteen blown tip by an internal ex plosion with the loss of approximately TOO lives. The disaster occurred while the warship was at anchor. The Vanguard measured 10.210 tons and her complement before the war was 870 men. * * • Total German casualties, since the war began, according to London official figures are: Killed or died of wounds. 1.932.800; died of sic kness. 72.960; prisoners and miss- ' ing. 501.966: wounded. 2.825,581. The naval and colonial casualties are not Included. • * • From July 1 to July 13. according to a Russian official report. 36.64? officers and tnen of the Teutonic ar ; mies have been made prisoner by j General BrussilofTs forces and 93 | ] heavy and light guns. 28 trench mor- | tars. 403 machine guns and 91 guns ( of other desc riptions have been taken, j * • * Germany will not make anothei I peace offer: the pence she desires to j conclude Is that of a victor and it is the allies who must hereafter make overtures to end the war. This was the challenge flung to the world by Chancellor George Miehaelis. new pre mier of Germany, in his maiden speech to the reichstag. • • • Important changes have taken place in the British cabinet. Andrew Bonai Law. chancellor of the exchequer, has retired nnd is replaced by Sir Edward Carson. Sir Eric Geddes has assumed the position of first lord of the ad miralty. succeeding Sir Carson. Win | ston Spencer Churchill has assumed . the post of minister of munitions. • * * It is officially reported Kaiser Wil helm has accepted the resignation of his Imperial chancellor. Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg. and has appoint ed Dr. George Miehaelis. under secre tary of finance for Prussia and a privy counsellor, in his place. • • • Fourteen British ships of over 1.600 tons were sunk by submarine or mine during the week ending July 14. ac cording to the official report. Four British vessels under 1,600 tons were sunk and eight fishing vessels. * * » With an army of 100.000 men ready for active service, Greece has joined the allied nations In the struggle for democracy. Greece Is capable of or ganizing an army of nearly a half million and its entry Into the war Is expected to he a decided help to the allies in the Balkans. • • * The British admiralty announces the capture of four German merchant ships in the North sea. This Is the second instance reported of German merchant vessels being captured In the North sea. liuur uii x, iixiu MINOR NOTES FROM ALL PARTS Jf NEBRASKA Twenty-seven pastors and heads of the nine branches of the Lutheran church of America officially purged the church of the Nebraska defense council's charges of disloyalty at a meeting held n» Omaha, when resolu tions were adopted affirming the loy alty of the church in America. The ministers represented the Lutherans of Nebraska directly and those of the entire country indirectly. Judge Brown, at a hearing in Friend, held the mothers' pension law passed by the 1915 legislature to l*c unconstitutional. ui>on a demurrer filed by Charles K. Barth, county at torney. On account of the inq*or tance of the decision, an appeal will be taken to the supreme court A. B. Cole and A. V. drummer are in the custody of authorities at Lin coln charged with the murder of Mrs. Lulu Yoght. aged lady, whose hotly was found near St. Paul. July 5. Coie. it is alleged, has confessed to the crime, tie. luring that drummer prom ised to pay him $5u0 for the murder. Hamilton county enjoys the destinc tion of furnishing more men volun tarily to I’nele Sana's fighting forces than it was required to furnish under the selective draft law. The county's quota \v is fixed by tne war depart ment at 145 and 151 men had volun teered before the drawing. Ten thousand members of the Fra ternal Order of Eagles, who are now in service, or will go into service aft r the draft, will each he presented with a Sl.TMH* life insurance policy by the order. Eagle orders in Nebraska are waging a campaign to increase the military fund of the order. Representatives ot tno Aenrasaa district of the United Danish Evan gelical Lutheran church at a meeting in Blair passed resolution declaring t lit* charges of the state council of de fense against the Lutheran church to he “entirely unwarranted and unjust." June, the 13-month-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Parker, of Omaha, fell fifty feet from the window of her parents' apartment, hut, ac cording to physicians, received no ap parent injuries, which is considered a miracle. It is authoritatively stated that wheat in Chase county is the best for seed purposes in the state. Farmers in the county are new in the midst of harvesting and the yield is expected to iie large. Ohjeetion to holding a Chautauqua at Fremont during the tractor demon stration next month has been raised by the president of the National Pow er Farming Demonstration associa tion. An appropriation of $12,300 will he made to the city of ScottshlufT for a public jibrary bu'lding. according to information received by Beach Cole man, of that city, from the Carnegie corporation. Mrs. Herman Veith of Fremont was instantly killed when she ran in front of a runaway team hitched to a heavy binder, the machine passing com pletely over her body. A party of twenty-five Russians went west from Omaha, enroute to Russia, where the younyer men will enter the war to fight against the Germans. A community drying plant, to he operated under the Dodge county branch of the Nebraska Defense league, has been put in operation at Fremont. Alva Davies, one of the best known farmers in Polk county, and his fi year-old son. were drowned in Platte river near Havens, IS miles front Osceola. Butterfield company of Norfolk mar keted two loads of catt e at the South Omaha market the other day that brought $13.85 per hundred pounds, a record price. Manuel Ramirz. Mexican, was in stantly killed during a tornado which visited North Platte. Roofs of build ings were torn off. huge trees up rooted. windows and electric signs of business houses broken and frame buildings in various parts of town Mown down. The storm was the most destructive in the section for many years. Tom Broz. purchased a lot in How ells. recently, paying for it S830 in cash. The money so spent had been earned by the hoy by doing odd jobs ever since he was ten years of age. Methodists of Lexington took their basket dinners last Sunday and drove by auto to a large grove, six miles out in the country, where church and Sun day school was held in the open, fol lowed by a picnic. The procession of autos to the grove was six miles long. A new record price for a full load of cattle was paid on the South Oma ha market for twenty-five bead ship ped from Ord. by Harvey Parks and Charles Burdic. The cattle averaged 1,304 pounds and sold for $13.75 per hundredweight. The experiment of having the Oma ha mail carriers complete all de liveries even if it took them more than eight hours a day did not prove a success, and the carriers are now hack to their old eight-hour schedule. Mrs. Weaver Borden has taken charge of the Burchard Times, having bought tlie paper from F. A. Cox. who has enlisted in the Nebraska National Guard. The Great Western Alfalfa Milling company, of Denver, plans to start work on Its $‘20,000 plant at Kearney at once. Two Omaha police officers, Paul Sutton and Steve Maloney, who figured prominently in the recent blackmail case at Chadron. have been discharged from the force by the Omaha city commission. Apple barrels are being manufac tured at Falls City for shipment of this year's apple orop. They have material now on hand sufficient for making 12,000 barrels. Work on Kearney's new $170,000 ho tel is progressing nicely. The founda tions have been cast and basement walls constructed. p .v,:. • Moon. Reports from all cities ia Nebraska taking part in the Red Cross $10u.006,« 000 campaign, compiled by the Red Cross war council, show the following subscriptions to the war fund up to July 7: Alliance. $$2559.33: Antelope, $4.551225: Beatrice. $46,900.00; Bridge- j port. $18.012220; Broken Row. $5,000; County of Buffalo. $29,172.43; Cam bridge. $2100.00; Central City. $4, tYat.OO; Chadron. $5.43:5.06; Crawford, $2.033.15: Creighton. $3.41*4.07, Fre- ; mont. $27,000.00; Grand Island. $30,- , 773.00; Hastings. $15.99200; ililah, j $21,000.00; ImperiaL $5*04.00 • Kear- j ney. $25.00o.oo; Lincoln. $90,000.00; j Madison. $12534.00; McCook. $18,409; Nebraska City. $28.000; Xeligh. $20, 0U*; Norfolk. $15,000; North Platte, I $7,000: Omaha, $251225249; Platts mouth. $15.0*1; Scottsbluff, $12000; Stanton. $609.00; Tekamalt. $39,000; i Thedford. $60.00; York. $1,000.00. Hie grand total amounts to $749, 031220. Application of land owners and wa . ter users under the tin Tristate canal . in Scotts Bluff and Morrill counties to make the ditch a government pro ject with the government as trustee was granted by Secretary of the In terior Lane. The government reclaiua- , tion department hereafter will man- i age the canal, which irrigates about ' Oo.OOO acres. 50.000 acres of which is ! now under cultivation. The plan re duces interest charges from 0 to 4 per cent, and provides that the govern ment pay off the balance of the bonds, i Personal property and real estate valuations in Douglas county were in creased $10,723,085 by County Asses sor Fitzgerald and the hoard of equal . Ezation this year, according to official figures. There are 9.122 automobiles in Douglas county, valued at $3,330, 000. and 9.2528 horses, valued at $030. j 570. according to the assessor’s re j turns. a young iarmer or western Iowa i was on the South Omaha market re i cently with tire fatted ImMi.l sows. | which brought a total of $440. These j sows had all raised a brood of pigs j this spring. It was only a few years | ago that a farmer thought he was : getting a big price if he sold a fatted i steer for $SS. the amount each sow brought. The Union Pacific and other west ern roads in Nebraska contemplate curtailing their pasenger trains where posible to save fuel and cut down overhead expense, according to Gen eral Manager Jeffers of the Union \ Pacific, who just returned to Omaha j from a meeting of western railroad j heads in Chicago. Hastingsites by the hundreds at I tended a public dance given on the new asphalt paving in the business section of the city, proceeds from which were donated to the Red Cross. Owing to the shortage of farm help in Gage eounty a number of women have gone to work in the harvest fields. Rabbits, which have proved a valu able source of food in Europe during : the present war, may well he raised : more extensively in America by way of reducing the drain on the ordinary meat supply, according to biologists of the United States department of ag riculture. Representative Sloan has made it possible for the Nebraska State His torical society to borrow from the au thorities at Washington, a large oil painting of the first homestead in the United States. It was in Gage eoun ty and Paniel Freeman was the home steader. The house was built of logs. The federal land hank at Omaha re ceived a check for $5,000 front William J. Bryan for purchase of $5,000 worth of land hank bonds. Friend has contributed $5,523 to the Red Cross fund, which is $4.50 for every man. woman and child In the town. Seward county has organized a company of home guards. Only men who are not subject to draft are en listed in the home guard. Indications at present are that the second national swine show, which will he held in Omaha October 3 to 10. will excel the first show both in num hor of animals shown and general high quality. An agricultural stud ents’ judging contest will he one of r% features of the show, and the “Evolution of the Hog” will be an other. About 1.500 people attended a pa triotic demonstration given at Cort land in honor of thirteen young men of that vicinity who recently enlisted in Company F of the Fifth regiment. All efforts to dispose of $40,000 of school bonds of the Aurora district having failed, the hoard of education has called a special election to vote on 5 per cent bonds. It is said the governments offer of Liberty loan bonds caused the 4 per cent school project to fail. R E. Ridgeley. a stock raiser at Pickrell. sold forty-one head of Poland China hogs. which netted him $2,261.54. Six of the hogs weighed 700 pounds each and sold for $613.20. over $100 each. The government aid road from Fre mont to Yankton will go through Laurel hy way of West Point. Wayne and from there to Coleridge. Harring ton and Fordyee. making about fifty miles in Cedar county. C. E. Miller or omnim hns made reservations through the Fremont Commercial club for three business men of Havana. Cuba, who will at tend the Fremont tractor meet next month. The Griswold seed farm, near Lin coln. was sold recently for $36,000— at the rate of $225 per acre. The village of Julian, in Xemaha county, through the efforts of C. L. Mesnet of the Bank of Julian, has raised a Red Cross fund of more than S700. Mr. Mesnet’s bank disposed of $16,450 in liberty bonds. Business men of Rennet, hy united contribution, have made arrange ments to give a concert and free mo tion picture show once a week for the remainder of the summer. Boy scouts of Elgin are to hold an encampment under the supervision of scout officials and the Community club, August 1 to 6. ■ CASTORIA For Infants and Children. Mothers Know That Genuine Castoria Always Bears the Signature of ... . ajij For Over Thirty Years CASTORIA Sxact Copy of Wrapper. the cewt.ui. company, hew rowE crrr. •» Canada’s Liberal Offer of Wheat Land to Settlers is open to you—to every farmer or farmer s son -| who is anxious to establish for himself a happy home and prosperity. Canada’s hearty invitation this year is more attractive than ever. 'Wheat is much higher but her fertile farm land just as cheap, and in the provinces of Manitoba, Saskat chewan and Alberta 160 An Honr-studi An ActaiDy free to Settlers and Other Lend Sell at trim $15 to $20 per Acre Tk; great demand for Canadian Wheat will keep up the price. Where a farmer can get near $2 for wheat and raise 20 to 45 bushels to the acre he is bound to make money — that’s what you can expect in Western Canada. Won derful yields also of Oats, Barley and Flax. Mixed Fanning in Western Canada is fully as I profitable an industry as gram raising. | The excellent grasses, fnll of nutrition, are the only food required either for beef or dairy purposes Good schools, churches, markets convenient, climate excellent. There is an nnnsnai demand for farm labor to replace the many youna men who have volunteered for the war Write for literature and Crtlculara as to reduced railway rates to Supt. of migration, Ottawa, Can., or to W. V. BENNETT Boom 4, Bee Bldg., Omaha. Neb. Canadian Government Agent , Undoubtedly. A party from the west of England was being shown over the British museum and in one of the rooms the keeper pointed out a collection of an tique vases which had been recently unearthed. “Do you mean they were dug up?” echoed one of the party. "Yes. sir.” “What—out of the ground?” “Undoubtedly." “What—just as they now are?” “Perhaps some little pains have been taken in cleaning them, but in all other respects they were found just as you see them." The countryman turned to one of his companions and. with nn incredulous shake of the head, whispered: “He may say what he likes, but he shall never persuade me that they dug up ready-made pots out of the ground.” —Buffalo News. FRECKLES Now U the Time to Get Rid of These Ugly Spots. There's no longer the slightest need of feeling ashamed of your freckles, as the prescription othine — double strength — is guaranteed to remove these homely spots. Simply get an ounce of othine—double Strength—from your druggist, and apply a little of It night and morning and you should soon see that ‘even the worst fxeckles have begun to disappear, while the fighter ones have vanished entirely. It is seldom that more than one ounce is needed to com pletely clear the skin and gain a beautiful clear complexion. Be sure to ask for the double strength othine. as this is sold under guarantee of money back if It fails to remove freckles.— Adv. Rastus as Detective. Rapid disappearance of coal from his bin alarmed Major Higgins and he determined to trace it He ques tioned the man who tended his gar den. “George,” he asked, “where do you reckon my coal has disappeared to?” George scratched his head thought fully. “Well, sir,” he replied, “Ah— ah—ah reckon them squirrels done took it. Yes, squirrels. Major Higgins. That was nut coal, sir.” Pardonable Pride. 1918— I have decided to go out for the golf team. I have such a good build for golf, you Irqow. 1919— What do you >an by having a good build for golf? 1918—Well, I look so well In knick ers.—Tiger. Quite All Right “But, daughter, he has yellow fin gers.” “Well, yellow Is my colcr, dad.”— Louisville Courier-Journal. Proof. First Spirit—How do you kn»w this is heaven? Second Spirit—My robe isn’t cov ered with laundry marks.—Judge. -— Nearly 30 per cent of all flowers are white. III., lb. ■"■"""•""mnmiiimimnnnrammc Murine Is for Tired Eyes. I | IWOVItS Red Eyes —Sore Eyia—s a -^“T’"“"Grannlaled ByeUda. Rests — 5 f Refreshes—Restores- Marine 1. a Favorite = | Treatment for Byes that feel dry and smart. = = Glveyonr Byes as much of jonr loving ears - - sa your Teeth and with the aame regularity. 1 I JR MT ft El I g a Bold at Dree and Optical Store# or by Mail. 3 I tak Marlas Eye tmedy Co, Chlcaca, kr Frit Bask 3 ttanmini tsaniammiiiaaiJiiuiiiismjiiiifiuiifiuiiuB Tons of Gold Dollars. The statement that there has just been counted In New York, at the United States assay office, the enor mous sum of $765,000,000 In gold may be visualized somewhat when this is translated into ounces, pounds and tons, writes Girard in the Philadelphia Ledger. While it has been asserted that this sum probably is the largest amount of gold coin and bullion ever accumulat ed in one place, it is well to remem ber that only so recently as a year ago there was said to be $800,000,000 in gold ajid bullion in the Russian State bank. • The sum in New York figures out something like this: There are ap proximately 39,000.000 ounces or 3,000 - 000 pounds or 1,646 tons. The figures are not exact, A Base Materialist. She—This age we are living in gives much food for thought He—Yes, but not much for digestion. It is usually the bold and reckless swimmer who is drowned in the sea of matrimony. Nebraska Directory Fbest buyers5elleS?5S51 Lhoos-shup STOCK YAHDSOHAHAjl If f'i r> A If and supplies. Largest IV V^ U MIV house in the west. All ElUICIIIIIfi Eastman goods. Wepayre IIHIwIIIIIm turn postage on finishing. THE ROBERT DEMPSTER CO.. 1813 Firm* Street Eastman Kodak Co. Omaha, Mob. ECZEMA! 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