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EXPENSES ARE LESS
BOARD OF CONTROL EFFECTS
SAVING FOR NEXT 2 YEARS.
4,762 WARDS BEING CARED FOR
Increase of Eleven Per Cent Sinco
1913 Feat Considered Triumph
for That Pody.
Lincoln. A total of 1,702 wards ot
tliu stale urn now bo I tig oared for at
tho fifteen statu itiBtitutlons under
charge of tliu state board of control,
as compared to 4,318 wards In No
vein bur, 11)13. Tho figures uru com
piled from a rocont report of tliu
board. Tliu number, In both In
stances, Includes tho children listed
with the dependent home. Tho latter
Institution was not actually In tho
board's control list at tho time tho
first report was made, but since baa
become a part of Its list.
Despite this Increase of approxi
mately 11 per cent In tho Inmate
numbers, tho board will run the In
stitutions on less money during tho
coming two years than was required
during tho two years Just past. Tho
feat Is n real financial triumph for
tho board, Inasmuch as Us word gov
erned tho legislature exclusively
when the lawmakers had tholr appro
priations under discussion.
The success of tho board In manag
ing tho Institutions and in looking
after the wolfaro of tho Inmates
charitable, penal and otherwise is
proof abundant that the people of tho
atato acted wisely when they put tho
affairs of tho institutions under its
control
Tho institutional population, as re
ported from tho vnrious homes, Is as
'ollows:
Where tho State Wards Are:
Nov. April
1913.
.453
82
483
191 r,
486
100
470
Beatrice feehlo minded
Gcnevn girls' industrial
Grand Island soldiers
Hastings hospital 1,093 1.137
K.cnmcy boys' industrial. 157 210
Kearney tubercular 21 30
Lincoln hospital T09 718
Orofhopedlc 90 110
Penitentinry 330 371
Mllford women's homo .. 91 07
Wllford soldiers 132 105
Nebraska City blind 55 53
Norfolk hospital 419 477
Omaha deaf school 104 108
Dependent children 70 213
Total 4.318 4.702
Interurban Losing Money.
Tho formal riiplalnt or the Omaha
Lincoln & Ileatrlco Hallway Co., filed
with tho stato board of equalisation
would mako It appear that tho path
of interurban rallwny development In
Nobraskn under present restrictions
Is a rough and rocky one. Tho com
pany reports a net deficit of $1,515 in
tho operation of tho road since the
tlmo of its building in 1907. In nd
dltion to this It has outstanding In
debtedness of other kinds amounting
o $28,490.
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In thn hnintiardinunt of tho Dardanelles the allies are making use of all
have been re-enforced and armed with smaller guns for the purpose of fighting close to the shoio and dislodging
tho Turks from their temporary enrth defenses The picture shows one of these convened merchantmen send
ing over a broadsldo at tho Turkish defenses on the shore
STEEL PONTOONS FOR THE YSER REGION
FARM WORK AMIDST SHELLS
Bar Defectives From Marrying.
Dr. W. S. Fast of Beatrice, speaking
before tho Nebraska State Eclectic
Medical association, advocated that
defectives bo barred from marrying
Ho said that, should such marriages
bo wholly discontinued, two genera
tions would seo the complete elimina
tion of feoble-mlndedness, criminality
delinquency and extreme poverty. He
urged the doctors to uso all their In
fluence against marriages betweer
tho unlit
Section Hand May Receive Legacy.
Alfred James Bourn, soldier of for
tuno, section hond and believed to be
heir to his uncle's estate in Australia,
has been found in Lincoln. He will
go Immediately to claim his legacy.
Bourn was trailed for weeks by an
Australian detective, employed by tho
administrator of tho uncle's estate.
ti i,no nqiiilillnhotl his Identity. Ho
said ho had served with tho Amerlcnn
troopB in tho Philippines and in tho
Boxer troubles and had been nround
the world four times.
Want Aid In Keeping Up Highway.
Farmers along tho Omaha-Lincoln'
Donver highway and automobile own
ers will lw asked to cooporato in
maintaining tho highway and making
It popular for tourist travel, It was
docidod at a meeting of good roads
boosters in Lincoln.
Avery On Peaco Commission.
Chancollor Avory of tho stato unl
Terelty has been requested by Sccro
tary of Stato Bryan to servo as ono
of tho flvo membore of tho pormonent
peaco commission provided for In tho
treaty with Sweden.
Road Wanti to Drop Motor.
Permission of tho railway commis
sion to remove from Its service tho
Columbus-Spnuldlng "ono-way-a-day"
motor has been asked by tho Union
Pacific Tho matter will come to a
hearing within a short time. This
service was put on tho road at tho
order of tho commission. Tho Union
Pacific claims now thnt while the
motor service in itself lias paid, tho
regular passenger traln service on
the line has been seriously Impaired.
It says that it cannot run both the
trains and tho motor.
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How Man Wh Knw Human Natura
Fooled Barber and Got to
Dinner on Time.
"Tho other evening about six o'clock
I was sitting in a Imrliiu's chair get
ting dolled up," said a downtown man
according to tho Washington Star
"when u friend of mliiu came rushing
In, threw off his hat and coat, flung
himself In a vacant chair and crlud to
tho barber stnndlng by
"'llore, hurry up and glvo mo a
lightning shavul 1'vo got to catch a
tialu; got Just two mluuteii to spare.
Step lively, now, or I'll nili-s that train,
stiro shot!'
"Tliu barber busied himself at his
swiftest speed, and In a short tlmo my
liurilng lileiid was shaod and gone.
"What was my surprise, theieforo,
vshuii that n lining about 9.30 o'clock,
as 1 was strolling about tho foyer of a
theater between tho acts, 1 saw that
tralti-catchlug friend of initio leaning
leisurely against a pillar there smok
ing a cigarette.
"'Why, I thought ou hud to leavo
town In a hurry this evening,' I ex
claimed In surprise. 'You wcro in u
fervid rush at the barber shop.'
"My friend smiled
"'There wasn't any train to catch.'
hf answered, 'but 1 don't suppose you
fully understand (he psychology of tho
barber. 1 did want u quick shave;
wanted it Just as much and Just as
quickly as though 1 had been hurrying
to catch a train, for I was going out to
u rather formal dinner party with this
theater attachment afterward, and 1
was badly pressed for tlmo wherein to
get shaved and drcHBCtl.
" 'Now, If 1 had told tho harbor that
I was invited to dinner and whb In a
hurry bocauso I hud small tlmo to pre
pare and didn't want to bo lato It
would have meant nothing at all to
him. In his experleucu tho mutter ot
'a bachelor being live or ten minutes
lato to a dinner has never boon of any
particular Importance, and hence It is
beyond bis comprehension thnt ono
should need hurry to promptly fill any
such engageinont through any other
motlvo than bald hunger. Tho flngraut
breach of good tiiauuerB, amounting al
most to tin Insult to tho hostess, In
volved in being lato to dinner la as
much beyond bis understanding as tho
problems of tho fourth dimension.
"'Hut when I told him 1 wns In a
hurry to catch a train, that nppealod
to him, for somo tlmo tu his llfo bo's
had to hurry to catch one, and Just
made It by tho skin of Ills teeth
everybody lias. Accordingly bis mem
ory of his own feullngs and IiIb conse
quent Imagination of my predicament
camo to my assistance and spurred
him on. You noticed how that fellow
hustled to get over my faoo and how
pleased with himself ho wan because
ho hud been so expeditious about It,
didn't you?'"
WOOL GROWING IN
CANADA A SUCCESS
This By-Product of the Farm Will
'Make Many Western Canada
Farmers Rich.
Alberta wool growers aro looking for
25 cent wool this year. That is the
nBsortlon made by a prominent shcop
mnn of the (irnssy Lake district. "It
is nulto within the palo of possibility
that wo will receive that llguro from
our wool thlB summer," said ho, "and
I would not bo surprised to oeo somo
get more than that.
'Tho wnr has caused a great demand
to bo miido on tho woolen mills, and
they have got to have tho raw material."
Tho present season has boon most
propitious for the growing of wool, and
tho growers expect to reap a big hP-r-vest
of n splendid quality. Tho winter
has been very oven, and tho sheep are
doing well on tho ranges.
No speclnl breed of sheep Is kept
on Western Canada farms, and all
seem to do well. Tho advice of thoa
interested in tho wolfaro of tho farm
ers of Western Canada, advlso all
who can at all do so to enter upon the
raising of sheep. They havo proved
most profltnblo to those who go Into
that Industry on a scale commensu
rate with their moans, and their farm
area.
Tho cllmato Is perfectly adapted to
tho raising of slicop, they are cosily
opt, and as pointed out, thoro Is good
noncy to bo mado out of thorn. Ad-rcTttscmcnt.
N tlifa '.
Mon of tho British engineer corps loading on railway cars the specially constructed pteel pontoons designed for
ubo in crossing tliu Ysor and the canals of that region. j
Within the round of tho big guns many French peasuuts aro leading uu
almost normal life, for farming niuat go on or there would bo no food for
tho fighters. Tho photograph shows farm horsos startled by a bursting shell.
It was taken recently near Auber, Franco.
GUlHFc
Rats as Plague Transmitters.
In viow of the admitted Importanco
3f tho rat In tho transmission of
plague, tho study or this disease
imong rodents lias becomo hb neces
sary from tho point of vlow of pro
ventlvo hygiene ns Is the management
of tho human cases when they aviso.
In a report to tho local government
board or Hnglnnd, on rnt plaguo In
East Anglia during the period from
July to October, 1011, the magnitude
of a slnglo campaign Is shown. Dur
ing four months 15,332 rats woro ox
umlncd ror plaguo Infection. Thirty
live of tho rats were found to bo
plaguo Infected. Twenty-Bovcn premi
ses wero found to harbor plague-In-fected
rats. Tho places wero all with
in an area proviously pronounced to
bo Infected. Tho rat destruction,
which has been maintained by local
enterprise for somewlint moro than a
year, had, In many localities, upprn
slably diminished tho rat population.
Psychology of Practice.
Tho question of short versus long
periods of practlco In training tho hu
man muscles for any particular kind
of work Is obviously ono having far
reaching application. Somo Interest
ing experiments on this subjoct have
been carried out by Dr. K. S. Lushloy
or Johns Hopkins university. Acquisi
tion ol Bkill In nrchory waB Bcloctod
is the subject of observation. Twonty
untrained porsoiiB woro divided Into
throo groups. Ono group shot flvo
arrows with tho Kngllsh longbow per
day; another, twenty shots per day:
and the third, forty shots. Tho re
sults showed conclusively that tho
group shooting only flvo times a day
Improved In accuracy with less ox
pundlturo of tlmo In practlco than was
required by olthor of the other group
for tho Baino amount of Improvement.
A report on tho experiments says:
"The relatively greater olllcloncy of
short periods of practlco continuing
Tor many days Is In acrordanco with
tho resulfB or the study of animals
and of speech habits In man, and In
dicates thnt In training to muscular
rents, In both nnlmals und mon, tho
longth or practice periods required Is
usually too great ror maximum ef
ficiency." Scientific American.
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This novel Instrument Is used by the French to cut barbed wlro entangle
ments In front of tho German trenches. Tho gun throws tho hook Into ilio
mltfst of tho wires and a cable that Is attached to It la tbon reeled In, bring
with it the wire.
A German scout finding an outpost
who had been mortally wounded, nnd
with his last strength had crawled
to a stream to quench his thirst.
Season of Aspiration.
O springtime, tliu season of aspira
tion! with what delight In llfo thou
flllest tho heart! On ono sldo, tho
spiritual world is attracting us, and
wc feel assured that only In its closest
bond of union can our true happiness
he found. On tho other hand, Naturo
with her thousandfold witcheries calls
back our hearts and our senses to her
own eternal llfo. It is hard that
neither the Internal nor the external
can fully satisfy our desires, nnd that
tho souls in which tho two aro united
aro so row. A llfo purely spiritual
cannot satisfy us; there is something
In us that has a longing for reality.
Ah tho thoughts of tho artist can find
no rest until ho hau embodied them In
an externa) representation, so tho ob
ject of all our aspiration la to find in
tho perfect material, tho counterpart
and reflection of the perfect spiritual,
Von Schelltng.
President Wilson'a Father.
In an nddress at Vashlngton re
cently boforo tho Potomac presbytery
or tho Presbyterian church, President
Wilson spoko or Incidents of his boy
hood when he assisted his father, a
Presbyterian clergyman.
"Ho hnd a risky habit of saying ex
actly what ho thought," said tho presi
dent, "a habit which I In part Inherit
ed and or which I havo had diligently
to euro myself.
"But ho wns tho best Instructor,
tho most Inspiring companion, I ven
ture to say, n youngster over had,
and In fuclng a Southern presbytery
I cannot think or myself ns tho presi
dent of tho United States I can only
think of myBcir ub tho son or Joseph
It. Wilson, nnd I only wish I could
claim somo of tho vital connection
with tho church which ho could
claim."
Couldn't Tell.
"Why did you help tho derendant
In the fight, If that's tho caso?" asked
tho examining counsel.
Mr. Cnssldy looked at tho lawyer
with contempt, und answered In a tono
of blighting scorn: "For tho ra'son
that at that tolmo Ol had no means of
knowing which o' thlui would bo tho'
derendant."
But Not One of Them.
"Does ho boloug to the moneyod
class?"
"Heart and soul. There's nothing he
wouldn't do ror them."
If Omar Khayyam wero alive today
ho'd bo running a big-town cafe with
plenty of high-life cabaret.
INSOMNIA
.cads to Madness, If Not Remedied.
How U. S. Rosa From the Ocean.
An Interesting exhibit shown by the
United StatcB geological survey at the
T'anamu-Paclflc exposition In San Fran
cisco is tho illustration or tho develop
ment or tho surfaco features of the
United States and adjoining lands
tho gradual riso of tho continent from
the primal ocean and tho accompany
ing development or llfo a pictorial
story of progress from tho early fish
nnd tho hugo half-roptllo creatures
known as saurlana to tho higher mam
malB such as tho groat saber-tooth,
tiger and the giant hyena.
Maritime Character.
"There Is somothlng about tho fel
low who was In horo Just now that
smacks of tho salt sea galo," Bald the
newly arrived guest.
"You havo raro powers of discern
ment," said tho nffablo proprietor of
Sea View Inn. "I guess ho bcIIb more
peanuts and popcorn than any other
dealer on tho beach."
"Experiments satisfied mo, some 6
fears ago," writes a Topoka woman,
'that coffoo was tho direct cause of the
Insomnia from which I suffered ter
ribly, as well as extremo nervousness
and acuto dyspepsia.
"I had been a coffee drinker since
childhood, and did not like to think
that tho beverage was doing mo all
this harm. But It was, and tho time
camo when I bad to faco tho fact, and
protect myself. I therefore gave up
coffco abruptly and absolutely, and
adopted PoBtum for my hot drink at
me lis.
"I began to note Improvement la
my condition very noon after I took
on Postum. Tho chango proceeded
gradually, but surely, and it was a
matter of only a few woeks before I
found myself entirely relieved the
nervousness passed away, my diges
tive apparatus was restored to normal
efficiency, and I began to sleep rest
fully and peacefully.
"ThoBo happy conditions have con
tinued during all of the 5 years, and I
am safe In saying that I owe them
entirely to Postum, for when I began
to drink It I ceased to use medicines."
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read "The Road to
Wollvlllo," In pkgB.
Postum comes la two forms:
Postum Cereal the original form
must bo well boiled. 15c and 25c pack
ages. Instant Pottum a soluble powder
dissolves quickly in a cup ot hot wa
ter, and, with cream and sugar, makes
a dollclouB beverage Instantly. 30c and
GOc tins.
Both kinds aro equally delicious and
cost about tho same per cup.
"There's a Reason" for Postum.
sold by Grocers.
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