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Washington Lawyer Says Busi
ness Has Been Humming
Ever Since War.
MNV GERMAN NAMES SHED
Some Are Turned Into English
Equivalents and Others Are Re
placed by Plain American Names
Simple to Make Alteration.
Washington. A yoiiiic mnn dropped
Into n lawyer's olllco liure thu otlior
tiny.
"I wnnt to chntiRO my nnme," he
snld sntlly. "I'm n locksmith. I hnve
my niiniu on the door 1). Wnre and
customers nro always cracking Jokes
nnd pretending to bo afraid of me.
I'eople even come In Just to mako
ellly, puns and take up my time."
"Why don't you write your first
name out?" suggested tho nttorney.
"till, that would bo worse. My
name's Harry Ware it sounds like
bow-wow."
The lawyer drew up n petition for
tho young man, to be called Hurry
Ward, and In three weeks the change
was effected to the client's Joy.
Many German Names Changed.
Tho lawyer who told us this story
Wiys business In changing nnmes has
been bumming ever slnco tho war.
Families who had been In this coun
try for four generations, nnd who
prided themselves on their American
qualities, woke up In 1010 nnd 1017
to find their German sounding pnt
ronymlcs were regarded with disfa
vor, if not with suspicion. Tiiero'wns
just ono remedy, r.nd n great many
took it. German names wcro legally
Iturued Into Kngllsh equivalents, or
were replaced by plain American
bmlth, Carter or Johnson.
In some cases, owners of German
names desired changes ns a means of
showing they were not hyphenated
Americans. In others, it was a rtmttcr
cf business. Such "-names as Kaiser
and Hlndenburg, tho owners stated,
wcro Injuring their trade, as Ameri
cans regarded them as German firms
nnd were prejudiced by war associa
tions. Nnmes besides thoso of German
aound sometimes linvo an undesir
able effect on business. Such nnmes
eeem td bo discarded by their owners
In grenter numbers than over before.
These are chiefly tho masterpieces of
tho Ilusslnn, Greek, Itnllan and Slavic
languages. Some of these combina
tions contain tho best port of tho al
phabet and defy pronunciation, let
alone spelling.
Occasionally a clever man makes
capital of a peculiar name, as tho
man nnmed Easum, who onco adver
tised "Ensum's pills" nil over town.
But as a rule the odd nnme which sug
gests amusing comparisons Is rcgnrd
id as something to put up with, like
awkward hands or a stiff neck.
Most names brought to court for re
vision are surnames. Now and ngnln,
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(Inventor of the Caproni type oi plane, on his arrival on the S, S. Gluseppl
Verdi. Left to right are: Lieut. Talbot O. Freeman, Mcdfleld. Mara.; Lieut.
Allan W. Kevin, Jamaica, L. I.; G'annl Caproni, Lieut. Frank Lnmliert of
Baltimore, Md., and Lieut. Phillips, Melville, N. V.
FOND OF
Tombstone Druggist Fears Juror
Will "Founder Hissclf."
Peculiar Tastes Developed by Juroro
When Court Gives Dalllff
Carte Blanche.
Tombstone, Ariz. "I gotta havo an
other of them cornucopias," Impatient
ly remarked on elderly gentleman to
the keeper of Tombstone's only soda
fountain, loented In Tombstono's com
bination drug btore, cnlmret, concert
hall, news stand and cigar emporium.
"If that old fellow don't quit chas
ing mo over herd after cornuqftilus
Ihe's goln' to founder hlnself," the
elderly gentleman went oh.
It wob tho bailiff carrying out the
court's Instructions with regard to the
care of tho Illgbeo "deportation" Jury.
"You gentlemen are to seo that
livery want of these Jurors is filled,"
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North Island nnval-nir station at San Diego, Cal.. the lurgest mival-alr stutlon
on tho west coast.
however, u Christian nnme which tins
worried the owner, like an old man
oij tho sen, Is happily discarded. It Is
hard to get the point of view of par
ents who give their children ridiculous
nnmes merely to gratify nn overde
veloped sense of humor.
A governor of a certain state, by
name Hogg, will nlwnys be remem
bered for the fact that he named his
two daughters Imn and Orn. At least
ono, of these girls, we nro told, mar
ried early, thereby spoiling tho polni
of the father's little Joke.
Still more outlandish Is the record
in Hrltlsh history of n fnther who de
sired to namo his child Beelzebub.
When the boy was brought to church
to bo christened tho bishop refused to
bestow the name upon him, saying It
was not n lit nnme to be sanctioned by
the church.
Tho process of changing an unde
Drive On
700,000 of the Pests Are Killed
in Utah.
State-Wide Campaign Results In Sav-
Ing of More Than $100,000 for
the Farmerc
Washington. Seven hundred thou
sand Cnrtllsh sparrows, each eating six
quarts ol" wheat a year, would mean a
feed bill of more than $131,000. There
fore tho killing of 700,000 English spar
rows means thnt umount of money
saved for tho farmers concerned. And
nearly 700,000 sparows were killed in
a Btate-wldo campaign In which 783
Utah farmers Joined forces to get rid
of the pests during the winter months.
ICE CREAM
was what Judgo Sam l'attee had told
tho threo bailiffs tho night he ordered
tho cowboy Jury locked up for the re
mainder of tl:e h'.Morlc trial In which
It was setting.
Those orders wwre n slgnnl fot
every Juror to satisfy the least whim
ho had developed1 In long, dreary
months of riding r.wgew nnd facing
tlio wind, sun nnd sand of the desert.
With one man tho chief demand had
been for talcum after u shave. An
other Is forcing tho county to furnish
him with n luxurious bniHlscnp which
contains olive oil, as a relief froir, the
brand purchasable at tho crossroads
grocery.
Hut with ono Juror tho demand Is
for Ico cream cones. Who tho dissi
pating member of the Jury Is no ono
can tell, but that does not alter tho
fact that nil Tombstone knows his
fallings for vanilla Ice cream.
Just btforo court convenes n tho
morning n bailiff makes u hurry cull
at tho soda fountain.
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sirable nnme Is simple. Hero In Wash
ington all you have to do Is to file n
petition with the Supreme court of
the District of Columbia, saying It
wastes too much of your friends' time
to call you by your proper name, or
whatever reason you may have for the
change. You must swear that you nrd
not abandoning your old nnme to
avoid debts or any demands, against
you. Then jQi have a notice of the
change of name printed in n local
newspaper once a week for three
weeks. At the end of thnt time, if
nobody conies forward to object nnd
nobody ever does the court formally
grants your petition and you go forth
with whatever name you have picked
out. Considering bow easy It Is, wo
wonder that there nre so many people
with names that nre uninclodlous to
say the least. Frederic A. Haskln, In
Chicago Dally News.
Sparrows
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County agents helped In the cam
paign, which used 5,2-13 pounds of poi
soned bait. In most cuscs tho bait
was made of wheat, poisoned with
strychnlno In accordance with a reclpo
went out by the biological survey of tho
United States department of agricul
ture. It was put up in one-qunrter-pouud
paper bags In the county
agent's olllce. Full instructions were
printed on the bags for tho uso of 'the
poison. Each co-operator receiving tho
bait agreed to report on tho results.
Usually the sparrows were enticed for
a few days by putting unpolsoned bait
in places not frequented by other birds
and also inaccessible to the poultry of
tho furm. Then a few grains of doI-
soned wheat were put out each day.
Tho dcud sparrows were gathered up,
counted, and cither burned or burled
every few days to prevent tho spurrow
population from becomiug suspicious.
Tho number of sparrows counted by
each fanner was reported to tho com
mitteemen or the county agent at the
end of the season.
As many as 240 dead pparrows were
gathered up as the result of a single
packago of poisoned wheat It Is be
lieved that where care was used In
placing the poisoned bait an average
of 75 sparrows were killed with each
onc-quartcr-pound package. In each
of several counties 50,000 to 100,000
spurrows were destroyed.
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Income of Fake Cripple
Rated at $69,000 a Year
With a perfectly good right
nrm bandaged, Arthur Harrison,
beggar, admitted In a New York
city court he had received $13 In
n hair nour irom symputnetlc
passersby.
Magistrate Steers estimated
tills Income to bu at the rate of
SGO.QOO n year. He sent the
beggar to tho penitentiary for
six months.
"One of them vanilla cornucopias,"
ho says.
At noon he appears again. And
twice In the evening before nbd after
tho movie show Its "Ice cream cones
for ono" nnil tho bailiff disappears
behind Jlie swinging doors of the
courtroom.
SWINE SWARM JN DETROIT
Driven In Herds Through Streets on
Accoupt of the Switchmen's
Strike.
Detroit, Mich. City ordlnnnces nnd
custom both went by the boards hero
heeuuso of tho switchmen's strike.
Squealing pigs 1,500 of them had to
bo removed from enrs In railroad yards
and driven for somo distance through
tho streets to tho packing houses.
They scattered in nil directions, de
moralizing trnlllc nnd furnished ninu.se
ment for almost everybody except tho
Btreet car motormen. '
Somo of tho porkers wero caught
under street cars, but wcro recovered
without serious damage.
NEBRASKA IN BRIEF
rimoly News Culled From All
Parts of the State, Reduced
for tho Busy,
SCORES OF EVENTS COVERED
The llrs t genuine act Ion by the gov
rnment to curb hoarding and pion
eering in Nebraska, occurred at
Jinnhu last week when agents of the
department of Justice, after a hasty
nvestlgntlon, seized 108,000 pounds of
uignr stored In two warehouses by re
all dealers. More raids on sugar
murders In Oimilm and other cities In
he stute ar expected, and the guilty
ire to bi prosecuted, government of
h'lals at Omuhii stute.
The little linpttst church ut Knders,
villi only a membership of sixteen,
ivoii the honors of being the first
'hureh in the stute over the top with
ts new world movement quota. The
hurch's apportionment was 31,000,
j ml Its members subscribed a total of
f 1,131 to the new world fund. The
-liureli never has bad a pastor, but Is
lust now erecting n new $,i,000 edifice
for Its Sunday school and preaching
ervlcos.
The city of North I'latte Is held re
sponsible for the sum of ?r,2.ri() for the
death of each of two of Its police olll
rers who were shot and killed by two
Mexicans resisting arrest. This de--isloti
was entered by Slate Labor
t'ommlssloner Frank A. Kennedy, acl
ug as commissioner under the state
'onipcnsution law.
No clue to the whereabouts of J. W.
Allsberry, fanner ami ranchman of
Norway, who has been missing from
his home since April 22, bus been
found. Authorities have been not Hied
3f his disappearance and a reward of
?.0 offered for Informal Ion concern
ing him.
It Is reported that Second Lleuten-
nit J. T. Logan of Seward, former
Inance ofllcer of Camp Knox, Louis
rtlle, Ky., who disappeared four
until lis ago, was approximately short
M3.000 'In his accounts when he left.
No trace of him has been found.
The Nebraska delegation to the re
publican national convention nt Chi--ago
expects that headquarters room
ror n week will cost ?000 and that tho
Individual delegates will have to pay
from 515 to $25 n night for their sleep-,
ng accommodations.
Close to $1,000,000 will be spent for
Ituptlst activities In Nebraska as a re
sult of the New World movement. A
whirlwind canvass Is being made in
every llnptist church In' the state In
an effort to clean up Nebraska's quota
In tho drive.
I'ay.:g a man $S00 for n case of
bootleg whisky at the Missouri Pa
cific station in Auburn, a well known
Verdon mnn found the bottles full of
cold ten. He complained to the sheriff
tliut he had been "robbed by an un
masked bandit."
For tho first tlmo ltrown county will
see a commercial fertilizer used on its
farms this year, a carload of potash
fertilizer having been sold at Alns
worth by the Cherry county potash
plants. It will be used In experi
ments. The Dawson County Fair associa
tion and the Lexington Commercial
club will stage what promises to be
tho largest Fourth of July celebration
In western Nebraska at Lexington,
July 5.
Approaches to two bridges over the
Elkhorn river near Wlnslow hnve been
washed out and the Elk City bridge
has been so weakened thnt tratllc from
Omaha to Fremont Is being detoured.
Indications are that Holt county
will have the biggest bay crop this
year In the history of the county.
Holt Is the lending hay producing
county In the state.
Movement of cattle from tho winter
ranges of Holt county back to the
summer pastures of their owners In
Wyoming and also In Iowa continues
uninterrupted,
Munderson Lehr Post No. 102, Amer
ican Legion of Albion, has gone on
record favoring the four-fold soldier
1 relief legislation now pending In con-
gress.
At the recent primaries but one man
voted the prohibition ticket In Holt
i county. The woman vote was 338 re
publican and HHI democrat Ic.
Scout troops over the stale are
planning to observe National Hoy
Scout Week, May 30 to June 0.
Commissioners of Madison county
have appropriated $5,000 for life ex
penses for Charles Youny In a Louis
iana leper colony.
A rate of one and one-third fare has
been obtained by the G. A. 11. over all
railroads for tho Grand Army encamp
ment which meets in Fremont May 17,
18 and 10.
Mrs. ('. ltyaii of Grand Island,
federal fair price commissioner for
Nebraska, has re-established the' war
Mine licensing system for sugar distri
bution In an effort to cope with tho
present situation.
Funds for n $3,000 budget nro being
nsked business men of Tecumseh by
the flnnneo committee of the Tecum
seh Community club,
Tho Amorlcnn legion band nt Lin
coln, sixty strong, voted to affiliate
with tho musicians' protective union of
tho city and become a strictly union
organization.
Tho slate of Nebraska has pur
chase,'! slxty-tliree acres of gravel
land along the Platte river nenr Ash
land, In order to be in n position to
furnish Its own gravel end sund for
road work.
Madolinc Wilcox of Iturr carried off
high honors, both oral and written, nt
the stntc spelling contest held nt Lin
coln, successfully spelling every word
In a text prepared by It. W. Eaton of
Omaha. Sixty-seven contestants, rep
resenting thirty-eight Nebraska coun
ties were entered. Other winners
were Clarence lieldner of Hampton,
C'reda Maker of Weeping Water,
George Hayden of Kuskln, Mary John
son of Fordyce, Julia Kostoca of Ulch
unison count, nnd Unity Nelson of
Phelps county. The Lincoln Commer
cial club furnished cash prizes.
A committee composed of Chancel
lor Avery of tho I'lilverslly of Ne
braska, Prof. .7. A. Illce of the State
University and Paul F. Good of Lin
coln will choose one Ithodes scholar
from Nebraska this fall. The schol
arship Is good for three years In Ox
ford university beginning October,
1021. Anyone desiring to become a
candidate should consult the nuihorl-
lies of bis college or university.
.i'lie $2r.0,000 damage suit of Ileryl
A. Felvers, former non-partisan league
organizer, against a number of Omaha
nnd Lincoln business men uud (Marks
citizens, will be tried In federal court
at Lincoln, May 17. Felvers charges
that due to a propaganda campaign
waged against the league by the de
fendants he was assaulted and un nt
tempt made to lynch him in Polk
county In May, 1011.
Thomas Morris, believed to havo
been the oldest white man In the
United Stales, died Mny 1, at the homu
of Charles Mitten, ranchman, eight
miles northeast of A a 'ley. He was
12(5 years old, having been born In
Perron, North Wales, January 15,
1701. He came to this country In 1871,
locating n't Stroator, 111,, ami moved
to Custer county, Nebraska, In 1SS0.
Warning that fake oil lease promot
ers nfe busy fleecing Nebraska people,
and that reliable Information upon any
oil prospects within the slate may bu
obtained fnoni stnte authorities for the
asking Is voiced In a statement Issued
at Lincoln by Piofesor Contlru of the
University of Nebraska.
Itoone county citizens were severely
shocked when John lluchaimii, 30,
shot and killed Mrs. Cltupmnu, 78, uud
then killed, himself nt the Iiuchanun
farm near Albion. The slayer Is be
lieved to have been mentally de
ranged. Development of the tree planting
system In which but six varieties of
trees shall be planted uud each street
will have only trees of the specified
kind is Included in the beautifying
plan of the city commission of Lin
coln. The first road building enmp for
penitentiary prisoners has been open
ed by the state one mile west of Te
cumseh. Seventeen prisoners arc In
the camp and others will be set to
work Inter In Seward county and nt
Table Hock.
The state department of Irriga
tion has approved a project to Irri
gate a 400-acre tract In Hock county
from Hock creek. The water will be
carried by a Hume a mile long. It is
the first Irrigation project in the
county.
An extensive and elaborate program
has been arranged for the forty-fourth
annual encampment of the Nebraska
G. A. H I-adlos of the G. A. H. W. H.
C, and Sons and Daughters of Veter
ans to be held nt Fremont, Mny 17
to 10.
Following nn nlleged assault upon a
small boy committed by one of thelt
number tho entire gang of colored sec
tion laborers was run out of Lakeside
by nn enraged crowd of farmers and
townspeople.
In an effort to bent old II. C. of L.
girls of Auburn High school will bo
graduated In white middy blouses,
white skirts, stockings uud shoes, with
black ties.
From Omaha to Fremont in twenty
one minutes, a distance of thirty-seven
miles, was made by an airplane the
other day, piloted by C. J. Itobins of
Fremont.
To supervise the expenditure ol
$31,000 given by Fremont to the Y, W.
C. A., u citizen's committee lias been
organized to work with association of
ficers. ,
Sidney Is to hnve a salaried baseball
team Ibis year, the expense of the .club
to be borne by the business men of the
city.
The city council of Auburn has de
elded to proceed with the paving pro
gram which Involves 22 blocks.
The Lincoln Aero club Is prumntlnc,
an nil-Nebraska air derby mid dellult
plans nre to be made soon.
Carnival companies have ifeen pro
hibited rrom showing In York comity
by the county board.
Four officers on tho Omahn pollco
force have been stripped of their
badges nnd discharged for Improper
conduct In the past three weeks.
Several hundred delegntes are ex
pected to attend the first convention
of the Nebraska League of Women
Voters, which will be held In Omaha
lu June.
A, stnte wide drive for funds to erect
an nudllorluni on the campus of the
state university rt Lincoln to tho
memory of jhc soldier and sailor dead
of the war will be launched In Nebras
ka on Juno (1.-
A great denl of damage was done
at Waterloo when tho Elkhorn river
overllnwed last week and flooded 8
part of the town.
All Nebraska posts of tho American
Legion are to take an active part In
the nntion-wldo campaign May 17 to
22 to add lv000,000 new members to
tho orgauizntlon.
A report Issued by W. 13. Meyers,
receiver of tho Fanners' Stnte bank,
nt Hulsoy, hhows that claims approved
due to depositors and preferred credit
ors amount to $30,400.23, all of whicfc
must bo mailo tronil hv tho
LIFE WAS A
MISERY TO HER
Says this Woman Until Re-
lieved by Lydia E.Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound.
Cnrrollton, Ky.-" I suffered almost
tven vonrs with female weakness. I
COUIU nob wuitt. uny
distance, rido or
take any exercise at
all witnout resting.
If I swent the floor
or did any kindfof
wont it wouiu oring
I my sickness on. I
was weak and lang
uid, had no energy,
and life was a misery
to mc. I was under
the caro of a good
Inhvsician for sev
eral months and tried other remedies.
I had read of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege
table Compound and decided to try it
After taking twelve bottles I found
myself much improved and I took six
more. I havo never had any more
trouble in that respect since. I have
done all kinds of work and at present
am an attendant at a otato Hospital
and am fccline fine. I havo recom
mended your Vegetable Compound to
dozens of my friends and shall alwava
recommend it. "-Lillian THAKP, 824
S 6th St, Carrollton, Ky.
.If you have any symptom about which
you would like to know writo to tho
Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co., Lynn,
Mass., for helpful advico given freo of
charge.
Depends on How You Look at It
Weary William (lee whiz! DIs
(voild must be going crazy. Dere's an
article In dls paper what says a man
i traveled 4.000 ihIIpr to take baths.
Every Woman Knows
that clean, snow-white
clothes are a constant
source of pleasure.
Red Cross Ball Blue
if used each
week pre
serves the
clothes and
makes them
look like new.
Try it and see
for Yourself.
All good grocers
sell it;
5 cents
a pack
age. Nebraska Directory
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