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Southern Port
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Attempt to Land Telegraph Cable
at Miami Brings About Queer
Situation.
MIAMI IS IN THE LIMELIGHT
United States Warships Blockade a
United States Port In Time of
Peace Geographic Society Offi
cial Tells About Place.
By JOHN OLIVER LA GORCE.
Vice-Director National Geographic
Society.
Miami, Fla. Probably for the first
(tlnio since tire stf-rlng days of (ho
Civil war wo fir 1 n southern port
i blockaded by UnUtf States warships.
'Hnpplly, however. It Is no crisis
, brought nhout hy en uncompromising
demand for the Integrity of Htnte
rights, but to prevent n cable ship en
tering the port of Miami, the most
.southerly city on the Florldlun mnln
'lnod nnd the third Inrgeat In the state,
irom tho stnndpnlnt of population.
Nestling beside the beautiful waters
of Blscnyne bay and separated from
tho Atlantic only by thts peninsula of
Miami bench, tho city has rapidly
como Into Its own, due to the strategic
geographic location It occupies on the
South Atlantic coast, nnd It gives
promlso to rival Jacksonville as a
Port of call. When one realizes that
ene-thlrd of all the grapefruit In tho
United States comes from tho county
In which Mlnml Is situated and tbnt
one-fifth of all the nnlmnl life In
JAmcrlcn north of I'anninn Is to he
found In the waters of the Gulf stream
j which Inve the golden strand of Miami
(beach In Its front yard, and with the
great potential agricultural wealth of
the Everglades at Its back door, small
wonder that Miami lias grown, ns
sbown by the Inst census report. 440
per cent.
Rivals the Riviera.
Blessed with a year-round cllmnte
thnt rlvnls the Itlvlern, with ever
blowing trade winds that temper the
semi-tropical sun. Mlnml bids fair to
tnke rank with anything of Its size In
tho United States for development
lolong highly profitable nnd thoroughly
'businesslike lines.
It is not surprising that n telegraph
company desires to bring tbe Bnrbndos
cables Into Mlnml Instend of Key
'West, a hundred odd miles south of
,thl8 point; hut there Is some diplo
matic hitch about England's control of
cables which has caused tills prutlcal
jly unheard of situation of United
JStntes war vessels blockading a Unit
ed states port in the tlmo of pence.
Three years ago the nwney on de
posit In the bnnklng institutions of
Miami amounted to something like $!.
000,000, In tho summer of win to
$12,000,000, In Marcb, 1020, to $17,.
'000,000, nnd todny the amount Is up
ward of $20,000,000. Moreover, In
ipermnncnt population It has grown In
ten years from 5,471 to 20,510. During
tho winter months there nro neurly ns
mnny trnfllc "cops" on Its well-paved
streets ns there nre In the national
cnpitnl, ten times Its size.
Ono of the most Important develop
ments of Mlnml bench Is the Inaugura
tion and completion of tho Mlnml
nqunrlum nnd biological laboratory,
located nt the bench terminus of tho
wonderful 100-foot causeway stretch
'Ing three miles In length which spnns
Blscnyne bny, connecting the city with
tho ocenn benches. As the scientists
genernlly ngree thnt all lnnd anlmnls
enmo originally out of the sea. the
study of the myriad forms of life In
tho troplcul sens will, It Is believed,
Blacked Boots Here for 52 Years
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llns aged Turkish bootblack declares that lie has had this hiiinu muiuI
i!n Constantinople for 52 years and that lie once polished the Milton's shoes
,Hc says thnt for morn than 30 years he lias not missed a day. Ills stand u'
Jtut across tho Htreot from the American lied Cross hendqiiarrerH.
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develop links between the sen nnd
laud nuimuls thnt will add much to tho
world's knowledge of this Important
question. Since the question of food
hus been accentuated as an aftermath
of the world wnr. the eyes of -win-oinlsts
have turned to the warm seas
to develop the possibilities of Its In
numerable (Mi life.
Just an the shoemaker's child Is
proverbially without footwear, .so It
was that there was no aquarium or
biological station on the entire Atlan
tic eont south of ll lladelphla. and.
consequently, no extensive iml ade
quately equipped and situated institu
tion to which the Ichthyologists of the
country could make pilgrimages and
study at first hand the wonders of the
fauna of the Gulf stream. Heretofore
these specialists In zoology traveled to
the aquarium nt Neplcs, Italy, and to
other European institutions, simply lie
cause there was nowhere In the warm
seas surrounding the southern part of
our own continent a pluco where they
Upper Slesvig Celebrates Return
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King Christian of Denmark mounted
Slesvig for tho first tlmo through nn nrch
Upper Slesvig, which until 1804 belonged
lecent plebiscite.
Students
in Six
World's Record Broken at Exer
cises itU. S. School in
Constantinople.
GREAT CROWD IN ATTENDANCE
Armenian, Turkish, Greek, French,
Bulgarian and English Used in Ad
dressing Cosmopolitan Crowd
at Commencement
Constantinople. The world's record
for tho number of Inngunges used In
its commencement exercises will prnb
nbly go to Itohert college this yenr.
Orations were delivered in six
tongues, and, at thnt. the program was
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hnvt ihf menus at iiiim. ii inii.Mif
their highly Important wotU.
only a month or two ago. an entire
ly new species of tiiini, one of the
most valuable lood IMies tn I lie world,
was located nnd described by the di
rector of the Mlnml iiqiiiiiium. and If
these great fishes of the horse
mackerel family can lie developed In it
commercial way It will have nn Inter
esting bearing on the problem of low
ering the high cost of living.
Vil'a Debts to Be Paid
in Full by Government
All personal loans obtained by
Francisco Villa. Mexican bandit
leader, who recently surrendered
to the provisional government,
will be pabl by the government,
It has been learned. The loins
amount to $10,000. Mexican.
Villa Is said to have given re
ceipts for all the loans he ob
tained and these will be refund
ed upon presentation f the pa
pers to the government by claim
nuts. Villa still is at Sniilnas.
awaiting the A.--J ml of the sup
ply train which was to take lilm
and his men to Torreon.
v"'v - 'w. ..,
ritofypr - .
on ir whltu vlmrKcr entering Upper
of triumph erected nt FredcrlcshoU
to Denmark, voted to return In the
Orate
Tongues
less polyglot than It used to be before
the wnr. Euch of the orators spoke
bis nntlve tongue, according to the
traditions of the American school es
tnbllshed 07 years ago. Tho school
has American standards anti Ideals,
.and n majority of Its teachers are
Americans, but its nlm Is to educate
men for service In their own countries,
rather than In English-speaking coun
tries. Cosmopolitan Crowd Attends.
Armenian, Turkish, Greek, French,
Hiilgnrlnn and English were the lan
guages used by the orntors. nnd the
cliupel of tho college was filled with n
cosmopolitan crowd typical of Con
stantinople's Intellectunls. At the
very time Admlrnl Bristol, the Amer
ican high commissioner, was advising
the 32 graduates to devote their lives
to a lessening of the rnclnl nnd re
ligious hatreds of the Luvnnt. wnr
wus going on nt four distinct fronts
In the Turkish empire, the British,
French, Greeks and Armenians nil be
ing engaged In the conflict with the
Turkish nationalists.
The bnnd of tho Second bnttnllon
British Cheshire regiment, which Is
guarding Constantinople from nation
alist attacks, played for commence
ment nnd warships of the allied pow
ers lay In Bosphorus at the foot of
the heights on which Robert college
stnyds,
Turkish Girls Graduate.
About the same time the Constanti
nople Collego for Women, mint her
American Institution, held Its com
mencement exercises. Two Turkish
girls were among the 23 young women
graduated this year. The college Is
notable for having managed to keep
Its work going throughout the war
and for having kept pence among i
students from 17 nations, most of
which were lighting either with or
against America. The two Turkish
graduates wore the same black am
domic gown an their olassinales. Inn
Instead of the mortarboard cap wore
white veils draped about their hair
A little Turkish woman wlw Is a nit-u
her of the faculty also wore the whit'.
Moslem head dress.
Admiral Bristol here also denvoroi'
the commencement address to the
class, which contained one Jewish 'rl
nine Armenians, nine Greeks and tv.
Bulgarians, MiMe for the evore'si.u
wan furnished by the orchestra of It -British
dreadnought, the Iron Puke
and the dlnlomns were presented by
Pr Mary Mills Patrick, president anl
rounder of the college which has eon
f erred the degree of bachelor of arts
upon 3(1 cUr.ses uud numbers nunmg
Its grndun prominent women In all
the Balkn f.f ito.
NEBRASKA IN BRIEF
Timely News Culled From All
Parts of the State, Reduced
for tho Busy.
SCORES OF EVENTS COVERED
Robert Simmons, SVottsbluff, was
chosen state coiunmtider of the Amer
ican Legion of Nebraska at the annual
session of the organization at Hast
ings Oilier ufllcers chosen are: Vice
Commanders: E. S. Goodrich, Fair
hur ; T. J. Bressler, Wayne; Lyman
Wheeler, Omaha. Chaplain, Dean C. It.
.Tyner, Hastings. Delegates to national
comeiitlon, Earl Cllne, Nebraska City;
K. P. McPermott, Kearney; George
Fawcll, Lincoln; T. J. McGttlro. Lin
coln. National comniltteenian, E. p.
'McPermott, Kearney.
Keith county farmers are In high
spirits over the prospective bumper
wheat crops this year. Little thresh
ing has been done so far In the county,
but the few fields which have been
threshed produced splendid yields, h
Is conservatively estimated' that the.
crop will bring growers of the county
around $1,000,000.
The State College of Agriculture nt
Lincoln advises farmers of Nebraskn
who desire to plant Kenrnd wheat this
season to make arrangements at once
to secure seed. A letter to S. C. Sal
mon, secretary, Kansas Crop Improve
ment Association nt Manhattan, Kan.,
will put anyone in touch with farmers
liming a supply.
County Agent Clemnions at McCook
has purchased from Kansas growers i,
carload of Kenrnd wheat for distribu
tion among Red Willow county fann
ers. A few small plots in the county
were sown with Kenrnd Inst year anil
results were so good many growers are
anxious to secure the new variety for
next season.
The Nebraska Potato exchange, with
headquarters at Alliance, has contract
ed to market the potato crop of north
west Nebraska through the North
American FruP exchange of New York.
The contract calls for the delivery of
not less than ."00 cars.
.Mrs. Lydlu Holland of Nebraska
City, one of Nebraska's few women hog
raisers, paid .0.m for a Poland China
sow at n public sale at Shenandoah,
In., the other day. It was the top price
nt the snle.
Sidney voters nre tnklng keen" Inter
est In the special election called by the
city council for Sept. M, to vote on a
$111),000 bond proposition for improv
ing the nniiiWIpnl light nnd water sys
tems. The Lincoln highway through Ne
braska Is being permanently marked
with enameled signs of steel, 10x21
laches In size, carrying the standard
marker in three colors.
The American Legion chose Fremont
ns the 1021 convention city for the or
gunlzntlon nt the recent 'meeting nt
Fremont. August 2-1 to 27 were the
dutes selected,
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A Nebraskn pig, bred by the Uni
versity agricultural college, was ship
ped from Lincoln by airplane the other
day to the Wisconsin state fair nt Mil
waukee. The census bureau at Washington
nnnounced the population of Keith
county as 5,201, an Increase of 1,001
over the 1010 census, or M-l per cent
guln In ten years.
The formation of a company of Ne
braska National Gunrds at Auburn Is
progressing satisfactorily, more than
fiO per cent of the required number
having signed up.
Henilngford's Community club is
planning n fall festival for September
15, principal events to be auto racing,
baseball and other sports.
Fillmore county lias a population of
13,(571, a decrease of 1,003 persons
since 15)10, the census bureau at Wash
ington announced.
In spite of the fact that rural teach
ers are being paid up to tfl.'O a month,
a deficit of these school nin'ituis exists
In Shernian county.
It Is estimated that 000 Nebraska
G. A. R. veterans will attend the rtn
tloual encampment at Indianapolis
this month.
Chndron's latest water bond Issue a.'
nS!),."M carried at a special election by
the decisive majority of 4 to 1. Many
women took part In the election.
Bishop Homer Stunt, olllclated at the
dedication of the new !?3S,0iK) Method
ist church at St. Edward.
Farmers In tho Callaway district
are planning to secure a carload of
Kenrnd wheat for seed purposes.
Olllcluls of Podge county have in
augurated a campaign against alimony
slackers.' They arc to lie given the
iliolce of 'paying up or going to Jail.
The stock compatiy organized at
Seward to solve the homo shortage
prohlctu lias already built four houses
and has two more under construction.
The houses are sold at about cost to
residents and those back of the move
ment claim It Is proving a boon to the
city.
"Since early spring fourteen blocks
of brick paving haw been laid at St.
TMward.
Investigation of the charges filed
against F. W. and Stanley Bartos, Wll
her attorneys, n which disbarment
proceedings were brought in the state
rsuprciuo court, will open at Llncoln
September 14.
A petition signed hy nearly every
man In Rlverton was filed with the
State Railway Commission, nt Lincoln,
asking for an order requiring the Bur
lington to stop Its through passenger
ruin . ' 'I rt place.
Alson B. Cole, sentenced to death
with Allen Vincent Grammer, for the
alleged murder of Mrs. Lulu Vogt, hns
been nllowed another stay of execution
by the granting of nn application by
Federal Judge Woodrnugh, at Omaha,
for a writ of hnbeas corpus returnable
October 4. At the same time the Judge
signed an order which permits Cole to
enter the courts and make a plou for
his own life, without expense to him
self, as lie has been declared a pauper.
On the principal business street of
O'Neill, In the presence of hundiei'.s
of persons, many of whom were earn!
'i! and fair visitors. Charles Blair,
chief of police of Chamlrcrs, shot and
killed tils wl(e, after which he sent
two bullets through his own heart,
dying Instantly. Blair was 3i vein-sold
and his wife 31. The couple leave
(four children. The tragedy was the
culmination of years of domestic trou
ble. Forty blocks of new paving linvo
been laid at Beatrice tills summer. A
mile of paving is yet to b finished to
the Institute f(,r feeble minded youth.
The railroads of Nebraskn ore' mov
lug about' 1.8(H) cars of grain per week,
and grain shippers' complaints an
very few at the present time, state
house olllcluls at Lincoln say.
Laurel citizens are tip In arms over
the proposed removal of the M. & ().
depot from abutting on the newlv
paved street to a point (100 feet east
of the present location, contending
that the Improvement cost $1.",000, and
that the new site is on an unpaveil
street. All these facts have been laid
before the State Railway Commission.
The American Legion of Nebraska
went on record at the state convention
nt Hastings as favoring legalized box
lug under a strict bolng law, well
regulated, and selected a committee
with power to draw up a' suitable bill,
nnd to urge Its passage at the coming
session of the legislature
The 1'nlon Pnclllc railroad company
has asked the Interstate Commerce
Commission for permission to con
struct n 2!Mnllo branch llile to develop
the North Platte Irrigation project.
The line will extend through Scotts
blulTs county, Nebraska, ami Goshen
county, Wyoming.
It Is believed that a number of No
braska farmers will go after the
510,000 In prizes offered by the Chicago
board of trade for the best exhibits
"f grain, hay and seeds at the Interna
tlonal grain and hay show at the union
stock yards. Chicago, November 27 to
December .".
Federal Judge Woodrnugh at Omaha,
issued a temporary order restraining
the state railway commission and the
public from enforcing the Intrastate
railroad rate of 2 cents a mile as pro
vlded by state statutes.
Five towns In Cass county, Alvo, No
huwku, Eagle, Murdock and Wabash,
have voted for school consolidation,
the latest being Wabash, which ap
proved a merger of the district schools
by a vote of 7." to 35.
During 1010 there were (0,407,0."0
pounds of butter manufactured In Ne
braska, making this state rank fifth In
the union In tho production of that
stuple commodity.
Ord llremeu have petitioned the city
council to call a special election to
vote on a .?.",000 bond proposition for
the purpose of building a new city
hall.
The Custer county fair, hold at Bro
ken Bow, was the most successful In
the history of the organization, from
the point of attendance and exhibits.
A contract has been let for repairing
the Court street bridge across the Blue
river at Beatrice, the amount being
.$10,000. ,
Citizens of Kearney county, at the
special election September 21, will vote
on a proposition to establish a county
fair under the Chuppell act.
The athletic carnival nt Scotia, held
under the auspices of the local post
of the American Legion, was a pin
nouncod success.
Oil drillers working near Children
plan to go down about 1,500 feet in an
effort to secure oil in paying quanti
ties. Prospects for a bumper potato crop
In Box Butte county are excellent, al
though the acreage Is far le&s than In
former years.
Work on the Installation of an
fS 1,000 sewer system at Tekaiiiah is to
begin about October 1.
Potnto growers In the Kenney dls
trlct report the average yield will lie
about 300 bushels to the,acr.
The big 535,000 farmers' union ele
vator, being built at Ileinlngron,. is
rapidly Hearing completion,
The popKlatlo'i of York Is 5,.'!tR, a
decrease of Si" r 13.(1 per cent, cen
sus -llgures ,i iw.
' A speHal election will bo held nt
Loup f'lty tills month to vote bonds fop
tho purpose of extending the city water
system. f
Electric trallic poles are to be In
stalled at the principal street Inter
sections In the village of Melheta In'
connection with the new lighting eys
tern. Crops were destroyed, pigs, chick
ens and birds killed and other diimago
sustained 'in Furnas county as the i
suit of a severe hall and rain storm
that swept the southern district. Tho
rainfall was four Inch's.
Money raised nt the three days base
ball tournauient and picnic at Ynnango,
Sept. 15, 10 and 17, will be used to
construct a homo for the local post of
the'. American Legion.
Forty-nino bushels of wheat to tho
acre from n field of 205 acres Is the
record yield so far reported In Chey
enne county. The crop wus raised on
tho O. E. Buckner farm.
The nntlon-wide drive to round up
violators of the selective service act
hna brought out the fact that Omaha
alone had about 200 of these yellow
birds.
fKPaOVED UNIFORM INTCntATiDKAL
ShfltfSanoL
Lesson
I t!3y IUSf. V. I). KITWATKll. D. D.,
'Jcuvncr o; l.iiBlish lilijlc tn the Moody
Bible lnntluite o( Chlui w )
(ffi, 1920, Wmtcrfi Ni-wninfwr Union )
LESSON FOR SEPTEMBER 12
THE f GLORY OF
REIGN.
SOLOMON'S
LBSSON TP.XT-I KImki 10:1-1.1, 23-r..
OOI.DBN Ti:XT-11lcs.uil Is every on
thnt fo.irotli tho Lord, Hint uulliotli In
his ways, I'h. HS:t.
ADDITIONAL MATHKIAL 1 KIiikh it:
1-2S-, 10:14-23.
PRIMARY TOtMC-A Queen Visits a
KImk.
JUNIOtt TOIMC-Tho Qiwcn of Slictia
VIsltB .Solomon.
INTBllMKIJIATB AND SBNIDH TOPIC
The Cllinnx of tnraol'a Greatnofs
YOUNO PKOPI.B AND AIH'LT TOPIC
TeHt .of National Greatncso
I. The Queen of Sheba Visits Solo
mon (vv. 1. 2).
Her visit was the result of Solo
mon's widespread fame. That which
made him famous was:
1. The extent of his kingdom (1 :21
25). He ruled over all the kingdoms
from the F.uphrntes river to the Medi
terranean sea, except the Phoeiiecl
ans, but they were In alllniire with
him. This was the nearest to the
realization of the divine promise,
(Gen. 15:1S), that Israel ever en
Joyed ; but the fulness of the promised
possession shall be realized when the
Greater than Solomon Is l;lni
2. Ills great wisdom (l:-M.)-3-l). It
excelled, that of the Chaldeans. Per
sians and Kgyptlans (vv. 30, 31). None
of his contemporaries approached
unto him in knowledge. II" had a
singularly comprehensive n'nd. Ilo
was (1) a moral philosopher spake
3,000 proverbs; (2) a poet his ongs
were a thousand and five; (:'.) a bot
anist he spake of trees, from the
cedar tree that Is In Lebanon even
unto the hyssop thnt sprite etli out of
tlie wall; (4) n zoologist he spake
of beasts and fowl, and ot creeping
things, nnd of fishes. He was su
perior In Intellect to any i.f.hls own
or nny other age.
3. The temple (clis. 5 nnd 0). This
was an exact reproduction of the tab
ernacle, double In size, In marlile and
gold. The amount of labor, skill nnd
money expended on the building was
exceedingly great (I Chron. 22:14-10).
Never before liail such a costly struc
ture appeared.
4. Hoyal palaces adjoining the tem
ple (ch. 7). Following the erection of
the temple he begun the building of
his own house. He wns nearly twice
ns long in building tills ns in building
the Lord's house.
5. His commerce (0:2fl-2S: cL n
Chron. 11:10. 21). Ills trading ships
went east as fur ns the Indian ocean,
perhaps oven to Indln ; and west us
far as Spain.
0. Army and nnvy (10:2iJ-2U: cf.
0:27). Such wealth and greatness
would at some time provoke opposi
tion, so lie put his nation Into a state
of preparedness.
All this greatness wns associated
with fhe name of the Lord. It was
known that his fame was due to his
relation with tho living God. No one
ever had n greater missioning oppor
tunity than he. Wealth and knowl
edge may be powerful factors for the
extension of the cnuse of f'hrlst.
II. The Queen of Sheba Astonished
(vv. 3-0).-
After the Interview In which Solo
mon answered all her questions, she
wns overwhelmed with his great wis
dom. She had plied him with hard
qnestlons to see if ho could tuensiire
up to his reputntlon, and found that
the half had not been told her.
III. The Queen of Sheba Gives
Gifts to Solomon (vv. 10-13).
As was the custom, she brought
gifts to Solomon, the king, t hi gold of
which was in value between three and
four millions of dollars.
This was a large gift for thnt time,
but Soloiijon more than recompensed
her. He wive her all she desired and
In addition, of his royal bounty. While
her gift to lil i ti wns great, his to her
wns greater, even In keeping with his
possessions. God gives unto them
who give their hearts unto him -exceeding
abundantly above all they
nsk or think (Kph. 3:20.).
IV. All the Earth SouQht Solo
mon (vv. 23-20). ,
His fame spread to all the earth so
' that the people enme to hear the wis
dom which God gave to him. Thoy
came with tl;lr gifts, of silver, gold,
garments, spices, horses and mules, so
thnt silver enme to bo ns common In
Jerusalem as stone. There Is a tlmo
coming when the Greater than Solo
mon shall bo king over all the eartti,
nnd then nil the people thereof shall
como to him with their gifts, nnd he
slinll give unto them of his royal
bounty. Happy, Imlced, will all thoso
be who recognize him nnd give their
allegiance to him I
Good Conscience.
A good conscience Is to the soul
ivhnt hcnltli Is to the body; It pre
lerves constant easo and serenity with
in us, and more than countervails nil
Ihe cnlnmltles and nflllctlons which enn
befall us from without. Addison.
Cheerful Friends.
Everyono must hove felt thnt n
cheerful friend Is like n sunny dny,
which sheds Its brightness all nround ;
and most of us can, as we choose, make
this worhelther a palace or a prison.
Sir J. Lubbock.
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