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half of (he city of Prague. The Young Women's Christian nssoclntlon pres
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Russian Cotton
Industry Ruined
Bolshevist Management Has
Practically Killed One of Coun
try's Greatest Assets. "
MANY MILLS ARE STOPPED
Doubt Expressed That They Will Ever
Start Up Again With Experts Gone
Unskilled Labor Has Ruined
Most of Machinery.
I London. Russia's great prewar cot
ton Industry has suitcred to such an
extent during the revolution that It Is
doubtful whether many of the mills
Eer will bo able to operato again, says
r Charles Macnra, au English au
orlty Jn the world's cotton trnde, in
Wn Interview In the Yorkshire Post.
English Manager Gives Facts.
Based upon Information obtained
from an Englishman who recently re
'tnrned from Russln, where for four
teen years he was the manager of n
large cotton factory near Moscow, Sir
Charles estimates that of the 0,000,000
spindles running in Russia before the
revolution not more than 200,000 or
,800,000 are sow operating.
' The experiences of the English man-
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erected by members of his crew to
Cnpt. Charles Algernon Kryutt, master
of the steamship Brussels, who was
illegally executed by the Germans at
Bruges July 27, 1010. The monument
stands at Dover Court, Euglund.
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(American games taught by the Young Women's Christian association sccro
JUrlea In Smyrna.
ngcr of the Moscow factory were told
as an example, of the methods em
ployed by the revolutionists in dealing
witn one of Russln's great industrial
assets, the textile factories In the Mos
cow district. This nnrtleulnr mill car-
rled on all the processes from cotton
spinning to the finished product, 17.000
workers having been employed under
normal operating conditions.
When the Dolshcvlkl assumed power
tho whole cotton Industry was nation
alized. At every mill committees were
formed nnd finally, In October, 1010. a
decree was Issued that all who had
been connected with the former owners
would have to leave.
Mills All Stopped.
With the experts gone tho mill
stopped. After a time attempts were
made to rcstnrt It, but It was almost
Impossible to obtain raw cotton. Small
quantities were obtained, which, after
being diluted with 75 per cent waste,
was put through the processes.
The machinery now is In n very bnd
Btate, lit such a state, In fact, that It
would be almost Impossible to operate
FIX LABRADOR LIMITS
Discovery of Timber Suitable for
Pulp Starts New Inquiry.
Boundary Line Between Newfoundland
and Canadian Province of Quebec
Long In Dispute.
St. Johns, N. F. Recent surveys of
Labrador which hnvo disclosed' Im
mense resources of timber suitable far
pulp and paper manufacture have led
to n revival of efforts to bring about
a determination of tho boundary lino
between Newfoundland and the Cana
dian province of Quebec.
Tills line lias never been laid down
by actual survey, and Its various defi
nitions us given In the documents is
sued nt Intervals in tho last century
and n half nro so vague that govern
ment olllclals do not know Just how
much of Labrador belongs to New
foundland nnd how much to Canada.
That Labrador is rich In many nat
ural resources, Including enormous wa
ter power, has long been known, but
the practicability of utilizing Its for
ests for paper making was not demon
strated until the world-wide paper
shortage led to exhaustive investiga
tions of the territory.
This resulted in applications by pro
moters to tho. Newfoundland govern
ment for timber limits In Labrador.
As these could not bo acted upon un
til It was determined whether New
foundland owned the land In (inestlnn
representatives of this colony were
Games in Smyrna
(lie faelmj in
liiforiiiiitl'in gi n s'r t ..
ever miiehlnes an damn i '. n
chines arc denuded of iart.s tu icin.i
them.
Sir Charles stilted that there was
llttlo possibility of Kngllsh workmen
going to Russia for employment In tex
tile factories. Mills In Germany nnd
Austria were turning out only from 25
to ISO per cent of the normal produc
tion, he snld, and English workers
faced the almost Impossible task of
making up for tho four nnd one-half
years' stoppage of textile manufacture
owing to the wnr.
CLOCK TICKS FOR 104 YEARS
Indiana Man Has Timepiece Made In
1816 Which Ha3 Run Ever Sins,
Keeping Good Time.
Jeffersonvlllo, Ind. Irn Touts of
New Washington has n clock which
lias run since It was mado In 1810.
It Is banging in n brick liouso built
In 1820. The clock wus made by Wil
liam Thompson, an Englishman, ac
cording to a stntcment posted In the
back of the clock In 1003 by the late
John Calvin Pouts, father of tho pres
ent owner. Mr. Fouts said Thompson
brought his tools and brass plates
from England and cut out nil tho
wheels nnd machinery, piece by piece.
Tlie father of John Cnlvln Fouts start
ed the clock running May 12, 1810, and
It has run 104 years, keeping good
time.
TAKE EVEN VERDUN LIGHTS
Depredations of Souvenir Hunter
Cause of Fort Being Closed to
Visitors.
Paris. A lesson to tourists too anxi
ous to tnke away with them souvenirs
of the battle front has Just been given
by the military authorities of Fort
Vnux, which has hitherto been open
to visitors to Verdun.
The authorities have decided to close
the fort indefinitely. A few dnys ago
a tourist took possession, doubtless ns
n souvenir, of an electric lamp bulb.
He was indiscreet enough to make
flourish of the bulb In n Verdun cafe.
The military authorities confiscated
the bulb, nnd then came tho order
to bar visitors.
Double-Headed Chick.
Westminster, Mil. Mrs. Gertie
Lowe of Westminster hns n freak
chicken tlint Is six weeks old nnd has
n head on both ends. Sho calls It n
"double header" nnd says It Is In
teresting to see It when It sees a
grain of corn. Roth ends struggle for
It, hud they roll over and over with
no chance for n compromise. The
heads are too far apart for a buttle
royal.
sent to London Inter In the summer to
discuss with eminent English counsel
the preparation of a formal draft of
Newfoundland's Labrador claims as
opposed to those of Canada.
Tho coast of Labrador was an
noxed to Newfoundland in 17tt'S. Ten
years later1, owing to dlillcultles nrls
Ing out of grants made to a number of
persons under the French rule, It was
changed to Canadian Jurisdiction. In
1800 It was again transferred to New
foundland, and has since been attached
to that country.
Tho difficulty crises over different
Interpretations of tho words "coast
of Labrador." One view Is thnt New
foundland can clnlm only the f-nast be
tween Blnnc Sablpn and Cape Chldley.
with perhaps half a mile Inland, and
that the rest of Labrador belongs to
Canada.
As defined In the letters patent con
stituting (be office of governor of New
foundland, tho boundary was described
as a line drawn between Blanc Sablon
and Cape Chldley, which would pass
through the ocean In certain sections
r.nd leavo large areas of tlie roast to
the westward of the line and there
fore not under Newfoundland Jurisdic
tion. Many Newfoundland officials hold to
the view that tho correct delimitation
was made In n sessional paper Issued
In this colony in 1801. Under the
phraseology of this document New
foundland would bo entitled to thou
sands of square miles of the Interior
of the Labrador peninsula- In addition
to the coast.
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Gets Bullets When He
Slurs Woman's Cooking
Chester, Pa. Angered when
Louis Crew criticised the quali
ty of food and tho mnmier In
which It was cooked, .JamcA
Sheley, whoso wife does the
cooking ' Crew complained of,
fired two bullets Into Crew, the
police sny, and then tllsapponred.
Crew nnd Sheley havo been em
ployed for some tllno by William
M. Kerr, on his stock farm near
this city, and Crow boarded with
Sheley.
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His Musical Home.
Stenbenvllle, O. -S. O. Leemnn has
solved the high cost of building. Ho
hns been snvlng plnno boxes nnd Is
now building n homo of them. Tho
houso will contain three rooms and n
bathroom.
Many a rich girl makes a poor vlfo.
NEBRASKAJN BRIEF
Timely News Culled From All
Parts of the State, Reduced
for the Busy.
SCORES OF EVENTS COVERED
Due to a change In the date of the
Clay county poultry show the show
of the co-operative nssoclntlon of Fill
more county has been set for Decem
ber 1 to . Entries will need to bo
closed at 10 :.'!() p. in., November .'10.
Princeton has challenged tho Uni
versity of Nebraska to u debate, to bo
held In Lincoln during the Christmas
holidays. Prof. Fogg lias wired that
he believed tho contest could lie ar
ranged. .
"Standlsli of Hjundlsli," n play with
New Kuglund sotting of three hun
dred years ago, was given by the book
review department of the Woman's
club of (tcnuvn to a large crowd.
Two sisters were brides in a double
wedding at Columbus, when Herman
L. Mueller nnd Miss Anna Nelson,
Monvllle G. Reeves und Miss Gladys
Nelson were united In mnrrlage.
Proposed Incorporation of the Ne
braska State Rar association will bo
considered nt the twenty-first annual
convention of that organization, at
Lincoln, December 27-28.
The.Nebrnskn college of agriculture
Is setting n new record with a 7-yenr-old
Holstcln cow. In 28.1 dnys sho
produced 24,881.8 pounds of milk and
1,101 pounds of butter.
Frank Kennedy, secretary of the
state labor department, says there Is
n bortngo of 5,000 corn buskers In
Nebraska. Farmers are paying 0 nnd
8 cents a bushel.
Those In attendance declare the
meetings of the state tenchers nt
Omaha last week were the best yet
held. The registration was nearly
'5,000.
,Tho bonds for building n new court
house nnd three concrete bridges
across the Pintle river near Oslikosh
carried by n majority of about .'100.
Students In Journalism at Nebraska
Wesleynn at University Ulnce will or
ganlze a Journalistic fraternity to In
clude both men and women.
Work at the Rig Chief oil well nt
Red Cloud has been discontinued, fol
lowing the finding of snlt wntcr nt a
depth of .1.f2.- feet.
The attendance nt the fifty-fourth
convention of the stato teachers asso
ciation nt Omaha last week reached
nearly 5,000.
The Cornhushr foot ball team de
feated the New Jersey Rutgers on the
New York polo grounds with n score
of 28 to O.
Penn State defented the University
of Nebraska football team, 20 to 0, by
u combination of forward passes nnd
long runs.
Tlie twenty-first annual convention
of the Nebraska State Rar association
will bo held nt Lincoln December 27
und 23.
Total beet cash revenues to the
farmers of the stato will amount to
about 910,000,000 for tho season Just
closed.
North Platte hns organized wbnt is
thought to bo the only ladies' band In
the state, and practice Is held weekly.
A smooth stranger worked off n lot
of bad checks on Rentrlco merebnnts
nnd they are trying to locate blm.
Otto Miller of Fremont fell dead as
he bent 'over to pick up n hammer,
while building an election booth.
Heavy rains have delayed corn
husking In Saline county, two Indies
having fallen In some sections.
Kverett J. Lake, republican governor-elect
of Connecticut was a former
resident of Stromsburg.
A special election may be called to
decide whether Sunday movies will bo
permitted at Hastings.
It Is understood that permits to kill
beaver in the stato will bo revoked
by the gamo warden.
Half fare railroad privileges for
ministers havo been withdrawn by the
railroads of tlie state.
The Nebraska Irrigation association
will hold Its annual meeting nt Goring
January 10 to 18.
Ktniiin Rntsforil has been commis
sioned as postmaster nt Wayside in
Dnwes count.
Steps mo being taken to form a na
tional guard organization In the
state.
Omaha has begun a crusade ngalnst
pupch boards and other gambling do
lices. Rurwell shipped twenty-six cnrlods
of cattle in two days last week.
A branch of the Snlvntion army has
been established at Alliance.
Releases of convicts from tho state
penitentiary are expected to come pro
fusely within the next month on ac
count of tho crowded conditions exist
ing there now. There nro f:?8 convicts
enrolled nt the present time and over
eighty of these are out in tho rond
camps.
Edgar Mathers of Falls City, Neb.,
is one of fifty-three Roy Scouts to
whom President Wilson sent letters of
commendation for making the best
records In the salo of War" Saving
stnmps during 1018. Mathers turned
In the highest number of subscriptions
of any Roy Scout In Nebraska.
At n special meeting of the Tecum
neb community club to take up the
J mutter of an ndecjunto water supply
for tnnt city mo cum voted unani
mously to support tho city council In
r.ecurlng n purification plant to filter
tho water from the dralni.go ditch
nloM tho channel of the Nemaha river.
Too stato farmers congress will
holn Its sessions nt Omaha December
II, 15 and 10. The featuro of tho
meeting will be tho question of prices
am liixtii ffii'iitnntu
XH MI lit jn Wll u
The arnnil Chapter of Royal Arch
Masons will moot In Omaha Decem
ber 10.
Following Is a list of the school
which have i.utde application for ad
fission to the stato high school de
buting league: Rattle Creek, Bb'om
fleld, Rurwell, College View, Cow I en,
Dana College Academy, Diller, Kmcr
noii, HnstlngH, Lawrence, Ord, Ran
dolph, Red Cloud, Republican City, Sr.
Paul, Wakefield, Wesleynn Academy,
and Wlsnor, and a number of others
are making arrangements to bocomo
eligible.
. The Oinnhn Poultry association will
bold Its seventh annual exhibition and
poultry show November 22 to 27, In
clusive, nt the Auditorium. Tills show
Is tlie first free oducntlonnl one to ho
held In the country and ranks third
in tlie United States, the Madison
Square Garden, one in New York and
Chicago's exhibition preceding it.
Bishop Homer C. Stunts, head of tho
Methodist church In Nebraska, was tho
guest of honor at a banquet of Meth
odist of the North Platto valley at
SeottsblufT, when 2.10 churchmen and
women of that rlaco, Goring, Mitchell,
Mlnatare, Rayard and other towns of
that section gathered to pay their re
spects. The constitution of Nebraska ai
amended by vote of tho people from
time to time since 1875, Including
amendments proposed by the recent
constitutional convention, has been
printed In pamphlet form. It Is a re
production of the compilation as made
by the convention nnd filed with the
secretary of state.
There Is an urgent demand for
telegraph operators for the Washington-Alaska
telegraph and cable system,
Capt. A. 13. Wbltwortb of the signal
corps, U. S. A., Omaha recruiting
office, nnnounces.
Fifteen miles of rond have been Im
proved 'through the action of tho
Rurwell community club. Tho mer
chants contributed $1,.'I00 In cash and
the farmers did tho work for half tho
usual prlcp.
Samuel Wohl at Falls City, pro
prietor of the oldest established mer
cantile bouse In southeast Nebraska,
has closed Its doors and will retire
from business. Ills stock will Jie sold
at auction.
A stranger, nbout twenty-five years
old, was killed at Fremont when bit
by a westbound Union Pacific train nt
a street crossing. It is assumed that
he hud attempted to board the moving
train.
The department of conservation and
soil survey has sent five motion pic
ture reels, showing tho Nebraska stato
fair to Tulsa, Okla., where they will bo
shown before an agricultural confer
ence. Threo hundred nlumnl, members of
tho faculty and friends of the Peru
stato normal, met for a banquet nnd I
get-together session during the stato
tenchers association meet at Omaha
An autonoinnus'tencher.s' college as
an Item of greatest Importance to high
schools of the state, was a topic of
much Interest discussed at the meet
ing of the state teachers at Omaha.
Klght hundred boy scouts at Lincoln
have started on a bunt for fire haz
ards, and they expect to visit nnd ex
amine every residence and business
bouse In that place in their search.
At their annual farm bifreau ban
quet at Holdrege, attended by more
than 150 men and women, Phelps coun
ty farmers voted to build n livestock
sales pnvllllon nt n cost of $15,000.
The United Electric Co. of Lexing
ton has contracted with the village
board of Smltliflcld to run a transmis
sion lino across country nnd furnish
light and power for thnt place.
Fields of corn In Hamilton county
ore runnlg ns high as seventy bushels
to the acre. It Is believed that the
average for the county will be moro
than fifty bushels to the ucre.
Mildred Kennedy, Loup City high
school student, fell downstairs nt the
school and ran a pencil into her arm
several Incites. An operation was
necessary to remove it.
Professor James H. Frandsen, one
of tlie best known dairy experts In tho
stato and n member of the staff of tho
university dairy department, has re
signed ills position.
Tho city council of Central City has
brought suit against tho Central
Power company of Grand Island to en
join them from shutting ott electric
power In tlie city.
Fred Gain's store, Winter's tailor
shop, Holenheck barber shop and tho
library of Ansl6y, wore totally destroy
ed by fire, the origin of which Is un
known. Rurwell Is threatened with n coal
famine. Many homes have only n few
day's supply of fuel nnd the nmoiiut
of coal In dealers' bins Is very limited.
Business women of Kearney havo
organized and nro preparing to estab
lish a Y. W. C. A. In Kearney.
The coinmltteo In charge of Organ
ized Agriculture, the annual winter
meetings of between thirty and forty
fanners' organizations to be held at
Lincoln, January fl to 7, report satis
factory progress In arranging the pro
grams. Secretary of Agriculture 10.
T. Meredith bos written that he will
mnke every effort to bo present. Tho
commlttco Is endeavoring to bring
other prominent men nnd women to
Nebraska nt that time, Including tho
Canadian minister of ngrlculture. Ap
plication for reduced railroad rates
lias been taken up through tho proper
channels.
Tho postmistress nt HnrrlBburg,
county seat of Ronner county, is In
capacitated on account of 111 health.
Tho department Is unable to find a
successor and tlie post offlco will
probably lie abandoned.
State Trensurer Cropsey has Just
made public bis monthly report, show
ing tlio cash account to consist of
JF:infl,505.a0 In cash Items, $780 0."" 51
cash In depository banks nnd SLIKll,
037.01 In overdrawn accounts.
Applications of twenty-six Ougo
county residents for naturallsml'Mii
paper3 will bo passed on at tlie Io
vembcr term of district court.
IS FAVORED LANK
Western Canada Country
Great Possibilities.
of
8 si I, Climate, and Weather Condlllono
All Factors In the Production of
Unrivaled Fruit, Veactables
and Flowers as Well
as Grain.
Ao recently as last month to be cor
rect, It was the 18th of October, a time
of year when one naturally looks Tor
the "frosi uplm the punkln," and la
Inclined to wander through the woods
In search of the ripened nuts, mil ad
mire the henutlful colorings that tho
iiutumn.'tmosphere has bestowed upon
the leaves; when one goes o Ills closet,
or maybe his pawnbiokei. to find bls
heavy clothing It was that I found
myself the guest of n Western Canada
housewife In her beautiful home on.
the outskirts of the pretty little town
of Moosomln, Sushttchcwnn. The din
ner I That's what Mrs. Wilde called?
It. I should have termed It n banquet.
There were mallard duck, cooked to a
turn, baked potatoes and such bjg,.
mealy fellows they were, too cauli
flower and say. did you ever taste
one of those Western Canada caull
llower? then dessert. What was tho
dessert? I can see It now. Straw
berries, strawberries that had been
picked that morning. Help yourself
to the cream and It was cream that
Is cream. Rut what I wanted to write
about was the strawberries picked oa
the 18th of October. As I ate. and
turned my bnck while a second help
ing was plnced In front of me, I could
not but think bow this goes to refutc
tbe once accepted Idea that the cll
mnte of Western Canada is such that
the ripening of strawberries at any
season Is one of the things thnt might:
be looked upon ns next to Impossible.
Fortunately it Is rapidly giving plnco
to one which acknowledges thnt our
ulster nntlon to the north possesses a
Hltnnte that makes It quite possible to
develop and ripen strawberries even
In October.
Rut there is more to add'. On Oc
tober 14. Just n few days previous. Mr.
A. R. Smith, nenr the same town,
plucked a splendid mess of green corn
from bis garden. Nenr Rocnuvllle,
Saj-kntchcwon, wild rnspherrles wero
picked during the same weelc. Tho
fnrt nf rliinnlni' fruit nt tliln ilnto mnv
, S(om of ,,, ,110innnf ,It when you-
are told that corn did not suffer from-
any vagaries of weather, more atten
tion mny be paid to it. Tlie question
of Western Canada's climate Is no
longer the bugaboo It once was, nnd
not so very long ago. cither, when it
caused thinking people to think, nnd
unquestionably prevented many from
going to Canada who under other con
ditions would have gone.
In various parts of tills country, nt
different state and county fairs, the
government of the Dominion of Can
ada, during the past few weeks. In
stalled exhibits of the grains and"
grasses grown In Western Canada, nnd'
nt the same time showed fruits nnd
vegetables that were grown there.
None of these wos placed in compete
tlon with the home-grown nrtlcle. Rut
to Judges and others there came the
full understnnd'ng of what It would
mean to the local exhibitor If they
were. The Western Canadian nnd
mnny of the exhibits were grown by
former Americans docs not lny claim
to any special dispensation of Intelli
gence in the mnttcr of the culture of
the nrtlcles p!need on exhibition, but
willingly gives credit to the soil, the
cllmate, and such other Indigenous
conditions ns the country ns a whole
possesses, as being factors that bring
about the largest yields of tlie best or
J wheat, oats, barley, llax and rye, n
wen as vcgeinmes. as is ioiuieu out
by the gentlemen In charge of theso
exhibits, and quite evident to all, the
possibilities of growing vegetables and
grain such as are shown can only exist
where conditions such as have been
mentioned exist.
In speaking of eating fresh straw
berries and green corn In the middle
of October I should not fall to refer
to the beautiful bouquets that ndorned
the table, the sideboard, the window
sills, and almost every other available
vacant place In tlie room. Flowers I
there were asters, phlox, gladioli, peo
nies, popples, nnd I can't remember
the nnnirs of them nil, but they were
there. Taken right from the garden,,
having n fragrance thnt gave the room
troplcnl colors, nnd filled It with mur
veiously delightful perfumes. It was
a very pretty Bight. Then I went out
Into tho garden, and took n photo of It.
It wns simply wonderful. I asked tho
good lady how she managed It. Sho
said she bnd always been fond of flow
ers. In her old home. In one of tho
central states, she carried on garden
horticulture, and had been acknowl
edged successful. "Rut my I" she said.
"I never got such bloom, nnd such a
variety as I do diere." Sho admitted
It wns a lot of work, the watering, tho
weeding, tho hoeing, but such work
was a pleasure.
Well, such Is some of tho life In
Western Cnnnda, and as I left the
farm homo I concluded Hint much of
i our surroundings are as we ourselves
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