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RED OLOUD, NEBRASKA, CHIEF I 4 Sam's Free t Had Your Iron TodayT mtzw,;?. fa.XV'K i - -is -"" -xm, , i v , vi, A- X'"& Pj&7krukA-. '''v ! .TT. llnele -w xm: -Mi. v i .Sb L- j I jV r ."r & jK-STfci Iff fes :.T .. ..,..,... .. :... MkTT ' -'-v U m$ jrrzD m 4u9jnm ' s---:jp vk , I w- i i v i I Let's Have Raisin Bread Tonight HOW long since you've had delicious raisin bread since you've tasted that incoro parable flavor? Serve a loaf tonight. No need to bake it. Just telephone your grocer or a bakery. Say you want "full-fruited bread generously filled with luscious, seeded, Sun-Maid Raisins." The flavor of these raisins permeates the loaf. A cake-like daintiness makes every slice a treat. Serve it plain at dinner or as a tasty, fruited breakfast toast. Make delicious bread pudding with left- over slices. Use it all. You need not waste a crumb. Raisin bread is luscious, energizing, iron food. So it's both good and good for you. Serve it at least twice a week. 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As well as human remains, one grave contained n very beautifully de signed clay pot In a good state of pres ervation. The graves were also lined with one piece slabs. Hundreds of sightseers have visited tho spot, and the gcncrnl belief Is that tho graves date back to the Sixteenth century. CAN NOW WALK AS WELL AS EVER IffiiSwK LARGEST AND STRONGEST IN THE CENTRAL WEST HmmdquMrimrm OMAHA, NEBRASKA XSIirs $110,000,000 Keep Nebraska Money In Nebraska Patronize Home Industries Kill All Flies! TOEY SPREAD DISEASE if..-i .n.w.h... riAIRV KI.Y KILLER attracts and kills all Bias. Ntt. cltn, onurnnlil, convsnUnt and fion llsdsofmetsl, r can't mill or tin orer: 'will not soil or Injurs nrtblns, GniruiMsd. dAiby n FLY KILLER Esteemed Lincoln Resident Declares Tanlac Has Made a Clean Sweep of Her Rheumatism and and Other Troubles. "I couldn't believe all they said about Tanlac until I tried It myself, and now I never doubt what I read about It," said Mrs. Anna II. Crawford, 2300 N. 23rd St., Lincoln, Neb., wife of a well-known retired business man. "I got Into a badly run-down condi tion," she continued, "and suffered grcntly from Indigestion. I had head ache for days at a time, slept poorly nnd woke up mornings so wenk and dizzy I could hardly get up. Then rheumatism set in nnd mnde walking difficult nnd I could scarcely use my arms for the pain. "But Tanlac has made a clean sweep of ray troubles, brought back my ap petite nnd ennbled mo to gain much weight. It Is n pleasure to make a statement In nralso of this creat modi- Pino." Tanlac Is sold by all good druggists. Fast Color. Joseph Dug, the novelist, said at a luncheon In Philadelphia: "I'd like to go to Havana ngaln this winter. Thero's very good bathing there, all tho year 'round. "I met the other day a young man who had just got back from Havann. " 'Did you sport with tho breakers?' I said to him. "I should think so,' said he. 'A couplo of beautiful Spanish dnnclng girls from Mnlaga. They broko mo In about threo days.'" t jrour dtslsr or . nrcotld. I1.2S. HABOLD B0UEU3. 1C0 Us Kslb A vs.. Brooklyn. N.T. B br-EXPRESS, nrepsU Our Iluslnesf Is We Tear Km Up and Hell tho Fleer 8TANDAUD AUTO PAIITS COMPANY Parts for All Make of Cora Call, write or phone; you'll receive prompt Hervlce. Highest prices paid for old car. 2021 O Street Lincoln, Nebraska AUK YOO'AN AMEKICANT Do you believe In our creedT Do you want to wear that mysterious emblemT Infor. watlon free. HOX SS0. TULSA. OKLA. M I til lv 5.0. Aarlce and book free. Bates teisonab'.e. nianMtiswenoes. Pcstsgrrlocs. Freshen a Heavy Skin With tho antiseptic, fascinating Cutl curn Talcum Powder, an exquisitely scented, economical face, skin, baby and dusting powder nnd perfume. Benders other perfumes superfluous. One of tho Cutlcura Toilet Trio (Soap, Ointment, Talcum). Advertisement. Draws No Interest. "IJnvo you anything In tho savings bnnk?" "Only confidence." KEY OVERALLS Costs Less Per Vay To Wear Them I i;4:.: '!''M''M$?fc pSlililiit JQ ,RjR-.y . mmrwBm;mmmk. -i . ;:": y--Af- ::?A-.!. ' iTn&XV.V::-.. i??. I: :.;lfe'ISSyi" " V7TV . v?-AS-Ammbttm &Ytrmm&sM-'2rcli-.. 'vrKm -w, ?? -$x -Mmim'm - . rmmmmmm - mmmi ' MtXtii&Bz&mmzr :0&- i m. sfflBsV L"mis received free nnckuges of voce- te''lvj6E$' JZ&M&&Ztt tiuf&$K 2tm sBaW senators nnd representatives In con- dSszjkP ' ?LJ5ia (I sress. Uncle Sam not the member jsiS. d(tf-(S r. V&TX lAJTj l,P tllu Packuges, put them In tho '3 v &!5t pEXflH inII and carried them freo to every "- s$' ftr2ts-l nook and corner of the laud. Of L & " VBBBkSSSSM HIS spring nbout 13.000,000 Aniorl cans received free pneknges of vege table and garden seeds from their senators and representatives In con gress. Uncle Sum not the member of congress bought the seeds, tied up the pneknges, put them In tho mall and carried them freo to every nook and corner of the laud. Of course, In the last analysis, tho people themselves though they ap parently got something for nothing, paid for theso seeds, since the cost of the purchase and distribu tion came out of tho public funds. Doubtless this seed business all seems peaceable enough to the voter who gets the seeds, but, good ness, ho should bo In Washington when the nnnu nl Hurry over these same seeds Is on I It's really us exciting as u two-ring circus, for there are two seed Hurries going on at one and tho same time. One Hurry is going on nt Uncle Sum's seed ware house, where a small army of girls Is doing up the seeds nnd pasting on the franks of the members of congress and hustling the packages off to the malls. The other Hurry Is In the capltol, where congress is lighting tooth and toenail over the question of whether it will distribute seeds again next spring. You see, Uncle Sum's Hscal year begins July 1 each year and he has to make a seed appropria tion a year In advance or no, seeds. So this spring, while congress was lighting out the sumo old light on seeds for 102:1, the 1022 distribution of seeds was going merrily on under an appropria tion mnde after a prolonged light lu the spring of 1021. , The fight over tho seed distribution usunlly runs about like this: The appropriations committee reports tho agricultural department appropriation bill without the seed Item. Soiuo "seed man" of fers a seed amendment. The antls object to the amendment on a point of order. If the speaker rules against the seeds the house overrules him. Then the bill goes to the senate and the senate throws out the seed amendment. The bill then goes to conference nnd the senntu and house wrangle over tho seed Item with other Items until an agreement Is reached. It's like a game of poker bluff and raise. And of course there's al ways a show-down for the agricultural appropria tion bill must be passed, seeds or no seeds. This year the light was unusually prolonged, but as usual the seed men In the house had their way. The ngrlculturnl bill carrying $:HJ,000,000 contained an Item of $1100,000 for the free distribu tion of seeds in 1023. In the course of tho houso debate this spring Beprcscntatlve BUI G. Lowrey of Mississippi, a "seed man," read Into tho Congressional Record nn Interesting article on Uncle Sam's seed distribu tion from tho Washington Sunday Star. Here nro some of tho points brought out In the artlclo: At n cost of $3150,000 food products to tho value of 130,000,000 will be grown from 100,000 packages of vegetable seeds'and 10,000 pnekages of flower seeds whlcji are being sent out from Washington by each and every one of the 00 senntors and -133 members of tho house under 13,000,000 franks (freo postage) to homo gardeners In every State In the Union. ' Now, let us look over the historical background for this annual "gruft." The purchase of seeds nnd plants by tho government may be said to dnto back to colonial days. As early as 1743 the British parliament granted $000,000 to promote the cultivation of Indigo and other crops In tho Ameri can colonies, and tho assemblies of the various colonies appropriated small sums from time to time to encourage the cultivation of plants now to tho country, such ns hops In Virginia, mulberry trees for silk culture In Georgia, and vineyards for the establishment of an American wine Industry. In 1830, through the efforts of Henry h', Ells worth. commlHonor of patents, an appropriation of $1,000 was mado for tho purpose of collecting and distributing seeds, prosecuting agricultural in vestigations, and procuring agricultural statistics, with which 30,000 packages of seeds wero pur chased and distributed. This appropriation marked the beginning of tho Department of Agri culture. Demands upon members of congress for seeds became so numerous nnd Insistent that It was Im possible to All the orders with new varieties of seeds. The practice of sending out larger and larger quantities of vegetable seeds thus developed. During tho years from 18S9 to 1803 prnctlcally the cntlro seed appropriation was expended fop standard varieties of vegctnblo and flower seeds. ( In 1801 u change was advocated and uctlon taken to discontinue tho customury distribution. This action was not approved by congress, which, In nn uct -approved April 25, 1800, changed the wording of the previous act. The attorney general, to -whom the question wns submitted for decision, held that the purchase and distribution of seeds, Including vegetable and flower seeds, wero manda tory and left tho secretary of agriculture without discretion. Congress has speclllcally reserved for Itself the distribution, with proportionate allot ments to each member, of five-sixths of all the seeds and plants purchased by the department. So that Is where "congressional seed I distribution" origi nated. ' Now, then, It costs Uncle Sam about 3V6 cents for every package of seeds sent out by n congress man. Hnch package contains five different kinds of seed. The following kinds of vegetable seeds aro purchased for free distribution: Pens, beets, lettuce, onions, radish, beans, corn, carrots, cu cumber, parsley, pafstilp, squash, tomato, turnip, and watermelon. There aro 14 combinations, so that a member of congress can select the live different kinds of seeds be wants to t-end out In one package. Similarly there are 22 different va rieties of flowers, such as chrysanthemum, aster, cosmos, lialsam, candytuft, dlanthus, nasturtium, poppy, sweet peas, petunia, zinnias, mignonette. That pnekage containing live small papers of seeds, which costs the government 3, cents, If bought In the open market would cost DO cents. The olllce of seed distribution In the Department of Agrlculturo keeps an exact account ljr each member of congress, Just the same as a bank no- count. The member Is credited with his quotu and Is allowed to draw against that quota, Just the sauiu as against a bank account. From one sample package, containing five small papers of seeds, any person enn raise at least $lf worth of food, according to the agricultural au thorities. Deducting $5 for waste, loss In transit, or carelessness In planting or poor soli, It leaves a $10 net production. Members of congress are sending out this year 13,000,000 of these large packages (live papers In each), which, it Is con servatively estimated, will return $130,000,000 food products for an outlay of $300,000, which certainly should have some effect on the economic life of this country. When the atinunl light over the appropriation Is being waged the claim Is, often made that the free-seed distribution conies near wrecking the Post Olllce department and Is responsible for nn annual deficit. The records show that the run Is usually from 1,500,000 pounds to 000,000 or 700,000 pounds, nnd thnt If the olllce of seed distribution paid postago on each package, the same as any prlvato Individual, the postage bill would never have been more than $131,000, and that It would average about $95,000. Kvery seed sent out Is tested for vitality and for trueness to name. These tcstH are made on the experimental farm of the department, near Arlington National cemetery, although the germi nation tests are mostly made In the laboratory by using blotter paper. All seed has to be of the particular variety ordered. The department, while opposing the congressional distribution, takes very good care that the seeds nro all good before they aro sent out. It sots n very high stnndnrd to which the seeds must register, a much higher standard thnn Is often required commercially. If tho seeds do not reach that standard, they are shipped back to tho contractor from whom they wero purchased at the hitter's expense. Some years they roject a very largo amount this year, for example, about 150,000 pounds, nfier It had reached Washington hecauso tho germination was not high enough. This Is sent back as not good enough for con. gresslonul seed distribution, but Micro Is no as surance anywhere that tho very same seed Is not disposed of commercially. Uncle Sam buys these seeds on straight com petitive bids, and when nny contractor's deliver ies show a consistent poor germination ho Is blacklisted. Each bidder is Informed why ho did not get the contract, told who did get It and why nnd tho price pnld. This Is a strulght ofllclal let ter. Congressmen urc coming mnro nnd moro to send their quotas of seeds out, not to the voting lists In their districts but to tho school children, to civic organizations, chambers of commerce, banks, nnd factories for workmen, nnd n great deal to miners. , With tho department opposed to tho congression al seed distribution, mid with congress habitually for It, Oliver V. Jones, originally from Cincinnati, who Is In nctlvo charge of this work, has had an unenviable job as buffer between tho department und congress for nbout twenty years. Ho prob ably knows nil the members of congress moro In timately than any other man lu Washington, be cause he 1 calling upon them In their offices every day In the year. At present he Is getting moro than 200 telephone calls a day from them, dictates about 100 letters u day to them, and hns 20 or 80 of them calling on him In his olllcu each day. The seed distribution Is conducted under the bureau of plant Industry, of which Dr. William A. Taylor Is chief. It. A. Oakley and J. E. W. Tracy purchase under contract all tho seed thnt enters into the congressional distribution and supervise the mechanical and physical work of tilling tho packages and mailing them. Mr. Tracy Is lu charge of the seed warehouse, located at 330 Penn sylvania avenue, which Is not at all modern, well ventilated or lighted. This building wn erected lu 183-1 and was the scene of receptions, banquets nnd Inaugural bulls for Andrew Jucksw, Martin Van Huron and Abraham Lincoln. This Is not u government-owned building, but has been rented by the department and used ns a seed warehouse, for about ten years. 1 The lining of the orders of congressmen is nn Interesting part of the free-seed distribution. The members supply their franks In sheets of ten. They are cut up Into single slips and counted Into bundles by expert counters from the bureau of engraving ami printing. As n member sends in an order a blue slip Is made out calling upon tho seed warehouse to deliver that quantity, and this Is accompanied by the corresponding number of franks. The seed packages nre either sent to tho ofllco of tho member of congress, If the franks nro not addressed, or arc mailed out directly from the seed wnrehouse If they aro addressed. These franks aro now coming In at the rate of 200,000 or 300,000 n day. Each member Is entitled to 20,000 packages of vcgetublo seeds and 2,000 packages of flower seeds. As each of theso pack ages contains Ave smnll papers of seeds, It really means that 110,000 papers of seeds aro sent out by each member of tho senate nnd house. The wny in whlch'theso seeds nro first put into tho smull papers and scaled and then put one cuch of five different kinds Into a larger package and sealed, with tho member's frank pasted on each package for direct mailing, Is an Interesting part of tho congressional distribution system. This Is done by contract, and this yenr a now contract or Is on the Job, Frank Clnrko of Waco, Tex., who has speeded up the work by devising a now gluing, machine. Tho seed envelopes nro filled by machinery, which automatically weighs the contents of each envelope. Two girls work at ono of theso ma chines, one filling and tho other sealing tho llttlo envelopes on a revolving belt. Filling nnd sealing, 30,000 of these llttlo envelopes Is considered a good day's work. Tho girls get piecework over 20,000 a day. Other girls sit at big tables pasting tho congres sional franks onto tho, container on which aro printed tho names of the flvo varieties of vegc-l tables or flowers that nro to bo placed within. A belt carrier runs bcsldo huge bins Into which thai small packuges of seed havo been dumped. Asi tho girls finish pasting tho franks on tho big en-i vclopcs they aro carried, ono nt a time, along this traveling belt roudwny and in front of a bjn at1 regular intervals nro girls, each of whom sflps In, a small envelope, and tho container proceeds to an Inspector nnd then past another girl, who seals' up the puckage by machinery. '