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LOCAL ITEMS OF
THIRTY YEARS AGO
George Harris nnd wife ret uriied la'-t
rfundny from litni'olti, whole they woto
married Now Yeats day J
Everett Bean and wife returned from
their bridal tour to Cass ooitity lust
wook.
It. is said tlint a new brick block will
blonin with the opening of spring.
Tin- Modern Woodn on of America
guvo their members aod families a ll e
banquet on la'-t Wednesday evening.
Frank Cowdon was visiting In Logan.
Kansas this week
Mrs. Alf McCall loft tills week f"i
the oast wheio she goes on an ovtond
ed vlhlt
Hugh Miner was on tlio sick list la t
ucok.
WonMany Prizes.
A ( Sliallonlioitit r sluli l a lie 'i
of ten shoit lioins at tlie SUto f .'us u
Missottli, Iowa anil the A ilifi pi' i
ltoyul and Iutcimitii mil stock hhnw
lit. Katihiis City uml (!hioMi'rt. Ho wit-
tins only Short Horn breeder at
two latter shows. 111m herd woo
following prizes:
8 giand championships,
10 lllfit pilzL's.
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7 second prizes.
fi tlilrd prize.".
. I fonrt.i prizes.
And numerous other piiv.'-s.
Tlin two year old heifer Mipreineoy
whs (Iruiid Champion at. all five State
fairs and American Royal show at
Kansas City ard was It''scrvc (Irnuil
Champion at. the Intermitioiial in
Chicago. Alma ilocord.
Ta Samuel Smith, non-rcsldcnt ils
fendants Notice is hereby given that pursuant
to tin order of altHehmeiii Issued
B. V. Stewart, a just lee of the peac
of Webster county, Nebraska, lu an
notion pending before said justice
tvhereln Ray Mountford and tllei
Mnunt'ord, piutneis' doing business
under the inline nnd style of Mount
ford llrothers was ptnlutill's and Sam
nel Hniilh defendant to recover tli
Rum of $.'11.45, a writ of attachment
was Issued and levied upon the follow,
ing described property: Money on de
posit in Peoples Hank of Red Cloud
and that, mthl case whs, on the retain
day of tho Himimons Issued thereto
continued for trial to the 1.1 th day of
January, Mil'.') at I) A. M.
Hay Mountford. ) pi......!,!,,
(ilcn Mountford j '""'
SalfCity, H.tlf Desert.
on ilie !ulf of Aden Is a spot of
narron sauu wnoro a city spriie.-s uj
every winter nnd almost dlsnp;nur !
the smuiuer. This place Is called It--bora.
A mar' c h, liold there i'-.-winter
nnd durl -i die he'at-t t f rv :
iif? It heeniurs a r.t. oi' i .iiJo I:m- m
tents with a i- -;ns1it: ! nf oer 10,
000. Dtii'iii; Hi- ' tie p': .v U
deserted.
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' Cricket.
The ourllW mention of the game of
cricket Is In the writing of one .Tohii
Derrick, who In'p:! wrote that "he
and his fell owes dldrunue and play
at cricket." Hut lir the Itudteltin
llbntry ut Oxford there ttiritn old pic
ture of a inonlc bowllns n Uull ,tp, an
other monk, who Is about to &trll;elt,
and the date of that la 200 years
earlier.
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Kfargnret Eltlrhlge was a yecjr pretty
girl everyone was agreed ns to Hint,
littt when .she came to visit Aunt Mar
garet Wells In Ilaynrdstnwn, it was
not long before the majority of women
residents nt least thud dubbed her
"frivolous."
"Docs nothing all day," they said,
"except dress tip to look pretty nnd
loll around."
Daisy loved pretty clothes. There
was also a dainty lavender frock
painted muslin, It was called with
violet (lowers, scattered quaintly over
Its lavender surface. Mother had made
this frock Just before the serious time
of her last Illness but Daisy could
not yet think calmly of those sorrow
ful days days of loving self-sacrlllce
Upon her part for which Aunt Mar
garet was now trying to atone or to
efface.
"Darling," she said the day of the
anticipated picnic to Morton's falls. "I
wish for my sake you'd wear the lav
ender imihlln; It Is so becoming nnd I
want you to make u good Impression
upon my friends. There's Tilly Saun
ders, for Instance, a friend of my own
girlhood her doctor son Is one of the
finest IT nut Indeed the Unest of Hay
urd's young men." Daisy laughed.
Hut good naturedly Daisy wore the
lavender painted frock. Aunt urged
tho dark, warm cape upon her at de
parture. "It may rain," she said, "ami any
way It Is cnoi down at Morton's fall.
You will need a wrap." And ns It
often happens In this misjudging
world, Mix. Saunders, glancing, fioin
an upper wind"- at the very moment
of Daisy's happy departure for the
Kails, viewed the lavender froel;, and
the sllk-llned cape contemptuously.
Her son near by was preparing his
medicine case for the calls of the aft
ernoon.
"I declare," remarked Tlllle Saun
ders, "that girl from the city Is dressed
to go to a picnic, as though she were
going on the stage."
"Hy the way," he remarked, "your
friend Margaret Wells has Invited me
to meet her niece at a sorlal. Hut If
the niece answers your description,
mother, please write for me the usual
polite refusal 1 am beastly busy and
you can make no mistake In saying
so."
Thereupon the young doctor went
on his way. And Daisy, swinging her
satin-lined cape, went blithely upon
her way.
Peggy-.lane would not he pleased
with this nor pleased with that. And
HeRKy-.Tnne Insisted upon going out on
the lake In shell-like boats with ven
turesome youths, or swimming danger
ously far from shore.
"She Is so reckless," Peggy-J line's
mother confided to Daisy.
The afternoon was not n success;
Just near the supper hour came one
of the sudden drenching showers.
Daisy was out In It so was Peggy
Jane they were far from shelter. A
moment the despised visitor of Hay
anlstown stood looking down at her
rebellious charge. Peggy-.lane was
giggling. "It Is cold here near the
Kails, Isn't It, Miss KldrldgeV Queer,
how cold It can be in summer time.
Just because a little rain comes up."
Daisy east one hasty glance at the
cherished painted muslin. Mother's
lingers had fashioned it the violets
would run disastrously Into the lav
ender ground. And Peggy-J.ine was
not thtronly one who hud been warned
against cold or dampness that sum
mer. The trip Into the country hail
been suggested ns a fortifying remedy
also for Margaret after her long daya
of nui'.slnu',
"There!" she said, as she folded the
warm cape about Peggy-.lane's recep
tive llgure, "that will keep you both
warm and dry. Now let's run for It."
Peggy-Juno's mother was tearftill
grateful. "You have saved her from
nn Illness, I am sure," she said.
Hut Daisy had not saved herself
from Illness. It he .tin that night after
Aunt Margaret lovingly lucked her lu
Jied. Daisy hated to tell about the
queer throbbing pain In her hack the
funny little creepy chills. Hut Aunt
Margaret found out and later Daisy
foujJil Inysclf teUlus a kind young
physician,
"Ion see," site' Vxpla lard, "our old
doctor at home told me I must be cart;
fiil to avoid dampness, and all that. I
had barely 'gotten over the (lu, when
mother, was taken sick, and then"
"I see," the iimtfr.stnii.dlng young
pbysfclnu said. "The Kails Is a damn
hole," he remurked later, "and ynu
were soaked In that cold rain; hut
we are jolng to nrercnt nuy serJous
trouble. Yod will hnve to -take uiy
word for It." Doctor Stephen mulled.
Daisy took his word for It. She fell
that she would tnke his word for any
thing. Certain It was the young doc
tor did not neglect his patient.
"Just ran In again to see how she
Is," he would explain to smiling Auni
Margaret.
When Daisy was able to take her
llrst drive in his car Doctor tiu-phon
gazid a(liuirlngl. ii to her inlet ejes.
'"I hat was miutit.v decent of .wai,"
lie iviiial'ivcil perpli-xln :ly. "to wtaji
jour cape around inj foal jming
niece. My sinter has not forgotten the
kindness, however." l
Daisy .staled, uu!'o;ev!ig. "Jjj-ggy-.Iimu
your niece V" she questioned
which shows that fate, that mysteri
ous )'Mver or Uupld. or whatever jcu
chooseiTo'M'iill It, will not he cheated
where two heaiu are dostluixl to beat
na u-."
LEAGUE OUTLINES PROGRAM
OF TAX REDUCTION
' A Hastings diupatcjij, under date
of December 28th, ha the following
to say concerning the meeting of tho
Nebraska Taxpayers' Leaguo, held
In that city on last Wednesday:
"A flat BlaBh of 25 per cent In all
state appropriation!, nnd in sal&ries
t.nd licenses including auto licenses,
which arc fixed by the legislature
.-.mounting to a cut of nbout $8,000,
000 ;n the platform adopted here last
night by the NeJirnska taxpayers
league, which besides adopting its
prog-am i lclitded its officers.
"The phtform demands grcatc- au
'hority for local boards, county
board", school board , etc., and would
bring it about by i.ubstituting the
wo d 'nay' for 'shall' in all state
laws which by the use of the word
'shall', tic the hands of local boards.
"It is demanded that the four
years' course in four of the five nor
mr.l schools of the state be cut to
two years, and the four years' cour o
in a teachers' training college grant
ing diplomat he limited to the nor
m. 1 training college of tlie slt.to
'in' verity. Tho league demands the
onccntration and not the diffusion
of the schools.
'T'e platfo in 'row is' upon the
stale nv.tching dollars with the fed
jr I government for schools nnd
-oni'a nnri(A.s!g that lit' ystem bo
'ilij.tsncci.
"Tie cduc-tionai program of the
-t tc tho platform decla-oi to hae
';,"iio to R"cd' oi the subject- cf
vhletK-H, homo economics nnd nor
mal tra'ni.g.
"It dcclcro tint athletics should
l-c fer health and r.ot district and
stale championships.
"Auditing of tho account.? of the
st.ite univcrs'tv hy the state auditor
Is asked rnd inve ligation of its ex
penditure, by a committee authorized
by the legislature.
"Encouragement of the tho use of
Vcfrnskr. gravel for mrldr.g h'gh-.-.ays,
instead of paving program is
-.sked, coupled with transportation
idjustmcnts f-ivornHe to the use of
Mobra ka's resources for road mak
ing-
"It U demanded tlu.t schools in lite
state hould open at 0 and close at
I o'clock, and tho. granting by
teaches of holidays r.nd half holi-
fdiys is condemned. 'School boards,'
!t is declared, 'should be masters
not servants of teachers.'
"Fifteen counties were rcprc cntcd
at the gathering by delegates, altho
x number of the counties represented
nre not organized and delegates, 'n
the e cases were volunteers. Alto
gcther about 100 we-e in attend nee
"W. I. Farley, of Aurora was
elected president: Peter W. Shea, Or
leans, treasurer. Tlie following
were elected to the executive com
mittee: O. A. Williams, Neligh; W.
E. Patterson, Webster county; Tien
more Cony, Aurora. The cxe-utive
cornm'ttec v.'U select a socrcta.y
whose fir t insl: will be the organiz
ing of county laguqs, lenching intc
Ihe school tlMvi-Hs. A. II. Cole, of
Aurora, now purchasing agent for
tho state, w'll ho the choice of the
committee.
"F. E. Edge tor. -if Aurora, r. prime
mover in tho onrsoizatinn presided at
the gathering. Kv suggestion for
j fin-.nc'ng the shi'' league 's to bo
na with the r..i??-ig of a fund cf
'jTiO in each counf.."
tti;UUNT.T(KV i'UEPARES
J'"0K HIG HL'SINKSS
"The liurlingtni ha just placed
an order with the Haldw'n Locomotive
Works, Philadelphia, for s'xty fast
freight (Mikitdo) locomotives of the
very latest type. These engines will
be similar to a I t of 30 delivered a
short time back and which proved
highly satisfactory.
The order calls for delivery early
this coming spring and amounts to
approx'mately $3,180,000," eaid E.P.
Bracken, vice president, this morning.
"In addition t 'the above," said
Mr. Urackon, "the Burlington has
just received 2,Q00 ro conditioned
steel coal cars, GOO new- automobile
car.', 500 reconditioned biw: cars, and
ha3 just let a contract for the re
conditioning of 200 refrigerator
crs."
ELECT DELEGATES
At a called mooting of the Farm
ers Union Local 1922, hold in lied
Oloud, Dccomhcr 30, the following
were elected delegate ? to tlie quar
terl. county comeut'on t bo held
in Guldo Hock January 0th: M. II.
Coiner, W. J. Haskh., A. J. G.J-nt.
J. B. Saladeu, Geo. Hofrolbowcr, W.
H. Thomas, C. J. While, II. Dowon
I). B. fttunkard and August Brlnlc
man. C. A.fPRIUCE,
Socy.
Rilph-Nowhouse went to Hastings
Sunday availing to loin ue Stalin?
WARDS OFF EVIL1
Japanese Amagatsu Supposed to
Bear Child's Misfortunes.
Strange Contrivance Is Implicitly B-
lleved to Guard a Baby From
Life's Early Dangors.
The Japanese amagatsu Is a doll
made to bear the misfortunes that
might befall the child, and Is carried
around hy the baby until It Is three
yours old. It Is made on a frame.
This Is covered with gloss silk with
the face and neck wrinkled to suggest
longerlty. Ejes and mouth are marked
and the thin, curled locks painted
black with povvdeied Ink. The earn
are not Indicated. A writing, the rit
ual of the cleansing ceremony, Is In
closed In the head. The arms nre
formed of a piece of wood tied cross
wise and covered with gloss silk with
red paper at the ends. Tlie body con
sists of two pieces nt? baiiiooo, each
wrapped and covered with gloss silk
and tied with two paper cords. Below
these cords It is wrapped with paper,
around which Is tied a girdle of lere
monliil paper cords, inl.uhikl. Anoth
er uilsuililkl pusses over the shoulders
und through the belt. Helow the belt
the body 13 pasted with red paper fold
ed backward over the feet. The lln
Mied doll is wrapped thickly with
brocade or silk, which is covered in
turn with a white silk garment with a
pattern displaying the slork, tormise,
pine," bamboo and treasures printed In
gold or silver.
According to ancient usae. Stewart
Culin writes In A.da Mtu-nziue, the
aiiiar.'.tsu was s nt to a woman a
month before lor confinement. It
was a custom for an old person to
make the uiiiagatMi, revolving Instruc
tions fioin a teacher and then sending
It to a Huildhlsi temple to lie prayed
over in order that It might Insure
health and longevity. After the pray
er it was put Into u box, which was
placed on a stand, and, a day of good
omen being selected, It was sent to
tho woman by the priest. Kor the
llrst hundred days both the parents
and the baby wore white clothes, but
on the bundled and llrst day they
changed them for colored garments.
Clothes .similar to those worn by the
child were put on the amagatsu and
this correspondence was kept up until
the child wr.s the or seven years old.
The garments put llrst on the amagat
su might b- worn afterward by the
child. In the ea-o of a boy after the
ceremonies of adolescence, geinhuku.
a lucky day being selected the atna
gatpu might l)i returned to the tem
ple with a present of money as a tok
en of gratitude for Its protection or
the child. Sometimes, however. It was
kept until after the boy was married
and then It was placed with the ama
gatsu of the bride. After the mar
riage a table of food was offered to
the two amagatsu.
Fair Exchange.
The Woman knows a young artist
who Is getting along remarkably web.
&he still does not command big prices,
but she has recently given nn exhibi
tion of her work, and has had much
praise. Hut the other day she came
to see tlie Woman, wearing a magnifi
cent fur coat.
"Von did do well !" the Woman ex
claimed. "You'll never guess how I got this
coat," the young artist said, "and so
I'll t II you.
"An old man came to the exhibition
and then lie came again. The second
time he came carrying a big bundle,
lie said he sold lur and thi- was the
best coat he had, anil he wondered it
I'd exchange It for that seascape of
mine. He thought he was making a
torrllle bargain. 1 did, too." Chlciu
Journal.
Australia a Slow Grower.
The population of Australia In
creased from 4.ri7H,S0S In' 1011 to
B.rilO.CLM) at the end of 101. according
to a report recently lfsuod by the com
monwealth statistician. This Is a
yearly Increase of 1.27 per cent. Dur
ing the ten year period the excts of
births over deaths accounted for
780,442 of the increase, aad tke ex
cess of arrivals over departures to
only H9,ttlft, or 16 per cent of the
total.'
Unless sotue marked Influx f Im
migration occurs, such as th gstd
rnstt of the '50s, It Is estlnatei last
at tke present rate of Increase It will
take SS years fat4 tht pspalatlafc t
reaclf 10.00Q.QO. and Gt years Tar it to
reach 34,000,000. HrehMf. ..
' Modern Brass.
Mrs. JoScUhns Dauirts said at a iln
aer party In WasblaKtoa :
"I asked a Mttio boy tke otaer day
if bis msther had goao to a csrtala
daace. Ue said she ktri, and I went
"'What klad of a drs did slid
wear?'
" 'A lung, shurt droM,' said lie.
"'Oh, nonseusn!' said I, 'A drfus
can't be long and short both. What
do you mean, child V
"'I nieini,' said tho little boy
sturdily, 'that it was long In the waist
and short ut lheiip and bottom."'
Gundny School Hymns.
"Mrtliiiiia." bogged Hetty, "do sing
that utitmuohllo sou-; agnln pleaso."
"Automobile song?'' her mother
asked. "I don't know any luitonmlille
BOB."
"ftli yet,-, you do," tho child respond
ed, positively: "we slag It at Sunday
sajtuol. Yuu know 1J that oao akoHt
(owe koate Waau"
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ART NELSON, who lias been in the employ of
E. V. Stevens, for the past four years, has resigned
his position, and knowing him personally as being a
man well qualified for
Plumbing, Heating and EIectricalWork
have decided to give him floor-room in my store
where the trade will receive courteous treatment and
his piices will be reasonable.
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The Red Cloud Chief
How Aftout Harness! .
i;m naeot any catalogao prlca on anything In the harness line
Dou't let Bowsone tall you that you ean saTe money by sending away-,
come In and look my stock o? er. I can save you some mony.
Bring In jour old oaes aad gat them fixed up and oiled fcfora Spring.
LEE R.
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Red Cloud
Nebraska
Dr.R. VB Nicholson
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Doa'tlull yourself into a fancied
security.
Because Are has never touched you
it doosn't follow that you're Immune
Tomorrow no today, if you have
time and you better 11 nil time
oomo to tho ollluo hiii we'll wriio
a policy on your house, furniture,
store or merehnndiso.
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