mt VAQEWORKER By W. M. MAUPIN LUitUi, - - IKBRASKA How can a spineless winter have Us McfcboDe broken? ' Castro smys he's going back to Yene tuela. We sympathize with the coun ty. "Street car stie.ps are loaded witt microbe," says a college professor Mean thins to call us. Athlete, crazed by' drinK. puts 2t men out of business. This suggests a new style of training. About 4.000.000 sugar maple trees" In the western reserve promise to do their full duty this spring. The world Is getting better all the time. The tobacco trust Is going to - raise the price of cigarettes. The price of 'possum is going up presumably on the theory that any thing that is fashionable must not be cheap. Tennessee has passed a law to li cense boxing. Fine! Now It's up to Nevada to offer a premium on the game. The price of cigarettes is going np. but this won't bother the man who rets his cigarettes out of the other man's box. Burglars in Youngstown stole the burglar alarm. The blamed things are expensive, too ought to have a watchman to protect them. The latest New York tad Is fighting duels with wax bullets. Now watch for the arrival of the man who didn't know his bullets were made of lead. The Missouri penitentiary does not furnish baths to the prisoners. Punishments are getting milder and milder, remarks the Cleveland Leader. One ot our newest mental healers says that tired feeling is a delusion. It Is certainly a mighty pleasant delu sion when one Is able to humor it by giving it full swing. Wilbur Wright only charges $600 per for giving lessons in aeronautics. At the price he must give instructions as to how to fall gracefully and land with the least damage. "How to Be a Cheerful Taxpayer," Is the title ot a series of articles be ing written by a Chicago editor. Send it to the kaiser. He is in need ot that sort ot cheerful literature. Chinese in the Flowery kingdom. having been forbidden to smoke opi um, are said to be turning to cheap whisky. A local-option movement in China, seems to be about due. Alaska last year exported products worth $34.!00.0O0 and imported arti cles worth $1S,000.000. That left a very handsome balance of trade in Alaska's favor and showed that the territory is getting into line commercially. King Alfonso seems to be a good monarch, anxious to deliver Spain from all traces ot medievalism, and give her an up-to-date administration, but it is doubtful it he owes half as much ot his popularity to the fact that he Is a good king as to that othei fact that he is a good fellow. - Jails as financial centers are some thing new under the sun. says the Baltimore American, but Mr. Morse. the financier during the day, attending to his usual business and making mon ey In the ordinary ways, and Morse. the convict during the night, locked up in Jail, is decidedly a picturesque feature ot our complex and curious modern life. A Syracuse woman refused a legacy of $5,000 oa the ground that she be lieved it was Justly due the nearest relative ot the decedent. It is omin ous It the world Is growing this hon est, for Hamlet long ago declared it a condition in which doomsday would be near. But comfort is to be found in the fact that such startling honesty is just a very rare exception to prove a very common rule. Prof. Arthur Korn of Berlin has per fected an invention which proves the theories ot gravitation. He fills metal globe with water and Imparts vi bration to the contents with an elec tric motor. He has thus found it pos sible to construct an exact working model of the solar system in water, in which the planets all move in their ap pointed paths without any visible sup port or externally applied power. "It Is said that the explosion was caused by one ot the workmen enter ing aa abandoned portion of the mine with a lamp, thus igniting a body of gas.' This is the explanation of the recent tragedy la the colliery ot the Erie Coal Company at Port Plan chard. Pennsylvania. The occupation ot coal mining is beset with dangers, aad one ot the greatest of these dan gers is the recklessness ot ignorant or thoughtless miners. The crown prince of Germany thinks he ran not come to this country In cognito. True for him. The reporters would get all he Imvs and then some before he could cross the gang plank. The eaar was so angry at the open ing speech in the Finnish diet that he dissolved that body and there must be a new election. The unfortunate parliament thus cut oft in its infancy may well echo the historic lament. "It I was so soon done tor, I wonder what I was begun tor." CAPITAL GITY HEWS ! ITEMS OF INTEREST AROUNOTHE ' o-riTfr no i iF- ' THEWORXOFM'UWKRS ; : Legislative Facts and tossip News : of the State Capital. j J j The Appropriations. The senate Saturday added $S6.000 to the general maintenance bill, or! current expense bill, over and above ; me aaou.uvu wuicu me mduve oj , and means committee recommended. It was wiih little or no difficulty that ; l"?s that will conservatively protect Miller of Lancaster, chairman of the the traveling public and public house finance committee, had his committee j keepers alike. Mr. Garoutte had with recommendations adopted. Only in him a section of one of the comforters one instance did the committee rec- j tj,at the general public sometimes stib ommend a reduction, a cutting of the ; mits to being quartered under, to- normal training m high schools from o.mrn to .du.uui.. ana me enaie '" lu " ' "c To the bill outside of the commit tee recommendations. the senate added $20,000 for a site for a medical college of the university, to be pur chased in Omaha. $5,000 for . hog cholera experiments, an additional $3,000 for the attorney general, to be used in prosecutions, making a total or sio.uvu. an aaaitionai iu.uuu lor . the state veterinarian and his assist- j ants, was added at the request of the committee on nuance wuica naa over- looked the work necessary to inspect j under government quarantine reguia-; tions. A building for nurses and at-: tendants at the Norfolk hospital for . the Insane, which was provided for in a separate bill, was transferred to the general appropriations bill at the re- ' quest of Myers of Rock. An item of ; $15,000 to continue work on the stafe historical building, which is carried : in a separate bill, was also trans- ferred to this bill, and in addition it reappropriates $15,000 of the total of $25,000 appropriated two years ago to start a historical building which has not been used, but which has lapsed. The bill as it was introduced in the house carried a total of $1,958.- 961. As it passed the house it car- ; ried $1,750,390. The senate added : $350,000 by its recommendations aud ! state for the retailer must also be in the senate added $$6,000 more, mak- spected. For this work a fee of one ing a total of $2,186,390. However, at cent a gallon is to be paid into the least $47,000 of this amount will be : deducted from other appropriation :- bills when they reach the senate. , ! House Sifters Lift Senate Bills. The house sifting committee held : short session at 1 o'clock Saturday ii u niispo me lonowing senate nies: S. r. 164, Bodinson Remove min- : erals from school land. ! S. F. 51 To take Dlace of 257. now cn file. . ' S. F. 10 To take place of 110, now , on file. ' S. F. 345. Ban os Defining Iiabili-! ties of hotel keepers. I S. F. 28, Fuller Procedure of i boards of equalization. ; S. F. 140. Randall For sanitary ' factories. Hacking houses, etc. : Note S. F. 10 relates to license by corporation. S. F. ol relates to change of county attornevs" salaries. Deficit of $60,000 Item for Wolf Bounty. ine senate was too Dusy with other matters to devote much time to k;.. v. ! k,. . ... . , , . at 6 o'clock, but during that time only one appropriation bill was dis-1 posed of. This was the deficiencv bill, carrying $30,393. without the iAnna ir i . .....v- i by th : house The Iae7 t M - ... . - . chairman of the finance ways and ' means committee. Myers of Rock and Cammill of Frontier opposed the striking out of the $60,000 for scalps. ! x, 'T:"?" B"' C!?ea.ted- . I u," r- -1 . " prtMtfUli w..t. S . ; . "'" utpames ironi pay- r Ti J, . , ' 7' niitted to investigate the rates on the 1 " 14,TOte.rtPmiums paid by surety and fidelity of the house rilwl tn , " -r-CT -i-ki KaiUM Il A trail vote owing to . the absence of sena- i tnra fr-r., ,k i t d i , . . ... ... .. , . present vaca- tion of roads used ten years exceut by petition of a majority of the users. was passed and so was H. R. 512, creating a board of state officers to fix maximum rates for fidelity insur ance companies. More Power for Commission. Donohoe's bill. S. F. No. 354. lilac- Id K all nublic- ;r-l-ii- HimnrsrinH, - , . rectty under the control of the state railway commission, was passed by the senate by a vote of 32 to 10. It gives the commission power to value au puouc service corporations of whatsoever character, to fix rates and rules for operation. Appeals from the ! m turn into the state treasury al orders or rulings of the commission j most $230,000 net each year. Tern are to be direct to the supreme ' perance votes changed to the side of COUIX. Salary of Supreme Clerk. The senate judiciary committee Thursday reported for the general tile H. R, SS, a bill designed to make the office of the clerk of the supreme court a salaried office instead of a tee othce. The bill as it tame from the ... -.. salary, as the case mav be. to $4,000 . . " , . a year and g.ves the deputy -- -.w m jrci. iw secaie cuniiuiitee recommended that the bill be amended by making the deputy reporter's salary $2,500 a year and by striking out the emergency clause, Traveling Men Appear. . A committee of traveling men com-i ! posed of L. W. Garoutte. H. C. Wyricb? nd C. D. Edlehian of the board of, directors of Post C Travelers' Prc-tecV t,ve association of Lincoln, appeared; before the general appropriations com-i j mittee of the legislature Monday night: for the purpose, of asking for an ap propriation to be recommended for . the labor commissioner, m whose hands the enforcement of the "hotel; bill"' is placed. It contains an item sugcjent at ieast for the employment of one inspector and his expenses while enforcing the instructions of the chief. According )o Mr. Garoutte there need not be a great amount spent by . ,.- in searching out infrac- The traveline men. who are the originators of the bill, J"se - getner with a flimsy, frazzled towel nd a pU,ow slip ,hp EO,e fl,r. nishinrc of theSxSxGs; ceiline. besides a three-quarter irca bedstead and a bowl and pitcher. This wholly unven tilated and unsanitary "stall" of a sleeping rocni. the committee stated, is all too common over the state, and while the traveling men themselves are experienced enough to dodge them, or "kick" the foul furnishings or them- pe,ves QUt of submittmg to being im d up3n bv lheir use the geaeTol bHc are the ones who ratbor t,,.,n .. k a SCene.- submit for the time ,,; t th hreedine condi- tjon " Want Gcod Beer or None. The only other bill of any impor tance that was considered in com mittee of the whole by the house was the creation of a beer inspection department that is intended to secure pure beer for the thirsty consumer and at the same time be a source of revenue for the state. The governor is to apioint as many deputies as are needed at salaries of $1 200 a year each and a chief at a salary of ?2.00C a Tear- oeer manutacuirea m tue state to he lr.spectea ana uranueu to purity. AH beer shipped into the state treasurv. It is claimed that 800. fKiO barrels of booze will be affected bv this bill, or 23,600.000 gallons. Thia means at one cent a gallon a revenue; for the state of $256,000. Although: Sink nointed out that the money will- have to be jaid bv the retailer oij liquor wno aireaoy pays a license, ice house recommended the measure for passage after amending it thst all Honor shinned out of the state needi not be inspected. -Shoemaker tried, to amend the bill to make the fee one-t fourth cent of a gallon. . He said mat. w as enough to pay the expense and leave a neat sum for the state. He also hinted darkly that the bill as it is recommended is unconstitutional and that he was but trying to save it in some degree. He did not state cis constitutional objections. Killing the Bartcs Bills. The slaughter which was begun some weeks ago on the numerous in- surance Djis 0f Senator Bartcs nas .,., ,j iviH.i 9it,ihpr of his ', ., - , " mmiIM measures failed to pass the committee oi tue ooie. i 202- d thf 6 dTL vet re at s h ,ea,t.ar i! upper 1"e "T, 7ot . treated like molten metal and not a S 1 " l enough to it to cast an opposing vote. Th. C tutr nonr Vill Tpf is 111 the Dal- ance. and already it has been pruned to raise the possible dividends for in surance firms on non-participating pol- I icies to the stockholders to 8 per The measure that was killed Friday .k ...j;.nr ha mvprnnr I IUtU IUl l"T UUUVIl . .- - c, . tr1:nr should be IHT- - .v,w.ami nto companies aou w for these concerns upon bonds, con- ; tracts ana supu.-i.-o t srantea. - cedigh bill fixing the salary ; . 7 . . , ua vuc .--- - v $2,500 a year with an additional sum r si sort for his duties as head -t- hrarian was passed unanimously by the senate Friday. The salary ot the reporters was fixed at $2,500 a yeir. Want Pure Beer. i Th. hr insnection bill passed the ! . . : vf ltnunr I ncuse uy a . m ii-- ,n --- : and temperance votes. Some of the nHsi radical sunuorters of the brew- ' ers voted for it. Some of the strong- j temperance and prohibition advo- s in ih hnnse voted for it- It received onlv 53 votes, although it , ,k hii nassed it 1 Net Weight Bill Endorsed. . The house Friday afternoon recom- 3 mended for passage the Smith bill. H- R 4S6. as amended by the committee : on miscellaneous subjects. The amendments provide for the incorpora- ! t,on ol lar oam.ua i .su.u ; branding as to weight. The Bationl Pre f.xMl at leaves the matter of branding weights op- Uo,la, wilh the food manufacturer and provides that when net weight is stat ,i ina, it must be correct. The clause relating to bleached flour ' allows the sale of bleached flour in j x0braska. HEWS OF (IE BRASKA ITEMS OF GREATER OR LESSER IMPORTANCE OVER THE STATE. THE FFESS.PULFITRND PUBUG What Is Going On Here and There That Is of Interest to the Read ers Throughout Ne braska. Killed His Wife's Parents. News . reached Alliance Tuesday forenoon of a - brutal double murder which occurred Monday night near a small town named Provo, just across the line in South Dakota. The man who did the killing was Dick Barton, and the victims were the parents of his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Tucker. The murder was a fiendish one. the brains of the victims having been beaten out with an ax. After the commission of the crime Barton beat his wife, and threatened to kill her, until she promised not to tell who had killed the old people until he had ample opportunity to make his escape from the country. In order to save her life the woman promised, but no sooner had her hus band departed before she gave the alarm to a near neighbor, and from there it spread unal a posse was or ganized for pursuit. canon upon leaving tooK some baggage and a team. The baggage he checked to Crawford, but he himself drove to Edgemont, where, while at tempting to dispose of his outfit, he was captured. Prior to Barton's arrest at Edge mont a neighbor ranchman of his, a member of the posse pursuing him made an attempt to kill Barton on sight, but was prevented from doin so by the sheriff and his assistants. Feeling at Edgemont, and through out the locality where the tragedy occurred, is said to run high and threats of lynching Barton are numer ous and pronounced. The crime is supposed to be the result of domestic troubles. Cuming County Centenarian. Mrs. Dora Harstick, of St. Charle: township. Cuming connty, reached her one hundredth year Friday and is, without doubt the oidest woman in north Nebraska. She has been a resi dent of Cuming county nearly fifty years, arriving here with her husband in the year 1S60. She is the grand mother of twenty-three children and the great-grandmother of . thirty. Among her grandchildren is W. H Harstick, the present county clerk of that county. A celebration of her birthday was held at her home. To all appearances she will live for some years, her health not having appreci ably declined. Wounded With Shotgun. Edward Larson, a young man living about one-half miie southeast of t'eh- lmg. is suffering from a gunshot wound that came near proving fatal He lives with his parents, but on last Thursday he went to the home of his brother Harvey, nearby. He asked to borrow a shotgun. When it was given to him he left the house and no sooner had he gone outside than a report of the gun was heard. The load was discharged into his left breast, but at such an angle as to barely miss the heart. The force of it was somewhat averted by the angie dim giiut;iug 1 1 tint t lit: iius. one of which was shattered. Friend Had Costly Fire. The grocery store of C. W. San- burn, and the barber shop of Fred Schmidt, located on Maple street, at Friend, were burned at an early hour Saturday morning.- The firemen suc ceeded in quenching the blaze before the buildings were totally consumed. but everything in the barber shop is burned, but little salvage remaining in the building occupied by Mr. San burn. The buildings were owned by Norman Warren. It is difficult to esti mate the loss but insurance to the amount of $1,800 was carried. $700 on buildings and $1,100 on stock and fixtures. New Alfalfa Mill. The York Alfalfa Milling company is the name of a new corporation Just organized for operation in York. The management has bought the building in North York formerly occupied by the Fairmont Creamery company, and work will commence at once install ing about $15,000 worth of new ma 1 ! i . chinery, with a capacity of twenty- i concern. I v Injured by Being Thrown. J Mrs. John Siler. of Humboldt, was j thrown from buggy Saturday after- noon and sustained a severe fracture of the left arm. The accident re sulted from the team taking fright at a passing automobile. The victim is middle-aged, the wife of one of the well-known farmers of that section. Heddendorf and Criser Held. The preliminary hearing of George Criser and Benjamin Heddendorf. who were charged with killing W. C. Dil lon near Stamford last week Wed nesday, was held and the boys were bound over to the district court with out bail by County Judge Shelhurn. The attorneys for the defense were Perry & Lamb of Beaver City, and John Everson and J. G. Thompson of Alma. The defense made an effort I ot get the boys out on bail, but the j judge refused it. Criser was taken to the Holdrege jail and Heddendorf to the Red Cloud Jail State News and Notes in Condensed Form. There are probably twenty cases of smallpox in the vicinity of Hampton, all in a mild form, however. The Midwest Life lo!d Iine wants good local agents all over Nebraska Write to Home Office at Lincoln for particulars. Auburn people anl papers are talk ing about $20,000 depot that the Mis souri Pacific railroad threatens to build in that town. William Erbart died at his home seven miles southwest of l-ouisville Thursday afternoon at 5 o'clock from pneumonia, at the ago of fcrty-nine years. The annual conference of the Sev enth Day Adventists is in scss-on in Hastings. A good attendance is bad and an elaborate program has been arranged. It is the carefully formed opinion of the Humboldt Leader man that the woman who can wear this sea son's brand of headgear and stiil re main attractive, is a 'lalapa'oosa and no mistake." A government expert will this wwl: begin the building of one mile of good road at Fairbury, in Jefferson county. just to "show" the people. The com missioners have given $500 for the purpose, and the sample highway will connect the city with the cemetery. The Cass county teachers" associa tion held its annua meeting at Loui. ville in the high school bunding. About two hundred teachers were present together with a Jarge number of the patrons of the Louisville school. Ernest Hess was seriously injured at Albion by being run over by lumber wagon. Hs was riding into town in a wagon with a number of other boys and in attempting to get out at the side, slipped and fell nnder the wheels. It is not known jnst what the extent of his injuries is. Major D. E. McCarthy, cbief quar termaster of the department of the Missouri has just received authority from the quartermaster general of the United States army to enter into ne gotiations for the lease of the Ash land target range for the nse of the regular army for the three months beginning April 1. A volunteer fire department has been organized by the citizens of Yu- tan. A full quota cf officers were elected and that town 13 now assured cf organized fire fighting. Yutan's new water plant is now completed and is an excellent system. The citizens are justly proud of their new plant. The largest single consignment of sheep that has been received in Fre mont this year was fed at the stock yards Tuesday night. The shipment consisted of eighty carloads, made op in three trains. It came in over the Union Pacific from Greeley. Colo., and was sent out over the Northwestern for the Chicago market yesterday morning. The case of the state of Nebraska vs. Nocola Galoro and Joseph Cos- mano, the Greeks who did the shoot ing at Uettting recently, has been carried to the district court, tran script of the proceedings in Dodge county court having been filed. They are charged with shooting with intent to kill and shooting with intent to dc great bodily injnry. The preliminary hearing of young Critser and Heddendorf. the two boy charged with murdering William Dil lon, a recluse who was found dead at his home near Oxford last week, wa held Thursday. After the boys were run to cover by the Beatrice blood hounds they confessed to murdering Mr. Dillon, but since being lodged -in jail they tell different stories. The suit of $7,000 damages, begui. almost a year ago by Mrs. Annie Galtry against James P. McCarthy. Wymore ex-saloon keepers, and his two bending companies, was disposed of Wednesday in district court. settlement having been reached he- tween the plaintiff and the defendant bondsmen, a special session of court was called to dispose of the case. The court rendered judgment in favor ol Mrs. Galtry and allowed her damages in the sum of $250. A life insurance company is a finan cial institution which furnishes money tc the family of the man who dies holding a policy in the company. ' It stands in precisely the same relation to the individual that the fire insur ance company does to the house in which he lives. If your home is fully insured in a fire company and it barns, yoii are paid its value. If it is not in sured the fire company pays you itotbing. Yon carried your own risk, and not the company. But you can not carry the risk on your own life, although you may on your property. This risk must be carried either by 5 cur family or some life insurance company. Which of the two is the better able to assume it. the family or the company T Upon which of the two will the toss be less severe? And upon whom do you prefer to leave the risk, upon the family or the company? The Midwest Life of Lincoln issnes all the standard forms of policies. The village of Diller. in Jefferson county, will vote on the proposition of a bond issue to install a water worti system at the coming election. An agitation for fire protection was start ed in Diller some time ago by per sistently keeping at it the boosters of the proposition have at last gotu-n the matter before the peop in a tangible form. It is said that w;t of the people of the village Tavor a water works system and that the bond proposition will probably carry. The village of Western, over in Saline county, will also voe on a bond isue for the same purpose at the coming election. . WITH MOTHER A CLOSE SECOND -HI. yon. Willie! War 4-- mar? "Nntbin". I'm trainia" Zir a Mara thon'."" HUMOR BURNED AND ITCHED. Eczema on Hand. Arms. Legs andk FaceIt Was 8omethr 3 Terrible. Complete Core by Ciit:cura. 'About fifteen or ei-i"n years ago eczema developed oa too of my hand. It burned aad t'ec'-f ro snob that I was compelled to how it to at doctor. He pronounced it riaxworaa. After trying his differeat rSBMies the disease increased and wea. nj my arms and to my legs aaJ, ltf-3.Zj oa my face. The burning waa oilliiog terrible. I went to another doctor who had the repotaifem of ain; the best in town. He told me i". eczema. His medicine checked the ai?aae of the disease, but no further. I finally concluded to try the Co"krara. Reme dies and found relief in ti? tint trtaL I continued until I was completely cored from the disease, aad I have' not been troubled since. C. jirrrkharT. 236 W. Market St, ChaaiberaVrrg. Pa, Sept. 19, 1903.- Taking No Charges. Yon always speak kia.Ity to year wife?- said the prying friend. "Always." aaswered Mr. Mekto. "I never think of giving H-anetta harsh word." "Because you believe ia raHng by geatleness? No. Because self-?rervatk is the first law of aatnre.- How'$ This? W er Om W ml ill I i Deb.- Bnrr mrr M nam ttu .ami hm c-jrrS fry Wmi'm CMMTfe CUV. Wf. tb ! I mm . krcr Uk- F. t. Tafce Had Fwt rot tar rnnom The Next War Pfay. "What properties will we need tor the battle scene?" -None whatever. The -ix wCI be bare. The men are suppose! to he wearing invisible uniform aad lr1sC smokeless powder fronx aoiseiess guns.- Safe and Sore. Among the aaediene tktt are 'm mended and enoonwd by pbyocsns awi nones is Kemp's Balaam, til-? best enwis cure. For many years K !w bees rrsard- ed by doctors as the caedieise nnt Msety to cure coogha, and it k a aCroo- hoid on the eteen of ail weH-Htsnrani yimim. When Kemp's Batass onoc cere a mdi we shall be at a loss te knmr what wiL At druggists' aad dealers", '2Jc. Defined. The Writer's Child Pa. what as penury? The Writer Penary, my son. Is the) wages of the pen. feast. vrav tttmr Em Reneved bv Murine Eye ImbI;. Cc pounded bjr Experienced PtiTJienajk. Mi rine Doeim't ftmart: SnM,w E7 P. Write Murine !Eye RtndT "Ou. Tn. for illustrated Eye Book. At Pna-gtma. A woman is always score erwnomt cal than a man. Where a man will manufacture a lie out of the whote cloth a woman will sse the reiaaaata. Your working power depend yeor health! arneid Tea eorrerti. Aonter bver. kidnerw. stomach at bowei: orr cones constipation, pwnnes tie Mood brings eood healto. A good singer can always make women cry by singing -Homxv Sweet Home.- So many neopie long for s home, and so few nave one. , Pettit's Eye Salve First Sold in 1SC7 I0 years ago. sales increase ytuh. wawder fal remedy ; cored miDioas weak rr. A druggists or Howard Kro. Boii. X. Y - A man ought to know a great deal to acquire a knowledge ot the im mensity of his igsoranee.- WTfjgt t HW.U T! m TO) IS DIT. PATU OtSTM BTTT io rtnmi t to rsnr rwmm It's easy for a man's wife to dress wen if his creditors can aSord if. A man talks shoot tove as thewen he felt ashamed of tae caaversaxJeaw How can a spineless winter have Its backbone broken? Love is not feUnd. box. t&ose whsss It affects are. erT"