THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
APRIL 5. 1907.
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KILLS
DANDELIONS.
An eastern agricultural
authority claims to. have, found
a weapon that will kill off the
pestiferous dandelion. His for
mula ia stated to be not only
effective, but quite simple and
inexpensive. Here it is:
Dissolve two pounds of sul
phate of iron in a gallon of
water, and add about two and
one-half ounces of sulphuric
acid. Place the liquid in an
ordinary sprinkling: can and get
busy. This potion will serve
to Bend an ordinary sized lawn
to wltherland.
Should Mr. Dandelion have
possession of a large tract of
land and it is desired to kill
the encroacher head, body and
roots, use the admixture in the
following proportions:
Add a hundred-pound sack of
sulphate of iron to a 52-gallon
barrel of water, mix thorough
ly, and add ten pounds of sul
phuric . acid! Use a regular
spraying . machine, and the
dandelion is a dead one.
Sulphuric acid being a dead
ly poison, considerable care
should be exercised not only in
its use, but in its handling be
fore it is used.
Inquiry at a local drug f.toro
discloses that live pounds of
sulphate of iron may be ob
tained for 25 cents and a pound
of sulphuric acid for 13 cents
MIM.IOXS OK LIES WAXTE11.
A formidable circular lias just been
Issued "To the American Public" by a
largo number of firms dealing in rail
way supplies. "Business is good," it
shouts. "Shall it . continue?" The
cloud mi the sunr.lv . men's horizon is
the "investigation" ' of the -railroads by
the national government, and the1 in
troduction of about 400 bills in various
ototi. ioo-ivi:i(nrf.s "norm of Which is
for the benefit of the railroads." Tlu
remedv is s'mr.le:
Wo ltoiiovR ihnt nnw is the time to
act, before the damage is done, an 1
rlsi this should
net. Tf ten Dor cent of the menMn
(ho United states would write today
to covnrnors of the states in which
thev liverand-to their representatives
in" u1P tfarifclSlafurcs. slating that
this fl.frlLa.tJnn vwas-tafciring their busi
naco umi that must be stopped, it
would be stopped. Every one of these
TiiihUe. servants would listen, because
every writer is a voter.
, "Business is good," and yet ten per
cent of the men of the United States
are asked to write to their governors
nnd wisintnrs a. lie to the effect that
"this agitation is injuring their busi
TirMsa" Tn order that they may con
timirt to sell steel froe and car wheels
and pnvelones and toilet-paper to th
railroad companies, several hundred
hiifihipss firms scattered all over the
country attach their names to the call
for ten per cent of the men of the
United States to perjure their immortal
cmiic in lot tors to their governors and
lee-tslators!
Who are the people who address this
remarkable rcciucst "To the American
Pnhii,-?"- About five hundred firms,
Tnnctiv in ljsrfr cities, that sell their
nrnilnrtq lararolv to ..the railroads. . -Ne
braska is represented by three Omaha
printers four Omaha 'dealers in hard
warn and railroad supplies, and by
Kirkpatrick Bros. & Collins, the rail
vnnri contractors of Beatrice. Home
twfiitv thousand letters from Nebraska
citizens to Governor Sheldon are de-
drcrf .-it once, each l.Hter stating that
the writer's "business Is injured" by
iincr obliged to nay two cents a nine
instead of three for passenger far
t,v siitTcrimr a red'.ctio't of Hftoon ft
,...ni in fivivht ratf-;?. iv ha. removal
f disrri-ninathns. by '.lie abolition o
t.ass-i's and Ly other thing done bv
THE QUALITY OF IT.
ml Mt ilmm
? ' til) A fS ff "f vrr-11
"Now, doesn't thl$ ph" lo me
JuMtce?
"Sure; justiv tcmit4 with
the legislature or contemplated by the
governor or the railroad commission.
If these letters are written promptly
and the work of the legislature eau
be . undone in some way, it may cost
several millions of dollars to the people
of the state every year, but the Omaha
Printing company, Rees and Klopp &
Bartlett can continue to print circulars
for the railroads, the Omaha hardware
men can sell some bolts and nuts and
the , Kilpatricks can get a few more
miles of grading to do before winter
sets in. Instead of-asking for a letter
for only ten per cent of the voters,
why not have everybody write in ordar
to insure the blessings of prosperity
for these seven firms?
THE DlltG TRADE.
One of the remarkable statements
made by a representative of the drtig
trade before a legislative committee
last winter was that M per cent of the
prescription business of Nebraska
druggists had been lost by them dur
ing the past few years. Physicians
who formerly sent their patients ti
the drug stoie now carry their own
stock of drugs and prepare their own
rescriptions. The drug representative
afterwards modified this statement by
saying that it did not apply to the
arger cities of the state where tne
physicians are too busy to act as phar
macists. But in all the smaller eines
and villages ho Insisted that it was
true and marked a great revolution in
the relations of doctor and druggist
and in- the profits of the drug trade. It
was asked what was the cause of this
revolution and several reasons w.-re
suggested. One of them was from the
physicians' side of the case that with
the advent of more scientific medical
treatment, better trained practitioners,
new and delicately made prepara
tions and keener competition in medi
cal practice there had arisen the neces
sity for greater purity and uniformity
of material for prescription. In the av
erage country drug store thera
was - a disposition to shirk these
requirements ' and that in ori'U
to secure1 exact ' results ",', the. 'iiufi
try doctor had been forced to turn
druggist. The drug store side of tin.
case was presented by a man wno re
marked that growing friction had de
veloped because a great many physi
cians came to think they owned the
drug store where they sent their pre
scriptions to be filledhelping them
selves to all sorts of sroods for their
own use, not excepting cigars and spir
itus Trumeriti. Whatever1 tW cattSe It
was agreed that the doctor and -drug
gist aro"at"buts. "
The representative of the drug trade
went on to argue that the country
druggist, having lost his prescription
business, found lite sole remaining staff
to bo the patent medicine trade, which
made 60 per cent of his remaining busi
ness. From this data it was urged that
pure food legislation which would de
stroy the patent medicine profits wou'-i
leave the druggist without .means, of
existence and close up a large per cent
of the eleven hundred Nebraska drug
stores. ' '
ItOTIlEHED n HATS.'
It i3 intensely Irritating to the editor
of the Omaha World-Herald that a
Georgia democrat should persist in
the suggestion of Theodore Roosevelt
as the next democratic candidate for
the presidency." With eyes full of salt
water and smoke hi strikes tearfully
and madly at everything in reach. In
his agitated opinion it would bo "the
surrender of self-government to im
perialisnr, the death kntll of organized
opposition to national bank favor
itism, the abject surrender of the
champions of local self-government to
those who, following the monarchical
Alexander Hamilton, would rob the
states of their reserved sovereignty
and center all power and authority in
the administration at Washington."
Ghosts of old windmill long since
fought by the Democratic Don Quix
nnd crossbonos of centralized auuthor
otc! Ilo.v long shall these still vex
the troubled sleep of the Bourbon?
Where Is the spectre of "imperialism"
since Brvan made his trip around the
world? AVliere is the democratic op
position to national banks, which once
echoed over tho prairies of th west,
rlnre DanM Manning mid John (.
Carlisle ruled the relations between
the national barks and the federal
treasury? Whenee H this death's head
niiii froj'sbo:!! ! ' rirSnZ"u au.uir-
ity at Washington since William J.
Brvan advocated government of thf
railroads? And Alexander Hamilton,
with A.-H.ii Burr's bullet t!mu-;U h!i
I o-ly. nuiy be not rest after these
lunirirejt y m ?
The truth l-s the d-nun-ralle thirty
. I without rn hmic, it h:is n candi
date U is true, ti man whi qualltle
of HtUeiitdtlp (tooi'l? of all p.mlti
unite In ptal-ii.g. But It lurs no In tie,
-m.tli'ng but tbt I nU of th tuA
whkli fit athwart tt tttcatr. in po
lit lea I twillilkt.
IVrhui It v. HI p.t bo , r m f-r
the d'ii.Kt title party b nominate
Thi odotv noosevt-tt If h nl.ooid ttsuhi
ndld,i! for prei.!.iit. prrh.tp
tM th.it will I nee.lt-d wtil W f-r the
democrats who want to do something
to simply vote for him as they have
done for Cummins and LaFollette.
The World-Herald's grief is super
fluous. Oil. SPECULATION.
The appointment of a receiver for one
of the boom oil companies at Topeka,
Kas., brings to mind some circum
stances connected with 'oil fields in
Kansas not so generally known in Ne
braska. When the great development
in Kansas oil began about six years'
ago some profitable wells were sunk.
But the greater profits were in selling
oil stock, not in sinking wells. The
Kansas boomers who had fai'ed
in the real estate inflation which pre
ceded the panic of 1893 wakened up,
got down their maps and proceeded to
plat their defunct town sites into "oil
pools." For every profitable well thsre
were twenty corporations organized for
the purpose of selling stock. The pro
moters vent at the business system
atically. The population of the f.tat-j
was classified, card catalogued, and
plied with the most alluring prospec
tuses for investment in oil opportuni
ties. School teachers and clerks were
the particular victims. Hundreds of
thousands of dollars of the hard
earned savings of these classes were
swallowed up in moot holes and pro
moters' expenses. Men and women
were induced to leave good .positions
and salaries to take up the business of
selling stock to their fiiends. The
wider the acquaintance, the more valu
able the service, to the promoters of
the oil craze. One of these men, known
to a circle of literary friends -in Ne
braska, was James P. Connelly,' author
of the "Overland Stage Route." For
about three years the Kansas school
ma'ams and clerks went on buying
lithographed shares in oil companies
Then the truth began slowly to perco
late to ihe surface. The profits from
producing oil wells had been enorm
ously exaggerated. The chances of
striking a producing well were not in
favor of the investor in . oil stocks
Rude th'j lesson Kansas learned that
fortunes in oil were only for the very
limited few; for' others -there was
nothing to be had but experience. As
the Kansas investing public grew shy
the more ambitious oil promoters began
to extend their operations into outside
territory, seeking fresh flocks of sheep
fit for the shearing. Some of these in
Nebraska will watch with personal in
terest present developments of the in
vestigation now going on in the courts.
An unpleasant reminder of the Thaw
trial has been manufactured by th6
moving picture people and will be
shown in nearly every vaudeville and
novelty theater in the country during
the next six months. Actors bearing a
slight resemblance tc the pri!ci;3als
have been put through some of the
scrnes of the tragedy, amid crudely
painted scenes that arc supposed' to
represent the 'Madison 'Square' lower.
the prison and the court room. Where
the pictures are not offensively frank
in their meaning they are false to the
real history ot the case, for they repre
sent the jurymen as rendering a ver
diet of acquittal without leaving their
scats and Thaw receiving the congrat
ulations of the court and departing
with tho air of a hero. Without doubt a
number of homicides, will result in this
country in the next year from the wide
display of these pirures. They are
manv times more dangerous than the
newspaper reports of the same af
fair, iov the print has at least been
t-uthfjl. It has tcld the crack-brained
youths oC the country that Thaw did
not escape, that the jury stood seven
to five against him, and that he must
bo tried aain for his crime.
The cherries are dead. These sad
tidings ttw. jpcople of Nebraska have
been slow to accept, but the doubter
who will take the pains to go care
fully over tho trees in Lincoln will
find little prospect of a cherry crop
A very thorough examination oi
garden cherry orchard upon high
ground In southeast Lincoln disclosed
dead pistils in nine-tenths of the
cases. This examination covered
rix diflerent varieties, both early and
late. Most of the trees havo not yet
blossomed, the buds being half closed
nnd in many cases tightly shut. But
the blackened pistil and ovary tn
each bud tell the Btory. Tho buds will
open and th ti'e- put on their vh
garments In one or two sunny nays
but tho whiteness of the cherry tree
gown will be th" whiteness of n
ChiioMt fmural this rpring. for the
cherry child Is slain In embryo.
NEW BONE IN BOY'S ARM
(From the New York Sun)
Thrt nurpsin of Ht. t bTBroi y' hos
pital j er formed ' operation yeatrrday
n a ilx-yi'r-lld lulUn boy, ivter
I,e;nitl, of M Van Brunt street, liroo't
lyn. by w bl h they replace d n I or
turn 4 ft fvrrrotle hon of the left
forrnnn with i mlmtanort known iH
lx.no wrx. whhh will In lime, tin ur
Mrs. Wicislow's Soothing Syrup
baa been used for over SIXTY YEARS by MIL
LIONS of MOTHERS for their CHILDREN
while TEETHING, -with PERFECT SUCCESS.
It SOOTHES the CHILD, SOFTENS the GUMS,
ALLAYS all PAIN ; CURES WIND COLIC, and
is the best remedy for DIARRHCEA. Sold by
Druggists in every part of the world. Be sure
and as;!: for "Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup,"
ndf'- ocfherlcfo'T. rriV--"
CONCLUSION.
"I hear that Bill's dying of water
on the brain."
Then he's turned Prohibitionist!"
geons say, turn-anro oone. iu- uimu
staff of the hospital was preseru
The surgeons said that the operation
was one or tne nrsc oi its mou niac
in this country. Professor Josepn
Farbcs, of the Flower hospital, and Dr.
C. II. Duncan, chief house surgeon or
St. Gregory's hospital, who performed
the operation, assisted by Drs. imviu
and Payne, said that witnout a uouni
it will be a success.
"When the boy 'Was" brought to tnj
hospital," Dr. Duncan said, it was
found that he was suffering from a
tubercular bone in the forearm. De
composition had set in. To prevent
the loss of the use of the arm ana tne
complete removal of the none, we de
cided to brirg the 'bone wax' into use.
An X-ray will be used daily to waten
the progress of healing.
"Heretofore," continued Dr. Duncan,
in cases of tbisr kind, where the bone
Is excised, the limb becomes useless,
Bone wax' was discoxerrd by a-uer-
,i i .
man scientist ten years ago, unu jui
been used in Vienna. The 'bone wax
which was put into the boy's arm was
molded in the shape of the cavity from
which the neicotic bone has been re
moved. New vessels and bone tissues
will soon form, and the chemical sub
stance will gradually Tlisappar, hav
ing the arm In its normal condition.
"An operation of this character." T)r.
Duncan said, "is interesting, because
of its innovation and utility. It has
been demonstrated beyond doubt that
healing can be brought about in places
where tissues in mass have been de
stroyed and a caveity exists. Caveit'es
have been filled with various substnees,
provided the wound is sterile, and new
formation of tissue has been the result.
New vessels Mill push their war into
the materials; new connective issue
fibers will pierce it, till finally th& for
eign substance has been completely ab
sorbed and the place it occupied is
filled with animal tissue. Dr. Moorhof,
of Vienna, who discovered the 'bone
wax' found that where it was used in
the case of complete loss of heel bone
new heel bone wis formed,' which has
been demonstrated positively by the
X-ray.
"X-ray pictures of the bone in the
boy's arm have been recorded, and
when healing is over new photographs
will be taken. Wo have every reason
to believe that in this selected case our
endeaveors to form new bone will bo
successful."
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