11 I DEATM IN TRAILING SKIRT Danger That Lurks in Present Day Obedience to Fashions Whim Tho following short story from the Womans Journal is very timely In the warning glyen against trailing skirts Only a little dust almost Impercep tible dust caught on the rug on the floor of the handsome hall It was a Turkish rug lying on the perfectly waxed hardwood floor in a loll where neatness seemed to reign along with all the appointments of wealth But there was that almost imper ceptible dust How did It come there If you had ears that could hear its voices It would tell you It woud say that it had clutched a fold on the beautiful ladys gown and come in from the street It was a beautiful gown as well as a beautiful lady a tailor made gown and its fashionable bias flounce trailed stylishly on the ground Everything was stylish about the lady from her fair face with rather deep circles below the eyes to her slender and handsome walking shoes She walked trailing her gown properly dust or no dust Indeed she ignored the dust of the street but will the dust ignore her Let us listen If she will not for this almost Imperceptible dust moves and acts with fearful force and if we listen possibly we may understand its language Soon after coming in on the beauti ful ladys gown other steps followed and other gowns helped to move the dust along farther into the house but it had a fancy for the beautiful lady Her frailness attracted it and it fol lowed her to the bed chamber Her feet had never trod the loathsome precincts whence it came but it came to her on her gown Soon there came to the chamber a little child a sweet rosy cherub In its romping it stirred the dust about Then the dust began to be sepa rated being formed of many particles and these talked among themselves As they talked they danced back and forth waltzing swirling capering with every motion of the child and its mamma the bevful lady A scientist could have understood them if he had caught some of them under his microscope He would have called them germs With what alarm he would have recognized the diphtheritic and with what dismay would he have seen the tuberculous germ approaching the frail lady Back and forth dancing capering waltzing the germs kept time while baby in its mothers arms said as thousands of other little ones were saying Now I lay me down to sleep I pray the Lord my soul to keep If I should die before I wake I pray the Lord my soul to take This baby was saying it for the last time When night came again thousands of little voices sent up the baby pray ers but this one was gasping out its little life on mammas bosom de stroyed by a germ A yellow card at the front door warned all comers against diphtheria The beautiful lady vainly sought health for a year or more then found rest beyond the sorrow and the part ing Broken hearted it was said Found death in the dust of the street said the microscope A vic tim of the long skirt Fashion and Consumption In all American cities and most of the larger towns promiscuous expec toration is prohibited There are or dinances and rules against spitting in public conveyances on the floors of assembly halls and on the sidewalks Of necessity however this cannot he prevented in the gutters and on the pavements By educating the tuberculosis pa tient himself in regard to his duty to his fellow citizen much more can be done A careful consumptive is a good citizen a careless consumptive is an enemy to society and the state Even with the civil and self imposed precautions the dust of the highway and crossings is teeming with various disease germs It is practically im possible to eliminate these beds of filth In the cleanest streets such col onies of germs are present The use of long dragging skirts on the average highway is the height of ifolly It is worse It iff absolutely tdangerous The sweeping cloth picks kip dust and dampened particles car jrying tubercular germs They are rfhus transplanted into the very house thold In this simply yet sadly effec tive way the children so carefully guarded are exposed to the dreaded plague The entire family satisfied with their fancied security are stunned when tuberculosis claims one of their loved ones It may not strike the family circles The household servants may be af fected Many of the deaths of domes tics have their explanation The mis tress after a shopping tour leaves her mud bordered skirt for the maid to clean In the cloud of dust arising from the brush the fatal bacillus lurks The girl already weakened from too long hours indoors suc cumbs A few weeks later she is forced to stop work and waste away in hopeless dependence on her over burdened family or at public expense Another girl is easiy obtained and the careless mistress never suspects any connection between her fooish fashion and the doomed domestics sad fate Expectoration on the streets can never be stopped The streets cannot le kept cleans But this can be done every woman should wear sensible skirts entirely clearing me ground This will entirely eliminate this great avenue of tuberculosis invasion A Vegetarian Dinner Soup Vesetable Entree Roast Imperial Vegetables Scalloped Potatoes Chopped Cabbage Macaroni -with Tomato Sauce Stewed Vegetable Oysters Breads Graham Bread Cream Crisps Dessert Steamed Fig Pudding with Lemon Sauce The American Heart We have heard much about the American stomach and the American nerves but we are just awakening to a discovery that there is being rapidly developed a form of heart disease which if not peculiar to America may at least be said to be more prevalent in this country than in any other part of the world The heart weakness re sulting from the use of tobacco and alcohol and from a sedentary life on the one hand and extremely violent exertion on the other hand is no long er a rare condition but has come to be one of the most common affections with which the physician has to deal A large proportion of the men reject ed in the army examinations are re fused on account of heart weakness A large proportion of the public men who die suddenly die as a result of the failure of the heart The same may be said also of many of the cases in which the cause of death is reported to be pneumonia typhoid fe ver and other affectiojis in which spe cial strain is brought to bear upon the heart and in which the failure of the organ to meet the emergency is one of the most common causes of death The cigar the cigarette and the pipe are probably the most common cause of this growing frequency of cardiac af fections but the neglect of physical exercise overeating the use of condi ments and excesses of all sorts are also to a large degree responsible for the rapid inciease of this grave mal ady SOME WHOLESOME RECIPES Vegetable Soup Simmer together slowly for three or four hours in five quarts of water a quart of split peas a slice of carrot a slice of white tur nip one cup of canned tomatoes and two stalks of celery cut into small bits When done rub through a col ander add milk to make of proper con sistency reheat season with salt and cream and serve Roast Imperial Mix together one half cup of lentil pulp prepared by rubbing well cooked lentils through a colander one half cup of pease pulp one half cup of English walnuts and season to taste with sage and salt Line an oiled baking dish one halt inch deep with the mixture Pack in loosely a dressing made from the fol lowing ingredients Four slices of zwieback steamed until softened one half cup of hot cream sage and salt to taste and one well beaten egg Mix together lightly with a fork Cover closely with peas lentil and nut mix ture Spread over the top thick cream bake in a moderate oven until firm enough to cut into slices Serve with cranberry sauce or fruit jelly Scalloped Potatoes Pare the pota toes and slice thin put them in lay ers in an earthen pudding dish dredg ing each layer lightly with flour add salt and pour over all enough good rich milk to cover well Cover and bake rather slowly till tender remov ing the cover just long enough before the potatoes are done to brown nice ly If preferred a little less milk may be used and a cup of thin cream add ed when the potatoes are nearly done Chopped Cabbage Take one pint of finely chopped cabbage pour over it a dressing made of three tablespoon- fuls of lemon juice two tablespoonfuls of sugar and a half cup of whipped cream thoroughly beaten together in the order named This is also nice served simply with sugar and diluted lemon juice Macaroni With Tomato Sauce Break macaroni into inch lengths enough to make one cup and drop into boiling water Let it boil until perfectly tender In the meantime prepare the sauce by rubbing a pint of stewed or canned tomatoes through a colander to remove all seeds and fragments Heat to boiling thicken with a little flour a tablespoonful to the pint will be about the requisite proportion Add a half cup of very thin sweet cream and one teaspoonful of salt Dish the macaroni in indi vidual dishes and serve with a small quantity of the sauce poured over each dish Steamed Fig Pudding Moisten two cupfuls of finely grated Graham bread crumbs with half a cup of thin sweet cream Mix into it a heaping cupful of finely chopped fresh figs and a quarter of a cup of sugar Add lastly a cup of sweet milk Turn all into a pudding dish and steam about two and one half hours Serve as soon as done with a lemon sauce prepared as follows Heat to boiling in a double boiler a pint of water in which are two slices of lemon and stir into it a dessert spoonful of cornstarch cook four or five minutes or until it thick ens Squeeze the juice from one large lemon and mix it with two thirds of a cup of sugar Add this to the corn starch mixture and allow the whole to boil up once stirring constantly then take from the fire Leave in the double boiler surrounded by the- hot water for ten minutes Cool to bloor heat before serving NEBRASKA STATE NEWS NEBRASKA BRIEFS A pure food show Is probably one of the coming events of Omaha The Otoe Preserving company at Nebraska City has commenced opera tions All dogs in Columbus must have tags if owner desire their lives pro longed Some farmers in Gage county report that a good deal of corn will have to be replanted State teachers examinations will be held June 1 and 2 at Lincoln Fremont and Grand Island Citizens of Stromburg are moving in the matter of establishing a Young Mens Christian association A special election is soon to be held in Leigh to voU on a proposition for putting in a system of water works The Young Mens Christian associa tion of Omaha has started out to raise 125000 by the middle of July The new Catholic church of the Sacred Heart at Greeley Center was dedicated last week The structure cost 35000 Game Warden Carter took a car load of trout to the northwest part of the state planting the same in vari ous streams in that section The police judge of Nebraska City has been removed from office He was charged with refusing to turn over money belonging to the city The Plattsmouth Law and Order league filed another complaint against one of the local saloonkeepers charg ing violation of the Slocumb law The offense complained of is that of keep ing screens in front of the bar fix tures Great preparations are being made for the dedication of the new Young Mens association building in York from June 19 to 25 The various com mittees have been appointed for mak ing arrangements for refreshments speakers singing etc A girl 17 years old was burned to a crisp in a barn near Roger Bros ranch about fifteen miles northwest of Gibbon She was burned in a barn together with a team of mules Some think it a case of suicide and others think she was murdered At the home of Andrew Moell a farmer living in Butler county their eldest daughter Miss Lottie aged 19 fell over dead while doing some light work in the garden She was supposed to be in the best of health and had made no complaint The per capita for the current school apportionment will be 103 according to the computation of Chief Clerk Harnley of the state superin tendents office The total amount of the apportionment as declared by the state treasurer is 38954005 William Vogi jr of Pender who recently took the government examin ation at Fort Leavenworth Kan for a cadetship at West Point has re ceived word that he has passed all requirements He is ordered to report at West Point June 15 He received his appointment from Congressman McCarthy after winning out in a com petive examination Maurice Bass of Omaha who recent ly was indicted by the federal grand jury for using the United States mails with intent to defraud was taken from the Douglas county jail and en tered a plea of guilty to two of the counts against him Judge Munger sentenced him to fifteen months im prisonment at hard labor at the Sioux Falls S D penitentiary Joe Kinney the tramp who broke into A Pease Sons hardware store and stole a lot of cutlery was brought to Sidney from New Castle Wyo by Deputy Sheriff Washburn As Kinney expressed a desire to plead guilty Judge H M Grimes held a special term of court Kinney was arraigned pleaded guilty and was sentenced to the penitentiary- for three years Daniel Freeman of Gage county the first homesteader in the United States has just returned home from an ex tended trip through the South While in Alabama he visited the battlefield of Fort Blakely and picked from the sand a six pound cannon ball which he brought him with him as a me mento of the engagement which was fought April 9 18G5 General Colby of the same county captured two con federate soldiers and was wounded in the charge made on Fort Blakely on that eventful day While painting a smoke stack at the Dodge Mill and Grain companys plant in Dodge John F Kluthe 28 years old fell a distance of twelve feet landing on his head and should ers with such force as to paralyze his entire body He is in a critical condi tion Fred Howard and B Frail aged 15 and 16 years respectively were lock ed up in Beatrice by the police for running away from their homes How ard lives at Tate Neb and Frail at Armour Neb Mr Howard followed the boys as far as Liberty where he lost all trace of them Mrs Ed Ashton of Seward county had a narrow escape from burning to death She was burning some trash in the back yard and among other things she placed on the fire was a paper of powder which ignited and threw the blaze around here setting her cloth ing on fire James R Rhodes of Custer county sentenced with J E Chandler to three years in the penitentiary for cat tle stealing last November was taken to Lincoln by Deputy Robinson to serve his term Chandler is still at Broken Bow His attorneys- intend asking for a new trial- COMMANDER JOHN LETT The New G A R Official Depart ment of Nebraska John Lett the newly elected com mander of the Grand Army of the Re public department of Nebraska Js postmaster at Benedict He is a na tive of Ohio having been born in that state Richland county in 1841 When he was four months old his par ents moved to Iowa where they locat ed at Tipton and where upon Mr Letts urgent advice they followed the pursuit of farming Mr Lett liv ed at this point in Iowa until the beginning of the war enlisting in September 1861 in Company E Elev enth Iowa as a private serving for the full term of three years at the end of which time he re enlisted in the same company as a corporal serv ing to the end of the war being hon orably discharged in August 18G5 He participated in the battle of Shi loh the battle of Corinth the siege of Vicksburg the battle of Iuka and Atlanta and in the famous march to the sea He went back through the Carolinas and to Washington to take part in the grand review After the close of the war he went back to the farm in Iowa remaining there two years He was married to Miss Carrie Draucker and shortly there after came to Nebraska locating at once in York county where he pursu1 ed agriculture until 1887 when he moved to the town of Benedict He joined the Grand Army of the Re public in 1880 being a charter mem ber of Robert Anderson post No 23 He was adjutant of the post upon its organization and the next year was elected commander of the same Two years ago he was elected senior vice commander of the state department His record as postmaster has been such that he has held the position for twelve years As a citizen he is high ly respected and known by every man woman and child in the county as plain John Lett MR BRYAN GOING ABROAD Will Spend a Year Studying Condi tions in Other Countries LINCOLN William J Bryan in pursuit of a long cherished intention is to make a tour of the world An nouncement to that effect was made by the former presidential candidate The purpose of his trip will be to study municipal ownership and rail road problems presented in countries other than his own Another object of his trip will be to improve the health of his young est daughter Grace Mrs Bryan and daughter will depart in June going to Germany and will there await the arrival of Mr Bryan who will sail in September During their absence Mr Bryans son William Bryan Jr who is now a student in the Nebraska university will enter Culver Military academy at Culver Ind Mr Bryans first researches will be conducted at Glasgow into the opera tion of municipal ownership in that city He will visit numerous other British cities subsequently going to the continent His itinerary is not yet definitely mapped out but ulti mately it will take him to Australia and New Zealand and later to China and Japan with a likelihood that he may touch at the Philippine islands Want Stranger to Return HUMBOLDT A stranger giving the name of Fitzsimmons and claim ing to be a cattle buyer from Kansas City has been covering a portion of the county with headquarters at Ver don and a few days since quietly took his departure for parts un known leaving a number of worthless checks in various business houses of Verdon Alliance Ready for Stockmen ALLIANCE Extensive prepara tions are being made for the recep tion of delegates to the sixth annual meeting of the Nebraska Stock Grow ers association which will be held here June 1 and 2 Live stock com missiof men wijl be present from South Omaha Denver and St Joseph Barker is Unrepentant LINCOLN Mother Wheaton pris on evangelist well known throughout the country has been in the city to call on Frank Barker the Webster county murderer sentenced to hang June 16 She had a talk with the man and sought to persuade him to accept religion but according to prison offi cials Barkers indifferent attitude was unbroken Farmers Replanting Corn HUMBOLDT Many farmers in this section are being compelled tc replant their corn on account of shal low planting the dry weather pre venting the kernels from sprouting and in some cases the wind uncov ered the seed Cattle Thieves Sentenced BROKEN BOW J E Chandler and James B Rhodes implicated in the big cattle steal of last November were both sentenced to three year in the penitentiary In passing sen tence Judge Hostetter scored Chand ler severely for putting the county tc such an expense when the other twe had turned states evidence and plead ed guilty On account of having first turned states evidence Fox was al lowed to zo free Earl Huffman he remaining member of the quartet is sil at laree HEARING WITNESSES Fifer and Cockerell Before Senate Committee WASHINGTON Interstate Com- I merce Commissioners Francis M Cockrell and Joseph W Fifer were among the witnesses before the senate committee on interstate commerce whose investigation of railroad rates has almost drawn to a close Commis sioner Fifer spoke of rebates and rato cutting and said they were induced by railroad men distrusting each other Rates he said should be made by tho railroads in the first place but should be subject to revision He said that the commission would adjust a rate complained of In accordance with rates on like commodities In other sections under like conditions He thought the adjustment of the long and short haul difficulties should be left to the commission He believed that the power of rate regulation if given to the commission would not be exercised very often as the roads would be careful not to get into trouble with the commission when changing rates The commission he added would have power to lower or raise rates or prevent discriminations Commissioner Fifer spoke of the dan ger of government ownership unless there were just laws justly adminis tered Former United States Senator Cock rell of Missouri now a member of tho commission said he would leave the origination of rates to railroads giv ing the commission power to condemn a rate found to be unreasonable and to fix another rate in its place to take effect immediately The railroads he contended should have the right of appeal to the courts and the latter should determine whether the railroad rate was unreasonable or the commis sions rate unreasonable If congress shrwild enact a law to this effect he said the courts would take jurisdic tion of rates to the extent of deciding such questions He would make the railroads responsible for icing and other charges of private car lines Commissioner Cockrell cited a num ber of cases where decisions of lower courts sustaining the commission in rate matters have been reversed by the supreme court He did this to show that the judiciary Avas divided on tlvse rate cases In one case he pointed out that Secretary Taft was a member of the court of appeals which sustained the commission S H Cowan representing the live stock shippers of the southwest also appeared He controverted state ments by other witnesses as to the satisfactory rate conditions and claim ed that the cattle rates were too high THE BRITISH ARE LOSING GROUND LONDON The Board of Trade is sued an exhaustive report made by Special Commissioner H Cooke on the trade of Siberia in which British traders are again taken to task for allowing other nationalities to elbow them out of a promising market The American Dane and German writes M Cooke are already there and have captured some of the most fruitful fields of enterprise These rich regions will be to Russias increasing millions what the colonies are to the British isles Even now Russian im migrants in Siberia peasants though they be are supplying the London market with butter and as they reap their crops with American harvesters discuss with intelligence their prefer ences for machinery from Milwaukee or Chicago MAGOON NOW GOVERNOR Nebraska Man Takes Oath of Office as Executive of Canal Zone PANAMA Hezekiah A Gudger judge of the canal zone administered tie oath of office to Charles 1c Ia goon governor of the canal zon in the Ancon district The ceremony took place in the presence of President Amador and the cabinet Senor de Obaldia minister to the United States the diplomatic and consular corps and rrominent native and foreign resi dents Governor Magoon in his inauirural sreech said the reorganization of he orral commission had resulted in the centralization of authority and th transfer of power from Washington t Panama permitting the putting of moie energy into the work cf con struction Continuing the governor an minced that the Chief Engineer Wal lace had completed the plan of oryyn iation and added that the railroad will be double tracked that rates wil be reduced and that the docking facilities at Panama and Coon will ie increased and extended equally to all steamship companies Regarding sanitation the governor aii that no efforts and no expense will be spared to make the zone healthly He also announced that the number of judges in tie zone will be increased that a jurist of Panama will be appointed a member of the su preme court and that numerous schools will be opened Confer on Appointments WASHINGTON Senators Cullom and Hopkins of Illinois accompanied by W E Troutmann and W D Bain um had a conference with the presi dent regarding appointments in the new judicial district of Illinois At the conclusion of the interview it was an nounced that Mr Troutman would be appointed United States district at torney for the new ditrict Mr Bain um was a candidate for the office but on his arrival in Washington he found that the senators had determined to snnDort M1 Trnntmanr ATAXIA JUMBLE EEPOETED OUEE STAlfDS TEST OP PULL INVESTIGATIOH A Iormer Victim of Locomotor Ataxia Now Frco from Suffering and Actively at Work Yes said Mr Watkins to a reporter it is truo that I havo been cured of ataxia by Dr Williams Pink Pills Aro you sure you had locomotor ataxia Tho doctors themselves told mo so Besides I recoguizod tho symptoms Whatwerothoy Well tho first indications wcro a stiffness nbout the knee joints that camo on about four years ago A few months after that appeared my walk got to bo uncertain shaky liko I lost confidence in my power to control tho movements of my legs Once when I was in tho cellar I started to pick up two scuttles of coal and my legs gave way suddenly and I tumbled all in a heap in a basket I couldnt close my eyes and keep my balnuco to save my life Then I had fearful pains over my whole body and I lost control over my kidneys and my bowels How about your general health Sometimes I was so weak that I had to keop my bed and my weight fell off twenty pounds Things looked pretty bad for me until I ran across a young man who had been cured by Dr Wil liams Pink Pills and who advised mo to try them Did these pills help you righfcaway I didnt see much improvement un til I had used six boxes Tho first bene fit I noticed was abetter circulation and a picking up in strength and weight I gradually got confidence in my ability to direct the movements of my legs and in tho course of seven or eight months all tho troubles had disappeared Do yon regard yourself as entirely well now I do tho work of a well man at any rate I can close my eyes and stand up all right and movo about tho samo as other men Tho pains aro all gone ex cept an occasional twitch in tho calves of my legs Mr James H Watkins resides at Kb 72 Westerlo street Albany N Y Dr Wil liams Pink Pills can bo obtained at any drug store They should be used as soon as the first signs of locomotor ataxia ap pear in a peculiar numbness of the f eot Selfishness the Ruling Spirit No one perforins a single free action from anything but a selfish motive That is at any given moment we are doing the thing we wish to do if we are free to act The difference comes in the things we are doing ULCERS FOR 30 YEARS Painful Eruptions From Knees to Fe Seemed Incurable Cuticura Ends Misery Another of those remarkable cures by Cuticura after doctors and all else had failed is testified to by Mr M C Moss of Gainesville Texas in the following letter For over thirty years I suffered from painful ulcers and an eruption from my knees to feet and could find neither doctors nor medicine to help me until I used Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills which cured me in six months They helped me tho very first time I used them and I am glad to write this so that others suffering as I did may be saved from misery The fraternity of bellringers is known in Britain as- the exercise as the dramatic profession is known as the profession A bellringer is a member of the exercise FIXING RAILROAD RATES Making railroad rates is like play ing a game of checkers or chess Com munities to be benefitted producers manufacturers or shippers to be aided represent the pieces used Every pos sible move is studied for its effect on the general result by skilled traf fic managers A false move in the making of freight rates may mean the ruin of a city of a great manufactur ing interest of an agricultural com munity Railroads strive to build up ah these so that each may have an equal chance in the sharp competi tion of business So sensitive to this rivalry are the railroads that in order to build up business along their lines they frequently allow the shipper io practically dictate rates Rate mak ing has been a matter of development of mutual concessions for mutual benefit That is why the railroads of the United States have voluntarily made freight rates so much lower in this country than they are on the government owned and operated rail ways of Europe and Australia that they are now the lowest transporta tion rates in the world He who tries to do his best should draw the line at doing his best friends Many Children Are Sickly Mother Grays Sweet Powders for Children used by Mother Gray a nurse in Childrens HomeNew York Cure Feverishness Head ache Stomach Troubles Teething Dis ordersBreak up Colds and Destroy Worms AtallDruggists25c Samplemailed FREE Address Allen S Olmsted Le Roy N Y Some men would- rather go to jail than hustle for a living Catarrh Cannot Be Cured with LOCAL APPLICATIONS as they cannot reach the seat of the disease Catarrh ts a blood or consti tutional disease and In order to cure it you must take Internal remedies Halls Catarrh Cure Is taken in ternally and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces Halls Catarrh Cure Is not a quack medi cine Itwas prescribed by one of the best physicians in this country foryears and Js a regular prescription It is composed of the best tonics known combined with the best blood purlBers acting directly on the muoput surfaces The perfect combination of the two Ingredients is what produces such wonderful suits la curing Send for testimonials fret r J CUEEr CO Prons Toledo r Sold by Droits price 75c Take Ualls Family Pius lor coasUpatlon Wrinkles are poetically termed by the Japanese waves of old age I f k i J ji