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JA 5 V t J i 14 m Vi I 5jrsoM S -- SS i r rtn nwM Wliii n mtm loom of Governor Fort New Jersey IIB recent inaugural address of Governor John Franklin Fort of New Jersey in which ho made recommendations to the legislature of the commonwealth re garding regulation of large corpora tions lias directed national attention to that executive Ills utterances on this subject are understood to have received emphatic approval from President Roosevelt and when not long after the publication of the address Governor and Mrs Fort and Everett Colby the New Jersey reformer were guests of the president and his wife at dinner at the White House the tongue of gossip started wagging over the possibility of a Republican ticket being made up reading Taft and Fort Governor Fort has been hailed as a reformer of a conservative type In his inaugural address he advocated the passage by the New Jersey legislature of a public utilities law that will meet all the demands of the most advanced thought upon governmental regulation of public utility corporations In dis cussing the subject he said The time has come for the strict supervision of these great corporations and the limita tion of their stock and bond issues under some proper public oliicial It will make for conservatism and strengthen the companies doing a legit imate business and eliminate those merely speculative in character Governor Fort belongs to a family which claims as its ancestors some of the earlier settlers of New Jersey It was in 1GG7 that Roger Fort came to America in the good ship Kent He was with the first party of Quakers who laid the foundations of Burling ton One trunk contained all his worldly possessions and this trunk the pioneer Fort thought so much of that in his will still on file in thestatehouse at Trenton lie made special mention of it referring to it as his English live oak trunk and signifying that he intended it to be handed down from generation to generation It has al ready passed through the hands of six representatives of the family For a time It disappeared but recently was discovered by Attorney John Fort of V sf dE v 22 f L J -V A - t VI - v V i4s IPit mMnwvMM W Slggigggg Wifti M Wm m m mm r r wm P mm GOVERNOR JOHN FRANKIiTN FOET AND HIS ANCESTORS TRUNK Camden on a farm near the old Fort homestead at Pemberton which has now passed out of the family The trunk is carved with French designs and bears the initials R F and the date 1GG9 which is supposed to have referred to the year in which the pio neer reached his majority Roger Fort did not stop with the Quakers at Burlington but carved a path through the wilderness and along the banks of the Rancocas laid out a plantation for which he later received a grant from the crown Members of the Fort family fought in the Revolution and Governor Fort is president of the Sons of the Amer ican Revolution of New Jersey He is not the first of his family to occupy the executive oflice of the state as his fathers brother George I Fort was governor from 1S51 to 1S54 The pres ent governor who was born in 1So2 a year after his uncle assumed office went to see the latter when his school ing was finished and he was starting out in the law and asked his advice The ex governor counseled him to set tle in Jersey City and become a Demo crat as that was the only party through which in New Jersey he could hope tc secure political preferment The fu ture governor said he was willing to go to Jersey City but he could not be come a Democrat as he was convinced of the truth of the principles of the Republican party While a pupil of the Pemberton academy young Fort was under the instruction of Charles E Hendriekson and on one occasion was kept after school to perform a cer tain task and was so slow about it that the impatient teacher declared the only thing his head would ever be good for would be a butchers block Some years later pupil and instructor were associates on the supreme bench of the state and had a good laugh when the Incident of school days was recalled Governor Fort attended the Albany Law school and had for a roommate the late Democratic candidate for the presidency Alton B Parker He is married and has three children In the Republican convention of 1S9G he nomi nated Garret A Hobart for the vice presidency His friends say it would be singularly appropriate should he be nominated for that oflice himself SHAKESPEARES TOMB Its Would Bo Desccrators and the Poets Imprecation The fact that would be desccrators of Shakespeares tomb have not dared to risk the falling of the curse invoked in the lines cut upon his tomb Is a strik ing testimony to the powerful effect upon mankind of such an imprecation J O Ilalliwell Phillipps writing in the eighties said The nearest approach to an excava tion in the grave of Shakespeare was made in the summer of the year 170U in digging a vault in the immediate lo cality when an opening appeared which was presumed to indicate the commencement of the site of the bards remains The most scrupulous care however was taken not to disturb the neighboring earth in the slightest de gree the clerk having been placed there till the brickwork of the adjoin ing vault was completed to prevent any one making an examination No relics whatever were visible through the small opening that thus presented itself and as the poet was buried in the ground not in a vault the great probability is that dust alone remains It is not many years since a phalanx of trouble tombs lanterns and spades in hand assembled in the chancel at dead of night intent on disobeying the solemn injunction that the bones of Shakespeare were not to be disturbed But the supplicatory lines prevailed There were some among the number who at the last moment refused to in cur the warning condemnation and so the design was happily abandoned A correspondent of the London Athe naeum wrote in 1SS1 I remember on a visit to the grave of Shakespeare in 1S27 or 1S2S remarking that it was lit tle creditable to the authorities that the raised covering to the tomb should have been allowed to fall into such de cay for I could see into the grave through the hole formed by the sinking of the stones The reply was that on account of the anathema inscribed upon the tomb no workmen could be per suaded to meddle with it An earlier incident is thus set forth by a contributor to the Monthly Mag azine of Feb 1 ISIS Notwithstanding the anathema pro nounced by the bard on any disturber of his bones the church wardens were so negligent a few years ago as to suffer the sexton in digging the ad joining grave of Dr Davenport to break a large cavity into the tomb of Shakespeare Mr told the writer that he was excited by curiosity to push his head and shoulders through the cavity that he saw the remains of the bard and that he could easily have brought away his skull but was de terred by the curse which the poet in voked on any one who disturbed his remains The attempt at a later day to med dle with the tomb had no more effec tive ending New York Tribune South American Animals Many curious animals haunt the marshy parts of South America north of the pampas Frogs big and fero cious the ceratophyrs given to mak ing vicious springs when closely ap proached the capybara a cavy con tented with the bulk of the sheep the huge eoypu rat and the swarthy tapir are frequently seen Along the forest margins troops of peccaries are often met with occasionally the jaguar sometimes the puma likewise that toothless curiosity the great ant bear long in claw long nosed and remark ably long tongued Very plentiful too are those little knights in scaly ar mor the quaint waddling armadil loes Long toed jacanas pace about upon the floating leaves A familiar object is the great jabiru a stork with a preference for the desolate lagoons where it may often be observed statu esque on one leg and wrapped in pro spection Big Tips For Little Favors It is surprising said a veteran Pullman porter how big a tip a por ter sometimes gets for doing a very little thing lie added A passenger once tipped me extra because he said I did not leave his shoestrings coiled up inside his shoes after I had blacked them He said nothing made him madder than to slip on his shoes in a hurry in a sleeper only to find that he had to take them off again because the shoestrings were inside Ever since that time I have been careful not to leave shoestrings inside of the shoes I black and more than one passenger has thanked me for being thoughtful But it wasnt me that did the thinking The tip did that for me and I never forgot it Les lies Weekly In the Right Direction Bishop Blom field was one of the many witty Englishmen whose good things have found their way into a volume of reminiscences Leaves From the Notebooks of Lady Dorothv Xevill Bishop Blomfield was led into a con troversy one time with a learned man as to the mental superiority of the east over the west and his opponent as a parting shot said Well at any rate you cant dispute that the wise men came from the east Surely that was the wisest thing they could do retorted the bishop A Futile Boast Love me and the world is mine he said Whats the use of saying that she replied Ive been loving you for weeks and you havent even succeeded in getting a good job Chicago Record-Herald Marriage Is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness Mme de Rieus it CLIMBING AW ICE SLOPE In Vain ind Perilous Effort to Scale Mount McKinlcy The ong trail to the north brings out the he it in men and the worst declares Mr Robert Dunn in The Shameless Diary of an Explorer As a membei of a parry which made a vain attempt to reach the top of Mount McKinlcy he tells something of the hardships of one days travel Furtively imperceptibly the steep ness had stolen a march on us As one line of footholds gave out we had to slide dexterously to another The steeper slope was swept clear and hard Steps had to be cut We have only three ice axes As I never gave them a thought this morn ing all of them were gobbled up when Ave started and I was left with only one long willow tent pole It was never meant to balance you in half cut steps that may or may not hold your toe As the steps changed from a stair way to a stepladder the other three betrayed no excitement no uneasiness Neither did I at first but I felt both It was not dizziness not vertigo but simply that cs I looked down the sheer 2000 feet from where we clung by our toes imagination resistlessly told over how it would feel how long it would hist what the climax in sen sation would be were I to fall As hour succeeded hour I lived each minute only to make the false step Courage is only a matter of self con trol anyway Climbing the highest mountain on the continent with a tent polo Some times I boiled in those dizzy anxious places that I had put myself in such a position with such men Yet I must reap my own sowing Once I asked if it wasnt customary to rope on such steep slopes but no one but Fred an swered and he said Y aint goin to ketch me tied up to anybody A man dont want to take chances with any one but himself haulin him down from these places One requisite of explorers besides aversion to soap and water is insensi tiveuess They cant see they cant feel They couldnt do these stunts if they did THE HUMAN BRAIN Is the Most Marvelous Machine In the World The human brain is the most mar velous machine in the world It occu pies less space in proportion to its capabilities than any machine it ever invented It sends a special nerve to every ultimate fiber of some 500 mus cles to many thousand branching twigs of arteries to every pinhead area of the numerous glands which keep the machine properly oiled heat ed or cooled to some sixteen square feet of skin which is the outpost guard of its castle with such complete ness that the point of a pin cannot find an area unguarded It possesses special quarters for the reception and translation of a constant stream of vi brations that are the product of all things movable or still in the outer world On the retina of every open eye is a picture of the outer view a focused imprint of every ray of light and color and in the visual chamber of the mental palace stands a vibra scope a magic lantern that receives the retinal picture in its billion speed ing series of light waves and throws them upon its mental screen as a liv ing moving picture of light and shade and color In the chamber of sound is a vibraphone over whose active wires passes every wave of sound from the dripping of the dew to the orchestral fortissimo from the raucous screech of the locomotive to the sighing of the wind through the meadow grass In the chambers set apart for scent and taste and touch are the secret service guards to report upon the air and food which give sustenance to the palace and upon the solid qualities of the tac tile world And wonder of all won ders this complex human brain can think in all languages or in no lan guage and even conceive its own phys ical mortality Edward A Ayres in Harpers Magazine Where the Ti3 Gc But I can toll you soin tliiurc yu dont know about the system in the cloakrooms of some of tje lari cafes renmrkel a midnight diner to his wife Why do ft ie i os jut pocket Jill they g t i irc kIi Pocket The uniforms without ji sgi f t peckot lli t nou of the lip lud i lo limx there Those boy get nothing but a salary which is pd by a nut who has pur chased the check room privilege for as high as live a ytvir The tips are all tvruel int hn You can imagine vhit the privilege is worth when he can j y tiov that sum for the right Xew York Press- The Ciocct Encyclopedia The nwt ancLiit encyclopedia ex tant is Pliny Natural Ilistois in thirty seven books and 2403 chapters treating of cocmog siphy astronomy meteorology geography geology bot any medicine the arts and pretty near ly every other department of human thought known at the time Pliny who died 79 A D collected his work in his leisure intervals while engaged in public affairs The work was a very high authority in the middle ages The Childs Advice - Little Arthur stood peering down into the countenance of his baby sister whom the nurse was singing to sleep Say nurse he finally whispered Its nearly unconscious isnt it The nurse nodded in the affirmative and sang on Then dont sing any more or youll kill itr Lippincotts NOTICEIOF GUARDIANS SALE lli District Court of Ifi il rninv Stutoof Nebrtisku In the matter of tin- niiiili um ion oi jinrKfirei liicob U ill unit Luyinon guardian of litiylnn UeliiKlu May tlniton Murtliti hllon Clinton Eiiiimi Orphn Clayton MiiKnio Muiul Clayton Sarah Marimla Clayton Li rcucu Franklin ClavtonIuilnn li ClnWim minor heirs of William II Clayton IucciimmI for licunsv to sell real estate Notice it hereby hiii that in purMiancc of an order of the Honorable II C Orr jmltfe of the district coiut of d Willow count Ne braska made on the 2Mh da of March HiUs for the sale of real estate hereinafter described there will be sold at public venue to the high est bidder for cash at the east front door of the court house in tliecit of MeConk Ifed Willow count on the 2nd day of Maw litis at the hour oi one o clock pm the follow ihK described Clark Mrs M Hajnj Mr Jacob Miller May Wilson Maynard When callim fifteen 151 tout ship L i - oiiu ii range iweuiy seten iim lied willow counti Nebraska Said sale will remain open one hour Dated thisJth dnj of April 100S MiiAtir S Laimox iiinrdinii of Jacob William Clajton De linda May Claton Martha Ellen Clajton Kuiiiiii Oriiliu Clayton Maggie Maud Clay ton Sarah Mnrinda Clapton Lawrence lranklin Clayton JiuNon It Clajton minor heirs of William II Clatton decsed Hoyle A Eldred Attorneys l KMts g I APPLICATION FOR LICENSE Indianola Nebraska April 17 IPOS Notice is herebj giten that Mcrauu t Cox a firm composed of J I McFnnn and Harrt 1 Cox hate filed in the city clerks ollice their bond and petition for a license to sell malt spirituous and vinous liquors in the building on lot block in the l irst ward of the city of Indianola from May 1st lifts to April MJth ltiOD 4 17Hs McFann A Co Applicants - APPLICATION FOR LICENSE t Indianola Nebraska April 17 1W8 Notice is hereby giten that Charles II Hjatt has tiled in thecity clerks ollice of thecitj of Indianola hi jietition and bond for a license to sell malt spirituous and tinous liquors in a building on lot 21 block ill second ward of the city of Indianola Red Willow county Nebras ka from May 1st lKS to April X Ciiakmzs II IhATT Applicant ADVERTISED LIST Tho following letters curds and pack ages remain uncalled for at tho McCook postofiice April 24 lfiOS LKTTBKS Fort Mrs L H Hamilton Mr C A King Mrs J II Rhoads W H Gurfc Mr Sam Jensens Dairy Farm Miller Mr WW ulauf Mrs Henry CAitns Davidson Mrs Kelly Mr Earl Southwell Miss Nettie WiLon Henil for these please say they were advertised S B McLean Postmaster To Insure Prosperity Secretary Wilson of the department of agriculture says that the unbounded prosperity of the agriculturist is not due to chance but is the result of intelli gent scientific business methods A reader of The Weekly Inter Ocean has placed before him each week the prac tical and approved methods to which Secretary Wilson refers It is a good investment Only S123 for The Weekly Inter Ocean and this paper one year An vgreement Parishioner a little the worse for liquor I hearzh you preazh las night New Minister You didnt hear much I fancy Parishioner Thaz what hie I thought myself Leslies Weekly A liifWimiiwiMHWiwnfttiWWIi OliDKlt OF HKAHIXO in hid county court oi I cil Willow county Not i hereby aivi n llmt the C I iMirol Nenruskll Statu of NihrnsLii rumilv if Wl A- I iii Ie tlliil its urticteo of imny im rior 11 m ss lo all persons tutereted lit the tlou in the ortu e of tho retttry of tlir 4ntor tate or Isal elle Saunders deceased Nebraska The print- pnl plnce of trnu itetinc Uu reading the petition of Wilbur I- the Ihimiihih of -aid rtriMrntion ilmll - ers prajiag that the administration of mhI e- Cook Nebraska The xt nerni nature of U- inu uo granted to mm ns administrator It in business to be traniu - hj Mid corporation hereby ordered thnt joh and all persons inter- shall a general iiierchundihinit ttiine Mfitf estcd in said mutter munnd do appear at the bu iug and selltitKof nllcluwcMof iiHTcbuik tlio county court to Le held in and for said dise mainllt kept in a department fttre toiwv county 011 the Kith day ir May A I IM at quire and di poe of ri nl umI isrwmii o clock n m to show cause if anj there he ty t build alter rerun t rue t unit repair tiD why the prater of the petitioner should not be jiiildiiiK necesar or convenient for and that noticeof the iidencvor said mil prosecution of Midi lin ine Tim amount petition and that the hearing thereof begiten or capital st k Miithorit d xiihll bo seentr to all persons inter in said matter b put- thousand dollars dituh d into one hundred and lisliingaconvof this order in the McCook Tri- fort shares of He liumlred dollnrx eiieh thi mine a weeklt newspaper printed in said imr tuliu of which shull 1 iuimI rn 1 iy ior tnree siicci svit e weeks prior to until tint real estate subject to the dower interest of of hearing Margaret S tainori fcrmerly Margaret S W itness my hand and seal of said court this Cl oton widow of illiam H CIitou i 21th day of April i Ym - Vl Tlts od to wit the southeast quarter orthehoit r Mooiti County Judge east quarter of section APPLICATION IOK LICENSE Indianola Nebraska 11ril 17 lOtlX APPLICATION FOR LICENSE Indianola Nebraska April 17 lOS NOTICE OF INCUR rOKATlON treasurer of -aid coriMiration at the tinw of issiianre corporation shall coiioiikikt when the par table of sixtt iive tlioti und Hvo hundred dollars or -aid mpititl wtock shall paid 111 bill to tint treasurer ami its tliirntio -hall be l riietiuii Th 1 liyliext attnuint 4 1 debtodiies or Iiabilit touhirii the corporatMwi i at any time to subject itself is one half of tiw capital stock the alluirs of utid Notice is hereby giten that C IS Mitlmur itors of said estnti Notice is herebt giten that I hate hied with are to b conducted by r President Vlce lnwj thecitj clerk of the city id Indianola dent SecroUry and TreHMirer ivi in iiiiiiiHHil iiir 1 I L JRURorrCoirANT limit spirituous aid moils liquors in the srAil Hy Lcdw 11 HvibH Presint I1 i5 i t ho Vlt ttty re f u Attest Sallik F DhUKorf Secretary ami 12 block C the in seoiiiI ward ir Treasurer Indianola Ked W illow county Nebraska from May 1 VJjS to April lJOit - ClIAIl lilA4 Aitiifin JI NOTICE TO CREDITORS The State of Nebraska Pi il Willow eonf s Iii the county court In the niKtter of the estnte if Peter Wcsch derra eil To the CWil has bled in the city clerks ollice his bond and ounrc hereby uotitVd that I will sit in tt petition lor alicense to sell intoxicating malt countt court room in McCimk in saiil county on spirituous inoiis mixed and fermented the isth day of Notember 1M1S at one oclock p uors in the building on lot block in tho m loetuiue claiuis nguinst said estate with Scond ward of thecitj of Indianola Red a ttetv to their ndju tiiiciit and allowance All low count Nebraska from Maj Ut HOS to claims against said estate must be Hlud in tlm April Xth court on or bi rore Noteiubi r J7 11W and the C 1 Ml CitNO Applicant executor of said estate is allowed until Mat SI HW in which to make pavment of debts ahVm BEGGS BLOOD POEIFJEfi CURES catarrh of the sterner et again 1 s nd elate Willies- ni hand and tin- cal of suit - tinl court lhisitli dat ir pri IJOS fi Mt si i Mount Couiiiy linhje Ifojle A Lldred t AfliMf IJIinjw I STW rrr r TAKE THE BLUE BELL LINE TO HEALTH THEY MAKE YOU FEEL LIKE A BLACKSMITH Ask for and try once BLUE BELL Cough Syrup Pile Remedy Mans Pain Liniment at BLUE BELL Stomach Tablets Diarrhoea Croup Nerve Cough Hay Fever and Catarrh Blood General Tonic Bright Sunshine Heart Worm Kidney Headache Summer Complaint Soothia Tablets for Children Liver Female Regulator or 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