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.Nebraska a Leading Shorthorn State.
Only three states in the union will
. receive as high as $1,500 from the
shorthorn breeders' association to
ward the shorthorn exhibits of the
.country this year. The states are Ne-
* braska , Iowa and Minnesota. Upon
investigation it was shown that Ne-
braska was entitled to as much con-
sideration as a shorthorn state as any
, -state in the county , and so fheVas
this the notch-
. placed year among top
. ers. Those who attend the different
.state fairs of the county have been
.aware of this for some years , but it
- that the board
-was not until this year
. of directors of the shorthorn associa-
tion could be made to see the wrong
I . position in whic . Nebraska has been
placed in former years , and the new
board promptly changed the record
so , that this state Is placed in the first
-class. Visitors to the state fair this
.year , September 5 to 9 , will probably
. see the advantage gained in the in
.creased exhibits of shorthorn cattle.
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Nebraska Fair Beats Them All.
'Several ' days ago a machinery firm
wrote the secretary of the state fair ,
W. R. Mellor : : , asking for a lot on
which to make"an exhibit. Mr. : Mellor
replied that all the machinery lots
had been assigned , but if they wished
' to come , that they ; would place him
I : somewhere on the ground. Later the
i i following reply was received by Mr
ij j Mellor : : ' "Your letter of the 4th at
Tiand , and we learn with deep regreA
that the space on the machinery
ground is all assigned. You state that
you can sandwich us in some place in
1,4 the machinery department. Now , if
' : you can do this we will certainly con-
I sider it 'worth while. : Last year'we
: sold more machines on your grounds
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than at other fair , and from the point
of actual buying the Lincoln state
i fair has always been a prize winner.
We sliall 'Certainly be there , so hold ?
the best place you can for us. "
Irrigation Injunction Dissolved.
f Assistant : Attorney .General Ayres
ft t has reported to the attorney general
, that Judge Grimes of the district court
-of Lincoln county has sustained the
motion of the state board of irrigation
to dissolve the temporary injunction
obtained by the Gering Irrigation dis-
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, trict from the county judge of Scotts
IBluff county. The injunction dissolved
restrained the state board of irriga-
. tion from closing irrigation headgates
in Scotts Bluff county which supply
the district with water from the Platte
Tiver. The gates had been ordered
closed by the state board in order to
enforce the state law which provides
for the taking of water by irriga-
I tionists in the order of the priority of
their appropriations legally allowed by
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the state board.
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Burdette Boyers of Seward has ap
plied for and received the approval of
the state engineer for an appropria-
tion of water from the Blue river for
thCf purpose of operating an eectric
power plant. He proposes to begin
" work immediately and to expend $60-
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000 to $80,000 for the construction of
two dams and power plants to be op-
erated together. It is his intention to
supply electric power and light to the
-cities of 'Milford ' , Seward Beaver
-Crossing and perhaps David City.
Will Go to Louisiana.
Professor Albert T. Bell , professor
af botany in ; Nebraska Wesleyan uni-
-vgrsity for the past eight or ten years ,
"has been appointed professor of bob-
any in the Louisiana state university
-at Baton Rouge. He succeeds Profes
- f ' sor Ernest A. Bessey , who goes to the
Michigan : state agricultural college at
Lansing.
State Bank Assessment.
The capital stock of state banks
hich is assessed separately from real
estate owned by such banks , shows
f' that a slight increase is reported this
year : : by county assessors in the value
_ of stock listed for assessment. Last
- 1 year a total of $2,448,248 was listed
_ as the capital stock of state banks.
'This year with Gage county not heard
from , the amount listed is $2,631,855.
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State Fair Railroad Rates.
Secretary W. R. Mellor : has received
. .o notice that a round trip rate of one
I and one-half cents has been granted
by railroads for the Nebraska state
' fair. This rate is to be given 'b ; } all
< of the leading roads for stations where
the fare is more than one dollar.
\ Value Nebraska Poultry.
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, ihe state board of equalization show
-the value of Nebraska : poultry to be
32,369,895 ; this year , as compared
-with $1,839,485 last year. As reported
by the county assessors , only a'few
counties show a decrease.
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The civil service commission has
. called attention to the amended an-
-c nouncement : of an examination at Lin-
coln for tariff clerk for the interstate
. commerce commission August 24 ,
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, ' which change opens the examination
to persons who are conversant with
the various passenger tariffs and divi-
sions , and circulars pertaining to rates
charged for transportation , etc. , and as
a result of the examination separate
. registers will be established for freight
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tariff clerks and for passenger tariff
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Project to Keep $14,000,000
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Dr. C. C. Young Imports Flock of Kar-
akule Sheep and Describes Suc-
cess of Crossing Them With
American Breeds.
Chicago.-A project designed to
keep In the United States the $14,000-
000 now going abroad annually for
the Astrakhan , Persian broadtail and
krimmer furs so fashionable among
wealthy Americans has been ! launched
by Dr. C. C. Young , a former Chicago
physician , now commisisoner of agri-
culture for the State of Coahuila , Mex-
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It Is the breeding of Karakule
sheep , the basis of all the fine furs
that come from Persia and other por-
tions of Central Asia. He has suc-
ceeded in bringing to America after
great expense and much trouble on
account of the rigid laws forbidding
the importation of Asiatic sheep be-
cause of the danger of importing with
them Asiatic diseases , a flock of full-
blood Karakules and has begun the
crossing of them with American sheep
at his ranch at Menor Coahuila.
Dr. Young was born in Bessarabia ,
a province of south Russia , and there
was familar as a boy with the Kara-
kule , sheep which produce the beau-
tiful furs , although he then never saw
a full-blood Karakule. He came to
America when sixteen years old , took
up the study of medicine was gradu-
ated from the College of Physicians
and Surgeons in 1901 , and was for a
time on the advisory staff of the Cook
County hospital.
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SNAKES IN SPORTING CLASS
Pennsylvania ' Reptiles Make Good at
Fishing Trout-Also Attack
Farmer's Pigs.
Altoona Pa.-Two recent incidents
prove the Blair county snake to be
in the sporting class , though not al -
ways quite lucky in his hunting and
fishing experiences.
Before returning to the city from
his summer home at Royer , Postmas-
ter George Fox of this city went
down to Piney creek to look , for
trout.
As Fox was crossing the briuge he
heard a commotion at the water's
edge and , looking down saw a water
snake trying to swallow a seven-inch
trout. Procuring his landing net , for
he is a noted fisherman , Fox , assisted
by George D. Cook , a Harrisburg mer-
chant , , who has been his guest for sev-
eral days , landed both the snake and
the trout. The snake never let go of
the trout until a cudgel landed on its
neck. The trout later made a nice
meal for an Altoona- friend.
Only. the day before an Altoona rail-
roader discovered the same snake , an
old inhabitant of the pool , devouring
trout , but the reptile got away. Its
chief diet for a long time has been
trout , it being an adept at catching
them.
Hearing a pig emitting unearthly
squeals , Harry Jones , a farmer , near
Ebensburg hastended to his pig stye
and was astounded to find one of his
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pigs encircled by a blacksnake and
slowly being squeezed to death.
Jones grabbed up a rake and killed
the reptile , which measured six feet
four inches in length , four Inches in
diameter and 12 inches in circum-
ference.
Drowsiness in Church.
London.-In a case at Westminister
county court the other day a doctor
said that drowsiness in church was
caused by the continual breathing off
of carbolic acid gas. People soon re
covered when they got out into the
open air , he declared.
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When the throat infection for which
he Is now receiving treatment , made
it Imperative that he give up his prac-
tice in Chicago and live an outdoor
life in a southern climate his mind
reverted to the Karakule sheep and
he decided to occupy his time with
them. He finally surmounted the dif-
ficulties in the way of Importing the
sheep and he now has a growing
flock of them on his Mexican ranch.
Recently he described enthusiastical-
ly * the proportions to which the busi-
ness may grow in the United States.
"The Karakule sheep are the basis
of all these fine furs , " said Dr. Young ,
"and the value of the fur depends
upon the percentage of Karakule in
it. Crossing the Karakule with the
common scrub sheep of Persia , we get
the Persian broadtail. Crossing it
with the Astrakhan long-haired sheep
we get Astrakhan , and crossing It
with the common merino sheep of the
Crimea we get the krimmer fur.
"These sheep however are vastly
inferior to the sheep of the United
States , and I decided that by crossing
the Karakule sheep with various
brands of American sheep I would get
even better fur that , produced in the
United States , would be marketable at
a profit at a far lower price than is
paid for the Persian furs. My experi-
ments so far have more than justi-
fied this conclusion.
Dr. Young exhibited some of the
pelts he has taken from the lambs re
sulting from the crosses between the
American sheep and the imported Kar-
akules. The crosses between the Lin-
colnshire and Shropshire and the Kar
akule have given a fur that is of a
far finer texture and much more
beautiful luster than the imported
furs.
HOW TO 'KEEP
London Firm Sells Microbes to Be In-
troduced Into Cream to Kill
. Decay Germs.
London.-Inoculated butter - guaran
teed to keep fresh for months-into
which millions of beneficial bacteria
have been introduced for the purpose
of preserving it , will be in common use
jn the near future , and the part hither-
to played by boric acid in butter will
henceforward be played by the active
microbe.
The production of these preservative
micro-organisms is the object of a new
company which has recently opened
its offices at Cricklewood , and here
large laboratories are being Installed
for the purpose of raising millions of
billions of bacteria for use in the
dairies of the world.
The manager of the new company
said that the discovery of the preserva-
tive microbe was the result of years cf
scientific research.
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"Its object , " he said , "is to fight
other microbes that are found in butter
which have a harmful effect upon it-
that of turning it rancid. The only
way of combating these germs has
hitherto been by the use of preserva-
tive chemicals , which are harmful
adulterants.
"But now my firm has succeeded in
finding an antidote germ to the harm-
ful one , and by introducing it into the
milk before churning butter is made
which will keep fresh and pure for a
long time.
"The inoculation of the milk has the
effect , broadly speaking , of setting up
a fight between the opposing armies of
germs and the bad ones , that would
destroy the freshness of the butter , are
destroyed by the harmless ones which
are introduced. "
The microbes are sold in the form of
a clear liquid , in small bottles , which
is added to buttermilk and prepared in
a certain way before use. When the
preparation is ready ; one gallon of it is
added to every 20 gallons of cream In
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Semi-Wild Animals Become Serious
Menace in Oregon-Plan
for Extermination.
Marshfield , Ore.-Calvin Wright , one
of Coos county's game wardens gives
it as his opinion that the worst enemy
of the game birds in this locality Is the
house cat which has become wild. Mr.
Wright has just returned from an ex-
tensive trip up and down the coast
country , and he declares that the cats
are doing away with the game birds.
Coos county is a great place for
cats both in the cities and the country
districts , and they have increased
with such rapidity that there are not
homes sufficient for all of them. As a
consequence the cats have become
wild and run in the woods. Mr. Wright
says that the increase of these semi-
wild animals in the woods is much
greater than would be imagined. He
says that the cats not only break up
the nests and kill or drive away the
old birds , but that they devour scores
of the young before they are able to
protect themselves.
So great 'has become the menace
that Deputy Wright will take up the
cat matter with State Game Warden
Stephenson and will advocate the pay
ing of a bounty for the killing of cats
which are not properly confined.
King Inherits Old Shirt.
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London.-Some queer royal relics
have been brought to light at Wind
sor castle. Preparations are being
made for the addition to the royal li
brary of some exhibition cases for
the display of these objects of his-
toric interest. Among the collection
is the baby linen used by Charles I.
and the lace shirt the ill-fated mon
arch wore on the day of his execution
in Whitehall as an extra garment be
cause of the cold.
BUTTER PURE.
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the butter churn , the rest of the but
ter making process proceeding In the
usual way.
The prices of the cultures used in
these processes vary from 75 cents to I
$2.50 a bottle , and full instructions to
dairymen are issued with each con.
signment. The cultures are equally
effective in margarine.
IN A BEE-SQUIRREL BATTLE
Prowling Boy Has Time of His Life De
fending Himself While Up in a
Honey Tree.
Germania , 'Pa.-To have enraged a
colony of half a dozen flying squirrels
and to have been viciously and dis
astrously attacked by them was the
experience of Harry Sloan an
eighteen-year-old Stewardson township
boy , while the incident as a whole
has suddenly disclosed a trait of this
type of squirrel that even old woods-
men and hunters never knew of.
Flying squirrels have always been
looked upon with more or less con
tempt and many gunners utterly re
fused to shoot them because of a su
perstition , something akin to that with
reference to a white doe , that the kill
ing would bring bad luck to some
member of the offender's family.
Young Sloan is an adept at "lining"
wild bees and was engaged at that
business over in the Kettle creek re
gion when he had the experience of
his life. He invaded the tree inhabit-
ed by bees and squirrels and the latter
attacked him , one after another , as
fast as the bees themselves , and equal
ly mad. The little animals bit the boy
terribly one of them inflicting an ugly
gash on the eye. Sloan was almost
blinded , but he finally groped his way
down along the tree to the ground ,
though the aroused squirrels contin-
ued their onslaught until he was
squarely upon the ground and able to
defend himself with a cudgel.
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yxoos , \ % Fonseca , president elect
i . . of Brazil , landed in New
York on August 3 , and the
elaborate plans for his entertainment
during the month he will spend in this
country are being carried out. Charge
\ Silva of the Brazilian embassy ar-
ranged for his presentation to Presi-
dent Taft at Beverly , and immediate-
ly after that formality the distin-
guished visitor went to Valley Forge ,
. Pa. , to meet Secretary Knox. Later
j Gen. da Fonseca , who is an accom-
plished soldier , was taken to West
Point and Annapolis to inspect the
academies there
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THOSE SHORT COATS :
INNUMERABLE EDITIONS TO
CHOOSE FROM.
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Serious Consideration Demanded on
the Part of the Woman Who In-
tends to Make a Long or
Short Journey.
When the short-coated suit for trav-
eling is to be decided upon , 'whlch of
the many editions are you going to
choose ? The problem confronts wom-
ankind , and a certain discretion must
be exercised or there will appear
some figures in our midst that will
bring clown well-deserved ridicule up
on the t heads of the offenders.
Just as soon as a woman considers i
her figure in relation to the garments
that she purchases will there be a
marked decimation of the ranks of ;
Indifferently nay , execrably dressed
followers of fashion.
Whether you be tall , slender or of
generous proportions the question of
the short coat assails you. Which
shall it be ?
The slender sylphlike creature Is
indeed fortunate in this age of sup-
pressed curves , for her figure is able
to wear the short coat without the
annoying consideration of the pros
and the cons. Her coat may be belted
in with a wide patent leather belt ,
and the peplum can be varied in line ,
cut away at the front or turned up at
the corner in military style at the
front lines or back. . The slenderness
( at the hips isthe point that allows
this.
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The short woman must be judicious
when selecting her coat. That model
that emphasizes length of line must
be chosen. The long revers , the point-
ed line at the bottom , the disposition
of trimming in long , narrow vertical
lines-these are the main guide-posts.
Stout women are less fortunate
since the curtailed coat has been re
instated. Sleeves must not be too
full ; the lengthened narrow collar ,
small buttons and a lack of trim-
mings should characterize the coats
of the heavier figures.
RENOVATING THE SETTLE
Old-Fashioned Bench With a Back Can
Be Easily Converted Into a
Porch Couch.
If you are lucky enough to own one
of the long , old-fashioned settles that
are little more than wooden benches
with high open back , it can be con-
verted Into a novel couch for a porch
or the living room of a country house.
Fasten to each arm of the couch the
inverted lid of a large flower barrel.
This lid should have an inch-high rim.
If the dimensions are too large to fit
securely to the arm a prop can be add-
ed on the outer edge.
This prop may be a strip of wood
fastened to the seat of the couch diag-
onally , or a broomstick handle can be
nailed to the lid to form a leg.
The lids at each end of the settle
make convenient and ornamental
shelves for books , workbags and vases
of flowers. When the couch is cov-
ered the lids can be adjusted in their
natural position.
To finish the settle scrape off the
paint and varnish and give all the
woodwork three coats of dark green ,
dark red or white paint , ending with a
coat of enamel.
For the seat , make a thin mattress
stuffed with hair or some patent fill-
ing. Cover with gay cretonne or den-
im. Arrange the _ cover so it buttons
at the bacK fo ? greater ease In wash-
. ) ng. A flat pillow or two can be cov-
ered with the same material.
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Found : Most Suitable for Marking
Many Articles When Bold Let-
ters Are Needed.
A very distinct monogram worked
entirely in satin stitch is shown here.
It is suitable for marking ' many ar-
ticles when bold letters are needed.
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The thickest parts must be padded to
raise ! : the work ; three or four rows of
running out with soft cotton will be
needed for these , and two for the nar-
rower parts. ' i
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Stitched straps are excellent for all
forms. Embroidered plastrons must
bo placed in advantageous position ,
always keeping well In mind the fact
that decoration must not be obstrus-
Ive , but a harmonious part of the
whole scheme. On the short coat
they may be widely used.
Side ( panels of braid , embroidery of
stitched material give grace , but a
certain thickness or the body which
it were wise for the stout woman to
eschew. The variation of the fasten-
ing Is another note that must be ta
ken into consideration when the short
coat is decided upon.
One more point. Look well at the
skirt with which the short jacket Is
to be worn. RememDer that here lies
the effect that will accentuate the
short lines , or serve to mitigate. the
I change that undoubtedly results from
this season's note.
Whether the jackets of shortei
length will be able to extend on Intc
the next season is a moot point , but
while they are here they must be
chosen with due regard for the womej
within.
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The one shown above is made of
spotted net , edged with pale blue
satin soft bow of satin. . "
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When Intended for Indoor use the
settle may be left unpainted , though
a coat or two of paint to make ends . .
and couch alike will cost little If the
work is done at home.
Fasten a thin mattress to seat and
back and fit to the settle a cover of
striped linen , such as is used for sum
mer furniture coverings. The two-
toned gray effects are cooling and do
not , soil so quickly as the more popu
lar white.
The inverted lids are supplied with
a separate cover of the linen. Where
the leg prop to the lid is used the
covering is fitted around it to give the
effect of a winged couch the covered'
lid extending beyond it.
None of the woodwork of the settle
shows the cover reaching to the floor
all around. If making such a cover Is
beyond your skill it can be done more
cneaply by having an upholsterer cut
and fit it while you do the sewing and
binding.
Try This , Girls. - -
The debutante of the season will
have no difficulty in getting together
the coveted six boxes of wedding :
cake , which means that the seventh ! '
will be her own for the list of brides-
to-be is long , and wedding receptions-
are in plenty , accordingly. The su
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perstition holds that no ' box must ber
opened. Each one must be tied to Its
predecessors In order of date , and
each one must be legitimately given
to " the - owner as an invited guest-no
cards transferable , so to speak. This .
charm never fails , it is said.
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NEW SHAPE IN FELT HATS
Large , Flat Hats With Slightly Droop.
ing Brims and Low Crowns ,
the Latest.
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The expected turn of the wheel ol
fashion has brought into the millinery
field a different shape of hat From
the upturned brim there Is a depar-
ture for summer wear In the form of
large flat hats with slightly drooping :
brims and low crowns.
Some of the brims are slightly nar-
rower at the front , while a decided
element of comfort is evident in the ,
deep bandeaux that resemble a skull
cap , at the back of the liat , vanish-
ing at the front into a thin rim of
buckram. These are so fitted that no
hatpins are necessary.
A wreath of flowers , nowhere rising
above the crown is the simple trim-
ming used on majority of the flat
shapes. There can be the introduc
tion of a velvet flower if a note of
contrast bs needed.
Some of these new models are of
fine straw , leghorn or of frames cov-
ered with satin and veiled with chif-
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As a change from the towering
turbans or the shapes that eclipse the = :
features , the low , flat hats resting on.
the softness of naturally arranged
hair , come as a welcome relief.
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