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About Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930 | View Entire Issue (March 16, 1911)
HOUSE PUTS THROUGH INITIA TIVE AND REFERENDUM. KILLS COUNTY OPTION BILL Legislative Reference Bureau May Be Permanently Established Kill a Liquor Bill Total Appropria tion Bill Now Over a Million. The legislative week beginning Monday promises to be as lively as any that have passed. The senate has put out of the way the two big events of the session , initiative and referendum and county option , and has acted favorably on a Sunday baseball bill. The chouse has dis posed of none of these measures , but will get into the game this week. Two measures which stand near the top of the list are the initiative and ref erendum and county option. As far as the house is concerned there seems to be no doubt that the house initiative and referendum bill will go through with but few votes against it. It will then be in order that a conference committee be ap pointed to get together with a like committee of the senate to patch up I i t f JOHN A. MOREHEAD. Senator First District and President Pro Tern of Senate. the differences in the bills on this subject in the respective houses. The senate initiative and referendum bill is still in the hands of the house com mittee. It has not been reported out because it would thus complicate the situation. The house has gone on record as to the kind of a bill it will vote for and it is not the senate meas ure. If the house committee .recom mends the senate bill it means a complication. If it recommends that the senate bill be killed there will be nothing to compromise on. Thus the reason for holding it up temporarily. County option will be defeated in the house in all probability. It will lack one or two votes of passing , just as the same bill lacked in the senate. The vote is to be had merely to put the members on record , and it is un likely that it will be brought up un less practically a full attendance is on hand. After a two hours' deadlock in the house Tuesday .morning the support ers of the amended Hatfield initiative and referendum bill won a complete victory over the opposition and passed their measure by a vote of 75 to 23. This result was not accomplished without the most tense situation seen in the house during the session. Men were corralled in every part of th'e house by groups of other members , who were pulling them this way and pushing them that way in an effort to persuade them to change their votes. The result was that the supporters of the bill were the only ones who se cured changes , the opposition failing signally. The fight is not yet over. After the bill was passed the house , on motion of Gerdes of Richardson , asked the committee on constitutional amend ments to report the senate bill at once and made the consideration of that measure the special order for Wed nesday. Although the house bill has gone to the senate , and although the senate bill was passed in that body with only two amendments of consequence quence , the opponents to the bills as they stand , who had strength enough yesterday in the house to block the passage of the Hatfield bill for two hours , will attempt to insert their amendments into the senate bill. The Oklahoma senate defeated a bill authorizing the' corporation com mission to suspend the operation of the "jim crow" law. The insurgents , or as some call them , the wet democrats in the state senate were joined for a time by Ban ning of Cass and Skiles of Butler , both democrats , who voted against county option , and by a union of dem ocrats and republicans a sifting com mittee was appointed. The standpat and wet democrats , including three senators from Douglas , who were not consulted in regard to the slate , were taken completely by surprise. The committee appointed gave Ollis of Valley the balance of power. It com prised seven members. Smoking In the House. That the membres of the house should not become EO degenerated as to repeal the anti-smoking clause of their rules cards were being circulated among the representatives giving the result of tests made by a former physi cal director on smokers and nonsmokers - smokers and their respective mental and physical qualifications as shown by the investigation. Although there were few of the lov ers of the weed in the lower house who paid attention to the cards , there were tw or three nevertheless who considered that they were a distinct insult on the intelligence of the house. They contended that there was an in timation therein that those who per sisted in the pernicious habit of tak ing occasional drags of pipes and puffs at'Havanas did not possess the necessary mental qualifications to either initiate or pass good laws for the commonwealth. To this they excepted - cepted , and declared that , in their opinions , really bright mentality could not become so smoke befogged as to be incapable of legislative discern ment. The senate has not condescend ed to admit weakness because smok ing is now allowed in its august cham bers. Bridge Bill Passed. Cronin of Holt carried to a suc cessful termination his effort to se cure state aid In the construction and maintenance of bridges over streams more than 175 feet in width. It had been anticipated by many members that the bill would never get through on third reading but Cronin was able to count fifty-six votes. The bill pro vides for a state levy "of one-fifth of a mill , or approximately $100,000 , for the biennium for aid in construction and maintenance of these bridges. Schol for Dependents. H. R. 84 , by Hatfield , a bill to abandon the present state schiol for dependent children , formerly known as the home for the friendless , and to place the children now in the home and those who in the future are com mitted to its care by order of juven ile courts into the care of a board of control to be appointed by the gover nor was committed to the committee on public charities for amendment. Pure Food Legislation. The senate committee on medical societies was surrounded Monday by a crowd of able lawyers and lobbyists who represent manufacturers through out the country. The lobbyists direct ed their talents against H. R. 276 , a bill that requires goods in package form to bear the net weight , measure or numerical amount. The committee listened to argument and took the bill under consideration. University Medical College. The senate followed the example ot the house and instructed its special committee on university removal to go a little further and dig into the question of the separation or union of the medical college of the university. The instructions to the committee were given by a motion offered by Dr. Talcott of Cedar county , who is a member of the state senate. Legislative Reference Bureau. The legislative reference bureau will be a permanently established state institution if a bill which was recommended for passage by the house committee of the whole be comes a law. The bill creates this bureau and places it under a partial jurisdiction of the board of regents of the university and affiliating the bureau with the department of law and sociology. Salary Appropriation Bill. The house has completed considera tion of the salary appropriation bill and ordered it engrossed for third reading. Another $3,000 increase was added to it , making in all a total raise of $44,100 over the bill as originally introduced which was larger by more than $100,000 than the bill two years ago. The total of the biU has now reached $1,176,040. Defeat of County Option. Every member of the house who voted on the county option bill when it came up for third reading stayed by his pre-election pledge , without a single exception. But two members were absent , Regan of Platte and San- born of Sarpy , both of whom were pledged against the enactment of county option legislation. The house passed bills all Monday afternoon with ninety members pres ent. It killed the Moody pool hall bill and the Grossmann wage exemption ! bill , and saved the life of the initiative i and referendum bill only through a | hasty adjournment. An agreement I was made by forty-one members to I vote against the house bill , and to try to amend the senate bill when it j comes up in the same manner that the same men had failed on the house bill two weeks ago. Lien for Attorneys. The senate passed- . F. 143 , by Tibbets , a bill to give attorneys a lien upon documents , money or property of clients coming into their hands or in the hands of an adverse party for services performed on con tract , either express or implied. Two bills restricting the liquor traffic more than is done now under the SloSumb law came up before the house Friday. One was Hilled , the Dther was rushed on to third read ing. , TURIN EXPOSITION IS NEARLY READY " THE&RITISH a ACTION THE BELGIAN AND FRFflCH ONE GREAT feature of the Jubilee of the Italian kingdom , celebrated this year , is nearly completed. This is the elaborate industrial and art exposition in Turin , which is scheduled to open in April. The exposition grounds He along the River Po and the various buildings erected by Italy and other countries are very handsome. DEFEATS ICE TRUST Boy Lets Pails Filled With Water -Freeze and Stores Cakes. Got Idea by Thawing Out Pall In Hen- yard and Now Is Capitalist Him self Sells Product to His Neighbors. Ware , Mass. How would you like to be Independent of the ice trust next summer when the hot rays of the sun are beating down and your refrigerator is empty , though you have had a card in your window for several days and have telephoned the Ice trust and been choked off with the reply , "You will get your ice when It arrives and not before ? " The 11-year-old son of a Ware sign painter has solved the problem. Hav ing already made two tons of Ice and sold It to his father for 30 cents a hundred pounds , he is busy making a further supply which he proposes to sell to neighbors next summer. Je rome is the "son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Henry Eldredge of 57 East street and is one of nine children. It is a case of hustle to keep the family supplied with the necessities of life , and to each of the children old enough to be of assistance is assigned a task which make's the burdens light er for all. Jerome feeds the hens , which are supposed to keep the fam ily table supplied with fresh eggs , but usually fall in coming up to expecta tions. He also feeds the lone family pig and keeps Mrs. Eldredge supplied with coal and kindlings from the shed. Jerome has a longing to get a college education and become a law yer , but has been told repeatedly that a college education costs money , and the only way he can get It Is by strict economy and thrift. It was while watering the hens one cold morning that Jerome hit upon the scheme of the Ice plant. The pan containing the water was filled with a cake _ of ice each morning , and It was necessary for Jerome to turn the pan bottom side up and pour hot water on it , the cake of ice then dropping out. In a short time there was a pile of ice that worried Jerome , because It came from water that had been ren dered muddy and Impure by the hens and was unfit for use , but It occurred to him that he could draw water from the kitchen faucet that was pure , place it in receptacles , allow it to freeze , then get the cakes of ice out In the same manner as he did from the hens' pen. He asked his father if he would pay him the same price for Ice that he had paid the iceman last year. Mr. Eldredge said he would be glad to do so if the ice were of good quality and he would contract for two tons. The ice has been delivered and paid for. v. Jerome has about two dozen recep tacles of various styles and sizes. He first began with what stewpans and kettles he could abduct from his moth er's pantry , but now he has pressed the family washtub , coal hod , wash pan , wash basin and about everything else into use , and has made square wooden boxes , which he fills with wa ter and makes large cakes of ice in. These boxes he has already sold to his mother for use next summer for flower beds. The price was more than cost of the lumber to make them. The cakes of Ice vary in size from two to seventy-five pounds , and dur ing zero weather Jerome has made as many as fifty cakes of ice in a day. Jerome attends the seventh grade in the South street school. His four- year-old brother , John Harold , sug gested a few weeks ago that he be taken into partnership on a percent age basis , and he would keep the business moving wiiile Jerome was in school. The suggestion was favorably received , and Johnny is as interested in the business as any one could be. When the neighbors' boys come around Johnny keeps his eyes open and allows none of them near the ice plant , explaining that the ice must be clean and pure or it cannot be marketed. The boys have met some discour agement in the ice making businsss. At first Jerome used ordinary wooden pails and tin pails , but with the first freezing the palls were hopelessly ruined , as the ice burst the pails In many places. The boys have learned that common enameled ware Is best. Tin pails that are small at the bottom and large at the top are also useful , as the ice swells at the top much Uk a loaf of bread , and does not burst the receptacle. Warm weather is also discourag ing , as the ice that has already frozen in the dishes thaws. Jerome says they can literally see their money melt away. Each morning the Ice made during the previous 24 hours is packed into large dry goods boxes and sawdust Is packed around the cakes. Jerqme says that he will build an Ice house In the spring. MAN IS MOTHER OF CHICKEN Pennsylvania Farmer Hatches Out Little Chick In His Bed by Warmth of His Body. Pittsburg , Pa. Oscar Helnze , a farmer of Clifton , holds the human In cubator record. Little did he expect when he took his bedtick to the barn recently and filled it with straw that he was to become parent to a chick. The straw happened to contain a hen egg , but Heinz did not know. For a couple of weeks he slept on the newly-filled mattress. before he was aroused by a "Cheep ! cheep ! cheep ! " He lighted a lamp and searched the room , but could not find the source of the sounds , which had become louder. Finally he was convinced the "cheep , cheep" came from his bed , and with a knife slit open the tick. Inside , near the surface , was a lively chick , which the heat of his body had hatched from the egg. Ammonia Produced From Air. Berlin. ' Professor Haber's new pro cess for utilizing atmospheric nitrogen for the production of ammonia is re ported to be so successful that syn thetic ammonia is about to be placed on the market. CANADIANS CALL FOR GIRLS Hundreds Storm Agent Who ! In Lon don Seeking Brides for Young Farmers of Northwest. London. Thomas Howell , the Cana dian immigration agent who is con ducting a search throughout England for brides for the stalwart farmers of Canada , has given up searching , and is really trying to lose himself , as brides- to-be in a veritable army , not content with bombarding him with tons of let ters , are here by the hundreds seeking personal interviews. There are touches of humor In some of the letters received by Mr. Howell , who.has been oerwhelm d with invi tations to teas and other functions dear to the feminine heart. One of the letters received is from a youag woman In a London work house , who , with unconscious irony , writes : "Please come and see me. I can make you quite at home. " Women , however , are not half so anxious as the men of England to go to Canada. It la estimated that fully 150- 000 English mechanics , farmers and la borers will leave for the Dominion dur ing the coming season. By direct route from London nearly 17,000 passengers will start for Canada in March , and in addition , during that month about three thousand immi grants will reach that land of promise via the United States. The phenomenal immigration is at tributed to the general prosperity and Immense advance in railway construc tion in Canada. Fully 30 per cent , of these Immigrants are skilled workmen , and nearly all of them have means upon which to subsist for months after their arrival. There is no doubt that immigration Is being stimulated by English imperi alist organizations which expect through these sturdy Britons to neu tralize the effects of the great rush from the United States to "Our Lady of the Snows. " HOUSE KEEPS ITSELF i One Woman's Experience in Au tomatic Housekeeping. Not a Bit of Bother for the Modern House Wife as Mechanical Labor Saving Appliances Are Now Applied. London. The modern woman de mands , above all else , that her time or the greater part of it shall be her own. She Insists on freedom to earn her own living , to acquire culture , or to educate her children and be a companion - o panion of her husband , and therefore the modern house must needs "keep" itself. This it will not do if the vexed do mestic servant question is continual ly to the fore , and some women are at last grasping the great comfort of let ting mechanical labor saving applian ces do their work for them. I hap pen to know one of these present day women , says a writer In the Daily Mail. She is married and has two children , but she is busy every day with many interests outside her home. Yet her house is better managed than any I know. Some days ago she showed me over her dwelling , and let me into some of her work-and-worry saving secrets. "My 'wonder box' is packed with in sulating material and lined with steel. The children's nurse or I merely cook our dishes on a gas stove for a few minutes , then pop them In here , and go out and forget about them. When I come back in the evening they are cooked and hot ready to serve , in fact. The children's meal is put in earlier in the morning and is ready by midday. Delightfully simple , isn't it ? " On the sideboard were several de vices for producing breakfast with the least possible effort. This meal was always cooked on the table , I learned. An egg steamer , a chafing dish , a coffee percolator and an electric ra diator for making toast were the most prominent Items. In a corner of the room stood a small electrically worked vacuum cleaner which made light of the toll- some business of sweeping and dust ing. The floors , which were all lin oleum covered , were washed with the aid of a self-wringing mop. A porcelain anthracite stove occu- plecl the hearth , and over this my friend waxed refretful. "I hated to give up my beloved open fire , " she confessed. "But it went dead against my principles , and it made more work than all the rest of my household put together. This stove Is the next best thing , for at least I can open the front and toast my toes at it It only re quires stoking every twenty-four hours , and it makes no dust" When I demanded' to see the kitch en , she told me there was none. "A kitchen only exists for the comfort of servants , " she reminded me. "I have no servants , so why should I have a kitchen ? Come and see my workshop , though. " And she led me into a small square box of a room , containing only a sink , a gas stove , a table , and two cupboards built into the wall. Of that coal devouring , work producing monster , the kitchen range , there was no sign. "But hot water ? " I protested. "How can one live without constant supply of hot water ? " I was told to put my head Inside one of the cupboards , which I did , but I withdrew It again hastily. The temperature was at least 80 degrees. The cupboard , it appeared , contained an automatic gas hot water heater , from the tank of which small pipes extended and circled round the walls. They met again in large pipes , one of which carried off the water to the kitchen sink , the other to the bath room. The gas burners under the -tank were lighted each morning and burned at full power for ten minutes or so , till the water "Became heated. Then the burners lowered themselves automatically to mere pin points of flame. When the tank was emptied , or partly so , it refilled itself with cold water , and the burners popped up again and heated the tankful once more. "And the cost of keeping house by your methods ? " I asked. "The Initial cost of furnishing Is perhaps rather high. But I think our weekly bills would make most house keepers open their eyes , " was the an swer. Doubles Children's Savings. New York. J. W. Ellsworth , phil anthropist of this city. Is doubling the savings of all children under 16 years of age in his boyhood home. Hudson , Ohio , to encourage their thrift. The only condition Is that children must go to school and earn the money after hours. Each Is ex pected to write him bow the money was earned. FAMILY PRIDE. Prof. Stork And how are we ting on with our studies , Ernestine ? Have you been promoted to the flyIng - Ing class yet ? Little Miss Quacker Oh , no , pro fessor. Mother has decided that I shall not take that course. She says anybody can fly fcut only the best families take to water naturally. WOULD LIE AWAKE ALL NIGHT WITH ITCHING ECZEMA "Ever sinc I can remember I waa a terrible sufferer of eczema and other Irritating skin diseases. I would lie awake all night , and my suffering was Intolerable. A scaly humor set * tied on my back , and being but a child , I naturally scratched It It was a burning , Itching sensation , and utterly Intolerable , In fact , it was so that I could not possibly forget about it It did not take long before it spread to my shoulders and arms , and I was almost covered with a mass of raw flesh on account of my scratching it I was in such a condition that my hands were tied. "A number of physicians were call ed , but it seemed beyond their med ical power and knowledge to cur * me. Having tried numerous treat ments without deriving any benefit from them , I had given myself up to the mercy of my dreadful malady , but I thought I would take the Cuticura treatment as a last resort Words cannot express my gratitude to the one who created 'The Cuticura Mira cles , ' as I have named them , for now I feel as if I never suffered from even a pimple. My disease was routed by Cuticura Soap and Ointment , and I shall never cease praising the wonder ful merits they contain. I will never be without them , in fact , I can almost dare any skin diseases to attack me so long as I have Cuticura Remedies in the house. I hope that this letter will give other sufferers an Idea of how I suffered , and also hope that they will not pass the 'Cuticura Life Saving Station. ' " ( Signed ) C. Louis Green , 929 Chestnut St. , Philadelphia , Pa. , Aug. 29 , 1910. A Ruling Passion. "Uncle Pinchpenny spent a great deal of time at the home of George Washington. " "Yes. He couldn't be persuaded to stop looking for that dollar George is said to have thrown across the Pete mac. " Important to Mothers Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA , a safe and sure remedy for infants and children , and see that it Bears the Signature Tn Use For Over SO Years. The Kind You Have Always Bought Plenty of Time to Fatten Up. Cheerful Old Idiot I say , you'll ex cuse me , but d'you know that you are the thinnest policeman I've ever seen ? Robert Yes. I'm a new hand , and haven't got to know the cooks yet London Opinion. SPOHN'S DISTEMPER CURE will cure uny possible case of DISTEMPER , PINK EYE , and the like among horsei of all ages , and prevents all others in the same stable from having the disease. Also cures chicken cholera , dnd dog distemper. Any good druggist can supply you , or send to mfrs. 50 cents and $1.00 a bottLAgenti wanted. Free book. Spohn Medical Co. , Spec. Contagious Diseases. Goshen , Ind. His Place. "The trouble about my son is that he never knows where he is at. " "Then why not get him a job with the weaker bureau ? " RUBBERS BECOME NECESSARY And yonr shoes pinch , Allen's Foot-Ease , the Antt- soptlc powder to be shaken Into the shoesIs jnsttha thing to use. Try It for Breaking In New Shoes. Bold every where , 25c. Sample FREE. Address A. a Olmsted , LeRoy.N.T. Don't accept any nibsUtutt. A woman can straighten up a man's desk in five minutes so effectually that he won't be able to find anything he wants in five hours. You will sneeze ; perhaps feel chilly. You think you are catchinic cold. Don't wait untilyou know it. Take a dose of Hamlins Wizard Oil and you just cant catch cold. To render your neighbor a service willingly shows the generosity of your character ; to preserve silence over it , the grandeur of your soul. Puysieux. Constipation causes and aggravates many serious diseases. It is thoroughly cured by Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. The favor ite family laxative. And the man who is driven to drink by adversity probably would have it brought to him by prosperity. ONLY ONE "BROMO QUININE. " That Is LAXATTVB BROMO QUININE. Look lor the signature ot E. W. GROVK. Died thTworfd orer to Cure a Cold In One Day. SSc. Her savings are the saving of many a business girl. All druggists sell the famous Herb rem edy , Garfield Tea. It corrects constipation. Modern application Is likely to ex tract the teeth of an old saw. -tJ
