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THE NEBRASKA LEGISLATURE
A Synopsis of Proceedings in Both Branches of
the Twenty-Eighth GeneraJ
Assembly.
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SENATE.
The following bills were reported back
by committees In the senate on the 30th.
with the recommendation that they be
placed on the general file for passage:
8. F. 152. providing that the deposit of
a check or draft In a bank shall be
deemed evidence of due diligence in col
lectins the same; S. F. 128. providing
that no judge, sheriff, clerk cr consta
ble shall be allowed to practice as an
attorney in any court of the county in
which they hold office; S. F. 149. pro
viding when an injunction may be grant
ed by the court; S. F. 154. providing for
a commission to revise the statutes: 8.
F. 87. providing that heads of families
shall have exempt from attachment $300;
S. F. 118. providing a proceeding to re
vive a judgment can only be brought
within five yean after the judgment
becomes dormant; S. F. 125. providing
the articles of incorporation of a corpo
ration may be amended by a vote or
three-fourths of the capital stock; 8. F
155. providing when a defendant is found
guilty the 'court shall render judgment,
including costs: 8. F. 15S, providing it
shall not be necessary to serve notice
of suit on a minor child to be adopted.
The following bills were read the third
time and passed: Senate file No. 38, de
fining conditions of child dependency,
prescribing methods of protection and
penalties for neglect; senate file No. 9S.
to prevent the mutilation of horses by
docking; senate file No. 139. legalizing
bonds for the construction of irrigation
canals and works; senate file No. 120,
providing If any lessee of educational
lands shall be in default of payment for
six months or any purchaser shall be in
default for one year th lands shall be
declared forfeited by the board of edu
cational lands and funds; house roll No.
32. providing for district ownership of
text books in cities; house roll No. 279.
appropriating $10,000 from the fund of the
hospital for the insane at Norfolk, for
use of the hospital for the insane at
Lincoln; house roll No. 42. providing for
the organization of school board, salary
of secretary, etc
In the senate on the 22d notice was re
ceived from the governor to the effect
that he had signed senate file No. 3.
which empowers county boards to en
force quarantine regulations to prevent
the spread of contagious diseases. In
committee of the whole senate file No. 15.
repealing the law which provides for
three days of grace on notes, drafts, etc..
was considered. Senator Marshall, who
introduced the bill, explained that the
law allowing three days of grace be
longs to the time of stage coaches, and
that such a law is now obsolete. The
law has been repealed in twenty-five
states. Senator Jennings and Anderson
spoke in favor of repealing the law, and
Senators Coffe. Wall and Way against
Its repeal. Senator Brady called atten
tion to the fact that only the bankers
and money lenders In the senate were
In favor of the repeal of the law. The
bill was reported back for Indefinite post
ponement by a vote of 13 to 12. The re
spects of the senate were paid to the
memory of Washington by a recess of
five minutes, during which Senator Wall
spoke on the life of the first president.
Among bills Introduced were the follow
ing: Changing the period of order of
sale of mortgaged premises from nine to
twelve months. Regulating the sale, the
exposition for sale, or the offering for
sale of any article made, manufactured
or produced In any jail, work house,
prison, penitentiary, or other penal In
stitution, protecting persons purchasing
such articles and providing penalties for
the violation thereof. Providing all art
icles manufactured in the penitentiary
shall be marked prison-made, except in
cases where such action would conflict
with national law. To compel school di
rectors to make an itemized statement
ef what money is to be spent for when
annual levy is made. To change method
of apportionment of state school funds.
This Is practically the same as the Too
ley bill introuced in the house some time
ago.
In the senate on the 21th Anderson of
Saline Introduced a resolution that the
report of the committees on deaf, dumb
and blind asylums. Insane hospital, pub
lic lands and buildings, reform school.
Arylum for Feeble Minded and Home for
the Friendless. Soldiers' home and state
prison be made by March 5. The resolu
tion was introduced so that the senate
could intelligently determine the needed
appropriations. In committee of the
whole the senate reported the following
for general file: Providing for notice to
be given before hearings In certain cases
under code of court procedure. Provid
ing when property may be siezed for per
sonal taxes. Amending code of civil pro
cedure relating to affidavits. Providing
for compelling witnesses in certain cases
and providing for appeal. Providing for
the annex ting of territory lying contig
ucus to a city or a town. Fixing salary
of secretary of school board. Providing
for district ownership of text books in
cities and towns. Providing for appeals
to supreme court, except in criminal
cases, was passed. Providing for the
publication of the statutes. After a
lengthy debate it was allowed to retain
Its palce on general file and no action
taken. Among bills introduced were the
following: To provide for appeals and
for the reversal, vacation or modifica
tion by the district court of judgments
rendered or final orders made by tribun
als inferior to such district court in all
cases except criminal cases and those
governed by the provisions of the Crim
inal Code. To prevent corrupt practices,
treating and favoritism In the letting of
contracts, and the transaction of business
with county boards, city councils and
school boards, and to provide a penalty
for the violation of thts act and the re
moval of the offending member from
office. To select grand and petit jurors,
prevent favoritism in their selection and
providing for their qualifications.
In the senate on the 23th Hall of Burt.
Hasty of Furnas and Sloan of Fillmore
were appointed a committee to draft a
bill In accordance with the resolution
for the establishment of a bureau of
roads by congress, so that Nebraska
would be prepared to benefit by the es
tablishment of such a bureau. S. F. 31.
providing that J. E. Cobbey be author
ized to compile and have established the
statutes, of which the state shall buy
800 sets at per set. was passed. S. F.
11, providing that the supreme court shall
have the, power to reduce the number
of commissioners to six or less if in the
judgment of the 'court the business
would justify it, was taken 'up. Hasty of
Furnas moved to make the number of
commissioners three. Howell of Dong
las moved a substitute that six com
missioners shall be appointed for one
year and three for two years, making
Bine commissioners for one year. Both
the amendment and the substitute were
lost. The bill was ordered engrossed with
the committee amendment as follows:
Three commissioners and stenographers
snail be appointed for one year and six
for two years from and after April 10,
198s. unless the appointments be with
drawn by the supreme judges. New bills
Introduced included the following: To
provide for the regulation and winding
p of the business of certain corpora
tion engaged la the business of raising
aey iron memoers or others by
of .stated .Installments or pay-
to be held, invested or distributed j
in accordance with certain plans or
schemes; to designate such corporations
as installment investment companies; to
subject such companies to the supervi
sion and control of the auditor of pub
lic accounts, state treasurer and attor
ney general; to designate the said au
ditor of public accounts, state treasurer
and attorney general as the state bank
ing board. Prohibiting members of
school board from being Interested in
any contract let by board, and prohibit
ang any member from being instrumental
In getting any relative a position In the
employ of the school board.
HOUSE.
Two eventful proceedings occurred in
the house on the 20th, one an appeal
from the decision of the speaker as4
the other a call of the house to note
absentees and members present and not
voting. Both came as a result of the
fight over H. R. 103, by Jones of Otoe,
the bill providing for the election of the
county commissioners by vote of the en
tire county, which had been denominat
ed a party measure. Jones, the author,
was absent and an effort was made to
have the bill passed over until the au
thor could be present. Sweezy and oth
ers opposed this. Sweezy. who was
against the bill, agreeing to pair with
Jones. The speaker ruled that action on
the bill should be taken, and Spurlock
of Cass moved to appeal from the de
cision of the chair and was seconded by
McAllister of Deuel. The speaker was
sustained. The other remarkable inci
dent was when the bill was put to a
vote. Several members present refused
to vote, whereupon Douglas of Rock
moved the call of the house and the
motion carried. The bill was finally lost,
fifty-one votes being necessary for pas
sage. The house then took up the bridge
bill, H. R. 112. and voted to recommit
it. It passed H. R. 79, by Loomis of
Dodge, requiring teachers in district
schools to keep school the statutory term
or make report showing the tax levy
has been made and is exhausted. The
hcuM in committee of the whole recom
mended for passage H. R. 127, by Mere
dlith of York, as amended by Speaker
Mockett, providing that no intoxicating
liquors shall be sold on the premises or
within two miles of any federal army
post or fort; also H. R. 167, by Weborg
of Thurston, providing for a memorial to
congress for a constitutional amendment
permitting the popular election of United
States senators.
The entire time of the house on the
22d was occupied by the reading of the
revenue bill, save for the introduction
of a number of other bills and the re
ports of standing committees. These lat
ter reported thirty-six bills back to the
house, of which twenty-six were placed
on the general file. The following bills
were Introduced and read for the first
time: Repealing that section of the in
surance law providing that the agents
premiums shall be paid by the purchaser
of a short-rate policy. A bill for an act
to extend the boundaries of all cities,
villages, school districts and other mu
nicipal incorporations bordering upon
navigable streams which constitute state
boundaries. For the relief of Lieutenant
Governor McGilton. to pay the cost of
his official bond furnished the state,
amounting to $81. Providing that state
board of equalization shall consist of
six members and shall be elected one
from each congressional district, and the
providing for method of election and ten
ure of office. Providing the clerk of the
supreme court shall pay all fees in ex
cess of X1.000 per year into the state
treasury. Providing that no liquor li
cense shall afford protection to any one
except the person to whom it is granted,
his employes, etc. and increasing the
penalty for selling adulterated liquors.
A bill for an act to provide for the
coloring of all kerosene or coal oil for
illuminating purposes, and to provide a
penalty for the violation thereof.
The house devoted the greater part of
the day on the 24th to bills on second
reading. In the list was house roll 344,
the revenue bill, whose 30.000 words were
again all read. The bill then was re
ferred to the house revenue committee.
It :s likely the committee will waive criti
cal examination of the bill and sent it
at once to general file. A motion by
Sears was adopted to have 1.000 copies
of the revenue bill printed. Koetter of
Douglas presented a resolution saying
that the Union Pacific had allowed Its
condition to degenerate so as to seriously
impair Its delivery of mail and calling
on the postal department at Washington
to compel the company to correct these
conditions. New bills introduced Includ
ed the following: Deining a legal news
paper for the publication of legal and
other ojc'al notices In the state of Ne
braska. Must have a circulation of 200
copies and have been published for one
year. Not applicable to counties of less
than 3,000 population. For the relief of
William Rochlitz. Appropriates 1500 to
pay for five head of horses killed by order
of the state veterinarian as being afflicted
with glanders. To provide for the estab
lishment In cities of the second-class,
having less than 5.000 inhabitants, of a
system of sewerage. To 'amend sections
16. 18. 20 and 26. chapter lxxvlii. Compiled
Statutes, entitled "Roads." defining the
proceedings necessary to lay out, alter
or vacate a public highway. To reim
burse consignees for coal confiscated by
railroad companies or other common car
riers, and providing a penalty for the
violation of the requirements of this act.
Requires railroad companies to pay con
signee Si a ton aside from paying for the
coal. To protect trade and commerce
against unlawful restraints and monop
olies, and to prohibit the giving or re
ceiving of rebates on the transportation
of property. Prepared by W. M. Spring
er, president of the National Live Stock
association, appropriating $10,000 to carry
out the provisions named.
The house renewed consideration of H.
R. 143. by Gregg of Wayne, providing that
no one shall be eligible to hold the office
of county superintendent of schools who
does not hold a first grade teacher's cer
tificate. Mr. Gregg moved that his bill
be engrossed for the third reading. Doug
las of Rock opposed the bill, arguing that
many of the counties in the western part
of the state were without first grade cer
tificate teachers and therefore, if this bill
was passed. It would impose the neces
sity of importing persons for county su
perintendent. Bartow of Valley thought
this was an argument for the bill. Spur
lock of Cass made a forcible speech In
favor of the bill, urging the Importance
of raising the educational standard.
Gregg's motion finally carried by a vote
of SO to 23. These bills were passed: Ap
propriating $10,000 from the unexpended
beard and colthing fund of the Norfolk
asylum to the maintenance of patients re
moved from that to the Lincoln asylum.
Permitting the small printer to bid on
any state work in separate items he can
furnish, instead of as at present, letting
the printing out in bulk. This is the so
called anti-printing trust bill. Strength
ening the powers of county commission
ers and supervisors in the suppression of
contagious and infectious diseases. To
provide county treasurers with a seal.
Providing Che school teachers, principals
and superlc tendents shall not receive
their full term's pay until they shall
have made the full report required by
law.
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CHECKS CLEARED BY 'PHONE
Naval
Schema Is Practical In the
"Prosperity SelL
"Down in the 'Prosperity belt. as
me call it, we've got the whole world
beat for real progress," said a coun
try banker who was la the city last
week. After delivering this declara
tion he bit the end of a cigar and set
tled back in a chair in a lobby of one
of the big hotels.
"Yes, siree, we beat the world for
genuine progress," he continued.
"We've got something down in central
Illinois that you won't find anywhere
else on the globe. It's telephone
clearing-house.' We' call it a clearing-house
right here in Chicago or in
Mew York. ..Now you'd think banks
couldn't clear their checks by tele
phone, but, as I said before, we beat
toe world for progress and have in
vented .the new system.
"The whole scheme is very-simple
and has proved a. safeguard against
some of the bugaboos that worry
bankers-such things as-.overdrafts,
for 'instance. 'Every day at noon one
bank will call up another by tele
phone, read off tha amount of the
checks and the names of the drawers.
Some of these checks will be on the
bank at the other end of the wire- and
some of them will be drawn on an in
stitution with which that bank has
considerable business.
"Now, you see, half a dozen or more
banks in one county or section of the
state can arrange a certain time for
calling up some one bank, which is
the central bank. All the banks call
this one, notifying it they have checks
on it or upon any of the others.
"When each bank has found out
how much it owes the other, banks up
until a certain hour drafts are -forwarded
to cover the balances. By
using the telephone clearing-house we
expedite business, saving an entire
day in many instances. It's a paying
scheme and is pretty ukely to be
adopted by other groups 'of-country
banks wherever the -telephone is 'in
general use." Chicago Inter Ocean.
GEN. BOOTH A VEGETARIAN.
Salvation Army Leader Will Not Eat
Meat.
Few people are aware that Gen.
Booth, head and founder of the Salva
tion Army, who recently visited this
city, is a pronounced vegetarian. In
years he has eaten neither fish, flesh
nor eggs, says the Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune.
Even butter, milk
or vegetables cooked with fat are de
nied. His diet is solely upon cereals,
boiled rice being largely his susten
ance. He occasionally eats rice for
breakfast, dinner and supper, and
then enters upon the same diet the
next day.
A member of the army said recent
ly: "Gen. Booth believes in his body.
Yet meats and strong drinks he heart
ily despises. He will not smoke, be
cause he realizes that he has a nerv
ous system that must be protected. Ho
will npt drink, partly from principle
and partly because he realizes that for
every stimulation there is an equal
and consequent reaction. He is a
vegetarian not merely because he be
lieves that primitive mankind the
Adam and Eve of the Bible were
vegetarians, but because, after a long
practical trial, he finds himself far
younger than his years, while the mor
tal parts of most men, who laugh at
what they call his crankiness, are like
John Brown's body "a-mouldering in
the grave."
Realizing Country's Greatness.
Ex-Representative P. J. McDonald,
who served for three years in the
House, returned the other day from a
six week's trip throughout the coun
try, in company with M. C. Keefe.
"You really don't know what this
country is until you look it over,"
says Mr. McDonald.
"We were gone six weeks and went
through every state !n the Union, cov
ering something like 13,000 miles in
all. Talk about the recent visits of
royal and other personages, who make
a flying trip across the country! What
can they know about it?
"Why, nothing or next to it The i
only way to see the country and the
people is to take things leisurely, as
we did. In some cities we would spend
two or three days. The two or three
days gave us an opportunity to meet
and exchange ideas.
"Yes, sir, this Is a great country a
wonderful country!" Boston Journal.
Love Triumphant.
Helen's lips are drifting dust;
Ilion is consumed with rust;
All the galleons of Greece
Drink the ocean's dreamless peace;
Lost was Solomon's purple show
Restless centuries ago;
Empires died and left no strain
Babylon. Barbary. and Spain
Only one thing, undefaced.
Lasts, though all the worlds He waste.
And the heavens are overturned.
Dear, how long ago we learned!
There's a sight that blinds the sun.
Sound that lives when sounds are done.
Music that rebukes the birds
Language lovelier than words.
Hue and scent that shame the rose.
Wine no earthly vineyard knows.
Ocean more divinely free
Than Pacific's drainless sea.
Silence stiller than the shore
Swept by Charon's stealthy oar
Ye who live have learn't it true.
Dear, how long ago we knew!
Frederick Lawrence Knowles in Har
per's Magazine.
Health and Longevity.
We regret to record the death of
the Hon. Charles Kreck of Allentown.
Pa., at the age of 89. Sixty-one years
ago Mr. Kreck applied for member
ship in an Odd Fellows' lodge and
was rejected on account of his sup
posed bad health. Afterward he was
accepted, and he survived all the
members but one. A little dose of bad
health in early life is often a help to
long life. Rejected men live long
sometimes, as any life insurance doc
tor will tell you. Indeed, the life in
surance companies often do good to
men whom they are compelled to re
ject A' man so rejected often changes
his habits and takes better care of
himself, and perhaps becomes a good
risk. Besides, his obstinacy is
awakened, and he tries to live to
"spite" the company, which, after all,
was right New York Sun.
Appropriate.
"Sometimes humor is found in even
ihe grimmest suggestions," remarked
Senator Barrows. "During the recent
.Grand Army parade, when I marched
with the Michigan veterans, my eye
was struck by the beautiful decora
tions of a Pennsylvania avenue under
taking establishment, accompanied by
the inscription, 'Welcome, G. A. R.
And the funniest part about it was
that the undertaker bore 'the name of
one of the greatest of the Confederate
Generals." Baltimore Herald.
Smallest- American Church.
The Rev. Louis E. Durr is rector or
the Episcopal church at Zanesville,
Ohio, said to be the smallest church
in the United States, being twenty
four feet wide and forty-eight teet
long.
- Rapid Growth of Eagle City
-
Oklahoma Town That Rose horn the Prairie PractkaBf in
IwentyFou? Hours Now Flourishing
and Prosperous,
'Some time between midnight and
sunrise on Dec 4, 1902, a new town
was placed on the map of Oklahoma.
Its name is Eagle City, and it has sev
eral thousand people by this time.
What was a stretch of vacant prairie
on the evening of Dec 3. had many
residences and business' houses in
course of construction at sunrise on
the 4th. It had a daily newspaper, the
Eagle -City Star, in operation on the
latter day, with several lumber yards,
restaurants, hotels, a long-distance tel
ephone system, a big city hall, with
other accessories and accompaniments
of civilization. A city government
will soon be at work there. " Uncle
Sam's mails are delivered in it with
as 'much regularity as in any other
part;. of the west. Another name will
be .added to the country's gazetteers.
In the politics and social economy of
Oklahoma territory and state, hence
forward Eagle City will have to be
reckoned with.
What would Boone, Harrod, Logan,
Robertson, Sevier and the re3t of the
founders of Kentucky and Tennessee
have thought if theyhad heard of tie
establishment of a town in a few
hours, with connections with every
other community in the United States,
and with most of the conveniences of
civilization? What even would the
founders of Kansas, who came on the
scene two-thirds of a century after
The Habit of Profanity
By Constant Use It Becomes Second Nature to Those
- Unfortunately Addicted to It Remarkable
Case in Point
"Profanity," said a Chicago clergy
man, "becomes such a habit that-some
men use profane language in absolute
ignorance of the fact that they are do
ing so. I have known several men
of this kind, and their virtues were
such that I could not honestly blame
them as I should when they were
guilty. The habit I condemned, and
did what I could to correct it, but the
sinning itself seemed to be so much a
part of them that I treated it with
a leniency which I knew was not
right, and yet I could not wholly con
demn them for it.
"I remember particularly the case of
old Ben Stiles. Ben had been a sailor
for many years, and when I first knew
him he was the most profane man I
had ever heard talk. In every other
respect he was one of the finest char
acters I ever knew in his walk of life.
He lived near me, and frequently did
odd jobs about the parsonage. In this
way I came to know him quite well,
and in the course of two or three years
I had almost broken him of his pro
fanity. But not entirely, and whenever
he was deeply moved he was sure to
swear in one way or another.
"At first Ben would not come to
church, but by and by he was present
The Woes
House-Hunting in the City No Joke for Those Who Aft
Blessed With Children One Woman's
Humorous Experience.
"Hunting for rooms with children is
no' joke," said the woman with the
tired looking face. "Why, you'd actu
ally think they were a disgrace in
stead of a blessing. The time I've had
this day would try the patience of a
saint. I've been looked over, consult
ed about in insultingly audible tones,
told that they'd' take me 'on trial,'
until really I'm half dead and savage
enough to bite."
"I know," sympathetically broke in
a jolly little woman in tie corner.
"I've been through it all. But I fin
ally got a place, owing to the fact per
haps that the landlord had :i sense of
humor."
"Oh, do tell us about it," said an
other woman. "I, too, have a child,
and I, too, have tried to move, but
I've been compelled to stay where I
am on account of my young hopeful."
"Well, it was this way," began the
good-natured little woman. I'd been
hunting for days, tired and cross; oh,
dear me, yes. And to cap it all. baby
was cross, too. I always took him
with me. It saved the trouble of
answering questions. I bad turned
from door to door, and was utterly
discouraged; sometimes it was noth
ltrsPlsafasafririrri a
HOW TO CONTROL CHILDREN.
Steady, Gentle Firmness Is the First
Requisite.
Bursts of passion in a little child
must be met by steady, gentle firm
ness on the mother's side. Loud out
cries should be hushed not by angry
words, but by a grave quietness of
voice and speech, which helps to re
press them by mere force of contrast
Passionate gestures, such as blows,
kicks and drumming with the heels
upon the floor, should be prevented by
physical force if necessary. Above all,
the thing coveted, if it causes the
child to fly into a rage as the readiest
means of obtaining it, should never
be granted. As the child grows older
and can be reasoned with, he or she
should be taught to avoid the begin
nings of wrath, to struggle against
irritability, and not to give way to it
in words when it rises in the mind,
says the Washington Star.
Quick-tempered children often have
generous, lovable natures, easily in
fluenced for good. A wish to please
another and to do what is right for its
own sake may bo made strong enough
to close the lips against tho torrent
of angry words that rushes to them,
and so helps them to victory. Each
effort at self-conquest makes the next
one easier.
It Did Not Matter.
The man in the case was old and
profoundly in love with a young, beau
tiful and fpMorable woman.
Whether iue loved him in return Is
not said. It is enough to say that she
permitted his attentions nay, more,
she encouraged them.
In fact they were to be married.
Is it necessary to state that he was
rich?
"My darling," he ss!d to her as he
clasped a magnificent bracelet of dia
monds about her wrist, "I love you
more than I can tell you."
He spoke the truth, too, for It is
easy for an old mac to love a young
Boone and his compatriots had done
their work, have thought of this feat
of the citizens of Eagle City? In
Kansas' case many towns were estab
lished after laborious preparation
which disappeared in quicker time
than they were created, and have long
since dropped oV the "gazetteers and
the maps. .Some ambitious Kansas
towns with-Imposing names back in
the "50s and '60's are now corn fields.
History has forgotten them. Even
tradition is a little" dubious as to the
spots on which they stood.
But no such fate Is likely to come, to
Eagle City. Lawton and several other
towns In' Oklahoma in recent years
had as swift a rise as this latest the
latest except Snyder,- which was born
a day afterward accession ,to that,
territory's map. All are on the map
still. All are flourishing. In fact,
Oklahoma Itself was a lightning crea
titon. The place that we call Okla
homa, which, at a certain noontime in
April, 1889, had not a single inhabi
tant, possessed a permanent popula
tion of 50,000 before sunset on that
day, with residences, hotels, restaur
ants, stores, banks, printing offices
and the general equipment of a mod
ern community. Its 61,000 people in
1890 were found by Uncle Sam's cen
sus takers in 1900 to have Increased
to 398,000. Probably they number
450,000 or 500,000 now. Exchange.
every Sunday, and when we had a
great revival on one occasion he con
fessed his sins and asked the -prayers
of the church. He only needed the
revival influence to come out squarely
on the right side. We were all pro
foundly rejoiced when he arose in the
meeting and asked for our prayers. I
took him by the hand and told him
he must pray himself, while we were
praying for him.
"We knelt together, and for some
time Ben could not speak. Finally he
found utterance, and I am sure I shall
never forget that prayer, and I know
that the tears of the Recording Angel
blotted out the one word in it that
should not have been there, yet was
no sign that he was not truly re
pentant "'O Lord,' he prayed, help me, a
poor sinner. I'm sorry, O Lord, for
the sins I have committed, and help
me to be better, if I ain't too d d bad.
Amen.'
"It was unlike any other prayer I
had ever heard, but it was from the
heart, and Ben never knew that he
had used the wrong word. He died
a Christian, ten years after his con
version, and after that last unexpected
oath I never heard him swear again."
of a Mother,
ing more than a look and a snappisn
'No, we have nothing to let here,' in
spite of the fact that the 'Apartments
to Rent' stared me in the face.
"Baby was so villainously cross that
I finally took him over to my sister's
flat and left him there with her, and
started off to see a flat she had rec
ommended. It was a pretty flat, suit
able in every particular, and tae
arrangements were being made for
me to have the place when suddenly
my prospective landlord turned to me
and said: 'By the way, have you any
children?'
"I grcaned. There it was again
the same old question. I could not .tell
him a lie. and knew that just as soon
as I told him the truth it would be all
up with the flat."
"'Yes,' I answered. 'Yes, I've got
one. But if the good Lord will let me
live until I get home I'll take him out
in the back yard and kill him!'
"Well, the man nearly had a fit, he
laughed so hard, and then I nearly
had one, for he made an exception in
our case, and he and the young hope
ful are great friends. Indeed, he
laughingly maintains that he saved
the child's life." New York Times.
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and beautiful woman who smiles upon
him.
"Oh," she laughed, as she tapped
him playfully on his bald head, "you
don't have to! Money talks, you
know."
And the old man thought it was so
very bright and funny that he stooped
down and kissed her.
Blarney.
In one of the large manufacturing
establishments in this city an Irish
man was employed to watch one of
the entrances.
One day the superintendent saw
the Irishman was neglecting his duty,
and told him to go to the office and
get his money, as his services were
no longer needed.
The superintendent went away on
business that day and was gone about
a week or ten days. On his return he
happened to be passing this same
place and was surprised to find the
Irishman be had discharged still act
ing as watchman.
He said: "I thought I discharged
you a couple of weeks ago.
"Sure," says the Irishman.
"Well, wtiy didn't ycu get out when
you were told?"
"Oh! I know when I got a good
boss, if you don't know when you
have a good man."
Needless to say, he Is still there.
Philadelphia Ledger.
A Tip for Actors.
"So you think that I made a grave
error In presenting the play here in
New Ycrk without first trying lr else
where?" said the playwright
'I do, Indeed," frankly answered the
critic.
"Eut what locality would you have
suggested as more appropriate?"
Well," replied the critic, after giv
ing the subject due consideration,
"there is a little settlement some
where up in the wilds of Maine called
Alamoosook. It's an Indian name sig
nifying "Great Dog Place."
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Cattle Feeding at the Missouri Agri
cultural Collage.
A communication from the Missouri
Agricultural college says: A carload
of two-year-old high-grade steers fed
by. the Agricultural Experiment Sta
tion at the university, averaging. 1.466
pounds, sold in Chicago this week at
16.85, which was more than $1 above
the top of the market for that day,
and is the record price for cattle in
any market this year. These cattle
-were purchased for the faney New
York trade. A live stock paper of Chi
cago referred to this sale as follows:
"Standing up like the Eiffel Tower
above other sales to-day was one of a
load of fifteen prize Hereford steers
averaging' 1.466 pounds, which sold
at $6.85. It was an exceptional load
of cattle and the best seen here since
the Fat Stock Show. They were fed
by the experiment station at Colum
bia, Missouri, under the supervision
of Dean H. J. Waters. The load at
tracted considerable attention for be
ins bo for superior to anything else
on the market'
These steers were purchased in the
vicinity of Columbia at a cost of $4.10
for the feeding experiments conducted
at the station, in which the feeding
value of cottonseed meal, linseed
meal and bran, in combination with
corn, was compared witn corn alone,
on bluegrass pasture They have been
on full feed since July 1st These cat
tle were also used by the students in
the stock judging- exercises required
of the students in the agricultural col
lege, and were u&ed to Impress upon
these young men the Importance of
handling only high-grade stock. Four
of the belt steers in the ' original
bunch purchased by the station were
i&Ken out last spring to go with a load
of show cattle that won at the Inter
national Fat Stock Show at Chicago
this fall. These steers were consid
ered by all authorities to be the best
and to be carrying the finest finish
"f any animals that have been on the
market since the Fat Btock Show, and
were considered by some to have been
capable of winning in that contest
The station now has eighty high
grade calves with which it is compar
ing the influence of age upon the cost
of beef. One-third of these calves
will be marketed next fall as year
lings, another third the following fall
as two-year-olds, and the third bunch
will be carried until they are three
years old, a careful record being kept
of all the food consumed during the
progress of the experiment The Uni
ted States government is cooperating
with the station in conducting this
experiment and has a special officer
located here to collect data and report
the results to the government
Nebraska Swine Breeders Meet
The Nebraska State Swine Breed
ers' Association held its annual meet
ing at Lincoln, Jan. 20. Dr. Dalrym
ple. of Louisiana, told of the hog rais
ing industry in his state and said
that hogs were kept there with much
less trouble than in the north, as
there was little need for housing. He
expressed the belief that the South
was a good market for the sale of good
breeding hogs if they could be sold
at a fair price: G. H. Payne gave
an interesting paper, relating his
experience in feeding large rations of
alfalfa to hogs. This subject brought
out a very interesting discussion. Mr.
Payne had a great deal of data that
showed plainly that it was of great
value to feed hogs large rations of al
falfa in connection with grain. He
also suggested that the alfalfa should
be cut when fed in large amounts to
hogs, that it was more economical to
feed it in this ,way. Dr. G. A. John
son presented an interesting paper
on the "Internal Parasites of Swine
and the Remedy for the Same." The
doctor had secured a number of speci
mens which he demonstrated. He
gave in a, very concise way the his
tory of the parasites and how tbey In
fested the animal. He also empha
sized that preventives should be
largely adopted and that preventive
measures would greatly reduce the in
fection of the herds. He also gave
some good medicinal remedies that
could be used in cases where animals
are affected with parasites. Profes
sor Thomas Shaw of St. Paul. Minn.,
was introduced to conduct the judg
ing school. He took some Duroc Jer
sey hogs and gave a course of judging
to the breeders.
Nebraska Live Stock Breeders.
Ihe annual meeting of the Nebras
ka Improved Live Stock Breeders' As
sociation was hell Jan. 21 at the
State University at Lincoln. The at
tendance was good and the interest
excellent Among the papers read
at the meeting was one by Prof. Smith
on the feeding value of wheat He
declared it to be more efficient than
corn it. the feeding of steers, and that
100 pounds, of wheat would equal 105
pounds ot corn for that purpose. A
very good paper on ergot was read by
Prof. J. L. Sheldon. Ergot contains
properties that are poisonous to man
and beast When cattle have been fed
through the winter on bay containing
ergot, the poison begins to manifest
itself towards spring. It reduces the
I cuculation to such an extent that the
blood collects in the extremities of
the animal, such as the tail and the
ears. The preventive is to see that
no grass containing ergot is eaten by
cattle and that none of it is cut for
hay. Dr. W. H. Dalrymple of Louis
iana talked on the immunizing of
northern cattle. He expressed his
confidence in the value of inoculating
northern cattle against Texas fever
when taken South. Other papers
were read by well-known professors
and stock raisers.
Nebraska Poultry Association.
At tho annual meeting of the Ne
braska State Poultry Association,
held Jan. 20, the following officers
were elected: T. L. Norval of Se
ward, president; E. B. Day of Norte
Bend, vice-president; L. P. Ludden cl
Lincoln, secretary; I. L. Lyman of
Lincoln, treasurer; David Larson of
Wahpo. C. Rockhill of Harvard. A.
Irving of Tecumseb. C. M. Llewellyn
of Beaver City, E. E. Smith of Lin
coln, board of managers. Next year's
annual meeting will be held at Lin
coln. After one of the sessions, an ob
ject lesson in canonizing was given.
The great problems connected with
tho feeding of cattle are being studied
as never before. The American
stockman is making greater progress
in the solution- of these feeding prob
lems than any other man, and this is
largely due to' our 56 experiment sta-1
tuns. i
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Irrigation by Pumping.
From Farmers Review: Where the
lift of water is less than ten feet and
water near at hand Irrigation will pay
on ordinary crops. Where the lift is
greater it will only pay on costly and
profitable crops like small fruits and
vegetables where high quality Is a
factor in the markets. My experience
has been with strawberries only and
largely for nursery purposes where it
was desired to grow plants under the
most favorable condition in order to
fully develop their fruit producing or
ganism and therefore Imperative that
they should not be injured by pro
tracted drouths.
A twenty-five horse power gasoline
engine and No. 6 centrifugal pump
lifts about 700,000 gallons of water
thirty-five feet high and forces it
through twelve hundred feet of a
six-inch iron pipe and thence through
an eleven-inch duck hose to any part
of the farm up to a half mile where it
is distributed with a hose having an
arm tube four feet long and four
inches In diameter every four feet,
letting the water out into narrow
About 80.000 gallons are applied to
an acre at one watering, only one man
being required to superintend the
distributing. Of course the amount
used varies according to conditions.
The main point is to get the water
into the subsoil and then let It perco
late out under the plants and rise to
the surface by capillarity, so that the
plants never suffer from saturation
jut grow naturally. The application
of small amounts to the surface is
very bad under any circumstances. It
packs the surface so as to exclude air
from the roots and capillarity Is so
active that the water would evapor
ate before the immediate surface
would be dry enough to cultivate, and
in an incredible short time the plants
would be seen to wilt
We are very careful never to flood
the surface but cultivate the ditch full
as soon as possible and stir the sur
face every week afterwards and so
even in the hottest weather the wat
ering will keep the plants growing in
prime condition for fifteen days, but
we keep the pumps running and man
age to make the round of our 58 acres
of strawberries in less time than indi
cated. The engine is run to its full
est capacity and consumes about fof
ty gallons of gasoline in ten hours;
costing at present 12 cents per gallon,
or $4.80 for ten hours.
It requires the time of the hoe squad
of about 30 men who lay down their
tools walk directly to the hose and
pick up the whole and carry it to new
ground where couplings are quickly
made and water again turned on. It
also requires one man and horse to
make the ditches and another to cul
tivate. I estimate the total cost at
$12 per day of ten hours.
If a wind mill were used a storage
tank would be necessary and the
water should be applied at night so it
would soak deeply and the surface be
cultivated the following day.
The water should be carried to the
distributing point in hose because the
seepage in ordinary soil would be
large. The hose should be liberally
large and made of No. 4 cotton duck,
edges hemmed and stitched together
on a harness sewing machine, the
connection being made by inserting a
tube like a stove pipe and strapping
the hose to each end.
For ordinary crops the same amount
of expense and labor expended in till
age to conserve spring rains will ma
ture full crops and except where the
lift Is small and water in abundance
good results in strawberry growing
can be had by fall mulching and hold
ing the water down by leaving it until
after berries are picked In spring.
Few people realize bow much water
is required to properly fill the soil of
an acre of land and if the area to be
irrigated is large an ordinary well
would hardly meet requirements. R.
M. Keiiogg.
How Plants Get Carbon.
Prof. F. H. King: Of course not all
of the carbonic acid in the air which
passes across a clover field can be
secured, nor indeed all of that which
enters the intercellular air passages
of the green parts of the plant, and
hence it follows that very much larg
er volumes of air than have been
stated must be brougut into close con
tact with the growing clover in order
to meet its needs. This air, however,
cannot come into intimate relations
with the green chlorophyll-bearing
cells of the clover in the field with
out of necessity permitting the evap
oration of large quantities of water
from the plants; and this brings us
to realize how imperative is the de
mand for water by rapidly growing
crops. The writer has found, for ex
ample, by direct measurement that
the air passing three feet above a
clover field, and at a moderate rate,
even as early as May 30 in Wisconsin,
when the air temperature is only
52.48 F., may have its relative humid
ity Increased from 44 to 48 per cent
by the moisture taken from the field;
and this means that 3,510 pounds of
water are required to make even the
observed change of humidity in a
volume of 152,600,000 cubic feet of air.
which is the amount required to car
ry to the clover crop its carbon, sup
posing all the carbon which the air
contained to be utilized.
Study of Commercial Trees.
One of the most important and inter
esting undertakings by the Bureau of
Forestry during the present field sea
son is a careful study of a number of
the most valuable American commer
cial trees. This will include among
others a study of the Adirondack bal
sam, in Franklin county. New York.
Incident to the work of the bureau In
connection with the Chippewa Indian
Reservation in Minnesota a careful
study of the Red River is in progress.
A study of the rate of growth of the
sugar pine in California, which was
begun last season, Is now being con
tinued. Last year's work began in the
ncrthern part of the state and in
southern Oregon, and this season the
examination will be continued south
ward with the idea of covering the full
commercial range of this important
timber tree. The southern hardwoods
will be studied In Kentucky, North
Carolina and West Virginia. This
work will be mainly devoted to a con
sideration of the oaks and the yellow
poplar, the idea being to study them In
their commercial ranges, along with
other trees which occur in mixture
with them.
When pigs are treated with the
samo consideration and care that are
bestowed upon the horse and cow. we
shall find that he is in fact a cleanly
Animal, and one that will never soil
either his eating or his sleeping place
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AGRICULTURE'
Husbanding Soil Fertility.
This is the great lesson to be
learned by this generation. Our fath
ers knew nothing of It They found
land so rich la plant food and la
hums that they deemed it impossi
ble to wear oat the soil. They took
innumerable crops from the land, and
threw their manure into the river
and streams. It become a habit to
rob the land. Plant food and humus
in the land were growing less and
less with each succeeding year, but
they did not know it As the humus
went, the ability of the soil to hold
moisture went with it The farmers
began to believe that the years were
getting more drouthy, though this was
not the case. Their land had lost
power to resist drouth. This was
for two reasons. Th humus had
held moisture in the soil, and the
richness had developed large plants,
which in turn sent their .roots down
into the subsoil. With the lessening
of the fertility, plants made small
root growth and so failed to reach
the supplies of moisture in the cool
soil far below. When a tffw hot weeks
came, the sssall rooted plants soon
wilted and the ground deficient of
humus dried out It is said that the
preaeaea of humus doubles the capa
city of ordinary soil to hold water.
Humus can be restored to the soil
only by the use of barnyard manure
and of green crops plowed under.
Where the clovers can bo grown,
the decay of their roots in the soil
will he.p matters some. The clover
is likely to fail on land devoid of
humus, and this complicates matters
in attempting to bring back the soil
to its first estate.
The first thing for farmers to do is
to prevent further loss of fertility
and humus. Unfortunately, there arc
multitudes of farmers to-day still fol
lowing the old wasteful methods and
ruining the rich heritages they have
received from their parents. We may
expect to see their farms become
poorer year by year, till they pass
Into the hands of the men that hold
the mortgages or go to people that
buy them for a song. It is much
easier to conserve tie fertility and
humus of our lands than it is to re
store them when they have been dis
sipated. Farmers' Review.
How Nature Tills the Land.
Nature made the lands, in a great
part of our state, rich and fertile. How
did she do it? If we study nature
and note how she is working to main
tain the richness of the land and how
she has been doing to build up the
soil, then, possibly we can, If we will,
stop this waste. For thousands or
years where timber has grown on the
land, the annual crop of leaves has
been deposited on the ground, and
the trunks and branches of the trees,
one after another, have fallen on the
ground and decayed, becoming vege
table mold. Occasionally, a tree
would turn up by the roots, thus
bringing up a portion of the subsoil
and setting it on edge so that the
elements the air. sun. frost and
rain could act on it, and make solu
ble and available the plant food con
tained in it As this subsoil, brought
up by the overturning trees, is crum
bled and leveled down through the
processes of nature, it buries up a
large amount of the decaying leaves
and wood that have fallen on the
ground, and in this way the land is
plowed and cultivated, sometimes
very deeply, and the decaying vege
table matter thoroughly mixed in so
that the soil is filled with humus.
Humus is not only plant food, but It
enables the soil to hold much more
water than it would without the hu
mus. The roots of the trees and
shrubs and some plants that grow in
the woods, send their roots down
deep in the earth, thus disintegrat
ing the soil and letting air into it,
and when these roots die. as they
will in time, they add more humus to
the scil. C. P. Goodrich.
In Buying Clover Seed.
A bulletin of the Department or
Agriculture says: The prices charged
for clover seed vary greatly, each
large dealer having two or more
grades, of different prices. Unfor
tunately for the buyer, each dealer
has his own grade names, and even
the standard terms, prime, choice and
fancy, as used by different dealers, do
not always mean the same thing. If
for these indefinite terms could be
substituted a statement of the per
centage of pure and germinable seed,
the buyer could tell at once what sam
ple was the most advantageous for
him to buy. It is a safe general con
clusion that the sample which, while
reasonably free from weed seeds, con
tains the largest amount of pure and
vigorously germinating clover at the
least cost is the best one for the
farmer to buy. Low-priced samples
seldom fulfill this condition, nor do
those sold at exorbitantly high prices.
Usually the high grade, medium
priced samples are really the cheap
est, but the only way to determine the
value of a sample is to test the seed.
The result of the purity test shows
how much pure seed Is present and
the germination test determines how
much of this pure seed will grow.
Do Orchard Soils Deteriorate?
This was the question discussed
recently in a farmers Institute in
Cook county. Illinois. In that county
there are many orchards that did well
once, but have been of no account for
a generation or so. In some cases the
orchardists planted new trees as the
old ones ceased to be profitable, but
the new ones proved of no conse
quence. Some of these men claimed
to have given their orchards as good
care as they did twenty years ago.
vet without commensurate returns
for the labor expended on them. Pro
fessor Blair, of the University of Illi
nois, in attempting to answer this
question, did not accept the statement
that orchard soils will thus deteri
orate. He believes that the orchards
have not been receiving the care they
used to receive, while insect and fun
gous pests have multiplied. He sees
no reason why soil properly handled
and trees properly sprayed and other
wise properly treated should not do
as well now in Northwestern Illinois
as they did twenty years ago.
"Wattles" are the red. "depending
structures at each side of the base of
the beak, chiefly developed in the
male sex.
The number of passengers carried
by boats on the great lakes is from a -quarter
to a third of a million each
season.
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