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f '-" ' E. 1 i. r- "y- J- - - ---. ri'-afsv- 'ffi. srosERSs ' 'w;? ',r " -. CV 'VH'J?! . V4JVS fa v '- .-, ,r,. . -f jr - r - T --v j "ar -!-. -x i It? J .. ',- Ewr55"" It- f w Mkmffir mw Join the don't worry club this year. Nitrogenous food for the sows that are In pig. Salt the cows every day rather than at long and irregular intervals. A steady man and a steady old liorse are needed to break the colt right Don't let the flock run down in con dittos. Well-fed poultry are poor-subjects for' disease. Feed regularly. The poultry will do better and will show their apprecia tion in the fuller egg basket Profit by the mistakes made last year. Don't fail a second time in the same way and on the same thing. Better a small farm clear of debt and well worked than a great big one burdened with debt and not half worked. The cow with the finical appetite will not prove the profitable cow. The cow must be a hearty feeder to give - a generous yield. A sheep man says that buying thin &heep or lambs without providing -shed accommodation is the rankest kind of gambling. Can't afford a tank heater? Well, you certainly can't afford to let your cattle drink the water through the hole cut in the ice in the tank. Of course you cannot dip the sheep now. but jou can sift insect powder into the wool and rub it well in. This will knock the ticks and give relief to the sheep. What are you doing to make your locality better? A good question to ask yourself during these days when .you have time to think and leisure to do the kindly deed. Have a few nut trees on the place. They are slow growers, but once es tablished they will provide your chil dren and your children's children with reason for thanksgiving to the planter. The reason beef cattle are hardier than dairy cattle is that they have mojre fat worked through the muscles. Thf dairy cattle put the fat into the milk or deposit it around their intes tines to be drawn upon when needed. This country imports 1600,000,000 worth of tropical fruits each year. "Which leads u to ask how much of this fruit hunger of our people might be supplied by a better fruit produc tion at home? Are you helping to sup ply the need? It takes variety of feed to keep the appetite keen and working to the full limit. Remember this in your feed ing. When steers begin to fuss over snapped corn give them a change once a day of corn-and-cob meal, and along toward the finish, deal out two pounds of oil meal once a day to each steer. By groups of three. Try them: Three things to wish for health, friends, and a cheerful spirit Three things to delight in frankness, free ' dom. and beauty. Three things to ad mire power, gracefulness, and dig nity. Three things to govern tem per, tongue, and conduct Three things to hate cruelty, arrogance, and affection. Three things to love pur ity, truth and honor. Three things to "be brave, gentle, and kind. Georgia is on the road toagricul-, tural prosperity, for an educated peo ple means better farms and better farming. The legislature of that state last year passed an act establishing 11 agricultural high schools as branches of the State College of agriculture. These schools receive from the state, each, about $6,000 a year, but each community in which' such a school Is 'located must furnish not less than 200 acres of good land and the necessary equipment The people of Georgia have responded enthusiastically to this requirement and over a million dollars in land and money has been offered for their equipment Some of the cities of the east are suffering from a systematic business of horse swindling, which goes to show that there are easy marks in other places besides the country. Farmers may well chuckle at the story and remind prospective horse buyers that a, good place to boy re-, liable horse flesh' is from the menwho raise them, even though a few dollars more has to be paid sometimes. Here is the way the swindlers work: When arriving in the city to be worked, they advertise in the daily papers that they have purchased several score of auto tracks and have therefore ae farther use for the hundred or so of horses, which they offer for sale at a very low price. Of course, the whole yarn is a swindle. The horses of fered for sale are invariably doped, and the unsuspecting team owner dis covers before long that he has been taken in. We suggest to team owners that they steer clear of any doubtful proposition of that kind. Buy your horses from the well-known, reputable dealer, even if you have to pay more; in the long run you will find that by so doing you save money. Good plowing is absolutely essential to good tillage. Do not try to churn' the cream if it is over 60 degrees in temperature Feed wisely and not too generously during the winter while the horses are idle. Forget your troubles by doing for others. You wiH be happier, and so will the other fellow. c Be sure your blacksmith under stands his business. Many a horse is injured by improper shoeing. Idle regret never made the future better, but improvement of the pres ent will always bring its sure-returns. The automobile hasn't cheapened the prices of horses, neither is it like ly to do so. Money in good horses. Raise a few. . The best ration is. the ration not which 'is the cheapest but the one which will produce the .greatest amount of profit in proportion to out lay. Good management is the best cure all we know of for the poultry yard. It prevents disease getting into the flock and it makes short work of it if it does by chance get in. Hang a door in the hog house from the top so it will swing both ways. The hogs will soon learn to push it out of the way in passing in and out, and it will prevent draughts and exposure. Beef is high and at the prevailing prices an ox team is worth about as much per pound as a modern locomo tive, which would .make it the most expensive power in our modern civili zation. Make a triangular snow plow and hitch the horse to it next time the snow has to be cleaned from paths, under clothesline, etc. You will be surprised how easily and quickly the work can be done. The more stock on the farm the bet ter, provided you do not try to half keep them. The land must be -fed. Feed clover and other legumes, don't turn them under. The manure will answer the purpose better, and you save its feeding value. A reading course for farmers' wives and daughters of New York state un der the direction of the Cornell Agri cultural' college -is said to number 'on its rolls over 22,000 readers. Good idea for the agricultural colleges in other states to follow. ' The New Jersey State Horticultural society proposes to discuss the ques tion: "Would it be safe to invest money in a scale-infested apple or chard (otherwise a good one) 30 years old?" We might be willing to argue the question but not to invest. 'The other fellow could do that Get acquainted with the teacher of your children. You may be too busy to visit the school, but you can have the teacher run up to the houso and take supper with you and spend the night. It's the way they used to do and it was a good custom. Try it and see how pleased the children and the teacher will be. The first step in breaking the colt is accustoming him to the harness. Do not be in a hurry to get him into the buggy. He has lots to learn. Be pa tient with him. To try to rush the work of breaking creates confusion in the mind of the colt Let him get well hold of each new idea before trying to break him to another. It is like the little babe learning to walk. One step at a time, and that slow and sure. Use live lime in whitewashing the coops. Airslacked lime has lost its power. Whitewash made with good lime will kill all vermin that it touches, while air-slacked lime white wash is about as effective as that much clear water. Care should be ex ercised to keep the whitewash from the legs of the fowls, as it will cause the skin to become inflamed and sore. The eyes, combs and wattles will also suffer. Look over the incubator and get it in shape for the first filling. Clean out the heat or flue pipe into which the lamp chimney,, extends, put in a new wick, clean -all the parts of the lamp thoroughly, and have everything about' the machine in as perfect con dition as possible. Then when ready to introduce the eggs run the machine for a day or two testing carefully so that when the eggs are put in there will be no unpleasant surprises. An open scratching shed is best, according to tests made by the Cor nell "expariment station. It was found that the open scratching shed, unpro tected by glass in the day time, was the best and that the fowls were healthier than they were in the scratching sheds covered with glass. The open scratching sheds had covers that shut down at night and kept out the snow and rain. They could be opened la the morning when the fowls came from their roosts. The fowls evi dently got more good out of the pare air in the open scratching shed than they did out of the greater antount of heat in the scratching1 shed- covered 'with glass. The sage of old said: "Man, know thyself." and the cry of the modern sage of farm science is: "Farmer, know thy soil." Such knowledge is essential to intelligent farming. The possibilities of each soil should be known. Here is a soil that has in it enough nitrogen to last a hundred years. That soil has the possibility of producing large crops by the addition of aiittle phosphorus and potassium. Here, is another soil that has both nitrogen and phosphorus. It needs but a little potassium to make it produce' an immense crop, 'while now it hardly returns the seed. Our not-understood soils have in them uncounted mil lions of wealth, which will begin to be realized when their owners come t understand them. 2&ND I AAMMMMMAV4m0WVWVWWWmMMMMmMMMMWW BUREAU FOR DOLLY. Boy Handy with Tools Can an Make I His Sister Happy. A bureau for the doll's house. Oh, goody, sister will say as you get out your tools to go to work. The article of furniture is shown complete in Fig. 1, while the various parts of which it is composed are illustrated in the other cuts. The main body of this piece of furniture is the box-like part that holds the two drawers. The .back, which contains the mirror, is made separate from the latter, and is then united to it just as is the case in the making of "grown-up" -furniture: Taking up the main part of the bu reau first, we 'find three plain, rec tangular pieces, which are to he cut from the thin orange-box wood. One of these pieces is the top. The length of this should be 6 inches and the width 3 inches. The height of the end pieces should be 4 inches and the width 3 inches. These pieces Fig.l The Bureau Complete. should all be cut out with straight edges, and the surfaces should be well rubbed down with sandpaper. The front is now to be 'cut out of the thin wood in the manner shown in Fig. 2. If one has a jig saw, he can easily cut this pattern out of the board. If it must be cut out with a knife, care must be taken not to break or split the wood before completing the, part, since the wood that is left after cutting out the openings for the two drawers, will not be. very strong until it has been firmly united -with the end pieces and with the top. by gluing. The back is. of course, sim- This" iscut out This ts cut out Fig.n The Front Detail of Bureau. ply a' plain bit of the board of the same shape and dimensions as the front, except that it is as much shorter than the front as the thick ness of the two ends. This permits the back to be glued inside the ends, so that the back piece does not show at all. The spaces cut out for the two drawers in the front piece can be made smaller than is shown, if pre ferred, which will make the cutting of this piece without splitting much easier, but the result will not be quite so "grown-up" looking. The length of the front is 6 inches with a height just the same as the end pieces. Next glue all these parts solidly to gether, allowing the front to overlap the ends, and the back to fit in be tween the ends. The top has been made long enough and on the two Flg.ni II Back and Mirror Part of Bureau. ends, which gives a more finished look to the piece of furniture. It is not absolutely necessary to make the drawers "real" ones. The front can be made of a solid piece, and an out line of the two drawers marked on the outer surface, or a thin piece of a darker wood can be cut to the size of the drawer fronts, and glued into place, which will give the exact' ef fect of drawers, when the - little wooden knobs are in place. But it will be a great satisfaction to the small future housekeeper to have real drawers in which the doll's clothing can be placed. To make real drawers cut two pieces of the orange-box wood to fit the two openings in the front then make two complete little drawers, that, on the outside, will be just as wide as the length of the two fronts. Then glue these fronts to the little boxesin the manner shown in Fig. 4. 'A study "of this cut .will show 'just how, the drawers aressade,' and at tached to the fronts, The' backs and fronts .of the drawers are made of extra thick wood, so as to make the drawers stiff. They can be put to gether with brads. The bottom will fit inside the ends and sides and be held in place by brads through the Utter. Some little strips of the orange box wood must be glued to the inside of the ends, aad from front to back through the middle of the bureau, for the drawers to run upon. These can be whittled out with a knife and fastened in place with glue. The lit tle knobs can be whittled out of pine wood and inserted in holes made in the fronts with an awL The back is a framework of strips of the thin wood, which is shown In Fig.-3. The side pieces should be S inches long, and scant one-half inch El wide. The cross-pieces are 5 inches iong and are secured to the. side pieces by wooden pins, inserted as suggested in Fig. 3, at the right side. The lower cross-piece is wide enough to lap a little onto the bureau itself, as can be seen in Fig. 1. Now make a little frame of one-quarter inch strips, that will fit into the opening ol this frame shown in Fig. 3. This should .have a piece of glass laid upon its back, and a piece of black paper laid behind this, with edges projecting enough to extend over onto the frame where these edges are glued to the wood the back .of the frame. This paper holds the glass In place and. be ing black, makes a mirror of the glass. This mirror-frame is held in place by pins of wood passing through the side pieces into the middle of the side I 7g& 1!-. 4 J ff &r 9 A' Drawer for the pieces of the mirror, as shown in Fig. 1. This permits the mirror to be tilted forward, when desired, as In large fur niture. A piece of broken window glass can be cut to the right size for a mirror. The mirror and its support ing frame are now fastetned to the back of the bureau by glue and wood en pus. Daniel Greene, in Farm and Home. AN EXPERIMENT. Revolving Siphon Which Can Be Rigged) .Up of Straws and a Cork. The principle illustrated in the ac companying cut might readily serve to generate power without the use of machinery. It is given, however, merely as an interesting and easily made experiment Pour water, into a good-sized glass tumbler until It is two-thirds full and stand it upon a canister to give it the necessary elevation. Through the flat cork on the surface of the water is a stout straw, which transversely sup ports one of the same diameter. Tp the latter are attached two other straws of similar diameter, each of theses having a bit of straw about an Inch in length attached oto the end at an obtuse angle with the outlets cut on the slant to make easier the exit of the water. All., the joints are hollow and are made water-tight with sealing wax. The ends of the transverse straw are likewise closed with the wax, but the ends of the depending straws are left open. Now, to start this unique home-made apparatus in action, let two persons suck the open ends of the depending straws until the water begins to flow. The Apparatus. and when they take their mouths away the device will begin to revolve, while .the water pours steadily from the open ends. This revolving syphon will soon empty the tumbler, but you may keep the action up as long as you please by pouring water in as fast as the straws let it pour out FUN WITH A HANDKERCHIEF. How It Can Be Folded Into a Funny Rag Baby. When Dottie was sick mamma gave her one of papa's big linen handker chiefs, and this is how she amused herself. See whether you can make a baby like the one in the picture. Fol low directions in illustrations, 1,2,3 and get the results in 4. Squirrel Strippers. If you wanted to strip a pine cone, you would probably begin at the top and have lots of trouble. The squir rel knows better than that He, does not prick his fingers or pinch his whis kers or gnaw into the solid cone any more than is necessary. , He knows better than to cut off the top and work his -way downward or to gnaw into- the spiny shields. He whirls it bottom upward in .a twink ling, then cuts through the thin and tender bases of the scales, and each stroke tells, laying bare at once a couple of seeds, which he eats. He strips it so easily and rapidly that you cannot tell how he does it till you drive him off and inspect his unfin ished work. ' A Brazen Girl. Miss Highup It's perfectly scan dalous! Did you hear about Miss De Pink? Miss Tiptop No. What has she' done? "Oh, the most immodest thing Imag inable! She's let all the world knew she is crazy to get married by going and joining a cookery school." New York Weekly. Bureau. ' bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbI bbbbbbM smsmm bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb! BBBBBBBBBBBmBBmsl msm J .Z-Bml BmsBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBs! 7tJY aJ-Ja m If isj C J J w C Some New Ideas for Bride's Pin Shower Winter Dinner Table The cry for something new in show ers is almost as incessant as rae can for guessing contests; sometimes' it eems as if there could be nothing new under the sun. Just as I am about to give up in despair there gen erally comes some sort of an inspi ration from I know not where. Try this pin shower upon the' next bride elect to be honored. The guests were asked to bring pins all kinds, shapes and sizes. You should have seen the outfit-; common every-day black and white pins, col ored pins, pins with aristocratic pearl tops, hairpins of all varieties, hatpins, veil pins, safety phis and those' that weren't safe; lastly, la- a dalaty case, an exquisite belt put from the eridal party. It had been made to order and was lovely dull silver set with malachite "azurite, which would harmonize beautifully with the going away gown of blue. The ushers were let into the secret and there is to be a collar pin, watch fob. and pendant made to match the belt pin. It is quite the thing now to have jewelry match the costume with which it is to be worn. A Winter Dinner Table. All through, the winter months red and green are the favorite color scheme to use. The hostess can do no better than to adhere to this effective combination. Here is a description of a dinner table set for eight persons. The di ning room walls were red, the plate rail and mantel black. Alternating on the rail and mantel were tall candles and low fairy lamps with red trans parent shades. The center piece was a low green bowl containing a Japa nese flower holder that held red pep per berries. At each place there were four opera sticks, two green and two red, tied with red and green ribbon. The sticks were stacked bayonet fash ion, and the place cards, which were white with the name written in red ink, were held between the upright sticks. The candle sticks were of glass with red shades. Individual charlotte , russe was served for dessert in cases of red crepe 'paper tied with green ribbons; a spray of red berries was on top. The salad was of beets cut in cubes, with stringless beans, served in green sweet pepper cases. Scarlet ribbon tied the bread sticks and the almond and bonbon dishes were of red Bo hemian glass; also the finger bowls. To add to the cheer there was a lovely wood fire in the grate. The guests fairly exclaimed with delight when they entered the dining room. N MADAME MERRI. Brides Go Glovcless. Brides are going gloveless to the altar. The sleeves of the newest bridal gowns come to the fingers and end in falls of lace that conceal the hands. Fashionable women are going to the theater gloveless also; indeed, courageous ones have ventured into church in tailor-made gowns without the slightest pretense of hand cover ing. Mrs. Roosevelt has appeared at concerts and plays in the afternoon without gloves. The Baroness von Sternberg and her sister. Miss Lang man, never wear gloves when calling. This fashion certainly will save money for the average girl. Of all ways to deplete the bank account the habit of wearing-long light gloves is the most effective. Glove bills run up until they put even those of the hats in the shade. si ffdDr lilillVf'iMVMPiy One of the most useful gifts you can give your friends, and one that will lte appreciated, is a case for turn-over collars and cuffs, like illustration. Its foundation is of cardboard, of which two pieces eleven inches long and four inches wide are required. Each piece is covered with figured ribbon on the outside and plain ribbon on the inside. For covering each piece of cardboard 22 inches of ribbon are required, 11 inches of each kind for each side, thus 44 inches in all. Lay the ribbon on the cardboard, turn down the edges care fully and top sew the two pieces of ribbon together with cardboad between. When both pieces of cardboard are neatly covered, take two pieces of satin baby ribbon, sew to the outside edge of upper piece of cardboard (see illus tration) eight inches apart, then sew opposite ends to lower half, thus join ing the two pieces togeher. Next cross two pieces of ribbon on lower half about four and a half inches apart (see illustration) and sew firmly to lower outside edge. Then sew the crossed ribbons to upper half of case. This joins the two pieces of covered cardboad together, forming a booklet when placed together. The object of the ribbon straps is not only to join the two parts, but to hold the collars and cuffs securely when the case is closed. Illustrated case Is covered on the outside with holly ribbon and on the inside with plain green ribbon. The straps are made of -red satin baby ribbon, of which 24 inches are required. "-tMMMtMM,MMJM"M'M"MMM The Gray Gown. There is nothing neater than a gray costume, but it really demands, in winter, an additional color to give the desired effect A woman who can wear dark purple will have a rich looking costume if she has a gown of gray and a very dark purple hat It is not necessary to wear purple gloves or have the gown trimmed with the rich color, but the hat -win lend enough -tone to make all look becom ing and stylish. The hat should be of a sordid color, without a touch of gray. The public-dinner hat which goes with the promenade suit, may be a separate hat to wear with various cos tumes, but it is anything but the con ventional little affair, for the hat is large and trimmed with heavy fronded plumes. A gray hat. with black plumes, is a good style, which most women can wear to splendid advan tage. New Perfume for the Bath. deliciously refreshing perfume for the bath is the salts of genuine eau de cologne. A tablespoonful or pos sibly double the quantity if one likes Pretty Negligee an Indispensable Part of Wardrobe A comfortable and pretty negligee is as necessary to a girl's wardrobe as a tailor-made suit and party dresses. Not that many people see her in her negligee for she never leaves her own room with it on but we all have one or two intimate friends whom we receive In our' own room, and therefore we appreciate the luxury of a dainty and pretty dressing gown, which may be worn after a busy social, school or business day. The practical feature of this charm ing little gown is that it may be slipped on in a moment, being made in one piece. There Is no bother of tying or pinning down of shirtwaists, no hooking of skirt and waist together or adjusting a collar and girdle, or any of those trying little deeds which wear out our patience when we are tired. The skirt is cut from a plain six-gored pattern, and is finished with two five-Inch rufles at the bottom, and it Is joined to the waist by a band an .Inch and a half deep. The band is trimmed with embroidery heading, through which ribbon is strung and tied in a long loop bow in the center of the front The blouse fastens down the middle of the front as does the skirt, and is tucked to yoke length. It is trimmed with two circular, tacked collars, finished with narrow ratlings at the foot of each collar. The sleeves are finished with a cuff of beading, having the ribbon run through it and tied in an attractive rosette at the top of the elbow. A tie fastened to the base of the collars at the center of the front Is made from the same rib bon. . 1 This little frock is charmingly dainty when made of Swiss, dimity or lawn. When something slightly warm er is needed, wool batiste, nuns veil ing, or cashmere may be used with attractive results. Made of dull red cashmere with black ribbon trimmings the frock would be a delight to the most fastidious eye. The amount of materials required for this little dress are ten yards of 36-inch wide material, one and a half yards of beading, five yards of ribbon and one dozen buttons. Red very rei red gloves are shown at the glove counters and will be, so 'tis said, a fad of the win ter. A new toque is made almost entire ly of ermine fur and trimmed on the left side front with a bunch of white ostrich tips. The fur hats are about the only small ones to be had. One in mink was turban-shaped and simply trimmed with a bunch of pale-colored pink roses. For the collectors of souvenir postal cards there are post-card books hold ing 100 cards, with leather covers, that are a real bargain, for the price offered, 50 cents. Smaller books may be had for a quarter. There comes a pretty material for evening waists which is truly perfect It is a white crepe de chine with a small gold design in the weave. This, combined with oriental braids show ing gold filligree designs, furnishes a combination which is charming for an evening waist. Iters the odor especially strong put in the bathtub makes the water soft and de lightful to use. Eau de cologne is marvelously refreshing at all times, and this extract of salts in the bath will dq much to take away the fatigue of a long day, or start one off in the morning invigorated and more than ready for the day's work. The various toilet waters are all de licious for the bath4f used In small quantities, but none can equal this new salts of eou de cologne. Sleeve Bows. Sleeve bows are now counted among the new little dress accessor ies. They are sold with belts to match. The rabbit's ear is the latest shape. Two ears are used for each sleeve. They are prettier made, of soft satin or mirrored velvet and are generally used to finish a three-quarter length sleeve. The belt is so made that the bow gives the short-waisted- empire effect at the back and has two loops as well as the upstanding rabbit's ears. These rabbit bows give a charming color note to a white and Mack gown. HEBRASKk POINTERS STATE NEWS AND NOTES IN CON DENSED FORM. mimNLmisiHiiK What k Going on Here and There That w of Interest to the R TsflfuaamllsaAa MABhffsssalrxw- niBJBJflvBJBJ IwBJBmj BBBBtdBn Rev. Mr. Duncan, aged 82 years, a Baptist minister of AInsworth, has been adjudged insane. Ray Appleby, the son of R. Y. Ap pleby of Stanton, fell from a tree and broke his leg in two places just above . the ankle. The Hall County Medical society has , taken up with the city authorities the question of a-purer and mere health ful milk supply. John V. Joynt, Jacob Morgan ami John Kline, all of Roeelaad, were com mitted. Monday under the dipsomania law to the state ayslum at Lincoln. The Union Pacific has been selected as the omcml route by the demoeratle clubs of Omaha that will attend the national convention to be held in Den ,ver in July. Miss Alice Barclayformerly of Paw. nee City, more recently of Saatlago Chile, is returning via the straits of Magellan and London. England, reach lag Nebraska Aril 1. Clyeve Cope, a younj farmer- Urine two miles north of Humboldt com mitted sunicide by shooting himself in the side very near the heart The case Is reported suicidal. The county commlssionenr of Chey enne county have fixed the salary, of the county superintendent of schools at $1,000 per annum, that of the attor ney at S700 and the county physi cian's at $200. There are still some wolves hi the section around Republican City, and of late there have been three well or ganized and successful hunts. The re sults were thirteen wolves1 and 200 rabbits, besides much smaller game. Frank Cremer. living southeast of Ashland, was badly burned in smother, ing the flames from a lighted. lamp that was pushed off a table. The house was saved by Miss Kate Cremer dashing a bucket of milk over the burn ing carpet and woodwork. Sheriff Miller of Antelope county has arrived home from South Dakota, hav ing in custody W. M. Keith, a young man who formerly worked for John A. Davenport of Elgin, charged by the latter with embezzlement, the amount involved said to be in the neighbor hood of $2,000. Local stockholders of the Oaxaca as sociation, a Chicago corporation own ing a plantation in Mexico, held an indignation meeting in Ashland and voted to send a delegate to the meet ing at Chicago at which it Is promised that sensational developments will come to light in the management of this rubber "plantation. The record filed in Platte county clerk's office for the past two weeks shows that there have been twenty five transfers of real estate and that the amount of money that has changed hands or its equivalent was $36,650, and the mortgages filed over the re leases left an increased mortgage in debtedness for the same time of $28, 1135. C. H. Wilson of Red Oak. la. was in Fairbury several days looking over the ground with the view of locating a factory there for the manufacture of a re-Inforced composition of pipe and a concrete to be used in the construc tion of bridges. Mr. Wilson repre sents the Wilson-Gilliland Concrete Pipe company, incorporated under the laws of Nebraska. Smoke pouring from the tall chim ney of the Edmunds Creamery com pany's building, gave notice of the fact that a new industry had com menced operations in Central City with a capacity of 6,000 pounds of butter daily, and power enough in the boiler and engines' to double the capacity by the addition of another churn if the supply of cream justifies. - A government detective has been in Peru investigating the alleged forged letters which were earlier filed against the postmistress charging inefficiency. Inspector Grogan of Kansas City found no cause for the complaints which had been filed, but evidently the authorities were not satisfied to let the matter rest without ferreting out the parties who had used the names of outside parties in order to trump up a case against the postmistress. The state board of educational lands and funds' invested in bonds for the permanent school fund as follows: From the Harris Trust company of Chicago were bought $75,000 Tennes see bonds to net the state 4.29 per cent $100,000 Tennessee bonds to net the state 4.263 per cent From Harry Nott of Omaha were bought $35,000 Tennessee bonds to net the state 4.80 per cent, $1,900 Tennessee bonds to net the state 4.35 per cent and $8,000 Utah bonds to net the state 4.10 per cent. .. Thomas C. Brownlee has begun a suit in district court of Lancaster county, asking for $28411.95 from the Guaranty Fund Life association of Omaha, an insurance company. Of this amount $3,111.95 is asked on a con tract and $25,000 for damages. Ben Mitchell, nn Elkhorn farmer, re ported to the sheriff of Dodge county that his hog yard had been lavaded and a dozen fat hogs just ready for the market hauled off. This is not the first time that Mitchell has had hogs stolen, and special efforts will be made to run down the thieves. Harry Tignor of Murray had his hand badly mangled in the cogwheehr of a corn shelter, necessitating the am putation of all the angers of the hand. He was climbing down from the shelt er and slipped, throwing his hand into the gearing. The Commercial club of Beatrice has in band several factory propositions. St. Louis parties want to build a pack ing plant there, while West Virginia people want a proposition to start a boiler and tank factory. A Philadel phia concern is also looking for a lo cation for a cutlery factory. ' I 4 V I i V 1 I V 4 J t tr r . -tJt i j;??? tffjrt- -xC .v-j .5W??,C,-L-.jr.c?.--j'v-. ?: F '- - yvV- x Vfrgg5 s l -, i '.. Z-&TEl&'i - ,. . A t -4. KJt,,-. Mv -- ' -' Jt-c-ra .. j vJ