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HEN a citizen of Indian. Ohio
or even Michigan, decide! to
Ulo In Hamilton county, Ne
braska, his neighbor! speak of
him as going "away off out
west," Along with the word
w
they adopt s shadowy notion that western
men, manners and morals, are somehow
radically distinct from those of other com
munities. "The west" has always been something of
a vagabond, possessing a name without a
local habitation. Originally tho "wait"
meant the primitive wilderness. Nine
out of tn eastern folks would find It
Inconvenient to explain their understand
ing of where and what the "west" really
is. The progressiva conquest of the prairie
crowded tho west westward to the Missouri
river, then to the Rocky mountains, then
to the shores of the Pacific. Illinois does
not like to be called a western stato. Iowa
Is almost as sensitive about it. It Is only
when you get Into Colorado, Wyoming and
Montana, that you hear people say with a
definite frankness, "yes, we are decidedly
western." But if you go on to the Pacific,
new confusion awaits you. Oregonians or
Caltfornians speak of Denver as east, and to
the Penverltes Omaha Is hopelessly eastern.
Hamilton county Is an agriculture county.
It any part of Nebraska is able to show
independent of other parts. It will be an
Industrial independence. If you will look
at the matter without prejudice, you will
discover that the balance of a law abiding
spirit is decidedly la favor of Nebraska.
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Selections
Their Slsa.
188 MART COLEMAN is a New
"ja jf 1 York lawyer and a suffragette.
IVjl 1 "A man doesn't need to be
nenpecaea 10 support ou
movement," Miss Coleman
said. "It is wronging men to
mm
ay our male supporters are like like"
Miss Coleman smiled.
"Like this." she said. "A tall, stout
woman seated herself before the haber-
dni-hery counter of a department atora and
la'
" 'I want to get some collars and neck-
tlee fcr my husband.'
Ts. mudam.' said the elerk. 'What
Ble, collars ?'
"nfe woman frowned and bit her Hp.
" 'Sugar! she said. 'To save my life I
ean't remember!'
" Thirteen? Twelve and a half? tha
clerk suggested.
" 'Why, yea-twelva and a half,' said the
woman. 'Haw did you guess it?'
The clerk smiled.
" 'Oentfemen who let their . Wives select,
their ties and collars generally take that
aie he said.' "New York Tribune.
Kdgar Belwyn, In "Pierre of the Plains,"
tells a good one of two darkies sprawling In
the sunshine, on a wharf,
George Washington drew a lung ath,
and said: "Ah wish Ah had a hundred
water millions,"
Pixie's eyes lighted. "Hum! y Hut would
uttenly be fine! An' ef yo' had a hun'ed
watermllllops, would yo' gib me fifty t"
"No. Ah wouldn't."
"Wouldn't you gib me twenty-five?"
"No, Ah wouldn't gib yu' no twenty,
live."
Dixie graxod wth reproachful ryes at his
close-fisted, friend. "Seems tq me, you's
i powshful stingy, (J ear so Washington," ho
aid, and then continued In a heartbroken
volte, "Wouldn't yo' gib mu one?"
"No, Ah wouldn't gib yo' une. look-a-heah,
nlggahl .Are yo' so good-fir-nuf fin'
Issy, dat yo' eahn't wish fo' yo' own
wateruillllani?"
Fore ( Habit,
"Habits are hard to break," said Walter
Prtrhard Eaton the other day. "Perhaps
you've heard of the automobile enthusiast
who bought a motoibout?
"lie took a day's instruction in the art
of managing It and keeping the machinery
ta running order and then started out on
his first tria alone. It was late la tha
afUruooa wbsn be returned home. He
County and Aurora
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In proportion to population there is today
twice as much crime in Massachussetta
as In Nebraska;. In proportion to popula
tion Nebraska's expenditure for educa
tional purposes Is annually twice a great
as that of Massachussetta. In Nebraska
if
from the Story Teller's Pack
cama in by the back way. His clothes
were wet and his hair was hanging over
his eyes in strings.
" 'Johnl' exclaimed his wife. 'What on
earth'
" 'It's all right. Mary,' he hastened to as
sure her. 'No, I didn't upset. Everything's
all right. But when I had been out on the
water couple of hours something went
wrong with the motor and'
" TesT
" 'Well, before I-r realised it I was
over the side trying to get under the blame
thing to fix It.' "Everybody's Magazine.
Tha Grafter's 8 access.
James B. Dill, whose recent speech on
"Oraft" at Oberlln college attracted so
much attention, told recently, apropos of
"graft," a story about a swindling tramp.
"This tramp," said Mr. Dill, "had the
alert, unscrupulous bold mind that mses
'grafting' successful.
"He was walking in Chicago' one day
when he saw a little boy stoop and pick up
something.
"He crossed over to the boy quickly.
" 'You have niado a find, my lad,' said he.
" 'Yes, sir,' said the innocent boy. 'I
have found a silver ring.'
" 'I thought so.' suld the tramp. 'It's the
one I just dropped. Now, ain't It lucky I
had my name out In It?'
" 'Wliiit Is your name?' asked the boy,
uapicluuvly.
" 'Sterling, lad.'
' 'Take It, then. It's yours,' said the boy,
handing over the ring with a disappointed
air." Judge.
When (be Phrenologist Veil.
Mayor Reyburn rf Philadelphia, the
owner of the record breaking trotter Kd
Bryan, told at dinner a horse story.
"A fanner visited a phrenologist, " he
a lit. "He had heard that the phrenologist
thought of buying a horse. lie had his
head examined and his bumps revealed
surprising things.
" 'Your tast are the simple, homely
nd pure tastes if a farmer,' said the
phrenology, 'and a farmer I take you to
be. Am I not right? Aha. I thought so.
You are unready and faltering In speech;
you find It difficult to express the lm
plast idaas. You are sadly deficient In
judgment and have no knowledge of human
nature. Your innocent and trustful dispn.
aitr n renders you an easy dupe to de
slgnmg ptun, and your perfect honesty
prevents you from either suspecting or de
frauding any one.'
'The phrenologist the following week
bought a horse from the farmer. The
horse was knock-kneed, it was ZS years
old. It had a bad temper, and it balked.
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WHBJAT FIELD SCENE IN HAMILTON COUNTT.
the rich valley farming lands and the high ohards with their Immense 1 fruitage from the city with the business and farming
table lands are sprinkled with college more than 100,000 bearing trees. In a single community. Tho city is lighted with eleo-
towns. It seems almost Impossible that year Hamilton county farmers marketed trtcity, the plant being owned by local
where massive barns and beautiful farm 10,000 head of fat cattle, 10,000 head of business men. All night service and low
houses now stand, only a few years ago sheep and over 40,000 head of hogs. Then rates make the righting system entirely
roamed the vast herds of buffalo, deer and found them shipping abroad in a single satisfactory to all. The water works be-
antelope. year W.OOO pounds of butter, 10,000 doxen long to tha city; its mains reach into
ggs and over S00.0CO pounds of poultry, every part of town and the water supply
In June 1866, Jarvll Chaffee, the first L4Ui6 wonder that the land values have of pure water Is abundant and never fall
settler in Hamilton oounty, built his 10xl beea gteadlly increasing among these splen- ing, besides under the management of a
"dug out" home and the following year, dw farmers, with their record of forty well equipped hose and ladder company,
James Waddele settled, on the Blue. In to ffty bushels of wheat and fifty to sixty ample fire protection la assured.
1879 the county had a population of 130 peo. pu,hel, f corn pro(,ucea p.P acre. whll9 mitkInr no pret.enslon. of a manir,
pie. but with the advent of civilisation, the But ,f th(J rct(Jer wJU f0 ,nU) th. yerjr facturnK Aurora already has a
buffalo and deer aoon disappeared and in heart of Hftronton oounty and visit the jrck manufacturing plant which employs
1809, the last great herd left to be seen no oounty seat, the liJeal little city of Aurora, during the busy season a large number
more. There are several wide-awake towns yolJ wm fin(j the model town of Nebraska. 0f men, and Aurora flouring mills, with
In the oounty Aurora, Hampton, Qlltner, They are building this city about a large capacity of 100 barrels per day. Besides
Marquette, Phillips, Btockham and Hord- publlo square, In the center of which they these, Aurora has a cigar factory, a broom
Me. have erected of Colorado redstone and factory, an artificial stone factory, and
Hamilton county contains 860,000 acres of pressed brick, one of the best court the Aurora Washing Machine company,
land. The soil is a rich dark loam from houses In the west. It is surrounded by The religious, educational and social fea-
one to four feet in depth and of unsur- substantial business blocks, filled with tures are well represented when we look
passed fertility. This soil Is eminently immense stocks of merchandise and with aroun(J note more than ten churches, a
adapted to nearly all varieties of cereals its merchants all prosperous. Two national buglnM, conege and one of the best high
and grasses, especially corn, wheat, oats, banks and a state bank with combined ,ohooU , tne atate. There ar9 tnroe f)na
blue graas. clover and alfalfa. Fruits, deposits of nearly $800,000 attest the flnan- ,odB8 room8i where 8trong fraterna, ,odgea
such as apples, peaches, cherries and cla strength of th. community. This little ,eet. tWo ladies' clubs, and a strong ag-
pluws. beside, all small fruit adapted to city 1. ocated upon the main line of the commerclal club wlth nearly lM
this latitude, are produced to the highest Burlington, with Us two branches from "
perfection. Hamilton county farms, with thte point, making for It good mall and
their 800,000 acres under cultivation, pro- train service, and with all through trains Aurora Is the home of the Royal High,
duced last year over ,000.000 bushels of stuping here, trips to the larger cities of landers, one of the leading fraternal ln-
oorn. ovir a,CO0,000 bushels of wheat, over Omaha and Lincoln can bo made con- surance societies in the United States. Its
1,000.000 bushels of oats and other grain, veniently and at slight expense. Two tele- fine home office building erected on one
70,000 bushels of potatoes, besides their or- phone lines, with adequate service, connect corner of the public square is one of the
Though the farmer had only paid $-5 for
the animal, he secured without difficulty
tUQ from the phrenologist for It
" 'It's wonderful,' said the farmer to
himself, as he hastened toward a bank to
deposit the money It's jest wonderful that
a man should know so much about men
and not know a thing about bosses I1 "-
Detroit Free Press.
Overdolna; It.
A young Englishman, after he had been
in Dvil's valley for a couple of months,
began to grow thin. Wyoming cooking did
not appeal to him. Besides his squeamish
appetite there was another thing that the
natives held against him his outlandish
eiirloiH of taking a bath every mornlntr,
fin lny hi landlady was 'iacus3ing him
ivuh u fil- i.d.
'I t.-ll ye. what, Sal." said the visitor,
"he'ji jest a-wastln' away a-grlevin' for
soniH g:U back east thar,"
"N itiiin" o' the kind," said tho landlsdy
ci nte;ii!)luouaIy. "You mark my words,
now that young feller he's Jest a-washln'
hlsself away." KveryhoJy's Magaiine.
Dressed for Dinner.
William Faversham in "The World and
His Wife." was listening to a discussion
of a well-known actress" "cutaway" gown.
"English women," contributed Mr. Faver
sham, "never consider themselves dressed
If they sre not dectlette. The mere
ceremonious the occasion the lownr the
gown, and when It's a question ef meeting
the klngoh, la la!
"An old woman I knew a nurse had a
very pretty daughter. Tho girl mvt a rich,
broker, the man proposed and they were
married. It was u great match for the
girl. A short tint after the wedding I
saw the mother.
" 'Molly has done well, hasn't she?' I
said.
" 'She has that, sir,' said the old woman.
" 'Her husband is very rich, Isn't be?'
"'Rich! Save usT yes. Ye should see,
sir, Moll's brougham, her coachman and
footman, her motor car and her dt'monils
and pearls! Oh, she lives high! Quite like
the nobility and gentry, sir. Why, she
trips for dinner!' "Young's Magazine.
gleaner Meault of Petit leal leertui.
President-elect Taft had a few monents
to spare the other day and had bis secre
tary telephone to his tailor to com up
and remessure bl.n, s he was afraid that
he had "fallen off" within the last few
months, and he would like to order some
new clothes.
Ibe maker of men hurried postbasta to
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RESIDENCE OF W. L. FARLEY, AURORA.
Mr. Taft, drew his tspe measure and be
gan his task.
"I think you will find me slightly
smaller," said Mr. Taft, with a twinkle In
his eye.
The man workad on, calling the measure
ments to Mr. Taft's secretary, who Jotted
them down.
"How are they running?" asked the president-elect
"smaller?"
"Not very much smaller," dlsconcertedly
answered the tailor. The measurements are
about tho same as last time."
"About the same, you say?" asked Mr.
Taft n some surprise.
"Tes, sir," replied the tape stretcher,
"they are about the same, except, sir, your
chest Is a little lower down." Harper's
Weekly.
Horrible Example.
A certain bishop was famous as being
the plainest man of England.
One day, as this homely parson sat In
an omnlhua, he was amazed by the per
sistent staring of a fellow-passenger, who
finally said:
"Luok 'ere, parson, would yr,i mind
comin' home with nio to see my wife?"
Imagining the wife was sick and needed
assistance, the clergyman, at great In
convenience to himself, went, On arriving
at the house, tho mnn pointed to the as
tonished parson, and said, with a grin pf
delight:
"Iiok 'e 'ere, Salrry. Yer said this
nurnln' as I wus the ugliest chap in
England, Now, just look at this bloke!"
A Famous Physician.
Dr. Zbarin, who has Just died In Mos
cow and left a fortune of over il.OuO.tOO,
was one of the most famous as ho was
also the. most eccrntrlu o( physicians in
Russia. Even whet) he was summoned to
attend Csar Alexander III in his last Ill
ness Dr. Zaharin required the same prepa
ration for his visit to the palace as to any
one of his patients' homes. That Is to say.
all dogs had to be kept out of the way. all
docks stopped and every door thrown wide
open. Following a process of gradual un
dressing, he left his fur. In the ball, his
overcoat in the next ronni, his galoshes
in the third, and, continuing, arrived St
the bedside in ordinary indoor costume.
He Knew.
They were country people, pure ind sim
ple, hut they hud reud the papers and
thought they were educated up to r II the
Improvements cf a city.
When they went to Wtahlnglon they
went through tho Navy department and
saw the models of our : hips of war.
Pointing to ' cjmrar.lon ladder hunalng
over the side f one cf the boats, she asked
her better half what it was.
"Oh that's the fire escape." replied the
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Ohms, Amperes and Volte Explained.
bkHEN an electrical current is
W A T 1 flowing In the trolley wire or
YY I electrlcal lighting circuit there
I are three factors involved. One
(?2r f tnese ' tns Pressure cxpres.
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current to flow; another is the resistance
or opposition offered by the circuit to the
flow, which Is exprejsed as ohms; the
last Is the current strength or volume,
expressed as ampheres, which is main
tained in the circuit as a result of the
pressure overcoming the rlslstance. The
ohm Is named in honor of George Simon
Ohm, a distinguished German electrician.
The volt Is named after the Italian sclen-'
tist, Volta. The amphere Is named after
the French scientist, Amphere.
The unit of current is called amphere.
Tim unit of electrical pressure or electro
motive force is caled the volt, The unit of
resistance Is called the ohm, The unit of
electricil power is the volt-ampere, and
this is called tha watt Seven hundred
and forty-six watts per hour, equal one
horse-power. The unit of energy tha
product of electrical power and time is
called the joule, but this unit is too small
for practical purpose and the kilowatt
hour is used Instead. The kilowatt hour
is the work done by a thousand watts
working for one hour.
Those electrical terms are as familiar to
electrical engineers as feet and Inches are
to (he average boy; the layman does not
understand because he has never been
taught, has nevr had to use the terms,
has never read about them.
It Is emier to understand these terms If
we conalred electricity as a fluid and
Jiken it to a current of water flowing
through a pipe. The rate of flow of water
in the pipe depends upon gravitation and
the height of the resevolr or source above
the outlet. The greater tha height!) of th
source the greater will be the pressure
pf water and he greater the flow in gallon!
per minute. It Is just the same with
elecrlcity. A current flows from m high
potential to a low potential whenever tha
two are Jollied by a conducting wire. It la
merely a difference of level. Watch a
stream of water from the noszle of a gar
den hose s'riklng a bank of soft earth.
Consldes It a stream of electricity, which
unfortunately cannot be seen, the force of
the stream or Its pressure represents
voltage; the size of the stream or flow
the snipherage; the wattage ibe amount of
work done In washing away the dirt. Sup.
pose the Interior of the noszle and hose
Is rough, which offer resistance to tht
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ready flow of the stream; this friction
and resistance is represented by ohms in an
lectrlo circuit.
First Aid for fclectrlo Shook.
Prompted by tha approaching use of elec
tricity as a motive power in its New York
terminal, the Pennsylvania Iras Btarted a
school for the instruction of employes, par
ticularly in the tine of giving first aid to
electrically Injured persons.
Quickness is the most desirable factor In
the work of rescuing one whom the light
ning of the electric rail has hit. Given a
sound heart and a good constitution, it
does pot follow that contact wtb th rail
always kills. It will kill a weak Individ
ual. In all probability, at the first shock,
but a rescue at the right moment and in
tro right way will snatch n any a victim
ftom the rail as surely as a lifesaver at
the sea shore, gathering In the drowning
person at the right time, will be able to
bring htm back to life.
When a man steps on the electrlo rail
and falls prone he is extremely likely to
fall right Into the jaws of the monster
that brought him dawn. If he can fall
away from tha rail, and his constitution is
sufficiently rohust to withstand the first
shock, It Is probable that ha may live to
tell how It feels to be hit by lightning.
But the chances are that he will drop
right across the rail, and In that position
will be killed unless soma one pulls htm,
Off with the least possible delay.
Now, It Is not only necessary to rescu
the victim with celerity, but In tha right
way, or titers will be two victims Instead
of one, for recklessly to pull a man from
tha elect rle rail or from tontact with a
live wire glvea the would-be rescuer
powerful shock, too. This Is known in a
general way, and few have the temerity
to touch a man who Is writhing in th
grip of a live wire. Only thosa who ar
educattd In the method of rescuing such
a victim can be depended on to get quickly
and with th confidence that Is based on
absolute knowledge. It is to train such
rescuers that the sessions ar held at tha
railroad centers.
The experts who lecture at these session
explain that it is possible to take hold ef a
man who is lying across the electrlo rail
by tha back of his coat and pull hint
quickly from the place of danger. These
instructor alio teach the men how to re
move their own coats, place them care,
fully beneath the body of the man on th
rail and raise him from the contact of tha
electric current. They show how to us a
wooden lever to lft the body from the rsl.l
and how to utilize the articles that are
sura to be lying around in a rallruad
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best office buildings In the state. Although
this society Is only elpven years old, 11 Is
now operating In fourteen states and if has
paid In benefits to lis benefUlarlf s f7.Vi.lkil
and has ttcouinulutetl over $J"0.000 of surplus
which is lnviatiMl In flmt mortgage 1 .mis
on Nebraska luims.
Aurora received a peculiar tmpu'ao
through the conditions of its origin which
it will always feel, Juki as "blond will
tell" through sucruudinz generations of
men. Tho city Is not tiiu result of natural
si'lectlon. It did not begin, but was started,
did not grow, out rose. Hcfore tho rall
roud era Hod proposed the town site leav
ing men to dlsposo ss to growth. No Im
portant towns are wholly inai nmue.
Aurora Is a pioneer product of the new
origin. Heretofore Aurora lias nuver thor
oughly understood Iti-elf, and never had
been really on Its feet. Private hands have
done nearly everything that lias been done
to beautify Aurora, lint, henceforth, thrro
will be co-opiratliin, either by the whole
city or by volunlter organization. This of
course will take sbme money. Hut the
people of the . territory within reach of
Aurora hold in their hands five winning
cards, and every one of high prlxe value.
They are corn, beef, pork, wheat and
alfalfa.
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yard to effect a quick rescue. One of the
most essential things in rescuing a man
from contact with a live wire is to re.
move the wire. This is a dangerous thing
to do, and the men aro taught how to
do it in a simple way. A coat Is often
tha handiest article available. Two coats
ar necessary as a rule, Th men are
taught to remove their coats and make a
rope of them. Then standing each aide of
the live wire, holding tho coats between
them, th two rescuers catch the wire In
tha rope thus made, and drag the dangling
death out of tho way of the senseless per.
son on the ground.
Having broken tho contact with the wire,
tha next thing is to endeavor to restore life
tq th unconscious form. The men ar
taught the necessary movements to coax
the flutteitng heart back to action. In the
first movement, the patient is placed flat
on his back with a folded ooat under his
shoulders, ao as to allow his headtp fall
back, hi clothing being loosened at the
neck and waist, and his sleeves and trous
ers rolled up. Before anything further Is
done, the patlont's mouth Is examined. If
he had a piece of tobacco or gum In his
mouth at the time of the accident, or if his
false teeth axe of the plate variety, it Is
well to see that he is nut chocking to
death. Ice Is then rubbed on the spin and
the chest tapped with a wsi cloth.
While this Is being done the arms are
brought in a sweeping motion from the
id of th chest to a line straight with the
body until they .meet over the head. In
the next movement tha srrns are forcibly
pulled at tha same time that the tongue !
pulled out and down over the lower loet.'i,
completing full Inspiration, In the next
movement the arms ar brought down In a
straight line to the side of chest walls, in
the next movement the arms are firmly
praasud over the lower ribs to expel the
air drawn In by the previous operations,
thus completing tha work of restorlng
resplratlon.
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Pointed Paragraphs.
A small boy with hi first watch baa the
time of his life.
Men who own electrlo plants ar satis
fied with light harvests.
When a woman pretends tut V Ignorant
lie Is playing a deep game.
On secret of uocaaa la tha early discov
ery that you ean't da everything.
Get th habit of saving money before
marriage if you would save It after.
Every woman take it for granted that
she would be a queen in society if It wasn't
for the fact that she has more sens than
Lul.i-Cuicgo Mows.
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