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Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-07
School Teacher Saves Horse.

NORFOLK, Neb., April 6.-(Special Tele-
gram. )-Mlss Katherine Rogers. a Norfolk
school teacher, today tagged a train with
an umbrella and saved a horses life. The
horses foot was caught in a frog of the
track. Miss Rogers ran down the track
waving her umbrella at the oncoming train,
which stopped long enough for the horse
to be e%xtricated by means of a pickaxe.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-07

secretary Of the Anti-saloon league and
one OF the delegates TO Lincoln to urge the
governor 70 sign the bill.
w worked hard with the governor to
get him to sign that bill and. OF course.
are feeling mighty happy over the results
of our efforts
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-07
Cam for Marrants Out.

PIERRE. S. d., April 6.-tspeeial Tele-
gram.D-state Treasurer Johnson has called
for tho lith all general warrants up TO and
including March 10, being 10 register num-
Der 1873, amounting 10 over $4,000.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-07
TEMPERANCE FOLKS JUBILATE

VIII Hire Auditorium and Celebrate
Their Victory.
THE temperance people Of Omaha are
planning to hold a big Qualification and will
hold 1t in the Auditorium, II that building
can be secured said Harry A. Stone,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-07
Kills our rARTY-DAHLMAN

jim say Governor Has Fixed IL
sure Now.
81 can't understand 1t and it doesn't
seem possible that the governor could sign
it," said Mayor Dahlman when he was
told that Governor ~shallenberger had APP
proved the daylight saloon bill. 1T is very
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-07
Great sale.

Orkin Bros, announce a sale on page 3
OF messaline and foulsrd dresses which
they purchased from a New York costume
manufacturer at q very low price. See
page 3 for Orkln Bros advertisement
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-07
MoDJESKA SURVIVES NIGHT
Noted Actress shows Unexpected Vi
tRlity but IL Barely
Alive.

Los ANGELES April 6.-Mme. Helen
Modjeska survived the night, contrary to
expectations OF the attending physicians
and is reported as barely alive this morn
ing.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-07
Big Hay Barn
is a Total Loss
Buildings Belonging to Union Pa
cifc Destroyed by Fire
Started by Engine.

GRAND ISLAND, Neb., April e-(special
hay barn Of the Union
Pacific, with a capacity of 200 tons, caught
fire from a switch erg CINE last night and
was totally destroyed, together with $50
tons Of prairie hay stored in it.
The loss is $1,000, partly covered by in
surance.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-07
SEARCH FOR DROWNED BOYS
Body of Mrs. Il Found
Frozen Between Cakes
of Ice.

SIOUX FALLS, S. D., April 6-(Special.)
A search is yet being made for the bodies
OF the little sons of Herman Feikins, who
with their mother were drowned some
weeks ago while attempting to cross the
East Vermiilion river in Turner county, a
bridge having collapsed and precipitated
them into the stream, which was badly
swollen by the melting of snow.
Some days ago the body OF Mrs. Feiklns
was found. She was frozen In between two
huge cakes Of ice and her arms were en-
twined so tightly about the trunk of A
small willow tree that it was necessary to
chop off the tree. both above and below
her arms, before the body could be re-
leased.
The river is yet very high and much
heavy ice remains in the stream.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-07
Well Known Youth in Prison.

SIOUX FALLS, S. d" April 6.-Cspecial)
The latest prisoner TO be lodged in the
Sioux Falls penitentiary is Frank Ruffing,
the young son Of highly respected residents
of Gregory county, who a few Gays ago
appeared before Judge f.. G. Smith. OF
the first judicial circuit, and entered a
plea of guilty to the charge of grand lar
ceny, and who was sentenced to a term Of
one year in the penitentiary at hard la
Dor.
Rulings crime was committed last Feb
ruary and consisted of the theft of a team
of horses from a farmer named McIntire,
who lives near the homestead OF his father.
Ruffing took the stolen horses to New
port, Neb., where ne traded one of them
off and arranged for the care Of the other,
which soon afterward was sold to a horse
buyer and shipped TO Iowa.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-07
Lexington TO submIt Question.

LEXINGTON, Neb., April 6-(special
Telegram.)-The high license ticket was de
feated by the citizens party, who agree to
call a special election and submit the sa-
loon question TO a vote Of the people. 1t
was the most holly contested election ever
held In Lexington. The entire vote was
cast early in the afternoon. H.. p. Nielsen
Is the new mayor.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-07

SIOUX FALLS, s. H., April ~6.-Cspecial.l
%. c. Dokken, commissioner Of school and
public lands for South Dakota, visited
Sioux Falls this week to prepare for the
appraisal of school lands to be offered for
sale In this county. The land TO be put
up at auction this year are located in
Sphinx, Clark, Day. Marshall, Mcpherson,
Edmunds, Miner. Sanborn, Jerrauld,
Charles Mix, Douglas, Aurora, Gregory
and Minnehaha. TIL minimum price for
each parcel of land is fixed in advance by
appraisal. Last year the average price re-
ceived for school lands was S4S, g and II
will be higher this year, according to Com
missioner Dokken
The department makes It a practice to
sell only the more valuable lands and II
may be known that never again will the
average consideration fall below $40 an
acre.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-07
Albion Goes Wet.

ALBION. Neb.. April ESPECIAL Tele-
g~ram)-The wet ticket swept everything
before it today and won out by SO on the
proposition Of license. and elected Frank
Roberts mayor by 30, Albion was dry last
wear
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-07
Hastings Probably Wet.

HASTINGS, Neb., April 6.-(Special Tele-
gram.)-Hastings elected Mayor Miles and
four councilmen today. OF these two are
certainly wet, Dieken in the First ward
and Alexander in the Third. Cole, dry, is
elected In the Fourth ward.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-07
WRANGLE
IN THE HOUSE

CONTINUED from First Psse.)
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-07
Dry at Fender.

FENDER. Neb., April ~6-(speeial Tele.
gram)-For the first time In the history
of Fender the "drys'' carried the city cleo
ton today by seven votes, and four saloons
will be closed and no more licensed. II is
said the board will also order the pool halls
closed. The councilmen elected who make
It possible to close the saloons are o. d.
Aldrich, N. H. Nye and w. C. Murry.
ASHLAND, Neb.. April 6.-(Special Tele-
gram.)-Without opposition ]. r. Russell
was elected mayor of Ashland and the
town continues dry, by a vote OF $50 to 1888.
KENNARD, Neb,, April ~6-(Special Tele-
gram.)-While the same board was re-
elected here and the members made the
town dry last year. 1t is not known
whether the town will be wet or dry this
year. The members are not committed to
any particular policy as regards saloons.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-07
ROOSEVELT RESUMES TRIP

Continued from First Psge.)
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-07

OAKDALE, Neb., April 6.-(special Tele-
gram)-The municipal reform ticket wins,
electing all four candidates by a majority
of twelve. This means a dry town.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-07
AND DRYS WAGE WAR
CONTINUED from First Page.)

saloon was voted on today at the regular
election. The majority was twelve votes
in favor of saloon, Waterloo had been dry
for two years. Ellis n. Pix and Paul @.
Rohwer were elected for members on the
town board to fill vacancies of retiring
The Republican journal., 1909-07-29
FOLEYSHONEY4zbrAR
stops the cough and heals lungs
SALUTING CAL" HANSCOM.

When the big boats are churning up by
Winterport, in and out, there is one house
that is never passed without a roaring
salute from the hoarse whistles of the
new steamers. This is the home of CAP
Hanscom, for 80 years associated with
the Boston L Bangor line, under Mr. Hill
and lattery in the new organization, now
enjoying we'll earned vacation, the first
in 30 years, before taking up the burdens
of more responsible position in New
Y DIRK, for which he broke the firmly knit
ties with the Bangor boats.
Mr.. Hanscom climbed the ladder from
the very lowest rungs, to be head of the
whole Eastern Steamship Co. He was
for years one of the most popular and
efficient pursers the line ever had. Then
he went ashore to the Boston office, and
when Charles W. Morse formed the Con-
solidated Steamship Co. with headquar-
tiers in New York, Mr.. Austin being
president with headquarters in New
York, Mr.. Hanscom remained in Boston
as head of the Eastern Steamship Co.,
one OF the subsidiary companies of the
Consolidated. On the dissolution of the
Consolidated, and the reorganization of
the Eastern, Mr.. Hanscom with the title
OF assistant to the president, was the
active man on Fosters wharf. He re-
signed few weeks ago, against the pro-
test OF the company, to take a position
in New York outside the steamboat bust
ness, and is resting up this summer pre-
paratory to the new work
He is spending his time in his Winter
port home, and the salutes which roar
across the water when the boats come in
and out. are simply signal to him that
although he is no longer with the COM
pany,, ne is not by any means forgotten.
'He knows more about coastwise steam
boats, said veteran Of the company a
few days ago just after salutes had been
exchanged, than any other man on the
Atlantic seaboard. And you can take it
from me-, that nobody will ever take his
place with the rank and file of the East.
ern employees. "-Bangor News.
The Republican journal., 1909-07-29
A COLLISION AT SEA.

In Harper's for August W. J. Awkward,
the marine artist, gives vivid account
of trip on one of the barges of a coast
wise towing feet. Here is one of the
most dramatic incidents:
Toward midnight we rolled heavily in
Swash Channel, up cleaning avenue of
buoys thick as street lamps, with lofty
Highland Light swapping its binding
flash across our decks, while back of us
the whole ocean, blacker than the black
est coal-pocket, rolled in and broke in
great surges of kissing white across the
submerged hull. In under the shell
tering arm of Sandy Hook we crept,
across which, on the damp breath of the
sea, came the heavy long drawn roar of
breakers.
''The tug barked something which we
did not get, and thought it was, Prepare
to anchor, when from forward came a
scream, Schooner ahead!' We were
already on top of her, and with shock
that sent her Keeling, struck blow that
tumbled out her gang in yelling, ours
ing tumult. fashion, they had
put their faith in riding-light and turn
ed in for an all-night below
Every one yelled orders, everybody
was in everybody else's way in the gear
and dories littering her crowded deck.
Get lghtv Get an axe!' Get her
namev Where's the fare?' There goes
the main BOOM 4 suppose he'll run us
down and We'll all 90 to hell And
the skipper on the taffrail, in Christie
pher-discovering- America pose, made an
heroic figure in red f1annels, with the flare
of torch bringing him out in a strong
ruddy relief against the velvet blackness
of the night. In flowing language he re-
viled the ancestry of barges in general,
with special reference to the offending
Marcus Hook.
Quietly had the following barge been
dropped, a spring slipped on our hawser,
and the Arabella's chain foul of it, by
which we were dragging schooner, anchor,
and CALLED crew up the harbor, was al
lowed to go clear. She rubbed some
paint as she scraped by into the dark
ness astern to gently ride once more on
her cable, none the worse for the en-
counter save for some rumpled gear.
"'Fine sailormen those, said to Skip,
when the hook was on the bottom and we
were snug for the night.
'Sailors' and an indignant stream of
tobacco shot over the side 'Sailors!' he
repeated. Bow ry bums!' and more spicy
words to that effect"
The Republican journal., 1909-07-29

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The Republican journal., 1909-07-29
FOR SALE

On, one OF the best hay farms in the county, con.
saining ABOUT l00 acres of the best land: no
locks. plenty OF wood, also some timber. GOOD
pasture. well watered. Abundance of fruit trees.
1900 nous house. ell shed and carriage house. also
;t 1aIn. cuts 20 tons hay, which will be sold
Located Il miles from postofice. Inquire of
ORA. THOMAS CANNON.
'oti Lower Congress St., Belfast, Me.
The Republican journal., 1909-07-29

all counties DESTROYS of extending and
improving their highways before actual
work is under way. When that has been
done, he is warmly in favor of the raising
of funds by issuing county bonds with
the restrictions which the Virginia High
way Law imposes, viz: that all moneys
so raised shall be spent under the watch
full supervision of State Highway Com
missioner, because otherwise the money
may be wasted.
Many farmers fear bond issue as they
do the visit of the chinch bug or the
Kansas grasshopper, but the benefits
they derive from that method of raising
money for road improvement are far
reaching and immediate, while the indi-
vidual tax on each is so small that it is
scarcely noticeable. In reality, borrow
ing money through the sale of road
bonds is like buying house, farm, or
a business on the installment plan. The
purchaser receives the object at once and
derives the benefits from it while paying
for it. AS the benefits derived from
perfected highways cover long periods Of
time, fairness and equity demand that
the rising generation should bear a por-
ton of the cost and that the in
creased citizenship, always attracted to
the locality by a system of good roads,
should also aid in paying for the added
benefits.
Besides that, there is financial wis
dom in floating county bonds for road
improvement. In many cases those bonds
sell at premium. and everybody inter-
ested gains benefit. In some Southern
States good road bonds have brought
price so high that the premium has wiped
out two or three years interest on the
principal. In Bradley County, Tonnes
see, but few years ago the supervisors
voted bond issue of 100000 Those
bonds bore interest at the rate of five
per cent. SO enthusiastic were the citi-
zens fer road improvement, and so much
confidence did they have in the locality in
which they lived, that the premium was
$40, 600: the cash sales placing in the
county treasury $4,000. 1t has been
ascertained by the Office of Public Roads,
the Bureau Of the Federal Census, and
the land and industrial divisions of twelve
great railroads, that the building of mod
ern highways Immediately enhances the
value Of the property through which
they run to marked extent. This in
crease is estimated by the most conserva-
tive at 81 an acre, and by the more en-
thusiastic at SO. All concede, however,
that the increase is immediate and in
evitable. Place the acreage of the rural
portion of a county, therefore, at 2O0,-
900 acres and the increased valuation due
to the construction of better highways at
but 81. so an acre, and it will be seen
that the property holders whose land is to
be thus benefited would gain not less
than 5000, 900. So great an increase in
the assessed valuation of county would
certainly seem to constitute a powerful
argument in favor of a liberal first ex-
penditur
The Republican journal., 1909-07-29
IAE CHILD REM LIRE TT
kENNEDY'S LAXATIVE
COUGH SYRUP
Railway Mail Service.

On August End, the president of the
National Nation Association a Of Railway Mail
Clerks, J. 7: Garfield of Syracuse, N. Y,
division Of Boston Mass will be ' in Ra an.
trade rooms at 7:30 p. m. for a talk in
the interests of the railway mail clerks
and service. The purpose of the meeting
Of the scope of the railway mail service
and incidentally the details as to how the
mail is handled on the cars, and it is ex-
pected and desired that the business men
generally attend the meeting.
The Republican journal., 1909-07-29
Rest and Work.

Where is rest? In what isles of the summer
glad seas?
In what gardens of balm? Meath what sleep
dropping trees?
By what still fowing waters, what lily -fringed
streams?
In what meadows of silence, what valley of
dreams?
Meath what thunderless skies, by what hillside
of sleep?
On what moon-lighted mountain or starlight
ed deep?
Yes, where on the earth's or the oceans wide
breast
Is the home of release and the harbor of rest?
Why, here in the corn field-and take up your
hoe
Right here in the mill-make the paddle wheel
60!
Right here with your engine-up stream and
away!
Right here with your sewing machine ever
day
Where there's work, there is rest, and it's noy
where beside,
Though you travel all lands, and you sail
every tide.
Where is rest? Go to work, and your spirit
renew,
For no man can rest who has nothing to do
SAN WALTER Foss.
The Republican journal., 1909-07-29
THE PROFESSION OF FORESTRY.
Recent Appointments in the United States
Forest Service.

| OAS~s 49, WV
WASHINGTON, July 26th. Forty-seven
young graduates Of nine American For
est Schools have just received appoint
ments as forest assistants in the United
States Forest Service. But five of these
appointees have been assigned to the
Washington Office, the other forty two
receiving appointments in the six admin
istrative districts in the West. These
men have secured their appointments as
result of passing the regular civil SER
vice examination, which is the only ave-
nue. of employment as forester under
the government.
Forest assistants are men who have
completed their preliminary training for
the profession of forestry, as the gradu-
ates of law or medicine have completed
theirs, and are ready to enter upon prac-
teal work. Until they have gained ex-
perience, however, their positions are
necessarily subordinate. They are at the
foot of the ladder and must prove their
fitness to mount higher. The govern
ment pays them $1,000 a year at the
start.
On the National forests the forest as
sistant often acts as technical adviser to
the supervisors in charge, who are west
ern men experienced in all practical mat
tiers, but usually without school training
in the science of forestry. Or they may
be assigned to the study of some partic-
ular problem which needs to be investi-
gated in the interest of good forest man.
agement. AS forestry means knowing
how to get the most out of any given
piece of forest land, it calls for studies
and experiments, both scientific and
practical, much like those which have to
be made in the interest of good farm
management, and the forest assistant is
prepared to do valuable work along this
line,
There is a growing interest in the pro-
fession of forestry now, and many young
men are asking how to get into it, and
what it promises. Clifford Pinchot, Unit
ed States Forester, in an address to the
graduating class in forestry at Harvard
University this year, said:
1.-THE government and the country need
more men trained in the knowledge of
forestry, and it offers opportunity to
make man S life loom large and to count
for much among the many phases of
human endeavor. To be good forester
a man should combine something of the
naturalist with good deal of the bust
ness man. To know how to use the for
est he must be able to study it. He must |
have, therefore, the power of observa-
ton, fondness for nature, and the |
ability to penetrate her secrets. He must
be resourceful, able to stand by himself,
willing to undergo the privations of rough |
life, and capable of commanding the re-
spect of rough men, who quickly recog-
nize virility and genuiness of character,
but will not tolerate pretense Or the as
sumption of superiority. A forester
should be sound in mind and body, and |
should make the fullest college prepara-
ton for the service. This service means |
free, vigorous life in the open air, and !,
a clear, straight, fine, wholesome, manly
condition of life
The Republican journal., 1909-07-29
TREE STUDY.
Teachers Asked to Cooperate with the
Forest Service.

Teachers Asked to Cooperate with the
Forest Service.
WASHINGTON, D. c., July rs. Teach
ers throughout the country have been
invited by the United States Forester to
cooperate with the Forest Service in an
effort to obtain more definite knowledge
OF the characteristics Of the most i'm
portant forest trees Of the United States.
10 do this it will be necessary to obtain
a large number of volunteer observers
who will collect material on the time of
leafing, blossoming, and fruiting of the
I, various kinds of forest trees. In his
letter inviting the cooperation of the
teachers, Forester Pinchot says:
knowledge of this kind is greatly
needed and will be of value from the
standpoint both of education and of prac-
! teal forestry. For educational purposes
the results obtained for each species,
averaged and presented graphically by
means of colored charts, will be avail
able to all who are interested in the sub
Ject, and particularly to schools. They
will form virtual tree calendars and
will be valuable aids to nature study.
Children can readily be interested in
the actual work of obtaining records
This should form an attractive outdoor
feature of the school work that should
serve to develop the faculty of accurate
observation, and at the same time to pro-
mote an interest in forestry which may
lead to better appreciation of it's aims
and methods. 1t may also prove to be a
profitable addition to botany courses for
older students.
"a study of this kind will be of great
value to practical forestry, since the
proper treatment of forests depends
partly upon knowledge of these char
acteristics of trees. For example, the
time of year at which tree leafs out
and blossoms is one Of the indications as
to whether or not it is frost-hardy in
given region, and the length of time that
a tree is in leaf influences the growth it
it is able to make during the season.
knowledge Of the time when seeds of
each species ripen in various localities is
Of great value to those who are collect
ing seed, since seed often deteriorates or
is eaten by squirrels and birds if not
gathered and stored as soon as ripe.
"Another result of this study will be
more intimate knowledge of climate as
manifested by plant growth, for differ
ences in climate are shown by plant life
as well as by instruments, and prelimi-
nary idea can thus be gained as to whether
given region is suited to valuable tree
which it is desired to introduce there.
Many such examples could be given, but
sufficient has been said to show that the
results of these observations will be a
real help to practical forestry, in addition
to their general interest and educational
value. Volunteers will later be supplied
with publications and charts containing
the information they help to gather, as
return for the services rendered"
On request, the Forest Service will be
glad to send forms upon which to record
data and a pamphlet containing full in
structions as to the nature of the obser-
vations and how they are to be made.
The Republican journal., 1909-07-29
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