FOUR NEBRASKA BUTCHERS. 



Nebraska seems to produce more game 

 butchers to the square inch than any other 

 State in the Union, and she will probably 

 continue to hold that distinction until the 

 present crop of butchers shall die out. 



buried in a common grave in the potters' 

 field of Beatrice, and a stone effigy of this 

 pile of ducks erected over them. Then 

 the children and the grandchildren of these 

 butchers could point to the graves and say, 



George Lowe, H. T. Harper, G. W. Maurer, Louis Lang, Beatrice, Neb. 



Meantime, her game will probably all have 

 been destroyed and the next generation of 

 Nebraskans will have to be content with 

 shooting clay birds. 

 When these 4 men die, they should be 



"Here lie the mortal remains of 4 of the 

 men who are to blame for the desolate 

 condition of our prairies." 



Lowe's number in the game hog pen is 

 911, Harper's 912, Maurer's 913, Lang's 914. 



Patsy : Mom, won't yer gimme me 

 candy, now? 



Mrs. Casey : Didn't Oi tell ye Oi would 

 n't give ye anny at all if ye didn't kape 

 still? 



Yes'm, but 



Well, the longer ye kape still the sooner 

 ye'll get it. — Philadelphia Press. 



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