A GOOD INVESTMEN
Nebraska Reaps Large Returns From
Republican Rule In the State
When a man invests his money In
any enterprise he usually does so
with the expectation of reaping
something of profit of drawing
something In the way of dividends
from his investment The people of
Nebraska have Invested in the re
publican party in recent years It
is reasonable that they ask what
have been the profits to the people
what dividends have the people re
ceived for their investment of con
fidence in the republican party To
name all the valuable returns the
people of Nebraska have received
would require a volume
The Nebraska republican platform
of 190G contained seven Important
pledges to the people of the state
everyone of which were redeemed
by being enacted into law by repub
lican votes in the legislature and ap
proved by overnor Sheldon
The principal pledges were
1 A memorial to congress to en
act a law compelling railroads to pay
their taxes at the same time and in
the same manner as private persons
are compelled to do
Twenty four republican senators
fifty six republican representatives a
majority in each house enacted the
bill
2 T5feat Primary Law
republican senators
republican representatives
a majority in eachj house enacted the
bill
3 Anti Pass Law
Twenty live republican senators
sixty three republican representatives
a majority in each house enacted the
bill
4 ftalhvay Commission Law
Txvegtsls republican senators
sixty two republican representatives
a majority in each house enacted the
bill
5 Employers Liability Law
Twenty republican senators fifty
nine republican representatives a
majority in each house enacted the
bill
G Municipal Terminal Taxation
of Railway Property
Twenty republican senators fifty
one republican representatives a ma
jority in each house enacted the bill
7 Pure Food and Dairy Law
Twenty six republican senators
fifty six republican representatives a
majority in each house enacted the
bill
Each and everyone of these meas
ures were promptly approved by the
republican governor of Nebraska
Hon George L Sheldon who has again
been selected by the republican elec
tors of the state at the recent direct
primary election to head the repub
lican state ticket as the candidate
of the party for re election to the high
office he has so ably filled during the
past two years
The legislative vote above given by
which these important measures were
enacted shows plainly that the repub
lican party is alone responsible for
this progressive legislation and is en
titled to the credit for these meritori
ous laws While the time since their
enactment has been comparatively
short it has been long enough to in
dicate conclusively the enormous im
portance of these policies to the peo
ple of the state and many of the
direct benefits flowing from them to
all the people of Nebraska The Rail
way Commission law alone has al
ready proven to be of immense im
portance and has without injury to
the railroads in theirlegitimate earn
ing powers saved to the people of
the state millions of dollars in freight
and passenger rates cutting off the
free pass evil and equalizing railway
charges between persons and places
on a practical square deal plan
whereby the humblest receives sub
stantial justice and the most powerful
are helpless to force an unjust dis
crimination in their own special in
terest If the Railway Commission
alone were the only achievement
of the republican party in the past
two years the people of Nebraska
would have been well repaid for their
investment of confidence in the re
publican party of this state But this
is not all the republican record in
fact but a fraction of republican
achievement of the same period The
careful business like and economical
administration of all state institutions
under republican state officers has
kept them all at a high standard of
efficiency as the people desire them
-to be yet at a cost demonstrating
careful and economical supervision
state funds have been kept Invested
earning larger interest returns by
thousands than ever before in our
history the state debt has been re
duced from two and one third millions
to less than half a million In a thou
sand other ways too numerous to
knention here the people hyo profited
by their investment of cappdfhcg in
the republican PTiy optebraskaT
GIANTS OF THE FOREST
Hio California Big Trees Which Were
Threatened With Destruction
Among the wonders of the world are
the big trees of California and no little
ntcrcst was occasioned by the news
hut fire threatened with destruction
the remarkable giants of the forest
tnown as the Calaveras group The
langer aroused all the forest rangera
i ml residents of the section who rallied
i to their protectiou
California has forests covering an
irea larger than that of the states of
Sow Hampshire Vermont Massachu
setts Connecticut Rhode Island
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ware and Maryland combined Seven
uational forest reserves in the state
cover an area of Soll794 acres The
big tree of California Sequoia gigau
tea is the largest and is supposed to be
the oldest of growing things on earth
Some of these trees reach 323 feet in
height and 3S feet in diameter and
their age Is believed to be about CL000
years The great fallen hulk known as
the mother of the forest 327 feet
long and 7S feet in circumference was
in the path of the fire which recently
broke out Muir never saw a big tree
that had died a natural death The
only living specimens of the Sequoia
gigantea are those found in California
and the Calaveras grove contains the
most remarkable examples of the spe
cies
IN MEMORY OF A PUGILIST
Monument In New York In Honor of
Featherweight Champion
It is rather unusual for a monument
to be erected in a public thoroughfare
in honor of a pugilist But that is what
has been done in a street in New York
And the monument takes the form of a
fountain from which flows nothing
stronger than water The pugilist was
not one of the amateur or millionaire
kind cither but was a plain profes
sional fighter and a colored man at
that In short he was George Dixon
the late negro boxer and one time
champion featherweight of the world
At first the committee appointed to de
vise some way of perpetuating the
memory of the boxer suggested placing
a handsome monument over his grave
It was decided that a fountain in a
public place would serve the purpose
best and in due time the funds were
raised and the permit from the city for
the erection of the monument was ob
tained Terry McGovern Young
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THE DIXON TOUNTAIN IN NEW YOKK
bett and Joe Humphreys were the priu
cipal factors in collecting subscriptions
The fountain Is of a simple and beauti
ful design The side facing the side
walk provides water for thirsty human
beings who may be passing by and the
opposite side that facing the street
contains a watering trough for horses
An inscription reads
In Memory of George Dixon Erect
ed by His Friends 190S
The Reason of It
I assure you I had the hardest
Avork Imaginable to get my tailor to
accept 5 from me this morning
How Avas that
He wanted 20 5
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Are Cut Short
Do all artists believe in long hair
Tonsorial artists dont Kansas
City Times
LAST OF THE PASCAGOULAS
An Indian Legend From the Shores of
the Gulf of Mexico
An Indian legend of the Pascagoulas
is told by the fishermen and oyster
men down on the shores of the gulf
of Mexico
A point reaches out into the gulf
near the mouth of the Pascagoula riv
er The pine trees on it come almost
to the waters edge and between lies
a strip of white sand across a marsh
a border of light green swaying and
rustling grasses and beyond a gray
cypress swamp the hanging moss of
the trees swaying in the wind To the
south the blue waters of the gulf
stretch away with little waves lap
ping on the chalk white clam shells
of the shore
There in the evening during the
short twilight one hears soft music as
if it were the notes of a violin insist
ent changing sweet ft Is the song of
the Pascagoulas
Long years before the Pascagoula
Indians had lived upon this point The
white men the Spaniards came in
numbers and with them the hostile
warriors of other tribes to make wai
and to drive the Pascagoulas out of the
country Coming from the inland the
enemy took away all chance of fight
and hedged them in on the point The
Pascagoulas fought for days and
nights in the dark pine woods against
outnumbering foes Then they saw
that all was useless that they could
not overcome and starvation stared
them in the face
The Pascagoulas called a council of
the tribe and talked long together To
give themselves up meant lives ol
slavery or death and to fight to the
last man was to leave the women and
children to the mercy of tlie white
men and their allies
The next morning the Pascagoulas
put on all their paint and trappings
and burned their wigwams The men
women and children slowly deliber
ately unflinchingly backed step by
step into the water behind them sing
ing Not one faltered They died with
their faces toward their enemies
brave and free and now in the even
ing when the wind blows over the
marshes the pines and grasses sing
the song of the Pascagoulas New
York Post
THE LAND GF WORSHIP
The East Believes Too Utterly to Care
if Others Disbelieve
Trayer pervades the east Far ofl
across the sands when one is travel
ing in the desert one sees thin min
arets rising toward the sky A desert
city is there It signals its presence
by this mute appeal to Allah And
where there are no minarets in the
great wastes of the dunes in the eter
nal silence the lifelessness that is not
broken even by any lonely wandering
bird the camels are stopped at the ap
pointed hours the poor and often rag
ged robes are laid down and the browD
pilgrims prostrate themselves in pray
er And the rich man spreads his car
pet and prays and the half naked
nomad spreads nothing but he prays
too
The east is full of lust and full oi
money getting and full of bartering
and full of violence but it is full ol
worship of worship that disdains con
cealment that recks not of ridicule oi
comment that believes too utterly to
care if others disbelieve There are
in the east many men who do not pray
They do not laugh at the man whe
does like the unpraying Christian
There is nothing ludicrous in prayer Ir
Egypt your Nubian sailor prays in the
stern of your dahabiych and youi
Egyptian boatman prays by the ruddei
of your boat and your black donkey
boy prays behind a red rock in the
sand and your camel man prays when
you are resting in the noontide watch
ing the faroff quivering mirage lost
in some wayward dream
And must you not pray too when
you enter certain temnles where once
strange gods were worshiped in whom
no man mw believes Robert Hichens
in Century
Scrred by Frcgs
It is sail to bo owed to the frogs ol
wetern Australia that that part of the
empire is English and not French
About ISOO a party of prospective
French coonists landed on the wesl
coast of Australia but on the first
morning they Ave re alarmed by the
loud croaking of the frogs Avhich they
took for demons and retired with ail
speed to their ships Western Austra
lia might have preferred the frog tc
the SAvan as her emblem just as Rome
might haA e preferred instead of the
eagle the goose that saved the capital
in His Line
Im surprised that you should be
so interested In watching those silly
1 dudes
Force of habit I guess Im presi
dent of a real estate improemeul
company
Well
Well theyre a vacant lot Phila
delphia Tress
Paid In Full
Hiram coming to the point Sally
Ive been apayln my respects to yoi
fer fiAe years come next August aini
I Sally blushingly Yes indeed
Hiram Hiram Well all Im a goin
to say Is that Im durn sick uv the in
stallment plan Sally in his arras
Pas agreeable Hiram St Louis Re
public
Pdissionary Work
So you once liA ed in Africa Sam
Yes sah
Ever do any missionary work out
there Sam
Oh yes sah I was cook for a can
nibal chief sah Pick-Me-Up
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Another Way Out of It
Nobody had ever had reason to ac
cuse Abel Pond of being dishonest but
he was as sharp a man In a bargain
as could be found In the county When
the building committee applied to him
for a site for the new library he was
ready to sell them a desirable lot but
not at their price
I couldnt feel to let it go under
G00 he said with the mild obstinacy
that characterized all his dealings with
his fellow men It wouldnt be right
You ought to be willing to contrib
ute something for such an object said
the chairman of the committee If
its worth six hundred why not let us
have it for five hundred and call it
youve given the other hundred
Mm no I couldnt do that said
Mr Pond stroking his chin but 1 tell
you what I will do You give me seven
hundred for it and Ill make out a
check for a hundred and hand it over
to vou sos you can head the list of
subscriptions with a good round sum
and kind of wake up folks to their
duty Youths Companion
A Real Apology
When the late Joel Chandler Har
ris was an editor here among us said
an Atlantan I called on him one day
and found him very willing to correct
an error about me that crept into his
columns
We talked about newspaper contra
dictions public apologies and the like
and Uncle Remus took down a scrap
book and read me an apology that was
an apology indeed It had happened
he said in a Transvaal paper Ill nev
er forget it I agreed with Mr Har
ris that it was the finest specimen of
the public apology and retraction ex
tant It aid
I the undersigned A C du Plesss
retract hereby everything I have said
against the innocent Mr G P Bezuiden
hout calling myself an infamous liar and
striking my mouth with the exclamation
You mendacious mouth Why do you lie
so I declare further that I know noth
ing against the character of Mr G P
Bezuidenhout I call myself besides u
genuine liar of the first class
A C DU PLESSIS
Hie Cough Cure
In my boyhood there came to our
town said a clergyman a gentle min
ister who the very first Sunday of his
Incumbency stopped effectually his
coughing congregation
It was a congregation too singu
larly addicted to coughing Rattling
volleys of coughs ran over it every few
minutes The minister indeed that
first Sunday could hardly make himself
heard He had rather a weak voice
Well after his sermon had proceed
ed for ten or twelve minutes now au
dible enough now drowned under great
waves of coughs he took a resolution I
and when the nest outbreak was at its
height he ceased preaching I
At once the coughing ceased There
was a profound silence The minister
smiled
My friends said he it seems that
when I stop you stop
From that day in that church they
coughed no more
Queer Wedding Effigy
There is a curious custom still prer
alent in the Bellary district of India
in connection with the wedding cere
monies among certain Brahman fam
ilies Just prior to the close of the
feasting a hideous effigy of a male
figure fantastically robed in rags sup
posed to represent the bridegrooms fa
ther is carried along the streets in
procession under the shade of a sieve
adorned with tassels of onions and
margosa leaves Every few yards dur
ing the procession the feet of the effigy
have to be reverently washed and its
forehead decorated with a caste mark
by its living spouse the bridegrooms
mother The bridegrooms other fe
male relations have several mock at
tentions paid to them by the women
of the brides party St James Ga
zette
Restaurant Affiliation
The waiter in the light lunch cafe
looked expectantly at the first of five
men Avho had just entered
Bring me a coffee cake and a cup of
coffee ordered the first man
Ill take some milk biscuit and a
glass of milk said the second
Tea buns and a cup of tea please
remarked the third
A piece of cocoanut pie and a cup of
cocoa said the fourth
The waiter passed on to the fifth
man
Dont say it dont say it he plead
ed I know what you want You want
a slice of chocolate cake and a cup of
chocolate
No I do not protested the fifth
man I Avant a plate of ice cream and
a glass of ice Avater Judges Library
An Odd Legacy
Thomas Jefferson the founder of the
Jefferson family of actors Avas re
membered curiously in the will of
Yeston Avho Avas himself an esteemed
member of Garricks company Wes
tons will contained this item
I have played under the manage
ment of Mr Jefferson at Richmond
and received from him every polite
ness I therefore leave him all my
stock of prudence it being the only
good qualitj I think he stands in need
of
Not So Blind
Miranda I Avant to ask you to mar
ry me and to tell me
Oh Geprge this is so sudden
to tell me what date you and your
mother have decided on for our wed
ding Brooklyn Life
Publicity
Twas in the newspaper and all
the world now knows it is the motto
of a leading adA ertlsing agency
The very truth hath a color from
the disposition of the utterer Eliot
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