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About The Nebraska advertiser. (Nemaha City, Neb.) 18??-1909 | View Entire Issue (June 2, 1905)
OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS t&I T Wi 1 Killed Her Husband. F the woman Is unfortunato enough to marry In brule who considers It n recreation nnd pas time to lultiuso her, maltreat her nnd beat her, she has .a right, If assaulted, to use such forco Iaa Is necessary to protect herself, oven to the point of killing her assailant." Those aro tlio words of Judge Kersten, of Chicago, In discharging Mrs. Jessie Hopkins, on trial for killing her husband. Harry Hopkins made a brutal and felons assault on his wife last New Year's day. He was n the habit of doing that Oovored with blood from the blows of the man, nnd fearing tho brute would kill her, bho shot him to death. 0, just judge. A woman does not forfeit the right of lelf-klefcnso accorded every human being when she marries l man. Sho Is not his chattel to be maltreated and abused ind trampled upon. And If tho savage In the man finds tin pleasuro In beating her to the Imminent risk of life ihe has tho right tho God-given right to defend that life it tho risk of his. But the pity of it, you say? Yes, the pity of It. Though lovo had changed to fear nnd hate, though society acquits her and though her conscience Is void of offense toward God, yet the feeling of horror and pity when tliat woman saw tho father of her children dead on tho floor and by her hand will never fade away. Tho pictured outlines of her home tragedy will grow sharper with the years. For uch la tho dreadful heritage of tho man-slayer. But it will be satisfaction to remombor that tho world Acquits her and tlint men nnd women pity her. Tho wom m'a Justification was perfect Indianapolis Sun. Will the Cornet Come, Too? HEY are now teachlne the flddlo in the nubile 9" I schools of England, and lads by the thousands I jare sawing away on cheap violins and dream- 1" SL kllU 11J O IIULII IlibJ IT 1.1 UV...V A- riinis and reap fortunes on American tours. Oh, these fads I America will have to go John Bull one better. In the mad chase for iccompllshmcnts there can be no halt. Will you have your boy learn to play the cornet, or tho elarlnet? Or perhaps his talent runs to the welting of tho head of a big brass drum or the caressing of the keys f a, bassoon. England has set the pace, and it is only a juestlon of time when some sclentlllc sharp will bo able ko show that the salvation and health and general moral rrelfaro of tho average child can best be secured and re hxined by an hour or so a dny spent In squirting wind through an E Hat cornet in a public school. Then we shall have tho A grade brass band and the B jrado fife and drum corps, while the girls on tho back seats can organize a mandolin club. Of course, there will be drawbacks. It will bo neces pary to place the average school far from the habitations of mankind. Be it known that one little yellow clarinet in tho hands of a beginner is a greater curse to a community than war is to Manchuria. Then think of a nest of yellow clarinets and all the rest of the musical Ills that Infest the world, and you will realizo that If the English idea is pros ecuted to its fullest extent most of us will have to move Into tho cellar and wear cotton In our ears. Meanwhile those little Britishers are sawing away, and America may well tremble. St Louis Chronicle. T Nebrasks Leads the Way. HE Nebraska Legislature has ready for the Governor's signature an act providing that every person who undertakes to heal disease for money shall have devoted four years to the study of the subject and have given proofs of knowledge of it to public authority. In the amount of training required this is believed to be the highest standard yet sot by any Ameri can State. Leading medical educators are quite generally agreed that it Is none too high. It seems entirely reasonable that any one who undertakes to meddle with so compli cated and delicate an organism as the human body shall first acquire adequate knowledge of it. Knowledge of the physical mechanism they seek to ad JUBt, no matter what means they may use, cannot bo harm ful either to healers or to patients. They may not use that knowledge, just ns tho oculist doos not uso in iUv nrnn. tice his knowledge of general anntomy, yet such knowlcdgo is never nurtiui ana is often userui to him nnd to those whose eyes ho treats. ' i In maklncr no distinction hntwoon 'WivOn1' nt mnril. cine and mothods of healing, as It apparently doea not, but In slllinlv romilrlntr thnt nil who tnkn nnv fnt- frnn-Hnrr iHa. ease shall have dovoted a certain time to tho study of tho suojoct anil navo given proofs of knowledge of It, tho Ne braska law has adonted n nollcv whoso fi riirvtn will n generally admitted. It prevents no man who chooses from risKiug ms ncaitn in uio Hands of ignorance. It merely says that ignorance shall not make money by representing itself to be knowledge. In striking out tho senslblo lino through tho Jungle of medical practice and In Hottlm? tin n hMi ntn nrtr1 fnr tnivH. c7 "i' " -rr " j & cal competence, Nebraska appears to lead tho way for other a-iuencnn commonwealths. UMcngo Inter Ocean. A llouscclenning Query. ROUBLE Is coming. Trouble Is headed for your house, armed with mops, brushes, dust rags, bars of soap, palls of scourino; tho air Is full of the Infernal odor of soapsuds, and tho guns are loaded to the muzzle with the am- 10 munition of spring housecleanlng. This edito rial is written oy n mere man. It Is necessary to be thus personal to elucldato tho point of view. Why does a woman clean houso spring and fall? Isnt tho dally and weekly dusting, scrubbing and general dis comfort sufficient for all purposes? It would seem so. But just about the time tho bluebirds come, and the pussy willows arp at their best, your wlfo decides that tho house must be ripped from center to cir cumference If you don't like it you can move. If you do take up quarters In tho barn, you are a flinty-hearted wretch, and don't you forget it. There Isn't much that you can do except not say the things you think. Later, you may be allowed to beat the carpets, but you cannot hope to compete with tho hired man at that task, and if you nre particularly pleasant you will be allowed to wear out your knees and temper while pulling tacks. If you havo never removed tacks from a hardwood floor with tho back of a caseknlfe you have not experienced real life, but you are to bo congratulated. But why all this fuss. The home looks fine. There may be a little dust under the loungo, and the wallpaper needs a lick or two at tho hands of tho cleaner, hut beyond Unit what moots It? Microbes live in dust. They bother the human family little until the dust Is stirred and scattered. Why not leave well enough alone? We have In mind a good woman who moved Into a new house. Tho carpenters had left It clenn. You could dine off tho floors and sup In tho cellar without fear of dirt. It was spotless from basement to garret. And tho good wom an moved In, and her first act was to clean house. Why do they do It? Wo will admit thnt we aro stumped. Cincinnati Post. When Wars Will Cease. m HAT student of men who concludes thnt wars M I will cease when the chances of escaping death 1 lor Injury are reduced to such a point that men I 111 1 A f J.I . 1 I win no luugur iuku uium, una iiuman nature on his side, no matter what the critics may say. With tho perfection of war machinery, and the trebling or quadrupling of mortality In war, thero will surely come a harking back to the first law of nature, which Is the one of self-preservntlon. When the progress of Invention in war machines goes on until man finds his chance of survival in battle reduced to nearly nothing, he will surely beat his swords Into ploughshares and his spears Into pruning hooks. Thero is a glory in dying for one's country, but it is not equal, in its practical results, to tho glory of trying to dio and falling In the at tempt When tho mortality statistics of modern warfare are studied in tho Intervals of peace, and men are able to realizo that the chance of being killed or maimed has become greater than the chance of escaping with a whole skin, tho millennium of peace will begin to dawn. St Louis Globe-Democrat. TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE. FnmouH School for NescrocB Founded by n Former Slovc. Tho Tuskegee Normal nnd Indus trial School, which, under the leader ship of Booker T. Washington, is do ing such splen did educational work In the South among the negroes, was founded in 18S1 by Lewis Adams, writes William E. Curtis, in the Chi cago Record-Herald. Adams was a slave before tho Avar In Tuskegee, ll-wis AUAiis. plantation man of oil work. Ho had a genius for tink ering. He could mend a clock, or shingle a roof, or repair an engine, or do a job of plumbing. Thero was very Httlo thnt Adams could not do, and when ho was emancipated ho sot up a shop in Tuskegee, where he made Unwork and tinkered In various trades, "with a number of disciples nnd appren tices around him. There were so many colored boys eager to learn trades tlmt ho could not find room for thorn in his shop and It worried him. When tho next election carao around iii 1880 and the candidate for tho legis lature sought his influence with tho colored voters, Adams agreed to use It provided tho candidate would pledge Wmself to got an appropriation for nu Industrial school at Tuskegee. The jundidato was elected an honest man Who kept his plod go and had "pull' enough to get aw nppropriatlon of ?2, 000 a year. That was far more than Adams expected, nnd it provided for a school beyond his capacity to teach. So he wrote Gen. Armstrong, princi pal at Hampton Institute in Virginia, lo recommend n teacher, and he sent them Booker T. Washington, ono of his graduates, and a member of his faculty. This was twenty-threo years ago. Adams has been connected in ono way or anotihor with the lnstltu tlonover since and is the Nestor tho oldest Inliabltant. There are now 151 officers, clerks and instructors, and 375 persons re siding in a model community, In ad dition to the students and teachers1; 103 buildings of various sizes and for various purposes, of which 98 are owned by tho school and used for edu cational purposes. Tho remainder are the homes of teachers nnd em ployes. Tho school owns 2,000 ncres of land, practically In ono block, of which 800 acres are uow under culti vation; GOO acres aro pasture and the remainder Is woodland upon which the students cut logs for lumber to erect tho buildings and wood for burning brick nnd. heating purposos. Tho land cost less than $10 per acre; much of It 1b to-day worth more than $500 an acre. Every building upon tho grounds was designed and erected by the fac ulty and. students without Jpteido help, and. at least a dozen of them cost more than ? 15,000 each, the max imum representing an Investment of $00,000 without counting tho labor. Tho students have made nrerj brick and cut down the trees nnd sawed, the lumber; they have mado all tho sashes, doors and blinds, and not a pound or bit of building material ex cept hardware has been obtained out side of tho grounds for more than 32 years. They raise their own cattle and horses; they build their own wagons, Implements nnd clothing and every thing else they use, except their crockery, knives and forks, stationery and such articles of merchandise. Slnco the institution was founded it has trained 0,000 students. MISSOURI'S NEW 8ENATOR. Sun Helps tho Baby. Sunning tho baby is ono of tho popu lar things in baby culture Many houses have adjustable sun parlors. They are made of some kind of hard wood and built by tho carpenter to ox tend beyond tho window. Tho top and sides of the little platform aro cov ered with glass, and strips of carpet arc laid on the floor to stop up any cracks thero may be. No matter how fiercely the winds may blow or how low tho thermometer mny sink tho sun parlor Is always ready for tho baby. A pillow Is placed on the carpeted floor, then tho baby Is warmly dressed and well covered for Its morning or after noon nap. Chicago Tribune. Bobby Hard at Work. Bobby I havo been working all dny like a dog, Ep. Father Glal to hear you aro get ting industrious, Robert; but what havo you been doing? Bobby I've boen digging out a wood chuck, pop I Puck. ' MnJ William Warner lleirnn IHb Career nn an Ore Bay In n Mine. At six years of ago an ore picker on tho dump of n mine; at 05 a mem ber of tho United States Semite. This in brief Is tho life story of MnJ. Wll llnm Wnrnor, tho Republican Senator from Missouri. More than 30 years ago in a littlo room In Kansas City In which "Squaro" Henry White, a justice of tho peace, held court u young lawyer named Warner made a remarkable plea for Justice for his client, who was on trial there. Moved to prophecy by tho eloquence nnd logic of tho speak er, J. V. O. Karnes, another young lawyer, remarked: "If Warner lives long enough ho will bo In tho United States Senate." Mr. Knmos has lived to see his pre diction fulfilled, for the young lawyer with tho eloquent tongue wns MnJ. W1U lam Warner, who has been elected by tho Missouri legislature to mtccood to the seat so long filled by Francis M. Cockerel 1. MnJ. Wllllnm Warner hnd his full quota of thoso American nlds to politi cal preferment lowly birth and pov erty. He wns the youngest of six chil dren, nnd his father worked In tho lend mlnos of southern Wisconsin. FIvo yenrs after Wllllnm was born in Lnfnyotto county, Wisconsin, his father died. A year later his mother died, nnd tho boy fneed the stern ne cessity of earning his own bread. Ho had been to the mines with his father, and ho turned totliom for a means of gaining n livelihood. Too small to do other work, ho began pick ing up iblts of ore from tho refuso heaps piled about tho mouth of tflio MA JO II WILLIAM WAWKn. shaft and tho thoroughness with which he did this attracted the atten tion of a mlno foreman. The foreman offered tho boy the position of driving tho skinny old horso that worked the mlno pump. William eagerly accept ed, and for three yenrs he furnished tho inccntlvo that kept tho hors faithful to his task. At the end of three years William got a promotion. Ho was permitted to drlvo tho horse thnt hoisted tho ore bucket from tho mine. This horso, be ing a livelier .and more Intelligent ani mal thnn tho other, did not require bo much urging, nnd the boy hud time for meditation. In some way tho knowledge crt into Is nctlvo brain that an education wins n good thing. At tlmt tlmo ho did not know so much as tho alphabet but tho thought took root and flourished, and ono night after tho day's work wns over he went to the village store and asked for a look. The clerk sold him a primer nnd gave him his first lesson In the nlpha bet. William' was fascinated with the now world tluit the ability to read opened to him. Ho studied every night. When ho was ten years old ho was offered a place In a grocery store. Tho position paid him more wages and gave him more tlmo to study, and ho took it. For four years he work ed and studied and saved nnd accu mulated enough money to pay board and tuition for a year at a college In Lawrence, Wis. Following his year in the university thoro were years of teaching school, saving and studying law, and at 19 he took the examination nnd was admit ted to the University of Michigan. Ho wns 20 years old nnd still a stu dent at Ann Arbor when the first shots of tho Civil War were fired, nnd ho und others of nbout his own nge form ed n company and offered themselves for enlistment The recruiting officers told them to go back to school. Most of thorn did so. William Warner went homo and began teaching again. But ono day in 1802, while a class was in the mlddlo of n recitation, ho decided to go to war. "Go home," he snld to tho pupils. "Thero will bo no mora school until you got n now tench er." no went to Shullsburg, Wis., organ ized a company and was unnnnmoualy elected Its lieutenant Tho Thirty third Wisconsin Infantry was formed. Lieutenant Warner's company was as signed to it and ho was elected, adju tant In tho army ho was engaged in ac tlco service constantly. Ho was with Grant beforo Vlclcsburg; For hU gal lant services In tho fighting that pre ceded the surrender of General Pern bertoa ho waa appointed amis taut ad jutant general in tho staff of T. Kirbri Smith, and served In that capacity La tho Red River campaign. After thajj lie saw constant servlco in Arlainsnaj nnd Mlsourl. Ho wns fnrslghtcdj enough to see tho future possibilities of Missouri. A month after ho was mustered outy as a major, at Madison, Wis., at thej close of tho war, ho was on his wayi back to Missouri with nil his scant be longings. A fow months after ho arrived in Kansas City ho formed n law purtnerv ship with O. O. Tichenor that endured until 188-1. In 1807 ho wns ejected City Attor noy. Tho following year ho wns chosen prosecuting attorney of tha county, not an enviable position ntthnfi time when the animosities of the war; Rt 111 rankled. In 1871 he wart elected Mayor. In 1SS-1 he was elected to Com gress and was re-elected, finally rctlr lug from the national lawmaking body In 1802. The same year he was nomI nated by tho Republicans for Govor nor, but was defeated. In personal appearance Major Wan ner Is a solidly built, broad-shouldered man of medium height, with a firm face, kindly gray eyes that gleam with fire, a carriage thnt suggests tho old, military life, and a face Hinooth, ex cept for a heavy Iron-gray moustache. Ills hair Is thick and shaggy ns n Hon'fl mane. At the surrender of Vlcksburg, Julj 4, 1S03, Major Warner was captain oi n company In n Wisconsin regiment Ho stood between tho lines of tha opposing forces and rend the Declara Hon of Independence ns tho soldlera mnrched. lie was cheered by both Federals and Confederates. MANY WRITE TO OSLER. Baltimore Doctor Minlo Unhnpny hy I.cttcrn Ho Rccclvca. If tho people do not stop writing lot ters to Prof. Osier ho will havo no chance to do anything In all his wak-j lug hours but cut open envelopes nnd! glnnco over tho written stuff within,! says a Baltimore special to tho Now York Press. Letters by the hundreds and by the thousands havo been pour ing In on the unhappy man since ho vaulted Into fame by declaring man was no good after he wiih '10, and ought to bo chloroformed at 00. Some persons write to him, In all seriousness. Some have fun with him He destroys most of his letters, but a few havo come lo light through ac qualntancos who read them. Here la one: "Dear Dr. Osier: I am 27 years ot age. I was married a year ago to a gentleman of means, who has a large! and prosperous manufacturing bust ness. My husband is Just 00 years old to-day. "I read your speech recently pul llshed In the newspapers. I hall yout views as opening a new era in oub social life and I am a firm believer In nnd nn ndmlrer of your ldens. "Kindly nccept an Invitation to dln with us nt your enrllest convenience. I will Introduce you to my husbnnd nnd my husbnnd's business manngor, u very Interesting young mnn, whom I nm suro you will like. "Hoping you will bring your chloro form ulong nnd treat us to a demon, stratlon of your theory, I remain yours respectfully, "MRS. YOUNG WIFE." Another read as follows: "Respected Dr. Osier: In these days, when tho power of wealth Is throt tling our time-honored Institutions nnd debauching even the fundamental prim ciples of our civil government, we may well acclaim the change In our polity which would obtain If your theory were put Into practice by law. I am a lawyer and am frequently In touch with Incidents which prove to mo that wealth can obtain for certain men, even the highest positions in our gov ernment, whero others, who should! receive those, positions on merit and' ability, fail. "Hoping tho theory you advocato may soon become law, so that tho young men may have a chance, I am sincerely yours, "FRANK HLACKSTONE." Another read: "My. Dear Dr. Osier: I have been married eighteen years. Before man rlago I was a happy, light-hearted, care-free youth. Now I am almost a physical and mental wreck from tho troubles of married life. Yet my wifo is not a really bad-dispositloned wom an. "I long ago concluded that the condI tlon of our social fabric wns not as 11 should bo. Something was wrongt navlng read your theory, I havo ro newed hope. "I like to honor genius In my hum ble way. On March 31 we are to hnvo n soclnl function nt our home a littlo dinner to celebrato the 00th anniver sary of the birthday of my wife's mother. Will you do us the honor to ntteud? Don't forgot your little bottle. Respectfully yours, "JOHN DUNN GOODE." A Hard Job. Tcncher What great difficulty wns, Demosthenes compelled to surmount; before ho became an orator? Soffmoro Ho hnd to learn how to talk Groek. Phllndelphia Presa.