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It is how almost a settled fact
that Mark Hanna will bea United
States senator. *
' Cuba will soon be free*—if the
rantings of certain U. S. senators
amount to anything.
Wm ..the cabinet is made up
what will newspaper correspond-,
ants do for subject matter?
Thb Fullerton Poet issued a souve
nir edition January 15, that, was a
daisy. It is a credit to that city and
paper
Nswsfapbb readers are necessarily
a little mixed, in their ideas of what
constitutes a Jacksonian demoorat
these daya
Gloria has received a visit from
Queen Lil, but no entangling alli
ance with the Hawaiian government
is expected to result.
BanasiXTAnva Gbikis has intro
duced a woman sufferage resolution
inthe house He will at least hays
the thanks of Mary BUen Lease.
It is claimed that Milwaukee
brewers use aboutflve-sixtha ofoorn
in the manufacture of beer to, one
sixth of barley malt.
Noboot has suggested that Grover
Cleveland and David B. Hill, who
will go out of offloe at the same
time* might form a law partnership!
Judob Basis has rendered an
spinion to the effect that in order to
sarrj a constitutional amendment
it would require a majority of all
the vptes oast at the election. f
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Tns city treasurer of Minneapolis,
raoently re-eleoted, has been oom
polled to resign on account of his
inability to aeoure bondsmen. He
baa served the people in that office
tor four yean.
It turns ant that Bepresentatiye
Honey's trip to Cuba was merely
made for money. He went for a
neweraper. That makes him a little
»0WB then the plain fpol he was
supposed to be.
,, Tbs past week has been noted for
disastrous fine throughout the
country, aggregating millions of
dollajs worth of property. Phils*
delphia was the heaviest loser with
S million dollar blaze
Tubbs weeks have now elapsed
■wee the pop legideipre met, and
aside from drawing salaries and
introducing billa, the good whioh it
has accomplished oould not.be found
with a microscope..
Jy is a. waste ol time to; the dem
oonte tod popnlista to quarrel over
which party shall champion the sil
W question in 1900. /Four jeers
oi republican rule . trill be most
Itttelj to make the silter question a
renUniaoenee.
Q*omqm A. McAstbc*, formerly oi
Ike Atkinson Graphic, Am estab
lished the Madison County Times at
Norfolk. It starts out with indica
tions of prosperity. Thk Faomnn
hopes that George will, make a for
tunf i» toe sugar oity.
: Tub populists in the legislature
at Lincoln are like thepopulist
supervisors of Holt county. Thej
are afraid to take a vote on anj
measure without going into caucus
It is wonderful how quick thej
sbopt eld party msthodn
Ususs Brothers Baird and Young
of Hartingtmy “saw off” on thei)
wordy sorapping, the Northeast
Nebraska Press association will hav<
to sail e special meeting to attenc
to their esse. This disensaion mas
te jig^ng the Leader readers tired
A pobtioh of Bryan’s advice about
dropping everything bat silver is
likely to be taken by both democrats
and populists. Long before ljH)0 it
will be seen that both have dropped,
’ among other things, William Jen*
nings Bryan. V
Thk South Dakota legislature
continues to wrangle over the elec
tion of a senator, for which the
members draw their salary with
startling regularity. At present
there is no signs of the deadlock j
being broken.
A kahbas statesman has prepared
a bill to “protect sanity” by prohib
iting hypnotism, mind reading and
kindred subjects. It is not surpris
ing that the pops of Kansas should
object to having their minds read or
a hypnotic influence exerted over
their actions.
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Evas Secretary Olney has admin
istered a rebuke to Ambassador
Bayard, although it has been done
indirectly, by a revision of the dip
lomatic regulations, which now say
that no diplomatic representative of
the United States shall make politi
cal speeches.
E. P. Stoss, the Sioux City bank
er, continues to be wanted by his
confiding depositors, but the police
and deteetives are unable to locate
him. Stone may eventually get
struck with remorse and come back
to Sioux City, but it is more likely
that he will never be heard of.
It is now. proposed that the demo
crats hold a national convention this
year to decide “where they are at,”
and to organize for the next cam
paign. All right boys, go ahead,
the more publicity the present aims
of the democratic party get the
more, republicans there will be.
Ir Cramp Bros. make padding for
■hips—which ia named cofferdam—
ont of the outer portion of corn
■talks, and cattle food from the
pith, care should be taken not to
feed the foriper to your oow, as it
might cause her to coffer— head off
or ship her ’udder.—Olivet (S. D.)
Herald. _
Whs* there is a republican
administration and. a republican
tariff bill the promised prosperity
will return to the country. If not,
the republican party will willingly
bear the blame for its failure, but it
isn’t willing to bear any blame for
the failure of general prosperity to
oome under existing conditions.
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Ghablis Gums, a former Holt
county boy, will probably be elected
United States senator from Wash
ington. On a ballot taken last
Tuesday he had 30 votes, 0 votes
ahead of his nearest competitor. It
takes 57 votes to eleob If a popu
lift or a free silverite is going to
be elected, we hope Charlie will be
the man.
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Glass brioks are a new invention
shown in the Scientific American for
the oonstruotion of pavilliona and
buildings where light is necessary
but a view of the interior is not
desired The bricks are hollow
blown glass, five inches wide, eight
inches long and four inches thick,
and the effect in a building, when
made of different colors of glass is
decidedly unique. .
Th* law designating a legal news
paper should not be repealed. It
should bo made more stringent If
It oompelled a paper to hare say
400 bona fide circulation before it
oould bo termed a legal newspaper,
it would be a benefit to journalism.
It would shut'out the establishing
of papers when there is no use for
them, and build np those already
established,
Taa new apportionment bill intro
duced. by the pops increases the
representative districts from sixty
eight to seventy-six. and reduces the
senatorial districts from thirty to
twenty-eight. By the new gerry
mander the twenty-fourth senatorial
diotriot will comprise the counties
of Holt, Boyd, Bock, Brown, Keys
' Paha and Cherry for one senator,
; and the fifty-third district, Holt
i county for one representative,
l and the fifty-fourth representative
i district of Holt Boyd and Bock will
, have one representative,
FUEL VALUE OF CORN.
While it is to be-deplored tlial
com is so slow and the market sc
restricted that farmers in certain
parts of Nebraska and surrounding
states prefer to use corn as fuel
rather than dispose of it at the price
offered, yet if he is really the gainer
he cannot be blamed for pursuing
that course. Each farmer must nec
essarily decide for himself whether
for his purposes com or coal is
the cheaper fuel. At the same time
the possibilities of corn as fuel can
be determined only by exact experi
ments under conditions that permit
of accurate observations.
In this connection the data sup
plied by a bulletin just issued from
the University of Nebraska Experi
ment Station giving the comparative
results of carefully made tests are
interesting and pertinent For one
test, a good grade of this year's
yellow dent com on the ear and not
thoroughly dry was burned under a
boiler and the amount of water
evaporated recorded; for the other
the same boiler was heated with
screened Wyoming coal and a simi
lar record kept. One pound of'coal
evaporated 1.0 times as much water
as one pound of corn. Ia other
words, 1.0 times as much heat was
liberated in burning one pound of
coal as in burning one pound of
com. The coal used cost $6.05 per
ton. With coal selling at this price
and worth 1.0 times as much for fuel
as an equal weight of com the fuel
value of the latter would be $3.50
per ton, or 12.25 cents per bushel.
The following table showB how
much coal is worth per ton when its
heating power is the same as that
used in the experiment and when
corn is selling at a certain price per
bushel:
COHN PBB B0. COAL PER TON.
Scents........$4.87
10 cents... 5.41
11 cents ..........6.95
19 cents.!..6.49
18 cents.....7.11
14 cents.7.57
15 cents.8.11
It will thus be seen that if this
quality of coal were selling at less
than $0X0 and corn were bringing
12 oents it would not pay to barn
corn, while coal must sell as low as
$5.41 per ton to be as cheap fuel
as corn at 10 cents per bushel.
The economical farmer will not
bum corn as fuel when he can se
cure the same heat cheaper by buy
ing ooal and selling corn. Nor will
the economical farmer decline to
bum com SO long as the price is so
low that he can save money by bo
doing.—Omaha Bee. r
THE SEDISTBICTINO SCHEME.
The proposition of the populicts
to rediBtrict the legislative districts
of the state is quite in line with the
policy adopted for seating the two
contingent supreme court judges.
There being no precedent, one will
be created. There being no law.
one will be enacted. . ,,
The state constitution directs that
there shall be a reapportionment of
legislative districts after each federal
and state census. The federal cen
sus waa taken in 1800. Owing to
the drouth, panic and poverty, no
state census was taken in 1805, and
the people of the state generally
approved of the economy. Hence
50 lbs.
of Coal
A day would keep your towns
warm In winter. But that
small stove will bum only
twenty-five. Hence, discomfort
and misery.
A certain amount of fat^
burned daily, would keep your
body warm and healthy. But
your digestion is had, and you
don’t get it from ordinary fat
food. Hence you are chilly,
you catch cold easily, you have
coughs and shivers) while
pneumonia, bronchitis, or con
sumption finds you with no re
sistive power.
Do this. Burn better fuel.
Use SCOTT'S EMULSION
of Cod-liver OiL Appetite and
digestive power will revive)
and soon a warm coating of
good flesh will protect the vital
organs against the cold and the
body against disease.
Two tUo, 50 cts. sod
Book free far the aiking.
SCOTT ft BOWNE, K«w YoriL
there is no basis for a reapportion
rnent by the present legislature.
It has been said that “love will
find a way,” and so it is with Ne
braska populists. They are in the
habit of finding what they want,
and it is a mighty good statute and
an air-tight constitution that can
prevent them from getting what
they go after.
The promoters of the new appor
tionment scheme, which is to redis
trict the state so that the populists
oan retain control of the legislature,
referred the question to Judge Max
well, who is ao longer a judge and
was.recently resurrected and elected
to congress in the Third district,
and he handed down an opinion to
the effect that the thing can be
done. Of course Judge Maxwell is
not Jit present the court of last
reson, and is not at present conduct
ing a tribunal of final adjudication,
but what he says is law and gospel
to a populist, and it is probable that
the legislature will redistrict the
state into shoe strings, clothes lines,
fish hooks, horse shoes, triangles,
rectangles, and a variety of other
angular curiosities that will cause
the map of Nebraska to look like a
diagram of the streets and alleys of
Boston.—Kearney Hub.
It seems new as if the big irriga
tion ditch will be constructed. This
means much to this section'of Ne
braska. Our soil is very prolific if
sufficient moisture can be obtained,
and by having the big ditch there
would be no trouble on that score.
There is a bright future before
Nebraska and irrigation will be a
prominent feature in its advance
ment.
O’NEILL BUSINESS DIRECTORY
pit. J. P. GILLIGAN,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Office in Holt County Bank building
All work caah in advance. Night work
poaltively refused.
O’NEILL, - . NEB.
turn in son cram m
Stage leaves O’Neill at 8:80 A. x., arriving at
Spencer at 4 r. x,: at Butte. 5:80 P. x.
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PRACTICAL AUCTIONEER.
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Wagon and Carriage woodwork carried on in connection.
All work guaranteed to give satisfaction. Also dealer in
Farm Implements. Handles the Scandi implements and
the Plano Bakes, Mowers and Binders. Parties wishing
anything in this line call and see me.
G* w. WATTLES, President. ANDREW RUSSELL, V-Presr.
JOHN McHUGH, Cashier.
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