The Frontier.
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D. H. CRONIN. Editor.
RORAINE SAUNDERS, Associate.
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What has become of Oom Paul ?
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Political writers never mention
tariff.
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Good morning. Have you seen
Pat Crowe?
The Crawford Tribune is redhot
for Miklejohn.
The world is 5,900 years of age,
and is as lively as a kid of 2 years.
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China thinks the agreement to an
armistice a good New Year’s reso
lution.
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It is always well to turn over a
new leaf, provided the new is better
than the old.
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. Atkinson is struggling under the
electno light strain. Az Perry is
not interested.
The fellow that kept bis last year
resolutions is a year ahead of the
Other fellows.
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Ross Hammond of the Fremont
Tribune deolines to become a oolonel
on Governor Dei trick's staff.
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This department thinks prob
ably it was the last century birth
he will have a chance to witness.
> Bryan already has enough paid
in-advanoe subscriptions to the
Commoner to buy a printing plant.
This department believes as much
in peaoe as anybody, but it wouldn’t
seoond a motion for the Boers to
quit while they have a ghost of a
show.
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Matt Quay is having his biennial
round up with the Pennsylvania
legislature and his grip on that
body relaxes none with the passing
of time.
A twentieth oentury duty is a
revision of the school books to teach
American supremacy in commerce,
agricultural and manufacturing in
dustries.
“Not all is gold that glitters’’
think the Omaha police as the diffi
culties between the capture of Pat
CroweJ and that $50,000 are con
templated.
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Vl If nature provides a few-more
*%rown” winter0, perhaps Chambers
Ahd Atkinson will “have trains run
ning before snow flies’’ on the D.,
N. & C. line.
While authorities at West Point
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show themselves complete masters
in authority in other respects, they
are unable to control the cadets at
hazing season.
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If Omaha was as alert to capture
all the thieves and orooks within her
gates as she is for Pat Crowe people
who go there to do business would
not be touched so frequently.
The mineral output of the Black
Hills region the past year is valued
at $10,500,000. South Dakota pre
sents a threefold source of wealth in
its mines, farming and cattle rais
ing.
. The Valley County Times is put
ting forth its best energies for F. M.
Currie of Caster oounty for the sen
ate. We admire the pluck of the
Times, but the odds are too great,
t»o great
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| The north Nebraska editors are
demanding more substantial recog
nition of their territory in the mat
ter of state appointments. North
Nebraska has been pretty well rep
resented during populist adminis
trations.
The W. C. T. U. cranl^ that went
into the Ivannas barroom and
smashed the mirrors and pictures
should be given a chance in tho
halls of the Beuate when tho canteen
bill comes up.
Sioux City Journal: In his re
cent Bpeech on “What Fusion Has
Done for Nebraska” Gov. Poynter
did not mako a single reference to
the showing made by the state in
the recent census.
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The venture of the English gent
leman, Harmsworth, to make a
model newspaper of the New York
World is a commendable one; a
better subject than the World to ex
periment on cannot well be found.
Says the Kansas City Journal:
“Before deciding to return to Father
Cleveland’s bosom the democratic
party will probably pause and re
flect that it was Cleveland hard
times that drove it Bryanism.
The fusionists huve claimed all
along that the increase in tho state’s
assets was due to the administration
of honest pop oflicials. Down in
Kansas $4,000,000 in back taxes has
been paid in the past four years.
Is that duo to the pops?
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South Sioux City Argus: The
advance agent of prosperity is still
a long way ahead of his show.
Listen at that. Tho seats at the
performance are all occupied before
sleepy old South Sioux City awaken
to find there’s a show in town.
W. H. Korns, who for three years
has published one of the neatest
papers in Nebraska, the News at
Chadron, announces that he has
sold his plant and tho paper will
now appear as the Chadrouian un
der control of Prof. W. C. Phipps
of Chadron Academy.
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The Lincoln Arrow Head directs
its shafts at D. E, Thompson, one
of the strong candidates before the
legislature for the senate. It also
prints a picture of Mr. Thompson,
whjoh is tho ugliest thing that ever
appeared on paper, and warrants
Thompson taking a hickory club to
the man that made it.
“There,” said tho mau wdh iron
will ns he cast a plug of Battle Ax
over the fence before entering the
house the night before New Years,
“I’ve taken my last chew.” The
sparrows lodging in the fence corner
were aroused next morning by a
man bowed among tho dead weeds
by the roadside as if looking for
something.
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A cool fifty thousand is offered for
the capture of the kidnapers of
young Cudahy. The efforts to pluck
the prize are just about as fruitful
as those of tho optical specialists
who tried for years to pull down the
million dollar inducement of New
York’s fameous blind millionaire
merchant, Charles Broadway Bouse,
for restored sight.
The Alliance Times demands:
“Give us a change in our assessment
laws or give us death. The chaps
with scads of money or property
that escape taxation or are assessed
bo low that it is virtually exempt
have had their innings long enough.
Let the legislature straighteu out
this matter or prepare for trouble
when it turns itself loose on the
Community after having linished
talking to the galleries.” Now
you’r whistling. (
The Nebraska legislature con
vened on Tuesday. . It will be a
busy session ami one that will record
important acts in the state’s history.
Although the interest in the contest
for the two United States senatorial
togas will eclipse all else for a time
it is by no means the only matter of
importance to come before this ses
sion. Under toe constitution it be
comes the duty of the legislature to
re-district the state for congression
al and legislative representation.
The constitution provides that such
apportionments be made at the first
session following the taking of the
census and as the legislature of 1891
failed of its duty in this respect we
are still under the apportionment of
1880. A constitutional revision is
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fil^o talked of, the old constitution
of 1873 being inadequate to the
present needs of the state. The
revenue laws will come in for revis
ion and the corporation laws will he
strengthened. Withal, the legisla
tors will he kept busy.
Ever and anon the Omaha World
Herald, from which the fusion press
of Nebraska draws inspirations, j
conies gut with flaming head lines
depicting the expansion and pros- j
parity of Omaha's business. In a j
splendid New Year’s edition review
ing Omaha’s past condition and
future prospects tho World-Herahl
starts out by saying: “Omaha, dur
ing the year just closed, forged
ahead of all previous records in the
jobbing and manufacturing interests,
and begins tho new year with the
brightest prospects.” A compari
son of the statistical statements of
the World Herald of today nnd the
editorial statements of the aamo pa
per when trying to show why Mr.
Biyan should be elected president
is calculated to disturb the fath of
the reader in the World-Herald’s
reliability us a political guido post.
While tho literary men are devot
ing pages to the past century in
schorlarly reviews of the progress
made in a brief hundred years of
American life, questions arise
from a retrospective view that chul
lenge the thought that all has been
progress. It may rightly be ques
tioned if the progress in art, manu
facture nnd material wealth has
been accompanied by a correspond
ing progress in manly and womeuly
virtues — with higher and graver
thoughts of life and a lirmer grasp
of tho eternal principles of love,
truth and justice. Looking out up
on the world today the most opti
mistic observer cannot fail to see
that a mighty tide of evil overruns
tho laud; crime is common and has
censed to be a horror; indecencies
are but incidents even in the social
strata that professes to be above the
low and vulgar; greed of gold is in
tho breasts of all classes and weeds
of worldliuess have grown up in the
hearts of those professing godliness;
appetite and passion are consuming
tho moral and physical powers of
men nnd women and children are
educated to love the companions and
influences cf tho street more than
tho home. The nations of earth
are arraying for battle nnd the
twentieth century dawns on a scene
that threatens to carry the European
and Asiatic countries back to the
dark days of the middle centuries
Yet not all is night at the beginning
of another century. There are brave
and true hearts, strong hands and
clear heads in tho world yet—men
and women who grasp the real im
portance of life and are expending
iheir energies to point their fellow
men to that which makes for real
progress, truth and righteousness in
the human heart.
Trade With Territories.
With the amount for December
estimated, our export trade for the
year with Cuba, Porto llico, Hawaii,
the Philippines aud Samoa is repre
sented by the sum of fifty millions
of dollars, says the Albany Journal.
Last year the total value of our ex
ports to those islands was little more
tbau forty one and one half millions;
in 1898 it was little more than nine
teen millions and 1897 it was a little
less than seventeen millions. It
will be seeu that in three years our
trade with these islands alone has
uearly trebled, and botween this
country and the Philippines there is
but the beginning of commercial
intercourse.
In view of the partisan criticism
that was heaped upon the govern
ment when a law was enacted pro
viding a small tariff upon some
articles passing between the United
States and Porto llico, the figures
showing the volume of our trade
with Porto Rico since and before
the passage of thnt law are particu
larly interesting and gratifying. In
1897 our exports to Porto lino
amounted to §2,023,751; in 1898
they fell to §1,104,001, because of
tho war; in 1899 there value was
$3,077,564; in this year, during
about half of which the low tariff
law has been in force, they will
amount to about live and one ball
millions.
Our exports to the Philippines
have been double the amount for
1890, and teutimes the amount for
any previous year.
In all these islands, and especially
the Philippines, there is ample room
for tho development of markets for
both our agricultural and manufact
urod products. rI he demand for our
goods will grow steadily as the peo
ple of our new territories become
better acquainted with us. Our
foreign commerce will expand stead
ily for years. To supply the in
creased demand from abroad for our
goods, Americrn farmers and
mechanics and employes of trans
portation companies will be kept
busy. Tho money of other nations
will flow steadily into the country in
far geater volume than it will flow
out again. Can anyone doubt that j
out prosperity has come to stay?
\ THE COUNTY PRESS )
Inman News: The M. E. people
in addition to paying off the church
debt of $500 on the Iuman church,
have the lack of a house for the pas
tor been compelled to build a par
souage which is nearly completed.
Chambers Bugle: Chambers had a
severe loss lust Friday morning at 5
o’clock,in the burning of tho cream
ery from an accident. Some coal
which was thrown on some slack
heated and began burning the wood
work. In a short time the entire
building was burnt to the gronnd.
No insurance. There is a probability
that the Norfolk creamery company
will rebuild with tho least possible
delay.
Ewing Advocate: Jos. Bonnarens
went to O Neill Wednesday to make
final proff on a choice quarter of
Holt county laud.The case of
Tom Brown who is suing John Carr
for a road through the latter’s place,
came up in the district court yester
day and was dismiRed at Brown’s
co-tt. W. E. Wunder, T. D. Seivers,
Nels B<>rgstrom,E. Boy Townsend
and James Boice were witnesses on
the case.Married—At the home
of the bride on Christmas day, Miss
Dora Hunt of Page to Mr Roy
Townsend of Stafford. The bride
was formaly a teacher in the Ewing
schools and many warm friends ex
tend to her best wishes. The groom
is Holt conuty’s foremost bridge
contractor and builder and has a
large and favorable acquaintance all
over the county. A large circle of
friends extend congratulations to
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Townsend, who
will be at home to their friends at
Stafford.
Atkinson Plain Dealer: Wo are
informed that the Atkinson Milling,
Grain & Stock company have fully
decided to put in an electricplaut just
as soon as possible and will start
with two hundred lights.The
postoffice building has been repaired,
painted and papered and on Jan
uary 1st becomes a third class office,
not on account of the repairs, but
but on account of the increase
during the last year. It is now to
become a salaried office instead of a
cancilation office, and Col. Jonson,
our postmaster, is to be cengratulat
eJ. “General Prosperity” seems to
have struck this postoffiiee as well
as other buisness houses iu town.
Young Fuller, from southwest of
town,was brought in this morning
and installed at the New Park hotel
aud Dr. Backburn summoned. About
twelve o’clock last night his horse
hnd fallen with him, braking both
bones of his right leg about midway
between the ankle aud knee. The
injured limb was set by the doctor
and the patieut seems to be doing
well. The young man has been
working for tbe gentleman who pur
chased the Milton Doolittle ranch
last spring and is about twenty years
of age. i
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