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THE PIRATES’ REVENGE.
• As will be seen by a communication
from W. W. Bethea to the Board of
f. Supervisors printed elsewhere in this
issue, Mr. Bethea has paid into the
• county treasury the sum of $270.8),
i pursuant to the resolution passed bj
the county board last week.
The promptness with which Mr.
Bethea has responded to the demand
of the board will meet with the ap
probation of every honest tax payei
in Holt county. It may be of interest
to our readers to know the rea
motive that prompted the move b)
, the populist strategy board on the
work of ex-county clerk Bethea. Tin
Independent of January 24 announce)
in stud horse type headlines that Mr
Bethea while acting as county clerk
had stolen $200, and demanded thai
County Attorney Mullen commence
action instanter to recover tin
amount. The article referred t<
iwould lead the unsophisticated reade
not familiar with the methods of tin
gang of land pirates, to belive that
• Bill Bethea, while acting as count)
icierk had surrept itiously taken $20(
to which lie was not entitled. Every
thing in connection with the al
lowance of this $200 to Mr. Bethea by
the county board was open and abov<
board. Nothing was concealed. Mi*
Bethea did not file a bill for tin
amount. The county board—which
was a populist board—by unanimous
vote granted him the $200 for hi
service as clerk of the board. The
resolution was published in the Inde
pendent in 1896 among the proceed
ings of the county board, so it was m
"nigger” news at this late day as tin
Independent would have the public
believe. Not only did Mr. Bethe
and the board of supervisors think
they were acting legally when tin
1200 was allowed but this was tin
opinion of the attorney general o
Nebraska, as well as the populis
county attorney, W. R. Buttler. Thb
was the law at that time as held b\
the district court until reversed b)
the surpreme court in the case cited
uy nr. neuica in ins ictier to ini
board. As soon as this desislon wa$
hiade known to Mr. Bethea he paid
into the county treasary $200 with
interest to date. Had Bill Betheii
while on the board of supervisors th<
past year shut his eyes to the knavery
of the land syndicate and sneezed
whenever any of the land pirates toot
snuff, the Independent would still
be pointing with pride to the official
record of ex-County Clerk Bethea in
stead of reviewing it with so much
alarm. On the contrary Mr. Bethe:*
had the courage to denounce the
damnable practices of the land syn
dicate in plundering the county and
robbing helpless people of their land,
and by so doing has incurred the
enmity of the pop machine. The
"blow that killed father” and drew
all the fire from the land syndicate
batteries was Bethea’s vote on the
board early in Jaunary to perempt orily
stop the tax foreclosure system whicl
has filled the capacious maw of the
land syndicate at the expense of the
county and poor, unfortunate people
The Independent’s bill—which the
land owners and Holt county rnusi
pay—for publishing tax forclosure not
ices since November amounts to ove
$6000. Is it at all strange that thi
corrupt gang of blackmailers woule
become infuriated at any one win
was instrumental in shutting oi
theirgraft? The Independent articl
above referred to and the subsequen
action of county attorney Mullen ha
altogether too much political tlavo
and seems to be inspired more by
desire to “get even” and detract ai
tentton from their own Tascalit
rather then a sincere desire for th
interests of the county. If the astut
county attorney is in earnest in hi
pursuit of official corruption he can
And plenty of it and lie need not go
beyond the narrow conAnes of his
own office to And it.
It is not necessary litre to recount
tlie details of the high handed oAicial
corruption that was brought to light
by Ttie Frontier during the recent
campaign. Why does not the Inde
pendent “demand” and why does not
the county attorney commence action
looking to the recovery ofthe hundreds
of dollars of illegal fees charged by
ex-Sheri IT Stewart, and the thousands
of dollars of tax out of which Ilolt
county lias been defrauded by the
pernicious foreclosure conspiracy? The
question is now up to the Indepen
dent and County Attorney Mullen for
answer and wiien it is answered we
have a few others to propound.
THE NEW OOPPEK1IEADLSM.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat: it is a
rattier dun day which does not see an
outbreak of oopperheadisin in either
orancli of Congress. A few days ago
all me Democratic memoers, except
one, of the House who voted on the
proposition voted against an item in a
nil tor ilie shelter and protection 01
die soldiers in the Pninippines.
iJuoois, of Idaho, in the (seriate, has
reierred lo Gen. Wheaton, a lue-long
>oidier, wtio is one of the Oest officers
ui me Philippines, as “prohaoly some
unaritv h iv auoonited to vVe.st Point
.,y a senator or representative, ami
mice tnen supported oy me govern
ment.” JJuoois, Teller and outers m
Senate denounced (Jen. Bel.
.is oeing worse Umn Weyler on ac
count of his recent reconcentration
jrder. Senator iviooey, of .vlisussippi
jeing asked wliat lie would do witu
me Philippines and their iniiaoitants,
,aid: ‘'iieo tliem go to tlie devil anu
Lane care of themselves so far as the
American peopie are concerned. ”
There are evidence that asystematic
crusade of vllhlcation against tlie ad
ulnistratlon and me army has been
.uirteJ by a junta in the Democratic
party, so as to impede tlie Republi
cans, and defeat, il possible, ail legis
lation for tiie aid of tlie army and the
advancement of tiie American cause
in the country’s new territory. Tlie
attacks on (Jen. Bell are shown by
>Jen. Oorbin to be extravagant. (Jen.
Bell’s aim is to protect tiie friendly
natives from violence at the hands of
me insurgents and their friends. No
concentration on Weyler or Kitchener
plans, wtiere thousands are herded 10
,ether in small spacelwitn insufficient
mod and with no medical attendance,
.s thought of. The natives who are
m be removed to other quarters will
re well taken care of. The attempt
.s to separate the friends from tlie
enemies of the American cause, and
.vnile the former will be protected the
.alter will not be injured unless
caught in some overt act of hostility.
An especial attempt will be made to
ivoid the objectionable features of
ne Weyler and Kitclicner procedure,
flhis is the explanation of Gen. Bell’s
order which is furnished at army
headquarters, and, of course, it will
(land against the unsupported asser
tions of the little band of impiaeabies
.vho are trying to obstruct the Re
publican administration in Washing
mu and to strengthen the hands of
Jie insurgents in tlie Philippines.
The American people arc fortunate
n 1902, as they were in 1892, and the
ntcceeding two or three years, in
laving an administration and a Con
gress which has both the courage and
me strength to guard American in
erests vigilantly and intelligently,
file Republicans have a majority of
>ver twenty in the Senate and or
nore than forty in the House, count
ing in all the elements opposed to the
.Republican party. They have a reso
lute and able President. There is not
the faintest reason to fear that tlie
present breed of copperheads will have
he influence which their predecessors
uad, or to make any such trouble for
he country’s armies as those marplots
lid. The policy of extending Ameri
can sovereignty over tire Philippines
■vill be carried out vigorously on the
dues already laid down. All the legis
ation which is needed to strengthen
the army in the islands and on the
mainland of the United States will be
enacted. The little gang of copper
heads in eacli branch of Congress will
ie easily overcome. Tlie tire in the
•ear on tlie American soldiers which
was lneuecuve in me case ui \ ai
undigham. Jesse I). Bright, Daniel
\V. Voorhees and their fellow Hag
.'urlers will be si ill feebler from their
weak Imitators of the present day.
SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY.
Satire is the salt of wit rubbed on a
Bore spot.
Better a distant friend than an inti
mate enemy.
When a man has gone to seed it Is
time to plant him.
Happiness has less use for comfort
than indolence has.
It sometimes happens that love Is
the only wisdom of a fool.
If a man has a sense of humor he
knows when not to get funny.
It’s a poor contractor who doesn’t
show up with a bill for extras.
Food for thought Is sometimes sup
plied by the fish that gets away.
Love may not be blind at the start,
. but it Is never able to see Its finish.
Lots of worry and trouble is brought
* on by advice that is supposed to pre
1 vent It.
, Cupid makes the love matches and
cupidity is responsive for the other
f brands.
5 Sometimes it is a man’s dinner that
t disagrees with him and sometimes it’s
his wife.
£
When two women are bitter enemies
r there is always some man at the bot
t tom of it.
, A woman’s prematurely gray hair is
often the result of marrying a man to
Y reform him.
e Few men have enough self-confi
g deuce to enable them to ignore their
own mistakes,
s
Tho army worm Is essentially a
grass-eating insect, though it often
feeds upon other plants, and Is said to
prefer oats to corn.
The British war office is said to be
considering the training of dogs to
carry water and provisions to sicli and
wounded in time of -war.
Atmospheric sharps say that even
at the equator the average temperature
of the sea at tho depth of a mile is but
four degrees above freezing point.
Dispatches from Siberia say that
the crops, owing to the two months’
drouth, are almost a total loss. Meas
ures have been taken to avert famine
The dandelion produces 12,000 seeds
per plant, shepherds pulse 37,000,
thistle 65.000, chamomile 16,000, bur
dock 43,000, and the common plantain
44,000.
The British war office has increased
the rates of pensions and allowances
to the widows and orphans of sol
diers killed in action or dying of
wounds in South Africa.
The amount of milk received In New
York daily Is about 1,000,000 quarts.
In extremely warm weather this
amount is often exceeded by one-fifth.
The supply comes from points ranging
from 20 to 350 miles distant from the
city.
In a London case just tried a mes
senger boy was s-mt to the office of a
leading paper with an order for a
large advertisement. He did not ar
rive with it till the next day, when it
was too late. The paper sued the com
pany for lack of quickness in their
agent and got nominal damages.
The majority of ladies would be sur
prised if they were informed that a
bottle of lavender water contains but
about a thimbleful of pure oil, for a
larger proportion would not only ren
der the water too strong for use, but
would burn holes through the hand
kerchief wherever the scent touched it.
A novel way of administering justice
and bestowing impartial punishment
on juvenile offenders was shown in a
Chicago court the other day. Two
boys were on trial for fighting, accom
panied by their respective mothers.
The justice simply had the mothers
swap sons and then administer spank
ings. The punishment the urchins re
ceived was vigorous.
The population of Norway is about
2.200,000 souls. It was 2,110,000 in
1891, with a probability that 15,000
seamen and fishermen were absent
from homo on the day that the census
was taken, and that there has been a
net increase of 75,000 since. This is
an average of 16.80 inhabitants to the
square mile, showing Norway to be
the most thinly settled of all European
countries.
Fiber pipes and conduits, made from
wood pulp and treated with a preserva
tive, are now being put in use. After
the usual grinding the pulp is washed,
screened, passed through a beating n
gine, then screened again. These
operations completed, a thin sheet of
the pulp^s wound on a core until the
desired thickness is secured. Aft r
drying the tube is aerated with a pre
servative. Its ends are then finished
in a lathe to any desired form.
The United States has not yet ceased
to pay stamp duties to Great Britain,
and that “without representation” in
her parliament. Revenue stamps to
the value of twenty-five thousand dol
lars were required to make legal the
ten-million-dollar deed of gift by
which Mr. Carnegie endows the Scot
tish universities. So large a stamp
duty was never before paid into the
British treasury. Yet the Patrick
Henrys and Sam Adamses of today
merely smile.
One-fourth of the sea-carrying pow
er is in the hands of thirty large com
panies of various nationalities. Only
one of these is American, and it con
trols only 81,000 tors out of the total
of 5,616,000 tons controlled by the
thirty companies. In the last decade
England has built 4,63S steel steam
ers, with a capacity of 9,793.000 tons.
In the sam* time America has built
only 465 steel steamers, with a ca
pacity of 743,000 tons, and 19S of these
steamers, representing 450,000 tons,
were for the inland commerce of the
great lakes.
"If there is an idle man in the
Northwest, he is so from choice,” said
the superintendent of one of the great
railroads, at the beginning of the har
vest season. He needed two hundred
men for construction work, and had
sought them all the way from Chicago
to Vancouver. About that time press
dispatches told how tramps who cus
tomarily wander over the west were
making a frantic exodus eastward.
This fact proves that the demand for
labor was urgent. Perhaps it proves
also that the west has begun to act
upon St. Paul’s wise command that if
any will not work, neither shall he eat.
The chief of the Good-Roads train,
which made a spring tour through the
South, declares that people will flock
to see the actual construction and op
eration of a model road who would
never go to a convention to hear the
| subject discussed by the highest au
thorities. Acting on this principle
that a dozen of observation is worth
| a gross of hearsay, a firm of Scotch
publishers has sent twelve representa
tive British workmen to the Buffalo
Exposition to inspect American ma
chinery and industrial methods, and
to form in themselves a nucleus of fu
, ture progression in their various
| tMUtes.
THOUGHTS FOR EVERY DAY.
They who have no ideals have no
Ideas.
The test of a talent is the industrv
and perseverance with which it is cul
tivated.
The self-conscious person is usually
unhappy because he finds no happi
ness in the joys of others.
As memory may be a paradise from
which we can not be driven, it may
also be a hell from which we can not
escape.
People need from us nothing so
much as good cheer and encourage
ment. Life is hard for most, and
needs inspiration._
A Big Cut in The Price.
The Nebraska State Journal has re
duced its prices to sudscribers outside
of Lincoln and sudurbs from $7.50 to
$5.00 per year, including the big Sun
day paper, or $4.00 per year without
Sunday. The price of the Sunday
issue will be $1.50 per year.
By this action it is presenting its
state readers with thousands of
dollars, but the result will be thou
sands of new subscribers, thus enlarg
ing its usefulness and abbing to its
value as an advertising medium. In
ste id of any lessening in the effort to
make it a first-class State Paper, the
Journal will be improved in every de
partment, making it the best newspa
per in the state for Nebraskans. It
is published at the State Capital,
toiii^ti uaa always uuuii uie ctnier ui
things political and social of a state
nature. The Journal’s state tele
graphic service excels that of all com
petizors which, with its c-ompe let
associated press reports and special
telegraph service from Washington,
makes it the paper for Nebraska
people.
A. L. Bixby’s department is one of
the most widely read in the west,
and the fairand unprejudiced editorial
treatment of all state matters has
made the Journal thousands of warm
friends.
This big reduction in price which
now makes the six week day papers
eight cents a week, and the seven
day paper ten cents a week, will make
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