The Frontier.
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Meserve’s “line of defence” is like
every other man’s that is “found out.”
Strange, but the two leading re
publican dailies of Nebraska agree
upon nothing.
The great men of history will all be
small fish when the pretender makes
good his pretentions.
The human heart likes to excuse its
sins upon the theory that someone
else is a good deal worse.
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After lengthy investigation, and
matured deliberations, President.
Roosevelt has decided that Schley is
wrong and the court right.
When it comes to the land syndi
cate steals and corruption of the last
populist administration in the sheriff’s
office the Independent closes up like a
clam.
The esteemed Stuart Ledger has an
able editor, the material for a neat
and tidy paper, but its printer ought
to subscribe for some good trade
Journal.
The American people generally are
glad to learn at last of the successful
termination of the long pending nego
tiations for the release of Miss Stone
and her companion.
Prince Ilenry has arrived and been
received with dignity and cordiality
befitting the great American repub
lic, the spurts and splutters to the
contrary notwithstanding.
Our Boyd county neighbors are to
be congratulated upon the successful
termination of their fight on behalf of
their homes jus against the state ap
propriating the school lands. It was
a signal victory for the homesteaders.
The Fremont Tribune observres
that “a Baltimore preacher has finally
handed down an opinion that William
McKinley reaped what he sowed and
that he sowed it in not suppressing
the army canteen. The reverend
Baltimore oyster is evidently a disciple
of Rev. John G. Wooley, prohibition
crank and wholesale distributor of
inflammatory language.”
Tbe two senators from South Caro
lina, Tillman and McLaurin, engaged
in a fight of words Saturday in the
senate chamber that developed into
blows and ended with the sergeant-at
arms conveying them both to the
back yard. The two gentlemen from
South Carolina are now under con
tempt of the senate and ostracized
from Washington’s official society.
The Frontier does not feel any
special call to champion the cause of
Governor Savage, but it looks this
way: Which is preferable ao the tax
payers of Nebraska, the administra
tion of a republican governor who
has saved them $100,000 in one years’
time and granted liberty to a man
whom ten thousand years of confine
ment could never replace the short
age, or the administration of the
fusion governors witft their reckless
expenditure of public funds in keeping
innumerable relatives and friends in
the various state institutions and
squandering the people’s wealth by
hundreds of supernumeraries.
By a vote of 46 to 26 the senate on
Monday passed the Philippine tariff
bill. The bill exempts the commerce
passing between the Philippines and
the United States from the navigat ion
laws of the United States until July 1,
1904, and authorizes the Philippine
commission to so regard the craft en
gaged in lighterage or exclusively
harbor work, provided such craft are
built in the United States or the
Philippines and owned by citizens of
the United States or citizens of the
Philippines. Taxes and duties collec
ted 4n pursuance of this act shall be
paid into the t reasury of the Philip
pine islands and used for their bene
fit. All articles manufactured in
bonded warehouses of imported ma
terials, or material subject to internal
revenue in the United States to the
Philippines when exempt from the in
ternal revenue and all taxes paid on
such articles shipped to the Phil ip
pine islands since November 15, 1901,
shall be refunded.
The United States government has
proposed to the powers concerned in
the Chinese treaty that they consent
to a pro-rata reduction of claims so
as to maintain the total within the
sum of 450,000,000 taels, which the
powers agreed to accept from China
as full indemnity for the Boxer out
rages. Germany has discovered that
it placed its claim too low and has
demanded an increase in (allowance of
10.000. 000 taels, and if this is to be
met the other signatory powers must
agree to submit to the pro-rata deduc
tion of that sum from their own orig
inal allotments. The United States
Is firmly opposed to any attempt to
;xtort from China any more than the
150.000. 000 taels and it will attempt
to avoid the creation of a precedent
bo be followed by tire other powers in
the allowance of this German claim.
SAVES $100,000 IN ONE YEAR
Blair Pilot: According to the
L/iuuiiiii uvu uim uiucuui umu iku tun,
present republican state administra
tion during the last year lias saved
the tax payers of Nebraska more than
>100,000. In other words it cost the
state $100,000 less to maintain tlie
state insitutions during the first year
of the republican adminstration than
during the last year under the
fusionists.
According to reports the fusionists
had over 200 of the faithful at these
institutions who were neither inmates
nor employed there, and who were in
fact relatives and friends of fusion
officials and prominent fusion leaders,
and by putting these out and adopt
ing a rule that minor children of the
superintendent alone should lie allow
ed to stop at the institution, the re
publicans made a net saving to the
tax payers of over $40,000 last year.
This is certainly a most creditable
showing and it should and no doubt
will greatly strengthen the republicon
party In the estimation of the public.
Whether a republican, a democrat
or a populist, every tax payer is in
favor of economy. The official who
observes this rule takes a sure and
short cut to public favor and populari
ty. An official may err in other re
spects but if he err honestly he will
be forgiven, but if he err in economy
he is doomed to public dlHfavor.
it is well that the present state ad
ministration used this as a guide
board. Governor Savage who stands
at the head of it is a nam of rugged
honesty and integrity. If he has any
fault it is that of having a big heart.
He is as sympathetic as a child when
it comes to grief and distress, and the
world should love him for it, but
when it comes down to right or wrong
in which the public interests are con
cerned he is like a mighty obelisk of
steel and would stand by the right at
any sacrifice.
Governor Savage has kept a close
tab on public funds, lie gave the su
perintendents of each of the state
institutions to understand that they
must give the people in their charge
better treatment than they had ever
before had yet keep within appropria
tions made by the legislature. Thus
far this has been done. Governor
Savage has given the state a busi
ness administration and while some
of his official acts may have met with
some opposition in the main he has
made one of the best governors, and,
from a business standpoint, the best
governor Nebraska has over had.
FURNISHINGS OF KINGS. j
London Tit-llit s: In Windsor Castle
kitchen, King Edward VII. has cop
per and silver utensils worth some
thing like JE«,000, while on fittings
alone George II. expended the sum of
iMR I’WVl in niviav fncnticfu hlc m~u\
But the cream of kitchens is owned
by the Czar of Russia, who soon after
his accession to the throne, spent
£80,000 in remodeling and refurnish
ing his kitchen at the winter palace,
St. Petersburg. All the cooking
utensik arc solid silver, while the
spice boxes arc .of solid gold. His
chief cook draws a salary of £8,000 per
annum, and he has six subordinates
in receipt of salaries ranging between
£1,000 and £1,500—to say nothing of
hundreds of supernumeraries, Alto-;
getlier the czar’s kitchen expenses
amount to £120,000 yearly.
The Shah of Persia’s kltcnen is the
most valuable in tire world, if not the
most expensive. The shah could, if
lie wished, realize more than a million
pounds sterling on the sale of the con
tents of his kitchen. His food is
cooked in gold-lined pots, and lie eats
his dinner off solid gold plates, in
crusted with precious stones of price
less value. His jeweled knives and
forks are said to be worth thousands
of pounds, while his marvelous “state”
soup tureen is worth half a dozen
large fortunes.
These almost fabulous expenditures I
are indeed astonishing when we reflect
t hat they represent only the kitchen
paraphernalia of one great establish
ment for each of the t wo tirst-men
tioned rulers, who maintain various
places of abode, and then reflect that
everything else connected with their
support and entertainment is in like
proportion. When we take into con
sideraUoh the enormouscost of official
dom and aristocracy, together witli
the added expenses of alcoholism, it
seems hardly possible that there could
be anything else than poverty and
want among the masses.
Boy wanted to learn trade at O’Neill
Cigar Factory- 34-tf
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Session Last Week Was a Profitable
Gathering for The
Agriculturalists.
MANY INTERESING ADDRESSES
Various Features of Farm Life Discussed
by Men With a Practical Knowledge
of Farm Work.
Tile 5th Annual meeting of the
Ilolt county Farmers’ Institute was
called to order in the court-house at
O’Neill at 1 o’clock p. m., President
J. L. Coppoc in the chair. Superin
tendent Norvcll gave a brief address
of welcome, responded to by D. L.
Pond. John Breumer of York was
then introduced and spoke on growing
and feeding on the farm for beef pur
pose, and touched on butter products
a fid the breeds for both. Also how to
handle them, giving preference to the
Polled Durham as a calf and butter
producer, running the calf with the
cow until weaning time. Then put
ting them In the feed yard on alfalfa
and ground feed aiming to make
them weight 1,000 pound by the time
they are one year old. Much inter
est was manifested by the large and
attentive audience.
At 3 p. m. Hon. M. F. Greely spoke
on care and management of sheep,
utilizing the waste products on the
farm to raise and fatten lambs tit for
market before they are a year old.
He advocated raising rape and alfalfa,
especially rape, as they are valuable
yet inexpensive foods.
At 4 p. m. the high school was in
vited in to listen to a very interesting
and instructive address by Mrs.
Bertha 1>. Laws. In the course of her
remarks she said that man took pains
to study the feeding of his stock but
not of himself. She spoke at some
at some length on the comparative
value of various foods and advocated
the use of those foods which contain
the greatest amount of nutrition and
also the use of fruits.
The evening session was opened by
a few remarks by Mr. L. I). Sttlson, in
which he urged the beautifying of the
home, so our boys and girls will not
leave the farm for the city,
Mrs. Bertha 1). Laws gave an ad
dress on “The American Girl in the
Home.” She said that the American
people, were coming to the point
where we look down upon what are
called the lowly duties of domestic
life. That we teach our girls to look
to higher education and the accom
plishment of art, music, science, etc.
That we forget to notice their attain
ments in home making, thus leading
them to grow up disliking home life
and very often with no knowledge
thereof whatever. Mrs. Laws advo
cated the establishing of industrial
branches in our schools, making them
compulsory instead of optional as at
present, that these be not only in our
high school, but all through the grad
ed schools.
On “Landed Homes,” lion. M. F.
Greely said, that population has now
caught up with the land and we
should endeavor to interest the rising
generation in becoming land owners,
as in a few years time the land owners
will be the only independent men, as
is the case now in Europe. Also that
we should he satisfied with small
portions and not endeavor to hold and
work great tracts, thus causing over
work for our boys and driving them to
the over Crowded trades and profes
sions of t he city.
Prof. Owens, principal of the
O’Neill high schools, said, that the
only independent man was the inde
pendent farmer. In ordinary city
trades and professions, a man merely
gains a livelihood and that by dint of
hard labor and any reverses leaves
him often in poverty.
M. F. Greeley gave a stereoptician
lecture showing views of the Nebraska
school of ariculture and experiment
station, he also showed views of inter
estinir places in our state.
Wednesday Mr. L. D. Stilson spoke
on soil culture, advocating serface
woyk to conserve moisture.
Presidents address was read in part
as follows: The past year has shown
much activity in institute work in
Holt county, five successful meetings
having been held, beginning wit4 the
annual meeting on March 22; next, a
very enthusiastic one at Chambers in
June, followed immediately by one at
Inman. Then in September Stuart
was given a date, followed by one at
Ewing. The interest manifested in
these institute has developed the
fact that farmers of our county con
stitute up intelligent and progressive
communinty, J wish \ilso to call at
tention to the fact that Holt .county
has received more aid in institute
work than almost any other county in
the state. For which we owe a debt
of gratitude to state manager, Prof.
E. A. Bunett and the State Univer
sity.
1 wouldlrecommend the appointment
to consider the propriety of requesting
our State Univeristy to established a
Farmers Reading Course, such as has
been incorporated in the Univresity
extension in'seryejaJ of the eastern
states and in South Rak'ota. The
PENINSULAR
college or station, quoting from Farm
ers’ Bullentin 109, of the department o
agriculture, lays out certain courses
of agricultural reading on such sub
jects as, soil and crops, live stocl
breeding and feeding, dairying, fruii
culture, gagdening, farm economies
domestic economy and other liki
topics. Selects sets of books for read
ing, which most clearly sets fourtl
the principles underlying these sub
jects, provides for superintending th<
work and make arrangments for sup
plying prospective readers witli books
examination questions, etc., and to ao
as a sort of bureau of information
The reading course is designed tr
bring to the farmers in his home th<
opportunity of taking under collegi
direction a course of systematic read
ing on subjects especially pretainin;
to his work.
Now if such a course can be estab
lished in our state, under the contro
of our state institution, it will be o
inealculablebenelit to the agricultura
ail other material interest of state
1 would suggest that some action b<
taken at this meeting indicating on
desire in the matter and resquestin;
the leaders of our Univeristy, if the,'
have not already done so, to take tin
subject under advisement.
Tiie recommendation was adoptee
and ordered to be reported for publi
cation.
Some changes were made in tin
linnet !l 11 linn n ml Vvit Ion’ll
The following officers were elected
president, J. L. Coppoc; vice-presi
dent, G. F. Smith; secretary, I). L
Pond; treasurer, M. T. Elliott. Ex
ecutive committee: Giles Philps
Page; Frank Phillips, Star; C. M
Smith, Chambers; J. Taggart, Cham
bers; W. W. Bethea, Deloit; Mr. Blon
don, Atkinson; Neil Brennan, O’Neill
S: II. Truesell, Little; C. W. Moss
Amelia; W. P, O’Brien, Atkinson
Mr. Gilson, Atkinson.
I p. in. Mr. C. II. Barnard treatec
the subject of tree? and tree propoga
tion. There are two ways of graft in;
and three of budding. The best
method of propogation is by piece rool
graft. When asked his opinion in re
gard to foster-mother root graft
said he could see no advantage in this
over other methods, lie would pro
tect tree when planted, by wrapping
tjhcm with cornstalks, letting their
remain until they rotted away. lit
exhibited specimens of the different
methods of propogation. 11 is address
was full of instruction and was wel
received.
John Bruroer spoke on Alfalfa. It
requires a dry season to get it. started
and advocated the theory that, fal
seeding would probably prove tlx
most successful. He is now making
experiments along this line, as a Hog
pasture, but for no other, he considers
it the best. As a farm crop he says
that it cannot be surpassed, lie having
sold hay and seed to the amount oi
$70 per acre; as hay it is the best
being in the amount ot protein if
contains richer than other hay anti
about equal to wheat bran.
Mr. L. D. Stilson advocated the
feeding of shredded fodder, hold in <.
that in doing so we gain much
in feed that is now wasted and alst
that that there itas been no corn stall,
disease where the fodder lias bee.t:
shredded. Whpn the soil is sandy lit
advocated the sowing of some othei
crop in the corn at last plowing tc
prevent the land from blowing wliei
corn is cut otf.
After some discussion the institute
adjourned.
Prefer the 1>1<J Sjilftless Way.
Tired of owning their own homes
and making their own wap in the
world, 200 Pottawatomie Indians living
on one of the reservations north ol
Topeka, Kan., will petition Congress
at the coming session to permit them
to sell their lands and again become
wards of the government. These In
dians and their ancestors have been
living on this reservation for the past
10 years and many of them were born
there,
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You are cordially in- IS
vited to call and see §|
the grand exhibition of
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Youngest Minister In Washington.
Luis F. Corea, the minister plenipo
tentiary from Nicaragua, who may fig
ure prominently in the affairs of the
great isthmian canal, is the youngest
minister in Washington. He is a mov
ing spirit in the confederation of great
er Central America and has always
taken the keenest interest in the in
I teroceanic canal.
Place for Divorce-Seekers.
The District of Columbia is'rapidly
becoming the most popular place in
the Lnited States for mlsmated eoiD
plea to seek separation. Scarcely a
lay passes that the courts of this city
rre not asked to grant anywhere from
hree to six divorces, and in nine cases
jut of ten the applicants are accom
nodated.—Washington Letter.
