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It is now speaker Mockett.
The legislature h 'S begun to grind.
What will the grist be?
The present legislature will have
several interesting bills to consider.
This is one of Hie winters when
stockmen need plenty of hay, and no
place in the state is better, if so well
supplied with hav, as Holt county.
The land graubing Syndicate
bemoans the late decision of the su
preme court relative to tax sales. It
gets too close to their business for
comfort.
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The deatli of the widow of Geneu 1
John C. Fremont is rep >rted. She
was a daughter of Senator Th nnas II.
Benton of Vlissoarl,who wisa United
States senator from that state, dur
ing a period of thirty years.
Tire press dispatches from Washing
ton now indicate that tire secretary of
Interior Is oppored to the proposed
land leasing bill. I hat was agreed upon
by the cattlemen at that city, looking
after the passage of a leasing measure.
It appears that while the draft of the
bill has been agree ! upon, no bill has
as yet been Introduced and we cannot
at this time give an outline of the
features of the proposed bill.
Congressman Neville of the big
Sixth district has Anally been heard
from again. It is tire first chirp for a
long time. He has permitted himseli
to be interviewed in New York and
thinks that so long as there are such
prosperous conditi ins in Nebraska as
there are, the chances for fusion are
hopless. Out of their own mouths ue
have the testimony that they thrive
on calamity.—Grand Island Indepen
dent.
THE BUSi a ci >3 YEAR.
The Business Age is the designation
by which this present time seems like
ly to be known in history. It will be
at least as fitting as such appellation
of any preceding era—Stone Age,
Bronze Age, Golden Age or what not.
Never before in the Ids ory of the
world was business of all kinks so
widely practised, so fully developed, so
highly specialized. Time was when
the warrior was supreme and plunder
ed the helpless tradesman at will; but
today the military leader turns sub
serviently to the merchant and the
financier for permission to engage in
war, or receives from them his orders
to go and fight for the promotion or
protection of their superior interests.
Time was when kings and nobles look
ed upon the business man with conde
scension, and the most scornful fling
Napoleon could give at hated England
was to plagiarize Samuel Adams’s re
mark, that the English were a nation
of shopkeepers; but today the success
ful merchant and the master of fi
nance are greeted by royalty as honor
ed guests, and nations pride them
selves upon their shopkeeping more
than upon their armies and tbeli
fleets.
In this significant development o
the closing years of the nineteentl
and opening year of the twentietl
centuries beyond question the Unitec
States has played the leading part
If Samuel Adams’s description o
England was true, then this Nev
England of America is and has eve
been more English than old England
The war for independence began as i
tradesmen’s revolt against financia
oppression—against the tea tax am
the stamp act. In the century and i
quarter since the Industrial and com
mercial growthof this nation has beei
the most striking feature of its his
tory. Vast as has been our territoria
expansion and our gr< wth in popula
tion, the increase of business has beei
greater still. The development o
agriculture, of manufactures and of
commerce has far surpassed our na
tional development in any other direc
tion. More than that, it has had a
direct influence upon the industries
and commerce of other lands, stimu
lating them, through competition
and example; so that the United
States is properly to be credited with
much of the general business growth
of the whole world.
At the present time we shall scarce
ly be charged with undue “spread
eagleism” if we claim for the United
States the for most place in industry,
commerce and finance among the na
tion of the glo ie. We believe it is
commonly th is regarded by intelli
gent observers in other lands. In
s me departments, no doubt, other
countries still lead. But when the
sum total of agriculture, manufac
tures, commerce, engineering and fi
n ince is taken into account the United
States overtops them all. It was tin
ier the sound Republican policy of
protection to American industry that
o ir industrial independence and su
premacy were attained. It has been
under the sound Republican policy of
honest money and a dollar always
worth a hundred cents that in these
last few years our financial primacy
has been won and the monetary cen
re of tiie world lias been transferred
so largely from London to New York.
It is no new thing that the United
states is a “world power.” It has
been that for more than a hundred
years. But now It has become in a
oecullar sense the world power, primus
liter pares, the typical business na
tion of this business age.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
A man without hands can never feel
well.
Never kick a live electric wire when
It’s down.
Honesty Isn’t the kind of policy
found In policy shops.
It’s a put-up job on a man when his
wife orders a new stove.
Some brokers make ft a point to see
that their patrons go broke.
No man can ho expected to foot
.Is wife's bills without kicking.
It Is easier to make a dollar than
t Is to avoid arrest for counterfeit*
ug.
Wives fear burglars will break In
and husbands fear the baby will break
out.
The more checks a man receives In
' <s business career the sooner he gets
Lhere.
Some lawyers prolong the outcome
of a case In order to increase their
income.
Hops are said to be a sedative, yet
nn st frogs are troubled with chronic
li.somnia.
A bachelor who has been rejected
by seven girls says that feminine beau
ty Is on the decline.
It sometimes happens that a man
agrees with you because your argu
ments make him tired.
All men have their troubles. Many
a man who Is seemingly happy Is
wearing a shirt made by his wife.
There is nothing an old woman likes
better than to get hold of a sick man
who Is willing to try homomade reme
dies.
It is said that butter was unknown
to the ancients, but It is hard to make
patrons of cheap boarding houses be
lieve It.
It’s usually easier for one father
to support ten small children than It
is for ten grown-up children to sup
port one father.
The wise husband remembers that
nls wife would rather have kind words
and some new clothes now than silver
handles on her coffin a few years
hence.—Chicago News.
He Fears the Worst.
"The senior editor of the Saccharins
(Colo.) Gazette went to Denver Tues
day.” says the junior editor. "He la
probably married! We do not know
whether It was with ‘malice and afore
thought,’ but ’tis done. ’Blessed bs
. the ties that bind.’ We know nothing
of this, but had grave suspicions when
Monday evening he borrowed the only
, white shirt this office possessed.”
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I Monograms on Peaches.
The peaches placed on the table al
[ a London dinner party bore the mon
• ogram of their owner traced distinct
, ly in the velvety bloom. Letters had
been cut from paper and pasted or
the growing peaches. When the frull
I was ripe on removing the paper let
. ters the monograms were found
picked out in most delicate green. th«
1 rest of the fruit being rosy and dacj
f trued.
Just a Man *w| a Woman.
BY BDW^nD E. WEBB.
(Copyright. 1!X)2, by Daily Story Pub. Co.)
The small cabin of logs looked
eyrie enough high on the knoll, scarce
ly discernible amid the torrents of
rain that enveloped it as with a mist.
The fringe of trees between it and
the river wept in sympathy with the
mournful soughing of the wind
through their tops. The patter on
leaves, root and river steadily in
creased in volume until the fall par
took of the nature of a deluge. The
stream, swollen by heavy spring rains,
flowed swiftly between its dripping
banks and on the opposite shore a rude
blockhouse and barracks were dimly
outlined against a sky almost as
black.
From out the gloom on the fort side
a small boat emerged. Although
pointed directly across it bore more
down than over the stream. For a
minute the solitary occupant per
mitted it to take its course, then, ap
parently becoming conscious of the
igression pointed the hark up stream
at an angle of forty-five degrees. Aft
er much effort the prpw stuck in the
soft clay and a slight water-proof-en
veloped and hooded form arose, and
that the figure was feminine was evi
denced as skirts were raised and a girl
stepped to the shore. Tying the boat
she passed quickly through the fringe
of trees to the cabin.
Grasping a cudgel she shattered the
solitary window and after an Instant’s
hesitation and some difficulty, entered.
Once inside she drew from the folds
of an inner garment a small candle
and matches. With these she made a
light and pressed the waxen taper into
the yielding earth.
A stalwart fellow of perhaps five
md-twcnty years lay on a thin bed
af straw, his hands and feet manacled
to Iron stakes. As the feeble light
waxed penetrating it disclosed that
he wore the fatigue uniform of a cav
alryman of the United States army.
Evidently it has been no easy task to
thus spike him to mother earth, for
his face showed an ugly gash and he
appeared a man who loved not inac
tivity.
The girl’s face was pale; her large
blue eyes were dilated and her full
red lips trembled. For an instant she
stood as though forgetful of her er
rand, then sank to the Straw and drew
from the folds of her dress a large
coarse file. Intense femininity showed
in every action of her graceful, al
most childish figure and she smiled
apologetically, almost indlseernibly, as
she pushed the dank, blonde hair,
which moisture had robbed of its
waves, back into the recesses of her
hood and vigorously applied the edge
of the file to the man’s chains. Neith
er spoke. A slip of one of the tender
hands brought blood to the tip of one
of the white fingers and without a
word the man took the stained digit
Into his mouth and dried it on the
edge of his shirt. The chains severed,
the man sat erect. Still mute she took
his hand, assisted him^to arise and
drew him to the shattered window.
As his cramped limbs trembled and he
leaned against the rude wall, his com
panion, with a sob passed her arm
about him and lent the support of her
body. Reverently, fearfully, his arm
stole around the little figure and aft
er a minute the girl broke the long
silence.
“Come,” she said, withdrawing from
the close contact.
"Where? Why?”
“Never mind, come.”
In respectful, obedient silence he
passed out and half drew, half lifted
her through the aperture. Still hold
lnd his hand, she led him beneath the
dripping boughs and down the slip
pery path now' glittering in the rays
of the moon. At the boat he hesi
tated.
“You are making a mistake, little
girl"—and the great voice trembled.
She turned on him fiercely.
“If I did not believe you innocent,
do you think I would release you?”
A storm of passion shook the soul
Applied the edge of the file to the
man’s chains.
Ci 40 nan. He essayed to speak, hcst
tSt, _ and finally 6aid:
"I am glad you believe me guiltless,
Madge. I did not kill him.”
"There! I knew you didn’t! Come."
His feeble objections availed noth
ing and for half an hour the boat
urged on by current and the swift
strokes of tbs girl sped down the
, stream, while the man sat with bowed
, head.
I "?,'hy don’t you talk to me, Jim?”
asked the girl at length, resting her
oars save for an occasional splash to
keep the course clear of the shore.
‘‘See, how fast we are drifting!"
<
"Yes, we are drifting fast,” he re
plied sadly. Then with sudden
energy, as though his powerful frame
were forcing utterance against hit
will, he exclaimed:
“Madge, I killed Lieutenant Bever
ly!”
“Jim, I knew you did."
Both were white to the lips and th»
vide lustrous eyes of the girl were on
him with an intensity that rivaled
the brightest star above.
“I know what he said about me, and
' love you for what you have dona,
Jim.”
“But—you were to have married
him.”
“Yes."
"Then you can forgive me?”
"That question is answered.”
“I couldn’t tolerate the things he
said about you, Madge. He boasted
and talked of the time you were in St
Louis at school and he went there on
a furlough. I wouldn't speak of this
but to Justify myself In your sight—
but he said—”
“Don’t tell me, Jim. I know what
he said.”
"He lied! He lied! and I’m glad I
killed him!”
Never for an instant did the girl’s
eyes leave his as she crept to where
“I’m not going back home, Jim.”
he sat and put her arms about his
neck.
“Kiss me, Jim.”
After a moment she said sorrowful
ly; “I was engaged to him when I
was but sixteen—before I knew you,
Jim. But I love you too much to lie
to you. What he said was true!”
The man smiled tenderly as he car
essed the wind blown tresses and
kissed the white lips.
"That was why I killed him,
Madge,” he said.
The girl sobbed and her arms tight
ened around his neck.
“I’m not going back home, Jim. I'm
going with you!”
NEW STATUE OF RUBINSTEIN.
Made in Paris and to Be Set Up in
St. Petersburg.
The Russian sculptor, Leopold Bern
stamm, who has lived and worked al
his life in Paris, and has made statue1
and busts of a great number o.
French and Russian celebrities, has
just flnisheu a fine life-sized marble
statue of Antoine Rubinstein, to be
placed in the conservatory of St. Pe
tersburg, says the Brooklyn Eagle.
Bernstamm personally knew the
great pianist; he had made a bust of
him about twenty-five years ago, and
having afterward repeatedly seen him,
he was able to study the model, and
the statue has, therefore, turned out
to be one of the most striking ones of
contemporary celebrities, so far as
likeness and demeanor are concerned.
Rubinstein stands with head slightly
bent downward, as was his mood when
about to perform at one of his con
certs. He has one hand resting on
a music stand; his attitude Is one of
great ease; it is the same as I saw
him take many years ago, standing
near the mantel piece of Mme. Maf
chesi’s classroom, when he refused to
give his autograph to the young wom
an of the opera class, whom he had
just heard sing, and when he said: “I
am sorry, but I never pay for having
heard voices, however good they are,
and however well they have sung.”
German Forestry the Best.
In the preservation, development
and economical management of for
ests, the Germans, perhaps, excel any
other nation. The government, as
well as the people, recognize that for-,
ests have not only a commercial worth
but a national economic value of ut
most importance. The German for
ests, as a rule, are free from weeds,
undergrowth, washouts and dead and
decayed woods. High stumps are a
rarity; the trees are sawed about six
to twelve inches from the ground,
thereby adding to every log (of the
first cut) one to three feet in length,
compared with what the same tree,
would yield if cm on the American
style.
Snatched Bald-Headed.
“The feelings of women axe far
deeper and finer than those of men,”
cried the lady orator, in a fiery tone.
“We are told by those who style
themselves the stronger sex that wo
are much inferior. Is it so?”
A loud chorus of “No!” from the
ladles greeted this question, and the'
orator went on.
“I say that woman feels where man
thinks.”
“Is that the reason your husband
is bald?” inquired one of the few
male members of the audience.
It was lucky for him that he got
two seconds’ start in the race for the
door.
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