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Address the office or the publisher.
its the railroads that are
for the delay In the Mc
cases.
The Omaha Bee’s New Year’s jubi
lee number can not fail to impress the
outsider with the importance of Ne
braska’s metropolis, and should have
a wide circulation.
Tlie Frontier’s resolutions for 1908
are simply to do the best it can by its
many endeared readers. Tills issue
may be thought to be a poor begin
ning—as, Indeed it is—but misfortunes
over which the lone editor and com
positor has had no control has mili
tated against anything better.
Postmaster-General Cortelyou has
asked for #193,000,000 to run his de
partment for the next fiscal year, an
increase of 912,000,000. There was a
deficit of $14,672,684 for the fiscal year
ending June 30,1906. “This amount,
the difference between the expendi
tures and receipts,” it is officially an
nounced, “may be said to represent
the net cost of the service to the
people.” The postmaster-general es
timates that #29,000,000 will be re
quired to run the rural free delivery
service, an increase of nearly $3,600,000,
and asks for an increase of $3,600,000
for railway mail service.
The Clarkson Herald makes a good
point by thus stating it: "A revision
and reduction of freight rates would,
without doubt, be a grand thing for
the country; but a revision of the
habits of thousands of our people
would result in a ten-fold greater
good, and the saving of a hundred
dollars where one can be saved in
freight rates. A reform that has to
do with the morals and happiness of a
people is oftimes neglected, while one
which has politics and money only
connected with it has advocates
galore.” A noted French president
once said; “There is much clamor
with little suffering in a free country,
and much suffering with little protest
in a despotic state.” American citi
zens as a class are today the best
clothed, housed and fed and most en
lightened of the people of any country
in the world, and yet they are becom
ing ensnared in evil habits that need
revision worse than the railroad
tariffs. It is only ns the individual
citizen adheres to the moral standards
of right living can the nation remain
prosperous and great.
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The Independent let out a dismal
Wall last week over the verdict In the
Whittemore case. By Innuendo, It is
charged that the Jury was “fixed.”
Sdch a Charge against twelve as good
citizens as there are in the county
is worthy the tactics of the gang of
manipulators who have studiously
sought to cover up the truth and keep
the wreckers out of jail ever since the
oollapse of the Eikhorn Valley bank.
The day has passed in Holt county
when the gang of political pirates
that once held sway can control juries
and run courts with a high hand. If
its “queer” to this gang why this
suit went as it did, its also “queer” to
others why the McGreevy cases have
not been tned. The McGreevy suits
were started long before the Whitte
more suits, but everything that might
tend to bring the rascality to light,
protect the depositors and afford a
measure of justice has been studiously
f avoided by the manipulators while
f their star actors put on the legal farce
Just closed. Mighty “queer, isn’t it?”
' The intelligent citizenship of Holt
county—well represented by the twelve
men on the jury in the Whittemore
case—repudiates the conduct of the
manipulators.
RUINS OF ST. PAUL’S. "
Origin of Mncaulny’s Phrase In nu
Elfthleenlh Century Poem.
It has long been understood that the
real Inventor of Macaulay’s famous
New Zealander was Horace Walpole,
who, in a letter to Mason, written iu
1774, said: "At last some curious trav
eler from Lima will visit England and
give a description of the ruins of St.
Paul’s, like the editions of Balbes aud
Palmyra.” But Mr. Bertram Dobell
writes to the London Academy giviug
the idea an earlier date. lie fluds it
embodied in this old title page:
Poems, by a young Nobleman, of Dis
tinguished Abilities, lately deceased; par
ticularly, The State of England, and the
once flourishing City of London. In a
letter from an American Traveler, Dated
from the Ruinous Portico of St. Paul's,
In the year 2199, to a Friend settled In
Boston, the Metropolis of the Western
Empire. Also Sundry Fugitive Pieces,
principally wrote whilst upon his Travels
on the Continent. [Motto from Juvenal.]
London, 1780.
Mr. Dobell explains that, though the
book Is dated 1780, the poem in It on
London Is dated March 21, 1771. He
attributes it to the profligate second
Lord Lyttelton. Here Is one of hls ex
tracts from the composition:
And now thro’ broken paths and rugged
ways,
Uncultivated regions, we advanc’d
Towards fam'd Augusta’s towers, on the
Thames
(Whose clear broad stream glides smooth
ly thro’ the vale)
Embank'd, and stretching o'er the level
plain.
For many a mile her gilded spires were
seen,
While Britain yet was free—alas! how
chang’d,
How fallen from that envy'd height;
what time
Bhe rul’d the subject nations, and beheld
The Spaniard crouch beneath her spear,
and all
The Gallic lilies crimson’d o’er with
blood.
Extinguish'd are their glories, and her
sun
That once enlighten'd Europe with hls
beams,
Bunk In the West Is set, and ne’er again
Bhall o’er Britannia spread hls orient
rays!
These were my thoughts whilst thro' a
falling heap
Of shapeless ruins far and wide diffus’d,
Paul’s great Cathedral, from her solid
base.
High tow’rlng to the sky, by heav’ns
command
Amidst the universal waste preserv’d
Struck my astonish’d view.
On this fair object my fix'd eye was kept
In pleasing meditation, whilst my guide,
A poor emaciate Briton, led me on
Through streets, and squares, and falling
palaces,
(Where here and there a habitat was
seen)
To where stood once amongst the peo
pled town
Th' Exchango of London.
WHOLE OR HALF TRUTHS.
Better be single In peace than mar
ried in war.
The rock of success Isn’t located In a
field of roses.
The fellow who objects to discipline
needs it the most.
You can inherit ability, but you’ve
got to hustle for experience.
The optimist has an easy time of It.
He smiles while others work.
It doesn’t cost anything to say “good
morning’’ even if It’s raining.
Some folks ought to take their con
sciences out once in awhile for exer
cise.
Silence isn’t always golden. The
talker with something to say is worth
a dozen keep stills.
The optimist who thinks that folks
are civilized should yell “Fire!” to a
crowded house and watch results.—
From "Gumption,” by N. C. Fowler,
A Shopgirl*. Floe..
It was not a very cheerful memoran
dum and the shopgirl's look was not
very cheerful either as, on pay night,
she brought It home to her mother.
It was a memorandum of the fines
that had taken a good slice out of her
wages, and It ran:
Standing on chair .. 10.10
Leaving less than one yard on ribbon
roll 10
Permitting patron to depart unserved .25
Lateness . 05
Glum chewing .10
Error In addition .05
Writing Indistinct duplicate .10
Error In address .10
Total .50.85
“There are 100 rules posted up In our
little shop,” said the girl bitterly, “and
an Infraction of any one of them Is
Unable.”—New York Press.
Good Listeners.
In conversing with one's friends noth
ing Is so chilling as an apparent lack
of attention and sympathy. It might
be added that nothing Is more vulgar
were not the listener’s indifference
common to the majority of our most
cultured people. If when one is ad
dressed she will remember to incline
the body slightly forward an attitude
of rapt attention will soon be uncon
sciously assumed and, whether really
worthy of It or not, new recruits gain
ed for the always popular, as rare,
class known as “good listeners.”
A Tough Problem.
The following letter received at this
office has been referred to the Lancas
ter Literary society: “I married a wid
ower and went to live in the home
where he had lived with his first wife.
I find a number of her clothes In a
Closet—to wit, one brown dress skirt,
two petticoats, three pairs of stockings,
one pair of slippers and a black silk
waist. How shall I dispose of them In
a way that will be satisfactory to her
relatives and the neighbors?”—Atchl
son Globe.
Malicious.
Ethel—I suppose I shall have to wear
this veil. It’s the only one I have. It’s
so thick one can hardly see my face
through it. Edith—Oh, wear it, by all
means. Everybody says you never
had on anything half so becoming.
FOSSIL CORKSCREWS
QUEER FREAKS OF NATURE THAT
ABOUND IN NEBRASKA.
Gigantic Spiral* of Mineral Fash
ioned So Mathematically a* to Be
Enallf Mi*taken at Flrat Glance
For Works of Art.
Nobody knows with certainty what
the so called “devil’s corkscrews’’ real
ly are. They are found by tens of thou
sands in Nebraska, most particularly
In Sioux county, and some of them are
as much as forty feet In height, without
counting the gigantic “roots” presently
to be described. Quartz Is the sub
stance of which they are made, but
how they came to be Imbedded, num
bers of them together, in the sandstone
cliffs of that region is more than any
body can tell, unless, perhaps, one the
ory, to be mentioned later, is to be ac
cepted as correct.
You are traveling, let us say, on
horseback through that part of the
country, and, as often happens, you
see, standing out from the face of a
sandstone cliff, a gigantic spiral. If, as
geologists have proved, the sandstone
rock be chipped away a corkscrew
shaped thing of quartz Is exposed to
view, fashioned so mathematically as
to be easily mistaken at first glance
for a work of art The white spiral
may be free, as a sculptor would say,
or, In other cases, may be twined about
a sort of axis, as a vine would run
around a vertical pole.
Somebody awhile ago gave to these
spirals the name “devil’s corkscrews”
for want of a better and as expressive
of the mystery of their origin. Scien
tists discussed them in vain, and many
theories were formed in regard to them.
There were authorities who declared
they were fossil burrows excavated in
tertiary times by gophers of a huge
and extinct species. And, to confirm
this notion, the bones of some burrow
ing animal were actually found imbed
ded in the substance of one of tbe
“screws.” This seemed to settle the
matter for awhile, until the controversy
was started again by the discovery of
the osseous remains, under like condi
tions, of a small deer. Nobody couid
assert that a deer was ever a burrow
ing animal, and so that notion bad to
be abandoned.
Other theorists declared that the “fos
sil twisters,” as some folks called them,
represented the prehistoric borings of
gigantic worms that lived In the very
long ago. Yet others suggested that
they were petrified vines, though it was
difficult to explain how or why the
“poles” on which the alleged vines
seemed in .many cases to have been
trained had been so admirably pre
served, or, for that matter, originally
erected.
In the mUlst of so many contradictory
theories the problem seemed likely to
defy solution indefinitely. The one that
held out longest and gained most ad
herents was that of the extinct gophers.
It accounted for the “root”—a shape
less appendage often nearly as big as
the “twister” itself and attached to the
lower end of the latter—which obvious
ly, as it seemed, had been the nest of
the rodent animal, the “corkscrew” rep
resenting the spiral hole by which i»
made Its way to the surface of the
ground. What could possibly be more
easy to comprehend?
Professor E. H. Barbour, however,
has declared—and his decision is ac
cepted provisionally until somebody
offers a better—that the corkscrews are
of vegetable origin. They are, he as
serts, the fossil remains of ancient
water weeds of gigantic size, which
grew millions of years ago on the bot
tom of a vast sheet of water that cov
ered all of Nebraska. These must have
been the biggest aquatic plants that
ever existed, and when the huge lake
that overflowed the region in question
dried up the remains of many of the
plants were left behind buried in the
accumulated detritus at the bottom.
In the course of time—ages after the
bottom of the ancient lake had been
converted Into solid rock—rivers plow
ed their way through the land, cutting
this way and that and exposing to the
view of the modern traveler on the
faces of the clifTs the fossil casts of the
prehistoric water weeds just as they
stood when they grew hundreds of
thousands and probably millions of
years ago. Their tissues were replaced
as they decayed by silica from the wa
ter, particle by particle, and thus, as if
by magical means, their likenesses
have been preserved for the wonder
and admiration of the present surviv
ors on the earth.
Such is the theory now pretty well
accepted by scientists In regard to the
origin of the “fossil corkscrews.” Pos
sibly it is not correct, but if otherwise
there is room for the exercise of any
body’s Imagination in the consideration
of this veritable romance of the an
cient history of the world.—New York
Herald.
Personal Beauty.
If either man or woman would realize
the full power of personal beauty it
must be by cherishing noble thoughts ]
and hopes and purposes, by having ,
something to do and something to live ;
for that is worthy of humanity and ■
which by expending the capacities of ,
the soul gives expansion and symmetry
to the body which contains It.—Upham.
I A Man of Action.
Hicks—There isn’t a man in town
who can keep the conversational ball
rolling like our friend Gayrake. Wicks
—Nonsense! He never says anything
worth listening to. Hicks—No, but he
does a lot of things worth talking
about.—Philadelphia Ledger.
He who feels contempt for any liv
ing thing hath faculties that he hath :
never used, and thought with him is In ,
its infancy.—Wordsworth.
THE COFFEE PLANT.
A Native of Abyssinia That Was
Transported to Arabia.
The origin of coffee is lost In the
mists of antiquity, but the plant is be
lieved to be a native of Abyssinia and
to have been carried thence into Arabia
early in the fifteenth century, whence
the Meccan pilgrims soon carried it to
all parts of the Mohammedan world.
A bureau of commerce and labor pub
lication notes that Burton in his “Anat
omy of Melancholy” (1621) makes this
reference to it: "Turks have a drink
called coffee, so named from a berry
black as soot and as bitter, which they
sip up hot, because they find by experi
ence that that kind of drink so used
helpeth digestion and promoteth alac
rity.”
Although brought to Venice by a phy
sician in 1591, it was only in 1652 thut
the first coffeehouse was established
in Loudon, and it only became fashion
able in Paris In 1669, says the same
authority. England gradually forsook
coffee for tea, but the progress of the
beverage, though slower, was steadier
In France.
Until 1696, when the Dutch began to
successfully grow coffee trees in Java
from the Malibar (India) bean, all cof
fee came from Arabia. The coffee cul
ture of the West Indies and Central
and South America had its beginnings,
it is said, in a slip taken from a tree in
the botanic gardens at Paris, which
had obtained a vigorous growth from a
cutting said to have been stolen from
the botanic gardens at Amsterdam. All
the plantations of the old and new
world are practically derived from the
specimens taken from Arabia, first to
India, thence to Java and elsewhere.
ANTIQUE SEVRES.
Ton Can Always DUtlngalsh the Gen
uine by Its Gilding:.
False Sevres In the bric-a-brac shops
is offered as genuine by “reputable
dealers” in London and Paris as well
as in New York. It is old, it is true,
but only as old as the “restoration” in
France, although the marks would indi
cate a much earlier and better period.
The counterfeits may usually be de
tected by the surface of the gilding.
In the real it was burnished in lines
by means of metal nails with rounded
points, which were set in a piece of
wood.
The imitations of later date than the
real have been burnished in a similar
manner, but with an agate. It re
quired considerably more force to ob
tain a bright surface by the ancient
method than by the use of the agate
point; hence the burnished lines in the
genuine ware are perceptibly sunken,
while in the counterfeit ware they are
flush with the general surface of the
gilding. There are other means of
"spotting” the Imitations, such as the
inexact copying of the marks which
have served since 1753 to denote the
date of fabrication, and the use of
chrome green, which was not discov
ered until 1802, but the test of the
burnished parts of the gilding is the
easiest for the ordinary buyer.—New
York Herald.
Earring*.
Girls who are fond of earrings may
perhaps be interested in hearing a
few facts about them. Sad it is for the
emancipated woman of the present
day to learn that these fashionable or
naments were originally a mark of
slavery. In bygone days the slave al
ways wore his master's earrings. In
the east they were a sign of caste and
were buried with the dead. Some an
cient earrings were very elaborate, and
many statues had their ears bored in
readiness for votive offerings of ear
rings. In England the earliest earrings
were very cumbrous and made of
stone or wood. The eighteenth century
saw the glorification of the earring,
fashionable beauties outvying each oth
er with the rarest and most beautiful
jewels.—London Graphic.
A New Application of Scripture.
There was rejoicing In the village at
the killing of a pig. Being dead, It
was cut up. A neighbor's eat stole se
pretly Into the larder and annexed a
piece of pork, which she brought la
triumph to her mistress. Next day the
clergyman of the parish visited the old
woman, who recounted to him the re
markable sagacity of the beast. “It
was quite beautiful, sir,” she said
piously, “to see the way the sweet
feature brought me the piece of pork.
It brought to my mind what we read
n the Bible about Elijah and the
•avens.”
.Not Seeing, Not Believing.
There was a man in Nottinghamshire
who discontinued the donation he had
regularly made for a time to a mis
sionary society. When asked as to his
reasons he replied: “Well, I’ve traveled
i bit in my time. I’ve been as far as
Sleaford, in Lincolnshire, and I never
law a black man, and I don’t believe
here are any.”—London Standard.
The Physical.
The morality of clean blood ought to
>e one of the first lessons taught us by
mr pastors and teachers. The physical
l the substratum of the spiritual, and
his fact ought to give to the food we
pat and the air we breathe a transcend
ent significance—Tyndale.
A Story of Voltaire.
One day when D’Alembert and Con-:
lorcet were dining with Voltaire they
proposed to converse on atheism, but
Voltaire stopped them at once. "Wait”!
»aid he, “till my servants have with-:
Irawn. I do not wish to have my
throat cut tonight.”
Short of Caah.
Uncle George—Harry, I suppose you:
ceep a cash account. Harry—No, Un-1
tie George; I haven’t got so far as that,i
put I keep an expense account.
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I m<-lre labor to do the work after ten or fifteen years* use than they
they do at first. The satisfection they give is not alone for the first
year of their use but continues the same year after year. Those con- !
tem plating buying a cook stove or range should see the Monarch be
fore thy buy.
We still have the biggest stock at the lowest prices of
hardware, tinware, farm implements, wagons, buggies,
| lamps, fancy dishes, silverware, paints and oils. i
| NEIL BRENNAN |
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