Image provided by: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE
About The Nebraska independent. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 1896-1902 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 16, 1900)
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT Augrust 16, 1900 4 1 ' 3 0 vim ""k. M o P Nebraska State News Tr r. P. overland eipr-, hen i aicg Frmost oa the rning of the Mh. mn Into a fna ron. killing J&rses Wiloa and "icht-year-o!d Lna K.kb and tvenoutly Injuring young Maj Kavicii. W. lirtsm, a nt f HaMicr. aril upmaud of ULty y-ar of age, ithr fell or Juraprd from a moving train car Grafioa oa th 7tb and was ljJli. H left hi Los: to vlait rLa- liv-s at Suttoa A r.fw j t in the ha;e cf a lare r fra ha fctlarved the beet f. -!! fnr 1 1 ?? rv ariii e ri t rfmrt Lov that wlok field wer devastated in vr ipf. VftV-fv .hiA tr Wafe tie jt efctomoloKicaJlr. and it aa dctructite a& a fiUM of Wrt The Mad:-on h&rA fas b-n enlisted j th Firt Nbraska r-r: rn-nt band. 1 f- !ir. -ry 1 I'.-wl ' f that fart tn A:r-iht 7 r i;r'i b rolden ' w-d.iintiTiit.,a- 'of Vr r.i Mrs A !, Hfernnrtoa ofVawn- City TL" o. ; rf,!. .1, fh!Mf.n ibt Erii4f hi! J'-.i : i at t fii-t- of this ' -iH-r try tl.r- I. ii ji-v-r . a 'n f. 7th ir rt.. Mr. ar.-I Mr J H Lull of X-hr.a f'ity i-l'nTJ the sity-nrt nm-rrj t tir Ear- .; f. .r.'T h-!-r Jr.. fL- t. P kLtiw jTota-ir fatthy h a ! r ar th- ry !::.;-: jri fcS hm; TL- t-ro. ru$i& ti North I'iitt-, was - ,n t; th hv t'r-I ft f ill , ' A hnt j y bis f ?ift-r lit -t ';r. f fod a -Tn.'-i .' ht-rary at.'-! k.u-. ai afiUM-l by I' r.-r;f j-ri'i Z.-ka a tb iT--Xfi.T-j. jrfo i.nr Butt on tr.- ar.'J . !!!. Y. &p TiiT.z.c ruirir.? t? it y rorr.trol!'-r to an-i taxes f n ordjd to ia If r-ri!'it:oa of !h -.'ty rcurin! Th cnjjt rhr d-' tii's that th oriit.ar. is i!i-ral and r f jL- to cane!. Th- t-uit of fh ; prIler's war ! wj!! e a su;t to ' j to t!.? f ufr te -oirt. I r.ion I'amlc ! Tire t'. rt-xr th rstilnar La p n iyorr.oti v. . f ram toi rrs ZM) t-I frira rrn! twif. This tc in th C'-jf ft-'ur mar a itl-d ! "ctr.tT.-r,trir t-?-rday. tt Ktb. !r r'sra! !: ry of biSI will b miit from Ian-in. I-uo'i roir.t v. f h aitorcy r-n-ri! h c onirrinM prlii:cs fcdint t? N-t-raka frrin . d-n5fcm a--rii:iri. i;!tir.t t to t a trrt orrsiid fcr th r"rs- of ft- it. i' tJ prir a f'!.;rn!'!tf . "aj- t'liz? i . rrs;n pruva to th rtat-. ; H raif-d th rr-t of fWrMary A j if A i L I o o o o o o o o For Ten Days, Commencing Aug. 13th, At the following LOW CASH PRICES to all: o o o o o o o o o & IX Spool J. I(.M3t Cotton -2? CYnt-. Ki!lM.n ah 1.000 yd-., njf of tht-m a t.rth 1 ."c, ii ! 5c. Li lit-it Salt (mm1 ile low n.'r, 4 . i tt i 1 .' lowf liuL'. '. Sal' on Wr..p r Phk1. dark rotton. worth I.1")-, for. . . f0c. o Lot 1, Sale on Lawn, o o o o o - o o o o o o 3,500 Cloaks.... ... COtXJMT AT LE33 THAN 25c on the ....Dollar WILL BE ON 5ALC ....FIVE Xw i vour chance Cloak C'h-a. IiTWe give Cah Coupons Mail Orders Filled the same day they are received. H. Brewsher at Omaha and be 1s un der 100 tonds to answer to a criminal ch aire of managing the . trust- Mr. Brewster denies that the association has any mission beyond protecting its members from railway freight and ter minal extortions. The Nebraska Telephone company is extending its lines all over the state and putting in exchanges at many 4mall towns which have never before had telephone service. Wayne will have a street fair and carnival September 20. 21 and 22. Beatrix furnishes the Second regi ment with its official band. Thf" vorm nlch is eating the tops off the Wis near Grand Island is ac- j companJed by a mite of some sort which attacks the beet itself and in a fihort time eau.s it to turn black and ! commence to decay William Ixmg. living near Garrison, as killed In a runaway last week. i Nls Remiliard, an old soldier living t' miles south of Superior, started to walk home on the railroad track ioc" &is"t lat week and while on the bridge was struck by a train anci Ktuea. H was well to do and leaves five adult children. TL country papers this wek gen erally report improved conditions to rrn and heneflt to pastures due to timely rains. Sheldon Smith of Sarpy county be- iirn ntangl-d in an automatic band cutter on a thresher and had his arm r Lorpp(! into ribltons. He may lose the arm. Nflieh ij liui'.ding an electric light 5 ! u.t. 1'. ot.'K-rs iKar Hastings hold up . i i'-rs and rob them. . :li-rton is xte:i(iing her water sys t:i tSiis yar. A Lmcoln firm has 5--ti Kivtn a francaise and will put in au -.t"ctric light plant thi3 season. Cloud has a new flouring mil which will open for business Septem b r i. and has plenty of good wheat in tight to keep it running. Andrew Anderson, near Osceola thrhl 407 bushels of fall wheat from nine act, which is a pretty good yield ev-a for Nebraska. William Elder, a young farmer living four mils east of Ashton, on the Nike Kosmiski farm, had the misfortune to lo-s nis barn by fire containing four hor - s. a v. a son. harness and all his frrn machinery. He did not discover . it fire until the next morning. Hay is reported very scarce in Col fax county and bringing $6.50 a ton. A ISO convent, the largest in the wt. is being built at O'Neill by the Franciscans, a Catholic ordfr founded in 1 by St. Francis of Assisi. Platte county reports 6.G2S school children, of whom 3,810 were enrolled Sale on Lawns, worth 15c for She. Calico Sale, worth 5c, for oic, Shirt Waist Sale 25c and ."5c, and 50c. 1000 yds. Percale, worth 10c, on sale 5c, Muslin Underwear Sale Hood, gown, 4 Sc. Good cornet cover, 24c Good drawers, 24c. Good white sk't,C9o. OUR FALL GOODS... Are coming in very fast. . . . THE LAST DAYS.... We wiirbe glad to show ail to buy a Good any time. with every 23c purchase, redeemable in Chinaware.2 TUCKER BROS. CO., Northeast Corner 10th and P Streets, LINCOLN, NEB. u the schools the past year. Much damage has been done by iehtnlne during the past week, many buildinsrs be ins: burned and several deaths resulting from the severe thun der storms in various parts or the state. A fire at Fremont last Saturday burned the Welch and Brooks hotels and a feed store. Loss $5,000. Orleans reloices over the completion recently of two large business blocks ani a $22,000 Catholic church. While threshing at the farm of H. Baumfolk, five miles from Beatrice, last Saturday fire caught in the straw and destroyed the threshing outfit of Henry Frerich. The loss was fully $2,000. Paul Flsner. a brakeman on the C. St P.. M. & O. road, was killed while switchine at Blair last Saturday. He was a single man who lived in Sioux City. The premium list is out for the York county fair which occurs September 18 to 21. Fast horses have a prominent place. Fiiv; dpj;troved two barns, a machin ery shop, two binders, two farm wag nns. a lariria straw stack, harness, etc. on the farm, of Andrew Simpson, west of Tecumsen, last Friday, ine piace is occupied by Robert Gabriel. His ycung son played with matches around the straw stack. Tne loss is Deiween $500 and $600, with no insurance. Free rural delivery will be estab lis bed at Guide Rock, commencing with one carrier on September 3. Last week Judge Jacxson of Wash ington county decided that farmers holding policies were liable for the 1899 assessment of the now defunct Grain Growers' Mutual Hail associa tion of Om.ha. If this decision stands It will add somewhat to the assets of the receivers of that concern. Arthur Freeman, aged twenty-two years, was drowned in the Blue river at Beatrice, while bathing. He wa3 a mrmber of the Second regiment Dana and had just been mustered in. He nearly drowned a companion who at tempted to get him out. A severe storm, accompanied in places by tail, last Monday night did much damaee in Dodee and Washing- tor, counties, where barns were blown down, stock killed and crops de stroyed. At Scribner a freight car was blown dewr. the track and smashed the caboose of a freight train. Matt MfNpar. aeed twentv-eicht. liv ing near Blue Hill, attached a string to the trigger of a shotgun and delib r.itely blew his heart out. He was highly respected and is said to hive left letters explaining his rash act, but they are not made public. A tfirnado near Kennard last Mon day night blew down several houses and farm buildings. Mrs. John Lum was severely injured. John Fisher, aged twenty-one, liv m o o 3 skein of Belding Filo Silk for 10c. Linen Skirt Sale, vour choice 50c. Ladies1 Sailor Hats, 25c. Special Sale Black Dress Goods, 42-in. wide, fast col., 25c. Big; purchase of School Shoes for Fall Wear are now On Sale. O o o o o o o o Fall Goods at o o o o Eo t o ne near Endicott,-was thrown from a horse and Instantly killed last Satur-, day. In a fight near Roseland, David Rhodes was struck on the head with a singletree by Sidney Joynt, and will probably die. The fish and game association of Ne braska is trying hard to enforce the game laws. Many arrests have been made for shooting prairie chickens out of season,- and one man at Hyannis paid $1,000 fire for having 800 birds n cold storage. A lean, hungry looking man sailing under the name of E. M. Llngell, claim- ng to be a school supply agent, and sporting a McKinley pin on his coat lapel, was arrested for selling liquor to Indians this week. He was bound over to the federal court by Commissioner Sloan, and Is now enjoying a vaca tion In the Omaha jail. Pender News. Th Pnder Times tells of the round ing up of one of the desperate Johnson bova of Thurston county last week, and thnt a nosse is after the other three. The lour Drotners nave long Deen terrors out there ana last weeK tney nearly killed the city marshal of Emer son, when the whole community con cluded to stop their career. During the thunder shower Wednes day Robert Dusenbery of Oak Creek was plowing and sought shelter from the storm in a straw stack. Lightning struck so close to him that one of his horses was knocked down and laid ap parently dead for several minutes. Sud denly it arose and he returned to work and has been all right ever since. The stack of straw caught fire and went up in smoke. Lawrence Locomotive. Harold Least has a bullet hole in his hand as the result of a good natured scuffle at Valentine with Roscoe Fisher for the possession of a loaded revolver A careless user of a target rifle at Wisner shot Miss Belle Dolittle in the neck as she sat on the porch trying to enjoy the hot weather, but fortunately the wound was not serious. Indianola has a Siamese twin in the newspaper line. J. S. Phillips and W. O. Bond have established the Red Wil low County Publishing company and have issued the first number of two papers. One is the Red Willow Coun ty Republican, with W. O. Bond as edi tor. ?t is a straight republican, admin Istration organ. The other is the Red Willow County Sun, with J. S. Phillips as editor This is a fusion paper and will support the ticket from Bryan to road overseer. The local news and ad vertisements in both papers will be identical. King & Lundak have passed the Nio brara Tribune over to E. S. Kendall formerly "out west,'' then a member of the Third Nebraska and later a printer in Lincoln. He announces that the main feature of the paper will be local news with enough fusion politics to entitle him to occasional pieces of pie The Nebraska national guard will hojd its annual encampment at Hast ings August 20 to 25. Localities were reported along the Platte river last week where the water was so low that people went fishing with pitchforks, and some pools were simply alive with imprisoned fish. Gilbert N. Hitchcock is out in a signed statement announcing himself a candidate for the United States sen ate to succeed John M. Thurston. Mr. Hitchcock is a democrat and editor of the World-Herald of Omaha. Edward Rosewater, republican editor of the Bee of Omaha, some time ago an announced his candidacy for the same position. The forty-sixth annual convention of the international typographical union is in session at Milwaukee. The secre tary's report shows 40,000 members in good standing, an increase of several thousand during the year. Lucas Barcek, a Bohemian farm hand living in Dodge county, took a nap on the railway track east of Morse Bluff and a freight train ran over and killed him. He had no relatives in the locality where he was working. Dr. Pulls, pastor of the Baptist church at Columbus, has accepted a call to North Platte. Herman Rocker, a well to do farmer near Stanton, was raising the pipe from a drive-well, using a lever, when the pipe slipped, jerked the :ever from his bands and forced it upward. The end of the lever struck Mr. Rocker under the chin, killing him instantly. The superintendence' of the Beatrice asylum for the feeble-minded was transferred on the 15th from Dr. Tnr to Dr. Deering. The books were checked up last week and everything made rea- ay ior tne cnange in management. The eleven-year-old son of John Har dick of Nebraska City was drowned last Monday while swimming In the Missouri river. Major William K. Moorp. NT v. a was in Lincoln last Monday in connec tion with his duties as sheriff of Nuck olls county. He was captain of Co. M, First Nebraska, serving in the Philip pines, and upon his return last fall was elected sheriff, being the only re publican elected in the county. Col. George Lyon, jr., of Nelson, who is captain of H company. First regi ment N. N. G., was in Lincoln last Monday on business connected with the coming encampment at Hastings. Colonel Bryan has also been nomi nated for president by the United States monetary league, and a com mittee will take advantage of the pop ulist notification at Topeka on the 23d to inform him of the action of the league. The Norfolk district campmeetlng at Lyons, which adjourned Monday, was the most largely attended meeting ever known that part of the state. Ben Mead, a farmer living near Win side, worried over troubles with some of his relatives until he settled the matter last Monday morning by hang ing himself to a windmill tower where his dead body was found by a neighbor who called on business 1 MI 111 Republican Lilliputians and Gulliver Reed. FUNNY SIDE OF POLITICS. Perry S. Heath Would Ostracize the Man From Maine. TRIBUTE TO SPLENDID GEKIUS. Themai B. Reed. Loves Ilia Country Better Than Hla Party Peanut Pol ltica In Regard to Mr. Bryan Ted dy la a Boomrrnng Candidate. J a dare Jacktoa't Pointed Remarks Anent the Penaion Office. ISpecial Washington Letter. What a pity that Jonathan Swift, the mighty dean of St. Patrick's, cannot return to earth! Certainly the funniest thing and the most preposterous that has happened on earth since the Lil liputians undertook to conquer Gul liver is the determination of Perry S. Heath et id omne genus to ostracize Thomas Bracket! Reed in the present campaign. The unutterable scorn with which that intellectual Titan must re gard his pygmy persecutors needs the furious genius and merciless pen of Swift to describe it. 'Twould be worth ten years of peaceful life to 6ee big Tom roll in to Republican headquar ters while Terry and his petty political pirates are in council as to how they will bobble the man from Maine. Blessed stars, how they would take to cover, get out, vamoose, skedaddle, absquatulate! The Lilliputians drew up certain regulations for the conduct of Gulliver, whom they called "The Man Moun tain," which regulations I commend to Perry et al. in their endeavor to tie up Mr. Reed. Here they are: "First The Man Mountain shall not depart from our dominions without our license under our great seal. "Second. He shall not presume to come Into our metropolis without our express orders, at which the inhabit ants shall have two hours warning to keep within doors. "Third. The said Man Mountain shall confine his walks to our principal highroads and not offer to walk or lie down in a meadow or field of corn. "Fourth. As he walks the said roads he shall take the utmost care not to trample upon the bodies of any of our loving subjects, their horses or car riages and not to take any of our sub jects into his hands without their own consent." Most Brilliant American. Surely the ferocious Swift when he wrote "Gulliver's Travels" must have Lad n his mind's eye the events now transpiring about Republican head quarters. Unquestionably Reed is The Man Mountain, and It would be awful If he should walk or lie down in the Republican meadows or fields of corn, and in the language of rule 4 for the protection of the Lilliputians our Re pubbcan Man Mountain should take the utmost care not to trample upon the bodies of any of Perry's chums. especially those of Mark Hanna, Wil liam McKinley and Teddy Roosevelt. Thomas Brackett Reed is easily the most brilliant man in America. lie is the greatest living Republican. His most patriotic act was in resigning his seat in congress, and with it the speak ership, because he could not indorse the un-American policy of the Mc Hannaite administration. To his eter nal credit be it said that he possessed independence enough of soul to volun tarily lay down the political office sec ond in power and importance only to the presidency cheerfully gave up its emoluments and retired to private life because he loved his country better than his party. No higher tribute could be paid to his splendid genius than that he should be feared and therefore hated by the pitiful dwarfs who are now running the Republican machine. They haven't brains enough to compre hend The Man Mountain, they haven't generosity enough to admire him, they haven't strength enough to tie him, and they haven't money enough to buy him. Peanut Politics. All decent men will agree that it is peanut politics, to say nothing worse of it, to drag Bryan's domestic affairs into the campaign and parade the fact to the world that Mrs. Bryan now em ploys a servant girl to help do the work, whereas she formerly did it all herself. I humbly submit that Mrs. Bryan is clearly entitled to have a servant girl if she wants one and is able to pay her. and the Republican papers are doing themselves no credit by trying to use that fact to the preju dice of her Illustrious husband. No purer home life has Illustrated Ameri can civilization than that of the Bry ans. They have not flouted their do mestic felicity In the faces of the peo ple, but have been content to live jguietly and modestly a thing greatly to their credit. It had to come. It was Inevitable. Webster Davis has been accused of plagiarism. That appears to be a fa vorite method of campaigning with Republicans. It will be remembered that when Bryan made his astounding speech at Chicago In 1896, which serv ed the double purpose of securing the nomination and the adoption of the platform, it was suddenly discovered that Bryan had stolen one portion of his speech from Patrick Henry and another portion the cross of gold fig ure of speech from Congressman Mo- Can of Massachusetts. But somehow ft did not hurt Bryan much. Neither do I apprehend that the same charge will do any great harm to Webster Da vis. To Qnlgg (verb transitive) means to cabbage; to make way with; to cause to disappear. That Is the latest con tribution to the dictionary. My friend, Lemuel Ell Quigg, has been converted into a verb, tra la! That happens to men only at rare intervals. Indeed I have never known it to happen to an American hitherto. Some have had their names used as adjectives. For Instance, the Wellington boot and the McClellan saddle tree are familiar to men. Mcintosh, McAdam and , Burn sides are cases where names of in ventors have passed to the things in vented, but Lemuel EH has the double honor of having furnished the basis for both verb and adjective, as the ungod ly newspapers use the verb "to Qulgg" also the adjective "Qulggy." A Boomerang Candidate. lie has fallen. We may now gaze upon that splendid prodigy which erstwhile awakened our awe and made us gasp. We refer to Teddy. That St Paul speech did the business for him. He Is a boomerang. Republicans apol ogize for him; Democrats sneer at him. Human nature Is the same the wide world over. When the old woman was Informed that the cow had eaten the grindstone, she exclaimed, "I told you so!" And my esteemed contemporary, the Washington Tost, remembering many a jab which it made at Teddy In days of yore and remembering that Its jabs were now taking on the character of prophecy, publishes the following edi torial as to Colonel Teddy: THE IXEVITABLE HAS HAPPENED. It roust be an unpleasant duty for so stanch and loyal a supporter of the Republican candi dates and policies as the Brooklyn Eagle to devote Its editorial space to explanations of Mr. Roose velt'a St. Paul speech, with a view to mitigating the boomerang effects of his reckless indiscre tion. Yet it is the expected, the predicted, the inevitable that has happened. It was expected by all who had any familiarity with the ora torical methods of the brilliant young statesman. It was predicted by The Post both before and after his nomination. It happened at the first opportunity. The governor of the Empire State and nominee for the second office tinder our sys tem the man who was selected for the second place because of alleged special qualifications to fill the first place in case of need made these re marks before a great audience at St. Paul a few days ago: "Study the Kansas City platform, and you can not help realizing that their policy is the policy of infamy; that their triumph would mean misery so widespread that it is almost unthinkable and a disgrace so lasting that more than a generation would have to pass before it bould be wiped, out. They stand for lawlessness and disorder, for dis honesty and dishonor, for license and disaster at home and tor cowardly shrinking from duty abroad." What is there in that tirade that does not sug gest the antipodes of each and aU the qualifications which sober minded citizens of all parties deem requisite for the vice presidency of the United States? The delegates to the Kansas City con vention represented the membership of the Demo cratic party. If that convention stood for "dis grace, for lawlessness and , disorder, for dishon esty and dishonor," the Democratic party stands for the same lift of infamies. There have been many vice presidential candi dates of smaller intellectual caliber than Theo dore Roosevelt. There have been ; few, if any, who surpassed him in traits and qualities that win and hold friends, but no party has ever named for that office a candidate who could possibly have committed the blunder of thus assailing and defaming 5,000,000 or 6,000,000 of bis tellow citi aens. Pensions For Soldiers. Mr. Ridsrelev of the Third Kansas ; district is generally recognized as one ! of the most faithful and useful meni I bers of the house. Judge A. M. Jackson of Wlnfleld j has been nominated as his successor, j Judge Jackson is a Kentuckian by birth, an able lawyer, a handsome man and an orator of high degree. I pre dict for him a splendid career in con gress. Not long since his Republican op ponent tried to curry favor with the old soldiers, whereupon Judge Jackson submitted the following vigorous and felicitous remarks: "My opponent is very solicitous about the old soldier. Sir, 1 yield to no man In my devotion to the Union soldiers. They need no eulogy from me nor from any other person. Many of the dead heroes of the great yet cruel war have their last resting places marked by imposing slabs of marble, and yet these do not add luster to their -name Neither will any words which my op ponent or I may utter add one cubic to their greatness. The highest en comium, the most magnificent eulogy, that can be paid the old soldier Is that he bared his breast in the defense of the Union; that he met in mortal con flict flesh of his flesh and blood of his blood yea, that he met upon the field of battle men as brave and de termined as himself. : . "As the result " of that mighty strife we have, thank God, one coun try and one flag. We now say all honor to those brave "and gallant sol diers and that this government should deal fairly, justly and honestly with its saviors. My opponent, in his great anxiety to assure the old sol dier of his sympathy and assistance, says that if he Is elected to con gress he will do all in his power to pass a law whereby all that should oe necessary to obtain a pension or an increase thereof would be to present an honorable discbarge, together with an affidavit that be is In need of mone'- A Great Injustice. "To my mind this would be a great injustice to the old soldiers of this land. Why should you be compelled to pay the munificent (?) sum of 25 cents to make an affidavit that you are in need of money when no one for one moment will controvert that fact? My friends, the "question of "the need of money Is not confined to the old soldier, but all men will insist that they are in need of money. Then I submit that it would be an Injustice to require you to make an affidavit about a fact which no one disputes. Therefore I suggest that if there be sense and rea son In his proposition, then why not do away with the affidavit' and make : the sole test an honorable discharge? If I should advocate such proposition for either & pension or the Increase thereof, you "would justly call me a demagogue and say that my proposition was foolish. My friends, you would be right Either proposition Is a foolish one, and any man who would go to congress advocating such theories would write himself down as an ass and bring his district into disrepute. By so doing he might also do incal culable injury to the cause of the old soldier, jusi as a tumblebug might spoil a cupful of good, pure and whole some water. "Your lawmakers should advocate sensible measures, which will meet with the approval of the conscience and the Judgment of the people. The man who goes to congress advocating visionary measures can have no Influ ence In that body and will not be able to accomplish anything for his con stituents. "My friends, the old soldiers, as I understand, do not complain of the law. Generally speaking, the law is liberal and generous. It makes ample provision for the soldier, his widow and orphan. Enforce the Lair. "The crying want and need of today is not for more law, but for an honest, fair and impartial enforcement of the present law. Our pension law is en forced, If at all, through the depart ment known as the commissioner of pensions. He sits as a judge and in terprets the letter and the spirit of the law. His acts may be arbitrary, and he may wholly Ignore the law in its application to a petition for a pension, and there is no adequate relief from his autocratic ruling. Therefore it is just as necessary that your commis sioner of pensions should be an honest, ' pure and upright man as it is for your Judge who enforces the civil and crim inal law of the land. The law of the land makes ample provision for the Im peachment of a judge who is dishonest and corrupt. The commissioner of pensions sits as a judge, granting or refusing pensions as.it suits his pleas ure. He interprets the law according to his whims or his humor or by In fluence, dehors the record. He Is a 'one mind power mighty, omnipotent and most dangerous. He receives his appointment from one man, and is re sponsible to him and to him alone. He deals with the masses of the people. He acts as judge upon the cases of thousands of people, and yet those peo ple have nothing to say as to who shall be their judge, or who shall In terpret the law which was made In their behalf and In their interest I Insist that this Is un-American and for eign to the genius of republican form of government The great iniquity of the present system is fully exemplified by your present commissioner of pen sions. This is not the time or the place to discuss in detail his work. It Is sufficient to know that thousands of petitions from Grand Army posts in this nation have been presented beg ging for his removal. Your petitions have only been answered by repeated injury. You have pleaded, but the powers have been deaf to the voice of justice. You have implored, but no answer has come for your relief. Br Popular Vote. "My friends, this is a great injustice, it Is a great wrong. Under the com mon law we learn that for every wrong there is a remedy. There is a remedy for this wrong, and. In my judgment, this remedy is simple and adequate. I would make the commissioner of pen sions an elective office. I would give the old soldiers the opportunity to say who should be commissioner of pen sions, and who should Interpret the law that was made for their benefit. As to how this should best be done I am not wedded to any particular theory. I am willing to consult and advise as to how this can best be done. At the present it is my Judgment that it would answer the purpose If a law was passed providing that each Grand Army post in this nation, should at stated times hold an election In their posts, permitting all beneficiaries over the age of 21 years to vote for whom they desire appointed commissioner of pensions, and the person who receives the highest number of rotes should be appointed by the president commis sioner of pensions. If I have the honor to represent this district In congress, it shall be my object and aim to do all in my power to have a law of this nature and character passed, a law making it possible that soldiers, their widows and orphans shall receive fair and impartial treatment and that they shall have a voice in saying who shall be their judge." All men may not agree with all the ideas expressed by Judge Jackson, but whether they agree with his ideas or not, they must admire the vigor with, which he delivers them. He will make his mark and will rank among the strong men of the house. A Picturesque Character. In all German settlements in the west a curious wedding custom pre vails which is said to have been trans planted from Hanover. When a young couple is to be married, the elder brother of the bride, or, if she has no brother, some other male member of the family, takes his place, starts out a few days before the wedding on horseback and distributes the Invita tions. He Is called the "brautbeter" literally the "bride inviter." He is a picturesque fignre, and in his trip about the country he is the recipient of many perquisites in money or gifts, which, by right of custom, are 'kept as his own; but however small,' the present Is Invariably expected and given. It may be a piece of money, a bill or a coin or it may be only a ribbon or a trinket Upon his return trip be decorates his person and his horse with his sifts. New York Tribune. 1 4 1 I; I 1 ii-2. t