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September 13, 1900
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT.
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Oat fa the alfalfa country, the joke
in 02 of lait month's magazines about
feeding i;e hogs oa hay doesn't seem
to tare tt point to it.
A. J. Watson, editor of the Coleridge
Blade, has ben nominated by the fu
sionists for the lower bouse of the
Jegislatcre. We are c!ad to tee the
exrks of even one editor recognized.
The Bomtnatioa came to Brother Wat
soo without axy solicitation oa his
part.
The official records tho that there
are 453 medical officers verricg la the
Philippines at an average salary of
HM0. If the cumber of kick is cor
rectly reported, then it costs Uncle
Sam for each soldier per year for med
ical attendance, exclusive of the cost
Of medicines, ho. p: til attendants and
csrvt, fill. The medical profession
are surely p-tusg their share of the
patronage.
Bryan has th kindliest feelmss for
the rich as veil as for the poor. He
told the rich the other day in a fcp-ech
that he wanted the institutions and
lavs of this country maintained, so
that if miffortune should befall the
children of the rich and they became
poor, that they. too. mirbt have a
chance to rise and that not every av
er ue of advancement should L closed
ajrainn them by the trusts.
The dinner pall campaign that the j
rrtttiMkan are roakirr shows hotter
than anything ke their es-timste of
the tan wfco toil. It is an advertise
ment to the world that wage-workers
are nothing but twin- and if they can
Lsf thrtr nonurfci filW. that is all
that they care for. The full dinner
pj.il e!ra shows the -epuhliran idea of
the sort of brute tfcey 1 marine work
Jc; men to be.
Itooevelt during his t-p-ch at To
ledo exhibited five oidir of the reg
ular army as n argument to prove
that irsperislssni a a Usy of th
po.KjlM-t mind. The crowd chrd j
the oldirs longer and louder than j
they did Roo-velt hlmHf. How the
exhibition of regular army soldiers on
a public platform is evidence that
there is co such thing as imprialism
cottemplated by the manarrs of Mc-
Klcley. is another of thoe things that
no pop can find out.
One roagres can fix a single gold
standard, the rext a l imetalllc t-ad-ard
and the next can demonetize toth
metals and Issue greenbacks in place
of them. The whole thing Is with
congress, and congress is elected by
ti e people. The talk about having
settled the money qu ttion is silly.
The security of future payment in
money lie In the honesty of the peo
ple. They will study this money ques
tion until they understand it and then
they will isairt:rate a system that
will be hcrst by maintaining a stable
level of prices.
When Joe Chamberlain and McKin
ley annex a country by proclamation,
th next thlEg thv do is to treat the
inhabitants as rebels aid not entitled
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ter such proclamation is issued by
these big bug imperialists, those who
longer resist are to be court nartlaled
and shot whenever they are caught.
That Is only a more polite way of car
rying out the policy of the German
llmperor when he told his troops to
take no prisoners. Of the three, the
llmperor William of Germany not
the one at tee White House is the
most to be admired. There is no
hypocrisy atctit him.
As long as silver dollars are re
ceived by the government In full pay
ment of all taxes there Is no possible
way In which they can become of less
value In the commercial world than
gold doHars. All this talk of Gage
and other gold bags to the effect that
Bryan, if elected, would put this gov
ernment upon the silver standard. Is
so much nonsense. Bryan and the
popc!iets are as much opposed to a sil
ver standard as they are to the gold
stsndird. They are all against a sin
gle standard, whether it be gold or
silver. We are, one and all. 11-
IZitJ lists.
BEACUCO THE LOWEST DEPTHS.
The republicans of this state have
perpetrated crimes so vile that the
genius of lawmakers. In providing pen
alties, has proved of no avail. Much of
the best legislative ability has been
expended in enacting election laws to
preserve the purity of the ballot and
ft was thought that every sort of
crime and every device that degener
ate man could invent had been pro
vided against. But the republicans
have invented a new crime that no
lawmaker ever thought of, and which
it was never Imagined anything in the
shape of man could be vile enough to
commit and therefore no penalty was
provided for It and there seems to be
no mode of relief under the law. It
was never supposed that there was a
man in the state, or ever would be
one, who was bo lost to all feelings of
honor so utterly depraved as to ac
cept a nomination from one party and
then join the opposing party and re
fuse to get off the ticket upon which
he was nominated. No legislator ever
dreamed that there was a creature of
that kind in existence and no way has
been provided In the law to punish
such a crime.
It now appears that we may have a
nominee on the fusion ticket who op
enly proclaims himself a republican,
says that he will vote for McKinley
and do all within his power to defeat
the fusion party and yet his name will
appear as a candidate on the fusion
ticket. And the republican party and
its daily press stands ready to take
advantage of that sort of a crime and
profit by it! In all the cnarges that
The Independent has made against re
publican management, it never made
a charge against it of such criminal
character as that, for the men who
would take advantage of an act like
that are just as guilty as the man who
perpetrates it. To such vileness as
that has the republican party in Ne
braska at last descended.
RELY ! ON FKAi nS.
Every sort of rcheme that the in
genuity of men long trained in guile
can Invent will be resorted to in the
effort that the republicans are mak
ing to capture the legislature. It is
reported in the papers that they have
bought up one man who was norni-
I nated by the fusiimsisfor the legis
j lature and that wnle? fie has joined
I a McKinley club and ys that he will
vote the republican (Wet, and he re
fubs to resign his n
lation so that
a Bryan man can'b-p'tit-on the ticket
in his place. In another5 instance they,
with the aid of H an bW assistant pop
uiists, persuaded'' man who asked
for and received agnomination at the
hands of the fusionists to withdraw,
for th sole purpow of throwing the
voters into confusion in his county.
This man was perfectly honest, but
bing persuaded that he could not le
elected, took the action that he did.
When the scheme that had been
worki! upon him was explained and
th record of some of the men who
fiai bn engaged in it was shown him,
be withdrew his resignation and stayed
on the ticket.
These are only samples of the work
that the republican managers are do
ing all the time. There is nothing vile
and dishonorable that they will not
jo. They are making no attempt at
argument before the people, but are
relying wholly upon fraud and money
to carry them through. While they
well know that there is a majority of
from 15.000 to 20.000 in the state
against them, some of the worst of
them" have sueh reliance on the frauds
that they expect to perpetrate, that
they are betting on carrying the legis
lature When It comes to fraud there
is nothing on the face of the earth
that can equal a republican political
leader.
CROWDING INTO CITIES.
Still the people crowd into cities.
Why? Look out over a city street.
The sun beats down on it with its
burning rays. Foul smells come up
from the pavements and out of every
alley, by-way and corner. The horses
! 1!P and 8trugle to dra5 the heavily
(loaded wagons. Swarms of men and
women dodge hither and thither, while
th street car bells jangle out a con
tinuous warning of danger. All is
rurh, hurry and "strenuous life."
Why all this suffering of man and
beast? Why all this clamor and con
tention? Is that the way that God in
tended man to live? Compare it with
the health and peace of a farmer's life.
He alone has pure air and pure food.
He alone can breathe in the ellxor of
Ufa free from the germs and microbes
and foulness that comes up from the
streets.
But the farmer boys continue to
come Into the city. Why?
It is "the result of the false ideas
which have been so industriously cul
tivated In the dally, weekly and
monthly literature . of the last three
decades. Men who have money are
exalted above all others. Their names
are kept constantly before the people.
Whose names are the "most familiar
to American youth? Is it the scholars,
thinkers and humanitarians, or Is it
the Vanderbllts, the Rockefellers, the
Morgans and the Havemyers?
It is the dollar above the man. It Is
tho-T false doctrine that has pervaded
tho teaching all the way from the
White House down to the ward club
In the back end of a saloon. Large
possession of property is everything.
The man is nothing.
This is degeneracy and not progress.
This Is the slow crushing out of the
ideals, hopes and ambitions that make
man a different creature , from the
brute.
It is not the worship of Mammon
that elavates the human race, but
those things of which the poets have
sung in all the ages of the past. If it
were not for the virile manhood from
the farms constantly crowding into the
cities, they would become largely de
populated from the effects of their
own vileness within the next quarter
of a centurj'.
STATE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
Prof. C. F. Beck comes as near hav
ing complete qualifications for the
office of state superintendent of
schools as one can well possess. He
has filled, with entire satisfaction to
all whom he has served, the following
positions:
First Teacher for several years in
rural schools.
Second Teacher for three years in
graded schools.
Third Superintendent of city
schools for four years.
Fifth County superintendent for
three "years.
Sixth Deputy state superintendent
for nearly four years; in all about
twenty years of active, faithful ser
vice in the cause of education in Ne
braska. His varied experience has brought
him in close touch with every phase
of educational work. He has studied
the conditions and needs of our
schools; is familiar with the many
questions pertaining to organization,
course of study, school management,
etc., and in addition has a practical
working knowledge of the duties de
volving upon the state superintendent,
by reason of having been connected
with that office for nearly four years.
His election would mean an active
administration of the affairs of the
office from the date of his inaugura
tion, as no time would be lost in be
coming acquainted with the duties
connected therewith.
Mr. Beck has an extended acquaint
ance with the educators of the state,
and commands their good will and re
spect. Personally, he is modest and
unassuming, and makes no effort to
impress others with his superiority. He
is kind and courteous to all. obliging
and efficient in tho discharge of his
duties, and will receive substantial
support at the polls regardless of poli
tics. A TRUE STORV.
Here is the story of a McKinley pa
triot and it is a true one. At the.
close of the war we will not give the
names, but call the parties Sampson
and Brown two old college chums
met under the following circum
stances: Brown had served for over
four years and found himself in a Mis
souri town perfectly pennyless. Samp
son ha,d not been to the war, but had
remained at home and practiced law.
He had just come to Missouri to grow
up with the country and had been in
the town about six months, when
Brown struck it. Brown thought to
himself: "Now there is Sampson and
he has married and done well. I will
go and call on him." So he went and
while there told Sampson that he was
dead broke and had not been able to
find anything to do since he came out
of the army. He hoped, that for the
sake of old college days, Sampson
would at least ask him to take supper
with him. But the thrifty Sampson
did no such thing, and Brown went to
bed without his supper that night in
a barn that a rebel captain told him he
might sleep in.
Both men are old and gray-headed
now. Sampson is an attorney for a
big corporation and gets $15,000 a
year. He is on the stump talking pa
triotism and waving the old flag.
Brown heard him make a speech the
other night In which Sampson de
nouned Brown as a copperhead and
traitor, because Brown declared that
he had fought four years to make the
Declaration of Independence apply to
black men and that, old as he was, he
was willing to fight four years more
to make it apply to brown men also
There are a good many of these kind
of Sampson traitors making speeches
for McKinley in this campaign.
Talk to a German anywhere, and if
he is not a republican officeholder, he
will say something like the resolutions
passed by the German North Ameri
can Turner Bund of Philadelphia.
Their resolution is as follows: "We
recognize the right of all people to de
fend with arms of warfare their lib
erty and independence. We consider
every attempt, through the methods of
warfare, of territorial expansion as
opposed to civilization and as an act
of brute force. We consider every ef
fort to extend the blessings of civili
zation with the sword and gun as one
based on hypocrisy and greed for gain
We protest against the , policy of con
quest of this government, and against
every attempt toward expanding the
domain of this government by force.
One of the strangest things that
ever happened in politics is the nomi
nation of Congressman Boutelle of
Maine. Mr. Boutelle has for months
been confined in an Insane asylum
and the doctors give no hope of his
recovery. Every one - deeply- sym
pathizes with Mr. Boutelle in his af
fliction, but to nominate a man who is
hopelessly insane for congress is such
a strange proceeding that it is the
cause of comment, not only in this
country, but in Europe as well. It is
impossible for Mr. Boutelle to take his
seat in congress, but the republicans
will undertake to make a permanent
pair for him so that his vote in that
body will not be lost.
Compared with 1896 the republican
vote in Vermont fell off 10 per cent
and the democratic vote 16 per cent.
Teddy calls that a great republican
victory.
We have heard of civilization by the
gospel and by education, but never
did we hear of civilization by slaugh
ter until after McKinley's benevolent
assimilation turned Into criminal ag
gression. '
The republican party is a party of
capitalists, bent on obtaining special
privileges. Under Lincoln it was a
party of the rights of men equal
rights for all and special privileges to
none. In those days this writer was
a republican. Can any one wonder
why he is a Bryan man now?
The election of no man is a menace
to the business interests of the com
munity. That is simply to say that
a majority of the people intend to de
stroy their own property and deliber
ately beggar themselves. The men
who go about saying that the elec
tion of Bryan is a menace to the pros
perity of the country do not believe
it themselves. Not one of them be
lieves that Bryan wants to bring wreck
and ruin to his country. Even Roose
velt knows better than that, although
he reiterates ' almost every day.
If colonial possessions added wealth
or power to nations then Spain ought
to have been the most wealthy and
powerful nation in all the world. She
at one time held "foreign possessions"
in all South America, in North Ameri
ca, in Africa and in Asia. But instead
of making Spain rich and powerful
they were the cause of her overthrow.
South America, Mexico, Florida, the
Philippines are all-gone and Spain is
weak and bankrupt.. Into that kind of
a career would our weak and wob
bling Willy lead this nation. But he
will be retired and a man who detests
conquest and believes in the declara
tion of independence will take his
place.
The republicans promise a full din
ner pail if the workmen will only con
sent to become slaves of the trusts and
enlist in a standing army. It will
take some other sort of bait to catch
them. They have sent the army to
fight the wage-workers too often to
entice them to vote for militarism by
tolling them along with a picture of a
dinner pail labelled "full." Wage-
workers are not beasts. They want
something else than a dinner pail.
They want liberty and equality. They
want schools, colleges and universities.
They want to own the homes they live
in. They want news-papors and books.
They even want outrageous creatures
carpets on their floors and a musi
cal instrument In their houses. But
a dinner pail is all that republicans
promise them. That is the republican
idea of what ought to satisfy a work
ing man.
THE THREAT OF WEALTH
Every statesman and economist of
the past has given warning of the
danger there was to republican insti
tutions in great aggregations of wealth
We are willing that the rich shall
have all the luxuries, fast horses,
steam yachts, five thousand dollar bull
dogs, divorces and palaces without
number. All that Is not a threat to re
publican government, but when the
extra millions that they cannot find a
way to spend on such things are put
into he hands of political bosses of
the stripe of Mark Hanna for the pur
pose of destroying the constitution, re
pealing the Declaration of Indepen
dence and changing our form of gov
ernment then do these great fortunes
become a menace to' society. There
are about forty men in New York
whose fortunes are so great that it is
impossible for them to spend their
incomes in any sort of extravagance
that the rich generally indulge in.
Palaces, ocean-going yachts, fast
horses, costly divorces, new wives and
armies of servants ail put together will
not eat up these incomes. The re
mainder, or even a small part of it,
can be turned over to political manip
ulators who can buy seats in the
United States senate, control national
conventions and subvert the govern
ment. It was these things that the
philosophers and statesmen were con
templating when they gave warning
of the dangers attendant upon great
aggregations of wealth, and not at
the dogs, yachts, fast horses and fast
women of the multi-millionaires.
GOT THEM ON THE RUN
It has been privately intimated to
the editor of The Independent that
John Hay is not sick at all that is,
not sick enough to necessitate a long
absence from Washington, but that
he has been sidetracked, so to speak,
on account of tremendous pressure
brought upon McKinley by a large
number of eastern republicans who see
disaster ahead on account of Hay's
pro-English proclivities. Hay was re
sponsible for the treaty that gave the
control of the Nicaragua canal to Eng
land and was so rank that it could
not be got through the repuDiican sen
ate; he gave England a great slice of
Alaska; he negotiated the proceedings
that made it impossible for any Eu
ropean power to interfere on behalf
of the Boers and was tailing along
after the English diplomats in the
China affair all of which finally
raised "a rebellion in the republican
ranks and it was decided that it was
t
time for Hay to get " sick and leave
Washington for a while, so that a
change in the program could be ef
fected. As soon as Hay was out of the way
a somewhat new policy was adopted
and Secretary Root took the lead. He
went over and affiliated with Russia
instead of England and proposed to
adopt the Russian policy in China" in
stead of the English. The Hay policy
was denounced by the Irish-Americans,
the Germans and many of the
ol.i line republicans and was threat
ening the very existence of the ad
ministration. About the same time
Hanna ordered the suppression of the
republican campaign book that had
been prepared at great expense, the
chief - feature of which was the ad
vocacy of imperialism. The fusion
forces have the whole crowd on the
run.
ON A NEW TACK
Since Mark Hanna suppressed the
republican campaign book so labor
iously prepared and which was ex
pected to furnish the material that
should make up most of the speeches
of the republican spell-binders, it has
been necessary to send out something
that will take its place. The commit
tee has tried its hand on the financial
question and is sending out arguments
which it is expected the orators will
make immediately available on the
money question. The populists hail
this new departure with delight. Here
is a sample:
"To be a measure of , value, money
must itself possess value, just as a
measure of lehgth must itself have
length to measure length, and a meas
ure of weight must have weight 'to
measure weight.
"If a yardstick had no length we
could not use it to measure cloth with,
and if a pound weight had no weight,
we coxild not weigh anything with it.
In the same way, if a dollar had no
value a million dollars would be worth
no more than one and no one would
accept a million of them in payment
for his commodity any more willingly
than he would one."
Now there is the old thing again. It
would not fool an average mullet
head after all that has been said and
written about value. They have too
often been asked to perform the opera
tion of "measuring a value." One can
take a pound weight and with it and
a pair of scales can measure the weight
of wheat or corn. But can he take a
UlU uuiiai CLiAii v itu ib incaoui
value of the wheat or corn? He can
take a yard stick and measure off ten
yards of cloth, but can he take an
ounce of gold, either coined or un
coined, and with it measure the value
of that cloth? There isn't a mullet
head in the state of Nebraska who
could be made to believe such a thing.
The men whose votes can be controlled
by such reasoning as that must all
live in the eastern states. There may
be one or two mullet heads still liv
ing in the state of Nebraska who be
lieve that a value can be measured, but
we doubt it. They have all learned that
values are estimated that men arrive
at the value of a thing by a mental
operation. When the value of a horse
is under consideration, they don't try
to arrive at its value by the use of a
yard ttick, a pound weight or a piece
of gold. They go to work, look him
over and make an estimate of his
value. They are such idiots down in
Wall street that they can't yet tell
what value is.
THE PHILIPPINE PIRATES
In all the history or government
since there has been any authentic rec
ords, the appointment of office-holders
from distant parts to govern a people
has resulted in oppression and ex
ploitation. That was true of the an
cient governors sent out from Rome
and it was true when the republican
party sent carpet-baggers to rule the
southern states after the war. What
awaits us in the Philippines if the re
publicans succeed in this election and
are given a free hand, it is impossible
to say. One thing seems certain. With
a vote of popular confidence behind
them and an open field for exploita
tion before them, there is not a ring
of thieves in the whole United States
that will not have a share of the boo
dle wrung from the helpless Filipinos.
The president has already had placed
WILLIE AND
Yes, Willie, Nursie has had to
together too much noise lately."
by a republican congress $80,000,000
in his confidential fund and or which
he makes no detailed account. Be
sides that, there will be 10,000,000 help
less people to loot a people who have
no vote and no voice in our national
congress and whom no politician will
have to fear. The loot of the old
Indian ring and of the carpet-baggers,
will be as a speck on the horizon in
comparison to what the Mark Hanna
pirates will gather in.
WHAT THE TRUSTS DID'
The trusts knocked the bottom out
of contracting and a great many con
tractors have thrown up their con
tracts, forfeited their bonds and gone
into bankruptcy. A great many large
contracts were made just before the
trusts raised the price of all building
and railroad material. The rise in
the price of material and the cost of
living for the men engaged on the
jobs ha& produced ruin by the whole
sale among that class of men. The
great dailies say nothing about that;
but the losses and distress among that
class of people has been very great.
They are just beginning to find out
that it was the trusts that hit them.
The Independent knows of one con
tractor who took the job of building
about 600 miles of wire fence for a
railroad company that had to refence
its line, and made the contract on the
base of the cost before the trust raised
the price of wire. Any one can see
why that contractor forfeited his bonds
and went into bankruptcy. So it has
been in many other lines. The raise
in the cost of the material has bene
fitted no one but the trusts. They
have made millions, while the men of
enterprise have lost their all and have
to begin life over again.
HARDY'S COLUMN
Grant and Roosevelt Scared Not
Strange Don't Dare to Quote Him
self Unsoui. c- 3 room Corn Lan
caster Population Only Ar
gument Our SVdU
When Grant and Conklin started
out, just after Garfield was nominated,
there seemed a wave of popularity
and certainty to follow them. Not so
with Roosevelt and Foraker. The
wave seems to run the other way."
Now the McKinley men are half
scared to death. They fear Bryan will
be elected and he will tear their new
money law all in pieces and certainly
he won't burn all the greenbacks and
melt up the silver dollars as McKin
ley calculates to do if re-elected.
Nothing strange that many of the
old soldiers should vote for McKinley
and the gold standard. Most of them
draw pensions, a given number of dol
lars. The more valuable the dollars,
that is, the greater the purchasing
power, the more valuable the pension.
But the old soldier and colored voters
are not as solid for McKinley as some
would represent. More than half a
score within our own acquaintance
have turned. They don't mouth very
much, but privately admit it.
The president and the republican
speakers are very glib in quoting what
Bryan said about silver ten years ago.
Why do they not quote what Congress
man McKinley said at that time about
silver. He was as strong a silver man
as Bryan then. If silver is unsound
money republicans made it such.
If silver is unsound money the re
publicans made it unsound, for when
they came into power, and upto 1873,
the American silver 'dollar was worth
three cents more than the gold dollar
anywhere in the world. Now all Bry
an wants is to put money back where
it was and leave it there. There are
other things this government has deme
that should be undone. Corporations
have been granted certain powers and
immunities not accorded to individuals
or partners. They won't let an indi
vidual start a national bank. Deposi
HIS PAPA.
sit on Teddy,
He has been making ai-
tors should be secure as well as bill
holder. It appears the broom corn trust has
got a large quantity of two hundred
dollar-broom corn on hand. When
brooms are fifty cents apiece thnro
are not near as many bought. People
make the old ones last longer. There
is every indication that this year's
crop will be so big that to corner it
will be impossible. So the trust fel
lows begin to talk about failure of
the crop in the best broom corn dis
tricts, and advise the farmers to hold
on for a big price All this is ; done to
keep the market clear of, new corn
till they sell their old, then down will
go the price. A corner on broomti is
much like a corner on ice, it can be
easily knocked out in a single year
with no cost and no loss. Any boy or
girl can learn to make brooms in an
hour. Any farmer can cut a load of
ice and cover it up with chaff and
straw.
If the population of Lancaster coun
ty should fall below 70,000, there will
be a big cut in county expenses. The
taxpayers will not complain at that.
If the legislature should be a major
ity republican, the first thing they
will do will -"be to .pass a law-raising
the salaries again to where they are
now or higher.
If the republicans should happen to
elect their banker for governor in
place of Farmer Poynter, the first
thing he will do will be to pardon Jon
Bartley and let him out of the peni
tentiary. Then what lots of fun he
will have spending the half million
he stole from the taxpayers of the
state. If he is kept shut up he will
not get a chance to steal again and
tHat will be too bad. If you want him
out vote the republican ticket.
The republicans have stretched a
wire screen banner across O street
near Twelfth, on which appears the
portrait .of McKinley and Roosevelt,
between a full jdinner pail containing
Mark Hanna it is supposed. Just one
meal, one dinner pail full, is all the
laboring man deserves, according to
that banner; the trusts and corpora
tions and banking millionaires must
have all the rest. They should not. be
allowed to own their own homes. They
should not be allowed to own any
property or the rich fellows could not
exercise proper restraint over them.
Our state fair was a grand success.
The exhibit was good, the attendance
was good and the weather was good.
Most of the exhibits were useful and
much profit to be gained from them,
while others were ornamental and tstill
others foolish. The fish exhibit and
the money expended in fish culture is
all foolishness.- Only certain kinds of
fish will live in certain waters. A trout
can no more live in the Missouri than
a white boar can live in tophet. We
never have heard of a single new
fangled fish being caught in the state.
Ten or fifteen thousand dollars have
been annually expended just foolish
ly. Half that, money expended in
planting the right kinds of poultry
would have left a mark. The poultry
exhibit was fine. A little too much
foolishness was exhibited there. A
hen not larger than your fist Is only
a wad of foolishness. The tendency
is toward fancy plumage too much.
Eggs, and chicken pic should be the
ruling motive. There are several var
ieties of-hens between which there is
no great difference. Then there are
some too large and some too small.
Three or four hen speeches each day
would do more good than anything
else, so of hogs, cattle and horses. Just
the exhibit is not enough, an explana
tion should be given. It takes a long
while to learn how to manage even
a hen by experience, so of bees and
almost everything else on a farm. If
you could go on to a man's farm and
stay a whole year you could see why
he succeeds. A change of grains and
grapes, a mixture of breeds in stock
and poultry, will surely work an im
provement. There was one tittle ten-cent fraud
tolerated on the fair grounds this year.
A poor deformed idiot exhibited a,s a
wild girl of Australia. She may have
been born in that country, -but she
is no more a wild girl than Teddy is
a wild man. They are both a little
foolish, that Is all. We saw no signs
of gambling or selling of intoxicating .
liquor. A grand change from Omaha.
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