February 14, IDOL
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT.
I'SC PR- BULL'S COUCH 6YRTP AT
er tor brom-iaU s4 trippe. It nas
rr4 the tet id i portlveIy a re
tit!e remexfy. Life I too short to ex
trtstfti rew co-called vr
tre Bali Couch Syrup cots but
CtS!".
Yon cms freight by oniric;
from .. A lre supply always on
LsM. r.d a trial will convince you
thst tt7 are tfcept and beat. Maty
Improve sect. iend for oar free
eat&krue. A4ir-a.
leajit y.rc co its so. nth tu
Ocuta, Nh.
Black Locust, tloecy Locust and Cat
fps f race Post.
I tT for al J.ttfiO Black Locutt.
Hsey Loest f d Cats.Jp fence post.
Cta!;a rtiarar: to be at 4 arable as
flM C4r. Ii:-t ftt long, round
pOI0. ratrisf la diameter from 2 o
llOirf. W. Ft' UN AS. Browsrill. Ntb
MitMmi WMITKARTKMOKE EEt
ficta 19 yesr iprien in rai
St ttrta fa Ne&r.k 1 Cad them oo
ti the rsret nop and b-althim
Ir jc f ooi os ran rie. aa well aa tilt
rfe-f-r-ft- Te toe So the fcarret!c?.
For jjirticttlars and price ddres.
EO. A- ARNOLD. lUydoa. ILeipa
StZJUGlA HARM
TJwwib brM asd fdigrl Cwl
fitiior x.S si;. Stock from the bert
Liood lis-, include Champion Fh
ods imported. Lord Banbury, Ixrd
Britaia. Tiko. N"oepr-ll and otters.
Ivtre br - d''- for taie.
Alo jcaii track asd 4o-s old enou-h
to tr-vj ty Ii,ol Fsj-hoda. score irt,
Ka cf Cb FAt-hod sd data l-7 Lord
Hn'aT. Prir low for tie quality.
ItOYAL BABBITRY, Hoidrese. Ntb.
TAf Ai ik cryr?rrio.
Several conres.i!o3 have bees held
4urrg this witter is tie ttate by oS
er house .lar1s ire paid by taxa
tion. Tfcere wire tie thriZf, lb
coaty trsrSAnrers, the county com
nitstosm. atd mhr. Tfc object cf
erery o&e of ti c-oarertlons was ti
etlM ways asd cctci to increase the
salaries ad emoluments of those tak
ing j-rt. fcits of course meant an
iaerea is taxation, whether directly
by aa ascent epos property or ty
tes. There has never been a conven
tion of taxpayers In this state and The
ld"penfeEt tujryerui that one should
be held. It wccld at leait result in
iwors tally s-dwl f-ducatioa of tax
jayrs and perhspa might increase
their salaries by Lav leg less taxes to
Py. It is safe to say tht cot on
tax payer ia a thousand Las any idfa
cf hat the cione-y he pays ia taxes it
eip-d-d for. If one of them is atkel
the question, the puzzled look that
(CCi lcto his face shows that it is
'HSEftUse that .cever occurred to his
mind before. He is cn measurably
aktoiifhed hn inform-d that half
cf the taxs t pay are expended f"r
charitable purposes. But surh is the
truth. The total appropriations of the
Ut ;.latcre mere IZ'jIJSTZ ). Of
this Jl.US'W.ti were for charity, aa
folSow:
Hctre for ti f j lecdlesa ... $ Z2 C0
Hot pita!. itLSne, IJscoia.. lr) 0-'
Hospital, insane. Haatlncs. tr5.M0 10
Hotp'tal. inc. Norfolk. 115)00
ledutt. school. Kearney... 13
induit. school. GeceT.... w.IJOW
I nit. ceil. Omaha ..... HCwi 00
Intt. feeble-mind'-d youth. irt.IC'2 C3
IrT. t!:nd
Indut home. Milford 1 C0
H, and S. home. Gr. Isl . 54.?TOOO
S. and S. home. Milford... ST.4T4 2".
State penitentiary.. STSOOO
Total 1 1 .irS.S&0 4 4
The appropriations for purposes cf
s.oterrmrt were $1.4C2,T&3.15. It will
be seen that the cost of charity to te
taxpayers of the state was almost
equal to the whole cost of government.
Now this is a tremendous burden to
be borne by the hard working people
cf this state. Worse than that, the
dependent classes constantly increase
ia greater ratio than population ia
rree. The burden jrows heavier
ard heavier etery year. While the
t fit-e-holders are holding conventions
to increase taxation, there is another
f-.rte at work terdirg to increase it
GAGE COUNTY NURSERIES OFFER
AT VERY REASONABLE PRICES
20,000 Cfcsrry Trees,
50,000 A;;Iz Tress,
30,003 ?iitb Tries.
k4 mka'J frm-t.? 1 foret
J. A. CAGE, Beatrice, Neb.
HIDES.
S. J. DOBSON & Co,
tltlS. RES. TALL0 150 V00L
Witchmakcr, Set tler 6c Engraver
1211 O STREET.
Jsie W CWk. Jw&rr, Zi.
tit-. rrr-i:w tim sjt 4.at igtktm
I -am fra.
Wk E,- wt t-r" j ttic4 Sat.
DR. REY80L0S
C'fLre, Burr Bkrk, rooms 17-1?. Ttl
5 tc.4t dJL. Uff lor rs. 10 sl in. ia 12
2 to & r ex. ts?rdsy 3 ta 2t
Satcsmcn j.i r-b!.
T Car Cold la ne Iay.
Taka Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab
lets. All druggists refund the money
If It fails to cure., E.W. Grove's sig
nature ia on each box. 25c -
Alfalfa Seed.
Grown la KX In the heart of the al
falfa country, clean and free from Rus
sian thistle and other foul seed. Sat
isfaction guaranteed and prices reason
able. Samples sent. Low prices on
carload lots. . GEO. B. YOUNG.
Long Island, Kas.
Sweet Potatoes, i
Sent out to be sprouted on SHARES.
No experience required. Directions for
iprouting FREE with order.
T. J. SKINNER, Columbus. Kas.
Earf Java Spring Wheat
New variety matures four to ten
days earlier than other varieties and
yields larger. Tested at the Iowa agri
cultural college, on the Wallace farms,
and by others with above results. Un
doubtedly the best wheat on the mar
ket. Seed for sale.
PRICE, $1.00 PER BUSHEL.
Cash with order. Lincoln Oats. 50c
per bushel. Write at once, as the sup
ply will not last long.
C. P. MORTON, Union, Nbe.
OPTICAL GOODS.
The Western Optical and Electrical
Co.. located at 131 North 11th street, is
composed of old citizens and thorough
ly acquainted with the business, hav
ing fitted eyes for twenty-five years.
Ortainly they ought to be competent
to do good work. They are perma
nently located with us and that means
much to the purchaser of eye glasses
and spectacles.
Our advertisers are reliable.
still faster. If it goes on at the rate
that has been established during the
last tea years, the self-supporting citi
zen will have the life and ambition
squeezed out of blm. HIa burden will
become so great that he cannot carry
It.
Would it not be well for the tax
payers convention to take into con
sideration this problem: Cannot the
Increase la the dependent classes be
stopped? Here is a wide field for
thought and discussion. It covers
economics, sociology, penalogy, ethics,
psychology, religion, morals, educa
tion, medicine, philanthropy and many
other things. The cutting down of an
officer's salary here and there, the re
ducing of the wages of some attendant
at an asylum, is not going to material
ly reduce taxation. The plan must be
broader than that. A taxpayers' con
vention would not lack subjects for
discussion.
If what Lincoln said had truth in It
when he declared J. hat no man was
good enough to govern another man
without his consent, how much more
so Is the statement that no race is
good enough to govern another race
without its consent. That is just what
McKinley proposes to do. He would
send one race 7,000 miles over the
sea to govern another race of whose
language and customs it is entirely
ignorant. Carpet-baggers sent from
the north tc govern men of the same
race In the south made a complete
failure of the attempt. Carpet-baggers
sent to the Philippines will make a
still worse job of it.
The sympathy of the American peo
ple is as much concerned for the peo
ple of Great Britain as with the Boers.
It Is not them that we have any 111
feeling for. but for the aristocrats and
jingoes who have captured the govern
ment. In a private letter recently re
ceived from & lady in Scotland, whose
son Is serving as a physician in South
Africa, the following excerpt is made:
""We are all In great trouble now
over the illness of our beloved queen.
If we only could add a few years to
her life! What a pity that this miser
able war should have happened. I am
sure that during her lifetime she pre
vented many wars and In the end this
war has killed her. Alexander has
been from Cape Town to Ceylon with
the Boer prisoners. He took General
VI RT UAH A jsHii
taeoTEvn
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CAfJCER CURED
V1TH, SOOTHING, BALM OILS
CTr.Tcmcr. Ctrrh. rital.Ulrr tod til
cta nmi U'eaklnmw, Wriif(r illiMtrid book.
Sstfr. lHilrwUK.BTE.HuuantT.il.
Cancers r
urecl .nd
from cancer? DILT. O'CONNOR cures
cancers, tumors, and wens; no knife,
blood or planter. Address 130G O street,
Lincoln. NeKmUcs.
Pmata Hcspitai-Ur. Shoemaker's
If you are going to a Hospital for
treatment, it will pay you to consult
Dr. Shoemaker. He makes a specialty
f diseases of women, the nervous sys
tem and all surgical diseases, lilt L
St.. Lincoln, Neb. P. O. box 931.
U J. THORP & CO.
General Machinists.
Biritc of ail kinds
Soct i-waktr. t.
SI. Rubber Stamp, . Sttncili, Checks, Etc.
jo8 So. nth St., Lincoln, Neb.
Oliver and his three sons and a great
many Boer or Free State officials. Be
fore the Boers left the ship they got up
a' testimonial and signed it, in which
they thanked him for hi3 kindness and
courtesy, saying when the war was
over they would give him the best post
in South Africa if he would come to
their country. He returned to Durbaa
from Ceylon and there it is so hot that
the thermometer is above. 110 in the
shade at noon and in the evening as
low as 58. Then a heavy dew falls
and Alexander got the rheumatism
very bad. After he got well again he
took the dysentery."
A postscript states that she has just
received a cablegram saying that her
son has been so disabled by sickness
that he has been ordered home. This
young man is a distinguished physi
cian, and if with all his professional
knowledge has broken down in
health, what must be the fate of thou
sands of English private soldiers? In
these things we sympathize with the
English people, while we denounce Jce
Chamberlain.
There are some things about the line
that divides the winter wheat area
from that of the spring wheat in Ne
braska that no farmer can find out and
the experiment stations do not yet
seem to have discovered what makes
the division line so sharp. North of
a certain line in Nebraska,' winter
wheat does not succeed, but why? The
great . wheat raising region is in the
southern part of the state and it is
winter wheat. There were 590,575
acres more of winter wheat raised in
the state last year than the year be
fore and just that much less spring
wheat. The corn crop was one of the
four largest ever raised and the oats
crop has only been exceeded once. Re
gardless of the benign influence of
President McKinley, there is here the
basis of the better times. You can't
make a republican believe-it, however.
BEWARE OF OINTMENTS FOR
CATARRH THAT CONTAIN
MERCURY,
as mercury will surely destroy the
sense of smell and completely derange
the whole system when entering it
through the mucous surfaces. Such ar
ticles should never be used except on
prescriptions from reputable physi
cians, as the damage they will do is
ten fold to the good you can possibly
derive from them. Hall's Catarrh
Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney &
Co., Toledo, O., contains no mercury,
and is taken internally, acting direct
ly upon the blood and mucuous sur
faces of the system. In buying Hall's
Catarrh Cure be sure you get the gen
uine. It is taken internally, and made
in Toledo. O., by F. J. Cheney & Co.
Testimonials free. ' -
Sold by druggists, price 75c par
bottle.
Hall's Family Pills are the best.
WHAT WILL WE DO
Cleveland Hill Democracy and Bryan Re
form Will Not Mix and There la no
Use of Trying to Make Them.
Editor Independent: We think your
editorial in last week's issue, Jan. 31,
under the heading "What Will You
Do?" is both pertinent and opportune.
There is no doubt but that the Bryan
forces were betrayed in the "house of
their friends" last fall. The Cleveland
democrats came to Bryan ,Judas-like
saying, "Hail, master," and kissed him
and then betrayed him into the hand'i
of his enemies. We are satisfied that
we might as well try to mix oil and
water as to try to get a Cleveland dem
ocrat to mix with a Bryan democrat,
silver republican or populist. Then,
that pertinent question bobs up, what
will you do? We will tell what we will
do: we will have no more to do with
Tammany Hall Dave Hill and such ilk,
and if it were not for the fact that you
might as well hit a democrat on the
pupil of the eye as to propose to him
to drop his party name. We would be
in favor of all the reform forces get
ting together under one name. We are
as zealous an advocate of Jeffersonian
principles as any democrat, but if any
party gets out of the footsteps of its
fathers we do not propose to follow
for the sake of the name from the fact
that we arfe in favor of principle rather
than party a rose by any other name
will smell just as sweet.
Again, as you say, what's in a name?
The republican leaders are adepts in
the art of coining successful catch
phrases, such as protection, reciproc
ity, honest money, "a dollar worth a
hundred cents the world over, " crim
inal aggression and benevolent assim
mila'tion, maintaining the parity and
all such rot. Again we agree with you,
Mr. Editor, that the present Nebraska
redeemers now in session at Lincoln
will pass a law to prevent fusion in
this state. Then what will the Bryan
democrats, silver republicans and pop
ulists do? Will we have three tickets
in the field and meet defeat, or will we
put party to one side and vote for
principles, which will it be? We
would be glad to hear from others on
this we think, very Important sub
ject. WM. STEELE.
Hampton, Neb.
Spread the Light
Editor Independent: Enclosed you
will find one dollar. Please send to
my address your paper for three
months and the Commoner for one
year as advertised. I very much ad
mire the sentiments set forth in the
sample copy, of your paper which I
received and God grant that you may
long live to spread the light and help
In the education of the people of Am
erica at least all those who will heed
the dictates of reason. As to the au
thor of the Commoner, his name and
fame is world-wide, a leader of lead
ers, whose name will shine with a lus
tre as long as history is read, I give
him my best wishes as well as for your
paper. J. W. ROOT.
Londonville, O.
Current Comment
Th 5 Chinese question -has not occu
pied as much of the attention of the
public as usual for the last few days.
The papers will devote columns of
space to a little fight, but to the real
questions involving statesmanship and
a knowledge of the facts and condi
tions cf China, but little space is given.
However, information continues to ar
rive in private letters. Such letters
are being printed "in France, England
and America In considerable numbers.
On the facts they all agree. The cruel
ty and looting of all the "Christian"
armies has been equal to the most hor
rible things recorded in history. The
most costly Chinese works of art, loot
taken at the capture of Pekin, is being
displayed in the houses of the rich , in
Washington and every European capi
tal. Members of Christian churches in
Washington display these stolen goous
to their friends without the lea?" -gree
of shame. When tis .con d .''""
of affairs exists in Washington, when
pretended Christians will receive and
display stolen goods, when the thing
has become so common as hardly to
occasion remark, is it any wonder that
The Independent feels called upon oc
casionally .to write an article upon de
generacy in what is called the higher
classes. When even ministers of tha
gospel will receive stolen goods, know
ing them to be stolen, display them in
the most prominent places in their
residence, is there any doubt of the
apostacy of such men and a degeneracy
among the rich such as has never been
seen in modern times? '
Bishop Favier has been charged be
fore the international government here
with having taken . - property worth
$700,000 from the house of Lu Sen, the
minister of foreign affairs, who was
executed by order of the Empress Do
wager because of his friendliness to
the foreigners. " The family of the dead
minister make the accusation, and de
clare the money and valuables are now
in the possession of Herbert G. Squires
the first secretary of the. American le
gation, and are about to be shipped out
of the country. Bishop Favier is now
in France. The formal charge says
the valuables were taken the day af
ter the siege of Pekin was raised.
Besides the military looters there
were hundreds of civilians engaged in
the same horrible work. A regular
organization of thieves was formed.
A recent cablegram announces that the
league of civilian looters of all na
tionalities has been disrupted by dif
ferences which have arisen over the
division of the spoils, and there now
seems to be a chance for honest men,
including the Chinese, to get their
dues. Then it adds as ', a conclusion,
these significant words: "If only one
tenth of the charges of murder, as
sault and robbery against the foreign
ers are substantiated, as there is much
reason to believe they, will be; Chris
tendom will have cause to blush for
shame."
The senate backslide during the last
week forsook the advice 'that The In
dependent has given notnto make fac
tious opposition to republican plans
of legislation. The republicans were
pushing Mark Hanna's subsidy bill
with all their power and night ses
sions were ordered. To this the minor
ity members were opposed and they re
fused to discuss the question when
they got together at the evening ses
sions. Some pages of "the Congres
sional Record read like extracts from
a comic opera. During one whole ev
ening the subject of ships was never
mentioned, but once and subsidies not
at all. Several republicans took a
hand in the business who were op
posed to Hanna's steal and altogether
the senate had a jolly time. Frye and
Hanna had to give up the job and it
is now declared by all the Washington
correspondents that the subsidy bill
has been killed. The Independent does
not believe a word of it. It will bob
up again at some more convenient
time and go through with a rush.
It seems that the president has no
notion of giving up the Idea of an
nexing Cuba. Every sort of a scheme
is being worked to bring the island
under the jurisdiction of the United
States. General Wood was ordered to
make representations to the Cuban
constitutional convention that the
United States would expect that Cuba
should provide for three coaling sta
tions, a control over Cuba's foreign re
lations, Cuban debts and some other
things of the same sort. General
Wood performed the duty, but the
convention took no notice of it. If an
attempt is made to annex Cuba in that
way or In any other way, we will have
another war on our hands.
Whatever congress or the president
may do about Cuba, the banks and
trust companies intend to be in on the
ground floor. The National bank of
Cuba, has been incorporated with a
capital of $1,000,000. The officers are
residents of Havana, and all the di
rectors are connected with the North
American Trust company.
The news from the Philippines, all
subject to the military censor, is to the
same effect that we have been receiv
ing for the last two years. The Phil
ippines are being "pacified" and soon
all will be peace and happiness in
those unlucky islands under the benign
influence of McKinley and his benev
olent assimilation. Any one is at lib
erty to believe as much of it as ha
wishes to. As for The Independent it
has no more faith in these stories
than those of the same sort that we
have been receiving ever since the war
began. The dispatches say that Mac
Arthur is arresting thousands of Fili
pinos and confining them in the jails.
All the prisons of every sort are over
flowing, just as they used to be when
the Spaniards tried to rule the islands.
Every move that the military author
ities have made is e xactly along the.
lines adopted by the old Spanish sa
traps and the calling f it "benevolent
assimilation" does not change the
facts in the least.
' .
The army bill now being a law, re
cruiting stations are being opened ail
over the United States asking for men
to go to the Philippines. The daily
papers make no reports of what suc
cess is attending this effort to get
recruits to an army of subjugation.
There was a station opened In Lincoln
and an officer., was here to enlist re
cruits for several days. Then he shut
up shop and went away. A searching
inquiry as to his success revealed the
fact that his, mission was a failure. It
was reported by those who were
around the station that he did not get
a single recruit. Another declared
that two men presented . themselves
and were sent to Omaha for medical
examination. At any rate the thins
was entirely different from what oc
curred when enlistments were opened
for men to fight to free Cuba. This Is
a proposition of another kind.
In a discussion in the house the
other day Congressman McClellan
submitted figures to show the cost of
maintaining a soldier in the United
States. He is especially qualified to
make an Investigation along that line
having given much time for years to
military matters. According to his
figures, Including the cost of pensions,
etc., each United States soldier in
volved an annual expense of $2,S2S. It
has long been conceded by all the au
thorities that the cost of maintaining
a soldier In the United States in times
of peace excluding pensions was $1,000.
When we come to add to it the trans
portation of men 10,000 miles and their
supplies, when we think of the addi
tional cost from a tropic climate and
sickness incident to it, the constantly
increasing pension roll, the war ma
terial that is used and destroyed, it
will be seen that Mr. McClelland's fig
ures are more likely to be too small
than too large. It therefore follows
that with an army of 100,000 men the
expenses will be $282,800,000, exclud
ing the navy, for military expenditures
for every year that we keep such an
army in service. That addition to our
already heavy taxation will be felt in
a very serious way by every citizen of
the United States. That is only part
of the "white man's burden" that has
been inflicted upon us by this mad
rush toward imperialism and "world
power." Glory comes high. Is it worth
the money?
The wholesale arrests and imprison
ments in the Philippines includes
numbers of perfectly innocent people.
That is not denied by the authorities
themselves for the military censor al
lowed the following cablegram to
come through: "The campaign of ar
rests in Manila and vicinity which be
gan after the issuance of General Mac
Arthur's proclamation is being
pushed with extraordinary vigor. The
prisons were daily- becoming more
crowded and an additional one is be
ing built on Subig bay. Mistakes are
made, of course, by the police and sol
diers and the detectives of the pro
vost marshal's department, and harsh
criticisms are sometimes heard on the
injustice of taking in men on flimsy
evidence. American civilians say it
Is impolitic to arrest friends, neigh
bors and relatives of prominent na
tive amigos because it - turns senti
ments of friendship to those of bitter
ness and revenge."
The affairs in South Africa continue
in the same old way. There is con
tinual fighting, more or less severe.
Dewet's maneuvering is still an enigma
to the English. Very often it , is -reported
that they have him cornered
and then the next day he turns up
somewhere else. The Boers continue
to capture stores in large amounts and
prisoners in considerable numbers.
What stores they can use, they carry
away, the rest they destroy and the
prisoners they turn loose. There has
been a good many telegrams to the ef
fect that the British government was
about ready to offer some terms of
peace, but they have been as emphat
ically denied by others. Thirty thou
sand more troops have been ordered to
South Africa. The British army has
been greatly depleted by sickness and
exposure. Horses have become scarce
again, for the imported horse does not
last long. Altogether our British cou
sins are having about as much trouble
with their imperialism as we are. It
is a sorry business for both of us.
A resolution looking toward media
tion in the Boer w-ar was unanimously
adopted by the Belgian chamber of
deputies. A petition asking Belgium
to propose arbitration between Great
Britain and the Boers was debated at
some length. After the debate the res
olution was adopted by a unanimous
vote. It has been hinted in some quar
ters that this was done at the instiga
tion of the British government, but of
the assertion there is no proof.
Hon. Samuel Maxwell, ex-congressman
and ex-judge, died suddenly at
his home in Fremont last Monday of
heart disease. Judge Maxwell was
feeling as well an usual and had just
completed attending to his furnace
when tricken. He was 76 years of
age.
The attention of our readers is called
to the many attractive advertisements
in this issue. If you are in need of
merchandise of any kind, farm imple
ments, seed, grain, clothing, dry goods,
anything, it will pay you to look over
the advertisements in this paper care
fully and buy where you can get the
most for your money. When answer
ing advertisements always mentioa
The Independent. Should any of our
advertisers fail to comply with their
advertised offers write this office and
we will see that they do so and make
proper amends. We do not intention
ally advertise for any fraudulent con
cern. Why not invite your neighbor to
subscribe for The Independent? It's
cheap at one dollar a year.
Artichokes
Editor Independent: I wish to say
that I have just sold a carload of
shoats which averaged 200 pounds for
$825, which had the run of my arti
choke field two months in the late fall
and early winter. I only fed them full
feed corn for about six weeks. If it
had not been for my artichokes I
would have been forced to sell them
early in the fall on account of a very
short crop of corn here. I am satisfied
that my artichokes were worth from
$25 to $30 to me right where they grew
as hog feed. GEO. A. ARNOLD.
Haydon, Neb.
j
100 Black Percherons, Clydes, Shires, Coachers
Imported and home bred registered stallions and mares, "2 to 6 years old, weight 1,600 to 2,400
pounds, 95 per cent blacks. lams has more thick, ton, black Percherons; more Royal bred, gov
ernment "approved and stamped" stallions; more Paris and Omaha Exposition and State Fair
winners; more stallions to suit you and big bargains than all importors of lowd or Nebraska,
lams speaks French, knows breeders of La Perche. This, with 20 years' experience, saves him
$300.00 on each stallion bought in France, and gets the "tops" irrespective of cost. He will save
you $500.00 on a stallion, because he has no high-priced salesmen or buyers, no 2 to 10 partners
to share profits, and saves you the middle man's and company's organizer's profits by buying di
rect from lams' barns. Don't be a clam. Write or telephone lama and get an eye-opener.
FRANK JAM
HARDY'S COLUMN
Queen and Presidents Kansas Run
of Story Not Specks Nickel Plate
to Buffalo Stanford University
Teaching It Means Something
They Will Hist Themselves Head
Off Bad Look Plea for a Gardener
Hunting.
Since Victoria was crowned queen
of England the United States has
elected twelve presidents and four vice
presidents have taken the office on
the death of four presidents.
The fusion party in Kansas promised
the liquor dealers- a hundred saloons
and got in; the republicans promised
them a thousand and they got in. .
The criticism of the Cincinnati
Times-Star of Bryan's use of Noah
Webster's definition reminds us of the
man who found a dictionary and com
menced to read. The next day he met
a neighbor and told him he found a
book and had tried to read it, but
could not get the run of the story at
all.
We have wished, urged and prayed
in our hat that the Journal's poet
would have less , to say about black
pigs and spotted cows. Why does he
not say something about the black
record or iiieiarty leaders, up at the
state house ana A' penitentiary?
He can find chunks of repubiiCir. rec
ord blacker than any boar pig that
ever squealed in Nebraska. Then look
at the spots on his party leaders, there
is the street light spot, the gas plant
spot, the war office strut spot, the pen
itentiary stone spot, the asylum coal
spot and so on; more spots than can
be put on to one cow and they are not
specks either." ' -
Many people living west of Chicago
will undoubtedly visit the Pan-American
exposition at Buffalo. N. Y., this
summer. Our last trip from Chicago
to Buffalo was over the Nickel Plate
road and a more enjoyable trip be
tween the two cities we never had.
Everything was smooth and quiet, no
crowd or jam. It may be a second clas
road for amount of business, but it is
a first class read for comfort. Then
the charges are less. You can ride
from one city to the other and return
and save several dol'.ars.
The talk about the Stanford uni
versity is still kept up. It is hard for
some people to see why the person
who furnishes the money should have
any right to dictate how it should be
spent. Let one of tho teachers at the
Wesleyan university manifest his be
lief in Calvinism and the Methodist
who furnishes the money would with
hold it at once and yet the same teach
er would be welcomed at any Presby
terian or Baptist school. We still
think the woman who furnishes all
the money has some right to dictate
what shall be taught. If we were fur
nishing the money to run a school
there would be no goldbugism, tariff
protectionism or ' imperialism taught
with our money. All legal rights ana
protection for all and no special priv
ileges or special protection for any
would be the doctrine taught or the
school would stop.
When two such men as ex-Senator
Towne and ex-President Harrison de
liver such speeches against McKinley's
Philippine policy they mean some
thing. Both of the men were staunch
republicans only four or five years ago
and have split off tnly on new doc
trines lately set forth. There seems
to be a waiting for the supreme court
decision, should it favor, as it prob
ably will, McKinley's doctrine, the
president could establish slavery and
polygamy in the islands and nine
tenths of the republicans would swal
low It as good medicine for the heath
en. A few like - Towne and Harrisou
would break off.
Let the republicans declare through
the supreme court that the declaration
and constitution has no bearing upon
our relation with the islands, let Han
na put through his ship subsidy bill,
let congress decide that silver dollars
and greenbacks must be redeemed in
gold and retired, let the president 3ell
and deliver six hundred millions more
of gold bonds to do it, let him Increase
the standing' army to his full discre
tionary power, two hundred thousand
will probably be the limit, and it will
not require much money to hist them
in 1904.
Charles I. lost his head because he
was not willing the people should rule
England through their parliament.
McKinley's head would go the same
way if the people of the Philippine isl
ands ever got bold of him. He would
be perfectly safe in Cuba, because he
. is doing the fair thing with them. No
good reason has ever been given for
his treating the Filipinos any differ
ent from the way he is treating the
Cubans.
There is no ground for expecting
L
A ? imported mora blaek Perch erons from Francs in
1900 than all importers of Nebraska. Only man in United
States who imported all black stallions.
IAMS HORSE SHOW
At bis barns daily are 'hot propositions" to competitors
Buyers remarks: "An up-to-date horse show;" "most se-
lect and largest stallions 1 eTer saw;" "glossy beauties;"
"wide as a waon ;" "leg under every corner;" "see that
2.360-lb 3-year-old; largest and best drafter in the United
States-a ripper." "lama saved me $500.00 on a stal
, lion last year, and I bought that 2,000-lb 2-year-old today
a top-notcher." See that barn of 20 Ton' Stall ions,
and "they all look alike to me'." "lams pays freight and
fare of his buyers and sells a $2,O0O.U) Stallion at $1,000.00.
lams has on hand
I - - ...
St. Paul, Howard Co.,
Nebraska, on B. fc M.
and Union Pacific Ry,
very much good from the rule of tho
present king of England. A man who
has by vile indulgence, drinking and
gambling, involved himself in debt to
the amount of eight millions is not
worthy of the least bit of confidence.
He will undoubtedly disgrace England
as much as did the last George or last
William. If his court is not filled
with bawds, gamblers and drunkards
It will be a wonder.
Let me plead with farmers in Ne
braska for a vegetable and fruit gar
den. Take the best acre of land in
your farm near jour house. Fence it
with good board fence, one of woven
wire. would be better. Now this will
last ten or fifteen years and it is all
the extra expense needed. For two
rods next to the fence plant trees ap
ples, plums, cherries and peaches.
Then for one row next Inside plant
small fruit currants, grapes, goose
berries and raspberries. Inside of all
make your garden. Plant your seeds
in rows, not in beds, so you can culti
vate them with a horse. The fence
should be pig and chicken proof.. Next
to the garden .for good living stand
the hens and chickens. It pays many
times to coop a hen in the middle of
yoxir garden and let the little chicks
feed on bugj and worms. With your
garden fenced as it should be . your
hens can have free range. Fifty or a
hundred hens will cost but little. They
will live on what the farm should be
rid of Of course every farmer keeps
cows and has milk, cream and butter.
TIiS f?nr. .should and can live better
than any city chap.-
Much has been publisntd about our
new vice president's bear auu ' moun
tain lion hunt. We have had some HV,
tie experience in hunting those am- '
mals, but not very, much experience. in
killing. In our boyhood days three
of us built a hunter's cabin in the
woods about forty miles south of
where Salamanka now stands, up the
Tuny. We bored holes in the tops of
logs and filled them with salt. Then as
is rains during the summer the holes
would fill up and the brine run over.
Deer would gather around and lick
the logs, so we called them lick logs.
One fall, after staying all night at the
nearest house, about ten miles away,
we arrived at the cabin about noon.
Two of us took our lines and caught
a mess of trout while the third built
a fire. Toward night we all started
for the nearest lick log. We found a-
plenty of deer tracks around the log
so we all curled down behind another
big log in waiting. It was understood
that if one deer came all were to
shoot at him, if two or three, then the
right hand was to shoot the one at
the right and the left man the left.
One, two, three and all were to fire.
Just at sundown we heard something
coming through the brush, every man
was at his gun. Out came a large
brown-nosed bear, not ten rods away,
stopping broadside and began to smell.
One, two, three, and away the bear
went. We followed him till dark, then
again In the morning and found him
dead. "One bullet only took effect,
through the' kidneys. You , can hunt
bears in the Iwinter, but. you can no
more find them than you can find frogs
in the brooks they sleep the winter
away.. When in California we visited
a sheep "herder on the side of the
mountain and were told that mountain
lions often jumped out of a certain
valley of bushes and ' carried off a
sheep. After dinner we put a littla
sick sheep into the buggy with his
rifle and one . of his boys went along
to bring back the buggy.. We tied the
sheep near the bushes and climbed
upon a high rock to watch. We went
through the operation three after
noons, but saw no lions. We conclud
ed that the ocean breeze carried our
scent and the lion took warning. One
afternoon we saw two badgers at pliy
too far away for a shot. We soon saw
a large wolf approaching them and a
fight followed. We heard the wolf
yelp and then he withdrew behind a
large rock. Before dark we released
the little sheep and thought to get a
shot at the wolf, but found him deau.
The badger had severed an artery iu
his neck.
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