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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT.
. February 6,-1902,
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LIBERTY BUILDING GUARDS
Doing Valiant Work Notwithstanding the Cold and
Stormy Weather.
Last week we announced to the read
ers of The Independent the desire on
our part and the necessity for the
construction of a permanent home for
the publication of this paper. The plan
which we have adopted to accomplish
the undertaking is to sell "Liberty
Building Postals" in blocks of five for
$3.00. Each postal is good for a year's
subscription to The Independent to oe
sent to any address in the United
States or Canada. What we ask of our
friends and patrons is their co-operation
in disposing of 2,000 of these
building postals. We have made th
price low to make it easy for them to
dispose of the cards. When you ask
3'our neighbor to buy one of these
cards you are not asking him to con
tribute or donate anything. You are
in reality offering to sell him a year's
subscription to The Independent at 40
cents less than he could buy the sub
scription direct. We can afford to make
this low rate for these cards in blocks
of five for three reasons: First, we do
not have to pay an agent his wages
and traveling expenses to secure the
subscriptions. All that expense, which
is usually heavy, we avoid by this
method. Second, we will use the mon
ey to build a home for The Indepen
dent and quit paying rent which now
costs us $65 per month. Third, we
wished to make it easy for our friends
to sell the cards. Those are the plain
reasons why we are selling "Liberty
Building Subscriptions" in blocks of
five at the low figure we are. We have
been as liberal in our offer as possi
ble. It costs more money to publish
a paper devoted to the defense of tne
plain people than to publish one ad
vocating the cause of plutocracy. The
money power would gladly furnish
material to fill all our columns free of
charge if we would accept it. They
would be liberal with their advertis
ing patronage and generous to a fault
if we would indorse their legalized
robberies. That's why plutocratic
sheets cost so little. Shall we give you
that kind of a paper? Never! We
will print the truth and sell the paper
as cheaply as we can. Invite your
neighbor to try it for a year. Ask
him to compare it with the hand-me-downs
and ready made stuff furnished
him by the organs of plutocracy.
Here is the roll of Liberty Guards
and what they have done to date. Let
us ad your name to the list:
No. cards
ordered.
Wilfred Lebert, Archer Neb 5
W. E. Freeman, Cushing, Neb 5
L. E. Hallstead, Petersburg, Neb.. T
S. Hunziker. Guide Rock. Neb 5
J. W. Bray, Table Rock, Neb f
D. E. Burkey, Giltner, Neb 5
Lewis Reynolds, Union, Neb 5
J. F. Abbott, Unadilla, Neb 3
Mrs. Eliza Sowards, Ashland, Neb.. 5
J. M. Babb, Clayton, 111 5
Jas. O'Fallon, Mead, Neb...' 5
Wm. Scott, St. Paul, Neb. 5
C. J. West, St. Paul, Neb 5
Joseph Wittwer. Salem, Neb 5
C. W. Duncan, Pilger, Neb 5
D. W. Haskins, Geneva, Neb 5
Lewis Frey, Fairmont, Neb 5
L. O. Leffingwell, Frankfort, Kas.. 5
A. W. Cox, Bladen, Neb 10
B. A. Dean, Juniata, Neb
Michael Hoferer, Wamego, Kas..., 5
J. Miner, Friend, Neb ,. G
L. Brickard, Wood River, Neb C,
Total 118
THE LIBERTY BUILDING
How the Headers of the Independent Re
spond to the Call to Make This
Paper Safe
As soon as the subscribers began to
receive the last edition of The Inde
pendent they began to write for "Lib
erty Postal Cards." Nebraska sub
scribers begin to receive their Inde
pendents Saturday. The first mail
Monday morning brought numerous
answers to the call. Among them were
the following:
C. J. West, St. Paul, Neb En
closed you will find $3 for a block of
Liberty Building Postals for which
you may give credit to Mr. Wm. Scott.
We will try and get up a few more.
Mr. , Scott says that is the best pack
of cards in the United States.
L. M. Babb, Clayton, 111. Send me
a block of your Liberty Postals.
Eliza Sowards, Ashland, Neb.
Send me five subscription cards.
W. E. Freeman, Cushing, Neb. I
wish to help in the Liberty Building
plan. We need The Independent to
champion populist principles. I remit
four dollars. $1 for arrears and $3 for
a block of Liberty Building subscrip
tions. Wilfred Lebert, Archer, Neb. Please
send me block of 'Liberty Building
postals. .
L. E. Hallstead, Petersburg, Neb.
Send me one of your blocks of five
cards.
S. Hunziker, Guide Rock, Neb. Send
me a block of your Liberty Building
subscription cards. I have worked for
The Independent from its first issue
and I have seen its brave advocacy of
honest and true principles. It is sec
ond to none. -
J. W. Bray, Table Rock, Neb. Please
send me five of your cards.
D. E. Burkey, Giltner, Neb. I am
pleased to see The Independent trying
to get a home of its own, and I will
for one accept its offer, but I have not
sold my wheat yet which is all that I
have to sell this year (that was the
region of the drouth. Ed.) so if you
will send me the five postals I will
sell them and send you the money.
Linus Reynolds. Union, Neb. Sen'!
' me five subscription postals. I would
like them within two or three days.
My" father is a reader of your paper.
J. F. Abbott, Unadilla, Neb. Send
me three of your subscription cards
and I will send you $3.00.
Louis' Frey, Fairmont, Neb. Send
me five Liberty Building postal cards.
- D. W. Haskins, Geneva, Neb. Send
me five of your liberty cards. I do not
care -to make anything on them, but
I should like to see your paper read by
more people. '
C. W. Duncan, Pilger, Neb. Find
enclosed $3 for Liberty Building sub
scription cards.
Joseph Wittwer, Salem, Neb. My
' father is a reader of your paper. I
noticed the offer in your paper. Please
send me fiye cards; I think I can sell
them right in this community.
L. O. Leffingwell, Frankfort, Kas.
how you can get up so good a paper for
the price. I know of no paper that I
would exchange The Independent for.
I would be very glad to know that it
was in a home of its own and will
make every effort to get a few of my
neighbors to subscribe.
A. W. Cox, Bladen, Neb. You will
find enclosed $3.00 for five Liberty
Building subscriptions and please send
The Independent to the following per
sons. You may send me some more of
your cards and I will sell them at
least I will make the attempt.
There is money in poultry. See ad
vertisement of Sure Hatch Incubator
on page 5.
Whose Land Is It?
Editor Independent: On the out
skirts of Philadelphia is a piece of
land owned by the queen of Spain.
The tract is large enough to be used
as a truck farm and the queen's agent
lets it for this purpose. The tenant
is a free born American citizen, en
joying all the rights that go with such
citizenship. He works for a living
and works just as hard and just as
long as the average American farmer,
and he gets the same wages, too, name
ly, a bare living. What he produces
by his labor he exchanges In the mar
ket for money. Every month he takes
some of this money to the queen's
agent and pays the rent of the ground.
The agent, in turn, buys a draft on
London or Madrid, and in this way the
money finally gets into the queen's
pocket. -
Of course the result would be the
same if, instead of first converting
the produce into money he , sent her
the produce itself. Our exports would
then be Increased still more, and the
"balance of trade" would be heralded
by every republican as being "favora
ble" to the tenant, even though as a
matter of fact he gets back nothing
in exchange But that is another
story.
So far this transaction differs in no
essential particular from the thousands
of others where tenants pay rent to
landlords, and, like other cases, it
becomes significant only when we ask
ourselves what , the queen of Spain
has done -to earn this money which
our fellow citizen, sends her for . the
great privilege of working and making
a living In his native land. What
does she give him in exchange for the
money, things or - services which he
gives her? Did the queen make this
land which she claims as her property
and which the laws allow as such? If
she did, then we must admit that her
title is perfect: But the question is
absurd as applied to land. We know
that she did not; we know that the
Creator saved her this trouble. But
if her serene highness the queen did
not make the land, does she protect
her tenant in the full andfree en
joyment of it? Or does she protect
and stand guard over his life and prop
erty? No, the local, state and federal
government do this and will even col
lect the rent for, her on the tenant's
return for the services rendered her?
Study this. question as we may we can
come to but one conclusion. There
is but one answer and that is noth
ing! Literally and absolutely, noth
ing! Her so-called right to this rent
is simply a legal one; a lying device
by which the cunning may continu
ously rob the credulous; a power to
reap where she has not sown; a
scheme for getting service without
giving service; a tisne-honored wrong
which enables the do-nothing to ride
on the back of the worker.
In so far as the queen of Spain is
supported by this man's labor she is a
pauper dependent upon his, bounty..
But this . is not all. Let us suppose
that this same queen owns other tracts
of land in the United States. I do
not know whether she does or not,
but other foreigners own land here
and -there's nothing in our laws or in
stitutions to prevent her doing so. For
all we know to the contrary she may
now be the owner of such valuable
land here in the United States that
from the income derived from her ten
ants she can, if she chooses, rebuild
the whole Spanish navy. Just think
of the Spanish vessels destroyed by
our navy having been built and paid
for out of rent received from Amer
ican workers! Think of these same
Americans speaking of this land as
their country and singing national
anthems while they toil for the real
owner! In the expressive language of
the street, doesn't this jar you?
But to whom does this land right
fully belong? Who are justly entitled
to its use and all the benefits that
come from its use? The first question
asked anyone suspected of having
stolen property in his possession is,
"Where did you get it?" Applying
this , question in the present instance,
we find that the queen's title rests
finally on a grant made by an English
king to William Penn. Records don't
go back any farther, nor is it neces
sary that they should, for 'we know
where the king got the land. He took
it. The title then rests on force. How
valid is a title which rests on force?
You are stronger than your neighbor;
suppose you take his watch. Does the
power you have to keep it give you
a good title to it? Suppose you sell
the watch to someone else. Is his title
then any better than yours was? Or
does such a title grow perfect by the
lapse of time, and if so at what rate
per annum?
Now, judged by the standard we ap
ply to all other forms of property, or
tried by the maxims of common law.
it is plain that the queen of Spain
has no right whatever in this land or
to any of the benefits which come from
its use. She should therefore be dis
possessed and the land be put in pos
session of its rightful owners. Who
are its rightful owners? The whole
people always have been and always
are. They are the ones who are robbed
whenever land is made private prop
erty, and since all other titles to land
rest on the same basis as the one we
have just traced back, the verdict we
have declared against the queen of
Spain stands with equal force and jus
tice against all landlords.
"Violence, fraud, the prerogative of
force, the claims of superior cunning
these are the sources to which their
titles may be traced. The original
deeds were written with the sword
rather than with the pen; not lawyers,
but soldiers, were the conveyancers;
blows were the current coin given in
payment, and for seals blood was used
in preference to wax."
That the earth was created for all
men and that all men are equally en
titled to its use becomes more than a
mere inference when we consider the
conseauences of permitting land to be
treated as private property. For if it
be maintained that the earth rightfully
belongs to landowners, then they alone
are justly entitled to its use; all who
are not landowners are trespassers,
exist only by sufferance, and may
enuitably be expelled from the earth
altogether. This conclusion is so mon
strous that reason and conscience re
ject it. But mankind having gotten
into the dilemma it is in now by recog
nizing land as private property, (he
question arises, What is the remedy?
There is but one. Men's equal rights
to the Creator's bounty can be secured
in but one way. Let landowners re
tain possession if they choose; U.t
them continue to speak of it as their
land if they want to. but let us compel
the .n to pay for the privilege thus ac
corded them. What is the privilege
worth? Always the rental value of the
land. This the people can take in the
form of a tax, and with the amount
so raised pay the common expenses
of government. This value belongs to
the people because the land belongs
to them. It arises as the need of gov
ernment arises; it is due to the pres
ence of an industrious population and
not to anything which owners, as such,
have done; it increases with popula
tion and decreases as population de
clines; it is the natural tax and the
only one which the government can be
justified in taking. It is known as
the single tax, and when applied will,
in the language of its eloquent ex
pounder, Henry George, "raise wages,
extirpate pauperism, abolish poverty,
give remunerative employment to who
ever wishes it, afford free scope to
human powers, lessen crime, elevate
morals and taste and intelligence,
purify government and carry civiliza
tion to yet nobler heights."
If any reader of The Independent
desires to know more about the single
tax I will send him literature free on
request. C. F. SH ANDREW.
Germantown, Pa.
(The editor of The Independent
would send for some of that literature
himself if he thought he could find an
answer to a few practical questions
in it. He has read thousands of pages
of it and never yet found an answer to
them. First, if all the land in the
United States is taxed to its full rental
value, what will be done with the
innumerable millions of dollars that
such a tax would produce? It is true
that population gives most of the value
to land. Land in an uninhabited coun
try has no value. The coming of popu
lation gives it value. But it i3 popu
lation that gives value to everything
else. A man may have a herd of horse3
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easily, be made well, strong, magnetic, full of
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'"nce Wiact that
ten pounds in ten days. Over BOO.OOO
In Cloaks, Suits, Skirts,
and Waiats
We are receiving new pods every day.
New spring styles in Raglans in me
dium weight cloth, Moire, Peau de
Soie and Taffeta Silk. ,
New Peau de Soie and Taffeta Silk
Skirts. Beautiful designs and ex
clusive with us.
$ew. Walking Skirts new in style,
color, and cloth.
New silk Waists in white and; in even
ing colors.
New Brilliantine Waists in white,
button back, nice assortment, f
. upwards from
New black Taffeta Silk Waists Q
upwards from . $0
JjTew black suits in spring weights and
.Styles.
Embroideries,
Muslin Underwear, Etc.
Opening Sale of Embroideries Feb. 8 to 15
We would call your attention to
the opening of our magnificent line of
1902 embroideries, consisting of the
latest novelties in white, cream and
black edges; insertions, ribbon-beading,
bands, appliques, galloons, motives, re
vers, Swiss. Flounces in full sets, and
45-inch all-over embroidery. ,
Our Great Annual Sale of Ladies1
and Children's Under Muslin will take
place during the month and will be an
nounced shortly. Wait for it.
Yunka Black Silks Al? absolutely
ana are guaranteed
by us. Sold only at this store.
50c
85 c
NEW DRESS SILKS
We are showing an exceedingly
choice line of corded wash
Silks in fancy stripes, suit
able for waists, quality un
equaled, for
Colored satin striped grass Lin :
en, 44 inches wide, at.
A full line of best quality, velvet
Corduroy, very popular O I, I rt
now for waists, at . . . . . J j U
GRAN ITEWARE SALE
This week we will begin a Special
Sale of gray and white-lined Granite
ware high grade ware at almost man
ufacturers1 cost. Many articles can be
bought during this sale for about ONE
HALF OFF.
Cooking, pudding and milk
small cooking kettles, cups,
pie plates, worth up to 25c,
choice
Coffee and tea pots, Berlin ket
tles, regular kettles, sauce
pots, covered buckets, etc.,
worth up to 60c, choice . .
Tea kettles, slightly damaged,
only 50c and.
Dish pans, perfect grade, triple
coated, all sizes, on account of being
overstocked, at ONE-HALF OFF.
STATIONERY DEPT
Valentines.
NEW NOVELTIES IN VALENTINES, NEW
LACE VALENTINES, NEW
COMIC VALENTINES.
Our selection of these charming little rememb
rances is the best in the city. In larger and better
display than ever before we are showing the most
exquisite rnd appropriate of this season's refined
souvenirs. Our line of comic Valentines is the most
complete in the city. The additions this year are
numerous and fully up to the- standard in raciness
asd Aigor. Everything we show ,in these goods are
entirely new and of this season's purchase.
pans,
10c
25C
25C
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In Domestic Department
An After-Inventory
. . Blanket and Comfort Sale
We have divided our blankets an
comforts into different ilots each, am:
will close them out regardless of then
value. "
Blankets, Lot 1 All $3.50 tp
$5.00 blankets choice at,Q M "7
per pair. .... ... . . . . . . . ijZiT' i
Blankets, Lot 2 All $6.00 to
$8.00 blankets choice, per QJJ Q Q
pair..... OtiUO
Blankets, lot 3 All $8.50 to
$12.00 blankets choice, Q J
per pair, at UUiU U
Comforts, Lot 1 All $1.65,
$1.75 and $2.00 comforts, Q I l)Q
choice, each U I iZ U
Comforts, Lot 2 All $2.25,
$2.35 and $2.65 comforts, Q I
choice, each U I "0 u
Comforts, Lot 3 All $2.75,
$3.00 and $3.50 comforts, ft I) Q
choice, each Lim U
Comforts, Lot 4 All $5.00,
$0.00 and $6.50 Com- Q Q7
forts, choice, each Old
36-inch bleached muslin, extra
heavy, would be cheap at 7 I n
9c, at - 2U
36-inch percale, short lengths, I J
best quality, worth 15c, at J y
32-inch peicale, short lengths, Q I &
best quality, worth 10c at. U2b
Ginghams, short lengths, heavy r
cloth, apron checks, at Jj (J
Butterick Patterns and Publications
WE ARE SOLE LINCOLN AGT.-
TrvaMail Order ktbofakmrni
Nebi
or a Duilling full of plows, and if there,
ar no -"inhabitants the horses and
the plows will have no value. If it i3
morally right to tax out all the value
that population gives to land, why
not take by taxation the value that
population gives to the horses and the
plows? This question the editor has
pressed time and again upon single
taxers, who are most estimable and
patriotic men, but never one yet at
tempted to make an answer.
The Queen of Spain must have
bought that land of somebody, and
paid money or its equivalent for it.
She personally did not take it by force.
Nor did William Penn, if we can put
any reliance in history. He bought
it of the Indians. He recognized their
first occunancy as givinc them a title,
just as all men recognize the title to
an article found that has no owner,
even if the possessor did not create
it. Now. suDDOse the Queen of Spain
should have taken the money that
she paid for. land and bought instead
a portion of a railroad. That railroad
would have sent her greater dividends
than she probably gets from the land.
Those dividends come out of tne tun
of the farmer, they take part of his
cron lust as much as if he sent them
in kind, and- the Queen of Spain gets
them from the toil of American citi
zens nnrl ar.r.ordiner to this reasoning,
returns nothing absolutely nothing.
She might build a navy with them and
that would be making American citi
zens build Spanish fleets for which
they got nothing in return. Does Mr.
Shandrew hold that that investment
in railroads should be taxed to its full
value in dividends? Such a tax rests
nrppisplv nnon the same logic, as far as
the editor of The Independent has ever
been able to make it out, as tne single
land tax.
Tf therefore follows that any income
from . investment should be taken by
the government. There can be no
escape from the conclusion if the logic
emnloved to defend the taking of all-
rental value from land is sound.. But
that would be socialism, and If one
class of citizens hate socialism worse
than another it is the single taxers.
The Independent remains an open
forum for the full and free discussion
of any plan that any man honestly
thinks is for the benefit of mankind.
Ed. Ind.)
Crowning Miss Roosevelt
A Washington dispatch says that so
ciety is deeply interested in the report
that Miss Alice Roosevelt will attend
the coronation of King Edward. It
is said that Miss Roosevelt will sail
with Special Ambassador Reid and
Mrs. Reid on June 5.
Here is the-interesting program of
the visit of Miss Roosevelt, according
to Borne of her Washington friends:
When Mr. and Mrs. Whitelaw Reid
come to Washington next week the
matter will be arranged in every de-'
tail. Her presentation at the first
drawing room immediately following
the coronation will be made by Am
bassador and Mrs. Choate. The latter
has been written to with regard not
only to the presentation gown, but
what is of even greater importance,
for minute directions as to the corona
tion robe." This, in accordance with
Jthe court regulations, must be of a
shade of an American beauty rose.
Miss Roosevelt, as the daughter of
the head of this nation, would, in ac
cordance with court etiquette, wear
coronation robes the same as any of
the princesses of the blood royal. In
the latter case, as also with every
peeress to be present, there must be a
crown worn. This in tlje case of Miss
Roosevelt might be the same as those
worn by the princesses.
If the president allows his daughter
to engage in any such royal foolish
ness as that he is not the sort of a
man that The Independent thinks he
Is. He will cut a pretty figure run
ning for president of a republic after
such a performance as that. But so
many men in the republican party have
proved traitors to the principles upon
which this government was founded
that it no longer seems safe to rely
on any of them.
A FINE CATTLE RANCH
OOO Tons of Hy, 3,000 Acres of Pasture
6 Flewlnjc Wells
This is known as the Tyrrell Ranch,
and is located fifteen miles south of
Atkinson, Holt county, Neb. This
ranch consists of 1,600 acres; 960 acres
deeded land and mostly fine hay mea
dow, the balance, 640 acres, is a school
section, the lease running for twenty
two years at less than half what the
taxes would be on the same tract.
There is some hay land on the school
section, but it is mostly adapted to
range, and this, with enough of the
free range land adjoining to make 3,
000 acres, is fenced with a substantial
three-wire fence. A good six-room
frame house, barn 35x80 with stanch
ions for twenty-eight cows, granary,
shed room and good yards, pens and
corralls. Three small pastures of 20.
40 and 120 acres, fenced with good
four-wire fence a:ad each containing a
fjlne flowing well, which flaws a 1
inch stream of the purest water on
earth the year around. Ten acres
cood timber. Daily mail delivered at
door. Postoffice, store and blacksmith
shop on adjoining farm. There is no
better ranch in Nebraska. Price,
$16,000, $6,000 down, the balance in
ten annual payments at 6 per cent in
terest. Call upon or address,
EDWIN S. EVES,
O'Neill, Neb.
newspaper reports of how Schwab was
hiring special trains on . the slightest
provocation, merely to transport his
single self from place to place.
Mr. L. G. Todd, Union, Neb., writes
that he will ship seed corn that has
been ordered from him during March.
Corn shelled and shipped earlier than
that does not grow as well as when
allowed to remain on the cob longer.
Brer Madden
The American Emperor
The president of the United States
Steel corporation has been going
through Europe like a king at the head
of an irresistible army of invasion.
When he reached Vienna the Austrian
papers published alarmist reports that
all the principal steel works of the
country were to be bought up and
tied to the tentacles of the American
octopus. Emperor Francis Joseph
begged for an interview with Mr.
Schwab who is a young man. and not
long ago was driving a country stage
in Pennsylvania and it was gracious
ly accorded, but when later on he re
quested a second interview with the
great man, it was: denied, Mr. Schwab
sending word down to the emperor
that he had to hurry away on business.
Evidently the natives were surprised
that he should have condescended to
Editor Independent: The tail-end
appendage of the postoffice department
at Washington reminds me of a yel
low, curly-tailed, half flc, half cur, I
had when I was a boy.
I had. named him General Forrest,
after the man my pap had "fit under
in the war." How General did hate a
rat was a caution to the crows! He
was "death on 'em,", too. Put him into
a corn crib and say "rats" to him and
he would dive in amongst the shucks
and fairly play a tune with 'em. Then
L.'j-me the rat you could find in that
crib, till the next time.
After an episode of this kind, Gen
eral would prance around, his - ears,
cocked and his tail curled so tight
that it looked as though there would
surely come a split 'twixt it and his
sacrum. And he would look into my
face and bark as If to say, "Now, haint
I a good 'un?" I certainly thought he
was, too, till one rainy afternoon in
the fall he met his Waterloo and I
lost confidence in him and changed his
narae.
A big trapper negro named Sime
came to the store carrying a long fox-
trap under his arm. When he came up
to tho crowd we could 3ee through
the wire end of the trap a large he
coon which had been caught the night
before. Sime said he had "brung"
him there to lick the hair "offen" any
dog in the place, and that he would bet
25 cents that the coon could do it.
Now if there is . anything in the
world that will fight hard and die
hard it's an bid he-coon. And if there
was anything at that time that I had
confluence in, it was the courage - of
General Forrest.
But I was young then very young
and green. And so was my dog.
The blacksmith acted as stake-holder
and I lit out to the house for the Gen
eral . When I got back the crowd was
standing 'round In a ring and Sime was
in the center ready to turn the coon
ut whenever I turned the General in.
I could hardly, hold that rascal dog,
he was that keen.
Zip-coon hadn't more than hit the
ground till General had him, and Just
about the same time he had the Gen
eral. .
General vociferously objected to this.
But . Zip chewed on at his under lip
till the holt broke loose.
Then General Forrest for. the first
time in his life tucked his crooked
tail between his legs and fled from be
fore the1 face of his enemy.
"Full of wrath and the cabbage" I
had eat for dinner I chased and caught
him, and brought him back to the
scene of action.
By that time another dog was. In
the embraces and receiving the ca
resses of his coonship. The General
took in the situation at a; glance and
seingthe long tail of the coon lying
it lifted his right hind' leg off r
ground and with raised bristle? . :
grinning teeth he leaped into -arena.
He took a death-grip on
"ring around the raccoon's tail" ;
wrestled and growled, and snouted a :
scratched, and turned and twiste-i
beat the devil when he and the I)u
and the Dun cow fit.
But when the other dog's lip gr
out, General quietly relinquished
tail holt, and retreated in good or !
but at greased lightning speed.
It didn't take General long to 1
which was the safe end of ihv.t .
mint, nor when was the proper time
turn that same safe end loose.
The third assistant Is at present
the embraces and receiving thr
resses of the great newspaper tin
and he knows that .that embrace wo :
prove fatal to him if he should
otherwise than as it bids him.
So when the trust said to lm, T
or hole those sassy little papers
there in Nebrasky and keep 'em u;
or in it." , he hit the trail, hot-f
and, at the may-be-damned-if-I-do
sure-be-damned-if-I-don't gait w
baying through the state,
v . He holed one and as it went ir,
got it by the tail and since then t
been yaping and barking and scran i.
ing gravel till his tail dips up a:
down like a "jay-bird settin' on
swingin' limb."
"Accordin" tew my tell" which ait
worth much Brer Madden Is ia
mighty ticklish, place. Tail-holt
better than no holt in fact, it's a r
good and safe holt as long as t'
business' end of the varmint is
gaged. But there, will come a tin
when the two ends will approach a
other and then woe! to him tha
been wrestlin' with the tail-piec.
Sparta, Tenn. B. O. DL'GG A.V
IIw Art Tor JLIdaeya
Dr. HobbB'8parafnisPUlcur !1 kidoy tn.
file free. At r ' " -"ro or i.
Was Millard's Work
Although Governor Savage is iL
man upon whom the bulk of the odn.
for the Bartley pardon falls, yet it
certain that other prominent repu!
lican politicians are as much to hlac -as
he, and we would not be afraid t
bet a hat that Senator Millard is ot
of them. Callaway Courier.
Extensive Improvements
Extensive alterations are under w a
at Miller & Paine's store. These f:
elude the putting in of a new passeni;
elevator which with a stairway will ?
ford easy access to the, second floor
basement.
The firm's new two-story building '
the rear of their, present docation
be completed in; late spring. T:
will be connected with themain buil
ing by a broad passage-way betwv
the second floors, so that a custom
can reach either store from the oth
without discomfort or exposure.
The new floor space being adcie
will more than double the size of XI
present store and will give abundant
room for the new departments. Thes ?
will be carpets and rugs, books, sta
tionery and pictures, ladies and chil
dren's shoes, and queensware. Th -carpets
are already installed, book?
and stationery will be on gale in tw-'
povc.r. iho gho fnd , miprnszi.
