dies, and in addition doing the same
thing for a husband who is just about as
healthy and hungry, and a sight more
bothersome, as the kiddies. And the
husband who doesn't think the same
thing of his good wife ought to have the
seat of his trousers kicked around in
front until he could use it for a vest.
Perhaps no mayor of Lincoln ever as
sumed the reins of office under more try
ing circumstances than has Mayor Arm
strong. At the same time no former
mayor ever assumed office with more
hearty good wishes for his success. Mayor
Armstrong certainly must realize that
upon the success or failure of his ad
ministration hinges the future policy of
Lincoln along excise lines. On the one
side he will be hammered by those who
disagree with the excise policy adopted;
on the other hand he will be forced to
hold in check those who will incline to
the belief that the success of the policies
championed by Mayor Armstrong and
the I business Men's League means a
"wide open city." There are such, and
they will be troublesome, at least for a
time. That thev are foredoomed to dis
appointment is evident to everybody but
themselves. Among other good things
assured of Mayor Armstrong's adminis
tration is the assurance that he will not
"play politics." He couldn't if he wanted
to for the very simple reason that he is
not a politician, does not want to be and
perhaps couldn't be if lie wanted to be.
But he will be a business mayor because
he is a practical business man. If his
administration is not a success it will
not be due to any lack of good wishes
on the part of the vast majority of Lin
coln citizens. Now let us have two years,
at least of peace, and of united hustling
to make Lincoln "bigger , broader and
busier."
Every time an advocate of a high pro
tective tariff undertakes to argue the
question logically, he gets so badly
twisted that he meets himself coining
back before he gets half-way to any
where. The Philadelphia Inquirer is a
fairly good sample of the advocate of
high protection. The Inquirer is oppos
ing the tariff reduction program of the
democratic house. It declares that an
enlargement of the free list will not low
er prices because prices are kept up by
trade combinations, not by the tariff.,
Then, before it has fairly caught its
breath it further declares that the en
largement of the free list Avill allow the
entry -of cheap foreign products, result
ing in a cut of the payrolls. We anxious
ly await an explanation from the In
quirer as to how cheap foreign produc
tions can "do that if the enlarged free list
fails to lower prices.
Nebraska is about to acquire a new
industry. William Liebold of Nebraska
City is going to utilize a natural lake on
his farm and engage in the business of
raising frogs. He has imported a large
number of Papa and Mamma Frogs, to
gether with about 2,000 incipient frogs
in the shape of tadpoles. These he has
domesticated in the aforesaid lake. Now
let the mouths of the gourmands drool at
Ihe thoughts of future meals in which
the piece de resistance shall be luscious
saddles from prize frogs reared and nur
tured in the pure, sparkling waters of a
Nebraska lake, and fattened on let's
see, what is it that frogs eat? Well,
whatever it may be, Nebraska is sure ro
supply the best frog food in the world.
There is a big demand for frog saddles,
and there are plenty of lakelets and
bayous along the Missouri river in
which to raise the frog saddle supply of
the world.
Democratic leaders in congress seem
a bit fearful lest putting wool on the
free list make too big a hole in the reve
nues. Nothing to it. Putting wool on
the free list will reduce the government's
income about $25,000,000 a year, but. it
would save the consumers somewhere
around $250,000,00 a year. Uncle Sam
can better afford to run twenty-five mil
lions a year behind for a few years than
the consumers of the country can afford
to be mulcted fifteen times that amount.
As the head of a big family who is fined
something like $60 a year for the benefit
of sheepmen who raise an average of one
seventh of a sheep for each member of
the editorial family, this editor demands
that Schedule K be ripped to hellangone.
This is a pretty fine old world, after
all. Just about the time a man begins to
feel as if it were a dismal old existence,
and that selfishness ruled supreme, along
comes something to chirk him up and
make him feel a whole lot better. For in
stance : E. D. , Otto of Omaha died a
couple of years ago, leaving a widow and
six little Ottos homeless and with noth
ing but a little life insurance money be
tween them and want. He was a member
of the Modern Woodmen, and his com
rades had assisted him quite a bit during
the three years that he was practically
unable to work and provide for. his fam
ily. Shortly after Otto's death a bunch
of Woodmen got together and decided
that Mrs. Otto and the little Ottos should
have a home. They went around among
the lodge men and raised enough money
to purchase a couple of lots. They got
a generous material man to sell them the
material at wholesale prices, and then
they got a lot of building tradesmen who
are Woodmen to donate their labor. One
day about sixty or seventy men jumped
on the job, and in three shakes of a
lamb's tail the cottage was completed.
Now Mrs. Otto and the six little Ottos
have a home of their own that cost them
less than $700 and which is worth $3,000,
and they are as happy as clams at high
tide. But it's a cinch they are no happier
than the big-hearted, generous Modern
Woodmen who contributed of time and
labor to make that bunch of Ottos so
happy, It is just such incidents as this
that make a fellow feel like hustling
right out and telling old, Mr. Trouble '.o
go chase himself.
SPEAKING OF BOONE COUNTY.
There may be others, but Boone is one
Nebraska county .we know of that does
not owe a dollar, and has some money in
bank. Last week Boone county paid ff
its last obligation, $5,250 of court house
bonds. And the court house is a hond
some structure, built when material and
labor were at their lowest cost, and con
structed under- the supervision of men
who were determined to give their county
the best. Boone, by the way, is one of
the big producers of Nebraska. In 1910
that county raised 221,863 bushels of
corn, worth $110,931; 213,379 bushels
of wheat worth $219,051 ; 1,857,720 bush
els of oats worth $491,432 ; 22,726
bushels of barley worth $10,453; 11,458
bushels of rye worth $6,875 ; 61,683. tons
of alfalfa worth $925,245; 26,257 tons, of
other hay worth, $315,000; and 44,718
bushels of potatoes worth $44,718. The
dairymen of the county use 750 hand sep
arators to skim the cream from the milk
produced by 9,063 milch cows. In 19C9
Boone county shipped to market 121,230 '
dozen eggs, 18,345 pounds of butter and
46,470 gallons of cream. Also 2,263
pounds of dressed poultry, 141,700
pounds of live poultry and 4,175 pounds
of dressed meats. In 1909 Boone county's
shipments of live stock were 19,918 hid
of cattle, 59,138 head of hogs, 616 horses
and mules and 2,600 head of sheep. In
other words, Boone's annual production
of wealth is upwards of $4,000,000. All
of which goes to show that Boone is a
mighty good county, peopled by an in
dustrious, intelligent people. What
Boone county needs now is a "Boosters
Organization" to let all the world know
the facts about Boone.
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