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About The Sioux County journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1888-1899 | View Entire Issue (March 28, 1889)
1 1 The Sioux County Journal. PubUslied every lburoay. Subscription Price, 12.00 W. E. PttrB Editor ud Vrop Entered at tlie postoffioe at Harrison iecond class matter. The $50.00 Court Dotkft It will soon be time for tlie printing of another court doc ket and, with no ex jectations of being allowed the job but rather with the desire to prove what we said when we told tlie people tlmt $7.50 was a good price for a court docket of 12 pages, we now bid for the coming Jacket to be printed for tlie May term of llie District Court at 60c. per page. At this rate tlie hist one. iirinted bv the Herald Publishing Comtianv of which oiniian v County Attorney Satterlee as tlie leading light, would have cost 7.20 whereas it did cost ")0.00. Re member, our bid is tiOc. a Mge. Vale, Vila. There is a decided feeling of relief on the retirement of Secretary Vilas. That be sitrned some able decisions durimr Ins incumbency is beyond question. AVheth er the credit thereof belonirs to hi in oi to his law advisers is a matter of doubt lie was distinguished for eneitrv and in ilustry, but it was hugely the tiler and industry of a bull in a china shop hi too many cases he overrode his ad visers, disregarded the law, and ignored the facts, to accomplish two results, tirst, to carry out his peculiar notions of equity, and second, to sustain prior de cisions of his office, no matter how egregious the blunders. The efforts made in tlie early part of Cleveland's administration to check f raud and secure the nublic lands for lona fide settlers lias lieen largely frus trated by Vilas' rulings, and the loud promises of land reform in 1884 have ended in ridicule. In the history of the Secretaries of the Interior Vilas will take rank far down the list. Copp's Land-Owner. A rude sort of educational test for tlie suffrage has just been established North Carolina by the passage throu the legislature of a bill providing tl all ballot boxes shall be labeled, and that voters shall approach the noils one at a time, and place their several ballots in tlie proper boxes, none to be counted which eret into the wroner box. The the ory of this law is eminently sound; it is nothing else than tlie traditional New England idea that no man should be al -owed to vote unless he can read. The North Carolina statute" if adopted Massachusetts, would not deprive of the suffrage a single man who now en joys it, because no man can eajoy the suffrage in Massachusetts who cannot ead the state constitution and so, of course, the labels on ballot boxes. North Carolina has just as much right to estab- ish an educational test for the suffrage its Massachusetts, and Massachusetts '.olds it unsafe for herself to allow any r.ian in the state to cast a ballot who cannot pass an educational test. In like .nanner Massachusetts men even" so t.:nse a partisan as Mr. Geo. F. Hoar- lave" always held, even when such stand seemed against the advantage of their party, as was the case fifteen years :.go, that no territory like New Mexico should be admitted into the Union as state, where the census showed that majority of the men could not pass an educational test, and consequently were unfitted, according to the traditional New England idea, to govern themselves and share in tlie government of the na tion. Weekly Post. Is the Seed Corn all Right? A great deal of the success of life to which some men attain is due to the fact that they are always prepared in ad vance for whatever comes. Neither xeed time nor harvest, the summers storm or winter's blizzard finds them un prepared. Hence their cattle are al ways sheitered, their seed corn always grows, and they are reported as fortunate men, always in luck, and born with a silver spoon in their mouths. Other men are ulways unprepared, always surprised by adversity, and always unlucky. The se cret of it all is that the first class take time by the forelock and adversity takes Ihe second by the forelock. It is now the first week in February, but in ninety (lays more the corn, upon which the west for the next year will depend, will be going into the ground. It will there lore soon be time to know whether the seed corn saved last fall is strong and quick, and will surely grow. An exper ienced farmer can make a good guess by examination, and can in the next thirty days make an approximate test be nh.ni. inginsoil wanned under the kitchen xtove. One test should nt sufficient. In a matter of seed corn Sre should hp nn iera InU. nr. J - ' t, UO H anticipate any serious trouble with 1 corn this year, and yet there will be , !t deal more unsound corn tlian for 1 "'ears past. The extreme drouth of t 1887 ripened corn m early that no danger. It wag not so "in Sed corn may be all right now noil Jong in thirty days from now, uatat rly cared for. There i. o. gr4 "Tfeeed, properly picked and cneaai. "Sg up in the corn crib or i tne MrV "on may be spot ltd this audi of May, Wburt&rn U 1Q Mm6 of th liurn, davs J.oiiM tl-r come some warm with 4 damp atmosplwre or drizzling roiu !ullud by a uudden !iai.ge and zero weatlwr, it is ary apt to loose iU vitality, at least to uch an extent as to render it unsafe to plant. Tlie reason is that the cob absorbs moisture from the atmosj-liere, esjrfx billy if large, and a sudden freeze kills tlie germ or greatly weakens its vitality. Tl way to avoid thi is to take it to the kitchen loft and lay it near the stove pipe. All seed should be dried with artificial heat and kept dry. This is the m ret of iirescrviiiir seed corn, whole and it costs so little to observe tlii method ; ;t inmreiwililH neliirence to be !...,,( L-nnun in be sound and strong, without the sliadow of a doubt. Homestead, fin tit a ti i t of 'How to build up a city," the Lincoln Call lias a very well ivfiitun article from which we take the following: There liave lieen many arti cles aoiiearinir lately, some of them in ,i.u'!.ll uluiu'imr how cities are built and how thev trrow. Mr. Calhoun Jias written some interesting and instructive article on growth of towns but all there is no general rule that can 1 f,,1 Intra! fit its (tow and prosper and sui'pi irise the inhabitants, but why they grow remains a mystery. A ountiy town can irrow to a certain size and, tlmuL'h all prospects are briirlit. ;udden- lv passes into innocuous desuetude and decav coes backward looses its mo mentum and never again overcomes its inertia. Another town within thirty miles of it. without anv "natural ad vantages," with dim prospects suddenly !.-:ms forward and soon becomes a citv. Why is it? is the question asked and un answered. There is no particular way to build nn a citv. There are wavs to help and ways to hinder. Petty quar rels, jealousy and penunousness will wreck any town on earth. Concert of action and liberality will always assist a city's growth. Boggy Items. I. Kendall's saw mill is coming in on Boggv the 1st. There are lots of logs to saw. Allwrt Rand is snatchinc lotrs in with one yoke of oxen. If Wild West wants to know where Slocum is "Right among tlie living." Ed. Campbell's folks have come and come to stay. W. Corcoran set out an orchard of choke cherries. So much for arbor day on the Sabbath too. Bud Watson is sick with a sore hand Fire in the woods! Tlie bluffs have been bright with fire and the Boggyites were busy puttina it out, Greger is planting trees, seeds and cut tings on his timber claim The first thunder and lightening- of the season nut in its apiiearance last week. Mr. S. B. Coffee, of llat creek, arrived from Texas Monday with his better half Miss fcmma Beans left for Ft. Robin .son the 25th. Items From Antelope Forts. Fred Stemmer is very busy putting ins crop ana is preparing to build a large frame house on his claim on Antelope, we understand he is expecting ladv friends from the Old Country about the 1st of July. John Frish lias his new house about finished and will move into it this week Miss Jane Hunt has W house up but there is no place for a door. We won der which side it will be in. Mr. John Hunt and Mr. Frank Nutto are smiling nowadays because they have succeeded in organizing a school district. Don't smile too soon for some of the in habitants of that district are trying slide out. to Antelope is blessed with plenty. of good looking girls. Bustleless is the new style adopted by some. Tlie outlook is that we will have sev eral new families on Antelope soon. Mf. Amuel Hitzeler has built a house on his claim. His mother and brother are well pleased with the country and liave taken claims near. Occasion at. Departed this life on March 7t.h. tw.ni- Tripp, Dakota, RoDand Edmond, son of Oscar A. and Mary A. Carton, aged 3 years, 10 months and 2 days. Also on March 9th, Ck.-a,- infant daughter of jscar . and Mary I. Latin, aged 2 weeks and 4 days. A funeral discourse was delivered by the writer on the occasion of the death of these children, on Run. da, March 10th, from 1st Tliess., 4, 13 and 14, and the two little cousins were lain side by side in the cemetery. To both families death came suddenly and took a loved one from the fond of the loving parents. brother and sister Garten were fni: merly residents of this community, but ..uv. ve near Harrison, Nebraska. They were visiting their friends here and it is sad indeed for thera to leave behind them their bright little boy and return to their home thus bereft. Tk. of these children, in either case, mourn no as inose who liave no hope, bot liave committed their children to him who is still the resurrection and tlie life. "I'l'i uaKoia. YwBg Male for Hale. At my ranch south-nut. f it.. xnm year old broken or unbroken. Jas. H. Cook. hmur up in the drive way Jones & 5 "The Wrong Pew. tell vou that tliu is Our enemies may COHLEY, REIDY Are lipre to A STRAIGHT FORWARD HONORABLE BUSINESS. We would respectfully call the uttcntion of the public tliat we are prepared to make farm loans in I2T SIOUX, DAWES and BOX BUTTE COOTIES The Most Liberal Terms. Final proof money Without Extra Charge. 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