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CA"iSOfl PRESS-JOURNAL OXO. D. CANON. Edlter. MAMIISON. . . - NEBRASKA NEBRASKA NEWS NOTE;; York la to build a new ward school. Tecumaeb will organize a Bryan club. Leigh is to have a Dew Methodist eaurch. Calloway baa organized a Rough Rid ers' club. Threshing is in progress in part of the state. The Record and News of Greenwood have been consolidated. The Modern 'Xtyodmen held a log-rolling at Madison on July 1$. State Senator Giffert of Cuming coun. ty Is at Cape Nome, Alaska. Alliance reports conditions pertinent to a shortage of hay crop in that vi cinity. One Held of winter wheat near Bell' -wood threshed a trifle over forty bush els to tbe acre. An old settlers' reunion and picnic will be held in Fairmont on Wednes day, August IS. The Young People's union will hold Hi seventh annual meeting at Madilla oo the Mtb and 25th. tornado in Logan county on July 4 destroyed several houses, but no per sere injured. Thomas Mallet, a well known busk peas man of Fremont, died at hi borne, aged SO years. , The Alnsworth Star-Journal starts in on Its fifteenth year with every evf. of prosperity. Twenty-six bead of fat cattle disap peared from the railroad stock yards at Bradshaw, and no trace of them baa Deen discovered. Thayer depot was struck by lightning and burned to tbe ground in a heavy storm last week. A freight train and a passenger train bumped their tail-ends together at swood and gave tbe wrecking two hours' work. Fourteen acres of wheat and seven teea acres of oats went up in smoke at Oeneva as a result of sparks from a passing F., E. & M. V. engine. Pro. J. A. Seattle, who will quite the State Normal school about August 1, win go to "Weston, Ore., where he has been elected principal of the Eastern Oregon Normal school. The Nebraska Epworth assembly will be held at Lincoln park from August 1 to the 9th, inclusive. An unusually attractive program has been prepared. Half rates from all points with 200 i from Lincoln. Tbe 4-year-old son of James Henry of Tecumseh lost two toes in a sickle. Mr. Henry was mowing weeds about the house, and in some manner the child got In contact with the mowing knives, unnoticed by his father. Reports from ranchmen near Alliance aJl lead, to the theory that there will he a shortage in the hay crop in that section this season, without there are phenomenal rains, and these would the baying season very late. A passing train set fire to a field of Standing- wheat near Silver Creek, be longing to Henry Eby and destroyed eight acres. Ten acres of oats belonging- to George Hutchlngs and about three acres belonging to D. J. Towsles were also destroyed. William Lyons of Trenton was badly Injured. He was crossing a bridge on horseback when the animal became un manageable and Jumped off Into the stream, a distance of thirty feet. Ly ons Is now nursing a broken leg and a badly twisted spinal column. The Wayne Herald suggests that a mall league with about twelve good teams could be organized In Northeast Nebraska to play ball that would prove a success if it could be so arranged that every team would have exclusive Ism stayers Great Interest would in It. Ted (X Brine and Andrew Olton, two nattsmouth boys, became engaged In euarrel and in the mlxup OTBrtne strew hla knife and stabbed Olson be twees the ribs. CBrine was placed in jjafl to await the result of the wound. It la feared may prove fatal. At the school meeting held at. Tork a resolution was adopted that more wehool rooms are needed and that a site 14 he purchased and a new ward baUdlng be built on East hill. wtB give Tork four ward school , and tbe high school building. Waddmgton was called to Wy- M hold an Inquest over tbe re ef Mrs, Sarah J. Smith, an cl ot that city, who was la bed at her residence In Wymore. Investigation proved aha had died of neglect and starva. II County Stork association (a of the past. The secretary tfea members seemed to hsvs la the association and did est Ka meetings, and It wsa leased best lo wind up the of the organisation. The as haw been paying a bounty of ill woman trass '' r j r-WT raf wolf killed In the v JC. tny member l.T U aJettattoa, and this practice 's&tr-rm. be alaoontlnued. THE TICKET BRYAN HAS mem mmz,m JEFFERSON AMD TmPMALM : CW. J. Bryan In N. T. Journal) The advocates of Imperialism have ought to support their positions by ippeallng to the authority of Jefferson Of all the statesmen who have evet ived, Jefferson was the one most hos ile to the doctrines embodied in the lemand for a European colonial policy. Imperialism, as it now presents Itself, unbraces four distinct propositions: First That the acquisition of terri ory by conquest Is right. Second That the acquisition of re oote territory is desirable. "NOT SELF-GOVERNED." Third That the doctrine that govern nents derive their Just powers from tbe onsent of the governed is unsound. Fourth That people can be wisely overned by aliens. To all these propositions Jefferson ras emphatically opposed. In a letter 0 William Short, written In 1791, he laid: "If there be one principle more deep y written than any other in the mind f every American, it is that we should tave nothing to do with conquest." AMERICA SHOULD AVOID CON QUEST." Could he be more explicit? Here we tave a clear and strong denunciation f the doctrine that territory should te acquired by force. If It Is said that re have outgrown the Ideas of tbe fath- v, it may be observed that the doc rlne laid down by Jefferson was relt trated only a few years ago by no less 1 republican than James G. Blaine. All emember tbe enthusiasm with which ie entered into thework of bringing he republics of North and South Amer ca Into close and cordial relations. Jome, however, may have forgotten the resolutions Introduced by him at the tonference heid in lhSW, and approved ty the commissioners present. They ire as follows: "First That the principle of conquest thai! not, during the continuance or he treaty of arbitration, be recognized is admissible under American public aw. Second That all cessions of terrl- ry made during the continuance of :he treaty of arbitration shall be void f made under threats of war or In the presence of an armed force. "Third -Any nation from which such sessions shall be exacted may demand hat the validity of the cessions so aade shall be submitted to arbitration. PRINCIPLE) OK CONQUEST IS WRONG. "Fourth Any renunciation of the 1ght to arbitration made under the ondltlona named in the second sec tion shall be null and void." If the principle of conquest Is right. shy should It be denied a place in kmerksn public law? So objectionable Is the theory of acquisition of territory sy "inquest that the nation which sut lers such ' Injustice can, according to As resolutions, recover by arbitration the land ceded In the presence of an irmed force. So abhorrent is It that a salver of arbitration made under suchi llrcumstances is null and void. While aie resolutions were only for the con sideration of the American republics, :he principle therein cannot be limited sy latitude or longitude. But this is a time of great and rapid hanges, and some may even look upon Blaine's official act as ancient history, tf so, let It be remembered that Presl int McKinley, In 1897, in a message to Ingress, discussing the Cuban sltua on, said: "I speak not of forcible annexation, r that cannot be thought of. That, r our code of morality, would be crlm al aggression." And yet some are now thinking oi tat which was then "not to be t of." Policy may change, but does a "code of morality" change? In his recent speech at Savannah. Secretary Gage, in defending the new policy of tbe administration, suggested that "philanthropy and five per cent may go hand In hand." Surely we know not what a day may bring forth If in so short a time "crim inal aggression" may be transformed into "philanthropy and five per cent." What beauty, what riches, the islet of the Pacific must possess If they can tempt our people to abandon not only the traditions of a century but our standard of national morality! What visions of rational greatness the Phil ippines must arouse If the very sight of them can lead our country to vie with the monarchies of the old world In the extension of sovereignty by force! Jefferson has been called an expan sionist, but our opponents will search In vain for a single instance, where he advocated the acquisition of remote territory. On the contrary, he expressly dis claimed any desire for land outside of the North American continent. That he looked forward to the annex ation of Cuba is well known, but in a letter to President Monroe, dated June 23, 1823. he suggested that we should be In readiness to receive Cuba "when solicited by herself!" To hlrn Cuba was desirable only be cause of the island's close proximity to the United States. Thinking that some one might use the snnexatlon of Cuba as a precedent for indefinite expansion, he said in a letter toPresldent Mad ison, dated April 27. 1809: "NO LIMIT TO FUTURE) ACQUISI TIONS." "It will be objected to our receiving Cuba that no limit can then be drawn to our future acquisitions," but, fce added, "Cuba can be defended by us without a navy, and this develops tbe principle which ought to limit our views. Nothing should ever be accept ed which would require a navy to de fend It" In the same letter, speaking of the possible acquisition of that Island, he said: "I would Immediately erect a column on the southernmost limits of Cuba and Inscribe on It a ne plus ultra as to us In that direction." It may be argued that Jefferson wi wrong in asserting that we should con fine our possessions to the North Amer ican continent, but certainly no one can truthfully quote blm a an author ity for incursions Into the eastern hem isphere. If be were unwilling to go further south that Cuba, even In the western hemisphere, would he be likely to look with favor upon colonies in the Orient? If the authority of Jefferson cannot be evoked to support the acquisition of remote territory, much less can his great name be used to excuse a colo nial policy which denies to the people the right o govern themselves. When he suggested an inscription for his monument he did not enumerste the honors which he had received, tho' no American had been more highly hon ored; he ot!y asked to be remembered for What he had done, and he named the writing of the Declaration of In dependence as the greatest of his deeds. "NO GOVERNMENT BT EXTERNAL FORCE." In that memorable document he de clared it a self-evident truth that gov ernments derive their Just power from the consent of tbjr. fvemed. The de fense and Apvftooraeot of that doctrine esDeclal car, atm wrKrog bound with epraammi - his devotion to that D8tf i solid TO BEAT. ude for it. He preached it in the en husiasm of his youth; he reiterated II hen he reached the age of maturity; e crowned It with benedictions In hli Id age. Who will say that, if living ie would Jeopardise It today by en rafting upon It the doctrine of govern oent by external force? Upon the fourth proposition of Jef erson Is no less explicit. Now, whet ome are suggesting the wisdom of s nlltary government for the Philip- lines, or a colonial system such ai Cngland administers In India, It wll lot ba out of place to refer to the man ier In which Jefferson viewed the In ibllity of aliens to' prescribe laws and administer government. In 1817 f French society was formed for the pur pose of settling upon a tract of lan near the Tomblgbee river. Jeffersor was invited to formulate laws and reg ulations for the society. On the Itr of January of that year he wrote frorr Montlcello expression his high apprecia tion of the confidence expressed In him but declined to undertake the task. Th reasons he gave are well worth con sidering at this time. After wishing them great happiness In their under taking, he said: "The laws, however, which must ef- efct this must flow from their own hab its, their own feelings and the re sources of their own minds. No stran ger to these could possibly propose reg ulations adapted to them. Every peo ple have their own particular habits ways of thinking, manners, etc., whirl have grown up with them from theli Infancy, are become a part of their na ture, and to which the regulation which are to make them happy must be accommodated. No member of a for. elgn country can have a sufficient sym pathy with these. The Institutions ot Lycurgus, for example, would not suit Athens, nor those of Solor, Lacedae mon. The organisations of Locke were Impracticable for Carolina, and those of Rousseau for Poland. Turning In wardly on myself from these eminenl Illustrations of the truth of my obser vation, I feel all the presumption II would manifest should I undertake to do what this respectable society li alone qualified to do suitably for itself.' "ALIEN LACKS SYMPATHY WITH , US." The alien may possess greater Intel ligence and greater strength, but h lacks the sympathy for, and the Identi fication with, the people. We have only to recall the grievances enumerated It the Declaration of Independence tc learn how an ocean may dilute Justlct and how the cry of the oppressed cat be silenced by distance. And yet tin Inhabitants of tbe colonies were th descendants of the Englishmen blooc of their blood and bone of their bone Shall we be mo're considerate of sub JecU further away from us, and differ Ing from us in color, race and tongue than the English were of their owi offspring? Modeat Jefferson! He had been gov ernor, ambassador to France, Viet president and president; he wa ripe Ir experience and crowned with honors: but thl modern lawgiver, this Immor tal genius, hesitated to suggest lawi for a people with whose habit, cus tom and method of thought he wa unfamiliar. And yet the Imperialists of today, In toxica ted by a taste of power, are rest enough to enter upon the government of the Philippine, confident of the na tion' ability to compel obedience, evel If it cannot earn gratitude or win f feet Ion. Plutarch said that men en tertalned three sentiments eoncernlni the ancient god: They feared them for their strength admired them for their wisdom and loved them for their Justice. Jefferson taught the doctrine thai government should win the love ot men. What shall be the ambition of out nation to be loved because It I Just oi to ha feared beca-iss It I strong? ABOUT THE FOOD WE EAT. There Is no one evil now prevalent n this country, not even the intemp r ate use of alcoholic drinks, which has more vital Importance to the Ix-alth of the people than the adulteration of our foods. A man is as young as Ms arteries. Every time you put in your system more mineral matter than nature In tended you drive a nail in your cof fin. I do not believe that anybody ought to die of apoplexy. It Is well known that flour made of wheat has been largely adulterated in this country by the addition of purely Starchy matter derived from Indian eorn. Physiological chemists have dis covered that there is a certain balance -In the foods of man which should not be disturbed. In other words, there Is a definite relation between the quanti ties of protein, fat and carbohydrate matters, which, when sustained, ren ders this mixed fxid most nutritious, and therefore most economical. Bread made from wheat flour, espe cially If it be made as nearly as possi ble from the whole grain. Is recognized by physicians and physiologists as be ing practically a complete human food, with a certain definite ratio existing between- the protein matter which it con tains and the fats and carbohydrates. It la evident at once that the addition of other starchy matter will disturb this ratio, and thus render the food less economical, by Increasing enor mously one of Its constituents without changing the quantities of the others. . You may use baking powders with flour if you wish, but when you do, don't invite me to be your guest at dinner. Glucose Is, as Is well known, largely used as an adulterant for honey and Jelly. Honey owes Its value to the pe culiar flavor which It possesses, due to the aromatic substance derived from tbe flowers, and possibly to traces of formic acid, obtained from the diges tive organs of the bee. In other words, .vine yls not prised simply because It Is a carbohydrate, but because of its flavcr. Whenever, therefore, glucose Is added to honey, by the substitution of It for the aromatic substances above mentioned the peculiar flavor Is de stroyed and the honey is to that ex tent less desirable. So here la another Instance In which the Introduction of a perfectly harmless substance In food may render It positively Injurious. Another class of adulterants Is used for preservatives. For economical rea sons foods are not always consumed on the spot where they are produced nor at the time of their production. Many foods are of a perishable na ture, and If not consumed at the time of their maturity are lost. To render these fooda serviceable through the entire year and In localities widely sep arated from the place of their origin, some method of conservation must be employed. There are two methods of food preser vation which are perfectly natural and permissible. One consists In the com plete desslcatton or drying of the food so as to prevent the fermentation which A NEW ITCH FROM PHILIPPINES. Washington. D. C (Special.) One of the novelties that have been Introduced into this country from our new pos sessions Is a tropical form of Itch gen erally known as dhobles. This ailment has made Its appear ance in Iowa and its outbreak Is said to be due to some returned soldiers. .TJiere Is some doubt at present as to whether it Is the Cuban Itch or the Philippine variety, which is known us dhobles itch. It Is 'thought by Surgeon General Sternberg of the United States army to be the Philippine kind, because the Fifty-first Iowa regiment recently re turned from the Islands. On the oth er hand, a physician of Eldora, la.. where a number of cases have broken out, declares that It is the Cuban Itch. In aye nase they are merely varieties of the same thing. Dhobles Is the com mon name for It in the east The outbreak of the disease has caus ed a great deal of alarm In Iowa, where it was at first mistaken by the sufferers for smallpox. The first symptoms of the tropical Itch bear a very alarming resemblance to that terrible disease. Oven now that It Is known to threaten no serious danger, It is none the less distressing and much feared. The most unpleasant feature about the Itch I that It li extremely con tagious. It spreads from one person to another with great rapidity. Unless prompt and strong measure are taken to check It there Is no reason wby it Should not spread to a whole city. The banker In his bank and belle in her boudoir will be attacked by It and their dignity and beauty selously im paired. 1 Dhobles I extremely common thro' southeastern Asia, a region which in clude the Philippine Islands. The peo ple are engaged a large part of the time In scratching themselves, an oc cupation which raves them from think ing too much of their other trouble. The Spaniards, needles sto say, have don nothing to cure a trouble that arise chiefly from personal neglectful nes. With the advance of American civilisation In the east dhobles will doubtless fly. In Scotland an ailment of similar ap pearance is due to excessive eating of oatmeal. A former Duke of Argyll erected a large collection of strong posts on hi estate, and the handy produces dny. The second method li to subjct the f'd lo a pjsteunxlng nl i sterilising temperature for a time suffl. cl.-ntly long to destroy the germs oi i ferment ti n. The foods thus pasteur- Ized or sterilised aie prevented front coming Into contact with the air. and thus excluding the fermentation. It is well known that there are great m.sny substances which p"ee neither taste nor odor and which havt this retarding action upon the fer mentative germs. The addition of thes bodies to f.xids secures their preserva tion and at the same time does not Im pair their flavor. Among the preserva tives which have been commonly em ployed in this way may be mentioned sodium sulphate, boraclc acid, borax potassium nitrate, sodium chloride, so dium Bilieo-flourld, potassium flourld, Bulphurous acid, formaldehyde, salicyl ic acid, benzoic acid, abrastol and sac charine. A glance at these substances wll show that they are of two generaj kinds, those of an Inorganic naturt which are mentioned first, beginning with sodium sulphite and those of ao organld nature, beginning with for maldehyde. I have oiriltted all pre servatives which on account of odoi or taste could not be conveniently used In the preservation of human food. It will be noticed that some of the bodies In the first class are of a condi mentary nature and therefore cannot be rigidly considered as food preserva tives. We must not exclude from food the condiments with which we are fa miliar. They are necessary and desir able, although being of themselves ol little food value, and hence the use ol any one of the bodies mentioned above, In a eondlmentary sense, cannot be considered reprehensible. Of the bodlcr mentioned above, those which are most commonly used as condiments are com mon salt and potassium nitrate, the latter, however, to a very limited ex tent. Artificial colors are now used to a large extent In human foods, chiefly ir butter and oleomargarine, canned meat and preserved vegetables. Butter ni oleomargarine were formerly colored yellow with tumeric. The Introduction of the coal tar dyes provided a cheaper coloring matter, and one of the azo dyes, tropaeolln, which gives a bright yellow color and at a smaller expense. The green color of peas and lieana and other green vegetables, which are preserved by sterilization. Is fixed by the u of zinc and copper salts. These bodies act as a mordant, entering the tissues of the green plants and fixng the chlorophyll, by preventing Its transformation Into xanthophylt, which, would otherwise cccuron long keeping. Green peas which are pasteurized with out the addition of zinc or copper be come yellow by the production of xan thophyll, while If zinc or copper salt be employed the green color Is pre serTed. A good many unhappy marriages are caused by the wrong man proposing at the right time. Scotchmen rub their backs against these, exclaiming as they do so: "God bless the Duke of Argyll." Perhaps something of this kind will be needed In Iowa. The medical department of the army Is receiving many reports from the field In the Philippines and In Cuba In dicating the alarming prevalence of dhobles. In Cuba It Is called the Cuban Itch and In the Philippines It Is colled the dhobles Itch and pemphigus. Surgeon General Sternberg's atten tion was called to the statement ;hat the Cuban Itch has broken out In loaa, where It Is attributed to soldiers rt turning from Cuba. General Steinberg said: "I do not know whether the Itch In Iowa Is or Is not the Itch which Is prevalent In the tropical countries, among the soldiers. It is more likely that the Itch In Iowa was brought bark not from Cuba but from the Philippine, where the Fifty-first Iowa served and returned to this country. "This Itch Is something like tinea or ringworm. It Is, of course, very pain ful and keeps the patient scratching a great deal of the time. The war de partment has been called upon recently to send an increased lot of itch medi cines or parasiticides to the Philippine, and In general to the army In the trop ic. We do not regard the disease a at all dangerous. It I only exceedingly nnoylng." Among the paper left by the Duke of Montague, who was governor o( George lis four sons, la one headed. "Diet for the year 1771." This list of nursery menus ends with "breakfast at :, dinner from 1 to 6, supper at B;30." Monday night, no supper, and every al ternate Monday to be bathing night." Once a fortnight, then, the royal boy got a bath! Actually, this Is worse than the old New England fashion ot the Saturday "tub night," probably copied from the English custom o bothlng only "alternate Mondays." Twenty Chicago women got together and vigorously chastised a ehronl wlfe-brater. The victim did not ap preciate the novelty of the treatment and kicked, but no on can register a kick effectively while resting on hi stomach with angry women doing cakewalk on bis spinal column.