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JULY 27, 1905
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
ESTABLISHED 1889
GEORGE W. BERGE, Editor and Publisher.
FREDERIC O. BERGE, Business Manager
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MEN and MANNERS
The proper study of mankind is man.
Pope.
The Japanese emperor . draws $3,
000,000 yearly from the national
treasury for lfving expenses.
General Booth, commander of the
Salvation army, when on shipboard
ignores the dinner table, and his sta
ple food is rice.
The present governors of Kansas,
Minnesota and Oklahoma were coun
try editors, as well as the state audi
tor of Kansas and the congressman at
large. ,
he late Secretary Hay in conver
sation with James Dubois of the state
department, less than a year ago, pre
dicted'.that he would not live twelve
months.
William K. Vanderbilt, Jr., ran for
the office of chief of the Great Neck
fire department a couple of days ago,
but Egbert L. Cluse, the village gro
ceryma'n, beat him.
Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte
already has received letters addressed
to him as "Mr. Napoleon, secretary
of the navy." In signing state docu
ments he writes his name in full.
Charles Leitstone, a glazier, has
been arrested in New York City on
charge of abandoning his wife and
their twenty children. They have
been married twenty-six years, and
yet he is but 43 and she 41.
Cardinal Richelmy has started a
movement to raise funds to erect a
monument to Columbus near St.
Peter's, Rome, to commemorate the
four hundred and fortieth anniver
sary of the discoverer's death.
William E. C. Nazro of Dorchester,
Mass., will be sent shortly to Panama
to study the welfare of the canal em
ployes. He is a graduate of Harvard,
and is a nephew of Captain A. T.
Nazro, now stationed at the navy yard
in this city. .
General - Francis Effington Pinto.
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who died recently in urooKiyn over
82 years old, was a soldier of the
Mexican war, in the First regiment
of New York volunteers, and the last
survivor of the regiment's officers. He
was a California pioneer, and a mem
ber of the great vigilance committee
of Sari Francisco. Returning east and
to farming, Mr. Pinto early in the
Civil war went out as lieutenant
colonel of the Thirty-second New York
and became its colonel; afterward he
wrote the history of his regiment in
Mexico. He was breveted brigadier
general for Civil war service.
Admirers of the late Secretary Hay
in Cleveland propose to start a fund
for the erection of a monument to. his
memory, which will take either the
form of a shaft in Lakeview cemetery,
or it may be a "new building at West
ern Reserve university named after
Secretary Hay.
Professor N. A. Cobb of Spencer,
Mass., who has been , in the employ of
the Australian colonial movement in
New South Wales, has been engaged
by Secretary Wilson to push scientific
farming in the Hawaiian islands. He
will assume charge of the new United
States experiment station at Hawaii.
William J. Calhoun of Chicago, who
has been selected to treat with Presi
dent Castro as President Roosevelt's
confidential agent, comes. of a family
"who do." Mr. Calhoun is not only
a successful lawyer, but he is one
oft he best posted on International,
commercial and corporate law, and is
a quiet, modest and unassuming gen
tleman, who has made his record by
sheer ability to win.
A young Russian, claiming the title
of Prince Potemkine, and said to, be
the son of Admiral Potemkine, from
which the mutinous battleship Kniaz
Potemkine derived its name, is in
New York. He arrived on the French
liner La Bretagne. . The , young man
made the trip in the steerage, al
though when his property was ex
amined at Ellis. Islnd it was found
that he had nearly $25,000 in cash.
To his fellow travelers the young man
said he had sold his place in Russia,
had dividided a sum, equivalent to
$1,000 among his ten aunts and had
left Russia for all time. He said after
a short sojourn In the east he would
go west and buy a farm. He de
claimed against existing conditions in
Russia and said he did not desire to
live longer in that country.
Mr. Richard F. Outcault, the fa
mous cartoonist and creator of "Bus
ter Brown," is now abroad, spending
the summer in London and Paris,
where his drawings are as well known
as in America. On his return in Sep
tember Mr. Outcault will enter on a
lecture tour that promises to be
unique in the history of the platform.
Starting from New York he will travel
west, opening his tour in October in
the western country. He will fill an
engagement at the Lewis and Clark
exposition in Portland, Ore., after
ward visiting San Francisco, Los
Angeles and other coast cities. Then
he will lecture in Texas cities, New
Orleans and the south, reaching New
York about January 1, after having
delivered 100 lectures. These lec
tures will consist of drawing, story
telling and narratives of adventure,
and will be of especial interest to chil
dren, for whom many matinee en
gagements will be filled.
" Winston Churchill is the first of
England's coming men. If he chooses
to take it, a seat in the next cabinet is
at his disposal. Whether he will take
it or not, no one knows, not even
Mr. Churchill himself. For he has
got ten years' start of all his com
petitors, and as he has time on his
side, he need not hurry. Winston is to
Randolph as Pitt was to Chatham. It
is seldom that son follows so immedi
ately in the steps of his father. Chat
ham first took office when thirty
eight, Randolph when thirty-six. Pitt
refused subordinate office when twenty-three,
and was Chancellor of the
Exchequer six months later. Winston
Churchill, if the general election takes
place this year, will have the refusal
of cabinet office before his thirty-first
birthday, Winston's . past , has been
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variegated. His present is exciting.
His future is more brilliant in its
prospects than that of any other man,
save his old colleague, Lord Hugh
Cecil. If both are alive and hearty
in 1910, one will be leading the lib
erals, and the other the conservatives.
For we are on the threshold of the era
of youth. W. T. Stead in Tom Wat
son's Magazine.
It is a curious fact that Mr. Gully,
former speaker of the British house
of commons, at one time was very
despondent as to his future, and that
the despondency was shared by two
of his comrades in the legal profes
sion. There is a story of those three
discussing seriously whether they had
not better throw up England altogeth
er and seek fortune in India or one
of the colonies. Luckily they decided
to give their fortune another chance,
with very notable results. Mr. Gully
ended as speaker of the house of com
mons;, another became lord chancel
lor; the thiM died when lord chief
justice.
THE WORTH OF TOIL
The noblest men I know on earth
Are men whose hanls are brown
with toil:
Who, backed by no ancestral graves,
Hew down the woods and till the
soil.
And win thereby a prouder fame
That follows King's or warrior's name.
The workingmen, what'er their task
To carve the rtone or bear the
hod
They wear upon theh honest brows
The royal seal and stamp of God!
And brighter are their drops of sweat
Than diamonds in a coronet!
God bless the noble workingmen,
Who rear the cities of the plain,
Who dig the mines and build the
ships,
And drive the commerce of the
main.
God bless them! for their swarthy
hands
Have wrought the glory of our lands.
Technical World.
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