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14 Tho Hcbrsdia Independent JANUARY 24, 1907 metropolis, and keep his lungs and liver astir by rides and drives in Cen tral park and talks after dinner with the best men and women on the conti nent. Princeton solitude should have no charms for such born leaders as Mr. and Mrs. Grover Cleveland." One cannot help wondering whether the cift John V. Farwell, the Chicago merchant, presented to bis 1,200 em ployes at Christmas was as acceptable as a percentage of their salary would have been. Mr. Farwell crave the men a copy of his recent book, "Corner stones of Character," In which the physical, mental and spiritual life of a young man is discussed and the writ er's own experiences given. Mr. Far well Is a Chicago pioneer, and the book Is reminiscent of the early days of the T. M. C. A. In that city." DISGUISED ADVERTISING. During the congressional railroad rate debate last year tho efforts of railroad press bureaus to smuggle edi torial matter or distorted and mislead ing news matter Into the country pa pers were shrewd and tireless. The most watchful of editors was occasion ally caught in somo new trap. In a few cases the matter which the railroads desired to have printed was sent to a local paws holder to handle, and the editor had to withstand a personal lo cal influence if he kept his columns clean. That attempt to rape the Ne braska press was as a whole an utter failure, as has apparently been the later effort of eastern press bureaus to induce the editors to run as news the campaign articles of an organisa tion formed to oppose municipal ownership. The need of watchfulness is not past, however. Several editors par ticularly in southeastern Nebraska may be surprised when they come to read to the end an article on the patent insldes of this week's Issue of their papers headed, "For Square Deal," and beginning with an eulogy of Governor Sheldon, Within the arti cle they And a covert attack upon the direct primary, which Gevurnor Shel don, favors, a stab at those members of the legislature who have tried to devise ways and means to abate the lobby nuisance, and a patent attempt to shield such members as may incline to serve the purposes of the opponents of the very "square deal" idea which baits the beginning of the article. The editorial columns of most of these pa p rs Indicate that their editors would not knowingly allow such matter to go to their subscribers in the guise of an impartial report of legislative pro ceedings. They have evidently been imposed upon by fresh efforts of would be seducers of the press. Eternal watchfulness Is the price of unpolsoned publicity. SPOKANE'S STRONG CASE. If the transcontinental railroads are to haul anything at all except time freight to the Pacific coast, they must meet the competition of ocean vessels that circumnavigate South America with freight from the Atlantic coast That is the theory upon which the rail roads have been shipping freight through Spokane and some hundreds of miles beyond to Pacific coast ports at less than they charge for the same freight if it stopped at Spokane, sav ing the extra hundreds of miles of hauling. Freight hauled at these low rates might not make a profit, it is urged, but it helps to keep the line em ployed and to pay fixed charges such as interest and cost of maintenance. Now If it should appear that the roads are making excessive profits while charging the coast cities the competi tive rate and looking to the helpless interior cities for their profits, the re duction of rates that should iollow would logically be made in behalf of cities like Spokane that have contrib uted these excessive profits. So far as the Spokane hearing has gone, the rep resentations of that city seem to have fairly floored the representatives of the coast cities and of the railroads with that proposition. The theory of water competition, which was at one time upheld by the commission, is not ques tioned at all. It is merely shown that the roads are now making enough profits to put the interior upon the basis established for coast towns in view of water competition. The attor neys of the coast cities had to take a lightning hap. They suddenly decided that there are other reasons than water competition why the coast cities should be favored In freight' rates, and they ask that the hearing be delayed a few months, presumably to give them time to find out what these reasons nre. Can you please give me some infor mation about the Indian schools of Nebraska or tell me where I can obtain such Information? . There are three. A training school at Genoa, superintendent, William H. Wlnslow, Genoa, Neb.; agency school at Winnebago, superintendent, C. P. Mathewson; agency school at Santee agency, Neb., superintendent, H. .C. Baird. What is the debt of the United States? Is Great Britain's greater? About $900,000,000. Great Britain's debt is a little over four times as great. In what states did the democrats make gains in the election of 1904 over the election of 1900? v The full table of gains and elections of democrats and republicans in all the states In 1904 compared with 1900 is as follows: Republican. Democrat Gain. Loss. Gain. Loss. Ala. 33,162 16.516 Ark. 2.060 16,708 Cal. 40.471 35,tl Col 41.815 22.G2S Conn 8.022 1,088 Del. ............ 1.1S5 ...... 602 Fla.- 895 1,214 (la. 1.032 1,773 Ida, 20.6X5 10.934 111 34.1WO 175,4.r6 Ind S3.2J0 35,r9 Iowa 67.024 Kas 24.918 77,801 Ky 21.574 17.7:23 I A 9,028 MSI Main fcW 9.192 Md. ............. ..... 26,7U6 12,!CS Man lX.9f- 8.717 Mich. 45,597 77.531 Minn 56,190 57.714 MNh. 1.57 ...... Mo. ...... ...... 44,07a Mont ,, , 9,059 15.3:3 Neb U.7-.3 c.m Nev. 2,iW? ...... ...... 2..CH N. It 634 1.51 N. J 23.157 22 N. Y 57.641 N. 31. Ml R 1, 16,704 Ohio ............ M. 174 ...... ...... 1 ,'! imucn ls.its n,m Term, tX5M M.234 U. 1 7.JC1 ...... &.027 K ( i i tittttuM X $CBl H D 17.54? 11,543 Ttnn. .,.... ll.JCfl ...... Tni lOOtt I'tah ,........ U.Sflft ... .. At. ......a...... 4,114 ,..- 3. OTS V. . ...... ...... ..... 43,414 K,M? Wik.Iv. 44.061 w K."4 W. Va 12,298 , 2,145 Wis. 14,208 35,178 Wyo 5,972 1.3U8 Totals 732,048 312.249 30,792 1.291,491 And b111 fluttered down the snow. -Came Chanticleer's muffled crow. The stiff rails were softened to swan's down. From sheds new-roofed with Carrara What presidents of the United States were Free Masons? President George Washington, Thos. Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Jas. A. Garfield, Wm. McKlnley and Theodore Roosevelt were Initiated into Freemas onry. Please give the date of the approach ing German elections. January 25. How many lynch! ngs were there last year in the United States? About sixty-eight. Will you print Lowell's poem, The First Snowfall? The snow had begun In the gloaming. And busily all the night Had been heaping field and highway With a silence deep and white. Every pine and fir and hemlock Wore ermine to, dear for an earl. And the poorest twig on the elm ire Was ridged Inch deep with part. I stood and watched by the window The noiseless work of tho sky, And the sudden llurrica of snow-birda, I. lk brown leaves whirling by. 1 thought of a tnoynd In sweet Auburn. Wher n Utile headstone Ktood: How the flakes were folding It gently. As did the rufelns tho babes In the wood. toke our own ll'.tle Mattel K.iylng, "Father, who make it now!" An! I told of the bhm1 Ail-rather Who care for u here below. Again I looked at the snowfall, And thought of the ladn xky That arched o'er our first Rreat sorrow. When that mouud wa hvid mo high, I remembered the gradual rttlncw that fell from that rloudlik mow, Hake by Hake, realms: and hiding The wear of our d '( plunged wo. And attain l Ui. child I whimpered. 'The amiw that hwhHh all. Darling, the mreifd Father A I...-. ..... ...it., it r.lft Then llh ei- that uw not, I kbuwd hr: And she, kissing back, could not know That my kiss was given to her sister, Pplded close under deepening snow. Who is the author of Casablanca? Felicia Hemans. In what colleges are the professors eligible to Carnegie pensions? How many professors have received pen sions? ' Amherst. Beloit, Carleton college, Case Sschool of Science, Clark Uni versity, Clarkson School of Technology, Colorado college, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Ceorge Washington Uni versity, Hamilton, Harvard, Hobart, Johns Hopkins, Knox College, Iowa College, Lawrence University, Lehigh, Leland Stanford Jr., University, Mari etta College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Middlebury College, Mount Holyoke College, New York University, Oberlin, Brooklyn Polytechnic, Prince ton, Itadcliffe, lilpon College, Smith College, Stevens Institute of Techno logy, Trinity College, Tuffs College, Tulane University, Union College, Uni versity of Pennsylvania, University of Rochester, University of Vermont, Vas sar, Wabash College, Washington Uni versity, at St. Louis; Washington and Jefferson College, Wellesley, Wells' Col lege, Western Reserve University, Wil liams College, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Western University of Penn sylvania and Yale. In Canada th. ac cepted schools are Dalhousle Univer sity, at Halifax, and McGill University, at Montreal. Eighty-eight professors have been retired on pensions derived from this fund. Is Ireland the original home of the potato? By no means. The potato is indigen ous to the plateaus adjoining th moun tainous range known as the Andes,' in Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Co lombia, also the mountains of Costa Rica, Mexico, and the United States as far north as western Colorado. Accord ing to Humboldt (the German natur alist), when America was discovered, it was cultivated by the natives in the temperate zone from Chile to New Granada, but not in tropical Mexico.. It was first found by the Spaniards, under cultivation by the natives in the nighborhood of Quito, and probably carried to Spain early in the sixteenth century. It was Introduced into Vir ginia by the Spanish explorers, and in to Great Britain by Sir John Hawkins in 1563 (Garten Zeitung, 1805 page 346). According to Sir Joseph Banks, the po tatoes brought by Hawkins were of the sweet ' variety;; The credit : is? generally assigned to Sir . Walter Raleigh, as herewith given. In 5 1585 or 1586, pota toes were brought from North Caro lina and Virginia to Ireland by Sir Walter Raleigh, and cultivated on his estate near Cork. Although cultivated In Italy and Spain for some years pre vious to that time, the earliest repre sentation of the plant is to be found in Gerard's Herbal, published in 1597, and in the first addition of Catalogus by the same author, published in 1596, al so in the second edition, whiclt was dedicated to Sir Walter Raleigh in 1599. In the Herbal we find the first descrip tion accompanied by a wood cut (page 781) called tho "Potatoes of Virginia." As seen from the above, potatoes have been cultivated in England more than 300 years, though not generally for more than a century, which is also true as to our own country. Give a short sketch of John Philip Sousa. . . Who's Wrho -gives this: Musician, born Washington, November 6, 1856; studied music, teacher at fifteen, con ductor at seventeen; was one of first violins of Jacques Offenbach's, orches tra when the latter was in the United States; land leader, U. S. marine corps 1880 to 1892; since 1892 director Snusa's land; has compose! and published many marches, orchestral suites, Te Deums," songs, waltzes und the light operas El Capitan, Bride Elect, The Charlatan, and Chris, or the Wonderful Lamp. Married. Author, The Fifth String, Pipetown Sandy. Address, As tor Court Building. New York. Please give the church affiliations of all the presidents. lreident. Politic. Religion. Washington. Federalist Episcopalian J. Adams, Federalist..., Congregational!! Jefferson, Republican N'on-St tartan Madison Republican Episcopalian Monroe. Republican Episcopalian J. Q. Adams Rep,,...congrest!onalLit Jack.vm, Democrat... 1 Yet by t erl a n Van lluren. Democrat. ...Reformed Dutch HarriNon, Whig.. 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A Lincoln busineis man says: "So far have resisted the temptation to buy futures in grain, although the re sistance has been accomplished after an effort. For several seasons I have been buying and cribbing corn during the winter &eason and putting it on the market in the spring. Almost every year, after getting the corn cribbed, insurance paid and commissions and in terest taken care of, I have found that the corn has cost me from two to four cents more than I could then buy May . corn for on the Chicago market. Yet I have continued buying the real arti cle and putting it away in cribs." . A loyal son of Washington state who Is visiting in Lincoln was taunted the other day with Oregon's lead over Washington In the matter of progres sive legislation. 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