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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.. Kptacopallan
Ty lr, l fnmrat Kplxcopallan
IV.k. IviiMN-rat.,.. , Prmbytettan
Taylor. Whig..... EpIneupatlaB
Fillmore. Whig KplcopJian
Pierce. Hem. ve r a t E p lac-op linn
llorhanan, Demo, rat PfubytrrUn
Lincoln, Republican Methodist
J oh tnon, Repuhllea n Methodlat
t Irani. Republican... .....Methodlat
Have. Republican , Mtnoditit
lUrneht. lit publican Mthodlt
Arthur, Republican Episcopalian
Cleveland, I vm.M-rtl.,.. ,,,,,, Treat. vfrlan
H lltrrlr.m. K publican Prenbyierbin
Cleveland, I Vhhh rat .,...,.,, lrbyt erl n
McKlnley, Republb an.... ....... ..Methodlt
Rooaevelt. Republican,, Reformed Dutch
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