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FEBRUARY 14,1907
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
j DRIFTWOOD jj
There were many days last month
when the farmers of Nebraska might
have plowed, but they waited for mois
ture and iooJc at us now.
The lawmakers of South Dakota are
planning on a capitol building that will
make our own state building look like
a horse- barn in comparison; tfnd South
Dakota i-a much younger and poorer
state than this. Some of our citizens,
living nlonsr the Missouri bottoms are
going so far as to oppose the small ap
propriation necessary for bracing the
tracked south wall of the east wir.fr.
Writing for Outing Magazine, John
Burrows declares his belief that animals,
with the exception of man, never commit
suicide. This is not true. Anyone who
has ever trapped muskrats will agree that
this little animal unless able to gnaw
its Jog off to escape from the cruel
trap will invariably drown itself if in
roach of water. So will the beaver un
der like conditions, and a tantalized
rattlesnake will in desperation turn and
rend its own flesh, dying from the ef
fect of its own virus.
I've heard there's no such thing as pain,
Tiut somehow I can't make it ylain
That such can really be the case
There's something shoots along my face
Ami through one eye; I cannot tell
thoroughlv spiritualized as to obtain
Its name I know it hurts like every
thing. Some say this is but "error," now
Though Truth or error, anyhow
It gives me more than my deserts,
And when I say I know it hurts
And .speak it out before all men,
Please do not. contradict me then,
T.est in the frenzy of my mind
I might do something real unkind.
If what I suffer is not pain,
Please tell me what, and make it plain.
If any other name will take
Its place I'll be right glad to shake
J. '. Troyer, a civil war veteran, who
for three long years endured all kinds
of dangers and hardships to keep this
old union from breaking in two in the
middle, writes to say that he is opposed
to the present system of Grand Army
parades at the annual reunions of the
bovs in blue. Mr, Troyer doesn't like the
order now observed of having the grand
procession led by a military band and
a regiment of brave boys from the near
est military station, followed by the
mayor and city council and prominent
citizens in carriages, all wearing plug
hate and imagining themselves the real
attraction of the parade; and last the
white haired fighting force of the early
sixties limping along to the music of the
squeakv old fife and the rat-a-tat-tat of
the snare drum. He thinks the order
ought to be partially reversed, and that
the remnants of the battle-scarred
veterans of the union ought to occupy
carriages while the bottle-scarred poli
ticians of the several city wards hay-foot-straw-foot
in the rear of the open
buggy containing the mayor and chief
of police. That's the thing exactly,
flive honors to whom honors are due.
The members of the Grand Army of the
Republic have had their share of weary
marches, and where their annual encamp
ments are held they deserve the free use
of the best vehicles in the city.
Neuralgia! tic douloureux! This Is a
distemper to which people of every age
and clime are subject, though it rarely
occurs in tropical countries where people
live out in the radiant sunlight and per
fumed air, wearing little except ivory
rings and a tawny complexion. The
ravages of this monster are most wide
spread and fearful when the frost is on
the sundog, and the snow is two feet
deep. Look at Minnesota! No, don't;
it wi'.l snowblind. Besides those who
live in glass houses should not throw
frozen potatoes.
To return, if you have ii"uralia you
have got something. You cannot see it.
You cannot hear it coming down the
road proclaiming itself the sovereign
grand hellraiser of the mighty empire of
mortal misery, but you know the hour
of its arrival, what it is up to while
here, and how long it stays.
In the Father's limitless kingdom of
worlds and systems of worlds, all the
mighty forces that move things are invis
ible. You see the ponderous steam engine
pounding along in the lead of ten coaches,
at the rate of sixty miles an hour, but
were the cylinders made of glass, the
steam as n enters them, still in the hey
day of its wonderful expansive power
could not be seen by mortal eyes. Here
conies the loaded trolley car llekitysplit.
but who is pulling it? Show me. There
li nothing in sight but the niotoniian
with one band on the brake and the
other on the controller. You se,. him,
but he doesn't yu andthe next
car rumen along in ten minutes. 1 tut
we digress.
Tie- ptiu of neuralgia Is.imi vNih'e.
Yon cannot put a collar around tin neck,
fasten a chain to it, lead it out to the
ttt a and tie It In a utall adjoining that
.if tie spelled ei.w called Speek. where
It ran howl all nlpht and keep you
nwake. It H ' who will do ile howl
ing all rteht. Von cannot Kiitlur it vp
In a basket and put It Into mid Mora
Vliele It Will keep nil il miner and H
f,ir the fiexh m-th In In the fall It ha
neither length, breadth nor iljekii -4
V-H 'AII-MUJl Mi! la1 .'oil ,KIM !, .l.ii: ill
you t ki off o.ur hat M hi 11 H 1 nie.
I ui on lei at p leatioiiM and howl like nil
luili.ui WhiM.pi ! Wow! Oh, iid tir! Cull
It milt, il . r,'r," call It nti.tthlmc joi
j. ii.it If It comes whn ui call
It. xmi'll l.i inh-hty jim' alt t'n way
thi "iH.
I rue from a the bed wli-i I hue
lain
To xl'tK th ..w. r ami pod in v of pain
t I-., 1 rttll (I'M lot el, u fill' reil
At i n tiling that annum cm f I.
Some tasks there be that stump the one
who tries.
And pain's a thing no one may analyze,
But any man whose head is on for fair
Will moan responsive when he feels it
there.
I took a cold the other day and so
Began this siege I have tic douloureux,
A thing which makes a poor benighted
cuss,
As one might say, forsooth, tic doulour
ous. Along this line I could expatiate
A whole day, or a half at any rate,
But this game eye continues to offend,
And pain is pain. If not, say what. The
end.
In the recent game at th state house
where county option wag the issue, the
amalgamated association of brewers held
all the trump cards. Munt have been a
misdeal.
It takes the conceit out of a man to
serve a term lu. the legisla ture. He never
accomplishes a hundredth per cent of
what he thinks he can when elected, and
he goes home wearing a hat a quarter of
a siza smaller than the one i.v .
when he came to town.
Again the snow has disappears,
The sky is fair and clear,
And this once aching heart is cnaered
By signs that soring is near.
The robin hasn't tuned its throat,
I haven't heard it sing,
But Adler has my overcoat..
And that's a sign of spring.
"Let all things be done with chairty:"
1 Corinthians xvi:14.
Every man has a notion that his way
is the right way. If it were otherwise it
might be difficult for him to get along
with himself and not occasionally fall
out and have a row. He may do. things
as he was taught when a boy, in which
casa he will modestly give the credit to
his father, and manifest his loyalty by
declaring that father's way is good
enough for him.
Back in the state of New York, where
the soil is very rocky and poor but al
ways an abundant rainfall, it was long
ago discovered that to get the best re
sults in raising potatoes, it was necessary
to set the rows a considerable distance
apart and "hill them up" that there
might be plenty of earth for the new po
tatoes to "set" and to develop in. The
same system will not work well in Ne
braska, for the reason that these "hills"
are apt to dry out in the wind and sun,
and the spud fails to fill out and mature
properly. The better way in this soil
and climate is to plow deeply, thoroughly
pulverize the soil, plant early, putting
the seed in at least three inches below
the frost line, then drag and level the
ground with a roller. When it comeg
time to cultivate the same plow used in
the cornfield is entirely available and no
other cultivation is demanded to insure
the largest possible crop. And such great,
luscious tubers, with skins that pop open
when boiled. Did you ever cover one
with codfish gravy, shut your eyes and
bear down upon it like a blizzard against
a haystack? If you know of anything
better it is probably so high priced that
the poor cannot afford it. But you can
not convince a native of New York that
the way father prepared for a potato
crop there is not the way to prepare for
one here. More often than otherwise he
despises you for even making such a
suggestion.
We not only desire that people shall
do things our way, but we want them to
think as we think, to believe as we be
lieve, and we are apt to blame them if
they do not and cannot.
You and I believe that countv option
is a measure of temperance reform; so
do the brewers and distillers, else they
would be in favor of it themselves. They
maintain that under the license system
there is less drinking than in the com
munities where the lid is on, but their
rontention doesn't stand the test of rea
son. The manufacture of booze is not a
philanthropic enterprise. It is to satisfy
a popular demand already existent or to
be created. A system that will extend
the general thirst is the one that meets
the cordial approval of manufacturers
the world over.
Has anyone ever spoken of our old
friend Anheuser Busch as a man who did
business pro bono publico? He had a
railroad built to his palace in St. Louis
so he could be put aboard the train with
out having to be ioilted down town in a
hack. Who cares for expenses when there
is an assured income of fabulous propor
tions from the sale of something that
makes a multitude of headaches, and of
heartaches, and does nobody an atom
of good under the shining sun?
But what has this to with the text?
The vote in the senate stood twenty to
eleven in opposition to letting the farm
ers have anything to say on the question
of license or no license In the counties
where they live. Maybe the majority Is
in the right in this matter. If the farmer
doesn't like to do business in a town
where there are saloors he has the privi
lege of hauling lis oats to the one that
has none. We who believe In county
option may feel like abusing the twenty
in the senate who voted against the mens
tire, but It Is charitable to believe that
th.'V did what thev thought '" r-' :
and there may bo the irhitst of a poxslbll
Ity tint they were right. Possibly these
powerful temptations are thrown In the
way of man to test his manhood. If In
stands un against It like a rock against
a tornado, md n"vor pets a scratch, g I
for him; If he tumble Into the gutter
as many have done and will do long
as the opportimll v exist and Is clothe. I
In the garments of b-gnlitr and respect
Mlltv, well. (Sml nlty the wife mil little
oiii's. Th 'y don't Ket niuch nnv where
. W.v
I 11 m not very much Inclined to s.iv
Harsh thing' when p. le do not think
inv way.
. r I am wore, to put riilde all I ike
I in .Un inlMtnVr a will n other f.i'k
Men rannol If they would he of on
mind.
Mi l It were fu!H' then, to le nnkln I
i (! e uixe tor ti'dlthb r doeMi'l Jl til to Hf
i yhe iT-atter In the light '.naf gV.un on
me.
, Th I mv j.r iver. and h ill he wh;h I
j 'iv:
ti ' tr l-ord. dire, t ny tt p ul a g th
And give me strength to etand up In the
tight
And strike hard blows for what I think
is right.
I do not fsar to publicly confess
I need more wisdom than I now possess.
And don't know where to glean it on
life's course
Unless I get it frcm the fountain source.
Strengthen my faith until life's race be
run,
Lt all I do in charity be done.
And all my thoughts, as among men I
mix,
Be less unkind and more forgiving.
BIX,
When Andrew? Jackson Davis wrote
"Nature's Divine Revelations" he
thought he was giving to the world the
grandest, compilation of demonstrable
truth ever bound In cloth and put upon
the market at $1.50 per volume. In the
use of high-sounding phrases he certainly
did have some of the old masters look
ing like a ten-cent novel by the side of
Dickens complete In half-morocco. But
after reading him, the average man really
didn't know what he had read. If any
thing the mysteries of life were a shade
deeper than before. That which was a
mystery Is a mystery no longer. Dr. G.
W. Grammer of Amsterdan, California,
has found out the whole story, and has
no object in living now save to let it be
known to the world. Dr. Grammer
knows it all he says so himself and he
makes this liberal offer: He will tell it
all to you, or to any other person who
can read plain English, for the nominal
sum of $25, one-half down, the balance
in two equal monthly installments. In a
leaflet he Informs you what you will get
when you get it, and the most important
fact is this: It will teach you how to
live on earth forever. No use of dying
at all, and here is the argument:
"The law of change and growth pro
vides that the cells which are worn out
and lost in our daily routine of work and
thought, shall also be daily renewed, or
replaced, and exactly in the same ratio.
And the very day that the building or
living process decreases in its supply be
low that of the disintegrating or dying,
and the proper ratio of cells and tissue
is not kept up; that every day old age and
decline begins to steal upon the Indivi
dual, and keens apace until It claims its
victim for a habitation beneath the sod."
The doctor's reasoning seems logical,
but is it? Years ago we had a fine and
fat aunt who used to laugh a great deal
and was splendid company because of
her everlasting good nature. And such
doughtnuts as that woman could make!
The cells worn out and lost in the daily
routine of her work were replaced every
day and then some. Though a great
worker, the process of repair in her
fleshly tissues was always more rapid
than the tearing down and every year
she grew a bit heavier and found it much
more difficult to run up hill. One day
when she was about her regular house
hold duties she toppled over and died,
and the doctors said it was apoplexy.
This is merely to- illustrate that it will
take something more than the rebuilding
of broken down tissue to establish eternal
life on this cold earth. It may be
worth it, but we can't come in on the
doctor's game unless he lowers the ante.
Our impression is that the fellow Is a
fat fakir who will have to be dealt with
by Uncle Sam for using the mails to se
cure more money than is honestly com
ing to him.
I would not assume to hammer
On the cause of Dr. Grammer
Though in looking through the leaflets
that his minions sent to me,
There is born the strong conviction,
Without any contradiction,
That the doctor is a fakir of a rather
low degree.
He would have his patron cherish
Hopes that he would never perish,
Fill him with the fool delusion he might
always stay alive;
All he need is proper knowledge
From this Amsterdamster's college,
And the knowledge from this college
may be had for twenty-five.
A HORSE AFRASD OF MICE
He Henri and Wlilniiejn When One
Kilter 111m Stall.
(Kansas City Star.)
"Why do you keep so many cats
around the station?" John McNarny,
chief of the fire department in the
West Side, was asked recently.
"i-'o that Ben can sleep soundly," re
plied Chief MeNarrcy.
Bin Is one of the lire horses. He
is a big bay; kind and gentle. One
great trouble Ben has Is a constant
fear of rats and mice. The instant a
rat pokes Its head up through a crack
in the iloor or ventures up too near
lien he throws his front feet 011 top of
the railing which stands two feet from
the iloor and there he stands until tin
niouso or rat disappears.
"Talk about u woman making 11 fus.n
over a mouse, but a womnn Isn't In
Is compared with Il. n," Chief McNarry
said recently. "That horse can tnako
more fuss over a mouso than a room
full nf women. He climbs on top of
that railing with Ids front fctt and
Mainp on the Ihmr with his hind feet.
That horse dnuifw about rats. Hut
Ben I thi tpl hor In th depart
ment and in' humor hlm."
Puti and t lr cat- work together.
Winn the burst' begin climbing on tho
railing and making all kind of imls,
tlie cat have barioil that there h 11
iiiiiuhk In I'm n'a corner. They come
1 ft out nil jarta of th Million urn! lbt
frlsthN tiei homo id ntfu at peace
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In the county court of Lancaster
county, Nebraska.
In the matter of the estate of Ouenther
K. Flessman, deceased.
State of Nebraska, Lancaster county,
ss To all persons interested in the estate
of Guenther K. Plessman, deceased:
Notice Is hereby given that on the 12th
day of February, 1907, Mary Plessman
filed her petition In the county court of
Lancaster county Nebraska, praying for
the assignment to her for life for the use
of herself and the minor heirs of de
ceased of all the real estate owned by
deceased at his death as the homestead
of said (Junther K. Plessman.
You and each of you are hereby or
dered to show cause, If any, at the county
court room in said county on the 11th day
of March, 1907, at 1 o'clock p. m., why
the prayer of said Mary Plessman should
not be granted, and the real estate afore
said be assigned to her and said minor
heirs as a homestead as prayed for in said
petition.
Dated this 12th day of February, WIT.
FRANK U. WATKRS,
(Seal)
County Judge.
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