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11 FEnHU-iTiY 21.1W7 THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT j . f ,.11., ili ti (TA'N i! ;ccasiouaii' uu vl.iv.? - theory that. the collection of debts by law should be abolished. Let the pay ment of a debt be wholly voluntary. Then credit would be extended only to the honest, there would be no expen sive litigation, and only rarely un paid debt; so goes the argument. It is -the contrary view that the retail mer chants take in asking the legislature o make it possible to collect debts by force of law in circumstances wherein now the debtor is exempt. The present law by which a married man with a good salary can defy his creditorn. pute a premium on fraud, so they at g ae, and not without excellent foundation. Thee two views with variations will Jo doubt divide men .as long as men buy things on "tick." If first one view Prevailed and then the other the gen 'ulls in the long run would JritablV 'diverge less widely than one might suppose riearlv the Nebraska house of rep ros nUUves will never vote in favor J woman suffrage, vo long as-a majority Tre convinced "that family ,eace hes in IZ S direction So far the ex- SLT the " way- for a sixteenth amend ment panting, national woman suf frage, family discord is the grisly tear Jhnt haunts the minds of most of the iSfmhi! The British suffragists, mficker for once than their American ZTs, have grasped this disposition of the male mind and are taking uie fogical course. This week the parlia mfn house has been beset by crowds of clamorous women, demanding suf frage not at the, expense of peace, but Tthe Sice of peace. This policy was " r imnr aan nt the fir:r inauKUrairii " . . SuweSlon of the then Prime Minister rcalfrnir "Stir up trouble," said Mr., fi ouJ: "that is the way. to get what you iant.". George Meredith, the fa mous novelist, gave the same advice. "The mistake of the women," he said, "is to suppose that John Bull will move sensibly for a solitary kick. It is only hv the repetition of this method of en livening him that John Bull can be persuaded to move at all Th lip Snowden, an influential incrabcr of he house of commons, predicts that the present parliament will grant the de mands of, the suffragists,-. saying:.' But how soon depends entirely upon the nersistency of the exertions of the agi tators " This persistency the women are now attending to with full zeal. ' Already over two-thirds of the mem bers of parliament, perhaps not as a consequence of this activity, but it seems partly ko, are said to have com mitted themselves to passing a woman suffrage bill before the end of the present parliament. Should the Nebras ka suffragists take- to English ways the members of the next Nebraska leg islature may vote for suffrage for the sake of peace as "this week they voted against it for the same reason. H. M. Bushnell has the following -to say on an interesting phase of the county option question: "County option should stand or fall on the county vote proposition. To divide the "county into districts, as proposed by some of the legislators, would leave the conditions practically as they are now. If the -people of -a county under coun ty option vote against license in the county every town in that county would then stand on the, same basis. The contest for saloons on the theory that' they would hold the local trade would be eliminated from each town because the saloons would be elimi nated r'rom all the towns of the county. As the conditions are now, under th I present law, there is a constant strife between towns adjacent to each other with the pro-license people dl the white using the unworthy argument that each town must hold on to the saloon system for fear of losing the fanner patronage. As it is now, every dry town in the state has a saloon faction clamoring and plotting from year to vear. using all the while this old exploded , theory that the rtval town, is nn ire prosperous and attracting more ' firmer Ix-cans' it ha sslonn. County option would put all the towns' in the county on the name basin and these annual struggles in each town, and the feuds and had feelings f T,rn,j(.n.,l by them would largely dis appear. . A Notre Dame Lady I will wail free wilh fuU iitrkM htuu. m r.f itiHimrle preparation .'on he cure of ! rorrhcea rieeralion. iHt-Urenient. rall,t.r it the Womb, hcanif or Painful fr.oU Tw lint or iironlU. Hut Flu". lwr lol'rj. Creepier fr-nnr up U Spine, in Psek and uil rrrnale TreuWe. to :i seralm 1i1re. To nwlbw of mnrinf durh-erM Ui ettiinin fiijeefu! Ili'ino "rreutmerit. If tou Are to eoattnue It will ofttT ro- about IS cent a wWtTera4ae cure Telt other wrfferera wt U. that to ell 1 H too eie m. ierevet writ a ' aftering trtraaVof . Arw Mrs. U. Sawwn, Hoi "I think the business men over the state are comine more and more to see that county option is a practical way to settle the saloon . question in the" small towns and villages especially, so that the business people in these towns will not be constantly divided over the -saloon question. The saloon question is the cause of a contention every year in half a dozen towns of a county, "whereas, if the county as a whole could vote and settle the ques tion it would be settled fully through out the whole county and the business public in each town having no quarrel pending over the wet or the dry prop osition would turn its enerries towards the growth of the town" and the work ing out of business enterprises. There is nothing today in the state of Ne braska that deadens the growth and progress of towns, and that divides the business men more than the ever re curring contention on the saloon ques tion. The county option law would eliminate this annual strife. This reason alone, if there were no other. Is enough to justify such a law. The town that has a quarrel on hand all the time over the saloon question is not an inviting town -to mniH b'w citizens come either for homes or for investment. The men Jn the state senate who opposed the county option bill because it would, make the saloon question an issue in each county every two years evidently overlooked the fact that as it is now we have this sa loon question not every two years in each county but every year in every town of every county in the state." "There is a strong demand for mon ey," says a Lincoln banker. 'It comes from the country, but that does not necessarily mean from the farmer. Once in a while a farmer is found who is a speculator and a borrower, but the majority of them have money they can put their fingers on when needed. The demand will increase about March 1, when many real estate deals in the state will be closed. A great many changes in , ownership of Nebraska property are being recorded and these take money, and the effect of the change is being felt by Lincoln banks." Relating to the amount of money in the country a banker reports a stock sale in the vicinity of Wymore, where $1 ,600 worth .of stock was , sold and where notes to the amount of $160 only jvere 6ffered in payment. He explains this in this way: "The farmer may not have the money but he can go to his banker and get it, if his credit is good, on his plain note. ' The banker knows him, knows his resources and his disposition to pay, and is ready to loan him money. If he goes to the sale and offers a note he is compelled to ask someone to sign the note with him. The average farmer dislikes to ask hjs neighbor to sign a note with him, and the result is that he gets money of his banker. Then, too, many farmers keep ready money in the bank which they check against. Sometimes their relations with their banker are so close that their check is good whether they have money on deposit at that time or not. Tour country banker knows more about the financial situ ation of the people in his neighborhood than the city banker knows about his patrons. The patron of the country bank tells his financial troubles and successes to his banker and the city patron often hides these things from his money loaning friend." The big; business concerns of Lin coln are growing in a truly metropoli tan way with the new year. The Hardy Furniture company is about to move into a new store on O street between Thirteenth and Fourteenth that will be a revelation to the people who have, been buying of the house since 1870. The JUidge & Oucnzel company is building u. four-story store on O street between Tenth and Eleventh, and now the tenants on the second floor of the Miller &. Paine building are preparing to move out to make room for another story and bigger departments there. There is progress all along the line in the retail section of Lincoln, and just as much in the jobbing district. It is expected that not only one but perhaps two wholesale dry goods companies tuny be organised in the next two months. Attorney General W. T. Thompson and Deputy Attorney (brieral V. P. Kose, liHVlug been directed by 5oV ernor Sheldon to bring a Milt to te,t the right of the governor to accept the iij.e of the hou bought by order of the W-Risluturo for tho two of the governor, haw rfurnv-d that duty and lmv filed a brief in the supreme court of the state setting forth argu ment why llu governor U prevent ed by the ronwtlUiflon from receiving anything other than hU salary. Th attorneys jumotI that while the cutifttllutlon makem might have ber turlurnted by rung committed by state officers, they did not leave the legislature with power to confer upon the governor the right to use a house owned by the state, the state to fur nish light and heat and a servant ir addition to the governor's salary. The wuit is on behalf of the state to recover from Governor George L. Sheldon $100 rent for the month of January for the residence set aside for him by act of the legislature. 11 is argued by the state's attorneys that the governor's compensation is limited by the constitution to $2,500- a year and he cannot lawfully receive any additional. The case is presented to the court on demurrer by Governor Sheldon, who is the defendant to the state's petition attorney general contains the follow ing statements: House rental, ligh, heHt and service of an employe, when gratuitously fur nished by the tate for the individual use and benefit of the perquisites of office or and acceptanc-e thereof, his salary, is a violation tution. reputation of Lincoln. Hi says it brings students here In large num bers. ' The university is now constructing in its own shops a telescope of twelve inches aperture and eighteen feet focal length. This would be regarded by professional telescope makers as a rather ambitious undertaking, since the machinery for operating a large tele scope, while massive, must yet be "built, like a watch." Professor Rich ards is confident, however, that the work of building the mechanical parts, even including such delicate work as graduating the circles and building the driving clack, can be successfully The argument of theLdone in the university shops. i lit' KTiuuiug niiu -yvmsMiiiK uj. uio object glass, twelve, inches in diame-' ter, was completed some time ago by Dr. (V S. Minnich of palmer, Neb. The two discs of optical glass, one of crown and one of flint glass required for the lens, were inrported from the famous Jena4 glass works in Germany, one of the two or three establishments' in the world which are able to make these large blocks of glass of a tex ture perfect enough for telescoiie lenses. The cost of, these two discs of. rough glass was about $200. It required several months' work-of an exceedingly critical sort to so grind and finish these glass blocks that the ray of light ps fusing -through -all parts -of the twelve-inch lens will lie bent to meet at a common point eighteen feet away. Optical tests were made from time to time by Professor Swezey during the progress of tire work and the lens has been back and(' forth several times between Lincoln and palmer for this purpose. For the governor, are compensation, n addition to of the consti- The Wisconsin railroad commission decides the passenger fare matter by ordering the railroads to establish a rate of two and a half cents a mils, instead-of the flat two cent rate that had been largely demanded. A further request is made that family books be sold at the rate of $00 mile for $10, or two cents a mile. Like Nebraska, Wisconsin has a large area of thinly setteld. territory i as well as a consid erable area where the people are nu merous and the towns are populous and prosperous. When the commission comes to the decision that it cannot enforce a two cent fare generally, and is willing to take the next best thing, the decision is at least a hint to Ne braska not to make the rate law so drastic and inflexible that there is danger of losing it all. It is bent not to risk everything on a single, throw. One of the first lessons in the text book of philosophy which Nebraska pu pils were put tei studying when that subject was first made compulsory, for public? schools, some twenty years-ago,-illustrated the transmission of energy. Let several ivory balls be suapendeel by strings so as to hang in a straight row touching each other, said the book. Raise the ball at one end and let it drop against the second ball. The sec ond and the third and the fourth balls will not be moved, but only the last one in the row. Croquet was a popular game in thosp days, and all e:hildren of scientific mind proved: the. assertion, to their' complete satisfaction by testing it with a row of croquet balls. An in teresting effort to divert this law to uses hardly anticipated by the students of those days is now being made by the opponents of the two-cent railroad fare. A two-cent fare for Semth Dakota and Nebraska, they argue, is impossi ble because these statew have a less dense population than Iowa and Mis souri and the other states east. Iowa and Missouri should not hope for a two-cent fare, their legislatures have already been told, because their popu lation is not so dense as that of Illi nois and other states east. Mr. Pel ton, president of the Alton road, has Just finished explaining that Illinois has a less dense population than the states farther east, a complete bar to two cent fares. Indiana, of course, has a less dense population than Ohio, and should not aspire to a two-cent fare. While Ohio, which already has the two-cent fare in successful operation is distinctly the last ball in the row. Ohio alone flies out of line from the impetus started back ori the Rocky mountain slope and' transmitted through the intervening states. It Is not yet e;ertain, however, that the In termediate states are to remain as quiescent as croquet balls. "At prevailing prices few farms are paying 5 per cent on the investment or on the asking priee," says a central Kansas banker. "Prices are based rather on the desire for a home than on worth as producers." This has stopped investment and driven specu lators to the cities to buy town lots in hope of a rise. The same is true of much ef Nebraska farm land. An ob server of panics states lhat the regu lar order of march -Is farm boom, city boom, lull, crash. Two Ideas obtain among business men with reference to Hunday ' base bull and the silonn question. 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