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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. One
party believes in litx-ra! laws snd a
laxity of law enforcement to enrour
ig Kirnngerx to cAme to Lincoln and
spend their money. The other party
Insbts that there h more money for
Linctln In the strict enforcement of
strict regulations, even If the matter
N not argued frem a moral stand
point at nil. These eopl hold that a
large nhare of Lincoln' growth In the
lat few year Is due to the rrputatkm
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