THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
MARCH 14, 1907.
Loss of Appetite
Is common when the blood needs puri
fying and enriching, for then the blood
fails to give the digestive organs the
utimulus necessary for the proper per
formance of their functions.
Hood's Sarsaparilla is pre-eminently
the medicine to take. It makes the
blood pure and rich, and strengthens
all the digestive organs.
"I was all run down and had no
appetite. After taking one bottle of
Hood's Sarsaparilla I could eat any
thing I. wished." Mrs. Amanda Fen
ner, Oneco, Conn.
Accept no substitute for
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Insist on having Hood's. Getittoday.
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THE HI .'MB HA Hill MAN.
Is not this Harriman that would
have destroyed them that called on the
powers of "Washington for salvation
front railroad abuses? Six days ago
Mr. Harriman left New York far
Washington breathing out threatenlngs
nnd slaughter against the interstate
commerce commission and all who
thought as it thinks. He asked nothing
but for the railroads to be let alone.
Today he is back in New York saying
"I am ready to make the advancement
of a Hcheme of co-operation between
the government and the railways my
chief interest." He announces his be
lief in regulation by the government
and made the commission a friendly
visit while in Washington. "We all
made a mistake," he admits, in ex
plaining that the opposition to the
combination of capital was the result
of ..their, .own., failure to. consider the
rights and views of the public.
Verily Mr. Harriman's trip to Wash
ington has Iwen a journey to Da
mascus. There has suddenly shined
round him a light, and somebody has
caused the scales to drop from his eyes;
or else he is making a remarkable play
at Greeks with gifts.
IIl'VniVG TWO HARES. ,
An old story in an old setting with
"an opeif confession; to furnish its dis
tinction has to do" with" an Indiana
editor.. He was a reformer, and won
the confidence of his "subscribers, by
his fearless fusillades against the
enemies' of the people. Then the dis
ease by which Caesar fell fastened
upon his vitals. He became ambitious.
A new postmaster was. to be ap
pointed, and he saw that he could
fight the battle of righteousness with
more cheer and vigor if he had the
emoluments of that office. He men
tioned the matter to his congressman.
A campaign was coming and the con
gressman smiled upon his suit. Soon
he had. requests to say certain things
in his paper. Then he was asked to
suppress certain things. Soon our edi
tor found that he had lost control of
his paper's policy, that this rested
with the politicians to whom he was
looking for that appointment. Its re
form tendencies vanished. When the
time came to get the appointment to
the poetoffice the commission was made
out to another man. The editor dis
posed of his decaying paper, wrote an
apology to his subscribers for betray
ing them as he had done, and van
ished into the darkness that the say
ing might be fulfilled: He that pur
sues two hares at once does not catch
one and lets t'other go.
. STEUJY RETHKAT.
Observers of direct primary discus
sions and campaigns in Nebraska and
elsewhere can note the definite line of
retreat taken by the opponents of di
rect nominutions, and the successive
ditches in which they take shelter.
First, they are , frankly opposed . to
direct primaries and fn favor of con
ventions. Whenever there is much
discussion they are soon driven from
that redoubt.
Next they are In favor of local di
rect primaries, but opposed for many
reasons to the state-wide primary.
An soon as the people tike notice that
It Is fully as important to control the
uluto government as to control county
and municipal politic, the opponent
of state-wide primaries acquiesce, lul
otilv on condition thut the candidates
rliull be nominated by convention In
cane no candidate get a full mujorlty
nt the prlmnrle. The Idea of a plu
rwlity nomination U hitihly repugnant
to one who admire the mutliematiciil
prrrlfton with which conventions 1-
way nominate the candidate desired
by the tutj iHty of yot, r. Where they
f tn carry thla tolnt the inM tand
timde for ih cl'l a asulnttt the
ln primary,
(tattle won at Uir-e diffcnnt Mane
art recorded In the Uwm of the various
direct primary states. The primary
movement was checked short of the
state-wide feature in Minnesota. In
Illinois the law was so arranged aa
to throw the nomination into the hands
of a convention in case any interest
cared to bring out enough candidates
to insure no full majority for anybody.
The test oath is required in the Penn
sylvania closed primary, while the
movement in Wisconsin and Oregon
had momentum enough to carry every
battlement and provide a direct pri
mary law in completeness and purity.
FENCING IT IN.
An innocent news item mentions the
purchase of another line of, coasting1
steamers by the New York, New
Haven & Hartford railroad. Such a
thing as a man or a corporation own
ing the earth has been dreamed of,
though only partially realized. That a
man or a corporation should own the
sea has hardly been dreamed of, but in
this particular case it seems to hare
been realized. Long Island sound is
an inland sea 110 miles long and
twenty to twenty-five miles wide. It
affords a finely protected water front
for shipping and, beginning with New
York at its western outlet, a line of
manufacturing cities has grown tip in
recognition of these advantages. More
than thirty years ago, in order that the
country might have the full benefit of
this waterway, the United States gov
ernment assigned its greatest engineers
to the task of clearing the Ea.t river
to Hell Gate Rock, and that feat stands
today a monument to John Newton, the
officer under whose supervision the
work was done. The sound is receptacle
for the waters of the Connecticut, the
Housatonic, the Thames and the Mystic
rivers, and all this ocean empire Is now
fast becoming the property of the New
York, New Haven & Hartford railroad.
The company is not yet in. position to
punish and prohibit trespassers, but
boats cannot sail the sea without a
harbor, and the railroad company con
trols practically all the best landing
facilities on -Lond Island sound.
PORTO HICO.
Our Uncle Samuel has a little douma
of his own on his hands. Porto Rico
is to have a new governor, appointed
by the . president as the governor of
Canada is appointed by the king. The
Porto Rican douma, technically known
as the house of delegates, does not
demand the decapitation of Mr. Root
as the Russian delegates are doing for
Premier Stolypin, but they do ask that
the president appoint a. secretary of
Porto Rico, the old secretary having
been appointed governor, "from among
the natives of Porto Rico, thus giving
us an opportunity to demonstrate our
ability in self government"
Porto Rico is being governed under
the theory that self government is to
be granted as fast as the islanders can
be trusted with it. The representative
assembly which they now have is al
ready chafing under the limitations
upon its authority. Secretary Olmedo
of the San Juan board of trade writes
to an American paper protesting
against the slowness with which these
restraints from without are being re
laxed, and complaining particularly of
the lirm hand on the purse strings
held by the American officials. The
quest for a Porto Rican secretary is
a further evidence of the longing of
the Porto Ricans for more rope.
But San Domingo and Cuba do not
argue for lotting Porto Rico too sud
denly out of its leading strings. Porto
Ricans have still as the heritage of
centuries of Spanish rule small idea of
the meaning of a public trust. Public
office is to them a private snap, and
they come very slowly to 'believe that
their American guides are governed
by any other motives and fallow any
other plan. With them elections are
made, even more than in our worst
American municipalities, to turn upon
the physical ability of those In charge
to drive their opponents away from
the polls. If this country can be
trusted to manage Porto Rico for its
good and not for ours something that
Is to be questioned, perhaps, in view
of our senate's treatment of the Phil
ippinesthe wise thing will be to let
them have their own way. but slowly.
A r.KSV. OF 5IKAI.OMAl..
Fays Mr. Ilanimon: "The interstate
commerce commission could produce far
better results if the meinbvr would
try to co-operate with the business In
terval of the country iiudead of an
tagonizing them." Mr. Harrlman
force us to inquire, what are the butU
ne Interest of the country? The in
teriute commerce commission dealt
directly with the railroads of the conn,
try, Including expmw and jdetpln car
companies. Involving all 'dd about
twelve blltton dollars worth of prop,
crty. Them have to ome extent been
antagonised by the comml-wlon.. Hut
thin I lew than one-eighth of the to
tal bunlne Interest of lh country,
aa represented by It property. Them
lit th annual manafivturd product of
fifteen Mlllnn or no. Ther I th
farm property of It country valued at
fully . twice as much aa the railroads.
All told seven -eighths of the business
of the country, which deals indirectly
if not directly with the interstate com
merce commission, does not feel in the
least antagonized by its efforts to abate
transportation evils. Indeed quite the
contrary is true. Mr. Harriman is the
victim of a megalomania that will be a
pudding for the experts if it evef gets
into court. He assumes to be not only
the law of the land but the business
also.
SCOTCHIXG SACRAMENTO.
- Governor Gillette of California has
signed a bill for removing the capital
from Sacramento. The bill provides for
submitting the question to the voters
of the state. Now for a battle royal be
tween the real estate speculators.
Whether or not the location of a capi
tal actually does help a city, the pros
pective capital will be a gold mine for
real estate manipulators for a time fol
lowing the removal, should a removal
occur, A syndicate of real estate specu
lators with options on Berkeley land4
i, .. i - i , ., . . i
juts in iclci oeen active in ine capuai
removal project. Despite intellectual
convictions the timid capital of Sacra
mento will hardly be able to accept the
view of one San Francisco newspaper
that "We do not believe either,, that
many men of sense in Sacramento care
a tinker's objurgation whether the
state capital says there or not. For our
part, when we contemplate the shabby
lot of heelers and stew-bums that herd
together during the legislature's ses
sions we are profoundly grateful that
the capital is as far away from our
own city as it is; and we would-be
more profoundly grateful if it were lo
cated so far away that the representa
tives from San Francisco could not go
there and back short of a ten year's
journey."
One of the arguments that is said to
have had weight with the legislature
was that Sacramento deserved to be
punished for the way it voted a.t the
last election.
EXPERT EVIDEXt'E.
If the Thaw trial sets people to
thinking on the farcical nature of ex
pert' evidence as at present received
and used in criminal trials there will
be another lily to the credit of that
muck. "No well balanced medical man
would attempt to unqualifiedly define
insanity," said - a medical writer re
cently. Although the law attempts to
define insanity, that definition is by rp
means literally followed in filling in
sane asylums. In a case of this kind,
therefore, expert opinions of all sorts
on all sides are easy to find. A culprit
with plenty of money has here even a
greater advantage over justice than he
has in the hiring of lawyers, for here
he buys evidence of fact, where in ihe
hiring of lawyers he merely buys the
most skilful possible disposition of
evidence. "A jury knowing nothing of
the sciences involved, most of whose
members could themselves be proved
insane by expert evidence given the
occasion to do so and a discriminating
choice of experts, is supposed to de
termine which expert has the ,true
theory and which the false. In such a
proceeding justice has less show than
if the case were decided by the flip
ping of a nickel. In the long run the
latter method would give an. even
chance, whereas under the present sys
tem the decision is likely to turn upon
the amount of money the respective
sides are able or willing to spend.
HOW SHUTE 3IIXEIJ JUS LETTER
(From the Boston Herald.)
Judge Shute, the author, tells this story
on himself:
"My careless habit of mixing letters
near got me into a serious scrape some
years ago. I was then paying ardent anil
persistent attention to the present Mrs.
Shute. I also had a client, a very aged
woman, for whom 1 was conducting a
trivial lawsuit, but which,' like all law
suits in which women are parties, as
sumed tremendous importance in her eyes
"I wrote two letters, one to the young
ladv, as follows:
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Should you begin the treatment, I will let your
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Will you under such conditions, to be complete
ly and entirely free from Rheumatism, expend
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My boundless, never-endinir faith in Dr. Snoop's
Rheumatic Remedy has led me to malte and ful
fill this remarkable oHer. Positively no physician,
anywhere, has ever before said, ' I will Cur
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I want to get and must in some way get, every,
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stand what I myself now absolutely know, aboui
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And yet, strange to say, not one sufferer perhaps
in a hundred, even knows as yet of the remedy
and its power to battle against pain. To fctir. tx
awaken these unknowing ones, to spread tha
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Reader, you that are well and happy, do an act
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entirely free from risk, or of money loss.
For a complete cure I charge $10.00, for I must
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many will be cured with a bottle or two of my
remedy, but chronic, exceedingly deep-seated and
difficult cases, may require ten: twenty, or even
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Rut to secure this "No Cur, No Pay" privilege,
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Dr. Shoop. Contract B, Racine, Wis. Box 0940.
Do not trouble your druggist, please, about this
plan. He has no authority, nor will he furnish
my medicine, except to sell it at retail, bottle by
bottle. Write me instead today for my 'Contract
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The matter is now settled, and 1 have
other engagements of greater importance
to which 1 must devote my whole time.'
"These letters got mixed te letter to
Miss K. being addressed to the old lady,
the letter to the old lady to Miss K.
"Hearing nothing, I was on hand with
my horse, and a very stony-faced young
lady requested an explanation of the let
ter. Whether the old lady was ready
that afternoon I never knew, as 1 sent a
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"As a matter of fact. 1 lost a client and
very nearly lost a wife."
reflectToks of a hachei.ok.
(From the New York Press.)
No matter what a breach of promise
suit costs it's cheaper than if you had
married her.
When a man will laflgh at a joke no
matter how many times he hears it, it's
a rich relative.
Once there was a cook- who always
had hot water ready for shaving, but
it was in another world, down below.
It takes a lo: of n-rve to acknowledge
in a down town bar room what every
body knows that you aren't boss at
home.
It is another sign of old age w hen
you begin to look for .something which
will keep you young.
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