THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
10
MARCH 28, 1907.
DRIFTWOOD :
I.r.'i it tflrange that so few politicians
In Lincoln aspire to- be mayor?
Some men don't want anything to do
with a job unless they can boss it.
.Harriman lias stopped talking for pub
lication. Maybe there Is nothing more
to be ald. ; .
Instead of grumbling because you have
to work tor a living you should thank
the Ivord that you have a paying job.
Minnesota has an editor named Eggea
spensrer. For short, his friends call him
"Egg." Wouldn't that crack your shell?
All Hi L'nion Pacific 'has to do to make
Grand island be good is to threaten to
taKe the ripplcd engines to North Platte
for' repairs.
Aftr the first of July if you give a
tip you do it orvyour own risk. There
will always bo the chance for the recip
ient of the favor to turn state's evi
dence. .
looking backward, twenty years
doesn't ;eem so long a time. Twenty
years hence do you see those white
whiskers:? "O why should the spirit of
mortal he proud?"
Don't ever think for a minute you are
doing au act of kindness to a booze
lighter when you let him have money.
It Is much better to let him go broke
and get sober. -
If all people who have delusions are in
sane, cases of perfect lucidity are so
rare as to be noteworthy. We can call
to mind but one such person of our
acquaintance, and he is dead.
When things that happened thirty years
ago interest you more than the question
of what vou are going to do in the way
of raising a garden, you have reached!
an age when you can sareiy scneauie
yourself as one of the "old folks."
D. It. Anthony, a nephew of the great
Susan B., Is slated for congress from
the northeast district of Kansas, and
there Isn't a republican with nerve
enough to go into the race against Mm.
Learn to be cheerful in the face of
everything. It is a thing that can be
accomplished, and is of more value to
yourself and the world than any con
flict ever won by the great Napoleon.
If you have been in the habit of rid
ing free you will notice a peculiar sensa
tion of tremulous emotion when you ap
proach the ticket office with a. view to
paying j our way like a man. .
Twenty years ago we put in several
days watching legislative proceedings at
close range. The horse-play indulged In
by talkative members took away al) de
sire to repeat the experiment.
It is very evident that Hetty Green"
doesn't propose to take the hint. When
that line old lady gives up anything to
society the donation will come through
the probate court some little time after
she has been given up.
Ordinarily It is not permissible to use
one's napkin for a bib, but a fat man
who always slobbers at meals may so
wear it with the assurance that the act
will receive general public commenda
tion. All the candidates for office in Peoria
this spring are men under thirty-five.
The old ones have been effectually put
out of the game. They - may vote on
election day, which is the best the boys
can do for them. -
Where will this extortion stop? Barbers
in all the larger cities of the west have-
raised the price of a haircut to J& cents.
If the craze strikes Lincoln we for one
will encourage a return to the patriarchal
method of wearing the hair like Buffalo
Bill and Captain Jack Crawford.
There Is a time in the life of nearly
every public man when he "needs the
kindly offices of an investigating com
mittee to vouch for his unsullied char
acter. And even after that worn .as
been accomplished the doubting Thomases
break lww, and O, what a mess they do
make of it.
Iton. Shelby M. Cullom says Reed
Smoot Is as much entitled to his neat
in the Kcnaio as any member of
that body, Why didn't he say so at
the oinet of the controversy? It might
hav headed off a mile or two of sense
less pe! it ions.
We know ft man who sits around In
an uuhnppv frame of mind because he
hn.n't a lot f money, lie Is mkidnc a
whole lot of the sweetest enloyment of
life ty his foolish mental attitude, Th e
iu-t ocfAnji of sunshine and fresh air
and good fellownhlp whl h yield mw
pletusure than everything ele ami don't
tMit a rent.
!'t the country take notice that Judge
Howard favor a the next democratic
rnmiiM for ptewldcnt and vie1 trfidnt
William Jennlng Urysn of Nebraska
and ll"fco Smith of 5oricU. If th
amiable ).i Ise for 'em. they may rent
their w-i. In r :wr. T r. ha in no of the
union dt let mnd out Imger than
until a J fix tfbm nest June.
Atchtnon l.v nearly man Uvwi
a IJnro'.r.. and crh on buy Immunity
from isfM'utton l)tnc flftv iM'nr
Into the thy irnnmiry very lhlny dy.
lint for thU ruh tribute, which in m
nay hat julin effert up1 tfce roo-
sciences of conscientious men, an open
saloon wouldn't be allowed to run in that
city longer than twenty-four hours. It
is amazing what bad things good people
will do for mouey.
For the last few days the wind sounds
a little like six weeks without rain.
The movement on foot to secure fewer
and -fuller churches ought to meet with
as general and enthusisatic an endorse
ment as a state-wide primary.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich needs no eulogy.
His work speaks for him. He wrote
sanely and sweetly, and kept near enough
the earth to he always corarreiiensible.
The Japs and Russians are getting to
gether, but not in the way they behaved
on the plains of Manchuria. The new
deal is an alliance looking to the preser
vation of a world-wide peace.
Yesterday we dodged another book
agent, but there was a feeling all the
afternoon that he might come back any
jnlnute and compel us to take a Bhelf
full of books and pay for them on the
installment plan. Life's perils are so
many it is a wonder any of us can sleep
when night comes.
A friend writes, "Why don't you give
us a few limericks now and then, for
chance?" Too easy. When one receives
a salary for writing If the amountis In
in excess of $7.50 per week there should
be an effort, to rise anove the vulgar and
nnmmnnnl'3i. 1n nrWHfat OCtTmOSition.
Tha limerick is not recognized as high
class literature, tnougn may gis mim
a musical sound and satisfy in a way
th desire to be amused, as for instance,
describing the lover of fun.
There was a young iesiow namea oapy
The Schuyler Sun can see "where a
move to make the saloons keep within
iimtt- n th law wmilri h tho nrnner
thing." It would be "proper" enough
but impossible. Under the Slocumb law
i . i 1 : -- i V.
saloons couia not uve were iue piuvisiuus
of that measure observed to the letter.
mi, inr ocsTTs that lirmnr shall not ha
j 1 1 tan tiA.t wv . - - -
sold to an inebriate, or one . who is not
of legal age. now many saioons couiu
do business in Omaha but for the pat
...nriocrn tf a rli st In eniwhed numher of old
iuiiafi ' i. . ;zj
soaks who would account it a crime to
go home sooer: Ana now many ceoae
selling to a man because he is intoxl
o 9 tMia oalnnn koooer who warns
his customer that ho has on as heavy
- i 1 Vjn will niwt. la 4-V.a
a cargo US IU3 only nm J mo
rare exception. If the Slocumb law wero
.i.i.ti., cnfrnvail fn all lta nrnvisions. ton
suit" ... i - -
public drinking places would suffice for
the city or .uincoin, ana inene wouia
..mniain nf ViiTKinpss rlenression and
V 7 1 1 1 .M -fc . v.. .
other ominous signs of a financial panic.
The buds are out too early in the spring;
A little frost would be a blessed thing
To check the growth .which, if it keeps
. on now.
Will get a setback later anyhow.
We need to pray, --preserve us irom rae
.chill '
Thof cotlaa Innin r1T"Vllev Atlfl on hilt
When plum trees bloom and peaches bad
apace
And other tender fruits are in the race."
A spring that springs too swiftly to the
fore
Returns to let old winter have the floor,
And that is why I'd rather it would
freeze
Than stay like this, at 68 degrees;
Then suddenly drop down to 26
And nip the plums and kill the peaches.
BIX.
At Mankato, Minn., on the 13th Inst.,
a great man passed from earth. Rev.
John II. Cieszynsky was born In Poland
fifty' years ato, and came, to his coun
try when a mere boy to make his way
among strangers. He couldn't speak the
language of the country, but he could
work, and he did work at anything ha
could get to do to earn an honest dol
lar; and he applied his earnings to secur
ing an education. For several years he
attended Pillsbury academy at Owaton
na. Then be applied at St. Thomas' col
lege as a candidate for the priesthood.
Seven years later he was ordained by
Bishop Cotter, and began a career which
in many respects has been most remark
able As. a young man he noted the
terribly demoralizing effect of the liquor
drinking habit upon his own people and
allied himself with the advocates of to
tal abstinence. The result of his labors
along that line are most far-reaching.
Whole communities have given up the
vice of - intemperance responstve to his
earnest appeals for a sober citizenship.
It is a pleasure to pay a word of tribute
to the memory of such a man. The
world needs more of them.
A good hotel is the noblest work of
man. and the ltttle village of Davenport,
In Thayer county, has two of them. Beds
that are lit to sleep in, clean table linen,
cream in coffee and something good to
eat every meal. Who could ask anything
better of a country tavern? The stranger
can readily understand why traveling
men go to Davenport to stuy over Sunday
even If th vlace baa little to offer In the
way of public entertainment. The atmos
phere of the place Is entirely wholesome.
No saloons, no drug stores with a long
necked Untie and a tiny Klass back of
th prpscrljrt'on ctise. The man who
want any beverage more warchlnjc than
mineral water, must drive to tho county
no.it .md hrlus It home In a Jus. Not
withnurutlng iU antipathy to the
of bcvrafies t it tnrbrlute Dnvenport Is
proprou and no famtlle are poverty
mrkWrii Uirtu- the twadl of th hus
hm forrwd an alliance with W. Ilar
yrorn
r.vlrr I one of th nrtty and prrwv
nmii Hit tt atrrn Nrniki mhtrh
; t i Joy t visit Sm of the raldnnt.
Wtn there thirty to thlrty fty yeim and
n'' ,l 'r th tt much longer If they
Jlv Dr mlth who wa th flrt man
on th gpound ha ben thr ahnoiit
rontinawnly for a few wek le than
forty veM. II U ftad of It, and whf
not? tt l a good roinmtirtlty tn a grnt
state, with a glorious climate and a great
commercial and social future. What Is
the use of selling out and going to some
other point? It is all right to travel and
see the world when one may go without
Jeopardizing really important business In
terests; but a home in Nebraska there
Is nothing more alluring anywhere un
less it be the home over yonder, which
the most impatient are in no haste to
occupy. Stand up for Nebraska.
The more I breathe her bracing air,
The more I see her skies of blue,
The more I ride, and pay my fare
(Which all true patriots ought to do);
The longer that I toil and rest
In this delightful atmosphere.
The less I feel like going west
Or east or south or anywhere.
Beneath the clear Italian skies
Let he who will repose in peace;
This landscape rests my weary eyes,
My pains subside, my troubles cease.
Here in Nebraska let me stay
Until the storm of life is past
And I have one more word to say-
It was a most pathetic scene" -
When Burton quit the jail;
The band came out at Abilene -
When Burton quit the jail.
It was no aggregation slim
That marched forth in the twilight dim;
They all turned out to welcome him
When Burton quit the jail.
It was no single-horse affair
When Burton quit the Jail;
Old friends and neighbors waited there,
When Burton quit the jail.
Though stowed for good upon the shelf,
Accused of doing wrong for pelf,
They knew he'd vindicate himself -
When Burton quit the jail.
It was a soul-inspiring scene
When Burton quit the jail;
The waiting throng at Abilene,
When Burton quit the jail,
Marched to the station, boys and men,
To meet the hero's train, and then
They all marched proudly back again,
When Burton quit the jail.
They said he'd give us "something
straight"
When Burton quit the jail,
A revelation worth the -wait,
Wlion 'Rurfnn rmit t'no 1ail
The furnace of his wrath be fed
With hatred, yet, though flaming red,
There wasn't much to what he said
When Burton quit the jau.
J. H. McElhany,' the pioneer of Omaha,
who recently hanged himself because he
was weary of the struggle for subsis
tenca left a pathetic note saying that
perhaps some of his old f rends and ac
quaintances rnighT say if they had known
of his dire straits they would have ex
tended a helping hand, and he appends
the query, "But would they?" The
court is in doubt. Commenting on the
case, Editor John Tanner of the South
Omaha Democrat says:
"Don't wait until a man ia on the
verge of suicide before you give him a
lift. If you know a man to be worthy
and he is your friend, open your heart
and let the sunshine of charity pene
trate for a moment. You will feel bet
ter and you may save a human life.
Deeds of this character are what make
life worth living. There is only a small
per cent of humanity that is able to
manage affairs so that the hour of -distress
never comes, and those who are
able ought to and in many instances do
lift the burden for the suckers who drift
and manage poorly. Hell is overrun with
tight wads. I do not mean by this that
a man should surrender his savings to
Tom, Dick and Harry on demand. Not
much. But the man who never cuts
his belt for a friend will find a chilly
reception in heaven if he ever gets there
at all.'.
When we see a fellow-mortal on the way
Toiling underneath a load to stall a dray
If we help him with a will
Push his burden up the hill,
He may do as much for us' some other day.
If Instead of that we coldly pass him by,
Never hear him when he calls and never
try,
Conscience-pricks will make us sore
On this side the golden shore
And we'll catch hell over yonder when we
die.
Colonel Russell would like to rise
superior to the smoke nuisance which
menaces his health and makes him
ashamed of himself when he Is out among
folks, but he fears that after struggling
to overcome the -ippetlte for a period of
six or eight yews, he will still be in
the thick of a light that can only end
when the chief combatant has taken his
way to the silent city. Concerning our
experience in abandoning the tobacco ha
bit. Russell wants to know:
The question remains whether the doc
tor is really "cured" so that the plant
is as distasteful to him as it is to tha
neophite. or whether he has just put up
an heroic eight years' negative to what
would still bo a sensual pleasure, but
which his Intellect tells him he Is an ass
for indulging.
There are cures and cures. A burglar
may not feJoniously enter a house for
eight years and he may still l a burglar
at heart. On the other hand, he may
really be "cured" of the criminal In
uttiwt and loathe the thought of burgling
his brother's bungalow. How about that?
We urn not prepared to say that the
narcotizing effect of tobacco would not
prove a.i sweetly deceptive aa It did eight
yeari but certainly th desire to
ludulro ha entinly disappeared. Be
ntdoii that there Is more plajura In liv
ing out from under th bondag of an
uimaturitt nr-tlte. Time was when wn
Invariably Irft the theater between acta
for no other purpoM than to tak a
hew of tc.baT, or to smoke part of a
cigar, afW-r which It would h necary
tu run tho rUik of fjxtmwt by etpe
toratlng a tlm or two on frank .
rrjiur carpt It l worth thm discom
fort xprwrttcd Uk ftrst MM w thi
Juat to t CM
O, Russell, when you hit the snipe
Left on your desk the night before,
Or puff the old denatured pipe
You bought before the Spanish war,
You lay aside all toil and strife
And watch the wreath of smoke ascend:
You think you are enjoying life,
But you are not, my dying friend.
'Tis an immoral thing indeed
Ah, justify it ye who can
The slave of an obnoxious weed;
Such would I scorn to be, old man.
If you believe everything uncomplimen
tary you hear about leopie you will be
lieve too much. .
A heaping saucer of stewed onions at
this time of year is better for your sys
tem than many doses of bitter medicine.
Personally we have decided to favor
woman suffrage wugo the women do, and
not Defore. - What a long time to wait.
Vou don't alw&ya know what is for
the best, but if you use your oesc judg-
..., oil iud iiiuc; juu ivui. l j.nu your
self far astray at iho end of the trip.
One thing that .killed Sunday baseball
in tiio legislature was the generally lax
municipal regulations that vermit, tha
men on the uieachera to swear at the
umpire.
Whose laughter was always on tap;
He cut up such capers
They said in the papers
That he was a helofachap.
Or, observe the contrast aa applying to
the man who refuses to look on the
cheerful side of life:
A crusty curmudgeon named. Clay '
Went round with a grouch every day;
Ilis abuse every breath
Was made vocal till death.
Since which time lie's had nothing to
" say.
A. F. Bloomer is a sensible man. He
did business in York county for twenty
one years and, having accumulated a
'competence, retired from the active pur
suit of money and has since been trying
to ascertain by peaeonal inspection, the
size and appearance of this old earth. In
company with his wife he has visited the
principal countries of Kuropo and Asia,
the islands of the sr.i and many Cen
tral and South American countries. In
a 11. he has devoted nearly two years
to foreign travel, '" and now he is
home for the summer, not to re-engage
in the slavery of money-making, but to
rest and refresh himself before starting
out again to see some parts of the
world he went throuph before while
asleep. His system is the true one. The
man who has enough of this world's
goods should retire and give the other
fellows a chance while he puts in the
happy remaining years finding out what
sort of a world this . is Defore he leaves
. . . . i
They're waking up to see the right
At Omaha;
Tho trusts are up against a fight
At Omaha.
The leader of the coal combine
Has drawn a full and robust fine.
And more than that, this friend of mine
At Omaha. -
The judge has said six months in jail
At Omaha
Unless somebody goes his bail
At Omaha; ,
Six months in Jail a cruel dole .
For whooping up the price of coal;
And this is justice let 'er roll
At Omaha.
How it must cheer the public heart
At Omaha
When virtue seems to get a start
At Omaha.
So long has vice held' perfect sway,
So long has there been helltopay,
We feared 'twould always be that way
At Omaha.
But now we see beyond the gray
At Omaha
The dawning of a better day
At Omaha. ,
If others go as this case went,
Right rules, that is self-evident,
And some day I will pitch my tent
At Omaha.
From this time on vice stands no show
At Omaha;
(Forget the triumph of Pat Crowe,
At Omaha);
Abandoned all our sighs and tears,
Our hopes rise high above our fears.
The glad millennial dawn appears
At Omaha,
It is different In North Dakota. Ac
cording to the Sheldon Progess the far
mer in that cold country has no easy
time of it, and his independence is large
ly sacrificed on the altar of stern neces
sitv. This is what It says about him:
"The real farmer begins work in winter
I.mg lefore the sun thinks ot getting up.
With his soul shroud"d In gloom he pro
ceeds to build a livo with a sledjre ham.
mcr. He then takes a lantern, hang It
on the i lollies line und shovels his way to
the barn and feeds the hogs. It U then
time to fee! the newly-urrivcd calf,
which Hecma to delight In butting a pail
of miik over tho tiller of the soil until
ho onlv nevts to be, stamped to pii for a
package if oleomargarine. He crawls
through a barbed-wire fence and digs th
hay out of tho mow. fee! the rows,
dean the trtable, gather up the frojon
chlcka. chase a ulraV-pig worth a". c nle
for four mile, and doenn t ratch It. doo
tor a sick horse, frerxe his flngtr.
kicked by a on-eyed mule, anil
when the gloaming cornea and qutelneia
)rod over the all the earth, he has a
Hingt half hur to meditate and wonder
how he will ever be able to pay hie
taiem." And right on rant there arrow
the Hod luyer of the North-bat what"
Iht ue of rlnt any thin to oHh1 A,
J, IUoU? H Uvea there.