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Published oTf > ry Thursday At the Comity Boat.
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trO-C'llce in Cnflcr Itlock. Fourth Ae.i6 '
Kntirrdat HIP I'oetoincont HroUn How , Neb. ,
an tveoiiiUclft * * lanllor Cor tntuniiilrVlou through
the U. 8. Malls. _
BUHHOKirriON WICK !
One Your , In ft'lvmico | 1 00
THURSDAY , APRIL 18 , 1001.
Next Tuesday is Arbor day.
Gov. Dietrich is out west on a
pleasure trip in the mountains He
will accompany { Senator Millard to
Washington on his return.
Gov. Diuirich , it is reported , will
resign his ofiico of governor about
the first of May , when Lieut. Gov.
Savage will assume the position.
Nebraska is not Suffering for
lack of moisture this spring. The
only dilliuulty is the lack of oppor
tunity to get the seed in the
ground.
Everybody who can Hhculd plant
at least one Irco on Arbor day and
BOO that it is properly protected
and oared for until it can take care
of itself.
From present indications this
will bo another season for farmurs
to raise 30 to 40 bushels of wheat
*
lo Iho acre , and secure a corresponding
pending yield from all kinds of
other crops.
The grasshoppers thai have
hatched out in Ouster oounly this
spring are no longer to bo dreaded.
The late ruins and snows has made
a clean sweep of the whole batch.
The chronic kicker will have to
hatch anolhor batch before calamity
can roaoh us from thai source.
The late spring will make seed
ing very late , and the worst of it
is it will pul seeding and corn
planting time together. But the
great consolation is that. Iho soil is
thoroughly moist , otld when it does
clear up so crops can bo planted
they will grow very rapidly and
make up m a few weeks for the
lateness of the spring.
The opening of Iho Kiowa and
Wichita Indian reservations lands
in Oklahoma must take place nol
later than August ( Kb , and will
probably occur about that time.
The date will bo fixed by proclama
tion by the president and his proc
lamation will prescribe the manner
of settlement. Congress has stipu
lated that the settler cannot occupy
hia land until sixty days aftei the
opening. There will bo no physi
oal rush or horse racing as was iho
case before in Oklahoma. The
plan lo bo adopted will bo a draw
ing of lols under govornmoul sup
ervision. For a month or moro
prior lo the opening any person
qualified to make a homestead entry
try can register in person and bo so
numbered lhat he will bo given an
equal opportunity. The first regis
tered will have no advantage over
the last. Th'o applicant will bo re
quired lo pay an entry fee of $18.00
for land valued at $2 50 per acre
and $14.00 for laud valued at $1.25
par acre. The Wichita lands ombraoo
3122 traola of 100 acres eaoh.and the
Kiowa lands of 10,351 tracts of the
same size , all for homestead claim
ants. The total number of tracts
is 13,473 , and' there may bo 40,000
or moro applicants. All beyond
the 13,473 will bo disappointed ,
but thu successful ones will not bo
known until all draw on equa
terms. The laud will oost $1 25 ai
aore , and thoru mutt also bo iiv
years residence , cultivation and
improvement , except in ease o
soldiers , who will bo credited will
their time of service.
The Democrats of Dougla
county have met the manifesto o
the populists of Ouster county , an
declared against fusion with pop
or silver republicans in county estate
state politics. Wo predict lha
both Iho so-called pops and demo
orals will have forgollon their dec
larations of anti.fusion when ihei
elate convention meets and the usu
al combination will result. Ii
Ouster county whore Ihero is "only
a few democrats they figure it i
good political policy to deolar
against fusion with any politioa
> arty , which means tlio democratic
mrty. In DougluH county whuru
here iui but few pops tliu domo-
rats duolaru against fusion witli
ho jHipH. In Ouster county the
omoorats will quiutly accept thu
ittmtion without a protest. In
) otiglas enmity thu pops will ro-
urn tliu complimont. It all lookH ,
0 n spectators , as a now triok to
atoli votes , and whiuh enable tlio
oadora to retain the county ofliucH.
1 is a well planed Hohomo of work
ndcr cover , but when the real ob
oe I is understood wo question
whether Iho rnnk and iilo of either
tarty will Hiibiiiit to the minority
naking thorn 11 party to the intrigtio
IIUH contuniplatud.lt looks now very
nuch UH Bryan IH at the load of the
cheme and that the reorganization
of the democratic national commit
eo whiuh was HO generally advocated
after election laHt fall will tail to
natorializu and that fitdioiiH of al1
orcoH will be attempted in national
> olilios along Himilar liuoi , and
Jryan like chairman JOIICH will
jursuo thu ' 'game of hiding with
ho haru and running with lh"
lOUlldH , "
The Child Saving InHtituto of
Omaha , which was started in No
vember , 1897 , by Rev. A. W.
Clark , has HOOII outgrown itH pres
ent quartern , and the board of man
agers have taken steps to provide a
> otter building and tuoro room for
ho ohildion. It IH OHtimated that
he groundn and building will cost
s 10,000. The institute the last
'oar received 175 children in addi-
; ion to the 15 it had on handH al
ho bogtnning of the year. Super-
utondcut Clark's report shows that
of the number 45 wore restored to
.heir parents , 105 wore provided
with homoH , and thai 15 under
six montliH of ago died , pnd that 23
are now in the institute. The
average cost of keeping each
child for the yoarQwas $28.80 besides -
sides the cost of the kinder
garten , cooking school , sowing
school , gymnasium , etc. , which are
outside of the work of securing ,
caring for and placing children of
which the average coat per each
child was 1 3,80. Mr. Clark has
now for his assistant an able board
of managers , in the persons of Dr.
Goo. L. Miller , Guy C. Barton , C.
W. Lyman , J F. Carpenter , H. J.
Penfold and Goo. F. Bid well , who
tiavo subscribed l.alf the amount
neooEsary for the now building.
The institute is run on nonsectarian
ian and non-political principles.
It IB destined to become ono of the
great ouairtablo institutions of the
state. The success of the institu
tion is duo , very largely , to the
high standing and special , qualifica
tions , for that olacs of work , of the
superintendent. Some nine years
ago A. W. Clark was elected cor
responding secretary of the Na
tional Conference of Charity , and
over since has boon associated with
the work reporting annually of the
state and private institutions ol
charity in Nebraska. That work
made it necessary for him to make
personal visits eaoh year to reform
schools , asylums and othoi state
institutions and make a carofu
study of the work carried and
inothodH , and to compare these with
methods in other states , a.nc
Canada , and in Europe. This lee
him to become so interested in the
unfortunate children and works o
charity that ho resigned a salary o
$1,500 a year and expenses in order
to establish Jho Child Saving Insti
Into , at Omaha , when the only
guarantee of support he had as ai
inducement was $5.00 promised by
one person. But lus heart wa
with the work , and by zeal , gooi
judgment , starting from nothing
the institute in two and a half year
has developed grand possibilities
and it IB gratifying to all who have
watched Us progress and hav
known of Mr. Clark's faithful and
unselfish motives to see the institute
tuto commanding the respect am
support it now hits in Nebraska'
metropolis.
i'tiBturlug Work Horses.
A very necessary thing for work
horses is what we call toughness
or , in other words , endurance
Everyone knows a horse whose
bowels are continually loose cauuo
land much hard work. If a liorno
H turned out at night , its some farm-
rs will persist in doing , it will
onio up in thu morning damp and
old from the ( low and night air ,
lid not fit for work. In my twon-
, y years' of experience on the farm
have found that a horse that is to
> o worked hard should po kept on
ry feud. It should have plenty of
good , clean hay and oats or corn , or
jtli , mixed , and once a week it
liould bo fed about two quarts of
horlH , a teacup of oil cake meal
nd some Halt. Dion it is well to
iivo : : i Hinall lot with bare grounder
or the horse to roll and exorcist1
n as soon as the harness is off in
ho evening. After a half-hour's
) lay the horse may bo watered ,
hen put in the barn for the night
nd fod. I have noticed that
torsos that work hardest , such as
ray horses in largo cities , are
argo , fat fellows that know iioth-
ng but hard pulling from daylight
intil dark , year in and year out , and
hey have probably never tasted
nd never were on a pasture a day
n their lives. I have also noticed
hat farm horses that are turned on
) asturo whenever they are networked
worked are always thin and lanky ,
and cannot stand long , hard labor.
A cell should bo on pasture until
larnessed and needed for heavy
work ; then the muscles should bo
lardoued for endurance , which can
never bo done on pasture. A horse
hat is only driven to the carriage
once or twice a week for pleasure
can bo profitably kept on pasluio.
lune gratis grows very luxuriantly
n most of localities , and after it
; ots past the blossoming stage
lorses may turn on it for a short
time each day , as it does not loosen
the bowles , and consequently does
lot lesson their capacity for hard
abor. To keep the horse's bowels
egular in winter , food good oat
traw and moro corn than is fed
while he is getting hay. M.y idea \e \
hat a horse used for heavy labor
hould never get a taste of fioft )
; roon food of any kind , buoaiiao it
all tends to weaken the animal and
niako soft muscles. Metropolitan
rtural Homo.
A liurniug Disgrace.
"What a burning disgrace it is to
in agricultural Plato like Nebraska
that it will bo represented in the
United Stales Senate by two presi-
lents of national banks. Whose
inlercsts will they espouse ? that of
the wage earners and agriculturists ,
or that of the National Bankers
Assooialiou or the money power ,
which dominates legislation in
congress ? " Kearney New lira-
Standard.
The Callaway Courier saroastioly
replies to the insinuation in tbe
following :
"Indeed , il is. It is absolutely
scandalous. Thero'H Dietrich
what does ho care for the great
common people ? Born in a tumbledown
ble-down tenement in Chicago
while snow .covered the floor , par
ents too poor to provide oven the
necessities of life for him , ho was
east adrift to hustle for himself at
an early age. Ho worked on a
farm , in the woods , in a store , anywhere -
where ho could got anything to do.
It is recorded of him that he did
his work well , and soon decided to
desert the ranks of the poor com
mon people and become a
plutocrat. Instead of trying to
sou how little work ho could defer
for lua wages , iio did the opposite.
Ho never oven wont on a strike
nor tried to get up a rumpus between -
tweon capital ana labor as moro
patriotic men did. Ho just worked
with the brain and the brain that
God gave him and became a
capitalist himself. Ho became
the owner of a big store and hirec
plain common people to work for
him , paying them out of his ill-
gotten gains. Not satisfied will
this ho Htartod a bank a national
bank , mind you as a crowning in
sult to the plain common people
from whom ho Hprang. Mi 11 art
is the same kind of a follow. Ho
was as poor , plain and common as
any body could Lo whtn ho starlet
out to become a banker. Uo first
worked on a farm , then tried other
things , always making a success
of every thing ho undertook
While some other -young won wore
ooinpluining thai a few men were
absorbing all of tlio money in the
country , arid that a poor man had
10 chance , Millard WHS improving
us opportunities and absorbing a
lollar hero and there thai was
overlooked by HOIHD plutocrat. Ho
H now a plutocrat himself. Oma
ha has been largely built and devel
oped through liis hard work and
command of capital.
These are the men who are to
disgrace Nebraska in ( 'tho United
States Sunato. Wul ) may wo blush
wilh shame ! Neither of them can
make a fourtrcn-hour speacli
without saying something. Neit
her of them can get up in congress
and consistently say that the rich
ire always growing richer snd the
; > oor poorer. They cannot like
Windy Alton , declare thai thu
people of Nebraska are all paupers ,
[ iuing men of hard common sense
uid practical ideas they will be
utterly unable to stand up and
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advocate the initiative and referendum
dum , government control of every
thing , sixteon-to-one , and alll the
other fads and fallacies so dear
to the plain common people. Being -
ing a part of "tho money power
which dominates legislation in
congress , " it JH quite likely that
they will use their influence to
induce people who have a surplus
to invest some of it in Nebraska.
They miy even encourage the
imilding of more railroads or fac-
lories 'for Iho furlhor enslavement
of the plain common people. In
short it is hard to toll w ) at evil
may not befall us as a result of this
'burning disgrace. " After being
represented in congrees by snob
champions of "tho wage earners and
agriculturists" as Kom , Bill Bryan ,
Bill McKoighan , Bill Green , Bill
Allen , and Bill Neville , and agre-
jation ff wind-jammers that caused
jlutocrats and Iho money power to
jive Iho state a wide berth , it is
pretty tough to have to tumble
down to the level of Dietrich and
Millard. From boy orators , bom
bast and booze , to brains and
business , is a sad , sad change in
deed. O'the burning disgrace"
of it ! "
Addresser A. C. Elliott , Supreme Sec
retary ofllio M. II. A.
Delivered at Broken Uinv , April 3rd ,
1'JOl.
( I'ubllBhod Ity HequDBt. )
Continued from last week.
Any man with fair business
ability can , by adopting the meth
ods ho does in carrying old line
insurance secure a bettei roluru
than ihoy dare honestly promise.
Put the amount necessary to
carry old line into a Havivg bank
at even 4 pur cent and when you
have enough to loan place in a
first mortgage farm loan where
you oaii gut 0 or 7 per oenl.
Fraternal insurance is of th. )
masses from the daj laborer , all
the way up the scale. Those who
think of home and its protection
feeling a joy to do for loved ones
while hero.
The fraternal certificates help
provide for the future.
The average insurance carried
to the members I do nol think
will oxooed $5,000.
To the richwho are nol compelled
lo consider the question of ability
to pay , to them the fraternal
system does not especially appeal ,
but to thu avuragu.
it is the'"nine out of ton" the
fraternal order with ils plan
providing protection at actual cost ,
combined with that brotherly
obligation which cares for the sick ,
the distressed and unfortunate ; it
comes as a benediction and reveals
tbe Christian spirit of the times.
Lifts the commodity or "stock
" "insurance"
in trade" known as
and give it a now name , ' 'pro
tection " for home and loved ones.
Wo h ave been talking fiatornity
in its general ways to you.
Wo want ) ou to talk , especially
for the M. B. A. , the order which
wo have worked night and day for
and which has become very dear
to us.
us.Wo have found friendship very
near and dearwe have tried to bo true
to the trust repBOod in us as a servant
of the order and our only regret is
that I could not have done more.
The M. B A.'H growth is certi
fied by being ono ol the lifet of the
27 loading orders.
What wo say for it in only what
may bo said of any like society
where hard work has been done.
We wore organized April 5 ,
1807. Cast bolero the people to
bo critisod , to bo laughed at , to bo
called an April dream , and many
* i >
prediction of an early death.
The M. B. A took for its object ,
"tho mutual uplifting of its mem
bers , the practice of fraternal love
as shown by deeds not words , to
help a falling or wea .IT brother , to
bestow Biibstantnl benefits tipou
Ihu family , heirs and blood rela
tions. To take care of the sick ,
to comfort Iho siuk and bereaved
in limu of sorrow and distress. "
It took for its plan the providing
of protection lo the home in case
ol death which had been the main
feature of such societies.
Wo did not stop thoru. Looking
around us wu said it is many times
as necessary to extend help in case
of accident as in case of aoath , and
therefore an accident foalun
was incorporated
Looking into the past , tlio situa
tions of the present and prospects
of the future wo saw many who
have and are carrying their protec-
lioti in the vigor of life , and have
been or will be compelled lo lot it
lapse when they are old as they can
not then earn enough lo make their
living and carry their protection
ilno.
Only another evidence that fra
ternal protection is carried largely
by men and women in the common
walk of life.
The M. B. A. therefore provides
that a member may , if practically
disabled at the ago of 70 beginnint ;
with his 71st birthday draw one-
lonlh of bin certificate each yea-
for tut years and thus bo able to
end his days above want.
There was also provided thu
tolal and permanent disability foa-
turo.
turo.Her
Her ember the last two foalurus
are optional.
Wo provide tbero should be
equality between men and Women
aa members of the order.
1 he plan with its slaled object
made many friends.
The order grew and astonished
al ) .
It was a marvel in fraternal cir
olea.
olea.It
It attracted attention.
The management could not roht un
til we knew the M. B A. could moot
all just claims against it in full.
To .hat end wo labored night
end day.
Wo have become so accustomed
lo work that as it increases wo are
always busy.
Yon have hoard of the man who
was to go around the world , starl
ing without a cent in bis pocket ,
and make his way as ho wont.
This is exaclly the situation with
a fraternal society.
Money therefore had to bo ad-
vaneed that iho M. 13. A. should
nol fail of a fair introduction to
the world.
We had no fuar for the future if
oucu well before the public.
The people know a good thing
when thuv see it.
Wo wont but through Iowa , Ne
braska , Minnesota and Missouri in
1897 , later extending. BO thai we
are now working in eight states.
Exactly six months from the
time it'saw the light of day it sue.
lainod ils first lost which proved lo
bo iwo $1,000 death claims.
From lho | advance assessment
both claims were paid in full and
$350 left 111 the treasury.
And so we stand before iho fra
ternal world all losses paid in full.
* * * *
Some have questioned our reserve
fund feature.
Say it amounts to nothing.
An agent of thu New York Life
at the time we organi/.ed said to us
domonstrulo that you will prodm-o
a reserve fond thai will keep aesess-
monls from going to a burdensome
point and you have knocked down
the last argument of old line insur
ance against fratornals.
There it is in u nutshell.
Fraternal reserve featiuos are as
yet something of tin experiment.
* * * *
It you will follow for a moment
wo will sou what iigureo will show.
First of all remember the roseivo
can be used only for the payment
of benefit claims and as the law
now is not for thai until wo have
passed the period of 12 aEsessmontH
in a single year , and I would favor
if time proven it lo bo busl to so
change our law thai iho reserve
shall nol bo touched until wo have
reached the point of 15 assessments
in a siuglo yecr as wo would still
be having our protection very
cheap.
* * * *
At Iho oloao of 1807 , nine months
old , we had in our reserve fund
$2,012.
You say not much , bul in your
business by using your oapilal have
you laid aside as much ?
This sprung from nothing.
Twelve months later or , January
1 , 1809 , wn had $12,408 , or an in
crease of nearly $10,000.
January 1 , 1000 , wo had * 28 125.
iToday wo have * 05,000 , in the
reserve.
* * * *
If wo all do our duty in our
efforts lo increase our membership.
January 1 , 1002 , must sea us with
considerable over $100,000 in our
reserve fund.
W bother this will bo realized or
not will depend or the work done.
Thus far wo have grown beyond
all expectations.
Today , and from iho lirao wo
were six months old , a certificate in
the M. B. A. has boon worth as
much as any fraternal certificate in
the world ono hundred cents on
the dollar ?
It has boon worth more than a
certifiofto in iho older orders.
You receive Iho same as in iheir
order und have additional benefits
as can bo vouched for by two who
have received payments on tolal
and permanent disability claims and
ttooidonl claims all amount
ing to over $15,000.
Had some one with pathetic eye
Jarud to mtimalo wo would in four
years been able make a showing of
over 33,000 certificates , represent
ing $40,000,000 , bo would have
pronounced him a dreamer.
The fa3t is no such record had
ever been made.
Wo bad at iho cud of two years
llu > membership of the M. W. A.
when five yours old ,
Some of the benefits 1 ave como
to your atalo and counly from our
order and iboreby more posilively
impresses ils value.
jSoniotimeH people complain il is
all oul and nothing in.
IH auv one sorry death has not
during the past year como into
your homo to claim its own and
thereby lot you claim " 1 am getting
even with tliu insurance company. "
You insure your house , your
barn , your grain , your stock.
Are you sorry if at the end of
the year neither lire or cyclone has
oomu to destroy ihese ?
No.
Bo you are all lhaukful lo bo
spared and willing lo conlribulo
your share for the relief of the
less fortunate.
It is not Ibe 'Hired of life" man
or woman we want , but rather the
man and woman who "desire lo
live , " and in living , proleot and
honor l e fireside , spreading iho
gospel of fralernily , lolling wbal a
yood thing they have found.
Others say you must die to win.
I do not believe you think BO.
I am sure you don't , if you stop
to think.
If brother or sistnr comes lo your
aid in time of sickness and renders
assis' 'ncu , as fee often is done , to
drive away tlio dark hours do wo
not win ? '
* * * *
All this would bo true even if wo
did nol have features giving bene
fits during lifo
* * : : *
"SclflshnueB Is utter loss
Llfo'a most perfect joy anil good ,
Ah how few have nmlorf tooil.
Only one hath proved It fully *
And Ho died upon the cross.
Taking on himself the curse ,
So to bless ft universe. "
Wo carry blessings to our neigh
bor when we bring protection to his
home.
These blessings are no senti-
muntnl guess work.
t ; * * *
"The smallest linrk on lllo'n tumultuous ocean , '
Will loiivu u truck iHiInd forovurraoru ,
The lijliti'Bt ; WATU 01 Inlltiunco Rut In motion ,
\N Idem nnu pxicmlit to the ctorunl choro. "
Our influence , whatovur it is , infer
for the M. B. A. in its best and
truest sense , only favoring such
aolioiiB as wo believe will bring the
grcitesl good ' .o Iho greatest num
ber.
ber.Wo
Wo arc your servants nnd am
glad at all tirnus to be in thu line Of
duly.
Brothers anil sisters wo belong lo
an order that has a purpose.
Hold uloft ils principles.
Wo are a band united by the
imiihHolublo bonds of friendship ,
love and protection.
. * * * *
To you yet oulsi.lo , como. Come
today.
Life insurance properly planed , Is
a storage batlury tlru will work
when the dynamo thai gives it
power is forever still.
* # * *
Wo bid you all God speed for ) *
the future.
Labor in lifcs vineyard for all
that is noble , grand and true.
There ia always work to do.
W , A. TDOM 'SON ,
CONTIIACTOH AND KUIUHUl.
nud estimates on short no
tlco , Broken Bow , Neb.
OAMKKON &REKSE ,
ATTOHNKYS i COUNSKI.LOIIS AT LA.W.
U oiuH8&o ( lty blotk , llroknn How. N b.
Wm. F. Hopkins ,
COJWTBIACTOR ANI > mTIlUIR
Plm ana Spoclflcatloua ou inert noKco. 11 a-
torlal f ui Msheil mid Imlldltigi , completed cheaper
than any mm In tha ttato. Bitlnfaetlon
ai to pUni ami cpoclflcatlons.
