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The Lincoln Asylum
One of tho first acts of the republi
can administration was to remove the
Incompetent officials from the asylum
at Lincoln and place in charge of the
institution a man known for his in
tegrity and business ability and ot
national reputation as an expert in
tho treatment of insane persons
Through tho excellent management
of tho present superintendent the
state Is being saved fully 30000 per
year the figures being based on tho
expense per capita In the mass of
juggled figures recently sent out from
fusion sources the largo Increase In
the number of patients was ignored
the attempt being made to fool the
people with mysterious and often
mythical totals They did not give
credit for the 35000 unpaid bills left
for the republican officials to pay in
addition to the deficiencies
The economy boasted of at the
Lincoln asylum was the sort which
lined the pockets of the fusion officials
Ono employe was permitted to spend
his time making ink which he sold to
the state Another raised ducks on
the premises and sold them to tho
institution Still another sold all the
calves on the premises to his father
at from 2 to 3 per head animals
which now sell for five times that much
Land Commissioner Wolfe sent six
hogs to the Institution to be boarded
at state expense and eight months
later worked off one of them on tho
institution at the exorbitant price of
140 At about the same time C S
Jones who was living at the Home
for the Friendless and raising hogs
on his own account bought six shoats
from the asylum at 2 apiece
This Is another brand of economy
for C Q DeFrenzy to explain
It Is like the economy practiced at
all state institutions under fusion
management
A Clean Candidate
Nebraska voters never had a cleaner
candidate for governor than John H
Mickey He has never been a mani
pulator of conventions He has not
been an Intriguer for power He has
not been a party boss neither will he
be for he is not built that way He
has been a practical worker in practi
cal every day affairs As governor he
will be a practical helper in the state
government just as he has been a
practical man in Polk County for the
last thirty five years His business
qualifications are first class He is
in the prime of life now and his work
ing capacity iS at the best He is
never sick in body and is never dis
couraged in mind His purposes and
his activity are always along the high
er lines toward something that is good
He is a common man in his person
ality with an uncommon capacity for
doing things and doing them well
A Dangerous Proposition
The election of W H Thompson
the brewers candidate for governor
would be a sign that this interference
in Nebraska politics is not offensive
to Nebraska people It would be an
Invitation for them to go further It
would bring to the next legislature
corrupt lobbyists and a whisky trust
boodle fund The legislature would
be organized largely with reference to
the liquor interest The liquor interest
would be consulted in the making up
of the legislative committees When
the machinery of legislation had been
adjusted for that purpose then there
would be inaugurated a struggle to
rob the Slocum law of its power To
make it easier to get a license to
make it easier to get bonds to make
the law more lenient in general
toward the saloon these are the ob-
jects sougnt Dy tne Drewers wno own
the Nebraska saloons To accomplish
these things the brewers want a friend
In the executive office They want
the governor to start with The rest
they believe will be easy after that
A governor friendly to the brewers
would be the opening wedge To put
the executive office into the hands
of the democratic candidate means to J
put Nebraska government in fact Into j
the hands of the Milwaukee brewers
A Shameful Record
B R B Weber one of the state
chairmen of the fusion party was
superintendent of the Geneva Industri
al school under Poynter When he
left the states property was a wreck
and the inmates were demoralized I
He had at one time shut a young girl
for seven days and nights in a base
ment dungeon where she was com
pelled to sleep on the cement floor
without even a blanket The official
papers in the damage suit filed against
Weber say the girl has lost the use
of one arm as the result of the cruel
treatment Yet Weber is deemed the
proper person to direct a fusion state
campaign and Is to be sent back to
Geneva if his party is successful
Dont Want Him
Out at Alliance the whisky trust
owns three of the six saloons The
bookkeeper of these Institutions is
one Doc Edwards who makes his
office in the Red Light saloon He
also acts as assistant barkeeper He
was physician for one of the state
institutions under Povnter and he has
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the democrats are triumphant
Fusionism and the Schools
At a democratic meeting at Sidney
the other day John Powers in a speech
turned to Claude Smith democratic
candidate for state superintendent
who occupied a seat near by and said
Elect my friend Smith and he will
put a stop to this foolishness of going
out Into the country with wagons -to
haul children to school Smith ac
cepted the pledge without a protest
The children who are seeking for bet
ter schools and better education now
know what to expect if Smith is
elected
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Good News For all Who Suffer With
Rheumatism Free
To all who suffer with rheumatism I
will gladly send free the wonderful ttory
of how m mother was cured after ears
of suffering together with the most
elaborate treatise on rheumatism ever
published
No matter what your form of rheumn
tism is whether acute chronic muscu
lar inflammatory defoimant sciatic
neuralgia gout lumbago etc n ma
how many doctors have failed in
your case no matter how many socalled
sure cures you have tried I want you
to Avrite to me and let me tell you how
my mother was cured
I am neither a doctor nor a professor
simply a plain man of business but
I have a cure for rheumatism and I
want to tell everyone who suffers with
rheumatism about it I wish to be
clearly understood and trust ihat all
who suffer with this terrible disease
however apparently beyond the reach
of cure will write to me this day and I
will send you by return mail this work
of mine I appeal especially to the
chronically ill who are wearied and
discouraged with doctoring and to those
who have been cast aside as incurable
All you have thought about rheumatism
may be wrong Let me toll you our ex
perience Surely if you have rheuma
tism or have a suffering friend it will
pay you to investigate my offer anyway
and prove for yourelf the claims I make
Send me jour address today a postal
card will do and I will mail you this
wonderful story If you have any
friends suffering with rheumatism no
matter where located send me their ad
dress and I will mail them a copy My
address in Victor Rainbolt Bloomfield
Indiana
Bribe Giving and Bribe Taking1
In printing a fine full page portrait of
of Mr W J Folk the St Louis Circuit
Attorney who has brought about the
exposure of bribery in St Louis and the
conviction of bribe givers and bribe tak
ers The Outlook remarks For nearly
a year he has been the central figure in
the most remarkable prosecution of po
litical knavery since that of the Tweed
King in the early seventies This prose
cution has resulted in the conviction
not only of bribe takers but of bribe
givers and has brought home to the rich
and influential classes of St Louis the
extent to which the responsibility for
civic corruption rests upon them Mr
Folk was nominated for his present
office against his protest but having
been elected has discharged its duties
against still stronger protests from party
leaders who put him in nomination
Democratic corruptionists as well as
Republican have been prosecuted with
out fear or favor
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AN ANTI CORPORATION PASS GRABBER
The free passes carried by W H Thompson for years and which he has
in his pocket at the present moment show how insincere and ridiculous
are his claims that he is the anti railroad candidate
Thre are two classes of pass holders The employes or attorneys
for a company legitimately carry free transportation The political
or capper is in the other class Mr Thompson denies that he is a
ailroad attorney or that he has in recent years transacted any legal busi
ness for them Then he has no legal or legitimate right to a pass and
stands condemned as a mere political capper for the railroads
When Mr Thompson takes the platform and delivers his anti-corpora-ion
speeches he nas in his pockets the three annual passes represented
tbove and also four free mileage books He dare not deny it He is try
ng to ride into office under false pretenses
Populist farmes what do you think of this man Is it your idea of
eform to put into office a double dealing pass grabbing smoothtongued
jolitical lawyer How much could you depend on him
Compel the democratic campaigners to stand up and explain if they
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The Worst Form
Multitudes r re singing the praises of Kodol
the niv discovery that is making so many sick
people well and weak people strong by digesting
what they eat by cleansing and sweetening the
stomach and b transforming their food into
the kind of pure rich red blood that makes
ou feel good all over Mrs Cranfill of Troy I
T writes For a number of jears I was trou
bled with indigestion anddjspep ia which grew
into tho worse lorm Finally I was induced to
use Kodol and after using four bottles I am
entirely cured 1 heartily recommend Kodol to
all sufferers from indigestion and djspepsia
Take a dose after meals It digests what you
eat McConnell Berry
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THE FEAE OF DEATH
IT SHOULD FIND NO LODGMENT IN
ANY RATIONAL MIND
Entire Social Fabric in Largely
Built Upon It
Do we dread death ou the same
principle that half a Hock of sheep
leap through a certain hole in a fence
because the other half has doue so
For unless the fear be traditionary
and hereditary it is hard to account
for it
Death is a change occupying a mo
ment from one form of life to another
Whether it come in the course of na
ture or by accident or design it is sel
built largely upon that fear Our law
makes death the supreme penalty Our
funerals are occasions of mourning
and the medical profession one of the
most numerous extant spends its ex
istence in combating death We seek
eagerly all nostrums or elixirs that
promise us continuance of life We
ascribe supreme merit to the soldier
who risks his life for his country or to
the individual who sacrifices it for oth
ers We laud the stoicism which af
fects to despise death but which bases
the virtue of that despising upon the
acknowledged terror of the event Our
humanitarians spend sympathy and
and it is a real value is in the disci
pline and experience it gives which it
is our honest and sensible duty to im
prove to the utmost and to the last
Life may be interesting and arduous
it may be disappointing and irksome
It is very seldom if ever uniformly and
positively agreeable Fear on the oth
er hand is one of the worst and basest
of evils and fear of death the most
irrational It must have originated in
sheer ignorance and thoughtlessness
It ought to vanish before our modern
enlightenment and sagacity and with
its disappearance will appear social
changes that cannct but be revolution
ary and salutary Julian Hawthorne
in Brandur Magazine
Dansrerons Criminals
Why said a lady reproachfully to
her husband you know when I say
Denmark I always mean Holland
Perhaps the city girl in the following
story told by the Philadelphia Tele
graph allowed herself a similar lati
tude of expression
She was sitting on the porch lazily
rocking to and fro and watching the
fireflies flitting about through the
shrubbery Suddenly she turned to
her companions and said in a musing
tone
I wonder if it is true that fireflies
do get into the haymows sometimes
and set them afire
Everybody laughed at what was ap
parently a pleasantry but the young
lady looked surprised
Why said she it was only yester
day that I saw In the paper an article
headed Work of Firebugs It said
they had set a barn on fire Really
FolloTvlng Good Preaclilngr
Vicar severely to his cook Mary
you had a soldier to supper last night
Cook Yes sir hes my brother
Vicar But you told me you had no
brother
Cook So I thought sir until you
preached last Sunday and told us we
were all brothers and sisters London
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THE PLAY WAS STOPPED
Bat It Waft Not by the Orders of the
French Iremdent
M Sardou the French playwright
once profited by a joke that General
Lndinirault who was at the time
Yet This Dread of Meeting the In- ernor of Paris nlnved ou M Thiers
evltable In So Universal That Our Sardou had written Rabagas ami
the play had been given its dress re
hearsal lu camera It was displeas
ing to Thiers and lie undertook to stop
its public performance
As General Ladinirault was dressing
for dinner about 0 In the evening an
officer entered his dressing room and
tendered a dispatch which lie said
had come direct from Versailles
The officer went out and the general
continuing his toilet said to himself
that he was certain that that dispatch
was the interdiction of Rabagas
and having a friendly feeling for the
doin painful never probably so painful author the general left the dispatcli
as a bout of the toothache It brings
us from a condition of bondage and
uncertainty at best to one of freedom
and security But often it is a change
from slavery both physical and moral I
here looms so large will there be
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long for the arrival of an appointed
hour and now dread its too speedy
coming will be no more But we shall
measure life by its intensity and by its
opportunities In other words we shall
be the makers of our own times and
seasons
Death takes us from a world of ef
fects to one of causes The soul is
J made of will and thought and as we
may daily perceive it is only the ob-
unopened when he left the room
The next morning came a messenger
posthaste from Versailles Rabagas
was performed last night
Without doubt negligently replied
to emancipation comparatively perfect the general
or if we hold the materialist view to
everlasting unconsciousness The spir
itual state is emancipated from the i
But the dispatch
What dispatch
From M Thiers interdicting the
inertia of matter and the tvrannv of performance
space therefore thought will be pros- Goodness me replied the general
euce and a mans surroundings as to I left it unopened on the table See
both thing and person will be there it is the seal unbroken Still
tably such as aro most desirable to that makes little difference Every
him The evil will be emancipated thing passed off well They nearly
from the opposition of the good and bissed tho play off the stage and it
the good will not be grieved and ham- I will be the same at every performance
pered bv the machinations of the evil I Tell M Thiers that he lias no cause
Tho whole chanter of accidents which i for alarm
Rabagas was withdrawn but not
by the orders of M Thiers
Morse and the Telegraph Operator
Immediately after the successful
completion of the first transatlantic
cable and the consequent celebrations
In which of course Cyrus W Field
bore a prominent part Professor Morse
had occasion to send a telegram from
a small town in Ohio to his home in
New York He wrote out his message
presented it to the operator who rap-
structlon of material conditions that idly checked it off with his pencil and
nrevents ns frnm immpfli itelv I curtly demanded a dollar
pushing our desires and beholding the But said the venerable inventor
I ever pay for messages and see
realization of our thoughts Again I
death is inevitable to all and to any ing an inquiring look in the operators
one who chooses is at any moment at- eyes added I ani in fact the father
tainable By what logic can our fear of the telegraph
of it he defended Then said the operator firmly con-
vinced that he was being imposed up-
Yet we fcsr it so much and so
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versallv that our entire social fabric is on wny turn c you ju
name Cyrus W Field
Professor Morse when telling the
story used to say that he was too hu
miliated to answer
At Sea on Land
A clergyman who had neglected all
knowledge of nautical affairs was
asked to deliver an address before an
audience of sailors
He was discoursing on the stormy
passages of life Thinking he could
make his remarks more pertinent to his
hearers by metaphorically using sea
expressions he said
Now friends you know that when
money in attempting to prolong the you are at sea in a storm the thing you
miserable condition of the poor and do is anchor
diseased We shudder to hear of a vast A kalf concealed snicker spread over
natural calamity like that of Marti- the room and the clergyman knew
nique or of avoidable accidents such as that he had made a mistake
are furnished daily by railways and After the services one of his listen-
other instruments of civilization And j came to him and said Mr hav
all the while it is the survivors who you ever been at sea
suffer if any one does though they The minister replied
too are soon comforted by time or the No unless it was while I was deliv
insurance companies The dead man ering that address New York Times
the man who has entered upon the new
and spiritual life whom we absurdly LlsiitniiiKs Affinity For OaU
pity is free and his troubles are over Electricity in the clouds like its com
Suicides it is true are said to in- panion lower down loves to seek the
crease with civilization But few earth the great reservoir of all elec
and it finds the most available
philosophical suicides occur The ma- j tricity
jority are induced by dread of life way to do so choosing always the best
overcoming dread of death It may be conductor conspicuous among which
doubted if suicide be ever the act of a j are the much maligned lightning rod
man at once perfectly brave and j the high trees or the elevated steeple It
ouchlv sane The value of this life has its choice of trees as well as otner
things and will leap over half an acre
of trees to find an oak for which it ap
pears to have a special attraction and
it will pass a high point to find a build
ing that has metal about it
Oiliest Tree In tlie World
The Rev W Tuckwell in Tongues
and Trees and Sermons In Stones
says The oldest living tree in the
world is said to be the Sema cypress of
Lombard y It was a tree forty years
before the birth of Christ But Al
phonse Karr in his Voyage Autour de
Mon Jardin says of the baobab Adan
sonia digitata It is asserted that
some exist in Senegal that are 5000
years old Notes and Queries
Superstition That In Ancient
In many parts of Great Eritain the
superstition still survives that it is fol
ly or madness to save a drowning man
as he will sooner or later do an injury
to the rescuer The superstition comes
down from our ancestors yet traces of
it exist among the Sioux and other In
dians who seem to have inherited it
from aboriginal sources The belief is
most prevalent in Cornwall and vari
ous parts of Scotland
Xo Longer Necessary
Do you still rely on your burglar
alarm
Oh no We have a baby now you
know and if any burglar can find a
time during the night when some one
isnt up with the baby hes welcome to
all he can get Chicago Post
Annoying DelayN
May Oh I hate these magazine se
rials
Edith Why
May You can never tell how the
story ends until it Is finished Town
and Country
Did it ever occur to you that the
soles of your shoes go awfully fast
after the first break occurs A man is
like a pair of soles in that respect
Atchison Globe
A QUEER EXPERIENCE
It aiatlc One Alnn u Believer In tbe
Supernatural
I want to tell you a very queer ex
perience I had said the colonel It
borders so much ou the superstitious
It throws me somewhat in doubt as fo
whether I believe in the supernatural
You all know what a fondness I have
for driving and the more spirited the
horses are the bettor 1 feel to put them
on their mettle Well a few summerd
ago I bought a pair of high striuuj
strongly built bay liorhes and began to
drive them One Sunday morning I
carefully hooked them to my surrey
I personally saw that every strap was
well hooked the chains carefully ad
justed and in fact every precaution
taken to have them so harnessed that
there could be nothing to fret them
I drove up St Charles avenue to
Washington out Washington to the
railroad crossing back again to St
Charles avenue and then up to Car
rollton until opposite the old Carroll
ton gardens and there stopped to rest
under a tree We had moved at a
pretty good pace the weather was
warm and I believed that a little rest
would do the horses good I forgot to
tell you that I had In the rear sent of
the surrey my wife and daughters
We stopped just under a tree on
the side of the neutral ground and
there waited Just then a party of
about twenty bicyclists came In sight
coming up the avenue As they passed
us my horses reared and made one
plunge I had the reins in my hand
and the ladies were seated in the sur
rey What made me do it I do not
know nor can I account for It but I
let go the reins and the horses ran
awn j ran away mind you from the
surrey unhitched The surrey remained
perfectly still for a moment and then
by its own momentum slowly slid
down to the sidewalk We all got out
without the slightest anxiety what
ever It was perfectly astounding
We made a careful examination of
the straps the hooks the chains the
l pole and there was nothing broken
nothing strained nothing bent in fact
it was just as if some unseen spirits
had carefully unhooked the horses and
let them go The horses were brought
back in about two hours We again
made a careful examination of the
harness and I assure you tue entire
outfit was in perfect condition v
ing broken nothing hurt or damaged
whatever Now how can you account
for that I am not inclined to believe
I
in the supernatural but at times when
i I think over this incident I do not
know what to believe New Orlcanu
Times Democrat
ANIMAL ODDITIES
It is said that the frigate bird can
fly an entire week without stopping to
rest
Some of the cats in Liberia are of
a bright red tint and they are very
conspicuous in the moonlight
I The cry of a young seal when wound-
ed or about to be attacked resembles
i that of a child in distress and tears
flow frou eyes
The common herring is the most dif
ficult of all marine creatures to catch
alive for an aquarium A whale is
the most didicult to preserve alive
Cranes storks and wild geese fly
fast enough to make the trip from
northern Europe to Africa in a week
but most of them rest north of the
Mediterranean
A fox is dainty as well as crafty
and prefers the tongues of lambs tor
food He has been seen to chase sheep
until they on becoming tired hung
out their tongues which he then tears
off and eats
A caterpillar cannot see more than a
centimeter ahead that is to say less
than two fifths of an inch The hairs
on the body are said to be of as much
use as its eyes in letting it know what
is going on around
Her Xcw Jacket
A naval officer engaged in ordnance
duty on a home station was given to
talking in his sleep One night he
awakened his wife by starting up in
bed and exclaiming in accents of pity
ing distress
She must have a new jacket I
must manage to get one for her
The wife knowing her husbands
slumbers had never before been dis
turbed by the requirements of her
wardrobe became vastly agitated and
gripped him by the arm
William William she breathed
earnestly into his ear hope meanwhile
rising high in her breast Who Is
she
My three inch gun sighed the
overtaxed ordnance man
Different Line
She Women havent a bit more curi
osity than men Im certain
He No but it is manifested in dif
ferent lines For instance a woman
might own a sewing machine without
finding out how It is made but she
wouldnt have a seamstress in the
house a day without knowing all about
her Washington Times
BlamelcKM
Amateur When I stand on the stage
I see nothing and 1 am conscious of
nothing but the role I am playing The
audience disappears entirely
Friend Well I cant blame the au
dience much for that Illustrated Bits
Conservation of Energy
What was your idea in having
Bertha learn typewriting
Well she was always drumming
with her fingers and I thought sho
might as well do it to some purpose
Chicago Tribune
People would get more real enjoy
ment out of money if it took them as
long to spend it as It does to earn it
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