PTHE VALENTINE DEMOGRAT
I M RICE
EDITOR
Official Newspaper of Cherry
County Nehraaha
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Thursday June 6 1901
Saturday marked the time of the
meeting- or the Editorial association of
the Elkhorn Valley at Valentine
Those coming from the east were li
H Jenness ONeill Robt Good
sett Luke Bates Longpine J V
V Burleigh insworth Or A ililes
Ainsworth W D Skinner and wife
Sprmgview and Will M Maupin of the
World Herald who came up on the
ening train -Friday night These from
the west were President II G Lyon
l and wife7 Gordon G M Cooper and
wife and C L Mayes of Rushville 1
S Efner and W C Phipps of Chadrou
and F 11 Wingfield of Crawford who
came down on the morning tram
4
After a pleasant visit around town Sat-
urday m oruing the I O 0 F Cornet
Baud led the way to Cornell Hall
where A M Morrisbey delivered an
address of welcome to the editors in a
few well chosen words telling them
that Valentine would not turnover
any keys to the city tince we had
never had any and that visitors were
alwajs welcome and was responded
to by the president H G Lyon after
which the meeting adjourned to
meet at 2 oclock p m to deliver the
program Upon returning from iht
k hall teams were found to be in readi
nese and the editois journeyed to Fort
Niobrara to view the post At about
3 oclo ck the clouds lhat had gathered
during themoining and from which a
sprinfcle of rain had fallen looked
threatening and the meeting was con
tinued in Cornell hall instead of going
to the grove as was at first intended
W C Phipps icad a paf er on the pi ess
as an educator and very clearly demon
strated hew tLe picss could be an ed
ucator if the editor was capable of in
structing and that he must have know
ledge beyond u bat he impaited Tht
paper was good and furnishtd food for
thought llobeit Good next lead a pa
per on 2eeds nf the Pietb in Mhich
h3 did justice o himself and
ed us that there are ffv more inteiest
iug writer th an Bob W e would nkt
to give extracts Lut as our spaee is inn
ited on account of the Alaupin tecum
being given ana further that Bob die
not leave his cop wuh us I JL
Mayes rend an intei t stm j paper on tin
Benefits of Editors Meetings allei
which we had a general consultation
and ditcussicn ot the subjects pieeent
ed and other matteis of intend to
newspaper men The meeting a
continued in the evening with a lecture
by Will M Maupin of Omaha which
wo give in other columns of this paper
After which the resolutions were read
by P llWingfield The meeting then
closed with a song by the male quartet
A very nice song Dont be in too much
of a hu rry was the opening song in
the evening by the mixed quartet
Chadron was chosen the next place
of meeting I M Bice of the Valeu
tino Democrat was elected president
Robert Good of the Batbelt Eagle vice
president Bean S Efner of the Chad
ion Journal secretary
The following i evolutions
ed at the afternoon session
Whehkas The Angel of Death on September
19lb inti isiud the humeol our honored Mother
iiud loinierprtMdeut j nines W Burleigh ana
claKovuiorus ouiis Leaned wile auu help
- mectauil
Wjikkza We trcabui c in memory the many
truly uublcqualitiei oi character and remember
the pltasuru and pi out her pretence has brought
this Attociatiuu lu pubt eats theitloie be it
RMOLXtit That we tho incinueis of the Elk
horn Valhy Ecftonal scciatioii txpitss our
truly heat tleit boi low at her removal and ex
tend to our bi other our niost sincere eymi atbv
In his sad Lour coiiiiut mlirghiui to the all wise
1 at her -who doeth all lbius weil
JthSCMVED VJiat these it solutions be placed
on llie recoms ui the cigiiuizaliou and ucopj
lirebvUcd tliibeieaed biuther
And W HiiitKAS The lilkborn Valley Editorial
AcM eialloii lias this day held its lulli aiiuuai
inteling m ibe Leatitilulmtlevityol Valentine
ltlctoiVKi 1 hat the members of this Associa
tion do iuu appieciuieihe lite liospimiiy and
jdidlv welcome aeiordediheni that ihey con
gratulate thugoud citizens of Valentine lor then
jurit ol eislerptise ami typical wuMcrn progress
neness assuring tlieiu tiiut an opportunity u
letiru the inaliy tolirit Mts txtiiulcu on this
occasion wiil be aiuajs a pit a ani anticipation
iiio A MihhS
JJAN S EhXKlt
tUAHlili WlSUVIKU
Lyjiuuliue
S
No one
buy
s dfU
for fun
WLSASAtASJ A8A4J8A8A8A4AR
s
No one sells them for amuse
serious important
uien t Its a
ant business on both sides
A drug store should have two
missions One to furnish
drugs that can be relied on
the other to furnish them for
what they are worth
Drug stores exist for thf
public Rood Knowledge ex
perience and the progressive
methods should mark their
management We endeavor
to keep step with the progress
of the age to meet every re
quirement of thf community
to conduct a store that shall
stand for all that a drug store
should
Culgley Chapman
Druggists
Valentine Neb
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ADDITIONAL LOCAL
H S Lockwoodis again seen on our
streets -
Mrs Smjser is on the sick list this
week
Jos P Kreycik of Arabia was in
town on business Tuesday
Miss Inez Petty crew is working in
the county treasurers office
Mr and Mrs J Jordan were trans
acting business in town Friday
Dont forget onr high grade coffees
and teas W A PettYCrew
J F Cross and daughter of Rose
bud were registered at the Donoher
the first of the week
Ladies of the M E Church will
serve ice cream in the Sparks building
opposite Donoher IIo tel Friday June
7th from 5 to 10 p m 2t
Mrs N Collins started Tuesday
morning to visit her daughter at Fre
mont and will go to see the famous
priest doctor in South Dakota
We have a complete lfne of trim
med hats latest styles lowest prices
also latest styles in belts Give us a
call 16 tf Esther ONeill
Miss Eva Harden returned from
Omaha Sunday night where she has
been attending the Omaha Business
college for the past seven or eight
months
Last Saturday the seperator station
was opened up and 1835 pounds of milk
was brought in to begin business
This plant under the management of
U F Callen will be a business enter
prise that the Sparks farmers will
appreciate and patronize
Windy is having a wall built on the
north side of the kitchen and will in
ci ose tbe fcuuth part as formerly with
ooards and puts a new ruof on the
Kitchen The front oi the poiuliiv e
icceivcs a coat of paint this week and
A Petijcrew will hae his build
ing painted
1 here will be a grand Fourth of J uly
celebration at Brownlee with all
Kinds of amusements A program con
sitting ot speaking music etc will
ne given Grand ball afternoon and
tugnt Vireat Qispiay oi ureworKs in
the evening Everj oody invited to
atteid Look for lull program later
400 cannons at sunrise
There are a large number of our
people who will be disappointed in not
yetting one of the many electric
lights at the dispceal of the town
boirJ at the Smyser corner where a
light is really as much needed as at
any point on main street Wc think
that the town boardshould reconsid
er their action in removing this light
it is uue that they cant all have a
light but this particular point is im
vortautfor various reasons and ahould
not be overlooked
Come and see our 10c counter of
actual valuer W A Pettycew
ifor Exchange
Two short horn bulls one red one
roan four and five years old Excel
lent breeders Nothing but good
bulls will be considered fn the ex
change ArM CAVANAtJGir
Two miles east of Crookson
20 2t
Strayed
Fj om my placo t no miles east of Crookstoii
one blaek mare about nine jeais old
white Motm Ion lu nd collar iniikrd mini
white spl on back fore top sheared and very
Kl JlKR
CrcoHstoi Jfeb
SPEECH OF W M KAUPIN
Delivered at Valentine before the E V E A
June I 1901
Ladies and gentlemen and fellow
workers in the newspaper field
that those who work in the newspapej
i business are not ladies and gentlemen
but just to distinguish between thosp
who do and those who do not work at
the profession of journalism I liavo
made arrangements to meet the gentle
man responsible for this meptingto
night upon the gory eld of Im Up then
to fight to tin deatii or com pet ex
haustion Had L been aware before J
left Omaha that I was expected to de
liver a lecture or to be the principal
attraction in an evenings entertain
ment I would have remained at home
Not even the anticipated long anticipa
ted pleasure of coming out to the
country where rolls the turbulent 2jT io
brara and where the sweet strains of
Minnechadusas musical waters lull to
sleep could have induced me to come
here and attempt to make an evenings
address I left Omaha yesterday at 3
oclock central time looking forward
with keen pleasure to this visit All
along the line I gazed out upon the
beautiful valley of the Elklnrn and
thought of the old saying man made
the town but God made the country
And while I have traveled from coun
trys end to countrys end 1 have never
looked out upon a grander sweep of
agricultural country than that which
lies before us as we travel from Fre
mont north west through the vajley of
the Elkhorn I was happy I opened
my wide pxpanse of mouth and let the
pure air flow into my lungs as aJCen
tuckian opens his mouth and lets whis
ky uour into his stomach or a Nebraska
politician opens his mouth and lets
warm and fervid words of political wis
dom How upon the circumambient at
mosphere I feasted my eyes upon the
green and gold of the valley as the Min
slanted towards the west arid I said to
oiyself surely the Almighty smiled
upon this country in the beginning and
said Here will I provide homes for
honest men and lively women and re
ward their toil with peace and plenty
E dreamed dreams and au visions
but no snakes how eve ab the train
bore me westward thanks to the cour
tesy of Major ljuchannan and felt that
great joy was mine
And then came the awakening As
the serpent entered the garden of Eden
so Dick Jenness entered the smoking
compartment of the chair car and peace
and happiness iled before even as
Adam and Eve lied before the angel
with the flaming sword Not until
Jenness showed mo a copy of the pro
gram did I know that I had been
featured like the sacred white elephant
in the menagerie or the blood sweating
behemoth of holy writ and the zoologic
al gardens But there was my name in
circus poster type right at the top just
like the name of the prima donna or the
famous comedian and at the bottom
were the heartbreaking and pleasure
dispelling words 8 p m Lecture by
Will M Maupin of Omaha at Cornell
Hall
It was the first time in my life that J
was ever sorry that I had been Jenness
For years we had been as brothers In
the good old days before the introduc
tion of the typesetting machines Jen
ness rnd I had worked together on the
World Herald Upon the second floor
of the office 1 sat at a desk and wrote
beautiful gems of thought and burning
words of wisdom while up on the third
floor Jenness stood nt a case and put the
gems of thought into type all the while
sweaiing at the ahm fisted editor down
stairs who ought to cut off his hands
and learn to write with his feet in order
to get out legible copy Then alter
the nights work was over we would ad
journ to the nearest habitation of the
booze monster and there discuss things
in general and cuss things in particular
At d jiiht as 1 VHsreeoenng fnjni my
daze a nuti named Morrissey a French
triend of mine -appealed on the scene
and added to my misery by tellipg me
that the people were expecting Amie
thing gi eat from me something Humor
ous something poetical and something
sensible an impossible combination on
sJiort notice and small salary Two or
three times in my career 1 have been
accused of being a humorist and men
have even daied to call me a poet
am neither my friends 1 am mereh
a working newspaper man doing my
share as my meagre talents allow to
herald forth to a sin cursed world the
glorious tidings of Nebraskas inanifold
lesourceB and call men from their evil
political ways and turn to the saving
light of but perhaps this is a bad
country in which to talk politics
This is my first visit to Valentine
that is in the body 1 havq been here
in my mind once or twice A year ago
I had the good pleasnre of spenpingfa
day at Long Pine angling for trdut in
the beautilul stream near by and I
wrote for the World Herald ah account
of my visit On my wa there 1 mei
my French friend hrreinbeloie men
tioned Mr Morrisey who told me
many interesting stories of Aalentine
So after writing up
Lonjr
Pine I pro-
eeeded to write up Valentine and I
flatter myself I made a pretty good
story out of it At that time a man
named Good ran a paper in this city
He thought it strange I had not called
mound to see him while in the city and
sat about making an investigation with
the result that he discovered I had
never been here Then he said some
thing about it in his paper thus adding
to an undeserved leputation 1 have the
misfortune to cany of being something
of a liar myself I have never forgiven
Good for this It leminds me that the
t hoitcst man I ever knew was named
Long the tallest man I ever kuew
was named Short the thinnest man 1
ever knew was named Widener the
fattest man named Foor and the big
gest fool named Wise I have just
spoken of a man I know who is named
Good
I would have taken great pleasure
mv friends in comiurr lo our snlendid
little mane uiIglit about uco LK eial rewind j ijtte Cltv t0 1Uake i fcpeecli had 1 been
for infoi matloii leading Jo her recovery notified of
it long enough in advance to
have made some prepara ion I knew
nesday afternoon and my every
mg hour since then has been taKen up
with my routine work preparing to get
away to be among you Were I talk
ing alone to newspaper men I might be
able to do justice to tho occasion I
can talk shop and talk politics at a i e
lv rate but this is no turn for eithei 1
can therefore only talk to ou in a
desultory manner My remarks tliis
evening may be best described by a
story
A borrowing neighbor ran into a
friends house one day and happened
to see upon the stand a handsome new
dictionary What a perfectly lovely
book she exclaimed taking it up
Why its bv -Noah Webster I never
heard ot him May I take it home and
read it
The cwner naturally was somewhat
astonished by the request but readily
loaned the book to the neighbor In
the course of a couple of weeks the
book was returned and the owner ask
ed of the borrower
Well how did you liko it
O it was just too interesting ex
cliamed the borrower I never was So
interested in a story in my life but do
you know I never read a book that was
so awfully disconnected
My remarks tonight have been and
will be for the next three hours awfully
disconnected
Do you know my friends that the
longer i live in Nebraska and the more
1 see of its wonderful resources the
more I am conviuced that as a rule we
do not appreciate the blessings that
have been givenns We are too prone
to look upon the dark side of tilings
In my fourteen years residence in Neb
raska have gone through two drouth
seasons and have sean twelve fair or
wonderful crops Yet to this day I
note that Nebraskans would rather talk
about the two years of drouth than to
talk about the twelve years of splendid
crops Some years ago 1 lived in Ne
braska when corn sold in the western
part at G cents a bushel Today it is
six times 6 cents a bushel but at a rule
corn raisers would rather talk about the
dark aud dreary days of G cent corn
than to smile and rejoice and talk
about 30 cent corn in 1890 before
you people out here had fully reaized
that stock not gram was your finan
cial salvation 1 saw line milk cows sel
ling on the streets of Kearney at 500
a head because there was no feed for
ihem and the owners were as hungry
as their cows Today beef is almost as
high as it was when the cow jumped
overthe moon yet men would rather
talk about the woeful and doleful da s
w hen they could not give a cow away
than to talk about these blessed dajs
when the owner of a car of fat steern
may be listed as a plutocrat
Why do men so love to grumble
We have had grumblers in the world
ever since Jonah had his little exper
ience with the whale You may not
know it perhaps but Jonah was the
Iftthei of the whole tribta of grumblers
The grumbler is always a man who
thinks he could run things better than
they are being run Jonah was that
kind of a man When the Lord told
him to go down to Ninevah and cairy
the glad tidings of salvation Jonah ob
jected and began to grumble about the
uselessness of such a task He thought
he knew more than the Lord did about
running things And when at last the
Lord pieemptoiily ordered him to go
Jouah went away gaumbling and tried
toshik the job The result of Jonahs
attempt to bhtrk the job is well known
Jbor three da a and three nights he was
sequestered in the interior mechanism
of a great hk and that is letting a
chronic grumbler off too easy It 1
had been running things about that
time L would have made the punish
ment fit the crime and boiled Jonah in
oil After Jonah was released from
his acqueous prison he decided that it
was bebt for him lo go to Ninevah not
ihat he thouget of the Ninevites but
1 e was thinking of the horrors of that
fishy prison and did not want to uerve
another term And when he got down
to Nmevah he was mad and began to
upbraid the Ninevites and warn them
to flee from the wrath to come Turn
fium your evil ways Ou scum of ere
ation he shouted Kepent for with
in forty days the A
miehtv
is going to
consume this wicked city with His
wrath Now Jouah had no warrant
for saying that God was going to de
stroy Nmevah lie only made the
threat bei a is j Le wai mad lie re
minds us of the man who mashes his
thumb while driving a nail to hang a
picture on and vents his wrath by
throwing the hammer at the cat and
swearing at the hired girl Aud when
God refuses to destroy Miuevah Jouah
begins to grumble again Sty 1 told
these people ou were going to destroy
this city and now you lefute to daj it
I call that rubbing it in It strikes me
that after all the labor and expense Ive
been put to you ought to give me the
small satisfaction of nsaying L told you
so
jj
Tnerc Iih goes grumbling and growl
ing and making himself miserable
We have tuo many Jonahs in Nebras
ka If the corn s howa a good color ear
ly in J uue they are dead sure that it
will be blasted by hot winds early in
August If it rains they add iheir
tears to the general muiatnre and de
chtie that the ciepa vili le di owned
out If the fun fchints they iluud up
and declare tha eer thing is going to
be burned to a crisp it it does not rain
iu a day or two Tuey are always kick
ing and declaring that the price of
wheat is too low and the price of groc
eries always too high that the price of
corn is below the cost of production and
the price of caiico and shoes above al
reason And this class of people has
retarded the giowth aud devlopment
of the best state west of the liig Muddy
Its time to either buy them off or kill
them off and I rather favor the latter
course
Lot us cheer up A smile is worth a
thousand sighs and a laugh is worth a
life time of gioaning On seveial oc
casions I have imitated the late Silas
ffegg aud dropped into poetry At
least we wll call it poetry just to save
aigumei t n the point and Lll sieze
this lime ai d place to spiing one of my
efforts on inu for no mater vhat ijs
Bates Reasonable
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taiiv suop to my newspaper friends
Boys aro you rising to the full meas
uie of your opportunities aud your due
ies in heralding forth to the world the
wonderful resources of yotir sectiou of
this God favored btate Are you doing
our whole duty to your patrons and
3 our countrymen ui general by telling
ot the niagniiicient domain whicu
atretchets out uii all aides like unto the
famous valley or the jSile or tho hhT
torc valley of the Euphrates Are
you do ng your part to bring here earn
est iudubtrious and loyal people from
the crowded and fetid tenements oi
New York and Chicago or the rock
ribbed hills of New -England aud the
s
Renovate Renovate Renovate
White Lead Oil Turpentine Putty
Paint Whitewah and Kalomine Brushes
SOLE AGE TS FOR
Tht Celebrated Lincoln Ready Mixed Paints
Varnishes and Stains There is none other sc Goob
We Jvco in -Stock at all times a large assortment of Wull paper in
prices ranging from lOcts to 50cts for a double roll
OUR SODA WATER ISEQULTO THE BEST
And it is as cold as Greenlands ley Mountains
n
llliui i o ynuu oiunL
WTT N W irSL tW mwm
af bm wmmm
IV3 - -- Si rM
WulcoWs and Titsnns vld St a nils
A Scliatzthaiier Propr
or may not be it is applicable to the
matter in hand
I aint Rot time t make complaints
About th weather wet or dry
But just accept the kind that comes
KrlKht sunshine or leaden iky
I learueu Iroia Uncle Hen t say
Just as he sud to me sas he
Th Lord knows best th kind we need
An what he semis is good enough for
me
Sometimes I kinder sort o feel
My sheer o troublo Is too tough
An that Dame Natur kinder likes
Togiveine treatment purtv rough
But when 1 do I jus recall
What Uncit ilen he said sez he
The Lord knows best what wo kin bear
An what he sends will do for me
So Ive about made up my mind
That grunibhu niut in uuy t win
An he wiioliiiUa joy iu life
Is hi in that- ausilci with a grin
An so I bauK oa Uncle Bjh
And what he said tj me sez he
The Loid will sciii our proper sheer
And what no aeuus will uo forme
God pity the man who cannot enjoy
life in Nebraska especially m this
glorious sectiou where theair is a tonic
the waters what Pone de Leon sought
in the everglades of Florida and the
onca despised sand hills a mine of
wealth superior to the famous mines of
GalOonda or the treasure houses of Sol
omon in his most glorious period aud
the women God uless em tho poss
essors of complexions that tho petted
aud spoiled darlings of the blase east
would give their lortunes to possess
and hearts as true as their complex
ions are fair and their faces and forms
beautiful to look upon When I see
the handsome aud noble Aomen of Ne
braska I always call to mind the words
of the poet i may have them mixed
a little bit but even though I have the
meaning is complete the rytliiu per
fect and the sentiment one that will
find an echo in every heart
0 woman hi our hours of eaie
Unconscious coy and bard 10 pleas j
Yetseeu too oil la ulnar wicn thy fjfle
We Jirsluuduiu tuen pity then embrace
l want to pattse here long enough
to
Middle states to liyts aud love and pros- j
per in me uinu ot tne sugar beet the
golden wheat early dent corn and the
white faced steer Or are you wasting
your time and the peoples patience
talking political rot and swearing at
each other iu a most undiguiiied and
unprofessional way For heavena
sake quit talking politics for a while
and stand up for Nebraska for glor
ious heaveir favored Nebraska Quit
calling each other pet names aud get
together in the splendid work of ad
vancing Nebraskas prosperity in gen
eral and the valleys of the Elkhorn aud
Niobrara iu particular Stop talking
of imperialism and talk about the com
fields and the wheat fields Stop
mouthing about copperheads and little
Americans and whop it up for the
white faced steer auu the aristocratic
hog of high degree aud long ancestry
Quit your everlasting snarls about
bryjDnism or JMeKinleyisni or Cioker
im or Ilannaism and bound the prais
es of tne thouMinds of deeendaus of
Alary s little Jamb who feed upon a
thousand lulls and bleat thejr pleasure
at life on the sun kissed hills of Ne
braska
Politics 1 A plugne on politics and all
politicians 1 used to be something ot
a politician until 1 mv the light I am
something of a student of the liible
and here and now let me sav that I
yield to no man in my reverence for
this inspired hook which is the revealed
work of a just and merciful God But
when I read m this wonderful book of
the inate meanness and treachery and
deceit of the original of all our pot
house and hot house brood of politi
aiaus 1 Kiid to lmself Old boy quit
training with such company auu come
out from among them even as the
soldiers of Gideon came forth from the
throng and went out to stand ud for
their country and their God Since
reading up and fully appreciating the
character of Absalom 1 havenleserted
the political field for the field of j
bra ka advancement Do you really
and luiiy understand the character of
Ausaioni i am atraid that a irrt aL
Give Mo a Trial
i4i
4a
for vour edification the six verses of
the fifteenth chapter of II Samuel
juw ray menus do you
reeogrtze
anv of the lineal decendants of
icm Listen to this man
The country is going to the demnt
tion bow wows my fellow citizens be
cause we have not been electing honest
men Weve got a Ipt of crooks and
thieves and thugs in cilice The peo
ple of Cherry county will never get
justice until 1 am elected to office Oh
that I were made a judge or a sheriff
or a county attorney or a clerk of the
courts or a district judge in and lor r
Cherry county so that any man that
hath any suit or cause might come to
me and I would do him justice What
the people of Cherry county need is a
man like me in tne legislature What
the people of this great republic need in
the presidential chair is an honest
justice loving and impartial man like
me f you want to be happy and pros
perous you must vote the ticket nomi
nated by my party not forgetting that
I am the candidate for the most im
portant office You will not get justice
until I am elected to the bench Thats
the kind of talk Absalom gave tho
voters of Israel and its the kind of talk
we hear in free America everv cam
paign Pardcn me my friends if I
again inflict upon you some versifica
tion of my own manufacture Well
admit that it is poetry just to prevent
argument and economize time I beg
your indulgence aud cheerfully admic
that the only merit of the verses is that
they are applicable in this connection
On these cool aid frosty mornings there e a
sparkle in the air
When the racy bracing breezes drive away all
thoughts of care
When the sun is dim and hazy nnd the leaves
have turned to brown
And a sleeps creeping feeling settles over
ranch and town
When the witds sei rj a honl lng and tho
quails are Hi nig low
Awl the piles oi golden fodder towards the
heavens slowly arow
Then the wily politician all his time and talk
deviates
To the farming of the farmers that he may
secuie their votes
When the frost the beet leaveB wither and the
corn husks turn to white
Aud i he loners seek a hot ctoVc and broceed
to hmr it tlKhr
When the dude his winter ulster thinks of
gettHig out of soak
And the u ys the ileec jackraLbit from the
brush pile seeks to poke
When the chewing Tom and Jerry stands a
steaming iu the miu v
And each member of the circle seeks a
that they can hug
Ulen tne wily politician fills his hair and
bear I utih oan
And go s out amoiia the farmer with his eye
iujoii their voted
I rejoice with all my heart kind
friends that the American farmer has
had his eye teeth cut and that each
year finds it harder for the politician to
pull the wool over his nyes
We have many Absaloms today the
only difference being ihai the modern
Absalom does not kiss the modem
voter But ho does kiss the modern
voters baby and usk3 after his wife and
older children He kisses the crowing
babe in its mothers arms and avows
and declares that it is tho very finest
babyiu the whole congressional district
with eyes and hair just like papas and
mouth and chin just like mamas And
sometimes the modern politician gets
his foot into it
nothing of this rocetiug until Jabt edi J merits as a ottieal production way be lolillLal campaign opens up I quote writ
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It is too bud that the parallel between
the Absalom of old ai d the Absaloms
of today cannot be followed to a similar
end We read m the good book that
Absalom came to an untimely death by
being caught uu by his hair in the forks
of a tree and lhat he huug there until
he died The only solution 1 see for
our political troubles is to compel ail
office teekers to wear long hair aud
then spend our leisure time planting j
forked4 trees Thats the only way L
know of to reduce out- alarming surplus
of politicians and office seekers
Vreve got too much politics and not
enough business in Nebraska Aud
well never get the business until we
get over the political habit Jbor heav
eiJs sake my editorial brethren let us
have a surcease of politics and let us
talk more about tlu splendors of Ne
braska and less about the salvation of
the whole country We owe a great
deal tnoro to Nebraska than we do to
any political party 1ou who live in
the Elkhorn Valley will have almighty
little time and space for politics it 3 oil
give the proper amount of apace to local
news aud facts about the glorious re
gion you repiesent
Am Empire wrought by vflillaz fcuitb
i rom wasted stretch oi desert lauds
ion oRtr peuce lor all who toil
I or thow who oil thy fertile fields
iur rn lirat ilv of treasure yields
The dinic of J d L on thy soil
Several topics were taken Up outside
many of you my friends look upon him f llii tt d tfvcral witty stoi
ies totd Mhicii
with sympathy aud entertain the idea
that he was a good hearted but nu
fortunate and misguided youth Qaiie
the contrary lie Was a precocious
youth the original ward heeler of pol
itics and a political schemer who
thought neither of honor or decency as
he worked out his political schemes
Let us study the character of
man Absalom and btP if vc ftin trmv
la resemblance between him and men
i we see m this country everv time
u e cannot remember
I and space forbids The lecture wtts
v ell receied aud hew laurels are ad
ded to the renown of Wiil M Manpin
for the happy style and iuteesting de
livery
Bnnclt for Sale Cheap
Stock and implements complete for
engaging in the stock busmen This
is a chance for some man who has abou1
a otfntoinvsi Cull ou I AI Iiic or
