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Tlie country is waiting patiently for
Mr. Bryan to explain how it happened.
There's something in a same after
all. Ed Leeder was the high man on
the ticket in Douglas county.
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The boys behind the guns on the
battkskip Nebraska have made good.
They hold the championship of the
world for target hitting.
The paramount issue among the
Democrats of Nebraska is who will
receive the appointments under the
new state administration.
Through Representative Pourton of
Ohio, President-elect Taft has notified
the extiesae protectionists that the
next congress must fulfill the pledge
made in the Chicago platform and
revise the tariff.
The November blizzard was too
uch for Mr. Bryan and he has gone
to Mexico to seek a "much needed
rest" He passed right through Okla
homa without stopping over to call on
his friend, the late Honorable Haskell.
J. H. Edmisten, at one time leader
of the' Populist party in this state, has
baas fined $1,000 and sentenced to
- four months in jail for the illegal fenc
ing of government land. Porter,
" another populist, who never "put it
back," v still at large.
of justice is
i time irons. Omaha. A
poor con husker was fined $5 in the
police court of that city for stealing a
copy of the World-Herald. He should
have been sent to the insane asylum.
Bridgeport News-Blade.
. Put susxr on the free list. Of
coarse aomeof the southern Democrats
would object to this, but Democrats
usually object to anything and every
thing advocated by Republicans.
That has been the history of the party
of opposition for the past fifty years.
The Republican National Commit
tee collected and disbursed $1,500,000
during the campaign. Of this amount
one-half million dollars was collected
in the western states. The largest
individual contribution was made by
Charles P. Taft, brother of the President-elect
He donated $140,000.
Anticipating that the Democratic
Governor and State Legislature will
make good and pass a law guarantee
ing bank deposits, James Fox, for
merly county clerk of Greeley county,
in company with other parties, has
made arrangements to open a state
bank in Albion, with a capital of
$20,000.
What will Shallenberger do for the
county optionists? Surely they are
entitled to something. The Journal
suggests the name of Editor Douglass
of the Osceola Record, as suitable
timber for deputy state oil inspector.
Then there is the Rev. Dr. Games to
he taken care of. Chaplain of the
Senate wonld be just about his size.
The fine delivery of rural mail is
expensive; so are battleships and a
tanding army, but no one desires to
an oar navy disappear from the seas
or the army disband. Rural delivery
has come to stay. But there is no
ity for the adoption of the Euro-
system of parcel post in America.
1st adoption would be a costly exper-
The Lincoln papers state that Gov
etnor elect Shallenberger will go to
Oklahoma to "study" the bank guar
antee law. The voters were led to
believe during the campaign that the
Oklahoma law had been already
"stadisd" and a plank adopted by the
Democratic state convention endorsing
k. Now there appears to be a hesi
tancy am the part of the Governor
a law
in ha message. Hence this trip to
Oklahoma to "stady" the
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'A half doeen lines in an Associated
Press dispatch relating to the death of
a man who assisted in "counting in"
the Hayes electors in Louisiana in
1876, recalls the carpet-bag days of
that state. Hie election of Hayes
ended the rule of the carpet bagger in
the south, and ushered in the reign of
the 'carpet bagger in the western ter
ritories, and it was not until the elec
tion of Benjamin Harrison that the
territories obtained relief from the
absolute reign of a carpet-bag govern
ment After the election -of Hayes,
many of the corrupt men who had
robbed the southern states were ap
pointed to official positions in the ter
ritories of the west Nearly every
territory had its carpet-bag Governor,
Secretary, .Auditor and Treasurer;
carpetbaggers occupied places on the
bench; U. S. marshals were chosen
from the ranks of ward heelers and
sent to the territories. The executive
and judicial branches of the territories
were turned over to rascals who had
been discredited at home and sent west
to "get them out of the way." The
courts were corrupted by the robbers
who were stealing the government
domain and millions of dollars squan
dered in the sham attempt to convict
law-breakers. About the only men
found guilty of breaking the law was
the horse thief, and the homesteader
who cut timber on government land to
keep his family warm in winter.
When the Harrison administration
went out of power and the second
administration of Grover Cleveland
commenced, the carpet-bag system of
government for territories was revived,
and has been .followed by every ad
ministration up to the present time,
although the carpet-bag area has been
growing less by the admission of new
states.
It is hoped that when Mr. Taft
takes his seat on the 4th of next March
that he will revive the Harrison idea
of home rule in the territories of
Alaska, Arizona and New Mexico.
The territories should not be made a
dumping ground for the discredited
lawyer who has become a nuisance to
this or that party in the states. Such
men usually make tyranical and cor
rupt judges if elevated to the bench.
That has been the history of the carpet-bagger
of the south and west
The territories contain resident law
yers capable of filling places on the
bench with honor and credit without
importing the "has beens" in order to
"get them out of the way" and relieve
the community in which they reside
from a political ulser.
Give the territories home rule.
There is at least one paper in the
world which is not printed for mone
tary gain and that one is Our Dumb
Animals, which has been published at
Boston for the past forty years by
George T. Angell who is known the
world over as the great humane edu
cator. Mr. Angell has devoted his
life in speaking for those that cannot
speak for themselves, and with his age
in the eighties he retains all his facul
ties and continues the good work with
the vigor of a youth. He sends his
paper to every newspaper and maga
zine in the country and considers his
greatest work that of talking through
his paper to the thousands of editors
of the country who in turn talk to
their thousands of readers in the same
way. The following announcement in
the current issue adds to the above
comment: "Ever since beginning our
present humane work, forty years ago,
we have made it a rule of life to avoid
everything and everybody that might
interfere with our independence of
thought and action, and so have inva
riably refused to take any advertise
ments at any price for this paper, the
first of its kind in the world." Troy
Weekly Call, Oct 10.
Mr. Chafin has solved a problem
which has been bothering Mr. Bryan
since November 3d. He knows now
why it happened, and explains it thus:
"President-elect Taft is the incarnation
of the liquor traffic. Joseph G. Can
non will reign over the house of repre
sentatives for two years more. The
Littlefield bill will not be passed.
This local option non-partisan farce
received its death blow Novem
ber 3. Practically the entire strength
of the liquor traffic has gone into the
republican party, and it will be known
from now on as the 'grand old whiskey
party" Undoubtedly Mr. Chafin is
not thoroughly posted as to how it
happened in Nebraska. Local option
votes slaughtered the "grand old whis
key party" in Nebraska and elected a
Democratic governor:
Tom Allen and the bunch that hang
on to his coat tail seem inclined to
resent the criticism of Chris Gruenther
as to their management of the state
campaign. The fact that it was the
smooth management of Chris Groan
therthatwas responsible iorthe elec
tion of Shallenbergerand a Democratic
legislature ia snmcift ground 'ibr
belief tkat Ailed and hie tench were
incompetent and made , very poor
showing even with' a campaign fund of
$35,000 at their disposal. The entire
credit for the Democratic victory in
Nebraska should be given Jfe Mr.
Gruenther and the men who worked
with him, and not to Tom Allen and
his incompetent and discredited assist
ants. -.
Fred Pratt, editor of the Humphrey
Democrat, has received a well earned
reward for his splendid work for
Democracy. , Governor-elect Shal
kobergef has announced that he will
appoint the Humphrey editor deputy
state oil inspector for the Third Con
gressional District ' It was a wise
move Pratt made when he sold his
newspaper plant in Sioux county,
Iowa, and came to a country where his
efforts in behalf of his party are appre
ciated and rewarded. The Journal
congratulates Mr. Pratt
Governor-elect Shallenberger is
more successful in riding two platforms
of opposite meaning than he is in rid
ing a camel. While taking a trip
across the desert in the Shriner's
degree at Lincoln last Thursday night
the camel on which the new Governor
was making the journey humped him
self and threw the rider with such vio
lence as to injure him. Until the
bones in the Governor's leg knits he
will not be able to start for Oklahoma
to "study" Haskell's law guaranteeing
bank deposits.
In an interview with an American
newspaper writer, Emperor William
of Germany, predicted that within ten
months the United States and Japan
would be at war. The American peo
ple sincerely hope that Emperor Wil
liam will prove as unreliable a prophet
as a certain prominent William in this
country, whose prophesies have proven
false for the past eighteen years.
There are so many different versions
as to how it happened that one is apt
to become mentally demoralized in the
attempt to keep them all in mind, but
the writer agrees with Champ Clark
who attributes the defeat of Bryan to
an "unusual contatenation of unfortu
nate circumstances, which, on the doc
trine of probabilities, will not be
duplicated in forty years."
A MEMORY OF PICKETT'S
BRIGADE.
It was years after the war, and some
veterans of both sides were exchanging
reminiscences at a banquet given by
the Board of Trade of New York. It
was presided over by the first presi
dent, Colonel J. J. Phillips, colonel of
the Ninth Virginia Regiment, Pick
ett's division.
"There is nothing else so terrifying
as a night attack," said Colonel Phil
lips. "The imagination works with
intense activity in the darkness, and
even in peaceful times adds infinitely
to the fear of perils, real or fancied.
How much more are the horrors of
warfare increased when the opposing
forces are hidden from sight, when the
first announcement of hostile intention
is the thunder of guns, the crack of
rifles, the flash through darkness for
it is the darkest possible night that is
always selected.
"One of these night attacks in par
ticular on the Bermuda Hundred
lines in 1864 I shall never forget;
not because of its startling horrors, but
because of a peculiar and sacred cir
cumstance, almost resulting in the
compulsory disobedience of orders, and
obeying, as it were, of a higher than
earthly command.
"The point of attack had been care
fully selected, the awaited dark night
had arrived, and my command was to
fire when General Pickett should
signal the order. There was that
dread, .indescribable- stillness that
weird, ominous silence that always
settles over everything just before a
fight. It was so thick you could cut
it with a knife; so heavy it weighed
you down as if world's were piled upon
you; so all-pervasive that it filed crea
tion for you. You felt that nowhere
in the universe was there any voice or
motion.
"Suddenly that awesome silence was
broken by the sound of a deep, full
voice rolling over the black void like
the billows of a great sea, directly in
line with our guns. It was singing
the old hymn, 'Jesus, Lover of My
Soul I have heard that grand old
music many times in circumstances
which intensified its impressiveness,
but never had it seemed so solemn as
when it broke the stillness in which we
waited for the order to fire. Just as
it was given there rang through the
night the words:
Cover my defenseless head
Witt the shadow of ray wis.
"Ready aim re to the left, boys,'
I said,
"The guns were shifted, the volley
that biased oat swerved aside, and
that defenceless head was covered with
the shadow of His wag."
A Federal veteran who had been
listening looked Up suddenly and,
clasping the colonel's hand, said:
"I remember that night, colonel,
and that midnight attack which car
ried off so many of myJcooHrades. I
was the singer." . i
There was a second. of silence; then
"Jesne,- Lover of My Soujf rang
across that banquet board' as on that
black night in 1864 it bad rung across
the Uncial Bermuda Hundred. La
Salle' Corbell Pickett ,
THE AMERICAN. CHILDREN.
What an army of school children
there are' in this country! And it is
an. army cwhich means more for the
nation's, welfare than any group of men
in blue or khaki, and .this with, all re
respect to the fighting man. There
are approximately 12,000,000 school
children in actual daily attendance
during the American school year.
This is two-thirds of the total enroll-
'meaV'ftnd a little lees than one-half
the total number of American children
and youths between the ages of 5 and
18 years. Forty years ago 30 per cent
of our population was in the 5 to 18
years group, while now there are but
28 per cent 8inularly:ckuBified, an in
dication that race suicide' is not alto
gether a dream. t Forty years .ago, 50
per cent of the members of that group
were on the 'school lists, as compared
with 70 per cent at the present time.
The average daily attendance forty
years ago was 33 per cent of the total
number in that group, as compared
with 48 per cent at the present time.
Ferty years ago, 60 per cent of the to
tal school enrollment was in attend
ance) as compared with 70 per cent at
the present time. It seems we are im
proving in this matter of educating
our children, and that, perhaps, the
evir of child labor has been exagerat
ed, although there is still room for im
provement In 1870 the average num
ber of days of school attendance for
each pupil was only 78. It has now
reached 106. In 1880 the average
pupil got four years of schooling.
That period has now been lengthened
to five and a half, which is all to short
In this middle western divison of
states, the average student receives the
longest schooling of any in the country,
the average being about seven years.
The Southern states are the lowest in
this matter, with about three and one
half years. About 260,000 school
houses are used by this child army,
and the value of all school property is
about $800,000,000. The teachers
number about 475,000, and about one
fourth of these are males, and three
fourths females. The average salary
of the male teachers is $57 a month,
and of the women teacher $44, which
means that some of them are under
paid, considering the importance of the
work in hand. But for all that, the
yearly school expenses of the country
make a staggering total, about $400,
000,000. The cost per capita for ed
ucation has more than doubled in the
past forty years; it is important to
those who foot the bills to see that the
money is well spent Our school sys
tem costs 75 per cent more to main
tain than our army, our navy and forti
fications, and the difference in impor
tance is fully as great The school
system has come in for some criticism
of late, all or part of which may be
warranted, but, even if it isn't, it is an
indication of a wholesome interest in
the most important institution of a free
country. Atchison Globe.
A NOBLE SUGGESTION.
The progress of thought made
among men since the time, little more
than half a century ago, when our
pious and well-meaning fathers frown
ed upon all drama and theatre-going
as an innovation from the lower
regions, was never better illustrated
than by the fact that Mrs. Minnie
Maddern Fiske, the actress, is in con
sulfation' with President Angell of the
American Humane Education Society,
with regard, to 3evekping. a drama
founded, on the noble figure of the
Christ, made of molten cannon, which
stands on the crest of 'the Andes
mountains, overlooking Chili and the
Argentine republic, known as "The
Christ of the Andes," and symbolizing
the guaranty of eternal peace between
the two countries.
Standing twenty-six feet high, at an
altitude of 14,450 feet above the sea
level, is this famous statue, cast from
cannon taken from an ancient Spanish
fortress when Argentina declared her
independence of, the since decadent,
but erstwhile powerful nation, which
once held Cuba in her thrail. In the
left band of this colossal figure is the
cross, lifted five feet above the head,
and the right hand is extended in
blessing. On the base is inscribed:
"Sooner shall these mountains crumble
into dast than shall the people of
Argentina and of Chili break the
peace which they have pledged them
selves at the feet of Christ the Re
deemer. It would be interesting to know the
detail of the erection of this noble
monument; bat it is there, perhaps
the grandest endorsement of the doc
trines of tM "Pnnca'of Peace'' ever
raised by human hands. Its very ex
istence is known only to the compara
tively Jew people who read much; but
we venture to say that if. the nviuted
plan of the actress and Mr. Angell
come to fruition, the drama which
shall commemorate 'it wiil be one of
the most forceful in Its application, as
is the statue in conception, of all the
world's agencies in enforcing, its aspi
rations for "peace on earth" and "good
will to men." Newburyport Mass ,
News, Sept 28, 1908. s
HOME BETTER THAN -CAREER."
to Declares Woman Who Has Made
Big Success in Buein
The distinction of being the highest
salaried woman in New York, in the
opinion of Miss Anna Loaise Amendt,
who drawa something .near 920,090 a
year, does not compensate for the
sacrifice of domestic ties which: such
a success exacts. . .
This is what Miss Amendt, who is
the aoost valuable employe of the big
gest real estate concern In New York,
told? a writer who visited' her beauti
fully appointed office: J '
"I, suppose many women envy me,
but, to my mind, to be a good mother
and wife is the grandest of all succes
ses. Home is the natural sphere for
every woman, and no matter in what
direction her lines -may be cast she
cannot entirely shake, off that desire
to reign as its queen some time. .
"It is just this one ruling element
in her life that prevents her from at
taining equal success with men. The
average girl lives In hope that some
day a hnanand will come along and
shoulder her burdem It la only when
she rids herself of this thought that
definite success in business comes, for
concentration Is one of 'the keynotes
to success.
"Another thing: Women are doubt
ful of their ability to accomplish vast
results, and it is impossible to do a
thing as long as a doubt rests in your
mind.
"Whea.I started out to earn my liv
ing I began as a stenographer with a
salary of S16 a week. It was not such
a great while until my check was in
creased to $50. That did not look so
big to me, but it would have satisfied
the average woman.
"My checks continued to Increase
until they ran Into "the thousands. Of
course, my usefulness had increased,
lor I was not satisfied with- being a
stenographer. I had learned every
phase of the business and could put a
big deal thrbugn with as much ability
as could any man in the oMce. I pre
pared all-of. the literature. In fact,
there is no part of the business with
which I am not familiar.
"But with all my success I would
not advise the young girl to seek a
career. For in my belief, the girl who
gets married is on the right road to
happiness. Success in all lines Is
hard."
Went Willingly to Crocodile.
-It haa been said that the Australian
blacks never commit suicide; that
self-destruction does not come within
their philosophy. The author of "Con
fessions of a Beachcomber" mentions
a case of recent date which he thinks
might be regarded as In conflict with
that view: "A member of the Clump
Point tribe, painfully afflicted with a
vexatious' skin disease, was fishing at
the mouth of a creek when his hook
fouled. To a companion he said he
would dive to get it clear. His friend
endeavored to dissuade him, remind
ing him of the crocodile which they
had seen but a short time before.
But the boy, worn with pain and
weary with never-ending Irritation,
said if he was taken, 'No matter. Good
job, me finished then.' He dived and
there was a commotion in the water.
The boy appeared on the surface,
making frantic appeals for help while
the crocodile worried him. He escaped
for a moment and his friend clutched
his hand and drew him to the bank,
only to have him torn from his
grasp."
Forehanded.
Little Katherine had been boarding
on a farm this summer and many of
the rural expressions are wholly un
familiar to her. One day she chanced
to hear her country hostess praising
the good qualities of a certain thrifty
neighbor.
"He really ain't got much, compared
to some folks," said the farmer's wife,
"but he makes out wonderfully well;
he's so forehanded."
That evening the man thus lauded
happened to drop in, and Katherine
Immediately sidled up to him, with
curious eyes. Slowly she revolved
about the chair in which he sat, and
so persistently did she gate at him
that the farmer's wife finally noticed
it.
"Well. Katherine," she said, "you
seem to find a good deal to look at in
Mr. B- don't your
4Why,M replied the child, her little
forehead wrinkling in perplexity. "I
did want to see his' two uwer hands,
but I can't. Is he sittin' on 'em?"
New York Times.
Iceberg Gardens.
We passed many Icebergs coming
home from Europe," said a tourist,
"an on one of them a garden
bloomed.
"It was a beautiful sight The great
berg shone like an enormous emerald
in the sun, and in one level recess,
fenced in by pale green peaks, a yel
low garden gleamed. The captain
said that iceberg gardens are not un
common. Moss, it seems, is brought
on to the bergs by animals feet. The
moss grows, it decays, it forms a soil
for the pollen of buttercups and dan
delions that is blown through the air
during the brief arctic summer. Soon
the Incredible spectacle presents it
self of a great, cold berg adrift in the
salt sea with yellow lowers springing
from the hard, cold ice."
An Easy Way.
"Why do you call that lawyer friend
of yours each an authority? I can't
Imd any book in the.legal library of
which no ia the anther.?
"Of course not He's an authority
on he unwritten law."
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The Dog, the Cat and the Lady.
Yesterday evening, shortly after
seven o'clock, a daintily attired young
lady was passing our galleries in Re
gent street, where is now on exhibi
tion a collection of old sporting prints.
The galleries had just been closed and
the staff gone, and the housekeeper'
cat was enjoying the cool of the even
ing outside, when the lady's compan
ion a ferocious bulldog flew at the
cat and both dashed through the win
dow, doing damage to the extent of
many pounds. The cat was almost in
stantly killed, and as the usual crowd
quickly gathered, milady discreetly
hailed a taxicab and, followed by her
sporting companion, who seemed none
the worse for his dash through a half
Inch plate-glass window, drove quickly
from the scene. London Telegraph.
Diplomatic Relations.
"Jest had a visit from my diplomatic
relations," said Farmer Fodderfield.
"Your diplomatic relations?"
"Yes, my brother's folks from the
city. They're so diplomatic that they
only visit us when apples, peaches.
melons, grapes and sweet taters is
ripe."
Candid Retrospection.
"So," said the young woman, "you
advise me to keep a diary?"
"By all means." answered Miss Cay
enne. "It's good discipline, and yet
soothing to self-esteem. There's noth
ing like a diary to convince you that
you aren't near as silly this year as
you were last."
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Isaac O'Barns. once penaloa com
missioner in Boston, appointed by
President Franklin Pierce, was known
for his terse and cutting sayings. It
was told of him that he promised to
subscribe for the erection of a Baptist
church on condition that they should
"baptize 'em in hot water." It Is of
Mr. O'Barns the story is told that
when on his deathbed, or when he
thought he was dying, and the doctor
bad pronounced his feet warm and
said that no one had ever died with
warm feet, the old gentleman inquired
in a whisper whether the doctor had
forgotten the case of John Rogers.
A Lack of Trust.
Mrs. Berry Brown Wah did man
black Berry 'complish dee heah fowls
he's done brought home to his owny
own bridey.
Mr. B. B. Ah buyed "em to. town.
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yo's gwine to deceive a cat way
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Mechanical.
Mrs. Haymow WalL dew tIL ef
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