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to their old as well as their new adJross.
HOWARD'S "PLAIN TALK."
Under the head of "Time for Plain
Talk," Editor Edgar Howard last
week threw a bomb shell into the
ranks of the local leaders of the Dahl
man Action of the democratic party of
Platte county and the Personal Rights
League by bolaly announcing that the
democracy of the state will not stand
for the Dahlman program. No names
are mentioned, but a careful reading
of Mr. Howard's editorial would con
vince anyone familiar with the politics
of Platte county that the "plain talk"
indulged by the Telegram is a note of
warning to Chris Groenther, John
Byrnes and the democratic members of
the Personal Rights League that if the
alleged program to force Jim Dahl
man upon the party as a gubenatorial
candidate is carried out, tbe admirers
of Governor Shallenberger will vote
for and assist in electing the republi
can candidate. "We sound the warn
ing now," Mr. Howard says, so that
the bosses shall not be in position to
say that they did not hear it in time
to avoid making a fatal mistake.
The Telegram further says: "The
democratic candidate for governor
must be opposed to prohibition, but he
must be in favor of existing law."
This "plain talk" from the pen of
Mr. Howard, who edits the leading
democratic weekly paper of the state
and is a man of influence in his party,
will have a tendency to strengthen
Shallenberger faction in this county
and at the same time widening the gap
that divided the two factions. All
that the friends of the governor need
ed to give him a fighting chance in
Platte, was the leadership of some
prominent democrat of commanding
influence to champion his cause, and
the prediction is made that when the
fight is over the Dahlmanites will
know that they have had a strenuous
opposition. Mr. Howard's influence
in moulding party sentiment extends
lieyond the border of Platte county and
the stand he has taken against the
candidacy of Jim Dahlman and the
men who are managing his campaign
in Platte county will infuse new life
into the Shallenberger following
throughout the state, although his de
mand that the democratic candidate
for governor must be a man "who- is
opposed all the time to prohibition,"
is contrary to the stand the democratic
party has taken on the prohibition
question in past years. In only three
republican states are prohibition laws
in force today. During the past sixty-three
years twenty-six northern
states have had a prohibitory law,
but all, with the exception of Maine.
Kansas and North Dakota have re
turned to the license system. The
first state prohibitory law ever enact
ed was passed in Maine with the aid of
democratic votes ten years before the
republican .party was organized. In
1854 democrats were instrumental in
passing a prohibition law in Connecti
cut, and in 1855 the then democratic
state of New York passed a strigent law
at the demand of the prohibitionists.
In 1887 president Cleveland established
prohibition in the territory of Alaska.
Since that time about half the 3tates
' that cast their electoral vote for Mr.
Bryan have adopted prohibition,, and
if their demands are complied with
the next convention will adopt a
platform containing a plank advocat
ing national prohibition.
The democrats and prohibitionists
are natural allies. In the presidential
campaign of 1884 a deal was made by
the democratic national committee with
leading prphibitinnist which resulted
in the defeat of James . G. Blaine and
the election of Graver Cleveland.
For a democrat to stand up now and
practically denounce his late allies
soands amusing, when the record of
his party on the prohibition question
is a matter of history which any man
can familiarize himself with by a little
dilligent search.
Alluding in a sneering manner to
the Personal Rights League, is strictly
in line with the history of the demo
flKIU e 0Mraon:
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cratic party on the question of person
al rights. The only party that ever
took a decided stand on the question
of personal rights is the republican
party. And the republican party
stands on that question today where it
has always stood where Abraham
Lincoln and all the great leaders of
the party have stood.
The first personal liberty law ever
passed was opposed by the democratic
party and bitterly denounced by the
states that now condemn the personal
liberty idea the old slave states that
have enacted prohibition laws.
On June 7, 1888, when the demo
cratic party met in national conven
tion in St Louis, an effort was made
to secure the adoption of a personal
liberty plank in the platform, but the
champions of personal liberty were
turned down. Two weeks later the
republican national convention as
sembled in Chicago, and unanimously
adopted a platform containing the
following personal rights plank asked
for by the German voters of the coun
try: "We reaffirm our unswerving de
votion to tbe personal rights and liber
ties or citizens Tbe first concern ot
all good government is tbe virtue and
sobriety of the people and the purity of
tbe borne. The republican party cord
ially sympathizes with all wise and well
directed efforts for tbe promotion of
temperance and morality."
The Nebraska delegation to the
national convention of 1888 voted for
the adoption of the above plank. That
plank has never been repudiated and
upon that plank every member of the
Personal Rights League can find
standing room regardless of his pre
sent political affiliations. If our Ger
man citizens who have been voting the
democratic ticket are no longer wel
come to remain in the ranks of , the
democracy for the reason that they are
opposed to Governor Shallenberger
the republican party extends to them
a welcome. The latch string always
haugs out The doors of the republi
can party are never closed. Its prin
ciples and policies are broad enough
for the naturalized as well as for the
native born American.
There is yet a job open for Walter
Wellman. The man "who struck
Billy Patterson" remains to be dis
covered. While the English press is almost
unanimous in its opinion that Dr.
Cook never reached the north pole
and plauted the flag of his country
there, yet the same journals questions
tbe right of about 30.000 square miles
of land the American explorer dis
covered while making the dash for the
long sought for prize. A member of
the British parliament has had the
audacity to assume that the unknown
land Dr. Conk discovered belong to
England.
SLOCUNB LIQUOR LAW.
Below is a brief of the Slocumb li
quor law that prohibitionists desire to
trade for a state wide prohibition law:
The following is a synopsis of the
Nebraska liquor license local option
law:
Section 1 provides that the county
board of each county may grant license
for the sale of malt, spirituous and vin
ous liquors if deemed expedient, upon
the application by petition of thirty
of the resident free holders of the town
if the county is under township organ
ization. The county board shall not
have authority to issue any license for
the sale of liquors in any city or incor
pnrated village or within two miles of
the same.
Sectiou 2 provides for the filling of
the application and for publication of
the application for at least two weeks
before the granting of the license.
Section 3 provides for the hearing of
the case, if a remonstrance is filed
against the granting of a license to the
application.
Further sections provide for the ap
pealing of this remonstrance to the dis
trict court; the form of a license; the
giving of a $5,000 bond by the success
ful applicant for the license.
Sections 8, 9 and 10 make it an of
fense, punishable by a fine of $25, for
any licensed liquor dealer to sell in
toxicating liquors to minors or Indians.
Section 11 provides that any person
selling liquor without a licence shall be
fined not less than $100 nor more than
$200 for each oflene; and section 12
provides for the trial of such nffenders.
Section 13 makes it an offense, pun
ishable by a fine of $100 and a forfei
ture of license, for any licensed liquor
dealer to sell adulterated liquor.
Section 14 makes itan offense punish
able by a fine of $100 for any person
to sell or giveaway liquor on Sundav.
or on the day of any general or special
election.
Sections 15 to 23 inclusive define
the liability of saloonkeepers for dam
ages sustained by . any one in conse
quence of the traffic aid provide the
steps necessary to collect such claims.
Section 24 relates to the issuance of
druggists' permits.
The local option features of the law
is contained in section 25, the salient
pert of which readf: The corporate
authorities of nil cities and villages
shall nave power to license, regokte
and prohibit the selling or giving away
of any intoxicating malt, spirituous and
vinous liquors within the limits of
such city or village." i
This section also fixes the amount of
the license fee, which shall not be lass
than $500. in villages and cities having
less than 10,000 inhabitants nor less
$1,000 in cities having a population of
more than 10,000.
Sections 26 and 27 relate to drug
gists' registers and penalties for viola
tion of the rules governing the same.
Saction 28 makes drunkenness an
oflense punishable by a fine of $10 and
costs or imprisonment not exceeding
thirty days.
BIRTHPLACE OF DR. COOK.
Callicoon, the birthplace of Dr.
Frederick A. Cook, is a picturesque
village of 1,200 inhabitants, 48 miles
above Port Jarvis. It is 136 miles
'from New York and is reached by the
Erie Railroad. The entire population
of Callicoon and ten miles within its
radius is of German origin.
During ths early '50s several hund
red German immigrants arriving in
New York were advised to go to the
beautiful country, where land was
cheap and they could make a com
fortable living by farming. The im
migrants started out It required
three days to get there. There are
several men and woman-still living in
Callicoon, who are 80 years old or
more, who were among that party of
immigrants.
Hortonsville, where Dr. Cook went
to school, is two and a half miles from
Callicoon, along a beautifully wooded
road running along side North Branch
Creek. It is a village of about two
hundred inhabitants, with an altitude
of two thousand feet, lying between
commanding hills and beautiful scene
Dr. Cook's father was a German,
his original name having been Koch.
To anyone acquainted with the coun
try, the fact that young Cook went on
exploiing expeditions is not surpris
ing. The vicinity is full of nooks,
strange caves and rocks around which
tradition has woven a wonderful story,
and from the sides of its mountains
everlasting springs flow into the creek.
It is the boast of the inhabitant that
springs never yet went dry there, and
the supply of pure water is inexhaust
ible New York Herald.
A PREACHER JOINS THE BAR
TENDERS. A total abstainer all of his life, and,
for many years during his service as a
minister, an advocate of strict prohibi
lion laws, the Rev. Wallace. M. Short,
pastor of the Beacon Hill Congrega
tional church, became a member of
the Bartenders' Union No. 420 at a
meeting of the organization yesterday
afternoon The only explanation
made by Doctor short last night con
cerning his membership in his union
was that he desired to study the liquor
question from the bartender's stand
point Later H was made clear that
he was opposed to prohibition laws in
general and the enforcement of them
in particular.
While Doctor Short was in the East
during the past summer studying the
liquor conditions in New York, Massa
chusetts, Maine and several other
states, this local union granted there
quest he had made several weeks pre
viously and voted favorably on his
name for membership. After his in
itiation yesterday, Doctor Short was
offered the position of chaplain of the
union but refused it, saying that he
preferred to be a silent member. He
became interested in ,he inside work
ings of the Kansas City labor organ
izations when he came here six years
ago and is a member of the Industrial
Council, the central labor organiza
tion. "I have been censured rather sever
ely for my opposition to the prohibi
tion laws," Doctor Short said. "I have
received communications, most of
which are anonymous. I think I
should be permitted to continue my
study of the liquor question in my .own
Way."
The reports of the New York "Com
mittee of Fifty" , furnish the basis of
arguments presented by Doctor Short
in support of his contention that it is
contrary to the principles of American
liberty to enact prohoibition laws and
n 1 1. in pt to enforce I item. If Carnegie
ami Rockefeller a- d other rich men
are iK-rmittrd to drink liquors in their
h-nien Hti.l cIiiIm, is it right to prohibit
the HMir man from the exercise of the
same privilege, is the question Doctor
bhort asks. He believes that everv
man should be governed by his own
conscience in the matter of drinking
as in other things.
"The Rights of Man," by Lyman.
Abbott, is the book dealing with the
liquor problems most quoted by Doc
tor Short Other books written by
members of the New York 'Committee
of Fifty" which he neat are "Sahsfitat
es for the Saloon." "Physiological
Aspect or tan Liquor Problem" and
"Economic Aspects of the Liquor
Problem." Every man, he says, who
is interested in the prohibition move
ment should read these books and then
think for himself.
"Men have bo sound arguments for
the prohibitory laws." Doctor Short
said. "There are instances where
such laws do good, but in the end they
prove detrimental to law enforcement
I was in Boston for ten days and I saw
more drunk men there on a Sunday
afternoon when the saloons are closed
then during the week when they are
open. I saw men going into a restaur
ant and followed. I ordered? a glass
of beer and the waiter wanted to know
if I wanted a sandwich with it I
ordered the sandwitch, but it was not
brought to me. That I had ordered it
sufficed to evade the law.
"One-half of the people of
City have no clubs to go to when they
want to meet a friend; the saloon is the
only place open to them. The saloon
corresponds to the clubs of the rich
and the bartenders are the poor man's
butlers. People ask me if I enjoy
this union work. I would much rath
er read Tennyson. My enjoyment of
it lies in the good it does me and the
value of the information that I gain
which could not be gained in another
way. I do not care to discuss this vi
tal question as an ignoramus. That
is the reason I have joined the union,"
Kansas City Star.
OPIUM ATTRACTED THE BEES.
Suburban Dweller Learns with Sorrow
That Susy Insects Can Acquire
Bad Habits.
"Numerous honey bees have been for
some days puzzling me by their ex
traordinary conduct in my flower gar
den," said a suburban dweller, "and
now a friend of mine who is wise
in the whys of the world has revealed
to me the reason for, that conduct,
and it has pained me deeply.
"I grew a big bed of poppies this
summer and they are now in abundant
and brilliant bloom. When the pop
pies first appeared bees were working
all about the garden on flowers ot va
rious kinds. Then by and by I no
ticed that they were abandoning these
and taking possession of the poppy
beds In swarms. They seemed not
only to seek the popples exclusively,
but none of them showed an inclina
tion to quit them when once at work
among them. Each hovered about the
bed in frantic effort to geF places in
poppies, every one of the scores of
which were constantly occupied by
other bees, and these were just as
eagerly struggling to keep their places
in the flower cups against those trying
to get In.
"A peculiar drowsy, droning hum
was constant about the bed, making you
sleepy to hear it. It was evident
from the persistence with which the
bees assailed that poppy bed clung to
their places or reluctantly now and
then gave them up, that whoever it
was that owned them wasn't getting
much work done In his hives, and
knowing the reputation of bees for
being busy and improving each shin
ing hour, I wondered more and more
at this singular lapse from duty. Then
one day I showed the strange sight
to my friend, and voicing my wondei
at what it all meant. He gazed at
it a moment In a stony and cynical
sort of may, and then said:
"'What does it all mean? Why, It's
plain enough. Each and every one ot
those popples Is a natural opium jolat
and the bees have hit up the dope
and can't get away from It That's
all It means.' he said.
"I was sorry indeed to hear it, for
it pained me deeply to learn that the
bee, the busy bee, ever held up as
an example of all that should be emu
lated and admired, 'should be thus
prone to evil ways.'
The Feller Foils.
Recently one young man bet another
that he could not break an egg placed
on the floor of their room by hitting
it with a barrel. The second young
man promptly took the bet
Thereupon the first young man care
fully placed an egg in a corner of the
room, just where the walls made a
right angle, so that it was Impossible
for the other to hit the egg with an
ordinary barrel.
Then the first young man proceeded
to gloat.
But the other suddenly produced a
revolver and broke the egg by tappiaa
it smartly with the barrel of the
weapon. Then he demanded the
money.
There was quite a dispute, natural
ly. Finally the two agreed to submit
the question to the editor of a sport
Ing paper. In due time the answei
came. The sporting authority decided
that the second young man was the
winner of the bet since the other had
not specified in any way what kind of
a barrel should be used for the de
struction of the egg.
Effective Persaasten.
"De world sho' owes you a llvla,
son." said Uncle Bben: "but de
chances Is dat It ain't g'fnter pay up
'less'n yon gives It an ahgumeat wlf a
ax or a whitewash brush."
All Can Be Helpers.
It Is never true that we are not help
ers; where the fervent heart is. there
Is the servant of God. and unto Him
comes ever with work the reward.
Robert Collyer.
The Difference.
Women say as mean things of the
men as they can think of. In public,
but hi public, men are always com
plfmentfng the women. Atchison
CITIES
C0U.
Carnages? and
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Not one of the old Spenlaa towns ot
Cuba-but Is a source of inspiration to
a painter," writes ato-Henry. Johnston..
"Camagney la nearly -win yenraeisVas;
a Spanish city; but. It waa-a place ef
Indian settlement for a long antecev
eentperiee. It If the aU-white' town,
where the St ,M inhabitanta are fee
the moat part of pure Spanish descent,
and the handsomest people in Cake,
No town In Spain la more Spanish or
more ptctureeqae. it has aarrow
streets, projecting heleonles screened
by carved wood or Iron grilles, tiled
rooms, thick walls, porticos glowing
with sunlit vegetation, a sixteenth
and seventeenth century -cathedral,
churches, caanela, nranaaterles and
convents. The steeples and doorways
of some of those churches (and of a
good many Cuban baUdlngs gen
erally) almost suggest the Meetieh In
fluence In architecture which pre
vailed in southern Spain down to the
period of Columbus' voyage. Set era!
.of the ecclesiastical uildlngs of
.Camaguey contain nugnificeat altar
pieces and handsome shrines of ham
mered silver.
"la Santiago, the eastern eanltal ef
Cuba, and now one of the moat beau
tiful places la the world, the solidly
constructed houses the Spaniards,
among many great qualities, had that
of building appropriately and perma
nentlywere painted la tempera al
most every attainable tint combined
with: white copings, window' frames,
doorways, parapets aad skirtings.-One
house Is ultramarine blue and white,
another dun mauve and whitf or pale
green, maize yeUow, pink, terra cetta,
aky blue, green-blue, or apricot hue
aad gray-brown.
'This affect combined with the
fronds of palm trees and banana, the
dense foliage of figs. Hexes, mlsssess
orange trees and giant laarebi, the
brilliant flowers of bushes and creep-
era, the brown-red tiled roofs, the man
ble seats aad monuments, the grace
ful balconies, the white-stone colon
nades, the blue waters of the harbor,
and the magnificent encircling moua,
tains, was daring, bat eminently suc
cessful. One might undergo at San
tiago de Cuba a color cure for
cholia."
The Folly ef Frefanlty.
In the good old times goad,
rasbioned mothers were- sometimes
heard to threaten to wash out the
mouths of their boys as a cure, against
that foolish habit of profanity. It may
be that some of them carried the
threat Into execution and did wash
the mouths of the offending boys with
soap and water. It would not be a
bad thing If some beys were subjected
to that sort of treatment new.
If It did not break them of the
habit entirely it would show them
what their good mothers think about
it and would do them good all their
lives. There are lota of grown men,
some of them men of prominence,
leaders In public life, who seem to Im
agine that, they cannot emphasize what
they have to say without laterlarilaf
their words and sentences with prtf
fanity. The man who cannot give em
phasis to what he has to aay without
that Is the man whose words, as he es
timates them himself, lack the weight
that will carry with them the empa
sis which he would give them. The
best thinkers and talkers do aot have
to resort to profanity as a sort of
crutch with which their language will
be able to do duty. Kaoxville Journal
and Tribune.
Reain'e New en Wheel.
A correspondent sends an account
of a robin building In a child's motor
car. The toy car stood In the porch
of a house at Purley and while there
it was noticed that there was a col
lection of leaves la the hood, but K
was not till the motor car was taken
to the other end of the garden aad
put away In the summer house that
the robin completed Its nest undis
turbed,, for the car was not used, the
children being away from home. On
their return the motor car waa taken
out and the boys were racing around
the lawn, one pedaling the machine
while the other pushed behind, when
to their astonishment a robin flew out
from the hood.
On looking In, a nest containing sis
eggs was discovered, which in their
excitement the hoys pulled out; but
happily ,the nest was replaced and the
car putback In the summer house and
although two eggs were takea the
robin did not forsake it but continued
to sit on her eggs even though the
motor horn waa sounded aad many a
visitor came te see her. Country
Life.
On the Jeh in Slam.
Slam has electricity, and ths
thoughtful ''manufacturers ef it have
provided to the best of their ability
for every conceivable accident Fm
instance, when- the lights go out the
remedy Is; to follow the directions In
the notice':
"Bangkok. Sir: For the case that
your electric light should fail we seg
to send you, inclosed a postcard, which
please sgadhus at once when you fine
your Uht out The company will
then send yon another postcard
Tours truly. Manager. Slam Hectrkty
Company,' Ltd." Calcutta Times.
Helpful Sepjestlen.
The little darling seemed extremely
111.
"Run for a doctor!" cried the fright
ened mother.
"I've been eatia plums." the young
ster managed to gasp. "Maybe you'd
better run for a plumber."
Adapting FreverfM.
He (dogmatically) Strawa show
which way the wind blows.
She (significantly) Well, some
tlmee, in a treating party, they enow
somebody ie raising the wind.
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