tibe Conservative.
tronsuror of the commonwealth , not
ngninst the holder.
If the decree was obtninod by fraud ,
the commonwealth may in turn recover
from the fraudulent applicant ; but it
can only obtain money damages ; it can
not disturb him in his possession of the
land , after it has once registered him
as its owner.
Tt is oven provided in Massachusetts
that "no title in derogation of that of
the registered owner shall be acquired
by prescription or adverse possession ; "
and any lawyer will toll you that that
is putting it pretty strongly.
Iu l"10 ! nto of
SIXTY DAYS f
Jowa the law
ix A YKAK. pro
vide s against
count y commissioners being in session
at the public expense more than forty
days during a year. Tints the salary of
a commissioner cannot exceed more than
one hundred and twenty dollars. But
in Nebraska , county commissioners in
some counties manage to get from one
thousand to lifteen hundred dollars a
year in per diem and mileage. This
shows that the law in this state , relating
to the pay of county commissioners ,
needs revising and amending. It is not
right to pay a commissioner more per
year than the average citizen can get for
farming , clerking , or bookkeeping a
year. The farmer is occupied at hard
work for twelve solid months but the
commissioner really does little more
than take a rest from his regular private
business at the public expense , aboitt
live days each month. In view of this
fact the law should limit the sessions
to an average of five days for each
month and declare that for all sessions
exceeding sixty days a year no compen
sation shall be allowed county commis
sioners.
AtohisOU
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, ioimxAMS-H. Globe , which is
among the very
best periodicals of the United States , re
cently made the following forcible re
marks relative to the influence and
costliness of yellow kid journalism in
this republic :
"The yellow newspapers have cost
this country a good deal of money.
They brought on the war with Spain ,
without question. . And now they are
clamoring for expansion , which will
cost us millions of dollars annually for
a great many years to come. The yel
low newspapers are supported by the
fools , and it is surprising how numerous
the fools are. The yellow newspapers
say that there is too much rain ; the people
ple cannot attend picnics and enjoy
themselves , and the government should
'do something. ' The fools say the
yellow newspapers are the right sort , as
they 'stand by the people. ' Politicians
become alarmed , and adopt the theor
ies advocated by the yellow newspapers
and fools. As a result , the fools are
running the country. There is not a
sensible man anywhere who does not
know that the Americans arc making a
mistake in paying twenty million dollars
lars for the Philippines. But the repub
lican party had adopted that policy ,
and every faithful republican thinks it
his duty to stand by his leaders. Wo
are still feeding loafers in Cuba , and
the loafers are spending what little
money they have for lottery tickets.
The Americans have lost their heads. "
SMAM.I'OX IX OHIO.
The following letter , in answer to an
interested and anxious inquirer , ex
plains itself. Tin : CONSBKVATIVK prints
it because of the high professional char
acter and official position of its author :
COLUMNS , O. , Dec. JO , 1808.
Mr. Carl Morton ,
Nebraska City , Nob.
"DKAU Sin : Your let
ter of the ( ith instant , in regard to small
pox , has been received and I am greatly
obliged for the information it contains.
Wo are getting our smallpox somewhat
better under control , though coses are
continuing to develop here and there.
The disease , however , is not spreading
to any great extent. I think most of our
people , and most of our physicians , are
now convinced that it is smallpox we
are having in Ohio. I have published
letters from the secretaries of Kentucky ,
Tennessee , Alabama , South Carolina
and Mississippi showing that they have
been having for more than a year past n
great prevalence of smallpox in the
same mild form that we are having it
in Ohio. In addition to that I have
called attention to statistics in 2i' ( { cases
of smallpox which I have fully investi
gated. But 1(5 ( of this number had over
been vaccinated , and 11 of these adults
who had been vaccinated in childhood.
One hundred and sixty-three of
the number had previously had ohick-
enpox , and 10. ) were adults. This
pretty well destroys the chickenpox
theory which had heretofore been enter
tained. Our people are not now object
ing to placarding smallpox cases. I en
close printed matter just sent out to
boards of health in this state and supor-
intondonls of publicinstitutions. .
Yours truly ,
( Signed ) C. O. PHOHST ,
Secretary of Ohio state board of health.
Mulhall , the English statistician , says :
"It would bo impossible to find in his
tory a parallel to the progress of the
United States in the last ten years.
Every day that the sun rises upon the
American people it sees the addition of
two and ono-lmlf millions of dollars to
the accumulation of wealth in the repub
lic , which is one-third of the daily accu
mulation of all mankind outside of the
United States. " This was written be
fore the panic of 1808 , which for nearly
four years has retarded the welfare of
the nation. That is over , and tho. tide
of prosperity 1ms sot in again.
Th ° W0rd 8
, pcor'
A tlUJvi m- . _ _ . .
HIS rjiKits.m French pairc ,
was applied to the
nobility , because though they may have
differed in rank or degree , their essen
tial privileges were equal. The Latin
word par , equal , is derived from the
Greek proposition / > ara , btj the mle o/as in
parallel , and hence the idea of equality.
And from placing I wo things beside
each other , for the purpose of compar
ison , par has come to signify live caualx ;
as a pair of gloves , a pair of boots , a pair
of aces , kings , jacks or queens.
Thus wo have an English noun derived
from a Greek proposition. But when a
man is tried by a jury of his peers , his
equals , how often docs he know whence
the descriptive word peer came and how
many lawyers could give the derivation
correctly ?
The equality is only "of citizenship
rights. No law can make equal those
human beings who were born unequal
as to intellectual and moral mako-up.
Men may bo legally peers , and differ in
rank and degree of character , both eth
ical and mental , just as did the nobility
of Franco , and yet their essential priv
ileges bo precisely equal before the law.
A jitry of peers is a jury of eqxwls in
law , in the rights of citizenship.
"Tho negro of today would not bo
here , as a living , breathing , puzzling
'problem , ' if our fathers hadn't brought
his fathers over by force , " reasons The
Chattanooga Times ( dem. ) . "The white
man of the twentieth century must bear
the sins and answer for the errors and
blunders of his progenitors of the pre
ceding centuries. The problem is something -
thing of the white man's contriving ,
lie must solve it justly , or he goes down
to history as a monster of cruelty and
cowardice ; and no man shall toll \ts
that the white Amorican"peoplo arc ob
noxious to such a badge of dishonor.
The white man of today and tomorrow
and the next day must do , on each day ,
a fair part of the work required for the
solution of this question ; and that work
must be done right , humanely , and at
last thoroughly. "
"That some may bo rich shows that
others may become rich and hence is
just encouragement to industry and en
terprise. Let not him who is houseless
pull down the house of another , but let
him labor diligently and build one for
himself ; thus , by example , assuring that
his own shall be safe from violence when
built. " Abraham Lincoln.
"Race is a final and irreducible fact. "
Let any one consider the faces , in the
Dscember Munsoy's , of the cardinals
from among whom the next pope will
probably bo chosen , and say if he would
care to place his interests , temporal or
spiritual , in the hands of any of them
in preference to the Englishman ,
YaughanV
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