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BETROTHED.
Nay , love , no word , too sweet this night for
speech ,
Mark how the moonlight sleeps on yonder
hill ,
See the wide waters far as eye can reach ,
Pillowed on lilies white , fragrant and still.
Hero give wo pause , rest them the tiny boat ,
Cradled so softly on the wave's white foam.
Backward the shore fades as homo dream
remote ,
Onward the dancing waves beckon gaily ,
"Come. "
Hero , 'neath the sky , upon this summer sea ,
Pledge we our troth , while stars their vigil
keep.
Constant as they , aye , far more constant wo ,
When moon and stars in cold and darkness
sleep.
Shall wo go hence , love , answer with thine
eyes-
Out o'er the moon-lit track , to the distant
shore
Look , yonder blends in union , sea and skies ,
Broken their bonds shall be ours never
more.
Blow , happy winds , bring kisses from the south ,
Shine , radiant moon , gem bright the summer
sea
Witness , ye worlds , for from her rosy mouth
Falls the s\vcot word , that gives my love
to mo.
EMMA SHUMAN.
Nebraska City , April 10,1899.
One is sometimes
A WORD
OVERLOOKED. times tempted to
ask the dictionary-
makers , why none of their honorable
company has ever recorded the use of
the word "so" as an adjective , meaning
true , or in accordance with fact ? Even
if such usage is wrong and indefensible ;
considering that every speaker of
English uses the word in that sense
many times each day , how comes it that
they have never registered it even as a
colloquialism ? Of the fact there is no
doubt ; it is as so as anything can be ;
when one whose fathers have been with
the language from its birth is conscious
that a word has to him , and always has
had since earliest childhood , a certain
meaning , is not that the best possible
evidence that the meaning is in the
word ? And let any one with a good
ear for English consider within himself
what it is that he means when he asks
another whether a certain thing be "so ; "
does ho mean "in that manner , " or does
he mean to inquire whether its truthful
ness may bo relied on ? And consider the
familiar childish aphorism , that "if
mother says a thing is so , it is so if it
ain't so ; " or when Goldsmith prefaced
his Cock Lane Ghost story with the
promise that he would present nothing
but what would be found strictly so.
Surely these be adjectives , my masters.
As to how it came to be thus , one
would like to ask the learned ones what
became of the old Germanic root so ,
meaning trite , from which was formed
the noun sooth , which stood for truth
until after Shakespeare's time ? The
other Germanic word true , which sup
planted it , meant faithful originally , as
we still say a man is true to his trust.
The modern German word for true is
something very different and throws no
light on the point ; but among our near
cousins in Denmark we find our word ,
in the form sand. Er dot sandt ? says
the Dane ; is that so ? But ho uses it
throughout as a full-fledged adjective ;
det er et sandt ord , says he ; that is a
true saying. And not since Anglo-
Saxon times does it seem to have had
that amount of credit in English.
PRAYING FOB P ° PnllB *
A PANIC. Press and P"11 *
are hungry and
thirsty for a real genuine financial hur
ricane. They indicate in type and
speech that unless disaster and scarcity
of money can be brought upon the
United States before the campaign of
1900 their candidates stand no show of
election. Sixteeii-to-oneistn can find no
converts in good times. But when
sixteen men seek employment and only
one job offers , Bryauarchy is rampant
and waving. Therefore , if conditions
continue as they are today , especially in
Nebraska City , and there are sixteen
jobs chasing every unemployed man , the
year 1900 will witness the complete
rout and destruction of Bryanarchy.
No man who advocates the free coin
age of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 in
unlimited quantities can ever become
president of the United States ! Honest
money for an honest people will alone
suffice.
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CORPORATIONS
FAVORED.r a il r o ad domina
tion was rebuked
by paying to various corporations for
extra trains the modest sum of eighteen
hundred and fifty-five dollars. For that
amount of cash they transported on
quick time , as freight , the speeches ;
and as passengers the orators who in
structed the plain people as to the
infinite and indescribable dangers
menacing their homes and firesides in
the form of incorporated capital. The
accounts rendered so far , and published
in the State Journal of the 29th of
November , on page 3 , are exceedingly
interesting reading. But it is pathetic
to observe that Cyclone Davis , the
hurricane orator from Texas , seems not
to have been worthy of his hire and that
there remains due him quite a sum for
eructatory eloquence. Was Davis em
ployed by the populist part of the ticket
or the Bryanarchy part or the silver
republican part ? And why , under the
stringent law relative to the use of
money for the purpose of influencing
voters in this state , should not Governor
Poynter in his next message to the
legislature recommend a thorough in
vestigation as to the specific uses and
purposes for which these thousands of
dollars were expended ?
How long shall the money power
prevail in our purely reform elections ?
FARM AND DAIRY SCHOOL AT THE
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA.
The University of Nebraska has just
issued a very attractive pamphlet de
scriptive of the School of Agricultxire.
Every farmer should write for one.
This course in agriculture is altogether
the most complete , practical and com
mon sense thing of the kind that has
ever come under our observation. It is
something that no farmer's girl or boy
can afford to miss. The people in charge
of the school realize the fact that most
farmers' sons and daughters cannot af
ford to spend the time and money re
quired in the preparation for and
completion of the regular college course ,
but believe that in farming , as in every
other business , education and training
pay.
Keeping this in view they have pre
pared a short practical course of three
mouths , beginning January 2 , 1900 , and
ending March 17. It provides for the
following studies : Soils , field crops ,
diseases of farm animals , breeding of
live-stock , feeding of live-stock , dairy
ing , horticulture , agriculture , engineer
ing , carpentry and blacksmithing , in
sects injurious to crops , plant pests ,
farm accounts and English.
An explanation given in the circular
of the manner in which the instruction
is given , shows that the student obtains
much of it by means of actual practice
and observation. JSTot that he will be
expected to do the work of the farm
with which he is already familiar , but
such operations as stock judging , milk
testing , creamery operations , tree graft
ing , treating sick animals , etc.
No examinations are required for
entrance. There is a registration fee of
one dollar. The cost to each student
last year for room rent , table board ,
books , etc. , was about thirty-six dollars.
A state school for blacksmiths , shoe
makers , masons , millers and carpenters
is noAV in order.
The letter which we publish today on
the borax trust should be an eye-opener
to those who have failed to see any con
nection between tariffs and trusts. The
borax trust is international. Its head
quarters are in England , though its
principal mines and business are in this
country. Its cheapest supplies come
from California and naturally borax
should be cheaper here than in Europe.
But for our dutv on imported borax of
five cents per pound it would be as cheap
here as elsewhere. The present price in
England is 3 % cents , while the price
which wo must pay is 7 " cents per
pound. Will some good protectionist
give a good reason why the duty on
borax should not come off ?
The brains of men average 50 ounces
in weight , those of women 45 ounces.
There is probably an inference deducible
from this , but he would be a bold man
who would attempt to draw it.
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