Tlbe Conservative *
and want of water to drink. Some of
the men sot to work taking the wheel
apart and fitting the spokes , getting the
wheel ready to sot the tire. Others had
collected a couple of gunnysacks full of
the only fuel of the Platte valley , viz :
"buffalo chip * , " and they soon had the
job completed. The boys nearly wore
themselves oat laughing and jeering at
nip , Faying they were sorry they had no
feathers to go with the tar , etc. , and
calling me a variety of choice , pot names. .
We have now been passing through
those curious formations , Scott's Bluffs ,
Courthouse Rock and Chimney Rock.
The latter a few miles to the left of the
road , hnd the outline of an inverted
funnel , the bnse being quite steep to
climb. From its center arose a column
resembling a chimney , about 50 feet
square to perhaps 100 feet or more high.
Its top sloped off like the roof of a
shanty , nud having a crack or split down
from the top about one-quarter its
length. These formations were not
really rock , but of a hard marl sub
stance , the different colored strata
showing alike in them all. They had
the appearance of having been left in the
washing away of the adjoining land in
the course of time.
As we are now approaching the west
line of the state , it is proper that this
sketch of the trail should be brought tea
a close. But before doing so , I wish
again to endeavor to impress the fact of
the beauty of this great "rolling sea of
green. " No place on earth had Nature
ever presented a more beautiful land
scape , so pleasing to the eye , so clear its
streams and skiep , as this laud yet un
touched by the white man's civilization.
This scone was only equalled by a
panoramic view from a high point or bluff
of the great Platte valley. One could see
for miles up and down the broad valley ,
the I eautiful river with its low banks
dotted with its numerous islands of all
sizes , each covered with its green vt il-
lows making a pleasing contrast to the
light grayish color of its waters. Added
to this was the long line of covered
wagons of the emigrants , together with
the many groups of the campers.
From our view on the bluff to our rear
could be seen herds of buffalo that were
grazing on the level plain , with now and
then a bunch of antelope galloping
about. The wolf , coyote and prairie
dog were to bo seen almost any time.
Having thus seen Nebraska as Nature
presented it to our charmed vision ,
when I now look over our state still
beautiful , I can scarcely believe that
such a change has been made.
GILBERT L. COLE.
A HOME COMMENT ON BEVEKIUGE.
In all his speech there is not a word
for liberty , for independence , for free
dom , for self-government , for anything
American , Indianapolis Sentinel ( dem. )
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MASTER SQUIRREL.
Master squirrel comes a-flying
On the fence top's shining rail ,
And with movement quick and frisky
Waves and curves his bushy tail.
Close beside him is the woodland ,
All the ground is white with snow ;
Them's a wintry gleam of silver
On the bushes down below.
Master squirrel stops a moment ,
Looks about with brightest eyes ,
Ga/.es o'er the empty corn field
Where the stubbled hillocks rise.
Ah I lie hears a Budden rustle
From a little twig that stirs.
How ho quickly turns and listens
While the wind creeps through the firs.
Just before him is his dwelling.
Snug and warm his hidden ne-t
Lies within a tree trunk hollow ,
Where he's made a place to rest.
Tall , black trees rise far above him ,
AH upon them rests his gaze ,
Does ho think of all his toiling
In the autumn's golden dnys ,
When the ripened nuts were dropping
And ho sought them in the leaves ?
How ho stored the yellow kernels
Of the corn from harvest sheaves ?
Glitter , glitter o'er the meadows ,
loy gleams flash in the air ,
Sharp niul chill the. winter morning
What does Mr. Squirrel care !
Hark ! An icicle has fallen
From ii bending walnut bough.
Whisk ! The bushy tail has vanished
Where is Mr. Squirrel now ?
Somewhere , hiding witli his treasures
Tn a leafy nest of brown.
Resting after days of toiling
When the nuts were falling down.
MAKV FUENCH MOIITON.
Mil. BKYAN IN KENTUCKY.
Mr. Bryan throws all his political in
fluence and all the remnants of his
eloquence on the side of political cor
ruption in Kentucky. Even the pretense
of a moral standard is put aside , and
Mr. Bryan defends the assertion that
whatever is democratic is right.
Fraud , force and perfidy ; the destruc
tion of repretentative government ; the
overthrow of the ballot , and the down
fall of civil liberty is what Bryan hence
forth stands for in Kentucky.
National issues , even in the coming
national campaign , can have no interest
for the people of Kentucky. What care
we for expansion or imperialism ; for
free trade or protection ; for free silver
or gold , when we are denied the ballot
by an alliance between Goebel , Black
burn and Bryan ?
It is idle for a people denied access to
the ballot box to divide on questions of
national policy or on the question of a
division of national spoils.
Here we fight for civil liberty against
the allied powers of hell. Here treach
ery marks every step in the progress of
Goebel to a throne and Bryan to the
presidential nomination.
Into this struggle Bryan thrusts his
own personality. Claiming to be a
national leader , he comes , like a political
pope , to sanction all of the fraudulent
claims of a shallow pretender. He finds
the party divided , and he comes to speak
not for truth and loyalty , but for fraud
and treachery ; not for silver , but for
ostracism ; not for free commerce , but
for a rifled ballot box ; not for democ
racy and a glorious past , but for Goebel-
ism and its infamous present.
The people of Kentucky refused to
listen to the pleas of this false prophet
T
from Nebraska in November , and Goebel
was beaten at the polls.
He then organized his conspiracy , and
by the utterance of falsehoods and by
false election returns , he tried to take
from the officers of the election what
the people had denied him. Then Bryan
ngain sent him his blessing in the form
of a telegram of congratulation.
Again Goobol outrages decency and
repudiates democracy by organizing the
legislature to overthrow the executive
department and to make himself "King
for a Day. "
Again Bryan comes to Kentucky and
gives him aid , countenance and advice ,
saying in effect :
"I am glad this contest is to be heard
by a democratic electoral commission.
We know what the republican election
commission did ; we know how it
violated the law ; how it outraged
decency ; how it trampled on popular
rights ; how the judges violated their
oaths and robbed the democratic party
of the victory it had won at the polls. "
"Democrats of Kentucky , go and do
likewise. "
That is the man who in 1896 seemed
to nearly seven million people ( * lover of
liberty , a veritable soldier of the cross.
He dragged into every oration some
Scriptural quotation ; he bedraggled the
most sacred garments of religion ; he
was an exhorter on the stump , and the
people , even those who disagreed with
him , held him in respect for his sin
cerity.
His Kentucky career destroys all past
illusions concerning Bryan. He has lost
his gift of utterance. He has lowered
his moral standard. He has made his
choice , and prefers the enemies of
democracy to the martyrs of the cause.
Louisville Evening Post , Jan. 19,1900.
BOOKS BY E. P. EVANS.
Animal Symbolism in Ecclesiastical Archi
tecture. Profusely illustrated. Wm. Heinemann -
mann , London ; Henry Holt & Co. , New York ,
1890.
1890.Evolutional
Evolutional Ethics and Animal Psychology.
D. Appleton & Co. , New York ; Wm. Heinemann -
mann , London. 1808.
Beitrago zur Amerikanischon Litteratur and
Kultur Geschichte. Gotta : Stuttgart. 1898.
The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Pun
ishment of Animals. With two illustrations.
Win. Heinemann , London. *
BOOKS BY ELIZABETH E. EVANS.
The Abuse of Maternity. Published by
Lippincott. Philadelphia , 1875.
Laura , an American Girl. Lippincotfc , Phila
delphia , 1884.
A History of Religions. Truth Seeker Co. ,
New York , 1892.
The Story of Kaspar Hauser. Sonnenschein
& Co. , London , 1892.
The Story of Louis XVII of Franco. Son-
iieuschein & Co. , London , 1893.
Transplanted Manners , ( a novel ) . Sonnen-
schein & Co. , London , 1895.
Confession , ( a novel ) . Sonnenschein & Co. ,
London , 1895.
Ferdinand Lassalle and Helena von Donniges ,
A Modern Tragedy. 1897.
( In Press , Truth Booker Co. , Now York ) .
The Christ-Myth.
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