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nncl southern Nebraska the smallpox is
provnlont. At Dubois , in Pawnee county -
ty , Nebraska , a Mr. Cope recently died
of this drearl disease.
Those who have never bnou vaccina
ted should , at once , call upon a compe
tent physician and have that operation
performed. Remember the scourge of a
year ago , when Nebraska City had more
than two hundred ca os on hand , and ex
pended thousands of dollars to eradicate
the epidemic. And remembering , act
quickly , and wisely , so as to avoid a re
currence of such a paralysis of trade , of
schools , theatres nnd churches as be
numbed this community in 1899.
K OF THIS MORMON CHURCH.
Beyond a doubt , says Rollin Lynde
Hart in the February Atlantic , the Mor
mon church is , considered purely as a
political economist's scheme , "today
nearer to being a successful effort to
inaugurate the Brotherhood of Man than
anything ever tried. "
Hero then is a social and political force
to bo reckoned with. Marvelous in its
power over the individual , it is rapidly
becoming an actual menace to the
nation. Already it numbers a million
adherents , ib owns Utah. It holds the
balance of power in Idaho , in Wyoming ,
iu Colorado , in California , and in Ne
vada. When Arizona and Now Mexico
are admitted to the Union , it will con
trol them also.
CONSERVATISMS.
Self-sacrifice , except to save self , is
suicide.
Revelation is the sudden awakening
to self-knowledge.
The imbecile and the pauper are alone
indebted to the state.
Conceit is built on ignorance of self
and fears its own shadow.
Ho who requires a inoimment has done
nothing worthy of remembrance.
Virtue is self restraint within the
limits of rational self-preservation.
The public is n greater deadbeat than
the pauper nnd imbecile it perpetuates.
Dmnocritus , Epicurus , Plato , Aris
totle , Socrates need no monuments.
No man owes more to the state than
the state owes him generally not so
much.
"Tho laborer is worthy of his hire"
whether ho works for the individual or
the public.
Monuments to martyrs and public
benefactors are the vicarious atonements
of iugrates.
There is no such thing as fatalism ;
there is such a thing as the inevitability
of sequence.
The public blesses its dead benefactors
whom it cursed , persecuted or ignored
while living.
No man owes an iota more to the
public than ho does to the individuals
composing it.
The question of the century is to les
son the per contago of fools by intelli
gent stirpiculture and thorough educa
tion.
"If I could pave the world by pulling
out a single hair I would not lift a finger
until the word paid for the hair. " Yang
Tschu.
The public is the great deadbeat octo
pus stretching its hungry maw and
grasping arms for beneficences it never
earned , or served a day to merit. The
public , disorganized as it seemingly is ,
is the most destructive and grasping of
all trusts.
There are three kinds of fools ; young
fools who know it all , old fools who
have forgotten what little they may have
known , and all-fools who never know
anything. These three kinds of fools
constitute the great dead weight in the
path of aggressive intelligence.
FRANK S. BILLINGS.
Sharon , Mass.
AN O1JJKCT I KSSON.
Ill earlier days , when discussion on
the tariff was active , The Herald con
stantly took the ground that American
resources , if left to themselves , without
the meddling of legislation , would pro
vide for the nation superiority in the
markets of the world. The inventive
faculty of Americans had long been pre
eminent , and if there was any people in
the world that excelled ours in capacity
for trading , they had not been heard of.
The late David A. Wells once said to
the writer that he wont to Europe n pro
tectionist , in the days of the civil war ,
and , after considering the machinery
there in comparison with our own , came
homo with the belief that the interest
of our nation was to have free trade.
Hero is what ( London ) Engineering
says of that which is soeu in England
now :
"Take a walk along the American
docks at Liverpool , London or Glasgow ,
and you see cases and packages innum
erable , not of hams and beef only , but
of manufactured goods , in great part
machinery that the general public will
never see , but which is an eloquent
testimony to the way British machinists
lag behind in the industrial race ; and
the great bulk of this machinery and
these other goods are products of super
iority in invention. * * * The elec
tric light is literally turning our cities
upside down , vastly to the profit of the
Americans , who were the pioneers ;
sowing machines are in every laborer's
cottage , and find a place in all other
honses to the highest in the * land ; elec
tric traction seems to have sealed the
doom of the tram horse ; improvements
in weapons and munitions of war have
raised acres of new factories. Fifteen
years ago the useful and costly type
writer was almost unknown in Britain ;
this year the imports of typewriters and
parts will probably amount to $1,000,000 ,
every penny of their money value being
dead losq to this country from the pro
ductive standpoint. In our engineering
shops and factories , almost without ex
ception , American inventions meet the
eye on all sides. "
Wo are inclined to ask , in view of
what is depicted above , if any one is
loft who attributes this to American
tariffs , passing over the American skill
and energy that have brought it to pass ?
Boston Herald.
frieilds the
HISTORY
REPEATS. English are cer
tainly having a
bad time in South Africa , and there are
many , like those who consider each suc
cessive winter the coldest they ever
lived through , who suppose that revers
es at the outset are a new thing for the
British army. But the following para
graph , taken from the notes of a travel
er who halted in Calcutta in the summer
of 1857 , reminds one that these things
have happened before :
"Two commanders in-chief had already
succumbed before Delhi ; our army was
dwindling away under its walls , and its
leaders re-enforce
urgently demanding -
ments which did not exist. Agra was
besieged by a mutinous army , and men
feared for the unhappy garrison a repiti-
tion of the Cawnpore tragedy. This
frightful catastrophe appeared to im
pend still more surely over the devoted
baud at Luckuow , whose deliverance
at one time was considered hopeless. At
Dinapore our troops had just mot with a
disaster. The gallant little army under
General Havelook , despairing of re en
forcements , decimated by cholera , and
worn out by battles and hardships , were
compelled to retire on Cawnpore. Oude ,
Rohilcund , Bundelcund , were lost to us ;
the disaffection threatened to spread in
to the other presidencies ; everywhere
the mutineers seemed triumphant ; sta
tion after station was being deserted and
plundered ; each week steamers full of
fugitives arrived from up the country ,
with additional horrors to recount , and
more disaffection to report. All com
munication was stopped with the north
west ; from Bnrdwan to Delhi , the
country was infested with mutineers ;
and every regiment but two in the
Bengal army had either been disarmed ,
disbanded , or had mutinied. With the
exception of the small China force , no
European troops had arrived , or were
expected to arrive for two months.
Meantime the hot weather was all
against us , and all in favor of the rebels. "
"Mr. Littlofield is absolutely sound
when he says that the House cannot add
to the requirements provided by the
constitution for admission , and that the
only constitutional remedy is to admit
Roberts and then expel him on the finding
of the facts , " the Chicago Times-Herald
( Rop. ) says. "This case is likely to es
tablish a very dangerous precedent ,
which may be put to a bad use later
when the partisan control of the House
is at stake. "