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About The Conservative (Nebraska City, Neb.) 1898-1902 | View Entire Issue (April 19, 1900)
t ' " > 'Cb.e Conservative ! not Bozzie was the property of George B. Oloson , a quiet gentleman living on Bryant avenue but a few blocks from Unity office. The achievements of this beautiful dog have been for years a mat ter of demonstration in private and pub lic exhibitions. Bozzie has added , sub tracted , multiplied and divided. She has counted and more than that she has demonstrated thought transference , mind reading , or whatever it was , to a marvelous extent and under conditions that would stand the severest scientific scrutiny. She displayed her marvelous susceptibility in the presence of school children , before social clubs and before university professors. She has barked off the ages of those who have simply placed their hands upon her head and thought their own age. Bozzie was but six years old. A cruel dose of poison ( it could not have been meant for her ) brought her to an un timely death. Her burial , though studiously private , brought together half a hundred or more weeping school children and a few sympathetic friends. She was wrapped in the silk coverlet which every night she shared with her master , and the little children dropped flowers in the grave that was hallowed in the back yard of the home she loved. Now that she is gone , scientists begin to see how neglectful they have been of the opportunity and what a loss her death is to science. It is not for us to speak of the tcien- tific significance of all this , but we can not refrain from this expression of sin cere sympathy with the friends who mourn her , to gladly confess our sense of comradeship and companionship with this dear fellow creature. Her achieve ments throw no new light on the mystery of mind ; we do not know more than before what soul is or what the subtle conditions of spirit are but we can more confidently assert that there are no boundary lines in this domain cutting the quadruped from the human , dividing the spiritual realm in which the dog lives from that in which man moves. The long contact of Bozzie with the human mind through heredity and environment had 'brought out this ability which exceeded in alertness many a human mind and this sympathy which seldom exists between two human beings. It is not to bo expected that the circle of those who loved Bozzie can be much enlarged but it will be a sorrow and a shame if the circle of those who are to be aroused by her marvelous achieve ments and the study belonging thereto will not be widely increased by her un timely death. When alive Bozzie belonged to a com paratively narrow circle of friends in Chicago. Now she belongs to the world of science. May she find an adequate biographer and may the problems in volved in her story receive wide study. LITERARY NOTE. Ethan Allen is one of the most con spicuous figures iu "A Danvis Pioneer , " by Rowland E. Robinson , whoso faculty of portraying the romance of life in the woods and mountains has been fully proved by his several previous volumes. "A Danvis Pioneer" is the story of a brave and simple settler of what is now Vermont. The territory was secured only after a struggle for possession with the "Yorkers" as well as with Indians , and this struggle so little antedated the revolution that the raising of the com pany known as the Green Mountain Boys and their part in that struggle for liberty form much of the narrative. "A Danvis Pioneer" contains a love story , full of romantic touches , which recounts the trials of the young settler and his act of supreme self-sacrifice to shield his old friend's young daughter. He does not miss his reward , and the working out of this recompense constitutes the romantic charm of the narrative. The book is issued by Houghton , Mifflin & Co. , Boston. Th ° PER CAPITA CIRCULATION. man ought to be happy. For each person in the United States the amount of money in circulation is $26.12. In 1896 the figure was $21.53. An increase of over 20 per cent in the per capita within four years , making due allow ance for increased population , should satisfy anyone except a populist who wants paper money to trundle around by the wagon load. More than $2,000- 000,000 of money are now circulating in this country , the increase in four years reaching $492,000,000. All these dollars are recognized throughout the world as equivalent to gold. Four years ago the gold circulating in the United States was $489,000,000. Now it is $785,000- 000 , an increase of GO per cent. Has sil ver fallen back ? Not a bit of it. The amount of silver and silver certificates in circulation has increased in four years from $558,000,000 to $081,000,000. For the first time the money in circulation has passed the $2,000,000,000 mark , and every dollar is worth lOOc in gold. DOING QUITE WELL , THANK YOU. Commissioner General Peck's Paris expense bill is a beauty. For traveling , $36,245.15 ; miscellaneous , not itemized , $10,400.46 ; total bill , $46,645.61. Mr. Peck would make a first-class drummer for a whisky house. His traveling ex penses would have taken him around the world about fifty times. But the "miscellaneous" item is rather small. Philadelphia Record. IMPROVED RAILWAY SERVICE. One of the substantial advantages se cured to Omaha and Nebraska during the past year was the opening of the new line of the Illinois Central railway. Heretofore the- western termini of that line have boon at Onawa , la. , Sioux City and Sioux Falls , but the building of 140 miles of new road southwest from Fort Dodge , la. , has brought its chief terminus to Omaha. This accession to Omaha's railway advantages brings in tributary relations with the Nebraska metropolis over a hundred prosperous towns in populous and productive-sec tions of Northern Iowa and Minnesota , giving them direct connection and quick train service to and from Omaha. Here tofore it has been necessary for all Omaha traffic to and from the rich fields of the northern half of the Hawkeye state to come and go by way of Des Moiues , but this line makes Fort Dodge , nearly a hundred miles farther north and located in the very midst of that territory , the gateway of western traffic. The construction of this line from Fort Dodge has given Omaha direct con nection with such important towns as Fort Dodge , Waterloo , Cedar Rapids , Cherokee , Webster City , Cedar Falls , Iowa Falls , Storm Lake , Humboldt , Waverly and Dubuqne , affording also , in connection with the M. & St. L. Ry. , a new line to Minneapolis and St. Paul , and other Minnesota points. The dis tance to most of these towns and time consumed in reaching them , has been materially shortened , while freight and passenger tariffs have been reduced. The officials of this growing and expand ing artery of western commerce have manifested an outspoken disposition to do to Omaha all the good within their power and have demonstrated their friendship for their new western connec tion in numerous substantial ways. They have given every assurance that they may be counted among the allies of Omaha and tributary territory in every conflict of interests between this section and rive Is not on their line. Among the most substantial benefits' accruing from the now Illinois Central line is that it gives connection with its kindred line , the Minneapolis & St. Louis , at Fort Dodge , whereby the traveler from Omaha may reach Min neapolis and St. Paul , and the many summer resorts thereabouts , without ohango of cars , the distance being shortened some thirty-five miles and the fare sustaining a corresponding decrease. This material betterment of facilities for interchange of traffic is destined to prove of mutual benefit to both Omaha and the popular resorts which it opens to the pleasure seekers of the west. That Omaha people have not made more noise over the acquisition of this important railway connection is due doubtless to the fact that the commer cial factors in Omaha had relied upon the coming of this road to relieve them of the bridge arbitrary toll which has been maintained by the old connections for many years. By this toll , shippers between Omaha and points in Iowa are required to pay 5 cents 'per hundred on freights crossing the river , which toll is not inflicted upon shippers between Council Bluffs and points in Nebraska. Prior to the coming of the Illinois Central shippers in Omaha entertained the conviction that it would put in a schedule of rates that would force the other lines to abolish this bridge arbit rarily , but it did not , and its failure to dose so tempered the enthusiasm with which its advent to Omaha was marked. How ever , Nebraska people generally fully appreciate this new line , with its oppor tunities for the subjections of new com mercial fields , its splendid train service and equipments and its commendable disposition to be friendly in a beneficial sense.
