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BRYAN TO START A PAPER.
LINCOLN , Neb. , Deo. 15. William J.
Bryan gave out the following interview
this morning : "I have for several years
had in contemplation the establishment
of a weekly newspaper and this seems
an opportune time for undertaking it.
Intending to devote my life to the study
and discussion of public questions , I
have chosen this method because it will
best accomplish the purpose which I
have in view. Through such a paper I
shall be able to keep in touch with social
and political problems. The paper will
at the same time , if successful , provide
an income sufficient for my pecuniary
needs , and this kind of work will allow
me more time with my family than I
have been able to enjoy for several years
past.
"I expect to lecture occasionally , es
pecially in college towns , where I can
speak to students , but my principal
work will be done with the pen , or per
haps I should say with the pencil. The
paper will be called The Commoner , and
will defend the principles set forth in
the Kansas City platform. The first
issue will appear in January. I shall be
proprietor and editor. "
When Colonel Bryan launches his
weekly newspaper , life will take on a
new joy for J. Sterling Morton. The
joint debate between THE CONSERVATIVE
of Nebraska City and the new "Com
moner" of Lincoln will add to the gaiety
of nations State Journal.
We will now have a bloodless but
profitable duello between Bryan's Com
moner and Morton's CONSERVATIVE.
You pay your gold standard money and
take your free coinage choice. Omaha
Bee.
THE CONSERVATIVE welcomes The
Commoner which "will defend the
principles set forth in the Kansas City
platform" with unalloyed satisfaction.
If there is anything more in need of
defense than the political deliverance
aforesaid it has not been brought to
public notice. The opinion commonly
held is that commoner platitudes than
the Kansas City platform are un
common.
DENUDE THE ° fUt'
EARTH. and destroy the
young cone-bear
ing trees. Chop off all the most beauti
ful and symmetrical evergreens and
convert them into Christmas trees.
What will a treeless country and a
forestless posterity say of the religion
which , for the ephemeral pleasures of an
anniversary , robs posterity of shade ,
shelter and health ? When will the
Christmas tree barbarism be erased from
the selfish extravagances of American
life ?
A PANACEA.
. 1854 , at St. Marys ,
in Mills county , Iowa , just opposite
Bellevue , in Sarpy county , Nebraska ,
there did flourish a most thrifty village.
Many of its denizens were Germans.
There were two hotels , two stores and
three windmills for grinding corn and
wheat. The principal hotel , called the
Astor House , was kept by John -Reck ,
and the largest store was owned and
managed by Colonel Peter A. Sarpy.
Into the latter , on a dreary , chilling
day , in the month and year named , there
stalked a long-limbed , flat-chested , lank
and lean man more than six feet in
height. He was blue , cold and actually
jarring with a severe chill of the fever-
and-ague variety. His eyes were
rheumy and red , his hair unkempt and
his general make-up and appearance
woe-begone. His coat , though tattered
and torn , had a clerical cut and expres
sion about it that signaled the world
that he was a preacher. In few words
he told Colonel Sarpy that he was suffer
ing intensely from "fever an nager , "
that he was a missionary of the United
Brethren persuasion and that he wanted
medicine. The black and piercing eyes
of Colonel Sarpy lighted up with
sympathy and in the kindest , blandest
and most soothing tones he invited the
stranger to be seated. Then , in the
gentlest and kindliest manner , he said :
"My dear sir , I have a certain cure
for such chills ; I have sira panacea , sir ,
which , will relieve your distress in forty
minutes if you follow my directions in
its use. Remain quiet until I prepare
and administer this efficacious and
quickly-acting remedy. "
Going to the rear of the log store
Colonel Sarpy poured into a glass about
a gill of the strongest , straightest whis
key that Bourbon county ever sent up
the river , and returning said to the
clergyman : "Here , sir , open your
mouth , shut your eyes and swallow this
instanter. "
The patient obeyed. In fifteen min
utes he expressed himself as feeling "a
heap pearter. " Thereupon Sarpy said :
"It is working well , sir. This is the
pioneer cure-all of the upper Missouri ,
sir , and it is time for another dose. "
Potion number two was taken and
number three and four , and all signs of
pain , of woe and anguish had escaped
from the visage of that missionary. He
was hilariously , gloriously drunk , and
Peter A. Sarpy was delighted. Never
can the scene be forgotten. The inno
cently drunken and maudlin patient
thanking his physician , hurrahing for
Doctor Sarpy ; and the intense glee and
French satisfaction with which Colonel
Sarpy shrugged up his shoulders , twisted
his mustache , winked his laughing eyes
and declared that he studied medicine
in St. Louis , make in the memory a
cartoon indelible and grotesque.
But the Missouri river wiped St.
Marys off the map a generation ago and
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the patient and his physician were long
since waited upon and escorted to rest
by the only servitor who never forgets
his duty. The panacea is , however ,
still in vogue and sick people still get
drunk and feel well.
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tering upon the
discussion of great international ques
tions and determining the rights of the
Dutch and the standing of the English
in South Africa , the pupils in the public
schools should be weaned.
A debate upon
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A DEBATE.
the rights of Porto
Ricans , under the government of the
United States , and the propriety of
annexing Ireland to insular dependen
cies in the Pacific , and making Potato
Pingree , of Michigan , governor general ,
will take place at Four Mile school
house at an early day. High chairs ,
cradles and nursing bottles for the dis
putants furnished by the State.
THE MODEL FARM RECORD.
The successful farmer applies to his
business the same orderly methods in
vogue among business men of the cities.
Every merchant or shopkeeper keeps an
accurate account of each day's business.
Book-keeping is as essential to the in
telligent management of a farm as it is
to the profitable conduct of on urban
business. Minniok , Bliss & Company
of Chicago , have just issued "The Model
Farm Record , " especially designed for
keeping farmers' accounts. It contains ,
too , remedies for diseases prevalent
among farm animals as well as a col
lection of statistics upon subjects of
peculiar interest to the farmer.