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VOL IV. NO. 23. NEBRASKA Clftf NEBRASKA , DECEMBER 12. 1901. S1N61E COPIES , 5 CENTS
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
OFFICES : OVERLAND THEATRE BLOCK.
J. STERLING MORTON , EoiTon.
A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE. DISCUSSION
OF POLITICAL , ECONOMIC AND SOCIOLOGICAL
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Entered at the postqffice at Nebraska City ,
Neb. , as Second Class matter , July ' 29 , 1808.
Hume says , and
A CERTAIN SIGN. MoLeod quotes
him in his "Ele
ments of Economics. "
"Nothing is esteemed a more certain
sign of the flourishing condition of any
nation than the lowness of interest. "
But money , however plenty , has no
other effect , if unfluctuating in pur
chasing power , than to raise the price
of labor. Silver is more common than
gold and therefore you get a bigger
weight of it when you sell for silver
your wheat , corn , pork or beef. But
can you borrow silver at a less rate of
interest than you pay for gold ? If all
the gold in the United States were ex
changed in a single day for silver , at the
sacred ratio of 16 to 1 , weald interest be
lower the next day ? Would the credit
of a man without good name , without
character for honesty , without property ,
be better at bank than it now is ?
If gold becomes as common as silver ,
and silver as common as copper , will
interest rates necessarily be lowered ,
and all the howling , rag-tag-and-bob-
tail of Bryanarchy be able to have their
notes discounted at the banks ?
There is an old-
CLARIFIED. fashioned way of
clarifying muddy
water with alum. "When the Missouri
J
River packets were doing all the carry
ing trade for passengers and freights
between St. Louis and Nebraska points
the drinking water was pure Missour
n River aqua , settled and clarified with
alum.
The accounts of State Treasurer
Steuffer need clarification. But whether
alum or something more stringent is
required for the process Dr. Rosewater
las not yet , seemingly , determined.
A big frog , sitting by a limpid stream
; he bottom of which is visible to the
naked eye , can make the water very
muddy the moment he jumps into it ;
and so all the Burt county , Otoe county
and other bond purchases were quite
queer and inexplicable until Steuffer
umped into the discussion of them and
now they are more inexplicable than
ever and queerer and muddier and
nastier. Let Steuffer have an expert in
truth-telling inform the people of Ne-
) raska about his school money invest
ments.
Yesterday's pa-
CHRISTMAS pers contained sev-
TREES. eral facts in regard
to the Christmas
tree trade. The Omaha Bee said that
the second shipment , consisting of two
car loads , had been received there ;
that there -were 2200 to 2500 trees to a
car , that they sell for $2.50 to $5 a
dozen , and that they come from Two
Rivers , Wis. , and Minnesota. The
Lincoln State Journal says that several
car loads have already reached Lin
coln and that they are a better grade
of trees than usual.
This means that perhaps 5000 young
pines have been cut down for the use
of these two cities alone ; butchered
to make a Christian holiday ! And
this in the face of the fact that
pine is getting scarce and that Michi
gan , Wisconsin and Minnesota are fall'
ing out of sight as lumbering states.
It may be said that a Nebraskan can
have only a sentimental interest in
this matter ; but we wonder that there
are not hundreds of men in each of
the states named , clamoring for a re
striction of this trade for purely
business reasons. We should think
the Michigan legislature would be
fully as prompt in regulating the size
of the trees that may be cut , as are
those of Maine or Massachusetts in
forbidding the taking of young lobs
ters ; and for precisely parallel reas
ons.
ons.The
The way it is done in Michigan
however , appears from the following
news item , which hails from Char
levoix , up towards Mackinaw :
The Christmas tree industry is uo\v
at its height in upper Michigan am
great loads of the firs are going for
ward to the large cities , where they are
regarded as the ideal tree whereon to
display the lights and gifts of holiday
ime. Upper Michigan now supplies
Chicago , Milwaukee and numerous
other cities farther west and south
vith the trees , which formerly were
considered of little or no value by
he woodsmen. The trade has grown
rapidly in recent years and it is esti
mated that the people of this section
now realise in the neighborhood of
! 50,000 each holiday season from the
sale of the trees.
We take pleasure
NEBRASKA in bringing to the
POETRY. notice of the liter
ary public the work
of a new poet , whose genius has been
discovered by the Louisville ( Nebraska )
Courier. Louisville is a small town , but
good things have been known to come
out of Nazareth. We think the pro
duction that we quote herewith is a re
markable composition. We have read
it over and over , and every time we are
more thoroughly convinced that it is
beyond anything we have seen before.
We admit , that there may be some flaws
picked in the mechanical details of
meter and rhythm , but anyone with a
soul for art can rise above such trifles.
The patriotic fervor that inspires the
poem is grand. The writer's facts may
be the least in the world mixed , but he
moves through his five stanzas with a
magnificent epic sweep , and lands his
hero just where he belongs. Milton
could do no more. We are sorry not to
be able to give the poet's name , and
trust his genius will not bo allowed to
perish under any Cass county bushel.
HOME-BREWED POETRY.
Once I had a sweetheart , noble.brave and true ,
He like other brave boys went
A member of Dewey crew
And to the Philippines was sent.
And while on the battle field
Where shot and shells were screaming
And from the enemy's' bullets they could not
be shield ,
While from the bodies of some brave boys
their blood was streaming.
Dewey , Dewey , in front was standing
With all his boys around him ,
Listening for their commanding
While the Filipinos had surround them.
Wounded as he was lying ,
Thinking never more his sweetheart's hand
can feel ,
While slowly he was dying ,
For the bullet his life did steal.
Just as his death drew nigh ,
In heaven we shall meet on the golden shore ,
Was the simple words he did cry ,
There's life forever and death no more ,
Louisville Courier.
