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VOL. IV. NO. 26. NEBRASKA CITY , NEBRASKA , JANUARY 2. 1902 , SINGLE COPIES , 5 CENTS ,
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
OFFICES : OVERLAND THEATRE BLOCK.
J. STERLING MORTON , EDITOR.
A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE DISCUSSION
OF POLITICAL , ECONOMIC AND SOCIOLOGICAL
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Entered at the postofflce at Nebraska City ,
Neb. , as Second Class matter , July 29 , 1808.
On the 4th day
A BIRTHDAY of January , 1872 ,
ANNIVERSARY. at a meeting of the
State Board of Ag
riculture in Lincoln , J. Sterling Morton
offered a resolution setting apart a "day
consecrated" to tree planting , and nam
ing it Arbor Day.
Thus on that date was harnessed a
thought which has sped its way around
the globe and left traces of its value in
the islands of every sea and upon the
civilization of every continent and
climate. In the thirty years of its use
ful observance it has become the favor
ite anniversary of good men and womeu
and school children in the United
States , in parts of Canada , England ,
Mexico and India , and it is still advanc
ing in the esteem of the lovers of a
beautiful world everywhere.
Arbor Day is the one anniversary that
stands with its back to the Past and its
face to the Future.
It is altruistic. It
sends greetings and
foliage , flowers and
fruits to Posterity.
Other holidays wor
ship and eulogize
Ancestry ; Arbor Day
PLANT TREES provides the beau
tiful and useful for our descendants.
It compels us to think of the millions 1
who are to follow us in the little
journey which begins with a Cradle for
its depot and ends in the great union
station of theGrave. . It makes us
happy in trying to provide shade from
summer sun , and shelter from winter
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I blasts , and flowers and fruit for those ,
descended from our loins , who in the
coming decadeS'inust possess the earth.
In 1888 Edmund O. Stedman wrote
four lines for Arbor Day , entitled :
"The Tree Planter , " saying :
Tribute of fruits be his , and glossy wreaths
From roadside trees , and his , the people's love ,
When east and west the wind of summer
breathes
Through orchard , shaded path and sighing
grove.
And from El Paso , Texas , on April
19th , 1888 , the late Andrew J. Popple-
ton , of Omaha ,
Poppleton. wrote : "Arbor
Day is recognized
in Mexico. Mr. Morton , its author , is
a benefactor of other states and coun
tries as well as his own. In Nebraska ,
Plant Trees' should be the eleventh
commandment. ' '
Writing from Deerfoot Farm , South-
borough , on March 25th , to the late H.
L. Wood , thren
Lowell. editor of the Ne
braska City Daily
Press , James Russell Lowell declares :
"I think that no man does anything
more visibly useful to posterity than he
who plants a tree. I should answer the
oynio'e question , 'What has posterity
done for me that I should do anything
for it ? ' that it is all the pleasanter to do
something for those who can do nothing
for us.
"Marco Polo relates that the great
Kublai Khan planted trees the more
willingly because 'his astrologers and
diviners told him that they who planted
trees lived long. ' Let me hope that
tnis may prove true in the case of Mr.
Morton. "
And during the spring of 1888 there
came to Arbor Lodge , many hearty
congratulations from statesmen , auth
ors , and patriotic citizens proud of their
country , and lovers of its woodlands ,
groves and orchards. In book form they
are all treasured at Arbor Lodge.
After thirty years of trial and test ,
Arbor Day has proved itself the best
Evangelist of arbori-
Thirty Years , culture and forestry
to which the
country has ever listened. The
general revival of interest in tree-
planting and tree-conserving is an in
voluntary and spontaneous tribute to its
valuable services as an instructor and
an inspiration. It will live and do good
for centuries.
Lewis and Clark
JANUARY were enc a m p e d
2nd , 1805. January 1st , 1805 ,
at Fort Mandan ,
which they had built for their winter
quarters. They began the erection of
their cabins on November 3rd , 1804.
In their journal for November 20 we
find the following :
"We this day moved into our huts ,
which are now completed. This place ,
which wo call Fort Mandan , is situa
ted in a point of low ground on the
north side of the Missouri , covered
with tall and heavy cottonwoods.
The works consist of two rows of huts
or sheds , forming an angle where they
joined each other ; each row containing
four rooms of fourteen feet square
and seven feet high , with plank ceil
ing , and the roof slanting so as to form
a loft above the rooms , the highest
part of which is eighteen feet from the
ground ; the backs of the huts formed
a wall of that height , and opposite the
angle the place of the wall was sup
plied by picketing ; in the area were
two rooms for stores and provisions.
The latitude , by observation , is 47 de
grees , 21 minutes and 47 seconds , and
the computed distance from the mouth
of the Missouri , sixteen hundred
miles. "
And on January 1st , 1805 , at Fort Man-
dan , those pioneer explorers enter up
on their daily journal this statement :
"The New Year was welcomed by
two shot from the swivel , and a round
of small arms. The weather was
cloud7 but moderate , the mercury at
sunrise was eighteen above zero and
during the day rose to 84 above zero ;
towards evening it began to rain , and
at night we had snow , the temperat
ure for which is about zero. In the
morning we permitted sixteen men
with th'eir music to go up to the first
village , where they delighted the
whole tribe with their dances , partic -
ularly with the movements of one of
the Frenchmen , who danced on his
head. In return , the Indians presented
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the dancers with several buffalo robes
and quantities of corn. We wore de
sirous of showing this attention to
the village , because they had received
an impression that wo had been wanting - <
ing in regard for them , and because
they had in consequence circulated in
vidious comparisons between us and
the northern traders ; all these , how
ever , they declared to Captain Clark ,
