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who visited them in tlie course of the
morning , wore made in jest. " As Cap
tain Olark was about leaving the vil
lage , two of the chiefs returned from
a mission to the Grosventres. These
people were encamped about ten miles
above , and while there , one of the
had stolen Gros-
Ah-na-ha-ways a -
ventro girl ; the whole nation immedi
ately espoused the quarrel , and one
hundred and fifty of their warriors
were marching down to revenge the in
sult on the Ah-na-ha-ways. The chief
of that nation took the girl from the
ravisher , and giving her to the Man-
dans requested their intercession. The
messengers went out to meet the war
riors , and delivered the young damsel
into the hands of her countrymen ,
smoked the pipe of peace with them ,
and were fortunate enough to avert
their indignation and induce them to
return. In the evening some of the
men came to the fort , and the rest
in the . also
slept village. Po-caps-a-he
visited us and brought some meat on
his wife's back. "
Wednesday , January 2nd , 1805 , just
ninety-seven years ago on this Thurs
day , January 2 , 1902 , when The Con
servative repeats their story , Lewis
and Clark's diary contains only this
and no more :
"It snowed last night , and during
the day the same scene of gaiety was
renewed at the second village , and all
fcs the men returned this evening. ' '
In ninety-seven years the compell
ing forces of civilization have peopled
all the Missomi
Contrast. valley and spanned
the riv e r with
scores of railroad bridges. The change
has been so celeritous that the stories
of enchantry in Arabian tales are
made credible. And soon the great
Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St.
Louis is to bring again before the foot
lights Jefferson and his marvellous in
terpretation of our Present , together
with the remarkable men to whom he
entrusted the exploration of this vast
and fertile country in which have
since been established tens of thous
ands of happy American homes. Can
the next 97 years make as much up
lifting and advancement for the
United States and its people ?
If two solid granite
POWER. piers , like -those of
the Burlington
bridge at Nebraska City , be placed in the
channel of the Missouri river and a shaft
run from one to the other , upon which
is fixed a breast wheel , or a turbine ,
why can not all the electric power
needed to run all our factories , bo thus
generated ? What is the reason the cur
rent and volume of the Missouri river
can not be electrically utilized here ?
Will somebody tell us what prevents the
use of the Missouri river as a power
agent ?
The Conservative
ROOSEVELT. admires the con
science and courage
of President Roosevelt and believes that
he intends to do honestly his executive
duties without regard to the wheed-
lings or the threats of partisans who are
in public life for plunder only. The
views of Roosevelt on protective tariffs
are not of the McKinley brand , and
free traders are not afraid that extreme
strenuousness for subsidies will develop
in the head of this administration. By
education , impulse and a sense of
justice , Roosevelt is a free trader.
Midnight , D e -
STEAM REcomber 81st , 1901 ,
JOICING. every steam
whistle in N e -
braska City broke out in jubilation to
1902 and in cheerful recognition of
the prosperity and promise of this up-
to-date , thriving , wage-paying , ma
chinery-using , coal-burning , hog and
corn-buying center of Nebraska man
ufacture. And the Conservative
dreamed of 1854 and how the town site
looked then , and wondered whether
it had been benefited by his work and
the work of his household.
The Conservative *
PARDON. believes that ex-
State Treasurer
Bartley ought to be pardoned. He has
suffered enough ! Justice has been ap
peased ! Further punishment for this
mis-influenced , mal-guided man is mere
savagery. It is brutal vengeance. It is
not civilized Christianity. It is pagan
barbarity. It is cruelty to his devoted
wife and unhappy children.
An executive with moral courage and
conscience enough to let him out by a
free and full pardon would suit The
Conservative and please God 1
Since the above was in type Governor
Savage has "filled the bill. "
The Osage was
OSAGE. introduced to Ne
braska as a hedge
plant in the early sixties. At Arbor
Lodge we have Osage fences which
were set out in 1868 , and there are
many in Otoe county quite forty years
of age.
In the beginning we were warned
that the climate was too severe for the
Osage , and that it would winter-kill.
Time has told another and a better
story. The Osage is hardy , it grows
into the best kind of fence posts. It is
valuable as a cabinet wood. It makes
beautiful walking sticks , and to Mr. R.
R. Draper , of Dawson , Richardson
county , the editor returns thanks for
a most beautiful cane of this wood re
ceived Christmas morning. Forty acres
of Osage Posts are equal to an ordinary
gold mine.
The editor of the
AN ANTIQUE Conservative has
PRESENT. been the recipient
of many kind re
membrances during the holidays. Some
of them have been very valuable from a
monetary standpoint and some of them
exceedingly precious because of the
charm and grace of association with
which they are so tenderly combined.
But to Mr. Frank Zimmerer , of Ne
braska City , we ore particularly in
debted for the most antique and rare
present in the whole lot. His gift is of
a red pipestone Indian axe , which he
found in Walnut Creek on July 18 ,
1901. This little axe is altogether dif
ferent , as to the material out of which
it is made , from any that we have ever
seen. It no doubt was made long be
fore the Louisiana Purchase was
dreamed of and while yet the Spaniards
held sway over this part of the conti
nent. These Indian curios and relics
are very valuable and very rare. Each
year makes them rarer and more valu
able. Every person who finds an arrow
head or stone axe or any other relic of
the races of men who preceded us on
these plains , ought to preserve the same
and present it to a museum or library
for preservation.
The following is
OUR CLASSMATE the translation of a
E. P. EVANS. a tribute t o o u r
countryman , p u b-
lished December 9th in the Beilage ( lit
erary supplement ) of the Munich All-
gemaine Zeitung , one of the most promi
nent and influential journals in Ger
many :
"On Deo. 8 the American author ,
Professor E. P. Evans , now living in
Munich and well known to the readers
of our Beilage , celebrated his seventieth
birthday. More than thirty years ago
he was Professor of the German lan
guage and literature in his native land ,
North America , and since that time has
resided chiefly in Munich , where he is
well known and highly appreciated in
many literary circles. His diligent
efforts as a writer have been directed in
a great measure to the interpretation of
the literature and culture of Germany
and America and to the promotion of a
better understanding of each other by
these two countries. Three years ago
he published a portion of his contribu
tions to different German journals and
especially to this Beilage in a volume
entitled 'Beitraege zur Amerioanischan
Literatur und Kulturgeschiohte1
( StuttgartGotta : ) . This work was re
viewed in these columns and warmly
commended 'as an excellent means of
furthering fuller knowledge and juster
valuation of American culture in Ger
many. '
We wish still very many beautiful
and fruitful years of life and labor to
the eminent scholar , who in freshness
and vigor is discharging so worthily
this important mediatorial office. "