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gates, giving lips and suggestions
from "our people." Manage Ager
has,, recently given it out that "our
people" have entrusted everything to
him. He is very much in demand and
very much overworked, for there are
a good many candidates and all these
different; Interests must be managed
so as to have the ticket all made up
and ready to ratify when the delegates
meet. Mr. Ager has already notified
the populist ring at the state Jiouse
just what the republicans are- going
to do and he has given it out very con
fidentially to a few of his closest
advisers just what the populists will
do. Mr. Ager knows it all. He is
the whole thing.
Gentlemen of the republican conven
tion, when you come to Lincoln on
the 10th of August take a look at Mr.
Ager. Take a look at him and see if
you can dispense with his services.
Take a look at him andthen invoice
your own resources and see if you
cannot transact the business of the
convention alone. What proud bost
ers we are, here in Neoraska, of our
schools, of our general intelligence, of
the high character of our people, of
their independent and self reliant in
stincts, and yet, here at the state cap
ital we have a political boss who owns
and manages the city council, the rail
roads, clubbing together, employ and
put over us a political manager who
oversees and arranges our state con
ventions and selects our candidates
for state offices. A political boss to
manage the city of Lincoln and a po
litical manager to boss the conven
tions of the state. We are all a well
bossed and well managed community,
here in Nebraska. We ought to be
proud of ourselves. We are informed
that Manager Ager gets $3,000 a year
salary and $600 a year for his ex
pense account. In ten years this would
be $30,000. How kinu of the railroads
to pay this large sum in order that
the farmers and businessmen may not
be put to the trouble of selecting can
didates for office and that our con
ventions may be arranged for us in
advance and suitable persons selected
every two years in the several counties
for the legislature.
It is useless to appeal to the fusion
convention which meets here the third
of August. Their leaders are so
drunken and besotted and gorged
with free passes and political spoil
that they are only to glad to obey the
orders of a rail oad bass if he will only
hint that their official career has been
satisfactory to "our folks." The vot
ers in the fusion party, a large pro
portion of them, are as, blind as bats
and it will take them years to find
out and believe that "Si Hoakum," as
they call him, has not paid a dollar
of railroad fair for ten years and not
a dollar of house rent out of his own
pocket since he came to Lincoln.
We are no longer an anti-railroad
state. There is no longer, any danger
of vicious legislation. The railroads
may, with perfect safety, take away
from our conventions this political
hustler, this convention manager, this
chaperone whom they have so gener
ously provided at an expense of $36,
000 He puts up this man and pulls
down that one. Many a worthy citi
zen has found himself sidetracked be
cause he was not satisfactory to "our
folks." Many an unworthy man has
been put forward and made to appear
very popular all of a sudden because
this little peeping, tip-toeing $3,000 a
year candidate maker and candidate
breaker had whispered around that
"our folks" wanted it done.
Gentlemen of the state convention,
the republican party has promiseQ the
the people of this state that it would
clean house. When the people see
this man Ager bobbing up in this
county today and in that tomorrow,
putting up a candidate for the legis
lature here and pulling down there,
whispering around from county to
county that such and such a man
would suit "our folks" for a place on
the state ticket, when they see this
man acting as general manager of its
state convention they have a right to
ask the republican party "where is
the house cleaning promised us?"
Finally and lastly, gentlemen of the
republican state convention, if, when
you get here on the 10th of August,
after taking a look at Mr. Ager and
the situation, if you decide that the
party must still have a manager, then
use whatever variety of self-respect
and independence the party still re-
tains in a request, to the railroads, a
humble request, that they provide us
a manager all our own and a foreman
who will not be dividing nimself in
to three or four parts organizing a re
publcan convention today and a popu
list convention tomoro'w, but one who
will devote himself entirely to the in
terests of our own party, so that we
as republicans, while we sit with fold
ed arms watching our manager at his
work, can have the assurance that we
are not being managed in the interest
of some bargain with the populist
state house ring.
JOTTINGS.
BIRDS.
That's the wise thrush; ho sings aach
song twice over.
Lest you should think be never could
recapture
The first floe careless rapture.
Browning.
The destruction of birds, 6ays the
L. A. W. Bulletin, has become s3s:rious
a matter that many of the most thought
ful minds of the country have anxiously
considered means by which this wanton
slaughter may be stayed. We have the
testimony of the leading scientists of
the United States to show that, unless
the killin j of birds soon ceases, only a
very brief time will elapse tefcre the
feathered tribe will become extinct. In
such event the evil consequences to our
agricultural interests aregaet computa
tion. The destruction of our crops by
myriads nf insects will be as deeastrous
as was the fearful famine which has
just devastated India.
To avert such a calamity various plans
havo been devised. Among the stater
men who have become interested in this
motter are Hon. George F. Hoar, sena
tor from Massachusetts, and Hon. John
F. Lacjy, repressntative from Iawa, both
of whom have introduced bills in con
grees relating to the question. Mr
Hoar's bill provides restrictions upon
the importation of the bodies or plum
age of certain birds; and upon the trans
portation of the some between the sev
eral states. Exception is made in the
case of the ostrich, and some other birds
whose plumes can be taken without los3
of life. Mr. Lacey's bill provides for ex
tending the powers and duties of the
commission of fish and fisheries so
as to includ game birds and other wild
birds useful to man, "by the propogation,
distribution, transportation, introduc
tion and restoration' of such birds.
If you feel friendly toward these bills,
write to your member of congress and
say so. All those willing to contribute
a small amount toward furthering this
object will confer a favor by forwarding
their contributions to Miss Kate W.
Grove, assistant edtior of the Epworth
Herald, Chicago Names of congress
men from the several states, literature
telating to :he subject, suggestions con
cerning the formation of clubhand other
matter of interest to bird-lovers may be
obtained by writing to Horace H.
Waters, 357 W. Van Buren street, Chi
cago. He marks the sparrow's fall, we've
heard,
And so we fancy that
He sees it when, at church, the bird
Adorns a woman's hat.
Br William Ueed Dohroy.
Hitherto I have had the impression
of Nebraska as one vast plain, never
ending, domed above by the fiercely
blue sky. But now I have seen that
there are hills and valleys in this
great state, that there are deserts
and gardens of Eden. I have seen
the endless prairies come to an end,
and the sky notched with green hills
and gray bluffs.
It was like a new world to me to
ride westward and southward and sec
the diversified landscapes arter hav
ing lived all my life where prairies
reached as level as a threshing floor.
The scene that pleased me must of
all, was the one where I tood on the
high bluffs that line the Republican
valley, and gazed at the winding riv
er below me. In and out, the silvery
ribbon wove its gleam with the green
of the lands. In the stream were lit
tle willow islands, and along the banks
the willows dropped and lashed their
long branches in 4he water, a verdant
fringe.
At noon-time I stood on a high bluff
The sun beat down like a brass shield
above my head. The air was filled
with heat waves and far off towards
the horizon I could see them pulsate
like the waves on a tiny lake. There
was a stillness profound. No sound
marred the great silence, but the ter
ribly shrill Cry of the cricket in the
tall dry grass. This cry would pierce
the stillness like a pain and then sub
side, and the great world would seem
to have come to a stop and nature
be at rest. The leaves of the corn
hung limp, like heavy sword blades.
Not a breath of air lifted the sandy
dust about my feet.
Below me on the side of the hill
jutted out the roof of a dugout.
A path wound down to the front door,
and beyond the path there was a
steep declivity that reached down in
to a rough ravine. On the roof was
growing a forest of tall weeds. There
was no sound or sign of life about
the place. Back into the cool moist
earth the humble home reached. For
many years the family had lived in
it. Through drought years and years
of plenty, through sickness and
health they had come and gonn
through the low browed door. The
coffined dead had been carried from
there, and the bride had gone forth in
her delight. With the bare necessi
ties of life, this family haC struggled
for existence. Down in earth, from
whence they came and to whence they
must go eventually, they had spent
the larger portion of their lives. And
who shall say that the lives lived in
this Nebraska dug-out, may not have
been as noble, as full of good as the
lives lived in brown stone fronts and
in the homes above the earth? These
men and women were but returned
to the original state, for it is proven
that we were all once the inhabitants
of caves and sought out subsistence
in the wilds of the forest.
To these people who have always
smelled the fragrance of the earth,
who have lived underneath the roots
of the grass, there certainly can come
no thought of the sadness concern
ing the last long home. -Jeyond per
adventure they will feel more at home
in the grave than you and I. And as
for their lives now, they have God's
sunlight and his winds, they have the
winding river and the fertile valley,
they have the sky with te glory of
te dawn and the glory of the sunset,
they have the sighing and the com
plaining of the corn, they have the
days and the nights and all that goes
to make up life, life full and free here
under the skies, untrammeled and unhindered.
In many a field I saw- the oraplow
ers trudging between the long rowsv
of corn. And in many place the plow-j,
ers were women. They told me. there'
that the women went into the fields ?
and plowed all day long with the me a.
Their faces were as brown as a beryjr,
their cyep bright and they laugh
and talked as cheerfully as do tw
women In the cities. ,at their .MPffeg,
circles. They were Nebraska women,
typical of the state, strong- to work,
with indomitable courage and an
overmastering ambition to get along
in the wrld. I never in my life felt
more like removing my hat from my
head, than I did in the presence of
these sun-browned women, these sol
diers of the farm lands who toiled
amidst the fields to bring forth the
gold of the yellow corn. There, is
something so wonderful in the mira
cle of the growing corn. Out of the
mold there shoots a stalk, bannered
with green, over it soon waves
plume dusted with gold, then comes
the tuft of silk at the middle and the
full grown ear almost by magic bends
towards the earth. How much' more
beautiful to grow corn, to walk
amidst the tossing leaves than to sit
at home and make impossible flowers
on some tidy useless rag. How much
more pleasant to listen to the rustle
of the corn than to the tattle of gos
sips or the forced music of the draw
ing room.
SPEND AUGUST IN THE BLACK
HILLS.
Go first to Hot Springs. There you
can bathe, ride, bicycle, climb moun
tains, dance and play tennis to your
heart's content. If your limbs are stiff,
your kidneys out of order or if you are
troubled with exzema or any other form
of skin disease, a month at Hot Springs
will make a new man of you.
Sylvan Lake and Speartish are within
a comparatively short distance of Hot
Springs and every one who visits the
Black Hill should see them. Sylvia
Lake is the prettiests and coo'eest sum
mer resort in the weet Speartish is
reached after a railroad ride' that ranks
among the experiences of a lifetime.
There is nothing like it anywhere else on
the globe.
During August, the Burlington route
will run two low-rate excursions to Hot
Springe: one on the 0th, the other'on the
26th of that month. Tickets Will be
sold at one fare half rates and will be
good to return any time within 30 days.
Organize a party. Arrange about
your hotel accommodations at Hot
Springs; arrange for ticket at B. 4. M.
depot or city ticket office, corner 10th
and O streets.
G. W. Boih-ell, C. P. 4 T. A.
Aug. 26.
"Didn't I tell you never to darken my
door again?'' cried the irate parent to
Tompkins.
"Yes, Mr. Hicks, you did; that's the
reason I've come at night, sir. Your
dcor is bo dark then that my coming
couldn't possibly make it any darker."
First Juryman What did you think
when the judge committed Dobson to
prison foe contempt of court?
Second Juryman I was glad he
wasn't a mind-reader.
Tes, we have decided to go to New
port for the summer."
'Dear me! Aren't you afraid you'll
be bombarded by Camara's fleet?"
"No. Spain can't afford to seed her
officers i nd sailors to bo expensive a
place in the heigth of the season."
"I am beginning to see why July was
named as it was," said the philosopher.
"It was done in a jocular spirit. The in
tense heat made it an appropriate month
to name after Julius Sizzer." Harper's
Bazar.
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