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DAYS.
You read of quiet,
breathless days,
When skies are blue,
and sunshine strays
Across green fields
and flower-decked hills,
And pearly dew
from the rose distils
And as you read
the lines, how soon
You know ' twas all
of a day in June!
Another tells of
sultry, dusty days
That swelter in
the sun's unpitying rays
Whan distant landscapes
quiver in the heat,
And cattle seek the
forest's deep retreat
Or loiter in the
cooling stream nearby,
And this you know
at once was July.
Another sadly sighs and sings,
" The green is growing brown,
The melancholy days
arc slipping by ;
The shadows stretch out farther,
and the year is running down.
Who could keep from dreams
of other days? Not L"
This is quite enough to answer
why the poet's pensive frown,
And to tell you an
October day was nigh.
But who has told the glory
of these January days,
With their simple, restful beauty,
and their unobtrusive ways?
Days that have the warmth of summer
and the quiet of the fall,
And so noiseles in their passing
we are not disturbed at all !
But to sing of skies and sunshine
in the winter seems absurd,
Which is possibly the reason
why no poet's voice is heard.
Yet the theme deserves the effort
of a mightier pen than mine,
And to such inspired songster
I respectfully resign.
If he does the subject justice,
praise must follow without stint,
But I hope a blizzard won't be on
when this goes into print !
R. B. Morgan.
Puerto Rico and the Tariff.
At the present moment very formid
able organizations of American farmers
and other citizens am engaged in the at
tempt to prevent the adoption of Presi
dent McKinley's recent advice to con
gress to give free admission to the pro
ducts of our new island possession,
Puerto Rico. Their arguments are nu
merous, but may be reduced to two,
each of which may be expressed in a
single word. The first ot these argu
ments is sugar, the second is tobacco.
The men who are endeavoring with
great enthusiasm and with a consider
able degree of success to develop a great
sugar-beet industry in the United Staces
do not wish at presect to have a particle
of additional competition from cane
sugar. Puerto Rko's product is not
large, but it is supposed that soil and
climate make feasible its rapid increase.
Its tobacco is of desirable quality, and
its quantity could be greatly enlarged
with the improvement of market op
portunities. Puerto Rico's largest ex
port crop iu years past has been coffee,
which, of course, does not compete with
products grown in the United States.
Having conquered Puerto Rico and
taken possession, we are under plain ob
ligations to consider the welfare of the
people of that island as carefully as we
once considered that of the people who
lived in the territory acquired by the
Louisiana purchase. In our opinion
the trade relations between Puerto Rico
and the Uuited States ought to be ab
solutely unrestricted. If there is, how
ever, any reasons of weicht why free
trade between Puerto Rico and the
United States should be accomplished
at the end of a short term of years by
means of a descending ecale (this plan, it
we mistake not, having been advocated
by some of the farmers' organizations),
the essential principle would not per
haps be altered. Prom "The Progress
of the World,'' in the American Monthly
Review of Reviews for February.
People Havte No Trouble
In getting1 what they want at the
Good Luck Grocery.
CTVl" CnTlT 1107 O utreet.
r, uu-. c n i f AUVCDC Send The Courier your leg;
Rabbit's Foot Luck. L A W Y C KO" files are kept in fire proof
L NOTICES
bui' ln s.
Der rabbit he sat by der live oak tree,
An' dat rabbit he say ter hesse'f, say he ;
"All yea' long I heah der diggah man say,
Whenever he's walkin' along dis way,
Laffin' 'Ki-yi yi '.' as he slaps his knee,
'I cotch a rabbit by der live oak tree I
I cut dat rabbit's foot off wiv ma knife !
I tek dat rabbit's foot home to ma wife 1
I say, Ma honey, now der good luck's
here;
When you'se got a rabbit's foot, den no
fear !" '
Laffin' 'Ki-yi yi !' as der banjos thrum,
An' der hoe cake on der griddle 'gins ter
hum,
An' der niggah man's wife she dance an'
sing.
'Oh, a rabbit's foot is the luckiest t'ingl'"
Der rabbit he sat by der live oak tree,
An' he say ter hisse'f, der rabbit say he,
"I'se had fo' rabbit's foots all ma bo'n days,
But didn't 'pear ter bring good luck ma
ways 1"
Ashleigh Mathews in February Century.
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First Publication Jan. 6. I90O 5
Notice is hereby (then that under ami by vir
tue of an order contirminc reiort of referees
and directing a sale of the property hereinafter
mentioned, made anil entered in u cause enti
tled "Amer A. llurd. plaintiff, vs. Omer O. Kurd,
et al., defendants. 25 1U5," pending In the dis
trict court of Lancaster county. Nebraska, we.
the underpinned referees in partition, duly ap
pointed by said court in said cause, on the Mh
day of February, Woo, at two o'clock p. m. stan
dard time, and at the cast door of the county
court house in the city of Lincoln. In said coun
ty and state, will offer for sale to the highest
bidder for cash. In manner provided by law, the
follow inir descriled real estate
1. The south one-half (s 4) of the south one
half (s i) of the northwest quarter (nw. ) of
section thirty (3D), township ten (10). ranue live
(5) east, consisting of forty 1 10) acres.
2. The east one-half (e.4) of the east one-half
(e. ',) of the southeast quarter ( se. '( land the
east one-half (e. ', ) of the west one-half w. H
of the east one-half (e. lt) of said southeast
quarter (se. li section thirty (30) township ten
( 10)ram:e live (5) east, consisting of slxty60)
acres, and being the east sixty I Gil J acres of said
southeast quarter ( se. '' of said section thirty
(301; and
3. The west one-half I w. HI of the northwest
quarter ( nw. U I of section thlrty-lw o ( 32 town
ship ten (10) rane five (51 east, consisting of
eighty (HI acres, all of said lands being situate
in Lancaster county, Nebraska.
Dated this 3d day of January, I90C
J. C. F. McKksson,
J. H. MCMURTKV,
II. C. Young,
Keferees in Partition.
First Publication January 203
NOTICE OF PKOMATE OF WILL.
In the County Court of Lancaster County, Ne
braska: The state of Nebraska to Cella E. Harwood.
Helen C Harwood and Dorrance Harwood, and
to any others interested In said matter.
You are hereby notified, that an instrument
purporting to be the Last Will and Testament
of Nathan S. Harwood. deceased, is on file in
said court, and also a petition pravlng for the
probate of said Instrument, and for the appoint
ment of Cella E. Harwood as executrix. That
on the 10th day of February. ISkk). at ten o'clock
a. m., said petition and the proof of the execu
tion of said instrument will be heard, and that if
you do not then appear and contest, said court
may probate and record the same, and grant ad
ministration of the estate to Celia E. Harwood.
This notice shall be published for three weeks
successively in The Courier prior to said hear
ing. Witness my hand and official seal this 12th
day of January. 1'jOO.
seal. Fkank K. Waters, County Judge.
First Publication January 20 1
NOTICE OF PROBATE OF WILL.
In the County Court of Lancaster County, Ne
braska: The state of Nebraska to Adella M. Kier and
to any others Interested In said matter-
You are hereby notified that an instrument
purporting to be the Last Will and Testament
of James C. Kier. deceased, is on file in said
court, and also a petition proving for the pro
bate of siild instrument, and for the appoint
ment of Adella M. Kier as administratrix, with
will annexed. That on the 13th day of February.
1000, at ten o'clock a. m., said petition and the
proof of the execution of said instrument will
be heard, and that if you do not then appear and
contest, said court may probate and record the
same, and grant administration of the estate to
Adella M. Kier.
This notice shall be published three weeks
successively In The Courier prior to said hear
ing. Wltnes my hand and official seal this 15th day
of January, 1!W. Fkam R. Waters,
seai-J County Judge.
By W alter A. Leese, Clerk County Court.
$25,000
-IN-
Are being offered by
ENQUIRER
-FOR-
I NEAREST GORREGT USES
THE POPULATION OF THE
Year. Population.
lNUt 31413,311
1X70 3SA1HJ7I
1JMI 50,I.Y.7K!
I WO 62.822,5)0
To be reported by the United States
Census Bureau for 1000.
The first census of the United States was
taken in 1810. Since then every succeeding ten
years. The result ot each census has been ns
follows:
Year. Population.
ltl 7.229 KS1
IKS) i).633,t22
130 12W5.0iU
ISM) 17,UXM.-).l
1ST) 23,IU1J)76
Hero yon have the figures of a basis of calcu
lation. The . n.blem now is: What will be
the population of tho Uufted State, excluding
rccpnt acquisition, but the total of states, ter
ritories and the District of Columbia!
To the first nearo.t correct guess re
ceived i3.0uo.Di)
Tuthe second 1,5oodi)
To tho third "nm
To the fourth 5U)M)
To the fifth lajiiM
To tho sixth 211.11
To the seventh UO.IO
To the next ten. each f 1U), amounting to I.OOom
To the next fifty. K0 eaih, amounting to 2,.Vio.u)
To the next one hundred, each t-.
amounting to 2,V).U)
To the next five hundred, eacli 110.
amounting to 5,0MM
To the next one thousand five hundred
and thirty, each ?", amounting to . 7,KV ()
Total number of premiums, 2,197,
amounting to.
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