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The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1902-05-24

Mr.. Frank Harrison. editor OF The Ne
braska State Record, can not be ac-
cused OF slavish consideration for cor
porations, railroad or otherwise. He
Is singularly free from prejudice. and
his reasoning and Judgments are
sound. IL occurred To him to examine
the tax lists after listening to the loose
talk about the railroads not paying
their share of the taxes. and as a man
Interested In public events and as an
editor of a paper. he made "A compare
tive examination of the amounts the
farmers and the railroad companies
pay into the treasury.
The present agitation for the pur-
pose of obtaining higher railroad
assessment was begun because the
state was in debt and not primarily
because the taxation was unequal.
Now IL does not matter how much We
need the money, IL the railroads pay
their share of the taxation they should
not be compelled to pay more. just be-
cause the farmers are the legislators
and county commissioners and county
assessors and the railroads are only
represented indirectly In the various
departments of city and county adj
ministration.
According to the records. which Mr.
Harrison has printed and called at
tention to. the state of Nebraska IL
I'm debt to the amount of $l.sO'. iJs.li.
Taxnavers of the state owe IL $3,63l.-
s57 40. There Is not a railroad In the
state indebted to a county or city To
the amount of one dollar. Whatever
the railroad taxes are. big or Mite.
soua, or UNEQUAL. the railroad treas
urers have paid them and the cities.
counties and state have had the use Oh
the money from the time the nrst ran
nroiected a mile into the state from
IN. Iowa border. The farmers and
other politicians who are talking about
the oppression of the railroads and the
fayoritism shown them have not done
so well. They owe the state almost
twice the amount of the debt. or to be
exact, within siS3.5l2.s2 of twice the
amount OF the public debt.
In his report. November 80, lsOo'
state Auditor Cornell said: In 1888
the assessed valuation of the state was
1888, 3,I23; in 1900. $1n.7f,593 with
our increased population and wealth.
the assessed valuation of the state Is
81. 9S5, $50 less than 1t was seven years
ago a discreditable showing, indeed.
MIR. Harrison has made a compare
tive study of the taxes assessed
against the most valuable of the as-
ricultural products of Nebraska in the
most fertile and prosperous counties
as well as in those whose acreage Is
devoted to grazing. He concludes from
ADEQUATE premises that raising the
assessment OF the railroads Will not
remedy the evil because of which pref
udice is making scapesoht Oh the
railroads.
Mr.. Harrison says: Il have little
sympathy with those who raise the
cry that the railroads are escaping
taxation and that to radically raise
their assessments would remedy the
difficulty. The Sinking is general L
find on inquiry that in western coun-
ties like Kimball and Dawes the rail-
roads pay almost one-half OF the en-
tire tax, while tens of thousands OF
high priced cattle in those counties es-
cape taxation altogether.
I'm Cherry county. which is equal in
area to four states like Rhode Island,
the single line of road pays almost one
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1902-05-24
T H E COU r I E r

ciety. uninfiuenced by the enervating
fondness and prejudiced good opinion
of parents and parents friends. The
greatest service one man can do anoth-
er Is to help him to find his level. and
without destroying his self-respect help
him to a realization of his comparative
unimportance in the scheme of things.
Because they are blase and tired OF
the amusements and distractions or
wholesome society, certain Yale under
graduates have organized a society for
the express purpose of encouraging
students to break the laws. At the
clubs annual meeting degrees are
conferred for "B. s." burglary and
stealing, I'D. D." drunk and disorder
ly). IS. T." (sneak thief. OF course
this Is in the way of fooling and humor.
But the young men who enjoy this
sort of fun would much better be at
work. The faculty have forbidden the
club to hold meetings and members
who acknowledge membership will be
expelled Most of the undergraduates
are as determined to suppress 1t as the
authorities, college and municipal, are
themselves. The fact of Its existence
demonstrates the inadvisability of at
tempting to educate vicious youngsters
salvation, and that Is by the way OF
work.
The preamble of the criminal clubs
constitution reads that 1t is the OBJ
ject of this society to promote knowl-
edge of crime and the psychological
basis of crime among Its members. and
a contempt for the New Haven police
department.
At a recent banquet behind barred
doors the club adopted the following:
NO person shall be eligible for MEM
bership who is not a college man and
who has not been arrested for some
offense against the law of the land.
Upon a vote of two-thirds of the MEM
bers already admitted. however. any
student may be admitted to honorary
membership who has shown unusual
holiness in the commission OF crime
and in escaping the consequences
thereof
There is at Nebraska university no
organized band of criminals, but there
are a dozen or so vicious young men
and women who prowl about the back
doors of residences where festivities of
some kind are in progress. They
Too. m
or cake and retire to a fraternity
house where they eat their plumber,
unconscious, perhaps, that they have
Joined the criminal classes and that
their university career is for them
worse than futile.
1t is to be said in favor of the pres
ent administration that when a thief
is once thoroughly identified and con-.
victed of theft, he or she is dismissed
the university. HOstesses whose re-
freshments have been stolen by stu
dent gangs set a policeman to watch
the refreshments they intend later to
offer their guests.
The men and women who Turk in the
bottoms are herded by the police into
the reservation. If they come out
boldly at night they are reprimanded
and sent back to their purlieus.
The well-dressed gang of both sexes
sheltered in fraternity houses slip by
the police. Such students are disgrace
ing the institution, the very large ma
jority of self-respecting and respect
able undergraduates, and destroying
their own careers.
The young women who accept invi-
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1902-05-24
Richard Manifold


Monsieur Beaucaire. in Booth Tark-
ington's story, does not marry Lazy
Mary Carlyle The girl is belle ana
. great lady of Bath in the time or
George III in England and OF LOUIS Nv
of France. Beaucaire is the Duke OIL
Orleans. the nephew of the king ana the
heir apparent. He loved love SO much
that he fed the kingdom because ne
would not marry his cousin whom ne
had seen but twice. Those were DAYS
when the king could order man IS
head off if he did not like him ana IL
wou,d come off. So the young prince
fled to England while his uncle
wrath was a-cooling. He was young
and handsome and unspoiled ana ne
saw a beautiful lady; but he had He'd
tn England as the hairdresser of the
MARQUIS de Mirepoi, while the lady was
naughty and although she was las
cinated by this mixture OF poet, prince
and soldier, when she heard that ne
WAS a lackey she scOrned him. though
fighter as before she heard the news.
In Booth Tarkington's story the prince
remembers his gentle, faithful cousin
who is truly in love with him ana
would marry him If he were chin
ney sweep, when the spoiled belle re-
pulses him. In the book, after the
French ambassadors arrival and rec
ignition of the Prince Imperial he VIII
not forgive Lady Mary and goes pacK
tn France to mind his uncle and
marry his cousin or anybody else
whom the state shall select Tor MS
consort. But the story has been read
nv thousands. and a thousand or Two
saw the play at the Oliver last week.
In the play the lady renounces her
pride and accepts her true lover whiie
she still considers him man OF no
particular birth. He says Mary!
lust as Mary Anderson used to say
"Ingomar,' and they fall into the
last-part-of-the-f ifth-act attitude to the
satisfaction of the audience and the
assassination of realism. The curtain
should have fallen on the prince In
doleful mood facing a chagrined lady
who has lost the parti of the season
and the greatest opportunity OF her
life or Of any woman's, for that mat
fer. The habits of childhood are diff
cult to eradicate and all the books oil
our childhood ended, $50 they were
married and lived happily ever after
ward" The stage is more conserVa-
tive than literature and not nearly SO
diversified as the actual romances OF
life. A pair of stage lovers must be
married. and unless it is a problem
play or something from the unsanitary
French sewer, they must be HAPPY
ever afterwards. This is unfortunate.
Truth is better for man than the most
fiattering and comforting fiction.
1t is true that the pampered daugh-
ter of wealth, whose veins distribute
the thin blue blood of an aristocrat
over her body sometimes runs away
with a coachman. But currying horses
and driving them does not disquallfy
as the occupation of grooming men
does. The occupation of coachman Is
not effeminate. 1t is certain that the
proudest and most beautiful woman OF
a fashionable society would never
marry a barber. The most fatuously
insistent upon a happy ending must
admit this.
On the other hand the woman is not
born who could resist Richard Mans
fields wooing. 1t is likely that all the
women in the audience thought Lady
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1902-05-24

their sovereign. When the power was
taken away from the English throne,
royalty was given a longer lease OF
life, II not of power. II parliament. at
the suggestion of the chancellor and
compelled by the stress Of circum-
stances, imposes a tax on the bread
of the English workman, 1t Is quite
likely that there will be riots. For the
workman has not gained i'm meekness
since the bread riots of 1863. Even now
papers devoted to the interests OF the
laborer and apparently careless OF the
prosperity of England as whole are
invoking the spirit of Golden and DO
ing their part, so far as prophesyihs
has a part i'm precipitating riots 10
enrage the people over the proposition
Of increased taxation of the necessa-
ries of life.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1902-05-24

are doing obeisance. when he is clothed
in a rose colored embroidered brocade
court dress, when he blazes with the
diamonds that should adorn such
genius as his. look of ineffable sat
isfaction rests upon his face while he
feels that for mimic moment. at
least, he is in the proper relation to
the rest of his world. Every man has
his vanity, and we have forgiven
Mansfield his pride long ago.
K 4 4
College Degenerates
If the young people who are now
undergraduates at the university are
not benefited by the course. they are
injured. 1t is as hard to stand still
and go neither backward nor forward
in morals and mental conditions as 1t
is to remain stationary on a bicycle or
on a pair of stills. The young men
and the young women who are in the
university merely to have a good time
and have not the innate love of Gull
ture would much better be earning
their living or helping to make home
happier for the families of which they
are members.
When older people. who long ago
were graduated from school, go away
from home into a strange and incuri-
Gus environment where the restraints
of acquaintanceship are removed, some
others whose morality is not deep
seated and inveterate and they play
pranks and allow themselves liberties
that they never take at home.
There are perhaps a thousand or
fifteen hundred out-of-town students
who register at the university every
fall. After the first inconsistencies has
worn off, the wine of liberty intoxi-
Gates them and they are apt to act
foolishly. The regular entertainments
of society seem tame. Deep draughts
of youth and of unaccustOmed liberty
go to the head. and the average under
graduates head is not strong and his
equilibrium is easily disturbed.
men for the fraternities adds to his
conceit. When Immediately upon ar
rival the youth who has nothing in
particular to add to society is courted
by delegates from three or four fra
ternities who send him flowers, invite
him to ride, to dine, take him to the
theatre, laugh at his attenuated
jokes and ignore his rising and
insufferable conceit, the effect up
on the youths character is la
mentable. Upon the young women
subjected to this process the eff
feet is just the same and is more
lasting. Fellows take the conceit and
the braggodocio out of n brother by
ridiculing his pretentious remarks and
his self-laudatory stories. But girls
are gentler and their schoolmates suf-
fer for the drastic course which, how
ever painful, would make them use
full members of a fraternity. Hazing
is not without very desirable charac-
teristics. There is no process yet dis
covered which can altogether take It's
place and show a young man and
woman that they are not the centre of
the system and that the new world
they have been born into has no special
respect for them and no disposition to
overlook faults of cOnceit or selfish
ness or of undue elf-aggrandiZement.
In a school properly organized by the
to rate themselves again, and more
justly. The system of rushing fresh
men spoils them. permits them to go
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1902-05-24
Assessment Equalization

Nebraska people have got it into
their heads that the railroads are
Sinking taxes, and some of the citi-
zens of the state are quite excited
about it. Without examining tax lists
or pretending to make a comparative
and exhaustive examination of the
subject, they wag their heads and say
it is a shame that the railroads of the
state do not bear their share Of the
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-15
They Outnumber All Other Immigrants Into Long
Neglected But at Last Fully Appreciated
Region of Health and Fertility

neglected. development
the popular republic Canada
n
beyond the life blood and the
stimulus of immigration have awakened the mighty region that stretches from
Red Rocky beyond the Saskatchewan and
of
millions that will raise the wheat and produce the meat that will feed other millions
others side of wordi at las
All Canada has thrown off its lehargy has
~, . - suddenly t h realized that Western Canada has heatbt1 and
All has begun
which into
behind that
into Manitoba Alberta Asnbo
and Saskatchewan is only now in land over which the stars
THE AMERICAN
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tn. s'; uao T states %
st Gosi he has ns t S % @ the % % ons Ru
Of
Immigration e& Aeesn n Canada has Bounded up nothing ago
CONCEPTIONS WESTERN CANADA
All notions die 91 nG 3 % pu Tho an Tn
Manitoba 900 good land
handicap Manitoba and niGa the winter
ot5ssn r {ss
% ss 5 5 n. tf the Ds sss mse m
;,: ;s ; S:vs s::5 .:;: 5
a
cutiv
really appreciated
is just
parallel
Saskatchewan
S s nss @ S p1s 1 the Ts n
a
Prince Albert probably Edmonton while still
These lines which
dholdng to
distributed
Britain Canadian
in
that will whir them the continent
homestead title
United
he
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-15

Assboia
Saskatchewan and Alberta
Western Canada
last year raising 42s bushels
minds
would the big n of the continent The wonderful yield
and industry that prophetic
YEA
Forty bushels barley
ng in the
noads Of hoeseke and investors
a this sno sen s sesp 10 sssss ions
P sss n 1sGn u nr aalp m 9
70 T,s's s . "a s s.
sa: Il s
ever sissa @ ss s s crop va. ne
5s ;:s ss. ;. ss.; IS
sn It's i s 91s' s s per
a5 A
p e R s s Rss ; sdss t1s ] s n %1ss
o n p western p had epng u Th incr
crease grain acreage mad without pf n n 5 M
b bumper Yield with its
er i this sde of the line western Canada had the
her history housing the 1901
poured
f
world addition
airoadsb
worlds
CROP
lgrainsl las a to
II
bushel o
western Canada last The long
Canada
n
irszea ndt the big
which
the
rapidly while the high priced
do
possibilities
completed awakening the
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-15

arabic in Manitoba Anboa
on them
Western
somewhat
Of to holdings
havego fron$ o
possibilities with
increase "a
long Even $50
southern Manitoba
wild
erfIesu that inexhausfib
already
planning
working night and increasing their equipment
Theeourths parallel
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-02-27
Frisco System.

Has put on a new train known as the
OKLAHOMA LIMITED" between OK.
lanoma City and Kansas City. This is
he fastest and finest equipped train
out OF Oklahoma for Kansas City. St.
Louis and Memphis.
The OKLAHOMA LIMITED"
leaves Oklahoma City at $40 p. m.
arriving at Kansas City 7:40 next
morning. st. Louis 5:35 p. m. and
Memphis 500 p. m. 1t consists Of bag
gage car, three go chair cars, and
one % Pullman. The Pullman sleeper
and one cnair car goes through 70
iansas City without change. one chair
car through to ST. Louis. and one
through TO Memphis. The return train
leaves Kansas City $3.50 p. m, arriving
at Oklahoma City 1885 a. m.
Further information regarding rates
time etc, will be cheerfully given by
any Frisco System Agent or the under
signed. B. +. DUNN,
District Passenger Agent, Wichita
Kansas
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-02-27
MRS. soFFEL GOT sAIL.
wensn wh5 ASSISTED IN the Escape
of the sia5le Brothers at Liberty.

Butler. Pa. Feb 2s-Mrs. Kate Sof.
Eel. wife Of the Plttsburg jail warden
Who assisted ia the escape Of the Bid.
die brothers. and vas wounded durIns
the battle Vheu they were recap;lr.
ed. was removed from Butler hospital
today and taken % Pittsburg. She
had fully recovered from her wounds.
Three charges have been made
against her-one alleging the crime o,
aiding in the escape of the murderers
and two alleging felonious assault and
battery
After arriving at Allegheny Mrs
soHel was driven 70 the court house
in Piusburg where her attorney made
pleas before Judge Brown for the pris
oners release on bail Through her
attorney she offered a bond signed by
her father Conrad y. Dietrich. for
$4,000. but Judge Brown decided the
bail not sufficiently secured and order
"a that the prisoner remain in custo
.iy She vas removed 70 the county
Jail and placed in a cell where she re-
mained three hours pending securing
.0f bonds
Mrs SOfel walked slowly with head
bowed down. She did not show any
trace Of emotion. Her father did not
once speak 20 his daughter He said
be had not at first signed tie bond
voluntarily but that his wife and an
other member Of the family had ! er
suaded him TO do so. Mrs Sofel 81
ter being released left with her faith
er for his home in Mount Washington
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-02-27

Suns company pleased a large aud
ience here. Americas play.goers wit
messed last night one Of the best min
strel attractions OF the season here
Il wEs the first appearance Of Gus
Suns Big Minstrel company in Ameri'
Gus, but they will be fayorites here In
the future.-Americus (Ga-) Daily
Times-Recorder. January 20. 1901.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-02-27
SALT RHEUM CURED BY
OhnstOn'S SarSaparilla
JUST SEEN IN TIuR.
TO Com
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lingering painful avoided
by right Of JoHNSTOES SARSAPARILLA
was cured Of bad huno after suffering with for Eve The
and ears and then whole body perfectly with it. What
did tried medicine advertised
JoHNSToNS SARSAPARILLA
SARSAPARILA all
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all right"
The blood life and keep and
fails 1t for sale by all druggists full bottles dollar each
ConaPANx. DETI<Corr.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-02-27
CONNECTED BY TELEPHONE.
Line to Be Strung Along the Arkansas
& choetaw Railroad.

Denlson. Tex. Feb. 26.--J. y Hugh.
es president OF the Chickasaw-Choc
taw telephone line has returned "a
Durant. l. T.. from a visit 10 Kansas
City, and gives out the statement that
the telephone line will be- extended at
once from Durant eastward TO con
meet with the towns on the Arkansas
& Choctaw on the east and then be
built TO Wister north The line will
then be built west from Durant "a
Wichita Falls. Tex All Of the lines
OF the Arkansas & Choctaw will be
paralleled by the telephone lines.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-02-27

n al last she tires u the fault finding
OF a dvsreu;ic husband and leaves him
The worst % the dysPeptic = that he
does not realize his own ueanness. Has
world is entirely out OF perspective.
Dyspepsia and other diseases Of the
stomach and organs Of digestion aud
nutrition are perfectly and permanently
curei BY the use Of Dr. Pierce's COldrn
Medical Discovery. II cures the worst
forms Of the disease II cures when all
other medicines have failed 70 benefit
Accept no substitute for Dr. p -e's
Golden Medical Discovery. TherD no
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Il can ssy 70 va one bottle Of your Golden
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DR. Pierce's Common Sense Medical
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expense OF mailing only or II cloth
bound volume Is desired send n stamps.
Address DR.. r " Pierce, Buffalo. y. Y.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-02-27

That combiLation OF either riding
or walking cultivator at Williams,
Corhn & Con is saic TO be the
greatest thing Of its kind on the mar
ket. Call at the store aand ask to see
this cultivator. 2O-tf
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-02-27
-Four Months For twenty-five Cents.

Four Months For twenty-five Cents.
Twin Territories. The Indian Maga-
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months for twenty-five cents. Regular
price one dollar a year, ten cents a
copy. This special OFFER is good until
March 25th. Send today. m time 10 re-
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splendid spring issues, More than forty
pages Of good reading. Write 20 Twin
Territories, Muskogee, l. T.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-02-27
q A ~ " ER 8 2 " e
the most he5 mo salVa IN the wsrid

Kidney complaint kills more peo-
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20 the disease being so insidious that
II gets a good hold on the system
before II is recognized. Foley's Kid
ney Cure will prevent the development
OF fatal disease II taken in time. Sold
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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-02-27

Diamond Bros. comedians and dan
GERS well and fayorably known
throughout the amusement world, are
with the Gus Sun American Minstrels.
Their knock.about work Is funny
enough TO make a sick man laugh. In
fact they have the reputation Of be-
longing to the front row OF funny men.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-02-27

Children who are troubled with
worms are pale in the face. fretful by
spells. restless In sleep. have blue
rings around their eyes, bad dreams.
variable appetite and pick their nose.
Whites Cream Vermifuge will kill
and eXpel these parasites. Price %
cents. ". b. Frame. City Drug Store.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-02-27

Faults OF digestion cause disorders
OF the liver and the whole system
becomes deraDged Herbine perfects
the process OF digestion and assim-
ilation, and thus makes pure blood.
Price 90 cts W. B. Frame, City Drug
Store
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-02-27

II is easy to cry ont for the public s
good when IL will not interfere with
ones private gains.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-02-27

The woman who says she wouli
just de II her picture appeared In th-
paper has her photograph ready
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-02-27

The most reliable preparation for
kidney troubles on the market is Fol
ey's Kidney Cure. Sold by Bonner &
| Bonner.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-02-27

Don't put too much OF Laidlaw's coal
In your sore at once; II will make
your room too warm. 26tf