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The independent., 1903-09-03

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Address all communications and make all
drafts, money orders etc. payable to
Cbs nebrssks Tndtpendsnf,
Lincoln. Neb.
Anonymous communications will not be
so&iced Rejected manuscripts will not be
returned.
r. H. TIBBLES, Editor.
C.. @. DE FRANCE, Associate Editor.
Ed. EAGER Business Manager.
What stopped the fall of stocks?
Was it the gold surreptitiously taken
from the United States treasury?
SSSSS$$S
Cortelyou is the publicity agent"
Of the government. Let him make the
secretary of the treasury show up that
$15O,00o,OOO of gold.
Mark Hanna joined the Salvation
army. If Addicks will only go and do
likewise, the republican party will
soon have a corner on religion that
will stop more churches than the cot
ton corner has cotton mills.
&SS$SS$
The Independent got beaten in it's
fight in the pOpulist state convention
for an Endorsement of the Denver con-
ference, but it took the work of the
biggest man in the United States to
do it.
The most desperate game that was
ever played on earth is being played
ty the secretary of the treasury and
the Wall street SPECTATORS and gam
blers. 1t may end in the dishonor of
this nation and worldwide panic.
$>>SSSS$
II Secretary Cortelyou would set
some of his 10000 employees to work in
compiling the statistics of banks in
such way as to give the exact profits
of the actual capital invested, he would
do an invaluable service to the coun-
try.
Our Standard no doubt represents
the feelings of good many thousand
Indiana democrats when it says "Just
let the democrats nominate old Gro
ver again and then watch the exodus
of honest democrats who will rush to
the old guards of the populist ranks.
$SSS2
When the secretary substitutes Phil
ippine certificates (the value of which
depends on the amount of money that
can be squeezed out of the famishing
Fiiipinos) for bonds of the United
States, he is playing the trick of an
cmbezzler
The Independent says: Bring to-
gether all those who are now working
disconnectedly and Intellectually to-
ward a better order of life. On with
the revival of populism. Get an or.
ganization in every state and territory
The renaissance already starts into be.
ing.
SS>SS$SS
Some of Ambrose Bierce's aphorisn
which are printed in the Hearst paper:
remind one very much of the sayings
of the Sage of Arbor Lodge. Here Ii
The independent., 1903-09-03

Our Standard no doubt represents
the feelings of a good many thousand
Indiana democrats when it says: "Just
let the democrats nominate old Gro
yer again and then watch the exodus
of honest democrats who will rush to
the old guards of the populist ranks. ;
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-08-29

Those who delight In war and blood
shed, with their accompaniment OF
thrilling stories of heroic. deeds, or
those, even. who would have all inter-
national and domestic controversies
settled by arbitration have reason to
re. dice that when Congress, a few
years ago. had inserted provision In
the naval Appropriation bill that re-
pairs to all wooden vessels should be
discontinued. 1t excepted the famous
old ships, Hartford and Kearsarge.
Since then the Kearsarge has met the
fate of so many other ships. having
been wrecked on a reef in the Carib-
bean sea. But the old Hartford, In
commission. with her officers and
crew on board and In their distinctive
and fascinating uniforms, and the ship
with her lofty and symmetrical masts
and spars and her sails furled, and
every rope in place, has been most
interesting to visitors during her re-
cent visit to the navy yard. She is
now on. the records as doing duty in
the coast squadron and has left the
navy yard and gone to Annapolis.
The old ship is different looking
vessel. so far as the interior is con-
cerned, from the one which Farragut
commanded at the battles or the
Mississippi river in 1862, and at Mobile
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-08-29

The wave is dashing up the barrier
reef. The girls spring forward and
clap their hands, and then drop to the
ground with a ong.musical cry. The
wave has surmounted the reef and
emptied Itself into the CLASSY lagoon.
The dance is over.
Every movement of the wave
meke' Is graceful and refined. The
best ballet girls in your American the
aters are not better trained than these
young Fiiian maldens, who spend a
good half Of their happy careless, lazy
lives dancing their wekes' or playing
in the surf. There are no finer dane
ers in the world. Nearly all their bal
let's describe the scenes arou>l them
or the incidents of their daily lives.
Other 'mekes' picture the palms sway
ing in the breeze, the canoes tossing
In gale, and the clouds sailing across
the sky"
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-08-29
Your Dietary.

Eat when you are hungry-if you
have the price. Drink beer with your
ice cream II you like to. Eat grated
cheese on your raw onions II you
think 1t good. Drink milk with your
cucumbers and sleep the sleep Of the
just man made perfect. Take q
cracker with every drink of liquor
and live to be 1000 years old. Drink
whisky with your bananas and forget
the cramps. Take vinegar with your
salad: 1t retards digestion. Eat
cherries with milk and sugar Drink
Chinati with macaroni. Drink tea
while eating meat. Avoid salt; it
dries up the skin. In plain English
do as you please-so long as your
"stomjack" is able to stand it. Vio-
late all the established rules Of
health and you may live to good old
age.-New York Press.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-08-29
The Grand Old Hartford.

Bay in 1864. And yet. although there
s little left of the old ship beyond her
keel and frame, she has not lost her
outward identity and any of those
who were familiar with her In the
days of the civil war would recognize
her now. She was originally steam
vessel, or sloop-of-war, Of 1900 tons
displacement and was built at Boston
In 1858. She has the same graceful
and symmetrical lines that she pre-
scented on that hot summer day when
she led the wooden fleet past the guns
of Fort Morgan, in 1864, at the battle
of Mobile Bay, when Farragut won an
other of his great victories and coined
the phrase that has gone down into
history. when he called out to the
commander of the Brooklyn (who had
hauled his ship out of the line when
he Jaw one Of the monitors go down
by an explosion of torpedo). Damn
the torpedoes; go ahead!" The ia
nous old ships have all gone except
the Hartford, and she Is destined to
remain anoat so long as she can be
kept in a seaworthy condition, SO as
to remind the present and future gen.
erations of the kind of ships and the
manner of men their ancestors we're
in the days when men and ships we're
needed to preserve the nation.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-08-29

the tree till the rope was all used NJ
and the bar was prisoner at the
stake.
Then Aunt Hubby went back to bed
and was snorin' away as II nothin'
wore had happened than only jest git.
tin up to give the baby peppermint.
Long In the forenoon O. next day
Unche Jep come a-stragglin home.
Hubby. says he, II 1t hadn't been
fer Jonas borrying that other gun O.
mine and not fetchin' of 1t back, I'd a
killed that pesky bar dead, yisterd'y,
an won them 500, he says, ding his
ugly pctur'sl he says. meanin' Jonas.
We'll, Jeptha,' says Aunt Hubby,
it's an all.pervadin' good thing that
YOU didn't do it, she says.
"'What fur?' says Uncle Jep. hard.
ly believin' his ears.
"'Why, cause II you'd "a killed that
bar dead yisterd'y,' says Aunt Hubby.
1 couldn't "a ketched him alive last
night says she
AFTER Aunt Hubby got through
laughin' at Uncle Jep standin' there
starin' at her with his mouth wide
open and his eyes almost bulgin', she
took him out to t'other side O. the pig.
pen. and there. sure enough, was the
rampagein' old bar that was worth
$50 alive tied so fast to the big pine
tree that he couldn't hardly boiler.
Uncle Jep didn't say nothin. He
couldn't. He jest chopped down the
tree, trimmed the limbs often 1t to
make it log, hooked the steers to it,
and drug it and the bar over to the
Eddy. Old Nose forked over the $50
only too quick, and $40 besides for the
pine log, so that Aunt Hubby and
Uncle Jep didn't only git their COW,
but they had quite snug figger to
stuff in the old coffee pot fer future
reference. besides. And what did
Aunt Hubby do? She made Jonas q
present of the borried gun and
thanked him fer borryin' 1t and not
fetchin' 1t back
Though | dunno as I ought to
thank you, neither, she says to Jonas.
1t was smilin' Providence that done
it, she says."-Ed. Mott in New York
Times.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-08-29
WISE WORDS.

Goods can never constitute the chief
good.
1t is the bullet that kills and not the
report
Money creates more wants than 1t
satisfies.
The good fellow is not always
good friend.
Truth fears nothing so much as soil.
tary confinement.
The day book of time determines tho
ledger of eternity.
1t is not the service, but its spirit
that makes 1t sacred.
The good in man may be known by
the good he sees in men.
Men may do their worst, II matters
not If you have chosen the best.
A mean man may become master
of men, but never a master man.
Humility is the virtue all preach,
none practice, and yet everybody 10
content to hear.
The spirit of melancholy would often
take its flight from us If only we would
take up the song of praise.
A man should never blush in confess
ing his errors, for he proves by his
avowal that he is wiser to-day than
yesterday.-Our Young Folks.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-08-29
Babies in Far-Off Siam.

When a Siamese baby is born the
mother is removed from the bed and
laid upon a long, narrow fiat board.
BY her side a big fire is made in a
portable earthenware stove. The SER
wants or friends scatter round the
house a certain kind of fruit which is
supposed to be efficacious in prevent
ing the entrance of evil spirits. A cord
also encircles the house. This cord
has been blest by the priests, and is
another barrier against supernatural
visitants.
AS a matter of fact, what with the
heat Of the fire, the heat of the eli
mate, and the presence of so many
people in the room, it is so stiflingly
hot and uncomfortable that 1t may be
doubted whether evil wanderers from
below would care to sojourn there.
There are always three old women
present on these occasions, whose
business 1t is to solicit for the little
one the patronage and protection Of
sundry guardian angels. They make
three balls of rice and throw them in
lucky directions, and SO insure a GER
tain amount Of good fortune for the
babe.
All babies in Siam have the same
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-08-29

The railway across the Andes. be-
tween Chile and The Argentine Repub-
lie, which was projected twenty years
ago,is ut last TO be completed, the Chill
can Congress having recently passed
a bill for the purpose. The loftiest
part Of the pass, which lies not far
south OF the great Andean giant, Accom-
cagua, and which has an elevation of
$4,000 feet, is to be penetrated by a
tunnel, which will serve both to avoid
snowdrfts and to decrease the maxi
mum elevation OF the road. The ter
minals Of the railway on each side
of the pass are now within one days
travel by mule caravan from one an
other. This will be the first rail line
TO cross the south American Contin-
ent,
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-08-29

name when they are born. This Is
Dang" which means red" 1t is a
silly name to give, for though Siam
csc baby is a triHe like raw beef in
color, it is at once covered over with
a yellow paste, which gives 1t the ap-
pearance of suffering from a highly
concentrated and expansive form OF
bilious attack. This yellow paste is
made Of turmeric powder, and 1t is sup
posed to keep away mosquito bites.
The baby wears no clothes, and
continues to appear in the same lack
Of apparel for several years. Boys
and girls alike do withuot clothing for
a comparatively long time.
This undress uniform, it may be not
ed, possesses certain distinct advan
tages. 1t is cool, sanitary and econom
ical.
Children are frequently adorned
with massive gold and silver bracelets
and anklets. They wear little silver
shield fastened in front of the body
by string of beads. This shield is
purely ornamental. playing no essen
tial part in the child's costume, for II
is often lost and not replaced, the
string Of beads remaining maybe fol
several months longer.-Queen.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-08-29
Her Revenge Was Sweet.

at don't mind being told I'm stout.
she said. 4 am stout and I might as
well acknowledge it. But there is q
wrong way to do everything and there
is a way Of telling person that he or
she is stout which always CRATES on
my nerves. The speaker paused and
looked over her auditors in manner
which plainly indicated that this re-
mark was but the moral to fable
soon to follow. Nor were the listen
ers disappointed
LIVERY once in a while pursued
the narrator-who there was no deny
ing really was stout haven't time
to go all the way to my own church
and so drop in at the one across the
street. There / always see Mrs. Pratt
Teton. She weighs fifty pounds more
than ! do If she weighs an ounce but
she seems serenely unconscious Of it
and always greets me after the service
with honeyed smile and the re-
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-08-29
Superstitions.

II tive persons raise their glasses to
their lips simultaneously they are in
dlcating the return of friend or rela-
tive from foreign parts. The same in.
timation is conveyed by bubbles in cof.
fee or by the accidental fall of piece
Of soap on the floor
A pickering flame in the fire or an
upright excrescence in a burning can.
die is interpreted as predicting the ar.
rival OF a guest, whose stature is
judged by the length of the flame or
eXcrescence.
If one drains q glass OF the contents
Of which some one else has partaken
he will learn the secrets of the latter.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-08-29
IN PICTURESQUE INDIA.
A Most wonderful sight Along AIipur
Road.


Road.
Our way was along the Allpur Road,
the big main artery, where every hour
of the day OK carts and strings of cam
els jostle ekkas filed to OVERLOOKING
with fat and complacent natives, who
seem gifted with some special faculty
for balancing themselves on a<Sw
inches Of splash-board; tongas. too,
with wretched ponies, which decline to
move at any other pace than the gal.
lop. and endless streams of transport
and supply carts with mules than lean
in upon each other at such an angle
that you never cease wondering how
they manage to keep their'Sootlng at
all in the greasy state of road when the
bhistimen have just watered It, says
l.. Raven HILL In the Pail Mall Gazette.
A most wonderful sight, that Allpur
road-eyery race in India passing
along, and always in hurry. AS we
drew near the Frontier and Ponjaub
camps, one remarked the difference in
the types seen on The road-tall, hook
nosed, fierce-looking men from Cabul
and Peshawar. with high conical caps,
with black waistooats or yellow fur
lined jackets; over long shirts and bag
gy trousers; loutish overcoated tribes
from Gilgit, looking more like Cau-
casians than inhabitants of India. in
their wooden caps and heelless boots,
seeming to terrlfy the sightseeing Ba-
bus, who wandered meellly, hand in
hand, quite as interested as the Eng
lish globe trotter.
After breakfast with the political
agent the fanatical Alkali Slkhs were
shown us, with their strange blue head
dresses, nearly three feet high. orna-
mented with axes, crescent-shaped
knives, bearing axes, bows and arrows,
spears, daggers and swords; with their
chain armor. breastpates and shields.
they suggested n travelling museum
rather than warriors. Here, also, We're
the devil dancers from the Tibetan
border, wearing grotesque masks.
whose clumsy dhncing suggested the
rawlings of some virago in an East md
slum rather than anything diabolic.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-08-29

mark: You're fatter than when you
were here last"
The repetition made me rather
angry, so month ago got seat just
by her and watched her closely. There
was good deal of kneeling done and
| confess that | dreaded the attempt
so much that the first time l didn't get
upon my knees. Then / happened to
notice Mrs. Prattleton. She wasn't
kneeling either and l suddenly real
lied that this was simply because she
could not, When the time came again
to kneel l got down the whole way,
hard as 1t was, and then looked
squarely into Mrs. PrattletorS face.
She blushed and squirmed and at once
tried her level best to follow my ex-
ample. But she had to give up; 1t
was no use; she was too fat. From
that day to this she hasn't told me I'm
growing stouter-in fact, she hasn't
spoken to me at ALL"
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-08-29
Dance Of Fijian Girls.

"Dancingf" said the old traveller
scornfully. you folks at home, with
your two-cent waltzes and polkas don't
know what real dancing is. You should
see the girls dance in Fiji as ! have
seen them.
"They call their dances 'mekes,' and
the best OF them all is the wave
meke.' A lot of pretty girls, in two or
three rows, act the movements of the
sea as it rolls in upon the reefs.
First of all, they bend down in uni
son and sweep the ground slowly with
their hands, waving their fingers in
order to represent the little wavelets
flecked by the wind, Then they sway
their bodies to and fro TO show the
long roll of the tropical wave; ard
presently their figures rise and fall as
do the breakers. The action of the
dance becomes more and more violent.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-08-29
Aunt Hulda's Bear

Aunt Hubby had some amazin'
p'ints." said the loquacious and rem.
iniscent man from the Knob country.
so had that bar. He was genuine
speciment o. what the Knob country
could turn out in the way O. bar when
II sot out to do II, that bar was, and
he had been raisin the very old Ned
amongst the pigs and farm produce
generally for SO long. and had KEEP so
regular and aggravatlnly shet of all
the traps and tricks that was sot and
tried to waylay and circumvent him,
that at last what did old man Nose,
over to the Eddy, do but declare he
would give 500 in cash for that bar
fetched in dead. or $50 II anybody'd
run him In and hand him over alive.
"'Alive!' folks hollered when they
beerd of 1t. Anybody that tries to
fetch that bar In. alive they says,
will more than likely find their own
selves bein' fetched in dead!' they
says; but folks didn't know 1t all. and
they hadn't stopped to consider Aunt
Hubby.
"Jeptha,' says Aunt Hubby to Uncle
Jep one day. Jest about that time;
Je9tha,' says she. seems to me that
II | was you I'd sort O. take q holiday
this afternoon and wander over lords
Big Injin Swamp. Mebbe you mowt
run foul O. that pesky bar. or course.
seys she. you can't hardly expect to
get him alive. but all things being
mortal here below says she. you
mOwt accidentally git him dead n
you do says she. it1i be $40. and $50
will buy COW. says she.
Uncle Jep didn't see but what
thatd be proper idee, and he
knocked of stumpgrubbin', took his
old smOOthbore rifle and started out.
Jonas went and borried that 9TH
or gHn o. mine, ding his pictur, and
hain't brung II back yit.' says Uncle
Jep. as he started,
1.-The bar II fetch jest ezac'ly as
much II you git 1t with the smooth.
bore as II will If 1t had come a tumb-
lin down before the gun that Jonas
borried,' says Aunt Hubby. so don't
waste your time grumblin'. says she.
Go look for the bar
so Uncle Jep went, sayin that II
he got on to the trail o. the cunpin'
old varmint he'd foller 1t If he had TO
camp on It all night. He got over
Jest this eide o. Big Injin and hadn't
see no sign o. that bar or any other
bar. and was beginnin' to think that
II aim and Aunt Hubby didn't git a
COW TIL they got 1t with the price O.
that bar they'd never quarrel about
who'd do the miikin', when he heerd
somethln' snort. He turned. and there
he see the bar. standin right out in
plain sight. and actin as II he was
afeard Uncle Jep was goin' on with.
out seein' him. Uncle Jep krowed 1t
was him. cause that bar was the only
one In the hull Knob country that had
a white spot on Its brisket.
"'Tbis is the first time | ever was
10 a shootin' match for GOVT says
Uncle Jep. and the idee tickled him so
that he had to take his gun down from
his shoulder till he could git through
his laughin'. a shootin' match for a
cow says he, and he haulsd up a'gin
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-08-29

Mr.. Blank Of the Daily So-and.So."
Il cannot be disturbed now" called
O'Rell. "You will have to come again.
cannot see you now am In bed"
Notwithstanding this Injunction, the
humorist saw the door pushed open,
the chair fell over on the floor, and
the reporter entered the room, threw
his hat on the table. sighed and helped
himself to a chair.
We'll, well, Wen" exclaimed the
now angry Frenchman. This Is un.
precedented, What will you have,
sir? What'll you have?"
Thank YOU" replied the reporter,
tanning himself 'I'll have a gin-fizz. +"
New York Times.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-08-29
The Worlds Volcanoes,

The number Of great habitual vol
canic vents upon the globe IL estimated
at between three hundred and three
hundred and fifty. The American
Continent contains more than the cOun.
tries of the Old World-twenty In
North America, twenty-five in Central
American and thirty in South
America.
There Is but one on the whole con.
tinent of Europe-Vesuvus though
elsewhere In the Mediterranean there
are six-Stromboli and vulvano. In the
Lipari Islands; Etna, in Sicily; Graham
Island, submarine volcano, off the
Slcilian coast. and Santorius and Missy.
ros, in the Aegean Sea.
The African Continent Is known to
contain ten active volcanoes, four on
the west and six on the east coast,
and there are about ten others In the
neighborng islands.
In Asia there are twenty -four active
volcanoes, but no less. than twelve OF
these are situated on the Peninsula OF
Kamchatka. There are no volcanoes
in Australia. aAa
Thus, taken altogether, there are
about one hundred and seventeen vol-
canoes on the great continents, and
nearly twice as many on the Islands
scattered over the several oceans.
These volcanoes usually assume in
their distribution linear arrangement.
and nearly MI of them have been
thrown up along three well marked
bands and the branches proceeding
from them.-GOod Literature.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-08-29
Reporter With. a Nerve.

Max O'Rell used to tell story about
his first experience with a Chicago
newspaper reporter The genial
Frenchman had Just arrived at the
Grand Pacific hotel and had retired TO
his room TO rest after fatigu
ing journey. In order to get the
most possible out of the shpi
siesta he tok off his clothes and
got into bed. The day was a OF
one, and for better circulation of air
he left the door slightly ajar, placing
a chair against it for security. Shortly
afterward he was awakened from his
nap by knock at his door, and he
drowslly inquired who vas there.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-08-29
Mr.. POOLE AND THE PRINCE.
Tailor Who Made King Edwards
Clothes to Be kniahted,

'SN'So w SC tNlhSHtChs
Poole, the London tailor, Is about
to receive the accolade. Why not?
Has he not done more to make Ed
ward VII presentable than all other
artists in the United Kingdom put to-
gether? Clothes make the king as
well as the man. Poole makes the
clothes; ergo. Poole makes the king.
When Edward was simply prince of
Wales he owed Poole at times as
much as 100000. and even suffered
the tailor to address him in public
places without fear of the tower
There are several distinguished
Pooles In England, but none SO
famous as Tailor Poole.
Speaking of Poole, one of his GUS
toners says His accounts are rem
dered once year, just around
Christmas. II not paid, he waits
twelve months and sends a second
bill. Such as do not pay on receipt
Of the second statement are dropped
from his books, and never again are
they allowed to give an order In his
establishment" York Press.