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The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1903-12-24
FIGHTING CHAMBERLAIN

Late English newspapers show that
Cnamberlain's tariff campaign wakes
hotter every day. The liberals are
using his record in the Boer war
against Chamberlain and the recently
printed report of the war commission
furnishes an inexhaustible fountain OF
facts of the most damnable character
ever brought against set OF public
men, The British people were lied TO
and deceived and were induced TO
sanction the most cruel, needless and
inhuman war that has been waged
for centuries. 1t came near wreck1ng
the British empire. AT one time there
were but two boxes of rifle ammuni-
ton left in all England, and the rifles
that had been furnished to the troops
were SO sighted that they shot IL
inches in the left in 500 yards. New
sights were made and sent to Soutf
Africa to be put on the rifles there.
According to this report OF the war
commission the whole of the new ter
ritory has fallen into the hands Of
the diamond trust, British wOrkmen
are rigidly excluded from the mines
from fear OF the organization of trade
unions, the capitalists are determined
to introduce Chinese labor and it has
cost the lives of 1880 officers, 21,370
enlisted men and desolated 10000 Brit
ish homes. The five or six English
men who stopped The Independent be-
cause it opposed the Boer war should
Independent was the friend of the
British common people just as it has
always been the friend of the COM
mon people of the United States.
Our own war of imperialism has
not been so disastrous to the nation
as the Boer war was to the British
but it has also cost thousands of lives
and millions of money for which we
have received no return whatever.
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1t is said that the Wall street brok-
els spent last year $5,000000 or
Christmas presents, but that this yeal
they will have very little to spend
Tho crowdc IF cDnc1latOrc tha-
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1903-12-24
COwARDICE AND GREED

The plutocratic magnates are very
brave when some one else has to do
the fighting. They are always in fav-
or of large armies and navies, but
they, themselves, never serve in the
army or navy. If they had to serve
long years at sea or in humid, hot,
tropical countries, burned up with few
ers or reduced to skeletons by other
tropical diseases they would make a
radical change in their theories. At
home they are the same sort of cow
ards. They are never willing to make
a fair and open fight for anything.
They always seek some advantage
over an opponent. They are forever
demanding protection" First they
must be protected from the for
eigner. Then they must be protect
ed from competitors at home. They
get tariff to shut out the foreigner
and form a trust to shield them from
American citizens.
Sordid greed and cowardice are
their distinguishing characteristics.
They are governed by the lowest in
stincts. These are the men who are
forming the policies of these United
States and the result will follow that
has always followed when nations
were controlled by such ideas. The
| increase in crime, the flooding of the
| country with police gazettes called
daily papers, the constant extension of
| the "red light" districts in the cities
the never-ceasing grind of the divorce
courts, the lack of interest in the pub
lie welfare shown by one-fourth of the
citizens in the cities refusing to reg
lister and vote, all these show that q
| reform must soon come or it will be
the centers of power show that there
is no concern about the public welfare
or the building up of nation based
| upon Righteousness and justice, but il
is altogether taken up with the ques
ton of whether the trusts and the
money power shall nominate MARI
Hanna for president and support him
or whether they shall secure the nom
ination of a Cleveland democrat ant
support him.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1903-12-24
Yours for the Asking

Perhaps this physician that
his aced
over the silent ueng the victims Of lie IN the full
delights music the and
point
points
tive hand, the hearing
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1903-12-24
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The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1903-12-24
Write a postal to G. Q. De France,
Lincoln, Neb., for prospectus OF 1.-The
Old Guard of Populism."

The report OF Messrs. Bonaparte and
Conrad. the special counsel employed
By the president TO investigate the
postoillce thievlng. has not yet reached
this Office, although dillgent watch has
been kept for II In all the great east
crn dailles, Only extracts have been
printed. From these II appears that
tho following hlgh-up republican OIL
cials were the really responsible par
ties. Their report says that the inyes-
tlgation revealed that the postmaster
general. Charles Emory Smith, the
lirst assistant postmaster general,
Perry \. Heath. James Y. L. willett,
aud John A. Merritt. the two Washing
ton postmaators. were really the re-
sponslble parties. Not one Of these
have been indicted. They were toe
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1903-12-24

The Nebraska City Tribune says:
Theft has never worn the distinctive
badge of any political organization. !"
But there is a political organization
that wears the badge Of theft and has
worn it for many years in this state.
Every dollar that was ever stolen
from this state or the United States
in the bounds of Nebraska has been
stolen by member of the republican
party. Nothing else could be ex-
pected from a party run by railroad
corporations.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1903-12-24

1t is said that the Wall street brok-
els spent last year $5,000,000 on
Christmas presents, but that this year
they will have very little to spend.
The crowds of spectators that
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1903-12-24

AS the days go by the American
people are getting more and more dis
satisfied with the sacrifices of blood
and money in the Philippines which
bring this country no return whatever.
The Independent predicts that within
the next five years this dissatisfaction
will become general The whole pro-
iect was the most senseless thing that
any civilized nation ever undertook.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1903-12-24
Send For 1t at Once

high up. 1t is only their tools and
underlings that have been brought
before the courts.
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The table of modern finance which
will soon no doubt appear in all the
school books, is as follows:
10 mills make a combine,
10 combines make trust,
10 trusts make a merger,
10 mergers make magnate-
And he makes all the money!
Newport daily independent., 1903-04-06
FOUGHT WITH HIS BRAINS.
Cinnamon Bear That Displayed Great Intelligence in WayIaying
 His Victims.

The grizzly bear is the biggest, most powerful and savage of all the North American wild animals. But the hunter does not fear him as he does the crafty, sinking cinnamon bear, says Pearson's Weekly.
 An almost incredible story of the cunning of the latter animal is told by man named Tarberwood who was one of a trapping party of five in the Colorado mountains in the year 1880.
 A cinnamon bear was located near their camp, and several times they tried to kill him, but failed. Then the brute hid among the powders near the spring, and when the cook went down to get water, killed him with one blow of his paw
 After this tragedy the party moved their camp three miles. About mid night on the first night timber wolf was heard bowling dismally in lot of rocks 50 yards away. They stoned him out, but the second night the creature was there again, and howled so that they could not sleep.
 Stones would not move him, so two went out with guns. The first man was-luckily, as it proved-a half breed, with a keen sense of smell. He stole up cautiously to the rocks, hoping to get near enough to shoot the disturber. even in the darkness.
 The man behind saw him suddely stop, turn and bolt. "Bear!" he shouted, as he ran. He kad smelt their cinnamon enemy, who was crouching behind the nearest rock, waiting in ambush to kill another of them. 1t seems certain that he must have entered into an alliance with the wolf for the purpose of tempting his twolegged foes into his clutches.
Newport daily independent., 1903-04-06
DYSPEPSIA AND DIVORCE.
From This Account It Appears That There Is an Intimate Connec-
 tiou Between Them.

Bad cookery and slovenly house. keeping were the direct causes of 400 divorces in Chicago last year. This statement, by the head of the Chicago bureau of charities, fur pishes every housewife in the land with subject for serious reflection, says a Chicago exchange, for hus- bands tempers and digestions are equally frail in Maine, Illinois and California, and divorces know no geo. graphical limits. During 1902, it ap- pears, 400 deserted wives who ap- piled at the bureau of charities for vcrces, admitted that they could neither cook nor keep house." and of course they could not expect to keep husbands. For these unhappy mar liages the men themselves were to blame in great measure, and they need not pass as objects of popular sympathy. Why did they marry women ignorant of the best requi- sites of a happy domestic life?
 If this unfortunate condition of affairs is paralleled elsewhere, soci- ologists will have to wrestle with the hnotty problem of how young man before proposing matrimony may gauge accurately young woman's knowledge of domestic science. Shall he seek the advice of some noted au- thority, and receive thorough coach ing&n the subject i'll order to become a competent judge of his beloved's qualifications? Shall the questions "Can you cook precede the ques- ton: "NYill you wed?"
 While the adoption of such unro- mantle expedients would grate upon a sensitive nature, something must be done if affairs are as bad as Chi cago's superintendent of charities would have us believe, Perhaps it would be as we'll for American mas culinity to take a few lessons in the gentle art of frying eggs and boiling coffee as a preliminary training for >matrimony (for who can tell when this knowledge might come into play?) or test personally tho possi- bility of the chafing dish, that close culinary companion of the lonely bachelor. Evidently logic can trace an intimate connection between dys- pepsia and divorces, and wise wives will not be slow to take the hint.
Newport daily independent., 1903-04-06
" WHITE COAL" OF FRANCE.
Glacial streams of the Alpine ReGion Are Brought Into Service ns
 Power FurnisiicrH.

There has been quite a great deal of activity in the past few years in the development of the glacial streams of Alpine France, says the Philadelphia Record. and the torrents which until recently flowed aimlessly through that country have in many cases been put to useful labor and the engineers have designs on number of others. One. of the chief spirits in the movement 10 utilizes the mountain streams is hl Berges, well-known engineer, and he has estimated the hydraulic forces of France at 10,0OO,000 horsepower. This is more than<4ufficient to drive all the Industries 1S the country. Ac- sording to his figures, the 25,ooo miles of railroads in France make use of 4,000,000 horsepower hnd the other industries of the country require 2,500,- 900, making total of 6,500,000 horse power.
 In most cases the method of making use of the water has been to divert it and conduct it to Il point where it can economically be availed of Large pipes of metal bring the water from
 
 great conduits is few inches less than II feet in diameter, or about the same size as the tunnel under the Thames at London, but the latter is less than 100 feet in length, while those in the noun tains of France are in some instances of great length. The one spoken of, which is laid near Grenoble, which is the "white-coal capital" is over 15,000 feet long. A little over 5000 feet of this is of steel and the rest is of wired cement.
 At Lancey, a few miles northeast of Grenoble, the water which gives power to mills of various kinds and to the electrical plant which lights the val ley of the Graisiyairdan and maintains its several tramway systems is brought by three successive falls, whose total is 6,560 feet.
 Light is furnished to the houses and farms of the vicinity at very mod crate cost. For examples: First lamp, ten candle power $4S2Is Second lamp, ten candle power. ........ 2.S91a Three lamps, five candle power each. 2.S912
 Total for five lamps, s5 candle
 power ............,............. S10.61h An average of $2.12 per lamp per year.
 In 1863 it was deemed a bold achieve ment to bring water from height of 260 feet, as at Uriage; but-now NJ. Berges has succeeded in canalizing a fall of 1,64O feet and another of 1,S04 feet At Epierre (Savoie) Nj. Joya used a fall of 1885 feet and at Chapareillan (25 miles from Grenoble) another of 2 ,040 feet.
Newport daily independent., 1903-04-06
THE DOG AROUND TOWN.

Have you feasted to-day, old fellow? Had sniff of some meat or bone? Were you gen rously fed upon gravy and By some one who called you tEeir own? Your ribs, sir! How plainly they're show
 ing!
 Your legs seem uncertain and weak! Have you searched every street for
 morsel to eat?
 Are you just town dog, sir? Come,
 speak! Were you housed from the snowstorm last night sir? Did you sleep within some warm bed! Did you hear the wind roar past the closed stable door
 While dreams of green fields filled your head? Or did you crawl into some alley To curl up and shiver, and know The voice of slow death in the winds icy
 breath
 Meath your soft, creeping blanket of
 snow? Has anyone patted your head, sir? Or noted your great, sunken eye? Have your unkempt ears heard any kind,
 gentle word
 From some human friend, passing by? Or have folks just kicked you aside, sir? Why you're trembling now, where you
 stand Have they struck you so much that you
 quake at my touch And cover at sight of my hand? It's the way of the world, poor old fellow! Just a struggle for bread, or bone; And some of us know how you feel when
 you go
 To your bed in the alley alone! Were you sleek and well cared for and
 handsome
 Friends would feed you and love you
 on sight; But it's different, sir, with poor, luckiess
 cur,
 Just d dog around town! There, good
 night! Colorado Springs Gazette.
Newport daily independent., 1903-04-06
WHERE WOMEN DO wooING.
The Maids of Moravin, Spain, swit- zerGand and Burmah Select
 Their Own Sweethearts.

In most countries it is the lads who do the wooing, the lassies are wooed. But not everywhere. Among the gypsies of Moravia, for instance, none will dare presume to court maiden until she has notified to the young man of her choice her readiness. This she does by using a cake as love letter, baking there in coin, and throwing it into his door at night when he is alone. He, of course, is not bound to accept.
 But if he does it behooves him to be faithful. The Romany of Hungary knows naught of breach of promise suits. Instead, the relations and friends of the tilted maiden await upon the inconstant lover, argue with him, plead with him. Then, if he still remain obdurate, he is maimed by shot in the leg or arm, says London Tit-Bits.
 By recent Romany custom, too, the sighted girl has the right to be present and to decree in which of his limbs he shall be wounded. In practice, however, she usually elects to stay away, thereby leaving the fearful choice to him.
 A marriageable Burmese girl, as soon as she has completed her trous- seau, places ill her window the Hove lamp and, according to whether it's interjecting beams, carefully di- rected from behind with her own tiny toilet mirror, shine on this hut or that, the gallant within knows that somewhere lassie's heart is inclined toward him.
 When one of the cigarmakers of southern Spain--who constitute separate class by themselves, some what analogous to the French gri- sette-casts her eyes lovingly on likely lad, she forthwith twists her powder puff into a pompom for his hat. If he wears it at the next bull fight it is considered a match.
 The Andalusian peasant girl sends a pumpkin pie to the particular swain she affects. If he eats it, well and good; she is engaged. If not, she tries elsewhere, pie following pie until success is arrived at.
 Swiss maidens go a-wooing not al- ways and anyhow, but at stated in- tervafs-the eyes of the weddings of their friends. Then is held what is known as the feast of the love gar lands" All the unmarried girls who claim acquaintance with either bride or bridegroom assemble at sunset at the latter's home, dance, sing and make merry. Then, when the dawn is gray, they take their departure, each girl bearing away with her a posy gayly decked with ribbon.
 This she hangs, on the way home, upon the doorknob of the house where resides the youth of her hearts desire; or, alternately, fiings it through the open easement of his bedchamber. She may select whom she will on these occasions, provided she does not stray beyond the limits of her own canton. For this latter is, according to Swiss ideas, unpardonable. Should she be suspected of it, a straw puppet is left dancing g-presumably as a hint of the fate that may befall herself outside her chamber window; while the young men of the village whom she has jointly and severally sighted conspire together to waylay and beat the unlucky stranger whose of fense and misfortune is to have been the object of her wayward choice.
Newport daily independent., 1903-04-06
OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS.
CIV. DECKER, President. R. M. JOHNSON, Cashier.
This Bank has an authorized
 CAPITAL of $IOO, 1000. .oo.

authorized and subscribed Capital is convenient thing good thing advertising purposes, but be perfectly honest and tell patrons the truth it really counts for little We could have had just easily, Subscribed Capital of $5O0OOO It would not have cost cent
 What patrons really interested in knowing s this Bank invested sin it's .busness of ITS OWN MONEY, S5S 900 co OF CASH, PAID IN CAPITAL and undivided profits That is the this Bank prepared to take good of your business And you that MORE CAPT. TAI WILL BE PAID IN believe it be safely and profably invested.
Newport daily independent., 1903-04-06
Chnnce fo pnx Un.

Why asked the old man, address ing his son-in-law, who had failed in business, do you think I should set you on your feet?"
 "Because I once did you great fa- vor," replied the addition to the fam fly circle.
 "Favor!" exclaimed the old man. "When did you ever do me favorT'
 'Yon seem to forget, sir" calm ly answered the other, ''that l took your daughter off your hands. Chi cago Daily News.
Newport daily independent., 1903-04-06
poor Plnee for ornhans.

Odessa, a city of 100000 inhabi- tants, has an orphan asylum at which since 1897 from 63 to 6s per cent. of the infants received each year have died. Official investigation showed that this frightful rate of mortality was due to unsanitary arrangements and the use of poor milk.-N. Y. Post.
Newport daily independent., 1903-04-06
Eupion Oil

When buying Illuminating oil insist on having EUPIoN, the family safety. This is a double distilled process oil that is oDoRLEss and absolutely safe. If you will use clean burners and wicks and EUPIoN OIL you will have best light obtainable. The only merchants in Newport that sell this high grade oil are Wolff ff-Goldman Nero. O., w. B. Chastain, Wilmans Bros, R. D. Wilmans, Heiliger's Union Market Co.,, Martin Bros, liar ris & Daugherty L. G. DaVaul and o. M. Bowen.
 Waters-Pierce Oil Comply
Newport daily independent., 1903-04-06
Flax strnw utiIlned

Thousands of tons of straw pro- duced in raising flax for its seed in Minnesota and the Dakotas has hither- 10 been burned. It is now found to be valuable for making both binding and paper pulp.
Newport daily independent., 1903-04-06

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Newport daily independent., 1903-04-06
Obscurity.

Obscurity lasts much longer than fame.-Chicago Daily News.
The Delta independent., 1903-01-09
OECEMB 9 Err.

c-Holmes for United States Supreme
court bench,
e-MeSsage to Congress on trusts.
i-AInister Buck died. Japan.
e-Silvela premier of SPAIN
s-Alice Freeman Palmer died, Paris
7-Thos Mast died. Ecuador.
7-Thos II. Reed died. Washington
S-Cltimatum TO Venezuela.
e-VeneZuelan ships sunk.
s-Castro arrested foreigners.
a-Fire Atlanta. Ga: loss H.oo,ooo.
iS-Puerto Cabello bomharded.
ls-American sheet steel plant Canal Do
Yer. Ohio. burned; loss h.oo,ooG
N-Mrs L. S. Grant died. Washington
lt-ISyirg new Pacific cable.
N-Venezuelau ports blockaded.
s-Humbert family, French swindlers
arrested in Madrid.
S-Seo coo 900 fund raised by Methodists.
N-Aroitration expected. Venezuela.
si-Wireless message across Atlantic.
s-Dr. Temple, archbishop OF Canter-
bury. died.
es-Railroad collision Byron. Cal: 1s
lives
2s-Mary Hartwen Catherwood. novelist.
died
y-Storm Copenhagen. Denmark: Il lives
s7-Railroad collision Wanstead. Ont: 5
lives.
printing plant, Battle Creek
Mich, burned: loss. SSoo,oS.
M-Castro agrees to arbitration Hague
tribunal.
The Delta independent., 1903-01-09
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Happenings of importance During The
Twelve Months Just Ended.
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the Boer representatives. together with
Lords Kitchener and Miner. of a docu-
ment embodying terms of surrender.
The Boers' persistence in the conflict
had won for them the conditions on
which they had insisted when they were
ready to yield more than a year before.
They had not been holding out for inde-
pendence. but for clemency for their
leaders and for the return to South
Africa OF the Boer prisoners on English
islands. They gained these things and
also the gift Of sl5.ooo.eoo in cash to be
used In the restoration of their agricul-
ture. and promises of further loans as
they needed them. together with the
assurance that self-governmsnt on colon
iai lines would be rapidly granted them.
The Venezuela imbroglio.
At the beginning OF the year Germany
and England were acting in harmony
on a plan to compel Venezuela to pay n
few millions of debts due their subjects.
1t was understood they had given the
United States assurances that they
would not in any way ovcrstep the
limits get by the United States in the
Monroe doctrine. Their plans were
dropped during the spring and summer.
The Delta independent., 1903-01-09

to King Edward and to the king of Italy.
In the matter of the navigation of the
air some progress was made, as notably
when Stanley Spencer sailed thirty miles
across London in September
The year witnessed one OF the greatest
disasters in history during the volcanic
activity in the West Indian islands when
Mont Pelee's eruption on Martinique
killed. with a handful of exceptions
every living being of the city of St.
Pierre. 1000 souls. The response of
America 10 the story of suffering was
such a prompt creation of both govern
an additional great surprise to the many
the United States has given to the world
in the last few years.
Decrease in Lynchines.
The lynchings reported in 1902 show a
most gratifying decrease. being but nine
ty-sIX as compared with 135 in 1901. OF
these lynchings eighty-seven occurred
In the South and nine in the North. Of
the total number eighty-sIX were ne
Groes. nine whites and one Indian. One
woman was lynched in South Carolina
Fire Losses in 1902.
The total fire losses of 1902 will be
about 1854 600, 600. which is an improve
ment in the situation as compared with
1901. The decrease in the fire waste would
have been still more marked but for sew
eral large fires in December. The losses
this year of 800. 900 and upwards reached
a total OF Sc. $50. go.
Disasters in the United States.
The following table gives the loss of
life resulting from disasters Of various