The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-11-24

but preferred to borrow of Yawcob,
his neighbor. Yes, Yawcob could let
him have zwei hundert. But" said
Hans, don't we beser have a note.
amt it?' Yawcob protested, but Hans
insisted. A note was drawn in due
form. payable one year after date.
Now, Hans said Yawcob, "you
keep dot note, den you know you owe
me dot money" And Hans, the new"
business man, triumphantly carried
home both coin and note.
A year and more passed and one day
Hans proudly appeared before Yawcobs
with the note. tive hundred dollars
and interest money. "Yawcob,' he said,
here is dot money and note. You
keep dot note and den you know raid
de money"
The people here are beginning to
feel the grip of the railroads and allied
predatory interests; but they still pro-
duce so many little things for home
consumption that some years must
elapse before the new era is fully
ushered in Nearly every farm has
some woodland-enough to furnish
fuel and perhaps give employment in
winter cutting props and caps for coal
mines. Local coal banks" supply ex-
cellent coal at So per ton for lump,
$1.5O for nut, and 81 for slack. Twenty
live years ago the latter could be had
for hauling it away and miles of good
roads were made with it, especially
through swampy districts.
/ Freight rates locally are stiff. NV
uncle, H. 0. Mitchell, was complaining
yesterday that the l.. S. & M. S.
charged him $12 car for hauling
props from Sandy Lake to stoneboro-
a distance OF one mffeEand delivering
them to the Pennsylvania company. A
sheet OF Water-Sandy Lake-lies be-
! tween his farm and Stoneboro in such
a way as to make it necessary to load
at the village of Sandy Lake or haul
around the lake. The SIP car is not
based on cost of service but upon pc
culiar geographical conditions which
make the S12 charged just as cheap as
hauling around the lake.
l find good many progressive dem
ocrats here-all well pleased with Par
ker's defeat. None of these voted for
him. With Watson electors up in
Pennsylvania this year and ANYTHING
Of campaign we could have made a
good showing. Swallow ran second
to Roosevelt in four precincts and very
close to Parker in others Woolley in
1900 had 473 votes in Mercer county:
Swallow had 957, an increase of over
102 per cent. Much of this gain is q
protest vote against republicanizine
the democratic party. Of course, there
are Bourbons here who vote the ticket
regardless; but even they will listen
attentively to an argument for govern.
ment money and government high
ways. The pennsylvania company Gil
doesn't take the trouble to mention
the word .railroad'') governs the Key.
|, stone state with firm hand-and ths
people here are beginning to see i
more plainly each year, as their old
time self-supoprting customs give way
to the methods of modern commercial
feudalism.
: / go tomorrow to public vendue'
c'vandoo'' N the vernacular) and ex
pect to meet many of the old-timers
My cousin, Otto Mitchell, in his an
nouncement, says gravely that ether,
will be exposed to public sale,v etc.
certain property, to-wit: but his bill
; shows the march of the times. TIL,
word 'vendue" does not appear 1t Il
! just plain public sale" such as W,
have in Nebraska.
II Pressure is being brought to bear OF
: me to stay for an { old-fashionet
!. Thanksgiving dinner the oath. l an
seriously considering staying unit
then.
CHARLES @. DE FRANCE.
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: The real test of LaFollette's strengt
: will come when his members of fh