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The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1904-06-09

10 the question | should have asked
you this morning n Mrs. Stanton,
sntrance bad not prevented me from
doing 10, want you 10 be my wife.
Nellie: my loved and bonorcd wife.
WIN your Write yes or no soon to
your loving but impatient Ralph
A small IRE burned In the CRATE. She
put The letter into her pocket and burn
ell the envelope. -
Dear Ralph" murmured the lady.
Il want you TO write TO him for me.
Nellie. lie promised TO let me know
how his sister was. but | suppose he
has not had time. He does not know
your handwriting. think
Very soon Ella Stanton had dictated
4 gushing. afrectionnte letter. and with
bianchlng cheeks Nellie had written
IL
Don't close II now. Nellie. Throw
II aside. There is only one other that
need be written now"
What Is III" Nellie asked. a tribe
wcarily.
why. you know. dear, Mr.. Graham
wants me TO open the Brixton bazaar.
but | really don't feel equal 70 the
TASK. must write TO decline. But he
always laughs at nerves. and / do SO
hate being laughed at"
MY Dear Friend: l have thought |
'uily considered the subject and must |
lcciIne the honor ! am grieved be-
rond expression TO dlsappoint you:
tut. feeling as do. cannot act 9TH
rwisc. However. feel confident
hat you viii meet with one worthier
han |; that what cannot grant she
will joyfully conccde. Only one thing
ask--that this shah In no way inter
ere with the friendly relations which
ave always existed between uA"
Il think Il IL making too much OF
tile thing. Ella. You viii sign It. OF
curse"
mo, dear. DO II for me-oniy ini-
ais. How singular that they should
e alike, 10 II not--Ella Stanton and
lInor saviflef There now. dear. Just
IN upstairs and zee II Louise has
ended that Lace | tore last night"
A moment morn, and Ralph STAN
as simple, honest letter lay open be-
ne her. Jealousy had Quickened her
emory. shc knew II BY heart Ii
Rsfolding Il she cncloeed Il with
1t Other ir an envelope addru.sd I
Nsllis's pretty, graceful callgrapA
Ralph Stanton. UDa-" anA ssalsd Il {
fofu1y. IL
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1904-06-09

even" in the only way open to her
Neither could he know that she had
soid the windmill man that her old
beau would probably escor; her home.
He gasped-he mu;tered-he swore.
Then he got iato his cutter and put the
whip to his horse and sent the animal
over the two miles OF smooth rosd on
a dead run
His frs; idea WAS to KIN that wind
mill man on sight. his second was TO
KIN the pair OF deceivers. his third
was to blow his oz-n brains out and
die the DEAN OF a martyr. Then he
happened TO get fourth idea. and be
adopted II and stuck TO II
He entered the school house with
his Jaw re; and the firm resolve to
make certain person repent In sack
cloth and ashes. Bessie Taylor was
there. but be saw her not The wind
mill man was there. but he was too
insignificant for second glance.
The homeliest girl for six miles
around was there. having hired her
mother to bring her. and Tom walked
straight up to her. and began to laugh
and giggle and nstter.
Worse was soon to come. II han
pened that be WAS chosen to lead one
side. while Bessie was not. Every
one looked TO zee him call her namet
n nrst on his side. bst he overlooked |
her entirely. II was the hemliest rtri |
who was called although II was
known that she would 20 down and
'ut on the frst three-sylisbled word.
When only he and Bessie remained |
IN their feet the climax Of his mean
less came. When they got among the
lard words he stood and glared across
Il her a. II he had never aeon her
,eforc. and. In her confusion. abe
Numbered and lcft him victor.
Next day II was known far and wide
hat Tom Dixon and Bessis Taylor
rere out" and. though several par.
lee volunteered their services a. peace
makers, the gulf could not Be- brtdxpd
Bessis felt injured because Tom had
OF undsrsbood her. and Ton felt ma
lat she I'D tri>d - play With his 49,
II love Thsrs Va % nors epurA
y that wintug.
he couple vsrs broagAx tpes<hsr =
candy-pull. - appae-bes "a . -
- pelfing ooADol ~ ~ ~
~ ooa - eeAar - rosoronn -
lscaHA n - I'm - ~ 49,
- - hnn1A ~ - ronnae -
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1904-06-09

States. has been
British ambassador
AZ Madrid Tor the
asst three years
Previously 10 his
Inclusion In the up
per ranks OF the
British diplomatic
service be b a d
spen, more than
wenty yesrs in
the Indian civil
service The son
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1904-06-09

Tacoma speaks up and ssys she Il
not suffering for sweet girls for
brides"
"wsll, there 10 one thing surs, and
that \ that nome Of the other cities Il
suffering from N ovsrplus.r -Clsvs
land Ptein Dealer.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1904-06-09

I the same. and II dnnlly came to b.
understood that the match was on for
good.
Time wore on and the month Of
March came In Mr. Dixon bad 20
sugar map,es in his woods. and there
was sugarrnaking every spring.
On this occasion the trees had been
tapped during the last days OF Febru-
ary. and. as the farmer had met with
sn accident. the month OF March sAw
Tom a. work alone In the sugar bush
and having his hands full
On the night OF the 9Th he gave =
-sugar-on party 10 half a dozen
youag fellows snd their girls. and. Of
couse. Bessie heard Of H.
Tom heard that sh& heard OF IL.
and also that she said that she never
could see any romance In trailing
about the wet woods and eating maple
wax OF a chip. and 20 be repeated
the performance 4 week later This
time ste had no remarks TO make. and
he felicitsted himself that he bad made
her feet real bad
Three or four days after his Sec
ond party Arx- Taylor aid 10 her
daughter:
Bessie. I've got . great yoaruinx
for TASTE OF new maple sugar. and
II Il wasn't for my sore heel I'D 20
over to Dixon-s bush and Ask Tom
for some
And what a goose you'd make Of
yourself snapped Bessie
-Wel-- ! dunno. THERE'S ror.e fei-
iers than Tom Dixon I've never been
mad sf him
But you ought to be- You SHOULDN'T
stand Up sor any one who has acted
As mean as be has
No. mebbe not. but perhaps you
were a little bit TO blame I'd Ike
some new maple sugar. ~ I Was ~
ins.. and next 10 that I'd like two q
thiee ieeks 20 eat with bread and hut
tea The Ieeks must just Be coming
up in tie woods DOW. an< l can fair
ly tzs;~ EN- II father wasn't 20 bn~y
to-day I'D have hiA 90 down In tn
woods and k.cx fox some
Bessie made no reply. but an hour
later when her mother happened to
look out OF the kitchen window and
"a her climbing the pasture feDce
and making for tie woods she saA
o herself:
Our woods and the D.xon's woods
DIN ana II leeks and rspls sugar
lon'i get together. it won't b. my
aris.-
Bessie reached The home woods and
'egaa to look for ieekS Here and
here WIS one beginning to sprouf. but
he passed item ey and went far.
1e-.
By and by she came to the Hne
.nce dividing the farms The leSeks
J the other side looked bigger. and.
tier 4 Ions look between The rails.
re climber over Yea. the leeks were
eyer
She bad pulled three or four and
as still wandering along. when she
Used a brush heap. and . rabbit
n out with a great rustic Natur-
iy. she scream med
The rustic OF the rabbit was fol-
wed by the hoo: Of an owl. and
fursiiy the gin screamed again She
ard the sound OF footsseps near At
nd. and was shout to scream for
e third tame. when abe heard IT,
,r1s:
Miss Taylor. DO not Be Afraid
Il WAS Tom Dixon with two pals
sap suspended from the reck-yokc
ht< xk.ss1L n.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1904-06-09

some one has characterized the ad.
vsrtsins columns Of daily newspa.
pr ~ . leaf from the history Of men
and natonA" Illustrative 10 Z way 4
ths following from Pretoria paper:
10 lsk-Bx-Presi1enk Krugsr's lasn
resi1eacs, Z Nv Nicely furnishs1 ~
goenA vltA beaz4 -
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1904-06-09
SIR Il MORTIMER OURANo

The New Prisish Amba-~ador 10 the
Uuit-d states
Sir II. Mortimer Duranc. who sue
Deeds the late Sir Michael Herbert as
British ambassador TO tie United
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1904-06-09

How is your husbands book TAX.
ing7"
"very well. The nrst edition is al
most exhausted"
How large an edition was it7"
Two hundred copics--end 192 have
been cent to the reviewers Of the lead
lus newspapers Husband hasn't but
oiekt cupfoe on hand and two Of those
have beea speken for by some Of hus-
bend's rlch relatives - Cleveland
3lain Dohl9.
\ ~ - Z better THAI :
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1904-06-09

I'm anxious y get ths namss - ~
present aid ths rsportse. -wti ~
obilge me
''ohr' aid u nesk ntfjs ~. -
may put dpsn 'MrA Hsney ~ -
husband-'s
"You nsaa Mr.. al Mn -
PECK opa1 ysar
4 weai1 prsfr thaks ~ rqu1l
With = rart1vs giane6 epw - 171
~. ~bst ~ ose1nenf m1
~ ! Uve 4 - ~ - n
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-11-17

renator or representative found that
he could not represent the wishes of
his constituents, he resigned. Now he
barters and trades with the great cor
porations and he is considered = Sue
cessful politician instead of bride
taker and scoundrel When the repub-
licans came into power pauperism was
unknown. Now the almshousea that
have been built at the cost Of mil
lions can't hold them. Tiere has also
been steady increase in crime as
all the statistics show urder repub-
lican >rule-a far greater increase than
that of the population. There are
now great palaces and game preserves
and they are increasing while the peo-
pie wander homeless. There has been
a great increase in wealth-the people
have worked hard-but most OF that
wealth is the property OF few men
down on Wall street. This is the
course of republicanism. 1t has not
worked out it's full effect, but the COM
ing years will show that republicanism
has changed our people from free and
Independent citizens to hireiings who
slave for the trusts.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-11-17

ST 600 for disease germ That Il can
not kill. The reason is the gems are
vegetables; and Liquozone-liEc all ex-
cess of oxygen-is deadly to Vegetable
matter
There lies the great value of Liquo-
zone. 1t is the only way Known to
kill germs in the body without killing
the tissues, too. Any drug tnat kills
germs is a poison, and it can not be
taken internally Medicine is almost
helpless in any germ disease. 1t is
this fact that gives Liquozone its
worth to humanity. And that worth is
so great that~after testing the product
for two years, through physiciars and
hospitals, we paid 100000 Tor the
American rights.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-11-17

We offer to buy the first bottle Of
Liquozone, and give it free to each
sick one who asks it. And we have
spent over one million dollars to an
nounce and fulfill this offer. OR OBJ
Ject has been to let Liquozone itself
show what it can do. A test is Deter
than testimonials. better than : aIgu-
ment. In one year, 100000 people
have accepted this offer. They have
told others what Liquozone does, and
the others told others. The result is
that millions now use it. 1t is mere
widely employed than any medicine
ever was-more widely prescribed by
the better physicians. And joIr own
eighbors-wherever you are--cal tell
you of people whom Liquozone has
cured.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-11-17
Not Medicine.

Liquozone is not made by COM
pounding drugs, nor is there alcohol
in it. It's virtues are derived solely
from gas-largely oxygen gas-by a
process requiring immense apparatus
and IA days time. This process has,
for more than 20 years, been the con-
slant subject of scientific and Chem
ical research.
The result is liquid that does what
oxygen does. 1t is a nerve food and
blood food-the most helpful thing in
the world to you. Its effects arc ex-
hilarating, vitalizing, purifying. Yet
it is germicide SO certain that we
publish on every bottle an of1er OF
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-11-17
Ole Nebraska Independent

ers, where each owner has thousands
of acres. 1t is worse than the heredi-
tary estates of England Cor the duke
or lord who owns an estate there, has
always a great manor, country seat
or palace in which he takes pride. But
the California dukes and lords build
no such palaces, or if they do, they
are elsewhere. They spend their win
tiers in the great cities of Europe or
America. The monopolization OF land
makes wilderness of what ought to
be the most densely inhabited portion
of the United States.
1t is no wonder that as Henry George
looked over these immense stretches OF
fertile lands, almost without lnhabl-
tants, and then down the streets of
San Francisco and out on the sand
lots where the men without work gath
cred, that his. sympathetic soul set it
self about devising some way whereby
the landless people could be sent to
the uninhabited lands of the Sacra-
mento valley.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-11-17
The Associated Press

The privs ownership of the tel
egrapb system of the United States Il
one of the greatest menaces to freS
government chat exists. 1t is through
this private ownership the Associates:
Press monopoly exists No paEtxss Sc = 9
get IT'S principles before the people
unless the censor of the Associated
Press sees fit TO let it. In the mattel
of election returns, no party can ge'
its vote reported to the people until
long afte~ the interest in the election
has passed away, unless that censor sc
pleases. No action By any body OF
people, no matter how eminent the,
may be in character, scholarship ant
influence, can present a matter to the
American people unless the Associated
Press sees fit to let tn I'm. 1t cal
make or ruin the reputation of am
man within a week at any time. For
the last several years it has guarded
tic interests of plutOcracy with jeat
GUS care. No political movement o..
speech, inimical to the great corpora
lions and financial syndicates, is al
lowed to reach the Eody of the Amer.
ic-n people,
The November number of the Arena
has an article by its editor, B. 0. Flow
er, .son the 1ubject giving some Incl
dents in RECORD to this matter. Ms
Flower says.
We some time since called the
attention OF our readers TO tbs
significant fact that when judge
Of the lower court in Oregon de-
cided against the cOnstitutiOnalitT
of the direct legislation Law Of tbs
state, the Western Associated
Press heralded the lact far anC
wide in extended notices, while the
great conservative dailies and !.
- Meeklies which are s.F7cd IS =.
beholden to the corporations and
special privileged interests de-
voted columns to the subject, treat
ing. the whole matter as if it were
settled But later, when the SUI
preme court of the state sustained
Tie constitutionality of the law
and delivered an opinion which
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-11-17
SOC Bottle Free.

II you need Liquozone, and nave
never tried 1T please send us this
coupon. We will then mail yen an or
der on local druggist for 8 full
size bottle, and we will pay the drug
sist ourselves for it. This is our free
gift, made to convince you; to show
you what Liquozone is, and what it can
do. In justice to yourself, please ac-
cept it today, for it places you under
no obligation whatever.
Liquozone costs SOC and 81.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-11-17
Henry George in California.

Anyone who travels across the I'M
mense reaches of the Sacramento val
ley in the fall, where mile succeeds
mile of level, not nearly level, but level
land, perhaps the richest ON the globe,
sees what appears to be desert. The
houses, few and far b~tween, are mere
shacks where the employees reside. He
will notice four and six horse teams
with one driver. attached to gang
plows and cnce in awhile a steam
plows Those lands belong to the .raat
estates like that of Stanford and 9TH
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-11-17
A Populist Victory.
&@


The Independent has often remarked
that this government must OF neces-
sity adopt populist principles II It en-
and seaTzbS yeas lie eeanisiisilt
continues to do it. The government
ownership of telegraphs anu telephones
was one of the first things advocated
by populists. 1t is now announced that
the government has established extern
sive telegraph and cable systems in
Alaska. General Greedy, the chief sig
raj officer, reports that the cables used
IN the Alaska system would reach
from New Foundland to Ireland. and
the land lines from Washington to
Texas, there being 2.O79 miles Of cables,
1.439 miles of land Lines and LOT miles
of wireless lines. The United States
has brought southeastern Alaska, the
Yukon valley and the Behring straits
region into Geographic communication
with the rest of the civilized world.
The United States government IS
the only civilized government that al
lows the means of communication to
remain in the hands of corporations.
We come along in the rear, side by
side with the pig-tailed Chinese. II
there was a government ownership OF
the teleg-aphs the people might md
out what the Watson vote was. The
establishing. of a government-owned
telegraph and cable system IN Alaska
is distinctly a ssopulist victory.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-11-17
WAGON Votes Withheld.

The most votes that the democrats
ever cast i. this state was $4,000 for
Morton. Although the population has
nearly doubled in the state since
then. they could only reach that mark
al this election. and 1t seems that ev-
ery silver democrat in the state,
through the pleadings of Bryan, voted
for Parker. The latest returns yet
printed in the dailies show that Roose-
Welt polled, 1854; Parker, 43,77l, and
Watson. with twenty-six counties
missing. 1876. The full vote for
Mickey and Berge, with only three
counties at all incomplete give Mickey
10e151: Berge 10O,0S3. That shows
a total vote of 209.234. Everybody
knows that the total vote OF this state
is not less than 100000. What became
of those other 10000 votes? 1t is
nrobable that at least 10000 of them
we're cast for Watson and the others
are those whom the editor OF The In
dependent told the political managers
that they would not vote II there was
fusion in this state. We will know
nothing concerning the matter until
the count is made at the state mousse
and the official figures printed after
the dull round of red tape is completed
N$<SSSSS&
Every men is either a land owner or
a tenant. Think that over for while.
&$S>$SS&
Herr Babel, the socialist leader in
the German parliament, is enormously
rich. He has handsome villa on the
shore of Lake Zuric. Besides all that
he recently received bequest of AGO.
600 marks left him by Barvarian adj
mirer. The human equation" OF
which the opponents of socialism so
often speak, seems to be the ruling
factor in Herr Babel
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-11-17

proved to be one of the most mas
terly and exhaustive state papers
of recent years, in which the valid
ity and constftutionality of the law
was clearly established. the Asso-
ciated Press failed to find the item
of sufficient interest to make any
special note of it. This Signifi-
cant omission was in keeping with
similar lapses in its supposed func-
tiOns when the unpublished news
in question was inimical to the in
terests of powerful vested interests
One notable case, as we then
pointed out, was the declination to
give publicity to the news of the
organization of the Philippine In
dependence committee, which
called forth the following signifi-
cant words from so conservative a
paper as the New York Nation:
1T is little odd to read of the
Associated Press congratulations
OF having induced the czar to re-
move the censorship n Russia, It
the very moment that this same
news-gathering association de-
clineS at home to disseminate in
formation of the highest signir- i,
canoe. 1t refused to send out the
news Of the organization of the
Philippine Independence commit
: = ssesse szsss.ss,6 sfstHe gehtfe
men composing it are of such
weight and distinction that any
thing they are united in advocating
acquires thereby news-value. II
President Eliot makes an address
on labor at Boston. or writes of
the government Of Bar Harbor, the
fact is Immediately put on the
wires; but when he I'd eight 9TH
er college presidents, together with
eminent ciergymen, authors, and
publicists, have something to say
about Philippine independence, it
Immediately becomes Of no con-
sequence, ard the news is killed.
Why. if those men were on COM
mittee simcly to dig a ditch, the
fact would be eagerly published
by every real newspaper in the
land! If the formation of a pow
erful Philippine independence
committee is not news, then moth
ing is news. The upshot is to
leave the Associated Press, by this
refusal, in kind of head-in-the-
sand attitude. while the news gets
circulated just the same.
One of the latest examples of the
methods employed by the great
news-dissemiratorE to keep from
the reading public matters inimicai
to the continued rule of the pub
lie service corporations, the trusts
and the political machines was IL
Illustrated in the publication, in
such papers as the Baltimore
. American and Washinf5.n Pos at :
ali abridged letter from George H.
SHIRLEY, the well-known leader Of
the majorlty-rule movement. as
though it were his letter in full,
but from which the important news
item that the organized workers
and many of the grangers had
adopted the non-partisan program
for securing popular rule in the
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-11-17
place of the rule of the political
machines, was omitted.
Universal Railroad Trust

From many financial centers comes
all at once the statement that 10000
miles OF railroad. comprising all
the great trunk lines and many
laterals there are only 100000 miles
in the whole United States) are about
to be merged in one great concern,
with the Standard Oil interest in con-
troll. The republican landslide has
given much courage to the promoters
of this the greatest trust ever mag
ined, that the usual secrecy has not
been insisted upon. The Roosevelt adj
ministration has been the years of the
greatest trust forming ever known and
the overwhelming majority that the
people have rolled in support of that
administration, pushes forward the
movement with irresistible force
The people are entering ON an era
of change OF such violent and unpre-
cedented character that it dazes one
to contemplate it. Even the repub-
lican newspapers seem startled and
amazed. With the railroads under one
management, there will be created q
greater power of the people than ever
LexareiSadr On e4f t{f..'
The story that the Hartman, Gould,
Hill, Moore, Santa Fe. Rockefeller,
Vanderbilt, Pennsylvania, Erie, Nor
gan and New Haven railroad systems
shall establish community Of inter-
est through interchanged ownership of
securities and interchanged nomination
of directors, with Rockefeller dominat-
ling them all, induces such radical re-
publican paper as the Chicago Tribune
to say:
| The members Of the next con-
! gress should begin to study rail-
| road consolidation to the end that
| they may do nothing rash and fool
| ish and yet may protect the manu-
! facturers and traders of this cOun-
| try from the potential tyranny Of
the greatest of all possible trusts.
| Let it go on. The day of the uni
yersal trust OF which Ignatius Dom
nelly warned the people is not far Off.
| &$>c>>&
| Shaw is 20 60 the road of all the
secretaries of the treasury. That
road leads straight from Washington
to Wall street. The appointment to
secretary of the treasury means in 8
short time the head Of some great s.
n2ncial inct tuition iL Wall street. It
makes no difference whether the secre-
Fl ary is 4 democrat or republic an.
Wall street always rewards them for
governmental favors Gage is there.
lCarlisln ic t-,ora and Shaw ic soon tn
go there and Cortelyou is to take:
.ais.~llaea -4ItssM il] st.hassetsssss Ivt 80
|lcsg before Cortelyou win De there
also. Think OF the infamy of it all!
%%$<&
Before the editor Of The Independent.
would take he position that man car
never know what his own principle
are until after the convention meet
and declares them, he would go oGs
and hang himself to sour apDle tres