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The broad ax., 1906-01-20
Ancient Clock.

The oldest working clock in Great
Britain Is that Of Peterborough ca
thedral, which dates from 1920, and Is
conceded to have been made by a mon
astic clockmaker. 1t is the only one
now known that is wound up over an
old wooden wheel.
The broad ax., 1906-01-20

William Easton, a hospital steward
1t the Mare Island navy yard, fell into
San Pablo bay from q boat and would
have drowned but for his hunting dog,
which seized q drifting oar at his mas
ter's command and brought It to him.
The broad ax., 1906-01-20
Invest Your Money.

The day for turning over a new leaf
Is at hand. Head the new page with
resolution to invest your surplus, in
stead Of wasting it, and you win have
stepped on the threshold Of your for
tune, for the waste Of the thoughtless
would make him rich.-Cent per Cent.
The broad ax., 1906-01-20
Jews as Drinkers.

In applying to a London magistrate
for q transfer Of his license, q saloon
keeper said that he wanted to move
because the district in which he then
was had become q New Jerusalem"
and Jews did not drink as much as
Christians.
The broad ax., 1906-01-20
Can't Stand English.

The Calcutta Bengalee evidently is
considerably worked up over some
thing, for It remarks editorially: I'VE
cannot, even with all the blasting in.
fluences Of passive resistance, stand
against the corroding action Of Brit
Ish domination and save ourselves
from the pounding operation Of polit-
Ico-confmercial administration.
The broad ax., 1906-01-20
Milk HSuueezers. I"

Evidences of the influences Of the
Anglo-Japanese treaty multiply. A
Toxic journal issued q special number
eommemorating the war. In the ad-
vertisement of a milk dealer, under
q cut representing cows assembled at
the milking hour, we have: The
Bqueeze-out place OF the milk deal
ers."
The broad ax., 1906-01-20
Long Wirsless Message.

Commander Beehler, Of the Key
West naval station, has oficially re-
ported the receipt at the wireless sta
ton at that point Of an eight-word
message from Colon, 3 distance Of
1000 nautical miles. The achieve
ment is particularly interesting, as
the island Of Cuba directly intervenes
between the two points.
The broad ax., 1906-01-20
Odd Ornaments.

The men Of the Maya tribe, In Can
tral Africa, stick wads OF cotton wool
Into their ears. These wads are spread
out on q frame into q fan shape sew
sral inches deep on each side Of the
lace.
The broad ax., 1906-01-20
Small Start.

Mayor-Elect Tracy, OF Taunton,
Mass, started out in life as q boot
black, and now Is Q self-educated law
yer, with q practice Of $1,000 q year.
The broad ax., 1906-01-20
The Verv Kind

The Sunday-school teacher asked
the class: What kind Of boys go TO
heayen?" And one little urehin
yelled out: Dead boys!"-LIppin-
colts Magazine.
The broad ax., 1906-01-20
The Pure STUFF.

as this pure milk?" asked the inquis-
tive lady customer.
YES" replied the milkman, I'VE sen
the cream separately. Detroit Free
Press
The broad ax., 1906-01-20
CHIPS

Mrs. John Jacobs, Of 1929 State
street, has been on the sick list for
the past week.
LIEUT. John e. Hawkins was called
east on business; he will remain in
New York State for about ten days.
Mrs, Malvina Lively has returned,
after a very pleasant visit to her son
and friends In Baltimore, Md.
Miss Rachel DENLY Of Carthage,
Ohio, is visiting her parents at 6452
Champlafn avenue.
Mr.. Paul Laurence Dunbar, the Ne
gro poet, is so Ill at his Dayton home
that he is not expected to live through
the week.
Announcements tell us that Mr.
Sylvester Roberts and Miss Maggie
Fite are to be married January 81,
1906.
Mr.. A. B. Perrigo, the popular IN
dertaker at Both and State streets, is
slated for alderman on the Democratic
ticket Of the I'd ward.
Mr.. Sam Moore, better known as
Brother Gardner, was judged insane
in the Detention Hospital Thursday
morning.
Mr.. Alexander Williams of 5000 State
street, will leave for Oakland, Cal,
this week, where he will spend the
winter.
Mr.. Don Wormley OF Washington,
D. C., who has been visiting this city
for the past month, leaves the city
Saturday for New York.
Former Alderman Michael McIner-
ney is booming John A. Haney for al
derman of the 30th ward, but accord
ing to our way Of thinking, Haney is
politically dead cock in the pit
Mr.. VIM Simmons and VIM. Nc
Cullah have opened The "Club," for
neriy run by Geo. Woods at 1859
State street 1t will be known as
"The Haitian Club"
Mr.. and Mrs. VIII Allen of Portland,
Ore, who have been visiting In Nash
vile, Tenn, will arrive In Chicago
te first of the week on their way
home
Daniel M. Jackson departed Tues
day for his post of duty In Mexico,
where for the next four years he will
serve this country as its commercial
agent
John e. Owens, can, If he desires,
secure the nomination for Congress
and make the race against Congress
man William Lorimer in the 9Th Con-
gTessoinal District.
Mr.. George Henderson's paper on
The Associated Press-read before the
Bethel Literary last Sunday was very
instructive to all interested in news
paper work
Mrs. Carrie Sleeves, who has been
eTry III at St Luke's Hospital, is i'm
proving. She will not, however, be
able to leave the hospital for some
time yet
Harry R. Gibbons boom for Sheriff
Of Cook County seems to be spread
ing all over the city, and each day
he is growing in popularity with the
leaders Of his party and the hosts Of
Democracy.
The Tenth Anniversary number OF
The Broad Az, was gem, an honor
to the race, and great credit to that
brave and fearless editor julius F.
Taylor-The Advocate, Portland, Ore
gon.
Hon. George p. Foster, who has
very ereditably served three terms in
Congress. win again be nominated and
elected to that body by the leaders Of
the Democracy in the Fourth Con-
gressional District.
More than one hundred members of
the Cook County Democracy. In full
dress uniform. under the leadership Of
its president Thomas Gallagher and
fits secretary. Robert 4. Burke. headed
by its famous hand len the city Thurs
day on q two weeks, pleasure trip TO
New Orleans Ia. ana Cuba
The broad ax., 1906-01-20
I'VE MIssIy FunIshed R0oms 70

Two elegantly furnished rooms.
steam heat and hath, to rent to single
gentleman Phone Douglas 2472.
Second Eat, 3o22 Indiana avenue.
The broad ax., 1906-01-20
Furnished Room 10 Rent.

Modern furnished front room to
rent Steam heat Telephone service.
1854 Calumet ave.
The broad ax., 1906-01-20
.DuA8 oullc0us
GrOwDomO Gift.

A French explorer has found IN the
interior OF Borneo q singular and
grewsoms wedding gift Il was the
skull Of Negrito -Papon, carved By the
DayakS
The broad ax., 1906-01-20
In the Raising.

Teaehsr-what do you have nap
kins for?
Class Tin unison)-For company
PHILADELPHIA Bulletin.
EEaa EaaRk
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-11-01
HARRY w. SMITH

Harry w. Smith, OF II. VIM. Smith,
as he is better known in political cir
cles, is an Illinoisan by birth, Kan
sas by marriage and Nebraskan by
adoption. He was born in Illinois,
married a good Kansas girl and adopt
ed Nebraska as his home.
He is a printer by trade, and at
present Is foreman of the Western
Newspaper Union, with which COM
pany he has been for nearly fourteen
years, except couple of years, dur
ing which he was with III. M. Bush
nell on the Trade Review, and with
The Independent. He is an active and
prominent member of Lincoln Typo
graphical Union No. 200, and was one
of its delegates to the international
convention at Toronto, Canada, in
1905. He is president of the central
labor union, in which body he repre-
sents his union as delegate.
Mr.. Smith has been a consistent
democrat for many years, having left
the republican party in 1892, affiliat
ing with the fusionists since that
time.
He is not only an ardent Bryan man
but has always Loyalty supported Mr..
George w. Berge in his different cam
paigns. Mr.. Smith and his colleague,
Mr.. Quick, were offered to the demo
cratic and populist conventions as the
men the laboring element of Lincoln
would support for representatives, and
the prospects are that with the labor
ing men solidly at their back they
will be elected. If elected it will be
a sure thing that the people who
work for living will have two of their
own kind in the legislature laboring
in their behalf.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-11-01
GEORGE r. QUICK

George F. Quick is carpenter and
is making the race for the legislature
in Company with Mr.. Smith the print
err Mr.. Quick was born in Canton,
ILL.,, in 1858. He was reared on a
farm, and comes of excellent stock
and of parents after Rooseveit's own
heart, there being six boys and three
girls in the family. His father before
him, being wage Garner, George F.
early acquired the use of tools, which
led to his adopted profession of car
penter and builder He came to Ne
braska in 1884, and lived year in
Hastings, coming to Lincoln after that
and married here. He has been a
resident of Lincoln continuously since
then. He owns his own home at 1121
Pine street, where he is comfortably
situated. He has never held a public
Office, and never has sought one, his
present candidacy being urged upon
him by his brother laborers. Mr..
Quick stands for square deal, and
believes that the laboring mans in
terest has been neglected. If elect
ed, he will bend all his energies to
secure legislation in the interests of
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-11-01
A Remarkable Comparison

~ heIndTkdplc comparison
The bulk of grain raised in Nebras-
ka is about 125 miles from Omaha
The freight rate on corn from Clay
Center, Neb., to Omaha is Is cents
per 100 pounds.
The freight rate ON corn from Oma-
ha where the price is fixed, 500 miles,
is about 91a cents.
In other words, If the Nebraska far
mer had the same rate per 100 pounds
per mile that the Iowa and Illinois
farmer has, he would pay little over
2 cents per 100 pounds to Omaha
where he now pays Is cents. He would
save a fraction less than Is cents
per hundred pounds on his grain ship
ments In other words the elevators
100 pounds more for his corn than
hey now pay because the freight
would be Is cents less.
If Nebraska farmer had the same
rates that the Iowa farmer has this
Is what 1t would mean to him in dol
lars and cents.
One hundred acres of corn at fifty
bushels per acre would make a crop
of 5000 bushels or $4,000 pounds.
Two hundred and eighty thousand
pounds Of corn at IL cents per hum
bred makes 1854 excess freight.
Three hundred and sixty-four dol
lars represents the excess freight now
collected from an average Nebraska
farmer on a single crop Of corn.
Add the excess freight on wheat,
oats, cattle, hogs, ETC., and the aver
age farmer pays each year at least
$1,500 excess freight.
Why does the Nebraska farmer pay
six times higher freight rates than an
Iowa farmer?
1t is because people have elected
men to Office who accepted valuable
gifts from the railroads in the form of
railroad passes. These passes have
been sufficient so far to prevent effec
tive legislation.
Judge Graves is the democratic and
populist candidate for congress, and
he never rode on pass. Judge Boyd
is the republican candidate for con-
gress, and he always rode on a pass.
If you are Roosevelt republican
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-11-01
Summary Of News
(Continued)

man educators take part in the open
ing of the new course of American
study at the University of Berlin.
Mrs. Levi q. Letter, her daughters
and Lord CurZon are to visit Chicago
for short time next month.
Advance in the London discount
rate does not effect banks in Canada,
where the move is regarded as a move
against American spectators.
People of England ridicule the sim.
plifed spelling proposed by the Amer
lean board, whites William E. Curtis
from London, and British scholars
score that body for not consulting
them in making up the recent list of
300 words.
Baron Aehrenthal, Austro-Hunga-
rian ambassador to Russia, accepts
position of minister of foreign affairs
in succession to Count Goluchowsk.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-11-01

We are building the greatest rail-
road system in the United States and
that without issuing bonds or pre-
erred stock. All stock is of the par
value of 500 per share, and is now
selling for $26 per share, on terms of
all cash or in payments of one-tenth
down and one-tenth the 18th of each
month thereafter until paid for In full.
All stock is receivable by the road
at its par value as soon as any part
of the road is in operation, and as we
are now building the first 100 miles
and will be running trains into Chi
cago inside of IS months stock will
be at par in less than one year from
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-11-01
Madonna of the Tower

RaphaePs Madonna of the Tower"
has been presented to the National
gallery by Miss Macintosh, daughter
of Mr.. r. ]. Macintosh, who bought
it in 1856 for $50 guineas at the sale
of the Rogers gallery. This picture
was sold in 1892 for $50 guineas at
the sale of the Orleans gallery, and
it then passed itno the Henry Hope
collection. 1t was exhibited at Man
chester in 1857, and at Burlington
house in 1903.-London Truth.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-11-01
FROM CHICAGO TO NEW YORK IN 10 HOURS FARE $40
the time you make final payment.

the time you make final payment.
Twenty-six dollars per month for
ten months will buy ten shares. This
is to be peoples road and will be
the entering wedge which will break
the railroad trust of this country. Our
road will be an electric third rail.
double track 100 pound steel and
will be the best in the country when
complete.
Write me for full particulars, and
make all payments in Chicago or New
York drafts, or postoffice money or
ders. Address all letters to w. F.
Porter, fiscal agent for Chicago and
New York Electric Air Line r. K. Co.,
l74O Harwood Ave, Lincoln, Neb.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-11-01
Bare Arms Boon for Beauty Doctors"

Beauty specialists have benefited
by the fashion of wearing short
sleeves, for the elbows of many
women are hard and brown and it
has required much time and attention
to get them into condition for barring
in public. These who went to all that
trouble were disheartened by an edict
which came recently from Paris that
sleeves must be long again. But the
women have taken heart again, for
no long sleeves have been seen SO
far. Indeed, the Countess Gheres-
desco has arrived in Newport from
Paris with many costumes, and all
seen so far have short sleeves.-New
York Press.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-11-01
Nebraska News

the laborer, and to prevent such leg1s-
lation as would be hurtful to labor.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1906-03-14
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

Lord Curzon's writing was said to be
very bad at Oxford.
Senator Crane, of Massachusetts,. is
an expert judge of paper.
Senator Frye is said to love to visit
some Of his Maine friends.
The late Associate Justice Gray. of
the Supreme Court, was very eccentric.
The King of Spain has ordered a
supply of Irish tweeGs from Balm
roDe.
Guests now invited by the King to
Windsor Castle are Invited for two
nights.
General Nogj, of Port Arthur fame,
is paying the penalty OF popularity at
the hands Of autograph seekers.
Prince Edward of Wales has a COL
lection Of seabirds' eggs from st. Kilda
which is said to be finest in the British
Empire.
Mr.. Longworth is said to be engaged
in filling his eighth scrap book with
clippings about his marriage to Miss
Roosevelt.
The Khedive of Egypt is one of the
~potentates who have profted, both
morally and financially. from the pro-
lection Of Britain.
Names spokesman in the Federal
Senate, Eugene Hale. with the general
consent OF his party, is now the leader
Of the Republican majority.
General Joseph Wheeler, who died
recently in Brooklyn, was born at Au-
gusta. Ga, September 10, 1886, and was
graduated at West Point in 1859.
The German Emperor, the King of
Italy, the youthful King of Spain, the
Queen of Holland, the King of Bavaria,
and the King of Saxony have never
taken the trouble to be crowned.
Justice Darling, an English judge,
suggested in the course of an auto
mobile case recently that the speed
indicators of autos might we'll be
marked: "Fine," imprisonment"
"Manslaughter," Murder"
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1906-03-14
LABOR NEWS NOTES..

L.ongshoremen in Boston, Mass,
threaten to strike.
The collieries throughout the an.
thracite region have orders to operate
at full capacity until new April.
Over one hundred union men went
on strike on the new Hotel Dennis
contract. at Atlantic City. n. j.
The Queensland (Australia> trade
unions registered under the act had a
total membership Of 527S at the end ff
1904.
Glass factories in the Steubenville,
Ohio. district We're threatened with a
temporary shut down because Of a lack
of employees.
The weekly wage Of o than half
Of The male workers of sixteen years
and over in Hungary average from
sos to S4.1G.
The Granite Manufacturers Ass0cla-
ton. by q majority vote. decided to
suspend work in the 100 shops at
Quincy, Mass.
The United States Se.ate sustained
the action of the House in abolishing
the National Eight hour law on the
Panama Canal.
President Palma Of Cuba has vetoed
a measure passed by CONGRESS- prohlb-
tin: the importation OF foreigners to
work in ire ports during strikes.
The great increase in the cost of liv'
ing and the rise in rents in Buenos
Ayres is causing great Inconvenience
and discomfort among the working
classes.
The PHILADELPHIA pa Central La
Dor Union lbs decided to take up the
fight of the international unions Of
Engineers and Firemen against the
Philadelphia Lager Beer Brewers AS
ISOLATION.
Out of 17S.O59 members of 1O54
French trade unions which made re
turns to the French Labo- Department
as to the state of employment. 1886
or 1O.4 per cent, We're out Of work in
November.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1906-03-14
Bad Blood Between the Whites
and Blacks the Cause
TURPENTINE CAMP FUSILADED
Period Of Muttering Against Whites
Ends in Night Attack on Village
of Wilmer, and Though Shooting
was General on Both Sides, an Old
White Man Was Only Person
Wounded.

Mobile, Ala, Special-Sheriff Pow
ers and four deputies left Sunday
morning for the scene of race troubles
at Kilmer, 26 miles west Of Mobile. on
the Mobile, jacksonville & Kansas
City Railroad, and returned at Z
o'clock at night with four negroes,
who are charged with being implicat-
ed III the attack by the L on the
white residents of Kilmer. The shoot
ing was begun by Cole Daniels. a
negro ex-convict and at once became
general. The white men, who were
armed, participated. The negro mob
had followed +. r. Pringle, and a ne
gro, Sam McPaston, whom Pringle
had shot and was bringing to Wilmer
for surgical attention, a distance of
SIX miles. A j. Ellis, an old white
man, aged 60 years, emptied his revol-
yer at the negroes, and just as he fired
the last shot a negro shot him from be-
hind, a load Of buckshot taking effect
III his back and left shoulder, and
when the sheriff's posse left Wilmer,
Ellis was in a dying condition. One
OF Elllses' bullets struck the .
Cole Daniels in the head, but he made
his escape, though a citizens posse is
lying in wait for him.
A determined attempt was made
early Sunday morning 10 lynch the
negro McPaston, but cooler council
prevailed. When the sheriff reached
Wilmer some 200 white men were as
sembled there, gathered from sur
rounding country.
1t is said that there has been muter-
lngs among the negroes in the turpen-
tine camps against the whites for the
past eight months. Everything was
quiet when Sheriff Powers ,aud his
deputies left the scene, though it is
possible that fresh trouble may break
out again. In that event, the whites
are better able to take care Of them
selves.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1906-03-14
News Items.

The filling Of the Bishopric of Porto
Rico IS expected to settle the question
as to which congregation at Rome has
supervision Of that island.
The New York county grand Jury
has asked for instruction as to what
it shall do relative to campaign O n
tributions by the insurance companies.
The foreign agents of the Mutual
Life Insurance Company are in revolt
against the Peabody regime.
Charles M. Schwab left Los Angeles
Cal, in what is said to be a serious
condition of health.
Governor Pennypacker, of Pcnnsyl-
vania, vetoed the resolution providing
for an investigation Of the coal rail-
roads, on the ground that the special
session Of the Legislature had not
been called for such a purpose.
"Judge" Andrew Hamilton, the
head Of the legislative bureau main
tanned by the Mutual Life Insurance
Company and other big corporations,
returned from Europe "to face the
music
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1906-03-14
A SONNET FOR T..r CITY.

This day into the fields my steps are led.
I cannot heal me there! Row after row
Thousands r Of daisies rradiantly blow;
daily bread,
But they are like a prayer too often said,
l have forgot their meaning, and I go
From the colo rubric of their gold and
snow,
And the calm ritual, all uncontrolled.
l want the faces! faces! remote and pale,
That surge along the city streets; the food
Of reckless ones, haggard and spent and
frail,
Excited, hungry! In this other mood
IT'S not the words of the faith for which
[ all,
But to plunge in the fountain of its living
blood.
Anna Hampstead Branch, in Atlantic
Monthly.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1906-03-14
Five Millions For a Fence.

The Government of New South
Wales has spent over Sc, 1000. 900 for all
kinds Of means to prevent the growth
Of the rabbit plague, and it las now
been decided to fence in the whole
country with an immense wire net.
The expense for this wire net is es-
timated OF exceed 5000, 900, and it
is thought that the Wire required for
this purpose can be imported from
abroad at the cost of about $3.50 per
mile, delivered at Sydney.
The rabbit plague is increasing from
year to year, which is best shown by
the fact that such an enormous amount
as $5,O0O,O00, or nearly ten per cent.
of the annual revenue of the country,
is to be spent for this purpose.-St.
Louis Post-Dispatch.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1906-03-14
Big Mill Advances Wages.

Lawrence, Mass. Special.-Notices
were posted in all departments of the
extensive Pacific Cotton Mills here an
nouncing that on Monday, March 10,
an advance i'll wages will be given.
The Pacific Mills, among the largest
i'll the world, employ nearly 5000
operatives. The rate Of the proposed
increase is not stated in the notices.
The advance will be greater in some
departments than in others, but it is
expected that it will average nearly
10 per cent. When the new schedule
cones into effect, the number Of mill
operatives in Lawrence who have had
their pay raised this year will reach
1000.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1906-03-14
German Radical Dead.

Berlin. By coble.-Eugene Richter,
radical leader in the Reichstag since
it's foundation, Bismark's old oppon-
ent and a long time editor of The Fire.
isinnige Zeitung, died at 4 O'Clock
Saturday morning. Near the close of
1904 Reichter suddenly retired from
The Freisinnige Zietung, which he had
founded, and at the same time ceased
to appear at the Reichstag. He was
then in feeble health and threatened
with the loss of his eye-sight.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1906-03-14
Shooting in South Carolina.

Columbia, s.. c., Special.-Johm
Marion Ashley, a white farmer Of
Honea Path was shot and probably
fatally wounded by Policeman White,
who vas endeavoring to arrest Ash
ley. The wounded mans relatives
and friends SOC gathered and threat
ened to do violence to the officer. Fear
ing serious trouble, Governor Hey
ward was notified and requested to
hurry troops to the scene. Accord
lngly the Ander company, under COM
mand of Lieutenant p. X. McCully,
Jr, was despatched to Honea Path by
a special train.