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The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-06-28

through some interesting experiments
to ascertain if it was possible to get
even little trickle of energy out of
these substitutes. The amount of en-
ergy obtained was just about equiva-
lent to the work done by fly going
up window pane.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-06-28
The Nebraska Independent

democratic politicians desire to pass
around among themselves in til future
will be made worth something, while
indiscreet action this year will be
very likely to result in eliminating
some of the ambitious ones from future
consideration.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-06-28

During forty years the democratic
party has made miserable failure of
every attempt to displace the republi-
can party in the affections of the
corporations and grafters.
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The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-06-28

The vitality of the railroad question
was demonstrated in 1890. The issue
is more acute now than it wa. then,
and is much more clearly defined in
the minds OF the people.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-06-28

seemed to have some notions of their
own in regard to what constitutes
the genuine article of democracy.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-06-28

Whenever the democratic party has
made brave stand for principle it has
invariably increased it's vote. l. would
have become the dominant party long
ago if it had refused to be led about
by the nose by corporation agents.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-06-28

1t is to be feared that the democratic
party would be found hanging around
the back doors of the corporations up
to this time if it were not for the SUI
perb leadership of Hon. VIM. ]. Bryan.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-06-28

Senator Sheldon has talked too
much unless he actually means what
he says, and if he does mean what
he says, it is incumbent on him to
force the fighting regardless of con-
sequences.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-06-28

Conservatism in Nebraska politics
means railroad candidates.
Senator Tillman refused to sign the
conference report on the rate bell.
The wise politician always heeds
the known demands of the people.
So Gov Mickey is looming up as a
reformer. Wouldn't that jar you?
No unpleasant dreams disturb the
peaceful slumbers of Senator LaFol-
lette
Indications point to an old time
populist convention. The bigger the
better.
Railroad politics and conservative
nominations are interchangeable terms
in Nebraska.
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after election for only Is cents. Sub
scribe for it.
Berge's election as governor, will
be the precursor of Bryans election
to the presidency.
Gov Mickey has as good right to
expose the railroad tools in the state
house as anybody else.
Senator Sheldon and Norris Brown
will son be known either as fighters or
cutters The people are looking on.
A good politician will seek to
know the wants of the people, and
tray to give it to them.
The long list of opportunists in the
democratic party are wondering at
Bryan's luck. Well, nobody will ever
wonder at their luck
The railroads would stand much
better chance of controlling political
nomination this year if their last
years taxes were paid.
Doesn't that $4,000, appropriated
by congress for travelling expenses for
Roosevelt have striking resemblance
to republican campaign fund.
The nomination of George w. Berge
for governor will mean democratic
legislature, and that the successor of
Senator Willard will be a democrat.
The democrat state of Missouri in
1904 preferred Roosevelt to Parker.
Roosevelt never professed tc be a /
democrat, but the voters Of Missouri
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-06-28

The elder Cameron who dictated
the politics of Pennsylvania until he
voluntarily retired from active life On
account of old age, used to say that the
secret of the success in leading the
people was to learn what they wanted
and then give it to them.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-06-28

All the people of the state know
how Mr.. Berge stands upon the rail
road question This together with their
confidence in his honesty and courage
is the secret of his strength with the
masses of the people.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-06-28

BY acting the part of patriotism
and wisdom this year the favors that
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-06-28

Senator Sheldon and Norris Brown
will son be known either as fighters or
cutters. The people are looking on.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-06-28

Geo. w. Berge will be the next gov
ernor of Nebraska.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-06-28

A democratic candidate for COVER
nor of Nebraska this year of the
conservative type, would be accepted
by the country as meaning that Mr..
Bryan had become a conservative.
Mr.. Bryan's friends in the state will
protect him against such misrepre-
sentation.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-06-28

The passing around of political NOM
nations as favors between party
leaders is a very nice thing, when the
difference between one man and an
other has no special meaning in the
minds of the people, but such is not
the case this year. The people know
what they want and woe betide the
aspiring pilitician that thrusts him
self across their path.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-06-28

A good politician will seek to
know the wants of the people, and
tray to give it to them.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-06-28

The democrat state of Missouri in
1904 preferred Roosevelt to Parker.
Roosevelt never professed tc be a
democrat, but the voters of Missouri
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-06-28

The long list of opportunists in the
democratic party are wondering at
Bryans luck Well, nobody will ever
wonder at their luck.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-06-28

Senator Tillman refused to sign the
conference report on the rate bell
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-06-28

The wise politician always needs
the known demands of the people.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-06-28

Conservatism in Nebraska politics
means railroad candidates.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-06-28

Gov. Mickey has as good a right to
expose the railroad tools in the state
house as anybody else.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-06-28

better chance of controlling political
nomination this year if their last
years taxes were paid.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-06-28

So Gov. Mickey is looming up as a
reformer Wouldn't that jar you?
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-06-28

The nomination of George w. Berge
for governor will mean a democratic
legislature, and that the successor of
Senator Willard will be a dem Ccrat.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-06-28

Berge's election as governor, will
be the precursor of Bryan's election
to the presidency.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-06-28

Doesn't that $4,000, appropriated
by congress for travelling expenses for
Roosevelt have striking resemblance
to republican campaign fund.
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after election for only Is cents. Sub
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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-01-06
Libraries IN Ancient Times.

So far as existing records show,
the oldest approximation to libraries
was brought to light by the Assyrian
discoveries in. the form of Babylonish
books inscribed on clay tablets. They
are supposed to have been prepared
for public instruction about $50 B. o.
Pisistratus is said to have founded a
library at Athens about SGT B. c.,
but there is no clear evidence to that
effect. According to Strabo, Aris-
totle was. the first known collector
of a library, and bequeathed it to
Theophratus, B. c. 1922, the library
finally going to Rome.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-01-06
Are You Left-Eyed?

'Ieft-eyed people simply own the
town these days." said an oculist IF
the prominence and Importance of that
optic continues to increase we shall
enc day be left-eyed race. In more
than half the patients I treat the left
eye is already considerable larger
than the right, it is brighter and it
lasts longer. If you want to find out
which eye is stronger try to read first
with one then with the other unassist-
ed By it's mate. Nine times out of
ten that test shows how much more
useful the left-eye is than the right.
Il devoutly hope that I shall never
lose either of my eyes, but if one has
to go. 1 just as devoutly hope that it
will be the right. There was a time
when the superstitious, and even
specialists on eyes believed that only
left-handed people were also left-eyed.
That theory is now exploded. Over
development of the left eye is in dan
ger of becoming a disease, the pc
culiar effects of which are already
apparent in many faces"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-01-06
Cold, Cold Clay.

The late Gov. Greenha1ge had a
cottage at Kennebunkport, Me, where
he passed his summer vacation. 1
was a guest at neighboring cottage
where he was a frequent visitor, and
one evening, after some one had told
the story OF Senator Evarts' daughter
begging him to come back to the
farm, because her donkey was so lone
some, Mr.. Greenhalge said:
We'll, my little girl almost equaled
that. She had three baby tadpoles
given her, and she forthwith christen-
ed one Daniel Webster and one Henry
Clay The third she hesitated over;
but on my return to Washington she
wrote me that she had named the
biggest one Gen. Cogswell, and
could use my discretion about break
ing it to the general.
+"Then 1 used to get bulletins like
this: Henry Clay doesn't seem very
fright, and I'm afraid he isn't we'll !;
Daniel Webster's legs are coming out
finely, but his tails a failure; Gen.
Cogswel is awfully snapr. III; and
finally came the sad -ews. Henry is
cold, cold Clay!' Boston Herald.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-01-06

of such letter who innocently in
quires of the writer for more light on
the subject? Needless to say the CORE
srondence went no further and the
witty ones in France advised the ofic-
ial proprietor to empty the watts and
begin afresh, or to use the alcohol for
external application only.
Although the new monastery of La
Grande Chartreuse is in Italy, it may
be that the famous cordial viii con-
TIME to be made in Spain. The Sc
cret so much desired in France is said
to consist in the recipe for the pecu-
liar honey flavor which distinguishes
this Hqueur. This favor is said to
be obtained by distilling in the finest
brandy the fragrant herbs which most
attract bees and which are said to
be found principally in the Alps.
Excepting for the few years during
and succeeding 1.-The Terror" the
Carthusians had the head of their
order at La Grande Chartreuse, near
Grenob1e, since the religious house
was founded by ST. Bruno The mon
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-01-06
Miniatures on Cards.

Another new idea, or rather cop
led old one. was shown in the cards
at a bridge luncheon given by Gov.
Kortright in Hot Springs, Va. These
cards, which reached the limit of ex-
pensiveness, were an almost exact re-
production of the Holbein miniature
of the duchess of Norfolk, according
to the New York Press. Like the Hol-
bein miniature-which is painted on
the back of a playing card, the nine,
of clubs, as was the custom of artistS
of that period-the miniature in queS
ton, which were beautifully copied "
prominent English painter, we7N
also on cards, which made them esS
pecially appropriate souvenirs for
such an affair. The miniature from
which they were copied is said to be
the smallest and most valuable paint
ing in the London collection of ].
Pierpont Morgan. This honor Of
ownership has called down upon his
head the comment that he has made
money 'for the pleasure it gives him
to get something that other persons
want"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-01-06
Scared the predaers

About O'Clock Monday afternoon
the dredgers working at Henderson's
point witnessed a belated explosion
that did little or no damage, but
caused them considerable fright. The
steel tub used in taking OUT the rock
struck a dynamite cartridge that had
failed to explode with the rest July
%. The explosion threw the big tub
and brow several feet out of water
Boston Globee ~
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-01-06


About the same time the Chartreuse
from Spain was becoming imported
into France, whic,, incensed the legal
proprietor, as.u d : chemist was
discovered who he'd to be able to
supply the Information needed to distil
the cordial. Just as the state disti1-
lery was about to enter into active
competition the receiver, or official
proprietor, received a letter from
Father Rey which gave him pause
for thought.
Feared for Results.
In this mild communication the Car
thusiar wrote that, hearing that the
fhe.: f my alcohol in Fouryoirie will
sfo. " have become an accomplished
fact" he begged to inform the pro-
prietor that .'he declined to accept
any responsibility for any results that
might arise from the use or distribu-
ton of these spfrits- They were and
are my property; I was, therefore. in
q position to treat them in any way
that seemed good to me-"
What Is one to think of the receiver
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-01-06
LARGE ENOUGH,

Senator Foraker was talking about
a politician whose erratic conduct had
estranged him from his party.
tfThis man. said the Senator, twas
showing a visitor over his new house
N Washington the other day.
HE exhibited the large drawing
room, in white and gold; the spacious
dining-room, in mahogany; the vast
ebony hall, with it's onyx pillars, and
then he led his visitor into the little
bit of a room off the hall-a mere
cubby hole, containing but table and
two chairs.
..'Not very large, eh?' he said
Small and coy, isn't it? Here I en-
terrain my political friends
".Ah,' said the visitor, it will be
large enough for that
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-01-06

From the wooded banks of the river
the country gradually became treeless,
a great grassy plain stretching to the
horizon and in all this wide expanse
there was not a spring of mint There
were spots alongside the river and its
tributary brooks which should nave
been the abiding place of the herb;
marShy lowlandS the true habitat or
mint, but the four winds either re-
fused to bear the seeds or they died
of hopeless nostalgia when they fell,
for mint lad been neither tasted nor
smelled in Barlow. Those native to
the place did not repine, they had
never had it's scent permeate their
nostrils nor had the delicate touch of
the mint julep rested upon their pal
ates. William Duncan, of Maryland,
and Henry Fargis, of Virginia, how
ever, missed it sadly. While they
held the two states on either side of
the Potomac to be a special work of
the Creator and possessing projections
that no other region might aspire to,
they could not imagine beneficent
Providence denying any part of the
world such a prerequisite of human
happiness as mint. 1t was especially
annoying since ice cold springs
abounded, sugar was readily obtain
able and whiskey, legal or illegal, was
in plenteous supply. 1t was the play
of Hamlet with the mise en- scene and
minor actors all present and Hamlet
absent
Fargis and Duncan had been plant
ers in their respective states and
their fortunes having been marred by
the Civil War they had emigrated to
the Southwest and bought contiguous
farms. They hated each other. The
feud began as sometimes a great war
begins-from trivial happenings. Far
gis' hogs broke into Duncan's enclo-
sure and damaged a crop. They were
elected, but SO strong was the mem
DRY of the Duncan turnip that they
repeated the trespass and a hog was
shot Then Duncans dog, oblivous
of boundary lines trotted across a
Fargis field and he was shot. The
dog was valueless, indeed Mr.. Duncan
had sought to give him away a num-
Der of times, but violent hands laid
upon his dog made his Maryland blood
boil A truculent message was sent
to Fargis and one in the same tenor
returned. Then the feud grew each
day as a Eoxious weed does in height
until the two farmers were bitter en-
emies.
Etiquette insisted that the feud
should include the family and ,
hesdames Fargis and Duncan, loyal
spouses, spoke not as they met but
looked, the one at the Other, out of
the tail of their eyes as if they would
have enjoyed a long chat especially in
preserving season when the feminine
mind sorely Graves encouragement
and counsel. Here the feud suddenly
vanished for Tom Duncan, son of Will
liam, and Sallie Fargis, daughter of
Henry, dearly loved each other. The
method of love making they were
obliged to pursue was rapidly making
diplomatists of both, as neither dared
allow the knowledge of their attach
ment to reach their respective parents
and their meetings called for the
skill and trail-hiding ability of an In
dian scout. Nevertheless, they met at
intervals but with a lopeless prospect
of ever being more than lovers.
One soft April day when the trees
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-01-06
PRosPEcToR LEADS THE WAY.
Bears Rishtful Title as Pioneer of the
West - a.

Bears Rightful Title as Pioneer of the
West.
The pFospector is the real pioneer
of the West; he blazed the trail for
the railroad, for the merchant, the
capitalist and the professional man;
to him belongs the honor of the pres
ent condition of the mining industry
The prospector has made it possible
for the making of the great fortunes
of Haggin, Fair, Flood, Hearst, DAILY
and Clark Where would the Com
stock, Butte, Occur d'A1ene and other
notable camps be, had it not been
for the prospector and his 5urro? The
life of the prospector is not a round
of pleasure; he sleeps in the snow and
rain as often as not; his fare is bacon
and beans; dollars are few with him,
yet he may be hunting for a new To-
cation for you to go to. When he asks
you for a grub stake, help him out;
his burro found the Bunker Hill and
Sullivan; his rife killed the mountain
sheep that found and exposed the rich
ores of the Rams Horn mine; Com
stock, the man who found the vein
named after him, died a poor man, but
he did more for his country than Presi-
dent Roosevelt has. Marcus DAILY
came to Butte with his blankets on his
back, but he did more for Montana
than John ID. Rockefeller; w. A. Clark
drove bull team into Montana, placer
mined in Deer Lodge and made a for
tune, which he earned by hardships
endured which the average Butte cit
izen would not care to go through.
When Stratton found Cripple Creek he
was poor carpenter, said to be too
lazy to work, but he paved the way for
thousands to earn a livelihood and
himself a fortune.-Butte Mining Re-
view.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-01-06
Modern Version,

The king had just opened his 1us-
cious pie and the birds began to
sing.
"Ye crowns" spoke the king, smack
ing his lips, ''but this is dainty dish
I shall eat until l cannot eat more -
But just then the court physician
arrived.
Hold on, your majesty" called the
medical adviser, lifting his hand in
worning, you know 1 forbid you eat
ing pastry of all kinds and limited
-our diet to health food" With a
sigh the king closed up the pie and
told the slaves to hand it out to some
passing tramp
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-01-06
$50 Lona."

You have perhaps wondered how
the expression so long came to be
SO generally used by the American
people," said Columbia college lee
turer the other day. 1T is usually
used in closing a conversation, and is
simply form of goodbye The Nor
wegians brought it to this country.
In that land of the midnight sun 'saa
laenge' is a common form of farewell.
1t means the same as the 'auf die
dersehen' of the German or the .au
revoir' of the French. Among the
early settlers in America were many
Norwegians, and the phrase was
picked up from them. They pronounce
it with the softened and accompany
it with a wave of the hand
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-01-06
Literature Written in Jail.

Jail scenes to be good place to
write books in. Literary men surpass
themselves there. John Bunyan wrote
Pilgrims Progress" in jail. Cervan-
ties wrote Don Quixote" in prison.
Defoe laid the plans for Robinson
Crusoe" during term of confineme nt
imposed on him for the writing of
pamphlet called 1.-THE Shortest Way
With the Dissenters.' Leigh Hunt
wrote 'Rimini" in Jail. Sir Walter
Raleigh, during his fourteen years
confinement in the tower of London.
wrote his excellent History of the
World"