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The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-04-05

firm ground. Few, if any, candidates
will dare to openly oppose SO sane a
proposition.
The program, in nutshell, is for
the immediate establishment of the
peoples sovereignty in place of machine
rule, and in nation, state and city; to
be accomplished in this years cam
paign through the systematic ques-
| tioning Of all candidates. Candidates
when forced to go on record pledge,
almost invariably, for the peoples
cause Every non-partisan organiza-
ton that is opposed to special priv
ileges is expected to take part in
questioning, also citizens IN general.
For copies of question apply to the
American Federation of Labor, Wash
ingtOn, d. c.
To spread the news and thus in
form the people, news bureau is to
be established. Thus the entire news
of the movement will be gathered at
a central point and distributed to the
newspaper editors of the country. It
will no longer be suppressed. The
Associated Press, owned by monop-
olist and dominated by them, can no
longer conceal the campaign against
private monopoly.
1t is expected that funds for the
work will be forthcoming. The treas
ury OF the American Federation of
Labor is at the disposal of the po-
litical movement, and special cOntri-
buttons are to be asked for from every
affiliated union and from the well-to-
do refOrmers throughout the country.
AS the contest wakes warm, the purse
strings will open. Heretofore the re-
form movement has been sadly lacking
in funds.
1t is expected that a thousand or
more of the daily papers will take up
the anti-machine cause, while the 500
labor papers will increase their use
OF peoples sovereignty material.
Lastly, and of the most Importance,
the campaign is open now Hereto
fore the campaign has not been opened
until August or September. This year.
however, the candidates are to be
questioned early and their replies pub
ished In most cases the candidates
will be questioned before the primar-
es are held. This VIII bring the issue
within each party and lay it before
he rank and file
Reviewing all those new factors in
oolitics-factors which have demon
strated their tremendous power-it
S clear that landslide against ma
;hine rule is in operation. It's extent
or this year it is difficult to predict.
,ut that it will be very great and
widespread is beyond question.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-02-15

MEN NOMINEE SETS THE AGE LIMIT
 From Menominee, Mich. comes the distressing news that the physicians have decided to administer chloroform to all persons who come to the age of 60. Those of us who have done it, or are likely, to do it-reach 60, we mean are appropriately agitated; still, as ago tation sometimes produces the effect of chloroform, it is commended that, for the present, the physicians of Menomi- nee be permitted to do the agitating Dr. Osler set ball rolling, when he joked about an age limit, that he never supposed was a bamb, or would roll as far as Menominee and create an eX- plosion of thought that would reverber ate around the world. The pronounce ment will start a wholesale emigration of all Menomineeeans, or Menomineers, or Menomineetees, over three-score to the adjacent state of Wisconsin, and in the industries of the place, which are lumber, electricity, glass and shoes, will languish for want of expert direc- tion There were 13,000 Menominads yesterday, but alas, how many today? Not only is MT. Stuperfuous Lag, the verteran, to be entranced into his tomb
 but incurable invalids are to desist from being a trouble to their families.
 A few pills, few breaths and Memo minee walks into the light reformed, rejuvenated, with sleeves rolled to the shoulder for work, for its archaic por-
 tion sleeps, and it's sculptors are busy with gravestones. A town peopled only by the young will be novelty, even in land that has had Shakers, Oneida
 communists and anarchists. New pro-
 blems will arise in it. Yocng people who acquire the property of their chlorofor- med parents will, in turn, disclose activity in getting rid of it when they reach say, 59, if they find by that time
 that any of remains on their hands
 Will they prepare themselves for tram
 station, being amply warned, or will
 they disburse their funds across bars, and in other worldly resorts? Maybe
 the timid will fly to Europe just before celebrating their 60th birthday. Maybe
 the public of Menominee, irritated by their lingering, will elect them to Con-
 gress, and thus leave them to the chance of a more solemn end than death And although the example of
 Menominee is impellng, yet there is hope that so long as Uncle Joe Cannon, and Bishop Potter, and Andrew Carne-
 gle and MT. Rockefeller, and Murat
 Halstead, are on deck, the rest of the country will be merciful and will with hold its indorsement of the Meominee
 doctrine. The is hope, because you
 remember when the three tailors of Tooley street held a conversation as
 we, the people of England" several other members of the British public
 went on misbehaving just the same as ever So if it is misbehavor to be SO, sundry of us will confess our guilt,
 without brag, but without fear.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-02-15
HOW THE CHINESE BOYCOTT
 SPREAD

The chief agency, employed in the ex- tension of the boycott agitation was, were used; newspapers, pacards and cartoons being the principal ones. In the course of several months hundreds of thousands of placards, pamphlets and pictorial carlcatures were circulat- ed throughout the empire. have seen a large number of these publications, Some were amusing, some interesting, and some We're alarming. The cartoons usually represented Chinese being maltreated by white man, presuma- bly, an American, although no partieu- lar pains were taken to preserve na- tional identities in many Of them. How these posters were circulated was at first hard to discover. Naturally, the provincial and local officials were anx- ious to keep their skirts clear, fearing retribution in some form, and pretend ed to. and in many cases did, prohibit and cartoons. But convenient ageEey was found Within the last few years thousands of Japanese, many of them Buddhist priests, have gone to China, and are now scattered to the remotest parts of the country, where other for eigners are seldom, if ever, seen, Some estimates place the number. of these Japanese now in China as high as 50,- GOO, although this is probably Q mere guess. However, 1t is certain that thousands of Japanese tradesmen and commercial agents have settled in va rjouS remote narts of the empire adopting the life of the people and oft en their dress. Since other foreigners are not permitted to live or engage in business outside of the treaty ports, it will be perceived that considerable present and prospective commercial ad- vantage promises to accrue through this condition, which will not be shared by other nations. Dismisslng this phase of tn ematter there Is good rea- son to believe that these Japanese were instrumental in furthering the circula- ton of the boycott propaganda. In fact, many instances where they did so are positively known. As time pass ed and reports of the spread of the movement began to reach the foreign population centers, it became known that many of the placards and cartoons circulating outside of the established sphere of foreign contact were of an absolutely incendiary character, eouch- ed in the same general anti-foreign spirit that the boxer movement took root in.-Thomas F. Willard in Serib- ner's.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-02-15
sCHNAPPs FOR SCHOOL
CHILDREN.

Eastern Prussia is the land of schnapps, and men, women and child ren drink them. An interesting in- quiry has been carried out among the elementary schools over a considerable extent of the province, for the purpose of ascertaining with some certainty the extent to which children offender age are affected by the drinking habits of the country.
 At one school, in the youngest child ren of the first year class, numbering 49 pupils, 3S were familiar with the taste of wine, 40 could relish schnapps, and beer was the daily home drink of all. At ortelsburg, on the Russian frontier, where much potato brandy is distilled, the teacher said that most of his pupils brought a small flask to school, and he had had to send children of home in a tipsy state.-London Globe,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-02-15

Henrfs la grippe cure cures cold in 24 hours. If taken in time prevents pneumonia. 15c at Hull's.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-02-15

less sky, absolutely free from mist, smoke and dust, to have an hour and a half in which leisurely to make their scientific Investigations of this mag nificent phenomenon? But, even if on the moon, there would be at least two difficulties: first, a somewhat distress ing shortness of breath, which might interfere with clear mental operations, for there is no air on the moon, and second, an exposure to meteoric bonn bardment without the protection of of the atmosphere blanket, since it is estimated that more than 15.000meteors of all sizes per day fall upon the sur face of the moon.-Frederick Campbell in the Brooklyn Eagle.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-02-15
CORNS AND BUNIONS,
INGROwING NAILS, CLUB NAILS AND ALL DEFORMTTIES AND CONDITIONS OF THE TOE NAILS. CORNS BETWEEN THE TOES
 AND IMPLANTED FEET.

We didn't know any better than to suffer with Sore Feet all these years, and we didn't want to suffer all our lives, so we went to DR, WELCH. 792 CHAPEL STREET, and found a big ar- my of CORN and BUNION GROWERS and BAD TOE NAIL BEARERS, and we didn't find anybody that was hurt a bit. so we waited our turn for the GREAT PAINLESS ONSLAUGHT. Af- which we found such great relief that we started on the march again and have been beating and pounding and singing the songs of the CHIROPO- DIST-Relief for the feet.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-02-15
CAPTAIN WILLIAM J. SIMMONS.

Captain William J. Simmons, who died at Washington, D. C., Sunday, was native of Ashford this state. where he was born in 1s41. He enlist ed in the war in october, 1861, as a pri- vate in Co. B, 11th infantry, and serv- ed until December 1885, when he was mustered out as sergeant. After the war he located in Washington, and had since resided there. In recent years ile had been superintendent of the paper warerooms at the government printing office. He leaves a widow and two sons.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-02-15
NF,vr uAvENERs To eprAv

Glastonbury Feb. 1S-Arrangements are practically completed for the an- nual banquet of the Business Mems as- sociation at Academy hall Friday even- ing. Former President J. Howard Hale will be toastmaster. The speakers will include President E. I. Atwater of New Haven, of the State Business Mems association; former Congressman Lewis Sperry of Hartford, President Normand F. Allen of the Hartford association, Secretary F. J. Linsley of the New Ha- ven association, former Senator Marc S. Chapman of Manchester, the Rev. Herbert J. Wyckoff, pastor of the South Glastonbury Congregational church, the Rev. William T. Garter, pastor of the East Glastonbury Methodist church. An orchestra will furnish music. The ban quet will begin promptly at o'clock.
 Good Will grange held a whist social at the tall last evening.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-02-15

HUNTING IN THE PHILIPPINES.
 The Philippines are said to afford the best bunting in the world, Ducks, deer wild boar, buffalo and wild chick ems are plentiful particularly wild ducks and other water fowl.
 You cannot own a gun in the Phillip pines except under strict regulations; and as a result the natives have no guns, and the whites get all the hunt ing.-E. w. Howe in the Atchison Globe
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-02-15
RICH CONNECTICUT SENATORS.

The new Connecticut senators are much better fixed financially than their predecessors, General Hawley and MT. Platt. Senator Brandegee has been spending $6O,OOO on two houses on K street in Washington, which he pro- poses to throw into one, to make his Washington home. Senator Brande- gees new establishment is in section of fine old houses and Secretaries Moody and Root, Senator Hale, Gener- al Draper live near by.-Kansas City Journal.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-02-15
get,erers!
Your Watch Marks 157,68o, 900 revolu- tions in one year.
Think of #.

Your watch should be oiled once year.
 The oil if allowed to gum produces friction, destroys the high finish, wears the delicate bearings and thus ruins an accurate timepiece.
 Our watch-maker is a skilled workman, and will not experiment. upon your watch.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-02-15
THE FEBRUARY SKIES
HOW THE PLANETS CHANGE ABOUT DURING THIS MONTH

Roll Call of the Planets aud Some thing of the Courses They Will Take This Month-The Celebration for Washinston's Birthday.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-02-15

Henri's violet cream cures chapped chapped hands and all roughness. Leaves the skin soft, smooth and white. 25c at Hull's
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-02-15
wEArHER AND DTvTDrNDs

In December, 1904, one railroad in New York paid out $1oO,OOO on account of snow. It's snow bill last month was $700. A green Christmas makes a fat dividend.-St, Louis Globe-Demo- crat
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-10

Why don't you come and rub my back in
stead Of standing there doing nothing? Are
my clothes all right? Where is the scent
bottle? want the hairdresser. Where
Is my basket to put my things in? And
my trinkets? There. I want my shoes and
my umbrella. Bring me my comb and the
ribbon to tie up my hair. Get the looking
glass and toothbrush 1 must have a
needle and thread. You really ought to
look after the stores, the rainy season will
be here in no time"
These and many more are the young
wife's behests. the appalling list of which
might we'll intimidate those about to
marry. but there is worse to come When
the joy of their lives. the crown of their
welded bliss" arrives in the shape of a
baby it Is the unfortunate husband who is
set to mind It: he has to get up In the
night to sing lullabies to 1t Just as If
he were nursemaid," and ashamed
though he is of such a humiliation. he is
actually put to wash the baby's linen! "All
this has been done by many men who for
the sake of pleasure have stopped so low;
they become the equals of slaves, animals,
beasts Of burden, mere nobodys."
Would not most readers take this for a
quotation from one of Ibsen's plays rather
than from a sacred volume which was
composed considerable time before the
beginning Of our era?
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ADAM A. wEsCHIER, AUCTIoNEER.
TRUSTEES SALE OF TwO-STORY BRICK AN
FRAME DWELLING NO az L. S.r n w

TRUSTEES SALE OF TwO-sTORY BRICK AND
FRAME DWELLING NO. IS l. ST NV !:
ALSO UN1MPROVED LOT IN TRINIDAD
By virtue Of q certain deed of trust duly re-
corded in liber No. 1868. folio 437 ct seq, Of the
land records Of the District Of Columbia, and at
the request Of the party secured thereby the un-
dersigned trustees will sell at public auction in
front OF the premises. WEDNESDAY. THE
TWENTY FIRST DAY OF NOVEMBER, A. b. 1906
AT HALF-PAST -FOUR O'CLOCK PM, the fol
city Of Washington in the District of Columbia
and designated and being parts of lots Iettered
IL" and M" in Lloyd T. McGills subdivision Of
lots in square numbered six hundred and twenty
900 as per plat in liber W. E.. folio &c. in the
office OF the surveyor for said District, being the
tered IL" and the east fye l5j feet by full depth
Of said lot lettered .M," improved BY two-story
brick and frame dwelling No. B5 L ST. NV.
ON THE SAME DAY AT FIVE O'CLOCK PM.
lot numbered one a. in block numbered eight Isl
in the Washington Brick Machine Company's sub
dad" as per plat recorded in county book at
page 40 In the Office of the surveyor for said Dis
trict being at the northwest corner Of and Trint-
Dad ave., containing 10000 square feet more or
less.
Terms Of sale: One-third cash. the balance in
one and two years, with interest six per centum
per annum from day of sale secured BY deed Of
trust upon the property sold, all cash. at the Cd
ton Of the purchaser deposit of $iOO will be
required at the time Of SALE All conveyancinQ
recording ETC. at the cost Of the purchaser. Terms
Of sale to be complied with in fifteen days other
wise the trustees reserve the right to resell the
property at the risk and cost Of the defaultin9
purchaser, after five days advertisement Of such
resale IN some newspaper published In the city Of
Washington, d. G.
JOHN A. SCHAEFER,
WILLIAM r. McCLOSKY
no9-d&ds, eSu Trustees
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IN MIDST OF PLENTY
Unnoticed Tragedies Of the Streets Of
London.
oc20-eo&ds

Unnoticed Tragedies Of the Streets Of
London.
From the London Mirror.
Is it easy for poor people to die of starva-
tion in the streets Of London?
1t would seem SO, according to a return
issued by the under secretary Of the home
Office last night
In 1905 forty-eight people died in London
in this way. The return is a record of the
number of deaths upon which a coroner s
jury has returned verdict Of death from
starvation or death accelerated by priva-
ton"
The report is only short. and is worded In
the sober manner common to all parlia-
mentary papers. but it gives some vivid
glimpses of the life Of those who sleep on
the Embankment and feed where they can.
The forty-eight cases come from all parts
seventeen from the northeastern district
and two from the west. The others are scat
tered all over.
Here Is a picture of life ended in the
gutter, as given by the report:
Henry Gill, no home, clerk, aged forty
nine. Verdict: Destitution and starvation
Died in the work house. having been found
dying in the street.
The remarks on Henry Gill say that he
was admitted to Holborn work house on
August II, 1905, and died next day.
The independence of the very poor and
their dread of going into the house Is well
known. Here are few cases of some who
refused to go In when ask to do so:
Sarah Gotch, living alone at Putney, aged
eighty. Died from want of food. Refused
to go into the work house and made no ap-
plication for relief.
Frederic Volborne, painter, aged sixty-six;
lived alone at Battersea. Refused to enter
the work house. Died from exhaustion and
want of food.
Annie Higgs. aged forty-three. Refused
to be taken to the work house and died in
her room at Shoreditch; made a little money
at feather curling, and was always anxious
to do without relief.
In one case permission to enter the work
house refused. This was in the case of
child four months old who died from
starvation due to want of proper food. The
child could have gone into the work house,
however, If the father and mother had gone
in also, but they refused.
The occupations of the forty Eight unfor-
tunates included those of hairdresser, tele-
graphist, grocer's assistant, clerk, seaman,
hawker, bricklayer's laborer, watchman,
needlewoman and charwoman.
And how very far removed the real life of
the pretty flower girl'' is from the general
idea of it is shown by one Of the last cases
on the list:
Sarah Jones' aged flfty-f1ve, flower seller.
Died from exhaustion; suffering from bron-
chitis and weak heart, accelerated by ex-
posure.
A few telling extracts from the report are:
"In cellar for six days without food -
been unable to eat anything for week"
and delayed too long to benefit by any
treatment and died the same day.
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Ristori's Too Grateful Soldier.

From London Truth.
During Ristori's first engagement at Mad
rid an elderly woman one night gained ac-
cess to her dressing room and tearfully
begged her Intervention on behalf of her
son. a young soldier condemned to death
for serious breach of discipline. At the
close Of the performance Ristori was pre-
sented to Queen Isabella, made the required
appeal, and obtained the young mans free
pardon-perhaps because 1t gave to the
queen the opportunity of a mot. that she
was certain the actress had never before
played in a tragedy with such happy end
Ing. Some years later Ristori again visited
Madrid. During the first performance a
soldier among the audience made a disturb
ance, was elected only after severely dam
aging number of policemen. and was SUBJ
sequently sentenced to long term of Inn
prsonment. He proved to be Ristoris for
mer protege, who. hearing of her return.
had come to the theater in order to renew
his expression Of gratitude. Unfortunately,
he had drunk her health too enthusiasticall
beforehand-with the result that he finally
owed her, not only his life. but free board
and lodging for several years into the bar
gain.
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MARCUS NOTES, AUCT1oNEER.

TRUSTEES SALE OF LARGE PLOT OF VAL
UABLE UNIMPROVED real. ESTATE
FRsMTing 1894 FEET ON "p" STREET
- SOUTHEAST AND SO FEET 6 INCHES ON
SOUTH CAPITOL STREET, BEING TIE
NORTHEAST CORNER OF SAID STREET. 4
SUITABLE SITE FOR AN APARTMENT
HOUSE.
Under and By virtue Of the authority vested IN
me by, certain deed in trust. bearing date oc.
tober 3, 1859, and duly recorded among the land
records of the District OF Columbia the undersigned
will offer for sale at public auction in front OF the
premises. on THURSDAY. THE FIFTEENTH
t15th) DAY OF NOVEMBER AD. 1906. AT FOtTR
THIRTY O'CLOCK PM, all of original lot mum
bered i've COZ and the west 11.e4 feet by depth
Of $50 feet Of original lot four a. In square sig
hundred and ninety zone GOD.
Terms of sale: One third of the purchase money
In cash, balance in two t2) equal instaiments pa
able in one and two years from date OF sale With
interest at six per cent per anBum. payable semi
annually. secured by deed of trust on properly sold
or all cash, at option of purchaser. All Conveyance
ing recording and notarial fees at the cost Of the
purchaser deposit Of $500 will he required at .he
time of sale. Terms of sac must be complied with
within fifteen t15) days from day of sale other
wise the undersigned reserves the right to resell
the property at the risk and cost Of the defaultin
purchaser.
GEORGE s. KAUFMAN Trustee
LEON TOBRINER. 317-3l9 John Marshall place.
Attorney for Trustee. no6-d&da.sSu
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Muskrat Houses.
,untry Life I'm America

From Country Life in America.
have always been told that muskra.
houses mean a severe winter. Instead OF
sign of cold weather. the muskrat's house
means simply that one or more muskrats
have chosen to live in the low meadow or at
the shallow head of the pond, where there
is no chance to burrow underground and
have bedroom that cannot be flooded by
the high tides Of winter.
THESE same muskrats. along the steep
banks of river. would tunnel into tho
earth and there dig bedroom out of reach
or the highest Hood. They do not always
succeed, however. Spring after spring, dur
ing the breakup freshets of February and
March, l have waded the submerged banks
OF Cohansey creek and seen the muskrats
swimming wearily about, or clinging to
mounds and rails and bushes. having been
washed out of their winter beds
The house in the meadow is usually built
over tall, stout tussock, whose grassy
top forms the bed This Is domed over
making large room-big enough for one
or for half dozen. according to the num-
Der OF muskrats sharing the work At least
two openings. or dives. lead from the bed
into open water at the foot of the tussock.
And this water never freezes. When Ice
forms outside. the warmth of the muskrats'
bodies is sufficient to keep the doors free,
through which the jewellers shoot at instant
alarm, for these passages lead into winding
burrows and waterways that run far out
through the rich, rooty meadow.