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The independent., 1907-03-28
MARCH %, 1907.

upon their operations the sporting men
have probably caused their business to
be destroyed.
Knoxville, Tennessee, has just gone
prohibition by an emphatic majority.
The people OF Knoxville disclaim any
particular desire to legislate against
peoples appetites. The main reason for
throwing out the saloons was not
directly related to hatred of the drink
habit. They had allowed the saloons to
remain under certain restrictions. Not
content with confining themselves to
the saloon business the liquor men be-
came ambitious to run the politics OF
the city. so as to make their own re-
strictions and enforce them or not as
they pleased. This made the people mad
and swallowing their appetites they
voted that political interest out of ex-
istence. The Charleston, South Caro-
lima, News and Courier says the same
thing is being done in many parts of
the south. The same reasoning is be-
ginning to affect the liquor situation in
the north also.
In a majority of cases when cities
vote for municipal ownership of pub
lie utility their desire to put corpora
tions out of politics exceeds the hope of
cheaper service The conviction that
private owners of public utilities are
incapable of refraining from meddling
with city politics is responsible for the
sweeping spread of municipal owner
ship sentiment throughout the cities of
the country. In general as in the cases
mentioned here. the men with special
interests show the same stupid oblivi-
BUSINESS to the true situation as did the
feudal barons of the middle ages or
the Russian barons of today.
The independent., 1907-03-28
GooD NEWS AND BAD.

Newspapers are commonly criticised
because a considerable part of the
news they print is a report of evil
doing why don't the papers print
the good that is being done, and keep
our minds and the minds of our child
rem on good things instead of on bad -
Is a frequent query.
Very we'll, let us begin with meet
ing held in Camden. New Jersey IN
Thursday evening. For a head line the
reporter writes: "No graft there" The
story is: MANY of the most promi-
nent citizens OF Camden were partici-
pants at a testimonial dinner at the
Bellevue Stratf6rd last evening, given
to irving Bucklee, George w. Whyte
and VIM. J. Thompson, the building
commissioners who constructed the new
court house of Camden county Most of
the speakers alluded felicitously to the
absence of graft in that enterprise,
and Judge of Common Pleas Chas. v.
y. Joline, in a complimentary speech.
presented to the commissioners a set Of
engrossed resolutions Of appreciation. !"
Here is good news indeed A court
house built in New Jersey without
graft, news of so sensational a nature
as TO cause public Thanksgiving and win
headlines in the newspapers. But we
are not satisfied We would rather the
news had told that there was graft in
building the Camden court house We
see that when good deeds grow so rare
as to be worth a place in the news
columns ii is sa time to mourn. The
news that Binks whipped his wife yes
terday is after all not so distressing as
the news that Binks did not whip nis
wife yesterday. One of the definitions
of news which the newspapers are
compelled to follow is something
strange or newly happened"
The independent., 1907-03-28
DESTROYING WEALTH.

Quite appropriately to the season.
Mrs. Belle Armstrong Whitney of New
York appeared before the Chicago
dressmakers' convention lately to
prove the blessedness of Woman-s ex-
travagance in dress. This thing of
buying an expensive Dress wearing It
once and burning it to keep the cook
from appearing in it next week is one
of the bulWarks of prosperity, accord
ing to Mrs. Whitney, and she proves
it, We are prosperous when labor Is
employed. The buying of many dresses
gives employment to many dress
makers, many Weavers of cloth and
many producers of cotton, wool and
silk Not to give the discarded dress
to the cook causes the cook to buy
other dresses, which gives extra en-
ployment to other dressmakers, weav-
ers and agriculturists. Let all women
suddenly stop buying Easter bonnets,
spring gowns and such like, and fac
tories would shut down, prices would
fall, merchants go bankrupt and panic
would be upon us. This reasoning
will please nearly everybody, for does
not nearly everybody believe it is cor
rect? The burning of San Francisco,
was it not a splendid boon to busi-
ness? More lumber, more labor more
iron, more graft? James Hazen Hyde's
$4,000 dinner, did it not give employ
ment to many servants and make
market for much merchandise snails'
tongues, champagne, Holsters, and SO
on? 1t Is no time since the southern
cotton planters were enriching them
selves by burning a part Of their cot
ton crop. Every railroad wreck makes
a market for more cars and that means
more labor. May not hard times be
permanently averted by burning
city or two at each sign of depression,
and inducing the women to double
their orders at the milliners' and the
dressmakers?
The independent., 1907-03-28
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT

this last time by the house. Some
members Of the church Of England
believe such marriages are prohibited
by the scriptures, and are desirous of
enforcing their scruples upon the rest
of the people who think differently.
Lord Robert Cecil opposes it on ac-
count of 1.-The threatened wave of ma
terialism which is threatening to
swamp all good principles" Sir F. s.
Powell opposes it in the interests of
the workingman's wife's sister, who
could not possibly, he thinks, find a
happy home with her married sister
in case her some time marriage with
her sisters husband were a possible
ity. The arguments make one sus-
pect that the real reason why the
change is not favored by the lords is
the fact that it is q change.
The independent., 1907-03-28
Verdict for DR.. Pierce
AGAINST THE
Ladies Home Journal.

Sending truth after lie. 1t is an old
maxim that "a lie will travel seven
leagues while truth is getting its boots
on and no doubt hundreds OF thousands
of good people read the unwarranted and
malicious attack upon DIR. r. v. Pierce
and his wFavorite Prescription published
In the May u904) number of the Ladies'
Home Journal, with It's great black dis
play headings, who never saw the hum
BILE, groveiing retraction, with its incon-
spicuous heading, published two months
later. It was boldly charged in the sland-
erous and libelous article that Dir. Piercc's
Favorite Prescription, for the euro Of
Woman's weaknesses and ailments, con-
tanned alcohol and other harmful ingrcdi-
ents. DIR. Pierce promptly brought suit
against the publishers OF the Ladies'
Home Journal, for 500, 10000 damages.
DR.. Pierce alleged that Mr.. Box, the
editor, maliciously published tho article
containing such false and defamatory
matter witk the intent Of injuriny his
busineSSs Furthermore. that no alcohol, or
other Njurious, or habit-forming, drugs
are, or over were, contained in his ~Fa-
vorite KpesSfiption that said medicine
is mad5 ff1bm native medicinal roots ami
contaAS/no harmful ingredients what
ever/a6d that Mr.. Bok's malicious state
metH were wholly and absolutely false.
IMher etEac ton printed BIZ said tlnilrnal
they were forced tg aclznoMlndGe tbatthcY
had Obtained anaIySeS 81 wEaNuIita Pre.
eIript! Ion. = from eminenI Chemists. all Oi
WHOM Certified Lh3t ltld bit contain al
cQh0I or auy QI tie alleged harmful drugSI
These facts were also proven In the trial OF
the action In the Supreme Court But tho
business OF DR. Pierce was greatly injured by
tho publication OF the libclous article With
It's great display headings while hundreds OF
thousands who read the Wickedly defamAtory
article never saw the humble groveling re-
traction, set in small type and made as incon-
spicuous as possible The matter was, how
ever brought before jury In tho Supreme
Court Of New York State which promptly
rendered verdict In the Doctors favor.
Thus his traducers came to grief and their
base ISLANDERS were refuted.
The independent., 1907-03-28
STATE APPROPRIATIONS.

The important question of appropri-
ationS for the biennium Is now oc-
cupyfng the attention Of the legislature.
The amounts asked exceed the appro-
prlation of two years ago While re-
quests for larger expenditures should
be scrutiniZed closely, it does not fol-
low that the allowance of larger sums
is extravaganza in every case
Nebraska has grown rapidly in the past
five years and the demands of state in
stitutions have legitimately increased.
The state owes duty to properly care
for it's institutions and it Is financially
able to discharge that duty. 1t is true
that there is an existing statute tha.
limits the levy for the state general
fund, and the argument Is used that
the appropriations must rot exceed this
limit. The legislature erected his bar
rier and the legislature can remove it
If the limit imposed by statute is in
adequate to meet existing demands, the
statute can be amended Tho esti-
mate of expenditures of a forrnr leg
islature is not neeessar rily true guide
Tt may be too high; ii may be too low
appropriations should be considered on
the merits. Whatever is needed for
adequate sur pert should be given--no
has prospered and is financially able 10
discharge Its obligations is not O rea-
son for expending money uselessly. II
Is q reason for supplying legitimate de-
mands.
The independent., 1907-03-28
TEACHERS PENSIONS.

Perhaps the life insurance troubles
had something to do with IT.. al any
rate, an unusual impetus seems to navs
been given the movement for school
teachers pensions in the larger cities
this year New York city already has
a pension system, and Chicago Is soon
to have one. Connecticut proposes a
state wide pension system, and the bill
introduced for that purpose is interest
ing by giving an idea of what such a
system looks like The system Is to be
compulsory Every teacher Is to pay
to the state treasurer 1 per cent of ner
salary at the beginning, and more each
year as the frutition time approaches
This sliding scale Is evidently provided
for the benefit of those teachers who
do not continue in the work long
enough to receive any benefit from the
pension fund. The annuity, like the
deferred premium of life insurance, is
to be indefinite depending upon the
condition of the fund This suggests
at once delightful possibilities in case
Connecticut continues her present pre-
dilections for shady politics. Most of
the money In the pension fund being
the money of school teachers, will be-
long to members of the sex whose in
tiuence In elections Is at most indirect
The independent., 1907-03-28

corresponding earnestness in the
students. There was In evidence
neither the pedantic professor who
gains reputation for profundity, but
loses students. by moiling away at
fact gathering without taking time
or having the capacity for mobilizing
and assimilating them. nor the di-
lettante who gains large classes and
a reputation for brilliancy by pyro-
technical display of a few half facts.
The Germans are a tri1e inclined to
make student into professor of
the first sort; American training
tends to make one of the latter sort:
French training better than the
others tends to develop the good
elements of both and discard the bad
of both. So we are to infer from
Professor Wendell's article in the
March Scribners. But for the French
reputation for frivolity, an unearned
reputation, as we are frequently as
sured nowadays, this might have been
taken for granted years ago.
The independent., 1907-03-28
BRIBEs AND BRIBERs.

The time once was when we chung
to the idea that the most deSp1cable
man cavortng around on the hemis-
pllere was the man who took a bribe.
We have changed our mind. He Is a
poor creature, but the worst is the
man who offered the bribe. Our for
mer opinion was based on the idea,
advanced so often on behalf of the
corporations and others, that In order
to get ones rights at the hands OF a
city council or board of control or
supervisors it was necessary to buy
the good VIII and the votes of the
men empowered by law to grant those
rights.
Investigation and the stern logic of
fact has disproven this claim entirely.
The cold truth is that it has not been
rights but special privileges that these
corporations and ''big business" have
been paying money for. They have
been anxious to get things through
that they have no right in equity or
fairness to ask, and they have been
willing to pay because they have be-
lieved that they could purchase them
cheaper through the peoples represen-
tatives than they could from the peo-
pie themselves. For few thousands
they have, in this way, bought fran
chiSeS that were worth many times
their cost, and which they could have
well afforded to pay the people in open
day for.
The man who bribes is the worst
sort of citizen He is meaner than
the meanest criminal, and he cannot
be excused on any ground that 1t is
a conventional crime, one made so by
reason Of it's very numerous char
acter 1t is a poisoning of the very
founts of justice, and marks the man
who perpetrates it as vicious citizen
an enemy to patriotism and worse
than any anarchist, class much des-
pissed by big business.
The latest outburst of this kind has
come from San Francisco. where an
intrepid special district attorney has
uncovered some big business men who
were willing and anxious to debauch
public officials in order that they
might get franchises Of great value
for a song, and this at time when
the city lay stricken from the horrors
of earthquake and fire. Here's hop
ing the penitentiary will catch them
soon.
The independent., 1907-03-28
FRENCH UNIVERSITIES.

Professor Barrett Wendell OF Har-
ward calls the attention of this years
crop of Phi Beta Kappas To the ad-
vantagcs of French universities over
German AS places TO round out an CO.
ueation with n foreign degree. After
year of leeturlng at F'ranch uns-
versltiea during which time ne had
every facility for observing their
workings. he pronounces the French
teachers 10 be marvels OF dlgestcd
learning, They may never relax
their effort" he says Ito extend and
solIdIfy their learning. My previous
experience had never revealed to me
anything like such spectacle of
concentrated and unceasIng lnteilec~
lua! activity as seemed matter OF
course among mv contemporary col.
leaEua8 ~ paris." Naturally he found
The independent., 1907-03-28
CONSERVATISM.

The annual tribute to toryism. the
deceased Wife's sister bill has again
passed the house Of commons only "a
vatcs opposing. This measure goes
through the house of commons as
regularly as the bill for the direct
election of senators our own house of
representatives and is as regularly
sat upon by the upper house in Eng
land as is the direct election bill by
our own house Of lords. The reasons
given why a man should not be per-
mitted to marry his deceased wife's
sister Wo leain from the debates that
have followed the passage of the bill
The independent., 1907-03-28

Politics In the American Balkans
are not so different from our own.
Aside from the question of who stole
that mule, there is a strip of ter
ritory In dispute between Nicaragua
and Honduras, franchise TO a tract
of land, to put II another way. The
president OF Nicaragua finding Pres
ident BoniIla intractabe In settling
the boundary dispute proposed 10 de-
pose him and set a man In the presi-
dents chair who will be generous with
Nicaragua and her claims. The pro-
iogous situation In this country, ex~
cept that armies take the place there
of political machines here. The SUR
prise ~ the campaign has been tho
seeming fact that some real light
ing has taken place. THE way Ssn-
trail American soldiers are commonly
recruited has been exampied IN the
dispatch OF n one time recruit
Ing ofilccs TO hIa commander: Il am
The independent., 1907-03-28

sending you one hundred men. FIease
send back the ropes with which they
are tied, as I will need them for
the next lot of volunteers 1t must
have taken heavy expenditures Of
white eye," as the native brandy is
called, to sustain the courage and
patriotism of an army SO recruited
to the point of penetrating an eight
day wilderness In a conquering march
upon the Honduras capital.
The independent., 1907-03-28
TOO GENTLE.

They were talking about fads.
Suppose should bring you Roose-
welt bear?" ventured the young man.
"Oh, / wouldn't care for a Roosevelt
bear replied the pretty girl.
And why not, my dear?"
Because Roosevelt bears can't hug"
And then the young man took the
hint.
The independent., 1907-03-28
BRAVE GIRL.

The ship was sinking
"A rocket" beloved the captain.
Ny kingdom for a rocket"
But the wild waves answered not.
Suddenly Nettie, the candy mill girl,
rushed forward
Here. captain" she said, dramat-
ically, take my hairpin."
Your hairpin, little girl? What use
could | make OF your hairpin?n
''ft Is eelluloid. Light 1t and 1t will
prove to be a beacon
And the brave captain lit the hair
pin and saved the ship.
The independent., 1907-03-28
Did Not Even Hear 1t.

Edith (the heroine)--And can you
forgive me?
George (the hero)-Can you ask, my
darling?
Edith-Georgei !
George-E,dith!
lNote-This dialogue Is printed for
the benfit of the man who really wants
to hear the last line Of a play. PUCK
The independent., 1907-03-28

No matter how much man ad-
nircs his wife he never gives her
credit for enough mechanical ingen-
uity to accomplish anything more diff
ticult than fitting cork in a fug
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-03-15
FARMS IN SOUTH DAKOTA
Diversity OF Interests Found Mixed Farming Is Generally
- practiced Large Ranches D.voted 10 Stock Raising
Well Equipped Diaries Yield Good Profits.

are still LAany choice tracts to be Sc
cured at figures which seem to be
ridiculously cheap to those who are
accustomed to prices in the older
states.
While a large part of the school
lands in the county have already been
sold. there remain yet many rich acres
which will at some future day be of.
fered for sale to the highest bidder,
and fortunate will be the man who
obtains them.
F1andreau is the seat of the county
government, and its citizens number
about 1900. 1t is considered one OF
the important cities of the Sioux val
ley, and we'll deserves the distinction,
q site is progressive, and its business
enterprises and we'll financially, in
creasing in extent and influence each
year. 1t has good schools, and there
are several religious denominations
represented in its churches. The
homes are pretty, comfortable and at
tractive, and city building lots are t O
be purchased at prices which place
them within the reach OF ambitious
young men who wish to own their
homes while establishing themselves
in business. Flandreau offers excel
lent opportunities for investment of
capital in either wholesale or retail
lines, for the demand for merchandise
of all kinds is steadily growing
throughout the state, and the large
cities OF the eastern counties will ma
turally become the distributing cen
ters for the country districts.
One of the schools which the gov
eminent maintains for the higher
education of the Indians is located at
Flandreau.
Country Well Watered.
Moody county is watered by numer-
Gus small tributary streams of the
Sioux river. which flows from north
to south, dividing it into almost equal
portions. The government figures,
taken at %Flandreau, for the rainfall
in this portion of the valley from
April to August, 1905, inclusive, give
22.69 inches, the highest amount
reached in this part Of the state.
Crops are excellent throughout the
county, cattle raising is carried on
to a considerable extent, and dairy
ing yields fine returns At the annual
meeting Of the F%landreau Cooperative
creamery, held last month, the re-
ports showed that the business was
in a frst-class financial condition,
The creamery, which is established at
Egan, also had a very prosperous year
during 1906. The aggregate amount
of cream purchased was 259,23a
pounds, for which the farmers re
ceived $15.343.
Prosperity is general throughout the
county, and the farm houses are com
Portable and often supplied with many
of the modern equipments to lighter
the labor of the housewife. There
are extensive lines Of rural free de
livery OF mail which keeps those who
live on farms distant from the towns
in touch with the outside world.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-03-15
CASE OF ECZEMA IN SOUTH.
Suffered Three Years-Hands and Eye
Most AHected-Now Well and Is
Grateful t Cuticura.

my wife was taken badly with &C.
zema for three years, and she en-
ployed a doctor with no effect at all
until she employed Cuticura Soap
and Ointment. One Of her hands
and her left eye were badly affected.
and when she would stop using Gu
ticura Soap and Ointment the eczema
came back, but very slightly; but it
did her a sight Of good. Then we
complied with the instructions in US
ing the entire set of Cuticura Rene
edies and my wife is entirely recov-
cred. She thanks Cuticura very much
and will recommend it highly in our
locality and in every nook and cor
ner of our parish. God bless you for
the sake Of suffering humanity. I. M.
Robert. Metropolis, La, Jan. S and
Sept. 1, 1906"
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-03-15
THE II O FAMILY.
Mother Finds a Food for Grown-Ups
and Children as Well.

Food that can be eaten with relish
and benefit by the children as well
as the older members Of the family,
makes a pleasant household commod-
tty.
Such a food is Grape-Nuts. 1t not
only agrees with and builds up chill
dren, but older persons who, from bad
habits of eating, have become dyspep-
tic.
A Phila. lady, after being benefited
herself persuaded her husband to try
Grape-Nuts for stomach trouble. She
writes:
About eight years ago I had a Sc
we're attack of congestion Of stomach
and bowels. From that time on, l
had to be careful about eating, as
nearly every kind of food then known
to me, seemed to cause pain.
-Four years ago I commenced to
use Grape-Nuts. l grew stronger and
better, and from hat time / seldom
have been without it; have gained in
health and strength and am heav
fer than l ever was.
my husband was also in a bad con
dition-his stomach became so weak
that he could eat hardly anything with
comfort. l got him to try Grape
nuts, and he soon found his stomach
trouble had disappeared.
my girl and boy, 8 and 9 years old
do not want anything else for break
fast but Grape-Nuts, and more healthy
children cannot be found" Name
given by Postum Co., Battle Creek
Mich. Read the little booklet, "The
Road to Wellville," in pkgs. There's
Q reason"
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-03-15
GENERAL BREAKDOWN
A Condition Which Or. Williams Pink
Pills, the Great Blood Tonic, Have
Been Curinu for Years.

There is no more p%erplexing trouble
TOR a. physician to treat than debility
cases, especially in women, In which
there is no q RE disease but in which
the patient every day sinks lower and
lower despite changes of medicine and
similar experiments.
That DR.. Williams Pink Pills win
restore hc"lth under these conditions
is no speC lation but the fact has been
proved in hundreds of cases similar
to that of Mrs. Sarah Ramsey. of 1908
st. John St, Litchtield, Ill. She says
Il never felt we'll after my first
child was born. l had a gnawing pain
in my stomach and could not hold any
food down. My head ached a great
deal and sometimes the pain went all
through my body. l had dizzy spells
SO that l could not stand and seemeo
to be half blinded with pain. These
spells would often last for over an
hour. My blood seemed to be in a
very poor condition and my hands and
feet We're like ice. l seemed to be
growing weaker and weaker and could
not get around to do my work in
the house. l was extremely nervous
| and the least excitement would bring
on a dizzy spell.
For a number OF years l was under
a doctors care but seemed to get no
better. | had heard about DR.. Will
liams' Pink Pills and began to take
them. I soon felt better and gained
In weight and strength. My nerves
are strong now and l am a we'll woman
in every way"
DIR. Williams Pink Pills are sold
by all druggists or will be sent. post
paid. on receipt of price. so cents per
box, six boxes for $3.50, by the DR..
Williams Medicine Company. Science
tady, N. Y. A booklet of valuable in
formation, entitled "Plain Talks to
Women" sent free on request.