The independent., 1907-03-28

THE NEBRASKl
sciences of conscientious men, an open
saloon wouldn't be allowed to run In tnat
city longer than twentyfour hours IL
| is amazing what bad things good people
will do for money
For the last few days the wind sounds
| a little like six weeks without rain.
The movement on foot to secure fewer
and fuller churches ought to meet with
as general and enthusiastic an endorse
nent as a te-wide primary.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich needs no eulogy.
/ His work speaks for him. He wrote
saney and sweetly, and kept near enough
the earth to he always comrreaensipie.
The Japs and Russians are getting to-
/ gether, but not in the way they behaved
| on the plains of Manchuria. The new
| deal is an alliance looking to the preSer-
| walton of a worldwide peace.
| Yesterday we lodged another book
agent, but there was a feeling all the
| afternoon that he might come back any
minute and compel us to take shelf
| full OF books and pay for them on the
| nstallment plan. LifeS perils are SO
many it is wonder any Of us can sleep
| when night comes.
A friend writes, why don't you give
us a few limericks now and then. for
chance?" Too easy. When one receives
salary for writing If the amount.is In
in excess of $3.50 per week there should
be an effort to rise above the vulgar and
commonplace in poetical composition.
Tha limerick is not recognized as hign
class literature. though it may give forth
a musical sound and satisfy In a way
the desire 10 be amused, as for instance,
describing the lover of fun.
| There was young fellow named Sapp
The Schuyler Sun can see where a
move to make the saloons keep WITHIN
the limits of the law would be the proper
thing 1t would be proper enough
but impossible. Under the Slocumb law
saloons could not live were the provisions
of that measure observed to the letter.
The law says that liquor shall not be
sold to an inebriate, or one who Is not
Of legal age. How many saloons could
do business in Omaha but for the pat
ronage OF distinguished number of old
soaks who would account 1t crime to
go home sober? And how many cease
selling to a man because he Is intox1-
Gated? The saloon keeper who warns
his customer that he has on as heavy
a cargo as the ship will carry is the
rare exception. If the Slocumb law were
strictly enforced IN all its provisions, ten
public drinking places would suffice for
the city of Lincoln, and these would
complain of business depression and
other ominous signs of financial panic.
The buds are out too early in the spring;
| A little frost would be a blessed thing
! To check the growth which, If it keeps
on now,
Will get setback later anyhow
We need to pray, Preserve us from the
| chill
That settles down on valley and on hill
| apace
And other tender fruits are in the race"
A spring that springs too swiftly to the
fore
And that is why I'd rather it would
Than stay like this, at 6s degrees;
Then suddenly drop down to 26
And nip the plums and kill the peaches
Blk.
AT Mankato Mimi, on the 18th inst,
a great man passed from earth. Rev.
1 John H. Cieszynsky was born in Poland
/ fifty years ago, and came to his coun-
/ among strangers. He couldn't speak the
! language of the country, but he could
work, and he did work at anything he
! could get to do to earn an honest dol
| lar, and ne app4led MS earnings 70 sccur-
! ing an education. For several years he
attended Pillsbury academy at Ovation
ma. Then he applied at st. Thomas col
lege as candidate for the priesthood.
Seven years later he was ordained by
Bishop Cotter, and began career which
in many respects has been most remark
able. AS a young man he noted the
terribly demoralizing effect of the liquor
drinking habit upon his own people ana
allied himself with the advocates of to-
tal abstinence. The result of his iabors
along that line are most far-reaching.
| whole communities have given up the
vice of intemperance responsive TO nus
esrnest apueais for a sober citizenship.
II is a pleasure to pay word OF tribute
to the memory of such man. The
world needs more of them.
A good hotel is the noblest work Of
man. and the little village OF Davenport,
in Thayer county, has two OF them. Beds
that q ra ~ tn slaen in clean table linen,