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The San Francisco call., 1910-11-30

WANTED-SsO 5000 choice mortgage at G per
cent ~on $1,000 ranch. hours ride from city.
Apply 10 FRUITVALE REALTY CO. corner
Fruitvale av. and Washington St. Fruitvale.
LOAN of $500 for six months from private party:
ample security; strictest Investigation Box
260 Call office
The San Francisco call., 1910-11-30
MONEY WANTED

WANTED-MONEY TO LOAN on gilt edged
first mortgages real estate worth double
the amount loaned: interest TO per cent
per snnum; we have a number of good appli-
cations from 81 900 to $50. 600. TALK IT
OVER WITH Us.
EDWARDS. BREWSTER & CLOVER,
Rotunda. Mills bldg.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-10-14

the future and saw the approval OF
would not be obscured by the passions
and excitement of the moment. When
the news of his death reached Missouri
there was an entire change of senti-
ment and all classes united to do
honor to his memory. They then real
ICED that the mightiest man of Mis-
souri, was dead, the man who lowered
above friends and foes. All the state
was in mourning and his funeral at
st. Louis was attended by more than
forty thousand people.
Saved Missouri to Union.
1t was the fight Benton made that
enabled others, when the war came,
to keep Missouri in the Union. II Mis-
souri, had seeded there probably
would have been a different story to
tell than that which came from Apo
mattox.
So Benton won life's battle by sim
pie honesty, by perseverance, by hav-
ing ideals and remaining true to them
in sunshine and in shadow. His infiu.
ence will be felt for good as long as
this republic lasts, and the failure to
secure political preferment at the end
of his life by giving up the fight &C
centuates the grandeur of his charac.
ter. He lost for the moment, but In
losing he gained for all time. For him
there was victory in defeat. The les.
son Of his life is-it is not essential
always to win, but 1t is essential to
keep the faith.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-10-14

for a protective duty on lead, which
was largely produced In Missouri. In
this he made the mistake that has
been made by so many senators and
congressman of this day, who say they
oppose protection, but vote for pro-
lection on the products Of their own
states, thereby placing themselves In
the position of not being able to sue
cessfully question the justice Of the
demand of those in other states for a
larger share of protection for them
selves.
After the election of Andrew Jack
son to the chief magistracy Benton be-
came the right arm of that great presi-
dent. In the ATTEMPTED notification
Of the tariff laws by South Carolina.
Benton made effective Jackson's ulti.
matum to that state demanding sub
mission to the law, by engineering the
passage of a compromise tariff bill
which stopped everybody from talking
of fighting, but satisfied nobody.
Fought United States Bank.
Jackson's greatest battle was
against the United States bank, which
he declared must either be put out of
business or 1t would run the govern
nent. Benton led this fight in the
senate. He brought up the question
in 1881 by submitting resolution to
the effect that it was not expedient to
re-charter the bank. The war against
the bank ragged fiercely for years. 1t
had many powerful adherents and OBJ
tanned the support of number of
members of congress, as was shown
later by investigation, through what
amounted to brazen bribery in the
way of favoritism on loans. In the
midst of the fight the presidential cleo
ton of 1892 took place and Jackson
was triumphantly reelected. Shortly
after this Jackson made an order with
drawing the public funds sfrom the
bank. This precipitated tremendous
public uproar and the senate adopted
resolution censuring Jackson for
the act Benton Immediately began a
fight TO expunge this resolution from
the record. and finally. in the last days
of the Jackson administration, the mo-
ton prevailed amidst great excitement
and the resolution of censure was ex-
plunged by having black border
drawn around it and across its face
the words: "Expunged by order of the
senate, January 16. 1887" Jackson
deeply appreciated the value of Ben.
! tons support and years later, on his
deathbed, said to friend: Tell Col
Benton | am grateful"
Benton was the supporter of Jack.
sons successors to the presidency
par ticularly Of Van Buren, and Polk
but after Andrew Jackson, the presi
dents up to the Civil war welded lit
tie influence compared with those be
fore, and were largely engaged in a
game of hide and-seek on the slavery
| question.
In 1S4S the aEtiBentonites carried a
majority of the Missouri legislature
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-10-14

Viborg Is barely eighty miles from
Petersburg and yet l awaken today in
another world in coy hotel bed
room. It's windows overlook a scene
more suggestive of sunny Spain or
Italy than the frozen north.
The picturesque town nesting
against background of pine forest
and blue waters Of the harbor spar
king under cloudless sky, the wood
ed islets with their pretty villas, the
ruined castle of viborg, with its crum-
bling thirteenth-century battlements,
and last but not least the general air
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-10-14

and a resolution was passed demand
ing that slavery be permitted to exist
in territory north Of the Missouri COM
promise boundary and instructing the
senators to vote accordingly. Benton
denounced this resolution as treason
able and refused to obey it. He said
it did not represent the sentiment OF
the people of the state and he appealed
from the Missouri legislature to the
Missouri people. The struggle was bit
ter end intense. AS Benton was up
for reelection, it being the close OF
his fifth term as senator, the ehort
was to control the legislature which
was to elect the senator for the fol-
lowing term. Neither side obtained
majority of the members and a dead
lock resulted to be broken by the anti
Benton Democrats combining with the
Wings and bringing about Benton's
defeat.
The old warrior was not dismayed
and kept up the fight In 1852 he was
sent to the lower house Of congress
from st. Louis as a Union Democrat.
For thirty years he had been absolute
dictator in the politics Of Missouri.
His word was final, and his wishes
law, but the tide had turned, and for
the remaining years Of his life set
steadily against him. Yet at no time
in his career does Benton present a
more inspiring figure than when, with
his back to the wall, crowded on every
side by foes, he continued to battle for
the principles he believed in. BY COM
promising and by trucking to the pub
lie sentiment of his state he could
have regained his seat In the senate,
but he would have lost the love and
admiration due the brave man who
prefers defeat with the right to VIC
tory with what he considers wrong.
Benton's mannerisms were marked
and did not tend to make him popular
with the masses. He seemed egot1s-
teal to the point of absurdity, yet in
him it was merely exaggerated SELF
respect To the casual observer stern
and pompous, he was gentle and ten
der-hearted to those who knew him
we'll. His public and private life were
above reproach. His high sense OF
honor as a public servant, his incor-
ruptible integrity. his unwavering adj
herence at whatever cost to the prin-
| ciples he believed in, his powerful in
tellect and his aggressive energy COM
bined to make him fighter eminently
qualified to lead and represent the
militant people of the West in the first
| half of the last century.
He was defeated for reelection to
the house in 1854, and in 1856 became
the candidate of the Union Democrats
for governor, and ran third in the
race. He was now "a years old, but as
vigorous and robust as ever. Without
lamenting his fate or the peoples In
gratitude. he cheerfully took up the
! completion of . his Thirty Years
View" giving a mental picture of the
importsnt events in the history Of our
countr. with which he had been con-
nected. In 1858 he died in Washing
ton. undismayed by the storm OF pub
lie misunderstanding that had wreck
ed his political life. He looked into
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-10-14

place to pennies and marks. the latter
being equal to French franc. The
contrast is especially noticeable as
regards towns and their inhabitants.
Thus there are few cities in European
Russia which do not appear dreary
and depressing to stranger. Moscow
and Odessa are exceptions, for the
first named is undoubtedly pictures
que. while the gardens, bouievards
and well-paved thoroughfares of the
other present a striking contrast. to,
say, Kharkoff, with its general i'm
preston of gloom, and even squalor
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-10-14
The Mystery Of q Duel.

Having fought his duel and saved
his honor by firing shot in the air.
the editor of a French provincial
newspaper went back to bis desk and
the incident had quite left his mind
when he felt something strange in
his thigh. He looked and found that
he was bleeding profusely.
A doctor was called. who discov-
cred that a bullet was embedded In
the editors thigh some two inches
deep and required extraction. why
was this not taken notice of on the
spot where the duel took placer
he asked. The editor was as much
In the dark as the doctor. At the me
ment of the duel he had fired int0
the air and his adversary also toof
a distracted sort of aim. There had
evidently been no intention Of doing
the slightest harm on either side.
The editor felt nothing as he left
the field and had shaken hands with
his antagonist as sign of reconcilia-
ton. How a bullet came to be lodged
In his thigh was simply one Of the
mysteries of dueling.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-10-14

of life and animation are indeed pleas
ant to contemplate after the drab,
dreary streets of the Russian capital.
Viborg is, perhaps, the least imposing
of all Finnish towns, for many of It's
dwellings are built Of wood, which,
however, is generally stained dark
red color, cleaner and more cheerful
looking than rough, weather-bleached
logs.
Pleasant also is it to- saunter
through the picturesque old streets. to
ransack the silver shops and come
suddenly upon market place lying In
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-10-14

on the road with a
wagon show SO
years. When inter
viewed at his home
in Winfield. Kans.,
he said: II con.
tracted kidney trou.
BILE in the war, and
suffered intensely
for twelve years.
Backache was Sc
severe l could hard.
ly walk and my
rest was broken by
distressing urinary
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-10-14
BRIGHT SCENES IN FINLAND
r'easant Change for Traveller After
the Dreary Cities of European
Russia.

This pleasant picture of Viborg. Fin
and' Is from a recent book by Harry
ae Whdt: There are few countries
20 absolutely dissimilar (save CLIMATE
saiiy) rs Russia proper and Finland.
INerytaing is different, commencing
WIN the currency. for rubles and ko-
peks have now disappeared to give
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-10-14

the shadow of quaint old gabled
houses, where the rosy-cheeked peas
ants, carts and cobbles and canDas
booths packed with fruit and vegeta'
bles recall some old-world town In far
away Brittany. Everything has a
clearly, bright appearance, and the
fresh. pine-scented sea breeze is CRATE
full indeed after muggy. inodorous
Petersburg"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-10-14

trouble. Doan's Kidney Pills cured me
and my cure has been permanent for
five years. This is remarkable as
am in my 83rd year."
Remember the name-Doan's.
For sale by all dealers. SO cents q
box.
Foster-Milburn Co.. Fuffalo. N. Y.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-10-14
AN OlD-TIME CLOWN.

J. 3. AgIer, (Tony Parker,) Praises
Doan's Kidney Pills.
Mr. Agler is one of the best known
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-10-14

Now that the comet has not killed
anybody, let US turn our attention to
July 4.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-10-14

Another Boom for the Crops.
Not many delegates appeared al
the Esperantist congress that met IN
Kansas"
mo. Most of them stopped OF ane
hired out as harvest hands,"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-10-14

Say. Mister, ter decide a bet. how
often does youse eat day? l seq six
Teen times and Johnnie seq about
tent"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-10-14
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INSIDE of Missouri the
home of Thomas II. Ben
ton, United States sena-
tor from 1921 to 1851, Is
known only to the stu
dent of history. Web
ster, Clay and Calhoun
are familiar words
everywhere, yet Benton
served In the United
States senate longer
than any of these, and
was reSDO1is fble for
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-10-14
Strategy.

Bessie-But didn't you say II George
tried to kiss you. why. you wouldn't
stand for It?
Peggy-I didn't. IL sat down IN
hammock.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-10-14
Not Responsible.

Nurse-Whats that dirty mark on
your leg, Master Frank?
Frank-Harold kicked me.
Nurse-Well, go at once and wash
1t of.
Frank-Why? 1t wasn't me what
did it!-Punch.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-10-14

Dr. Pierce, Pellets. small, suear-coafe:. easy TO
take canGy, regulate and invgorste stomach
liver and bowels. DO not grippe.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-10-14

A woman is judged by the society
she's unable to get into.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-23
Otoe County Weddings.

NEBRASKA CITY, Neb., Feb. 22-(Spe-
ciaD-Olen Brunes and Miss Ella Schra-
der, two popular young people were unit
ed in marriage at the home of the brides
parents, near Talmage lase evening. They
will make their future home on a farm
owned by the groom near that place.
This morning at the home of the brides
parents, at UnadIlla, Amy G. Warnock, one
OF the wealthy young farmers residing near
unbar was united in marriage to Miss
Hannie R. Duncan, a wfl-to-do and pOpu-
lar young lady.
Arthur c. Brauermieir, one of the lead
ing young farmers In the vicinity of Sy-
rGcluse. was united In marriage last eve
ming to Miss Clara w Lorenz, a daughter
of one of the leading farmers Of that sec
ton. The wedding was a very elaborate
affair and was attended by nearly a hun
dred guests. The young people left for the
Pacific couast on their wedding trip.
Vern u. Cory. OF Wyoming precinct. was
united in marriage at high noon today, al
the home Of the brides parents, in that
precinct to Miss Agnes Davis The young
people have gone southtO spend their hon.
ey moon.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-23
Office Holders
Lock Their Doors,
But Keep Busy
Washington's Birthday Proves Holt
day for Few, Though There is
Semblance of Festivity.
CFrom a staff Correspondent

LINCOLN, Feb. 22.-(Special)-The ami
versary Of the birth of George Washington
was observed generally at the state house,
in various ways, according to the char
acteristics of the officeholder. For instance,
the labor commissioners office was closed
all day, as the commissioner belongs to the
union. The office of the treasurer also
was closed, for he could not pay out and
take in money on a holiday. Several other
offices were closed officially, though behind
closed doors busy clerks kept at work, per-
hitting the heads Of the department to
hug the fires, while in other offices busy
clerks quit and permitted the heads of the
departments to do the work.
There was no Inspiration for any one to
go out and cut down a cherry tree unless
that spirit came to Colonel Furse. private
secretary to the governor. He had cause to
cut down a cherry tree or do something
just as desperate.
Now it happened that yesterday gave
some indication of pretty weather for to-
day, and acting on that .hunch, the woman
who does washing for the family of Colonel
Furse concluded the bright sunshine was
the place in which to dry clothes, and so
she passed up that nice dry, warm base
mcnt and carried those clothes out in the
backyard and there she left them Hopping
playfully in the breezes.
They were Hopping there this morning,
not playfully it is true, but angrily. AS he
huddled closer under the blankets the
colonel could hear the wind as it grew from
the gentle ''whe-o-o-o' to the dignity of a
siren whistle and In the mighty roar and
buster he heard the call of those clothes;
ne heard the rattle of the frozen seams and
the ripping off of buttons and he had
visions Of a search Of the neighborhood for
what was his.
Thus did Colonel Furse awake on this
glad day of the nations history.
The thought of Va ley Forge came TO him;
then the thought of the cherry tree. And
knowing that history said persons had lived
through such weather he hied himself forth
and gathered IN that washing.
Colonel Furse had left the house before
the washerwoman returned and there were
no casualties. He is still being urged to
run for congress in the Fifth district.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-23
Nebraska

should have been amended is chapter SO
OF the 1905 session laws.
The matter was called to the attention
OF the secretary Of state by c. r. Abbott,
a naorney Of Fremont. who desired a COM
parison made Of the enrolled bill and the
session laws. Mr.. Abbott said he had been
instrumental in getting this amendment
adopted and he would be very much dis
appointed IL there had been a blunder.
The original bill is like the session laws,
so Mr.. Abbott is disappointed.
The mistake IN the bill occurs in an
amendment offered by Wilson Of Polk
county.
Traction Line Backs Up.
The Lincoln Traction company decided
today that It would not force patrons to
walk a block from Eighteenth and o to
Eighteenth and N streets to use a transfer
from the o to the South Eighteenth street
line. This has been the practice Of the
company for some time. but so many pro-
tests were filed with the railway commits
sion and so many complaints heard that
after a hearing the company notified the
commission that It had backed up from it's
practice. This saved the commission the
trouble of making an order in the case.
Regiments to- Fort Riley.
Adjutant General Hartigan desires very
much that both regiments Of the Nebraska
National Guard go to Fort Riley for the
encampment which has been changed from
September to August 10. He has written
the War department to see just how many
men he will be permitted to bring along,
but as yet has received no reply.
No compan whose men and officers
number less than forty-three will be per
United to go, so companies Will a less
number will be forced to recruit up to
past that number or be left at home.
Should both regiments be permitted to
attend the maneuvers it will require six
trains to accommodate the troops. There
will be no mobilization of the guard. the
companies boarding the trains at their
nearest point,
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-23
The. Midwest Life

In the February, 1910, issue of Best's
Life Insurance News is an editorial en-
titled Concentrates of Wealth, :" 1t treats
~ some of THE dangers and evils which
follow the undue concentration of wealth
at any one point or in the control4of any
comparatively small group OF men, Speak
ing OF the largest OF the Big Three" com
paries of New York the article continues:
Thus in the brief space of two years this
institution increased Its accumulated
assets from $4sl, 4OS, sos to $3.50, 7OS, S26. At the
present rate of increase its directors will
have under their control within seven or
eight years One Billion Dollars of the most
liquid assets; and probably within fifteen
years more that sum will have grown to
Two Billion Dollars. such is the accelera-
tive effect OF compromising interest"
The west has done her part in building
up these great eastern companies. What
advantage can come to Nebraska by max
ing them bigger? The Midwest Life of
Lincoln offers life insurance at as low or
lower premium rate than they do. Money
paid 1t stays in Nebraska.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-23
Maniac Stole Gun
to Shoot Brother
Salem Essey Then Attempted to
Choke Another Brother to
Death.

BURWELL. Neb., Feb. 22.-(Speclal Tele-
gr~am.)-Salem Essy, the demented man
that attempted to murder his two brothers
in the north part Of the county is now in
jail. He was in charge of a brother and
broke away and went to a neighbor's
house and stole a gun. He then returned
and shot one brother twice at a distance
of a few rods and then assaulted the other
brother and would rave choked him to
death but for the arrival of neighbors,
who found It necessary to beat him into
insensibility to subdue him. Thomas Essy,
the man that was shot, is resting easy
and the doctors report that he will re-
cover. Salem Essy will be sent to the
asylum.
Some few weeks ago Salem Essy was be-
fore the insanity board. but the commits
sioners did not find him serious enough,
as they thought, to send to the asylum
and his brother and sister agreed to care
for him.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-23
STRENGTHENING THE ELkHoRN
Board of Directors of Drainage Dis
trfct Holds Meeting n .
I'D. Waterloo, ID


WATERLOO, Neb., Feb. 22.-(Special Tel
egram.--The board of directors OF the Elk
horn Valley drainage district was in ses-
sion here today, giving a final hearing to
a number of land owners in the district in
relation to assessments for the work to be
done throughout the district. The assess
ments will raise in the aggregate about
$12O, 900, and the work includes the straight
ening of the Elkhorn river from the north
line of Douglas county to the mouth Of
the river in Sarpy county, reducing the
length of the same about one-third, or
from twenty to twenty-one miles, and dig
ging of main bitches through the bottoms
between the Platte and Elkhorn rivers, be-
sides miles OF laterals leading to these
bitches.
Construction work begun last fall will be
resumed early in the spring and the con-
tract calls for the completion of the same
by December l OF this year. The district
was organized in March. 1909.
Members of the board, all present today,
are as follows; c. b. Compton, president;
]. w. Hall, secretary; J, c. Robinson,
treasurer; p. j. Langdon, vice president.
w. j. COPYRIGHT of Fremont, the lawyer
who drew up the bill which became a law
in 1907, and under which the district was
formed, is attorney for the district, being
also attorney for two districts in Dodge
county. Roy N. fowl of the FOWL Engi-
neering company of Omaha, is the engineer
for the district. Both were at the meeting
today. Engineer Skimmerhorn Of the Union
Pacific was also present in the interest OF
the railroad company, and the commits
sioners of Sarpy county were also present
to confer with the board over the assess
ment for road benefits on the part of the
district in Sarpy county.