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ififwénty-First Year.
AN ENJOYING
{l, BRYAN
GREAT PROSPERITY.
e
THE BRILLIANT NEBRASKAN'S INCOME
FIFTY THOUSAND A YEAR.
e
jn Maane? and Dress He Is Unassuming
and Careless as Ever:_ Gives Large
ly to Charitable Instltutes.
The New Haven, Coan., Register
recemlyconmined a descriptive sketch
of William J. Bryan at home in Lin
woln, Neb. Mr. Bryan has lately
moved into & beautiful new house, of
which the Register says:
“Mr. Bryan savs it cost him a little
more than $20,000, aud it is cheap at
shat. 1t is @ well-proportioned build
ng, made of pressed brick and stone
;mTi fitted with hand-carved oak finish
ings throughout.
» [t faces directly westb and contains
ywenty-one rocms, including parlors,
o reception hall and library down
stairs and bedrooms, a nursecy, a
schoolroom and gymnasium upstairs.
“The kitchen is in a connected
yuilding. Eotrance is had by way of
4 great, half-round veranda, leading
\into a beautifuily carved and finished
,all. From the porch oue can see for
many miles in any dirction.
“Fairview is the name by which the
Bryan home will be known. The
pame is appropriate. |
“Although three miles from the
city, the house is fivted with every
rodern convenience. Its owner does
lot eschew luxury in the interior ap
pointment, and costly plumbing, elec
mie lights and artistic decorations,
with city water, make it a thoroughly
modern home. Cement walks and
driveways give easy access to the va
rious buildinge, and seemingly no
money has been spared to make life
within its walls worth living. ;
“Colonel Bryan is a rich man and
rapidly getting richer. He has been
acqused of acquisitiveness, but many
of his critics have unjustly diagnosed
his case. Mr. Bryan likes money and
he bas a keen appreciation of what it
will afford its possessor. He has spent
less than his income every year of his
active life, and it is mow getting so
large as to be almost unwieldy—for
him. % |
“His newspaper is firmly establish
ed. Although he has disdained train
ed business assistance he has made it a
big money maker. Thirty thousand
dollars a year is a conservative esti
mate of his share of profit from it. He
began with 60 thousand circulation,
and now he has twice that number.
He limits his advertising space and
rigidly refuses to give trust-made
goods a place in his advertising col
umos.
“His actual wealth, aside from his
newspaper, whica is paying a good in
terest upon a third of a million, is a
litttle less than $15,000. His vearly
income is not much below $50,000. He
lives modestly and simply, but well.
“A private tutor comes each morn
ing for his two younger children, but
his daughter, Ratb, is a daily attend
_lnt. at the state university, where she
sasophomorse. He has several fine
carriages, but much prefers to use the
fuburban street car that passes within
8 short distance of his home each
hour,
“Much of his writing is done in his
bome. A part of it is dashed off while
00 his lecturing or campaigning tours.
“‘He is little seen about the office of
his paper. This occupies the lower
floor of a down town block. His broth
¢, Charles W. Bryan, is the business
Danager, and one trained newspaper
Tan is the only editorial assistant he
has,
“He still rigidly adheres to his de
rmination to print his opinions upon
trrent political topics in his paper
(LAY TALKS OF DEMOCRACY’'S CHANCES.
Senator A. S. Clay was in Atlaota
betore leaving for Washington Thurs
y night,
. The senator is taking keen interest
I party matters at present and watch
-2 every turn that is being made.
When seen vy a press representa
e and on being asked tor amexpres
"o regardiag the coming struggle
bfore the party, he said:
,“We must have New York, Indiana,
Yew Jersey, Connecticut, Delaware,
Uarylang and the solid south o
tlect the next president. 1 see no
hance 1o carry any of the western
Ylee. Nebraska is a republican
“ate, (daho and Colorado have recent
11’ €one republican, Kansas is over
-I'helmiflizly republican, and if we look
the west to elect a national ticket
"0 years hence, with the present
®ht before us, we have no hope of
Mccess, 1
THE DAWSON NEWS.
AFTER THE «INDIAN’* MONEY.
Copies of Resolution Sent to Rep
resentatives and Senators.
Copies of a resolution passed at the
last session of the general assembly,
calling on Georgia's representatiyes
and senators in congress to endeavor
to secure remuneration for money paid
out in expelling the Cherokee and
Creek Indians from the state in 1837,
have been priunted by the executive
department and will de sent to Wash
-Ington at once.
During the trouble with the Indians
Gov . Gilmer sent two Georgia com
panies to the Cherokee county to co
operate with the United States troops.
The expenses of these were paid from
the state treasury, the total amount
being $5,924.54, and this is what con
gress will be asked to pay back to the
state.
THIS MAN WENT CRAZY.
Advertising Caused His Business
to Grow Too Fast.
A New York paper says that Alfred
Perts, the wall paper man, has gone
crazy, becanse his business grew so
fast that he was unable to take care of
it. During the past two vears the
business has increased at the rate of
81,000,000 a year. The sad case of this
man illustrates what it means to ad
vertise consistently and persistently.
He got the notion into his head that
by advertising, principally in the
newspapers, he could increase his
business and make a fortune. He
tried it. He spent hundreds for ad
vertising, and thousands came rolling
into his place of business. Then he
spent thousands for publicity, and tens
of thousands were the result. And
after awhile his busincss reached into
millions—all because of the folly of
advertising ! If he had nov advertised
he might bave continued to eke out an
existence in a small shoo and remain
so poor that he couldn’v afford to lose
his mind. As it is, he advertised and
became a millionaire, and lost bis mind
because the money was coming to him
so fast that he didn’'t know what to do
with it. His fate should prove a warn
ing to all who have not the capacity to
stand prosperity to ayoid advertising
as they would the plague.
QUARANTINE OF CATTLE.
Texas Fever Guarded Against by
Southern Quarantine.
The secretary of agriculture has
issued the annual order establishing a
quarantine against a number of south
ern and western states on account of
the southern or Texas fever. The
quarantine against Texas and Okla
homa is made u month earlie this year
taking effect Jan. 1, but it is notopera
tive against the other states until Feb.
1. Except in this respect the pro
visicns of the order are indentical with
thac in previous years. The perscrib
ed territory includes Arkansas, Ten
nessee, Virginia and all states south of
them. \
and invariably denies himself to the
interyiewer. He attends a little
Methodist chapel in the near by town
of Normal, no Presbyterian church
being in the neighborhood.
“In manner and dress he is as unas
suming and careless as ever, and he
goes about among his fellow citizens,
sometimes with a mailsack half full of
exchanges overthis shoulder, without
exciting comment.
‘““He gives largely to charitable and
benevolent organizations, and is free
with his purse to campaign commit
tees. He is getting a great deal of en
joyment out of his life, and be looks it.
And his bank account is growing larg
er each day.”
- “New York can probably be carried
‘ democratic. We only lost that state
by a small vote in the recent guberna
‘torial election, and the republican
pominee, the present governor, was
probably stronger than his party.
““At the present time:it is impossi
ble to say who the democrats ought to
pominate. Coaditions may change.
With the present lights before us I
think Parker and Gorman the strong
est men in the party, and if we cannot
succeed with one or the other of these
distinguished gentlemen then I see
no other available candidate.
“If tbe democratic party sbouid be
overwhelmingly defeated ia the next
national election, then the party will
be seriously crippled for future useful
ness. We must nominate a strong
ticket and one that will make a strong
race; an overwhelming defeat means
ruin.”
Dawson, Ga., Wednesday, January 7, 1903.
LIQUOR DEALERS MUST PAY 1902 TAX.
Blind Tigers, Drug Stores and Others Must Pay. Comptroller Gen
eral Wright Is After Those Who Have Been Dodging the
Tax. Letter or Instructions to Tax Collectors,
~ There are many persons and firms
in Georgia who, it seems, have been
selling liquor and evading the pay
ment of the state license tax of
$2OO, and Comptroller General
Wright is now right after them.
It is the comptroller’s intention
to rout out every liquor dealer of
;e\'ery class who has failed to pay
‘this tax and have a fi fa issued for
its collection.
In pursnance of this resolve he
will be no respecter of persons, and
will call on drug stores and blind
tigers alike to pay tle state $2OO
for the privilege of having sold liq
uor, no matter in what shape or
form, during the year that has just
closed. |
There arc something like 700 re
tailers of liquor m the state who
have United States licenses for that.“
purpose, but who do not pay the
state tax, These include the dmgl
stores where liquor is sold on drug
gists’ prescriptions, steamboat com-‘
panies, blind tigers which do busi
ness in dry counties, and a certain
class of disorderly houses, and the
announcement that the state intends
to proceed against them for the $2OO
tax for 1902 will, no doubt, create
considerable consternation in their
camps. '
In taking this step Comptroller‘
General Wright 1s backed up by‘
the opinion of Attorney General
John C. Hart, who informed himi‘
that all of these classes of persons
who had =old liquor in any shape“
or for any purpose were liable for}
the state tax. |
The comptroller general has se-‘
cured a list of names of many who
have evaded or who have failed to
pay the state tax, aud +he has sent
the list applying to each county to
the tax colloctor of such county
ywith instructions to proceed at once
to collect the state tax for 1902,
Following is a copy of the letter
which was sent to the tax collect,orl
in each {county in the state where,
parties are known to have sold lig
uor withont paying the state tax:
*Dear Sir: I inclose herewith a
list of the names of persons and
firms in your county who, I am in
POPULATION CUT INTWO,
Inhabitants of Northern Coun
tries Rapidly Decreasing.
Twelve years ago, says the Scien
tific American, the Eskimos numbered
300. In 1867 Perry found that their
pnumber had been reduced to 234. Itis
now probable that these most northern
inhabitants of the globe do not exceed
200 in number. This is but one in
stance of a great number that may be
cited. All though the artic region
the inhabitants are fast disappearing.
The Alaskan iZskimos have been deci
mated. When explorers first went
among them their number was believ
ed to be from 2,000 to 3,000. Now it is
thought that hardly more than 50C peo
ple can be counted from Point Barrow
to the Aleutian Islands. The lot of
those unfortunate natives has been
made the harder to bear by reason of
' the destruction of seal life by the whal
ers who harried the Alaskan coast.
' The extermination of the seal, walrus
|and polar bear has likewise done its
share to embitter the cup of the north
'ern races. In southwest Greenland a
‘similar condition of affairs exists. The
110,000 natives are barely holding their
own, although largely aided by Danes.
Labrador natives are likewise decreas
ing. Twenty years ago they number
ed 30,000; now they number barely 13,-
000 souls. Two decades ago the entire
population of the north was estimared
at 30,000. It is probable to day that
the number has been almost cut in
two. ’
HE LIKED THE PIES.
A wealthy farmer of North Dakota
who was visiting in Conpecticut was
so charmed with the Christmas pies
served at his boarding house that he
asked the cook to marry him. She
consented and the weddine took place
at once. It continues true in many in
stances that the way to a man’s hearcl
is down his throat.
formed, have engaged in the sale of
liquor and who appear not to have
,paid their tax for this year. The
information upon which this letter
is based is conclusive that the par
ties whose names I have furnished
you herewith have engaged in the
sale of liquor in your county as
stated. :
«“You will, therefore, immediate
ly call on these parties and collect
’the state tax of $2OO assessed on
‘wholesale and retail dealers in
spirituous or malt liquors, ete.,” by
the laws of this state. The fact
that the sale of liquor may be pro
hibited in your county does not re
lieve any person who may have en
eaged in its sale in violation of the
law from the payment of the state
tax, nor does the payment of said
tax relieve any dealer from the pen
alties of any local or prohibitory
law with reference to its sale in.l
your county.
“Please give this matter prompt
attention. Respectfully,
“Wirriam A, WRIHGT,
“Comptroller General.” l
It will be noticed from the fore
going letter that Comptroller Gen-l
eral Wright does not intend to let
anyone escape who is liable for the
tax. He considers everyone who has
held a United States liceuse to re
tail liquor during 1902 with the ex
ception of social clubs,which, under
a decision of the supreme court,
were exempt, is liable for the tax.
g stores which have been in
the nabit of using liquor to com
pound prescriptions and which have
sold liquor only on physicians’ pre
seriptions have not, heretofore, paid
the tax, but the attorney general
holds they are liable, and they will
be called on to pay for 1902. ‘
Likewise, blind tigers have not
paid because that would have ex
posed .them., but the comptroller
general has secured the names of
many who operate these institutions
and the tax collectors have been in
structed to descend on them and
make them pay up,
Even social clubs must pay the
$2OO tax for 1903, the legislature
at its recent session having special
ly mentioned them in the gencral
tax act. There are a number of |
these institutions which secured
charters for no other purpose than
to avoid the payment of this tax. -
THIS MAN A WONDER.
Sy
He Has Refused a Pension from
the Government.
John Daley of Kansas deseryes to
haye uis name on the roie of fame.
He is a union veteran, yet he has re
fused a pension. One of the hustling
Kansas congressmen secured the pass
age of a private pension bill in his fa
vor, placing him on the rolis at $l2 a
month. The pension bureau sent Da
iey his check and he returned it, say
ing he didn’t want the government’s
aid and that the country was already
paying out too much money for pen
sions. Commissioner Ware was as
tounded. To his mind there could be
but one reason for the refusal of a pen
sion—the man must be crazy. In or
der toascertain what was the matter
with Daley, Commissioner Ware sent a
special agent all the way to Kansas to
inyestigate. The agent found Daley
to be an old and bent man, suffering
infirmities but with a high notion of
right and justice in the pension busi
ness. He didn’t need the govern
ment’s money, he said, and he would
nov take it. But copgress had passed
a bill for his relief, sothe pension of
fice is keeping his money for him in
case he should chanee his mind.
WAS SO GLAD TO GET BACK.
Mrs. Langtry arrived in New York
from Europe last week, and te the first
newspaper reporter for whom she talk
ed she said: *“‘Really, I am glrd to
get back to America. I know that al
most everyone says that, but with me
it is a fact. Do you know that this is
actually the only place in the world
where I cau say ‘bully’ and have the
people understand just what I mean,
and I'm going to say it right now just
for luck. Tt’s just bully to get baek to
America.”” Now, isn't she a bully old
girl ?
/ UNCLE SAM AS A BEE TAMER
Trying to Make the Busy Little
Insect More Gentle.
Uncle Sam is trying to tame the fe
rocious bee now. He is breedingrbees
that it’is hoped will prove more gen
tle than the busy buu irritable bee
that is native to America.
He has been importing some fine
breeding queen bees from Italy and
Cypria and Austria, and has sent them
to bee growers, apriculturists, as they
!call themselves, throughout the coun
try. The Cyprian queen bees have
already done much to make the com
mon black bee ashamed of itself, if the
buzzing busybody can feel shame. For
last year in southern California the
Cyprian bees gathered a fine crop of
flower nectar and produced a very
good amount of honey, while the black
bees did nothing at all.
Cross-breeding between the import
ed and the domestic bee has develop
ed the fact that the foreign bees are
much more gentle than the domestic. I
Although Uncle Sam ;does not carryj
fatherly care for his people so far as
to study how to protect them against
bee stings, he is very glad indeed to
discover a way 1o breed an amiablz2
and sweet terapered bee, for some of
the best American honey gatherers are
80 vindictive ard sour in temper that
they often spoil their honey entirely
and many times go on a strike until
their anger cools off,
INTERSTATE MIGRATION.
Residents Who Abandon States
‘Where They Were Born,
From the National Geographic Magazine.
At least one person in every five na
tive born Americans is living in a
state other than that in which he was
born—a striking instance of the mobil
ity of the peopie of the United States.
The native population of the United
States, according the last census, was
65,843,302, of whom more than one-fifth,
or 21.3 per cent., were living in adopt
ed states. ~ ‘
It is interesting to note the number
of sons and daugnters which the dif
ferent states have sent ont, New
York has sent out more than 1,300,600,
Pennsylvania nearly 1,000,000, Ohio
more than 1,100,000, Illinois over 1,
000,000 and Indiana, Jowa, Kentucky,
Missouri, Tennessee and Virginiaover
500,000 each. Proportionately to her
population Vermont has given to her
gister states more than any other
member of the union. Vermonters
equaling in number nearly one-half
the present nutive population of the
state are living in other states, Vir
ginia, New Hampshire, Nevada, Maine
and Delaware have each sent out num
bers equaling aboutone-third of their
present native population.
Numerically, Illinois has received
more citizens from other statés thap
any other member of the union—near
ly a million: 855,000 have entered Mis
souri, 838,000 Texas and over balf a
million New York and Ohio. The
states that show a pet gain from this
intermigration are Massachusettes,
Rhode Island and Connecticut of the
New England states, New Jersey,
West Virginia and Florida of the At
lantic cost states. The other New
England states and New York, Penn
sylvania and all the Southern states as
far as Mississippi have suffered no
losses. Forcinstance, New York has
had a net loss of 666,000, Ohio 612,000
and Virginia 455,422. Indiana, Illi
nois, Wisconsin and Missouri, the
great states of the Middle west, have
each experienced considerable net
losses, while Michigan Mjinnesota,
lowa, Arkansas, Louisiana, and all the
states west of the Pacific coast have
made gains. Texas has gained the
most jof a 11—629,000. Kansas comes
next with a gain of 422,600 and Calii
fornia third with 364,000.
BOSTON IS NOW TRYING TO GROW COTTON.
A dispatch says so that the pupils in
Boston schools may be able to study
the cotton plant in {ts virious stages
of development from the time it begins
to flower until the bulb sends forth its
fleecy contents, the city has gone into
cotton growing. :
Out io the city greenhouses in Dor
chester Mr. Noogue, the city forester,
has raised .. arly 2,000 of these plants,
which are ¢»ing distributed among the
high and grammar schools ef the city.
Several sechools have already been
supplied, and after the Christmas va
cation is ended the work of distribu
tion will be continued.
The presence of these plants are in
tended as an -adjunct to botanical
study, and afford valuable object les
sons in the development of a product
which by reason of its common em
ployment is of great iaterest.
Number Sixteen.
“I LIKE T 0 PUNCH
NORTHERNERS IN RIBS.”
' Senator Benjamin R. Tillman lectur
ed at the Academy of Music in Macon
Thursday night to a large audience on
the “‘Race Problem.”” He was intro
duced by Congressman Charles L.
| Bartlett, who referred to him as a man
who for many years, both in private
and publie station, had conducted him
self so that he had the love of his
frienas and the respect of his enemies.
The senator began by saying that he
was a close neighbor and had been
much interested in Georgia history:
and for these reasons was very glad to
be present before an audience of Geor
gia people. He also made reference
to his haying married a Georgia girl,
to whose influence, he said, together
with the precepts of his mother, he
owed whatevershe had been able to
accomplish,
He said that he was no orator and
began his addressin a low conversa--
tional style. Buv he warmed up as he
went from point to point until he
reached his characteristic manner of
deliverance, shaking his fist frequent
1y and walking with a slow, monarch
like tread across the stage. He said
that his discourse had been outlined
“mainly for northern counsumption,”
but-he thought that the race problem
was the most serious question con
fronting the country today and that it
was therefore meet that the south
should discuss it in every phase.
He spoke of his trips north and said
that he had never addressed a north
ern audience but that he did not capt
ure at least half of the crowd by sim
ply telling them the plain truth as he
saw it. In this respect, he said, he
had been favorably impressed by the
receptiveness and the fair-mind
edness of the northern people, and it
lhad *‘given him the essence of pleas
ure to stand before them, to drive
.home facts, and to punch them in the
ribs.”’
| ONLY SELF-PRESERVATION.
The speaker discussed at length the
manner in which South Carolina had
been able to throw off the yoke recon
struction government, under which it
groaned for eight years, “while the
band of harpies swept down from the
north like pestilence to curse the
land.” He justified the measures
which were then adopted by the south
to regain the control of the govern
ment from the negro by saying that
they were only obeying the instinct of
self-preservation. He thought also
that constitutional remedies 10 render
null and void the fifteenth amendment
was also justifiable on the same
ground. The declaration was made
that from all that he could discern the
race problem was growing more dan
gerous and threatening, especially in
ite political aspect.
SAYS BOOKER IS MISTAKEN.
Paying his respects to the Booker
Washington idea, he said that it of
fered no solution and that the princi
pal consequence was that it turned
out hordes of skilled negro workmen
to compete with the white man in the
south, and that in the north he would
be treated with less consideration, as
evidenced in the home state of
Abraham [Lincoln, where they were
met at the border with Gattling guns.
He said that education or no educa
tion, whenever the negro came in cos
tact with the white man on equality
there would be ultimately an appeal to
the shot gun.
Each school is supplied with a gen
erous number of plants in different
stages of development.
Several years ago Mr. Doogue be
gan to experiment with cotion seed,
with the result that today he has one
of the most extensive displays of all
interesting plant that .is to be ‘ound
anywhere outside of cotton growing
districts.
One large greenhouse is devoted al
most exclusively to the cuitivation of
these plants, and it is a pretty speeta
cle, these hundreds of slender shrubs
with their green foliage dotted with
bursting balls of snowy white.
The species of cotton plants under
culuiyation by Mr. Doogue is the gos
sypium Barbadense, or sea island cot
ton, long staple. These plants were
originally natives of India, being af
terwards transplanted in the West In
‘dies and thence to the United States.”
