The love of freedom that brought into the open of western Nebraska the people who here reside would not brook the threat against the liberty of the world. Those militarists that would build out of the war a war machine for the United States had better pause and take count. The world loves those who leave the plow and the marts of I trade in time of stress but no affection is wasted upon the "regular" soldier and none upon those who bring into our peaceful communities the constant reminder of strife and the arrogance of military caste.

Arcadian Delights

Those were splendid years of the long ago,

when the violinists of the valley were Ed.

Stemler. who played with the fiddle upside

down, and pulled the bow with his left hand.

There were Lee Livingston, Ed. Wright, Runey Campbell, and the Shobar string band. In the absence of better music Jim Pogue plied the bow across the strings ; Wellington Clark played the "dulcimer" on occasion. Phil Jurish led all the rest at jig dancing. He was not alone in the art for Wyatt Heard, Will Ashford, and others, could rattle the clogs. Down the valley there was an old lady named Mrs. Mclntyre who could dance like a devotee of the footlights. I would like to have the old crowd back again, to celebrate the Fourth in Wright's Gap, as we did in 1887; or to dance at Abbott's, or Wright's, or Livingston's, or Ashford or on Pleasant Hill.