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About The Nebraska advertiser. (Nemaha City, Neb.) 18??-1909 | View Entire Issue (March 8, 1907)
Nebraska Advertiser W. W. SANDIJRS, Prop, NEMAHA, NEBR. TELEGRAPHIC DRIEF9. Somo valuable farthings wore sold at Sotheby's auction room? (London) recently. A Charles II. pewter farth ing Bold for $50, nnd an Ollvor Crom well farthing In copper for $15. As a result of tho wreck of the Now York Central's White PlalnH cx)reB8 ear Bronx park, In which twenty-two persons were killed and more than 1150 wore Injured, daniugo salts aggregat ing 1 1-2 million dollnrs will bo brought aguinst the company. it The vote In tho Toxns senoto on tho charges aguinst Senator Huilcy, Htood 15 ayos, U nays. Tho chargos wero accordingly dismissed In tho upper house. Tho other brunch of tho legislature was not consulted be fore tho voto was taken. President Roosevelt has accepted tho resignation of the second assistant postmaster general, W. S. Shallen bargor. Representative James T. Mc Cleary of Mlnnesotu, who is to retire from Congress at the close of tho pres ent session, will bo appointed as Mr. Fhullcnbarger's successor. i5r From $175000 to $200,000 were stol on from tho Chicago sub'troasury, and tho government detectives havo been working on tho case to Iocato tho thief. Tho money stolon wns In largo denominations. Tho shortage was discovered when the books wero bal anced. r The Houso committee on tho District of Columbia has decided that it will make no re,.,rt on tho Wobhor bill to prevent the manufacture and sale of liquor In the District of Columbia. This Is tho bill which caused the dem onstration by the temperance advo cates In the halls of Congress a fow days ago. ir Mayor Tom Johnson of Cleveland, Ohio, is enthusiastic over tho success of the 3-cent street car fare rate, and looks forwnrd to the time when tho city shall have freo street cars. A proper system of taxation, he says, will make the free street car a success, and then congested districts will dis appear, because the laboring man can then live where he pleases. it When Senator Thomas C. Piatt was questioned at Washington concerning the reportid filing of an action against Mm for divorce by Miss Mae Cather ine Wood his old-time Nemesis In the New York supreme court, he said: "It Is true that a suit for divorce has "been filed. At present I do not care to discuss the case in the newspaper. I deny her allegations In every par ticular. They are as false as false can be." Miss Wood has long been threatening to sue Mr. Piatt for di vorce, claiming to have abundant evi dence that she and the Now York sen ator were married. It is understood that Miss Wood professes to have In her possession one or more letters from the senator which uphold her contention of marriage. Senator Patterson, of Colorado, in an address to the senate, made a plea for government ownership of railroads. He predicted that such a condition would be brought about within the lifetime of the present members of tho senate, but did not anticipate any speedy action in that direction. He aw little or no relief in tho new rato law. Government control of the roads would supply the only remedy, ho said. TTo show the value of his idea, Mr. Pat terson presented figures from fifty-nine countries Bhowlng the presence of government ownership in some form, and he saw a steadily Increasing sen timent in that direction bo far as the United States is concerned. American roads he valued at between 11 and 12 billion dollars. They could be obtained by condemnation proceedings, tho fi nancial end being covered by a mort gage hacked by the government's, guarantee. Mr. Patterson ridiculed tho idea that a vast political machine would be built up through federal op eration of roads. As a matter of fact, he declared, railroad politics -would be abollBhed. Among the beneflts to be alned through ownership, Mr. Patter son mentioned extension of the postal aystem, a postal express and equitable tes. In getting a successor to Wallace Uncle may bo driven to this cxtrem Shouts will quit Panama March 1 the street railways of New York. N uut or oniy two-muis or tiio popu lation of tho United States, more than hulf a million lives wero offoro.l up In 1905 an a sacrlllce to disease. Startling as this death rato may appear, it was less than that for tho preceding year, but was In excess of tho number of deaths registered for any other year. This douth rato Is lower than that of Ireland, Germany and Italy for tho same porlod. but higher than that of England and Wales, Scotland and the Netherlands. The death rate from ne phritis and Bright's disease, apoplexy, diabetes and nppendicltls Is Increas ing, while that from old age, bron chitis, convulsions, peritonitis and scarlet fever is decreasing. The great est denth rate recorded for any one disease In 1905 was that from pulmon ary tuberculosis, amounting to CC.770, while pneumonln follows closely with a death rato of 39,068. exclusive of broncho-pneumonln. The above aro the more interesting facts brought out In a report Issued by the census bureau giving tho stntlstlcs of mortality for 1905. William J. Bryan In a paper on "Our Dual Government" In the Reader mag azine, takes advanced ground. He plants himself squarely against Presi dent Roosevelt on the San Francisco school question and on the proposition for general federal control of all cor porations. It is, however, on anti trust legislation that Bryan takes his most radical stand in a discussion of why It is not necessary to have a new amendment to the Constitution In or der to control monopolies. Congress, Mr. Bryan asserts, has complete au thority in respect of Interstate com merce and its legislative power to reg ulate it in the interest of the people has been upheld by the courts. Mr. Bryan, on proof that any corporation or corporations had become a monon- oly ,or that any combine of interests - I'J' - thisckagT1 ,eal,y C-Uld'n0t.eam '"creased salary unless I gave you rJ hv b96J! dCCldd t0 C0nt,aU-8 1 he free distribution of,seeds by Con gress. News Item. ., , and Shouts ut Panama to stick, your Ity. and devote his abilities to managing ews item. had violated tho anti-trust laws, would withdraw from the offending class the right to ship goods on lnterstato roads, use the telegraph lines or tho United States mails. He would with draw from these monopolies all transit! facilities and thus destroy them. Champ Clark, of Missouri, gave nl dinner to seventeen "lame ducks," as retiring members of congress are termed. Heading tho list wero Gen ernl Charles H. Grosvenor, of Ohio, who ends a twenty years' Bervlco In the houso March 4, and who has been a debuting companion of Mr. Clark's at many Chautauqua gatherings, and Representative Joseph Sibley, of Pennsylvania, a millionaire. These were the only Republicans present. The Democrats Included Representa tive Bankhead of Alabama, who was defeated for the nomination by Rich mond Pearson llobson, and Represen tative Robertson ,of Louisiana, senior Deemocrnt of the present house. In addition there were present: Messrs. Kline of Pennsylvania; Gudger and Patterson, of North Carolina; Smith and Trimble, of Kentucky; Butler of Texas; Senor, of Indiana; Hunt of Missouri; Sullivan and McNary, of Massachusetts; Towne of New York. The only other person present besides Mr. Clark wus his son, Bennett Champ Clark. As nothing came of the attempt last year to raise in Balaklava Bay tho British ironclad sunk with her treas ure during the Crimean war, the Rus sian admiralty officials at Sebastopol now propose to intrust the task of bringing up the treasure to a Russian salvage syndicate. The man who is always talking can cAyeci io learn a lot. never expect to learn a lot. A MEMORY 8V8TKM. Forget tach kindness ttiat you do As Boon us you huvo dono It; Forget tho pratso that falls to you The moment you havo won It; Forget tho slander that you hoar Before you can repeat It; Forget each slight, each spite, each iner, Whenever you may meet It. Remember every kindness dono To you, whene'er Its measure; Remember praise by others won And piifls It on with ploasure; Remember every promlso mudo And keep It to tho letter; Remembofr thoso who lend you aid And bo a grateful debtor. Remember all tho happiness That comes your way of living; Forget each worry and distress, Tie hopeful nnd forgiving; Remember good, remember truth, Remember heaven's bovo you, And you will find, through ago and youth True Joys, nnd hearts to lovo you. Frlacllla Leonard In Youth's Companion. 4..4"!"l"l'4"l',l"l'4' JUDGE WOFFORD'S WAY. ' How He Dealt With Criminals That Came Before Him. j 4 4 4 4 4 4 The Into John W. Wofford, judge of tho criminal court of Jackson county, Mo., had an original, If blunt way, of dealing with cases that came before him that won tho confidence and re spect of tho bar and the community. Ho wu3 always courteous to the newspaper men and numbered many friends among them. When a big murder trial was on he would order tho marshal to supply a table and press accommodations for tho report ers. Once an unfortunate was berore him for sentence, a shiftless, down trodden, Irresponsible sort of follow whose only virtue was that ho was not vicious. The judge was in doubt about sending him to the penitentiary. He called a reporter to his bench. "You newspaper men have a chance to study human nature," he said, "and maybe you can help me In this case. What do you think I ought to do with lilm?" The newspaper man advised a parole. "I'm going to let you decide." he said. "I was In doubt. Now I'm de cided. I'll parole him. If he goes wrong and It proves to be a mistake I'm going to hold you jointly respon sible." The judge once saved from the gal lows n negro who had been convicted of murder. The negro had killed an other of his race whom Judge Wofford called a "bad nigger" nnd who him self had slain two men. The judge in assessing a penitentiary sentence for life, said: "Well, you're guilty of murder nil right, but you're a poor, Ignorant, no account black man, and T don't want to hang you. You have no friends. You have no one to plead that you wero insane when you killed this man. Tf I sentence you to hang you will hang Just as sure ns there Is a God In heav en. There will not be a whole lot of women circulating petitions to save your neck. There will not bo a lot of fool men writing to the governor to save you. No one will send you flow ers. You'll just be forgotten until the day set for your hanging, and then they'll hang you." A letter written by Judge Wofford to J. B. Shoemaker, justice of the peace, contained these aphorisms: When you find a man that everyone la for you find a fellow that is of no account. The people that are of any account in tho world are those that some peo ple hate. A mnn that wants to do right every time will do right most of the time. And that Is the only course for a pub lic officer to take. Judge Wofford's comparison for the unfortunate and down trodden Is illus trated in a homily on the "Under Dog." He delivered It one morning to a thief before, him for sentence. The thief was friendless nnd had been de fended by nn attorney who had been appointed by the court and who had served without pay. Judge Wofford said to the convicted thief: "I hate to send you to the peniten tiary. Since" I have been hero In this court T have fallen into tho habit of getting on the side of the under dog. I can't help It; my sympathies are al ways with the under dog, and I actu ally hare to restrain myself from climbing down off this bench and help ing him out when I see him flounder ing around down there and tho rest of them Jnmpln on him and flayln' the life out of him. "Why, I'm even on old John Rocke feller's side; he's tho under dog; yen, sir, on poor old Rockefeller's side; I feel sorry for the poor old fellow, and he's got my sympathy because he's the ider dog. He may be an old scound " "! and an old reprobate, but I'm on his Ride, juct because everybody Is peckln' on him. Every paragrnpher, every ed itorial writer, every newspaper man In this country Is peckln', peckln', peck in' on poor, friendless, deluded old John Rockefeller. He's got no friends; he's followed the same course that you have; he's done wrong and so ciety Is against him for It." Father of a Juvenile Court. Judge John W. Wofford, of Kansas City, is dead. He had presided for fifteen years over the criminal court, and was noted a a just judge, philosopher, and keen observer of tho effect of punishment upon criminals. He wns tho father of tho juvenile court of Jackson county. Wrhen he be came Judge fifteen years ago there was no law making a distinction between child criminals and adult criminals except that, the law prevented the send ing to the penitentiary of a boy under 16 years. But children of any ago might bo sent to jail, and before Judge Wofford's time upon the bench there wero many little boys In the Jail. "My feelings naturally revolted against the Imprisonment of children," said tho judge, "and a young man of 20 Is u boy In all his thoughts and actions. T refused to send any of them to the penitentiary and only a few of the worst ones would T send to jail. There wns no law to uphold me, but I made a law of my own. I wns criti cised for It. When I begnn my sys tem of paroling boy criminals upon their promise to reform a newspaper In this city went so far as to print an editorial with this heading: 'Boys Should Havo the Butt End of "the Law.' "I nm proud of what I have done In saving the boys. That Is the one thing in my life that has been worth while. I feel that I havo saved a great many boys nnd that In doing so I set tho example which resulted in a perma nent juvenile court here and else where, with probation officers to look after the boys and reclaim them if possible." Judge Wofford, a few years ago. be fore the establishment of the juvenile court, used to have a class of between fifty and 100 boys and young men whom he had paroled. They reported to him once a month, and he had a probation officer to help them between times. Tn the jail he established a school to tench the boys there. Judge Wofford often received letters from these boys from all parts of the( world, thanking him for the chance he gave them. These letters were tho pride nnd comfort of the judge's de clining years. Money and Manners. We of this blessed country have more money and less manners than any other people on earth. The more money, the more neglect of manners. We rush through life in such a hurry these days that there is little time or thought for the refinements and cour tesies that in the good old days of our grandparents were considered neces sary elements of good breeding. We have cut courtesy out of busl-i ness hours. We have come to regard' It as a time-consumer and a waste an indefinable and rather boresome something in the way of an affecta tion which we may put on with our best clothes for weddings,v parties and other such affairs, but not to be car ried about with us on ordinary occas ions. The man or woman who has really good manners, nowadays, wo distin guish as being of the "old school." Un fortunately, the old school Is passing away and there Is no new one to take its place. So for have we sunk that the man of genuine courtesy and polish must balance it with some sort of coarse ness or be damned as a "sissy." Maybe it is 111-mnnnered to say such things, but the fact, no less than the ill-mannered assertion of It, fits the times. Garish vulgarity taints what Is re garded, commonly at least, as the best society. How much richer may we get before degenerating into utter savagery? Des Moines News. Amsterdam and Ghent are both built on small Islands, Amsterdam coming the nearest to Venice in tho number of Islands and bridges. Venice Is built on 118 small Islands, connected by 378 bridges; Amsterdam on nearly 100 Isl ands, connected by almost 300 bridges. Ghent stands on 20 Islands, joined by almost 270 bridges. ' All men can not 'bo great; all "men can be good; many men are neither.