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0lumfr lis gmtrual. Entered t the Pcwt-ogoe. Colambm. Kb., m iCond-cUM mail matter. IHSUID XTXST WXDXXSDAT XT k:. turner & coM Columbus, Neb. Ml. TBBXB OF SUBSOaiPTIOH: One j ear. by mail, istage prepaid. $l.r T5 . .40 Six months Three months Payable in Adra&oe. . arSpedaan oopiaa mailed tree, on appuc Hon. TO SCMOSIBXBS. WhmenaecribOT change their plnce of resi dence they Bhoold at onoe notify ut by letter or Doxtal card, airing both their former and then present posfcoffice the tat enablee ns to reath .y led the name on oar mailing list, from wlucJi, beinc in type, we each week print, either on the wrapper or on the manrin of jroar JotJBWAt, the date to which your subscription is paid or ac counted for. Bemittances should be made either by money-order, registered letter or dratt rayabletotheorderot & Qq to ooaaMPOKDaTTxa. All communications, to Becore attention, must f accompanied by the full nam of the writer W reserve the right to reject any manuscript and cannot agree to return the same. V e .J-ir. a correspondent in erery school-district . Platte county, one of good judgment, am. r. liable in every way. Write plaint', each it- separately. Give aa facte. WEDNESDAY. JANUABY 2. 1HO. Journal & Bee. We give you TnE Columbus Journal and the Omaha Weekly Bee for $2 a year, when paid in advance. Sub scriptions may lw?gin at any time, and now is the time to begin with the two, whether subscription to ei ther has expired or not . Bee & Journal. Snow in Georgia Sunday. . Severe weather throughout Great Britain since Saturday. Nebraska has a total membership of 14,343 Modern Woodmen. TnE discovery of both gold and silver is reported from Brownville. Seattle is making arrangements to explore Mount Harrier, to see what there is there in the way of eruptions. Mrs. Amelia Bloomer, the inventor of the Bloomer dress for women, died Sunday at her homo in Council Bluffs. Arthur Trcesdale committed suicide by drinking carlxriir acid Sunday even ing in Council Bluffs, lie and his wife separated about a year ago. Fortv-seven prominent firniB, includ ing several banks of Denver petitioned for the opening of the gambling halls there. Tho petition was refused, but the names of the petitioners published. Senator-elect John Henry Gear of Iowa, was reported Wednesday in a very critical condition, having suffered a stroke of apoplexy Monday afternoon previous in his apartments at the Port land, Washington City. Word comes from Florida Sunday that millions of lxixes of unpicked oranges and hundreds of thousands of boxes lying in warehouses or in bulk preparatory to packing, were frozen. The loss to crops of all kinds will reach millions of dollars the coldest weather since 1835. The county clerk of Wilcox county is represented as saying: "Not less than GOO families, of this county, representing about 3,000 people, are in a destitute condition. This is about three-fourths of the county's population. We are facing the most desperate situation in our history. About S1S,000 of the county's money is tied up in the broken bank of Grant, and all three banks are broken." TnE aim of the Nebraska school, says the Mute Journal, is to make her chil dren cheerful, self-supporting citizens. Throwing off the cloud that deafness casts on some, and being a part and parcel of the speaking world into which they must mingle for society and bread and butter. Give us deaf children, in their youth and we can answer for their morals and manners when they are chil dren of a large growth. Settle the money question for every man and you settle most of his business troubles. It is so with a nation of peo ple. Fix our circulating medium gold, silver and paper so that in the shiftings and the scrambles of business and trade, barter and exchange, no man is wronged, and all get what justly belongs to them. Let the government, which should rep resent all the people impartially, look out for the general interest. Is one of Frank Gunsaulus's grand sermons in Chicago recently he uttered the thought: "I seem to see that what we call the severity of the laws of life is only the inflexible determination of our Father that his scheme of universal triumph shall not fail, ' " his determination that there shall be no hole in his providence through which a hnman soul may fall, no crack in the universe in or through which a defeat mav come." There is no more reason why post masters shonld be so for life than there is why U. S. marshals or any other offi cers should be. The entirely sensible and proper way to look upon office-holding is as an incident of life only, and not as a continuous occupation. Hereditary office-holders are very obnoxious to the public in this country, and continuous office-holders come second in objection. What can men be thinking of to advo cate such a scheme? There are certainly other ways of getting ritlof the assumed evils. There is one thing certain, and that is if the goldbug papers succeed in con vincing the people that the financial policy of the republican part' has been changed to a single gold standard, there will be such a stampede that all the cow boys in Texas couldn't round them up in time for the election of 1890. The above is from the North Yamhill (Oregon), Record, and just hints at a state of affaire. The republican party cannot be stampeded one way or the other. It has always been for gold and silver both, and a paper dollar as good as either, and by the help of the good people of the United States who are working for the general welfare, this will be the money of our grandsons as it was of our sires. .No aristocracy in our money; no frills or flounces on any of onr dollars; what is good enough for John is good enough for Johannes. No Air. The yellow gold dollar must not put on airs or style. He is no better than the-silver dollar or the sound republican paper dollar. The gold dollar is en tirely too uppish, under tho petting of weak-minded statesmen. Inter Ocean. The above is exactly to the point, and with all the foundations that we can place under a system of currency, first the people of the United States in full management of their own affairs, in their own good way, for their own wel fare; second, gold and silver, according to their natural, relative value, treated impartially alike (no restrictions on one not placed on the other); third, all our paper money made as good as gold and silver, and as good as any money on earth; fourth, no aristocracy in our cir culating medium; fifth, if the people of the United States are compelled, through great necessity, at any time to negotiate interest-bearing londs, let them be in such denominations that rich and poor alike can invest as in a savings bank. We can do this without asking privilege of Europe, and it will be done one of these days in spite of Wall street. Senator rtfneron last April in a speech in the senate, to which we called the attention of our readers at the time, struck the path which leads out of the woods: "I repeat," he 6aid in closing, "and I insist that the tariff and silver are two sides of tho same issue. They are Ixmnd together by necessity. The one without the other must break down. Both together are invincible. The people of the Union, north, south, east and west, can all understand and unite on a policy that unites these two great forces They will be glad and proud to restore silver; to place the United States at tho head of the silver using countries of the world. Such a policy would satisfy their true instincts. With all America at their side and all Asia at their back, they could then isolate Europe and force England to follow or to fail. To such a policy tariffs could offer no obstacle." The Storm. Wednesday evening last the storm set in, and appears to have been central in Pennsylvania. It is reported as the heaviest snow fall in years. Trains were stopped, roads being badly blockaded. Eight horses were killed Thursday morning in Philadelphia by coming in contact with deadly electric light wires which were blown down by the storm. Fourteen inches of snow at Paducah, Ky. Bain or snow fell generally east of the Mississippi river. In tho Mohawk valley tho worst since the blizzard of 1SSS. Snow drifted six to ten feet deep. Sixteen inches of snow at Williams port, Pa. At Cincinnati more anxiety is felt over a consequent flood, than if the snow re mains. In 1884, after a heavy snow, the river reached seventy-two feet. Thursday morning, John Moreland was found frozen near his home. He was an old soldier and worked in the Eison glass factory. He had started to walk home from Martin's Ferry, Ohio, Wednesday night and was caught in the storm. Thermometer at Sioux City 12 below. Two inches of snow fell at Carson, New, when the thermometer registered 15 degrees above zero, and with u baro- meterie pressure of tyi.fi inches. United States Signal Service Officer Carpenter pronounced snow a phenomenon under these atmospheric conditions. A state sugar refinery, operated on a basis of paying only running expenses, would do more towards establishing the beet sugar industry in Nebraska than any form or amount of bounty that the state can afford to pay. With such a refinery in operation, small plants for extracting juices and making raw sugar would be built all over the state, and in time to these would be added refining machinery of their own. There are plenty of centrally located points in tho state that would be glad to donate grounds and cash as a bonus for its loca tion, so that the appropriation would not need to be over 100,000, which sum, if paid out in bounty, would leave tho state nothing to show for its investment, while if the money is put into a tangiblo property as we suggest, the state could sell its plant for very near what it cost as soon as the industry was well estab lished, and leave the business to private enterprise. A bounty, whether on sugar or beets, is directly or indirectly a dona tion to the sugar trust as the two facto ries now in the state are controlled by that corporation, though the Oxnard Company is the ostensible owner. In view of the fact that the United States supremo court has declared the bounty law unconstitutional, it looks as though the incoming legislature could, with profit to the state, drop the bounty idea and turn its attention to other ways of encouraging sugar beet growing. Cedar Rapids Commercial. A bill is said to be in preparation for the legislature to make amendments to the township organization law dividing counties into five commissioner districts, eacu xownsnip to be entitled to one supervisor or trustee, who with the two justices and the township clerk, will con stitute the town board and transact all local business and at the expense of the township. It did always seem as though one of the intents of those who drafted our township-organization law was to make the then untried system here un popular, but self-government is not to be thns defeated, and some day Nebraska will have a system "as good as the best." Just keep on asking, demanding, insist ing, working for what you want, and dont take no for an answer. Find out those who gamble in politics, those who promise at election time and fail to keep their promises when they get into offices (whether they be political parties or political partisans), and turn them down and keep turning them down. There must be some measure of honesty in political matters as well as elsewhere. A (.nod Law. The law which requires insurance com panies to pay the face of the policy in the event of a total loss is a good one, remarks the Blair Courier, and shonld be permitted to remain upon the books. The courts have upheld the law and the reason therefor is patent to every one unless it be to the insurance companies. If a man insures his home for $1,000 and pays the premium on that amount and said home be entirely destroyed, then it is reasonable to expect the company to pay the mil amount on which they ac cepted the premium, regardless of the money value of the property. Any at tempt to repeal this law should be promptly sat upon by every member of the legislature. THE LEUlSLATtKK. Every Nebraskati is Interested in What it Does. The coming session of the legislature will be especially interesting. After six years the republicans are again in con trol of both houses. A United States senator will be elected and a host of other good things should be done. No matter what your politics, you will want to read about the legislature. No mat ter what paper you read at other times, you should read the Lincoln State Jour nal, during the legislature. It is printed at the state capitol and devotes more space to legislative doings than all the other state dailies combined. The Jour nal has jumped away up in the lead, having the largest circulation in Ne braska. It is spending more money for news than its competitors. Col. Bixby is its daily poet. It also has Walt Mason, Wm. E. Annin, its Washington corres pondent, serves up Washington stuff as no other correspondent employed by Ne braska papers has ever done it. Annin knows Nebraska people and Nebraska politicians like a book; his letters are a great feature. Stories are furnished by Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, and a host of others who are regular contribu tors to the world's greatest magazines. The Journal's price has been cnt to 50 cents per month, without Sunday, and fi.") cents with Sunday. You should try it awhile. The Semi-Weekly Journal is only S1.00 per year, and is a great family paper, almost as good as a daily for a large class of people. The Journal's phenomenal growth is due largely to the reduction in price and the policy of attending to its own business, not pre suming to be a dictator. Destroying Diphtheria Crrmx. A writer in Tho Medical Magazine who has witnessed the Berlin method of dis infecting a room describes the cleansing of an apartment in which a child had died of diphtheria: "Four men were engaged. After everything that could be .subjected to steam without detriment had been removed to the disinfecting station all the things were removed from the walls, and the men began rubbing these with bread. Ordinary German loaves are used, 48 hou re old. The loaves are cut into substantial chunks about six inches square, the back of each piece con sisting of the crust, thus allowing of a good purchase. The walls are syste matically attacked with strokes from above downward, and there can be no question as to its efficacy in cleaning them, nor does the operation take as long as one would imagine. The crumbs are swept up and burned. After this the walls are thoroughly sprinkled with a fi per cent carbolic acid solution. The floor is washed with a two per cent car bolic acid solution, and all the polished woodwork and ornaments as well." Neglected Corner Stone. This was the title of Chancellor Can fields address the other day before the state teachers' association at Lincoln. The theme was an earnest admonition to protect, foster and encourage the dis trict school. It was held to le the foundation of natural perpetuity. It was the narrow portal through which comes all our culture. In Nebraska thero are l!,lt)0 schools, only twelve of which are High schools, of a total enrollment of 703,000, but 7S per cent were higher than the district schools. There was an average nf thirty five pupils to each teacher. Among pupils 9t4 out of every 1,000 are below High school privileges, and but one in 07 enjoy the benefit of a higher educa tion. A republic without schools was a mockery, and an ignorant populace the tools of demagogues. At present edu cational supervision was the crying need of the hour. Every state should put her best man in the chair of state superintendent regardless of party in fluence. Keep Down to ltnsiiio.. A grave- responsibility rests upon the republican members of the present legis lature. They hold the future success or failure of their party's welfare in their party's welfare in their hands. They need to study well the wants and neces sities of the people of tho state of Ne braska and see that their wishes are sacredly carried out. The people wish to see an early settlement of the senato rial fight, a short and economic session of the legislature, the enactment of few new laws and only those which are abso lutely necessary, a reduction of general appropriations in the interest of econo my, a wise and just treatment of all public institutions, particularly the State university. A protracted session, a long-drawn-out and bitter senatorial contest, with its accompanying scandals, too liberal appropriation of the people's money and undue partisanship; all these weaken a party's standing in the minds of the common people and tend eventu ally to its overthrow. Stromsburg News. Financial Tinkering. New York World: If Secretary Car lisle introduces bills enough and sub stitutes enough ho may finally succeed in pleasing the banks, but the people are entitled to have the entire financial situation fully investigated by a com petent commission before action is taken. Chicago Inter Ocean: Secretary Car lisle had better hire a plumber. Con gress cannot stop such a democratic leak. When the next congress stands democracy on its head the leak will be arrested at once. The worm holes in this administration are bigger than an inch auger would bore. Chicago Times: Who is it continues to drain the treasury of its gold? It is not the poor man. He isn't seing any gold at all. It is the capitalist who takes a profit on bond issues in order to get gold into the treasury, and then hurries around with his legal tenders in order to take it out. This is our won derful national financiering. It has been definitely proven that there has been no eruption of Mount Ranier; there has been steaming and smoking on the mountains, but due principally to tremendous avalanches. The new peak was formed by spiral winds carrying the snow and whipping it in a cone-shaped peak. Odr consul at St. Gall, Switzerland, sends to the State department a descrip tion of the Leeman-Baumgartner appar atus for generating steam by petroleum, reckoned by experts to be so much more economical as to take the place of coal, wherever petroleum can be procured. Occasionally it is found that a man who has loaned money on land security has been deceived, and the land is worth less than the money, the payment of which it was intended to secure. The ordinary result, however, is different, and many a shark has gobbled up land at half or third price simply because he had a cinch on the title and had oppor tunity to squeeze his victim. Legitimate business is all right, and it would be well if some method could be devised to con serve all just interests. An exchange suggests: "Some one of onr state senators or legislators should formulate a bill for the protection of our people from the oppressive practice of mortgage fore closures as is now in use. There should be a minimum amount forestalled by the courts under which no real property could be sold under foreclosure, and such amount should never be less than the amount of the note with accrned in terest. This would eliminate the defi ciency judgment, which is a pound of flesh law that should not be tolerated any longer in a civilized country." County Printing.. The Journal is one of the four news papers of the county selected by the present county board of supervisors to publish for them. One county board is not constituted like another, always, party considera tions vary, chairmen vary, members of committees are not uniform in their knowledge of affairs, and thus it hap pens that what constitutes publishing for the county varies along with the rest of the variations. Sometimes, at the first annual meeting of the loard in January, publishers are requested to present bids for "such legal notices as are required by law to bo pub lished in a newspaper of general circula tion in tho county," and this would in clude supervisors' proceedings, road notices, tax-list, the county treasurer's semi-annual statements, tho estimate of expenses, the notice for supplies to be furnished tho county. Sometimes publishers are requested to place bids for publishing such legal notices required to be published in a newspaper, and which are "at the dis posal of tho board." And it has several times been contended that tho road notices, the county treasurer's semi-annual statements (and perhaps some oth ers that we do not just recall), aro not "at the disposal of tho supervisors," but are "at the disposal" of the officer in charge, whoever he may lie. The past year four newspapers have been publishing the supervisors' pro ceedings, and the tax-list, The Columbus Journal, tho Columbus Telegram, the Columbus Wochenblatt and the Humph rey Democrat, each being allowed one third legal rate, making a cost to the county of four-thirds of one full legal rate. The legal (or statute) rate for the pro ceedings is three and one-third cents a line, which gives one and one-ninth cents a line to each of the papers mentioned. The statute rate-for the delinquent tax list is 20 cents for each description of land and 10 for each town lot, and the rate to each paper is six and two-third cents for land, three and one-third for town lots. Outside of one item, we believe, The Journal (though one of tho contract papers), has been given none of the printing at the one-third rate except supervisors' proceedings and tax-list. The road notices, etc., have been placed elsewhere, as not at the disposal of the board, whether at the one-third rate or not we have not ascertained, but we most respectfully insist, not only as a tax-payer but as a contract-publisher for tho county, and a business manager of a business institution, thnt the county, which pays the bills, ought to have any benefits there are in competition, and that public work is not a private clutch. OFFICIAL PRINTING. People who observe business matters in a onsiness way ami give any inriuer, penetrating thought to it will have noticed that almost all the legal notices emanating from the county judge's office are placed with the papers of the county judge's particular brand of political faith. We would infer from appoarances that Judge Hensley is a democrat, which of course he has a right to bo, but, not withstanding, never the less; parties in interest, widows, orphans, debtors, who have hard work to meet their obligations and can't meet them, and must submit to be sued, sometimes having little or nothing left, and they, above all others, should have the right graciously accord ed to them of making the best terms they can, at the lowest rates they can. We presume that Judge Hensley would say he didn't care a continental where notices are printed, just so the work is done right, and we propose to see to it, so far as lies in our power, that at least widows and orphans, especially of the poor, shall have a cut rate, just as well as the county or the city, and then let it be understood that the party in interest, those who pay the bills, themselves direct where the publishing shall be done. Certainly, an official (and these remarks apply to the county sheriff as well as the county judge and all the rest of them) has no right to compel the tax-paying public, or expense-paying heirs or orphans to pay the highest rate that can be by law exacted, when a low rate can be secured that will be just as effectual. Now we do not understand and do not say that these officials fix the fees, but, let them alone, and let the matter go through the channels fixed by them, and the bills will come in at the full legal rate, 10c a line for the first time and 5c a line for each subsequent time, with 25c for each affidavit attached. Here is a sample of what a little com petition does for the city, and if it is good for a wealthy city like Columbus (which makes no deduction for a pub lisher's occupation tax or his other taxes and makes him pay as much for water as do other people which is all right), why competition ought to be good for the lowering of expenses to the widows and orphans of the poor. Last year The Journal printed the ordi nances and notices of the city for 3c a line, and one of our force attended very nearly every meeting of the council, almost as certainly as did any member of the council, took notes of the pro ceedings, wrote them up, after which the men of the office set them up in type and they were published, all of which was done without a cent of expense to the city. This year, tho Telegram, on a competitive bid with The Journal cnt away down to (if we remember rightly) 1 cents a line. They do not, however, make a rule of attending the council J meetings, and our (at present occasional; , reports of the proceedings are so satis factory that they reproduce them with out having the labor of attending the meetings, and for the publishing of which they, of course, like us last year, get no pay except the satisfaction of good done "virtue is its own reward" surely, in this case. The point we wish to emphasize is that the public should not be allowed to discriminate against any newspaper or newspapers on a merely business proposition; newspapers should not be compelled by the pressure of unjust conditions to discriminate in favor of rich city or wealthy county, and against poor widows and needy orphans the Telegram or The Journal (or any other paper in the county) can well afford to clip some from the regular, legal, max imum rate, if some method can be de vised whereby the printing for county and city, through judge and sheriff and treasurer, and county clerk and district court clerk and superintendent of schools can be fixed at living, reasonable rates. Let the county supervisors (whoso office is one of honor rather than emolu ment, whose bonds are large and wages comparatively small), start in with their work the coming year on tue principio that they are the first conservators of the county's welfare; that, as it is they who must approve bills, and they who must order warrants drawn for their pay, they have the right of direction and contract. Let other bill-payers work on the same principle with all tho county offices. Let us make Nebraska's motto, "Equal- itv before the law," an honest maxim of conduct not only for newspapers and toward newspapers, but for everybody. THE GRAND ARMY. Ad Old Soldier Who Marches Back Into the Republican Banks. The following letter addressed by Colonel Keatloy to a friend is given out for publication: lLTO Lexington Avenue, ) Nkw York, Nov. 13, 1691. j I wanted to bay that I h:tvo made up my mind iu regard to my political future. I have been doing a good deal of political thinking on my own account during the past year, and considering all things in relation to my duty I have come to the definite conclusion to no longer act with the Democratic party, hut hereafter with the Republican party. I can have no affiliation with Populism ; don't take any stock in that movement, and have no sym pathy with its vagaries. I have just written a long letter to my old and warm personal friend. General James B. Clarkson, who is now temporarily in Salt Lake City, defining my exact position. Though ho wan a Republican then, as now, it was to him that I made known first my Intention to go Into the Democratic party and against his ad vice. Yours sincerely, J no. H. Keatlev, Ex-Commandant Iowa Soldiers' Home. FRAMING EXCUSES. The Unit Bule In Congress. To present the situation in more in structive simplicity wo hero give the list of states which havo elected no Democrats in their delegations to con gress and tho number of representa tives apportioned to each: Colorado 2 New Jersey 8 Connecticut 4 North Dakota. . .. 1 Delaware 1 Oregon 2 Idaho 1 Rhodu Island 2 Indiana 13 South Dakotu .. . 2 Iowa 11 Vermont 2 Maine 4 Washington 2 Michigan 12 West Virginia 4 Minnesota 7 Wisconsin 10 Montana 1 New Hampshire. . . . 2 Wyoming 1 This makes 21 states whereof the Democracy is without a voice in con gress, including tho southern state of West Virginia and the two states histor ically debatable in presidential elec tions, Connecticut and Indiana. Iu all they represent 92 members of tho lower house. The states with only one congressman not Republican aro these: California 7 Kansas 7 Illinois 22 Nebraska 0 Republicanism has becomo over whelming where it was only strong, and alive whero beforo it was unknown. New York Sun. Half Starved Horses. A correspondent in Columbus, O., tells us that many good, industrious cit izens who have been unablo to gut em ployment had no means last winter with which to purchaso food, clothing or fuel. Some of tbe men owned horses which actually did starve to death or were killed. Somo of the half starved animals that sold anywbero from $5 to $35 were young and sound and would havo been vigorous if they had been well fed, but as there was no work to do in the spring they had to bo sold at any price. Mr. R. M. Bagg of East Springfield, Mass., was able to purchase idle teams at homo instead of making a trip to Ohio for a carload of horses. Competition In Cotton. The cotton spinning industry is re ported as making great strides in Japan in recent years. In 1887 thero were in existence 24 mills, with 180,000 spin dles, and in 1893 there were 4 IS mills, with 385,265 spindles. Manual labor being very cheap, the manufacturers aro able to meet all outside competition, and the foreign imports of cotton goods are falling off materially every year. fXCLE SAM DRIVES TI1EM OUT. Tbe Gorman-dizcr. How does the Gormau-diziug tariff itrike you? Is it gobbling up the profits of your business? Is it gobbling up the markets where you formerly sold your goods? Is it gobbling up a part of your wages by giving you less work or lower pay? " A Live IvsUe. Some people think that tho tariff question is settled. That's where they make a mistake. It is still the liveliest kind of a lire issue and will be till 1896. Mi HJKJbUH9HHH5S& v. Central City. The Central City Courier has discon tinued publication. A G-column quarto, five of its eight pages patent, one good advertisement was all it contained at the last. In spite of its "very unpopular politics," it .has always been a clean I paper in every respect, and we are sorry to miss it from the 'list of X's. Rev. J. W. Robinson returned last week from the east, and Sunday even ing gave his hearers at the Tabernacle an account of the soliciting tour which he has been making during his absence. He has collected over 8,000 in money and other necessaries of life for the western sufferers, besides making ar rangements for the care of several se lected families through special agencies. Louis Witting, formerly a member of Central City's fraternity of clerks, dropped in on to this metropolis last week with a tale of personal experiences more wonderful than romance. Since ho left this place several years ago ho has gone up into Alaska, whero for ten months out of twelve he works a gold mine a hundred miles away from a liv ing soul, so far as he know? We gath er, however, that he has made the venture pay pretty, well financially. He is now on his wnv to Washington to see if something can't be done to give his part of tho country untitle more of the advantages of civilization. Courier. What N an Ad? A lever of trade. . Tho dealer's sure road to success. A money-maker, getter and Silver. Infallible bait to catch customers. The life-blood of modern business. A helpmate to prosperity in business. A Hash of information to all tho people. A medium for the increase of business. The electric power controlling trade. The "Limited Express" on the road to success. Tho corner stone of tho temple of Fortune. The mine that yields pure gold in large dividends.' The key-note of progress iu tho march to success. Tho power that starts and keeps trade in motion. A notice that brings best returns for the least money. An indispensable to success and busi ness enlargement. That which booms tho place and en riches tho advertiser. A means of communicating items of interest to wido-awako people. Personal and public benefits are deriv ed from its judicious application. An intelligent message to intelligent people, profiting ponder and receiver. An electric current that propels the wheels of commerce (Cincinnati Trib une. To California in a ToiirNt Sletper. The Burlington Route's personally conducted excursions to tho Pacific coast aro just the thing for people of moderate means. Cheap respectable comforta ble expeditious. From Omaha and Lin coln every Thursday. Through to Los Angeles and San Francisco without change. Kxporientvd excursion mana gers and uniformed Pullman porters in charge. Second class tickets accepted. Cars are carpeted and upholstered and have spring soats and hacks, mattresses, blankets, curtains, pillows, towels, etc. Only S5.00 for a double berth, widt enough and big enough for two. Tho route is over the '"Scenic Lino of the World." through lenvor. Salt Lake city ami Sacramento. All the wonderful canons and peaks of tho Rocky Moun tains are passed during the day. If you aro going west you should arrange to join one of these excursions. They aro the best, the very best, across the conti nent. Information and advertising mat ter on application to tho local agent or by addressing. J. Francis, (len'l. Pass'r. Agent, Omaha, Nebr. l-Det-:"iin We Sweep the World. It is an old saying that a "new broom sweeps clean" but when wo say "wo sweep tho world" wo mean that among all the railways of the world none stands higher in the estimation or tho public, in all especial points, than tho Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway. It is the only line west of Chicago which runs electric-lighted, steam-heated and vesti buled trains between Chicago, St. Paul and Minneapolis, and between Chicago and Omaha. Iry it. r.A. asii, Gen'l. Agent. lf(U Farnam St.. Omaha. W. S. Howell, Trav. Passenger and Freight Agt. Now is tho time to subscribe for Tm: Journal and the Semi-Weekly Lincoln Journal, both for -?2 a year, when paid in advance. business Rafters. Advertisements nnder this head fivit centb a line each ii)M'rtion. WM.SCHILTZ make hoots and shoesinthe beht styles, and um-s only th very best stock that can bo procured in the market. .'''-tf LEGAL NOTICE. In the DiMrict court Platte county, Nebraska. In the matter of the estate of l'aul I'ohl, a minor. THE catice parai on for hearing upon the peti tion of Kmil I'ohl, guardian of the estate of I'anl Polil, a minor, prnjmc for license to sell the s-outheast quarter of Section twenty-four, in Township thirty North. Bange seventeen weht of the toil Principal Meridian, and lot No. four in block No. eight in the village of Newport, Rock county, Nebraska, or a cuflicient amount of the said property to brine the nm of 2G0, for tho paymnt of the debts of the baid minor and for the charges of managing his estate, there being no good:", chattels, rights or credits !e'onging to saiil minor in the hauiUof thenaid guardian to pay Kiid debts and charges. It in therefore ordered that the heirs and next of kin, and all person interehted in wild e-tate appear Ix-fore me at chambers in the city of Columhii, Piatt' county, Nebraska, on the 'Mut diy of January. I-'.m, at ten o'clock a. m., to (how cause win a licence t-hould not c granted to baid guardian to sell so mtu-h of the aliove descrilxnl n-al t-tat- of s-aiil minor ax fhall Im uecec-ary to pay said debts and charges. It is further orilfred that a copy of this order to t-how cause be published for four ijiicckmiIvk weeks in the Columbus Jocrxm. (a nwiaper of general circulation is taid Plate count j), prior to the 31t-t day of Jannary, te. Dated this- Uth day of December. l-sOI. J. J. SULLIVAN, ll-D.-c-l .Imlge. LK..I, NOTICE. To Lorenzo Jo-"ph. non-resident defendant: YOL are hereby notified that on the 12th day of Decenilx;r. IsOl, Hannah Joeeph filed a petition against joti in th dintrict court of Platte connty. Nebraska, the chjVct and prayer of which arc to obtain a divorce from you on the ground that jou have willfully abandoned the plaintiff without Rood cans-, for the term of two jeans lat paot. Alto for alimony, attorney fees, and for the custo ly of the children. You are requested to answer said petition on or lc-fore Monday, the 1th day of February. ISWi, HANNAH JOSEPH, Hy McAixistkii .t Cornklich, Plaintiff. Her.AttorneyH. 3-Dec-4 LBERT & REEDER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, OiKceover Firat National Bank, rOLDMUCH, NEBRASKA. 31jantf V. A. McAl.USTEIt. W. -M. (ViKNKMUH. TLToALLISTER & CORNELIUS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, COLCMBCS, NEBRASKA. Sljaatf CUS.G.BECUEIt. LEOPOLD JGGI. Established 1370. BECHER, JEGGI & CO., REAL - ESTATE - LOANS - INSURANCE, J-xid. ISea.1 Estate. COLUMBUS. NEBRASKA. MONEY TQ. LOAN ON FARMS at lowest rates of interest, on short or long time, in amounts to snit applicants. BONDED ABSTRACTERS OF TITLE toallrealestatein Plattecounty. 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