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WEDNESDAY. APRIL 8. 18H1.
District Coaveatiea.
Tbe republican electors of the Third congres
aioaal district of Nebraska are requested to
Bead delegates from their several counties to
meet in convention in the city of Norfolk,
Wednesday, April 22, 1998, at 8 o'clock p. m., for
the purpose of selecting two delegates and two
alternates to the republican national conven
tion to be held in the city of St. Louis, Missouri,
on Tuesday, June 16. 1S96, at 12 o'clock noon.
The several counties are entitled to represen
tation ae follows, the apportionment being based
upon the vote cast for the Hon. Geo. D. Meikle
iohn. at the MM election, being one delegate at
large for each county and one delegate for. each
90 votes and major fraction thereof, as follows:
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Antelope.. It Madison 13
Booae 12 Merrick 11
Burt 15 Nance 9
Cedar 10 Pierce 8
Caaung 14 Platte. 12
Colfax V Stanton
Dakota 8 Thurston 5
Dixon 10 Wayne 10
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Knox 12 Total 203
It is recommended that no Droxies be admit
ted to the convention and that the delegates
present be authorized to cast the entire vote of
tbe delegation of the county which they repre
sent. By order jof the republican committee Third
congressional district.
C. C. McNisHj Chairman.
BrHT Mapks, Secretary.
Coming Conveatioai.
State Republican, Omaha, Wednes
day, April 15.
National Republican, St. Louis, Tues
day, Jane 10.
Democratic, Chicago, Tuesday July 7.
Populist, St, Louis, Wednesday, July 22.
Free Silver, St. Louis, Wednesday,
July 22.
Prohibitionist, Pittsburg, Tuesday,
May2f.
It was a regular blizzard at Denver
Tuesday of last week, for a little while,
eight inches of snow.
Ex-President Harbison and Mrs.
Mary Scott Lord Dimmick were mar
ried at New York City Monday.
New Hampshire prefers one of these
Thomas B. Reed or William McKinley,
because either is in himself a platform.
L. D. Richards of Fremont is out in a
card stating that he will not be a candi
date for delegate to the St. Louis con
vention. That may mean more votes
for Garloiv.
Work at all the mines in the Cripple
Creek district owned by W. S. Stratton,
except the Independence, has been stop
ped, owing to exorbitant freight and
smelter charges.
The republicans of Dawson county
have announced the candidacy of Jack
MacColl for governor. Jack has been a
resident of the state for over twenty-five
years. He has a host of warm personal
friends all over the state, and there is no
doubt of his election if he is nominated.
He will give somebody a lively race for
the nomination.
TnE police of San Francisco are con
vinced that Julius Festner, the Omaha
man who was arrested Wednesday night
for following a woman, had nothing to
do with the recent strangling of two
abandoned women in that city. An
investigation shows that Festner was not
in San Francisco when tbe crimes took
place. Festner is at present confined in
the ward set aside for insane patients at
the receiving hospital. He will be exam
ined by the commissioners of insanity.
When Dr. Devries of Fremont came
to Norfolk to attend the democratic com
mittee meeting yesterday, he was not
only accompanied by Mrs. Devries and
on, but he brought with him as well his
congressional boom. The boom has
already grown to quite ample propor
tions and present indications are that he
will have no trouble in securing the
democratic nomination. But, by the
same token, he will lack a lot of election
in this year when republicanism floats in
the air like cotton seeds in June. (Nor
folk News.
By the way, this reminds us that it is
said Walter Phillips friends are press
ing him to enter the race for congress.
Superintendent Maceat of the Nor
folk asylum for tbe insane, is being put
upon tbe defensive, charges having been
preferred against him, and filed with
Governor Holcomb. They charge him
with official misconduct,willful neglect of
duty, immoral conduct and speech and
inflicting on the patients vnder his
charge and control, unusual, cruel and
barbarous punishment; also, with repeat
edly and for long intervals of time will
fully and wantonly neglecting his duties
aa superintendent. There are some forty
specifications. Mackay says the charges
emanate from discharged employes, but
that they were instigated by the present
steward, Jenkins and W. M. Robertson
of Madison.
The most presumptuous political pro
ceeding that has ever been perpetrated
in Nebraska, is the address issued to
Nebraska republicans by tbe self-appointed
leaders of McKinley and Man
derson. These parties have been fighting
through the newspapers, both assuming
to apeak for the republican party, as to
which should have the delegation to the
St. Louis convention. They now an
OHBce that they have settled their
dhTersBces and have agreed upon who
ahovld be the delegates, and call upon
the republicans of the state to ratify
their acts. Thisisboesismforyou. The
State convention should take the matter
la hand and give these would be bosses
black eye, and proclaim that the voters
of Nebraska are competent to select
their own delegates. Down with booses
i!-Albion News.
Tkantae's ExalaaaUaes.
Mr. Thurston has returned to Nebras
ka, and a meeting was held Tuesday
night at Boyd's opera house in Omaha
to give him another opportunity to "ex
plain'' his personal relations to the
McKinley-Manderson differences, which
he did in a lengthy speech. It looks to
an outsider as if Senator Thurston was
protesting altogether too much, and "ex
plaining" altogether too often. The
matter is settled, not by Thurston, or
Hainer, or Manderson, or their personal
friends, but by the masses of Nebraska
republicans. The state will go to St
Louis for McKinley first, and McKinley
always, so long as there is a hope for
him. That much is settled and-was
pretty thoroughly understood for a year
past, so it was folly for these gentlemen
to wake up a personal controversy over
it Republicans of Nebraska are well
assured that it was only a personal con
troversy with a few politicians who, hav
ing been honored by their party, seem
inclined to set up eacbfor himself a
dictatorship. Just why Senator Thurs
ton should have dirtied his fingers with
this matter and should continue to get
himself deeper into the mire, unless it
was to usurp a power he does not pos
sess, in this direction, we are at a loss to
understand. While the senator expressly
disclaims any intended dictation, yet his
letter from Washington nominating and
ordering the election of himself and at
least two others for St. Louis, is in evi
dence against him, and his effort to
explain this away in his speech at Omaha
Tuesday evening, was very lame to say
the least Says Mr. Thurston: "It had
been practically settled by the universal
expression on the part of McKinley
republicans of this state, that if McKin
ley carried tbe state convention, John L.
Webster and Peter Jensen would be two
of the delegates without opposition."
When and where and how was this
"universal expression on the part of the
McKinley republicans of this state" made
and executed? Not through the news
papers of the state surely. And by what
sort of presumption could John M.
Thurston demand of the republicans of
this congressional district that he be
made a delegate to St. Louis with an
other to be selected by him? If this is
not dictation will someone else besides
Thurston explain to us what is or would
be dictation. The Pilot has long been a
friend, admirer and supporter of John
M. Thurston, but it regrets his course
and present attitude towards his party
constituents, and if he persists in this
course it cannot fail to work to his dis
advantage. Blair Pilot.
Judge John Barton Payne has made
some suggestions as to trials that are at
least worthy of consideration. The first
is absolutely no conversation between
attorneys across the table; second, no
discussion of the admissibility of evi
dence unless the court indicates a desire
to- have, it argued; third, limitation of
arguments. It is a remarkable case that
cannot be argued in CO minutes on each
side; fourth, as to verdicts, if a verdict
ought not stand, the court should set it
aside; if the findingof a jury is excessive
the court should ask the plaintiff to
remit enough to make it a fair verdict,
and if he refuse, the judge should set the
verdict aside; when it is manifest to the
court that a plaintiff has not made out a
case, the bench ought to take the respon
sibility of stopping the trial right there.
Courts and the legal fraternity in gen
eral are as conservative an element of
the civil community as can probably be
found, but it has often seemed to TnE
Journal that it would be one of the best
things imaginable to have a national
convention of representative judges and
lawyers to discuss measures of changes
in the practice of the law and in the
rules of court that would put the
machinery of justice full into line with
the progress of the age. Judge Payne's
contribution may do something towards
this end. Let all who know anything or
who think they have a valuable sugges
tion, make it known, and so keep the
ball rolling.
We are in receipt of the following,
with a request to publish, which we do,
with the remark that every county in the
state is entitled to have a candiduto for
office this year. Out of the numerous
statesmen named for the republican
nominations, the party should make it a
point to select the very liest, not only for
the good of the party, but for the good
of the state, and then doubtless the
entire ticket will be elected:
"We, the republicans of Dixon county
in convention assembled April 3d, 1896,
learning with pleasure of the probable
candidacy of our distinguished citizen,
Hon. A. E. Barnes, for the republican
nomination for Attorney General at the
hands of the next regular republican
state convention, and fully recognizing
Mr. Barnes' high standing as a lawyer,
not only in Dixon county but over the
North Platte country and who has attain
ed a reputation in our federal courts;
also appreciating his honorable career
and unswerving fealty for the past six
teen years in this county to the republi
can principles, therefore be it
Resolved, That we most heartily en
dorse the candidacy of Mr. Barnes; most
enthusiastically recommend his candi
dacy to our republican brethren through
out the state; and that the republicans
of Dixon county act in unison for the
success of his candidacy, and that the
delegation sent from this county use
every honorable effort within their power
to secure his nomination."
The People Know.
Senators and representatives in con
gress are just beginning to find out that
the great mass of the common people
who furnish the votes to elect presidents
are terribly in earnest this year, and
know whom they want for president
about as well as the politicians can tell
them.
The Journal heartily endorses the
above statement of the situation by the
Seward Blade. Bossism has always been
offensive to the American people, and, if
anything, the feeling against it is grow
ing until the limit of endurance has
been reached.
Let there be some naturalness in polit
ical action, from the primaries up; spon
taneity is a wonderful force in the work
of the world, and if there was more of it
in politics, more of it in the action of
political conventions, everybody would
be better off than now.
Machinery is good in its place but,
however perfect, or new, or well-oiled, or
skillfully-handled it maybe, the machine
cannot perform the functions of the
motive power.
The body of Maxey Cobb, ex-County
Treasurer of Lancaster county, was found
Thursday, about two and a half miles
south of Linloln, on the edge of a small
wood, about midway between the peni
tentiary and Lincoln park. Three yoang
students of the university who were
botanizing made the discovery. The
body was lying on its back on the slope
of a ravine, with the bend up hill and
the legs stretched out It is supposed
by many that, overcome with the worry
brought about by the shortage of $96,000
in his accounts, which was recently
shown upon the examination of his office,
he went out to the place where he was
found and ended his life by taking a
dose of some narcotic poison, though
there were no evidences of it found on
or near the body. The unfortunate man
was 42 years old, and son of ex-Chief
Justice Ainasa Cobb. His shortage was
caused by the failure of banks where the
county money was deposited. He had
transferred to his bondsmen insurance
policies covering 830,000 of the deficit
It is suggested that if the newspapers
of Nebraska take up the subject of the
cost of the teacher's certificates, there
will be many rather sensational develop
ments. We could hope, for the sake of
school superintendents in general, that
the corrupt practices spoken of are not
very common if they had been, they
certainly would have been ventilated
long ago. Superintendents of public
instruction should be free from suspicion
of questionable methods and base mo
tives. Teachers have rights, like any
other class of people, and they should
not hesitate in asserting them. Justice
and right are criterions for all, whether
in superior or suliordiuate positions, and
there never w:ll bo complete freedom
until the petty tyrants are dethroned
and the way cleared to get after the big
ones. Let us have no corruption of our
free institutions at their very source, in
the ambitious youth who "teach the
young idea how to shoot"
By a recent decision of the United
States supremo court, it will be unlaw
ful for divorced persons, who are prohib
ited by a state court from remarrying, to
go over into another state and have the
ceremony performed. The clause of the
constitution under which the decision
was reached provides that "full faith and
credit shall be given in each state to the
judicial proceedings of every other
state." By that decision a long stride
has been taken toward uniform divorce
laws. Seward Reporter.
Now that England has made a demand
on Nebraska for 846,090 to reimburse one
of her subjects who got worsted in a
bout with some toughs near Omaha a
year or so ago, old Missouri has started
in to steal some of our Nebraska bottom
laud, and the Lord only knows where
this thing will stop. The next thing we
know the Sioux Indians will be over
running tbe state saying "white man git!
Injun he own Nebraska first." David
City News.
"Belief" W Daart Believe.
Outlook for the treasury Belief en
tertained that tbe deficit will soon dis
appear. These headlines appeared in The Jour
nal of Commerce and Commercial Bul
letin of Jan. 14. It does seem a pity
that such an able and useful paper
should be continuously laboring to in
vent excuses for the false economic policy
of our free trade administration. This
waa not necessary under protection. And
the excuses are eo lame and the "be
liefs" so visionary that they deceive no
body, not even the treasury officials
who inspire them.
Barley Growers aa Bayer.
Barley growers will recollect that on
Jan. 1, 1892, the market price of No. 2
Milwaukee barley was 514 cents a
bushel. Granulated sugar was quoted at
4 cents a pound tbe same day; therefore
a bushel of barley was worth 14 '
pounds of sugar. Four years later, Jan.
1, 1896, barley was worth 824 cents
and sugar 5 cents. The farmer's bushel
of barley could be exchanged for only
6 pounds of sugar. The effect of a free
trade policy, instead of McKinley pro
tection, has been a loss of 8 pounds of
sugar on every bushel of barley.
How Did They Saececd
If you want fair play all round, econ
omy at tbe White House and in the
halls of ccugrees and general prosperity
everywhere, then you want what we be
lieve the Democrats aa a party are try
ing to attain. New York Herald, June
28, 1892.
Judging by published reports of Mr.
Cleveland's wealth, there may have been
"economy at the White House." Bnt
how did "the Democrats as a party"
succeed in "trying to attain general pros
perity?" The Great Need.
In spite cf the protests of the adminis
tration, the first great need of the coun
try is more revenue. The absenco of
that revenue is back of all the trouble
in the treasury department today. We
may keep on borrowing money every
month to maintain the gold reserve, but
the cure will not come until tbe month
ly deficit in receipts is a part of past
history. Wilmington (Del.) Morning
News.
The "WtmtbnmmuV Caaae.
The Democratic party stands for equal
rights. It regards any discrimination in
favor of any class for any purpose what
ever as a political crime, to be punished
at the polls by the retirement of the
party which is responsible. New York
Herald. June 28, 1892.
And "tbe Democratic party," of in
come tax "class discrimination" fame,
has been retired.
McKinley Xraa repheey.
"The national credit is inseparably
associated with our national growth and
prosperity, and if you touch the latter
with an unfriendly band you will seri
ously injure the former."
These words of Hon. William McKin
ley, spoken in the house of representa
tives on April 15, 1878, come home to
ns now with a vigorous truth, after
three years of a Democratic "touch"
upon "our national growth and pros
perity." How seriously the national
credit has been assailed by this "touch"
of free trade, the repeated sale of bonds
has proved far too welL
Graver Groat
Qrover Cleveland will go into history
as tbe president who doubled the na
tional war debt in four years. If tbe in
terest on his loans were added to the
principal, the national debt left by the
Harrison administration would be al
most doubled. There is a great deal more
English style about keeping up the na
tional debt than the American people
like. Bingbamton (N. Y. ) Republican.
DM Voa Ever?
The new tariff bill is not a partisan
measure and ought to be supported by
members of all parties in the senate as
a patriotic duty. San Francisco CalL
"Ought to be," yes. But who ever
knew cf Democrats performing "a patri
otic duty?"
W0EFULLYIGN0RANT
CLEVELAND'S STATEMENTS AT VA
RIANCE WITH FACTS.
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ttoaa Aboot Oar Weal Sapaly Haw He
Caa Co-operate.
By command of the people a customs
revenue system designed for the protec
tion and benefit of favored" classes at
the expense of the great mass of our
countrymen, and ' which, while ineffi
cient for the purpose of revenue, curtail
ed our trade relations and impeded our
entrance to the markets of tbe world,
has been superseded by a tariff policy
which in principle is based upon a de
nial of the right of the government to
obstruct the avenues to our people's
cheap living or lessen their comfort and
contentment for the eake of according
special advantages to favorites, and
which, while encouraging our inter
course and trade with other nations,
recognizes the fact t!-.tt American self
reliance, thrift and ingenuity can build
up our country's industries and develop
its resources more surely than enervat
ing paternalism. President Cleveland's
Whether the president is woefully ig
norant or deliberately niisrepresentative
it is not our business to inquire. But he
must bo either ouo or the other when he
speaks of a protective tariff being "in
efficieut for the purpose of revenue"
and as having "curtailed our trade re
lations aud impeded our entrance to the
markets of the world. " fie has but to
consult the trade and revenue statistics
of the United States to learn that such
statements are false in every particular.
Hoping that some congressman will
publicly present tho facts so that they
may be published in The Congressional
Record, we turn to what wo deem to be
the policy of the friends of protection in
the Fifty-fourth congress.
Tho idea of creatiug "renewed activ
ity and enterprise iu all busiuess cir
cles" by an "increase of our bonded
debt" is so absurd that it has suggested
questions as to tho president's sanity.
Of course such a proposition will not re
ceive a moment's serious consideration,
but the friends of proteetiou should set
themselves to work to deviho means for
increasing the revenue so as to meet our
expenditures. The Republicans have al
ways doue this heretofore, and they will
not hesitate agaiu. Their duty is too
plain. Revenue must be furnished, and
the president offered his cn-operatiou in
the following closing words of his mes
sage: "I desire, however, to assure the con
gress that I am prepared to co-operato
with them iu perfecting any other meas
ure (than 'the increase of our bonded
debt'), promising thorough and prac
tical relief, aud that I will gladly labor
with them in every patriotic endeavor
to further the interests and guard the
welfare of our countrymen whom iu our
respective places of duty we have under
taken to serve."
There can be no more "patriotic en
deavor to further their interests aud
guard the welfare of our countrymen"
than by the re-enactment of a protect
ive tariff policy. The complexion of tbe
senate, however, prevents this being
'done at once. Meantime there need bo
no further necessity for a deficient rev
enue such as we have experienced under
the Gorman tariff. The protectionists
must prepare a bill for revenuo purposes.
To do this will require the exerciso of
much care and judgment. But there aro
members of the house of representatives
who are fully equal to tho occasion, and
it is tho primo duty of the bouse of rep
resentatives to furnish revenue sufficient
for tho noeds of the government. The
lexistiug law does not do this. It should
either be repealed or amended. It is itn
.nossiblo to tepeal it at present. That
will come later. Bat we believo that it
can be amended.
A tariff upon wool and a change from
ad valorem to specific rates of duty on
woolens should add at least $10,000,000
to the revenue. Tho restoration of the
McKinley tariff lumber duties would
'add. approximately, $1,000,000. A duty
of 5 cents a pound on foreigu cotton
'would furnish $5,000,000 if imports
continued as at present. Flax, hemp,
jute' and their manufactures, now ad-
'imtted free of duty, would contribute to
the revenue. Earthenware, pottery,
hides and skins, glass and glassware,
fruits, manufactures of iron aud steel,
provisions, tin plato aud many other ar
ticles have all afforded more revenue un
der a protective tariff than they now da
To check the largo imports of such goods
as wo aro now receiving would also
stimulate "that American self reliance,
thrift and ingenuity" which, us Mr.
Cleveland truly saye, "cau build up our
country's industries and develop its re
sources." In such a "patriotic endeav
or" tho president "will gladly labor." It
would "further the interests aud guard
the welfare of our countrymen." More
over, it would supply a Mifiicieucy, not
a deficiency, of revenue. This is v.hat is
needed.
The president still adheres to his free
wool theories. When referring to some
tariff coucessions mado to tho United
States by tho Argentine Republic, he
kaid:
' "It is pleasing to note that the efforts
we have mudo to eulargo tho exchanges
of trade on a Found basis of mutual bene
fit aro in this instance appreciated by
the country from which our woolen fac
tories draw their needful supply of raw
material."
It is peculiar that the president does
not avail himself of informrticn that is
at his command. The foregoing sentence
implies, and was meant to imply, that
our woolen manufacturers only secure
their supply of raw material from Ar
gentina The exact quantity drawn from
that count zy is net available, but the
September report of the bureau of statis
tics, which office is within half a mile
of the Whita House, gives our total im
ports of wool for nine mouths of this
year, to Sept. 30, and our imports from
all South American countries,as follows :
TOTAL IMPORTS Oif WOOL. TO SEPT. 20.
From Pounds.
All countries MO.539,281
Bonth America &I,8j5,40d
It thus appears that all South Amer
ican countries supplied us with but S3,
855,406 pounds of wool out of a total of
103,559,281 pounds imported during
the nine months. Even if the entire
South American quantity came from
Argentina, it was deliberate misrepre
sentation on Mr. Cleveland's part to talk
about that republic being "the country
from which our woolen factories draw
their needful supply of raw material."
Perhaps, though, he was thinking only
of the quantity that it was "needful"
to import under protection and before
free trade in wool had killed off the
American sheep industry.
If Mr. Cleveland has the interests of
the majority of his fellow citizens at
heart, he will approve a bill to afford
protection for our 100,000 farmers who
raise wool rather than maintain the ex
isting selfish law, which was enacted to
benefit only 2,503 manufacturers. It
will be interesting to note the position
he takes on this question of "robbing
the many for the benefit of the few."
According to the Democratic platform 1
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upon which the president was elected,
he will gladly assist tbe majority tbe
woolgrowers. -
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England increased her imports of
wheat in 1894 by 9,800,000 bushels over
her 1892 imports, but bought 17.000,
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and increased her purchases from Russia
by 23,000,000 bushels, from the Argen-
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tine by 18.000.000 bushels and from
Australasia by 3,500,000 bushels. In
1894 she bought less wheat from Chile,
Turkey, Roumania, Egypt, India and
Canada.
France grew more of her own wheat
supply in 1894 than in 1892, buying
less from all countries except Russia and
northern Africa She bought upward of
2,5000,000 bushels less from the United
States, practically tbe total amount of
her diminished imports.
Germany also bought about 8,000,000
bushels less wheat in 1894 than in 1891,
taking 12,000,000 bushels less from the
United States, but buying considerably
more from Roumania, Russia and Ar
gentina, her purchases from Argentina
increasing by nearly the same quantity
that her purchases from the United
States decreased.
THE FARMER'S BUSHEL Or WHEAT.
On Jan. 1, 1892, tho marxet price of
Wheat was $1.05j per bushel. Granu
lated sugar waa then worth 4 cents a
pound. A bushel of wheat bought near-
1893.
1890.
ly 26 1 pounds of sugar. On Jan. 1,
189G, wheat was worth 69 cents and
sugar O.cents, a bushel of wheat buying
less than 14 pounds of sugar. Under
McKinley protection the farmer's bushel
of wheat bought over 12 pounds more
sugar than it did this year under our
Democratic froo trade tariff.
Bcaaoeratle Balance Sheet,
The advance statement of our imports
and exports for 1895 enables ns to pre
sent the Democratic balance sheet of our
foreign trade:
TWIIVE MONTHS EXDIKO OSC. 81.
1894. 1806.
Domestic exports 307,312, 110 $807,775,810
Foreign imports C78.312.W1 801.628.03S
Favorable balance S130.UO.175 W.H0.211
In 1894, with four months of tho free
trade tariff bill, we still had a balance
of trade in our favor amounting to
$130,999,175. But with a full year of
"perfidy and dishonor" the whole of this
favorable trade balance has been wiped
out with the exception of a paltry $6,
000,000. Note that our exports were
practically the same in each year, but
the wiping out has been done by an in
crease of $125,000,000 in our 1895 im
ports. MdacatloBM and "Exaltation.
Undoubtedly it has been a liberal
education and a visible exaltation for
the Democratic party to have accepted
tbe political guidance cf Grover Cleve
land for these eight years. New York
Times, June 24, 1892.
"Undoubtedly it has been a liberal
education." Undoubtedly. But how
about the "visible exaltation for the
Democratic party?" Is it out of sight?
Ceasresaaaaa Rot Point.
What we want and must have are ade
quate tariff laws giving protection to
our labor interests and industries, while
affording ample revenue not only to
support the government, but to reduce
and ultimately extinguish tbe public
debt When we once more tread this
path, confidence will be restored at
home and abroad. Business wiU revive
and prosperity will return. George W.
Ray, M. C.
Speaker Bead Speaks,
the lame walk, nor dees it raise the dead
to life, bnt it is a good, sound, sensible
policy for the United States for its
growth in riches and civilization, and if
it is stricken down the people .who in
their secret hearts will think us the
moat shortsighted will be tbe foreigners
who profit by our folly. Thomas B.
Beed.
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HIS VIGILANCE REWARDED.
There is a asan in Bueoa Park who
Iws always beea afraid of being robbed
byfoorpads. Afewweeksagohedecidai
that aewoeld prepare himself to defend
his property and person If attacked. So
he purchased a revolver not an ordi
nary revolver, but a long barreled one,
the sort tbe cowboys carry out weak
For several nights he carried the gun,
and the assurance with which he walked
no doubt frightened the footpads, for
they left him unmolested. He waa
pleased with the sense of security he felt
from the thumping of this weapon
against his leg; and his fears were quiet
ed until one night not long ago.
The sidewalks were slippery, and he
was picking his way along toward his
home, when a man bumped against him.
The offender was profuse in his apolo
gies as he struggled to regain his foot
hold. "It waa purely accidental, I assure
you, sir," said ha "Certainly, certain
ly," replied the Buena Park man, "no
harm done," and they separated.
A moment later he felt for his watch,
it was gone. Then be felt for his gun ;
it was safe, and its size and weight gavo
him courage. He turned and started, on
the run in the direction the man had
taken, and before he had gone a block
overtook him. He grabbed him by the
collar with his left hand, and, sticking
the pistol in his face, commanded him
to give up the watch.
"All right, all right; don't shoot."
said the trembling man, as he handed
out a watch, and, breaking away, ran
down the street as fast as his legs would
carry him.
, "I'll teach you footpads a thing or
two," shouted tbe Buena Park man, but
there was no response, and putting the
watch in his pocket he started toward
home. At each step he grew more and
more .indignant at the state of society
that permitted such criminals as pick
pockets and footpads, and when he
reached home he was very angry.
"What makes you look so ferocious?"
were his wife's first words.
"Been held up; fellow took my
watch, but I got it back again, " he said.
"What are yon talking about? You
left your watch at home this morning,"
said she as she took from his pocket tho
watch that belonged to the other man.
The Buena Park man is still adver
tising for the owner of that watch.
Chicago Times-Herald.
TAKE CARE OF THE CHEST.
And the Kcat of tbe Body Will Take Car
of Itself.
"Take care of your chest, "says a
physical culture teacher, "and the rest
of your body will take care of itself.
The chest is the chief thing to be remem
bered. Keep it well raised and your head,
spine and shoulders will involuntarily
assume their proper positions without
any effort on your part. The cry from
parents and teachers used to be, 'Throw
your shoulders back 1' But this mistaken
notion is now completely exploded. The
shoulders have nothing to do with cor
rect posture. It is all the chest, and its
elevation or depression will regulate the
rest of the body. The chest is the seat
of all things spiritual, elevated and en
nobling. Bring it into prominence and
yon bring into prominence the best
qualities of yonr nature.
"It has been said that whatever psy
chological attribute is most marked in
a human being is correspondingly most
marked in his physical being. If he's a
glutton, his stomach is most in evi
dence ; if a scholar or brain worker, his
head is sure to bo thrust well forward ;
but if he preserves a proper intellectual
balance he walks with his chest in ad
vance of the rest of his body.
"It is curious, too, how ono may
really iufluenco his own mental condi
tion in this way. Just try and see how
impossible it is to say, 'Oh, how happy
I am!' with sunken chest and spent
breath. Ono involuntarily lifts his chest
and takes a good long breath when he
says anything optimistic and brave, for
if he doesn't he might just as well say
'Have mercy on us miserable sinners. '
The effect is the same. There is no surer
cure for the 'blues' or like maladies
than merely lifting the chest and taking
a good, long breath. It scares away all
the bugaboos of pessimism. New York
Sun.
Interesting Washing-.
An amusing little story is told in con
nection with a French journalist, who
in his early days as a reporter had a
deeply rooted aversion to the regulation
notebook of bis order, and hit upon a
method of taking notes which afforded
him great satisfaction.
He wore largo white linen cuffs, and
upon them, by the aid of a tiny pencil,
he took down his notes and impressions
in all sorts of places, unobserved by
those around bim.
At first his laundress was greatly puz
zled by these peculiar ornamentations,
but as time went en she learned to tie
cipher many of them, and gathered the
news of tbe week from her patron's
cuffs, much to her delight.
One night, when she took home the
washing, the journalist chanced to be
coming out of his room as she entered.
"Ah, monsieur," she said, dropping m
courtesy, "your last washing was very
interesting, but wo had less political
news than the week before. Is it not so?"
London Tit-Bits.
Cartoa Iaaaraaea.
A curious form of life insurance i
springing up in French manufacturing
towns under tbe name of LaFourmi
(the ant). The peculiarity is that the
longer a man lives the less he becomes
entitled ta The payment of 1 a month
assures the payment of 91,000 to the
heirs of a man dying before tbe age of
38, the payment diminishing propor
tionately to $510 at 51. The idea seems
to be that if a man dies young his chil
dren are likley to be in want, but that
when he is 50 they will be able to earn
their living.
DcefaloB Beserred.
"Don't you think the mince pie is
good, Willie?" asked the housewife who
prides herr-elf ou her culinary accom
plishments. "Yes'm I think it is, probably."
"But you have eaten three pieces."
"I know it But I can't tell for sure
till tomorrow morning. I had some
mince pie last year that I thought was
pretty good, but it didn't make me
dream a bit" Washington Star.
The most graceful of domestio ani
mals is the cat, while the most awkward
bird is the duck, but it won't do to use
these facta for a basis if you want to
call a woman pet names.
The factories of Indiana furnish em
ployment to 124,349 persons, the output
being 22C.835,0S2.
gusiness Notices.
AdvartiaBBienU aader this head ve cent a
liaeeaeh iaaertioa.
fjrjli.SCHILTZ make boot and ahoMiatbe
f bt stTle. aad as oalr tke very beat
atoektlwteambepxDeuadUtlwBUzkat. 33-tx 1
2vx2.ftir'.t. jKeftytv .sjsSLVaa
ftrlag Yaw Frieaia ta Xearwka.
The Chicago, Bru-lington & Quincy
If. K. publish a Sixteen-page monthly
illustrated newspaper called the "Corn
Belt," which gives in an interesting way
information about western farm lands,
particularly those - in Nebraska. The
regular subscription price is twenty-five
cents per year, but if you want it sent
to any of your friends living east of
the Mississippi River, send ten cents in
stamps for each such person, giving
name and full address and the paper
will be sent for one year. Tho B. & M.
R. R. Agent will show you a sample
copy of the paper on request. Help
your State and induce your friends to
immigrate. Address the Corn Belt, 209
Adams Street, Chicago, 111. 18tncb8
King Soleawn'x Notioa
That "There is nothing new under the
sun" does not always convey the truth.
Especially is this true as regards the
new composite cars now operated daily
via The Chicago, Union Pacific and
Northwestern Lino between Salt Lake
City and Chicago.
These handsome Buffet Smoking and
Library Cars are entirely new through
out, of latest design, contain all modern
improvements, and are well supplied
with writing material, the leading daily
papers, illustrated periodicals, maga
zines, etc.
The fact that these cars run daily via
"The Overland Limited" and that tho
Union Pacific was tho line west of
Chicago to inaugurate this service should
commend itself to all.
See that your tickets read via "The
Overland Route."
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COLUMBUS MARKETS.
fJC""Our(jaotationsof themarketnareobtnined
Tucedny afternoon, iind are correct and reliable
at thetitne.
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Hhelled Corn is
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Floor in 500 lb. lots J 4 r.Wc8 CO
pRonnoK.
Hutter W?I2
1'otatiieti t5It0
li vr STOCK.
Fathom i3ir.fi:5 ro
Fat cows fiCO'i'ilO
Fatsheep $1502C0
Fat steers i.lWu'.'.M
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OOSLKY A HT1HKS,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
Uoutliwiwt corner Eleventh and North Streets.
Ujuly.y Colcmrus. Nkrraska.
REPORT OF THE CONDITION
or TUE
Columbus State Bank,
AST COLUMRUi,
III the State of Nebraska, at the close of
Imsi'iiexx, March -S, ?.".
RESOURCES.
Loans and diacnuntM Jli.lil 3ft
iivprtlratttt. wennnl and iinfiire-j . z,iti U4
Other stocks, IxmiH. and rnori&ixes..
Due from National Rink
Ranking lionse, furniture and fixtures
and real estate
Current expenses and taxes paid
Chcks and other ca-li items
Hill of other l!.inka
Fractional paper currency, nivkelt,
anil cents
l.tiTl Tft
2!.3rt8 7rt
13,7t;i to
I.IK 7
ll
(I.IOI (A)
3202
4.111 00
Total, .
SlrtviW i"
Ll VRILITIIS.
Capital stock paid
$
&5.000 00
undivided proms.
VA IS
Individual deposits subject to check.. 22,413 20
Demand certificates of deposit
Time cert incatee of deposit
19,105
.12.212
Total,.
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State of Nebuska, .
County of Platte f88-
I, M. llragger. cashier of tho above-named
bank, do solemnly ramr that the altove Matf
ment is true to the best of my knowledge and
belief. M. Brucolk.
Subscribed and sworn to lKfore me this 6th
day of April. 18W5.
II. F. J. Hockenberoer,
Notary Public.
i?fcTO;r OF THK COXOITIOX OF
-THE
Commercial - Bank
-1 Columbus, in the .State of Nebraska,
a( the close of business
March 2S, MM.
UESOU1ICEM.
Ijonnsnml Dinconnts.
....$ 121.259 27
Overdrafts, scenrvd and iineourwl. 1.VI4 Oft
Other stocks, bonds ami mortacs 3.45.1 J
Duo from National Banks 2l.to0 62
Banking llou-, furniture and fix
tures ll,Xttu3
Current expends and taxes paid 1 ,?.! 2r)
Other real estate .13127
Checks and other cash itemi 112 28
Bills of other hanks 1,210 00
Fractional paper currency, nickels,
anil cents SJ Kl
Specie 2,:&ft Ki
Legal-tender notes 3,270 00
Total 172,011 4.1
I.MEII.ITIFS.
Capital Stock paid in S 90.0C0C0
Sorplusfund 550 CO
Undivided profits 2,198 ftl
Individual deposits subject to check. 31,418 42
Demand certificates of deposit tf,5W Ki
Time certificates of deposit 41,211 03
Total 172,05.1 4.1
Stvtk of Nebhsk .,.
I ounty or flatte, ) ""
1, Daniel Schram, cashier of the above
named bank, do holemnly swear that the above
statement is true to the beet of my knowledge
and belief. Dimei. Scdkajj.
Subscribed anil xvtorn to before niethixfith
day of April, lsJ.
W. M. Corn eu us.
Notary Public.
My commission expires February 1.1, lffJP.
NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT.
In estate of John D. Dicke, deceased. In county
court, Platte county. Nebraska.
To the creditors, heirs, legatees, nnd others in
terested it the estate of John D. Dicke.
Take notice, tliat Frank Koch has filed in the
county court a report of his doings as fcnartlian
of the minor children of said deceased, anil it is
ordered that the same stand for hearing the
2d day of April. A. I). lsD, before the court at
the hour of 1 o'clock p. m.. at which time any
person interested may appearand except to and
contest the same. And noticeof this proceeding
is ordered given in The Columbus Jourxal, n
legal newspaper of general oircnlation in said
county,
Witness my liand and the seal of the county
court at fjoinmoas.
this
17th day of March,
A. D. 18W.
J. N. KlLIAN.
County Judge.
lamchlt
PROBATE NOTICE.
In the matter of the estate of J. S. Moehlmann,
deceased.
CNotice is hereby given that the creditors of
said deceased will meet the administrator of
said estate, before me. county judge of Platte
connty, Nebraska, at the county court room in
said county, on tho 23d day of April, ISM, on the
23d day of July, lJft. anil on the 23d day of
October, 1896. at 10 o'clock a. m. each day, for
the purpose of presenting their claims for exam
ination, adjust men t and allowance. Six months
are allowed for creditors to present their claims,
and one year for the administrator to settle said
estate, from the 23d day of October, 1MK.
Dated March 26th, A. D. 1896.
J. N.Ktu.x,
laprlt County Judge.
PROBATE NOTICE.
In the matter of the estate of Fredolin Luch
aiager, deceased.
Notice is hereby iriven that th rmi;f. r
said deceased will meet the executor of said
estate, before me. county judge of Platte county,
Nebraska, at the county court room in said
county, on the 25th day of April. 19W. on the
25th day of July, 16, and on the 21th day of
October, 1896, at 10 o'clock a. m. each day, for
tbe purpose of presenting their claims for exam.
inatioB, adjustment aad allowance. Six month
are allowed for creditor to preeeat their claims.
aad oae year for tho executors to settle said
estate, from tbe 25th day of April, 1998.
Dated March 31, A. D. 1S9S.
J.N.Kiua.v,
laprtt CooatyJadge. '
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I LEGAL NOTICE.
,T all whom it may concern:
Tho. board of mpervMura in recakr
February 3Uh. 1S. declared the following!
nun uwvincu as b puntic moo. yw:
Conuraeacint'. at soataeast earner of Section
12. in Townshin 19 north, of Kaaaea west. Platte
coaaty. Nebraska, and manias thene doe west
on section line one mile, and trnaiaatiag at the
southwest comer at Section 12. in Township It
north, of Kaage? west, of the Sixth principal
meridian. and to be known and deaicaatedaH
the "Schure" road.
Mow all objections thereto or claims for
damages caused thereby, mast be ftled in tho
coaaty dork's office. Monday, April 20th. WW,
or nch road nuty be established without tar.
ther reference thereto.
Dated, Colnmbas, Nebraska, March 14th, 18M.
u .. K.POHL.
l&nch-lt Coaaty Clerk.
Chicago Inter Ocean and Coluxbtjs
Journal, one year, in advance $2.00. tf
Attention. Fanners !
I WILL SELL YOU A FENCE from 24 inch
to KH inch and close enough to stop rabbits.
1 can sell you a ho fence. 24-inch, foe 40 cts. per
rod, and a :8-inch. It-bar, for general farm use,
for 65 cts.. warranted to stop all domestic aai
malti. All this fence is fully warranted by the
PAOE WOVEN-WIKE FENCE CO.. aad pit n
by me. 1 will he at my office acroes the street
eat of Hnches' lnmbrr yard, just sooth of U. P.
track, Monilnjs, Wednesdays aad Saturdays of
each week.
"tf C.S.EASTON. Agent.
:Est"blialea. 1632.
THE
First National Bant
- COLUMBUS, NEB.
Capital Stick Paii in $100,000.00
orriczss aso bibectou:
A.ANDEKSON, PWt.
J. If. GALLEY. Vice IWt,
""" O.T.KOEN. Cashier.'
JACOB flKKlSEX. A. IC MILLEIt.
G.ANDEItSON. 1. ANDERSON.
J. F. IIEKNEY.
COAL! COAL!
We keep on hand at
all times a full stock of
the best grades of Penn
sylvania Anthracite
Coal.
Rock Springs and oth
er soft Coals always on
hand. Give us a call.
C.A.Speice&Co.
2?.m tf
M. C. CASSIIM,
rnornnrroit of the
Ua Meal Met
IT'i'esli and
Salt Meats-
Game and Fish in Season.
6F"IIihest market
Hides and Tallow.
prices paid for
THIRTEENTH ST.,
COLUMBUS, - - NEBRASKA.
2.1aprtf
UNDERTAKING!
We Carry Coffins, Caskets and
Metallic Caskets at as low
prices as any one.
DO EMBLMIISTO
HAVE TnE BEST HEARSE
I N TI I E COUNTRY.
FRED. W. HERRICK.
Dr. CLARK'S INSTITUTE
ron tui: ThrATiiiNT or tux
Drink Habit .
Also Tobacco, Morphine and
other Narcotic Habits.
Fer-l'rivate treatment given if desired
COLUMBUS, -
NEBRASKA.
IXil.rlf
W. A. McAllihtkk.
W. M. Cohmclius
eAIXISTER CORNELIUS,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
COLTJMKCS,
NEBRASKA
31jantf
B. P. DUFFY.
WAI.O'BKIKN.
jyjTFY et O'BRIEN.
LAWYERS.
Special attention given
Law.
to Criminal
Office: Corner Eleventh aad North Sts.
COLUMBUS, : NEBRASKA.
JIMEMT atEEDER,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Office over First National Haak,
COLUMBUS,
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