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9 tO 9 O ! !.:' ..... If . .. ... .- . ; .1 o : . . - . V.l o Columbus Journal. Entered at tka PoUSea,CohuaBM. Habeas vcond-claa mail Batter. HIBD KTKXT WZDSBSUA BY M. K. TURNER & CO., Columbuit Nt. TiBaaorBUBsosiiTioa: One year, by mail, postage prepaid $LM Six months .75 Three months Faisals la Advasoa. U Dindaiaii anHai Hail n. saappliea tioa. WiPMOiriin Whea aaerihaw - r tbair plae or rasi eVneeUahooMatoWBOna by letter or postal card, giving fcoCfc tbair foranar and theu uteaent poat-ooa.-tba fiat auibto ar to mdUf led the name oa oar mailing list, from which. being in typvaaaxairaak print, either on U paroVomtbasaHiBot yoax JouwcAt. the slate to whiah fomr anbacriptiom is pail orac eounted for. Baaittancaa aboaM ba mada either by moBar-ordar, raftiatafad lattar or draft. HyaUa to tbaordar of TnMm Co. All tioiiii Inaftnna. to airnir anamnoa, aw fte accompanied by tba foil name of tba writer. We reaervetha right to reiact aay Baaniwcnpt. and cannot agree to return tba aama. - esi a correspondeat ia every achool-diatnct oi liable in every way. Write plainly, aach LM.tti fuuint rmm or cooa imran uu - item separately, (live aa not. WEDNESDAY. AUOUST il. lt7. Heed's standard of real proeperity will soon bo here, it looks like, "the whole nation at work." Puesiijest Fauki: on Wednesday last received an ovation from the public when he started on his journey to Rus sia. Ten minutes after he had passed the corner of the lnmlevard Magenta and the line Lafayette a bomb exploded, dointf no damage, but causing great ex citement. It was attributed to anarch ists. A few months from now and the cheap goods (manufactured by cheap labor in Euroie and brought, in large quantities into this country, under the Wilson tariff, but in anticipation of the Dingley bill) will le disposed of, and then we can look for the leginning of the large results expected from the adoption of thai law. Those times are leing antici pated, more or lees, in different lines of industry in the United States. There is an increased demand for farm imple ments; railway equipments not only for this country, but notably for Russia and Japan among foreign nations, are in larger demand, and the spirit of traffic generally is showing a freedom not seen during the past four years. WHAT UK WILL FIXH IX MEX ICO. Mr. Bryan will find, among other things, says the City of Mexico Two Re publics, that there is the same disparity between Mexican gold and Mexican sil ver as there is between Mexican silver and foreign gold. In other words, he will find that free coinage of silver in this country has not established a ratio or 10 to 1. and that gold and silver are not on a parity. He will find this if he finds any gold at all. He will find that a dollar is a dollar here, but it is not a dollar when it gets into those foreign markets from which the Mexican mer chant buys his goods, and, at this writ ing, it is not a half dollar. He will not find tlmt silver bullion has increased in price to $1.2!) per ounce, and he will not find a man in the republic who will not Ifive his two silver dollars for one gold dollar or one paper dollar with Uncle Sam's trade mark blown upon it. I'alut-iL Import antt Kxportn. Wamiinutox. Aug. 24. The forth coming annual report of the bureau of statistics will show the valuation of the import ?iml domestic exports of the United fctat-s by countries for the year cutting June :S0. 18i7. The largest trade was done with Great Britain, the im ports aggtvgatiug :Sl(;7,94T,i"20 and the exports SJfiM-W.nsi:.'. The next in vol ume was with (iennauy, the imports being 1 10.210,(514 and the xports$l:Kt, 78J.45:t. France is the third in the list with imports amounting to $67,K'0.il and exports r.(5.-j87,0:l. Jtirkry Clutter Killed. Kaxs Oty. Aug. -M. Jockey Jesse Clutter was killed on the Exositiou race course yesterday afternoon. He bad the momiT- on Dazzle, at odds for favorite in the votid race. The horse Went down nsul the boy's skidl was fractured by the fall. He died in an ambulance en route to the hospital. In the first race Hir Archer and Lulu S fell. Jockey Joe Webber, who went down with Lulu S. was carried from the track unconscious. He is badly hurt, but will recover. Hoiiriura llnuit. Confession. Wasiii.n.ion. Aug. 'M. Consul Jar xtigau of Ctilht, Honduras, has sent to the state department a report upon au important concession by the Honduras government granted to the Honduras syndicate. This corporation is composed, says the consul, of well known capital ists and financiers of the United States, mostly located in New York. The syn dicate lias deposited with the govern ment ot Honduras $30,0u0 in gold as a guarantee that ir will carry out its part of the concession. ISaiU-y Not Aller .Mills' I'lare. St. Lot is. Aug. 24. A special to The Republic from Sherman, Tex., says: Hon. J. W- Bailey, congressman from the Fifth district, lias authorized the announcement that he will not become H candidate for a rieat in the senate to succeed Senator Mills. He has been ad vised to take this step and to again stand, for election to the lower lions-. His friends over the state believe he will, if the congress is Democratic, be the next speaker. His Head Maled to a Pulp. Chicago. Aug. 24. A huge derrick spoon, weighing 1 .000 pounds ami con taining half a ton of salt, fell to t lie deck of the steamer Fitzgerald, which was loading at an Illinois Central pier today. Andrew Kruper, a laborer, was stooping over the hatchway just as the ropes parted. His head was caught on the edge of the hatchway and mashed to a. pulp. John Cool. aLo a laborer, had his left teg severed from his body llauuu Joius McKinley. Cleveland. Aug. 24. Senator Mar- '. cus A. Hauna left on his Meant yacht the Comuuiuche yesterday afternoon for Buffalo, where he will join Presi- dent.McKinley and bring the chief ei- ecutive back to Cleveland with him on Thursday. Senator Hanna was accom- - pauied bv Colonel Myron T. Herrick and Mr William Chisholni. There were no ladies on board. Y-i-rM Newspaper Man Die. SPRtsiGFiELU, His.. Aug. 24. Harry . B. Mitchell, au old newspaper man of this city. diel this afternoon of paraly sis of the brain, aged 55 years. In 1S79 lie was connected witli the Chicago Sat urday Evening Herald and was also a writer on the Chicago Inter-Ocean. .Afterwards he was city editor of the - ZUisois State Journal and Register of tkiacirr. Fusion of . office-seekers often begets confusion to their designs. OPENED BY CUBKSON. Commander-in-Chief Formally Accepts Camp Jewett. STREETS FILLED WITH MAEOHEBS. Kceaptton to Commander ClaWsoa Firt Bis Event of tfee Encampment Uachau of New Hainpuhire Is the Most Formid able or the New Candidates For Coiu-aander-In-Chlef. Buffalo, Aug. 24. Thaddeus S. Clarkson, commander-in-chief of the G. A. R., arrived in the city today and his reception constituted the first event of the encampment. Grand Army week opened with fair weather. All indications point to a co lossal encampment, beyond the expecta tions of the most sanguine citizen. Train loads of veterans and their friends are constantly arriving and a person might think there was a great parade in progress as the pasts march up the main street to their quarters. This morning the women's headquarters, at 256 Delaware avenue, were formally opened. There the officers were care fully looked after. Everything possible has been provided for their comfort. During the week a further effort will be made to unite the Woman's Re lief Corps and the Ladies of the G.A. R. There has been a good deal of discussion over a possible union, but it is the de sire of the Grand Army that the tenets of the Woman's Relief Corps prevail as to the eligibility clause and the Ladies of the G. A. R. do not want to give up on that point, so that the matter of a union &eeius as far away as when the two organizations took to different paths. "To cherish and emulate the deeds of our noble army nurses and of all loyal women who rendered loving service to our country in her hours of peril." Is the aim of the Woman's Re lief Corps. The Ladies of the G. A. R. accept only he "wives, mothers, sisters and daughters of honorably discharged soldiers," and reject the "loyal women who had no relatives in the war to whom she can trace relationship." Among the G. A. R. posts which have arrived are the follow ing : Naval post department. Pennsylvania Far ragut association. U. S. Grjut and Bur ley posts, all of Philadelphia; Columbia, Department of Tennessee and Georgia, John A. Andrew post of Boston ; Rankin post of Brooklyn, X. Y. ; Lafayette post of Xew York: Harding post of St. Louis ; Tod post of Youugstowu, O. ; and the Xew Hampshire delegation. Camp Jewel t Ottieially Opened. Camp Jewett, the picturesque tent city erected for the accommodation of visiting veteratis, on a bluff overlook ing Lake Erie and the month of the Niagara river, was officially opened by Commander-in-Chief Clarkson yester day afternoon. The commander-in-chief was escorted from his headquarters by Mayor Jewett and other citizens and by Bidwell Wilkesou pot of Buffalo and Colum bia post of Chicago, headed by the regi mental band of the Thirteenth United States infantry, which Is assigned to Fort Porter during the encampment. As the commander-in-chief entered the camp a salute of 15 guns was fired in his honor by the federal troops at the fort. The general was escorted to the piazza of a park pavilion situated in the center of the camp, about which thous ands of veterans and citizeus formed in a hollow .square. Stepping to the front of the piazza, Mayor Jewett, on behalf of the citizens' committee, presented the camp to the commauiler-iu-chief , who accepted it in a gracef ul speech. Comumnder-iu-Chief Clarkson en tered the pavilion when his remarks were concluded and held au impromptu reception of officers from Fort Porter and officers of the national guard. Later he made an inspection of the camp in company with the officers of his htatt", after which he returned to his headquarters. Liut-liau u Formidable Cam) Mate, John C. Liuehun of Concord, N. H-, now commissioner of insurance for that state and former junior vice coui uuiuder of the Grand Army, is the most formidable of the new candidates for commander-in-chief. Pennsylvania veterans are booming Colonel Gobiu of that state for com-uiauder-iu-chief. Already oyer 500 Pennsylvania men are here and they are all working hard for Colonel Gobin's ucre4. A delegation of prominent Cincinnati business men have arrived to press Cin cinnati's claim for the national encamp ment in 1SJW and headquarters .have been ojieiied in the Iriquols bote. There now appears to be no doubt that Cincinnati will have the honor of en tertaining the G, A. R. next year. In fact, there appears to be no opposition. The Richmond boomn-s arrived in town yesterday morning anil immedi ately proceeded to work for the en cauipnient oi 1M9. There are IX of Richmond's leading men in the party. A prominent nj ember of the delegation is Walter H. SaHJiry, editor and owner of The Richmond State, w)ip says that his committee is doing good missionary work and lias every reason to believe they will gt-U the encampment in 1899. Not a delegation approached so far but was in favor of Richmond, and several members of the couiuntt which will have the selection of the place are pledged to Richmond. A noble enterprise which is likely to enlist t)ie attention of the Grand Army delegates during the session here is the establishment of a sanitarium for the benefit of veterans and epldiers and aailors of the war for the union. It is proposed to locate on the island with Castle Pinckuey in the harbor of Charleston. S C. a refuge for old soldiers who are jl) and congress is asked to take advantage pf an offer of the very favorable location for the pur txjie. V,drbilt Story Denied. Asheviixe, N. C. Aug. 24. The Citizen has received a letter from Charles MeNaniee, with George Van derbilt at Luhcck, Germany, denying the recent widely published story to the effect tliat Mr. Vauderbilt intended to build a $100,000 hospital in Ashetrille. Mr. McXauiee says the story has no foundation in fact. 'Senator Uills Commits .Suicide. Davenpokt, la.. Aug. 24. Hon. John C Bills, ex-state senator and ex-mayor of Davenport, aged 40 years, one of the most prominent lawyers iu Iowa, com mitted suicide by shooting today. He was despondent oyer failing hfiltfe. ARE NOT YET TOGETHER Miners and Operators Hold a Further Conference. FOUE PE0F08ITI0K3 GOHSLDEEED. Miner Offer to Resume Operations at the 69-Ceut Kate, reading Decision of a Board or Arbitration-Judge Terhune Makes a Jieport to Governor Mount. Eight Thousand Destitute Fatalities. Pittsburg, Pa., Aug. 24. Miners to to resume work at the i54-cent rate pending the decision of a board of arbi tration. Miners to resume work at an inter mediate rate between the rate de manded and the one paid before the suspension, pending a decision of a board of arbitration. Miners to resume operations without a price named pending a decision of a board of arbitration. These three propositions were sub mitted by the special committee of railroad coal operators of the Pittsburg district at a conference held here last night. Miners to resume work at the C9-cent rate pending the decision of a board of arbitration. TVu I- the proposition submitted by the officers of the miners to the special commit tee. The proposi tions were talked over in an iuform:.l manner by both sile;. when au ad journment was taken until today. Mlu:-r Will .stand Firm. As near as run be learned the miners officials will staud firm on the proposi tion they have made. In support of this claim they say that it is equally as fair for the miners to resume at the C9 cent rate pending urMtratiou as it is for them to go to work at the 54-cent rate under the same conditions. After the conference several members of the committee of operator said that a con ference of operators in which are to lie included the operas --: of other states has been eliminated from the contro versy and that only the Pittsburg dis trict was being considered. National Presidenr Ratehford and President Dolau stoutly maintained that the ques tion was still deliberated upon. From the best information at hand the con tending parties are still far apart. The operators hope that one of their proposi tions will be accepted, while the miners' officials say thai they will not recede in the least from their proposition. Judge Terhuue Illauiett Operators. Lebanox. lud., Aug. 24. Judge Thomas J. Terhuue. the commissioner appointed by Governor Mount to inves the condition and grievances of the striking coal miners of this slate, says that S,M'-0 families in the Indiana min ing districts are i-ouipletely destitute and unless relief is afforded the result will be licyoud imagination. Hundreds of men, Judge Terhune said, had not had :t dollar in money for mouths. The speaker declared the operators are to blame, and said that the sooner they are forced to adjust the price of coal so as to enable them to pay reasonable wages to their employes the sooner the miners' troubles will end. HOLY VMR 13 ON IN INDIA. Strife liegau In Earnest by the Fanatics, Who llaie Attacked Fort Maude. London, Aug. 24. Au official dispatch from Peshawaur announces that the Afridis attacked Ali Musjed this morn ing, and adds tliat they were attacking Fort Maude at 1" :."0 a. m. today. The enemy's line ia u mile and a half long. Another body of Afridis, the dispatch continues, is moving toward Kailaui. All the Afridis are said to have joiued in the uprising. The news coutaiued tin this official dispatch is most important. It proba bly means a protracted campaign and dopcrate fighting. A general revolt of the Afridis. as well as the Indian gov ernment, U feared the most, aud it now seems to have taken place. Simla, Aug. 2:j. A large force of AWdis has just leeu reported to be ad vancing ilown the Khyber pass and the so-called Mad Mullah, or fanatical priest who is inciting the natives of that territory against the British, w "aid to have collected the Mohmands for au attack on MU'hnib and Shabkadr. The Royal Irish regiment and a representa tive native infantry with a battery of mountain artillery liave been ordered to Kohnf . i.r ' Bread Is Costing Mere In France. Pakis, Aug. i'4. Flour rose 50 cen times a sack at Marseilles on Saturday aud a further rise is expected, though the impending arrivals from New York and Buenos Avres are expected to check the rise. The agitatjon for the abolition of the duties on grain ia spreading rap idly, and at Tarbes, Rodes and Cette there is much excitement on the sub ject. One paper expresses the opinion Chat the rise will not last long, as no bcarcjty & feared, adding tliat the So cialists will uqt succeed in the alarmist campaign and that tin prjee pf bread has no relation to the present pi-u;d of wheat. France Will Not Lift Import Duties. Pnjs, Aug. 24. There seems no rea son to believe that the import duty on wheat will be taken off. even tempora rily. There seems but one opinion namely, that to abolish the duty would t merely enrich the speculators, derange fiie equilibrium of the budget.work seri ous harm to the French cultivator and bringing no relief to the consumer. The municipal coum-tt voted a resolu tion to petition the minister of agricul ture to remove the duty on flour should ti prove inexpedient to abolish the duty ou wheat. President Fame lieache Cr-mstadt. Cronstadt, Aug. 24. The French cruiser Pothua with President Faure and his suite on board arrived here at 11 :30 a. m. Black Hilars Oppose the Trail. Rapid Crrv, S. D.', Aug. 24. Con siderable comment has been made by the stockmen in this section of the country in regard to the proposition recently made by Senator Allen of Ne braska to open up a cattle trail through the Rosebud agency. Since tlje news first arrived parties have been busy cumulating a petition of remon strance througiiOHt the country. One of the objections raised is that the ranges north of the reservation are crowded to the utmost capacity already. With an open trail through to Nebraska there would be nothing to prevent the small cattlemen of that rtate from driving fkair herds to tkt Mthtrn range in the Kentucky Duel En its In Two Deaths. Middlesboro, Aug. 24. It- is reported here that G. H. Steele, ex-sheriff, and Sam Young, deputy sheriff, of Leslie county, were both killed in a combat at Hyden yesterday. Tae men fought with pistols and both fell dead in the fifth round. Both were prominent. Steele was a Democratic leader and Young a Republican, and they quarreled over politics REPORTS ON KANSAS COP.N CROP. Estimate That the State Yit Id Will Not Fall Short of 150,000,000 Bushel. Topeka. Aug. 24. The Capital pub lished reports from every county of the state, giving the condition and proba ble yield of crop. These returns show that, though former estimates of half a crop in some localities may have beeu correct, the generous rains of August have brought the late corn out so that its enormous yield in many counties makes up for the loss by hot winds and very materially raises the average. In only 10 counties will the yield be a fourth crop or under. In eight there will be a third crop. Ju 28 there will be considerable over a third to over a half a crop. Iu 29 the crop will be three-fourths full, and in 18 the crop will be full, while iu 14 the crop will not fall below 50 bushels to the cere. From these returns it will be seen that the yield will not be far from three fourths of a crop and may be much more, when it Is considered tliat the great acreage of the good crop counties will outweigh much of the loss iu other counties. Theiv is reason for believing tliat the state yield will not fall short of 150,000,000 and may be near 200,000, 000. Phenomenal Crop Iu Nebraska. Chicaoo, Aug. 24. A parry of 70 business men aud representative farm ers have just returned from a trip through Nebraska, where they spent six days moving from point to point in a special train placed at their dir.jio.sal by the Burlington road. They report the crops as something phenomenal. Fann ers are paying o3" their mortgages from the proceeds of the great wheat crop and will soon commence to harvest the greatest corn crop in the history of Ne braska. All say Nebraska farmers are in excellent shapu, anticipating a long period of prosperity. International Congress. Zurich, Switzerland. Aug. 24. The international congress called to discuss measures for the protection of workmen opened here this morning. There were 500 delegates present aud all countries were represented. National League tiame. Boston, 4 Louisville, 1. 2u-h.l- tuu1B-rcu; Hill and Wi!va. Second fijoie Bo-tr.u, U: Louisville, 2 Lewis :md li.Tfa Claris and Wilson. New Yor!;, 8 Cleveland. 7. Me-kin and Wilson : Pmwil, Young aad Zinimer. Brooklyn. I'.': Pittsburg, o. Payne and Smith : Hav.!ey and Jlerritt. Seeocd (iawn Brooklyn, 1- Fittjburg, tt Kennedy aii smith- Hiighey and Sudden'. WH-TEItX l.LAUUK. Kansas Oit , 9: CoKimbas 3. Milwaukee, 1 ; Indianapolis, 3. St. Paul, Graiui l-.airid.-, 7. WliVKHN' ASSOCIATION. Dubuque, 7; Burlington, 6. ELEPHANT NOT CLEVER. tkm Popular Belief Contradicted by aa KaglUh Writer. The elephant possesses very charm ing characteristics and makes a very pleasant companion. For one thing he is not easily mislaid, and he is very obedient to the slightest hint given by his mahout. Iu speed he is scarcely a record break er, but he can get over the ground in his shuffling way at the rate of 15 miles au hour, when he likes. There is one thing that he is not he is not a really clever animal, in spite of all the tales iu the story books to the contrary; otherwise he would not suffer himself to he so easily captured in the kheddahs, the huge forest inclosures in to which the hunters drive the herds of elephants for the purpose of capture. All the actions which are apparently spontaneous on the part of the working elephant are really performed at the bidding of the mahout. The driver on bis neck directs every movement by pressure of the knee, and as the mau's knees are concealed under the elephant's ears it is very easy to imagine that the elephant thinks for himself. When the mahout elects, for a change, to sit ou the saddle, or pad, he drives with his feet, and the dullest eye can detect how a rub of the heel ou the right shoulder turns the elephant to the left, and vice versa. After his tractability his gentleness is the elephant's most marked characteris tic The mahout takes cruel advantage of his disposition sometimes, thrashing bim on the toe nail with a billet of wood, or if free from risk of discovery by bis European master pricking bis trunk with a spear till blood flows. An elephant has rarely been known to retaliate save when it must. When that curious madness comes on bim, no one dares approach bim in bis pickets. If be be taken in must, and the fact es cape notice, the consequences are likely (0 be awkward at least. In a suburb of Rangun an elephant belonging to a firm of rice merchants was one afternoon taken down to the river for his usual bath after work. He bad, the mahout said, been "dull" all day and seemed out of sorts. He was in must. He signified the fact by seizing bis mahout and tossing the astonished man into the water; then be ran into the "go down" close by and, with one squeal, dismissed some 200 coolies at work there. The go down was a huge palisade abed, covering over an acre and was full of loose paddy (unhqaked rice). and stacks of bags and grain. For two nights and two days that elephant enjoyed himself among those stacks. Spearmen, posted round the palisade wall, kept him in, and one might have supposed 40 eepbants bent on mischief bad been there instead pf que mad one. At last be was made prisoner with toe aid oi two big tuskers and chained up until such time as be should recover himself. London Sketch. Hantfllty. It is not every great man who carries bis honors aa meekly as the mayor of Inverness, who rebuked an admiring crowd in the words, "Frens, I'm just a mortal man like yersels." Sir Wilfrid Lawspn tells the following story: "A woman was once pursuing her fugitive cow down a lane, when she called out to some one in front, 'Han, turn my cow.' The man took no notice and allowed fhe cow to pass. When she came up, she said, 'Man. why did you not turn my cow?' He replied, 'Woman, I am not a man; I am a magistrate.'" Household Words. A Gealaa. "My wife has been studying geology, and the bouse is so full pf rocks I can't find a place to sit down. " What will you do about it!" '-I've induced her to take up astron omy." "Is that any better" "Of course. She can't collect speci men. "Chicago fiecurd. the spring and returning them in fall to their fresh ranges at home. RftlLRGADSJJj COURT. Preparing: to Fight the South Dakota Rate Law. DECLARE THEY HAKE 110 PE0FIT. Bhjhteea Railway Mra Before the Stata Railroad Commissioner Taking; Ofltr lals of Kentucky Usable to Get Service a the Southern Pacific Road Likely to Win IU Contention. Sioux Falls, S. D., Aug. 24. Eigh teen railroad men, vice presidents, traffic managers, auditors and attorneys, were before the railroad commissioners today to make a showing of their business in South Dakota preliminary to fighting the new railroad law in the courts. It is contended that the proposed schedule of the rate is so low as to leave no profit on their investment. In a hearing for a temporary injunction before Judge Carland a few days ago the court stated to the railroad representatives that if tbey could sustain their claims the com mission could not reduce their rates. Acting on th suggestion the attorneys for the railroads are now presenting their case. Those in attendance are President Ives of the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern ; George W.Peck, general solicitor, and A. C. Bird, traffic mana ger of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul ; H. 6. Burt, vice president, W. H. Osborn and O. W. Robinson, attor neys for the Chicago and Northwest ern ; Senrto.- Mandcrson of the Burl ignton; George T. Bidwell. general manager, and W. B. Sterliug, for the Elkhorn;W. D. Clark, general traffic manager, H. M. Pierce, auditor, L. K. Luce, assistant general solicitor for the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha ; H. D. Grover, general solicitor, and Vice President Neuumu of the Great North ern. OFFICIALS GIVEN A SETBACK. Kentucky Taxing O nicer Unable to Get Service on Southern laclfir. Fkankfoici-, Ky., Aug. 24. The fight against the Southern Pacific by the Kentucky taxing officers, both iu the county and state board of valuation of assessment, has received a peculiar set back, in that they cannot get service on the company iu the regular way. The law in this state requires all corpora tions "organized in this state" to have au agent in this state and to file with the secretary of state the name of such agent, upon whom summons can be served at any time. The Southern Pa cific, in compliance with this law, some time ago ap')inted Charles F. Krebes, a Louisville man, their agent for Ken tucky. Several mouths ago the railroad with which Krebes was engaged was absorbed by another road, he was of fered a position iu Chicago and removed to that city. When the state board at tempted to get service on Krebes some time ago the Louisville sheriff reported that he had left the state and that no Kentucky agent or place of business of the Southern Pacific could be found. The officers are now threatening to apply the law which provides for for feiture of charter to a corporation that purposely evades the law requiring the appointment of agent, etc. Meanwhile the road seems likely to win its conten tion that it is not subject to franchise taxation in this state. Its lawyers have filed their briefs on their demurrer to the state suit. They hold that under the decision of the supreme court no company is subject to a franchise tax unless some part of its corporate fran chise is exercised in the state and that it does no business in Kentucky. They further hold that any penalties for fail ure to report to which they might be liable are now barred by limitation. EXERCISE FOR BABY. A PHYSICIAN'S VIEWS ON THIS VERY IMPORTANT QUESTION. lataeace of Kepreaied Activity oa the Growth aad Development of Infants. Tale Authority Declares Penltlvely For Freedom of Movement. "Infantile Athletics" was the subject 4f a paper read at a meeting of the sec tion on pediatrics of the New York Academy of Medicine by Or. Henry Ling Taylor. "When one considers the important physiological effects of muscular activ ity," said Dr. Taylor, "it is apparent that the human organism is imperfectly adapted to a sluggish or sedentaiy ex istence. Medical practice, at least in the cities, is largely made up of disor ders which are distinctly traceable to tbe neglect of proper exercise. Primi tive man, being obliged to buut aud igbt in order to exist, was of necessity athletic, aad now that tbe struggle has In a measure been shifted from brawn to brain, men still find it advantageous to train their muscles in sports and games. When tbe important relation of muscular activity to nutrition, respira tion, circulation and elimination is re called, this wholesome instinct easily finds its vindication. Every muscular mass ia in an important sense a supple mentary heart and a supplementary kidney. Tbe lungs are never thorough ly ventilated, except through vigorous exercise. Moreover, tbe nervous and muscular elements are so intimately related as to form practically but one system. Education and progress come tbrougb motor and sensory experience that is, largely tbrougb muscular activ ity. Growth itself is influenced by exer cise. "Dr. H. G. Beyer of tbe United States Naval academy has shown that not only do those cadets who take systematic gymnastic training largely exceed those who do not in average gain in weight, lung capacity and strength, but that their average gain in height during the four years is greater by over an inch. Tke cadets range in age from 10 to 21 years, and it is probable that appropri ate exercise would have similar if not greater effect in children. "It is even more true of the infant than of the adult that tbe kind and de gree of habitual muscular activity will largely determine tbe structure of the body aad the tone of tbe mind and char acter. It is more true because tbe in fant ia more incomplete and more plas tic Tbe newborn ' babe is, as it were, but half made. Its organs are imma ture, its activities restricted, and they will never attain full and harmonious development except under the stimulus of use. It is not without significance that exercise is begun five mouths or more before birth, and that the infant appears upon tbe scene with a kick and a cry. Though among the most helpless pf nature's children, tbe infant comes with considerable training and some re markable muscular endowments, as, for instance, tbe well known ability to sup port itself by grasping a horizontal rod. In waking hours tbe small limbs prac tice constant and vigorous movements, superficially aimed, but important in producing tissue changes fundamental to nutrition, as well as in furnishing ssasory and motor experience necessary (9 saepta) pad bodily growth, develop- it and power. "4X aootha of t tbe baby tods its hands and begins to reach out for and hold objects; at 8 or 9 months it creeps; at 13 or 14 it walks, aud so progresses from simple to complex pur posive movements and to such adjust ments as pat it in more comfortable and intimate relation with its surroundings. "Since the infant has such ample en dowments and spontaneous impulses to wholesome activity, our first and most important care most be to avoid undue interference or repression. It is interest ing to observe what pains some uncivi lised mothers take that tbe wrappings and appliances needful to protect the baby shall not prevent freedom of move- I TTIAnr Tn itadprihino Trillion infannv anil the use of tbe portable cradle Mrs. Fletcher says: 'It is a mistaken notion that tbe child is kept up all tbe time. Every day tbe baby is bathed and placed on a robe or blanket to kick and crow to its heart's content, bat when tbe family cares call tbe mother away be is put into the cradle, with his arms free to play with the many bright beads that bang from the book which encircles tbe bead of this little portable bed.' "What a refreshing contrast to tbe insipid experiences of our overdraped, overcoddled youngsters. Still, rough ex ercises are not required for civilized ba bies. Tbey will attend to their own gymnastics, if not prevented. It is evi dent that the movements of the trunk and limbs should not be impeded with wrappings. Baby's activity should have free play. At the start we are confront ed with the conventional bellybaud ; if tightly adjusted, it must exert injuri ous pressure; if too loosely adjusted, it gets displaced and rolls into a contract ing string. When adjusted with a prop er degree of snuguess, it may beiuuocu ous, but do its benefits outweigh its dis advantages? The clothing should be loose and simple, fittiug in successive layers, so that all can be put on at once. "When it comes to artificial exercises for the baby, there are few prevalent among us that seem calculated to help bim. Monotonous jarring, shaking and trotting are undesirable, if not harmful. When the idea ia once grasped that a good, hearty cry is an admirable chest expander, there is less temptation to this form of parental indulgence, for it will usually be found that the baby is trotted for tbe sake of the trotter rather than for its own. Peevishness is of course undesirable. If due to indigestion or other physical ailments, the baby should be treated; if complicated by overindulgence, the treatment should be tempered with discipline which should not stop with tbe child." Oae Woman's Trials. A resident of Stateu Island has lately been very much annoyed by some of the urchins of the neighborhood. She is a great lover of nature and has on her front piazza a number of potted plants which have been cared for all winter. At night, when everything is quiet, the boys come and manage to steal one or two plants without discovery. One by one her choice flowers have disappeared, and although she has watched for the thieves they have never been caught. Tbe other day she conceived a plan by which she saved her remaining treasures. Tying a string to each flow erpot, she connected the ends with a bell in the hall. That night she waited patiently for the alarm. At last there was a tinkln and then a crash. Rushing out, she saw a boy, apparently fright ened out of bis senses, running down the path. When he found the pot tied and heard the bell ring, he dropped his booty aud took to his heels. The boy es caped, but thero has been no more trou ble with flower thieves. This woman is very fond of pets of all kinds aud has a number about the house. One day, while marketing, she saw a beautiful gamecock and thought it would make a novel sort of pet. Pay ing 950 for her find, she had it sent home. The bird arrived before its mis tress and was received by the cook, who chopped off its head and prepared it for dinner. New York Times. Life, to be worthy of a rational be ing, must be always in progression. We must always purpose to do more or bet ter than iu time past. Johnson. ItllllllllHHIilHIItlltllllllltllltllllllll jSbbiiiomil i'ofal. HittiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiitiiimiiiiiitHiiMiiittrm Spoerry's Apology. Referring to the debate at the repub lican county convention wherein Spoer ry. Shannon and Hon re participated, some seem to think an apology is neces sary, and here is mine: Whereas, no man without integrity should be elected to any, nut even the smallest office, therefore I consider it unbecoming, humiliating and even in sulting to a jndge of the supreme court, to praise his integrity; but the gentle men on the other side must have thought he needed said praise, as the sequel proved, to wit: The naming of the dele gation to the otate convention by Judge A. M. Post, contrary to his promise in open convention. As to the ability and exceptional fitness for the position of supreme judge, I think we have dozens of gentlemen in Nebraska just as well, if not better qualified, as Mr. A. M. Post. Fifty-nine metnliers of the convention ensting away their own election fran chise Rr.d depriving tbe other fifty-three members of theirs, in favor and for the benefit of one office-seeker! Mr. Post taking advantage thereof, naming as delegates to the state conven tion, in part, men who were defeated by the people, at the primaries, and passing them off as delegates from Platte coun ty, without even submitting their names to the county convention, for approval, may be very good machine politics but I consider it unrepublican in the ex treme and not in conformity with the doctrine, "A government of the people, by the people for the neople." H. T. Spoebry. tllllHllllll.lllllllllllflllllMmilllHIIOT I W f WWS' J nuai HRUIIIIIIIIItlUlllUllllllllllllimilHI Albion News: The Klondyke organi zation formed in Albion last week is no child's play of a concern, bnt on tbe con trary is a genuine banding together of some of our citizens whereby ways and means may be perfected to reach the gold fields of Alaska. Tbe parties con template starting not later than Feb ruary 1st. Monroe Republican: Elmer Ardo, aged 8 years, 8 months and 5 days, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. . Pickering of Monroe township, was killed by lightning last Friday. He was in a straw stable dur jng the storm and the lightning struck, killing him instantly. His sudden tak ing away is a sad blow to the parents and tbey have tbe sympathy of all. Tba funeral was bald Saturday and tba re- begher, mm & CO., Loans, And insurance.. COLUMBUS, i mains buried in the cemetery at the Monroe church. " Osceola Record: Last Thursday even ing Sheriff Hahn got word that a horse thief from near Bee this state was head ed this way. He gave chase and landed his man in about an hour. He came up with tbe fellow riding the horse near the bluffs on the road to Silver Creek. The sheriff from Bee came Friday morn ing and got thief and horse. The fellow was about sixteen years old and bis name is Charles McDermott. He work ed in Osceola last spring awhile. It seems that he borrowed the horse to ride to Bee and then struck out from there with bim. Schuyler Herald: The board of county commissioners met again on Monday ef this week and in conjunction with the county treasurer continued the work begun a year ago, of going over the de linquent personalty tax list nud striking therefrom the names of tin we deemed dead, removed or worthless. The names on that list are a monument to the care lessness of some of the old time treasurers, and it would surprise the tax payers to learn the names of the heavy tax shirkers. It includes many who have held lucrative public positions with haudsome salaries paid them by the county and the public ex-county judges, commissioners, county attorneys aud others. It's a stunner and un eye opener! No wonder the county is not on a cash basts. Albion Blade: A murderous cutting affray occurred last Saturday night at the home of John Verhage on Plum creek, about seven miles east of Cedar Rapids and twelve miles south of this place, where a dance was being held. As the result, a man by the name of Russell, who received a deep knife wound iu the lungs, is lying at the point of death if not already dead anil, four young men, Styree, McMulken, Gordon aud Cottom, all of whom were charged with partici pating in the deadly assault upon Russell, are under arrest, three of them being now in jail. We have not the space for a detailed account of the affair, and but blanked little inclination to use it for that purpose if we did. It is an unusual aud most unfortunate occurrence one which will injure the good reputation of oar countv. The preliminary trial will be held tomorrow morning. Kaight.i aad ladie of Seiurlty. A new fraternal beneficiary society will be organized in Columbus for ladies and men on same terms. Furnishes the best of insurance at actual cost. Has a reserve fund nnd limits assess ments. Don't have to die to get your money. J Covers accident as well as sickness. ' Has many other good features. State organizer, John A. Dempster, will lie pleased to explain and receive your applications for membership at Clot her hotel. Gotul solicitor inuittil. 1 Tit Chirac" the Kast. Passengers going east for business, will naturally gravitate to Chicago as the great commercial center. Passengers re-visiting friends or relatives in the eastern states alwavs desire to "take in" Chicago en route. All classes of passen gers will find that the "Short Line" of .he Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Rail way, via Omaha and Council Bluffs, affords excellent facilities to reach their destinations in a manner that will be Biire to give the utmost satisfaction. A reference to the time tables will in dicate the route to be chosen, and, by asking any principal agent west of the Missouri river for u ticket over the Chicago, Council Bluffs & Omaha Short Line of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, you will be cheerfully furnished with the proper passport via Omaha and Chicago. Please note that all of the "Short Line" trains arrive in Chicago in ample time to connect with tbe ex press trains of all the great through car lines to the principal eastern cities. For additional particulars, time tables, maps, etc., please call on or address F. A. Nash, General Agent, Omaha, Neb. Envelopes with your return card printed on them, for 50 cents a hundred at The Jodknal office. Natioaal EnraMpatat I J. A. K.. Buffalo, N. ., Aagaftt .l-2M. At the time of the National Encamp ment of the G. A. R, the Burlington Route will sell round trip tickets to Bnffalo, at lkss than the regular one way rate. G. A. R. special train with through sleepers for Buffalo leaves Omaha .r:K p. m. August 21. Berths reserved and special advertising matter furnished on request. See nearest Burliugton Route agent or write J. Francis, G. P. A., Omaha, Neb. 3t PROBATE NOTICE. The State or Nebbask. ) County of Platte. JS9" In the county court, in and for aaiil county. In the matter of the estate of Henry Pusto. uV- ceaaed. late of aaid county. At a seeaion of the county court for naid county, holden at the county judge's office in Columbus, in aaid county on the 17th day of August, A. D. 1897. present. J. N. Kilian. coun ty judge. On readingand filing the duly Terined petition of 8. M. Barker, praying that let ters of administration be issued to him on tha estate of said decedent. Thereupon, it ia ordered that the 10th day of September, A. D. K91, at 1 o'clock, p. m l assigned for the hearing of said petition at the mnntr indve'a office in said countr. And it is farther ordered, that due legal notice be giTen or the pendency and hearing or sain petition by publication in TueCoixmiics Jock Xal for three consecutive week. (A true copy of the order.) J. V KlLItX, County Judge. Dated Columbus. Neb., Aug. 21. 1S97. 2.'ug3t EXECUTOR'S SALE. In the matter of the estate of Daniel Hchucker. Notice is hereby given that in pursnance of an order of J.J. Hullivan, judge of the district court of Platte county, made on the 2fMh day of June, 1807, for tbe sale of the real estate hereinafter described, there will be sold at the front door of the court house in the city of Columbus, Platte county. Nebraska, on tbe l&TH DAT OF SZPTEMBEB, 1307, at 1 o'clock p. m. at pablie vendue, to the high est bidder tor cash, the following described real estate, to wit: The northwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section thirty-one, town ship nineteen north, range four west in Platte county, Nebraska. Haid sale will remain open oae boar. Dated August 10. 1807. Waxizk 6. Gaix ES, llascSt Executor. Real Estate NEBRASKA. M. C. CASSIN, PHOFRirrou or thk Omaha Meat llarket J Fresh and Salt Meats. Game and Fish in Season. fir-Highest market Hides and Tallow. prices paid for THIRTEENTH ST., COLUMBUS, - - NEBRASKA 25nirtf UNDERTAKING! We Carry Coffins, Caskets and Metallic Caskets at as low prices as any one. DO EMBALMING HAVE THE BEST HEARSE IN THE COUNTRY. FRED. W. 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