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: A . . - .r . s- j .-...: .- - :" V -' . I it - f r " . . ; . f' i . 4 ESTABLISHED MAT 11. 1870. Columbus Journal. Columbus, Nebr. Entered at the Potoffice, Columbus, Nebr., m Tooari rim mail matter. tanalTtiaulin ty. .X.X.TVSirZ2C0. . TZKXS Or SUBSCRIPTION: Oaeyaar, by nail, postage prepaid. ...$L50 ... .75 ... . Btx ayoataa , Tkreeaoatba WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBEB 15. 18W. a- tVT Solaerlbsn ff THE JOUIUf-AI-PlMMlMkat tka date pp tto yaw m tkm wrapper ff ymr JOUKMAL r tk marcla ff THE JOUKMAL. Up te this date, yaw ami ilptlaa ia paldaraeeamBte far. The Boers are after the British cattle. Harrison is now chief justice of the state. Mere howling isn't popular every where. Aouikaldo and bis army are said to be rarrounded. Japan is said to be hurrying up war ships, expecting to hare a brush with Russia. The approaching marriage of Senator John M. Thurston and Miss Lola Fear man of Washington, D. C, has been announced. The republicans of Ohio and Iowa can afford to send a portion of their surplus voters to live in Nebraska and help out the situation. The last republican campaign meeting in Nebraska was addressed by Chaplain Mailley, Senator Hay ward and ex-Secretary J. Sterling Morton. The court of claims is asked to ad judge $382,800 as the amount of prize money due Admiral Dewey, his officers and men for destroying Cervera's fleet Hunter Johnson of Jackson, Miss., was hunting in the swamps east of that city several days ago and discovered a box containing $50,000, nearly all $20 gold pieces. Ik Omaha, at Fred Stacker's saloon, Robert Fisher, colored, and Joseph Mc- Dermott played cards and quarreled later, Fisher shooting McDermott in the groin. He may recover. Mrs. Leona J. Lay, the divorced wife of August Wischman, shot him and his wife at Chicago November 7. He was fatally injured and hopes are entertained of Mrs. Wischman's recovery. Vice President Hobart's condition has improved so as to warrant hope of his recovery. He now spends most of his time in a reclining position and he sleeps without the aid of opiates. Tns battle at Puerto Cabella, Vene zuela, lasted from Friday night to Sun day morning, resulting in the overthrow of Gen. Paredes with the loss of C50 persons. The city was left in ruins. The Boers on Monday were reported as making simultaneous assaults on Ladysmith, Mafeking and Kimberly, with a view to taking these strongholds before British reinforcements arrive. General Joubert, commander of the Boers, has protested with General White of the English against the use of lyddite, an oxplosive said to be as destructive as dynamite yet as safe to handle as gun powder. Admiral George Dewey was married Thursday morning in Washington, at the rectory of St. Paul's Catholic church, to Mrs. Mildred M. Hazen. As the admiral is not a Catholic, a special dispensation was required. There is talk of a division of tho con trol of the Samoan islands between the three powers which hare been in joint charge, Great Britain, Germany and the United States, and that such an arrange ment is agreeable to all parties. At Stella, Nebraska, B. M. Derstine, a tinner, crawled into a fifteen-barrel gas oline tank to solder a leak, and was badly burned, the vapor exploding as soon as he was handed a lantern. Although terribly burned, he will recover. All preparatory work is to be dropped at the State university, and such as has heretofore been done at a charge of $3 to $4 a semester by tutors furnished by the university, will now be done by the Lin coln High school at a charge of $1 each semester. The democrats of Ohio are now swear ing mad at Jones, who they say took 105,000 votes from their candidate for governor, thus securing his defeat, Wo do not see that any of them are claiming that Mark Hanna was instrumental in getting Jones to run. Rsv. Charles M. Sheldon, the author of the famous book which has reached a phenomenal sale, has recommended to his church at Topeka, Kansas, the adop-tion-of a creed to take the place of the apostles' creed, stripping it of what he terms "obsolete" features. That wonderful book "David Harum" has broaght to the family of the author only $12,000. Jeffries got $50,000 and Sharkey $12,000, which shows con daatvely that money is not the only re ward worth striving for in this life of oars, says the Council Bluffs Nonpareil. Col. Bell's regiment and a small force of cavalry entered Tarlac Sunday night without resistance. Gen. MacArthnr took Bamban Sunday, supposed to be the strongest position held by the Fili pinos, except Tarlac One officer of the Thirty-sixth regiment is the only Amer ican reported killed. Great Britain can readily be proven to be'-one of the most important factors in the commercial world by this one token, if no other. Ocean freight rates have risen 20 per cent since 6he has withdrawn so many ships from the mer chant marine service to transport sol diers and munitions of war to .Africa. The lives oj 15,000,000 people are in peril by famine in India. The British government has already authorized an expaaditare of $300,000 in relief. There an dose to three hundred millions of people there, in a country about as large as Earope without Russia; famines are of frequent occurrence there, and it has oftea been said that such will be the essaaatQ there are better ways of trans porting food products "from where they am plentiful to .where they are scarce." soooooaoaaooooexxx; IOWA AND OHIO. The republican victories in these two states arc more than usually significant. National questions were discussed in both, and the malicious falsity of the hollow cry of militarism and im perialism seen by the great majority of voters. So, doubtless, it will be in 1900, only more so. The complete parallelism between Vallandigharaism and Bryanism will be fully shown and recog- C3 nized by that time. soooooooooooexsogsoexsoooooooe Station Briefs. Republicans lost only the county treas urer in Lancaster county. Our friend, W. C Phillips, who was a candidate for clerk of the district court, had a plural ity of 1134. Reese received 5,672 votes and Holcomb 4,625. While the entire republican state ticket was elected in Massachusetts, Crane's plurality over Paine, democrat, being 65,062, the democrats are jabilantjdetendantif residence is known; if, after over the party victory in Boston. Taking the highest candidate for county Office on each ticket in all the counties of New Jersey, the republican plurality is well above 20,000. It is gratifying, says the Lincoln Jour nal, to make mention of the fact that in Papillion, Sarpy county, the home of Judge Edgar Howard, the republicans made a gain of seven. Had all voting precincts of the state done as well, M. B. Reese would havo been elected, and that by a majority not less than 8,500. Douglas county, Holcomb, 9,965, Reese 9,236. The entire republican judicial ticket was elected. The election of all the republican nominees to the Omaha school board is reported by majorities of 800 to 1,100. November 13, each side claims the election of its ticket in Kentucky, but theeetimated plurality of either does not exceed 3,000. The 110 counties giving official returns show pluralities of 27,121 for Taylor and 29,305 for Goebel, a net plurality of 2,184 for Goebel. The com mittee claims that these returns have been certified by the precinct election officers and need only to be tabulated. In the remaining county, Lewis, there is a plurality of 704 for Taylor, but the election officers boldly refuse to obey the law by certifying to their returns. Boone county elected four republicans on the county ticket. ptATTE cocxrr. For Governor, Holcomb 1904, Reese 1121. For Regents, Teeters 1805, Rich 1716, Ely 1135, McGilton 1060. District Court Judges, Hollenbeck 1974, Grimison 1777, Oleson 1168, Thomp son 1074. Court Clerk, Gruenther 1938, Halm 1287. County Treasurer, Becher 2247, Eck man 923. County Clerk, Phillips 1807, Jens 1420. Sheriff, Byrnes 1946, Steinbaugh 1291. County Judge, Robison 2112, Pugsley 1061. Superintendent of Schools, Leavy 2260, Craig 918. Surveyor, Rossiter 2052. McEathorn 1093. Coroner, Metz 2002, DeBere 1102. Supervisor, Diet. No. 6 and 7, Lisco 421, Harrington 366. Ex-Senator Allen of Hebnska. It is well enough to remember what Mr. Allen has been as well as be mindful of what he is said to be expecting to be in the future, and thus read current history in the two lights that illuminate all dark places. Right pursued for the right's sake is one thing; all the other motives are le gion, and not to be named in the same connection. Just before election Mr. Allen de livered a speech at Albion, the echo of which is very different from his speech in the United States senate at the time he was called upon to cast his vote. Thomas Fay in the Albion News takes him to task in the following: Mr. Allen's speech was a mass of in consistencies and misrepresentations from beginning to end. The chief point of interest to republicans was his views on the Philippine question. His charge that the president declared war against the Fhilippinos in violation of the con stitution of the United States, which in vests congress with that power, is to say the least untrue and beneath the dignity of ex-senatorial courtesy, and when a gentleman in the audience asked him the question, "if the Cubans should at tack our soldiers as did the Filipptnos, would it be right to resist?" his cowardly evasion of a direct answer by 6aying that "our soldiers fired the first shot," showed him to be so steeped in partizan bias as to be incapable of fair dealing. Mr. Allen knows that if our soldiers had the right of occupation in the Philip pines, pending the ratification of the treaty of peace at Madrid, they bad the right to resist aggression from any and every source. According to the laws of war, forcing through the lines without firing is equivalent to a direct attack, and Mr. Allen, who was himself a sol dier, knows that a sentinel on outpost duty has orders to stop or shoot all in truders. The inference by Mr. Allen that our soldiers are responsible for commencing hostilities in the Philip pines is nothing less than rank copper headism, we care not from whom it emanates. We say this in defense of the brave boys who fell defending the old flag and the living heroes, some of whom have returned among us. Napoleon's prophecy that South Africa would be the grave of England's empire may De luinuea. xn case it should, Dewey's victory at Manila may be noted in history as the beginning of the period marking the gradual decline of English power and influence and may also be in line with the fulfillment of another prophecy by Napoleon that the day would come when the United States would supercede England and become the greater commercial nation. The Republican believes that the hidden hand of Providence and Destiny is the controlling power now shaping and moulding out important world-wide results that are to seriously affect the prestige and existence of heretofore powerful nations. Hastings Republican. The coinage of candidature for office into the currency of the realm is a very honorable and successful industry. There is, however, in that mouth-mint which alone coins into cash, candidature for office, a complete monopoly or trust. Colonel Bryan is a phenomenon in finance. He is the only patriot who ever made a large income of money from a large outgo of mere words. He has the only mint for coining candidature into currency. He is a mouth-trust monopo list. Getting money out of running for office making a livelihood and a compe tence out of candidacy is a splendid in dustry by which "the plain people" will be much profited. The Conservative. A need has long been felt for uniform divorce laws, to be adopted by all the states, and now it is hoped that this may be accomplished before many years. A conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, recently held at Buffalo, N. T., adopted a proposed act that very fully covers the ground. Two of the provisions deserve special attention, viz: Personal notice must be served upon the diligent search for a year, this cannot be ascertained, then service by publication to be given; no divorce shall be granted solely upon default, nor solely upon ad missions by the pleadings, nor except upon trial by the court in open session. The other provisions: Divorce from the bond of marriage shall be granted for the following canses arising after mar riage: Adultery, extreme cruelty, habit ual drunkenness or the confirmed habit of intoxication, whether arising from the use of alcoholic drinks or of drags; con viction of felony, with sentence of im prisonment to a state prison or peniten tiary; and continuous desertion for at least years. Divorce from the bond of marriage shall not be granted for any other cause arising after marriage. Malabia undoubtedly checks the pro gress or mankind, unless, indeed, like other so-called stupendous evils, that are such as to direct attention to their enormity, and at last beget a desire and determination to get rid of them, and thus strengthen man's ability to help himself to the good things of nature placed where his deeper thinking and planning, his enterprise and his industry may secure them for use. It is stated that in India about five million people a year are killed by malaria. Major Ross in a recent lecture said it was "not so dramatic a disease as cholera; it did not kill so quickly, but it killed far more people." The early settlers of Indiana and Illinois, Missouri and Arkansas, and isolated swampy regions of other states, can testify to the bad effects of malaria, and doubtless the general remedies applied against malaria, have added to the productiveness of the soil and the comfort and progress of the people in those regions. Nebraska is really a land with mountain climate and mountain water, and abont as little subject to the raids of malaria as any state in the Union. The French steamer Madeline which sailed last August from Valparaiso for Havre, has disappeared completely. A British steamship, the Kurdistan, just arrived from the west coast of South America, brings information of its prob able fate. There seems little doubt but it was wrecked near the Pacific side of the entrance to the straits of Magellan and that her crew were captured by the Patagonian cannibals. The treasury statement for the month of October will show a surplus of nearly $3,000,000 over expenditures. All de partments of the government show grat ifying increases, the customs department showing $3,000,000 increase over the cor responding month of last year. The treasury seems to be sharing in the gen eral prosperity that exists all over the country. Omaha Bee. The advice that Bryan gave in 1896 to those of his adherents who, he said, claimed they were afraid to vote for him for fear of losing their situations, viz: to wear McKinley badges but vote the Bryan ticket, has, it seems, been fol lowed this year in Omaha, some who professed to be with the republicans, voting the entire fusion ticket Some of the fusionists aro claiming that now two of the three members of the supreme court are democrats, and declaring it to be a good thing, while other fusionists, supposed to be equally as honest and patriotic, claim that the fact that no two of them ore of the same political party is great cause for congrat ulation. "Doctors differ." In the Review of Reviews for Novem ber Mr. Alfred F. Potts explains the workings of the Consumers Gas Trust Company of Indianapolis, which he regards as a successful substitute for municipal ownership. In the same num ber Mayor Bolton, of East Cleveland, Ohio, describes that suburban village and its interesting municipal activities. MrnnunaiONmimmfnfOTnrg I Stfeitttnal Steal. 5iiwmiiimitfltiWiMriiiiiimiiiiHiiwii Hunters, Take Vstiee I The public are strictly forbidden to hunt upon the pasture in which is loca ted the Irrigation Pood. Any persons trespassing will be prosecuted to the full limit of the law. 15-nov-y W. T. Ernst. Thousands of the most stubborn and distressing cases of piles have been cured by TABLER'S BUCKEYE PILE OINTMENT. It never fails to cure. Price 50 cents in bottles, tubes, 75 cents. Dr. A. Heintz and Pollock k Co. The people of Nebraska are justly proud of their university and the good work it is accomplishing, through the youth of the state mainly, for the up building of the general welfare. In the ratio of its population, perhaps Colum bus can testify to the merits of the uni versity as strongly as any city in the state. It will be gratifying to the friends of the institution to read the following from the last number of the University News Letter: "Ten years ago. almost to a day. Dr. Beasey, then, as now, acting chancellor of the university of Nebraska, announced in the chapel with a great deal of pride that the total enrollment in the university, counting "preps," musical students, art students and all, had reached 500. It was a proud day for the university, and the students let loose the university yell with great enthusi asm. Yesterday the acting chancellor announced that the new students admit ted this fall numbered 600. This indi cates the rapid and solid growth of the nniversitv. and credicts an attendance close to 2,100." ' Ital Estate Trauftn Becher, Jaeggi & Co., real estate agents, report the following real estate transfers filed in the office of the county clerk for the week ending November 11, 1899. Joseph B Paprocki to John Paproeki, Wine4 22-J9-2 w, wd $ 3000 00 Andrew Paprocki to Joa B Paprocki. n2 ae4 and 82 net tt-lw, wd 4000 00 John R Brock to John H Brock, lota J, 4.1lk 1M; Colombo, wd...-. 1000 00 Jo B Murray to Herman Ladtke, awl awt27.90-le.wd. 910 00 Bobt Gillespie to Henry Werner, w2 nwl 3-13-4W. wd. 2400 00 Isabella Newman to James Edward Morrow, pt net 22-17-le. deed 1500 00 Six transfers, total.... $11,810 00 To Chicago aad the East. Passengers goingeast for business, will naturally gravitate to Chicago as the great commercial center. Passengers re-visiting friends or relatives in the eastern states always 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 31nffs, affords excellent facilities to reach their destinations in a rmtnner that will be sure 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 a ticket over the Chicago, Council Bluffs & Omaha Short Line of the Chicago, Milwaukee k 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 the express 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. Episcopal ia Swings The annual convocation of the diocese of Nebraska is being held in Grace Epis copal church this city three sessions each day beginning Monday and closing Thursday. The program so far has been opening sermon by Bishop A. L. Wil liams. Tuesday forenoon casuistry con ducted by Rev. John A. Williams; bible instruction by Very Rev. Campbell Fair. Tuesday afternoon, "Marriage and Divorce," Rev. D. L. Hobbs; Tuesday evening, Rev. F. W. Eason, address on "Did Henry VIII Found the Episcopal Church?" and Rev. I. P. Johnson on 4,Ib not the Church too Worldly and too Formal?" Wednesday afternoon, Rev. J. A. Wil liams, "Printer's Ink in Parish Work." Evening, Rev. W. R. McKim, "The Difference between the Episcopal and the Roman Churches." Rev. J. C. Reilly on "The Difference between the Episco pal Church and the Denominations." The program of Monday was read justed, owing to the non-arrival of the Bishop. Weather Beport. Review of the weather near Genoa for the month of October, 1899. Mean temperature of the month 55.93 Mean do same month lattt year 49.70 Higheat daily temperature on 21st 88 Lowest doon the 38th 23 Clear days 14 Fair days 8 Cloudy days 9 High winds days. 6 vftitu usys lu Bain fell during portions of days 7 Inches of rainfall 0.81 Do of the same month last year 1.13 Prevailing winds from S. E. to N. W. byE. Hazy 1st. Fogs on 21, 27, 29 and 30th. Slight frost, 17, 19, 20th. Ice 16, 18, 27 and 28th. Rain with thunder and lightning on 2d at 7 p. in., wind N. W. On 15th vio lent storm of wind and dnat; followed by rain, with thunder and lightning at 3 p. m., wind from S. W. Very much of a tornado blowing out the east front of the Indian school building and scattering sheds and fences in its course, but it does not appear to have been more than one mile in width. On 22d and 23d. very high wind and dust storm from S. W., darkening the atmosphere. The Way to go to California is in a tourist sleeper, personally con ducted, via the Burlington Route. You don't change cars. Yon make fast time. Yon see the finest scenery on the globe. Yourcar is not so expensively furnish ed as a palace sleeper, bat it is just as clean, just as comfortable, Just as good to ride in and nearly $20.00 cheaper. It has wide vestibules; Pintsch gas; high backseats; a uniformed Pullman porter; clean bedding; spacious toilet rooms; tables and a heating range. Being strongly and heavily built, it rides smoothly, is warm in winter and cool in summer. In charge of each excursion party is an experienced excursion conductor who accompanies it right through to Los Angeles. Cars leave Omaha, St. Joseph, Lincoln and Hastings every Thursday, arriving San Francisco following Sunday, Los Angeles Monday. Only three days from the Missouri river to the Pacific Coast, including a stop-over of hours at Denver and 2? hours at Salt Lake City two of the most interesting oities on the continent. For folder giving full information, call at any Burlington Route ticket office, or write to J. Francis, Gen'l. Passenger Agent, Omaha, Neb. Mif at Hare Been Fatal. Tuesday evening of last week Con. Keating and George Swartsley, sales men at Henry Ragatz &, Co's grocery, loaded some stock on the elevator, which with their own weight was less than 600 pounds, the elevator being on a level with the second floor, and about twenty-five feet from the hot tour" of the basement. They stepped on the platform to de scend, and, before they loosened the brake which holds the elevator, the heavy wire cable parted, and went to the bottom of the shaft in an instant. Both were hurt, Keating's right ankle fractured, and Swartsley suffered a fracture of the bones of the right instep and ankle. The elevator belongs with the build ing, owned by Mr. Gluck, has been in use fully four years; a ton was con sidered not much of a load and there was nothing ever seen to indicate any weakness of the machinery, but now the break is noticed as being almost square across the cable, and at the point where it was attached to the elevator. Mr. Ragatz has been a long time in business, has employed many men, worked with all kinds of usable horses, but this is the only serious accident that has ever happened with him. We learn that Mr. Ragatz has proffered to pay all expenses and allow the pay of the young men to continue just the same as if they were at work, although he is in no manner responsible for the break, it being one of those things so out of the ordinary as to preclude human foresight. The young men are doing as well as could be expected, and there seems to have been no serious internal hart. TfiUSTS AND TARIFFS FACTS WHICH REFUTE FREE TRADE CONTENTIONS. Capitalistic CemMaatlaaa la Great . Brltala, Where Preteetlaa Ia Vm Icaawa, Far Oatamaafccr ThaM Ia the Ualtea Stales. Neither rack nor- boot nor thumb screw nor any other torture ever known to the Spanish inquisition could force an antitrust free trader to face the fact that there are more trusts or Industrial combinations In Great Brit ain without protection than In this country with it But a man who will not face that fact and yet asserts that the tariff Is the mother of trusts mere ly brands himself as one who Is ca pable of repeating assertions disproved by facts which he dares not mention. No one can plead ignorance, at least of the essential truth that these combina tions have long prevailed and wielded greater power in Great Britain than in this country and on both sides have prevailed in branches of business which no tariff on imports affects as successfully as in other branches cov ered by protective duties. These are not secrets. Every man of common school education knows that the oldest and most powerful of the trusts In this country, the Standard Oil, never bad any duty to help it. The main facts regarding prominent British trusts are often printed, and details are given In English papers. The London Economist recently gave details regarding those ' only of the British trusts which have stocks well known to the market, necessarily but a fraction of the whole number. Those Included In its statement were 183. and not even the most reckless stretch ing of the term trust or combination covers as many in this country. The dividends paid by these British con cerns averaged for their entire capital a07 per cent in 1S98 before half the existing industrial companies In this country were formed. Moreover, 132 of them had been In operation for five years or more and paid dividends aver aging 5.95 per cent on their capital In the disastrous year 1894. Of the 28 hotel and purveyor companies 15 were formed since 1894, and of the 25 ware house and drapery concerns 0 were old. But there existed five years ago or more 22 in coal mining, 13 in coal and Iron. 16 in iron manufacture, 15 In engineering and shipbuilding, 17 in textile manufactures, 12 In manufac tures of rolling stock, 9 In metal foun dry and manufacture, 4 In paper and pulp, 3 In soap and candles and 25 in miscellaneous manufactures. The divi dends paid averaged even In 1894 over 0 per cent In all miscellaneous and warehouse and drapery concerns, over 7 per cent In rolling stock and over (t per cent In textile manufactures. A mere glance at the titles of classes shows that the narrow British tariff, which applies only to a few articles, such as liquors, wines, tea, coffee, to bacco and preserved fruits, has prac tically nothing to do with nearly all these concerns. The latest and most complete list of American consolidations covers about 160 concerns, of which part In no sense belong In any roll of combinations, be ing in fact merely companies formed to develop sundry patents or to bring under one management connecting, but not competing, companies. But it In cludes a great number of concerns with which the tariff has nothing what ever to do. No tariff affects the gas business in any city, but there are in cluded consolidations of gas works in five different cities. With exports of beer and other malt liquors In large quantities to Europe there are yet in cluded consolidations of breweries in seven different cities. No tariff under the sun affects the electric light, heat and power concerns, yet there are In cluded 22 of these. In the same class must be placed companies formed for copper mining, coal mining in the far Interior, Montana and Colorado, where no coal could be imported; compressed air concerns, cotton oil companies, ele vator, hay. Ice, milk, glucose, corn starch, bread and biscuit, petroleum, vinegar, brick, starch and oyster con solidations, makers of radiators and heaters of American patents, manu facturing or transporting outside the tariff lines. In Hawaii, Cuba or Porto Rico. Omitting companies of such kinds which cannot be produced or helped by any duty on imports what ever, more than half the whole number of companies is eliminated. But that fact by Itself proves that the forces which cause combinations or trusts are by no means those v.'hich result from duties on Imports. We have now on paper 16 iron and Steel wprking combinations, nearly all formed within a year, and some as yet on paper only. With much smaller manufacture Great Britain has 1G that have been for five years so important as to be quoted In the stock market and paying dividends. Is It or is it not clearly falsification to say that t! British consolidations, without any duty on imports, would not be repro duced in this country but for such duties? There are In this country sev en textile combinations, partly on pa per as yet. In Great Britain there aro 17 prominent in the London stock mar ket for over five years. No duty there produced over twice as many as aro produced here with duties and five years earlier. There are four paper concerns here, all new. England has four, all over S years old. There an four rolling stock combinations here, of which only the Pullman is old. Eng -land has 12, all over 5 years old. The comparison might be extended indefi nitely. But no reasoning and no array of facts can be expected to affect the minds or the self respect of men who, knowing all these things, go on assert' Ing that the trusts are produced by the tariff. New York Tribune. Rlatat Srt of Caaptla, Referring to the rapid development of the sugar beet and beet sugar In dustry In the agricultural districts of the Empire State, the New York Mall and Express says; "Here Is a visible and growing com petition right here at home with tho sugar trust. And the tariff is the mother of the competition. The tariff is the mother of all indus trial competition. Without It there never was and never would be pro ductive activity enough to constitute competition. True, there was some competition in the horrible days of Clevelandism, 1893-7, but It was com petition with the cheaper labor of Eu rope, and the American wage earner remembers It to his sorrow. He likes the competition of McKinley and pros perity very much better. Who can blame him? A aaa f Straw. Republican newspapers that aro growing red in the face over Mr. Have meyers strictures are fighting a man of straw. That gentleman and the voracious trust behind him stand as living proofs of the weakness of his Uegatioiuk-Phlladelphla Call. Tko Meteors. As we write this, Friday, November 10, the largest shower of meteors is expected to take place this year about November "15 (this night) and in lesser quantities other nights about this date. It will be noticeable after midnight, but astrono mers do not pretend to fix the exact time nearer than twenty-four hours. The Youth's Companion places it the night of the 16th, and a local cotem porary, the 11th. The full moon will make the display less brilliant than that of 1833, which caused so much terror in various parts of the country where ignorance prevailed and the world was supposed to be com ing quickly to an end. In 1866 it was different, the nature of the meteors being better understood. The department of astronomy, in the University of Nebraska, has made arrangements for viewing the displays from two stations ten miles apart, so as to be able to calculate their exact paths in space, and tho meteor paths will be photographed so as to secure more accurate results. The editor or the Cadiz (O.) Republi can, who is writing some very interest ing and instructive articles on astrono my, says: "The display of meteors which is due on any night from tho 13th to the 17th of November, happens this year during a period of bright moonlight, the moon being full on tho 17th, and for this reason we can hardly hope to see much of them. But the shower which comes only once in thirty-three years is due on or about the 27th. That will be in the dark of the moon, and all the con ditions for observation wdl be favorable, so far as astronomers can tell in advance The time to watch for the meteors will be from 9 o'clock to midnight on the night of the 27th, nod they should ap pear almost overhead, but a little to the north, in tho constellation Andromeda." O.afBVOSl.X.am.. 'TtoKMYnHawAtajs cf WHITE'S CREAM VERMIFUGE is a highly valuable preparation, capa ble, from the promptitude of 'its action, of clearing the system in a few hours of every worm. Price 25 cts. Dr. A. Heintz and Pollock k Co. PROBATE NOTICE FOR EXTEN SION OF TIME. Probate nolicA for extension of time. In the county court of Platte county, Nebraaka. In the matter of tho estate of John Wiae, de ceased. Notice is hereby given to all persons interested in the estateof John Wise.decea8ed.that Charles H. Wise, administrator of said estate, has made application to said county court to have the time extended for pnyinic the debts, and settling said estate to the 2tSth day of April, 1WX. Said matter will be heard before the judge of said county court, at the court house in Colum bus. Nebraska, on the 21st day of November. 1890, at t o'clock p. in., when and where all Eersons desiring to oppose may appear and lie eard. Columbus. Nebraska, October 28, 1899. T. D. ltOBISON, 1 nov 3t County Judge. FASTER THAN EVER EFFECTIVE OCT. 15. UNION - PACIFIC will augnrate new train service, and will reduco the time of The Ovekland Lim ited, Train No. 1, between Chicago, Council Bluffs and San Francisco, 3 Hours and 15 Minutes. ONLY 57 HOURS MISSOURI River to PACIFIC COAST BUFFET SMOKING AND LIBRARY CARS WITH BARKER SHOP CHICAGO AND COUNCIL BLUFFS TO SAN FRANCISCO AND PORTLAND. THREE TRAINS DAILY, to and from PACIFIC COAST. ELEGANT palace sleeping cars, DINING CARS, CHAIR CARS. 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