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. f . " . rr,: . t.. - -I . m 1:1 f- if I - i . ! . i - IN r . Brabuubd Hav 11,1878. Columbus 'gouvtmh Columbus, CTeVbr Kateredat the Fostoatoe. ColambaB, Sear., aa iMHtVMMui kj X.X. man ot. i of Btswmmarum: OMTMr.kf-peCPnftf ftLM is the. . WEDNESDAY. HOTEMBEB 14. MM. !! Illl is MiitrMMMtli MT. Caming Brant. Tne Ninth anneal session of the Na tional Irrigation Congress, Chicago, No vember 21-24. The Sixteenth annaal meeting of the Nebraska Dairymen's association will be held in the Dairy building on the State University farm, Lincoln, December 18, 19 and 2 1900. Address, & a Bassett, Gibbon, Nebr., for programs or other information. Good-btk, William Allen. "Thk Tree is the Mother of the Foun tain." Wmooxsra had ten inches of snow the other day. - . "8avk the Forests and Store the Floods" is the motto of the National Ir rigation Congress. Skkatok Fairbanks of Indiana will be arged by his friends as republican can didate for president in 1904. Pktek C. Peterson, injured in the railroad wreck at Missouri Valley, Iowa, Saturday night last, died Sunday morn ing at 3:50. J. P. Malux, for two terms sheriff of Dodge county, died Friday morning of paralysis.' He settled near North Bend twenty years ago. Eight persons were killed and fifteen wounded in a collision between a su burban train and an express Saturday morning near Paris. Thk Bee of Monday says that on the face of the returns Dietrich has a plur ality of 1,021. Prout's plurality is the greatest, being 257. LxADDia democrats favor the reorgan ization of their party, with the retire ment of Bryan from the leadership. Hill, Oiney and Pattison are suggested as candidates. Thk population of Nebraska, accord ing to the official census is 1,068901. In 1890, the state was given 1,068910. This seems almost incredible, but it is ack nowledged that a number of the cities were padded in 1890. A host of level-headed democrats thoaght there was no call for a change of administration in the general govern ment jast now, and so voted for McKin ley. Doubtless they have something of the feeling that Stephen A. Douglas had when be came to the support of Abra ham Lincolndn an important crisis. Thomas Fintjey Bbown, 12 years old, is dead from injuries received while being hazed at the Portermil academy ear Charleston, S. C, recently. Fol lowing a former custom the boys drop ped him into a cemented swimming basin twelve feet deep. The basin was dry at the time, and no wonder he died as the It. Thk great mistake in the late cam paign was that the campaign managers did not arrange a series of joint debates between Mary Lease and Helen Gouger. It would have added a zest to the cam paign and been the greatest treat since the days when Edward Rosewater and Mrs. Gouger tore the air from the same rostrum. Central City Nonpareil. Mark Twain was the guest of honor at a dinner Saturday night, given at the Lotas club in New York. Among other notables present were: Aldrich, How alls, Depew and Beed. Mr. Clemens says he comes back from his exilo young again, ready to begin life anew. "Your welcome pats the finishing touches to my renewed youth and makes it some thing more than a dream that will van ish with the morning." Thk politicians are looking over the laid for pointers, and among other .things are endeavoring to explain why k was that Bryan fell behind in the race in Nebraska Poynter's vote being 99, 048 and Bryan's 9512, a difference of 3J586 in favor of the former. One reason givea is that Mr. Bryan would listen to ao advice as to conducting the cam paign; he would have the free-silver platform; he would make speaking tours ' the country; he would 6peak in the The managers in this state are blaming Bryan himself for his shortage. I the Review of Reviews for Novem ber, the editor comments at length on the American political situation as it appears oa the eve of the presidential alectioa; oa the result of the parliamen tary eleettoae of the past month in Great Britain, aadoa the issues of the Cana dian aad Newfoundland elections of November 7 and a Other interesting topiea are included in the month's sur vey of "The Progress of the World" as the Chinese complications and of the late John Sherman and i Dudley Warner. Thkrk is in this country The Ameri aaa Protective Tariff League, with head- natters at New York City; they are paMmWiw of protective tariff literature, iaalading the American Economist. Thb Jotjbxax, through all the shifting I of the opposition to find a plaaat- it ueae, has clung to the tariff as the real thing for to emphasise, and we have aesa aay reaaoa to change oar The results of protection under. Merrill, McKinley and Dingier : back for a term of years. I a bask ground so removed from arajadiee that the trath of - coald be plainly seen, and it vis ibly aaTeeted themflljoa aad more young patriots, who tor tne mrst tune i a balk thw year. Wewishtoeoa- the League through W. F. Walmmaa, general secretary, apoa the i werk done by the orgaaisatioa WTW liimftinf THE JOPMi JOTatJUaI.eratkaaaxa4af THE hlei the KXKOOOCXXKXKKXKKKXKXOOOOOC Battalions of patriots of all parties marched to the polls in support of the government and the flag. President McKinley. A Tital Ptiat. Evidently the voting population of this country, so far as their opinion is to be judged from the count of the ballots, believe their interests are safer in the care of President McKinley and repub lican influences, than with Mr. Bryan and the men who seemed all in all with him. The republicans bad declared the principles upon which they expected to guide the affairs of the country, and they had honestly endeavored to fill all their promises. They were more than usually success ful because their policy of protection to A,TnuTA" industrial interests was effect ively at work and none cared to question its continuance the common people were convinced of the utter folly of resorting to large bond issues and ques tionable sales of the same to furnish means for the current expenses of the government, as was done by Cleveland, and seeing that President McKinley had exercised good judgment in all matters coming up for his decision, was magnani mous and thoroughly patriotic, they con cluded not to change administrations while so many important questions were pending. Gentlemen of the opposition, if you wish to have any hope of success, any time, you must devise some means, be sides the issuance of bonds in time of peace, for meeting the current expenses of the country. It Gaea For The Soul. A prominent man said recently that Boston was the first city in the country to get on the wrong side of a question, and by that he did not mean that this was shown by vote, but that a certain number of its well known citizens could be relied on to take a reasonless posi tion. It is true, and we have just proved it But we may rely on the west, with citizens as broad as their own plains, to grapple with a question from a practical standpoint and not consider it as theory only. Boston Transcript. Rkpdkucans, who are now again en trusted with the administration of af fairs in the state of Nebraska, should take to heart all the lessons that the people intend by this to convey to the so-called, reform fusion forces, which promised so much and did as little for the people of the state. We believe each man elected to a state office will consider himself a committee of one to give his best services in the discharge of his duties. The offices are publio trusts, and when so administered by good, ca pable men, as we believe the republicans elect are, party fealty will best be ex emplified. Lttttr frmrn I. H. land. Editor Journal: The Journal al ways interests me, but the one several numbers back with report of the Pio neers meeting was especially enjoyed. Of course when I think of my old neigh bor, Jacob Ernst mending chains and wagon wheels for the trackers to Salt Lake, in a shanty blacksmith shop, with an ox hide hanging in place of a door to keep the sharp prairie winds out, or of my friend, J. E. North getting married on horseback, for want of better accom modations, or something of that sort. I can't claim to have been a pioneer of the first water. But I came so near that I remember well of seeing a fine deer and two fawns, coming within a few rods of where I was turning over the sod, near our little house, just above Columbus. They remained nibbling the crisp prairie grass while I called the family to seethe beautiful animals, and then quickly walked off. I am always glad to think I went to Columbus early enough to see those grand upland prairies in all their virgin beauty, when they stretched away in their freshness, unbroken, as far as the eye could see. In other directions a dark spot would appear which on approaching developed into a clump of cottonwoods sheltering a little house with a corral and hay covered sheds near by. The great shed forests so familiar in my boy hood, were more majestic, but these undulating prairies were more beautiful. Now those long stretches are covered with well tilled farms, with school houses, and homes of comfort and cul ture. It's a wonderful transformation, but I am confident that the evolution of your part of your great state has but commenced. A MODEST FORECAST. Mr. North's predictions as to what irrigation will do for you, may seem to some, visionary. To us, who know what it has done, what it is doing, his estimate that it will speedily double your farm values, seems a most modest forecast. Knowing the character of your wonder ful soil, and the poaaibilitiee of such soil when married to water, abundant and regular in sapply, I should put it much stronger. With my present experience in handling water oa land, had I the choice between taking my old section farm on the bluffs for a permanency, de pending on yoar unreliable rainfall, or 100 acres of it with constant and abund ant water for irrigation, each at the same cost, I shoald not hesitate a moment in choosing the latter. Tm aare I could make a living easier and accumulate a competence more surely and qaickly from the much smaller area. I know that something has been done in Platte eoanty towards irrigation. To what extent and with what success I have aot been able to learn. I am anxious to know, as in spite of my far away absence, I find my interest in the grand old agricultural eoanty is about as strong as whea my home was there. I know that disastroas and discouraging mistakes are frequently made inorganix iag aad carrying out irrigating projects in new districts. Bat when the right to plan aad execute are ia manaee- it the results are never doabtfal. After ten yearaof earetal study of the matter I am as confident as Tcaa be of aaythiag that has not yet come to pass, S XXXXXXXXXXXXX that the arid and semi-arid lands of the coast, .are, ia the not far off future, to carry the most prosperous communities, and the highest civilization in America. FIFTT-ACRK FARMS. Conceive, if you can, what will follow when your rich lands are divided np into farms of fifty acres, more or less, each producing as much or more than your present great ."arms of hundreds of acres, realizing a constant income, in-' stead of one year of abundance, followed by others of scarcity or failure. Imagine the elevating influence of the neoessa lilly higher grade of agriculture par sued, the improved social culture and other advantages coming from closer neighborhood relations. What would it mean to Columbus in a business way, to be the capitol of a county capable of sustaining, under the beat irrigating methods, a population equal to that now occupying the entire portion of the state west of you, if it were divided into such small holdings, each producing a revenue greater than the present average earn ings of your larger farms. A MISTAKE. I know that many have the same notion that I once held that irrigation is well enough for small fruit and vegetable farming but not practicable in general agriculture. This is a mistake. The advantage of irrigation over scant or irregular rainfall, is relatively as great in general farming as in fruit or truck farming. The large profits sometimes returned from fruit-raising, probably should not be expected from irrigated stock and grain farms. But the latter would have many advantages over our specialty of fancy fruits. Remarkable prosperity has come to our own little community at Riverside, for instance, during the past few years: Last year we marketed at favorable prices over" 4,700 carloads of oranges and lemons. But it has taken many years of careful labor'and expense to bring our orchards into this present production bearing. Besides, there is the unstableness of market, constantly facing us. Our crop now maturing is even more promising than last year, and, present conditions remaining, as good prices are assured. But a most uncom fortable contingency stands squarely before us. Were I fully convinced that Bryan would be elected, I would only be too glad to contract our product for less than half we received for a less amount last year. One of my neighbors who was offered last week $18,000 cash for a fine orchard of ten acres, but refused to sell, told me that if Bryan was elected anybody could have it for half that amount. Oranges are luxuries and dur ing such stagnation of business as is cer tain to follow a change in the adminis tration, luxuries will be omitted from the table, while bread and meat must be supplied, though at greatly reduced prices. Four years ago our fruit busi ness was in a precarious condition. Be tween competition with the low priced labor of the Mediterranean country and low ocean carriage, and hard times in our own country, greatly lessening the con sumption of oranges and lemons, the business was threatened to be wiped out. The new administration gave us a slight tariff on our product, and what was more valuable to us, a prosperity throughout the country that made a market for our luxury, and this indicates the result Instead of heavily mortgaged orchards, when the bonds for $40,000 recently voted by our city for a High school building were sold last week, they were all taken here at home at a net rate of 3 per cent interest, Do you wonder that we are strong for McKinley out here? The point I started to make was that in the nps and downs of general business and political conditions, the producers of staples are, as a rule, on the safe ground, in agriculture as well as in manufacturing. STRENGTH OF IRRIGATED FARMS. Again, while a properly irrigated fruit farm, even in dull times, makes a profit long after one not'irrigated is unable to pay expenses, so an irrigated grain or stock farm can hold its own against low prices, while the one unirrigated is meeting with heavy losses. We are entering upon an age of intensive farm ing. The best margins of profits lie in that direction. The difference between meager and irregular crops, and large and constant crops, is too little appre ciated. The cost of the latter is con siderably increased over that of the former, but in no such proportion as are the profits. When we came here moat of the butter, cheese an J pork came from the east, and the beef from the mountain ranges. Now our butter and chseso and muoh of our pork and beef are produced on our little irrigated farms, at a reduced cost to the consamer, though at a good profit to the produoer. It is claimed that the results of the recent census show agriculture to have made leas progress during the decade than any other leading industry. I'm sure this will not be the report ten years hence, and the largest factor that ia to bring aboat the inevitable change is to be irrigation, in which Platte and the adjoiaing coaaties shoald lead in the middle west. J. H. Bkkd. Biverstde, California. Our friend's fears ia regard to Bryan's election seem to have aot been well founded. Ed. Jourxal. OMAHA PRICES. Fitzpatrick will give you goods at Omaha prices. Follow the crowd and see. -WANTED-ACTIVE MAN Off GOOD Char si In Imlaliisr sad eallaat ia Mihraiks for old nulslrtisard aisaafaUniing wholfas w : ia aar , Third floor, mt wnon etty. Easlose Bt-CUeafo, PESSIMISTIC PAETY.I DEMOCRATS ALWAYS LOOK ON THE DARK SIDE OF LIFE. C stlta tiaaaa ChanetertotlMWaMh Dtatteamtefc Them Praam aallet 'reTer Frateatls Letter Fataerta My Dear Boy: So old jnaa Skinner says that there will be war In the PbllipplBes for 20 years yet, that we will soon, see the time when men wUl becoaacrlptad In every township for service la Calna aad that we are bound to have a finan cial crash next spring, and then the poor people will see the hardest times they ever saw. Well, I guess the old man la a typical Democrat. He certainly baa all the symptoms. Perhaps I had better tell you what the symptoms are. There are certain constitutional char acteristics which distinguish the Dem ocratic party and opposite cnaracterls-' tics which distinguish the Republican party. When I tell you what they are, you will see why I want you to be a Republican. First The Democrats are pessimis tic. They, always look, on the" dark side. They perpetually expect evil ahead and see nothing but evil In the things that now are.,. You pick up' an average Democratic platform and yon find It full of phrases like the fol lowing: "We protest," "We denounce." "We disapprove," "We view with alarm." One of the strongest reasons against the party Is that they are al ways striving to make the people dis contented with their lot add to' tUiaeta with anxious forebodings for the.fu-. tore. Right In the middle or abundance and cheer' and victory they Insist fast we are all going "to the bowwows;'' . 'Now. It Is the nature of Republicans to be optimistic The Republican party sees the bright side. Thankful for' the blessings of the past, they look forward with confidence to the future. They expect good things, and the expectation helps bring good things to pass. Tbey rejoice in the greatness and prosperity of our highly favored land. They look upon our schools and churches, our farms and factories, our army and navy, and their platforms contain phrases like these: "Thankful for the past," "We rejoice." "We congratu late," "We point with pride." They bring to the people a song of hope and cheer and content Be a Republican, my boy, and "keep sweet" Don't let yourself get soured and pessimistic. Second. The Democratic party seems unable to learn from experience. One reason why I fit In easily Into the Re publican party Is because I can learn from experience. Eight years ago I was a free trader. I read about free trade in a book, and the free trade theory was presented lna very nice way. I still Insist that free trade Is a nice thing In a book so long as you keep It In the book, but when you take It out of the book and apply It to wool and eggs and pig Iron and things It doesn't work worth a cent The ex perience of this country from 1893 to 1997 made me a protectionist But our Democratic friends have failed to learn the lesson. In their platform this year they still denounce our protective tariff law. If there-Is 'anything positively settled by the experience of nations, It m that the best standard for a nation's cur rency and for the world's currency Is gold. For centuries the nations bun gled along endeavoring to keep up two standards, silver and gold, with'tlie re sult that the comparative values of the two metals were constantly changing and the cheaper one driving the other out of circulation, making currency scarce, values uncertain, exchange troublesome and commerce difficult Through experience the nations. one after another learned that the honest way and the best way is' to have' one standard and that standard the best money gold with a hundred cents' worth of gold in the dollar. We have learned that since a standard dollar Is a measure of value. It should contain the value that It represents. All civilized people In the world have learned this except the Popullstlc-Dem-ocratlc party. Tbey come out In 'this year of our Lord 1900 and propose to roll back the wheels of progress and return to the financial ways of bar barism. Now, the Republican party does learn by experience. It keeps up with the procession. When a thing has been tried and found wanting, the Repub lican party drops it When a thing baa been proved to be good by experi ence, the Republican party sticks to It My boy, the Republican party Is not perfect by a long ways. It has some men In It who are not good. Any great party must have some such In a world like this. It may sometimes make mis takes. But the broad political princi ples of the party are true and right and It Is the party that learns from ex perience. You be a Republican and you will not be sorry. WHY HE LIKES MUSIC. A Payalelaa WheM Repatatlaa as a Critic Waa Blasted. There's a physician In Baltimore who adores music. His taste, to be sure, runs rather to "Old Black Joe," "Su wannee River" and such classicsbut still any sort of music-will do, and. he listens to It all ecstatically and with a properly Intelligent look on his face. It was therefore believed that he had a fine taste for harmony, and his repu tation as a critic was established- and grew apace as reputations will, good r d. . ..- . jnc The other evening aa his- daughter, approached the house In Whieb'-.thls physician lived she heard the strains of "Home, Sweet Home," proceeding from the library. v "Father's at.lt again." "she said to herself softly. "I wonder who he has coerced Into playing for him now?" - A glance disclosed -the fact that' he had bribed three street musicians, two violinists and a harpist Into giving him a private recital. Tbey finished the air Just as the young woman enter ed, and the physician turned to her with a beaming face. "That 'Nearer, My God, to Me,' la a beautiful thing, tent ltr be asked. It was the first time he had commit ted himself on the subject of "tunes," and his glory began to diminish from that moment for his daughter told the Incident aa what she considered an ex cellent Joke. Now the worthy man says that' he likes music solely as an Incentive to thought and listens to It when he wish es to solve some knotty problem of ar tery or bones. Just as those who suffer from Insomnia go to church and listen to the sermon to be put to sleep. Balti more News. kart aat aae dtatr ! that la to ataa ay taa teKlalar. Weleaaw Four years of a Republican adminis tration have made hives of ladastry out of more than 960,000 haunts of Idleness aad souphoi A NIGHT OF S0BBINO. MnBSSeBBBm -S, MRS. GALLUP LAMENTS THAT HER . TIME ON EARTH 16 SHORT. lie BTcara ta Smaaraa to Get to Be aa Aaael wl Bai a IMpe ' Talk WMa Mr. Gallaa Aaaat J Me anaaM Select Fa Mil Wife. CssrrigM. we, ay a a. Ltwia. After supper Mr. Gallup had gone ver to the store for a whetstone aad a paper of carpet tacks, and as be want Mrs. Gallup was washing ap the dishes and singing "The Home Over There" with great feeling. He returned la half, an hour, and as he reached the kitchen door the souad of sobbing met his ears. He looked la to find Mrs. Gallup weaving back and forth on A chair with her check apron at her eyes. Something had happened. He didn't Inquire what It was, but turned about and sat on 'the doorstep and In an ab sent way began sharpening a sickle with the stone he had bought It was five minutes before Mrs. Gallup volun teered an explanation. When she saw that he had neither anxiety nor sym pathy, she hitched her chair Into the doorway, used a fresh spot on the apron to wipe her eyes and finally said: "Samuel, when you've got that sickle sharpened you might go over to Mrs. Bebee's and tell her that I shall be a dead woman before tomorrer. You "GIT READY TO BK AN ANOtX!" needn't beat around the bush at all, but tell her right out She'll rather be expectln the news. She was over here this afternoon, and she said I waa lia ble to git my summons at any time. I've got it all arranged with her about the funeraL" Mr. Gallup did not look around. With calm deliberation be spat on the whet stone, and with calm deliberation he drew It back and forth across the blade. "Yes, Samuel, my time baa come!" sobbed Mrs. Gallup after waiting a reasonable time for him to speak. "A few hours hence and you will be a widower, and a few days hence you will be wearing a red necktie and can terln around after a second wife. When you started over town, I was aa happy as a lark and nadn't tne siigntest Idea of dyin. Ten minutes later when I went to carry the butter down cellar there came seven knocks on that emp ty, cider bar'L and as I stood there shakln I heard a whispered voice a-say-In, 'Hanner Gallup, git ready to be aa angeir It was my summons, and I've got to go. Nobody kin hold back agln a summons. What kind of a second wife shall you marry, Samuel?" Mr. Gallup had paused In his labors and was looking absently at a robin In a cherry tree. "You needn't feel at all dellklt about talkin It over with me," said Mrs. Gal lup as she dabbed at her eyes with the apron. "I've alius s'pected you'd git married ag'ln If I should die, and I shan't howl and squeal about It Mrs. Bebee says If her husband marries ag'ln she'll haunt him, but you needn't be afraid of me. I'd rather you mar ried ag'ln. If you didn't you'd be goln to circuses and dogfights and candy pulls and become as wicked as Silas Johnson. S'pose you've kinder had .your eye out hev'n't you, Samuel that Is, you've kinder made up your mind about what sort of a woman you'd marry?" Mr. Gallup withdrew his gaze from the robin and returned to his work of sharpening the sickle, and Mrs. Gal lup's nose bad grown very red with the pulling when she continued: "There's the WIdder Lapham, Sam uel, and everybody says she's wuta $2,000, but I wouldn't want you to mar ry her. She's too hlty tlty for a man of your age. While she was swingin In a hammock she'd let the bread burn' up In the oven. She'd want you, to go off to a picnic every day In tbe year, and If you had any soft soap In the house you'd hev to buy It. And there's the WIdder Davis. She's a good house keeper, Samuel, as I'll admit, but tbey say she gits streaks on. One day she'll be laughln and gigglin all day long, and the next day she'll be as sulky aa a mule. She kin make a pound of tea go as fur as I kin, but she told me with her own mouth that she bad four pairs of stockln's last year. Could you put up with slch extravagance as that, Samuel? Wouldn't you be thlnkln of bow I alius got along on two pairs a year?" Mr. Gallup whistled softly to himself aa be felt of the edge of the sickle with his thumb. The whistle conveyed no direct Information, but was a whistle In tbe abstract Mrs. Gallup looked at tbe back of bis neck fpr a moment and (Worked up and choked back a sob and then said: "There's Phoebe Cousins, whom ev erybody likes, but she's an old maid andsot In her ways. She never back bites nor gits mad. but she wants ev erything Jest so. If you come into tbe house aad throwed your hat down oa the floor or pulled your boots off la tha parlor In the evenln, she'd raise tha awfulest kind of a row. I guess you'll hev to marry a gal, SamueL Yon are eld nuff to be the father of any gal around here, but I don't see no other way. Hev you got any pertickler gal In mind? I waa thlnkln of 8ue Sebins tbe other day. She's 20 years old and a great hand to work, and mebbe you'd be nappy with her. Her mother says 8ue likes to be petted. You've aever petted me, but mebbe you'll change when I am gone. No, SamueL I can't remember a time In 27 years when you've pulled my ear or patted me on the shoulder or poked me In the ribs. I-I" The remembraace that there had been no shoulder patting or ear pulliag during all those long years brought a fresh outburst of emotion, and for two minutes Mrs. Gallup sobbed bitterly. Mr. Gallup laid down the whetstone aad the sickle and picked up the paper of tacks and balanced It on tbe point of his finger, but be was oblivious of his surroundings. "I I don't complain, SamueL" said Mrs. Gallup when she could control her voice again. wnea I saw that you want van hanA tn Tht T lot ft am T'an nM I anan J waa a and wrinkled and scrawny, and I can't w -- t1 - asw a aaa w Raaaaa 0aYsa9aT' I aar far aettla. It will be different with a gaL however. If yon don't pall her ear, at least once a week and call her aaael. hell git sulky and finally ran away with a tin peddler. Mrs. Bebee-waa say! that Bertha WUUasaa would make a good gal wife fur you, had Mrs. WnUaas says that you coald mat do ibetter than- to marry Mary Hawkins, bat I ain't goln to pick oat aobody far yoa nor aad fault with yoar chaice. AH Tm gola to do Is to die aad: become aa aagel aad let yoa do Jast aa yea waat to. Pre got Jest one leetle favor to ask." Tha lamp hi her throat and the tears la her eyes checked her speech for half a mlaate. aad darlag that time Mr. GaHap pat tha tacka down and lifted ap the sickle agala. "If a ealy this. SamueL You needn't do ao weeplB far me when I'm gone, aad you needn't hang over the gate and try to look aty broke up over my loss. Yea kin go right to pbiyln check era aa soon aa tbe funeral ia over, but some night later on, when you are all aloae la the' house and tbe crickets are slagin, I want you to .remember that I had my good p'lnts as well as my bad. I want you to remember that I ased a clothes biler with seven holes In the bottom fur nine years without meadla and that I hain't had a' new corset fur 'leven years. Our teakettle la over 0 years old, and I've made one set of cups and aassers last us since we was married. That a all, SamueL and now Pll go In and die, and you kin be lookla around fur your second wlfer She rose up with a sob and retreated Into the house, but Mr. Gallup knew nothing of It He hung tbe sickle on a nail near the door, pnt the whetstone and tacks on a shelf In the wood shed, and then walked down the' path, and dosed the henhouse door aad cast a look Into the pig pen. When he re turned to the house. Mrs. Gallup was looking at her bowl of emptyings under the stove and humming the air of "I Waat to Be an Angel." She had bad her lamentation and got over It and It would be three or four days before she would break out again. M. Quad. PRESIDENTIAL LIGHTNING. iS Praak If erred a Yeaaa Law ataaeat to Bet aad He Waa. The lightning caused me to bet on the presidential election In I860." said a Wall street man, "and I won. "I'm not more superstitious than the average Individual," continued the man, "although my act would Indicate the contrary. I was a young man In a taw office hi a Kentucky town. My preceptor had pasted oyer his desk a poster containing the portraits of ail of tbe candidates, Lincoln and Hamlin, Breckinridge and Lane, Douglas and Johnson and Bell and Everett The poster contained the platforms of the various parties. There was some un certainty In that campaign. My pre ceptor waa an enthusiastic Douglas man and wanted to bet ail he had on his candidate. It was my first experi ence In a presidential campaign, and I had a fool notion that Bell and Everett would be elected. I had never made a money bet but I was aching to take np my Blackstonian preceptor, although I tacked nerve. "One day there was a thunderstorm. Tbe lightning loosened a number of things hi the town, the building in which I waa a law student being one. In one of Its pranks the lightning cut In the wall on which that political poster was posted. The result was that the upper part of the poster hung down from the wall, covering up all the can didates save Lincoln and Hamlin. De spite my sympathies for Bell and Ever ett I Imagined I saw In this condition of the poster the result of that election, and a few daya later when the Doug las enthusiast talked on his upper notes and offered to bet $25 even on his man I took him up. He was very much astonished to think I would bet on Lin coln and Hamlin. He said I was a young ass and other things and that he would bet wlth.me to teach me a les son. After the election he asked me how I came to take the chance, for there were few Lincoln votes hi the town. When I told him the source of my tip, he grew serious. " 'You have won your first bet on a presidential election,' he said, 'but re member, young man, lightning never strikes In the same place twice.' "But It did In this case. Lincoln was re-elected." New York Sun. DRESS AS WELL AS YOU CAN. It la Oae'a Datv to Preaeat a Fleaa- laa Afacaraaee. This story Is told In Denver of a man who waa once a leading merchant there. In the early days of the city be walked Its streets, out of work ami money. He was poorly clad, out neat and clean. He sought employment from a prosperous grocer and said he was willing to do anything. Tbe mer chant at length sent him Into his cel lar to clean out a room so foully dirty that many a common laborer had re fused to enter It When the young man appeared In the evening, he was aa neat hi his appearance as he had been In the morning. Of course the merchant thought he had done little or nothing. But when he saw the cellar, clean aad fresh, he said to tbe young "You've not only shown that you are willing to work, but also that you have some respect for yourself. I guess I'll give you a Job." This young man, who in a few years became the head of tbe selfsame busi ness, realised the Important fact that the worker Is often scrutinised as close ly as his work. It Is a maa's duty toward his fellow man to dress aa well aa he can afford to. Nowhere In nature does tbe poorly dressed maa find any excuse for bis lack. Even the lowest forms of animal and plant life are clothed ia pleasing colors. Reptiles crawl In richly mottled skins; beasts of burden and birds of prey are clad In fur and gay plumage. Trees blossom In wonderful foliage, and that most plebeian of vegetables, tha onion, revels below tbe ground In colors that irtlsts seek to Imitate and above ground In a leafage and bloom odd and beaatlfaL Everywhere In nature beauty Is com btaed with use. It remains for man. the hit-best and. noblest specimen of tbe Creator's handiwork, to be the daub In the color scheme of the universe. Weekly Bouquet Aaasagrr. Freddy Is the son of a Fourth avenue stockbroker, yon will understand, and la therefore familiar with some of the terms of tbe profession. 4Papa,, said Freddy. "Well, my soar Ia there such a worm as a book worm r "There w such a creatare. Freddy, bat It very rare. The term book worm, however, la applied ta a person who la continually poring arer books.'' "And paper -waur Ta a maa who la always poring a tM OCntCT A tape wormy THE SECOND MARRIAGE. Bcr mM brora cjra) apsaxiag to Ua I aa tarns tat aiaVa ef awltcat i taqri ' Witt aaMarcd pact. Be. tattac at the Ha tot aot the ejw Ihataieai togaa awMat tone tkatlhs. daafl vnaata. aaai a too yoear , aloae." we tear. "Tata waawn's air aa waa tat arat. im taaa Sac's ead a ytar." AW. tiwa. aat'a lata twehre inoath kaaath tat day; at. ok. poor gfeoet. the ealy Het teaiy. Tea. with tat priest's aaea! "IW aew list cuaaa as feadly as tat oli;M lam's lore ia browa eyes as then was ia Mat;" "The gisre is cold;" Tha ela. yoa kww. looks ban witkowt a viat;" Bat. ak. Death Makes. wha two souk tetartwiae. No toM place far tha aew! -Yet this his arat troa Sow'r of low any ka;" Oh, oa the dea4.wilt'a grsT why pear oat aallt Tet bitterly Til say. The dead is goat forever mow. Aad better love kbould garland this youag brow Thin life be blooaleas alL Laaghter aad bells ring o'er the bridal tralai Bat through them stgb upon the loTe tuned ear Low tone of pain. Oh. haste aad Rare into Bine eyes, ary wMs, Till soul tells soul that lore ia love for life And life begin but here! -Joseph L a Clarke ta Criterion. Beaaeaalalaa; Fael. There are many good housekeepers who are indifferent in the matter of aavlog small coal and cinders. Unseen waste goes on in most bouses In this re spect If housekeepers would make It a point to see that all cinders and ashes are thoroughly sifted daily, they would be surprised at the fuel tbey would save. After the cinders have been removed cold water should be poured over them. This causes them to make much better fuel when mixed with coals. Better and safer Area can be kept up in bed rooms than with coal alone, safer be cause with cinders there is no danger of sparks flying about Tbe best kitchen Are is made by put ting coal In front, banking up cinders behind and then leaving tbe fire alone. To be constantly stirring a fire takes all the life out of the coals and also "starts" the dust-St Louis Post-Dispatch. Hereto Treataseat. In Guiana, If a child Is slow In Its movements tbe parents apply an ant to the child Instead of a whip to make It move faster. This little ant bites more cruelly than a mosquito, and Its bite is apt to be troublesome afterward. Aa you can Imagine, this treatment does not make the child kind to others, and the children of Guiana are said to be particularly cruel to animals. The lit tle boys In Guinea do not reckon their age by years but by their ability to en dure pain. Until he gets to the point where he can let tbe Hucu ant bite him without wincing be is considered mere ly a baby. Mr. Creker la a Jaker. Boss Croker declares that only Re publicans are responsible for tbe wick edness of tbe Tammany Ice trust Cro ker Is somewhat of a joker. Land far Sals. Council Bluffs, Iowa, July 17, 1900 To whom it may concern: I have been authorized to dispose of as much of the Augustus Frank Estate lands in Mer rick and Platte counties, Nebraska, as I can find buyers for, and I have author ized Mr. John Sides of Carson, Iowa, to represent me in the sale of these lands. And he will receive offers for land which he will submit to me and I will then refer them to the party having charge of the estate fur his acceptance or rejec tion. Mr. Sides is also agent for the U. P. lands. W. J. Davenport. Headquarters at the Silver Creek State Bank, Silver Creek, Neb. tf John Sides, Agent Free Until January 1, 1901. In order to introduce The Semi Weekly State Journal to a whole lot of new homes it will be sent free from now until January 1, 1901, to any per son sending us One Dollar for a year's subscription. This gives you tbe paper from now until January 1, 1902, for only One Dollar. The State Journal ia the recognized state paper and should be in every home in the state. Printed at the capital it gives more prompt and accur ate reports of Nebraska doings than any other paper, and as it gives you two papers each week it furnishes yon with the latest news several days ahead of other papers. Yon will not want to be without The Journal during the legisla ture and the great senatorial contest The earlier yon send the dollar the more papers you will get for your money. Address, The Journal at Lincoln, Neb. Envelopes with your return card printed on them, for 50 cents a single hundred; for larger quantities, and dif ferent erodes, call at Thk Journal office for prices. To Chicaga aad the East. 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 always desire to "take in" Chicago en route. All classes of passen gers will find that the "Short Line" of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul Bail way, via Omaha and Council Bluffs, affords excellent facilities to reach their destinations in a manner 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 k Omaha Short Line of the Chicago, Milwaukee St Paul Railway, yon will be cheerfully furnished with the proper passport via Omaha and Chicago. Please note that all of the "Short Line" trams 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, et&, plesse call on or address F. A. Nash. General Agent, Omaha, Neb. Pollock & Co., m OF COLUMBUS. NEBR, Will act as general agents for this aad adjoia coaaties for tbe SNODDY MEDICINE CO., Manufacturers of the now FAMOUS SNODDY HOO CHOLERA SPECIFIC. IVCall oa them whea ia town, or write for eircaJars aad price lists. -5 3oct2ap PROBATE NOTICE. Ia taecoaatycoartof Platte count jr. Nebraska; la the matter of tha estate of James Warner, deceased. Notice of aaal settlement aad aeeoaat. ... To the creditors, heirs, legatees aaa oiaera ta (MMti ia the Mtaf e of James Wi re or ji Take aotice that George W. Gall has tied ia tne eoearjr coon a report at auaaufianNs. tor of the estate of James Warner, rlneeasnd. aad it is ordered that the name stand for hearing oa tha 29th dar of Norember. WOO. before the eoart at the hoar of 2 o'clock p. nu. at which time any person interested may appear aad except to aad contest the same. This notice is ordered given ia TBaCouTsratra JocaAX for three consecatiT weeks prior to the 28th day of November, 1988. Witaess my hand and the seal of the eoanty eoart at Columbus, this 10th day of November. IMS. T.D. Beanos. liaorS CoaatyJadaa, J. M. CURTIS, Justice of lie Peace. tV Would respectfully solicit n ahara of your bastaess. Over First National Bank at rear of hall ISaprtf Blacksmith and Wagon Work... Everything in nr lin ana erery thing guaranteed. Wagons Made t order. Beat norse-shoeing in the city. 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