The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, July 13, 1904, Image 4

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CHAMiK IN ADimiSH-Whea onlerinc a
c!iiiii(je in tJirnlilrc.t,Milfcriliwii should be sure
to im tliejrold us well as their new address.
Republican Ticket.
United States Senator
ELMER J. BDRKETT.
Delegates-at-Large
JOHN A. PIPER, Bart.
II. C. BROME, Douglas.
E. M. LEFLANG, Dawson.
C. B. DEMPSTER, Gage.
Alternatos-at-Larjje
I. M. RAYMOND, Lancaster.
SHELBY HASTINGS, Bntler.
C. 1:1. ADAMS, Nuckolla
E. K. VALENTINE, Caminjf.
National Committeeman
CHAS. H. MORRILL, Lancaster.
Presidential Electors
F. A. BARTON, Pawnee.
A. C. SMITH, Douglas.
A. C. ABBOIT, Dodge.
T. L. NORVAL, Seward.
W. P. HALL, PLelps.
M. A. BROWN, Buffalo.
' II. II. WILSON, Lancaster.
J. C. ROBINSON, Douglas.
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5 Ve. " . . - ; Govornor
r-r.v.V. ."vi-. : . j. h. mickey.
(.";; -. Lieutenant Governor
!V"V.:i.: .-; . II G. M.(JlLTON.
J .".V" "' . '' . Secretary of State
.-'-v -JtV " '.." . . A. G ALUSIIA.
; -.-. " -v - .' Auditor
f ' '". -f. : :'! - v" M- SEAliLE, .TR.
I j .,- - -" ' Treasurer
l.:r- :-: S.-. peter mortensen.
.--"."-"-.- .-".". Superintendent
v-ri "-'"" J- U MrBRIEX.
I." ".".. .'.J -"-." Attorney General
:-.;-.-:;. NORRIS BROWN.
.,"'.. ".-:- " Land Commissioner
:-J; "- ' -V H. M. EATON.
CONGRESSIONAL.
CongrosGtnan, Third District
j. j. McCarthy.
THE OXLY WAV.
The doty of republicans and all
others who believe in the policies
and the administration of Roosevelt
is to sustain the president not only
by voting for him but by voting for
republican congressional and legisla
tive candidates. And in this state.
district and county a vote for a re
pablican congressman and member of
the legislature it of more valao than
a vote for Roosevelt. President Roose
velt will bo a power for good whether
he is suptortcd by the house and Ben
ate or not ; bnt his power and opportun
ity will be more than doubled if he is
backed by a working majority in both
houses of congress. If the voters of
this county believe in Roosevelt, and
want a continuance of the most brilli
ant administration siuce the days of
Andrew Jackson, they must vote for
Congressman McCarthy and for the
legislative ticket which will help to
elect a republican to the United States
Senate. Roosevelt does not need votes
in Nebraska this year, but he will
need the support of Nebraska congress
men and senators in the years to fol
low, and Nebraska needs the prestige
and influence which she will get from
a republican congressional delegation
under a -republican administration.
THE SOLID WEST.
The expected lias happened in the
democratic national convention, and
. the contest for the presidency has
been narrowed down to the state of
New York. Judge Parker is probably
the strongest man, aside from Cleve
land, that the democrats could have
named, as far as his chances for carry
ing New York are concerned. He is
backed and vouched for by David B.
HiU, the master democratic politi
cian of old New York state, and he
has been endorsed in a published
statement by Grover Cleveland.
For the first time in a generation
there is a companion section to the
Solid South. This year the West is
jast as solid for Roosevelt as the Soath
is for Parkor. Roosevelt is jart as
safe throughout the Western states as
Blaein or Tom Reed used to be in the
atate of Maine, and any white man
labeled ''democrat" is securely in
' possession of the Solid South. With
.Bryan as a candidate against Roose
velt, and silver dead,' the democrats
would have carried the Solid Soath
and nothing else; with Parker, they
-have some hope of New York and New
Jersey, the states where the money
power holds sway, and a diss and
desperate longing alvaoat a hope
directed toward Indiana and Illinois.
That democracy's case is desperate
ami beyond hope is and has bee for
year admitted on all sides. It is
only a question of how near they
can come to "a respectable showing.
They will have the support of Wall
Street and of Tsatsssny in New York
city, and of the trust sgaafes and
railroad corporations pretty generally
throaghoat the country. ' Opposed
to this sapport wUl he that of the
uaases, the common people of the
ooaatry.who hare always bean irresis
tible whea united ia enthusiastic sap
pert of a popular favorite, as they are
this year in sapnort of
Roosevelt, regardless of party.
SERMON (X)TlfiUED. "
nteJestj very often prevents editors
subjects with vrUeh
1 are r Instil j assnoisliiil It I
sowi4hekffothrof the Ta!e-
aiMiH
MILLERS AND
FARMERS IN PERIL
Bailroad Legislation Needed A Platform for
Republican Leaders.
The American mUler is in -peril, and
with hin the American wheat grow-
er. The-grain rate war last spring
redacod the rate on wheat, bat left
the flour rate where it had been. The
National Federation of Millers com
plained to tne Interstate Commerce
Commission, asking to have the flour
rmtn lled the samo as the rate on
the
whemt. hP0 Dr driTi"T t" small mill out
In the face of this protest, the east- of business to profit by a double-haul,
ern railroad managers last week estab- collecting freight for carrying wheat
lished a rate of three cents a bushel out and floar back to the farmer. This
at and east of Buffalo on wheat for policy might work to the immediate
export, the rate to go into effect im- advantage of the railroad, bat ia the
mediately and continue until Septem- end it woald lose through the im
ber This means that wheat will be peverishment of the farmer who
hauled for five cents a hundred while woald bny less of the luxuries of life
flour must pay eight and one-half upon which the freight is higher than
cents, a discrimination against the upon flour. The remedy, therefore,
manufactured product of seven cents which will help the fanner will help
a'barrel." This discrimination is more the railroad. As to government own
than enough to kill the sale of Ameri- ership, while many believe in it as an
can flour for export. ultimate policy, a moment's reflection
On top 'of this warfare waged will show that it is mere waste of
against the American miller by the time to talk about it as an immediate
railroad managers, comes, as natural means of preventing the distraction
sequence, this note of warning to of the milling industry of the United
Nebraska millers to govern thorn in States. The millers and farmers need
the buying of the next crop of wheat proectionand they need it now. Every
from the Nebraska larmer: "Pay one knows that it would take congress
legitimate value, nothing more. There years to get control of railroads even
will be a large surplus of American if a majority of the present congress
wheat for export. Australia, India, favored government ownership. And
Argentina, Russia. Franco and other with only a handful of ooBgressmeu
wheat growing countries are selling favoring that policy, farmers might as
choice wheat away below American well vote for prohibition as a means
quotations. British. French, German of correcting flour-rate abases. There
and Australian millers have driven is a remedy and an effestive remedy
American flour out of the markets of in reach. Strengthen the arm of the
Western Europe. Not in twenty Interstate Commerce Commission.
years has so little new winter wheat QjTe that body the power they have
flour been sold ahead by American ien demanding for years, to execute
mills at this date for export. Real- their orders and findings, and within
izing this the wheat dealer and ship- ten day, after they have been clothed
per should not bid for the new wheat wjtn that new power, the railroads
anything above its safe value. What wiU forced to adjust the rates on
is its safe value? This value can only floar and place the American milling
be determined by the price at which industry on a sound and permanent
the wheat can be sold for export or foundation. The Commission says in
by the basis upon which new winter itg j port referring to the matter
wheat flour can be sold ahead freely of Ttea. At put thiB commission
in eastern and foreign markets. The inTe8tigate and repoit. Bnt it
logic of this situation is plain. U bng no vmm to determine what rate
discriminating railroad rates are per- -g reagonablef ud racn orders as it
mitted to drive the American miller cn limke have no binding effect It
out of this export trade, the hundreds 0, correct a tariff rate which is
of small mills of Nebraska that have MreMonably high or which operates
been paying tne xarmer ior ms wnwi
from five to ten cents a bushel above
market price, and supplying him in
tarn with bran and other stock foods
at a price below that at which he
could ship them in, will have to go
out of business. Wheat raising will
be disorganized by the lower prices ;
the profits of dairying will be de
creased by the higher price of mill
feed; and the retail and wholesale
merchants will suffer with the farm
er and the laborer made idle by the
closing of the mills. This is no fancy
of the imagination. It is a real con
dition which is confronting the mill
ers and Nebraska farmer. The milling
industry is the third largest in the
United States. The capacity of
American mills is 850,000 barrels a
day. Working 300 days in the year,
these mills can grind l.iOO.OOO.OOO
bushels of wheat. The average crop
of the United States is about G50,
000.000 bushels, or about one half
enough to fully supply American
mills. If the policy of discrimina
tion against American flsur is con
tinned these splendid mills, all but the
largest, will be closed down and the
wheat that is now ground in Ne-
braska mills, by well paid Nebraska c0 "OIe ut by republican con
labor, will go to the mills of London " B republicans will have a
and Liverpool. Indeed tho National majority in congress for the next two
Millers Federation made this state- yea at least. Ana sucn legts-
ment to tho Interstate Commerce lation is in harmony with the repnbli-
Commission: "A miller in Liverpool " policy of protection and the well
could have bought; during Feburary, known attitude of President Rcose-
March and April, wheat at Buffalo, velt.
ground it into flour at Liverpool and The Journal does not hesitate to ask
shipped it back into New York and for the millers and farmers of Platte
met the competition of millers locat- county that Congressman McCarthy
ed in New York state." and the representatives to the state
What can bo done by Nebraska legislature pledge themselves to vote
millers and farmers to remedy this as indicated. Let the republican
condition? Simply this go into pol- cadidatfs take in this matter the slog
itics. This country has developed an of the millers' National Federation :
under a protective system. Wo have "Not one bushel of wheat for export."
protected and are still protecting our Our mills have more than sufficient
manufacturing industries by tariff, capacity to convert into flnnr every
Will the railroads, by tariff of this bushel of wheat raised in this country
country be parmitted to over-rulo our and Canada. Our workers want the
policy of protection as applied to the employment. Onr farmers need the
products of mills and of tho farm, offal for stock feeding and to conserve
by arbritary discrimination of rates ? the fertility of the soil. Our efforts
If we are to have a protective system, must never cease until the raw mater
let it protect that industry which ial is no longer exported.
gram last week when he was writing
his Bermon on predestination as appli
ed to Nebraska politicians and politi
cal parties. That was a very fine
sounding sermon for ono that had no
point. We were forry, as doubtless
all Telegram readers were, when we
came to the end of tho sermon before
half the subject had been exhausted.
But, as we have hinted, onr brother's
modesty probalby overcame him at
the point where his readers wonid
have been glad to have the beautiful
doctrine of predestination applied to
some democratic politicians and politi
cal organizations. We therefore will
take np the discourse at the point
where it broke off and carry it along
imitating as nearly as our weak abil
ity will permit, the style of our broth
er. t Perhaps the . Lord, looking upon his
longhaired disciples, said,' It is good, ' '
and then and there declared that in
the county of Platte, in the state of
Nebraska, under the reign of Mickey.
otherwise known as "Coal Oil John"
Manse he made Rockefeller furnish
Nebraskaas with a safe grade of coal
oil, he would raise np another
"Micky;" nd tkat this Micky
should have long flowing locks like
tho disciples of old,and a face and fig
are to be admired of ladies young
aad old, and that in recognition of
this Godlike beauty, he would great
ly prosper his favorite with things
earthly, yea, even ordaining that half.
f the' private business men in
Humphrey ami Lindsay should-be
aauMaoi out aad set adrift ia the
world that his mvorite might
--ti
draws life from aad reran life to
the American.
What is the remedy? First, the rem
edy does not lie ia an insane deana
ciatioa or demand for immediate
government ownership of railroads.
The interests of the farmer aad the
railroad mast be, ia the long ran,
Mention.', xue raiiroaiw uuuuno-
with discriminating effect."
The Interstate Commerce Commis
sion have pointed oat the remedy.
Oar courts decided in the famous
Granger cases that the state can de
termine reasonable rates for the rail
roads. The state can therefore dele
gate this power to the Interstate Com
merce Commission. It is therefore,
up to the millers and farmers of Ne
braska to cast their votes and their
influence for congressmen pledged to
vote in congress to strengthen the arm
of the Interstate Commerce Commis
sion by giving that body power to fix
rates on interstate commerce and to
adjust discriminating rates like the
present flour rate. And they should
vote for representatives to the state
legislature pledged to vote for a state
railroad commission with similar
power in tho state and for United
States senators pledged to .the same
policy.
Bnt all this should be done in full
recognition of the difficulties of rate
adjustment and of the right of the
railroads to reasonable returns on
their investment.
Whatever is done in this direction
tremely rich in his monopoly of the
necessaries of Ufe sold to his inferior
fellow men and that his favorite's
children might ride in better
carriages than other children, and
have their hearts thrill with pride
as they read on all the store fronts of
the monopoly-ridden villages. "P. E.
McKillipft Co.. Bankers. Lawyers,
Merchants and Dealers ia Everything
on Earth." Onr motto: "Let the
Government Own the Railroads, bat
Let Us Own Everything Else."
Andperhaps it was foreordained that
the great democratic Jacksonian
club, dariag tho reign of Mickey
should become intoxicated in the
worship of a "kitty," and forget
that Mickey aad his friends in the
legislature were making a new rev
enue law to pay our atate debt aad to
provide for a jast aad equal taxation
of citiseas aad corporations.
Aad perhaps God ia his omnisci
ence, knowing the appetites and ten
dencies of these "kitty worskiners"
predetermined that the "kitty "should
reach oat its velvet-covered claws
iato the pockets of widows' soas. aad
take therefrom the sack tiled toover
flowiag with tho yellow symbols of
repablicaa prosperity, with which to
feed the hungry stomachs af his ia-
this was aU foreordained to
that whoa these faithful
of jaoKsoa should attempt to
raise voice er pea sgaiast the blot
tom record of Mickey and the rest of
the trao friends ml taonssak of Ha
tha aurriag af too "kitty"
to tarn the preachiac of
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This is a year in which the presi
deatial campaign cannot disturb busi
ness. Sometimes the canvass unsettles
trade, although in general the. harm
ful effects of an exciting campaign are
'exaggerated. In 16 the canvass had
a detrimental effect on the finances
for a while. This was because there
was some doubt about tho strength
of the fight which Bryan would put
np. It was felt, of course, that the
succecs of the democrats would be
disastrous to trade. Usually a dem
ocratic victory is damaging to busi
ness, bnt in 18DG it would have been
particularly harmful on 'account of
the free silver menace with which
the democracy was identified in that
year.
But the canvass has no portent - in
1901. Every sane person in tho United
States sees that the republicans are
going to carry the country this year.
There is not the faintest probability of
democratic victory. The conservative
democrats who in 169G and I'.KM) pray
ed for democratic dofcat. will not
need to have any uneasiness regarding
the result this year. Some of them
will vote for Roosevelt, and tho re
publican party will be glad of this.
The republicans stand ready to re
ceive aid from any repeciable quarter
from which it may come. Republican
victory in 11)04, however, i certain
even if every democrat votes for tho
St. Loais ticket.
Business is fairly active at tho pres
ent time. It will improve ns the
weeks and months pas3, and will pro
bably be much better in the fall and
winter than it is now. There is noth
ing in the canvass on which to raise
any specter of peril to tho fi nancer.
The only question about the republi
can campaign is the dimensions of
the party's victory. There may be
some donbt as to whether Roosevelt
in 1904 will get tho 137 majority in the
electoral college bst the ohauces are
that he will equal or beat that re
cord. In any case the continuance of
republican sway for at least four years
longer is as certain as any political
event of the near future can be.
With the republicans in power" busi
ness prosperity is assured, and republi
can control of the government until
March 4, 1909, is no longer open to
doubt. St. Louis Globa-Democrat.
Eight Years of Drought .
Eight years of drought in Southern
Arizona according to the latest report
of tho United States Geological Survey
have worked to drive tho cattlemen
and sheepmen from the country. Tho
report says :" Water is vory scarce.
Eight years ago the reserve was com
paratively well watered but successive
seasons of drought have rendered it
exceedingly dry, and unless a change
for the better occurs cattlemen and
sheepmen will desert tho country.
Numerous small areas wore once profi
tably farmed, but in recent years the
lack of rainfall has caused a marked
decline in agriculture. Grazing, tho
main industry of this and adjacent
regions, has suffered greatly from con
tinued droughts. Tho only remaining
areas which are used solely for cattle
range are on Blue and Salt River and
Eagle Greek. Tne best growth of
wild forage grasses are nearly always
fonnd at some distance from waier,
and are consequently not available for
stock which are unable to mzko the
trip from water to pasture.
The Verde slope, in the Beaver
Creek watershed, is an example of
repeated overstocking. This district
was formerly a source of great wealth
to settlers in that vicinity, bnt the ex
cessive number of cattle and horses
grazed in it has finally resulted in the
complete annihilation of the posture.
Unless stringent rulos are adopted to
regulate the number of stock and the
areas on which, they shall bo grazed
on each permit, this condition will
sooner or later prevail throughout
the reserve."
COLUMBINES.
P. J. E.
We are nnpqai vocally in favor .f Coloaol John
Maker for miuintf r to D thmniy.
Thentmlitlatp for imfitlonf was never lio.inl of
GOtftide of Ilia own Mate; the candidate for vice
president ia a railroad pre-idnt, a multi-millionaire,
in the Unita! Stateo prisate iieforo most
of ua were burn, ami jnt 81 jarn old up to date.
Bally for the good old democratic liarty!
Some philosopher figured out onrothsd if the
great NatoIeon had smoked instead of takint;
snuff, thus appljing a nerve eedative instead of
a stimulant, he tniicht have temered t-omewhat
his meteoric career nnd saved liiitiH-lf tom trou
ble. If this he true, welter to suwst that (). (?.
Shannon etnoke n little more and Jiufce Hem
ley cultivate thefnutT hahit,
We learn, on authority c.T Jndg Sullivnn,
that Edsar Howard and C. J. Carlcu- are the
pioneer this summer in the matter of shirt
waists. The judge is collect inc evidence on the
matter, and seems now to Ik of the opinion that
Mr. Howard has no shirt and Mr. (inr low's
suspenders are not in n condition to be exhibited
externally.
W have by nil means the safest and most
comfortable, method of playinc txiker in this
town thut we ever saw. We have seen an un
fortunate and desperate man, with every form
and fashion of luck dead against him, nnd the
Fates handing it to him with both barrels at earh
tarn of the cards; despairing yet determine.!;
hoping still against hope; yet ready to stake his
mother's ring, his watch, and his foantain pen
if necessary against the sweeping and over
whelming tida of destiny such a man we have
seen, with drawn face and giittoriog eye, stay
ia the game till the last dog was hung, and quit
loser in the sum of one dollar and forty cents;
while thosewho had triumphed in his luckless
despair were ahead of tho game twenty cents
each, in trade.
After ranch travail of spirit we finally pre
vailed upon onrself to accept the office of referee
in the recent misnnderetanding between Ber.
Ulster and Editor Howard on the question of
piritaal versus spirituous matters. Mr. How
ard represents the Episcopal faith and Mr.
TJlmer the Baptist. We find in the premises
that both parties to the controversy are gentle
mea and scholars and that one of them is a
good judge of liquor. We find farther that this
ease involves the same basic principle that is at
the bottom of all political and most moral dis
cussions, to-wit: The arguments are made from
diferaat point of view. The Episcopal code
permits the gentle art of booza fighting, while
tte Baptist creed unqualifiedly prohibit it.7 In
such a case we are compelled to decide that no
conclusion as to the merits of the question can
be drawn, from the evidence submitted. Touch
ing the modes of expression of the two advo
cates, ia a spirit of high regard for both, it be
comes oar daty to announce as oar unbiassed
verdiet, first, tfcat Bev. Ulmer was a trifle ex
treme ia kk otterance on the subject, consider
ing that the oceasioB was pan-religibBs gath
ering; and second, that Editor Howard was,
eqnally intemperate in the langnage which be
employed is criticism of Mr. Ulmer. This
ardsonsdnty has been very anpleaaant to as,
aad it is with a gnat feeling of relief that we
rise to invite all band to bars something
laadcailkosL
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THE SPIRIT OF INDIA.
la of Mo Aceoaat to fhs
ias ( TaaasM aa Tcnsploa.
The ancient fcmples and tombs of
India with their intricate carving are
the marvel of all who see them, says
the author of "Cities of India," and the
wonder of the beholder grows when be
realizes that the enormous- blocks of
marble and sandstone have been
dragged, by band in many cases, up
steep and lofty cliffs.
Some years .ago Mr. Forrest, while
walking through a remote village of
the Deccan. noticed a large stone pillar,
richly carved, lying by the roadside.
He asked the origin and destination of
the monolith. It was for the porch of
a temple on the brow of a precipice
two miles away, overlooking the ham
let "The villagers drag It," said the head
officer of the place, "on great festival
days.. In tny lifetime, sahib, tbey have
moved it 100 yards. And see bow much
carving they have done."
He pointed to some eight Inches of
wonderful decoration. The officer was
nearly fifty years of age. and the trav
eler looked iu astonishment, wondering
bow long before the pillar would com
plete Its journey. An old Brahman
standing by noticed bis expression.
"You English are in such a hurry."
he said. "There arc the ages of brass
and the age of iron. Tbey come and
they go. 'Others have come and gone
their way. and so will you. But the
pillar will rrtich the temple."
His reply v::s the spirit of ancient
India, which takes no heed of today,
but, having set about the construction
of such a monument, goes .steadily at
work, satisfied to devote a thousand
years to it if the temple be worthy to
endure when it is done.
LEFT HANDED CHILDREN.
Do Hot Try to Force Then to Beeosne
RiKfat Handed.
I have never seen anything .but bad
results from the attempt to train chil
dren to use the right hand instead of
the left when 'there is a decided tend
ency or habit to be left handed. More
over, the attempt is never successful.
The best consequences are poor and
are only awkward mixtures of the two
forms, which yield confusions and in
decisions during the entire subsequent
life. One is that of a naturally left
handed friend who; by arduous and
continuous training during his child
hood, was compelled to write with bl
right hand. For all other acts 'he is
left banded, but he cannot use his left
hand for writing. Although now past
fifty he has always hated any writing,
the mere act of doing so. and he ca:
not do any original thinking while
writing. He is for this purpose com
pelled to rely on a stenographer, and
then his ideas flow freely and rapidly.
If ho tries to think, plan or devise and
to write at the same time there is a
positive inhibition of thought and he
must make sketches, epitomes, several
efforts, copyings, etc., in a painful and
most unsatisfactory manner. The at
tempt at ambidexterity has been a life
long obstacle to him in bis profes
sional progress.
The chief centers most closely Inter
related in writing and thinking are
thus demonstrably better harmonized
when in. one side of the brain. The
mechanics of neurology are plainly less
difficult than could be achieved by
any foolish and unsuccessful ambi
dexterity. Dr. G. M. Gould in Science.
Getllnsr Itack at Whistler.
J. MacXeill Whistler had a French
poodle of which he was extravagantly
fond. This poodle was seized with an
affection of the throat, and Whistler
had the audacity to send for the great
throat specialist, Mackenzie. Sir Mo
rel!, when he saw that he had been
called in to treat a dog. didn't like it
much, it was plain. But he said noth
ing. He prescribed, pocketed a big fee
and drove away. The next day he sent
posthaste for Whistler, and Whistler,
thinking he was summoned on some
matter concerning bis beloved dog,
dropped bis work and rushed like the
wind to Mackenzie's. On his arrival
Sir Morel! said gravely: "How do you
do, Mr. Whistler? I wanted to see you
about having my front door painted."
Collier's Weekly.
Premised Not to Be Ceataatlaated.
Frances bad been brought up in a
strict Presbyterian household, and in
all her nine years bad never attended
service In a church of another denomi
nation. While on a visit with her
mother to a part of the country far
from her own home she entered the
parlor one Saturday afternoon and
eagerly asked: "Ob. mamma, may I
go to the 'Piscopal church with Gertie
tomorrow? I'll promise not to believe
a single word the minister says!" Lip
pincott's Magazine.
Proof Positive.
Tagleigh Old Lawless cannot be
such a very bad attorney. He suc
ceeded in securing an acquittal in that
last murder case. Warlelgh Well,
when be told the jury that the pris
oner had selected him In preference to
all other counsel they brought in a
verdict of "temporary insanity."
The Yentareaenae Wla.
"There are some men," said the pes
simist, "whom good fortune seems to
follow always."
"I think you are wrong," replied the
optimist. "If you were to examine
Into the matter you'd find it invariably
meets them." Philadelphia Ledger.
Jast. Like a Man.
The Groom Our anniversary! What
anniversary, dearest? The Bride (sad
ly) Have you forgotten so soon?
We've been married a week today."
Recollection is the only paradise
from which we cannot be turned out
Richter.
A Creed T
The Columbus Journal, the old Ne
braska publication mentioned in the
Hay issue of the Western Publisher as
having changed hands and also absor
bing the Columbus Times, has enlarged
to an eight-column quarto. There are
bat few papers in Nebraska of this
size, and when and where they do ex
ist evidence is not wanting that a
good deal of business for the print
shop abounds. Amusement people
will tell about "good show towns;"
this publication changes the subject to
"good newspaper towns," having
prominently in mind the metropolis
of Platte county. Western Publisher.
Ira Otfcmn.
Witk the resignation of ex-Senator
Marion Butler of North Carolina aa
chairman of the populist party, that
organization becomes still farther
relegated to the cares of gloom and
despair. Senator Batler speaks in
praise of President Rooserels who.
he says, has aside an honest chief and
cannot be defeated in Horember. Be
indicates that he moat assaredlr will
support neither Mr.
Parker. Kearney Hah,
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great many cases will be reduced one-half. Come in and
see for yourself :::::::::
Our $22.50 and $20.00 Men's Suits now
Our $18.50, $17.50 and $16.50 Men's Suits
Our $15.00 Men's Suits now
And so on down
Nothing reserved.
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THE LIFE OF THE WORLD.
Tradltleaa That It Will Last but Six
Taeaaaad Yrarn.
There is a general ami widespread
notion, which the curious investigator
will find scattered throughout both
mediaeval and modern literature, that
the world will last 0,000 years from
the date of its creation. An inscrip
tion in one of Martin Luther's books
reads as follows: "Elijah, the prophet,
said that the world had existed 2.000
years before the law was given (from
Adam to Moses), would exist 2,000
years under the Mosaic law (from
Moses to Christ) and 2,000 years under
the Christian dispensation, and then
it would le burned."
In the Etrurian account of the crea
tion (by Suidas) I find a similar tra
dition: "Tho Creator spent ,000 years
In creation, and 0,000 more are allotted
to the earth."
In the black letter edition of Foxe's
"Acts nnd Monuments" there Is a
whole sermon given, with the 0.000
year limit of the earth's duration as a
text. (See above work, editlou of
1032.)
Some writers contend that the "six
days" referred to in Holy Writ really
mean 0.000 years, and that the "sev
enth day" is a type of the coining mil
lennium, or "Sabbath of a thousand
years." The psalmist says. "For a
thousand years are in thy sight as yes
terday." (Psalm xe, 4. See also II
Peter Hi, &)-St. Louis Republic.
Aara ef Dlra.
Small singing birds live from eight to
eighteen years. Ravens have lived for
almost a hundred years In captivity,
and parrots longer than that. Fowls
live ten to twenty years. The wild
goose lives upward of a hundred years,
nnd swans are said to have attained
the age or 300. The long life of birds
has Ihmmi Interpreted as compensation
for the great mortality of their young.
A Fatal Omlaaloa.
ul can't for the life of me make out
what my wife is driving at in this let
ter?" "
"Of course yon can't, old chap. Don't
yon see that she forgot to add the post
script Y' New Orleans Times-Demo-trat
Graded ASTeetlea.
Housekeeper Do you love children?
Applicant It all depends on the
wages, mum.
Industry keeps the body healthy, the
mind clear, the heart whole and the
purse full. Simmons.
cea Used la War.
There are at least two recorded In
stances In which bees have been used
as weapons of defense in war. When
the Roman general Lucullus was war
ring against Mithridates, he sent a
force against the city of Themlscyra.
As tbey besieged the walls the inhabit
ants threw down on them myriads of
swarms of bees. These at once began
an attack, which resulted in the rais
ing of the siege. These doughty little
insects were also once used with equal
success in England. Chester was be
sieged by the Danes' and Norwegians,
but its Saxon defenders threw down on
them the beehives of the town, and
the siege was soon raised.
Optlsalstte.
Toung Lawyer Well, the Judge has
rendered a decision in our favor in that
will case. Older Partner Never mind.
The other side will appeal, and we will
continue to get fees out of it Puck.
Honestr Is the best policy, but be
Who Is governed by that maxim la not
an honest man. Whately. (
Tra Jtea.
That fellow yonder"
"Yhat of him?"
"Just rich enough to be miserable.
But the fellow standing near him is"
"Whatr
"Just poor enough to be resigned."
Atlanta Constitution.
Saart.
"Why does Mr. Spatt wear audi
abort trousers r
"Because they fit him. I asked bin
for a small loan, and he said be was
'a abort bis corns made his head ache."
Leadon Tlt-Bits.
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Clothing', Shoes, Furnishings
the entire line of Men's and Boys' Clothing.
600 pairs Men's Pants just half price
150 pairs Young Men's Pants just half price
300 pairs Short Pants, $1 now 75c
350 pairs Short Pants, 75c now 59c
One lot Boys' Pants, worth up to 50c now 19c
TUfxn9a UTAmAn'e on1 a"Yl'
om.7U0, vwu&vaao ouu V1U1U1CUO Ml tU12
less than factory price.
Don't Forget the Dates
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(Successors to W. A. MoWILLIAMS.)
Ill ATCH for our ad in the
Journal next week and
in the meantime we invite
you to come in and get ac
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Growing' Money grows.
Look around.
Yon see railroads, banks, ruines,
farms, factories, stores.
All took money to start.
And that money grew.
Plant a little of yonr savings to
grow.
Bnt, first think, examine, investi
gate. Then plant.
If rightly planted, it will grow.
Plant it where it will grow safe,
sure rapidly.
Seek safety firet.
You have saved &j0 or more?
Then write us it costs a cent for
a postal.
Get our free prospectus examine
it, then plant.
The proposition is practically
"backecd by Uncle Sam."
CtJMkiai SKvities (tayaij
THE BOUME
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In the Third congressional district
Patrick E. McKillip of Hamphrey
was nominated by both populist and
democratic conrentions. The demo
crats (evidently uryanites) iook an
advance step in their platform bj de
claring for government ownership of
railroads aad for the people's saoaey.
substantially the saaw as the populist
money plank. Then the populist con
veatioa adopted the saase platform.
Where will those dtoaosrats he after
Jndsje Parker or sosao other Glerelaad
democrat is nominated at St Louis?
Will they be rnnaias? a little democra
tic party all by themselTes, or will
tHmaaaAar into the noDalist nartT?
1 -Kearney Haw Em Standard.
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$12.50
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Wheat, now f;s
Corn :r
Oats "$ bushel 30
Rye $ hnnhel 45
Rarley, 30
lings 9 cwt t M)Q 4 70
Fat Hteers tf cwt 1 00f 4 ,r0
Stock steers 3? cwt 2 :&$ 3 TC,
Fat rows- f? c wt '1 I'Alfj 3 05
Potato, h pi; 40
Butter lb. IfiftlK
Eggs "ft dozen 12
WORLD'S FAtt LOW SATES.
EVERY DAY
The Union Pacific will sell Itaund '
Trip tickets to St. Lonis and return at'
following low mtes:
FIFTEEN DAY TICKETS - ;
Every day to Nov. 30, good to retnrn
15 days. SI7.10.
SIXTY DAY TICKETS .
Every day to Nov. 20, good to retnrn
relays. $10.00.
SEASON TICKETS
Every day to Nov. 15, good up to Dw. ""
l.. 22.N0.
Irxjuire of W;. II. Beoharn, Agent. "
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