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rlmiiUM lit Hi" mlilri'n,iiil-i,rll'rii'liiiiilil ! nr i
luli' llii'lri'lil tin I'll if llii'll IH' iuiiiri'n.
A Ooluiiilitih Imlv Hindu good sug
gestion the other day. She suggested
thut every eiti.oii in Columbus whoso
t reH urn attacked hy ciitcrpillorr.,
shnnld procppil to Imni thn iic-ls nt
tllO pPStH.
Aro wo really worMi tlinn we used
to bo in thn mutter of olllclul corrup
tion Or nro wo merely beginning to
purlfv thn Imily politic, which ban
oiiiplinsi.cd n condition timt hits loop
existed? If thn latter ih correct thou
tho people limy rejoice. Fremont Tri
bune. John (lout, Kriink Kioruiiu. M. K,
Clolhcr nuil John Swnnsnn must havo
incurrttil thn "coiitoinpt" of thu Tele
gram niiii ItH friniulH, wlimi thny found
that tliomi" honorable men" hutl over
ilrinvn thnir li'ul snlnrlcH hy morn
t linn H.100. Thn editor or thn Jottnml
got himself In" contempt" hy snugest
iug a much smaller iiiiiuinit
Tho vntnriiu eilltor of thn lititler
Comity Press, C. I), Casper, replies to
one of liin contemporaries who spoke
r.viiiintliiingly of thn Press editor's
declining years, hy challenging him
to n wresting match for "money,
nhalk or marbles." We hope thu
challenge will ho accepted Columbus
will go down on a special train to see
tho" go."
Contrary to tho linlinf of ninny that
thn itriNuNHOii valuation of Mm Mute
would, slows a falling oil tain year, ns
coinpareil with that of a vent-ngo,
there In a noteworthy Increase in thn
value of thn property returned. It
was Kmmrally thought that after thn
now rovonuo law wiih onro in force
thorn would ho ilevihitil now methods
nf evading it and that, iin under the
old law. there would he a ""idual
NlirliikitiK ' retnniN. Hut thin Imh not
hopu thu cam. Thn t otitl UHhCHMiient
thlH year Ih nearly IT, 000,000 larger
than for laHt year, or a real valuation
of fliri.ooo.OOO greater for tho whole
utate. Of thiH fi.OOO.OOO in railroad
property, whluli Ih a fair ratio to
other kinds of property. Thn new
revenue Inw? in working well thin
year, hh it did luHt vear, and ihose
wiio set theuiKevleH itijuiiiM it lust year
lor polttlcnl reasoiiH are not likely to
raixe the insue again this yenr. Fn.
motii Tribune
Thn harvcHtor trust is in for a Megp
of tho Mime kind that the ot lit r trusiN
liavn liomi oxporieiiolng duriiik! tho
past year or two Kodney H. Switt,
formerly iirouiiunutly connected with
thn UoCurmiek is out with a demand
for nu accounting, and tlie funucs of
thn country a well nu o.Miers who
have been hit hy the trtM wic'i him
no wormi luck than that Ills action
may remit in dissolviug the column
ntioti. It Ih alleged hv Swift that the
MuConuiokx ham toned the lailroaiU
to pay no less than fl.ooo.ion in te
liatoK uontrary to law If the work
ingN of tlin trust are only partially as
had as tho allegations- of Swift u is up
to tho proper iilllcats of the govern
out to take a l:ami with him in seeing
that the anti-trust laws aro not violat
ed. Norfolk News.
Tho American species of tint genus
hlaineil fool ih much devoted to thn
pleasing pastiuio of getting some
helpless women nut in a (unit and
then rocking thn limit to hear the
women holler. A iiicmbri- of tlu
trihn put on his groat boat-rocking
specialty for tho benefit of a uowYork
audience thu other day and succeeded
in spilling throo young women into
loop wator whom they would Imvu
drnwtiod except for tho assistance of
llfo savers. Tho hpcutators depressed
their appreciation of the entertain
ment by catching tho bravo young
gentloiean an I kinking in a fow of his
rib. Whether vn believe in gnviirn
ment by injunction or not, it cannot
bo drilled that them are times and
seasons when mob violence Ih not only
justified but iwsitively delightful to
contomplato.
HOT W'KATIIKIt I'liVaitAM.
Tho nowupaporfi nrn publishing tho
muni warnings ngnitisr hot weather
ilifuptor. tbomaln oonsidorntion being
to take life rnsy. Tho man who hurries
Is lost, and likowiso tho man who wor
rlns. Let your crnlltors do tho worry
lug and aUo tho hurrying except
when yon have to hurry occasionally
to doilun one nt them
Don't drink too much cold stulf, and
when yon do drink anything leu cold,
drink it In slow sips so tho cooling
is done In your mouth ami not in your
stomach Don't eat too much meat or
ton much of anything, (in n lit tin
slow on alcoholic drinks.
If vnu follow these instructions vou
may yet be president At least, ynur
chalices will not he nipped in thn bud
by a sunstroke in thn days of ynur
youth.
tom woi:hau:s fkiut.
Tom Woirall, thn doughty grain
dealer of Lincoln, undoubtedly has
thn sympathy of disinterested cltiens
in his campaign 111:11 1 list thn so-railed
elevator trust.
Mr. Worrall is an honorable, Fiunro
dealing man of tho plain cili.en tvpn.
A fow years agn ho was working on a
salary as a grain buyer. Having a
tnorough knowledge nf tho huMnosP,
lie threw up a good 1 alary and staketl
thn welfare of his family and himself
on thn prospect of success in a busi
ness of his own. According to hi be
lief, h has been "tattooed" by tho
grain trust, which being translated
sigullles that IiIh company has been
boycotted by tho allied elevator ititor
ests with tho purpose of driving him
out of business, thereby robbing him
of his livelihood nnd thu means nf
supporting his family, all by means
of mi unlawful conspiracy.
Whether this is true or not will
doubtless bo demonstrated by tho in
vestigation now in progress. How
ever, from a personal acquaintance of
many years, wo know that Mr. Worrall
wants no mom than a Huare deal
and that ho thinks ho In in the right.
Meanwhile tho sympathy of thn com
mon people will hn largely on his
side from thn taot that hn Ih a poor
man lighting for his bread and butter
against n powerful combination of
inonlcd interests mid an oxpeusivo
array of legal talent
It IiIh resort to thn processes of tho
law should prnv iucH'octlvo, Tom
threaten'- to wilte a hook, therein lay
im; bare all the devious ways nf the
L-rain octopus-.
;oi:i;.xvi:. y xi:i:sim:
Joseph L. Itristow, special com
missioner of the United States Gov
ernment to InvestlL-atn trade condi
tions ami other matters directing tho
Panama I tail road, has made IiIh re
port. And if his rocommendatiouH
aro accepted by President Koosovolt,
the people of thu United Mtates will
have 1111 opportunity to wit ties. an ex
periment tu government ownership.
Mr. Uristow lecomineiids that tho
government operate tho railroad iib a
commercial enterprise, fixing freight
rates on a basis that will baruly pay
operating expenses ami a fair dividend
on the government's investment.
Comment lug on thiH plan of rate
making, The Hallway World predicts
the failure of tho government's ex
periment in these wornr: "Ah a mat
ter of business principle, in 110 other
way than by llxlng rates at those fig
ures which will produce tho maxi
mum net revenue rates which usually
produce the maximum tonnage can a
railroad bo succssfully conducted. Tho
United States Government should not
attempt to reconcile whai is irrecon
cilable. A railroad cannot bo conducted
as a commercial enterprise, ami a.
the same time regulate its charges on
uoiicommercial principles." At an
other place in its comment the World
says: "It is Impossible to determine
the ctiange in revenue which will fol
low a change in any given rate and
thn etTect of general changes in all
iiites, sucli as aro recommended for
thn Panama Kailroad is beyond cal
culation." What shall he the test by which the
public shall indue the elUclency of
the Government's experiment, ami
decide whether the rule of "mini,
mum net earnings" underlying gov
ernment ownersnip, or tho ruin of
"maximum net earnings", underly
ing private ownership shall hn adopt
eil as the permanent policy of the
future:
There is Just one test and that is a
simple one, vu The ability of the
eoverninent to increase tho volume of
business and at tho same time to earn
a fair ami stable prntit, while reduc
ing rates to the public.
That the government will be able
to do this there is little doubt in the
light of Mr. i'rlstow's lejM.rt. He
points out that tho Panama Railroad
has made no attempt to make im
provements adequate to the demands
of a growing trade ; that it has been
content to live from the trade of a fow
steamship lines secured by exclusive
and monopolist in contracts, thnt the
character of these contracts has di
verted South American commerce
naturally belonging to the United
States, to Kurnpo, a condition which
tho frieuds of'subsidies" have in thn
piutjblamml to thn lack of 11 subsidized
American merchant marine; and that
by cancelling these monopolistic con
tracts, and improvin the facilities
for handling commerce, the trade of
tho isthmus will bo greatly stimu
lated. At any rate, wo am about to havo
government ownership on a small
scalo under a republican president,
and tho public will spend tbeir time
studying thin sensible experiment,
rathor than listening to the load nnd
unreasonable domands of certain pollt I
clans for cnmploto and Immediate gov
eminent ownership. Government own
ership to bo safe must conio by e.iry
stngns of evolution, permitting civil
service to develop apace, to prevent
polltcal abuses which would result
from suddenly throwing an army nf
employers on the government payroll.
Tho Albion News remarked that tho
p(uitablo lost ltd Hyde, but that It
was the policy holders that were
skinned.
The St. Paul Wepabllean warns
country publisher to watch their ready
print or arguments favorable to the
railroads and urges them to cut out
tho rnndv print houses that accept the
objectionable matter.
Tho Russian government has sus
pended thn publication of ouo of its
newspapers for a month for publishing
thn proceedings of tho congress nt
Moscow in dnllauce of orders to tho
contrary. Russia is several centuries
bohlud the procossion and sho must
have a free press before sho will be
gin to catch np.
Tho Humphrey Domocrat says that
all the prosent incumbents of the
comity ofliuob will ask to succeed
themselves and that there aro other
democrats also who want tho same
places. That papor promisrs that
thoro will bo" something interest ing"
dilngat the democratic county con
vention. Wo repnblicans aro nil
applying for reserved teats at the
show, Brother Fratt.
Up in Wisconsin they handle thn
railroad corporations all right. There
the corporations aro required by law
to tile a statoment of grjss earnings
each year with tho state and thoro Ih
a ponnlty of $10,000 for any violation
as to wrong llgures. Thu state has
just won a suit against a number nf
railroads for such violation, tho court
saying that 110,000 each was duo for
falsely making reports. Sohnyler
Free Lance.
A man has invented nnd patented a
glass coffin, soaled np in which a hu
man body will last till tho end of time
instead of going "to mix forever with
tho elements." It is a comforting
idea, especially for thoso who aru
inclined to materialistic bolief. Kvou
though wo know we wouldn't foel it.
tho most of us are doubtless made a
bit uncomfortable by the thought of
a fat, rod-headed grub worm rooting
around among thoso old bones of ours
seeking what ho may devour.
Thoy aro telling a story of a bunch
of bluobloods in a southorn city who
founded a society called tho Daughters
of Ferdlnaud do Soto. The bon-ton ouo
by ouo traced their lineago back to tho
great discoveror ami everything was
tine and daisy. Tho Daughters of tho
Revolution ami othor daughters wore
ooniumml with envy aud were just be
ginning to look up tho family trees to
see if thoy could trace themselves back
to UolumbuH or Noah or somo of the
oarlior navigators, when somo envious
scouudrol got busy with real history
and demonstrated that Ferdinand de
Soto bad lived and died a bachelor.
Thlsfablo teaches that we should al
ways boar in mind that a good man
doesn't need a grandfather.
The United States minister to Kcua
dor writes:
"Olllolal announcement Uuiadothat
froight rates between Now York aud
Panama are to be materially reduced
on July 1. This means a large in
crease in Imports into Kouador from
tho United States. 1 was informed
vury recently by a nromiuent wor-
ohaut here that ho would like to deal
lu New York, but that the freights
from that city on some of bis pur
chases were live-fold greater when re
calved at Guayaquil than like freight
from Hamburg, which was a practical
prohibition 011 Amerlcou trado."
It appears that tho diversion of trado
from the South American states to
Kuropo is not duo entiroly to the lack
of a ship subsidy in thn United States.
Thn Kansas t'ity Times exrrmes its
surprisoto learn that Governor Mickey
should employ his spare time pitchlug
horse shoes." It declaros tfat tho
thn outside world had got the Improi
slon that he employed his spare time
"embroidering tidies." Tho SVorld
Herald indignautlv resents tho Impu
titlon that the Governor could even
tutuk 01 taking time from his great
reform work against "cards and danc
ing to dnvoto it to such a stupid pas
time as "embroidering tidies." Pray
what else is there for the Governor to
doV The World Herald has a mon
opoly of the Hot Air Reform Manu
facturing business in this state, ex
cluding our Governor from that ooou
pat ion which most westnrn executives
select as a sido linn,
' WllOLKSUtiti
Tho editor of tho Wallace's Farmer
says somo things on the subject of
"graft" which are 'o wholesome they
doservo quoting:
"And herein lies tho hopes of the
present nnd tho futnre. Ah a nation
we are beginning to deal vigorously
with rascals high ami low. The vast
majority of tho pooplo of tho United
States nro honest. Tho ingots and
rascnls even In tho worst parts of tho
worst clticH 111-0 In minority. All that
is needed is for the pooplu to demand
honesty in men high and low, aud
thny will got if. No scoundrellsm or
rascality political or financial, Is 10
strongly entrenched that it ran long
endure tho limelight of concentrated
public opinion. Thu discovery ot thu
looting of the Kquitablo by citizens
of tho hiuhest social and religious
standing, who protested that they did
not know that they were cheating will
lead to the exposure of other insur
ance companies which may be in the
co'itrol of rascals. Tho good work
done in St. Louis mid Knntas City
will be continued in every othtr city,
from tho big grafters of Chicago nnd
Philadelphia down tn the littlo graft
ers nf tho towns nnd cities.
Wo nro npparnntly Mopping In cur
hast to get rich. looktnir over the fence
to see if out neighbors nro playing
thn gamo fairly.nii.t nsking thorn," Aro
you honest':" Let thoro bo no whlto-
washing of senators and congressmen
or members of the cabinet, or elders
or deuooriH high or low, rich or poor.
H tho nation Ih to live, it must be
honest.
KvIIh or this kind, like dttonsrs In the
human tamlly.elther in tlnis work out
thoir own euro or olso thoy kill the
patient. When a nation becomes o
corrupt that it can't detect its own
raFcals or scoundrels it perishes nnd i
removed from tho faro of the earth In
tin Interest of humanity."
WATSuy OX Cl.h'X'KLAXlK
The mighty Tom Watson in his own
peculiar magnzir.o hands his old friend
Grnver n jib that is calculated to last
lilin n while. Speaking of thn allrtiis
of tlin Kquilnble, sas Thomas:
"What matters It to me that a ran
rally piraio like Kvun rhnuld t leak
his designs behind the swollen pro
portions of Ginver Cleveland?
"Tin nune Giover ('loveltiiid who
befouled himself In thnt niidniilif
(leal ill whieii thn nnrmlnnf tlm TTnWml
States were robbed will not hcsltntotn
prostitute uis opportunity ngaiu to
givo to those won control him the
same advantages over thn Vuuttnblo
trensury whirl, I e gavo to hie former
pals nvr thu treasury nt tho United
States."
Tho redoubtable Mr. Watson has
reference tn tl.o bond issue in Cleve
land's second term whereby the llrm
of J. P. Morgan cc Co. is supposed to
have mp.do big profits from tho pur
chase of United States bonds at a lower
figure than thov would have brought
in mi ojien market.
Mr. Cleveland said not long ago,
lu a magazine article on this same
subjjet, that the acts of his ofllolal
careor which had been most harshly
criticised woro tho very cues which
ho bad always regardod and still con
tinued to regard with tho greatest sat
isfaction. Of courso that is capable
of two interpretations, ouo of which
would not conflict with Mr. Watson's
thoorv. Rut it is probably safe tn say
that a largo majority of tbo American
(teople bolleve absolutely in tho per
sonal honesty of QrovorOlevoland. He
may havo gone wrong in the mntter
of tno bond sate nnd iu other instances,
but most people will bolieve that it
was duo to too much untrammoled ad
vice rather than a willingness to be-
try tils trust.
It is very doubtful whether there
over was a presldont ot tbo United
states who was a scoundrel or a tbief,
and it must be remembered moroover
that Mr. Watson is inclinod to be a
little rash in his aisortious.
This is a hot timo for thn papers to
be talking about Peary's uortb pole
expedition!
Republicans havo douo very littlo
talking about the nominations for
county offiocs. However, we have
heard mentioned for couuty tresaurcr
tho name of Ous Uochor nnd for oounty
clerk tho name nf llort Galley. Wo
havo not learned whether these men
would accept a nomination. Rut who
can mention tho names of any strougor
candidates or bettor men?
COLUMBINES.
Some of these days John D. Rnckn
feller is going tn din aud it will be
up tn thn scribblers to cnuiposo suit
able obituary notice. 1 Having ground
out somothing appropriate to thn oc
casion, it might then be well for each
one to look back over bis files and see
how it compares witu his former ut
terances ou the same subjeot. Wo have
kuowu ca-es wboro thoro was qul'e a
divergenco of sontlment.
Tn.it was au interesting colloquy
thnt took place between Govornor
Mickey and State Superintendent Mo
lirleu tho other Hay, if report be true.
According to the story the governor
refused to vote for n certain physician
who was piopnsed by Mr. MoRrien
for secretary of thn statu board nf
health. Asked why he would not.
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Six trains a day Omaha to Chicago, without
change. Two trains daily between Omaha and
St. Paul and Minneapolis.
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Only Daily in Coluinltu-. Help us pii.-h.
Columbus Journal Go.
support the doctor, Oovonior Mickey
said, "I Bin told that hiMlritiks nnd
swears." Then Mr. McHrion l.obbcd
np and mentioned the names of n mini
ber of men who havo boon nppninted
by Governor Miokejr to olllno and who
are addicted to either strong drink or
strong language or both. And tho Imud
played on. Yes, it is rnthnr Intend
ing lint powerful disgusting. It rn
minds us of those iioodln dog recep
tions of the Newport Four Hundred
As wo understand it, both of thn
parties to this brilliant bnttlo of re
partee are adults. Howovor, wn may
be misinformed on that point. We
have always been niilillv opposed to
tho participation of women in politio,
but in tho light of this incident we
aro converted, liring on tho wonion.
The Diamond Care.
Tbo latest news from Paris is, ttioy
have discovered diamond euro for con
sumption. If you fear consumption or
pneumonia, It will, bowover, bo bot
for you to take that great remedy
mentioned by W. T. MoQee, of Van.
leer, Tenu," I had a cough for four
teen years. Nothing helped me, until
I took Dr. Kings ;New Discovery for
Consumption, coughs and colds, which
gave instant relief and ofrected per
ment oure."Unequaled cure for throat
and lung troubles. At Clms. Oarkf
drug store price fit) crnts ami ft gnnr
anted. Trial bottle free.
Tlu- oKl Puritans parried
their prKt to the mill in the
morniny; thou s.it around
itkl whittled stiJvs till the
ll'iar was made.
Ii impiovenients in mill
in! situe then.
Now the entire operation
1 mistimes mo to time,
though in a week we turn
out thousands of luncls of
Puritan Hour whete form
erly we made hundreds.
li.icli detail -grain buying,
scouring, drying and mill
ing, is the work of experts
and it is the combination of
all that enables us to pro- ,
duce it tlour of .such dis
tinctive excellence as that
celebrated
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OMAHA. NEB
DOME DAY.
LriRt night, my darllng,nN.von slept,
I thought I heard you sigh,
And to your littlo crib I oropt
And watched a spuco thereby;
And then 1 stoni.ed nnd kiwnl your
brow
1'Vr, oh" 1 love you f.n
You aro too young to know it now.
Uut soma day you hlmli know
Homo time, when in n ti.uk.ini
plnco
I nore otlinrs (num f. ,...
lour oyes hhall look upnu n tneo
Calm in otenml sleep;
The spconliless lip.-, thn wrinkled
brow,
Tho lationt smiin slntlt chow
You nro too young to know it now,
Hut fiomo day vou hlmll know '
Look backward then, into tho years,
And koo mo hero tonight
See, O my darling 1 how my tonrn
Aro falling ao 1 write,
And fool once nioro upon yOI!r brow
Tha kisfiof long ngo
You aro too young to know it now.
Hut some day vou shall know '
Kugenn Field,
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