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-fijr -1,. '- r im iW "'iHMMgisSEaSHNHa '"'-afajij: .'jfff . aawsSfchiBS5gv a co D ru) of d: p; o c b 8 1 iMAMiaup Mat 11, 1870. Columbus journal, Columbus, Nebr. Eatand at tfce Poatofice, Colamboa, Nebr., m aeoad-chtM sail Bitter. PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS BY Colimbus Journal Co., (INCORPORATED.) TSUI a OF SCBSOUFTIOH: OM7Mr.br sail, poetae prepaid $1.50 Six wamtbm ThrWBOBtb WEDNESDAY, JAN. 31. 1906. rxxsmcx a. abbott. xutw. BENEWAL8 The date opposite your name on joar paper, or wrapper nhowe to what time your abacription is paid. Thus Jan05 shows that payment has been received up to Jan. 1, 1905, FebOS to Feb. 1, 1905 and so on. When payment ia made, the date, which answers as a receipt, will be changed accordingly. D1SCONTINOANCE8-Besponsible subscrib ers will continue to receive this journal until the publishers are notified by letter to discontinue, when all arrearages must lie paid. If you do not wish the Journal continued for another year af ter the time paid for has expired, you should previously notify us to discontinue it. CHANGE IN ADDRESS-When ordering a change in the address, subscribers should be sure to give their old aa well as their new address. AU REVOIR SWANSON. It is a joke which would be hu morous, if it were not so .-illy, this at tempt of the democratic central com mittee to useSwanson to make political thunder for themselves. Setting aside the silly Swanson ar ticle offering a reward for the Goetz letter, the fact that Swanson in prepar ing the article has advised with Johan nes and Howard and other demo crats in the ring which a majority of Platte county voters voted to down last fall, is sufficient of itself to rob him of any claim whatever on repu blican or independent sympathy. So far as the Goetz letter is con cerned, we are ready to prove even' word in the article of hu-t week. Swanson did write to John Goetz in substance the letter as published, and Swauiou dare uot reproduce the letter to prove his iunoceuse. But is is hardly necessary to go into that for Swanson's official record car ries out the exact program outlined in the Goetz letter. Not to mention the official news papers, what did Swanon do in com mittee appointments? Whom did he appoint chairman of the jndiciary committee? A republican? No. Whom did he appoint chairman of the printing committee? A republi can? No. Whom did he appoint ohairnmn of the roads and bridges committee? A republican? No. Of what committee did he make William Newman, one of the most ex perienced republican members of the board, chairman? The j)oor farm committee the lea-t important commit tee of all and he placed A. E. Priest repnblican on the same committee. It wouldn't be safe of course to place the reforms for which the people vo ted and which are in the hands large ly of the judiciary and roads and bridges committees, in the hands of two republicans. To go a little farther back. The first vote that Swanson ever made on the board was for five official papers for 25 per cent more than the legal rate. And he also voted to "table" the request of the Journal to be given a copy of the supervisors proceedings for free publication. Then it was that the Journal criticised Swanson and declared that his first official act was in favor of an illegal printing contract. Then after a few months followed the Ernst-Bender resolution for which the Journal gave Swanson more than full credit And finally came Swanson's trade of the official papers and the commit tee chairmanships for the chairman ship which the republicans were ready to give him and did give him free. We have simply reviewed the rec ord and given the iacts. We shall continue as we have in the past to give credit where credit is due wheth er it falls on democrat or republican and wan-on will get full justice just as he has in the past. We are proud to represent a party organization in Platte county that be lieves in the program which carried in Platte county last fall and which is honest enough and broad enough to kick out dishonest officials whom it has made the mistake to elect. We have assurance that a ma jority of our voters stand for the "square deal" and that this latest "deal" between Swanson and the de mocratic ring will only serve to con vince them of the rottenness of that ring and of the necessity of standing stronger than ever with the only par ty iu the county that has the courage to kick out wrong doers. And this experience with Swanson and Schure should also teach the re blican party not to fHrt with demo crats too weak to publicly declare a change of heart, or to take up repub-J lican candidates who are too narrow for the platform on which they are asked to stand Au revoir, Swanson. "Fremont is getting trade that the town enjoyed thirty years ago and then lost. The reason assigned by the secretary of the commercial club of that town is that the merchants are using page ads, in a well gotten up, well circulated and representative lo cal paper of which the town is proud. In which there is food for thought." Norfolk News. Yes, and Columbus is getting trade that would ffo to Omaha but for the splendid offers of Columbus mer chants carried through the columns of the Journal to the best buyers in all the towns tributary to Columbus. Here is a bit of evidence showing that the efforts of a newspaper to pro mote the interests of worthy institu tions are appreciated, at least away from home: "The Jouurnal of last week contained an extended write-up of the schools of that city, illustrated with several half-tone cuts of the lead ing members of the faculty, also of the interior of the new manual train ing school just finished. It shows up the educational advantages of the schools of that city to good advan tage.' Cedar Rapids Outlook. The Reporter stated two weeks ago that Platte county was under a re publican government. Something over a year ago it supported John Swanson for the office of county su pervisor. For both these offences it desires to offer an apology to the vo ters of Walker township. Reporter (Newman Grove.) OTHER EDITORS. Harpers Weekly. -It is well known that Dr. Harper was an enorraons work er. He had surprising physical -vigor, and must have forced very early in life habits of relentless industry such as only a very stout body uould have sup ported. We read thst he usually jjot about five hours sleep, and he must commonly have worked hard as much as sixteen hours a day. His incessant labors recall those of Dr. William Pep per, the late provost of the University of Pennsylvania. Itisttkenfor pant ed that Dr. Harper worked himself to death in that he denied himself due periods ot rest. If that is true, even the great mass of what he ace nuplished can hardly warrant the claim tlint he made the thriftiest nse of his time, since his life fell short by at least twenty years of its reasonable duration. If. however, his diseese cannot be traced to his labors, and if he was fated to develop it in any case, he fairly beat Fate, since he compressed in to less than fifty years labors abundant to 011 a longer than ordinary lifetime. As no man knows beforehand when his end will come, the better plan is to count on seventy years or so of labor, and o to regulate one's life as to last out in fair condition barring accidents for about that time. There are some things, like winning races, that can only be done on the dead run. bnt there are not nvuiy 6uch things, and the periods of exces sive exertion which thi-y require are usually not protracted. Dr. Harper's death gives new occasion to say. what was so generally said when William H. Baldwin died, that it especially behooves our best and nsefniest men to serve us with moderation, that their days may be the longer in the laud, and that we may not be prematurely bereaved of them. Genoa Leader: The politicians down in Platte connty are all stirred up over the actions of the board of supervisors last week. A repnblican board was elected last fall, bnt when the question of awarding tho county printing came up the board voted 5 to 2 in favor of giv ing it tn the Telegram of Columbus, the Democrat of Humphrey and the Opin ion of Lindsay, leaving out the Journal of Columbus which is the only republi can paper in the county that amounts to anything politically. The Journal last week published a letter purported to have been written by Supervisor Swanson of Walker, one of the republi can members, offering to allow the democrats" on the board to name the official papers in return for their sup port for chairman of the board. Editor Abbott has the fight of his life on his hands and if he succeeds in dislodging the ring of democratic grafters in Platte county he will have earned the eternal gratitude of the people of that graft ridden country- Hastings Tribune: We are pleased to see that the work of reform moves right along in Washington. President Roose velt has issued orders to abolish all un necessary printing originating in the departments, and he has also requested that the form of the annual reports and other department documents be cur tailed and published in an intelligible form. Under the present system there has been too ranch money expended for unnecessary work, and any change made is sure to be for the better. A PERSONAL and PERTINENT Bixby says there is something wrong with people who don't like little children. Howard and Church have got their wires crossed somehow. We suggest that Church tie called in at the aext meeting of Swansea and the demo oratie central committee. It ia quite essential -that they shonld agre whether to blame the "deal" to'New min or Schnre or the Journal. Since each premise is as false as the other two we suggest that the selection be made by lot. We also snggest that Swanson preside (for He is the ranking member and is entitled to it) and hold the lots while Howard and Church draw.. And since Howard is the only living representative of sonthern chivalry we snggest that be permit Church to draw first. And to show the proper courtesy in return for the knightly honor, it is further snggested that Chorcb draw tne short lot and adopt Howard's theory. O Can yon luuib two ways of get tug money when you are broke? A Yea If yon are honest, get it at the bank, ask yonr friends to sign with yon to secure it, and -pay it back interest and principal as fast as yon can. But if yon are dishoneBt, a gambling chnrch man, a praying hy pocrite. sanctimonious grafter, wear ing a godlike pose to hide a satanic heart, don't give a note. Play the game as hard ag yon can. If yon run out of cash for the jack pot draw a bogus check as large as yon wish then telegraph for yonr friend to come with his check book to protect your spurious check. Yon 6ee the advan tage of this plan. There is no evi dence of debt against yon. It is a debt of h mor Yon have neither interest nor principal to pav. And besides, yon are free to advise people never to sign notes with honest men, especially if those honest men happen to be busi ness competitors whom yon want to down and lack both the moral and physical oourage to right them in the open. Swanson says in one paper that he went into the "deal" because Schure went democratic and ne had to do it to save the chairmanship to the repu blicans and the printing to hiB home paper, the Opinion. An the Opinion he say that he made the deal because He found the "republican bosses" were for Newman. The ediitor of the ODimon says it was made because the republican bosses went democratic and were for Schnre, a democrat, for chairman. And the editor of the Telegram who drew his inspiration from the same source declares that 'no white mau' could have done other wise than make he 'deal' after the editor of the Journal had been so crnel as to declare that be had used Swan son to introduce the Ernst Bender re solution. Pay your money and take your choice. Tne iirst is recommend ed for babies under six months. For two-year olds the seoond is recom mended, it is safe to nse the third only with male'adnlts in the last stage of democratitis and the fourth is to be used only with large bnck negroes, "or "white men" are specially exclud ed by the directions. CAUTION It is dangerous to at tempt to combine any two. GENOA. f From tii leailcr. I Mrs. Jolles of Columbus, who moved to Genoa the last of the week and ex pected to occupy the Robinson house has accepted the position as house keeper for Charles Shields. Tlie Indian boys at the school have recently bt-en stealing blankets from the beds and !nnini; them down town and selling them to the citizens. On Friday niht. the authorities at the school made a raid on the inhabitants living 'south of tho tract and recovered about forty blankets and several pairs of shoes which they purchased from the Indian. It seems a little peculiar to the Leader that anyone would think of buying anything of the kind from an Indian boy. even if they could buy a blanket for a bottle of beer or its equi valent. St. Edward- (From the Advance. Mrs. C. Britell and Mrs. O. A. Bntell !e't Wednesday for Columbus for a few days visit to relatives. B. M. Farusworth has bought the James Thompson f inn eiyht miles from Cedar Rapids for a consideration of ?7.0!K)and will occupy it about March 1. Mr and Mrs. Earl Phillip-, will then move to their farm recently purchased of Mr. Farnsuortli. aud Ernest Swallow will occupy his farm where Mr. and Mrs. Phillips now live. This onice is in receipt of a card from Mr. and "Mr-. S J. Olnrk of Albion an nouncing the marriaue of their daugh ter. Anna Ma to Mr William B. Swy. gard. at Albion, Monday January 22. HUMPHREY From the Democrat The home of Fred Grenebemer is under quarantine for diptheria this week. Jos. Smith, the right hand man in the Hunker lumber yard was down to Columbus Sunday on business. Miss Lillian Deegan of Columbus was an over Sunday guest of friends in town Miss Deegan expect in a short time to leave for the west where she expects to make her future home. B. R Cowdery went down to Omaha last Saturday to spend Sunday with Mrs. Cowdery. He reports her getting along in fine shape and says she will be able to come home in a few days. Mr. and Mrs. Art Wolfe were np from their farm on Shell Creek a couple of days this week calling on friends and attending to business. In the near fu ture they expect to move down near Co lumbus and engaire in the dairy business. Bellwood. (Hellwood (raz, tte) John Minnick sajs that a couple of fellows pulled a revolver on him Satur day evening about 11 o'clock near where C. R, Smith resides. They or dered him to throw np his hands, which he did; but before they got a chance to go through his pockets he managed to get away from them and made for home on Shank's mare, a much frightened yonng man. John thinks the fellows were lying in wait for another man and jumped on him through mistake. They did not shoot at him after he made his escape. , Mr. Arthur M. Meinyer and Miss Charlotte Kreizlinger were married at the home of the bride's parents in Alexia Township. Saturday evening. January 20th. 1906, by County Judge R. C. Roper. The bride is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Kreizlinger, who are among Butler county's oldest and most respected residents. a3BcjafeX4'5aa& latr-SSSfcSftS iX4-3R ggggP&ggS J H 505 Eleventh Street GALLEY Columbus, Nebraska February Clearing S Stock Reducing &1 . - L Commencing Saturday, February ..AND CONTINUING 15 DAY Wm a wmafaam m US During this sale prices will be marked down on all Winter Goods throughout the entire Store. The dis counts cover the entire stock. Come early; it will pay you to attend this sale. It is our ambition to be known to you as a Dry Goods House that deals in Reliable Goods Only. If you want Values and Bargains Come and Investigate. "t$ Special Prices on Muslins, Sheeting's, Pillowcases, Prints, Apron Ginghams, Percales, Shi Towlings, Bed Spreads, Table Covers and Lace Curtains. tings Gent's Overcoats and Olothin ? Men's Duck Coats, Pants, Caps, Underwear, Sweaters, Gloves and Mittens all going During This Sale at 20 Per Ceo! Discount! 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