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Columbus Journal.
Columbus, Nebr.
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CIICeUTIOI STITEKIT.
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County of Platte, f S8
Frederick H. Abbott being first duly
sworn, on oath deposes and says that
he is the editor of the Columbus Journal
and that the average weekly circulation
of the Columbus Journal during the last
three months of 1905 was 1464 copies,
and for the first four weeks in January,
1906, the average weekly circulation of
the Columbus Journal was 1944 copies.
Frederick H. Abbott,
Editor of the Columbus Journal
Subscribed in my presence and sworn
to before me this 30th day of January,
1906. David M. Newman,
(Seal) Notary Public, Platte Co. Neb.
Commission expires Oct. 13, 1906.
We believe that a large majority
the people of Nebraska would be glad to
have Gov. Mickey call a special session
of the legislature at once to propose
needed amendments to the constitu
tion. The first amendment to be con
sidered should be one providing for an
elective railroad commission with
powers' in the state co-ordinate with
those vested in the Interstate Com
merce commission by the Hepburn
bill. The time never was more ripe
and never will be for the people of
this state to make the necessary
amendments to our grasshopper con
stitution. The name of M. K. Turner at the
recent meeting of the Press associa
tion was mentioned in an historical
paper which gave a list of Nebraska
newspaper pioneers, and many times
in private conversation with this edi
tor the old-timers inquired about M.
K. Turner and his family. And it is
with pleasure and pride that we say
the references made to our predecessor
and his family always contained a
most exalted estimate of their virtues.
The Journal, as most of our readers
know, was one of the first newspapers
in Nebraska aud marked interest has
been shown in the Journals "many
years ago" column in which has been
reproduced from week to week, items
of historical interest, written thirty
five years ago by the pen of M. K.
Turner.
Wide misunderstanding has pre
vailed as to the purposes and probable
results of the proposed land leasing
or land purchase bill covering the
lands of western Nebraska. In the
first place, the object of such legisla
tion is not to discourage but to pro
mote the settlement of the country;
not to overturn the kinkaid home
stead law bnt to supplement it; not
to discriminate in favor of the cattle
man but to give the poor homestead
er the privilege of extending the
boundaries of his sandy section by
leasing or buying surrounding sec
tions. Those who criticise the pro
posed leasing bill by alleging that the
western country is getting better ow
ing to the growing scarcity of des
tructive prairie fires, forget that it is
the small ranchman with his fencesand
fire guards that stopped the prairie
fire and not the government agent
with his wire cutters who if he is not
restrained will bring back the open
range and with it the same old prairie
fire. Those who maintain that the
proposed legislation is designed
to turn over millions of acres to the
big cattlemen to the exclusion of the
homesteader, forget that the bill not
only leaves open for homestead every
section ot government land, but en
courages the settlement of poor home
steaders by giving them the preference
in the leasing of adjoining land, no
matter if it happens to be in the mid
dle of a cattle-baron's pasture.- The
breaking up of the large ranches in
this manner will gradually lead to
the division and subdivision of the
hay land which now is practically all
deeded, to actual settlers and to the
gradual conversion of the .big- cattle
imach into the smaller dairying farm.
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To be sure, the big cattlemen want a
leasing or purchase bill, but the little
ranchman and the people who have
not yet sought homesteads in the west,
need it more. The erreat diversity of
opinion on this question is due
to the wide variation in the quality of
the land and the failure of those who
write or speak about it to define the
land concerning which their expres
sions are made. The proposed classi
fication of the land on the basis of its
productive capacity, is excellent, as is
the suggestion that each county dis
pose of its land as it sees fit.
FOR PLATTE COUNTY BOYS AND
GIRLS.
The Journal is commencing the re
publication of a valuable historical
document which should have a per
manent place in every home in Platte
county. About twenty years ago, I.
N. Taylor who is known by every old
settler prepared a history of Platte
county from its origin down to that
date. The material collected by Mr.
Taylor was woven together in a most
interesting story, throbbing with the
romance of Indian massacres and
other difficulties which beset our pio
neers. The story was told in beauti
ful language and published in an
eighteen page pamphlet. The people
who had copies of this pamphlet at
the time, were careless, as most peo
ple are concerning things of the pres
ent, and it seems that only one copy
of the valuable pamphlet has been
preserved. This copy is in the hands
of Miss Martha Turner, who has been
generous enough to the Journal and
the public to permit us to copy its
pages to run serially in the Journal.
Nothing strengthens the character
of young people more, than to read
the life story of pioneer heroes, espe
cially of those who founded the coun
try which contains our homes. Every
boy and girl in Platte county should
be given an opportunity to read this
story. We therefore ask that every
Journal reader call the attention of
the boys and girls to this story which
it will require several months to com
plete, and if you have friends or
neighbors who do not receive the
Journal call their attention to it or
send in their names that we may call
their atiention to it.
UNIFORM DIVORCE LAWS.
The work of the national conven
tion which met last month in Wash
ington to recommend the adoption of
uniform divorce laws in the several
states will be of interest from an aca
demic standpoint and will doubtless
lead to the enactment of more uniform
laws in a majority ofthe states, simply -fying
the work ofthe divorce lawyer.
It will be many years however before
states like South Dakota can oe in
duced to forfeit their corner on the
rich New Yorkers who leave hundreds
of thousands annually to increase the
per capita wealth and to stimulate
the millinery and hotel business in a
few of the larger cities like Sioux
Falls.
It is a difficult problem to make
people live together after they have
agreed that they are mutually in
compatible. It is difficult to keep
people after they are divorced from
marrying other people they think they
want and it is just as difficult to keep
people from marrying in the first in
stance out of mercenary or sentimental
motives.
Adultery or a desire for it is at the
bottom of a large majority of divorce
petitions.
The man or woman who secures a
divorce and then remarries simply for
the sake of variety in domestic com
panionship is just as much guilty of
adultery from a moral standpoint as
the one who lives in open meretri
cious relations is guilty of adultery
from a legal standpoint.
And so long as the bonds of love
are not strong enough to keep men
and women in the straight and nar
row path, it will be difficult to force
them into line by more stringent
laws. The best cure for the social
evil as well as the best divorce regu
lator is the development of a healthy
public opinion which would make it.
unpopular for married men and wo
men even in high society to play fast
and loose with other men's wives and
otner women s husbands or to secure
divorces simply for the sake of re
marrying. In so far as the proposed
uniformity of divorce laws promotes
the establishment of such a public
opinion it will do good.
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PERSONAL and PERTINENT
Imagine Judge Henaley in a "Long
worth' hat.
Who will rise np now and introduce
the "Alice" shirt waist?
The Telegram's anti-graft editorials
remind one of puffed rice.
We solemnly advise our fellow hus
bands in GolumbuB to keep their hands
on their pocket-books. Oar milliner
advertisers have told us confidentially
that they are about to spring the
'"stnnningest ever' styles in spring
hats.
Boss Hammond has very gracefully
declined to permit his name to be
presented as a candidate for the
United States senate. However that
does not alter the fact that he edits
one of the brightest newspapers in
Nebraska and easily leads his brother
editors as a witty and brilliant after
dinner speaker.
Wheeler county, the improved incu
bator of long-whiskered populists, has
voted bonds to supply the required
amount of cash for a new railroad
while the promoters and the specula
tors will supply the water, hold the
offices, draw the salaries and use the
dividends to send special agents to re
turn to the long-whiskers to induce
them to vote more bonds to raise more
cash to build more railroads to enable
tne promoters to sspply more, water
to hold more offices, to draw more
salaries, to collect more dividends.
The most fundamental cause of rail
road abuses i? the speculative element
injected into railroad stock by the
pernicious practice indulged by state
and counties of granting bonuses or
bribes in land or money to influence
the location of rights of way The
system breeds graft, creates the water
in the stock, attracts railroads from
their natural economic courses, aud it
should be prohibited by law.
Bixby closes an article in which he
reviews the early history of Colum
bus and his rather unsatisfactory ex
periences in the newpaper business
here, in the following language:
"The last twelve years has brought
a wonderful change. A better feeling
prevails among the business interests,
and the question of which side of the
track furnishes no stumbling block to
public improvements. The result is
that splendid public and private im
provements are going forward, and
the helpful and harmonious spirit is a
delight to contemplate.
"Tis good to watch the city's growth,
Where I once tried to grow bnt
failed ;
Where Saunders and myelr were both
; By grief and poverty assailed.
Here where 1 cut so small a dash
It never left a mark at all ;
Here where I had more fun than cash,
With labor large and income small ;
Here where the raging Platte and
Loup
Together in confusion mix
Where I was always in the soup,
I like to come and visit. Bix."
Several very distinct impressions
were left on the minds of the news
paper boys who attended the recent
meeting of the Nebraska Press asso
ciation. First of all was the genuine
cordiality and goodfellowship dis
played by the Lincoln newspaper men.
Nothing was left undone by them to
make the visitors feel at home. And
the pogram committee had planned
just the kind of program that was in
teresting and inspiring without being
tiresome. The addrees of Kosewater
on newspaper libel elicted wide ap
proval and led to the introducton of a
resolution demanding a modification
of the criminal libnl laws which will
doubtless be enacted into law at the
next session of the legislature. Next
to Rosewater's address the papers read
by J. O. Seacrest and B. W. Metcalfe
on railroad advertising awoke the
widest discussion. Mr. Metcalfe took
the same position which has been
taken by this paper on the question of
railroad advertising, favoring the
idea of placing it absolutely on a oash
basis He also favored the idea of
charging for political advertising, a
proposition rather new. but which
seemed to meet with general accep
tance. The visit of the editors
to the Universty farm was one ofthe
most notable and most pleasing fea
tures of the meeting, the editors re
ceiving information as well as in
spiration which will doubtless be
spread during the next year to in
crease the attendance at the Univer
sity farm and to loosen up the legis
lative purse strings in the direction
of larger appropriation!) for the Uni
versity. J. B. Oonnovan of Madison
made a good president and his action
in ruling out poltical resolutions met
with general approval notwithstand
in the fact that nine-tenths of the
editors present, regardless of party
would have supported resolutions in
favor of the Hepburn bill.
Seed Grain Say in all Schools.
Z Corn, "king of grains," has issued
an official proclamation that everv
school throughout the land shall ob
serve Seed Grain Day in April south
of latitude of St. Louis, April 4 is the
day; north of that line, April 11, to
as near these dates as possible.
All children are requested to at once
test selected seed grain. To do this
take two dinner plates and two pieces
of thick cloth or blotting paper the
size of the inner part of the. plate.
wet these thoroughly and drain off
the extra water. Put one piece of
cloth on the plate and scatter the
grainover it evenly and cover with
the second cloth. Turn tne other plate
over it to prevent evaporation and set
in a warm place. Examine frequently
and if it grows dry add a little water.
After six or eight days remove the
cloths and determine the percentage
of germination. To test kernels from
several ears of corn in the same plate,
mark off the dotting paper into
squares and number each one to cor
respond with the ear from whioh the
kernels are taken. Report results of
test in school on Seed Grain day.
Also bring to school a sample ear or
100 kernels of corn or other grain 6ee
to study their good and poor points,
tell which varities are best and why
figure difference in cost and profit of
good vs. poor yields, or carry out any
of the many plans for the day sug
gested in the proclamation, which
may be bad free by writing King
Corn, 1443 Marquett Building, Chi
cago. A young folks' grain club is to be
organized by the boys and girls of
each school or district, and a harvest
festival is to be held next autumn by
each school, for which many and
valuable prizes are offered. The state
of Colorado gives 12500 in special
prizes Minnesota a like amount, other
streets are officially promoting the idea
in various ways, and the children
may also compete equally with the
grown-ups, in the contest to add mil
lions to grain growers' profits. Th
plan adds new fascinations to nature
study and introduces agriculture into
schools in a most interesting and
practical way.
Wheat.
The enormous wheat crop of 1905
and the agitation for pure food legis
lation now going on naturally attract
the attention of the thoughtful man
or woman to the world's greatest food
product.
For five thousand years before the
Christian era whole wheat was eaten
by the Jews aud it has been the prin
cipal food of the greater part of the
human race since the beginning of
the Christian era. The science of
man has never been able to improve
upon cooked whole wheat as a food
for the complete and perfect nourish
met of the human body.
The total crop of winter wheat and
spring wheat in the United States for
19q5. has been estimated at 720 000,
000 bushels. In Nebraska alone trie
yield of winter wheat and spring
wheat is placed at 41,589,000 bushels.
Some interesting facts are revealed by
the crop reports, facts that will be a
revelation to most people. For in
stance the secretary of the board of
Agriculture of Massachusetts says:
"No wheat grown in Massachusetts in
1905 so far as this office has know
ledge." The secretary of the State
board of Agiiculture of Connecticut
writes: "A wheat field would be
almost a curiosity practicallv none
grown here."
And yet the total crop reaches 720,
000.000 bushels. And what becomes
of this immense crop of wheat? To
be sure most of it is ground by the
millers into white flour. But an in
creasing quantity of it goes every year
into breakfast cereals and other pro
ducts in which the whole wheat berry
is used. The white flour miller dis
card the best part of th 3 wheat berry
xu order to give us white flour. The
increasing use of whole wheat foods
is ratifying evidence of increasing
dietetic knowedge on the part of the
plain people. Even Japan is reaching
out to America and Argentina for
more wheat,. ' Her "army biscuit,"
used in the recent unpleasantness with
Russia, was one-fourth rice and three
fourths wheat. Over at Fort Huron,
Mich., the other day a cargo of. 100,
000 bushels was being loaded for the
6hredded wheat concern at Niagara
Falls. This product consists merely
of cooked whole wheat drawn ont
into fine shreds and baked. It is said
that this concern uses up nearly two
thousand bushels a day. Thousands
of bushels are also used at Battle
Creek and other centers of the break
fast cereal industry to say nothing
of the great quantities used in the
manufacture of whole wheat flour
All of which shows that the people
are learning the wholesomeness and
nntritive value of tne whole wheat.
And it is a good time to learn the
food value of our great American
staple in these day6 of canned foods
and "preserved" meats when the
people are clamoring ior laws to pro
tect them from adulterated and mis
branded foods.
For bloating, belching, indigestion,
etc.. eat a King's Dyspesia Tablet
after meals. Sold by McUlintock &
Garter.
Round Trip Bates.
Every day from February 15th to
April 7th, 1906, inclusive, the Union
Pacific will sell one way tickets from
Columbus as follows :
$20.00 to Ogden and Salt Lake Oity.
120.00 to Ogden, Helena and Butte,
Montana.
$22.50 to Spokane and Wenatchee
Washington.
$22.50 to Huntington and Nampa,
Idaho.
$25.00 to Portland, Tacoma and
Seattle.
$25.00 to Vancouver and Victoria.
$25.00 to Ashland and Astoria, Ore
gon, via Portland.
$25.00 to San Francisco, Los An
geles and San Diego.
Correspondingly low rates to many
otner California, Crefjon, Washington,
Montana, Utah, an Idaho points.
Z A dose of Pine-ules at bed time will
uually relieves backache, before morn
ing. These beautiful little globules
are soft gelatine ccated and when
moistened and placed in the moutn
you can't keep from swallowing them.
Pine-nles contain neither sugar nor
alcohol just gums and resins obtained
from our own native pine forest, com
bined with other well known bladder,
kidney, blood and backache remedies.
Sold by McOlintock & Garter.
Men and
Young Men
of Refined Taste
Will appreciate the indi
the individuality of our
"SMARTSTILE" Clothes.
The richness of design, artis
tic cut and tailoring, and the
graceful fit, readily distin
guish them from the ordinary
kind. They represent the
highest standard of the tail
or's art. Let us show you
the many beautiful patterns
in the season's most popular
weave Grey Worsted. We
know they'll strongly appeal
to you.
GREISEN BROTHERS
ELEVENTH STREET, COLUMBUS
Going East
Four fast daily trains via the Union Pacific R.R.
and The North-Western Line take you through
to Chicago without change of cars over
The Only Double Track Railway Between
the Missouri River and Chicago
Pullman standard and tourist sleeping cars, free re
clining chair cars and
Direct connection in Omaha Union
Depot with fast daily trains to Sioux
City, Mankato, St. Paul, Minneapolis
and Duluth.
For rates, tickets and full information apply to
Agents of the Union Pacific R.
J. A. KUM, Asstisa.Frt.ft Pass. Afsnt
CMcas NmrrnVWastarn Hy.
to. 1201 FARMAM ST.
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IRRIGATED LANDS
A SURE THING
SPECIAL HOMESEEKER'S RATES: On March 6th
and 20th the Burlington makes very low excursion rates
to the Big Horn Basin, the North Platte Valley and
Eastern Colorado.
KEEP AHEAD OF THE MOVEMENT: The Gov
ernment work is under full headway towards putting
water on two hundred thousand acres of land adjacent
to the Burlington road, at an average cost of $25.00 an
acre. It is possible today to' secure homestead lands
along these great ditches, in advance of the water. You
can also buy from private concerns very fine irrigated
lands, under a full and permanent water supply, at
prices ranging from $25 to $40 per acre. The history
of western irrigated lands shows that their value has
increased over 100 per cent in the past few years. There
are arers of irrigated lands in the west that cannot be
bought today for $300 an acre.
IT WILL PAY YOU to get interested in irrigated
lands, and to get in touch with the land agents in the
North Platte Valley, the Big Horn Basin, the Billings,
Montana, district, or Eastern Colorado. If you will
write me for irrigation literature descriptive of any of
these localities, I will mail it to you free, together with
a list of land agents.
L. W. WAKELY,
General Passenger Agent,
OMAHA. NEBR.
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B::nk Building.
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COLUMROS. NKOKA8KA.
A Bargain
in Land...
160 -Acre Farm
Two miles northeast of
Oconee; Present price
$50 per acre, part cash,
balance on time.
160 -Acre Farm
About 1 1-2 miles south
of Oconee; part cash,
balance on time, $30 per
acre.
Apply to L. N. HITCHCOCK,
Oconee, Nebr., or to
LEONARD EVERETT,
Council Bluffs, Iowa
C. N. McELFRESH
Attorney .- at - Law
Zinnecker H'ldtr, Colnmbns, Neb.
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