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-. vtJ! tes v,:py ,s St V" sr' m -m i ; s- i uicii sSs - i y. - ,! s-ve- ISrt .-i-sl " S r 1 -J esl s4 L7. s'c. HS" p -titf-t -3 - btf 5 Ik IF I? 4 IJJ I 4 ;! fft' ii ; rr -- 3?; j 73 IA tCv , - h'-a olttmbxwfiroimL Qh sascabs' sunt, sjosuup sjsnmhl.. mUUS fifel aMBnShl.... y M XIBMnSto.-..-------' jMW.BW..WM.g---------1----- fc-CSTBOWL . ... ..........nsnjf P. K. &1KUIHBL ......... Jht naniant tas fJBsjea A.3? to , amwaMi mmi as -nude. Secretary Taft is hurrying home from his trip around the world, bat wherever he has been as a represen tative of bis country, be has attend words of wisdom and of cbeer, aad bat bean hospitably received. Tbe panic of 1907, m will be known benafter, is practically over. People bare received a bard jolt, tbat is alL We ware proceeding at too rapid a gait Prices were continually being forced no aad an. Tbere bad to be a atop sometime. Tbe break caa sooner aad sore audden than it was looked for, tbat is all. Everybody will economic for awhile at least, aad tbe baainnai interests will fed it to a smaller or greater extent, but tbere will be no bard times, or deasocratic tinMS as in 1892-3. Then, as soon as it was known in November tbat a desaocratic president was elected, and tbat tbe next congress would so reduce tbe tariff on all manufactured goods that these goods could be nude abroad, and imported into this coun try, our factories shut down and be came idle, all prices declined, and these distressing times kept up for years until tbe people got a chance to place the republican party and the republican policies into power and into operation. . We are not talking poli tics, but'good common sense, when we say, let the American people stand by tbe republican party, and their pros perity and their happiness is assured. again in session. Many bilk will be introduced, and compar atively few will become laws. This being the year just before presidential election, speeches of all kinds and de scriptions will be made for political Practically every senator and will think be has the correct solution for our financial troubles. It is a question whether any laaacial legislation will be accom plished at this session. Tbe average natioaal bank has a capital stock of about $50,000 aad deposits of the peo ple's money of about $300,000. The bankers will loan out their deposits on approved security, but should all tae aeposuors Decome scared at one time and want to withdraw their de posits, trouble can come at any time. Of course it is not often that people will bring their money to deposit in a bank, and without cause will all with draw. A bank, in order to attract all these huge deposits is known to be conservative, safe and honest Of course, the government could guaran tee all deposits in national banks, but then they would want absolute con trol and some' pay for it, or if the banks would form a combination or trast and guarantee all deposits, they would want control and pay. It is our opinion that conservative and safe banks like our Columbus banks, need no more banking laws, and our de positors no more protection. The big elephant has always been pictured as the emblem of the republi can party and the donkey as the emblem of tbe democratic party. The "peerless leader," in his but speech at $3.00 banquet at Washington, D. C, the donkey, sayiag while the lOTOg" DtAt fcarraw Have your own. Have a Victor. A small payment down and a dollar a week soloists; the great hands and orchestras; the popular ballad singers; the comic song hits a world of melody and fan, Well tell you all about the easy-payment plan today if For sale by Girl HaH k if only while the donkey caa be mat anywhere, mares lw -. live on bat little, and asaally is' the.friead.of tbe oom- Thc democratic editors do not take kindly to this eulogy, so a coriespoBdentaf tbe Chicago Tribune recommends to the democrats a new symbol in place ol the donkey, and mentions the following to eaoeaefrem: The lion, because it is the king of beasts and can whip the slsphaat . Tbe Owl, becanse it is the symbol of wisdom and says notiuaebet that would not & for the "peerless leader." The Booster, became it is an em blem of victory, can crow, strut and scrap. The Dog, the friend of the eommoa people, the symbol of vigilance and fidelity. The Turkey, the most popular bird in November, when the. election takes place. Tbe Camel, symbol of patience, in dustry aad usefulness. Caa go a long time without water. Tbe Cat, hard to kill, baviag nine lives, popular with the old maids. The Goat, caa leap from crag to crag, from platform to platform, caa live on anythiag, knows bow to take a joke aad butts in where angels fear to tread. But after all is said and done, the donkey, being stupid, stubborn and buy, will no doubt always stand for the democratic party. At Washington, November 21, Mr. William J. Bryan, tbe well known ex pert on financial questions, advanced an interesting scheme. He proposed that by act of congress the government guarantee all deposits in natioaal banks, the banks in turn to "agree to reimburse the government for any losses incurred." Thus would peace of-mind and assurance of pocket be the constant companions of depositors in national banks and, oozing from them, bring comfort to all. Tbe particular ground upon which this scheme is open to criticism is. its limited scope. It is subject to at least a- suspicion of special if not of class legislation. The total deposits of the country in banks of all kinds, national, savings, state, private and in', loan and trust companies, are reported as exceeding $12,000,000,000. About one-third of the sum is deposited in national banks. A considerable per centage of the national bank deposits is the loose change of malefactors of great wealth. Most of the money of the "peepul" is in the other institu tions, for which Mr. Bryan proposes no guarantee. His disregard of this fact comes as a surprise and startles us. We respectfully propose an exten sion of Mr. Bryan's plan. We suggest that the government guarantee the whole $12,000,000,000, that it also guarantee all commercial credits, all products of the soil, the mines, the forests and the fisheries, tbe volume of water in our rivers and all other inter ests directly or indirectly subject to guarantee. It is to be understood, of course, that all government guarantees are to be guaranteed by some other guarantor. The process is amazingly simple, and there can be no doubt that it would be a panacea for all our financial -and commercial woes aad trials. Such a broad plan would re lieve the Bryan idea of all taint or suspicion of special legislation. A weary world has been waiting long for a scheme which would give equal value to the speculations of the foolish and the investments of the wise. New York Sun. XEWYOBKAlOft "Is there km poverty or less crime in England under free trade than there was under protection? To what extent has Cobden's great fight for free trade improved the general condition? No country in the world exhibits so painfully and so publicly the squalor and suffering of the poor as free trade England. There are slums in New utiir fm Have it at heme. gives you the errand youll call. Fritatii ulna heat is big and HI Crier i ! Y line of Gxoomv' lea is new did aMoiuteiy iresn. S ThA rmwst brands of I canned goods. Cof- mjb, vomm auu sjfMva t of the best quality. I s IF r 1 f ISamtllthSt. Ind. Phone 277 Bell 226 I York, but London is all slums. The miserv of the noor aad the vices to which tbe poor fly for an anodyne to misery overflow the precincts of the East Ead and stain Mayfair. If-selfishly bent, a man caa escape the evi dences of haniu suffering ia an Amer ican city. The people of Fifth avenue aught never know that tbere was such a thing as abject poverty if they did not see it in its least uafavorable aspect from a cab window while on their way to their country bouses on Long Island or in New Jersey. ' But in London there is no escape. Base, brutalizing poverty sweeps along Park Lane aad gases with sorrowful, cow ardly eyes at the palaces of South African millionaires. It crowds the' June morning parade of smart ladies in Bond street It touts for cabs or needlessly sweeps crossings in front of the restaurants. It fills the Strand with drunkards and Ficcadily with prostitutes. It is to be seen in the squares of the fashionable neighbor hoods, where its presentment is drunken women asleep with their babies in tveir England may be the richest country in the world, but London is a swamp of dreadful poverty. In degree the provincial cities are as bad. Who that has ever seen them can forget the palpable miseries of the poor of Edinburg and Glasgow and Dublin? There is little choice between Manchester, the home of Richard Cobden, and Birmingham, the home of Joseph Chamberlain, the protectionist It would be pretty hard to convince one of the thousands of London who 'sleep out' or 'does' in in fected lodging houses that any benefit has arisen from free trade." Ameri can Magazine. Dr. George M. Btratton, professor of experimental psychology in Johns Hopkins university, delivered an ad dress a few days ago before more than a hundred nurses of the hospitals of Baltimore and declared that music would be a vital factor in treating the sick in the near future. He said: Physicians have all agreed that there is nothing more helpful to a patient in a hospital, or even in the home, than melody of some kind. The singing or humming of some familiar tune is beneficial. Experiments have proved music to be exceptionally relia ble in being able to produce that serenenem of mind so essential in the life of a patient when he is convales cing. When one lies helpless upon a bed his emotions are brought to tbe surface. Ofttimes they are in a tur moil, and maay times they drift along in channels which are not' good, for them. In other words, a person sick becomes depressed and sad. He takes a rather gloomy view of life, and des pite all your talking and words of cheer that you briag to him some of them never are wholly free from this Dr. Stratum's ideas, if generally accepted and carried iato' practice, would mean a revolution in the meth ods now employed for traiaiag nurses. Of course it would not mean that every aarse should beaMelba, for Dr. Btrat ton believes that the simple songs, sang by a eweet voice not necessarily highly trained, are the. best for tbe sickroom. We ase muck of rood sense in the learned doctor's words. A nana who can sing a tender little song hi a ssslhiag way is a nurse who baa sym pathy m her heart aad a big ofkiadaemiahar soaL The nwna would hi nine eases oetef ten be a goad aad gentle arsr,one wheat at the bedside weald help a as the i I an Gut L placed and the medical desas aha ad- Bv all 'means let the test be' accepted. The muse innarmukeiytoae "high-strung" aad not capable of per forating aueh duties as the hospital ward requires. And agaiast the state - meat that aMsie is a good thiag for the sick we shaU ofer no denial, for a aong hap helped aaaay a auterer back to health aad saved aumy a dying per son from the gnvc-r-Liacola Star. Are railroads uader any obligation to rua their. traias on the published schedules? Orkkmir to fasten such an oUigatioa upon them? Oklahoma our new frontier of reform, answers yrs to both questions It is proposed to order the roads to furnish full aad accurate information of the running of traias in order that the public amy know what to expect. This at least seems reasonable. This practice of the roads has been to assume that the peo ple could not stand the strong: meat of truth. When atraia is seven hours late inteadiag pamongrri are told it is three.' When they appear at the ead of three hours they are advised that it will be one hour more. At the end of one hour they discover another exten sion, and so are let down easily bat to their great inconvenience. Okla homa travelers propose to know the truth in advance. Furthermore, when a train is to be more than an hoar behind time the road is required to send out a special train on the pub lished schedule. Unexpected results sometimes flow from such experiments. The Okla homa railroad commimoB may find it self subsequent to the enforcesseat of this rule under the necessity of forcing the roads to increase their speed sche dules. The roads will be likely to re duce speed in order to reduce the risk of ute trains. Patient America will hope for wholly good results. The confiscation of railroad property with out due process of law with which the railroads so freely charge tbe public is nothing to the confiscation of the public's shining hours without due process of law which the railroads have accomplished by the irregularity of their passenger trains. State Jour-aL- Women as Story-Makers. Women write with color and spirit; an unexpected number of them are showing genuine humor. A few hare brute force, as welL Women moral ists have the sense, too, of situation; they construct plots that are intricate aad then carry'' them through with dash. They manufacture good dia logue, aad they know human nature uader all aspects save one. The wom an who knows man is yet to come. She can handle him domestically, per haps, though there is often more of masculine objection to a fuss than great feminine diplomacy in his con cessioas. But she cannot maneuver aim la a book. Man. though, has plummeted woman's heart and chart ed it better than she could do herself. Until she can do as much for him, he has ao fear of being entirely ousted from the field of fiction. Cleveland Leader. Through Purifying Process. A business man who had purchased a Salvation Army paper from one of the blue-bonneted peddlers, handed her a five-dollar bill which he asked her to turn into the treasury with his compliments. As she thanked him, he said: "How do you know how I made that money? Perhaps It Is tainted." She looked at the money for a moment, and then folded It up and put It in her purse, as she an swered:' "No money can be so bad that it cannot be fumigated In passing through our treasury. In this gift, sir, you have done good for yourself, good for the army, and good for some poor sinner who needs aid. How can money be tainted that does so much?" Underwood Standard Typewriter For Speed Safety, Surety . A solid rondbed is es sential Visibility Speed in the Under wood (TnbnIator)type writer, are supported by perfectly balanced construction. 617 8C VBrnmBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBmBBBBBBBllBBBBBBBl tfmtSmumHsmmVmA9 9saVBm9smWBnmmV GREEN TAG FURNITURE SALE! ft House Full or Rousing Furolture Be Dining Tables, Buffets Sideboards, China Clo sets and everything in stock marked in big plain flguresonalarge green tag at prices that will make yon stop and think. 6 wiNG to the recent financial trouble, we have not had the trade we expected. For that reason we started tiw hnlirtsvw anasnn Monday with the greatest bargain sale of high grade furniture ewer known in Columbus. We have to make room for goods already pur chased and arriving every d.y. Every article marked with a large Green Tag, showing you in plain figures the exceptional bargains we are onering. A Large Selection of Leather Couches is LAN DON 'Ss- ELEVENTH ST. TRAIN WENT OUT OF SSGHT. Incident that Caused Consternation to Railroad Officials. "I must ten you of an exciting scene I witnessed In the general manager's omce in Chicago," said an old railroad "The Jarrett aad Palmer train from New York to San Francisco was taken charge of at Clinton by Superintend ent Oliver and Conductor Charles Hoi ton, and the engine was run by Thomas Keefe. The train had the right of way over the road, and there was ao time table. "The engineer and conductor were Instructed to go through to Council Bluffs Just as quick aa steam could do It The telegraph operators at each station were directed to notify the general manager's omce, Chicago, of fee moment the locomotive came la sight of the statkm. "In the once were Keep, Hughltt, Porter, Stennett, Wheeler and other Interested spectators, all eagerly watching the progress of the train across Iowa. "Between Fairfax aad Norway there is but one curve. The train passed Fal-tax going finely, and just before it reached the curve which would bring it in sight of Norway.a coupling pin between the baggage and smok ing car came out, and the. engineer, calling for. brakes, pushed ahead and rounded the curve, while the brake man stopped tbe train before it reached thehead la the curve. The operator at Norway saw the headlight of the locomotive, aad, rush ing Into the office, telegraphed train in sight' While the operator was sending the dispatch the engineer backed the locomotive around the curve to pick up the balance of the train, and, of course, went out of sight of the Norway station. "So when the operator stepped to the- door to see the. train, pass it was not in sight, and he excitedly rushed back to the Instrument and tele graphed: Train disappeared.' "Instantly the company la the Chi cago office became wildly excited. Hughltt was the tret to speak, and bringing down his fist with such force that the papers on the table fell la all directions, cried: The whole train has gone to a 1, Just as I expected!' "Hardly had the words passed his lips, when Norway telegraphed: " Trala passed O.K. "Aad the special sped onward Into the night on Its record-breaking trip." Two Engineers In the Cab. 'There have been of late so many cases of sudden disablement of the engineer at the throttle, thereby leav ing the train without control, as to lead to renewed discussion of the question of placing two engineers in the cab. at least In the more import ant fast trains, says a writer in the Scientific American. There was a time, in the days of smaller locomo tives, when the fireman had more leisure than now for general observa tion, both of the signals aad of con ditions In the cab. He. was in closer touch with the engineer. Today, how ever, the locomotives have Increased to such large dimensions that the attention aad energy of the fireman are fully occupied in keeping the huge furnaces fully supplied with fuel and the boiler with water. Not ao very many years ago , square feet of heating surface was the maximum to be found on most of even the largest engines, but today the standard en- press passenger engine win" have from 2,sa to 3,ee square feet ef aad the most powerful motives from 4.W9 ta MM feet From persona experience riding la the cab of fast and heavy passeager trains, we know that what time the fireman Is not seoreMnc eeal he is attendlan to hm mJeeter or aaar. lag ahead for the first gompee ef the J signals, it m oar eouvttqeu locomotives have grown to that the railroad management give careful eoaafderatlon to the Uou of placing a third person nt the cab of the largest eagines far mn poses of observation, and thm la par Ocularly necessary on these lommi ttvea la which the engineer's can m separate from that of the RfJweT eVJ6VJenjKlvV aPfuTrJuTPVems Daring the past ton years epmknet. endeavors to ami eome bettor ana atmctSen to replace copper hueaeaea. Mr. Brotan, Inspector aad bub win tondeat the jncnhsnaf the Jsaoni imamum ... . . ,. Be Sure and Attend CfVvHSmwawa wSmnM aTlsyjEmmwS .mmnwSB. mVmwmwmwmwmwXmsnwarmmBmdnk STP vSSmwflHBSSSmv SOUTH OF TRACKS aad Imperial Austrian' State railway, at Gmund, has now invented a water tube firebox, which has been la use for some time, with the very heat re sults. Upright seamless steel tubes, ar ranged in rows, with their ends rolled into a cast-steel pipe,form the bound ary at the sides and rear of the rect angular combustion chamber, from which the gases of combustion pass -forward through the iron tube plate iato the fire tubes of the boiler. In order that the foremost water tube may adapt itself to the curvature of the tube plate, the lateral wan tubes are beat so as to correspond to the circumference of the fire tube boil er. To the rearmost lateral wall tubes there are connected the rear wall pipes, which are arranged close to gether in concentric curres and encircle the fire door. The space un der the fire door aad tube plate is lined with fire clay. The uppa- tube ends are rolled from below radially Into the rear portion of the steam col lector of a second boiler lying abo7e the fire tube boiler, and projecting to wards the rear; this second boiler car - ries the steam dome, and is connected to tho fire tube boiler by means of three stays. Technical stae. World Mag READ THE WRITERS OF TO-DAY. Intellectual Life Living Authors. Shaped by The Journeymen writers all that almost all write leans read, says Walter Page la the Atlantic This Is a fact that we lore to fool ourselves about We talk about "literature" and we talk about "hack writers," Im plying that the reading we do u of lit erature. The truth all the while Is, we read little else than the writing of the hacks living hacks, that Is, men women that write for pay. We hug the notion that our life and thought are not really affected by cur rent literature, that we read the liv ing writers only for utilitarian reasons aad that our real intellectual life la fed by the great dead writers. But this delusion does not the fact that the Intellectual Hfe even of most educated persons, and certainly of the mass of the popu lation, is fed chiefly by the writers of our owa time. Let us hope that the great writers of the past do set the standards whereby a few Judge the writing of the present But even if this be true, it is still true also that the Intellectual life of the American people Is chiefly shaped by current writing. The Family's Night Out la one large family a pegboard on which the members can record their outgoing and incomings at night is a valuable article. It is a board with holes in it like a cribbage board, ar ranged In two vertical columns. Each column' has as maay holes as there are persons in the family, with the names In between. When "George" goes out he puts his peg In the "out" column and when he comes In he puts it back In the "in." The last one who puts the last "In" for the night has to lock the door and make things for the niaht Columbia Condon & Bargains in Pliiifrap-s Mid an late Becords Our Big Beds, Dressers, Com modes, Chiflbniiiers, Music Gabiiets,ladie' Desks, Parlor Goods, Den Suits, Iaihrary and Parlor Tables, etc., at prices that is sure to moTetbem. OOLUMBUS, NEB. QUIET EVENINft AT HOME, Family Prepares) ear Hies Tea dent knew what treuMo m when you're Just merely married.' snapped the head of an East End fam ily, as he sat in hie office looking ever a bunch of newly arrived hllla. "No air." he declared with the air of a man .who knows Just a thiag or two of what ae'a talhiag about, "a married man isn't really hs trouble until he has a big family partly grewa. "Here's a bunch of little fsrget-me-aots about the folks at nesne the mall carrier Just hsndsd ta me. Aad when I get home 111 probably ran into sssne taing else to make me sweat "Night before last when I ant heme I found my two oldest girla were pat ting over some sort of a social affair, and it didn't look Ike any cheap skate sort of an affair, either. Before I get to our bedroom two of the girls called me in to see the they had bought that afternoon te take to some birthday party they 1 were larited to the aext afternoon. A ' adnute later my wife called me in ta see a new dress that our oldest ter had bought that day. It much of n garment either. Just a little measly C4 outfit at that While we were looking at that my girl she's Just turned eight J bussing in aad wanted ey to run up to the corner after Ice cream. She wasn't In en the party down below and some entertainment "'WelL' my wife remarked that time, "you'd bettor hurry and get into your drees suit Ton know we are going out tale evening.' "'No.' I says. 1 guess I'd better sneak back to the office aad get to work again.' "Nice. Jolly evealag off K. wasn't Itr Cleveland Plata VEGETABLES ON THE ROOF. A Real Practical Cardan Saying that the conventional garden was a misnomer. Mrs. Aatenle Bellestri of l. Hillen street bnOt n real garden on her roof a variety of vegetables. Stalks com, wnlch is only oae of the vegetables she raises, can be seen from the street, and attract much at tention. The inability to buy vegetahMa In the market caused Mrs. Bellestri to conceive ine men or a Procuring several store boxes depth of about six feet she them with rich soil end planted the seeds. The growth ef the plants was watched with keen interest, and to her delight the vegefshles she de sired came In abundance, and she had more than could be need by her urns. ily. Those that she does net una sent to her Meade. Several crone are besides corn and pumpkins. sereni Italian plants that well la the rich sett . Baltimore I Phonographs I The latest songs on Gold Moulded Becords 25c We are sole agents in this city for the Colombia Phon ograph and carry a com plete line of ti&ir- goods. Walker m x ' hffi; Rft'"tar.j J --w vJk " jJn& '- V5 ..x. , , . . . ;Ot - a Svfi&w?- S&, SW a T-.'Wt1 - ?tfe!Si !Aj A? r m . - . j' rr-. "O- .. f ,
