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- V l' tI n m n ! N if i fei HI Columbus, VTebr. latwaSattlHi PoatoBtoa,Couuabaa,Nabr,aa nun of nmouraoi: OMff.krHll,taiimdi tLM Hi smb " TfciaaaMaaas... ...................... -.48 WEDNESDAY. JULY 8. 1MB; STBOTHER ft STOCKWELD, Proprietors. BKNKWAIA Tha date opposite yoar suae oa f oar papar, or wrapper shows to what time yoar eabseripttom is paid. Thaa JaaQS shows that parassat has bssa rsssUed ap to Jan. 1. IMS. FaMStorb.l,lMaBdsooa. When pajaaant Is sMda,the date, which aaawera aa a receipt, will ha cihaajii aeoordiasjr, DlflOOMTINUANCES-BespoBsIble mbacrib ers will ooatiaae to receiTe this Joaraal until the vablkheraare aotifed bj letter to discontinue, when all arrearages BBStbepaid.lt rondo not wish the JoaraaleoatiBaed for another rear af ter the tiass paid for has expired, roe shoald pcerioaalj aotifras to disoontiaae it. CHANGE IN ADDBE88-Wh orderiac a ahaase la the addresa, eabscribus should be sare to ato aheir old aa well aa thaar sew address. Let us have peace in the Republican party. Knocking should not be en couraged. Now that Cleveland has passed away, who will take his place as the greatest living Democrat? Some of the progressive Republican editors have progressed so far that they have reached Knocker's Alley. The "uprising against Taft" in his own party has not developed into a stampede. Even Foraker is for the ticket. Thomas Lawson offers to financier the Democratic campaign. Is this a bid for a place on the tail of the ticket? A Zion City woman fasted for forty days to kill a cancer. The cure was pronounced a success, but it killed the woman. If the Republican party hopes to carry the state in the coming contest, knocking against Sherman and the platform will not aid the cause. A Boston physician has discovered a man with six distinct personalities. That's nothing. Nebraska has a poli tician with six distinct paramount issues. The situation in the Third district remains unchanged. Latta's barrel is still on tap. Democrats who are out "for what there is in it," address Dan V. Stephens, Fremont, Nebr. An Ohio man convicted of murder on blood hound testimony, has been pardoned by Governor Harris. Did you ever hear of a case where blood hounds succeeded in tracking down a criminal. Take 520,000 freight cars and add to the 2,520,000 now in use and it would be just the required number to contain the eight billion dollars worth of grain that will be harvested in the United States this year. With an increase of one billion dol lars in the estimated crop values over that of last year and the prospect of good prices, the country will not be on the verge of starvation whichever way the contest for president terminates. The World-Herald claims that tens of thousands of Republicans in Ne braska will vote for Bryan. The Omaha yellow probably gets its cue from the progressive papers that are knocking against Sherman and the platform. HARRISON'S IGNORANCE. A few days ago Congressman Hitch cock went to Lincoln and called on Frank Harrison. The dispatches stated, at the time, that there waa political significance attached to Mr. Hitchcock's visit; that the Omaha editor had made a proposition to Mr. Harrison to engage him. for campaign work in the interest of the Democratic purty. This statement was not denied by Mr. Harrison. Soen after Mr. Hitchcock's visit, a reprint circular was sent out by the Lincoln man strongly criticising the tariff plank of the Republican platform. In com menting on the tariff on sugar, Harri son goes further than did the celebrat ed Mills bill framed by a Democratic congress. That bill provided for a tariff on sugar. At that time the beet sugar industry had not been developed in the north, and all the sugar made in this country was from cane grown in the southern states. The cane was grown in Democratic states, conse quently the senators and representa tives from the south demanded that this particular industry be protected; But when it come to the question of placing a tariff on wool the same sen ators and representatives who had voted to protect the cane growers of the south, refused to place a tariff on wool and protect the sheep raisers of the western states. When the McKinley bill was enact ed, it provided for placing certain grades of sugar on the free list, but the sugar schedule was a compromise. A.t the time the bill was enacted, the sugar beet industry was being devel oped in the west, and the representa tives from this section, working in harmony with the representatives from the cane districts of the south, secured an amendment to the measure providing for what was known as the "sugar bounty." The tariff question has never been strictly a party question. Every tariff measure which has been discussed since the Qivil War, has been subject to the selfish consideration of the representa tives in congress. In almost every instance southern Democrats have fought to place a duty on sugar. Han cock was right, when, in 1880, in his letter accepting the Democratic nomi nation for President, he said that the tariff question wns a local issue. If Mr. Harrison is trying to make political capital out of the stand the Republican party has taken on the tariff question, he should take some thing to discuss besides the sugar schedule. that it be reduced. The Democrats were successful that year and about the only promise that was fulfilled was the reduction of that surplus; .But the fact should be borne in mind that if there is a deficit of $60,000,000, the treasury commenced the fiscal year with a surplus of $250,000,000. A Democratic organ speaks of "the great Bryan wave now sweeping over Nebraska." The public has heard this "great" wave mentioned before. It's the same old Bryan wave that swept over Nebraska in 1900 and re elected William McKinley. The Journal does not believe that Mr. Bryan has filed a protest against the resolutions prepared by the New York delegation on the death of Ex President Cleveland for presentation at the Denver convention 'now in ses sion. Some of Mr. Bryan's friends maintain that the resolutions reflect upon the course the Nebraska candi date has taken in opposition to what is known as the Cleveland faction in the Democratic party, and they seem inclined to dig into the grave of the ex-president and hold his corpse up as an object of scorn in order to place a feather in the hat of the Peerless ieaaer. ams is supposed to oe a christian land, and any man or set of men who make ghouls of themselves to make political capital to advance the prestige of any man are unworthy of a seat in any convention or the res pect of any man. Let Cleveland rest. His work is done. He served his country well. He placed patriotism above party subserviency honesty above dishonesty and followed the right as God gave him light to see the right. To cast reflection upon his motives now, when his voice is hushed in the silence of the tomb, would be a moral crime which should be con demned by every true American. The man who said that political lightning never strikes twice in the same place is certainly not acquainted with Mr. Bryan's spectacular career. The Lincoln agitator has been struck twice and almost paralyzed in both instances. Still, he is willing to be struck again. If it is true that there are ten thou sand Bryan Volunteers in Nebraska who have contributed $10 apiece to the campaign fund, then the Republi cans can count on some very hard fighting to carry the state for Taft. A campaign wad of $100,000 usually cats some ice. Anticipating that he will receive the nomination at the Denver convention, Colonel Bryan is making arrange meats for the visitors that will call at his home during the campaign. Di rectly across the road from his house building has been erected for a tele graph office and a tent adjoining will be wed for the headquarters of the aewspaper reporters. Specials full of enthusiastic Demo crats have been passing through Co lumbus this week en route to the Denver convention. No one would suspect from the well groomed men filling the palace cars that the country was in a deplorable condition caused by the Republican administration, even if the World-Herald and other saffron colored journals do maintain that the commercial industries are paralyzed. The only danger to our industries is the uncertain legislation a Democratic victory would inflict upon the country. If there is any thing that tends to reduce the price of farm products it is tinkering with the tariff along the lines of free trade. The Republicans have declared in their platform for revision of the tariff, and if they are successful in the cam paign the tariff question will be hand led in a manner which will not create i ROOSEVELT AND TAFIV No candidate even for the presi dency could be more frank aad 'speci fic in making his thought and pur pose clear about all important sub jects than Mr. Taft has been, and the people have 'already become aware that the dominant trait of the man is his candor. He dodges no question. He does not hesitate in his answers. He evades nothing. You may or may not agree with him, but you will never misunderstand him, and you will know precisely where to find him tomorrow and the next day and the next year on any important subject So completely has Mr. Roosevelt's strong personality impressed itself on the presidential office that men every where, even unconsciously, ask what are the chief differences between Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Taft. How will the great office seem with another personality in the White House? Such a question is not hard to . answer certainly not hard in general terms. The chief differences between the two men are difference of tempera ment and a difference of training. Their aims are the same. Mr. Roose velt is emphatic. He says and does things almost everything with a bang. His calm mood is the mood of emphasis in other men. His energy is so great that his low notes are as high as the high notes of others. This excess of vitality has, more than any other quality, brought him both his great popularity and most of the un just misjudgments that have been made of him. When he carries a little cane it seems a big stick to the timid and slow; and most men are timid or slow. Mr. Roosevelt's mind is as quick as his body. He sees your point long be fore you get to it. Therefore if you are slow you think that he is im patient. Many a deed that another man would postpone till tomorrow he does at once, for he is active all his waking hours. Therefore many slow men have often thought him rash when he was merely energetic. Mr. Taft is of the same tempera ment. Except Mr. Roosevelt, it would be hard to find a more active man than he is. His mind, too, is quick very quick. He, too, is em phatic on occasion, but not so loudly emphatic. His energetic tempera ment has suffered a certain judicial toning down by reason of his studies, of his experience and of his reflection. He is a trained lawyer and a trained judge. Formal procedure, a certain deliberateness, an instinctive reference to precedents, a disposition to hear the other side, a patient mood with the slow processes of formal proof these qualities have become part of the man because of his experience. Quick in mind, quick in temper, quick in de cision and energetic in action still he is deliberate. These differences are important, al though they are not fundamental. Mr. Taft is not likely ever to become the popular hero of the great mass of the young (of all ages) and of the ad venturous, as Mr. Roosevelt has be come. But he will be regarded as a great deal "safer" man by the timid and by the conservative. He would be regarded as safer even if he should do the precise things that Mr. Roose velt has been thought "dangerous" for doing. Mr. Taft is not less courage ous, but he is more modest. He will therefore be a president with the same general aims and with the same strong qualities that Mr. Roosevelt has had even a "strenuous" president, cer tainly an energetic one. But the gen eral judgment of him will be that he is a "safer" man. Still, evil doers whose crimes come within the reach of the presidency will hardly regard him so. World's Work. YOUNG ROOSEVELT'S' START. The yellow story about young Roose velt hitching up with the steel trust was hardly worthy of the dignity ac corded it by the statement from Oyster Bay, but the incident has served a useful purpoee in calling attention to the independent way in which one American boy is starting to carve out a career for' himself. Theodore Roosevelt, jr., is notde pending on'his'fkther's money or his father's influence to provide some soft snap.' He picked his own sphere of usefulness when-he entered college, and he followed an inclination that led him away from anything that might enable him to use the family name as an asset. He has fitted him self professionally as a civil engineer, but the whole mining industry is to be his field, and he hopes to climb in it. In order to lay the foundations 'of successful career be proposes to learn the business from below the ground ap. He will get his first training as laborer in and about the iron mines. Whether he will climb or not depends on the thoroughness and ambition that he can bring to the work. He made a good start by staying away from the big boat race to look after his pro spects for getting a job. The example is not needed by boys who cannot depend on their parents to give them a start in life. It is needed by many sons of rich families, who are prone to think that, with no need for money, there is no use in get ting to work. Undoubtedly many of young Theodor's classmates will spend the summer in Europe taking lessons in their life occupation of spending easy money. Young Roosevelt is taking much the better route in try ing to learn how to have a good time being useful and making his own way. If heredity has been kind to young Roosevelt one is disposed to guess that a generation hence he will have some claim to frame on his own account. Sioux City Journal. ON CAR PLATFORM GROUP OF PHILOSOPHERS CHANGE SENTIMENTS. EX- Many Different Paints of View Devel oped Misfartunea e Ourselves and Others and the Trag edy of the Hat. PROHIBITION AND DEMOC RACY. Henry Watterson says: "Nobody can be a democrat and a prohibition ist." If the venerable principles of democracy mean anything, nobody can at the same time advocate personal liberty and then undertake to dictate what some other man shall or shall not drink. A man can lie a democrat and a total abstainer. He can be a demo crat and .smoke or not smoke. But he cannot without casting aside the fun damental Jeflersonian 'principles un dertake to regulate by law another man's religion or tastes. In the southern states where prohi bition has been adopted it is enforced chiefly as against negroes and not against white men. On the theory that the 'negro belongs to an inferior race whose duty it is to labor in sobriety to build up the white men's civilization, prohibition can be enforc ed on economic grounds, disregarding its moral aspect and leaving the white man to do as he pleases. The system of white men's clubs, original packages by express and drug store saloons enables the white men to regulate the negroes' habits without changing their own, somewhat as they regulate the diet and work of their horses and mules which are no more indispensible on a southern plantation than is negro labor. This is southern prohibition. New York World. The philosopher smilingly regarded the group on the back platform. "Veil,"- he said, "are dere any stock-, holders bresent?" "Not enough for a quorum, I fancy." said the stout man. "I have a little stock myself and that represents some money I dropped into a hole in Nevada several years ago. It is a handsome stock and there Is a pretty nugget that goes with it," i "Stung?" suggested the philosopher. "Guess I was," laughed the stout man. "I remember aow that the mine was called the Honeycomb.' " They all laughed at this and then the philosopher spoke reprovingly. "My frlendts." he said, "ve shouldn't laugh at the misfortunlngs of odders. It shows a crate lack of humanldy. If you must laugh valt until you get home." "Some laughs are like sneezes," said the stout man oracularly; "you can't keep them back. To laugh at your own misfortune Is stoical; to iaugh at the misfortunes of others is barbarous and there's still a lot of the old bar barian in most of us." The philosopher nodded. "Werry goot for a sirvivor of par barism," he said and 'patted the stout man lightly on the shoulder. "De next time I shlip on a panana peel and preak a blate glass vlndow. laugh as mooch as you like but ton't let me catch you at it" " "I'll be very careful," chuckled the stout man. "I'd laugh in my sleeve." "Ven you laugh in your sleeve," said tne pnuosopner, you must be werry careful dot your funny bone doesn't get hysderical." The stout man straightened his face. "I'll remember that." he said. "I'd quite forgotten where the funny bone was located. Tour surprising knowl edge of anatomy does you credit, phi losopher." "You are werry fladdering," the phi losopher replied, "und it iss not my blace to say dot your gomplimentarles are undeserved. I know a bone or two. und maybe a few musculars. but I vouldn't go so far as to say dot I am ready to make a noise like an operat ing taple." "Always modest," laughed the stout man, and the little group laughed with him. "Philosopher," said the draft clerk, "what's your opinion of the 'merry widow' hats?" The philosopher shook his head. "I am too oldt a bird, my poy," he said, "to be lured into exbresslng any decldet obinions goncerning de attire dot lofely vooman brefers. I vill ed mlt dot de vidow' hat iss a poorty large bropositlon. A friendt of mine, a werry short man,- vass sitting in de street car de odder day, und next to him vas a tall girl vearing a 'vidow' hat. De ear gave a jolt vich troo de girl a leetle off her palance, and ven she swayed sidevays she knocked de silk hat from de head of a maa two seats avay. As she leaned forwarts to see vot vas de trooble she smashed de eye-glasses of a man setting obbo site, und ven she drew back she scraped de wig from de head of a man by de door. In de conf jsion my friendt vas werry gladt to escape from de car wit his life." Cleveland Plain Dealer. To the Lakes of Wisconsin and Michigan Leave Omaha, nr most any other piint in Nebraska, today arrive there tomorrow, via ihe Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway In Wisconsin and Michigan are hundreds of lake resorts where this brief and satisfactory trip is possible, and where you may enjoy an ideal vacation at slight expense Three fast daily trains, includjng The Overlaid Limited, leave Union Station, Omaha, at 7.25 a. in., 6.00 p. m. and 9.58 p. m. Arrive Union Station, Chicago, 9.15 p. m., 8.30 a. m. and 12.28 p. ra. Con necting trains and steamships reach the lake resorts the same day, or the next morning. Descriptive books free. F. A. MILLER, Geaeral Pamagar Agaat. Ckieng.Ill F. A. WASH. GaaarmI Westers Agaat, 1524 Faraaat It. Met. DESTINED TO DIE BY BULLET. Mother's Belief in Boy's Fate Seemed Justified by Events. "People may jeer at fatalism and poke fun at all ideas which are embod ied in predestination," said Senator Culberson of Texas at a small gather ing of friend- the other day in Wash ington, "but sometimes a man rubs el bows with events which make him less skeptical about such things. A fine young boy near Dallas was shot while out hunting, and the bullet lodged so near his eart that there was not one chance in a thousand that he could survive an operation. But he did sur vive, and the operation was one of the things of which the surgeons in the lo cal . hospital were very proud. But the boy's recovery was tedious and as soon as the fever left him he was allowed to see his friends and to play cards and generally to amuse himself. The bullet had been given to the boy and occupied a conspicuous place on the table. Every caller saw and handled the bullet and talked over his almost miraculous escape from death. One day the boy's mother was with him and several relatives when a boy who had formerly gone to school with the patient paid him a visit and of course he wanted to hear air about the operation and to see the bullet. The boy told It all with great vim and then, taking up the bullet, he said: "Here's the bullet that caused all the trouble, and now I shall . bite Jt o pieces to pay it back. and he laugh ingly put it in his mouth. Just then he was seized with a coughing fit. the bullet slipped down his throat, lodged in his windpipe, and in a few minutes he had strangled to death. The poor mother was nearly crazed with grief, but she afterward told the 'pastor of her church that she felt her son was destined to die of that bullet and that she had little confidence of his re covery, even when the operation was pronounced successful. She had dab bled somewhat la the occult sciences and she declared that the boy bad been predestined from all time to die from that particular bullet and that nothing could save him from that fate." AUCTIONEER Met, Dates can be mad at the Journal Ofllce WANTED 1 The right party secure an .excellent poxitiuii, salary or commfrMon for Cnltraba- and vi cinity. Htate am. former occapmtioa nnil kit reference. Addre LOCK BOX 438. Lincoln, Neb. ALFONSO TAFT'S SONS. Because of his exceptional ability great things were expected of Hon. Alfonso Tail's sons. These expecta tions have been fully realized, for Charles P. Taft is editor of the Cin cinnati Times-Star, and an influential man in politics; Horace Taft is the successful headmaster of Tail's school at Watertown, Conn.; Henry Taft is a prominent New York lawyer, and -William Howard Taft is the republi can nominee for president The chil dren of. secretary Taft seem to inherit the mental ability of their father, for Miss Helen Taft has - been mmmrAoA a panic and reduce the price of corn L Pennsylvania scholarship in pass- rag the best entrance examination to to 10 cents and wheat to 35 cents. The Democrats' are pointing to the $60,000,000 deficit as one of their reasons why Bryan should be elected. It will be remembered that in 1884 the w y v I democrats were Kicamg Decause the Rrstlaes priaUag doaa at the Jour surplus was so large aad deasanded j aal osace. c "x Bryn Bfawr college, and Robert Al fonso Taft leads his class in scholar ship at Yale. New York Independent h $150 for Best Arbeit. The Republican Congressional Com mittee offers $160 for the beet article not exceeding 1,000 words on the subject: -WHY THE REPUBLICAN PARTY SHOULD BE SUCCESSFUL NEXT NOVEMBER." The competition is open to all. In judging the merits of contributions consideration will be given not only to style, arguments and facta presented, bnt to the convincing noaar. and it should be borne in mind that Members of Congress are to be elected as well as President and Vice-President. No manuscripts will be returned, but will be the property of the Committee. The best article will be widely used both in the newspapers of the country and in pamphlet form. The award will be made and check sent to the successful contestant about August 15th. Manuscripts must be mailed not later than July 15th to Literary Bureau, Republican Congressional Committee, Metropolitan Bank Building, ' Washington, D. O. Lake Take. One of the most beautiful mountain lakes in the world lies in the heart of the Sierras, 6,390 feet about the sea level, and is completely hemmed in by moun tain walla, whose rugged peaks rise in many places to an additional height 6f from 2,000 to 4,000 feet It is twenty three miles wide and from 100 to 2,000 feet deep. The entire ncrinn mrmnnH. ing the lake k nictiirMntia iimmt ho. yond description, and a never ending da light to the eye. Lake Tahoe ie easily reached by a abort Bi "PP te picturesque canyon of the Truckee River from .Truekee, Cali fornia, on the main line of "The Over land Route." Write for bookleta and other informa tion regarding California, to E. L. Lo ir, r. a t. a., Osaka, Nab. The Seven Prophets. "The late duke of Devonshire," said a diplomat at a Washington dinner, "kept a stud and took a calm and ducal interest in the races. "There was a certain sporting paper that kept a large staff of prophets and always prophesied the outcome of im portant races. The duke, for some reason, put great reliance in these prophets and their prophecies. He al ways read the paper, and he con tinually recommended it to his friends "But once at Goodwood, at the day's end, a man came up to the duke and said: "'What or your paper now? Did you see it this morning? Six proph ets prophesied that six different horses would win, and here seven ran, and the winner was the seventh, which no prophet had selected. Well, what have you to say now?' "'All I have to say,' the duke an swered, calmly, 'is that there's room for another prophet oa that paper.'" Coming to Columbus FRIDAY, JULY 10. Admission -Adnlts 50c; Children 25c. iw Keeps Tab on the Trolleys. An instrument has been devised for making complete tests of street cars while in operatioa. It consists of a table over which a roll of paper is fed slowly, above which are arms carrying small recording instruments. Each of these Instrumeats is connected with a clockwork mechanism which causes it to register on the moving paper be .low every five seconds. Each instru ment registers a special value such as the amperes and volts used on each car motor, or the speed of the car or its location on the line, etc., so that for every trip of the car over the road this device furnishes a graphical record far more accurate than could be made by any number of observers. Unidentified. SELLS-FL0T0 s. . . , ,...'.., YSk ircus-Menagenc-nippodromc- W aa g y est 100 Startling, Superb, Sensational and Stu pendous Surprises & 30 Champion Aeri-1 alists 20 Champion Acrobats Per-' forming At Once 10 Champion Equestrians & 20 Marvelous Acts at One Time & A Band of Sioux Warriors, by Special Permis sion of U. S. Government T11iifot fnriian T.ife ? PaaaaarmFLi ft -sai lCV? ing Battle Scenes , "aKBBaav of Great wJVflfW wen. BSx9jmmMi aval Will Loan Money te Farmers. The Transvaal government, through the medium of a land bank that is be ing opened, is about to lend approxi mately $12,000,000 to the farmers of the country to enable them to our- chase modern agricultural machinery aad Implements. An Episode in Court. "Ton are charged with snatching a woman s pocket boos." "I know it, judge. But I wouldn't do such a thing, hungry aad broke as I am." "Too conscientious, I suppose?" "No, I don't pretend that. But why should I snatch a woman's pocket book? What would I want with - a couple of car -tickets, a powder rag, a piece of chewing gum and a dress maker's address?" Oace more a shrewd criminal over shot his stark. His familiarity with convicted HfJTC. mmwmA ttt-ifV jsmzmawmm msssz iK US'; 3mtit noe &y vblwM iFlGTO KSTf FREE STREET PARADE Maviag V Majestic March Under brides- cest Sseea tf a l.Hw Stameriig Boners-MrM A. M.-Free Exluhitiaa a Shaw Let m Arrival f Para4e II Acres fWater mf Teats -Csae- Rak er Sluae-2 Skews Daily-AJ terieea. Nig k. 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