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And still the bank guarantee law
hangs fire.
Up to the- present time the. demo
cratic legislature has not redeemed a
single promise made in the state plat
form. The suggestion that, when New
Mexico becomes a state the name be
changed to Lincoln, will meet with
the unanimous approval of the Amer
ican people.
If you are a democrat, don't become
a "Sour Dough" if the present legisla
ture fails to incorporate the word
"immediate" in the proposed law guar
anteeing bank deposits.
The members of the Nebraska sen
ate are not built on the economy plan
when it comes to asking something
from the general government They
passed a resolution requesting the
state delegation in congress to support
a measure appropriating $500,000,000
for river and harbor improvements.
The Humphrey bill, providing for
election of United States senators by
the Oregon plan, is in the interest of
W. J. Bryan. When the Peerless
leader first attracted public attention
he aspired to represent Nebraska in
the senate, but the attempt was a fail
ure. He has learned by experience,
and with the aid of the Humphrey
bill hopes to secure enough republican
votes to land the nomination, and then
it will be up to the legislature to
endorse the will of the people. But
the republicans are not going to be
caught napping this time, even if the
bill passes.
The people of Platte county are
more interested in securing bridges
spanning the Loup and Platte rivers
than they are in the length of sheets
in hotels. If the senators and repre
sentatives from this district are really
desirous of doing something for their
constituents they should, at least, make
an effort to secure the passage of a bill
providing for making bridges across
the streams above mentioned state
bridges, to be constructed and kept in
repair at state expense. There's too
much horse play and not enough horse
sense displayed at present among the
"law" makers at Lincoln.
Governor Haskell, of Oklahoma,
who has posed as a political reformer,
must answer another charge. He has
been indicted in the U. 8. district
court, with other prominent politicians
of his state, for town lot frauds. It
will be remembered that Haskell was
treasurer of the democratic national
committee the personal choice of
Mr. Bryan but when he was exposed
as a common swindler, was forced to
resign. Haskell was the big man at
the Denver convention and acted as
chairman of the platform committee,
and for his services to the Nebraskan,
it was understood that he was slated
for a cabinet position in the event of
Bryan's election.
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Congress appears to have abandoned
- its efforts to discredit the president
since the undignified speech of Repre
sentative Rainey of Illinois, in which
he charged the president, President
elect Taft, Charles P. Taft and Oliver
Nelson Cromwell with having bribed
the national assembly of the Republic
of Panama in order to secure certain
concessions on the isthmus. In the
.same speech Rainey accused the presi
dent with insulting a young lady on
the public highway near Washington.
The last charge against the president
' has been branded as false by the
lady, through her mother, and the
t irst charge has been denounced as
false-by the national assembly of Pan
ssa in a resolution protesting against
"the slanderous assertions made" by
'tamIllinoaseoaa8Bman. Initsbelit
tksnf process congress has got dead
dry the worst of it
. LINCOLN AND DAVIS.
On the 12th "day of February, one
hundred years ago, Abraham Lincoln
was born in a log cabin in. Hardin
county, Kentucky. ' Eight months
previous, another child was bora in a
luxurious home .in Todd county, in
the same state. Jefferson Davis was
a little more than eight months old
.when the Great Emancipator made his
appearance in Hardin county. These
two children represented the two ex
tremes of society in the South at that
time. Lincoln represented what in
that day was termed the "poor white
trash" the hardy mountaineers whose
blood for one hundred and fifty years
had not mingled with the blood of
people from foreign lands. They were
distinctly American in sentiment,
blood, bone and sinew; they were
opposed to slavery and the slave aris
tocracy; they were intensely patriotic
in their devotion, to the Union and the
flag. Jefferson Davis came from a
people that believed in human slavery,
and held in contempt the people that
gave to the country the man who was
raised up by the Almighty to free the
slaves that tilled the Davis lands when
young Davis was born. With social
position, wealth and friends, and en
dowed with ability and personal mag
netism, Jefferson "Davis' future was
assured. How different the early life
of Lincoln! His was a struggle for
existence and education, and a place
in the world. Where an ordinary
man would have become discouraged
and given up the fight, Lincoln plod
ded on. It was a long road a rough
road but it ended at the white house
in Washington about the same time
the man born in Todd county walked
into another presidential mansion
the one at Richmond, Virginia. With
the coming of these two men into
their new positions, the war clouds
were gathering. The representative
of the slave aristocracy and the repre
sentative of the people opposed to dis
union were face to face in a mighty
conflict in a struggle for supremacy
which shook the earth the thunder of
artillery and drenched the land with
the best blood of the North and South.
In the end, the man born in Hardin
county was victorious and the man
from Todd county wentto his grave
forgiven but not forgotten by that
section of the Union he attempted to
crush with his aristocracy. Lincoln's
place in history is secure. His name
will ever shine as one of the. brightest
that adorns the annals of Time.
THE MARTYR MOTHER.
Maternal martydom is a state of
mind which evey mother who loves
her children and who wants to hold
their love in return should dread. The
martyr-mother fc the woman who en
ters the estate of matrimony thought
lessly, bears children willingly, and
then when the real responsibilities of
wifehood and motherhood press upon
her more heavily than she anticipated,
holds a grudge against husband and
children, and rises in rebellion against
conditions of her own creating. "If
I'd known what married life meant, do
you think I'd ever married the best
man living?" she demands. "A
married woman today is nothing but
an unpaid hired girl, dressmaker and
teacher all in one, who never has an
afternoon off. It's work early and late
with no one to appreciate you, nor say
'thank you kindly?" There she sits,
moodily, the picture of domestic mar
tyrdom. Her husband, behind the
evening paper, sets his teeth hard on
his cigar or pipe and says not a word.
He knows the wisdom of silence. Al
so the futility of argument
If she had known what marriage
meant, she never would have married!
Yes she was one of a good sized fam
ily. She must have seen the busy life
her own mother led. She must have
known after visiting this relative and
that, one girl friend after another, that
the way of the mother is strewn with
no roses, save those of love, which are
invisible to the selfish eye. Did she
imagine for one instant that as a wife
and mother she would be immune from
all responsibility, exempt from all bur
dens? The man behind the newspaper
knew when he asked her to marry him
that he would be expected to support
her and the children who came to bless
their union. He does not say: "Well
if I'd known how much you and these
children were going to cost me, I'd
never have married you."
The average man does not regard
himself as a domestic martyr. And
even if he does think so, he does not
propose that his men friends shall
known it But the martyr-mother is
quite without pride. One of her sort,
a perfectly healthy, wellgromed, well
dressed and well-housed martyr-mother
was summing up her troubles the
other day in the presence of her two
daughters, both under twenty.
"If I have my way, neither of my
girls will every marry. A mother is
a perfect slave, never free from worry
from the time the first child is born
until she herself is laid in her grave.
I was such a lively girl, invited every I
where, but from the day of my mar-1
riage pleasure was taken out of my
life. Each child represented practi
cally two .years of social obscurity and
by the time . my children were old
enough for me to leave them, society
had forgotten me. When it wasn't
measels, it was the, cbickenpox.
When George had not broken his
arm, Nellie had earache. '"
"Don't worry about that mother,"
one of her daughters said. "I'll never
marry. L might make some man as
unhappy as you make father some
girls as miserable as you make us."
Perhaps you will say that the man
did the proposing. Granted. But
nine women out of ten bring the man
to the proposal point The man may
not know it, but the average woman
foreordains the marriage which he is
pleased to think he planned. And
even if a proposal comes unexpectedly
and without collusion on the part of
the woman, she is free to decline.
Very few women are coerced into
matrimony. The real trouble lies in
the fact that in deciding the question
of a life-mate, the rights of the chil
dren yet unborn are seldom considered.
A woman does not say, "Will this man.
be a worthy father of the children I
bear?" I have even heard girls say
.with false modesty that no nice girl
will discuss that phase of matrimony.
Yet it is almost invariably the girl:
who marries without giving one hour's
thought to the responsibilities she is
assuming who degenerates into the
martyr-mother, evil genius of an un
happy home. The martyr-mother is
absolutely unreasonable. Returning
to the unpleasant scene described
above, that mother to my certain
knowledge is an autocrat in her own
home. Her husband is consulted only
on finances. It is her wish that the
bulk of their income should be spent
on the education, dress and social life
of her children.
The household which is cursed by a
martyr-mother must be unhappy. For
in every home the mother is the foun
tainhead of happiness or misery. In
spite of all the up-to-date improve
ments that make the domestic life
more simple for the housewife, science
and invention have never evolved a
substitute for the mother. The honor
of moulding the characters of her
children remains here. No man can
usurp this inalienable right of woman
hood. God never gave him the talent,
the mysterious " power. But he did
give it to us women, and the woman
who martyrizes herself and abuses
this precious gift wanders day after
day farther from the path of happi
ness. Mary Brown in Paris Modes.
The Trade-Mark of Minnesota.
Very few of our statesmen have
pushed the clouds away so often and
so successfully as'Knute. If you think
he does not know the exact value of
being a Scandinavian in Minnesota,
please forget it, for he does. Also, if
you think he is not a politician from
the ends of his stubby toes to the top
of his square head, please forget that,
for be is. Moreover, do not entertain
any doubts about his ability, his integ
rity, his resourcefulness, his rank as a
Senator and his strength at home.
Knute Nelson is a sort of a trade
mark for Minnesota. Statesmen come
and statesmen go from that fine North
State, but Nelson goes on forever. To
be sure! They can't stop him!
You see, the Scandinavians hang
together. You may talk about other
nationalities in our body politic being
clannish, but they are mere unorgan
ized crowds when it comes to compar
ing them to the big, blond fellows who
have played so important a part in the
upbuilding of the Northwest
"Who shall we nominate for county
judge?" asked the county chairman in
Minnesota of his committeemen.
"Ole Olson."
"Who for county clerk?"
"John Johnson."
"Who for county treasurer?"
"Pete Petersen."
"Sheriff?"
"Swan Swanson."
"Constable?"
"Jim Jones."
Perplexed, the chairman looked
around. "Why Jim Jones?" he asked.
"Oh," replied the proposer of Jones,
"we've got to do something to catch
the American vote."
Now, that is the kind of a constit
uency behind Knute Nelson. They
are for him and he is for them. He
knows them and they know him.
Nelson? You bet, born in Norway,
too, and glad of it, and garnering,
garnering, garnering all the busy
years. Saturday Evening Post
After wrangling for nearly thirty
days the lower house of the Nebraska
legislature has succeeded in passing
one "reform" measure the bed sheet
bill. If the bill goes through the sen
ate and the governor approves it, all
hotels in the state will be required to
have bed sheets no less than nine feet
long.
When a man purchase) an automo
bile, he at once becomes an advocate
of good roads.
NOT ALWAYS G00J
PREACHER'S' OPINION. OF APPEAL
TO "PRINCIPLE."
In His View the Stumbling Block te
" Reconciliation Between Erring
' Brethren Is in That Word
Used by Stiffoecked.
The mud was almost hub-deep. The
two strong horses drew, the single
carriage with, reasonable comfort, but
one horse might almost have stuck in
the mud. Mr. Blake was driving to
inspect one of his cheese factories;
and ontf the fact that the thing had
to be done accounted for his driving
out with the roads in this condition
He had the road td himself, however;
and he had the added satisfaction, it
such It was, of remembering that it
was the daily journeys of the milk
wagons to and, from his several fac
tories that plowed the mud to this
bottomless coatMss.
Ahead, .at the- aid of the road, he
discovered a solitary figure walking.
The pedestrian picked his way with
some care,.lookiag. round from time to
time at the approaching vehicle. As
soon as he saw that it was a two
horse carriage with a single passen
ger, he stopped, selected a favorable
approach to the roadway, and began
cleaning the mud off his boots. By
this time Mr. Blake recognized the ec
centric Methodist preacher, Mr. Pep
per. "Good morning. Brother Pepper!"
he called out to, him. "How's the
navigation?"
But Mr. Pepper, did not answer; he
merely -stood till the carriage stopped,
and climbed in between the muddy
wheels.
"Glad to see you, Brother Blake."
he said. "I've sunk down in the mud
an average of one foot for every step,
and' I've come three miles; so I'm a
mile deep in the mud. Those, are good
horses of yours. I like a good horse
two good horses when roads are
like this. Tou came at a good time.
I'm very tired."
"What brings you so far when the
roads are like this?" asked Mr. Blake.
"I'm coming down to try to recon
sile two members who have had a
quarrel," said Mr. Pepper.
"Well, If you get them reconciled by
two o'clock you can ride back. I have
to drive oa to the farther factory, and
I expect to. return about that time."
Mr. Blake drove back past the
house where he expected to find Mr.
Pepper, and as it was after two
o'clock, he concluded that the preach
er had finished his task, earlier than
he expected and walked home. But as
he was getting almost out of ear-shot,
he was halted by loud shouts in a
camp-meeting voice, augmented by
two others of the amen-corner quality.
He reined In the tired horses, and saw
the preacher running toward the gate,
shaking hands with both the men at
once and giving them a parting ad
monition. Then he hurried through
the mud tp the carriage.
"Tou seem to have got them recon
ciled, but you nearly lost your ride,"
said Mr. Blake.
"Yes, yes!" puffed Mr. Pepper,
scraping his boots against the iron
step. "They're reconciled, but it was
hard work."
He finished scraping his boots, and
then took up his parable.
"Brother Blake," he said, "you can
do almost anything with two men till
they begin to 'say 'Principle! Princi
ple!' More men go to hell with that
word on their unforgiving lips than
any other word In the dictionary.
"Let two men be Just as mean as
they know how to be, and know
they've been mean, and show them
their duty, and each will stop arid
quibble over some trifle, and say:
'It's a matter of principle with me!'
When men begin to say: 'Principle!
Principle;' I'd- rather undertake to
reconcile two fiends from the bottom
less pit"
"How did you do ltr asked Mr.
Blake.
"I reasoned with them, and prayed
with them, and I got them both on
their knees, and I thought a dozen
times it was as good as settled, when
one or the other would say 'Principle!'
and the fat was all in the fire again.
"We'd have been there till dooms
day, but the last time we rose from
our knees I saw the carriage disap
pearing, and I said: "There goes my
chance of a ride home, and your day
of grace is going, too. Let your prin
ciples go where they came from'
they knew where that was 'and
shake hands and be brothers!' And
they did It, and I said 'Glory!' and
shouted for you to hold on- and let
me in. Most of what men call prin
ciples at such times are pure stub
bornness." Mr. Blake told the story many
times In later years, and he was ac
customed to say that he had come to
believe that Brother Pepper told the
truth. Youth's Companion.
WITH THE MEN THAT ACHIEVE.
Trials and Sufferings of Uncrowned
Heroes of the Sea.
The career of the ship wrecker con
sists of a series of hardships and ad
ventures and accidents and narrow es
capes from the first day he enlists
with a big wrecking company up to
the time he is brought ashore from
the grim ship he calls "home," crip
pled or fatally injured. Of all the pro
fessions that demand heavy toll of hu
man life none, not even mining or
powder, making. Is as dangerous as the
'one of these wreckers. Every year
these daring men who brave storm
and wave and tempest to save the
stranded "liner," to raise the sunken
"ocean greyhound," to rescue the ship
Impaled upon rocks and, if nothing
else, to salve what valuable cargo may
be removed from helpless wrecks,
meet death by the score, says a writ
er In Appleton's. Many of them, ex
posed often for days and nights to the
icy blasts of winter seas, to driving
blizzards and to drenching storms that
bite to the marrow, succumb to pneu
monia. Others, 'at, work on pitching,
tossing barges, nave legs or arms shat
tered during the risky operations of
removing assets or of slinging wreck
ins; pumps or other castings that
weigh tons. Othess have hands 'or
fset so irsaifalir. & that these
must oe ampuiaiea. Ana mit:;
are wiped; out of existence after suf
fering hoars of untold agony and ex
posure before the eyes of their help
less comrades.
DUSTS THE TOMB OF NAPOLEON.
Old Soldier Thus Derives Title of
- Orderly to Emperor.
The manager of a Paris Insurance
company was decorated with the
Legion of Honor a few days ago, and
the clerks in the employ of the com
pany presented him a piece of plate,
to which their visiting cards were at
tached. Looking over these, he was puzzled
by the visiting card of the office
"boy," an old soldier from the Invai-
ldes, who was employed to open the1
office doors from nine to four. Under
the man's name was the title: "The
Emperor's Orderly."
He sent for the old soldier, who
stumped In and saluted.
"Of what emperor are yoa the or
derly, and how?" he asked. The old
Invalide drew himself up to attention.
"I am the orderly to 'the' emperor,"
he said. "Napoleon, la petit caporal."
"But he is dead."
"He has been dead for some time."
answered the soldier. "I dust his tomb
for him."
Puzzling Canadian Time.
A traveler at the Union depot re
cently was looking up some Canadian
connections.
"You connect with a train leaving
at 13:20 o'clock and arriving at your
destination at 22:10." O. E. Barbre,
the information dispenser, said.
"What in thunder are you talking
about?" the traveler demanded.
Then Barbre had to explain that
several of the Canadian railroads use.
the 24-hour system of time, osing
clocks with figures beginning at mid
night and counting the hours straight
through to midnight again. The train
the traveler desired to take left his
connecting station at 1:20 o'clock-in
the afternoon and arrived at the des
tination at 10:10 o'clock that night
Kansas City Star.
Photographing the Stars. .
In measuring the sensitiveness of
photographic plates at different tem
peratures, so as to determine the best
temperature for star photography, an
English astronomer has discovered the
curious fact that for some plates the
best temperatures for photographing
very faint' stars and somewhat bright
er stars are not the same. Thus be
tween 24 and 75 degrees centigrade
the plate becomes slower for faint
stars when slightly warmed, whereas
at the same time it becomes faster
for brighter stars. The expert in as
tronomical photography will therefore
hereafter regulate the temperature of
hia plates according to the brightness
of the particular celestial objects on
which he is working.
The Wise Wife-Chooser.
W. T. Turner, the Lusitania's new
captain, has for motto: "To get to
port safe is to get there soon." He
said in New York the other day:
"To be quick, to be prompt that
is the secret of success in salloring, in
life, and in matrimony.
"At a Christmas dinner aboard my
old ship, the Caronia, the lady on my
right said:
"'A good way to pick out a hus
band would be to see how patiently
the man. waits, when very hungry, for
a Christmas dinner that is behind
time.'
"'Madam,' said I, 'a good way to
pick out a wife is to choose the wom
an whose dinners, Christmas or other
wise, are never behind time.'"
No Chance to Talk.
"What has become of that lively
friend of yours I met some time ago?
I never see him with you now."
"No, alas! He has Joined the great
silent majority."
"Ah! he is deadr
"No; married."
His Idea of Getting Work.
Kind Old Lady Have you ever
made an effort to get work?
Beggar Yes, ma'am. Last month I
got work for two members of my fam
ily, but neither of them would take
it Illustrated Bits.
Goose Considered Saered Bird.
To many peoples the goose was a
sacred bird, and even to this day
there are found many, especially in
Asia, who will not kill a goose. The
devout cherish a fond fancy that all
geese perform an aerial pilgrimage to
the holiest of lakes in the Himalayas
every year, transporting the sins of
the neighborhood, returning with a
new stock of inspiratloa for the en
couragement of the devout
Money and Its Drawbacks.
Some people are left moaey Just ia
the nick of time, and make good use of
It; It Is ruinous to others to receive
money that they hare never earned.
A good many people would never do
any work at all If it wasn't for the
fact that they had to, and so a wise
Providence decrees that moaey shall
not come their way except by the
sweat of their brow. The Captain.
Glory.
How many metals make the bronze
of Corinth? Insults on boards or oa
paper, the spot of Ink or charcoal or
mud, the dregs of heart of mind and
of body, the dirt of calumny, all these,
under the sun, dry, harden, turn Into
bronze solid and brilliant a pure
bronze, which is called glory! Catulle
Mendes.
Woman's Remarkable Feat
Though the compiling 'of a diction
ary is a task that even V corps of
trained editors undertake with no
slight hesitation, a Washington wom
an, Mrs. George H. Gorham, finished
the remarkable feat of writing an
idiomatic French-English, English
French dictionary entirely unaided.
Inventor ef Hansen) Cab.
The hansom cab was -the lnveatloa
of Joseph Aloysius Hansom, aa eatfn
eat English architect who nourished
about 75 years ago. He lavented what
he called the patent safety cafe about
1133 aad died 1b 1WJ.
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COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA
MONDAY, FEB. 15
Commencing at 11 o'clock a. m.
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200 Horses and 50 Mules
Good horses for the eastern market, good
southern horses, and 50 head of good mules
besides a number of good farm mares.
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All commission horses should be in the
barn by 10 o'clock in order to get them
listed, as we want to start this sale promptly
an 11 o'clock.
THOS. BRANIGAN
W. 1. BLAIN,
Auctioneer
CUPID MUST FIGHT RED TAPE.
Ludicrous Mistake in French Law
Hard to Correct.
Curious difficulties occasionally be
set young people who wish to marry
in France. A young Frenchman pro
posed recently to a a Mile. Eugenie,
and was accepted. The parents be
gan collecting the mass of legal pa
pers required for French marriages.
Among the first to be obtained was
Mdlle. Eugenie's birth certificate, and
when they got it they found that she
was registered a boy. She is put
down in the big book as a male, and
a male she remains legally and admin
istratively. Her parents pointed out first, that
she was obviously, de facto, a girl;
second, that the Christian name of Eu
genie entered in the register was fem
inine; and third, that if she had been
a boy she would already have been
called up for the conscription, being of
age. The authorities replied that none
of these arguments were legally and
administratively valid, and that she
continued to be a boy. '
Administrative reports, procedure,
and a decision of the courts, all at
the parents' expense, will be required
before the law acknowledges Mdlle.
Eugenie to be of the feminine sex and
allows her to marry.
WITH THE AIR HE BREATHED.
Emigrant from the Green Isle Ab
sorbed Americanism.
How long it requires aa Irishman to
become an American Is another story.
The federal statutes., of course, have
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' It is told of two steerage passengers
whose steamer entered New York on
the morning of the glorious Fourth,
that one, of them, aa Englishman, lis
tened a few miautes to the tremendous
cannonade and cracker firing that
ushered ia the dawn of Freedom. At
last he turned to his companion and
wondered what was the meaning of all
the "blooming row."
The other smiled scornfully. "Arrah.
g'wan, you foreigner! This Is the day
we bate yees!" Sunday Magazine.
Rare Gases In the Air.
Samples of pure air from a height
of eight and one-half miles have been
collected by Teisserence de Fort, the
French investigator, in his observa
tions on the rare gases, especially
argon, neon and helium. The collect
ing apparatus a vacuum tube drawn
out to a fine point at one end was
carried up by a large sounding bal
loon. At the desired height an elec
tromagnetic device operated by a
barometer broke off .the point admit
ting theair. and a few minutes later
a second contact sent a battery cur
rent through a platinum wire around
the broken end, melting the glass and
sealing the tube. All samples thus
obtained show argon and neon, no
helium being found in air from above
six miles.
Tulips tike the Light.
Tulips are very sensitive to the
light. During a cloudy day they will
sometimes close their petals, and not
open them until the sunlight returns.
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