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SENATOR BURKETT ON POS TAL SAVINGS. Commenting editorially on Senator Burkett's speech on postal savings, the Lincoln News says: "Senator Burkett's recent speech on behalf of the postal savings bank bill disclosed that he has a few colleagues who need watching. When the sena tor first became a member of the upper house he seemed, as was natural, to be somewhat in awe of the men with great names against whom he rubbed, but a closer acquaintance has opened his eyes to the fact that there is a good deal of masquerading at Washington. Here are some pointed quotations from the senator's speech: "In my opinion, Mr. President, we ought to enact this legislation without much of delay. We ought not to juggle with the confidence of the American people, so recently and so universally reposed in us as a party. We ought not by procrastination, to exasperate the American people with the idea already too prevalent, let me say, that there are influences more potent and more controlling in legisla tion than the interests of the great mass of the people. "Whatever may be senators' ideas as to the effect of this legislation upon those within their own small circle of friends, no senator can be blind to the efficacy of it and the desirability of it to the untold thousands of Americans without the domain of legislative in fluence other than the ballot of Amer ican citizenship. "It took fifteen years of patient and persistent endeavor to make some men believe that it would neither wreck the republic nor ruin the railroads for Uncle Sam to take a hand in the leg itimate control of our great transpor tation companies; and yet one objec tion after another has melted away, until today everybody wonders who it was that objected. Within a week we have seen in the public press the address of one of the great railway magnates of the country compliment ing the congress upon the legislation that it has enacted. "I have seen congress, or a part of it, apprehensive before, and that is why I have called attention to the meat-inspection law and the rate bill in this connection. I have spoken as I have for the consolation of those really honest but timid souls who would rather offend the interests of all the people and the common sense of all the world than to offend their own theoretical and shelf-worn interpreta tion of governmental function." OUR WEAKNESS AT SEA. Frederich Palmer, who has been with the big battleship fleet during its journey around the world, makes a startling assertion in the last number of Collier's. As the fleet nears home, he asserts that throughout the voyage around the globe not as many merchant vessels flying the American flag have been seen by those on board the. fighting ships as there are vessels in the fleet. As the latter is made up of sixteen big ships and a few smaller ones, the seriousness of Mr. Palmer's declaration is very evident. It means that foreign ships have supplied our fleet with coal and that vessels flying all flags except our own have keep the American officers and sailors supplied with the things that they had to have from day to day. "What "is your navy for? asked a man in a South American city after he had marveled at the splendor and equipment of our battleships, and then, gazing over the broad bay, had Boticed the absence of merchant ves sels carrying the emblem of the United States. And of what value, indeed, is the big navy that we are building .unless we have with it those messengers of peace and plenty that carry between oar ports and the ports of the world thenatural products and manufactures of many nations? Lincoln Star. MJO Tfi THE PRESENT'S ROUND-UP. In alendid and admirable way President Roosevelt is rounding up, so far as possible, the primary policies of his administration. He has set in mo tion ereat things that are still progressive, some of which will con tinue to progress, it is hoped, through out the life of the nation. And now that he is about to retire from the Presidency he is doing his 'utmost to give these movements. as much new im petus as his influence can furnish. The President has just submitted to Congress a new and special report on the Panama canal, together with a message setting fqprth the present sta tus of that great project He has re ceived and transmitted the report of his Farm Life commission, together with one of the most important mes sages he has ever written. The first meeting and report of his National Conservation commission will soon be followed by the report of the Continen tal commission, composed of delegates from Mexico, and Canada and the United States. And to complete the scope of his conservation purposes he will call an international commission to be held at The Hague, the informal approval of which call he has already received from the principal powers. Each nation owes it to itself and to civilization to safeguard its natural resources: Therefore, each nation, be cause of its obligations to civilization and humanity in general, should be ready to co-operate with other nations in such international policies as may be helpful to all without being injuri ous to any. In such a meeting the nations may learn much from one an other. The United States will be an especial beneficiary, for it may learn much more than it can hope to teach. It is the richest and the most wasteful of nations. It has much to learn from those people who have had to conserve their natural wealth. Incidentally, though scarcely less potentially, the good of the. world would be promoted by such a confer ence through the mere fact of meet ing, conferring and co-operating; for whatever brings nations into common undertakings makes for international tolerance, peace and security. Kan sas City Star. THE VOICE FROM THE DEPTHS. In Victor Hugo's novel, "The Man Who Laughs," Gwynplaine, a stroll ing mountebank, who had known all his life only starvation and misery, was suddenly discovered to be Baron Clancharlie. He had been stolen in his infancy, and the discovery of his rank and his entrance into his estate was the matter of a day. One day he played to a mob in a booth, the next he delivered a speech, as an hereditary ruler in the House of Lords. This address, which is notable even for the great Victor Hugo, is, in part, given herewith: "My Lords, you are loftily placed. It is well. We must believe that God has His reasons for this. You have power, opulence, joy, the sun always motionless at your zenith, unbounded authority, undivided enjoyment, an immense oblivion of all others. But there is something beneath you. Above you, too, perhaps. My Lords, I come to tell you news. The human race exists. "I am he who comes from the depths. My Lords, you are great and rich. That is perilous. You take advantage of darkness. But take care, there is a great power, dawn. Daybreak cannot be conquered. It will come. It is coming. The irresistible ray of day light is within it And who will hin der that sling from hurling the sun into the sky? The sun is Man's Right You you are Privilege. You may well be afraid. The real master of the house is going to knock at the door. Who is the father of Privilege? Chance. And who is his son? Abuse. Neither Chance nor Abuse are firm or enduring. Both of them have an evil morrow. I come to warn you. I come to denounce your own happiness to you. It is made of the misery of others. You have all, and this all is composed of the nothing of the others. My Lords, I am the hopeless advocate, and I plead a lost cause. God him self will gain this cause. I am noth ing but a voice. The human race is a mouth, and I am its cry. You shall hear me. I come to open before you, Peers of England, the great assizes of the people; that sovereign, who is the victim; that convict, who is the judge. I bend beneath the weight of what I have to say. Where shall I begin? I do not know. I have gathered my enormous, scattered, brief in the vast diffusion of suffering. What am I to do with it now? It overwhelms -me and I cast it pell mell before you. Did I foresee this? No. You are astonished, so am L Yesterday I was a mountebank, today 1 am a lord. Mysterious play. Of whom? Of the Unknown. Let us all tremble. My Lords) all the azure is on your side. Of all the immense universe you see only the holiday; learn that there are shadows. I was cast into the abyss. For what end? So that t might see its depths. I am a diver and I bring back the pearl. Truth I speak, be cause I know. You shall hear me, my Lords. "I have felt I have seen. Believe me, most fortunate gentlemen, suffering is not a mere word. Pov erty I grew up in it; Winter I have shivered in it; Famine I have tasted it; Contempt I have endured it; the Plague I have had it; - Shame I have drunk it I hesitated before per mitting myself to be led to this place. But it seemed to me that the hidden hand of God urged me this way, and I obeyed. I felt that it was necessary for. me to come among you. Why? On account of my rags of yesterday. It was in order to speak to the over fed, that God had made me mingle with the famished. O, have pity! O! that fatal world to which you think you belong, you do not know it; being so high, you are out of it I will tell you what it is. I have experience, indeed. I have come from beneath the pressure. I can tell you what you weigh." WHEN GRANT WAS A FARMER. The True Story of the Ex-Army Officer Peddling Wood on Streets of St. Louis. At the time of her marriage my father had given Julia eighty acres of land, a part of the White Haven estate, and situated only about half a mile from our dwelling. On this land the captain and Mrs. Grant decided to build their home. It was good land, and with the aid of the three slaves which father had given Julia they had no fear of not earning a living. Perhaps I ought to explain some thing about these slaves. For two generations the story has been current in certain parts of the country that Captain Grant himself was a slave owner. He never was, but his wife was. The Dents had owned slaves from the date of their settlement in this country.. At the time I was growing up my father owned about thirty slaves, of all sizes and sexes. Either at birth, or as we grew older, he gave to each of his three girls three negroes. These, with the parcels of the homestead which he gave us as his bridal present, were supposed to be our dot. When Julia was born father gave her the girl Eliza, little ginger colored Julia Ann and Dan, who was about' the most polished specimen of human ebony you ever saw. They were to serve her as maid, cook and house boy. My sister Nelly, who afterward became Mrs. Sharp, had Phyllis, Susy and John. As for me, I was given Mary, my old nurse, Lucy, Louise and Jeff. Thus, we were each provided with our slaves, and at her marriage Julia, of course, brought her three to Captain Grant And although I know that he was opposed to human slavery as an institution I do not think that he was at any time a very rank abolitionist or that he opposed it so violently that the acceptance of Julia's slaves had to be forced upon him. The house that the Grants built was of logs. The logs for it were cut and shaped by the captain himself. It was planned by Mrs. Grant, ancTwas both fashioned and furnished with an eye to the artistic, as well as for com fort and coziness. Though not pre tentious to modern eyes it was not the mean, ramshackle hut that the popu lar mind supposes it to have been. It had five good rooms and a hall, which furnished all the space the Grants needed at that time. I know that it was on exhibition at the World's Fair in St. Louis, and it looked anything but elegant there, amid its more garish surroundings. But it had been'built fifty years before, and it had not been lived in for a great many of those years. The captain's father, Jesse Grant, gave him $1,000 to furnish it with, besides a team and a wagon. With this team of two white horses, a cow, the three slaves, the eighty acres of land, and the log house the Grants began life as civilians. A very prominent man has recently said on a public occasion that General Giant's life at this time was a failure. It is difficult for those who knew him intimately in those later fifties to regard it as such. It is true fame had not yet come to him, nor had riches, but he had never shown greater strength of character, greater fortitude under adverse circumstances, nor more determination than he did at this time nor do I think that anything he did in the Civil war is more to his credit as a man than these simple days of hard work on his Missouri farm. If earning and,winningtthe reputation of being one of the best farmers in a country of farmers is to be a failure, then, perhaps the ex-army officer at that period was a failure. He worked early and late; his crops were put in always at the right time, and culti vated at the' right time; they turned out better than crops of his neighbors. He had Dan to help him, and in busy seasons he hired other help, but the bulk of the work he slid himself. He was not ashamed of rough work onjthe farm, and, in fact, he liked it Grant turned farmer after he left the army, not because he couldn't do anything else, but because he wanted'to be a farmer. That he later left the farm and became a store-keeper was not due to any vacillation of character, but to ill health, and a clear-sighted endeavor to better his finances. There was a good deal of woodland on the Grants' farm when they settled on it and this he cleared away, corded and sold in St Louis to the wood yards. At this point I must say a word con cerning the general belief in the Grants' object poverty at this time. The Grants were not poor. They were not rich, but they were in com fortable circumstances, with plenty to eat and plenty to wear and no depend ence upon their relatives or any others. There is the famous story of Captain Grant living in such' poverty that he had to haul his poor little faggots of wood through the city with an ox team and blow on his ungloved fin gers to keep them from freezing. Mr. Winston Churchill, the novelist, has done Captain Grant the honor of de picting him as a sort of run-down-at-the-heels countryman of the ne'er-do-well and ill-luck class, as one whose wood peddling was barely able to keep his meager clothes upon his meager body. It is a very interesting picture but it is not true. He never peddled wood about the streets. The truth is that he and his negroes cut the wood and he often sent one of them to the city with a load to sell to the families of a Mr. Blow and Mr. Bernard. Mr. Bernard was the broth er of my brother John's wife. . During the Christmas holidays one winter the negro who generally drove the team for Captain Grant was ill and there was no one to send in his place. The Captain's St. Louis friends sent him word' that they were out of wood, and, accordingly, he hitched up his team of white horses to his big wagon, loaded on the wood, and hauled it to the city himself. He probably hauled several loads in this way. I do not know how many. Any other man with the same temper of spirit and the same lack of false pride would have done the same. On one of these trips, as the captain was driving along seated on his load of wood, he suddenly came face to face with General Harney and his staff. The general, .resplendent in a new uniform and gold trimmings, eyed the figure of the farmer on the wagon with astonishment Then he diew in his horse, Grant stopped his team, and the pair smiled into each other's eyes. "Why, Grant, what in blazes are you doing?" exclaimed Harney. The captain, sitting comfortably atop his load of wood with his ax and his whipstock at his side, shifted one muddy boot across the other and drawled: "Well, general, lam hauling wood." The thing was so obvious and Grant so naive that General Harney and his staff roared with laughter. They shook his hand and joked with him and finally carried him off to dine with them at the Planters' hotel. That is the true story of Captain Run-down-at-the-heels Grant peddling wood for a pittance in the streets. Emma' Dent Casey in the February Circle. Have Use for Old Piling. There has been secured by a New York state pulp company an option on 500,000 cords of sunken pine piling now lying submerged in the Rideau river and lakes back of Kingston, Ontario, Canada. The piling was sunk about 80 years ago when the Rideau river was a center of commercial activ ity. The piling will be -converted by a chemical process into the finest grades of stationery. A Long-Felt Want This, ladies, is the non-burglar-hiding bed, the steel sides of which preclude- the possibility of there being a man under the bed, yet can be un locked and collapsed for tbe purpose of sweeping, etc. It Is especially in tended for the use of unmarried wom en. Kansas City Times. Where the Clove Tree Thrives. There is no place in the world where Jthe clove tree thrives as well as in the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba. It is the principal product of the islands, and, together with copra and the ivory brought from the mainland, cloves form the principal item of export Cow's Happy End. George, the four-year-old grandson of an extremely pious and devout grandfather, came rushing into the house a few days ago in a state of wild excitement. "Grandpa! Grandpa!" he called. "Mr. Barton's cow is dead! God called her home!" Virgin Land in Cuba. In the mountain regions in Cuba there are many ridges and valleys of extremely fertile land, nearly all un touched, and existing practically as they did before the time of the Span iards. Had True Savor of the Sea. At a service of thanksgiving for the harvest of the sea at Port Isaac church, Cornwall, the walls from end to end were draped with fishing nets, walla lobster pots, and packing bar rata ocmpied the wiadow spaces. SMILE AND BE GLAD MUCH VIRTUE IS THERE IN THE PLEASANT GRIN. Too Many of Us Cultivate Our Critical Side Until It Takes the Zest Out of Everything Try to Enjoy Life. If you want to get the worth of the bargain in life cultivate gladness. The one who mopes doesn't enjoy herself and surely no one enjoys her. Anyone can be glad when things go her way; to be glad, when the maid breaks your best dinner set, and the frock on which you've broken yourself turns out a fright shows a disposition that can be counted' on to oil life's wheels. x There's a lot of gladness going, but many of us are blind to it. What we want is to take life like a healthy child and find .enjoyment in simple things. We can cultivate our critical aide until it takes the zest from everything. What if we haven't an overflowing pocketbook, need we hang down the corners of our mouth when there is health and" the outdoors and love to make for gladness? Does it come easier to look on the black side? Has the pose of misfortune become your natural state? Forget it and take to grinning. At first that grin may be as strained, but most of your friends will think it more lovely than your usual hangdog expression. The brand Improves with practice. Forced cheerfulness is not pleasing, 'but it is better than chronic depres sion. Keep pumping out that oil of gladness and by and by the dumps will be lubricated. Gladness isn't an effort to be glad; it is just being glad. You cannot wor ry yourself into it; neither does it come by simulation; it does come from taking life easy and enjoying things whether they were meant to be enjoyed or not. Tou sad one, try for a day to hunt causes for gladness. Instead of sum ming up your woes and mourning over the total, get in a receptive mood for joys. You'll be surprised at the end of the day to find how many have been the occasions for smiling. Does your head ache? Sample the laugh cure. Are the children obstrep erous? Don't mope over your sorry lot. but charm them with a smile. Does the future seem a coal-black wall? See what kind of a wedge a day of cheer ful can make. Gladness never comes with time to think about your troubles, so get busy. The full life is rarely the somber life. Get grateful for your mercies; you may think it takes a magnifying glass to find them, but the eye is sharpened by the looking. If you have no other cause for glad ness, if your friends are not what they should be, if fortune frowns and things generally seem "rank," just be glad you are alive! St Louis Globe-Democrat. The Cold Bacteria. The common cold is now classed by some authorities among the diseases due to bacteria. It has not been set tled that any particular organism is the cause, but it seems that more than one species may play an active part, and a recent British investigator re ports that in one severe local epi demic he found micrococcus catarrh halls present in all cases, while in two other epidemics, both of a severe ly Infectious character, the bacillus of Friedlander was recognized in every case examined at its onset The or ganism, however, often disappears within twenty-four or forty-eight hours. In the second and third epidemics re infection sometimes occurred, produc ing either a second acute cold or else a chronic cold lasting for months, and the bacillus was so virulent that it killed inoculated mice, guinea pigs and even rabbits. True Missionary Spirit. Speaking at a recent meeting of the Colonial and Continental Church soci ety, In London, the bishop of North Queensland said: "I spoke at Oxford the other day, and asked for men to help me in our great work. Eight of the finest young graduates volunteered to go back to the bush with me. Then I searched for a leader, and turned to Ireland, the home of mis sionaries. I sent a telegram to Rev. E. H. Crazier, vicar of St. George's, Dublin, asking him if he would give up his rich living, worth 500 a year net, and come and be the leader of my band of recruits In the bush at 50 a year. The answer I received was: 'Yes, the Lord being my help.' " Daily Thought. Whatever our place allotted to us by Providence that for us is the post of honor and duty. God estimates us not by the position we are in, but by the way in which we fill it Tryon Ed wards. A Man's Birthday. We do not know whence a man comes nor whither he goes; yet we choose his birth or death day to cele brate his recurring century. We should choose his day of achieve ment London Saturday Review. NOTICE OF INCORPORATION. Notice is hereby given that E. H. Chambers, H. F J. Hoekenberger and W. E. Harrey have associated themselves together for the purpose of forming and becoming a corporation under the laws of the state of Nebraska. First-The name of this corporation shall be The Home Builders Company. 8econd. The principal place of transacting its baainews shall be Columbus. Nebraska. Third. The nature of the business to be trans, acted by this corporation shall be to boy, sell, exchange, hold, plat, subdivide, improve, mort gage or lease real estate and to take, hold, sell, assign, transfer or pledge any mortgage, contract or other property acquired in the course of said business. Fourth. The authorized capital stock of said corporation shall be One Hundred Thousand Dollars, Forty Thousand Dollars of which must be subscribed and paid np before commencing business. . Fifth. The existence of this corporation shall commence on the 24th day of November, 1908, and continne for a period of Ninety-Nino years. Sixth. Tbe highest amount of indebtedness to which this corporation shall subject Itself shall not exceed two-thirds of its paid up capital Seventh. This corporation shall be managed by a board of directors of not less than three nor more than five and the officers shall be a Presi dent, a Vice President, a Secretary and a Treas urer. Tbe secretary aad treasurer may be one aad the sawn parson. - H. F. J. Hock nnnamrs, Secretary. HEBE WITH THE GOODS nMUiam J. Voss, in. the implement line, ; I s here with the goods for nineteen-ought-nine. , Large stock of implements, suiting demand, Leading and popular makes are on hand. 1 n plows and in planters, disc, harrows and drills, A.nd harvesters and hay tools that will filfthe bills, -Pi akes of wagons, the best for to haul heavy loads, J aunty buggies, well made, to" spin o'er the roads. Voss sells the "New Way," a planter correct, (Jutclasses all others in every respect. Seek Voss for harness, at straight prices, too Opending money with him saves money for you. Cme here for good work in harness repair, Jn every occasion our prices are fair. W. J. VOSS & CO., Columbus -rSfsKKsssssssssssssssss-h BSER ' sIbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbW f hot it abosjt time to djaasd that old rlamry aalid bmsrur. tat 1 I acvsr acoammodatrrl your books or yow space, tad start a I Globe-Wernicke Out grow with your library and aad can be anaafcd in a variety of aiatimwabxKrfdsrttwtiagthcbookj. fittedwkb tbe oaf? per-factdotf-proof fotttr-bcaring aon-bfadng door that puakivtry aot frtoatof orier. Call aad seestor write far oar i&abatssl catalog. LCIdCV PAQV n kltl! I UnOO Charm of the Atomizer. "My aunt has the prettiest cat," said the girl who had just come in, "but it j was delicate. She used my cousin ' Philip's atomizer on its throat. The cat had asthma. Finally she gave It away. The grocer took it miles in the country, but it came back in a week and sat on the wlndowsill. wait ing to be let in. Philip said it came back because it missed his atomizer." Illuminated Shoes Are Costly. "Illuminated leather for shoes can j make a girl s footwear run up to a gigantic size I mean, it can make the J cost run up." was the utterance of a dealer. "Gowns of green must have dull green suede shoes, and these must bear birds or flowers. Gowns of ? blue must have blue shoes decorated in consonance." The directoire gowns j offer abundant opportunity to show an unusual shoe and an anklet. Many girls are wearing anklets of pale green or yellow. The superstitious say such bracelets on the ankle are lucky if they are gifts. EVERY MEMBER ' -t- ,-t . fr-ji & at1 T .- vk should be photographed at regular intervals. The photographs are a pictorial history of their progress and growth. HAVE YOUR FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHED here and yon will secure the best portraits it is poiblo to produce. Do it now while they are all with yon. The dearest poe-isioii in some household is a picture taken of come loved one ho ha gone away or bejoud. Successor to Wm. Helwig. DeHART STUDIO. Mapine Binding Old Books Rebound In tact, for anything in tb book binding line bring your v ork to Journal Phone 160 "Elastic'' Bookcase always fits it, that is artistic saapes fUhKHURh&U!luERTAKU6 ErtI ilir.5::-;:i'.i!-2? Wff tilth fit Only Needed a Start. One night little-Margaret, on kneel ing by her mamma to say her prayers. finished: "Now I lay me," and for got. "Mamma," she said, "you just start me and then I can go -a-wbjz-zing." Delineator. Marks End of Honeymoon. The honeymoon Is mostly over when the couple quit buying their meals in hotels and the bride tries to provide them at home. New York Press. South Africans Fond of Oatmeal. South Africans ar? distinctly an oatmeal-eating people, over $300,000 worth of this American breakfast food be ing imported annually into South Af rica. Not a Bark. "Then you don't have any dog-watch on this craft?" inquired the anxious passenger, according to a writer ia Life. "No. This is a catboat." OF THE FAMILY Off he I CJ A .sS2iiS&fe&f& iet'l' . ? - W-JM5!9M -JVM
