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CHANGE IN ADDBE88 When ordering a
sbange in the address, subscribers should be aura
to fire their old aa well aa their new address.
The democrats of Nebraska deceived
the voters when they declared last fall
in their platform for an agricultural
college. That promise was the first
one to be repudiated by the present
legislature.
Some funny bills continue to be
introduced in the legislature. One of
the measures which is asked for is one
providing for a state dentist, whose
duty it shall be to extract the teeth of
members of the house and senate, and
perform all other necessary dental
work.
Have you "noticed in any of the
dispatches sent out from Lincoln where
Mr. Bryan appeared as the champion
favoring any of the promises made in
the democratic platform. The plat
form of one of the parties which en
dorsed Mr. Bryan declared for county
option. Has Mr. Bryan appeared as
the champion of that idea?
Thirty years ago Dennis Kearney,
a naturalized citizen, known as the
"Sand Lot orator," of San Francisco,
was an advocate of mob law. He
believed in righting alleged wrongs by
physical force, regardless of law and
order. Jerry Howard, member of the
house from Douglas county, appears to
have studied in the same school of
agitation and lawlessness that Dennis
Kearney did.
The two members of the legislature
who went down to South Omaha and
harangued a crowd of hoodlums and
incited them to riot, should be held
responsible for their lawless act. In
1884, August Spies, and the other
Haymarket orators in Chicago, were
held responsible for the part they
played on that memorable occasion,
which resulted in murder, and suffered
the death penalty. The Greeks may
not be what is termed "desirable citi
zens," but they are certainly as desi
rable as the men who were responsible
for the riot in South Omaha.
Almost as terrible as the silent gun
is the smokeless gunboat. The newest
British battleship, the keel of which
was laid the other day, will have no
funnels. Its furnaces will convert
coal into heat and gas instead of heat
and smoke, and gas will run the ship.
This will mean that the ship can run
undiscovered close to a hostile fleet
If there is anything in the theory that
these inventions for the more efficient
killing of men are really peace mak
ers, a theory not to be accepted with
out dispute, then producer gas or its
discoverer deserves a peace medal.
State Journal.
It is not contended by Mr. Bryan
that Mr. Carnegie stole the money he
desires to give to professors in the
university of Nebraska, but the Peer
less one infers that the money was
acquired dishonestly. According to
Mr. Bryan, it would have been im
possible for Mr. Carnegie to have
accumulated a fortune and retired
from business without the aid of a
republican tariff law. If the conten
tion of Mr. Bryan is true, then the
tariff laws enacted by the republican
party have accomplished the object
for which they were enacted to pro
tect American labor and build up
American industries.
The contest for senator in Wisconsin
and Illinois still remains undecided.
In the former state Stephenson was
the choice at the primary election and
in Illinois Hopkins won out Both
are republicans and the republicans in
the states named are in a majority in
the respective legislatures. For the
past sixty years both political parties
have named candidates for senator and
the legislature has voted for the nom
inees named by the state convention,
although, up to last fall, the choice of
candidates was not decided by a pri
mary election. The adoption of a
primary law appears to have compli
cated matters rather than simplified
them.
THE "OREGON IDEA."
The "Oregon Idea" will probably
be adopted by the Nebraska legislature
and the people allowed to express
their choice1 for United States senator
at the polls. This does not necessarily
mean that a republican elected to the
legislature would be compelled to vote
for Mr. Bryan or any other democrat
for senator in the event the people
said, by their votes, that they preferred
a democrat to a republican. It would
be optional with the members of the
legislature. Last fall the republicans
of Oregon elected a majority of the
members of the legislature, but at the
same election the people endorsed a
democrat for United States senator,
and when the legislature met the re
publicans voted for the democrat
endorsed at the polls. The republican
endorsed by the state convention for
senator was not popular with his party,
and thousands of republicans voted for
the candidate endorsed by the demo
crats. Conditions were different in
Oregon from what they are in Ne
braska at the present time. Senator
Burkett, who will undoubtedly be a
candidate to succeed himself, has made
a good record. He belongs to that
element in the senate that stands for a
change in the appointment of com
mittees and against what is termed the
"traditions of the senate." Senator
Burkett believes that the senators from
the western states should be given a
fair representation on the important
committees which are now monopolized
by eastern senators; he believes that
ability should count for something in
the formation of committees. With
him stand LaFollettee, Cummins,
Brown, Beveridge and other members
of the senate who are alluded to as
"insurgents."
No argument, worthy of considera
tion, has yet been advanced why
republicans should favor a democrat
in preference to Burkett, and any
action the democratic legislature and
democratic governor may take in the
effort to gain a partisan advantage in
the coming senatorial fight in this
state should not swerve republicans
from their line of duty to their party
and their country.
That the "Oregon idea," enacted
into law, will strengthen the chance of
Mr. Bryan to secure a seat in the
senate, is acknowledged by leading
republicans. The fight will be close.
The Journal does not agree with some
of the republican papers that it will
be an easy matter to. defeat Bryan.
At the election last fall Mr. Bryan
received a majority 'over President
elect Taft. True, the majority was
small, but it was enough to giv.e the
electoral vote of Nebraska to the Peer
less Leader. The contest for senator
would be different State pride would
not cut such a wide swath. It would
be a contest between Nebraska men,
with the chance in favor of Burkett
Mr. Bryan is not as strong in Nebras
ka today as he was last fall. He is
not as popular among republicans,
and is less popular among democrats.
The present legislature has not
strengthened the democratic party
with the people. When these changes
in public sentiment 'are taken into
consideration, the adoption of the
"Oregon Idea" does not appear to be
a serious mennace to republican
success.
The American people, and especially
the people of Nebraska, are becoming
suspicious of Mr. Bryan as a political
reformer and moralist, and the attempt
he is now making, in the role of a
lobbiest, to induce the legislature to
refuse the Carnegie pension fund, is
proof sufficient to stamp him as a man
who seeks to gain public favor by
applying the doctrine of hate to men
of means and commercial activity. In
opposing the acceptance by the state
legislature of the Carnegie pension
fund, Mr. Bryan has insulted the
learned men of the university by
claiming that its acceptance would
result in the teaching of plutocracy by
the beneficiaries of the fund. Why
should Mr. Bryan make such a charge?
Has he no faith in mankind? Does
he measure every man with the politi
cal yard sack of the democratic poli
tician? When Mr. Bryan was a can
didate for president on several different
occasions and became the beneficiary
of tainted money did it influence him
morally or politically? Why, then,
should Mr. Bryan now soar above the
common herd and look down with
scorn upon Carnegie's pension fund
and insult the underpaid men who are
liable to receive a portion of it for
services rendered? Mr. Bryan was a
beneficiary of funds collected in the
red light district of Omaha; he was a
beneficiary of the political pull pos
sessed by Bath House John, "Fineie"
Connors, "Nigger" Mike, Tom Tag
gert, Jim Dahlman and hundreds-of
other disreputable politicians who live
on graft and thrive on crime, yet he
denounces Carnegie and insults the
men who resent his insinuations as to
the influence the pension fund would
have in their educational work. Ne
braska is becoming extremely weary
of Bryan and Bryanism.
ONITED STATES AS A WORLD POWER
The power of the United States in
world affairs has for its foundation
material resources and geographical
location unmatched by any other
country we might safely say, un
matched by any other continent. Our
peculiar advantages, our vast resour
ces for the development of manufac
tures, for the production of foodstuffs
with which-to supply the needs of
hundreds of millions of people and for
growing the materials cotton and
wool with which to clothe them, are
unique. The world has no duplicate.
Europe, with 400 million people,
has 42,000 square miles of coal land.
The United States, with 87 million
people, has 350,000 square miles of
good coal and 150,000 square miles of
inferior coals and lignites. Our coal
supply is at least ten times as great as
Europe's, and is greater than all the
known coal supply of the rest of the
world. Em ope raises practically no
cotton. We raise 700 million dollars'
worth a year. Europe has five times
as many mouths to feed, but of wheat
and corn combined we raise one-half
of all produced in the world, and about
500 million more bushels than all
produced in Europe. Europe may
partly offset this by rye, but we offset
rye by rice and other foodstuffs.
With 6 per cent of the land area of
the world and 5 per cent of the
world's population we raise one-half of
its wheat and corn, 70 per cent of its
cotton, have more coal than has been
discovered in the rest of the world,
and as much iron ore. v Our water
powers can be developed to such an
extent that they would furnish more
power than is used in all the power
plants in America. They are easily
accessible, near to centers of popula
tion, or of industry, or to the raw
materials for manufacturing or mining.
With 5 per cent of the world's
population we have 40 per cent of the
world's railroad mileage, and our traffic
is growing so rapidly that we need to
double our entire railroad facilities
within the next ten or fifteen years.
Our population increases at the rate of
about 2 per cent a year. On the
present basis of 87 millions this would
give us 17 millions to 18 millions
more people in the next ten years and
something over 20 millions in the fol
lowing decade. This will give us over
125 millions by 1930 and 150 million
people by 1940. """
In thirty years our population will
be about 70 per cent larger than it is
today, but by virtue of the increasing
power of transportation on land and
sea, the use of the telephone and tele
graph which are among the greatest
agents that ever came into existence
for accelerating business and adding
to man's productive capacity the 70
per cent of increase in population will
have a far greater potentiality than
the total population of today. In
It may contribute to an understanding
of the situation to explain that most of
these Greeks were brought to South-
Omaha as strike breakers. Sioux City
Journal.
It may contribute to a more intelli
gent understanding of the situation to
explain that the most of these Greeks
were not brought to Omaha as strike
breakers. Three-fourths of the Greeks
who resided in Omaha previous to the
riot stirred up by Jerry Howard, "the
member from Douglas," were employ
ed during the summer months and
until late in the fall on trackwork on
the various railways traversing Ne
braska. The Greek is a warm coun
try native, and as soon as cold weather
sets in seeks the comforts of a warm
stove or leaves for a clime where the
weather is more sultry than the cli
mate of Nebraska. Since the riot in
South Omaha occurred, Tom Wade,
road master of the Spalding and Nor
folk branches of the Union Pacific,
has sent for Greeks to commence on
spring track work as soon as frost is
out of the ground. Thousands of
Greeks are employed every year on
the railways of the west, as it is im
possible to secu re native help. Greeks,
Austrians and Italians can be depend
ed upon to remain in the service of
the railway company from spring
until cold weather, while native help
usually quits when harvest commences
in order to secure better wages paid
by farmers.
THE CABINET LAWYERS.
The majority of the members of the
Taft cabinet will be lawyers, not or
dinary lawyers, either, but leaders in'
their profession lawyers who can
make many times a year in their prac
tice what they will be paid by the
United States government; corporation
lawyers, constitutional lawyers, men
who have helped big clients out of big
difficulties and have received big fees
for doing so. In enlisting their ser
vices for salaries which in contrast
with their professional earnings seem
other words the 150 million people
that will be living in the United
States by 1940 will vastly exceed in
their potentiality to produce and to
consume what the same number could
do today.
Not, however, in purely material
things is the United States destined to
become more and more a world power.
Its greatest influence in all probability
is to be that which it is already be
ginning to exert upon the advance
ment of wages in Europe, and which
sooner or later it is destined to exert
in all other lands. With an average
of nearly one million people a year
coming into this country during
periods of activity and high wages, we
furnish a market for the surplus labor
of Europe. It comes to the United
States, finds employment at wages
much higher than in Europe, and the
story of high wages goes back to the
remotest districts of the Old World.
When times of dullness come popula
tion flows the other way, and hun
dreds of thousands return to Europe
to await greater activity in this coun
try. This inward and outward flow
of population has its effect upon the
labor market and the rate of wages
everywhere. It was very noticeable a
year or two ago, when there was such
a demand in this country for labor
that every man seeking employment
could find a job. Then we drained
Europe of its surplus labor, causing an
advance of wages throughout all
European countries. Similar effects,
but at a much slower rate, will event
ually be seen in the Orient Inter
communication of the people of all
lands carries to the most distant coun
tries the facts about the condition of
American laborers. As a result men
everywhere will strive to secure wages
somewhat commensurate with those
paid in the United States, and this'
country will be a mighty power for the
lifting of wages throughout the world,
since all nations will seek to rise to
our standard rather than to pull us
down to theirs. '
As a world power the United States
is destined largely to shape the finan
cial, the industrial and the labor inter
ests of the people of every country.
Its civilization carried by the return
ing immigrant to .other lands will
likewise affect the civilization of the
world, for weal or woe, as our civili
zation may be good or evil in its ten
dencies. Nature has given us the
material advantages for the develop
ment of industry and the employment
of population great enough, as com
pared with the rest of the world, to
justify such a dominating position.
We have just begun to see the com
mencement of this power in world
affairs. Rightly used, it will be a
power not of armies nor of navies, but
a power that makes for peace, for the
advancement of civilization, and the
lifting up of all mankind to a higher
plane. Manufacturers' Record.
ridiculously small Mr. Taft obtains for
the work of the government some of
the ablest, keenest and most judicious
I minds in the country; the nation will
now command professional skill equal
to the best that any of the private con
cerns can employ.
It is significant of the exalted pat
riotism of the lawyers in question that
they are willing to relinquish their
profitable practice to go into the na
tion's service at a sacrifice of income.
It is creditable to their natures that
they behold in the honor of a cabinet
position and in the opportunity to ser
ve their countrymen a sufficient com
pensation for the materialistic denial
they must make. Of course, such a
call as they have received should be in
itself something to be proud of and to
welcome, but it must be remembered
that there are those sufficiently steeped
in self interest to pass the proffer by.
The affairs of the nation should pro
fit greatly from the presence of such
legal minds in the cabinet the very
seat of administrative authority.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Brain a Phonographic Record.
Up to a certain age the brain re
mains plastic enough so that if an in
jury occurs to the thought brain, the
person can begin over again and cre
ate new knowledge centers in the
other hemisphere, says Wallace D.
Wattles in Nautilus. This has hap
pened in many cases where young peo
ple have lost certain powers or facul
ties by cerebral lesions, and have af
terward recovered these faculties by
developing new centers in the other
brain. It rarely happens after the age
of 45, and the reason is because most
persons after passing that age soon
clog their brains with calcareous mat
ter by overeating, and destroy the plas
ticity of their brains by filling them
with food waste. If all people past the
age of 45 would live on 12 ounces or
less of solid food per day, we should
soon find that one may receive new
Ideas as readily at 75 as at 15. Tou
cannot do it, however, if your brain is
a hardened mass of waste matter. If
you overeat you will be "sot" In your
Ways, and a has-been at 60. Keep TOUT
phonograph records soft and receotlve
SPLENDID.
Luxury of the Ancients Not-Comparable
to That of To-day.
'The world is richer than It ever was
before, and there is more splendor,
more magnificence, more luxury and
more means aud methods of producing
comfort than were ever dreamed of by
Solomon, Midas, Croesus, Lucullus and
those noted in history for their great
wealth, their luxury and extravagance
A noted lecturer and author in a re
cent lecture at Columbia university de-.
clared: "If Nero and Heliogabalus
could come to life to-day and see the
dining rooms of the great hotels in,
Paris and London, resplendent with
light, crystal, silver, etc., they would
admire them as far more beautiful
than the halls in which they gave their
imperial feasts."
There never was an ancient city or
building that is not easily surpassed
by many modern cities and edifices..
Rome in the days of its greatestsplen
dor was dirty, unsanitary, mostly side
walkless and poorly lighted. The bar
baric magnificence of ancient cities of
the east, the history of which fades
into romance and the facts of which
are obscured by legends, was crude
and cheap compared with that of' the'
twentieth century. They seem to have
used a vast amount of gold in the
ancient days. If it was as plentiful as
it seems to have been it could hardly
have been as valuable as it is now.
What became of the vast amounts of
gold used in the building and adorning
of temples and -palaces, in the manu
facture of vessels, etc., in the days of
Solomon and before and after? What
became of the bushels and carloads of
precious stones which we read about
in the Bible and profane history?
These things did not perish. It Is
easy enough to know or to imagine
where they came from, but where are
they?
Volcanic Ash as Building Material.
Consul George H. Scidmore, at Nag
asaki, forwards a pamphlet, printed in
English, issued by a Japanese com
pany, which describes the use and im
portance of volcanic ash in combina
tion with Portland cement, especially
for construction work in salt water.
The advantages claimed for this vol
canic ash are that, in combination
with Portland cement, it gives a great
er tensile strength than cement mor
tar alone. It js also claimed that the
mortar is denser than cement mortar,
and does not permit the percolation
of water, thus obviating the injurious
action of sea-water salts. This density
gives it a s"perior quality for con
struction of water reservoirs and re
enforced concrete for the protection
or iron from oxidation. The consul
adds that, should the correctness of
the Japanese company's claims be
proved by trial, it is highly probable
that the enormous volcanic resources
of the Philippines will provide for a
new and profitable industry.
Where Forests Die Hard.
That-is the one astounding thing in
this whole region of northern Maine,
the regenerative power of the forest,
says the Boston Transcript. Men with
axes have been hacking at the giants
of the wood up here for two centuries
and more. The goliaths have been laid
low, indeed, yet for one tree that stood
on a given space along the hillsides
and in the valleys of Number One a
century ago five stand to-day. They
are giants no more, it is' true, but they
are splendid trees, and Just as the Lil
liputians might prevail where Gulliver
was bound, so these trees hold their
own against man and even press in on
his clearings and wipe them out. There
must be many more lumbermen with
axes along the Macwahoc, the Mol un
cus and the Mattawamkeag before this
beautiful region will fail of its for
ests. A Contagious Idea.
A teller who was detailed to the
woman's window in a bank was asked
by a portly German hausfrau for a
new envelope for her bank book.
The lady behind her, noting that her
own envelope was a trifle dingy, asked
also for a fresh envelope.
No. 3 said "Me, too," or words to
the same effect, and so it went down
the line.
When his patience aad his stock of
envelopes threatened to give out the
teller determined to call a halt A fas
tidiously dressed lady appeared at the
window holding out a perfectly gloved
hand.
"I should like one, too, please," said
she.
"One what, madam?" asked the
teller.
The lady flushed and began to look
comical.
"Why," she stammered, "what the
other ladles had." From the Out
look. Old Thoughts May Be New.
A thought is often original, though
you have uttered it a hundred times.
It has come to you over a new route
by an express train of associations.
Holmes.
Introduce Method.
"More time," is the usual exclama
tion, even by those who have all the
time there is. They should bethink
themselves about more method, or else
waste less time. W. H. Howe.
NOTICE OF INCORPORATION.
Notice is hereby given that E. H. Chambers.
H. F J. Hockenberger and W. E. Harvey have
sssociated themselves together for the purpose
of forming and becoming a corporation nnder
the laws of the state of Nebraska.
First. The name of this corporation shall be
lne nome Builders uompany.
Second. The principal place of transacting
its business shall be Columbus, Nebraska.
Third. The nature of the business to be trans
acted by this corporation shall be to bay, sell,
exchange, hold, plat, subdivide, improve, mort
gage or lease real estate and to take, hold, sll.
assign, transferor pledge any mortgage, contract
or other property acquired in the course of
saia Dusiness.
Fourth. The authorized rapital stock of said
corporation shall be One Hundred Thousand
Dollars. Forty Thousand Dollars of uhirh mnt
be subscribed and paid up before commencing
business.
Fifth. The existence of this corporation shall
commence on the 21th day of November, 1908,
and continne f or a period of Ninety-Nine years.
Sixth. The highest amount Of indebtedness to
which this corporation shall subject itself shall
not exceed two-thirds of ita paid up capital
stock.
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-
T. Tba secretary aad treasurer may be one
h. EjHocKxxBZBaKs, Secretary.
WORLD NEVER MORE
COOK
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ELECTRICITY
There will be a demonstration of
all kinds of ELECTRIC COOK
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appliances at the
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EVERY DAY
THIS WEEK
Don't fail to call during the week
and have a talk with Mrs. A. F.
Haerlin, the expert demonstrator
in charge, representing the Gene
ral Electric Company, of Sche
nectady, N. Y.
Demonstrations Daily
From 10 to 12 a.
PASSING OF THE VETERINARY.
Few Young Men Are Joining the
Ranks of This Profession.
In times of epidemic among cattle
the veterinary surgeon is invaluable.
His general field of work, however, is
limited to-day, because of the preva
lence of automobiles, and few young
men seeking a profession join the vet
erinary ranks.
While there is much work for a vet
erinary to do among invalid dogs,
cats, cows and other domestic pets,
the subject of his most careful study
and most remunerative work is the
horse.
Horses, so valuable and necessary,
are watched devotedly for the slightest
sign of indisposition. The wife may
cough unpleasantly for a week be
fore the doctor is sent for, but the vet
erinary will hurriedly answer the
frantic summons of her husband if his
horse shows the slightest symptoms
of a cold. And the gradu.il disap
pearance of the horse robs the veter
inary of his chief source of income.
Many of the profession who foresee the
continual decrease of their horse pa
tients are applying to the government
for places as surgeons in the cavalry
perhaps the least likely seat of au
tomobile invasion.
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water in the world in fish.
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Shoplifters' Clever Device.
When a woman with an infant in
her arms was detected in the act of
stealing a shawl at a shop in Paris
she pleaded that she was utterly des
titute, and had taken the stiawl to
keep the baby warm. But the latter
proved to be a hollow tin doll contain
ing stolen articles.
Hitting Back.
"Your nearest rival gave me a
gold bracelet," boasted the pretty
girl. "And I will send up my present
to-morrow," replied her other suitor,
in caustic tones. "Ah, something gold,
too." "No; a bottle of acid to test my
rival's present."
How It Looked.
"I think you ought to turn the
lights up a little when your beau
comes," said the boy who is beginning
to use big words to his older sister. "I '
wouldn't sit in the dim light. If I were
you. It looks too conspicuous."
May Be a Whited Sepuleher.
It is a woman's way to think there
Is always some good in a man who
wears a white vest Galveston News.
Generally.
The man who thinks he is one of the
chosen few generally turns out to be
one of the disappointed many.
Where Pride Is Ignorance.
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