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-fij 1 - f --- --- .J i - ! Ill1 I K Hi it! : i I ? m i !f i. l 9 n u nfi-a'.rj! :" - ,V, - Tr., - J - ' (SofamtaisSmmtal. Col Zfetar. OFBUBMSXRIOa: WTOMSDAY. MASCH 10. lHft. 8TR0THEB 8TOCKWELL. Proprietors. HRWAUft-fffc date eppoatta itvmM ea yovmfr,ornncibnntohit ttajrar eshanrlstlna) to paid. Ifcaa JaaSS above tfcat BSjswt MB M neatvad to Jaa. 1,1MB. IskSaIab.l.lMaadaooB. Wham paj t la awla,tM ata,WBlck aaawaca m naafpt, will ha iaaail awnnf iIIbiIt. DuKXHRIHUANCKS-Baaixwafbla aabacrfb ra trill eeatiaae to lecefee tfaia Jouaal amtil fee Mtifadbf lettar to diaeoajBtaM, iallatTeaiaaaaMtbepaid.If fomdoMt wtoktka JeataaleoatiMad for another yaar af ter she aba paid for baa expired, jtob ahoaid liiilasaljrawtifjsatodleeonrlasett. CHASGB IH ADDBESS-Wbeax MMja am See addraaa,aabaerlbara ahoaid ba i M ait thair old m waU m thatr I The legislature continues to kill- time and its platform promises. As the greatest private citizen Mr. Bryan has retired to the back ground. Theodore Roosevelt has retired from the presidency. The Oklahoma legislature has fur nished Governor Haskell a certificate of good character. Now who will come forward with a certificate of good character for the Oklahoma legislature. In proportion to the population, South Carolina has more people who cannot read than any other state in the Union, and they imagine that Senator Tillman is the greatest man the country has ever produced. If all the different bills, providing for appropriating money for various purposes good and bad were enact ed into laws by the present legislature, the tax payers would be compelled to pay out over two millions of dollars. Let's see; wasn't "Economy" one of the reforms the fusionists claimed to stand for during the campaign? If the bill which has been introduc ed in the state legislature providing for the appointment of a state beer inspector becomes a law, Governor Shallenberger will not find much trouble to secure a man for the posi tion. Columbus has about five hun dred men who would not refuse the job. Think of it! Three thousand dollars a year for inspecting beer! In answer to the charge that the democratic members of the legislature have repudiated their platform prom ises, an exchange says "give them time and they'll make good." Yes; give them "time" plenty of it, at least fifty years, for they deserve it Never was a body of men so completely dom inated, run, owned and bossed by half a dozen as are the democratic mem bers of the present legislature. A bill has been introduced in the legislature, as a "reform" measure, of course, compelling real estate men to pay a tax of $25 per year for conduct ing their business. The bill also pro vides that real estate agents shall fur nish a bond to the amount of $10,000 as a guarantee that they will act on the square with their customers. The measure was introduced by one of the numerous lawyers who are responsible for many of the freak bills now before the state law makers. Where was Mr. Bryan when an attempt was made to secure a favor able report on the bill locating an agricultural college in the western part of the state? Did he go before the committee having the bill in charge and insist that his party redeem its platform promises? No! He allowed the bill to be buried without a protest His action amounts to nothing more than repudiation of the plank in his platform declaring for a state agricul tural college. The Lancaster county delegation was opposed to the measure, and Mr. Bryan was never known to favor anything that Lancaster county opposed. The voters heard much about "economy" last fall from democratic orators and newspapers. The last re publican legislature was charged with extravagance. The charge was true, but Governor Sheldon vetoed some of the appropriation bills, and thus pre vented state warrants from depreciat ing. It is now evident that Governor Shallenberger will be compelled to follow the example of Sheldon by vetoing some of the bills providing for additional state normal schools, a binding twine factory and several other unnecessary appropriations. Up to the present time the total amount of mosey asked for by the various bills introduced foot up $4,573,220.09, or a Bullion and a quarter more than the lafMatnre appropriated two years ago. "rr OMfwr.tr Mil, vestas mssM ..tLW Hz saaasas .......................... .Tl SUNS ftSBflBB unit W t TAFT FAVORS TARIFF REFORM. William Howard TaA is sow area dentof the United States, No; man who has filled thehigh offieea-bet-ter equipped from experience to take' up the responsibilities of the chief magistrate of the nation than Tan. His training on the bench, in the Philippines, as secretary of war, and adviser of Boosevelt Jias equipped Mm for the responsible position he now holds. Taft is abig man, intellec tually as well asphysically; he under stands men and measures and has surrounded himself with a cabinet made up of able and broad-minded men who have made the science of good government a study. The new president promises to con tinue the reorm work commenced by Boosevelt, and "make the maintenance and enforcement of these' reforms a most important feature of his adminis tration."' The president has made it plain that he favors tariff reform -not tariff tinkering. The people have heard tariff reform discussed since the campaign of 1884, the year the demo crats won their first national victory since the election of James Buchan- nan, outfit was not until the second administration of Cleveland, ten years later, that, what is termed a tariff reform measure was passed by con gress. The act was a lamentable fail ure and cost the country a big price. The country was enshrouded in com mercial gloom, and it was not until a year after the election of McKinley that order was brought out of chaos. The same conditions that existed in 1896 do not exist today. True, the government is spending more than it is receiving, but the new administra tion will not be compelled to solve the problem of reviving confidence and opening the mills and furnaces. The country is in a reasonably prosperous condition. The farmer is receiving good prices for his products and nearly all manufacturing establishments are in operation. A careful revision of the tariff along non-partisan lines will cause still greater activity in business. The people demand that the tariff on hides be reduced in order to make shoes cheaper. More people buy shoes than have hides for sale; more people eat sugar than are engaged in the sugar industry, and a reduction of the tariff on sugar, and a reduction of the tariff on hides would doubtless swell the revenues of the government On other articles, where the tariff is so high that it practically makes the im portation of an article prohibitive and builds up a monopoly at home, there should be a reduction. Should it be impossible to secure sufficient revenue by import duties, the president says, "new kinds of taxation must be adopted," and recommends a graduated inheritance tax. The only income tax law that was ever enacted, that stood the test of a judicial decis ion, was passed by a republican con gress and signed by a republican pres ident and a tax on incomes is one of the possibilities if a revision of the tariff fails to furnish sufficient revenue. The sentiment on the tariff question has undergone a change within the past few years. The radicalism of the two old parties has disappeared, and there is a tendency to treat the tariff as a business question and eliminate it from politics by the appointment of a tariff commission composed of men from both the republican and demo cratic parties. ROOSEVELT. Theodore Boosevelt retires from the presidency at the age of 50, having served more than seven years. In one respect, at least, he is the greatest of all our chief magistrates. He has done more than any of his predeces sors to expand and utilize the poten tialities of the presidential office as a' representative commission from the people, to make intimate the relations between the public and the govern ment, and to arouse and make assertive the menaced spirit of true democracy. He has manifested a broad, informed sympathy with all sections, all classes and all interests of the country. Through his singular faculty for lead ership he has commanded and used to an unprecedented degree the powerful agency of public opinion in the accom plishment of his purposes. So far as the achievements of his administration are concerned, it can not be said that President Boosevelt has been the product of circumstances. It would be much nearer the truth to say that the circumstances associated with his administration have been the products of Boosevelt He came into authority at a time of peace, plenty and ignoble contentment If he had chosen to be a mere executive and.per functory adviser he might have had one of the most prosaic of administra tions. But he came at a time when a magnetic leader, of rugged personality and aggressive methods, was sorely needed. The roughness of Theodore Boosevelt was as necessary to arouse the public conscience and inspire gov ernmental enterprise as was the. gen tleness of Abraham Lincoln to allay - .iw'" - -"finn" popular! paiiioal andfpreventjgovem-memtaLrepritafc- With the' retirement of President Boosevelt, it should be profitable and inspiring to contemplate the remarka ble record he has made. For his achievements, too numerous to grasp without compilation, will loom big and splendid in authoritative history, when the irritations and resentments attend ing their processes will have been for gotten or will be remembered only as amusing incidents of contemptible manifestations of his time. Previous experience and accom plishments had marked Mr. Boosevelt as a man of lofty purpose and large capacity and had prepared him for the post of the presidency. ' But not even his most sanguine friends could have foreseen the scope and the productive ness of his influence on the nation. The greatest things of the Boosevelt administration are not the completed undertakings, but the aspirations aroused, the movements inaugurated, the projects begun. In some of these he was a creative genius; in others he crystallized and quickened latent pub lic sentiment; in others he became the champion of definite but languishing issues; in all he was a resourceful, tireless, potent leader. Some of his policies have become national, and will endure as long as the nation lives. No other president has shown such foresight or has impressed upon the people so powerfully their obligations to future generations. In viewing the work of the Boose velt administration much creditshould be given to three of his cabinet offi cersWilliam H. Taft, John Hay and Elihu Boot Kansas City Star. THE EVANGELIST'S HIRE. Gypsy Smith, evangelist, is holding forth in Kansas City. He is attract ing more attention than a circus, and his methods are not so different There is even a similarity in motives, which may sound shocking and sacrilegious! But listen, and you will hear the Gypsy praising the town, because of the fine hall it has provided, and then abusing it because the collection is so small. That abuse is the real sac rilege; it forms no part of the faith he presumes to represent Topeka is listening to abuse from the Rev. Mr. Beiderwolf, and Topeka isn't coming through very well, either, although the more or less reverend gentleman will lose no money on the transaction. That is the one bet your modern evangelist never overlooks, and it is a rare town that escapes its portion of abuse. Perhaps the record breaker, both as to cash collections and abuse is Billy Sunday, sometime ball player, and now a plutocratic preacher. Seattle had him recently, and Seattle is en titled to what benefits may be derived from his preaching. Seattle surely paid the price $11,000 for six weeks' work. And it is hard to believe that Sunday is worth the money, or that any great evangelist is. The early evangelists, the greatest of whom was Paul of Tarsus, never displayed a tendency of the itching palm. They lived somehow, and asked no more. Nor did they abuse, and revile the populace. It was a story of much love and forgiveness they had to tell, and was free from abuse and clamor for graft or gain. Statistics show that church membership isn't increasing in this country as it did years ago, and the question arises, Is not the evan gelist partly to blame? There is no faith in fear, and fear is the strongest weapon of the evangelist; fear, and the influence of a magnetic person ality. When the evangelist has passed from the scene, his influence, such as it was, goes with him, and the people drift back to their old way of living and thinking, which probably was better than the evangelist hadmade them believe; even better than the evangelist, who fattens his purse on human emotion. Drake Watson in Atchison Globe. Criticism of the democratic legisla ture is not confined to republicans: Edgar Howard, in the Columbus Tele gram, last week printed the names of the leaders in black type, as being unworthy of confidence. The large majority of the members want to do the right thing, but they lack leader ship and are led along by the corporation-brewery bosses. Albion News. Two weeks from today Theodore Boosevelt will be on the ocean, carry ing with him the best wishes of the American people for a pleasant voyage and safe return to his native land. Hard to Understand. Bacon That's the third time this week I've seen Blinks coming out 01 that X-ray doctor's. Egbert Is that so? What In the world do you suppose the doctor can see in that man? Yonkere Statesman. Domestic Finance. First Landlady If you allow tipping It reduces wages. Second Landlady Tea, but tfea boardera ft too much to oat If ' 9& JBBnfr MMUT araTJaa MMMMMMMMMMVSvVtaMMS'nWaMMEanYvaWfPSLr MMMMMMwi9LavSLaaLaMMSaM9aa9'EQ) m mmmmT sjwjbI mamm bbmmI JaMMaMKaMflaM'afllH'SwV aMMraMMMMF B I mT mmmi" ML aBMaVaMMWiIr . H. sSfQaWBLHLlHlMMr JssaP 9aMMMLH II I bbmI H In Ml m mim av SpfPp .Mkv'mVU II I I ' TflfinlflUrtrtH I I IFtffe, e B - iHiKfiOT I Da4r M I MwilJIHiliamwH I I GLANd2tg39Es. bmt- fin xm HLJI r Hfir ill TjKttltaKKKttKttKKKttKMtKtKKtttKKttMWMFWfWH'mn9 'trsirTrr.rv, ONCE A MORTAL SIN HOW OUR ANCESTORS DISCOUR AGED PERJURY. Fearful Punishments Threatened Failed to Deter Sinful Men from the Crime Some Quaint Folklore Oaths. During one of the occasional out croppings of pure thought with which the recent Ruef trial in Judge Ca bani8s court in San Francisco was il luminated, it was stated by a distin guished prosecutor that "perjury has become the greatest crime of the age." Perhaps the trouble is that perjury does not entail such dire calamities nowadays as it once did. Delving into the subject with the spur of curiosity, we learn that two or three centuries ago it cost something to swear falsely Then it was a mortal sin rather than a simple crime, and some of the domestic troubles which followed were a curse running to the seventh generation, death from a lingering disease within 12 months, or being turned into a stone, swallowed up by the earth and ever afterward crawling about as a vampire. Those punishments which deterred, if one believed them. As a matter of fact, few did, and people committed perjury as merrily in the good old seventeenth century as in the twen tieth. Then, as now, the moral man spoke the truth for practical moral reasons and the immoral man lied for Immoral reasons. Superstition has always been the basis of oaths, and their practical value has depended on the depth of the superstition. That, of course, is evi dent enough, as all that differentiates an oath from a plain statement is that one Introduces an element of religious faith. In California taking an oath requires simply that a witness raise his right hand while the clerk in forms him that he solemnly swears tc "tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help you God." The charm of legendary at taches to the explanation that the hand of the witness was originally raised to show that he had not a weapon concealed in it, but this is apocryphal. Touching a sacred object is a world wide method of oath taking. In earlier ages one swore by the sun or by a great river or some other awesome thing in nature. Even now the Ganges Is the most binding oath to a Hindu. The Tungaz witness still brandishes a knife before the sun, say ing: "If I. lie may the sun plunge sickness. Into my entrails like this knife." The Somali, administering an oath, declares: "God la before us and this .stoae is from Amr Bur," naming a sacrsd noamtala. Tas maa ta ba sworn tnen takes tne stone and says: "I shall not lie in this agreement.' It would be pleasant to believe that he does not. San Francisco Chronicle. Rabbit's Foot, or Pill? Rheumatism is not the only ailment for which the possession of a rabbit's foot or hare's foot has been a specific. Pepys, the seventeenth century diarist had one as a charm against the colic. But he was never quite sure whether he ought to be grateful to it. At the end of 1CG4, noting his abnormally good health for some months past, he remarked: "But I am at a great loss to know whether it be my hare's foot or taking every morning of a pill of turpentine, or my having left off the wearing of a gown. " Three weeks later a friend showed him that his hare's foot was defective, not having "the joint to it." "And it is a strange thing how fancy works," wrote Pepys, "for I no sooner handled his foot, but I became very well, and so continued." Pepys got another hare's foot, and inrove again, Dut in March he was still wondering whether this was due to the charm or to the turpentine pills. Nearly a Hero. "Hands up." The passengers on the Pullman car took in the situation at a glance and did exactly what the train robber told them to. At the points of his guns he relieved them of their valuables. But at the sight of one woman, he paused with a start. "Who are you, woman," he de manded. "I," she quavered, "am Miss Fay de Fluffie, the well-known actress. Here are my jewels take them all!" The hold-up held up his head, proudly. "No," he replied, "I may be a rob ber, but I am .no press agent Keep your wealth!" First Mention of Playing Cards. The earliest direct mention of play ing cards discovered so far is in the "History of the City of Viterbo." The author quotes Covelluzzo, who' wrote about the end of the fifteenth century as follows: "In the year 1379 was brought into Viterbo the game of sards, which comes from the country of the Saracens and is with them called naib." A Cress-Eyed Hit. "That handsome cross-eyed boy makes a great hit when he gives a recitation," whispered one whose eyes are straight "He seems to be so impartial. They think he is looking at them all at one and the same time when the fact of the matter is that he can't look a single one of them straight in the face." Paris Fashions "Wednesday, March 24th THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE publishes its great Annual Spring Fashion Number. This edition will show the leading styles for all ages, from the baby to the grand mother. Besides the regular news section, there will be several sec tions in full color, printed on fine paper. There will be a women's section, devoted exclusively to the styles and affairs of women; there will be a men's section, devoted to men's wear; there will also be a Home Beautiful Section. Newest things in furniture will be described as well as in clothes. Order now. It will help you decide the problem of Spring clothes. ORDER FROM YOUR NEWSDEALER AT ONCE ymysrzsiiiytt'" ' jaar Notice! A London man attempted to prevent an angry husband from abusing his wife, whereupon the wife shot and killed the good Samaritan. Universal Patent Costly. To secure a patent in each of the 64 countries issuing them would cost an inventor $15,000, exclusive of the at torneys' fees. Thoughtful Waiter. Waiter "Be careful of the soup, gentlemen. It is so hot that it has scalded both my dorfer Blatter. thumbs." Megsen- Mission of Successful Man. Not to outshine, but to shine upon his neighbors, is the successful man's mission. Towne. Sometimes the Less, the Better. We have noticed that anybody who can sing can play the piano a little. Atchfenn Globe. TaaaaajaaaajaAaaBBaaaaaBBBaBaBaBaBaBaBaBBa. araW - a iSaw a a aSj JasSBa Tar Bs ' Iff ' ttRlinilllRHBrSjlOBBBBkS3l BBBl bbV. " j ' i" ?r w "L. -r-j-y XJ-aajJ jeaajaasajMaalBiPsaWjay Globe-Wernicke "Elastic'; Bookcase I Ja a variety of C sis HH Gal aad aw it or HFNRY RAv furniture & undertaking ItLllll I UfflUV Beth ihcn:35-21-21-S3 West 11th St -J n NOTICE OF INCORPORATION. Notice i hereby Riven that E. H. Chambers, II. F J. HockenberKer and W. E. Harvey have associated themselves together for the purpose of form ins and becoming a corporation under the laws of the state of Nebraska. FirwU The name of this corporation shall be The Home Builders Company. Hecond. The princiiwU 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 bny. sell, exchange, hold, plat, subdivide, improve, mort. (cape or lease real estate ami to take, hold. sell, assign, transferor pledge any mort gage, contract or other property acquired in the conrse of said business. Fourth. The authorized capital stock of said corporation hall be One Hundred Thousand Dollars, Forty Thousand Dollars of which must be subscribed and paidnp before commencing; business. Fifth. The existence of this corporation shall commence on the 24th dar of Nnvemlmr. 1(M and continue for a period of Ninety-Nine years. Sixth. The highest amonnt of indebtedness to which this corporation shall Btibject Itself shall not exceed two-thirds of its paid np 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 urer. The secretary and treasurer may be one and the same person. H. F. J. Hockxxbzbgeb, Secretary. First-class printing done at the Jour nal office. ISMMBCHpoft aftbaie apes. 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