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The senator who made the admission is one of the leaders of the republican party in northeast Nebraska and claims to represent the sentiment of his party throughout the state. If the republi cans of Nebraska are really in favor of prohibition, why try and deceive the people by raising the cry of coun ty option. If the next republican state convention declares for county option, the question then becomeePa part'ftfin issue. The history of the prohibition movement in northern states has always been detrimental to republican success, and resulted in a victory for, democrats, while prohibi tionists who affiliate with the demo cratic party are sincere in the stand they take, yet when it comes to voting for candidates invariably they stand for their party nominees, while repub licans, who are opposed to prohibition, vote for democrats in preference to the nominees of their own party when prohibition is an issue. Prohibition split the republican party in Kansas, Iowa, North and South Dakota, and it was not until the party abandoned the-prohibition issue that it was allow ed' to return to power. If the option ists in the "republican party insist on making prohibition an issue in Ne braska, and force the party to endorse their views, it would mean the election of a democrat to succeed Senator Burkett, and the election of a demo cratic governor and other state officers in 1910. A CASE OF TAINTED MONEY. The announcement that JosieMans ield, seventy years old, is living in poverty near Watertown, South Da kota, recalls a tragedy almost forgot ten by the present generation. Forty years ago, Josie Mansfield, then an actress, was alluded to as the hand somest woman in America. The prominence of Josie Mansfield as an adventuress commenced from the 24th day of September, 1869, known in the , history of Wail street as "Black Fri day." At that time there was in the banks of New York City $15,000,000 in gold coin, which had a market value of $1.30. Jim Fisk and Jay Gould formed a "corner" to advance the price of gold and succeeded in running it to $1.60, when Boutwell, secretary of the treasury, ordered the sale of several million of dollars of :gold in the sub-treasury and broke the "corner." Gold dropped twenty per cent in five minutes, but Fisk and Gould managed to carry off eleven millions of dollars by fraudulent lipulations. Soon after this, Fisk the. acquaintanca of Josie Mansfield, and with the money made ob Black Friday gave her a brown atone front on Fifth Avenue, pur chased hec'iamoMds-lknd supported far in luxury. Fisk's liberality in other directions was equally as lavish. When the Chicago fire occurred and an appeal to the country for aid was made, Fisk sent an express train load ed with provisions to the homeless and starving. In the fall of 1871, Edward Stokes, a prominent, society man of New York and a former admirer. of Josie Mansfield, shot Fisk dead in a New York hotel. Stokes, after three trials, was sentenced to a term of three years in Sing Sing. He died a, few years ago. And now the woman, who became the beneficiary of the proceeds of Fisk's gambling speculations in Wall Street, and wbe was in a meas art responsible for Fisk's death and prison sentence, is dying in friendless and almost The case of Josie Mansfield where ."tainted" money did prove a curse. ibhoidix. iifcuilill I but! WUm gay t .the data, waleh aaawats a a naatat. CKAME Of ADDBKB-lVham etderisc to atoa task aid at wall at that saw addma. TO DETHRONE BRYAN. Two years ago a repabliaaa legisla ture made" good every promise made in the platform the ML previous. Not a single plank was ignored, not a pro mise broken. Contrast the present legislature with the republican legislature of two years ago, and what do yon find, Mr. Voter? The record up to the present time has been a failure. Not a single promise at this writing has been held sacred. On the other hand certain alleged re forms, which the Democratic press and democratic orators, including Bryan. and Shallenberger, solemnly promised would be enacted into laws, have actuallv been repudiated some of them by committees and others slaugh tered in the house and senate by the men who stood pledged in their favor. But promises have not been, the only things repudiated and ignored.' The action of the democratic members indi cate that they have become tired' of Bryan and made up their mind to dethrone him as leader in Nebraska. Although he dictated the state plat form adopted by the democratic con vention last summer, and has been a persistent lobbyist for some of the freak planksm that platform, and for personal legislation in harmony with his peculiar ideas, he has been turned down so completely that "Tie feels humiliated, and appears to realize that he has lost prestige among the faithful who have cheered for every paramount issue and new idea he has inflicted upon his party. In all' his twenty years of political activity in Nebraska, Bryan has always been for Bryan. He has beat down all opposition to his schemes within the ranks of his own party and kept safe and sane men from even attempting to have a voice in the councils of the party. He has called to his support a lot of slobber ing admirers who' have that childlike simplicity of the boy who believed that "its so if 'taint so if ma says so." But every politician, like the cham pion prize fighter, has his day, and Mr. Bryan's day as the brutal boss of the democratic party of Nebraska is drawing to a close. Hitchcock, Shal lenberger and other democrats, who have been like faithful dog trays in following their master, have turned at last. They realized several years ago that the Peerless One assumed to pos sess all the statesmanship of his party, but the blinded followers of the three times defeated' candidate for president could not be sidetracked from follow ing the bell sheep of the democratic herd, and so Hitchcock, Shallenberger and other brainy men in the party discretely mingled with the common herd, waiting for an opportunity to prick the inflated champion of many isms and let the wind out of his polit ical sails. The election last fall of Shallenberger for governor, and the unlooked for victory of Hitchcock, placed before the party two new polit ical stars. The victory of the former was especially significant, as it was no secret that Tom Allen, Bryan's brother-in-law, and chairman of Undemo cratic state central committee, would have been glad to have seen Shallen berger defeated, for he realized that the democratic nominee would become a political power in the state and eclipse the popularity and influence of Bryan. Allen's fear appears to have been realized. Governor Snellen berger's influence is making itself felt in his party, and he and Congressman Hitchcock appear to have united in an effort to wrest the leadership of the party in Nebraska from the man who has always used it for his own per sonal advancement and profit. There is a good sized tow brewing in the ranks of the party, and the par tisans of the one, time popular leader have opened a campaign of abuse against members of the legislature who refuse longer to crawl along the Bryan trail. SNEAKED BACK TO OMAHA. The day the vote on county option was taken in the senate, Elmer Thomas, of Omaha, member of the state Anti-Saloon League, was pres ent It will be rememberedthat last fall, prior to election, Mr. Thomas and several other prominent members of the Anti-Saloon League, entered into a conspiracy with Jim Dahlman to throw the votes of prohibitionists to Shallenberger in order to defeat Shel don. The deal was successful, and thousands of prohibitionists in, York, Boone,' Lancaster Polk and other counties went to the polls and voted as Thomas. dictated. The presence of Thomas ' in Lincoln, gave Senator Meyers of Bock county, who voted in favor of county option, an opportunity to express his opinion of the Omaha "reformer" and other members of the League who worked with him to defeat Sheldon. The attack of the senator from Bock was unexpected and created a iwmitina. Thomas sneaked out of the senate chamber and hurried to the depot and boarded the first train leaving for Omaha. It is alleged that Thomas received pay for his dirty work in the cam-' paign, but his friend, Dahlman denies the charge. DEMOCRATIC INSURGENTS. There are' democratic insurgents in the legislature. The men who are in favor of accepting the Carnegie pension fund are so designated by the .followers of Mr. Bryan. Here isa list of the house insurgents who refuse to be dictated to by Mr. Bryan and voted to accept the fund: Bowman, Bushee, Boyd, Carr, Chab, Clark, Cooperider, Dolegal, Evans, Groves, Harrington, Hosjodsky, Humphrey,' Kotouc, Eraus, Scheele, Taylor and Thomas. All the republicans, with the exception of one, voted to accept the fund. Although the 'proposition to accept the fund was defeated, the vote was close. The action of the house cannot be regarded as a' victory for Mr. Bryan, in view of the factthat eighteen dem ocrats who have followed the political fortunes of the Peerless Boss for many years turned him down last Friday and voted in direct opposition to his stomach growling pleadings. The one time idol of the democratic party has a divided house on his hands, and almost every school -boy has heard what Abraham Lincoln said of a divided house. FOR REVISION OF THE TARIFF. For the first time in many years the public is taking a lively interest in the tariff question. Politicians and manu facturers have had more or less to say about, it, but the mass of the people have been indifferent They paid little attention while the McKinley tariff act was being considered. They did not ask for it, and for one reason and another they repudiated it after it was passed. At the time of the enact ment of the Wilson and the Dingley laws the people were thinking of silver far more than they were of the tariff. Now the one has passed out of mind and the other has come to the front There is a genuine popular demand for tariff legislation. A newspaper which' recently tried to find what legislation its subscribers wished to get from the Sixty-first Congress ascertained that what they chiefly wanted was tariff revision. Another interesting feature of the situation is that so many manufac turers are asking for low duties or no duties on many articles. They are largely the manufacturers' who want cheaper raw materials, so that they may hold or enlarge their trade in foreign markets, while the ordinary consumer has a general impression that he has to pay -more for some arti cles than he should because of excess ive tariff duties. These manufacturers see clearly how the export trade of the country in manufactures is hampered and choked by certain duties. They are valuable auxiliaries in the popular campaign for- tariff revision a revi sion of the downward, not of the up ward kind. This popular sentiment, which knows no party, which prevails among republicans as well as among demo crats, is something which congress cannot trifle with. It is something which the old stagers of the ways and means committee, who cannot have forgotten the disastrous political con sequences of the enactment of an un popular tariff law, cannot safely ignore. The bill to be submitted by them to the house this month will be scanned more carefully by a greater number of people than any previous tariff bill. The country looks for the "tariff bill drawn in good faith" President Taft mentioned in his inaugural address. An attempt at sham revision would be followed by stormy protests. The people of small means and they are the majority ask for a revision that will lower the cost of'Iiving by reduc ing the ability of monopolies to put up pmes. Chicago Tribune. FREE HIDES, CHEAP SHOES. It is announced with seeming auth ority that the House Ways and Means committee has taken the'duty off hides and made substantial cuts in the tariffs on leather and shoes. This is well so far as it goes, but when the bill reach es' the conference committee, hides, leather and shoes should all be put on the free list And, inasmuch as the tanners and shoe manufacturers at least some of the representative opera tors in these industries have time an j again declared that they could easily get along without protection if they could get free hides, there ought to be no formidable' obstruction to -placing these three articles on the" free list, provided hides are finally put there. The real beneficiaries practically the only beneficiaries of the duty on hides are, the packers. The packers have made a good many stockmen be lieve that free hides would reduce the market price of beef cattle. If it woaldhave such a result the reduction would be wholly arbitrary. The cat tlemen know that the packers have already reduced the margin of profit between the cost orraisiag, fattening and marketing the steer and the sell ing price of the steer to' such a small scale that it cannot be made smaller without seriously menacinr the source of the packers' supplies. It is a re markable fact that the profits of cattle raising are smaller now than when retail prices for meats were much lower. And the reason is that the packers have absorbed the profits of both the cattle business and the meat business to such an extent that the margins are often close on the range and in the retail shop, even while the prices Jojconsulners are so high that the consumption- of meat is rapidly declining. Take the duty off-hides and make the packers sell their hides at prices necessary 'to f compete with imported skins. That-done, there is no reason why the tanner should be protected, for he can' make leather cheaper than it can be imported. 'And the duty off leather, take it off shoes" also, for the American manufacturer, with his im proved machinery and superior work manship, and his large and available supply of leather, can compete without protection wiih foreign manufacturers. - Net result: Cheaper shoes for the people, a slight reduction in the abnor mal profits of the packers. Kansas City Star. ; MISTAKEN ZEAL. The Carnegie foundation, whose beneficent help Mr. Bryan and the democratic members of the Nebraska legislature are not in favor of accept ing for this state, was originally organ ized for the, purpose of granting pen sions to aged college and university professors, but it is gradually extend ing its jurisdiction and broadening its usefulness. William E. Curtis, a well known Washington correspondent tells how each successive report of the board of trustees shows the results of its endeavors to improve the standard of educational institutions in this country. The report of Dr.Henry S.Pritchett, the president, and his associate trus tees for the year 1908 shows that much work of importance was accomplished during the year and that much more was undertaken. They have entered a field of investigation and endeavor which has required attention and which offers an opportunity for great good. x In order to enjoy the benefits of the pension system which Mr. Carnegie has endowed it is necessary for an ed ucational institution to maintain a certain standard of instruction and scholarship. This has been a suffi cient inducement for several colleges already to advance their courses of study, and others are preparing to do so. Dr. Pritchett and his associates are now using their influence to secure uniform requirements for admission to college and graduation, an advance in the standards of professional schools, and a more generous support for insti tutions of higher education. They are also encouraging colleges and univer sities to adopt and maintain retired lists for professors, and are agitating a general system of insurance for the teachers of the public schools. These are large tasks and there was no one to undertake them until the trustees of the Carnegie foundation discovered the vital importance of such reforms to our system of public education. These are the tasks for which Ne braska shows no appreciation. And the strange thing about it is that not a single sound argument against the acceptance of the money has been ad vanced. This state probably will be shut out merely because of the mis taken zeal of a certain eminent gen tleman whose word his political home folks blindly follow. Lincoln Star. Oh, Quit Here is the way to quit smoking (recommended by a man who ailed to make it work) : Instead of quitting off short, quit gradually. Don't smoke in the morning until you can't stand it any longer. Then smoke a cigar, and then quit again until you are compelled to smoke or go crazy. By degrees, you will learn to do without smoking. Atchison Globe. All Explosive. "There's a paint shop around the corner on First avenue that's just as full as can be of all sorts of explo sives," said the east .side woman. "Naphtha, kerosene, turpentine, and do you know what else they've got there? A cross-eyed girl clerk. It's tempting Providence." New York Press. ' A Witty Revivalist. A revivalist in Carterville enlivens his addresses with such anecdotes as this: "An old woman shouted in the revival. Her husband said: I felt like going through the floor.' She replied: 'And I felt like going through the roof.'- Each was attracted home." Kansas City Star. Jimmy Knew When to Start. "My -son Jimmy came home from school yesterday crying as if his heart would break. 'For heaven's sake, stop it, son!' I commanded. Did you yell that way all the way down, the streetr N-bo,' he sobbed. 1 started when I got to th' front m " Cleveland i, WESLEY CALLED A VAGABOND. Irish Grand Jury Dealt Hardly Founder f Methodism. with The Irish Tear Book for 1908, just leaved at Dublin, contains a bit of history concerning John and Charles Wesley that is not generally known to Methodism. This account notes that John Wesley arrived in Dublin on a Sunday In August, 1747. He had been preceded by a lay preacher earlier 'in the same year, whqhad gathered a society numbering almost 300. These Wesley describes as "strong in faith." Of the. Irish he writes, "So civil a people in general I never saw either in Europe or America." , Charles Wesley and other preachers followed him and the Methodist song 'writer heard his own tunes sung and whistled as he went. Pork city was disturbed in 1748 by the advent of the new preachers. A. local ballad singer gains temporary notoriety as a riot leader. Subsequently the grand jury declared: "We And and present Charles Wesley to be a person of ill-fame, a vagabond and a common disturber of his majesty's peace and we pray that he may be transported." The movement had spread to Ulster in 1750. At Limerick, in 1752, John Wesley presided over the first conference of the preachers. John Wesley died in .1791, having made more than two score cross-channel journeys and having spent six years ot his life in Ireland, as well as presiding at all the conferences from 1756 to 1778. Notwithstanding the steady stream of emigration the Methodist church in Ireland has 250 ministers, 358 Sunday schools, with a total of more than 26,000 pupils and -about 65,000 .members. NOT ENTIRELY TO HIS LIKING. Guide's Objection to Bear Too Much Alive for Comfort. Miss Geraldine Parrar, at a luncheon' in her honor in Philadelphia, marveled at the American hotel manager's dis like of the dog. "No one objects to a nice little dog abroad," she said, "but over here they fear a dog' as much as Pete Wilson feared "But that is a story a bear story and I must begin at the beginning. "A party of easterners went bear hunting in California. Pete Wilson led the party, and day and night he boasted of his skill as a bear killer. They got no bear on the hunt, and Pete grieved terribly. "'This is good enough grub,' he would say, as he pitched into a cold can of preserved meat, 'but the finest meal in the world, in my opinion, is a bear steak, grilled to a turn over a log fire. "'Gimme bear,' Pete growled one day. 'Gimme a good bear brile. I'm gettin sick of this canned stuff.' "'Look out!' cried a neighbor. "There's a bear right behind you man!' "Pete gave one look. It was- a bear, sure enough. He turned very pale, and bounded off into the woods. " 'We thought you liked bear?' they said sarcastically to him on his return " 'So I do,' said Pete, 'but that f el lei wasn't well enough done.' " Patriot. That Kentuckians have a very high regard for their native state is illus trated by this anecdote told by one of them: Once a Kentuckian died. So a near relative went to the local tombstone artist to arrange about an inscription on the deceased's tombstone. After due cogitation the near relative said: "Carve on it: 'He's gone to a bettei place.' " "I'll carve "he's gone to heaven,' if you want me to," remarked the tomb stone artist, "but, as for that other in scription there's no better place than Kentucky!" Women of the Future. Mrs. Annie Nathan Meyer in one jof the February magazines says that women, like negroes, proud of. their emancipation, have been trying to dc the things that men do, rushing into 'already overcrowded professions, in order to be indifferent seconds. She thinks it is now time to Xtop, and that women and negroes should stick to the things they did in the past She wants to know why pounding i, typewriter should be considered more intellectual work than beating an ome let. As women adjust themselves tc the new conditions the despised home will take on a new dignity. Will Reform The Turks. Princess Fatima el Melmed, wife of a Turkish prince, is busy in forming a league of Turkish women, the mem bers of which are to pledge them selves not to marry men who take more than one wife. She was smug gled out of the harem several years ago, went to Berlin and studied the woman question. She was cast off by her husband and father and had a hard time to support herself, but when she was nearly starved to death the revolution broke out and she was allowed to return to her own country Bound to Be a Success. Smiley I see the women of Su burbia have adopted a sure method of securing a circulating library. Banks How is that? Smiley Why, they've made a rule that every time a woman says a mean thing about any of her neighbors she has to contribute a cent to the library fundi Illustrated Sunday Magazine. More Than Figurative. "Alas," sighed Weary Wiggles, gaz ing dejectedly upon his torn and tat tered trousers, "I'm afraid these here pants is on their last legs!" Lippin cott's. Work of Jungle Monarch In India. A year's death rate from tigers in In dia numbers 698 human beings and nearly 29,000 head of cattle. Long Life ef Cocoanut Palm. the Brazilian cocoanut palm Uvea to W Bran ig aim's m Columbus - - Nebraska r Will be held on the following dates: Monday, March 15 1909 Monday, March 29, 1909 Monday, April 12, 1909 Monday, April 26, 1909 I always have from 200 to 250 horses for every sale, besides a number of good spans of mules and farm mares, and have sold every horse that was in condition at every sale this season. Parties selling horses in my sales should be in by 10 o'clock in order to get them listed. Anyone wishing to get their names on my mailing list can have it by sending me your name and address. THOS. BRANIGAN Columbus, Neb. How Lapp Collects Reindeer. In April, the Lapp lets his reindeer loose to wander as they please, and when the mosquitoes begin to abound (about midsummer) collects his herd simply by catching one deer, fitting it with a bell and trusting to instinct (which leads the animals to gather into herds for protection against the mosquitoes) to do the rest. Iu a cool summer, when mosqiutoes are few. this instinct does not come into play, and it is almost Impossible to bring the reindeer together. Statesman's Complaint. England's house of commons wants ventilation. Plenty of air is pumped into the chamber, and it comes through the gratings on the floor, but it comes from a spot just over the bank of the Thames river, with Its ill-favored barges. And the other even ing a member met a colleague with his handkerchief to his nose. "You never know what will pass inside," he spluttered, "but you always know what's passing outside." Make It Effective. Markham: We have committed the golden rule to memory; now let us commit it to life. No Chance for Argument. No man dares dispute that a mar ried woman is a slave. His wife won't let him. Brooklyn Standard-Union. Before All Things, Humility. Humility is the A, B, C of spiritual life. St. Vincent. - BsssssssssssW SBsV BsssssssssW I iBEE jsib mm rflsH MrrrT 'iisHiui IBsnsmDlLBsssHssBII LsH SBBBB I 111 1 Tfl BMMITBSBBBBSSBSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSy BBBBbB V f - .... - .- . . ... ..f rTMJ fij XmfcjT Globe-Wernicke "Elastic'; Bookcase that grows with yoar fifinry and always fist it, that h umtc b f aste aad caa he atmatyd Ja a varisty ef aiwjlie si at a time, withos datarfciftf the books. fceft dwjt-frosf CalaW tmimintmhfm HFNRY fini IILIlll I UflUw? W m Cut Flowers. To keep the water fresh and sweet in vases of cut flowers, add to it a small bit of sugar. This is successful even in the case of such things as wallflowers. The Minnesota Girl. It is said that every third Minnesota girl is a breadwinner. It is hoped that the other two girls are bread makers. Minnesota certainly has the flour. Cleveland Plain Dealer. African "Butter Tree." The "butter tree" grows in Central Africa. From the kernel of its nnt Is obtaine'd nice, rich butter, which may be kept a year or more. Man Is Not Made for Himself Only. No man is made only for himself and his own private affairs, but to serve, profit and benefit others. Ben jamin Colman. Pavemental. Few of us are interested in those famous pavements made of good inten tions, as we don't expect to go there, anyhow. Chicago News. Popular Names in Britain. In England and Wales, out of every 100,000 girls and boys, 6,820 are called Mary and 6,590 William. Immense Mexican Haciendas. 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