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April 3 is the'daie set for the Ad
journment of the legislature.
Where was John Weems when the
Vote on county option was taken?
When" law makers become law
breakers it's time to impeach them.
People who own land along the
Loop and Platte are all in favor of a
bank' guaranty.
It is now in order for Mr. Bryan to
deliver his Prince of Peace lecture be
fore the members of the legislature.
A mob divided against itself cannot
stand. Possibly that's the reason the
democratic legislature has proved a
failure.
After all the democrats in the leg
islature are opposed to "home rule."
They refused to pass the Lincoln
charter bill.
Some of the democrats in the legis
lature have got their eyes open at
last, but Shoemaker, of Douglas, is
not one of them.
Instead of a gavel the presiding
officer of the lower house of the Ne
braska legislature should be provided
with a club. Tapping a desk with a
gavel won't quiet a mob?
Hie Nebraska rioters in session at
Lincoln have passed a bill to keep
snakes out of city water tanks, but
refused to seriously consider a measure
to keep snakes out of boots.
The Bepublican party of Nebraska
has made mistakes and almost un
pardonable blunders, but the party
.has never beenaccused of perpetual
incompetency, criminal negligence
and stupidity.
The Joplin, Missouri, ministers who
prayed for a high tariff on zinc made
an unpardonable blunder. They
should have prayed for a representa
tive in congress with nerve enough to
sell his vote to the house machine for
"tariff concessions."
People are refusing to pay taxes on
their "old Kentucky home," down in
Colonel Watterson's state and the
governor has eent the militia into sev
eral, counties to collect the amounts
due the state. There never was a time
when people were not protesting
against paying taxes.
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Every time a Columbus man pays
C ! doUarfbr sugar he, gets about 60
j t cents' worth of sugar and the govern-
urcuii hh uiuieu puues gets we
d. other 40 cibts. The tariff
"reform'
southern
Mtisaaocrats of some of the
; that this kind of- "protec
tion" be reincorporated in the Payne
tariff bilL
With two men owning nearly all
the'live pine land in the country and
the lumber output of Canada practi
cally controlled by a. trust, the repeal
of the duty on lumber will notcheapen
it to the consumer to any great extent,
if at aU. The trust would simply add
the present duty to the wholesale price
and continue to skin the public.
A new champion of the, lumber
trust has made himself conspicuous in
congress. His name is Fordney, of
Michigan, a member of the ways and
Means committee, and when charged
by Bepresentative By rd of Mississippi,
'with being a member of the lumber
barons trust, he retorted "the gentle
ssan does not know a damned thing
about it!"
The Lincoln Star announces that
two Omaha men haye decided to
ptasent to the state university $100,000
in cash, and there is great rejoicing in
the capital city. But hold! Is the
ef the Omaha men "tainted?"
Mr. Bryan given his consent?
Than esjectioas will have to be met
and ovatcpate before the university
cam aaospt the money.
'. That's. dirty insinuation! That's
adeceitfallie! You're hM dirty in
everything!" shrieked Bepresentative
Shoemaker to Bepresentative Taylor.
And then .Taylor rushed up and
knocked Shoemaker down. No, .the
scrap did not take place in a saloon,
but in the hall of the house of repre
sentatives at Lincoln. .The language
of the Bowery and the argument of the
bruiser are the weapons used by our
democratic friends in their .enthusiasm
to "carry out" campaign promises.
This little misunderstanding between
the gentleman from Douglas and the
gentleman 'from Custer grew out of the
discussion of Taylor's bill allowing
women to vote at municipal elections.
Shoemaker was opposed to the meas
ure, which 'riled the Custer county
statesman and he made' a coarse re
mark reflecting upon the 'good name
of the representative from Douglas, to
which 'Shoemaker responded in the
language quoted above. Both Shoe
maker and Taylor are fair representa
tives of the majority party in the leg
islature the party that promised
everything and has accomplished prac
tically nothing; the party whose leader
claimed for it all the political moral
ity, wisdom, intelligence and true pat
riotism in Nebraska; the party that
never wielded power without abusing
it; the party of opposition, obstruction
and destruction; the party of exploded
theories and inflated Ideas; the party
that has never redeemed a pledge or
acted in harmony except for pelf,
plunder and pap. This has been the
record of the democratic party of Ne
braska dominated as it is by Bryanism
and tinctured with socialism. The
majority party of the present legisla
ture is made up of men far below the
average citizen intellectually, morally
and socially. Some of them are mere
"accidents," politically speaking, who
owe their elevation to positions of
trust and responsibility to the popu
larity of Governor Shallenberger who
"pulled them through" on election
day. Among such a class of men
harmonious and intelligent action for
the common good of the people of the.
state is impossible.. The only meas
ures upon which the members of the
dominant party have united has been
for the purpose of creating official
positions for the hungry horde sur
rounding the state house and howling
for "pie." It will be a relief to the
tax payers when the. mob quits rioting.
The tariff bill is now before the
lower branch of congress, and when
that body gets through with it the bill
will .go to the senate and be referred
to the finance committee of which Sen
ator Aldrich, of Rhode island) is
chairman, and Senators Lodge and
Hale are members. Aldrich has
already told the president that the
senate will never agree to an inheri
tance tax, and he- no doubt knows
what he is talking about- New Eng
land, New York, New Jersey and
Pennsylvania will practically control
tariff legislation in the senate. With
Hale and Lodge and Aldrich repre
senting the manufacturing interests,
and hostile to. an inheritance tax,
the country cannot expect any mate
rial reduction on eastern made goods.
With an inheritance tax it would be
possible to reduce the tariff tax and
still secure enough revenue to pay the
expenses of the government What
ever Aldrich says goes. He is in
command. He is the czar that -will
dictate and crush all opposition to true
tariff reform.
If Governor Shallenberger ever has
an opportunity to appoint a state beer
inspector, what an army of unterrifled
applicants with lolling tongues he'll
have to select from. What a'snap it
would be for a good man like Elmer
Thomas to travel through Nebraska
and inspect (drink) beer at a salary of
43,000 a year. Shallenberger owes
the Thomas faction of the Anti-Saloon
League-a political debt, nd. the ap
pointment of Elmer as official beer
taster at a good salary nught to be
sufficient compensation for his dirty
work last fall.
Women's Sweet Laughter.
A woman has no natural grace more
bewitching than a sweet laugh. It is
like the sound of flutes on the water;
It leaps from her heart in a clear
sparkling rill, and the heart that hears
It feels as If bathed In the cool ex
hilarating spring. How much we owe
to that sweet laugh! It tarns the
prose of our life Into poetry; It flings
showers of sunshine over the dark
some wooden which we are traveling;
it touches with light oar sleep which
Is no more the Image of death, but
gemmed with" dreams that are the
shadow of Immortality. Exchange."
Her Criticism.
The five-year-old daughter . of a
.Brooklyn man has had such a large
experience of dolls that she feels her
self to be something of a connoisseur
In children, relates Lipplncott's. Re
cently there-canM a real baby into the
house. When It was pat into her arms
the flve-yearold surveyed It with crit
ical eye.
Teat it a alee habyr asked
"Yes, Kb alee," answered the young
ster nsattatlBcr. It's alee, bat It's
TRUE GENEROSITY
Here is a picture of a soldier, who,
like Sir Philip Sidney, k giving to
another soldier the last few drops of
water in his own canteen. This is an
editorial on generosity, and no picture
could better illustrate it; for giving to
another what one needs himself is true
generosity.
Let us not begin with the supposi
tion that generosity- is rare. Every
man who remembers his mother knows
better than that ' Where is the moth
er who would not deny herself for her
child? .Where is the mother who
would not go without pretty clothes,
food, drink; medicine, comfort, that
her children might have all these
things? Where is the mother living
today who 'does not daily undergo
sacrifices cheerfully to add a' little to
the enjoyment of. her sons and daugh
ters? ' - . .
But th&Jives of the mothers of the
world, while they set a beautiful ex
ample for all mankind, are too often
passed by with neglect
. And today we ask you to consider
the case of. large numbers of people
who think they are generous because,
from some purely selfish motive, they
give away what they do not need.
The man about town, coming home
from the opera, sees a beggar, woman
on the street corner, and tosses a dol
lar bill to her. He feels a generous
thrill as he does this worthy thing
his chest expands, and he says' to him
self: "Really, I am a pretty good
fellow, after all. No appeal from the
suffering is made to me in vain'."
Next morning hejis informed that
his brother is ill dying, perhaps in
a far away town. To send money is
easy. He writes his check for a couple
of hundred dollars and drops it into
a mail box with another glow of self
satisfied pride. "It does beat the
world," he murmurs to himself, "what
a generous chap I am. How many
brothers would be so willing to dig
up instantly, too and without a
thought about the money?"
But strange news comes back over
the telegraph wire. His brother
doesn't need money; he has enough to
pay for his doctor and his hospital
bills. He is all alone, without friends.
What he wants is, to see his brother r
tothave some relative by him in his
last illness.
Ah! This is a different matter. To
go to the sick brother's bedside would
mean sacrifice sacrifice of pleasure,
of business interests, of comfort The
brother thinks it oyer and grows un
comfortable. Then he says to him
self:
"It is all foolishness his wanting
me. He has money, he has good doc
tors, a good nurse, everything that can
be done for him is being done. It is
outrageous that he should ask me to
leave my friends and my home and
my business and go to him. I'll send
him all the money he wants, but as for
going no, it can't be done!"
'And so our pattern of generosity,
who blithely tosses a dollar bill to a
beggar woman, isn't generous, after
all; only a selfish, sordid, every-day
man, who will give freely and contin
uously as long as it doesn't cost him
anything.
Aside from the miser, who has
money mania, which is merely a men
tal disease, the people who care for
money for itself are not very plentiful.
Most human beings value it for what
it will buy. And if they invest it in
purchasing peace of mind, or a feeling
of self-satisfaction, they can lay no
claim to generosity.
Of course, the world usually bene
fits from their liberality, and it should
not be discouraged. Better give a
, begger woman a dollar than to give it
to a saloon keeper. Better bestow
three or four millions on a university
or medical college than use it to
manipulate the stock market
In a world that has not learned to
take care of its mentally and physi
cally sick which permits a condition
that produces beggars, allows children
to go hungry and tolerates the ravages
of preventable disease liberality on
the part of men who know how to
make money is necessary.
Mr. Rockefeller, having more mon
ey than he could spend on himself if
his life were to be' prolonged through
centuries; endows a college in Chicago,
and, better still, establishes a great
institution in New York' for the pur
pose of finding the causes of the dread
ful diseases that lay waste the popu
lation of whole tenement districts at a
time. His liberality is needful. There
should be no question of accepting his
money or asking where he got it. Such
part of it as he has given away is doing
good work.
MrQarnegie, having amased some
hundreds of millions, chooses to spend
Carrie Nation called at the White
House last Tuesday to see President
Taft The president was not "at
home" to Carrie.
it on libraries, and books to fill them,
providing, thriftily, as he thinks, that
the beneficiaries of his liberality shall
be liberal, too.
Hie libraries are useful the books
ought to be read. There is no reason
why any community should refuse a
Carneeie library if it can afford to
keep it up.
But the liberality of Mr. Carnegie,
like the liberality of .Mr. Rockefeller;
costsjhe giver nothing.
Endowing a university does not
mean that there will be less meat on
the Rockefeller table, fewer automo
biles to carry die head of the Rocke
feller 'family-to and 'from -work, a
scarcity of greensward, on the Rocke
feller golf course, oranJmpaired cam
paiga fund at Mr. Archbold's disposal
in the Standard Oil treasury:.
And all the libraries that Mr. Car
negie has given away 'have not im
posed" upon him any self denial and
self-denial is what counts, after all.
' It is not to be denied that as a nation
we have a habitof looking at price
marks, which very seldom tell us any
thing about actual prices.
The price tag of a princely gift by
a millionaire may be a million dollars
the actual cost of the education of a
poor boy, secured, at the expense of
his parents' toil and worry and self
-sacrifice, is vastly greater than that
' The price mark on a boquet sent to
an actress by some earnest admirer
may be three hundred dollars. The
actual price she pays for success in her
profession is not to be measured in
dollars. It means the sacrifice of
home, friends, happiness, endless work,
mental and nervous strain, and per
haps an early grave just when the
dearly bought success is at hand.
It costs a rich man nothing to give
a waiter a ten-dollar bill at the end of
a meal. It costs the waiter real
trouble to serve that meal, to -submit
to the patron's exactions and too often
to his incivil language.
The actor or actress devoting to
charity gifts made valuable by long
years of toil; the doctor giving his
valuable time to the poor, without
hope of compensation; the clergyman
working for the physical and moral
welfare of his congregation on a fourth
of the salary he could earn outside the
church; the honest statesman sacrific
ing a large income to serve his fellow
countrymen such as these are truly
generous.
What they do ' for their fellows
costs something. And so does the
giving of money, when it is accom
panied by thought by interest in the
object for which it is given, and by a
sacrifice of the time of the giver.
Going down into one's pocket as a
response to a call for charity is one
thing. Finding for one's self a public
duty that needs doing, and intelligent
ly considering the best way to do it,
is quite another.
The first is Liberality. The second
is Generosity.
No man is born into the world who
does not have many opportunities to
be generous, and to be truly geuerous
is to be great in character. Merely
because one has not money to bestow
upon charity, although he may feel
sure that he could spend it far more
wisely than those who have it, is small
reason for concluding that the fates
did not intend him to be of generous
service to his fellow men:
The man who at the expense of his
own time helps another man to suc
cess, whoat the expense of his own
pleasure does another a service, who
at the cost of his own vanity helps an
old woman across the street or to a
seat in a trolley car such a man is
far more generous than he who gives
away millions of dollars that he does
not need.
Liberality should never be frowned
upon. Whoever gives for a worthy
cause, whether he gives generously or
from a purely selfish motive, helps the
world along.
If he thinks that by thus giving he
saves his soul, let him think so. He
may save many others, if he doesn't
save his own.
There is much to be done in the
world; few who are willing to do it
The rivalry in good works among
men like 'Rockefeller often brings
them closer to those they help often
gives them impulses that are really
generous.
Leave them to do with their money
all the good they can. . And in the
meantime generously give of what
you have. Selfdenial will improve
your own character. You will get
far more out of every generous deed
that costs you something than you will
out of mere liberality which gives
you temporary self-satisfaction at no
expense whatever. From the Chicago
Examiner. '
If Jack Johnson, the colored pugi
list, is looking for a fight, why not
send a challenge- to the gentleman
front Custer. '
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Incidentally it is interesting to note
that the skill which enables one to de
tect a counterfeit conies not 'from a
study of counterfeits, but from a thor
ough and unconscious familiarity with
the genuine. If a man were pointed
oat to you and you were told that some
day another who much resembled him
would try to impose upon you, you
would be pretty apt to fix his features
in your mind; you would not spend
any time looking at other people who
looked something like him. would you?
And the moment the impostor ap
peared you would note that la this,
that or the other particular he failed
to meet the details of the other man's
face and figure. Just so it is in the
detection of counterfeits. A skillful
teller in a bank, counting money rap
idly, will Involuntarily throw out a
note which in the slightest degree de
parts from the well-known pattern
which is so strongly impressed on his
mental vision. That involuntary act
will nearly always prove to have been
justified, for the bill in 19 cases out of
20 will prove to be a counterfeit It la
because of this fact that, when a re
quest is received from some one to
loan him a collection of counterfeits
for the Instruction of his cashiers, he
is advised to hare the young men
study the genuine carefully, and there
will be no trouble in detecting the bad
notes. National Magazine. ,--
BOY ROSE TO THE SITUATION.
Quick Wit andlntelligence'Displayesl
by Youngster.
His parents are convinced that Clar
ence will be a great man; the only
doubt is whether it will be as a states
man or scientist He is only four
years old, and their confidence is
based largely on one incident. ' The
boy never told of it, and it would have
been lost to history if a neighbor had
not been a chance witness.
Clarence lives in the suburbs, and
has a cat and kittens. One day he
went into the yard next door with one
of the little ones to play. There was a
big pile of brushwood here, and he
shoved his pet into a hole in this.
She crawled so far back that all his ef
forts to get her out were vain.
Had he been a man he would have
pulled the pile of brush apart, but
lacking strength for this he resorted
to cunning. Running home, he soon
returned with the. mother cat. He
shoved her into the hole after her off
spring, and she soon came out with
the little one between her teeth. Clar
ence bore them both home in triumph.
A Queen's Will.
Queen Adelaide, the wife of William
IV., was a woman of great piety and
exceptional humility, which was showa
in the directions for her funeral.
'1 die in all humility." she wrote,
"knowing well we are all alike before
the throne of God, and request, there
fore, that my mortal remains be con
veyed to the grave without any pomp
or ceremony. They are. to be moved
to St. George's chapel, Windsor, where
I request to have a quiet funeral.
"I particularly desire not to be laid
out in state, and the funeral to take
place by daylight; no procession, the
cotfin to be carried by sailors to the
chapel. I die in peace, and wish to
be carried to the tomb in peace, and
free from the vanities and the pomp
of the world." Home Notes.
Hard Life ef Arctic Sealer.
The Arctic sealer endures a hard
life. Sealing does not consist only ol
hurried scrambling over ice, and fierce
breathless battling afterwards. There
are many hardships to endure. The
most common type of Arctic weather
is a dense, lung clogging fog, with a
rasp of cold that is enough to freeze'
a glowing furnace. This fog .may be
diversified with cruel blizzards of pelt
ing snow, borne on the wings of the
constant gales. Once the snow passes
come sleet and rain rain that is as
cold as ice. Misery prevails greatly
among the crews of Arctic sealers, for
the dampness and the cold soon sap
the atoutest constitutions.
Whistling Sign of Contempt.
A Moroccan shows his contempt of
anything by whistling. A conflict be
tween tribesmen and a battalion of
French troops ' was recently precipi
tated by the whistling of a locomo
tive on a railway being constructed
near Casablanca. "The giaours are
laughing at us," said a chieftain,
when' the construction engine gave a
toot to warn the natives at work on
the line to look out. The Arabs went
wild, mounted their horses, and rode
on the whistling enemy. They had to
be calmed with the whistling of rifle
balls.
Bobby's Unfortunate Delay.
He waa five years old. On this
particular day, mother had dressed
him with unusual care and was very
much displeased to have him come in
with clothing dirty and torn. She had
so often told him he must take his
own part in the boys' scraps fight
should the occasion demand it This
he would not do. And bow she intend
ed to punish him.
Bob became very Indignant and
said: "Well, mamma, I just told the
boy I wasn't ready to fight, and when
I got ready he was settin' on me."
Delineator.
Sometimes More.
"I see that a New York professor re
forms bad boys with piano music." "I
hope he bears in mind that some
pianos need- reforming quite as muct
aj had boys do."
Why They Dont Clap. .
"Have you seen the near perfect
woman, Maude Odell?" she asked.
"No. "You ought to see her. And If
you want to be really amused, you
ought to go and watch the men gazing
at her wide-eyed, the men with their
wives. They are taking in all her per
feet points, but they are afraid to ap
plaad her on account of their wives
That beautiful, near perfect woman
leaves the stage nearly every time
'without a handclap on account of the
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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, anl 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.
A I IfcNTlUN A MOMENT, SMOKERS
More or Less Authentic Facts Are Put
Forward in This Story.
The users of tobacco, it would ap
pear, are subject to undreamed-of dan
gars. A French medical journal tells
an interesting tale or a man who while
smoking a pipe had a serious fail
Some time later a curious swelling
appeared on his tongue, and this, aftei
efforts bad been vainly made to re
duce It by common methods, was
found to contain a fragment of the
pipe that had been driven into it at the
time of the fall. In another case an
ulcer on the soft palate of a patient
persisted for three years before it was
investigated and found to contain a
piece of a cigar holder. How this lat
ter got there we are not informed, but
it appears certain that if these persons
had not been users of tobacco they
would have escaped much discomfort
A word to the wise is sufficient! Ex
change.
A Borneo Parasite.
A famous rarity in the vegetable
world of Borneo is the raffleaia, the
buah pakmah of Malays. The plant ie
one of the most degraded of parasites,
and so completely does it submerge
itself in the tissues of its host that the
only part which ever shows itself to
the external world is the enormous
flower. The diameter of the flower
measures about two feet, the odor is
repulsive and there is not one feature
of beauty to recommend it to man. It
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American Democracy.
Privy Councillor Zuntz, on his re
turn to Berlin, after a three-months-visit
.to the United States, delivered a
lecture before the students of the In
dustrial high school of that city, in
which he had much to say' in praise ol
American students and of the college
system under which they were trained.
"Our students," he said, "can help
themselves financially only by teach.
,ing. The American student has th
advantage in this respect, because
without losing caste or dignity, he can
break stone, act as a waiter or porter,
or do work at any trade. It is not an
infrequent occurrence that a young
man acts as a waiter at a gathering of
people where he is received as ah
equal as soon as "his menial duties
have been performed."
Safety in Eminence.
"Even in case of an accident," says
the Philosopher of Folly, "the man
who has climbed the highest is bound
to fall on top of the heap."
His Hard Position.
Gyer "There goes a man the weath
er seldom agrees with." Myer "So?
Who is he?" Gyer "He's a govern
ment weather forecaster."
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