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ISjS J -. -, -rrgU J"-1'' : -. -f-rs- -.r' ''. 4 vT?s!!r?" r . g .fr r v lt . "N t5f ' m 31 m m ui 1 ' toolnmhrn Journal. Oolomtetiss Wbr Ma PtwIoBeColuabu, I OTBCBSOBirtlOa: . WIDHK8DAT. APRIL 7. MM. gTBOTHKB BTOCKWELL, Proprietow. KJOTEW ALS-Tto dsto opposite osr bum m nnm, orwispperowtowkst tiaeyoer skssriptiom to pd. Tfca. JuM show, to t kM ban neeived P to Jaa.1.1M, lesteI.l,liudsoea. WlPw"t I, ass.ta data, which limn M a nesipt, til fcs d siioorrtlsiiT DiaOOHTIMUAHCES-Bwpo Ihlo Mbserfb an will eosUaaa to receive tab jouaal antil the labltohman aotified by letter to diaoontfaaa. wBaaaUamanses aaatbepeid.lt yomdoaot urtikJami loontjaaed for another rear sf tertk tuaa paid for baa expired, yom ahoald pnfloaalr aotitr oa to diaooBtiaaa it. CHAMQK IN ADDRESS Whea orderuc a h la llmadduM hanritwnihmiltl ftir to afo their old aa wall aa tbetr saw addnee. President Taft has become convert ed to the LaFollette idea of a tariff commission. Elbert Hubbard thinks of starting a crusade for the reformation of reform ers. His first work should be among the members of the Nebraska legisla ture. It didn't take Congressman Latta . long to break through the traditional corral. Although serving his first term he was not backward in represent ing the sentiment of his district by making a speech in favor of free lum ber. After one experience with state pro hibition, the republicans of Iowa were not anxious to repeat the experiment. The attempt to submit a prohibition law for endorsement was turned down so emphatically that the bill will not be revived at the present session. The people of Nebraska were prom ised a state law protecting bank de posits, but they didn't get it The legislature presented them with a banker's guaranty law. The people were promised a state agricultural col lege another promise that was repudi ated. And there are others. While the democratic legislature of Nebraska was passing bills to create salaried positions for "pie" hunters, the legislature of Iowa was at work on some real reforms. One of the most important bills passed by the Iowa law makers was one which aims a death blow at the lumber trust It provides for a penalty of six months imprisonment and a fine of from $200 to $5,000 for violations of the anti trust law. The democratic congressmen from Oklahoma demand a "robber tariff' on oil; the democratic congressmen from Louisiana insist that the present "robber tariff" on sugar shall be main tained; democratic congressmen from Missouri are fighting for a "robber tar iff on zinc ore; democratic congress men from Tennessee and Albama fav or a "robber tariff" on iron, and demo cratic congressmen from New York are howling for a "robber tariff" on hosiery. And vet the democratic party claims to be a "tariff reform" party. The Payne bill provides for admit ting dried eggs free. The dried egg plants are not numerous in this coun try. Most of the dried eggs in this country come from China and Japan. There are two dried egg plants in Kansas, consuming 1,350,000 dozen eggs in twenty-five weeks. It takes three dozen fresh eggs to make a pound of dried eggs, and Senator Curtis, of Kansas, wants the infant industry pro tected. Consumers who are paying 35 cents a dozen for eggs in the cities are of the unanimous opinion that the American hen is fully protected. Give the common people an opportunity to live a trifle cheaper. The rapidly increasing navy of Ger many means something. England is firm in thebelief that Emperor William is ambitious to possess a navy capable of coping with that of England in the event of war, and there are good grounds for the belief that the fears of England are well founded. If Eng glad has not the money to expend in building vessels of war, her English speaking colonies have. Both Canada aad Australia have offered to furnish Money to build Dreadnaughts.for the mother country. They realize that when the German navy surpasses the English navy in strength, the day for the dissolution of the English empire will have dawned.- Since the war with France, Germany has continued to ex paad as a world powerv Emperor William has only to lift his hand and. man than a Bullion soldiers are set in motion- Germany is always ready lor war om land, and when her navy baeoBMS strong enough will be ready Hx BflSlMi Jar war on the "GETTING EVEN." In its closing hoiire-the'legiaiature passed what is known as the "daylight saloon act" The measure provides that the legal . hours which saloons may be kept' open shall be from seven o'clock in the morning until eight o'clock in the evening. It is claimed that the bill did not, in reality, receive a constitutional majority; that Fo gartyy member of the house, who voted against the bill, was recorded as hav ing voted for the measure. Fogarty himself says that he voted against the bill, but as the claim was made after the vote had been verified, it was too late to rectify the error. The action of the democratic major ity was a surprise, as it was generally understood that the bill was dead, and its resurrection can only be accounted for in order to give some of the coun try members an opportunity to "get even" with the Omaha delegation, and especially Senator Ransom, who has made himself unpopular with many of the majority party of the legislature. Some look upon the action of the dem ocratic members as a so-called "moral spasm," who are desirous of redeeming themselves with their prohibition con stituents. On the part of some of the republican members it was also a case of playing politics and "getting even." The passage of the measure by both houses passed the bill up to the gov ernor for his approval or veto, and he will have to decide between two ele ments that contributed to his election between the Elmer Thomas prohi bitionists and the Omaha Brewers. At this writing the governor has not signed or vetoed the measure. If the governor approves the bill, there will be weeping and wailing in Omaha. Many of the saloons in the Nebraska metropolis depended almost entirely upon the patronage received in the evening for their existence, and the law would force some of the saloons out of business. . The Central Labor Union of Omaha, has condemned the measure. It is contended that the law deprives laboring men of the privilege of entering saloons except during hours when they are at work; that the rich man's club room is allowed to remain open at all hours day and night, and that the law discriminates in favor of those who are able to con tribute money in maintaining society barrooms. As long as saloons are licensed, they should be regarded as business institu tions, and treated as such. If it is a misdemeanor to keep asaloon open after eight o'clock in the evening, then it should also be made a misdemeanor for' the club house to dispense liquor to patrons after that hour. The "daylight law" is the rankest kind of discrimination against the poor man and in favor of the man of wealth. A PASSING WAVE OF REFORM. Laymen have long contended that a revivalist did not good in a community, and even some preachers are now admitting it It is less than two weeks since Gypsy Smith left St Louis, but his influence didn't last that long, according to the following St 'Louis dispatch: "Of the 4,000 persons converted in the Gypsy Smith meetings here, not more than 350 will be added to the membership of St Louis churches," according to Rev. W. F. Andrews, pastor of Centenary Methodist Episco pal church, South, who has been in personal charge of the work of "fol lowing up" the conversions. " 'Gypsy Smith has too much sense to return here,' was Dr. Andrews' ie ply, when a reporter asked him today whether the meetings would result in an effort to bring the evangelist here next fall, as has been proposed. 'I do not mean that we pastors are disap pointed with the result We believed all the time that the best results would be in arousing a general religious in terest, rather than in greatly increas ing church membership. " 'But Gypsy Smith, I think, would realize that if he were to come here again soon, he would not draw as1 strongly as he did before, because the element of novelty would not be pres ent, as it was at first. Therefore, I believe he would not chose to return here for a few years, at least " 'Of the 4,000 who signed cards,' said Dr. Andrews, 'practically one half were found to be already church members. Gypsy Smith in his ad dresses urged church members, as well as non members to sign cards, and the result shows that some 2,000 of the apparent converts were already members in good standing of our city churches. That leaves 2,000 to be accounted for as possible material for church membership. Of these, fully 1,000 cannot.be found. They were transient visitors in the city, or are not known at the addresses they gave, or, as in many cases, they gave no addresses, and the directory does not snow where they live. "Of the remaining 1,000, residents at the addresses shown, and not church members, two-thirds have slipped through the fingers of the church workers, despite our most careful and earnest efforts.' " Atchison Globe. The Spirit of Gain From J t New Worlds for This fact must be insisted upon that most of the work of the world and all the good work h done today for some other motive than gain; that profit seeking is not only the moving power of the world, but that it cannot be, that it runs counter to the doing of effectual work in every department of life.' It is hard to know how to set about proving a fact that is to the writer's perception so universally, obvious. One can pnly appeal to the intelligent reader to use his own personal obser vation upon the people about him. Everywhere he will see the property owner doing nothing, the profit-seeker busy with unproductive efforts, with the writing of advertisements, the misrepresentation, of goods, the con coction of a plausible prospectus, and the extraction of profits from the toil of others, while the real .necessary work of the world I don't mean the labor and toil only, but the intelligent direction, the real planning and de signing and inquiry, the management and evolution of ideas and methods is in the enormous majority of cases done by salaried individuals working either for a fixed wage and the hope of increments having no proportional -relation to the work done, or for a wage varying within definite limits. All the engineering design, all archi tecture, all our public services, the ex quisite work of our museum control, for example, all the big wholesale and retail businesses, almost all big indus trial concerns, mines, estates all these things are really in the hands of sala ried or quasi-salaried persons now, just as they would be under Socialism. They are only possible now because all these managers, officials; employees, are, as a class, unreasonably honest and loyal, are interested in their work and anxious to do it well, and to not seek profits in every transaction they handle. Give them even a small measure of security and they are con tent with interesting work; they are glad to set asidethe urgent perpetual search for personal gain that individ ualists have persuaded themselves is the ruling motive of mankind; they are glad to set these aside altogether and, as the phase goes, "get something done." And this is true all up and 'down the social scale. A bricklayer is no good unless he can be interested in laying bricks. One knows when ever a domestic servant becomes mer cenary, when she ceases to take, as people say, "a pride in her work" and thinks only, of "tips" and getting, she becomes impossible. Does a signal man every time he pulls over a lever, or a groom galloping a horse, think of his wages or want to? I will confess I find it hard to write with any patience and civility of this argument that humanity will not work except for greed or need of money and only in proportion to the getting. It is so patently absurd. I suppose the reasonable anti-Socialist will hardly maintain it seriously with that crudity. He will qualify. He will say that, although it may be true that good work is always done for the interest of the doing or in the spirit of service, yet in order to get and keep people at work and to keep the standard high through periods of indolence and dis traction, there must be the dread of SALOON REGULATION IN OHIO. The liquor dealers of Ohio are said to be behind a new law which has just gone into effect in that state regulating the management of saloons. If the liquor dealers will put themselves energetically behind the administra tion of the law, now that it is on the statute books, much good can be ex pected from it; providing, that is, that the law is in reality all that it pur ports to be. $ The new.law is known as the "char actor act," because it requires the saloon-keeper to answer a long, list of questions touching upon his character, the character of his barkeepers and the manner in which the Jiquor laws have been obeyed by him. At the time of tax assessment the saloon keeper is required to swear that no one in his establishment has been con victed of crime, and in addition he must state whether there has been gambling in his place, whether liquor has been sold to minors, and whether many other legal provisions have been respected. If the saloon-keeper refuses to an swer his saloon is at once closed. If he answers that he has done any of the forbidden things it is likewise closed. If his answers show a clean charac ter, but if he is proved to have lied on any point he not only has his saloon closed but he is.liable to prosecution for perjury. ' With this, as with so many similar laws, all depends on the Banner of administration. In Chicago there is and of Service. Old," by H. G. Wells. r dismissal and the stimulating eye of the owner. That certainly puts tbe case a good deal less basely and much more plausibly.' There is perhaps this much truth iu that that most people do need a cer tain stimulus to exertion and a certain standard of achievement to do their best, but to say that this is provided by private ownership 'and can only be provided by private ownership, is an altogether different thing. Is the British telephone, service, for example, kept as efficient as it is which isn't very much, by the bye, in the way of efficiency by the protests of the shareholders or of the subscribers? Does the grocer's errand boy loiter any less than his brother who carries the postoffice telegrams? In the mat ter of the public milk supply again, would not an intelligently critical public, anxious for its milk good and early, be a more formidable master than a speculative proprietor in the back room of a creamery? And when one comes to large business organiza tions managed by officials and owned by dispersed shareholders, the contrast is all to the advantage of the com munity. No! the only proper virtues in work, the ones that have to be relied upon, and developed and rewarded in the civilized state, are the spirit of service and the passion for doing well, the honorable competition not to get but to do. By sweating antf debasing energy, we get meagerly done what we might get handsomely done by the good will of emancipated mankind. For all who really make, who really do, the imperative of gain is the in convenience, the enemy. Every artist, every scientific investigator, every organizer, every good workman knows that Every good architect knows that this is so and can tell of time after time when he has sacrificed manifest profit and taken a loss to get a thing done as he wanted it done, right and well; every good doctor, too, has turn ed from profit and high fees to the moving and interesting case, to the demands of knowledge and the public health; every teacher worth his or her salt can witness to the perpetual strug gle between business advantage and right teaching; every writer has faced the alternative of his aesthetic duty and the search for beauty on the one hand and the "salable" ou the other. All this is as true of ordinary making as of special creative work. Every plumber capable of his business hates to have to paint his leadwork; ever) carpenter knows the disgust of turn ing out cheap unfinished work, how ever well it pays him; every tolerable cook can feel shame for an unsatisfy ing dish, and none the less shame be cause by making it, materials are sav ed and economies achieved. And yet, with all the facts clear as day before any observant person, we are content to live on an economic system that raises every man who subordinates these wholesome prides and desires to watchful, incessant get ting, over the heads of every other type of character; that in effect gives all the power and influence in our state to successful getters; that subor dinates art, direction, wisdom and labor to these inferior narrow men, these men who clutch and keep. sufficient reason to believe that such a law would be a dead letter. In the smaller cities of Ohio where saloons have not already been driven out there is no reason why it should not be en forced. If enforced the law cannot fail to reduce greatly the evil that takes its rise in saloons. It is safe to say that considerations of private in terest, as well as a regard for public interest, will justify the liquor dealers of Ohio in endeavoring to secure a genuine enforcement of this statute which they have helped to create. j Exchange. TAFT A RADICAL. President Taft grows stronger in his tariff declarations as the days grow warmer. To the Nebraska senators he insisted on free lumber and lower steel. To Congressman Hinshaw he proposes implacable opposition to the tax on tea, coffee, and oil, and de mands radical further reductions on shoes and clothing. Instead of raising, the needed revenue by taxing the peo ple according to their need of these necessaries, a tax drawn from the less wealthy far out of proportion to their means, he insists on raising it by taxes on inheritances, increased wealth, and if necessary by taxes on corporations. This attitude sets the president squarely in line with the rank and filA of hw ntvrtv and people, and as squarely against the powerful interests mat nave aeternunea w mre m tariff revision. If the people for whom tu nrooirlont atajulfl are as considerate of their interests as his opponents of ineus, congress wiu get uuuwu loi ters a week in his support State Joomai HICH JN CIVILIZATION'S SCALE. ' - Unknown Peoples f America Wh Havs Parishes! Utterly Between the region occupied of old by the Aztecs and the realm far to the south over which, the Incas ruled lies an Immense stretch of territory a thousand miles long and 800 wide, where the remains of unknown and wonderful civilizations are being dis covered, says a writer in "Van Nor den's Magazine. This region extends from the northern boundaries of Peru to the southern limits of Costa Rica. In one section -alone along the coast of Ecuador six entirely unknown civili zations were recently brought to light by Prof. Marshall H. Saville, and a vast collection of relics has been brought to New York. This collection is to be the nucleus of a great Amer ican museum, which will represent the history of ancient peoples who at tained an extraordinarily high degree of civilization, yet whose very exist ence has been hitherto lost In an tiquity. The famed marble chairs of Rome at its zenith were not more symmet rical oi beautifully carved than those of one of these unknown civilizations. No pottery of any other ancient race was more delicately patterned than that found'' in vast quantities, as numerous almost as pebbles, on the sites where these extinct peoples dwelt Their cloth was of truly mar velous weave; in beauty of design, richness of color and fineness of tex ture no fabric of today surpasses it. MAKES KNOTTY POINT IN LAW. Owners of Property Havs Right to For bid Flight of Airships. A law framed thousands of years ago by the ancient Romans, and the only one bearing on the subject, may have to be amended or wholly nullified before airships go shooting about through space at their own sweet will. This important fact was brought out at a meeting of aeronauts in London. At present nobody has the right to fly across occupied land. The world is governed by the ancient Roman law, "Usque ad Coelum." It means that every landowner has a right to the air above his head as far up as he chooses to go, and can get an injunc tion to restrain anyone from flying through it So far nobody has attempt ed to put the law in force. It would be most uncomfortable, not to say dis astrous, for a farmer' suddenly to emerge from his barn or smokehouse and pepper one's airship with bullets. The fact that the aeronaut from his lofty perch could not be expected to see the "No Trespass" sign might not prove a mitigating circumstance with the rural magistrate. Where She'd Wear It Somebody . sent this to the society editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and made affidavit that it really hap pened. Here it is: They were out at an afternoon card party. A stout woman dropped a card to the floor. "Would you be so kind as to pick up that card for me?" she inquired of the lit tle woman at her right "Certainly," said the accommodat ing woman at the right, picking up tbe card. "You see," explained the stout worn an, "I've got on a brand new $50 cor set, and I'm afraid I'll strain it if I lean over." ""Hum!" commented the other worn an, enviously. "If I had a 150 corset I'd wear It on the outside. I really would." Strength of Money. When we consider the amount of wear and tear to which a bank note is subjected, we ought to be able to realize Its physical strength. In a re cent experiment sheets were drawn at random from piles of paper weigh ing 14 pounds to the ream. Eacb sheet was halved aad weighed, and each half was folded double when tested. One, offering 61 square inch es, stood a strain of 100 pounds. The same-sized sheet, 16 pounds to the ream, stood a strain of over 300 pounds. The average results of Crane paper, 14 pounds to the ream, with sizing, were a perpendicular strain of 3 1-3 pounds to the square inch, and a transverse strain of 4 pounds Pretty nearly as tough as shoe leather. How to Get Thin. When one has just begun to acquire superfluous flesh complete abstinence from sweets and starches, a moderate amount of food at all times, and daily exercise either indoors or out will ef fect a cure. The' effort, however, must be persistent, and the watchfulness must continue even after the desired weight has been reached. Spasmodic efforts either at diet or exercise will be absolutely without lasting results. When one's weight has crept far be yond the normal amount the restraint in diet must be more strenuous and the exercise more violent Harper's Weekly. Some Singular Wills. One of the most singular wills ever recorded was that of a British sailor, who requested his executors to give his wife a shilling to buy hazelnuts, as she 'had always preferred cracking them to mending his stockings. More subtle, however, was the sarcasm of a will proved In 1830, In which a wife was left $2,500, but was only to enjoy it after her death In order that "she may be burled suitably as my widow." A French merchant bequeathed a large fortune to a woman of his ac quaintance to show his gratitude for her refusal to marry him 20 years be fore. Senator Clark, of West Virginia, has introduced a bill in the senate providing for a bond issue of $100, 000,000, the money from the sale of the bonds to be used in erecting gov ernment buildings in towns of 5,000 inhabitants or more. This will be an incentive for every town of 4,000 or 4,500 to extend its corporate limits and take in outlying districts, in order to "get a cut" out of the appropriation. ts? rA: BRANIGAN'S ppMHppppHppjpjMpMMMaMBHBHaaaaaBHBIBMBaBjBHBV HIES Columbus - Will be held on the following dates: 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. WIFE WOULD SPEND THE MONEY. Little Story That Well Exemplifies New Hampshire Thrift. The passengers in an accommoda tion train which was winding its way through New Hampshire were inter ested and amused by an elderly couplt who sat in the middle of the car. They talked as If there were no one else in the car; therefore, havingheard most of their private plans, no one was surprised to have the old man take the assembled company fully in to his' confidence. .At one station he rose, and addressed the passengers in general. "Can anybody change a $5 bill for two twos and a one, or five ones?" he inquired. "I can," said a brisk woman, and the transfer was quickly made. "Now, could anybody change this $1 bill for four quarters or tens and fives?" asked the old man. "I can give you two fifties," said a man from the rear seat, "unless some body else can do better." It appeared that nobody could, or at least, nobody offered to; so as the train started, the "old man lurched down the car to the possessor of the two 50-cent pieces. "Thank ye," he said, -as he took the money. "I'm obliged, though I'd liked the quarters best. You see, Marthy has set her mind to stop off at Nashuy whilst I go up to my brother's with the eggs and truck. And though she don't plan nor mean to be a spend thrifty woman, when she's let loose amongst a lot of stores, she'll run through 50 cents in an hour eaBy, and I kind of have to put a curb on her." Youth's Companion. Where She Drew the Line. "Do you regard the stage as an educator?" "Not exactly," answered Miss Cajr ene. "It would be unfortunate if wc were to get our ideas of society front the problem play and our ideas o costume from the musical comedy." Mapine Old Books Rebound In iact, for anything in tbe book binding line bring your work to Journal Office Phone 160 1 - Nebraska LOOK ALWAYS TO THE FUTURE. Sir Frederick Bridge's Advice to Mu sicians Is Worth Heeding. In his address at the annual con ference of the Incorporated Society of Musicians of Great Britain Sir Fred erick Bridge advised musicians to be cheerful. "Let us think," he said, "that English music has a tremen dous future." Sir Frederick narrated some experiences of his own early career, when hehad to play, teach and walk 4ty miles between Rochester and Gravesend to fill the position of or ganist for $105 a year. "It was not much of a start for the organist of Westminster Abbey. But I am an or ganist of the Abbey despite this poor beginning, and I put my progress down to the fact that I took a broad view of things," he added. Sir Fred erick instanced the rise of Sir Ed ward Elgar. Sir Edward, he said, was brought up as an ordinary teacher of music in the Midlands, "and I know he played second violin in an or chestra I once conducted. I am sorry for him, but I know he did it His ex ample is a good lesson and a very good fact in musical history of which he ought to be proud." Responsibility. First Little Girl (conversing at the school gate) I can hemstitch and featherstitch and my mother lets me make things for baby. Second Little .Girl That's nothing; I'm let go by myself to draw beer. A Name That Names. "Why does Penryn call his coming novel A Scrap Book'?" "Because it is a story of married life." Excbanee. Truth in Old Saying. What the eye sees not the heart rues not. Campion. Has Almost a Monopoly. Quebec supplies 90 per cent, of tha world's supply of asbestos. Binding A i ' fvj i fiii iTi wmimj ' ' ' " i. "S".. '-v - 'Z-n'. J " . -J ", . s t -. Vjr'