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. asj -" v t i? as. ; v- iste"v ; '. ' - - V -"-V" w , S r I 1 I l f il i CM l 7 ' ?! 39 m Jfe-yl s Columbus g cmmal. i,'iiluuiiuM, Nebr. n.urvdtth .Coluftba.Hfcr-'M ... ..4.fM mail matter fUW OVMOBMBIRWB: iiiMiiMr.MMii.DaMHi phi Hit mowthe.... ........ ...... i. ..-.. KDNKHDA. JDLY 28. l 8THOTHKK & STOCKWELL. Proprietore. it vNifWALM Tha dmu oepoatta foar tmr paper, or wrapper how to what time jcmr obacription le'peJd. Thna JaoOS ahowa that parmw baa bean received, p to Jan. 1, ItOB, rbflStoFeb.l,lWaadaoeB. When pajrmeat ! made, the date, which aaawera aa neaipt. vt. 1 baebaacedaeaoidiacly. PidCX)MTIMDANCBt-llaipoariblB embeerib era wUl ooBtiaaa to receive taia Jouaal atU the pabliabanan aotiiad by iMtar to diacoarl a. laU arrearage meat be paid. If TOttdoaot wish tbe Joanal ooatiaaed for aaotber year af tr the rise paid for baa expired, yon aboald previoaaly aotify sa to dieeoatf it. i WANGS IN AODRBB-Wbati ordetias a ahaaaa fai tbe addraaa.aabaerlbara aboald be aara t ive tbair old aa wall aa taatr When a mam loses respect for the courts he loses respect for himself. No wonder Judge Sullivan hesitated about accepting. The World-Herald is supporting him. Evidently the Lincoln Star prefers a lawyer with a Burlington tag as Senator Burkett's successor. Before the republicans have nomi uated candidates for supreme court judges, the World-Herald already has them defeated. Charlie Bryan has publicly declar ed himself in favor of a county option law. Charlie Taft has not been heard from on the question. According to the Osier theory the democratic party has outlived its use fulness and should be chloroformed what there is left of it. Evidently the old cry of "railway candidate" is to be galvanized into life and pushed to the front as the cam paign stunt of the democratic organs. A headliner in a Lincoln paper says "a policeman took a big load of beer." Lincoln policemen, like Omaha policemen.should be compelled to remain on the water wagon or retire from the force. And now everybody knows where ' Charlie Bryan stands on the county option question. It is of little conse quence what stand Charlie takes. The general public is more interested in knowing where Charlie's "Fearless" Brother-William stands on the ques tion. The World-Herald has discovered that Judge Barnes is the candidate of the Northwestern rail way. The organ of the Omaha branch of the Nebraska democracy has the habit of making discoveries early in campaigns. As early as last July it "discovered" Mr. Bryan in the White House. Since Commissioner Cowgill was compelled to pay extra for the privi lege of riding in a Pullman car he has had his hammer out and knocking at the rate demanded by the Pullman company in Nebraska. The railway commission has finally taken up the matter and will try to enforce a reduc tion in the rate for berths within tle boundaries of Nebraska. The writer does nut know very much about what is termed the "commission" form of government for cities, but if it saved Des Moines 3224,000 the first year, employed more policemen, fire men and street workers and made more improvements thau in one year under the old form, besides reducing water and light rates twenty per cent, it would not be a bad idea for Lincoln and Omaha to adopt the commission plan. Anyway it would be an im provement over the graft form now in force. The men who have banded together for the purpose of enforcing the law against houses of prostitution in Co lumbus should receive the moral sup port of every citizen. The fact that these houses have been allowed to exist and thrive for years is not wholly the fault of the city government The demand for the suppression of the resorts has come mostly from individ uals, without the moral and financial backing of the community. The peo ple, by their inactivity and apparent indifference have allowed a state of affairs to exist which has discredited tbe city, and now a determined effort will be made to enforce the law and banish objectionable characters from the'city. The evil which good citi zens have united to fight is a problem that has confronted society for centu ries, but in cities the size of Columbus the open hose of prostitution can be ; wiped out if a determined effort -is amade. Judge Sullivan, late of Coluabuc , but now a citizen of Omaha, has de cided to enter 'the primary coatest fpr 'supreme court judge on tbe demo cratic, ticket The fact that Judge Sullivan has never been a strong par tisan, coupled with his acknowledged ability and the splendid, record he made while a member of the supreme court, will make him a strong candi--date at the polls. Notwithstanding the decision of the courts declaring the non-partisan judiciary law unconstitu tional, a large number of, voters in both parties do not consider the elec tion of judges a partisan question and will not consider themselves bound to support a candidate for the reason that he has "democrat" or "republican" after his name on the official ballot Judge Sullivan has friends in the republican party the same aa Judge Barnes has in the democratic party, and it is quite likely that many of Judge Sullivan's repuolican friends will vote for him at the polls in No-, vember. Both parties are fortunate in having clean and able men to choose from. But this fact will not deter the intense and unreliable partisan organs of both the democratic and republican parties from raising the annual howl of "railway candidate." The World Herald and some of the other bourbon sheets that always sneeze when the double-headed organ of the Hitchcock wing of the democratic party takes snuff have already become afflicted with the "railroad candidate" virus and are attempting to connect Judge Barnes with the Northwestern railway. Four years ago the opposition loaded their mud guns with the same ammu nition they are using now, and the result was the election of Judge Barnes by a substantial majority. The state auditor of Kansas has recently given publicity to some thing he has unearthed after weeks of investigation. The auditor claims that the vacation taken every year by officials and employees of the state costs the tax payers $100,000 annu ally. - The state employs 1,800 per sons, and the annual pay roll amounts to 1,500,000. Every one of these 1,800 persons takes from two weeks to thirty days vacation, and some of them a much longer period. During the summer months the district and supreme court judges do not do a lick of work' but loaf around summer resorts and fish. And yet Kansas wanted twenty-five thousand harvest hands three weeks ago to help save the crop. While about half the men drawing wages from the state were spending their time in idleness. The same state of affairs exist in Nebraska but not to the extent that it does in Kansas, for the reason that this state has not "advanced" as far in "reform" legislation as her sister state on tbe south. But wait! It's coming in Ne braska, so the Lincoln reformers say. The "locker" system has been de clared legal in Kansas. The "locker" plan of avoiding the prohibition law is very simple. Half a dozen or more congenial spirits get together, organize a club, give it a name, rent a room, provide lockers for jugs and drink their fill. ' Very simple. "Locker" clubs are quite popular in Kansas and near ly every town has one or more. One club in Topeka has three hundred members with as many lockers and jugs. Enrolled among the members appears the name of Frank Jackson, the prohibition attorney general, who has made a big reputation prosecuting niggers for bootlegging. And Jack son is not the only prohibition politi cian who has a jug in one of the club's "lockers." Tariff reform, municipal reform and the various other reforms suggested and all the reform laws enacted dur ing the past few years of reform agita tion have not reduced the price of coal, flour, -clothing, shoes and taxes. And yet more reforms are demanded and other reforms are coming down the pike for inspection and discussion. The ordinary individual who has a family to support on a small salary has become extremely weary of reform and the reformers. There's nothing in it for him. Reform has not cheap ened the cost of liviug or increased wages. Let the reformers give the people a rest. . N Pirate Geld, r Johnny McDermott, the 14-jrear-old aon of a Long Island-farmer, had been hearing of Capt Kidd's burled gold ever siace he could remember. la digging a woodchuck out of his hole a few days ago he came across an troa-bouad box. He thought he had found a golden treasure for aura, but after lugging it hoate and breaking It open the contents turned out to.be rusty knives, forks and apooaa that eosae robber had burled. All were too badly eaten with rust to be of any good. . Practically Nelaelaaa. Gladys Does that noisy Archie Feathertop still come to aee you? Maybelle Tea, he still comes; hut he hasn't made a noise like a propos al yet A MILLIONAIRE FARMER Millionaire farmers, says the Atchi son Globe are not numerous, but those who made.their millions from the farm are still more .rare. Such, a man is Pavid Rankin, of Tarkio, Mo.; and the story of his life is intensely inter esting, both as narrating- the progress of one farmer, and of all American agriculture. He is now worth $3,500, 000. On his broad acres 250 men are employed. He raises 19,000 acres of corn a year, yielding about 1,000,000 bushels. One thousand horses and mules are required to do the work.of this vast farm, and he buys 250 car loads of feeding cattle at a time. In one field he has 6,000 acres of corn, the largestcorn field in the world. He has given $200,000 to Tarkio college, and regards it as one of the best in vestments he has made. In speaking of this, he dwells on the importance of an education; says he needs more than he has. himself, and wishes .to make it easy for boys and girls of the present time to acquire learning. -This.' mil lionaire farmer raises more corn each year than the nine states of Utah, Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Rhode Island, Wyoming and Nevada combined. Yet this man who has' amassed, millions from the soil, be gan in 1846 with nothing. Mr. Rakin was born on a Sullivan county, Indiana, farm in 1825, 'And in farming since he was big enough, fiast for his father and later for him self, he is familiar with the great changes that have come in the agri cultural methods, and the manner of rural life in three quarters of a cen tury. To old people, who have grown up with the Middle West, he draws many familiar pictures. His first home was a log cabin sixteen feet square. In that hme the cooking was aone in an open fireplace, most of the simple fare being cooked in a kettle, set on the logs, which had to be watched less it tip over. The bread was cook ed in a Dutch oven, with coals over it and coals uuder it When young David was nine years old, the family moved from Indiana to Illinois, locat ingin Warren county. As showing that transportation methods have pro gressed with agriculture, it may be mentioned that tbe family was a month making the move, traveling every dav. Iu those days there were no matches and fires were started with a flint rock. Mr. Rankin also recalls seeing his fath er start a fire with a grain sickle, by potting power on a Dutch oven lid, and striking the lid with a sickle, using tow to catch fire from the powder. The only schools they had in those days were little subscription schools, held in log houses, with windows of greased paper. The principal studies were reading, writing and arithmetic, and the embryo millionaire had little opportunity to acquire these. At the age of eleven years, he quit school and went to work. A good education was not looked upon as so essential then as now, and the boy was needed to help support the family. Money was so scarce that the common people could little more than afford shoes for cold weather. Mr. Rankin recalls that he 'went barefooted every summer until he was 28 years old. But it was the simple, and, if it had many disadvan tages, Mr. Rankin believes it gave peo ple stronger constitutions than the strenuous life of today. Certainly it had that effect on him, for he is hear ty and active at eighty-five. Prosperous young farmers of to-day whose greatest worry is that the bank may fail, will note by the prices pre valent in Mr. Rankin's boyhood that there were other causes of worry then. In 1840, to pay a store debt for his father, he hauled dressed hogs' to the town of Oquawka, 111., on the Mis sissippi river, and sold the meat for $1 to $1.25 a hundred. (Live hogs are now worth $8 per hundred pounds.) And it was harder to raise hogs in those days. The corn they were fat tened on was cultivated with a single shovel plow, and the ground plowed with a wooden mouldboard plow. This wooden mouldboard had to be cleaned with a paddle about every twenty rodsuid an acre a day was good work for a man and yokeof oxen. Good plowing is one of the essentials of farm ing, and the plowing with the old fashioned wooden plow wasn't very good, the wonder is that they raised as much as they did. There was also a good deal of hoeing of crops in those days, and one of the old-fashioned hoes, weighed as much as four or five of the modern steel hoes. The steel plow, which now seems so common, has beeu uue of great advantages which have made our agricultural pro gress possible. Mr. Rankin is a believer in the pro tective tariff, for he recall that in 1836 '37, when there was a free trade or something like it men worked for $10 to $12 a month in his father's saw mill and boarded themselves. And prices didn't seem to go down in proportion to the drop of wages. Young Rankin bought an axe for his father, manu factured 'ia Sheffield, England, paying $2.50 for it As good an axe cau be had to-day for sixty-five cents. Wheat waa harvested and threshed by the same" methods that obtained in the time of Moses, cutting it with a sickle, and- threshing it with a flail, but it sold for twenty-five cents a bus hel, and one-fourth of the price was paid in cash, and the balance in trade. And the balance of trade wasn't in the interest of the farmers. Calico sold at forty cents' a yard, while the mer chant bought home-made linen from the farmer's wife at ten cents a yard. In those days, coal oil was regarded as a reliable cure for rheumatism, and the way of collecting it was to take' the bed blankets and soak them in the streams where oil had run over the surface of the water, then wringing out the blankets and obtaining the oil. To get their flour, the Rankin fam ily sent their wheat to a mill operated by horses, hitched ton sweep, and each patron had to furnish the power to grind his grist At one time young Rankin made seven trips to the mill, a week apart, before his grist could be attended to, going fourteen miles each trip with a yoke of oxen. In the meantime the family lived on potatoes and bread .made from wheat ground in a coffee mill, or corn pounded out in a mortar. Iu those days, the mail was for warded without postage, but the one getting the letter had to pay twenty five cents to get it out of the postoffice. That meant it cost a farmer four bus hels of wheat to get a letter out of the postoffice, since only one-fourth of the price of wheat was paid in cash. As the price of farm products was cheap at that time, it is not strange that farm land was low. Mr. Ran kin's father traded a cow and a filley, worth about $50, for a quarter section of land. Another farmer did even better, obtaining as good a quarter as as there was in the country for $30, and he traded a yoke of oxen for the land, as he had no money. It was along about 1856 that the farmers got the cradle aa successor to the sickle, and this was a great im provement in wheat culture. Wheat also advanced to 50 cents a bushel, but the price was paid in Mexican sil ver. In 1846, having attained his majori ty, David Rankiu started out for him self. He admits he chose farming be cause he was unable to get a job as a clerk. No one, he says, seemed to think he was smart enough to make a good clerk. It is hardly necessary :o say he has never regretted his choice, even if it was forced upon him. Mr. Rankin began his career with one bull as assets. He purchased another to complete the yoke, paying $8 for the animal in work. A new plow point cost $6, and he had to go in debt for that, and couldn't get it until he found a friend to go his security. However, Mr. Rankin never begrudges the money invested in farm implements.- In 1847, Mr. Rankin drove a bunch of cattle to Chicago, driving them across the prairie, so they could feed as they traveled. There were no regular packing houses in. those days, except in the winter. They were all closed in the summer, as there was no such thing as cold storage and refrigerating plants in those days. In 1848, Mr. Rankin, ever on the alert for improved machinery, bought one of the earliest types of reapers. It wasn't to be compared with tbe mo dern self-binder, but it was a great im provement over the cradle. It cost $125, and cut a five-foot swath. Three men were required to operate it. One of the advantages of the new machine was that it enabled Mr. Ran: kin to carry on his harvest without whisky, for the' first time. Whisky had always been considered as a stimu lant to the harvesters, but Mr. Rankin with his new machine, proved it wasn't necessary. t Mr. Rankin was married in 1850, and he paid his last $4 to the preach er. But he had eighty acres of land at that time, and a few head of cattle. They had to trade for everything to eat and wear, and, as first-class flour could n't be procured without cash, they had to take second-class. Along in the '50's, Mr. Rankin was engaged in buying atd selling 'hogs, and he had no stock scales. The hogs were lifted clear of the ground by a sort of swing, or breeching, and weigh ed on a pair of old-fashioned "steel yards." It was in 18bo that Mr. Kankin first; began to make big money. He bought cattle in Chicago at $1.25 a hundred, took them to Paxton, fed them corn, fattened them, and sold them in New York at $6.50 per hun dred. Then he embarked in the broom corn business, havingpurchased a large area of land, and he cleaned up I $200,000 in this venture, which people ' said would break him. Mr. Rankin has not accumulated his large fortune without credit, and, for several years, he paid 15 to 18 ier cent on money to make his dVals. He bought land .when it was cheap, and the increase from these holdings would have made hiin rich without farming, but he has made the farming pay on an enormous aenle, usually combining the business of stock-raising aud corn growing. He' has worked, hard, of course, but he has evidently enjoyed it His four children, are a credit to the family, the proof that farming pays in more ways then one. While Mr. Rankin has bought farm land in a" manner indicating " he might like to form a land trust, he doesn't advise farmers to sell. He is in love with his business, and believes every farmer should ben success.' He believes the railroads, implement manufacturers, packing houses, etc., have made farm ers prosperous, and that farmers should be ashamed to abuse these institutions as they do. Why do not the Eastern magazines pay more attention to wonderful men like David Rankin, and less to the Vanderbilts and Goulds. We think the story of David Rankin the most interesting we ever read. And there are thousands of men like David Ran kin, who are never heard of; men who have made a big success of farming. They have not been as successful as David Rankin, but there are literally thousands of men in Kansas, Nebras-' ka and Missouri who have made com fortable fortunes from farming, and who, in addition, have been notable for industry, intelligence and fairness. GREAT PAIttTriR THRIFTY MAN Even to Generous Patron Turner Be grudged the Opening of Bottle of Wine. Apropos of Turner's meanness, it is told how Gillot, a patron of Turner, called upon the great painter to pur chase his work and said: ( "Now, Turner, I have bought many picture of yo.urs, and have spent thousands of pounds, but you have never even offered a glass of wine. Yet I am told that you have some of the best grand old stuff you buy down the Thames when you go to your fa vorite haunts among the smugglers and others. Out with it! I will not leave your studio until I have tasted it" "Turner reluctantly produced a bot. tie of old port and grumbling all the time, poured out a glass. The con noisseur drank it "Well, I never! That's the finest glass of wine I have ever tasted. You mean old fraud! I'll be equal to you next time." Next year Gillot came around again. After business, wine was suggested, and, after some difficulty, Turner had to produce his port Gillot drank it, and then spluttered: "Oh, good gracious! Am I pois oned? What's this? Some of your in fernal bitumen, or what?" "No; that's all Tight. It must be for you praised my port last year, and that is out of the very same bottle." FEW WOMEN LAUGH HEARTILY Whether Due to tack of Humor or Childhood's Training Is Unknown, But Fact Remains. Women laugh too little. Whether this is due to their lack of humor or to childhood's training in gentle man ners may be questioned. Certain it is that a hearty laugh in a woman's voice is rare music. An audience of women rustles with amusement, but seldom laughs. A group of girls gig gle, but do not' laugh. A woman read ing the most brilliantly humorous story seldom gets beyond a smile. When Sir Walter Besant, in his clever skit, "The Revolt of Man," pictured the time in the twentieth century when women should have usurped all power political, ecclesiastical and social he shrewdly noted that laughter had died out in England; and when men revolted against their feminine ty rants, they came back to their own with peals of laughter. A Paris doc tor has recently opened a place for the laughter cure. It is a private Institution, and large fees are charged. The patients sit around a room, and at a give nmoment begin to smile at each other. The smile broadens to a grin, and at a signal to a peal of laughter. Two hours a day of this healthful exercise is said to cure the worst cases of dyspepsia. But wheth er the habit of laughing easily and naturally could be acquired by this process is doubtful. Montreal Herald. . Following the Fashion. Many women, and men as well, are disturbed if they feel that the clothes they wear are In the sligbteset par ticular obsolete. They cannot buy a pocket hankerchief without the anxious inquiry whether it is what everybody else is wearing, or pur chase a shoestring without critical scrutiny and comparison. Not mere ly in clothes is the fashion followed, but In social diversions. One game gives place to another, one popular ballad with a wbistleable refrain ousts its forerunner completely; no sooner la a tune learned than It is gone like the snows of yesterday. Books suffer the same incessant vicissitudes of the favor of "Fortune in men's eyes." In most things it does not matter if there is a continual cycle of changes. It is only when it comes to our be liefs and our opinions that it is not welt to try to keep pace with the vagaries and eccentricities of fashion. Words Would Fail Even Then. There are 2.754 languages. A man who has been knocked down by an auto or had a street car transfer re fused to him would need to use all of them to express his feelings. New York Press. Foster Bros. Piano Co. Thursu n Hotei Block w , , i .. . j - - -agaj aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaVnnnnBXMBBjaBaBi "- We handle such well known makes as the Player Pianos Pianos Ceoilian Auto Player Bush & Gerts Baldwin Howard . Ellington A. B. Chase and twenty other well known makes. Call in and look over our complete line before buying Foster Bros. Piano Co. Thurston Hotel Block Columbus, Neb. GAVE "iT.AP.lP Jill DELICACY. Wayfarer Had Askod for Starter for Breakfast, and What Could Housewife Do? It was Sunday morning and the Wayfarer was hungry. He walked slowly down the street, scrutinizing such houses as might give promise of a breakfast, or, at least, a starter on one. Finally he selected one that showed signs of life on the Interior. He sauntered slowly toward the back door and knocked. A woman answered the rap. "Good morning, lady," he said, with a smile, at the same time hoisting his travel-worn hat, "I just dropped into see if you would give a fellow a little starter on a breakfast. Not a whole breakfast, I pray of you. Only a start e,r and then 1 will go on to another neighbor, thus not exacting too great sacrifice from your Sabbath menu." The woman of the house stood stupefied. She had never heard such a speech from a tramp before. "Well well, well, what could I give you?" she finally sputtered. He spied two halves of a grapefruit on the table. They had been sweet ened the night before and the sugar gave them a highly luscious tone. Lit tle patches of unabsorbed sugar still rested on the crests. The wayfarer looked at them longingly. "I only ask for a starter on a break fast, madam," he said, quietly. "Only a starter. I will go on for the rest." "But I hardly know what" "Yes. it is hard to solve," he inter rupted. "But, don't you know, I am abnormally foolish about grapefruit." And what else was there tor her to do but to give that which stood as a visible supply. A Family Name. A new boy had made his appearance In the schoolroom, and Miss Adair, the teacher, summoned him to her desk. "Do you expect to come to school here regularly?" she asked him. "Yes'm." "Where do you live? Are you in this district?" "I guess so. I live down this street bout four blocks." "What is your name?" "Martin Luther Hicks." "Martin Luther?" said the teacher. "I presume, Martin, you know for whom you were named?" "Yes'm," answered the boy, bright ening up. "I was named after me uncle, on me mother's side. He keeps a liv'ry stable." "Youth's Companion. Misfortune of Dullness. Dullness means a lack of imagina tion, and without imagination life and happiness are both impossible. Re ligion and art, from one point of view, share the same mission. They bring to man the sense of amazement. They teach us that the world is a wonderful fairy palace, the place of hourly mira cles. Then we discover that we our selves are most amazing creatures The dull man is not interested in himself, has no self-love. I m certain that no man can love his neighbor un less he has learned to love himself From ourselves we discover humanity Exchange. Two Harassed Nations. Bay Mackerel Thanksgiving and Christmas may be seasons for the dis memberment of Turkey, but I know a nation in even a worse case. Shad Rose What is that? Bay Mackerel Lent, when occurs the baiting of fin-land. Magazine Binding I Old Books I I Rebound I Tn font finr anvt.riiTier in the hnnlr I I binding line bring your work to I I &e I I Journal Office I fl eBaB I Phone 160 I Corl Clarendon Haddorfi Poole Lawson Price & Teeple Krell Soldier True to Training. During the period of the "second empire" in France the "Cent Gardes" were one of its sights at the Tull eries. It was hard to distinguish them from statues. Their commander. Col. Verly, once declared to Empress Eu genie that "nothing" could make one of his men move when on duty. The empress laid a wager that she would make one of the giants stir; so. with her characteristic impetuosity she went up to one of the guards and boxed his ears. Not a muscle moved. The empress then acknowledged that Col. Verly had won the bet, and sent a solatium to the soldier, who, how ever, proudly refused it, saying that he had been sufficiently compensated by the honor of having had his sov ereign lady's hand laid on his cheek. The Foolish Painter. An interesting anecdote is told, on the highest authority, in connection with the little Matthew Maris picture of 'The Four Mills." which realized 3.300 guineas recently. The late .M. Goupil of Paris, paid the artist 100 francs for the picture, and at the same time gave him a lecture on the foolishness of painting such unsal able stuff! Money in Violets. If there is one branch of commer cial horticulture In which ladies have a chance of succeeding, and which does not involve them in the coarsen ing results of the general work, it Is the growing of violets on a commer cial scale. Fruitgrower and Florist. IX THK DISTRICT COURT OF PIiATTK COUNTY. NEBRASKA. In the matter of the estate of Henry II. Becher, Joliu Lester Becher and Katherine Becher. minors. . . Thi cause came on for hearing on the petition of Sus.in Becher. Kuanlian of Henry II. Becher. Jobn Lester Becher anil Katharine Becher. minors, prasinK for license to sell an un!ivilel three forty-eidhths (3-18) interest in all that por tion of lot number seven (7). in section number thirty-three (33). town seventeen (17) north of Tango one (ll east of the fith 1. M. in I'latte county. Nebraska, lying "est of a line beginning at a point sixteen and seventy-seven one hun dredths (10-77) chains eat of the sectiou line between sections thirty-two (32) and thirty-three (33) in the township and range aforesaid, and rnnning thence north and south across said lot No. seven (7.) Also an undivided three forty-eiKhts (3-4-) in terest in all that part of lota numbered five trt) ml ii lR in tMctinn thirty-three C) town seventeen (17). north of range one (1) eat of the Sth P. M. in Platte county. Nebniska. Iym "it bin the following boundaries, viz: Com mencing at a point on the north side of said lor six (G) thirty-one and aeventy-two one hun dredths (31-72) chains east of the section line between sections thirty-two (32) and thirty three (33) in the township and ranice aforesaid. Thence south tothe south side of said lot six ('. thence east along the south boundary of aM lots six (6) and five (5) to a point forty-seven and fifty-nine one hundredths (47-59) chain east of the section line between said soctionn thirty-two (32) and thirty-three (33). theno north across raid lot five (5) to the north houn boundary thereof, thence west along th north boundary of said lots five (ft) and six (rt) to the place of beginning. Also an undivided three twenty-fourths (li'l) interest in the southwest quarter (B. W. li) of the southeast (joarter (d. E. 4) of section twenty-reran (27) in township seventen (17) north of range two (2) west of the 6th P. M. in I'latte county, aebrasKa. Also an undivided three-twelfths (3-12) interest in lot number one (1) in block number one hun dred and eleven (111) and lot number five (ft) iu Block number one hundred and forty six (MS), all in the city of Columbus, Platte count, Nebraska. Also an undivided three forty-eighths (:m interest in the northeast quarter iX. E. ) of section number twelve (12) in township sixteen ( 1) north of range five (5) west in Nance county. Nebraska, for the purpose of having the proceed-, of the sale of said property put out at interest or invested in some productive stock, and "a submitted to the court. On consideration whereof, it is ordered that the next of kin of the said Henry H. Becher. John Lester Becher and Katherlne Becher. and all personrt interested in the estate herein de scribed, appear before me at the court house in the city of Columbus, Platte county, Nebraska, on the 14th day of August, 1909. at the hour of 2 o'clock p. m., there to show cause why a license should not be v ranted to said Susan Becher, guardian of said minors, to sell the abote de scribed real estate. It is further ordered that this order be pub lished for three successive weeks in The Colum bus Journal, prior to the said day of hearing. Geo. H. Thomas. Judge. Dated July 13. 1909. 1