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Louisiana caused by a hurricane on
the coMt; of the destruction of thou
smack of people in Italy by an earth
quake, are alluded to as great dis-
And they are, in a modern
but pale into inugnificane when
compared to some ot the agents of
dettructioB which history records.
la 1346 the black death, which origi
aated in Persia and spead throughout
Europe, wa the most terrible agent
for the destruction of human life re
, corded ia history . It was preceded
by swarass of locusts which filled the
wells aad rivers and poisoned the
water. At Bagdad 500,000 died in
ninety days; at Cairo 10,000 died in
twenty-four hours. London lost 100
000 and Paris 50.000. Ships were
el drifting at sea with all on board
dead. Iu Europe alone the plague
carried off 24,000.000 people.
At the Western Nebraska Metho
dist conference a resolution was iu
troduced and passed condemning
Governor Shallenbfrger for rernoyiug
the Rev Jhnsn.a Mcth dit raiuis
telr, as chaplain of the etase peuiten
tiary and appointing as his his eucces
or a minister of a different de
nomination. Such resolutions do ni
tend to create a spirit of brother love
one hears so much about in church
circles. Why should the governor
be condemned for removing a republi
can minister from an official position
and appointing a democratic minister
as his successor? Is it impossible for
a man to be a christian and vote the
democratic ticket? Just so long as
the churches of Nebraska continue to
dabbleln politics her people will
rank low in church attendance. Ac
cording to the religious census taken
by the government, only eight states
have so small a proportion of church
members as Nebraska. In proportion
to the population, Arizona leads all
the states in the number of church
members.
The campaign in Nebraska next
year promises to be the most interest
iag contest in the history of the state.
It will commence in the primary cam
paign when the prohibitionists in the
democratic party will line up for the
renomination of Governor Shallenber-
' ger, and the anti-prohibitionists will
champion the candidacy of Jim Dahl
man. The skirmish lines have al
ready advanced, and an occasional
hot is heard from both sides. The
-Shallenberger faction have a .trifle
the best of it at present. The ma
chine built up by the governor is an
dement of strength which the Dahl
maaites will find strongly intrenched
when the order to charge is given.
Bat Dahlman and his lieutenants are
f ghters and will doubtless give a good
account of themselves when the con
test warms up. In Platte county the
machine appears to favor Dahlman,
bat the machine has already bumped
up against strong oppisition, and
otice has been served, on what is
termed "The B.w-es," that if they
succeed in forcing Dahlman upon the
party the prohibitionists will bolt him.
This threat has somewhat subdued the
eathusiasm for the Omaha candidate
in Platte county, and it is said that an
efforf will b made at the proper time
to' unite on George W. Berge as a
compromise candidate. The Journal
is not ia the confidence of the leaders
of two factions, and cannot vouch for
the truth of the compromise plan pro
posed. Berge is a prohibitionist, and
has a record of being more hostile to
individual rights than Shallenberger,
hot he does not possess the ability of
the present executive and would be
considered by the general public as a
weak candidate who could not com
maad the support of his party. Al
though' Platte county does not con
taia all the democrats in Nebraska,
any compromise that the leaders here
suggest would be given serious con
sideration by the party throughout
Ftiwaasia
JOHN A. JOHNSON.
The "misterious way" - in which his
wonders are performed is never more
mysterious than when death strikes
down before the allotted ' time, one
who has striven nobly and effectivel
in a great cause and whom his fellows
have marked for reward and honor
and in whom they have centered hope
of future accomplishment.
Such a man was Governor John A.
Johnson of Minnesota. His personally
wrought career and his potential pub
lic service made him a national figure
and at a time when the qualities that
gave him distinction and power were
sorely needed in public affairs. His
struggles and his attainments appealed
to the popular imagination just as his
steadfastness and his courage touched
the moral sensibilities of the country.
The life and the success of Gover
nor Johnson were intensely democratic
distinctively American the more
American because he was b3rn of
popr foreign parentage and thus re
presented, in his development, the
wonderful processes of assimilation
that have worked out the racial and
political destinies of this Nation.
In retrospect the career of Gover
nor Johnson has the elements of ro
mance and picturesqueness; in reality
that career represents some of the
hardest knocks that noble fortitude
was ever called upon to withstand.
The eldest of the family, left father
less in every helpful sense at an early
age, he became the dependence of his
wage earning mother and his younger
brothers and sisters, and at the age of
15 was theii sole support' Vet this
boy, meeting the responsibilities of a
man, gratified bis desire for learning
absorbing the village library and get
ting common wisdom from the running
gossip and discussion of the town drug
store where he was employed.
Governor Johnson's rie as a country
journalist, as a member of the Minne
sota Legislature and as chief executive
of his state is now :i matter of common
knowledge. Miuue-ta owes him
everlasting gratitude au I honor, but
it cannot honor him dead more than
it honored him living, nnl in this the
great commonwealth nil! fii.d endur
ing consolation as it cn templates its
mournful loss Of all the reform
governors of his time, J-ihnson was
most signallv rewarded by those he
served, gaining support in amazing
numbers from an opposition and nor
mally dominant party. And he se
cured for Minnesota in return many
great legislative reforms. Indeed, he
placed his state in the front rank in
legislative attainment.
There is reason to believe that if
Governor Johnson had chosen to as
sert himself politically at a particular
time preceding, the Presidential cam
paign of last year he would have
achieved the place cf leadership in the
Democratic party. The leaders of
that party desired a change. The
rank and file were ready for a new
standard bearer, for even among those
who preferred Mr. Bryan and had
unfaltering faith in him there were
many who believed that his election
would be impossible. But Mr. John
son would not place himself in the
attitude of seeking a national office.
However, the attention that the
discussion of his name centered upon
him, together with the splendid quali
ties and striking record that this
scrutiny revealed, made him the most
popular man in the national Demo
cracy, with the single exception of Mr.
Bryan. And had he lived he would
have stood fair to attain the higher
honor that once seemed almost about
to be thrust upon him. Kansas City
Star.
As was to have been expected, Pres
ident Taft upholds the Payne Aldrich
tariff law. He does this as a whoe
while he condemns parts of the wool
schedule especially. After giving hi
approval to the bill by signing it he
could not be expected to condemn it.
Besides being the hi-ad ot the govern
ment, he is the head of the Republican
party, to which organization he owes
his election. So long as K)!itical par
ties have their present important place
in our system of government, it can
not be denied that the president has a
logical defense. Legislation is a com
promising of widely diverging opin
ions. No law combining such an ag
gregate of local ii;t rets as a tariff
law could be expected to please every
body. In fact, it pleases nobody in
its entmty. Aior can a law ever be
enacted under present methods that
will. The reason is that when a gen
eral revision is entered upon, every
interest is willing to reciprocate with
every other interest in securing a high
er duty than is necessary. As the
president notes in the wool schedules
which he says are unjust and burden
some to the people, "it was found
early in the fight that the wool and
woolen manufacturing interests in the
Republican party we're so strong that
any attempt to change the Dingley
rates would result in a defeat of the
bill." So it is in many other sched
ules. The president is apparently
frank and honest in his contentions.
He does not hesitate to criticise por
tionsofthe law, but maintains that it
was the best that could be secured, and
as 'a whole it was better than the Diag
ley law, he approved the law, and as a
partizan he justifies his action. Aa a
partizan also he mildly critirises thosrl
Republicans who voted against the bill
although, he qualifies it by admitting
that it is for each legislator to decide
for himsejf whether party regularity is
of more importance than the principle
in the bill. Albion News.
In one of his last speeches, delivered
a few weeks before his death, Gover
nor John A. Johnson, of Minnesota
voiced the sentiment of the Great
West when he said: It is time that
the West threw off the shackles of the
East. We as an integral part of the
American people should cast our in
fluence and our votes not only to ad
vance the material interests of our own
particular section, but we should be
broad enough and big enough to labor
for the common good of our .common
country.
We have in the States west of Miss
issippi the undoubted balance of power
no matter under what name the nat
ional administration at Washington
exists. In the years that have passed
our population and our material wealth
have not enjoyed that representation
to which they are entitled, and, furth
er more, our leaders have been content
to follow in no small measure the lead
ership of men who represent relatively
small constituencies and smaller com
monwealths. It is time that the great
northwest should came into its own
and by the force of its energy, the abili
ty of its sons and the co-operation of
its various constituent parts exert an
influence for good not only as to its own
particular prosperity, but to that of
the country at large, to which every
element invites it."
An v way, no democrat can be elect
ed governor of Nebraska without Jim
Dnhlman's support.
As long as state institutions are
controled and run by politicians graft
and incompetency will prevail. A
xtate institution is a business institu
tion and should be conducted on busi
ness principles.
Since President Taft delivered his
Winona speech iu which he praised
Cannon and Aldrich, and denounced
the so-called insurgents which in
cludes LaFollette, Nelson, Cummins,
Bristow, Beveridge and all the other
representatives and senators who voted
against the Payne tariff bill the re
form press of Nebaska has commen
ced to hedge. The Lord hates a
coward.
What is a progressive republican
now? Before Taft made that speech
at Winona, repulicans that were
scorching Speaker Cannon and U. S.
Senator Aldrich were classed as "pro
gressives," but now, according to
Frank Harrison's Nebraska Capital,
only those who are in favor of county
option and C. H. Aldrich for govern
or should be allowed to wear the pro
gressive tag.
YIELDING UP A SCEPTER.
There was a dramatic touch of path
os and of tragedy in that last secret
visit of J. Pierpont Morgan to Edward
Harriman at Arden.
It was an hour big with the fate of
Wall street and the stocks and migh
ty shares of transpontation.
With a third man present, either
the Petroleum King or that massive
figure of the great Northwest, this
hour upon the terraces of Tower Hill
might have been framed as '-The Last
Council of the Triumvirs," who had
partitioned the business of the western
world.
Harriman had fought his last fight,
and he knew it. So long as the cur
rent of blood within his veins was
strong'enough to feed the heart, the
dauntless spirit of the railway king
had been content to stand alone. He
had not needed help or counsel or con
solation anywhere. Only a fortnight
behind him, and with the gray shadow
of coming dissolution on his face, he
had roused his vast energies for an ex
piring effort, and flung from his lion
mane like sheep dogs the hungry stock
gamblers who had thought to gobble
his accumulations in premature divis
ion.
Once in the lesser yearsof Harri
man, Morgan had treated with cavali
er contempt his offer of aid to stem the
tide of panic
And after that Harriman, in reci
procal disdain, had lightly and easily
torn Morgan's grasp away when it had
fastened iteself expectantly upon the
sick body of the Eriei railroad.
But the master of Arden, who saw
all things clearly and faced things al
ways as they were, saw in his tottering
limbs and flickering pulse the end of
empire and the final lapse of power.
The last enemy, at least, was not to be
dewed, aad death was writing fast up
on his pallid check the abdication
which opposition had never been able
to compel.
Harrimaa faced hie problems, clear
headed, 161010 and catholic to the
closing hoar, There had never been
ia his loag life any deep disaegard of
public-welfare or any forgetfulness of
his personal obligation to associates
and friends or family. When the time
came to pass the scepter and divide the
empire or hold it intact for future
years, he did it bravely, graciously and
wisely in his own neat way.
Many great men have beenmem
tioned to succeed him. Many names
of power close to his role had been
written in the speculative prints to
grasp the scepter as it fall from his
nerveless hand. The master builder
knew better than us all the one man
in all the world who was equipped to
hold the rein. No maudlin friendship
for his comrades, no selfish narrowness
for a perpetuated dynasty, tempted
him to forget the stability of his vast
properties or the safety of the business
world just soaring out of panic to pro
sperity that business world on which
he had builded all his power.
And so, having provided carefully
among his physicians and his friends
against any premature injury to the
markets by the untimely announce
ment of his death, dying but devoted,
body gone bat mind triumphant to the
end the master builder sent for the
master banker of the age.
Edward Harriman summoned Pier
pont Morgan.
No man save Pierpont Mongan
knows or ever will know, perhaps
what took place in that fateful inter
view, which passed from one man to
the other a greater empire than Cae
sar or Alexander ever ruled.
What were the real terms, what
were the pledges and what were the
solemn words of greeting and farewell
we can only speculate.
Morgan, dark and grim, huge of
bulk and ruddy with abiding health,
and Harriman, slender, pale and fra
gile, antithesis in body yet matched in
the immortal things of mind and
spirit there alone on the sunlit ter
races of Arden these mighty figures
of the republic bargaining a finan
cial kingdom amid the pale shadows of
hovering death.
It would be difficult to paint or con
ceive aiBcene so rail 01 power and
pathos and suggestion as this real epic
of life and death and money in the
hills. Only I cannot fail to wonder
as Pierpont Morgan, pufHing his great
black cigar, walked down the solemn
terraces back to this world city to as
sume the throne which had been left
him, whether there did not come along
with the swelling pluse and kindling
consciousness of anew and vaster pow
er than he had ever known the haunt
ing memory of the pale, passing king
dethroned yea, and of that other and
mightier king never to be dethroned
that gray, restless monarch of the sha
dow before whom Pierpont Morgan
himself must bow in time,
and at whose relentless beckon
iug he, too, must relinquish his scepter
of gold to yet another, who in turn
must abdictate to death!
Sing once more, oh solemn bard, the
lines that epitaph our lives:
The boast heraldry, the promp of
power.
And all that beauty, all that wealth
e er gave
Await alike the inevitable hour.
The paths of glory lead but to the
grave.
John Temple Graves.
The "Hyde of Land."
According to an ancient law in Eag
laad, "a byde of land" included waat
could reasonably be cultivated with
one plow. Tbla applied for scores of
years, but at the dissolutioa of the
religious orders in the reign of Henry
VIII. the "byde." or cultivated laad
of the abbots of Westmlaster. all re
verted to the possession of the crown.
That marked the gradual deeliae of
that meaas of measuriag land, aad
before many years the term fell lato
disuse, never to be revived,
Her Secret Resentment.
A parson waa seat for by a dyiag
parlsatoaer, who mad always sternly
refused to have aaytalag to do witk
him before. He hurried her bed
side, found her la a most contrite
mood aad made the best of ais oppor
tnmltles la a loag extempore prayer,
ending with a sonorous "Amen!" The
last word made her alt up with sudden
energy. "Aye." she exclaimed, "that's
it! It's a' for mem and mowt for ma
poor women ia this world!"
Keeping Milk Pure.
If milk mas beea allowed to stand
uncovered In a jug or bottle, pour the
lifuid of carefully into another uten
sil that has beea scalded clean. Pour
very slowly, so that the sediment Is
left at the bottom of the original jug,
as this part of the milk is Injurious.
It Is well to leave aa Inch or two of
the milk In the first receptacle rather
than the dregs merely.
Time!
It Is suggested that unselfisaesa Is
the great aeed ,of the world to-day.
Trouble Is everybody Is waiting for
the other fellow to start New York
Herald.
NO AMERICAN NATIONAL CAKE
Unlike Meet Countries ef the Old
World, We Are Without a
Specialty.
x "There's .a bully good story in here
about Holland," said a man who was
reading one of the magazines. "The
writer makes special mention of the
little tartjes, which are what you
might call the national cake of the
Dutch. It's queer that so many of the
countries of the old world have their
specialties la the bakery line, and the
United States hasn't anything of the
sort There are those tarts in Hol
land, France baa its far-famed French
bread, the Italians have a closer bread
.that Is quite unlike that of the French,
but very palateable. Spanish bakers,
wherever you find them, have a knack
of maklag delightful little rolls that
no-other nation cam make. If you go
Into a German bakery there are in
numerable kinds of coffee cake, all
typically German. Now, if you go into
a bakery, except of the very fanciest
class here, what do you find? You
fiad bread and rolls that average very
bad, and the same sorts of cake in
all the bakeries. On the other side,
the stores specialize. Many of the
stores have some little specialty that
no other store carries, and the recipe
for which Is carefully guarded. It is
almost Impossible for a private family
here to get good bread or rolls from
any bakery." .
EVILS LAID TO NEURASTHENIA
Italian Physician Asserts That Dis
ease Is Responsible for All Man
ner of Ailments.
Neurasthenia, according to Dr. DIo
mede Carlto of Naples, an authority
on that disease. Is resirasible for all
manner of evils. Lying, spitefulness,
grumbling, oversensitlveness to critl
tlsm, excessive shyness, lack of will
power, inability to concentrate, a
tendency to alternating paroxysms of
sxaltatloa and depression these and
many other defects of character may
be traced not Infrequently, he says,
to neurasthenia. So deeply Impressed
Is me with -the menace of the disease
that he suggests an International con
ference on the subject.
The British Medical Journal, which
quotes his views, takes the matter less
seriously. Neurasthenia, it says, is
often merely a high-sounding name for
that tired feeling. The root of the dis
ease lies in unsuitable education.
Competition, the journal says, is too
much the test of merit nowadays, and
the nerves of pupils are strained to
meet examinations which are not
tests of knowledge reajly, but "traps
for the memory." Therein lies neu
rasthenia. The Qood-Tempered Japanese.
It was Into this narrow thorough
fare, already crowded to its utmost
capacity by merchants and shoppers,
merchandise and awnings, that the
mammoth-like Thomas pushed his
way. It was our only route into the
dty and so we had no choice as to
what followed. Capt Hansen jumped
out on one side, and I on the other.
We swept aside the merchandise to
save It from destruction; pushed back
the awnings against the shop fronts,
and then, having made room for the
automobile, repeated the operations at
the next shop. To try to help the
shopkeepers straighten out their tum
bled wares would have been useless;
so. not without a twinge of conscience
we continued our disturbing course.
And In the entire length of that street
not an angry word, not even a frown.
From "Across Japan in a Motor
Car," by George MacAdam in the Out
ing Magazine.
One Mr. Thackeray.
The plaintiff in the theatrical libel
case explained that she adopted the
name of Walker because she liked it
better than that of Thackeray. It
must be embarrassing, no doubt, to be
in continued danger of the funny
man's question, "How the Dickens do
you come to have such a name?" But
one Mr. Thackeray, whom Lord Mel
bourne, when his mind was becoming
weak, met one day in a railway car
riage, must have had even stranger
reasons for wishing he had some other
name. "Fray sir," asked Melbourne,
"are you the Mr. Thackeray who in
veated brass locks?" "No," said the
stranger. "Are you the Mr. Thack
eray who wrote VanIty Fair"?" "No."
"Then what the Mr. Thackeray
are you?" London Chronicle.
New Idea far Church Fair.
Church fairs in England have adopt
ed an Ingenious device to render the
sufferings of masculine patrons much
less acute. The Innovatloa first saw
the light of day at Exeter, where, by
the purchase of what were called "im
munlty tickets" at a little above the
ordinary price of admission, men were
protected from the importunities of
women stallholders to buy. This in
aovatlon. which was styled "preferen
tial treatment," proved a diverting
method of obtaining increased mal6
support for the fete. A man, on being
approached by a femlnlng stallholder,
bad only to show his colored passport
to secure complete Immunity.
Suburban Troubles.
"How does Wrigley like his new
home In the country?"
"Pretty well. He has to get up Id
the dark to catch the train, and it's
after dark when he gets home. And
he sleeps all day Sunday. Last week
be begged a day off at the office."
"What for?"
"So he could get a good look at hie
home by sunlight."
New Century Forces.
The tweatletm century Is to employ
the elements of air and water and the
fierceness of the sun in a utilitarian
way exceeding all fancies of the fabu
list, all the Imsglniags of the makers
of fiction. Indianapolis News.
Varieties ef Girls.
"There are three kinds of girls,"
the Philosopher of Folly; "those
who are pretty and foolish, those who
are homely aad sensible, and those
that have nothing to preserve them
frsa beiag old msids."
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