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3? T ! " ' - If lr Columbus. Welr Katarad at tha Postoffioe, Columbu, Nebr., m tcoari rvm mil mattf . TSSKB OFSOBSGBIFTIOa: Oaajrav.bf all.poitaa scapaid... ....fLU Sis ThrMi .0 WSDHK8DAT. OCTOBER C. 1909. 8TB0THEB & STOCKWELL. ProprietorB. RJKNEWAL8 The date opposite your name on your puper. or wrapper ehowa to what time yoar Kbaeription la paid. Thna JaaOS shows that lj imut haa been reoeiTod up to Jan. 1,1905, VebtS to Feb. 1,1905 and ao on. 'When payment Ip ade.tbe date, which answers aa a receipt, will be chanced accordingly. DlflOONTlKUANCES-Besponaible rabecrfb era will continue to receire this journal until the publishers an notified by letter to discontinue, when all arrearages must be paid. It you do not wish the Journal continued for another year af ter the time paid for has expired, you should prertomely notify us to discontinue it. CHANGE IN ADDBESB-When ordering a ofaange is the addrese, subscribers should be euro to gire their old aaweU as their new addresa. Omaha newspapers are making fun of Omaha as a result of President Taft'a visit there last week. It was a very swell elegant banquet, at $20 a plate. But, as a full dress affair, it didn't make much of a hit. One man wore his spike tail coat, white waist coat, and all the rest of it pretty well, except that he adorned his bosom with large gold studs. Another full dress costume was marred by a black tie ftiaf aTinnld have been white. Some wore dinner jackets, and even gray trousers broke into the sacred circle, and Omaha papers are sad or mad. But they really shouldn't feel so bad. If the West isn't as careful of its per sonal attire of Fifth avenue, or even Pennsylvania avenue, it is a great deal better dressed than it was when some of its citizens got their first dress suits as aid from the Eastern discard. New countries, as a rule, are too busy to make fashions, that being left for more effete lands. And even if a fash ion is broken occasionally, the West doesn't care, and neither does the presi dent it is votes he is interested Drake Watson. in. LINDSAY STIRS DFNVER. Ben B. Lindsay, Denver's famous "juvenile court" judge, is writing a se ries of articles for Everybody's Maga zine which has set the Bocky mountain metropolis by the ears. The series, which is largely autobiographical, is entitled "The Beast and the Jungle," and the first installment lifts the lid off Denver and Colorado, and discloses a number of eminent personages of that state in the light of jury fixers, corpora tion boodlers, and otherwise very un desirable citizens. Naturally, the men exposed do not take kindly to what the judge is say ing about them. They are retorting fiercely, add the short and ugly word figures largely in their remarks. Lindsay himself is sobad a man that what he has to say is not worthy of much consideration. Unfortunately for the men against whom Lindsay's shafts are aimed, cir cumstantial evidence is on bis side. Colorado corporation politics have been a stench in the nostrils of the country for a good many years, the state has enjoyed the reputation of be ing the worst governed commonwealth in the union; the money tainted de cisions of its supreme court and have brought down the denunciation of re spectable legal authorities every where, have soiled the judicial ermine and brought the bench into contempt high handed acts of violence against workingmen have more than once pro duced anarchy, and "law and order" has become a by word. Moreover, Judge Lindsay's accusa tions are not general, but specific. He names places and dates, tells what this and that public servant received in the way of bride money for pros . tituting his official position for the benefit of public service and other cor porations, and throws around his story an air of probability that lends much to its strength in the mind of any man who has ever viewed politics from the inside. If he is lying, he is most ar tistic liar, as well as a brave one. Sioux City Tribune. WHY CREMATION ISNT'S POPULAR. Cemetery superintendents, holding a yearly convention just like less melan choly organizations, declared them selves in accord with the view that the time of compulsory creamation of the dead is not far distant. In support of this expressed opinion it was pointed out that cremation has grown, not ex actly in popularity, but in favor as a sanitary means of disposing of the dead, until now the number ef cremations yearly is more than double those of the preceding ten years. This question of cremating the dead is not wholly an economic or sanitary one; in the main, it is sentimental. In some cases-religious creeds and strong prejudices are maintaining a stubborn resistance to the idea of destroying the body by casting it into a furnace. In countless instances cremation is viewed as a sacrilege, and so, indeed, it must be treated until with the pass ing of years' the horror of it is educated out of the general public's mind. It is singular that incineration should appear to be so much more deadful a thing than the burial of the dead in the moulding earth. To those who favor cremation it seems that every person ought really to appreci ate the sanitary advantages of it, but inasmuch as they do not, the time when cremation becomes universal depends altogether upon the amount of en lightenment on the subject necessary to overcome a prejudice based upon a tender sentiment. Philadelphia Tim es. HARMONIZERS AND PARASITES Discussing ''The Lawyers' Func tion" a writer in the current Atlantic monthly takes as his text the inscrip tion above the statue of law in the con gressional library at Washington read ing. V'Of law there can be no less ac knowledged than that her voice is the harmonizer of the world," and in its application divides the whole class of lawyers and parasites." When is a lawyer a harmonizer and when a parasite?" is asked and to find the ans wer to this question an attempt is made to analyze the lawyer's function under the three-fold fields of advice, litigation and lawmaking. In the realm of advice, we are told, a lawyer may choose between counsel ing his client how to uphold the rights secured to him by the justice of his cause, and how to obtain benefits from the application of technicalities and the use of the weaknesses of the parti cular statute of precendents under con sideration, whereby he may attain ad vantages inconsistent with fair play between man and man. Eyery time a lawyer helps perpetrate injustice he ceases to be a harmonizer and becomes a parasite, even though the client will ingly defrays the expense, which, how ever, is finally shifted onto society, as a whole. In litigation the lawyer who en deavors by every means to present fully his client's case and point out the defects in his opponent's opposition is fully meeting his responsibility to give a conscientious judge all the informa tion obtainable, and promote speedy, as well as just settlement. On the other hand the lawyer who attempts by artifice to becloud, distort and sup press, creates distrust in the law and iiakes for injustice for all litigants. It is in lawmaking that the lawyer can most easily choose his work. Most of our laws are made by lawyers, and those who devise schemes for personal or selfish purposes of clients as con trasted with the demands of the com mon good, "are remarkably plain ex amples of the parasitical class." The possibilities of lawmaking are equalled only by the possibilities of unmaking laws, where again the line of demark atiou is fairly clear. As defined in this article, this line depends, not so much on whether a lawyer believes a law to be for the good of the majority, but rather, whether he seeks to over throw a statute of questionable merit by fair construction of the constitution or undertakes to find out if by any possible construction of the constitu tion or the statute he may may over throw the law entirely, regardless of its value to the community. The only excuse offered for the par asites in the legal profession, is that they may have been unable to make a living from legitimate practice. The ultimate disappearance of the parasiti cal lawyer may be hoped for if the lawyers, who are harmonizers, cut themselves loose from those who are either wilfully or involuntarily para sites, and so discredit the latter that their usefulness will be at an end, even according to their own standards. All of which may reem to be shadowy, and in the dim future, but still holds up an ideal which should have an elevat ing effect on the present. Omaha Bee THE NEW SOUTH. Whnever an amature novelist as sails the very fortresses of the -newspaper paragraphers he usually secret es himself in the shadow of anomnity. As the strength of his assault increas es the greater his modesty. An unknown novelist has pictured anew south. He has done more. He has effaced the traditional jokes of a generation, The southern colonel is no more. Take his novel as a hand book and even the julep jest must go. The writer plunges bodily into a hitherto uncharted sea of fiction. Imagine a south without any misery and inaction after the civil war! Picture a south without grinding chaste, incipient race wars, smoulder ing class hatred and indolent shiftless ness. Instead, according to this un known, workers are at colossal tasks and builders are transforming waste places into gardens of beauty. Be- lievers in "progress have abandoned me mnenieu eaucauonai, political, sentimental and industrial hindranc es and are laboring together for a south which even now far eclipses the faded granduer of ante-bellum days If this writer is to be trusted, the young men of the south have come in to their own. They are not dreaming or idling but are 'using the material at hand for the development of a vir gin empire. Toil and labor are dig nified and honorable. Trade is not a disgrace. The useful citizen is hon ored and the idle abased. Thousands will greet this picture of the south with acclaim. In their heart they will hope that the canvas does not belie conditions as they are today. They will welcome the funeral of an outworn and misfit civilization and will cheer the dawn of the new era. Not so the jokesmiths. They are dashing, impudent, shallow and ephe meral. Vaincarping, often enmeshed in plagiarism, they love precedent and resent innovation. They prefer to fol low the products of yesterday with an other crop; twisted, wrapped, bettered, seemingly new, These funny men love to perpetrate dry programs in convention assembled and they do hate to find themselves floundering in a strange atmosphere which calls for a new brand of humor. And there is sorrow among the jesters and woe among funny men whenever an anci ent witticism is hurled into the tomb by an indignant public. Perhaps it is the revenge of the news paper wits which the timid author fears. Lincoln Star. THE MESSAGE FROM MARS Some where Mr. Percival Lowell, the astronomer, says something lika this: "We are great doers but bashful thinkers." His reference, was to mankind and he was writing from Mars. Probably this scientist, who has popularized the daring theories of his labors, had much to do with the intellectual phenomenon that a first thought concerning the magnetic dis turbance of Saturday was that here was the expected message from Mars. Manifestly we are losing some of our bashfulness of thinking. Hear the unemotional learned ones protest that it was not a Martain message and that, in imagining such a thing, the popular mind runs in faddists grooves! All the same, it is a signifi cant sign in our mental zodiac that we leap 35 million miles of space in our latter day reckonings of what is possible. And it is wholly fine and worth while that we are much more impressed by the 15 million miles which Mars has clicked off from the farthest reach of its distance from us than we are by the 35 million miles which remain to be bridged. We have our scientists to tell us that a big enough blot on the Earth's surface could be noted from Mars, as a similar blot upon Mars could be ob served by us. We already have as tronomers, turned economists, who would demonstrate a world-wide dem ocracy on Mars from what they assure us is a system of canals and fertile zones to husband and distribute an imperiled food supply. A spirit of mental unrest, of greater reaching inquiry than any fostered by an historic renascence, has been won derfully stimulated, too by wireless telegraphy, by flying machines, by thought transference, if you please. Mankind is getting chummy with its astronomers, its philosophers and its pioneering thinkers. Its sentiment is taking wings, and, better still, it is taking rudders. Well, maybe, as a practical fact, it was not a message from Mars, that magnetic "explosion" of Saturday. so far as concerns any conscious effort of the inhabitants of Mars. But, in another sense, our very acceptance of its possibility did constitute a message from Mars, as Mars stands now, an ob ject of bur aspiring, unbashrul think ing Kansas City Times. Thomas A. Edison was asked what caused the electrical disturbance of Saturday. "If I only knew whence it came or. what caused it," he replied, "then I might claim to know some thing of real value to the human race. I suppose it was caused by some dis turbance of the electric fluid under the crust of the earth. The earth, you know, is the godmother of electricity; at any rate it is an enormous reposi tory. Of that I feelj assured. But that is about all I do feel reasonably certain about in relation to the matter. It is reported to have put all wires out of business for a time in an area cov ering a part of New England, JJew York and Pennsylvania. I expected an electric storm, if that is what you want to call it, when I was running a wire in Boston many years ago. Every one of them has been local. That of Saturday was local. As I said before, something went wrong with the fluid waves down under the crust of the earth and we were cut off from wire communication with the world in the territory affected for an hour or more. You know as much about the thing as I do, oras anybody else, so far as I am aware. I observe that some person, who believes he is wise, says the manifestation Saturday was coemical. If it had been cosmical if it had not been local, this whirlibg sphere upon, which we live would have rolled up like a scroll or gone whiz zing madly out of its orbit, into il limitable unthinkable 'space. There is magnatism. What is magnatism? Do you know? I am certain I don't Take the ordinary toy magnet. It has bean artifically magnetized, and still it retains the mysterous force for centuries. It lifts weights sever al times its own. Between its two poles there abides an unseeable, un feelable force that does this. But what is that force? Whence comes it? If we only knew what that is. Or, if we only knew anything about God's great immutable laws! We are just beginning to interpret them a little. In fact, intellectually, we are just emerging from the 'dog age. We say we are living in a wonderful age. We are just at its threshold. If only those if us here now could be spared long enough to behold the wonders that are about to be opened to the understanding of the human race! It makes the head grow dizzy to con template them. I do not know how fact we shall progress in real know ledge. We know so little now that the road ahead of us is a long one. But if we persist as we have begun we will sooner or later reach the gold en age. Chemistry holds the key. That is the science of sciences." At chison Globe. INSTANCES OF YANKEE LUCK Uncle Sam Has Been Remarkably For tunate in Acquiring Territory ' Rich In Minerals. Now comes the report from Luzon, Philippine archipelago, that discover ies of gold bearing ore have been made that promise great richness, the Washington Post says. Press dis patches state that some of the assays run as high as $20,000 to the ton. A year ago it was announced that great coal deposits underlie a good portion of some of these Islands, and that In case the supply over here Is ex hausted, as is feared by the experts, the world may warm itself for a con siderable term of years on the prod uct of our far eastern possession. All of which calls to mind the re markable luck of Uncle Sam In acquir ing territory that produces mineral that is the envy of the entire world. Alaska, the despised, is sending out gold enough every year to pay for her self. Copper mines of untold wealth have been discovered there, and a railroad Is being built inland from Seward to tap them. SU1I back of this the United States acquired from Mexico the Gadsden purchase, a' vast stretch of apparently worthless land. That strip of it across Arizona and New Mexico was long known as "the land that God forgot" Tet American prospectors went into it, and at first opened up gold and silver mines that paid prodigiously. Still later attention was turned to the copper deposits In that region, and such busy towns as Bisbee sprang up along the frontier, supported entirely by the copper mines. Recently Arizona has taken her place as the greatest copper-producing commonwealth In the union, and that region lying about her southern bor der has come to be known as the greatest copper-producing belt in the world. Michigan and Montana have been relegated to second and third place, and the cactus-covered south west has been given the palm. Truly it seems that wherever the Yankee sticks his pick In the ground he turns up a fortune. The Hospital's Place. Florence Goetz of Williamsburg, had swallowed carbolic acid, and it was imperative that she be taken to the hospital at once. Fourteen of her family fought her removal and the police reserves had to be called out. Her people wished her to "die at home in peace," even when the alter native was a chance of being saved in hospital. In a contrasting case a girl of ten was taken in haste to a hospital with acute appendicitis. She went calmly Into the ether sleep, for wise relatives assured her that "the doctors would do it right." Her convalescence was one long play spell In sunny rooms, smiled on by doctors and nurses whose skill had not lessened their sympathy. When she was to leave she begged: "Can't I stay another week?" The fatalist of eastern races, when stricken with serious disease, rolls himself In a blanket, says his time has come and dies, accepting or an ticipating destiny. A gritty westerner in like circumstances, far from cities, says: "I won't die." and often keeps his promise. In our great cities ig norance and superstition lead some to conceal disease until It is too late, but more sensible people promptly seek medical aid and the death rate con stantly decreases. Too Fat to Drown. George Lawes, a traveler, who was sentenced to three months' hard la bor at a London (Eng.) police court recently for embezzlement, Is in the fortunate position of being unable to drown himself. After his defalcations had been dis covered Lawes made up his mind tc take his life, and wrote a letter to his wife stating that he had gone to com mit suicide. He then went to a near by park and threw himself into the deepest part of a lake. To his surprise he did not sinkr every time he thrust himself under the water he came to the top again like a cork. At length, in disgust, he swam ashore and walked him. "He was too fat to sink," a police man explained, to. the. magistrate. FEAR TO GET RUSTY ,WHY WORKERS REMAIN SO LONG IN THE HARNESS. Mr. Qulilkumtree's Batter la That La bor Keep Ua Young and We All Need to Remain an tha Track. "There la nothing lika labor. Mr. Qufflkumtree, "to keep aa young. I once asked a man I knew very well, 'a man who mad worked hard all kla .life, but who waa still solas beaatt fully, fresh and strong, why under tke canopy ke didn't set out of tke har ness for a while, and ke said tke rear 'son waa that ke waa afraid If ke sot out ke couldn't set back. "And there's something In that (When a man seta along in years, espe .dally. If ke wants to keep solas, ke'a got to stay on the track. He can take kla regular vacations, yon know, and .that sort of thins, but If ke stays away jtoo Ions If a hard to set back. Aa Ions aa the old man keeps In traialas and at work ke'a all right. "But let him think for himself that hell get out for a time and take a 'good long rest, and in that rest, na pless he be excentional. hannv aa ke may be. hell find his working joints jto stiffen and find himself gettins 'shy. Obstacles seem greater to him then than they did before, and ke seta a habit of looking more than twice be fore he leaps; he is getting timid in nis old age unless he is a man of un usual resolution, enterprise and push, who has been able to preserve kla vigor unimpaired he finds when ke !gets back that the procession, com jposed now mostly of younger men, la 'moving right along fast without notic ing him. "So with many older men who step aside for a while, isn't it? And I sup Ipose that's the reason why they all .keep plugging, for fear that If they stepped out they couldn't step back) while if they keep a-going they're all Jright; it's all in keeping in training. "The rich man, too, hates to take that good long rest for fear that there by he would abdicate bis crown. There Is a great and stimulating Joy la kingship, and he fears that if ke 'stayed idle long his strength would fade and when he came back he'd find the crown on another's head, with himself without strength enough to recover it, and so he'd be barred out of bis procession. And the poorer man, the man with less accumulation of this world's goods but still with a place among the workers, doesn't take his long rest because he fears that at the end of it he couldn't get back Into his procession." Kansas Mayor a Fighter. I A number of Topeka printers at lunch recently were talking of funny fights. , "Out at Garden City a funny thins happened long years ago," said one of 'the printers. "Garden was having 'some sort of a celebration; just what it was, I've forgotten. John A. Mar 'tin waa then governor of Kansas, and he waa present to open the festivities with a speech. A parade preceded' the affair, and Gov. Martin rode in a carriage with L R. .Holmes, who waa' jthen mayor of the town. A big black jsmith insisted on driving his horse in j front of the carriage occupied by JMartin and Holmes. The latter told ihim to get out of the way several 'times, but he paid no attention. 'Governor said Holmes to Martin, :'hold these lines a minute, nleaae.1 He stopped the horses, climbed out 'and administered a rattling good lick ing to the disturbing blacksmith. "Now, doesn't it strike you as funnj) that the highest peace officer of the; jelty should hand the lines to the highest peace officer of the state while ihe gets out to break the peace?" Kansas City Journal. ! The Caspian Sea. Two thousand years ago Herodotus, 'said that the Caspian sea across which Russia has been hurrying 'troops for Persia was "a sea by it self, having no connection with any other." But centuries after his time such authorities as Strabo and Pliny .believed that It was connected with the Northern ocean by a long and nar row gulf. Geography seems to have ,had a setback In the interval through 'false information received at the time of Alexander's conquests. Herodotus said that the Caspian's length waa IS day's voyage with a rowboat, its .breadth eight days'. Since the actual 'figures are 750 miles and 400, this 'shows that a rowboat of the time did '60 miles a day. Power Conferred by Gold. It is a somewhat curious fact that the English-speaking nations own nearly all the world's i productive gold mines. ; Thus England, with its Canadian, 'Australian and South African mines. Is credited with 61 per cent, and the United States with 22, making an ag gregate of 83 per cent while all the rest of the world gets the remainder of 17 per cent. According to the statistics for 1907 the amount of gold mined in the whole world was 19.764.07S ounces, valued at nearly $420,000,00, of which $348,000. 000 worth was produced on soil held by two English-speaking nations. Taia is an enormous source of power. Drowns It Out. And sometimes when opportunity knocks at a man's door he is so busy using his little hammer on his neigh bors that he doesn't hear it He Knew. Gen. Leonard Wood, at a dinner la Newport, praised a souffle. "Good cooking Is a boon to maa kind," the general said. "We should none of us feel above it, none of uaj men or women. I am rattier in sym pathy with the bitterness of Scroggs. "Mrs. Scroggs, after a very unsatis factory dinner, said shrilly: "'When you married me, young man. you didn't, marry a cook!' " 'Well,' said Scroggs, :and his tone 'was -very bitter Veil, you needn't Tub it in.' " COAL Pocahontas Smokeless IllinoisRock Springs and Colorado Coals at prioe that will internet yon. Let us figure with you lor your winter's supply. T. B. Hord Bell 188 YOUR LAST CHANCE To the Carrott River District in Canada $12.50 for the Bound Trip from Omaha Monday, October 18 A. P. GROVES, Columbus, Neb. m Low One Way Colonist Rates in effect every day from September 15, to October 15, inclusive, 1909, To Many Points in California, Oregon, Washington and Idaho . a w Uewe UNION PACIFIC Tl Sale) Bam to Ttt1m A farm in the Pacific Northwest yields big returns. Go while good land may be obtained at a moderate price. For literature and information relative to rates, routes, etc, call on or address: E. O. BROWN, Agent Trihee Have It aeeau strange that theagk He bron waa tke seat of tke earliest civ lUaatloa la Palestine, to-day tke in habitants of tke aarroaadiag country are wild aad fierce and spead tkeir days roanung aboat wltk tkeir fiocka, camels and asses, traveliag frost val- ley to valley in searck of feed, pitea- ing their tents, just aa tkeir did 1.000 years ago. Qualltlee e Cultivate. Thoughtfulaeaa for others, geaer the dualities which stake a. real asavJ tleiaan or lady, aa dlatlagalaked froaa the veneered article which ceauseav ly goes by tke aaate. Tkossaa Haa ley. Fixing Her Statue, la a police court la New Terk tke otker day a aaagiatrate aaked a weav an, a witness: "Are yoa a Mead ef the prisoaerr "No. rat kla awtke Inlaw," replied tke wesaaa. wttkoal any particular show of feeling. I Magazine Binding I I Old Books I I Rebound I I Tv feuvfc tHi gtnvf tiiner in tfho tvwtlr I I binding line bring your work to I I Journal Office I I Phone 160 I Grain Co. Ind. 206 Providential Escape. Tke old lady had had a severe Ul ead she was relating its vicissi tudea to a friend or two in the grocer's shop when the minister cams la. "It's only by the Lord's mercy," ake fieusly declared, "that I'm not in keavea to-aight." Manchester Guard Her Grievance. "Never salad," said Socrates, "you aaay diaapprove of me, but posterity wllMead aa atteative ear to my teach. tegs." "That's what exasperates me!" replied Xaatlppe. "To think a man woald go to such lengths in order to have tke last word!" Washington Star. Prayer Quickly Answered. "That tke Iskerman's net might b filled to overflowing" was the prayer ef aa Edlabargk minister in an Eye aeevlk church recently, and the fol lowing alght auch quantitiee of fish were caught that a boat load bad ta ke tkrowa overboard. 1 L A .VTSVywa tut tfJHrSftrssfr. mt