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-Ct - " ' "V- .rti r'4 , "M - 'F fss -??tyj!t r"' """"- 23j3a Vis - I1 r i( Columbus gourtraL Col touou Zf1r EaUcedattae .cond-claes mail matt. nunor One rear, Six . .n Three WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 27? UML gTBOTHKB & STOCKWELL. Proprietora. RENEWALS-The date opposite JOUMM ob your paper, or wrapper ahowa to what toe joar subscription b paid. Thna JaaSS ahowa that payment Lea bees reeewed np to Jan. MM. rebOStoFeb.l,190Saodeooa. When payment Ip made, the date, which aaawan aa a receipt, will be cheated accordlnfly. DidCOKTINUANCES-BeapoBalhle eabaerib srs will continue to receive thia Jearaal aatfl the pabliaberaare notiledby letter to diacoatf a. when aU arrearages mast be paid. It tern do set wiahthe Jooraaloaatiaaadferaaothar year af. terthe time paid for baa expired, yo ahoald prertoly notify o to diacoatlaae tt. CHANGE IN ADDBESS-Whaa orsariac chance ia the addreei,eabecribere ahoald be awe to lTe their old aa well aa their aa Ex-senator AlIen,of democratic pop ulist persuasion, was one of the main attorneys in the bank guaranty case and argued vehemently against the constitutionality of that measure; Judge Sullivan, present candidate ior supreme judge is the attorney for the Omaha corporations which are testing the constitutionality of the corporation tax law. While hunting up the nulli fies in chief, of whom he so bitterly complains, will Governor Shallenber ger fail to see entirely the biggest speci mens in the whole herd? Grand Is land Independent The ever increasing evidence of rank mismanagement of state institu tions by the democratic politicians placed in charge of them by a demo cratic governor will hardly serve to in crease the democratic hold on public confidence even in this year when dem ocrats are trying ,to evade the re sponsibility for theirwn acts by run ning a dark-lantern campaign under the guise of "non-partisans." The peo ple know why the paint is spread over -the party label this year and demo cratic politicans may rest assured that all their chickens will come home to roost Leigh World. Admiral Dewey does not think it necessary to subsidise steamships in order to secure all the auxiliary boats necessary in case of war. He says: "The American navy is not quite so helpless as one might imagine from Mr. Landis' remarks. We have fif teen colliers and sub-transports al ready in the service. Of course, these would not be enough in time of war and I hope that we shall continue to add to their number. But one can do most anything with money, and if we were to Have a war we could purchase as many ships as we might need. We did so in the Spanish war. I bought two myself. Wars never come suddenly. There is always am ple warning and time for preparation. It would be quite possible for the United States, whenever there seemed a probability of war, to go in to the markets of the world and buy suchfauxiliaries as she lacked. It would, of course, be a great deal bet ter if we had them already. "But there will be no war, and so long as we go ahead steadily and mod erately adding to our navy, replacing the older ships with those of most mod ern type, retiring the former to the se cond line, no one will ever be able to say, like Mr. Landis, that other nations do not regard the American navy seri ously.' Albion News. Our brother in red is not a striking proof of the theory that civilization tends to race suicide. The Indian is multiplying under the influence of civilization, as he gets it The more civilization, the more Indians in the west If this process could be carried on to what some people may claim to be its logical results, the results might be the return of the Indian, thriving under civilization, to the possession of the land if the theory of white sui cide was more tenable than it is. The official figures are interesting none the less. The Indian population of the United States has increased about 40, 000 during the last twenty years. Within that time approximately $100,- 000,000 has been expended by the government in works designed to give Indians the opportunities and the necessary means and appliances for learning how to work, which is about the best means of civilizing anybody. Spending a hundred millions to make 4U,UUU new Indians may not be re garded by everybody as civilizing work. The old notion that the Indian is a dead one is not the motive of the work of making new live Indians to take the places of those who had died during the many years in which the death rate was exceeding the birth rate among nearly all the tribes. But it is the policy of the government and it is certain to, be justified in economic results, as it is always jus tified from a civilized humanitarian point of view. St Louis Globe Democrat ELECTKjfc NEXT TUESDAY. The candidates oa the republican ticket for sapresna coart j-dgea an all ekaa, able soea whose standing at the bar and whose private life eatitles them to the honest consideration of every republican. It is not contended that they are superior ia their. profes sion to the candidates on the demo cratic ticket, but from a careful read ing of the extreme radical organs .of the desaocratic Dress it is evident that an attempt is being made to convince voters that at least two of the demo cratic nominees are superior in ability and morals to the republican candi dates. The extremists, in their zeal, have not hesitated to attack Judge Barnes in an unfair and bitter partisan manner, misrepresenting him and shamefully abusing him for no appar ent reason, unless, by so doing, they expect to discredit him with voters and strengthen the candidates on the democratic ticket Like all parties in the minority, the democratic party of Nebraska claims to advocate and stand for a non-partisan supreme court But the attempt of the leaders to make voters believe that they are sincere has been un masked and the fact made apparent that the democrats of Nebraska have never departed from the lines laid down by Andrew Jackson that "to the victor belongs the spoils." The only candidate on the state ticket the democrats expect to elect is Judge Sullivan. If Sullivan succeeds in securing a majority at the polls it will not be on account of non-partisan voters, but owing to his popularity as a man and his wide acquaintance throughout the state. The only successful method of plac ing non-partisan judges on the bench is for both parties to nominate the same candidate. This is the plan adopted in New York and Wisconsin, and until a similar plan prevails in Nebraska the election of judges will continue to be regarded as a partisan issue. If the election of judges should be considered a non-partisan question, why not the election of county officers in Platte county where the democrats have a thousand majority? The dem ocrats have a full ticket in the field this year, but the name of only one republican will appear on the ballot for a county office. The republicans of Platte county realized the hopeles nessof electing a full county ticket, and only placed one candidate in the field W. H. Bobbins for sheriff, thus giving the democrats an opportunity to make good as advocates of the non partisan idea. If it is radically wrong for the majority party in Ne braska to hog all the places on the bench of the supreme court, then it is equally as wrong for the majority party of Platte county to appropriate all the offices in the court house Next Tuesday the democrats of Platte county will be given an oppor tunity to convince the people that they are sincere in the stand they have taken on the nonpartisan question, or, as they interpret minority represen tation. When democrats, who have been agitating anon-partisan election go to the polls next Tuesday, an X in that little square to the right of the name of W. H. Bobbins, republican candi date for sheriff, will doubtless convince the people that a practical demonstra tion of the non-partisan idea will do more to convince the people that they are sincere in what they profess, than all the platform declarations 'ever written or the hypocritical slobber eminating from democratic organs. Then, too, the non-partisan demo crats could not do better to cast their ballots for Wm. Webster, candidate for supervisor from the Fourth dis trict Mr. Webster is a business man of Monroe, careful in his own business affairs and just the kind of- a man the tax payers have on the county board to safeguard their interests. To keep one party in perpetual control of every department of the county's bus iness is liable to breed graft, negli gence and indifference. Why not try a little democratic non-partisan medi cine at homeat least once in a quar ter of a century. TAKE TIME TO READ THIS. This country has recently nassed through a cyclone of defamation, vitu peration and' exposure much of it indecent The commercial jolt that we experienced has shown us that, when the railroads are prosperous buying 'rails, extending their lines, building bridges, warehouses, collect ing a better equipment we are all prosperous. When the railroads cease pushing for better facilities, there is a lull, the broad line forms, the tramp of the unemployed, and the hoarse and ominous roar; of the mob are heard in the land. In such times an extra police force is needed and menace be comes imminent: Individuals at work are safe and a nation is only safe when its people are employed. Now, suppose you raise a cry of I "stop thief," and turn the powerful resources of the government to har assing enterprise with he endeavor to confiscate its property, take away its character, destroy its good will, does .it not stand to reason that we thus kill .ambition, destroy initiative, smother aspiration and get a condition where expansion ceases, orders are cancelled, men laid off and the whole land suffers? We have been in a state of panic through the policy of burning our barns to kill the mice. The national conditions have been pathologic. Happily, however, we are now get ting our nerves back to normal, and sanity is taking the place of hysteria. Modern millionaires do not hoard they invest The successful man al ways and forever widening, extending, building, improving, and it is all in the line of human service, of human betterment To exploit society is to fail, and all wise, successful men know it To plunder is to die. Nothing is more silly and absurd than the idea that the men who have built up the great modern American fortunes are intent on ease and luxury. As a claw they are men of abstemious habits, simple, rapid and direct in their dealings. They work sixteen hours a day. They are in the game, and can't get out of it if they would. Their millions are invested in a way that makes use an imperative neces sity. To liquidate would be red ruin. "They say I am rich," once said James J. Hill to "ne, "and they roll off the number of my millions.. The fact is, I owe more money than all the men in Minnesota. To make my invest ments profitable and keep them from fading away, I am obliged to eternally struggle keeping them active." One investment calls for another to protect it, and so Mr. Hill is always building, always extending. This eternal unrest of business means national prosperity. To picture the great business-builder as a parasite, living on the labor of the proletariat is an insult to the intelligence of the age. Should our government begin to confiscate private property in the name of the law, that instant will enterprise grow old and senility prate of the past. But this is not to be. We are beginning to realize that business is built on confidence; that, when we destroy faith in our commercial fab ric we are actually taking the roofs from homes, snatching food from chil dren and pushing bodies naked out into the storm. Business means homes, gardens, books, parks, music, good roads, schools safety, peace and prosperity and of these things the world has not yet seen a plethora. Shall we blast, wither and destroy with the breath of our mouths all that civilization holds dear? I think not We can direct and regulate, but we will do it in justice and not in blind ness and wrath, lest we welcome the angels of peace with bloody hands to hospitable graves, and we ourselves go down in the sunken roadway, horse and rider, pursuer and pursued. Elbert Hubbard. ANYTHING IN THIS? Andrew D. White once wrote: "Among the curiosities of recent civil ization, perhaps the most absurd is the vast tax laid upon all nations at a whim of a knot of the least respectable women in the most debaunched capi tal in the world. Young men, in vast numbers, especially in our cities and large towns, are harnessed to work as otherwise they would not be; their best aspirations thwarted, their noblest ambitions sacrificed, to enable the partners of their joys and sorrows to vie with ea!ch other in reproducing the last grotesque absurdity issued from the precincts of Notre Dame de Lorette, or to satisfy other caprices less ignoble. The main hope for the abatement of this nuisance, which is fast assuming the proportions of a curse, is not in any church, for, de spite the pleadings of the most devot ed pastors, the church edifices are the chosen theaters of this disnlav: it would seem rather to be the infusion, by a more worthy seducation of ideas which would enable women to wield religion, morality and common sense against this burden, some perversion of her love for the beautiful. This would not be to lower the sense of beauty and appropriateness in cos tume; thereby would come an esthetic sense which would lift our best women into a sphere of beauty where the Parisian grotesque would not be tol erated; thereby, too, would come, if at all, the strength of character which would cause woman to cultivate her own taste for simple beauty in form and color, and to rely on that, rather than on the latest whim of any fool ish woman who happened to be not yet driven out of the Tuilleries or the B1! quarter." COMMUNICATED. JBmtor" Columbus Jocbsat.: Toar stand "On Crossing the Bridge" wu well taken I think. While we should not censure a person too severely for shouting a warning cry against ny advance movement, we should at the present time at least place more ooafidence in our President than republicans are inclined to do. I think some republicans have becosae unnecessarily frightened by the din and noise made by the democrats. President Taft has taken the chair at a very inopportune time; has had a very disagreeable and thankless job toper form at the start In localities where the tariff seems to be detrimental to local interests everybody has a kick against the President; while in localities that are benefited people think they only have their just dues, and see no reason to laud any one. When congress passed the Resumption Act calsButy was prophesied on every side, but it was not long until it could easily be seen that it was a masterstroke of statesmanship and'the same might be said about most of the laws passed by the republicans. There is a great deal said' against a central bank; but if we could have some auoh institution, properly safeguarded, it certainly would have advantages in a time like we had two years ago this fall. It seems wholly wrong for a person and more especially an editor to say he will bolt the party when everything does not go just to suit him. Rather he should go to work to .find a better; method to accomplish the desired end; or wait and see if the fallacies he has pointed out cannot be overcome. Our statesmen have to discuss con templated laws to see if tbey will accom plish all that is wanted; to see if the people are ready for such measures; and to see if they have overlooked any weak points. Postal savings banks have been agitated for a number of years and will soon come. It is a great deal better to be a year or two late in evolving a new law than to make a bungle of it. There is no doubt in any one's mind but what President Taft is sincere and honest and we should give him time to make good. We should not judge him by the tariff which can never be any thing but a compromise under the pres ent way of establishing them. We are all anxious to have President Taft step in and force congress to a decision on the tariff but we wanted the decision made our way. R. S. Dickinson. WICKED OLD NEW YORK. Why do not the muckrakers pay more attention to New York city? That is the most corrupt city in the United States, and the officials are im pudent as well as dishonest. The New York police run the city to suit them selves, whether the administration is Democratic or Republican. Places are provided in New) York city for politicans by creating "inspectors" for corporations. This is an old trick every where'ainong Reformers, but no where is it carried so far as in New York. There are hundreds of "in spectors" in New York city who make no pretense of working. City print ing in New York costs nearly a million dollars a year, and more than half of it is graft. Articles that cost $4 in the open market, cost $40 when bought for the city. The New York people are familiar with a thousand forms of theft from the public treasury, but make little protest. The muck rakers pay little attention to New York city, prefering places like San Francisco, where theft is not so common. New York city is like a scarlet woman; no one pays any attention to her depravi ty, but how' people "talk about a wo man on whom there is one "story!" Philadelphia is nearly as bad as New York, and that town is also neglected by the muck rakers. But how furious the New York and Philadelphia pa pers are because an occasional glass of beer is sold in Kansas! Drake Wat son. ANOTHER BRYAN. Ruth Bryan-Leavitt (Note. Her father paid a small fortuue in order that she might write her name hy phenated) has announced her candi dacy for the Democratic nomination for congress from the First Colorado district. Ruth is desirous of not only helping out the Sisterhood of Suffragettes, but she has the greater ambition of wish ing to have the name of Bryan on the nation's payroll again. She relies largely upon What She Has Done for Women to get the support of the wo men in Colorado. Whatjhas she done, do you ask? Didn't her Husband Treat her Mean, and didn't she Re fuse to Stand for it? She isn't one of the Softy Women who are patient and long-suffering. Net She, Indeed! When that Contemptible masculine Thing she married refused to treat her Right, she Spurned him In scorn, and left Him.v And now, Freed from the Fetters, and No Longer a Slave, comes to the Women of Colorado, with the request that they make Her a Leader. Atchison Globe. Truthful Evasion. "Have any luck fishing yesterday? asked the man who gibes at angling. "Sure," replied the truthful fisher man. "I brought home a fine string. Then, to ease his conscience, he added, under his breath: "There wasn't anything oa It, how aver." TO MEET IN ACTlVg VOLCANO Crater of Kilauea Will e Scene of Initiation Ceremonies of the Mystic Shrine. One of the most unique initiation ceremonies ever attempted by the Mystic Shrine being arranged to he held In the crater of the active vol cano, Kilauea, on the Hawaiian islands, by Aloha temple in November, when the ceremonial session of the temple will be held, says the San Francisco Chronicle. The significant feature of the occasion will be that the candi dates will nearer approach the real walk over "hot sands" than any of the initiates on previous ceremonies of the lodge. Potentate Charles O. Bockua of Aloha temple, arrived in the city on the liner Manchuria for the purpose of making arrangements for the local Islam temple, of which William Crock er is potentate, to be present at the ceremonies. The ceremonial session will be heM on Saturday morning and afternoon. An Immense ten! will be erected on the edge of the volcano to accommo date the guests. The party, with the candidates, will descend into the pit of the volcano, where the ceremonies will be held in view of the seething mass of burning lava below. PROUD DAMES BROUGHT LOW Amusing and at Times Painful Col lisions That Have Taken Place In Ballrooms.' Quite unpleasant contretemps can occur in a London ballroom, says the Gentlewoman, as witness the adven tures of two ladies one evening not long ago. The cotillon was being danced and in one figure the object was to jump through a paper hoop. This a well-known lady succeeded in doing, only to come violently Into collision with another who was pre pared to precipitate herself through the other side. At least one black eye and other disagreeable results have followed this inopportune meet ing between two fair but overhasty leaders of fashion. Apparently the ballroom Is becom ing second only to the athletic field. It was during the season just closed that no less a personage than Mrs. George Keppel, a favorite with King Edward, came to grief in dancing the cotillion. , One of the figures demanded that the lady jump the rope, and in essay ing this return to her somewhat dis tant girlhood Mrs. Keppel had what was described as "a nasty fall," which laid her up for some time. Imoressions of New York. "What impressed me most when I visited New York," says Harry Fur niss, the well-known English cartoon ist, in his "Reminiscences" in the Strand, "was the number of chiropo dists' advertisements. They con fronted me everywhere. Huge gilded models of feet outside the chiropo dists' establishments, some painted realistically and many adorned with bunions, seemed everywhere before me as I passed through the streets. If I looked up I saw them suspended from the first-floor window, or painted on canvas on the front of a house. If I avoided the shops I was bound to knock up against some gentleman in the gutter encased In a long white waterproof, on which were portrayed the inevitable foot and name and ad dress of the chiropodist." Father Makes a Plaster. A small child over on Detroit ave nue had a cold in the chest. After all had retired the child's mother poked an elbow into the ribs of the child's father and told him she believed he'd better put on his bathrobe and run down to the kitchen and get some lard and place it on a cloth over the little one's chest The father obeyed, and found the crock of lard on a pan try shelf just as he had been told he would. He spread It over some cheese cloth and pinned It to the boy's chest, and the next morning the lad was bet ter. Then the mother discovered something. The lard that the father had brought In wasn't lard at all. It was mashed potatoes. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Not as lad as It Might Be. "Here's an Indiana man who, wants a divorce because his wife takes all his money and goes out and buys ioe cream." "Well, he ought to be mighty thank ful she doesn't make him turn the freezer." Cleveland Plain Dealer. ARTICLES OF IXCORPORATIOir OF PLATTE LONG DBTAWCE CO The nam of the corporation shall be "Platte Long Distance Company." The principal place of transacting ita basinets shall be in the city of Colnmbae, county of Platte and state of Ne braska. The natore of the basiaesa to be transacted shall be to construct, operate and maintain tele phone poles, wires or other electric conduits, aa it may deem best for the transmission of messa ges, sounds, signals, heat, light or power, the eraung ana producing or eiecino current, transmitting and selling of electric current. To boy or sell patents, appliances, materials, apparatus, machinery and supplies of all kinds, to acquire, hold and sell public or other fran chises and contracts. To install electric wine and appliance for any purpose. To bay, hold, construct or acquire, or to rent or lease such real estate and buildings aa may be necessary for the condnctipg of the business, and to enter into any and au contracts lorua purcnase, saieaaa rarueninc or neat, ugnt, power, or ror me tranmiMdnn of nsasna sounds or sisnals. and to connect the lines or plants of this com pany with the lines or punts or sucn otner nmnT r eomnaniee as it mar desire. To borrow money for the oseof the said corpora tion ia the acquisition of or conduct of any of ita business aid to secure the payment of such money by the execution of mortgages upon the property, real or personal, of the corporation. The capital stock of this corporation shaU be $100,003.00, dirided into shares of f IOOlOO each. HO.OOaOO preferred and STO.OOC.00 common. All of said stock to be paid up and noa assessable when issued. Said stock shall be issued at such times as the board of directors may provide, aad may be paid for In ettner money, property. rlma nr ntfiar thins of value and shall be tr f enable only on the books of the corporation. The osneers of this corporation shall be a President, Vice President. Secretary and a Treasurer, any two of which said offices may be held by tbe same person. There shall be a board of not less than three (3) Directors who shall be elected from and by the stockholders at the mi meetings. Until the irst annual meet lag, the officers of this corporation shall beas follows: President, Samuel B. Gregg; Vice President, Andrew Anderson; Secretary and Twasurer.LoufaLightaer. The highest amount of indebtedness shall not at any one time exceed one half of the paid up tu suck or ine company. .... trriitnam of una corporation aaau com , am the 23rd day of Jane. I960, aadcoa- tiaae for the period or m years. In witness whereof we have harsuatoeat our hands and seals this 22ad day of Jeae.N. Samuxi. B. Gmaoo. Ahdbsw AXDBBSOir. LOUIS LlGHTHX. COAL Pocahontas Smokeless Illinois, Rock Springs and Colorado Coals ' at prices that will interest you. Let us figure with you tor your winter's supply. T. B. Hord Bell 188 COLUMBUS MEAT MARKET We invite all who desire choice steak, and the very best cuts of all other meata to call at our market on Eleventh street. We also handle poultryand fish and oysters in season. S.E. MARTY & CO. Telephone No,l. - Columbus. Neb. MM PACIFIC THE TIILE WKST BOCMO. No. 11 MtD No. IS 11:31am No.l 9:40 am No. 9 11:41am No. 7 340 pm No. 15 823 pm No. 3 6:35 pm No. 5 2:15 am No.59 7 .-00 am No. 83 5:00 pm No. 19 8:45 pm XAST BOtTHD. No. 4 flJtam No. 12 1:40 am No. 14a 1:00 d 1:20 pm No. 6 420 am No. 16 2:i6pm No. 10 3:05 pm No.S 6:16 pm No. 2 81 pm No. 00 4:15 pm No. 84 5:00am No. 20 7:12 am BBAKCHZS. HOBJOUC 8PALDIXQ 4 ALMOST. 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