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CHANGE IN ADDBESS-Whan orderlac a ahaaaaU tha adttrsss,sabscribars should bs to rfratfcalr old as well as thstr saw address Calling Barkett names will not elect a democrat to succeed him. Has the reform movement made the price of batter and eggs any cheaper? The Lincoln Star is alluded to as a republican paper by democratic organs, rotmoiy it is, out it taias like a democrat. Women vote like men in Colorado, yet the Centennial State has the repu tation of being-rnext to Pennsylvania, of course ihe most corrupt state politically in the Union. Hon. J. P. Latta has changed his mind and will be a candidate for re election. Edgar Howard will also be ft candidate. Looks as though another check book campaign was coming down the pike. For a man who is "already beaten," Senator Burkett appears to be worry ing the democratic .politicians. The enemies of Burkett always have him defeated before election, but somehow Burkett always gets there. Now that Nebraska is out of debt there appears to be a movement incu bating in Lincoln to pile up a burden some debt by appropriating several million dollars for a new capitol build ing. All the Lancaster county re formers are in favor of the scheme. Has "Little Giant" Thompson been into the political garbage dump? Yon don't hear his name mentioned in connection with any political office of importance. Bryan, Sballenberger sad Dahlman appear to be tbe only available democratic timber for polit ical honors. "Anarchy reigns supreme in Oma ha!" shrieks a little folder devoted to county option and edited by a dozen preachers. Remarks of this kind will not strengthen the cause of county option. There "are law breakers in .Omaha 'the same as there is in Lincoln or any other large city, but any man of common sense knows that "anarchy don not reign supreme" in the Ne braska metropolis. City produces some queer religious freaks. A year ago a band of preacher appeared on the streets who claimed the divine right to kill all who opposed their peculiar views, and when an attempt was made to arrest them they brought their artil lery into action, killing two policemen. Two of the reformers are dead and the others are in the penitentiary. Now another reformer, William L. Willson, has appeared in Kansas City. He says it is an unpardonable em to wear clothes, and attempted to .preach on the street in a nude condition. He was placed under arrest, and later banished to Kansas, where the state board of health has secured an order prohibiting men from wearing whis kers. ' PLAN OF PROHIBITIONISTS. The plan of the prohibitionists in Nebraska, as declared by the leaders of the movement, is first, a county option law, to be followed later by abmitting the voters a proposed con stitutional amendment prohibiting the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors. This was the plan adopted by ths prohibitionists in Alabama. After securing the enactment of a county option law two years ago, the prohibitionists proceeded with the sec ond part of the program. The pro hibitory amendment was presented to the voters for their endorsement or rejection two weeks ago, and to the sunrise of the prohibitionists through oat tha country the amendment was defeated by ft large majority, only three out of the sixty-six counties in tha state returning a majority in favor of the proposition. Not only was the amsndmmt defeated, but the result alsa indicated that county option, as a to curtail the liquor I traffic, is a failure and unpopular. Unlike Nebraska, Alabama only has one political party. True, there is a republican organization for tha par pose of controling federal patronage and dividing ap the official positions, but as a factor in a political contest the republicans of Alabama are not very .much in evidence outside of a national convention. And owing to this fact the prohibition movement does not create friction inside the party lines. As long as a candidate wears the democratic tag in Alabama he receives the unanimous support of his party, whether he' be a prohibitionist or a so-called "whisky man." In Ne braska, many prohibition republicans allow such men as Harrison, Darnell and Thomas to think for them and vote as the alleged reformers dictate. The question of a candidate's ability, his loyalty to the cardinal principles of the republican party and his moral worth as a citizen k never taken into consideration by the majority of pro hibitionists. The idea seems to prevail among the prohibitionists of Nebraska that if a candidate does not openly declare himself in favor of county option now and state wide prohibition later on, he is anundesirable citizen and unworthy the confidence of his' countrymen. Sheldon was defeated by republican prohibitionists (voting for Sballenberger. In the next cam paign it is the expressed determination of the prohibitionists to vote against any and every republican candidate from governor down to members of the state legislature who do not publicly endorse and advocate what they de mand regardless of what the state platform shall declare fer. If the republican prohibitionists obey the order of Darnell and Thomas asjneek ly as they did when they were told to vote against 8heldon, then the next state administration will be democratic and a democrat will succeed Burkett in the United States senate. In every northern state where the prohibition ists have dictated the policy and plat form of the republican party, the party has been ultimately defeated, and pro hibitionists have gained nothing but revenge. The one great difference between a democratic prohibitionist and a republican prohibitionist is that the farmer always votes his party ticket on election day, while the latter frequently walks up to the ballot box and assists in electing men who are not only opposed to him politically but have the utmost contempt for him socially. BANKS TIRE OF GUARANTY LAW. Enid, Okla., Nov. 21. The Enid State Guaranty Bank of this city has surrendered its state charter, and Monday will open as the First Nation al Bank of Enid, its name before May 1 last, when after a struggle with the state officers it was compelled to com ply with the guaranty law. Immediately after the recent failure of the Columbia Bank and Trust Com pany of Oklahoma- City the State Guaranty Bank's officers decided they would take no further chances on the guaranty law and applied for a nation al charter. The delay in granting the applica tion was the result cf fitly other state guaranty banks applying for national charters, all of which had to be ex amined. An application has been made for a national charter for a bank here to be known as the American National. None of the four other banks here will admit they have made this move. The day after the failure of the Columbia Bank and Trust Company was announced, it was loudly pro claimed by the democratic press that all depositors would be paid in full within a week. lime went by. The depositors were clamorous. No one appeared to make good. Finally the statement was issued that what is known as the guaranty fund supposed to be on deposit somewhere in the state and under state control, would not be available until -a statement from the receiver of the defunct insti tution was received, giving the exact amount of the assets and liabilities, then the depositors would receive their money in full. - It has since been learned that the amount of money in the guaranty fund was not sufficient to pay the depositors, and additional assessments were levied on -all state banks. Many of the banks refused to contribute the amount levied against them, and if the depositors have ever been settled with in full the fact has not been verified. The truth of the matter is, the so called bank guaranty law of Oklahoma is a failure. The idea of taxing a man to make up a loss occasioned by the frenzied financiering of another man, or setof men, is wrong in principle and not morally right. The enactment .of the guaranty law' in Oklahoma placed every bank in the state on the same footing as to safety, and resulted in the organization of the state banks by men incapable of conducting a banking business with due regard for the safety of the money placed in their vaults by depositors. Is it to be wondered at then, that slate bancs are reorganizing and makine annlications for national charters? It is stated that within a year there will not be to exceed a I .... . dozen state banks ia Oklahoma. REASONS FOR DIVORCE. The New York World wants to know. Beaaarking that the bureau of labor at Washington has established the fact that divorces are three times more numerous now than they were a generation ago, it says: "What is the trouble? Why is it that of every 1,000 American men, women and children ten have been divorced, and another ten perhaps have separated from their marital partners? What is it in the lives of so many of the younger generation of Americans that renders them incapa ble of matrimonial happiness? Why so many divorces?" First Because af the decline of au thority. Everybody in this country wants to be his own boss, and is so as far as possible. Nobody wants to obey unless obedience matches inclina tion. The ancient superstition that the husband is the head of the fauily, and his wife must mind him is thor oughly exploded. Husbands nowa days seldom demand or expect obedi ence, nor do wives suggest it The basis of contemporary American mar riage is agreement. When this fails the parties quit. Second Because there are so many more ways than there were a genera tion ago for a woman to make a living. Marriage is less important to women as a means of support than it was theri. Third Because the price of living is so high. Men abandon their wives in shocking numbers because the job of maintenance is heavy and they get tired of it: Fourth Because women require much more and give less than they did a generation ago. They have been carefully endowed by law in most states with rights and privileges prop er to independence. Their private fortunes, if they have any, are their own; their earnings are their own: they have a claim on their husbands' estates, and a legal right to be sup-, ported by their husbands, but their legal obligations to their husbands are few and slight, and difficult, such as they are, to exact by law. Fifth Because distractions have greatly increased in American' life in a generation. Cheap amusements abound, electric lights, cheap shows, cheap newspapers, cheap transporta tion. Everybody reads the one-cent papers, including the advertisements. The common run of people have more ideas in their heads, run about more, want more things and live much more stimulated lives than they did a gen eration ago. Sixth Church influences for the time being are weaker than they used to be, and dramatic influences are more pervasive. Church influences favor continuity in marriage; dramat ic influences favor variety. There are plenty more reasons, but six are enough. The wonder is that in the face of such convincing reasons as these about nine marriages in every ten still hold good. From Life, New York. THE RISE OF A MAN. The most dreaded man in England today is David Lloyd George, a celt from Wales. He is the leader of the most remarkable movement toward revolution by peaceful means that has ever taken place in Britain. Altho ugh not denounced as a Jack Cade or a Wat Tyler, he has been sneeringly alluded to as Robespierre. This powerful exponent of the trend of social democracy is now chancellor of the exchequer. He has reached the heights of fame by the toilsome moun tain road of poverty. Son of a Uni tarian clergyman, who died without making any provision for his family, he was brought up as a simple cottag er's child on plain and scanty fare. But insufficient diet did not stifle his ambition, nor tame his fighting spirit. When a mere lad he refused to answer certain questions in the established churches catechism because he believ ed they reflected on his own religion. Apprenticed "to a firm of lawyers till he became of age, he was enabled in 1884 to begin the practice of his chos en profession. Religious liberty seems to have been a passion with him. One .of his first cases at law was his appearance for the friends of a deceased person denied burial in the village cemetery on ac count of her religious belief. -The dis putes that followed made Lloyd George a popular hero and paved his way to parliament He has now the fight of his life on his hands. If the budget, a plan of taxation which he has. guided through the house of commons (a plan where by the rich, not the poor, are assessed to pay the piper) is accepted by the lords, his fame is secure. If, on the other hand, the lords reject it, his car eer may have just begun. A rejection ny the lords means a general election, in which case a bitter 'fight between the peers and their friends on one side and the plain people and their friends on the other will take place. Trium ph for Lloyd George would then call for the abolition of the lords and their principal privileges. He has only scorn and contemDt for them now. He will not spare them, once lie gets them down.Boston Globe. BALEFUL HOPE DIAMOND REPORTED SUNK AT SEA If the report that the famous Hope blue diamond has gone to the bottom of the sea with its owner, Selim Hab ib, in the wreck of the French mail steamer Soyne at Singapore shall prove to be true the last link has bees add ed to a long chain of misfortunes that have come upon possessors of this fam ous stone. By the superstitious the hope diamond has long been considered a gem of baleful influence, and there certainly are enough rec ords apparently confirming this idea to make even those who scoff at the idea of an inanimate object bring ing ill luck find unusual interest in its history, throughout which romance and tragedy are strangely interming led. . The Hope diamond is generally be lieved to have been part of a large stone that weighed in the rough 112 carats and was bought by Louis XIV, of France from a French traveler and merchant, Andreas Tavernier. The story goes that Tavernier bought or stole it in India, where it had once been one of the eyes of a temple idol. Soon after Tavernier sold it to the grand monarch he was torn to pieces by wild dogs in Spain, it is recorded. Louis XVI. had .the original stone cut, but after cutting it weighed only 67 carats. What became of the other 45 'carats? Probably they formed part of the stone that was stolen during the cutting and remained in hiding or the seclusion of some family treasure chest, unknown to the dia mond dealing world, for a century and a half. At any rate, the Hope diamond, corresponding in weight and color closely to the stone that formed one of the crown jewels of France un til the revolution put an end to French .kings of tbe old regime, did not ap pear on the market until 1830.' Marie Antoinette, the unfortunate queen who went to the guillotine, as did Louis XVI., wore the original stone, which was lost in 1792 and never found. In 1830 the Hope dia mond, weighing 44 J carats, was bou ght by Daniel Eliason, an English dealer in diamonds, from a French man who was starving and in the last stages of consumption. Eliason sold it to an English banker, Henry Tho mas Hope. From the Hope family the gem got the name by which it has since been known to the world. Treasured as a family jewel, it came into possession of Lord Francis Hope, now the heir presumptive to the Duke of Newcastle. This scion of British .nobility, born in 1868, married in 1894 May Yohe, the actress. On state occasions the wife of Lord Francis was allowed to wear the beautiful blue diamond, and she even appeared on the stage adorned with it After may Yohe had been Lady Fran cis Hope for seven years she scandali zed British society by eloping with Putnam Bradlee Strong, a soldier in the United States army. Then Lord Francis Hope obtained a divorce and married another woman this time an ANOTHER FALLACY. Hubert Parry once wrote: "Every sane person tries to get as much en joyment out of life as be can. How ever much you hope the future life may redress the present, it is just as well to make the most of what you know you have got There are vari ous forms of enjoyment One gentle man thinks the height of enjoyment is to live at the top of a tall pillar. There is in the East the man who finds his enjoyment in standing on one leg. We know some people whose form of enjoyment is to go through unendura ble things in order to say they have been to the north pole. One of the most universal enjoyments is doing things for other people. Look at pol iticians. Consider the insufferable boredom they suffer in congress under the idea they are doing good to their fellow creatures. Look at the pilers up of millions, the sordid toil they have to undergo in making their enor mous piles. They Know tnat tney cannot hope to enjoy more than a frac tion of it themselves. It is all done for their fellow creatures. They discover to us that there is nothing in the world which requires so much discrimination and iudement as the enjoyment of doing things for other people." The editor of the Globe confesses to a number of aueer notions. One of i them is that people do not enjoy work ing for the happiness' of others. To suppose that a man enjoys hard work, in order that a friend or relative may enjoy idleness and luxury, is absurd and unnatural. It so happens that many men work themselves to death, in piling up fortunes inherited by others, but they do not do it because they enjoy working for others; every man who is imposed on knows it, and grumbles. Jt is true that yon often find artifi-1 daily good men, who claim to enjoy Soon after the elopement Lord Francis became heavily involved financially and sold the famous dia mond for $168,000. Pawing front Lord Francis Hope to an English broker named Well, the diamond was sold to Simon Frankei, head of a firm of New York jewelers, and was credited with causing the fin ancial difficaltities into With Frankei soon afterward fell. In 1908 Frankei sold it for $300,000 to Jacques Colot, a Paris broker, and soon afterward he again became prosperous. The dia mond, 8elim Habib said in Paris on the occasion of his offering this and a number of gems for sale last summer, had been bought bj him at the Frankei sale. Other stories, however, have found their way into print. According to these stories, the Hope diamond was sold last summer to a Russian prince, Ivan Eanitovski, who loaned it to a pretty dancer named Lorens Ladue. The dancer is said to have had a jealous lover who shot her from a box when she appeared on the Jtage wearing the diamond. Then, it is said, the prince recovered his pro perty, but two days later he was stab bed to death by revolutionist From Paris the gem is said to have gone to Constantinople, where it was bought by Sultan Abdul Hamid and a weird tale says that it reposed on the breast of the sultan's favorite, Zubayba, when she was shot down by the sultan in his last moments of fear and rage when he was captured by the young Turks. These stories may or may not be true, something of color is lent to them by the fact that the ast possessor of the diamond, Selim Habib, was a Turk and had a father living in Con stantinople, in which city the young Babib passed much of his time. ' At the auction of Selim Habib's collections of precious stones, last sum mer, the Hope diamond is said to have brought only $80,000. Habib is be lieved to have had the diamond on his person when drowned a few days ago, and probably was on his way, dis patches say, to deliver the diamond to its purchaser. Compared with other famous dia monds, the Hope stone was not extra ordinarily large; in weight it was sur passed by the Kohinoor, 106 carats; the Orloff 194 carats, and the Regent, 136f carats, and several other stones. It was, however, of extraordinary size for a blue diamond, and was consider ed superb in every way. The blue diamond, it may be explained, is a stone tinged with blue; many dia monds are thus tinged, with different colors, among the colors being pink, red, orange, yellow, green, brown and black. Estimates of the value of the Hope diamond varied greatly and it is said to be probable that in a market where a quick sale was not essential it would have brought much more than the $80,000 said to have been paid for it at the Habib sale. Experts con sidered it worth at least 8100,000. Chicago Record-Herald. working for others, but they are liars. W. J. Bryan claims that he enjoys working for others. But the facts are, in "working for others, and enjoying it," he has made a fortune and reputa tion for himself, without accomplishing anything whatever for others. This is true of every man or woman who claims' to "enjoy working for others"; they are. really working in the hope of benefiting themselves first, and others incidentally, the latter expectation seldom being realized. Atchison Globe. Sunshine and Dust. There la more dust In tbe places il immlnated by the sun's rays than In these which we call shady. If you look along: a beam of light as it streams throagh a window or a chink in tbe door you will see innumerable dost particles dancing about In the light Ton will be told by most persons that there Is just as much dust In tbe non Uluminated parts of the room as in tbe more favored spaces, but you cannot ee the particles because tbe rays do not fall directly upon them. You will think that this Is eminently plausible, but It Is not the case. The sun falling npon the air creates irregular currents, and these currents stir up the dust and collect It In layers along tbe line of light; hence there is more dust where the sun shines than elsewhere. A cu rious experience in a museum gave proof of this. It was noticed that there was always more dust on the glass cases exposed to the sunbeams than on those which were never touch ed by the rays of tbe great orb, and this led to an inquiry, with tbe above result Tha Sun. It has been stated that no one has sver seen the sun. A series of con :entric shells envelops a nucleus of which we know nothing except tbat it nnst be Infinitely hotter than tbe flerc sst furnace and tbat it must amount to more than nine-tenths of the solar mass. That nucleus is tbe real sun. forever hidden from us. The outer most of tha enveloping shells is about I.O0O. salles thick and Is called tbe V,tonKPere - , It la a gaseous flood. FURNITURE TALK About Our New Fall lane We are showing on the floor at the present time our new line of Bed Room Furniture in Circassian walnut, mahogany, bird's eye maple, golden oak and the good imitation quartered oak. In beds we have something newin wood in the Ver nis Martin and enamel finishes. The first time these goods were shown was in Grand Rapids last July. We can truthfully say that at the present time we can show you a larger line of bedroom goods than we ever carried before. In kitchen cabinets we have just received a line of the Springfield make, the best we know of, in prices ranging from $18.50 to $40.00. We also show the Mc Dougal line of sifter bin cabinets. Pedestal extension tables, 42 inch round tops, we are selling now for $11.00. These are first class -tables in oak and ash, solid woods, golden oak finishes. Genuine quarter sawed oak tops on these tables at $14.50 and $16. HENRY GASS 219-21-23 West Eleventh Street Columbus, Nebraska CHRISTMAS For a good Xmas dinner, order your Groceries of us. We can supply you with Nuts. Vegetables, Produce, BRUNKEN ft HANEY Let Us Prove To YOU That You Want This Minneapolis Heat Regulator We can provide it and prove, that if you have it installed, you won't sell it for what it cost you. Let Us Take the Risk If you are not satisfied, and it does not do all we claim, we will take it out and give your money back. We Handle the "Minneapolis'' in This City Because We know this is the best Heat Regu lator made regardless of price, and we know the price puts it within the reach of every household. Furnace or Boiler-All Kinds of FnaL uc-- zm.- & e t javvca- ii vwi ui at geuon A. 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