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It would be wrong to assume as the friends of Commander Peary are do tag, that the case has been definitely closed and that Cook must stand branded as the greatest impostor of all history. Many things remain to be cleared up. If word should now come that he had killed himself, no one would longer question the fact of im posture, but there would be much to be explained. If, for example, he is a shameless impostor, why did he pre sent so meager a case, when a very full and plausible one could have easi ly been trumped up? If, as so often baa been urged against him, observa tional data could be manufactured by alpjost anyone froiu the almanacs suffi cient to confuse if not deceive the scientists, why was this not done. Would an impostor, having gone so far, have failed to make such a provi sion? Again Commander Peary's pettish nets had left open a still surer waj of escape for the deliberate impostor. He need not have sent any report to the University of Copenhagen at this time. He need only have started the impossibility of submitting his original records since for the most part they were among his effects intrusted to Whitney and kicked off the steamer Roosevelt by Peary. It would be ne cessary to wait until next summer be fore these effects could le recovered, and then his case would be made up and submitted along with the scienti fic instruments used on the journey. And by next summer the impostor would be better prepared to "fake" a case. Furthermore, Peary now says he had "complete and accurate infor mation" of the falsity of Cook's claims, before leaving the far north. If that is so, why his spiteful action in having . Cook's effects excluded from his steam er? Why did he not welcome their carriage southward as being calculat ed to give the impostor more rope to hang himself? These and other troublesome ques tions are suggested. And finally there remains to be explained the most remarkable and troublesome fact of all to which we have before called atten tion. Many physical conditions ob taining at the pole were unknown and had been the subject of much diverg ent conjecture among scientists. An impostor might have guessed on all of them and guessed right once or twice. Butby all the laws of chance no im postor could have guessed them all right, and this is what Cook did measured by Peary's account. This fact alone is sufficient to keep the case until further developments in ry explanation of these stran ge features have appeared. Spring field Republican. A MINER'S LUCK. The stories of mines and mining in clude many romances besides those fairy tales which appear in the glow ing prospectus of the one which does n't nan out. It is an industry, or a game, where men have been made millionaires in a day, and hare gone down, one way and other, almost as Mapidly as they arose to wealth. Hampton's Magazine tells an interest ing one of these stories, which deals with the rise and fall of Silver Reel City, Utah. In the early day?, an old Mormon farmed in that vicinity. Near his farm was a sandstone cliff, and he used parts of the stone to aharpen his implements. Then it oc curred to him that he might market a crop of grindstones, along with his ' potatoes. He fashioned several, and took tham with him on his next trip to the distant town of Pioche, which was a mining camp. One was pur chased by a saloon keeper, and set oatidehk door for convenience of patrons. A fight occurred in the sa loon, and one man was thrown thro ng tks door, upsetting and breaking taw, jHn&ene. Among the crowd whieegntaecedwas a prospector assert Barnes, whose interest was in Iks), broken atone, rather than in the tun: OUII OFSOBWaiRIOB . 0 raar.at ill.iiKu j mil fLW tjlX naMnVeannt bruised fighters. He saw traces of silver in the stone. Others ssai'ka was craiy; that it was ooatwy na ture and geology .for silver to be fbnnd in such a formation. But n pros pector knew silver, if he didn't know geology. He learned where the grindstone came from, and set out across the desert. ,WhttJM.came..to the Mormon farmer's range, ha found traces of silver. He saw a bush which was blackened, and be prospected the bush, which was evenmore in viola tion to geology and nature than silver in a grindstone. The bush was petri fied, and ran silver at the rate of 1,000 ounces to the ton; a ton of those bush es would have been worth about $1, 300 at the time. He staked his claim, went back to Pioche, and conviced the doubters with his samples. Pioche spread over the sandstone cliff in a night, and Silver Reef City Sprang in to being. Barbee's mill extracted $12,000,000 worth of silver from the ore .from Barbee's mines before the wonderful find began to peter out. Chinamen are now making modest wages digging silver from this former bonanza. And Barbee, the man of the lucky grindstone and many mil lions, died Door, as did the man who found the gold of Cripple Creek, and the man who first found diamonds in South Africa. Atchison Globe. WHY NOT SOMETHING WORTH WHILE? The government has had just prov ocation for investigating the thieving methods of the sugar trust; it has had perhaps less justification, but still sufficient, for proving the Standard Oil octopus. It has taken a hand in railroad rate regulation, and in addi tion attempted a number of investiga tions that, when everything is said and done, means comparatively little to the vast majority of the American people who are supposed to be the government, but who in reality are the governed. It seems to us that our law makers could profitably devote a little time to good advantage by doing a little quiet investigating as to why putting leather on the free list has increased its value more than 25 per cent; why, with a corn crop the largest in the history of the country, corn brings 75 cents a bushel and over; why one man can fool the people on the question of wheat; why, when a condition border ing on a panic existed and labor was not over half employed, all food stuffs advanced; why one man or set of men can own and control the actual neces sities of life, and a number of other equally alarming conditions that affect every man, woman and child in the country. The eighty and more millions of people that compose our government pay lees for oil than they ever did. They do not pay an unreasonable price for sugar. So that, when Rocke feller has been put in jail and the sugar trust officials to breaking rock on the highways, the .people will pay as much as they do at present for oil and sugar. But if the powers that control the food products of the country, the actual necessities of life, are exposed as they should be, and their methods exposed and the further pursuit of them made impossible, there will be an opportu nity for agriculture to become prac tically profitable, as it is said to be theoretically, and the great army of consumers will be able to buy food products that they must have, and which they now rate as luxuries and have to do without This condition is growing serious. A little later on it will be dangerous. We respectfully call the attention of congress and the president to the packers' trust, which includes practi cally the control of the entire food product of the country. Chattanooga Tradesman. HIGHER PRICES. The president in his message says that the present high prices are not the result of the Aldrich tariff. In this the president is correct. Any attempt to charge the increased cost of living to the tariff should fail; for living has been steadilyvincreasing for ten years. Nine-cent cattle come from the fact that the three acres required for the steer are hard to find. There are few er steers in the world, because therf are fewer farms for steers to graze on, and more farms given to grain and alfalfa; also there are more people de manding meat; population is growing in this country; we are meat eaters. So hogs and battle go up, as land goes up. And living goes up because of the fabulous outputof gold and sound money that the republicans promised twelve years ago. They didn't know about the gold that was coming; but they did know that if the per capita of money was to increase and help things, it must increase in sound money. It has increased unbeknown to the statesmen. All conditions con spire to make.living high. - But the tariff doesn't -make 9-cent beef and 8 cent hogs. The president is authority for that, and he .ahoald know what he is talking aboat.Esm poria Gazette. " REFORMERS. ' Hoatreferaers have infinite cost J dasjoe ia cneaV reaolutioae and laws." They think' of the common people an raw. matfrial oat of which they pro pose to construct institutions and gov ernments, like mechanical eontrivaa ees, where each person will stand for a cog, rope, wheel, pully or-bolt, and the reformers will be the managers and directors. . They forget that these oogi and wheels have opinionsof. their own; that they fall out with other cogs and refuse to turn with other wheals; that the pully and ropes have ideas peculiar to themselves and delight in mutiny and revolution. These reform ers have theories that can only be realized when other people' have none. - -Some time it will be found that peo ple can be changed only by changing tneir surroundings. It is alleged that at least 95 per cent of the criminals transported from England to Austra lia and other penal colonies, became good and useful .citizens in a new world. Free from former. associates and associations, from the necessities of a hard, cruel and competitive civil ization, they became, for, the most part, honest people. This immense fact throws more light upon social ques tions than all the theories of the world. All people are not able to support themselves. They lack intelligence, 1 industry, cunning in short, capacity. They are continually falling by the way. In the midst of plenty they are hungry. Larceny is born of want and opportunity. In passion's storm, the will is wrecked upon the reefs and rocks of crime. The complex, tangled, web of thought and dream of perception and memory, of imagination and judgment, of wish aLdwill, and want the woven wonder of a life has never yet been raveled back to simple threads. Shall we not become charitable and just when we know that every act is hot condition's fruit; that nature with her countless hands scatters the seeds of tears and crime of every virtue and of every joy; that all the base and vile are victims of the blind, and that the good and great have, in the lottery ot life, by chance or fate, drawn heart and brain. Robert 6. Ingersoll. WORLD'S GREATEST HARVEST. The Liverpool estimate of Broom hall on the whole world's wheat crop of 1909, perhaps the most important of the annual European calculations, is at hand. It shows the present year to have established an absolute high record in wheat output The 3,346, 968,000 bushels named as the world's total, compared with 3, (?),280,000 in 1908 an increase of 9 1-4 per cent. Compared with the 3,226,768,000 bushels of 1906, the previous record, the increase is 3 5-8 per cent; compar ed with the year of scarcity, 1907, it is 15 per cent. Two continents exceed all preced ing records with their wheat produc tion America and Europe. Ameri ca, North and South, gains 77,712,000 bushels over last year, which was the previous record. Europe's total runs 158,616,000 bushels beyond 1908, and surpasses the previous high record, that of 1906, by 21,160,000. Every important wheat growing country of the world shows increase over the pre vious year except Austria-Hungary, Germany and Spain. Russia's har vest runs 68,800,000 bushels beyond its previous high record. Canada shows up 24,000,000 bushels above its best previous yield. The English harvest is the largest since 1899, and with that exception the largest since 1892, though it is highly interesting to observe that its 64,000,000 bushel yield of 1909, while making these en couraging comparisons, is still less than half the 140000.000 bushel har vest of 1855, which has never since since been equaled. New York Eve ning Post. THE DOCTOR'S PRAYER. Some time ago. the W.'C. T. U. of Buffalo, Mo., fought for such drastic measures that Dr. G. A. Meyer, a lo cal physician, issued a prayer in the papers a part of which follows: The women have gone mad over the whole thing and they think the world is going to the 'Demways' just because, a little liquor is being sold. I feel like I would like to pray for them, therefore let us pray Almighty Crea tor in heaven, thou who hath made the heavens and the earth, have pity on the W. C. T. U.. who are not grateful for thy gifts, who want their children, like the beasts of the field, to drink water like an ox while they dress ex travagantly and lead their husbands to other extravagances not tending to their well being, but to bankruptcy, depriving them of the pleasures of the world; yea, driving them to suicide. Look upon them, O Lord; they wear not even the color of the face thou gavest them. Not content with Na ture they paint their faces. Q .Lord, thou canst perceive that their figures are not as thou made them. - They wear bumps on their backs and their of false hair." rand taepray er, and im- head consists Th women l Postal iri Baraks? awdTOB J0opie ' , : Only a very few days after adjoam- itof the convention of the Amen wUeh haw openly declaiad hestitky toward sach a system of postal savings Ijesiks as nearly laH other great obun tries but ours have employed for years, a' diaastar overtask a Chiosg : cigar stoker' whicn :illuauaUhat very f bject postal hanks. I Louis Stiershad painfully saved un til proprietorship, the goal of years of nand straggK was at hand; he had enough capital, $250, to buy a little agar faetory of his own. Dur ing all those years of inceesaat labor and self denial hashed not intrusted his savings to any bank. - At first; he had bean unwilling to fane bank tellers behind their counters of broaaa and marble, to make a deposit of merely $1 or $5 or $20. Then as his little hoad grew, his caution, instead of pride, prompted him to avoid hanks, for there were failures and losses and tragedies. He kept his mvinm? pin ned inside his sock, and as the roll of greenbacks grew larger ha secretly re joiced. On the gnat day, soon after the beakers dispersed to their Iwmeay the little cigar factory was all but bought. He had the price pinned in his sock, the deal was agreed upon, and he set out, exulting, to pay over the money, to become a possessor;no longer,- as be always had been, ene who worked for others' profit. He turned over in his mind the rearranging he would order, the changes in his little factory his! He was in ecstacy, and trod the rough pavement buoyantly. But disaster dogged hirhurrjing steps. Through a hole in his sock his savings fluttered out one ten dollar bill,-and then others, and the rest of his cherished roll. He was almost penniless when he entered the cigar factory which so nearly had been his. Tragedy it was to Stiers. And the poor cigar niaker, who again is grimly working at his bench, is but one of thousands. Denied the security of Uncle Sam's guaranty, the one banker of whom he, in his timidity and his. pride, would avail himself, Stiers hoarded his savings. The sum of the hoardings like his in the United States, President Taft has said, from government data, is not less than 600 million dollars. The same dangers beset the savings that make up the whole 600 million dollars as periled the $450 of Louis Stiers. The losses' of hoarded money each year run into millions. This does not put a stop to hoarding, however, nor will it; the reasons , which prompted Stiers remain. What is needed? When the United States Congress created a postal bank system for the Philippine Islands it was done "as a measure of thrift and a stimulus to ha bits of providence and savings." That mediately called for their war horses. Mounting them, they rode away to war with the result that they had the doc tor's license revoked for prescribing whisky. He fought it in the courts, and the circuit court yesterday put him on a year's probation. He can practice, but if at the end of the year it is found that he has prescribed whisky in a single instance, he cannot practice in that xounty any more. Atchison Globe. Har Littls Bluff. "Ethel." said Uouei Bertram Jonea s he dropped bla slice of bread in the plate with a noise that set the canary In the sjllt cage overhead chirping; mer rily "that,-1 nave something to say to yon." They had been married only four weeks, and the time had not arrived whea she did all the aajriag. MDo yoa remember the day on which I proposed to jon?' "Tea. she replied. "I will never for get if -Do you remember. be went on an he abstractedly drilled a bole In the leaf with the point of a carving knife." how whea 1 rang the bell you came to the door with your lingers sticky with dough and said you thought It was yoar little brstner waeraatad to getlar yea." "Oh. Ethel! Bow could youf How could your "How coald I what? she responded as a guilty look crept loto her face. "How cenM ydn make ate tat victim of such a swindle?" A New Oae. of the men In a large pottery took two or three daya holiday now and again, and when he came back, on being asked what was wrong, he said he bad been away burying his grand mother. - He did this two or three times, and thence thoagst he nasi better change his excuse, so. on being asked this next time, he replied: - "Well, my brother, tbe sailor. Is at home just now. and he Is so used to the sound of the wares that 1 had to lash nalifala of wamrosn-ths window fh all nfghr before he coald' sleep, and I had to saaap.4nriag the day."- i" is just what the system has been to the millions, struggling to get ahead in spise afpisifal wages, heavy taxation id other obstacles that confront men and woman in Canada, Europe, Aus tralia India, South Africa and Japan. It has been a spur to providence, a cratch to lean upon and a shield of safety. The deposits show that; so do the enormous annual increase of de posits and the total number of deposit ors. The figures are staggering, and show what has been and is being done abroad, and what with certainty can be done in the United States. In 1907 the postal deposits in Aus tria totaled $44,434,421, there being over 2 million depositors, which shows that the average deposit is about $21. 50. Belgium created a postal bank system in 1869, and as a reward that country has over 162 million dollars on deposit, the average account being $64.41. Then there are Finland, France, Hungary, Italy, the Nether lands, Russia, Sweden and the United Kingdom, in Europe, all of which, through ajpostal savings system, en able timid depositors to intrust their savings at the postoffice to the safe keeping of their govern raent. Canada created the system iu 1868,- and the deposits now exceed 50 million dol lars, the average accounts being $284, which is a fair index of the average account to be exfiected in the Uuited States, and goes to show that it is the mite of a man like Louis Stiers which is left on deposit in the postal savings system. Not less than 8 million dollars in one year has been sent from the United States in money orders, much of it for deposit and safekeeping in postal sys tems.' Most of these money orders are bought in the states ot Arkansas, Colorado, Missouri. Montana, Nebras ka, Nevada, Oklahoma, Ohio, Oregon, Texas and Washington. The geographical origin of this mo ney, which is sent to Europe for the security of the postal banks there, shows how crjing a need there is for anauxirary banking system which will put to use the forty thousand mo ney order postoffices scattered throu ghout the country. Make the post- offices of that class depositories and we have added forty thousand magnets for the spare change of the nation; have provided the ranchman, remote from a bank, with a convenient depository; have removed the temptation of the miner and backwoodsman to squander his wages as he gets them; have put under the nose of everybody a most convenient and secure place for start ing a savings account. It is very ob vious from experience abroad, and the size of the sum withheld from banks here, that what is needed is the crea tion of a postal savings bank system. George H. Currier, Chairman Postal Savings Bank League in the World Today. Too Risky. In boring for oil wben the drill reaches the depth where it allows gas to escape every precaution is taken against Igniting it lest there should be a destructive explosion. This nwea aary precaution gives point to the fol lowing story, told by a writer in the Pittsburg Mews: "I can deal with men," growled a grizzled oil driller, "but a woman can outdo the best ot ns. "1 brought in a welt in Virginny right close to the kitchen door of a little farmhouse. Just as we were get ting to tbe ticklish point where smok ing wasn't allowed within forty rods, out comes tbe farmer's wife and goes to building a big fire in a Dutch oven. "Mebby 1 didn't kick, but she jnt showed me a batch of dough an' saiil If abe didn't bake it 'twould spoil, if 1 wanted tbe fire out 1 bad got to pay for tbe dough ten dollars too. She just dared me to touch that Dutch oven, an l didn't touch it either. 1 Just gave her tbe ten. -Mebby we didn't get that fire out quick. If tbe well bad broken loose it would have blown me an' tbe whole farmhouse oat ,ot sight -No. sir; I don't want any more deal- lags with women. They're too risky." coiora in roctry. As to color. Grant Allen maintained In an "Essay on the Color Sense" that f only eight colors are recognized by the popular .mind black, white, red, blue, green, yellow, gray and brown. Edu cated people speak of scarlet, crimson, lilac and purple only under exception al circumstances In a prosaic hour Grant Allen went through "Poems and Ballads?, on the quest for color and found that Swinburne used tbe word red 151 times, rosy and crimson once each anft aanzulne. ruddv and scarlet Fiwlce each. Gold Is mentioned thir teen times. Blue reaches jwenty-Qve. And " the prosaic conclusion Is "to adopt the'statistical form, we might any, if we chose to reckon tbe unreck enable. that red is GOO per cent more poetical than blue." Her Strong Faith. "Oh, Tom," exclaimed the fair youngr'msJi.as their auto'flew along. "them's a church just ahead therel"- "But," replied the eloping lover, "we I cant be married there."' "WlLbnt we miabtston there and nray that we may not be overtaksa." I Uncle Beams' if asaziae. ' FURNITURE About Our New Fall Line We are ihowin on the floor at the present time our newHne of-Bed Room-Fnrnitnre in Circassian walnut, mahogany, bird eye maple, golden oak and the good imitation quartered oak. In bed we hare something new in wood in the Ver m's 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 DougaHine 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 COAL Pocahontas Smokeless Illinois. Rock Spring's and Colorado Coals at prices that will interest you. Let us figure with you tor your winter's supply. T. B. Hord Bell 188 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 Ua Taka the If you are not satisfied, and it not do all we claim, we will take 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 Fad. "Seven its Cost in a Season" A. 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