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THE AMAZING COOK CASE.
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
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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
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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."-
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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
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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. DUSSELL&SON
Columbus, Nebraska
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