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Calttttriws f trnvml. Columbus Sfenr. Consolidated with the Columbus Times April 1, 1904; with the Platte County Argus January 1,1908. Entered at the PoatoSoe.Coltunbu,Nebr..u teoond-claei mall matter. TBBMB OYSUBBGBIKXOB: Oneyear.by mall, postage prepaid IM Biz months ' TbrMBOBtba WEDNESDAY. FEBRUAKY -'. IB10. 8TBOTHEB &. STOCKWELL. Proprietors. BENEWAL8 The date opposite your name on f onr paper, or wrapper shows to what time jour subscription la paid. Thus Jan shows that payment has been received np to Jan. 1,1805, FebOS to Feb. 1, 1905 and so on. When payment Is made, the date, which answers as a receipt, will be chanced accordingly. DiSCONTINUANCES-Kesponsible enbecrib ers will continue to reeeiye this journal until the publishers are notified by letter to discontinue, when all arrearages must be paid. If yon do not wish the Journal continued for another year af ter the time paid for has expired, yon should previously notify us to discontinue it. CHANGE IN ADDBEfla-When ordering a ohange in the addrees.eubscribers should be sure t o give their old as well as their new address. Senator Burkett of Nebraska last week introduced a bill in the senate that will make the hearts of the rural mail carriers warm to him. The bill proposes to increase the salary of the rural mail carriers from $75 to 8100 per month. The boys are certainly entitled to the raise, and Senator Bur kett will use earnest efforts to see that they get it. Pierce County Call. WHAT ROOSEVELT WOULD DO. The following paragraph was con tained in the xesolutions adopted by the "insurgents" at Lincoln: It would be worth while just now to have the African lion hunter in the place and furnished with the opportu nity of President Taft. Can any one doubt what would be the outcome of Cannonism if President Roosevelt were in Washington armed with his big stick? It would be a fight to the finish; Cannonism would be beaten to a pulp and the champion of the people would come out triumphant and ready for further controversy. That Roosevelt would be doing ex actly what President Taft is, that is allowing the house to take care of its own rules, is apparent from the fact that that is just exactly what Roose velt did do during the seven years in the white house. Cannon was just as much a czar then as now, and the rules were the same then as now. In stead of using his big stick on Canon ism, President Roosevelt linked up with Cannon and sought the speaker's aid on whatever legislation he desired. There's a good deal of claptrap going around about what Roosevelt -would do if he were there, when, as a matter of fact, his career in the white house shows that he kept his hands off the house rules fight, just as his suc cessor is doing. Norfolk News. A SQUARE DEAL. The Kansas City Post endeavors to give its readers a square deal in the Swope mystery. There is much excitement in Kan sas City about the recent deaths in the Swope family, and thousands of people are anxious to believe that some of the kin administered poison, with a view of gaining control of the Swope for tune, but the Post prints this manly editorial: "Simply as an editorial opinion, we feel in duty bound, as an agency of publicity, to say that there is no cred itable evidence whatever tying the Swope death tragedies to any certain person or persons. Not only is there no creditable evidence, but, even as a matter of theory, the majority conclu sion is that the whole thing is the result of accidental natural causes, superin duced by the feelings and acts of a woman suffering extreme bereavement, and whose point of view, therefore, is inexplicable. It is a most terrifically interesting story with theories ram pant one of the most remarkable stories of the kind ever known but, after due .knowledge and careful con sideration, we feel obligated to say that the interest now lies in the details of the development of a story of senti mental suspicions rather than in any real evidence." Every newspaper in the world should print more editorial opinions of that kind. There are innumerable cases where the people are unduly ex cited, and hoping that uncommitted crimes will develop. Where no crimes are probable, the newspapers should say so. We can pick up any news paper any day, and point out a dozen "hints" at sensations which have no foundation. The "hint" that President Taft has been guilty of conspiring with rich trusts to rob the people of timber and coal lands, is without foundation, yet how popular thai "hint" item is! People should not be encouraged to believe that honest men are thieves, or that decent men have two wives. .But this is exactly what half the newspapers do, and exactly what more than half the people seem to want Atchison Globe. THE EASY MEAT PROBLEM. At the corn improvers' banquet last week President Selleck of the local Commercial club told a good story to illustrate the ravages of the hook worm," the germ of "that tired feel ing," in the south. The main actor in the story was a dog whose piteous howling one night attracted attention. Investigation disclosed that it had sat down on a sharp rake tooth and was too tired to get up. When Nebraska people complain of the price of meat, and talk of a boy cott, a plan to cut off their nose to spite their face, and call on the gov ernment to come to the rescue, one is forced to wonder if a share of Mr. Rockefeller's worm million is not needed here. Here we are, cattle, cat tle, everywhere and not a steak to eaL There is hardly a church steeple in Nebraska from whose top a sharp eyed townsman cannot see cattle, hogs and chickens enough to founder the town every day in the week. Free roads lead to this fatness. Yet here we are, quarreling at some gentlemen in Chi cago for not selling meat at prices within our means. In the past there was some excuse for hopelessness of getting off the rake tooth. In old days these Chicago gen tlemen could and did destroy the local butcher who made an effort to short circuit them by getting the steer to the table without shipping him alive five hundred miles and then shipping him back dead five hundred miles, toll be ing taken incidentally and respectively by local buyer, railroad, stock yards, commission man, packer, then again railroad, and finally retailer. By means of transportation advantages, and their power of operating tempo rarily at a loss in spots where this com petition appeared, the packers were able once to control the local situation and force upon us a system of pure waste except for the most economical butchering possible to large scale operations. Now we know, or could known if we took the trouble to learn, that it is not neceseary to stand this. Presumably the packers' railroad privileges are gone. -Nebraska laws loroiu me oiu device for putting competitors out of business one at a time, and with pub lie ownership of attorneys general by means of direct primaries this protec tion can be made to protect. Even lacking this protection, a city like Lincoln needs not submit to a butch ering monopoly. A few thousand dollars invested in a public abattoir by the city or by public spirited citizens would either supply the city with meat direct from the surrounding fields or insure a supply of packers' meat on reasonable terms. The American packers have spent vast sums trying to persuade Canadian cities not to do this. If instead of taking the simple steps necessary to our own protection we continue to sit on the rake tooth and howl to Washington for help it is a sign that we need either more chas tening by high prices or the attention of the hook-worm commission. State Journal. MINISTERS AND MEDICINE MONEY. The doctors of the Elkhorn Medical association have decided to abolish the practice of ministering medically to ministers of the gospel without mone tary remuneration. Christian doc trine as well as the ethics of their pro fession happily precludes the possibili ty of the good doctors of divinity re taliating by prescribing fees (bills rendered monthly) for prayers and other holy services of which the doc tors of medicine stand in need. The ministers of the gospel will prefer to assume that the administers of medi cine stand in need. The ministers of the gospel will prefer to assume that the administers of medicine have made a move toward raising the standard of the nrnfassinn of nreachincr from the level of medicancy, which is one of its distressing attributes. Service of the Lord in the capacity of a minister has never held out any allurements as a business proposition unfortunately, perhaps, has made little progress as such. Before money came into use as a medium of exchange peo ple bartered the fruits of their pro ductive abilities for the things their needs demanded, but the good preach ers, producing nothing they could bar ter, were supported largely by the gifts of their converts and parishion ers. The pound shower for the prea cher and the reduced railroad fare, as well as the free medical attendance, are survivals of this superannuated practice, which, it may be mentioned, is a prime factor in making the pro fession take on a backnumber aspect. It is customary nowadays to pay laborers, whether they be laborers in the wheat fields, or in the field of medi cine, in hard money, and the field of gospel ministry should be no excep tion. The requirements of the profes sion.and its dignity demand it. Min isters of the gospel do not want free medical attention and will not take it when salaries commensurate with the requirements of their services and sufficient to their needs are paid them. The doctors of medicine perhaps have done right by deciding to charge the fees np to the doctors of divinity, but they should now take out full membership in the Society of Gospel Salary Boosters in order to collect the bill. Fremont Tribune. THE PASSING OF A QUAINT CHARACTER. With the death of Judge Gaslin at Alma last week Nebraska has lost a man who has done no small part to ward the making of the state's history. Coming to the state at the time the state was admitted to the Union, he practiced law in' the eastern part of the state for a time and then went to the Republican valley and took a home-' stead and worked it for a time. In 187G he was elected to the district bench and held it for sixteen years until the populists made a great mis take by electing someone else to the position. His district during the ear lier part of his term comprised the wildest and wooliest part of the state, where an organized gang of lawbreak ers held sway and it required an up right man with no small amount of nerve to accomplish any good. The first case which brought him into pro minence was the trial of the Olive uanir at Hastings in 1879. "Print" Olive, a wealthy ranch owner in what is now Custer county and who also ran a livery barn at Plum Creek, was hav ing trouble with the homesteaders who were making homesteads of the fer tile lands of Custer against the wishes of the cattle men who wanted the land for grazing purposes and among thein were a couple of men named Mitchell and Ketcham, who went there from Merrick couuty and the writer met them when they were building their "sod dobe" ou the claim and the walls were about breast high at the time. Their troubles with the cattle men commenced with their first settlement and the affair finally led to their shoot ing one of them in self defense, after which they took a quick hike back to their old home in Merrick. The man killed was a brother of Print Olive, though for reasons best known to him self was known as Stevens, and Olive offered a heavy reward for the arrest of Mitchell and Ketcham and their delivery not to the proper officers but into his bauds and the sheriff of Merrick county received the blood money and turned the hapless victims over to Olive at Kearney and he took them to Plum Creek, refusing to allow their attorneys to accompany them. Olive and his gang started with the prisoners ostensibly for Custer county and a couple of days later they were found hanging over a limb still hand cuffed together, their bodies slashed with knives and burned to death. The gang were arrested and tried be fore Gaslin at Hastings and the trial was one of the most exciting ever held in the state. Open threats were made against the Judge and he went heavily armed and guarded. About the be ginning of the trial there were rumors of junbreaking and Gaslin called a halt at ouce and showed the interested parties that no trifling would be toler ated and they didn't try that plan again. The gang were convicted but the supreme court allowed a new trial on a technicality and before a new trial could lie given them the state's witness es had all been spirited out of the state and there was nothing left for the dis trict attorney but to dismiss the case. A few years later, in 1883, a Hastings business man named Millett was mur dered as he was turning from the street into his yard by three men named Green, Ingraham and Babcock, who were soon afterward arrested and one of them held in the Grand Island jail and the other two confined in Hastings. With the memory of the Olive case still fiesh on their minds the good people of Hastings organized ("a crowd who called tiiemselveathe"3: and quietly took the two murderers to the St. Joe and Grand Island rail road bridge a mile north of town and hung them. One of them was tied to the rail and the first train in the morn ing cut the rope and allowed the body to drop, whereupon the engineer took the train back to town and gave the alarm and the whole population turn ed out to see the result of the night's work, Judge Gaslin among them. On arriving at the scene he took a look at the man on the ground and, with a long look at the one still swinging from the bridge remarket, "Well, tharc is one decision that the supreme court won't set aside," and they didn't. Enough stories are told of this quaint and up right judge to fill a good sized book and the most of them have the merit of truth. He filled his place on the bench and did it well, and, with a wholesome contempt for technicalities and a firm determination to punish the guilty he did much to make the west ern part of the state a safe place to live in. When on his homestead thieves be reaved him of a team of bronchos and his hatred of horse thieves was intense and it is.said that he has added as ex- tras to the sentences of the different horse thieves brought before him for trial a total of 110 years to make up for that team of bronchos. Norfolk Press. BOYCOTTS. The suggestion of a boycott of man ufactured articles by farmers indicates the general tendency of the boycott movement to push conditions back toward the Stone Age. If plans dis cussed at Frankfort, Kansas, should be carried out, all improvements would cease. No buildings would be erected, no machinery bought, and all articles of household consumption would lie made at home. Country life would revert to the old colonial status, before the invention of labor saving machin ery, when every family wove its own cloth, cured its own meats, and was sufficient unto itself. It seems unlikely that such a scheme of boycotting will be undertaken. In view of the crop situation in recent years, the profitable prices that have obtained and the consequent general prosperity of the farmers of the United States, such h condition as that involv ed in the suggested boycott would be purely artificial. It would entail great inconvenience on the families involved and if of sufficient proportions would retard the improvement of agricultural property. The meat Iwycott is open to grave objections, but it has a foundation on conditions suggesting urgency of action, and it could hardly prove as serious to the whole country or even to the farmers as a class, as a general embargo on improvements and manu factures. Meat prices have advanced so sharply in recent years that families of moderate means already have been compelled to curtail their consumption. The effect of the total abstinence of such families as join the movement has lteen in some measure discounted, because many of these families were compelled by necessity to consume a lessened share of meat before the boy cott began. The whole discussion goes to show the destructive tendency of the boycott as a weapon of attack and defense. Need there is of economy, thrift, im proved methods of production, greater general industrial efficiency. Especial need there is of governmental inquiry and action. But the evil of excessive prices cannot be successfully met by a return to the conditions of the pioneers. Kansas City Star. WASHINGTON LETTER. The Nebraskans in Washington and the colony numbers nearly three hundred have had many reminders of their home state during the past week. With a visit from the gover nor, a reception to A. F. Woods, who is leaving his place as chief of the bureau of plant industry for a jMwition in the Minnesota agricultural school, the excitement due to the activity of the Nebraska insurgents, and the stir that Seuator Burkett made on the floor of the senate by trying to force the Aldrich-Hale, etc., combination to stop adjourning and get to work on the passage of the ostal savings bank bill aud other important measures. All these things have made the Ne braskans feel more than ever that representatives of the old state are doing things, and that Nebraska is distinctly on the map. Senator Burkett certainly rattled the dry bones of the senate leaders by his objection last Thursday to adjourn ment over until Monday. The motion to adjourn came from Senator Hale. Custom and long service have made him the autocrat in such matters, and the committee on order of business was not prepared for Senator Burkett's stormy protest, which came like a thunder clap. Before the motion could be put Senator Burkett sprang to his feet, and with a fervor born of long-controlled impatience over the inaction and dilatory tactics of the senate bosses, he demanded that they stop dawdling, delaying, adjourning, waiting, etc., and get to work; that the people had been promised a postal savings bank bill, and many other important matters, yet the senate had done little during the two months session except to consider mere routine, and then "adjourn over." To a man with a passion for work and a desire to secure reform legislation, this program is intolerable, and Senator Burkett could not stand it. The fact that Senator Hale made a vigorous and rather scornful reply, and succeeded in passing his motion did not soothe the Nebraska senator, who hinted at the discharge of committees that held up big bills in their hands. Senator Burkett fears that the big appropria tion bills may crowd out bis postal savings bank bill and is determined to prevent it if possible. Gov. Shallenberger did not know exactly whether he was going to run for senator or make the long race for governor. In view of the political situation confronting the democrats undoubtedly Gov. Shallenberger will have to tie up with Congressman Hitchcock.upon the theory that Mayor Dahlmian is goiag to make a really hard fight for governor. Since the visit of Shallenberger to Washington one can hear all kinds of political guesses as to the next two years. The fact is Shallenberger and Hitchcock had a long conference and undoubtedly outlined a campaign friendly to both. Jut where the "little giant" W. H. Thompson will get off is a problem. Billy Thompson has been holding the sack so lone in Nebraska that he will probably continue in his position of official sack holder for the unternfied. Congressman Hinshaw, the Nebras ka member of the congressional cam paign committee, while playing an inconspicuous part in the organization of the committee, intimated the other niffht to the committee that a little broader conception of what an "insur gent" means would be acceptable; also that it might help not only the party in Nebraska, but in a number of congressional districts where the vote is close. Hinshaw stated that he be lieved there would be five republican congressmen from Nebraska and possi bly six, instead of three at at present. THE AMERICAN WOMAN. Mar Position Here and Its Influence In the Old World. There is no doubt that the most In teresting thing to the European who lands on the northern shores of the new world is the American woman that happy, victorious heroine of mod ern femininism who has discovered how to extract from the new condition of woman all the advantages with al most none of the iucouveuieuces; that being who has known how to assume the masculinity in all that regards in dependence and liberty of action aud remain feminine in grace, charm and altruism; that American beauty, that American genius, whose wonders are seen and felt in all the American and European reviews, whose writers de clare her to be engaged almost en tirely in severe study, iu masculine work, sport and similar occupations. Europe, moreover, is right. The American woman is not only one of the most interesting phenomena of North America, but is also the phe nomenon of the new world that might have the greatest and gravest effect on the old, shaking on their founda tions the essential principles of our fe male Instruction and training, over throwing the society of the old conti nent or continents, which rest to a greater extent than is realized on the antique functions of woman In the family and iu society. Gina Loinbroso Ferrero in Putnam's Magazine. THE RACE FOR RICHES. Is Wealth That Cannot Be Worth the Price? Enjoyed The writer once inquired of a very successful man: "When do you ever get a moment's time for your own self to be your self and to think your own thoughts? Do you ever get a time like that?" The very successful man hesitated for a moment and then replied: "Why, yes, I get such a time while I am being shaved iu the morning." Is success really worth the price when it must be paid for at such a rate? Of what use are mansions and country houses and great estates if one has no time to visit them and en Joy their beauty? Why should one collect through agents the most ex quisite works of art if he cannot find more than a casual half hour in which to view them? What are wife and children if you are always hastening about the world, far too preoccupied to give them any serious thought or to receive the pleasure which their company could afford you? And yet there is one sole satisfac tionIf it be a satisfaction. Millions of your fellow countrymen and coun trywomen will believe beyond all doubt that you are really happy and will envy you. Munsey's Magazine. Icebergs. Apparently Ice is ice, of course; but. strangely enough, there Is a marked difference in it. Sea water and salt water in general freezes at a lower temperature than pure water, in doing which a part of the salt separates and the ice when melted gives water that is fresher than the original, and along this same line there exists a marked difference in form between the Ice bergs of the two hemispheres. Arctic bergs are of irregular shape, with lofty pinnacles, cloud capped towers and glittering domes, whereas those of the southern waters are Hat topped and solid looking. The former reach the sea by narrow fiords, while the latter are more regular in formation, reach ing the open sea by the way of wide passageways and not subject to the grinding and breaking efforts of their northern relatives. Pittsburg Press. A Real Cute Dog. A good dog' story is attributed to a visitor to an English country inn on market day. "Now," he said, "I've got a dog here 1 wouldn't take 20 for. You can believe me or not, but what I am going to tell you is perfectly true. In the early part of last spring I lost six ewes and could find them nowhere. One day about three weeks later as I was looking across from my house to the edge of the moor about two miles away I noticed some sheep. 1 got my telescope and assured myself that they were mine. I placed the telescope in a suitable position and made Bob look through It. After about a minute the dog wagged his tail and looked at me as If he understood what I wanted and was off like a shot, in less than two hours he brought the sheep home safe and sound." Impossible. Dr. Chargem Your friend needs vig orous treatment. 1 never saw a man In such a state of mental depression. Can't you convince him that the fu ture holds some brightness for him! Sympathetic Friend-That is unfortu nately impossible. He has drawn bis salary for three weeks ahead and spent the money. Exchange. COAL Pocahontas Smokeless Illinois, Rock Spring's and Colorado Coals at prices that will interest you. .Xet us figure with you lor 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't8ell 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 Fuel. "Saves iU Cost in a Season" A. DUSSELL & SON PLWNM IH HEITIM Columbus, Nebraska Instructed the Queen. Queen Victoria ot England was once pulled up short by an old Scotchwo man. Her majesty had started out one afternoon to sit on a hillside aud watch some of her relatives tishius in tiit. rivr holow her. wheu she found that she bad uo thimble iu her pocket. J ... . - - I X. ....... I so could uot worn, as sue uau mitrim ed, at the sewing she was carrying. Turning out of her way to Mrs. Sym ond's shop, she bought the smallest A New Line .. To The Northwest Through The Big Horn Basin The Big Horn Basin is fast settling up and offers the greatest opportunities for farmers, and especially FARM RENTERS to secure fine government irrigated farms at the mere cost of the water, and often A SINGLE CROP CAN BE MADE TO PAY FOR THE FARM. Ten yearly payments without interest. This is cheaper than paying rent in any locality. With the completion of the new line this promises to be come a great wealth producing region. The oil, gas and irrigation of the Big Horn Basin will make that country a combination of farm and industrial prosperity. Write me for full descriptive literature. Go with me to the Basin and let me help you select a new-home. DOLLARS PAID FOR RENT ARE LOST. Ifapine Binding Old Books Rebound In fact, for anything in the. book binding line bring your work to m Journal Office Phone 160 Grain Co. Ind. 206 thimble there. wMrfi was. hi'eVr. uiauy sizes too hig for llr. Thitri was an old Scotch dame at the coun ter impatiently waiting to make lief own pun-liases. Not reeoyiiiziii the queen, she broke into the conversation with :l "Hoots, but it's a rare fuss an faddle you're maki::'. I'Aow nitae it weel an it'll stick." That phrase. tln latter part of the sentence, amused her majesty immensely ami became iixiu a proverb iu the royal family. k JL Stir wo- i rw' 1 WO" j ifeV' 1'- MvT I D. CLEM DEAVERr General Agent, Land Seekers Information Hureau, Room G, "Q" Building. Omaha, Nebraska. fr ,f-;l k --.