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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
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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
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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.
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Old Books
Rebound
In fact, for anything in the. book
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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.
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D. CLEM DEAVERr General Agent,
Land Seekers Information Hureau,
Room G, "Q" Building. Omaha, Nebraska.
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