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t 1 I Columbus Journal. Ooluniiu, Motor. Consolidated with the Columbus Times April 1, WW; with the I'latte County Argus January 1, 1M. o'ersd at Ih r.totlice.('r!aiiilic Nobr. nad-cUm mull matter nave orsuBBoaiPTioh Una year, by mall, postaim iirpil ai.to diz month 76 rireemostoa 40 VKDSK8DAY. Al'HIL , 111). HTROTUEH & STOOKWKhU Proprietors. UhNEWALB The date oppoetttt yonr tmme on roar paper, or wrapper chowo to what time jonr anbscripUon h paid. Thus JanOC ehow that payment has been received oi to Jan. 1, :t0.', (KebOfi to Feb. 1, 1005 and so on. When payment If made, the date, which antwers h a rrcip:, 111 be changed accordingly DidCONTINDANCEH-Uesponsihle sabwrib m will continne to receive Uiis journal until the pabliahera are notified by letter to disro&tinoe, when all arrearages most be paid. If joa do nut wish the Journal continued for another year af ter the time paid for has expired, yon ehnnld pravlooaly notify ns to disoontinoe it. CHANGE IN AUDHEBB-When ordering a ;h tinge in the address, eubecribcrh should be sore to tve their old as well aa their new address. REFORM THE LAND LAWS. How backward we are still is shown by the fact that no urgency of public opinion and no pressure of common honesty has yet succeeded in making the preliminary step a reasonable reform of the land laws. The agencies of justice are employed in discover ing and punishing land thieves wlio?e crimes were invited by legislation ap parently framed for their especial profit. The repeal of the desert laud act, the timber and stone act, and the btringent enforcement of the provisions of the homestead act are necessary to honest dealing with the land question. Speculators aud land grabbers prevent this, while occasional Congressmen aud Senators are smirched and dis graced by participating in land frauds. We have enlarged the unit of public land for Alaska, in order to tempt dis honesty there. We have made it H50 acres for laud reclaimed at great ex pense, although a large family could not passibly cultivate twenty acres of this land as it should be. Perhaps economy must be substituted for the extravagance now too prevalent in every department of government be fore we can hope to see it supreme in land reclamation and distribution. But this plain business conception must be restored before the country can hope either to realize upon or re tain its moat valuable resources. World's Work. THE COMING OF THE COMET. In a little while II alley's comet will be visible to the naked eye. It is rushing this way at the stupendous speed of about sixty miles a second. Compared with this speed, the swiftest projectile, fired from the most power ful gun, would seem to crawl through space. In an article in the Literary Magazine, P. Harvey Middleton tells briefly of the relation of this comet to history and what might happen if it actually hit the earth squarely, which it will not. You may safely say it will not, for this author and other astronomers place the chance of such a calamity at about one to 281, 000,000 chances for its passing harmlessly by. Some say the danger is even less than that; that it might not hurt us if it did hit. It is now assumed by many astronomers that Halley's comet is identical with the Star of Bethlehem, which appeared to the three Wise Men of the East ou that most memorable date in history, the birth of Jesus. And for many centuries, it has been connected in the minds of the super stious with disasters of one kind or another, usually wars. Even now, if German and Britain should clash, or Japan and America go to war, there are many who would blame it on the comet. In 102, when the comet was in sight, William of Normandy led his hosts on the conquest of England. In 1378 the comet spread itself across the heavens, and the church of Rome was rent in twain. In 14.r( the comet came again, and Europe fought des perately against invading Turks. In 1531, it saw Pizarro wreck the empire of the Incas. In 1607 it marked the first English colony in America. In 4759 it looked down on the Plains of Abraham, where Wolfe and Mont calm decided the fate of a continent. In 1835, it came during the Seminole war. But we have warred a good deal without the light of comets, and intelligent men now regard these events as mere coincidences. The coming of the comet means little, in fact, except to the astronomers, and these are busy preparing for its re ception. Expeditions will go to Aus tralia and South America and Hawaii to study it, and everything is being placed in readiness. But few are afraid, which is well, for with comets, as with leaser visitors, worry doesn't keep them away, nor help entertain them. Atchison Globe. JOSEPH G. CANNON. For nearly a generation Speaker Joseph G. Cannon, the stormy petrel of Congress whose wings were clipped by the insurgents, has been a unique figure in public life. "The last of the frontier type of statesmen, of which Lincoln was fin-t" when a celebrity said that of "Uncle Joe" some six years ago he was applauded for hold ing the mirror up to life, for pictures queness and plainness have been so developed aud nourished by the seer of Danville that without them he would be like President Taft without the expansive emile, like Theodore Roosevelt without the teeth aud eye glasses, like "Buffalo Bill" without the long hair and slouch hat Biographical ly speaking, Speaker Cannon comes of Quaker parentage aud was born in North Carolina in 183b. He spent his boyhood in Indi ana, and later move to Illinois, where he has lived ever miicc, his home be ing in Danville. With the exception of one term, when he was keptathome by his constituents, he has been in Con gress since 1872, or nearly four tie cades. Over a quarter of a century ago he was appointed by Speaker Car lisle a member of the committee on rules ihe self-same committee over which the stirring battle has just lie u ibught in Washington. For nian years he was chairman of the com mittee on appropriation, anil was known as "watchdog of the treasury." Once upon a time, about eight years ago, Mr. Cannon dictated an autobio graphy to a Washington correspondent. It was short, succient and characteris tic. It ran: "Mr. Cannon was born of God-fearing and man-loving par ents. He made himself, and he did a darn poor job of it." In appearance Mr. Cannon is a ra ther slim man, about five feet and a half in height. Despite his 74 years he is as straight as an arrow. His rugged face is ornamented with a griz zled beard, his upper lip being shaved. He is quick and alert in his move ments, his eyes have a youthful spark le. In conversation he is almost as vehement as when making a speech. In Washington years and years ago he became noted for his keenness in debate. He is a master of satire, of razor like edge. In the thirty-six years he has been at Washington Mr. Cannon bus helped write many an im portant law. In the Forty-third Con gress as member of the committee on postoflices and post roads he introduc ed a bill changing postal rates on se cond class matter, and aided iu putt ing through the amendments prohibit ing the distribution of lottery tickt-ts and obscene literature through the mails. At the beginning of the war with Spain Mr. Cannon as chairman of the committee on appropriations cautioned delay, but when it became evident that the war would come he put in the bill appropriating S50,000,000 for national defense. At Danville Speaker Cannon has what is regarded as one of the best equipped private libraries in the state aud when at home he spends hours browsing on literature. He is ranked as a millionaire, having made his for tune in the street railroad and bank in" business amL iu investments in agricultural lands. In oratory Speak er Connon is galvanic. As he brings forth a new point he comes dancing forth on his tip-toes, swinging his arms like the sails of a Dutch wind mill, upper cutting and parrying and swinging and sidestepping. There is a saying in Illinois that he would not be able to make a speech iu a twenty foot ring. His speeches are well in terlarded with biblical quotations, an occasional bit of near profanity and al ways with parables ami stories to back up each point. The Union. to make a record that outshines that of these pioneer scholars, but the fact that so nany of the-e have "male good" is not so iruiKirtant and impres si ve as the fut her fact, dt-velopcd by the statement, namely, tliHt nearly all of the farms in questiou are now farm ed by renters. This is an intrresting fact, and as deplorable as interesting, since it is a sign of the degeneration of the Americau voemau stock to the low level of the European tenant. It signifies a trend toward modern feuda lism. The case cited is an extreme one, and fortunately thi tn-ud .is not so marked as wniild appear from the Ohio man's figures, but that the trend exists cannot be denied. "It is true that the bo) a have "made good," but it Wi.uld M-i'iii that the farui that fostered them have not. Pittsburg J-'uu. COUNTRY BOYS "MAKE GOOD." The Columbus Dispatch has been conducting a discussion as to "what becomes of the boys from the farm?" the questiou having arisen in connec tion with a great general discussion concerning the present high cost of living. A farmer of Union county, Ohio, enters the discussion with a specific statement as regards the farm boys who went to school with him in a certain rural district fifty years ago. His list includes the boys of eleven farms, thirty-two youngsters in all. Annalysis of this list shows that nine of the boys in question stuck to the farm, that six became bankers, four merchants, two lawyers, two clerks of court, two dentists, two la borers, one a manufacturer, one a broker, one.an agent for farm ma chinery, one a state senator and one United States senator and ultimately vice president of the United Slates. "Such is the list," says the writer. "Have they made good?" Now the school is abandonded and the children are hauled in a wagon to a central graded school. I wonder if, when they are proved out in the affairs of life they will make a better show ing than we have." We will readily agree that this latter-day school must needs "go some" THE LIBERTY OF CHILDREN. If women have been s'aves.what shall I say of children; of the little children iu alleys and sub-cellars; the little children who turn pale when they hear their fathers' footsteps; little children who run away when ihey nuly hear their names called by the lips of a mother; little children the children of jwiverty, the children of crime, the children of brutality, wher ever they are flotsam and jetsam up on the wild, mad sea of life? my heart goes out to them, oue and all. Childieu have the same rights that we have, and we ought to treat them as though they were humans. They should be reared with love, with kind ness, with tenderness, and not with brutality. When your little child tells a lie, do not rush at him as though the world were about to go into bankruptcy. Be honest with him. A tyrant father will have liars for his children; dojou know that? A lie is born of tyranny upon the one hand and weakness upon the other, and when you rush at a poor little boy with a club in you hand, of course he lies. When your child commits a wrong, take it in your arms; let the child know that you really aud truly and sincerely love it. Yet some Christians, good Christians, when a child commits a fault, drive it from the door and sy: "Never do you darken this house again. think ot that! And then these same people will get down on their knees aud ask God to take care of the child they have driven from home. I will uever ask God to take care of 1113' children unless I am doing my level liest iu that same direction. But I will tell you what I say to my children: "Go where you will; com mit what crime you may; fall to what depth of degradation you may; you can never commit any crime that will shut my door, my arms, or my heart to you. As long as 1 live you shall have one sincere friend." Do you know that I have seen some people who acted as though they thou ght that when the Saviour said: "Suf fer little children to come unto me, for of such is the kingdom of heaven," he had a rawhide under his mantle, and made that remark simply to get the children within striking distance? I do not believe in the government of the lash. If any oue of you ever expect to whip your children again, I want you to have a photograph taken of yourself when you are in the act, with your face red with vulgar anger, and the face of the little child, with eyes swimming in tears and the little chin dimpled with fear, like a piece of water struck by a sudden cold wind. Have the picture taken. If that little child should die I cannot think of a sweeter way to spend an autumn after noon than to go out to the cemetery, when the maples are clad in tender gold, and little scarlet runners are coming, like poems of regret, from the sad heart of the earth and sit down upon the grave and look at that pho tograph, and think of the flesh, now dust, that you beat I tell you it is wrong; it is no way to raise children! Make your home happy. Be home with them. Divide fairly with them in everything. Give them a little liberty of love, and you cannot drive them out of your house. They will want to stay there. Make home pleasant. Let them play any game they wish. Robert G. In-gersoll. CONFUSION IN THE TEMPLE. Lincoln democratic politicians ad init that the eridem h fr"g that two factious are rapidly t.-r:mt in theueuucraiic party which are Ih.ui d toMrivK fur the maien in the out-veuti-'ii and perhaps up until the pri mary result is kuowu. None nf tln-111 care to be quoted 011 the matter at this stage of the pMcet'duigs. The oue faction is headed by G iv ernor Shallenberger, who has as his support 'he state organization as now constituted, and Gilbert M. Hitch cick, candidate for the United States senate. On the other side are the friends of W. J. Bryan, who , have rallied to his .supiMirl after he Ima I Men severely rnliri.-ed for announcing hi. supp'tit o" county option It i.i .-aid that W. H. Thompson has allied .'im self with this part of the parly mid will sooii lake a similar stand i.n the liquor question. Tilt ai-rumor are hacked by Mich facts as these: Returning democrat-, from the Syracuse dinner declared thai much headway was made iu an agree meiit, tacit or otherwise, between Hitchcock aud Shallenberger. Otfi cials of the state organization iuelud iug Chairman Byrnes, sjioke highly f b.ttti Hitchcock aud Shallenberger.aiid criticised Bryan severely for the stand he hail taken on couuly option. W. H. Thompson was closeted with T. S. Allen for hours at a time while he was going to the Syracuse dinner and returning. Allen soon thereafter made it .lain that he was for county option. It has been persistently rumored that Thompson is likely to do the same thing. Lincoln demo crats, who are on the Bryan side, have been urging W. B. Price to get out of the race so that the county option vote would not be spilt. A conference be tween that candidate and C. W. Bryan resulted in no conclusion on the mat ter. It is said also that C. W. Bryan urged Price not to stand in the way of the success of the movement to which both he and W. J. Bryan are committed. Mr. Price denies that such was the tenor of the interview but admits that he had a conference with C. W. Bryan on the matter of his candidacy. Whatever may have been the result of the conference, Price now says that he is in the race to stay and that he will be found there until the voters send him home. Concerning the charge made by J. C. Byrnes, chairman of the democratic state committee, that Mr. Bryan is now taking a stand directly divergent with that which he always encouraged and julvised when he was running for office, Lincoln friends of Mr. Bryan declare it is absolutely false, that the liquor question was never an issue iu any campaign in which Air. Bryan was a candidate until 1908 and that then it did not extend beyond the legis lature. They say that Brynes is talk ing about what he knows nothing be cause he neverwaa identified with the party machinery until he went to the state senate in 1907. Lincoln Journal. Sm 5flErllBBaJflKwH?.SftHiKviiH JaWjaaaaakJal gg PMa SSiBv09NMI0HKHR4iHilBaw &B.aV a aSaaaaaaaaaKVaaaV 7wUm 9PPBlBaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawBVw 4ws Rav haapav JaW :M:-sm' . :&& taaaaaaaaaaaaaaaav m m W Baaaaaaaaavaaaa7ataam:-aw-v-v-: .aBt attaaaaaaaaaaaaa ml TL Home SEVNlHiHBKw V W Baked Bread, I .(jlJHIBHEJ f Biscuit, Cake, Pastry. I tPMKmP i4 I Fresb.TastefuL Health- WUKW J I rul, and Economical when (NBk Jm, I made with V MiNHbf U a. I- "sSa. - ..Saaal aaafl Laaaaaaaaaaaa aaafl ataaaaaaaaam 'aaaaaaal .afffPJBxQaaaaaaaaaaJUaaaaaaaaB if m 3am no imm I "- Powder JB Royal is the osly baltteg powtferaude iBKSr froai Royal Grape Cream of Tartar Mfj&r that is no sign that they are not thoroughly practical. His efforts have been to the point and he has been constantly pushing to have the entire program carried out that nothing of real importance on the administrative slate may be left over for the next session. In seeking to get results President Tail has not undertaken to be a trouble hunter, nor yet to make him self a source of contention. Because of this he has been called weak-kneed and gullible, both of which statements are with foundation in fact. Although he does not court antagonisms to his proposed measures, yet he is steadily guiding the great federal legislative machinery and hopes to be able to stand before the people, when congress adjourns, with a finished program and promises transformed into real reform laws. Omaha Bee. A LITTLE PLEASANTRY. Particular. "Waiter, briug me a finger bowl?" "There's your finger bowl, sir." "But that's only one." "And do you want two. sir?" "Certainly I want two. You don't suppose I'm going to wash my left hand in the bowl I just washed my right hand in. do you?" Yonkers Statesman. AN EXAMPLE OF PROGRESS. In 1850 Texas sold to the United States a strip of territory approximat ing 100,000,000 acres lor. $10,000,000. Texas was larger than she is now and was in debt. The land was consider ed valuable and Texas needed the money. At an average valuation of $10 an acre the land today would be worth a billion dollars. As a matter of fact, some of it is worth several times $10 an acre and is all the time becoming more valuable. There was opposition to the sale at the time, but it was ineffective. Those who favored the sale contended that the land was worthless and that the United States Government was buying au elephant. The Legislature thought is wise to sell, and the deal whs put through. The territory sold now covers the eastern halt oi iNew Mexico, a corner of Oklahoma and Kansasand a strip'of Colorado. If Texas had retained that land she would today be about'one third lar ger and a billion dollars wealthier than at present. The outcome is a striking illustration of the growth and progressof thisfcountry. Louisville Courier Journal. Ha Triad It on the Duchasa According to the Rules. "If seated next to u lady at dinner and If at a loss for u topic, touch lightly ou the weather. Then turn to dress. It that fails, try a little pleas antry." With these words from "Etiquette For the Populace" stamped upon bis memory, Mr. (jnickrich, who had made a million out of candles and thus gain ed a sudden entry Into society, escort ed the Duchess of Dash into the din ing room. The multiplicity of forks and knives and spoons staggered him. The soup nearly made him faint. But he took his courage and an olive in both hands and launched forth pluck- "Bloomln dull day, ducb. ain't itr be began, recalling topic No. 1. "Ahem!" he coughed as be remem bered the next topic, dress. "Er do you wear flannel next the skinT A marble shoulder nearly knocked him In the eye a very cold and frigid shoulder. "Hum!" muttered Quickrlch. "Bath er 'ard to get along with. Let's see. I'll try a pleasantry." .The Duchess of Dash's back was turned to him. He protruded a fore finger and jabbed her in the ribs. "Click!" he cried playfully. And that absolutely did It. and him self with it London Answers. Helping a Man to Suicide. It is remarkable bow a suicide by a certain method or in a certain place will lead to another of the same kind. A surgeon of the Middlesex hospital In London went Into a barber shop to be shaved. The barber spoke of a man who had been unsuccessful In an at tempt to kill himself by cutting bis throat "lie could easily have managed it." said the surgeon, "had he been ac quainted with the situation of the carotid artery." "Where should be have cut?' asked the barber. The surgeon told him. He at once left the room, and, not return ing as soon as was expected, the sur geon went to look for him and discov ered him In the yard with his bead nearly severed from his body. Lon don Mail. Stcstrina. Suffragette What is a parry with out women V Mere .Man (.lippantlyi A sta;: party. Suffrairette- - Kxactly. And whit. sir. would this nation be without i.-onien but stajmat ion? Chris tian Iteslster. Tha Chief Requirement. "My boy seems to bo the champion of the block." "Good fighter, oh?" "Oh. no: merely a good judge of whom to mix it up with." Washing ton Star. Wanted Procf. Nephew (to the returning aunt) And did you think of me when -you were away? Aunt Certainly. Neph ew Then open your trunk aud let me tee it. Flloende Blatter. -Pa telBBH I rw vfiaaai Tii -SygjPaB E3H r-OQ. on LIP BUTTONS. Free Handed. Club waiter (Qshingi-1 dreamed If st night, sir. that yon gave me a sover eign. S:tngy Member Indeed. Jamesl That's a little bigb for a tip. but-er you may keep It. London Telegraph. Not Exactly a Compliment. Hewitt Ignorance is bliss. Jewett You'd better get your life Insured. Hewitt What for? Jewltt You're liable to die of joy. New York Times. PRESIDENT TAFT PREFERS RESULTS. President Taft has placed a definite program of legislation before congress and, although sectional and factional interests have been the cause of much bickering and delay, yet the program steadily is making progress with but little and unimportant changes. Presi dent Taft knows that his administra tion will be finally tested by results, and with characteristic eagerness he has been pushing the forces at his com mand to keep all the party promises that have been made. He is not blind to the fact that the public has been put in a suspicious and critical attitude toward him. Although his way of do ing things may not be exactly the same aa those to which the American people have been lately accustomed, Queer Ornaments Worn by Natives of Northern Alaska. Perhaps the most interesting archae ological discovery made on the north coast of Alaska has a relation to the present methods of personal decora tion now used by the natives of Alas ka, the most significant feature of which is the wearing of lip buttons, or labrets, by the men. The present custom Is that when a boy Is fourteen or sixteen years of age boles are pierced in his lower lip. one below each corner of the mouth. A small wooden ping Is at flrst inserted to keep the bole from growing to gether, and month by mouth a bigger and bigger plug Is used, till finally the openings are half an Inch in diameter. At this point the yonng man begins to wear stone or Ivory plugs. These ornaments are put in from the inside ordinarily as one might Insert a but ton Into a shirt front. Usually the two buttons worn are each of a different sort, while sometimes only one of the holes Is filled, and In summer men are occasionally met with who wear no buttons at ail. When a visitor is seen approaching, however, the ornaments are always In serted, for one does not feel dressed without them. In preparing for sleep they are usually removed. V. Stefans son In Harper's Magazine. PLAN EARLY FOR YOUR SUMMER TOUR PACIFIC COAST: From June 1st, low round trip excur sion rates to the Pacific Coast, and on special dates April to July, still LOWER COAST EXCURSION RATES. YELLOWSTONE PARK: All indications point to a lar ger number of Park Tourists during the summer of 1910 than ever before. The tour rates are very low, and include attrac tive diverse routes through Colorado and Salt Lake City. TO THE EAST: Special rates will be in effect to eastern cities and resorts. Definite announcements should be made within the next thirty days. ROCKY MOUNTAIN TOURS: Tourist rates during the summer to Denver, Estes Park and Colorado resorts, Hot Springs, S. D., Sheridan and Ranchester, Wyo., for the Big Horn region, Cody (gateway for Holm's personally conducted camping parties through the park), Thermopolis, Wyo., the coming wonderful Hot Springs resort (railway completed July 1st. IIOMESEEKERS' RATES: First and third Tuesdays for inveHtoM ami luiuHwwn luruugu me nuwiy developing seciionH u uit west. (Jet in touch with the nearest ticket agent, or with me. and let us tell you what yon want to know. L. W. WAKELEY, Gaaarml Paaseager Agent 1004 Tarmmm Street, Omaha, Ne. Mane Bindin l Old Books Rebound Life's Turning Points. The climacteric years are certain years In a man's life that were long believed to be of peculiar significance to him as turning points In his health and fortune. These are the mystic number 7 and Its multiples, with odd numbers, 21. 35, 49 and 63. The most Important of all was the sixty-third year, which was considered fatal to most men. In fact, for anything in the book binding line bring your work to Journal Office Phone 184 i: