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p Si p 3 I! 51 olnmbus goiirttat. Columbus. Nebr. Consolidated with the Columbus Times April 1, 104; with the Platte County Argus January 1, 190J. f.n rlHtthe Poatottlo0.Colnmbnt.Nehr..M . . id-dnsa mall matter TBBMB OFBUBBOKIPTIOH- One year, by maiL, postage prepaid tLSO Ux moatha -75 r-ir- months .. VKDNE8DAY. JUNK 1. IC10. antOTUER &. STOCKWELL. Proprietors. KkNKWALS The data opposite yonr name on yonr paper, or wrapper ahowa to what time yonr subscription ie paid. Thus JanOS shows that payment Laa been received np to Jan-1,1605, KebCS to Feb. 1. IMS and eo on. When payment in made, the date, which answers as a receipt, will be chanced accordingly. li dCONTIN DANCES Responsible subscrib er? will continue to receive this Journal until the lablishorb are notified by letter to discontinue, when all arrearages must be iaid. If yon do not wish the Journal continued for another year af ter the time paid for has expired, yun bhonld previously notify ns to discontinue it. CHANGE IN ADDRESS-When ordering a iiacge in the address, subscribers should be snra o i their old as well aa their new address. TIDES IN THE SOLID EARTH. In the April issue of Harper's Ma gazine Prof. Oscar Hecker says: 'The ebb and Hood tides of the sea are familiar pneuomena. Every one knows that the ebb follows the Hood tide at regular intervals of six hours, and that the flood succeeds the ebb tide after a similar interval of six hours. Moreover, almost every one knows that this rising and falling of the wat er is due chiefly to the attraction of the Moon. It follows, therefore, that the Moon should afTect not only the water but also the land, and that it ought to produce tides in the solid earth. This conclusion has recently been verified by actual measurement. The Moon produces tidal waves which constantly distort the Earth. "Our solid globe, by which we mean not merely the crust, but the entire planet itself, is incessantly deformed by the tremendous, disruptive, attrac tive forces of the Moon, and period ically changes its shape according to the Moon's position. This earth which we are accustomed to regard as solid and immovable, is therefore not ab solutely rigid, but is traversed by an elastic flood tide. There is something strange in the thought that a city, like New York, with all its huge buildings is imperceptibly rising ami falling twice a day through the distance of half a yard. Delicate instruments of precision prove beyond question that this rising and falling does occur." Now if Prof. Hecker had also des cribed the tidal action on the Earths atmospheric envelope he would have shown that it is quite as powerful. This action of the Moon on the atmos phere gives our basis for estimating the influence of the Moon in weather changes. BAILEY'S SILK HAT. The world does move, evcii in slow going Texas. Senator Joe Bailey now wears a dress suit and a silk hat on high social occasions. Only a few years ago it was reported that Bailey's aversion to a dress suit wits so great that rather than wear one he refused to dine at the white house. This ftory made Bailey nearly as cel ebrated in a way as the story of Sock less Simpson of Kansas, one time congressman. Bailey went to Washington with a style in clothes that suited him and his constituents exactly. He wore the broad soft hat on all occasions. His vet was cut wide to show as broad an expanse of bosom as would a dress vest. A double breasted, long tailed, frock coat and a white lawn tie, completed the make up. It was the very acme of fashion in the village of Gaiusville where Joe lived, and if it was not the elegant thing in Washington so much the worse for Washington in the ques tion of style. The different sections of our country have their distinctive costumes just as the different countries of Europe, if not so pronounced, and Texas has its native costumes. In Europe the native costumes are only worn by the peasantry but the citizens dress prac tically alike all over the world. When the king of England wants to please the Highlanders he dons the kilts. Much in the same way the wily politicians in our country when hunt iuir votes, attire themselves after the fashion of their constituents. Some of them, however, are honest in their prejudices, and wear the native cos tume every where, even for years at Washington. Gradually the effect of public opinion gets in on them and thev cease to make themselves con spicuous by their outlandish appear ance. Senator Bailey, we learn, has passed the last stage of resistance which was to wear a dress suit with a slouch hat and is now to be seen of an evening in a silk hat What effect will this report have on Bailey's home folks? His popularity was so great that even his connection with the Standard Oil company did not knock him out, but will they stand for Bailey in spade-tail coat and plug hat? Lincoln Star. THE TOMBS OF EGYPT'S KINGS. In some of the tombs the sarcophagi were still in place all empty, except one. This was the splendid tomb of Amenophis II., of the eighteenth dynasty, who lived in the glory of Egypt, 1600 B. C. a warrior who slew seven Syrian chiefs with his own hand. Gaddis had not told us what to expect in that tomb, and when he had fol lowed through the long declining way and reached the royal chamber and beheld there was not an empty sarco phagus, but a king asleep, we were struck to silence with that o.oOO years of visible rest. The top of the sarcophagus is re moved, and is replaced by heavy plate glass. Just over the sleeper's face there is a tiny electric globe, and I be lieve one could never tire of standing there aud looking at that quiet visage, darkened by age but beautiful in its dignity, unmoved, undisturbed by the storm and stress of the fretful years. How loug he has been asleep! The Israelites were still in bondage when he fell into that quiet doze, and for their exodus a century or two later he did not care. Hector and Achilles and Paris and the rest had not battled on the Plains of Troy; the gods still assembled on Mount Olympus; Rome was not yet dreamed; he had been asleep nigh a thousand years when Romulus quit nursing the she wolf to build the walls of that city which would one day rule the world. The rise, the conquest, the decline of its vast empire he never knew. When her armies swept the nations of the east aud landed upon his own short s he did not stir in his sleep. The glory of Egypt ebbed away, but he did not care. Old religions perished, new gods aud new prophets replaced the gods and prophets he had known it mat tered not to him, here in this under world. Through every change he lay here in peace just as he lies today, so still, so Cue in his kingly majesty, upon his face that soil electric glow which seems in no wise out of place because it has come, as all things come at last, to him who waits. Harers Weekly. PRICES OF AUTOMOBILES. There is much speculation today a to whether the price of the motor car will remaiu where it is. Many pre dict that the day of overproduction is not far off; that we shall before long see automobiles a drug on the market and the price cut almost in two. Peo ple point back to the bicycle aud de clare that motor car manufacturers will he as anxious to dispose of their product as were the makers of the two wheeled pleasure vehicle that they will strike out ou a desperate hunt for buyers; that when the realization comes that the number of consumers is limit ed, eoiuetition will loosen up the terms and hammer dowu the closing figures of a bargain. To those, how ever, who are closely following the de velopment of the motor car business such a culmination seems hardly pro bable. Organization, consolidation of forces, is incessantly at work in this new industry. With the passing of the ownership and control of accessory plants turning out the more essential parts into the bauds of the big makers, the competition of the small producer who is merely an assembler of parts will become nominal, only, and may be entirely wiped out in case of any sudden slump in the demand. The "powers that be" will regulate the sup ply to meet the capacity of the public to consume. Thus the price of the product will remain where it is, enabl ing the motor car magnate to contiuue to reap bonanza dividends based on his "expanded" capitalization. From "Our Billion Dollar Toy," in Juuc Technical World Magazine. APOLOGY FOR BAD FAITH. Senator Bailey, of Texas, is disposed to enlarge on the theory which has been growing on him for a year or more against the declaration of party platforms as a guide to party policy in legislation. In the seuate last week he denounced the theory of adhesion to such declaration as "nothing more or less than a proposition to transfer the legislative power to this republic from the bodies where the constitution lodg ed it over to irresponsible political conventions." This is moonshine. The legislative power is not transfei red to "irresponsi ble political conventions" because no legislators are bouud by the party platforms except those who accept and stand on platforms of their resective parties. But in all representative government it is a settled principle that legislators are elected by the peo ple with a view to the policies they stand for. How shall the people know what policy in government the men they vote for will represeut? No intelligent man demands a slav ish, adhesion to the letter of party platforms where ,uew conditions arise to change the methods of reaching the professed aim. But when on long defined issues the party policy is de clared, and men elected on that policy proceed to break the pledges, it redu ces political action to the science of gaining votes on false pretenses. Senator Bailey and others as prom inently as he, have given signal illus trations of that sort of politics. His present counterblast against national platforms is a sophisticated apology for bad faith. Pittsburg Dispatch. OREGON FOR BIG THINGS. "Oregon is a state of big things," said Walter Lyon, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, of MarshGeld to a Washington Post reporter. "One county yields 0,000,000 bushels of wheat annually; one county produces 0,000,000 pounds of wool a year; an other is working on a 86,000,000 irrigation project. The commerce of one county, Coos, which has no rail road, was 86,000,000 last year. One county has an area of 6,000,000 acres. "One wagon road land grant com pany holds 80,000 acres in one county. One railroad holds .'i 000,000 acres by virtue of a railroad land grant act of congress. One-fifth of the state is in forest reserve. No state in the union has so much land held by virtue of wagon and railroad land grants, and no state in the union has so few roads. The people are rising up against this policy of wholesale landlordism, and the government is cooperating in the effort to shake loose the grip of the holder of idle lands. Oregon, as well as the entire North west, is filling up with settlers, and there is plenty of room for them. There are thousands of acres of rich agricultural lands and billions of feet of matured timber ready for the first comers. There are thousands of acres of coal fields with 6,000 tons to the acre. The county of Coos has 40,000, 000,000 feet of standing timlier and 400 square miles of coal, with only 2.r,(M)0 population." There have Iieen few emergencies that have arisen since Nebraska be came a state that either demanded or would justify the calling of a special session of the legislature. And this demand that Mr. Bryan is making on his party for an extra session to enact the referendum is founded on no neces sity arising out of the needs of the peo ple to gain relief from business distress or unjust or unbearable political condi tions, but is borne of some political entanglement that Mr. Bryan dreams now n.euaces his own uncertain politi cal future. But why should the peo ple of a great state be put to the ex (teuse of holding au extra session of the legislature in harvest time to save from embarassmcut a self seeking politician who has thoughtlessly involved him self in the meshes of his own double dealing on the liquor question? The referendum is only a subterfuge and a mighty poor one at that. A good deal less than half the people believe in that nonsense anyway and there never has been a demand for it that sprang from the grass roots. It is one of those dreams that have been written in poli tical platforms by shallow brained re formers who expect by law to change the nature of man and the course of the universe. The referendum would in no manner simplify the enactment laws, or the administration of justice; ou the contrary it would make more cumbersome, uncertain and costly that due process of law that the constitution guarantees. Falls City Journal. W. F. Porter, who was frequently iu the limelight during the old populist days, is agaiu in evidence, this time as a candidate for the nomination for railroad commissioner. Mr. Porter kept things stirred up during his pre vious career as officeholder, when he was secretary of state, furnishing al most as much newspaper copy as Roosevelt does now. His chief assest is a remarkably strong pair of lungs, and he was always noticable in popu list conventions a few years ago. He will be remembered as "Porter-put-it-back," but in his announcement as a candidate he objects to the name, say ing that he took no money from the state that he was not entitled to, aud says he docs not owe the state a dollar, "the supreme court to the contrary notwithstanding." Beatrice Express. Ze 6ine of Golf. lie bad conic over from France and tiad just been asked to give bis views cu the ancient game of golf. With much gesticulation be did so. "Ab." be said, "your game of golf! Yees, I know biui. You put on ze tunic so red ns ze Ingleesb rosbif under neath done. You strap your sack of sticks on ze back of a boy twice so small ns ze bag. "lie scrape a mud pudding to make balance a leetle white ball. lie make three bad tries to balance him, then very angry you call aloud. 'Feur! Then you what you call address ze ball. and. ma foi, your address is some times of Ian-mage to make afraid. "You strike, and ze ball And himself in ze long grass. "You call aloud for ze nib lunger stick and beat ze ground till your part ner say. ITo. chuck It! You say But. my friend. I excuse myself to repeat what you say. "Ah. my friend, you are a great na tion, bat your golf game gives me what you call ze pip!" Pearson's Weekly. ATCHISON GLOBE NOTES. A Vicious Doctrine. The new Socialist mayor of Milwau kee has his good points. Wishing to appoint a thoroughly competent man as health commissioner, the mayor went to Chicago, aud found his man in Dr. Charles B. Ball, chief sani tan inspector of that city. He offered Dr. Ball a salary twice as large as he was receiving iu Chicago. The best fea ture of this offer is the fact that it was not made to some Milwaukee medicine man as reward for political services rendered. In Germany, noted above other countries for the excellence of its muuicipal governments, it is not unusual for a city to go beyond its borders in search of a mayor, as train ing for the work is considered a quali fication. That seems a pretty good idea, whether it be socialism, or some more popular name. This country still clings too closely to the vicious doctrine of Andrew Jackson that to the victor belong the spoils. "Working" Father. Father never has had a chance to prove it, but it is his opinion that this is what happens every night at home when he turns the corner near the house: "There comes father," says mother. "Now, Susie, you are his favorite, so you ask him outright to take us all to the show tonight. If he refuses, you set up a howl. Johnny, you scream, and Mary, you -ay you might as well have no father; that the little Brown children who have no father get to go to all the shows. Then 1 will look at him reproachfully, and say, 'John, you ought to be ashamed of yourself to deny the poor little things a little pleasure like that.' If he still refuses, childrcu, I will dress you all up after supper and take you down town for soda water, and we will start oil' looking abused, and forget to kiss him good bye. Here he is at the door, children, now don't forget your parts. And if he is good natured, this might be a good chance to ask for a new pony, a lawn swing, aud permis sion to buy a dog." Roosevelt's Heroes. Nearly every man has his horses whom he worships in greater or less degree, ranging from Alexander the Great, to Jefferies or Ty. Cobb. Our living ex-presideut is no exception to this rule, and he lists his heroes thus in chronological order: Timoleon, Hampden, Washington and Lincoln. Of the first, it is quite possible you never heard, and knowledge of the se cond is perhaps limited with many to mere mention in Gray's Elegy. Timoleon was a native of the Greek city of Corinth some 2,:00 years ago. He was a fighter, and his first great achievement was to save Corinth from the designs of his brother, Timoyhanes to establish government by himself, instead of government by the people. Later, he established democratic gov ernment in Syracuse, a Corinthian colony in Sicily. John Hampden lived and died in resistance to the efforts of Charles I to overthrow the British constitution, and establish a despotism. The other two heroes are heroes to most Americans. The Awakening. The world needs wide awake, pro gressive people if it would progress, but you hear a lot of foolishness, and worse, about this awakening business. When a wise reformer needs a follow ing to applaud him, and keep him in spending mouey, he appeals to the people to awake to their interests, aud fight some Great Wrong, which they hadn't i.olircd, and which likely doesn't exist. He wants them to march in parades, and attend mass meetings, and neglect their join' and ciops, iu order to give him n good start. Of course he doesn't put it that way, but that is the way it Imp-tens in a good many instances. The people are really awake, and doing about the best thing for themselves when they are attending to their own affairs, as repulsive as this idea may seem to men who have no affairs of their own. The awakening you hear so much about in connection with divers dreams and schemes, is really a good deal the reverse: it puts the eopIe to sleep, or makes them lazy aud shiftless and dis contented, and robs them in the pro cess. The Crazy Streak. People are worrying each other crazy. You can't find a man who doesn't complain of neighbors who an noy him needlessly. The courts are full of neighborhood rows; all of them due to lack of ordi nary politeness and fairness. We Americans indulge in Big Talk about big subjects, and then indulge pretty habits that respectable people should be ashamed of. The Town Row is everywhere an in stitution; everywhere the people are worrying each other crazy. They -would be much lietter off, if they would be polite and fair, but nothing can influence them to be more sensi ble; insanity is growing rapidly. The cost of taking care of the insane is the biggest single item of public expense in New York state. Successive federal census show that in the country at large there is a steady and ominous increase in insanity an increase that is out of all proportion to the growth of population. In 1880 there were in the asylums of the United States 81 6 insane persons to every mil lion of the population. The number had risen to 1,182, and to 1,862 in 11)00. At the same rate of increase the census that is now being taken should show aliout 2,800 insane asylum inmates to every million of the popula tion. And by the same token more than half of the inhabitants of the United States will be in the madhouse by the cud of the present century: half of the eopIe will become keepers and train ed nurses for the other half. For Women Only. Mrs. Delbcrt Allen, of West Union N. J., a frail little woman, was yester day presented with her eighth child, and it had been less than twelve years since the first child came. The Lord had sent the child; the Good Book say3 so, aud if there hadn't been seven before it, with the pain of birth, the care and the work and worry, Mrs. Allen might have realized that it was the work of the Lord. But eight babies arriving in less than twelve years rather dims a woman's percep tions of the work of the Creator, aud, instead of realizing that the Lord was to be praised for his gift, she got the notion in her head that her husband was to blame. The doctor had gone, and the nei ghbor woman who cared for her, had left the room. The babies came so often to the Allen home that it was not regarded as necessary to keep the father from work, and, when he got home that night, it was his first inti mation that he was a father again. He entered the bedroom door, the wife looked at the little burden on her arm, the eighth iu less than twelve years, and, forgetting the Good Book says the Lord gave, and only the Lord can take away, she put the blame nearer home by reaching under the pillow for a revolver. There was a shot, ami the father of the eight children fell to the floor dead. We leave all discussion of the ethics of this proceeding to the women. They know even belter than Theodore Roosevelt, who complains of raee sui cide, what it means to give birth to a child, and some of them also know what it means to have eight in les-s than twelve years. MISS ELDER IN "MR. OPP." .Miss Donna Hell Klder has made for herself an enviable reputation as a teacher of expression. Many of her pupils are occupying prominent places in the public eye as professional en tertainers. As an interpretive reader Miss Klder takes first rank. She is able to show hundreds of exceptionally strong tes timonials from the ablest critics of the country. Her press notices have been many and favorable. In securing this refined and cul tured artist for the Chautauqua pro gram the management feels that it has been exceeding fortunate. Miss Klder will probably render a monologue abridgment of the fascinating and po--ular problem-story "Mr. Opp." during our assembly, hut she has a large and widely selected program upon which she may depend when the occasion seems to demand. FROM PULPIT TO FACTORY. George L. McNutt. the Pull Dinner Pall Man, who will speak at our Chau tauqua this season, has a heart brim full of sympathy for the laborers all over the land. His experience in don ning their garments and working with them in the shops has given him the inside view so necessary to intelligent treatment of the subject. .McNutt deplores the unequal divi sion of profits and points out reme dies. He is as a voice crying in the wilderness for the man who works with his hands. He has something to say for this man. He says it in an ex ceedingly interesting way. There is a heart interest in his lectures that gives them a value with the people. They are so thoroughly up-to-date that you can see the "new" on them. His is not an old prosy rant on bad con ditions, but a modern treatment of so cial progress that deserves to be heard. The singing of Uurton Thatcher pro duces sensations of genuine delight. His rich baritone fills the tent. Ills selections are the very best. Tiie peoplo prolong his programs as much as they can. He is generous, toe He will please our Chautauqua goors greatly. V-- iaHE3mav'v- FURNITURE We carry the late styles and up-to-date designs in Furniture. If you are going to fur nish a home, or just add a piece to what you already have, look over our com plete line. Need a Kitchen Cabinet? See the "Springfield." HENRY GASS 21-21-23 West 11th St. Punislment In Persia. Amen; the Persians the usual mode of punishment Is the bastinado, from which men of tin highest rank are not exempt. It Is indicted with very great severity, frequently so as to render the sufferer almost a cripple for life. The victim is thrown upon his face, ami each foot is passed through a loop of strong cord attached to a pole, which is raised horizontally by men. who. twisting it round, tighten the ropes and render the feet immovable. Two executioners then strike the sole alter nately with switches of the pomegra nate tree well steeped in water to ren der them supple. A store of these switches Is generally ready for use in the pond which adjoins the courtyards f the houses of the great. The pun ishment frequently lasts for an hour or until the unfortunate victim faints from naiii. :--Qm:mmMmMgMm?w co- . y ijIBfMtttmattttttWtttttMPi vT rnA , i j?IWB1'itrl i rlifarllMryfJnlBBBM mi A BROAD CHOICE OF VACATION TOURS TO THE PACIFIC COAST: From June 1st only $60.00 round trip, direct route, and, on special dates in May, June and July, only $50.00; $15.00 additional via Shasta Route. TO THE EAST: Ask nearest agent about the various special rates to be in effect, commencing May, to principal eastern points. YELLOWSTONE PARK: All kinds of tourist rates to this wonderland, including diverse tours through scenic Colo rado, Yellowstone and Gardiner entrances; also to Cody (eastern entrance), in connection with Holm's personally conducted camping tours through the Park, July 29, Aug ust 10 and September 9. Apply early. MOUNTAIN TOURS: To Denver, Estes Park, Salt Lake, Hot Springs, S. D., Sheridan and Ranchester, Wyo., (for the Big Horn region), and Thermopolis, Wyo., the coming wonder ful sanitarium eighteen million gallons of hot water daily at 130 degrees. ('ALL Olt WltlTK describing your proposed trip mi 1 let us advise you full Magazine Old Books Rebound In fact, for anything in tbe book binding line bring your work to Z5e Journal Office Phone 184 Columbus, Neb. His Unfortunate Investment. it's astonishing.' the old settler ia tin little town was saying, "how real estate has advanced in this town sine. I came here. The comer lot this build ing is on. for instance, sold once for $4iO." "What Is it worth now':' asked the stranger. "Five thousand." "Well. it had a chance to get rich by iiuestlim in laud yourself. I sup pose o:i li.. light some real estate';" -Yes: I bought one lot just otie." "That has increased in value, hasu't itr "Yes: over 100 per cent." "That was a goal investment." "Xot so awfully good, mister." said the old settler gloomily. "I paid $P for it. and it's worth $7. now. but lts In the cemetery. The way I lis-iire it I've lost a heap of money by not dylnir forty years ago." Youth's Companion k. F. RE6TOR. Ticket Agent Columbus. Nebr. L. W. MAKELfcY. Cen'l. Passenger Agent. Omaha. Nnbr. Binding Y A i
