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CHANGE IN ADDKE88 When ordering a j hange In the address, subscribers should be sure t u i ve their old as well aa their new address. AN INTERNATIONAL MENACE. Society had uo graver fault to an swer for than that it permits "white slavery" to flourish. The blame at taches to all nations; the blight of this international curse rests on civilization everywhere. There met in Paris the other day a conference of the nations called for the purpose of devising means to combat this form of slavery. It was not the first etibrt of the kind. At least as far back as 1902 such an international gathering was held and since that time, due in some large measure to the agitation set in motion at that conference, the evil has been curbed to an appreciable extent. More striugest laws have been enacted and enforced in Great Britain and continental countries and much of the traffic between the nations has been broken up. That much remains to be done, how ever, is sufficiently clear. Investiga tions in the United States, oilicial and unofficial, have disclosed the fact that the importation of girls and young women for immoral purposes still thrives. Congress aud the various state legislatures have undertaken to check the traffic. Their activity has doubtless had an effect, but the great menacing problem remains to be solved. Cleveland Plain Dealer. LET THE PEOPLE SPEAK. The News is not friendly to prohi bitiou aud is much less infatuated with the idea of county option. Neb raska has the best liquor law in the United States today, and we are much better off than Kansas and Oklahoma, with their prohibition laws, ami their slack methods of enforcement. The Slocumb law with the S o'clock clo-,-ing proposition, comes about as near controlling the liquor question as is possible. Hut a portion of the demo crats are following Mr. .Bryan in his new county option fad and the same element in the other party seems de termined to force the issue upon the republicans. We do not believe coun ty option by legislative action is going to satisfy its adherents when they get it. It is perhaps true that the time has come when Nebraska should take up the question aud settle it, otherwise the agitation will continue indefinitely with its con&equent tendency to keep business interests, political parties aud communities in unprofitable turmoil. If the question must be met now, it would be much better for each politi cal party to incorporate in its plat form a plank promising that the legis lature at its session next winter will agree to submit to a vote of the people a constitutional amendment providing for tatewide prohibition. County op tion is a cowardly make-shift at best it would be far better to have statewide prohibition, doing away with the strife between neighbors who live on opposite sides of county line road houses which are sure to follow the ad option of county option. Let the tpiestion be submitted to a vote of the whole people of the state, which puts it squarely up to everyone as to whe ther we want prohibition or not. This is the only fair way to meet the ques tion, and the responsibility for the result will rest with every voter in the state, not with a few members of the legislature. As the matter stands now, both the leading political parties are split upon the question. In both parties there is a faction trying to secure the nomina tion of candidates for the legislature pledged to county option, while another faction in either party is endeavoring to elect men opposed to the proposi tion. Before the campaign is over this situation is going to lead to a chao tic condition of affairs, if it ma' not be said that they are already so, and fre quently will lead to the defeat of the regular nomiuess and the election of independents. This whole proposition might be mightily simplified by all parties agreeing to submit the question to a vote of the people, applying Mr. Be an's principle of initiative and refer endum, if you please where it rightly belongs. Norfolk News. HOBBY RIDERS DO GOOD. More power to the man who has a hobby. He may often be looked upon as a nuisance, but when we dissect him we find that in his make-up there is much more to praise than to criticise, although it is easy enough to ridicule the hobby rider. He is seriously en thusiastic and intent on a single pur pose. He does not waste his ammuni tion. This single mindedness of pur pose, which lays him liable to scorn, is the essential cause of progress. Pioneers are essential in any line of endeavor, the Washington Herald says. Unless they had a hobby they would follow the beaten path of the line of least resistance and the result would be that the world would not have taken a forward step. All hobbies are not useful or economic, but it is for men of sober mind, who are too matter of fact to have hobbies themselves, to distin guish between those which are benefi cial and those which are extravagant and foolish. Practically all great thinkers, and certainly all great inventors, were hobby riders. Columbus had a hobby, that of getting to the orient by a west ward route. Ambition was Napoleon's hobby, if such a condition of mind can be classified. Every great religious teacher rode his hobby. John Brown had a hobby, and the abolition of slavery was in great part due to the propaganda which made him a martyr. Cyrus W. Field laid the first cable after he was believed insane. There are a few men versatile enough to have several hobbies. Col. Roosevelt can be classed among these. When a man of unlimited enthusiasm turns his attention to some matter of general importance aud forces the remainder of the world to take sides on that question, he has set others to thinking aud has been a benefactor to mankind. We need not agree with the rider of the hobby. Suffice it if he has compelled us to give it thought. He has helped educate the world. That is what the hobby rider strives to do. He is frequently a missionary in disguise. The Union. DEMOCRATIC DEGENERACY. Although it is constantly finding fault with nearly everything aud everybody on the republican side. Col lier's Weekly feels moved in its last issue to indulge this comment on the democratic membership of the house: It need occasion neither surprise nor resentment to say that the democrat. -now in congress do not measure up in character or ability to the average of the party in power; it is always so; a party out of power and out of respousi bility for seventeen years canuot help but degenerate in personnel. The point sought to be made is that the democrats, if the' want to control the next congress, must secure as can didates men of higher quality than they now have iu congress. The truth of Collier's assertion is self-evident and can be verified by comparisons as between democratic and republican congressmen from almost any state. Take Nebraska, for example, where our congressional delegation of six members is evenly divided between the two parties. Congressman Norris is head and shoulders above Congress man Hitchcock, the only experienced democratic member. Compare Con gressman Hinshaw of the Fourth dis trict with Congressman Maguire, the democratic nonentity of the First. Compare Congressman Kinkaid of the Sixth district with Congressman Latta, the democratic do nothing from the Third. And yet, how are the democrats going to make any improvement? Every below average democrat in con gress who wants to go back will have no trouble in getting a reuomination. How is the character and ability of congress to be improved by returning all the democratic driftwood now there and adding a few sticks of new timber no better, if not worse? Omaha Bee. IS WOMAN EXTRAVAGANT. Prof. Munsterburg, writing upon American problems, has come iu the course of things to the subject of "The Intemperance of Women." Hespeaks of the manner in which women have set themselves against the vices of men, and covertly resents, it would seem, the credit which has been ac corded to women for resisting vices which have not tempted them. When it comes to actual temptation, however, he appears to think that they can show themselves as non-resistant as their brothers. "Can there be any doubt," he in quires, "for the neutral onlooker of American society squandering money for bevereges which he enjoys is still outdone by womens' squandering of money on gowns which she enjoys?" and he adds: "From the higher economic point of view the sums which the feminine members of the American family are spending on their exterior decoration are entirely out of proportion to those which are given for wholesome food for the care of the body, for books and culture, for ser vice and for art, for a wise saving, or for the public good." In the mere interest of justice it may be urged as a mitigating circum stance that no other nation is able to achieve results so harmonious upon so limited sums as the really intelligent j woman, and it is an axiom that many foreign women only succeed in looking dowdy as the result of an expenditure upon which the American woman becomes quite miraculously smarL Chicago Tribune. WHY FRANCE IS RICH. Paris is the Mecca of foreigners. They come from all parts of the world to enjoy life in the great metropolis; and the yearly income from this source aloue approximates $600,000,000. Along with this item the earnings of French capitalists on their investments in the securities and properties of other countries amount to fully $250 000,000 yearly. On the other side of the account is an adverse balance of trade which in 1007 amounted to $1 20,000,000. Deduct this outgo from her income of $850,000,000, and it leaves France with $730,000,000 to the good. Instead of getting an income of $000,000,000 from foreign tourists, the United States pays out at least $150,000 for the expenses of American tourists abroad. Again, instead of drawing $250,000,000 yearly from for eign investments, this country pays out $300,000,000 to foreign investors in our securities and properties. A third factor is the army of aliens who flock here from all parts of the world to hoard up money, which they take back to their own countries; this drain costs us $300,000,000 more. Add $100,000,000 more which we pay for oceau freights in foreign vessels, and the yearl outgo is $850,000,000. De duct our yearly income at $500,000, 000, for favorable trade balance, and it leaves a yearly deficit of $350,000 000. Moody's Magazine. LATEST ON COST OF LIVING. A committee appointed by the Mas sachusetts Legislature to investigate high prices has made a 700-page re port, containing elaborate schedules of prices of various commodities over a period of years. It declares the pri mary cause of price advance to be the increase in gold supply, but thinks the fact that prices have fallen and risen without relation to change iu duties aud have risen in England under free trade shows that the tariff has not been the active factor iu the recent upwaid movement of prices in this country. Nor does it attribute the rise to the growth of the trusts, as it finds prices have advanced in countries where trusts have not developed on the Amer ican scale. Finally, it is unable to place the price increase to organized labor because only 10 per cent of the workers are organized, aud because in creased wages have come at a slower pace than the rise iu the price in com modities. It does think, however, that combination does enable a group of producers to take advantage of condi tions to maintain a high price level and "to prevent the public from shar ing in the gains through improvements aud economies." Springfield Republi can. ATCHISON GLOBE NOTES. Call Upon the Lord. The Democrats have a pretty good show to win at the next presidential election, owing to quarrels among Re publicans, but Democrats are noted for making asses of themselves when a down hill pull is in sight. Therefore a prayer is being circulated among them, calling upon the Lord to keep them from making asses of themselves, as usual. Possibilities of Corn. The average yield er acre of corn is about fifteen bushels of shelled grain. Last year the legislature of North Carolina offered a cash premium for the largest yield on a single acre of corn laud, and a Wake county farmer succeeded in raisiug on a single acre 283 bushels of shelled corn. He did this on laud which the year before had produced less than ten bushels of shelled corn. The Old Order Changeth. There was a time when the farmers were downtrodden and oppressed, and they orgauized Granges and Populist movements. The situation has changed, and now it is the town people who are organ izing a Socialist party to get their rights, and the means of subsistence. Farmers get so much for their produce that town iwople say they are starving, and must have relief. The Women's Venture. You may recall that the women of Kansas jumped into Reform Work some time ago. They determined to reduce the price of coal oil, so a wo man's company was organized to bore for oil, and, having found oil by bor ing, refine it and sell it to the people at greatly reduced prices. Women everywhere were urged to invest their money, and aid the Great Work. Many women did invest, and this is the result: The company will be sold out in a few days, and every women who invested a dollar, will lose it Uncle Joe on Education. Speaker Joe Cannon does not be lieve much in a college education. He says: "To a bright youog man who has anything in him, a college course is not necessarily fatal iu suc cess." Of college professors, he says: "College professors aliound in theory. You do not know a great many of them who could take charge of a large business, or build one up." Mr. Can non says if a young man is thorough ly taught in the common branches, and learns all that may lie learned in the eighth grade, he will Acquire the rest, if he has the disposition to acquire knowledge. There is a good deal of sense in what Mr. Cauuou says, but people are sentimental, and will hate him worse than ever because he has expressed another sensible opinion. Acquire all the useful knowledge you can, certainly, but cut out nonsense, and do not devote unnecessary time to acquiring useful knowledge. Poor Father. Some years ago a Philadelphia Spin decided that the mothers were deserv ing of greater honor, and she nagged and pushed and pulled, and the result was Motliei's Day, observed through out the nation on the first Sunday in May. The men didn't like it, but were afraid to say anything, and it remain ed for a numlier of men in Hancock, Neb., to demand their rights. They will work for a Fathers' Day, and want the Nebraska state legislature to make it a state holiday. The white carna tion, they say, is the emblem for Mothers' Day, and they will take the red for theirs. Here is where they got ofl wrong: The white, carnation is worn for a mother who is dead, and the red or pink for a mother who is living. The men say that Father is down trodden, deserves some recognition. And they imagine oue day a year, and a flower will give it to him! If Father is downtrodden, the only thing that will lift him above it will be the flowers at his funeral. One flower worn ou one day in the year won't do it. . But IS Father downtrodden? Another "Reformer" Caught. Frank W. Rollins, a former gover nor of New Hampshire, was arrested by the United States custom authori ties on Friday of last week, ou board the Lusitania, charged with smuggling. The ex-Governor is a "Lovely Char aater," according to the New York papers. He is very rich and very prominent, aud attracted some atten tion not long ago by issuing a procla mation reprimanding the eople of his state for neglecting to go to church and allowing religion to decline. In a written statement to the custom offi cers ex-Governor Rollins said that he and his household had only one article that was dutiable: A fur jacket, $800. The Rollins trunks were examined at the custom house and made the officers so suspicious that they decided to have ex-Governor Rollins aud his family personally examined. According to the New York papers jewelry was found upon the persons of the entire family including the ex-Governor. He is charged with attempting to defraud the United States government, and perhaps you think the New York papers are not enjoying writing about it. They recall that the Lovely Character is the author of two beauti ful and poetical books: "Break 'O Day Tales" and "The Lady of The Violets." A Hen-Pecked King. Although the King of England is made a good deal of a figurehead by law aud constitution, it is said he wields an influence hard to understand by those who read merely the letter of the law. It was this influence, exer cised iu mysterious ways, which made King Edward a power for peace in Europe. Perhaps it is because the influence lies as much in personality as in tradition that England is worried by the shifting of the crown. George is not believed to have the qualities which made his father valua ble, and for that reason there is a revival of the war talk with Germany which had waned considerably in the several months preceding Edward's death. The political crisis at home is also considered more serious under the new king. It may be said for the king that he is as dissatisfied as his subjects, if not as uneasy. The posi tion which is thrust upon him pays pretty well, but to George V. the job is distastefuL He is a domestic sort of mau, and abhors the publicity of being Icing. It is also said that Queen Mary will be the social leader of the new reign, and that the queen will also wield an influence in politics and state craft. After considerable research to learn, if possible, what is the matter with the new king, we are beginning to believe he is henpecked. Great Fires. The London fire of 1660 is referred to in history as "The Great Fire." It started in the king's bakeshop at 2 o'clock on the morning of September 2, and raged until September 0. The English have always hated the French, and Samuel Pepys, in his diary, states that it was current talk in London that a Frenchman started the tire; that he poked a ball of fire into a second story window of the bakeshop. But the baker and his family said there was no such window, and such a thing could not have occurred. The origin of "The Great Fire" has never lieen discovered. The fire consumed the buildings on 430 acres, 400 streets, 13,200 houses, St. Paul's church, ami 80 parish churches, the royal exchange the custom house, three of the city gates, four stone bridges and Newgate prison. Only six persons were killed. The loss iu the projierty was estimated to be $50,000,000. Sir Thomas Blud worth was lord mayor of Loudon at the time of the fire aud Samuel Pepys says in the diary that the loid mayor's management was blamed for the rapid spread of the fire; that, when called upon to assist, he acted like a fainting woman, aud said, "Lord, what cau I do?" The fire smouldered for four months, although on October 10 a lit tle over a month after the disaster, a rain began to fall, and it rained with out ceasing for ten consecutive days. The Chicago fire of 1.S71 was the greatest of modern times, until the late San Francisco disaster. The Chicago fire started on the night of October 8, and raged until the 10th. The area burned was 2,124 acres, 17,500 build ings were consumed, and the money loss was $200,000,000. The loss in the San Franisco disaster was $300,000. 000. THE NELL BUNNELL TRIO. Three Delightful Young Lady Artists. Soprano, Violiniste, Pianist. Miss Clare Kvello Is a pianist whoso eoIo execution is noted for its strength, firmness, brilliancy and capacity to interpret the poetic conception of the composer. She Is always in perfect harmouv as an accompanist and tho life and vigor of the trio work is in large measure due to the pianist. Miss Nell Bunnell, who heads the company, is a recognized artist. Her soprano voice has interested the great est music masters of the day, hut she has steadfastly turned down every offer to go on the stage, although she possesses marked dramatic ability. Miss Minnie Annette Cedargrecn is another member of the company and is a viollniste that will some day be known to fame. The Mexican Mosquero. The finest tly trips are not In It with a little Mexican spider named mosquero. Natives gather from oak trees a branch covered with this spi der's nests and hang it up in the house. The spiders begiti on the tlies by whole sale. Mosquero nests are very tidy, pretty and old uiaidish. A lot of tiny beetles make their home therein with the spiders. The beetles live on fly legs, the crumbs and scraps from the mosquero's table, and pay for their bed and board by keeping the web house perfectly clean and retiued. eating everything and dropping uo litter in the Mexicau professional gentleman's house. Mrs. Mosquero is a very quiet, orderly lady who never wanders from her own tireside or strays from her own back yard, but when a tly calls round she gets very busy with her spider knives and saws. New York Press. Lovers of Sports. The Anglo-Saxons love sport. No matter in what part of the world they ore found the spirit is strong among them. Wherever the restless Anglo Saxon dominates the love of sport Is dominant The Americans are at least the most of them descendants of this virile race, and nowhere Is the love of sport so much exhibited as in this country. Our people are patrons of horse racing, of baseball, of golf, of football, of all out of door sports as no other people. The English are great sportsmen, but not to the extent that Americans are. for the reason that the opportunities are greater here. Nash ville American. Bad Advice. Friend What's worrying you? Man agerThe prima donna of my compa ny refuses to sing oftener than twice a week. 1 am making only hundreds where 1 ought to be making thousands. Friend I'd settle that. If I were you I'd marry her. (A year passes.) Friend My gracious, you look seedy! What's happened? Manager 1 took your ad vice and married the prima donna, and now she won't sing at alL S in f 4JicSSi5;xS " f lJSdBBBEeBBnIEVLtfc v'JIf it 9 . . . - m9 ouj&MtiiZH0ntKHnmBEfflWt&:i && jfRQ'B -?"'? tSlSliSpSBI6MrSSiSmKKKKkSss: fMT 1 aMMMM'MM3MBBMMIWBBMMBwBMMMBliMMefc''' bbbbbbB" - bbbbH 7-r'?'BB5:HR!MR38B-: bbbbbbbt' V-iiK- -j "V'B "SiTj&- '- J2ttmrS'ftltlttKiSB3 7:- fXMx-i--A -:' hMZtVS-- .JH3tm&TK.uKiz&mBn&M4L3alkr- fr .rr; irt -H 'mrF j-iSwWESy2JMiBrlaMWiMilBMlBB3gF k iCv'-vi H OIIBBBLiWs97StS&IS9f'B- EFrfBBY jl.. "la bbbbbbS ii. HbbTt' v - EI T 'fBfc "-? fareBBBa " - .' . 7 j M.MMMM,MMMBiM,BM,MaMM Bb7b7b7b7b7b7b7b7Bb7b bTE. tbTbTbTbTbT1 Hlr'V;!."; aaB?B?B?fl ' .. .s, "Sjt B 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 21-21-23 West 11th St. Siberian Camels. The native camels of Siberia are a source of constant wonder to travel ers. On thi' .Mongolian plateaus, for instance, the thermometer often reg isters a temperature of 40 degrees be low zero, but the camels do not mind It at all. walking about as blithely as If the weather were as balmy as spring. On the other hand, the tem perature on the Gold desert in summer is sometimes M degrees aboe zero, aud the beasts mind (hat heat just as little as they do the extreme cold. Reciprocity. There Is one word which may serve as a rule of practice for one's life. That word Is reciprocity." What you do not wish done to yourself do not do to others. Friendship One noul In twobodle. PythaRora. JUNE BULLETIN OF EXCURSION RATES TO THE EAST: Unusually low and attractive summer tour ist rates are in effect every day to New York, Boston, Atlantic Coast and Canadian resorts, Niagara Falls, De troit and vicinity. Also for desirable Lake tours with V,0 day limits, and GO day diverse tours of the East, including coastwise ocean trip. These rates afford the best chance in years to make that long desired Eastern tour. WESTERN TOURS: Very desirable tourist rates daily all summer to the Pacific Coast: for instance, $60.00 round trip, and on special dates only $50.00. A complete scheme of tours through Yellowstone park for any kind of an outing journey; low excursion rates to Scenic Colorado, Big Horn Mountains, Black Hills and Thermopolis, Wyo.. one of the greatest hot springs sanitariums in the world. CALL OR WRITE, describing your trip; let me help you plan it, including all the available privileges, etc. 199 Mapine Old Books Rebound In fact, for anything in tbe book binding line bring your work to Journal Phone 184 GASS Columbus, Neb. An Ancient Astronomer. Aliouf MH) It. J. Anaxaguras of Io nia was born When he "grew up in wisdom he was the first to teach the course and cause of both solar and lunar eclipses and to give his follower. rule whereby they could distinguish planets from fixed stars Ue wa punished fur declaring that the sun was not :i ud. Another Way. Student I want -nine information about the bronze-. I suppose 1 had better write t the UeejKT? Attendant- Yes. mi, or you might see him verbally! -London Puuch. The Degrees. "What are the degrees of a stlnjry man's married lite': "I suppo?.e they are matrimony, par simony, testimony and alimony." -Baltimore American. L. F. RECTOR. Ticket Agent Golumbus. Nebr. L. W. HVAKbL&Y. Cen'l. Passenger Agent. Omaha. Nebr. Binding Office A T r A r