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CHANUK IN ADDHKMH-When ordering a jhauge In theaddresa.enbecribersahonld be aure to t their old aa well aa their new addreaa. THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION. The republicans of the state of Nebra ska are hereby culled to meet in conven tion in the city of Lincoln on Tuesday. July 2G, at 12 o'clock noon for the pur pose of adopting a platform and select ing a state central committee and for the transaction of uch other Imeinean as may properly come before the conven tion. The convention shall be made up of delegates chosen by the republi cans of the respective counties of the state at the regular delegate county con ventions, in the manner provided by law, apportioning one delegate for each lf0 votes, or fraction thereof, cast at the 1903 election for O. O. Hell, republican uotninee for presidential elector. Said apportionment entitles the several coun ties to the following representation in said convention: AlldUlB. 13 .lollUMlU 'J AntelojMj 11 Kearney 7 llanurr .. 1 Keith .. ... - Blaine 1 Kfju l'nhn a Koone It Kluilmll 1 Box liutte 4 Kims.. li Uoyd ti IjiucaMur M Brown Lincoln 10 Hutlalo ... 17 lo;iiu I Burt IS I .on i Butler . Mcl'herwm 'J Caw l'" Madibou II Cedar 11 Merrick h Chase ' .Morrill 3 t'hero---- " Nance 7 Cheytiniiu 3 Nemaha ..11 Clay 13 Nuckolls 10 Coif as 8 Otoe IS Cuming y I'awnee 10 Custer 1 Perkine 2 Dakota l'lielm. 10 Dawee C Pierce 7 Duwfcon. 1-' Platte 11 Deuel 1 Polk s Dixon . tied Willow .... .s D.tdffe !' Uicliardaon II Dnuylmi 11 Kock..... " Dundy. ........ 3 Saline 11 Fillmore 12 Sarpy " Prankliu ... 7 Saunilern lfi Frontier. 7 SootCu ltlutl- . . Furnus 'J Sewanl. i:i liiiKu, r Sheridan arfield - Sherman -r. (iunluu "- Sioux 3 JoHper 3 Stanton .. -" (rant I Thbjer 11 (ireele 7 Thomas . . 1 Hall 1" Thuretou ' Hamilton . .. II Valley 7 Harlan Washington 11 Hujeu 2 Wajne '.' Hitchcock I Webster . Holt 10 Wheeler -' Hooker 1 York. V Howard 7 leffercon U Total sVi JUDGE PROUTY, "REFORMER." The defeat of Representative Hull for renomination in the seventh con gressional district of Iowa, is alluded to by the reform press as an "insurgent victory a victory of honesty over dis honesty, and a rebuke to Cannonism." While the nomination of Judge Frouty is an insurgent victory, his defeat of Hull was not a victory of honesty over dishonesty. For twenty .years Hull has repre sented the seventh Iowa district in congress. When he was first elected he was a poor man, and he is a poor man today. If, as charged by the insurgents, he has represented what is termed the "System," then Hull ought to be a millionaire. But the fact that be is a poor man today as he was when he served his first term, is proof sulli cient to brand as false the stories coin ed by Judge Prouty and his friends. Iu every campaigu Hull has made for a re-election he has been compelled to fight a large corruption fund contrib uted by his enemies. In three cam paigns the Greenbay Lumber com pany, represented by its president, James Berryhill, fought the renomina- tiou of Hull, aud in every campaign was defeated. Then the work of des troying Hull politically was turned over to Judge Prouty, for years the attorney lor the Greenbay Lumber company. Prouty is a millionaire and made his mnuey in questionable laud deals over thirty years ago. When the government was allowing politi cians to practically steal large bodies of pine timber land, Judge Prouty was one of the beneficiaries. He secured title to valuable tracts of land in Wis consin ami Minnesota, which has since placed him in the millionaire class and enabled him to purchase a nomination for a congressional seat. The defeat of Hull is Iowa's shame. A valuable member of the house, who, for twenty years was faithful to his trust, has been turned down and an alleged reformer of the Isaac Steph enson brand placed in nomination, and his success in buying enough demo crats to vote the republican primary ticket has been heralded throughout the country as "a great victory for the insurgents." ground safe. These jewels have, of course, nothing to do with the crown jewels, which are kept in the tower. They are the private property of the royal family. Queen Alexander's personal jewelry is of immense value, and for precaution's sake has, we be lieve, been all duplicated in paste. But Windsor castle is not the place for the enterprising burglar to go "a burg ling." There is an old law, still unrepealed, which enables the ieigning sovereigu to put to death any person or persons through whose carelessness any of his gems may be lost. What would happen to a burglar one shud ders to contemplate. The royal library at Windsor con tains over 100,000 volumes, among them many that would fetch enormous prices if put up at auction. There is a Metz Psalter for which a collector would sell his last stick, a Charles I Shakespeare, a magnificent Caxton on vellum, and other treasures too numer ous to mention. Below the library is a room contain ing one of the finest collections of prints in existence. These alone would probably fetch fifty to seventy thous and pounds if sold. In the same room are no fewer than 20,000 drawings of the old masters and a collection of over 1,000 miniatures. The late Queen Victoria collected these min iatures. Besides all these aucient treasures, King George will presumably inherit the great collection of valuable objects got together by his father. These include the coronation presents, valued at over a quarter of a million, and many Indian works of art, including a wonderful embossed shield of solid gold given by a number of rajahs. There is lo reigning monarch in the world, not even the Tsar of all the Russians, who is master of such an amazing collection of beautiful aud valuable objects aa is George V. Pearson's Weekly. FARMER OWNS NATION. It is further recommended that no proxies be allowed, and that delegates present from each of the respective co unties be authorized to have the full vote of their delegation. In accordance with the rules of the republican state committee, credentials of delegates to the convention bhould be tiled with the secretary of the state rommittee at least five days before the date of said conven tion. The members of the county central committee for each county, who are to conduct the HHU campaign, must be chosen at the delegate county convention which elects delegates to said state con vention, and reports at once to the Mate committee. (Signed) Clyde IiAU.VAKD.Sec'y. Mvhon L. Leaknku, Vice-Ohairman. Dated Lincoln, Neb., June Hi, 191(1. The democratic party continues to make good as a party of protest. Listen to the howling roar of "har mony" in the democratic camp. Too many generals want to lead the fight. Who are the corporation agents at democratic banquets that are suppress ing Bryan's letters. Is chairman J. C. Byrnes one of them? The insurgents in the republican state convention of Minnesota numbers less than a dozen. All the other del egates voted to endorse the Taft administration. Governor Shallenberger refused to squander 875,000 of the tax payers money by declining to call an extra session of the legislature at the demand of the Bryanites. After screaming for twenty years for a postal savings bank law, the demo crats in congress lined up against the measure on its final passage. You can't trust a democrat to support even his own party platform. Although Mr. Bryan was 3,000 miles away, the reach of Ohio demo crats was long enough to give him a black eye. This swat, added to the one delivered by Governor Shallen berger, makes two discolored optics for The Peerless in one week. But wait until Bryan gets back! There'll be something doin' in the ranks of the unterrified. TREASURES KINGS INHERIT. Both Windsor castle and Bucking ham palace are overflowing with treas ures of every description plate, pic tures, jewels, statuary, books and relies of enormous historic value. When the late king came to the throne he found valuables of all kinds locked away. iiiiilnplayed and uucatalogued, and worse than all absolutely unprotect ed from fire. During his all too brief reign Kiug Edward effected a complete revolution. Iu the first place he installed electric light all through both the chief royal residences, in the second he put in every possible appliance and arrange ment for fire fighting, and after that extended the royal library, inspected the gold pantry, and had all the vari ous treasures of the two palaces prop erly inventoried ami displayed. The value of the plate alone which King George inherits is almost inesti mable. The so-called gold pantry at Wiudsur consists of two large fire proof store rooms iu which is kept plate of an estimated value of ,7i0,000 pounds. The gold plate which is used for state banquets weighs over five tons. It is not, of course, all solid gold. If the larger pieces were gold they would be too heavy to move at all. Some of the epennies take four men to lift. These are of silver silt. It takes oue man to carry two dishes or eight plates. The latter are of pure gold. There is not much ancient English plate in the gold pantry. Charles I. melted down all the plate of his day aud coined it into money. But there are some exquisite foreign pieces, among them a great silver flagon taken from the flagship of the Spanish Armada, and the famous Nautilus cup, made by that master of the art, Bevuto Cellii. There is a shield by the same great Italian, and the won derful gold tiger'a head taken from Tippoo Sahib's throne after the storm ing of Seringapatam in 1790. This tiger's head is a marvelous work of art. It is life sized, aud its teeth and eyes are cut out of pure rock crys tal. Another relic captured at the same time is the jewelled bird railed the "Uma." In shape it is like a pigeon, with a peacock's tail. lis feathers blaze with precious stones, and a magnificent emerald bangs from its breast. According to an old India legend, whoever owns this bird will rule India. There is also a shield formed of snuffboxes and valued at 0,000 pounds, and a great quantity of beautiful cups and salvers, among them a rose water fountain of silver designed hy the late prince consort, and weighing nearly o,000 ounces. Detectives who reside at the castle as ordinary officials guard these vast treasures of plate, and also the jewels which are locked in another under- The farmer, not the money king of Wall street, is the real owner of the United States. The glean of his fields is another Aladdin story, only instead of rubbing a lamp he has simply scrap ed the ground. Our cereal crops last year were worth 83,000,000,000, which is sufficient to pay for all the tools, implements and machinery of the whole of American industry. While this sum seems huge as it stands alone, you have only to go back a few years in the story of our agriculture to see the miracle of steady iucrease that has been achieved. Eleven years ago the value of all our farm products for a single year was reckoned at 84,417,000,000. You have already seen how that figure was doubled by UK)!). During these years the sum total that the soil has yielded the farmers is 870.000,000,000. The advance is so steady and sure that you can almost calculate upon it year after year. Compare this record with the ebb and flow of earnings in steel or any other industry, and you will realize as never ltefore how agriculture keeps the even tenor of its prosperous wa) , unmindful of panic or depression. Why? Simply liecause land is stable, aud, given proper methods of farming the more you take out of it the more valuable it becomes. It cannot be moved away, it is, in truth, the very foundation of the nations' material welfare. It would take 824,000,000, 000 to buy our farm lands, and their value is real and not watered, save by irrigation. Isaac F. Marcosson in Munsey's. "SCRAPPING" A CITY. In New York lately a twenty story building has been torn down to make way for a new sky scraper. Less than twenty years ago thia building, a good one for that period, cost two million dollars. Because it was not quite up to the highest present standards it is thrown into the scrap heap. The owners find it profitable to throw away a fairly good building to make way for a better one. In Lincoln the same thing is being done on a smaller scale. A good sized building that is yet profitable is soon to be in the hauds of the wreckers, making way for a modern office and bank building. American business, with its unbounded enterprise and "nerve" does such things constantly. Buildings, machinery, ships are scrap ped the moment better buildiugs aud machinery are to be had. The cour age to throw away good materials because they fall short of best is one of the secrets of American commercial development. As the American city begins to catch step with progress and actually to lead the march it grows evident that the heroic treatment bold business men give their buildings and manufactur ing plants it must face also. The business man who worries along with out of date machinery falls hy the wayside. So it will he with the out of date city. Forty years ago the city of Paris practically threw itself into the scrap heap, remodelling to a great extent its boulevard system at enormous expense. That gave Paris a Iteauty siuce paid for over and over again by visitors who came to see. How well satisfied Paris has been with that move we may judge by what is now to be done. Paris has decided tospend 8 180,000,000 to remodel the city further. What Napoleon III did to the inner city, is now to be done to the suburbs. These are to be remodeled according to the best obtainable plans. Iu addition there are to be more "down town" parks, better streets, better schools, and 87,000,000 are to be spent in de molishing the city's plague spots, the unsanitary tenements where the white scourge thrives. Chicago already has the plans laid for a drastic remodeling of the city. New York is engrossed in the problem of makiug itself over in keeping with its new needs and the conietitioii of other cities. Smaller cities everywhere are moving in the same direction. The moral for a young city like Lin coln is clear. A stitch iu time will save more than nine here. Foresight is rarer than hindsight, yet, contrary to the rule, much less expensive. Our errors thus far can be corrected at little cost. By planning intelligently far ahead, as the city plans commission proposes, we may escape the necessity some years later of choosing between tearing the city down and letting it rot down. By reserving our open spaces now, we escape paying enor mously for park spaces at some future time. The future of any established city rests largely with the foresight of its present citizens. State Journal. of whom 124,000 were negroes. In 1908 the membership had increased to be 73G,o7C with nearly 10,000 church es, worth 840,000,000. Baltimore Sun. UNPROGRESSIVE AMERICA. We of this big republic complacent ly affirm the glory of our national achievements, and are not without temptation to acclaim them as proof of superior craft and judgment. But herein do we forget that we are on re cord as having cast our vote against every move that has contributed to the present century development We raised our voices in contemptuous pro test against the first projected rail ways. Had the locomotive awaited its signal from the people, it would not yet have started. When the electric telegraph was shown to us we brushed it aside as a toy, and laughed its in ventor to scorn when be offered to sell us his rights for a few thousand dol lars. We put into jail as an impostor the first man that brought anthracite coal to market. We broke to pieces Howe's sewing machine as an inven tion calculated to ruin the working classes; aud we did the same thing to the harvester and the binder. We scorued the typewriter as a plaything. W e gathered together in mass meet ings of indignation at the first propos al to install electric trolley lines, and when Dr. Bell told us he had invented an instrument by means of which we might talk to one another across the town we responded with accustomed ridicule, and only the reckless among us contributed to its being. Clifford Howard iu The Atlantic. A LIVE PROBLEM. The Methodist church in the slave holding states adopted a separate and independent organization in 1845 un der the name of the Methodist Episco pal church, south. That name has been retained for sixty-five years. Now it has been decided by the gener al conference of the church, in session at Asheville, to submit to the next general conference, which will be held in 1913, a resolution changing the name of the church. This resolution asks the bishops "to submit the old historical name, 'the Methodist Epis copal Church in America.' " To ad opt this suggestion will require the ap proval of three-fourths of the mem bers of all the forty-five annual con ferences, after which the resolution will be submitted to the general con ference in 1913. It seems that the de mand for the change came largely from the church iu the western states. The opinion appears to be that the ne cessary majorities will not be obtained. Churches are usually extremely con servative, and men do not take kindly to any changes, especially in so im portant a matter as the name. The division of the Methodist church was not occasioned by any question of theological doctrine. About the time of the division there was a constant and very bitter agita tion of the policy of slavery. In 1844 there was a movement in the general conference to depose Bishop James O. Andrew because his wife owned slaves. It was believed that the de position of Bishop Andrew would work a great injury to the church in the south, and that the church in the north would be injured if the bishop exercised his office in that section. Besides this, the constant agitation of the slavery question in the general conference was creating heartburnings and bitterness. In 1845, when the separation took place, the southern church had about 462,000 members, PIONEERING STILL COMPAR ATIVELY HARD. Forty years ago the United States saw the great movement to the west. Everywhere in the Mississippi valley country the resident saw the white prairie schooner drifting, as if with some vat tide wind, westward. "Kan sas, or Bust" any other place west ward, "or bust" was the motto paint ed upon the weather beaten white can vas of the wagons. Within the last year or more his tory has been relating itself in a great measure. With the price of the round trip ticket and money for meals in his pockets, the young man today may cover in hours a territory which required weeks and months in the ear ly '70s. Many of these young men have lieen doing this; more of them will follow. The old westerner of today decries the degenerating of the west as he found it. It is lacking iu most of those old hardships and privations which required all his manhood to with stand when he was pathfinder in the wilderness. Sharp as present day comparisons may be between the city and the new west, the old westerner looks iioii it U3 child's play dilett ante, effeminate. He has forgotten that his hardships are half a century behind him now. He overlooks the fact that the divert upon which he settled has been blos soming for these many year-. But blossoming as it may have been, civili zed as the newer west today is, that young 111:111 from the centers of city life will find crude ffowcriiigof the wilder ness compared with the diversions and ease of the city which he has left so lir liehiud him. He will need all his for titude ami spirit nf UU father".- John A. Ilowlaud. EXCUSES FOR ADVERSITY. By exercising sufficient good will, it is jjossihlc in h.dievi that every adver sity has it.-, appointed use. The reviv ing brf ath of spring li:i no meaning iu a laud when winter is a myth. Heal th, which in its abundance is hardly held at a pin's fee, when it has onre been lo-t will iu diligently sought af ter at earth's furthest ends, liread and meat, common to the itoint ofliciii" despised, to the starving become prizes of rarest, luster. What is so precious to the aged man as those golden hours which iu his youth he Hung away like gras.? The joy that U vouchsafed to day may be magnified iu retrospect, by future adversity, and should he the more eagerly enjoyed 011 that account. Iu like manner present disasters will lie the better home by considering that they may serve to heighten the pleasure of comforts that are on the way. Wdlard Dillman. rhree Brilliant Entertainers 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. Columbus, Neb. Fins Art of Letter Opening. In Russia one letter iu every ten passing tlirouuli the juist Isxopenctl by me nut Murines as a matter of course, j Indeed, the postal authorities of every couutry Lave experts who have raised letter opening to a line art Some kinds of paper can lie steamed ikmi without lea vini: any truces, and this simple opemt ion Is linWhcd by re buruislihi the ll.ip with a bone instru ment. Iu the case of a seal a matrix Is taken by means of new bread be fore breaking the wax. When other methods fail the envelope is placed be tween pieces of wood with itljje pro jecting one-twentieth of an inch. The edge of the envelope Is lirst flattened, then roughened and totally slit open. Later a hair line of strong white gum is applied and the edges united under pressure. London Chronicle. Airy. I'm looking for a breezy inarch." raid the bandmaster iu a Chestnut utreet iniisii- store the other day. "How about this one dedicated to the Aero club";" the facetious clerk csked "I suppose It Is written for wind lu Uraincnts.' the bandmaster countered. "Well, the air is easy." the clerk shot back, and the interchange stopped. Phil'idclphin Inquirer Poor Timpera! "I have just made a valuable dis covery." amioiineed Tlnipers. "What is it;" asked Twiggs "Pai a foot " "All. the juke is on your friends" "How I-. tltaT';" "You know something they don't think you know " Itlrmlugham Age- I Herald - ri3nHBHSI9HHaflE9BnBSS5iniSS2 r-?9KBiaMK9PHBHiZnKllv.i'VBH tinsViHBiHl9HBil!iliHHiBttKiB St&T1 AuBattSPBrHBWlJKl SKMDiDSSBfiBV9H9Ki Bf JaHXf v&v -; vll KEEP YOUR EYE ON THE BURLINGTON'S NEW MAIN LINE THROUGH CENTRAL WYOMING Smith Damron, the Potter Craftsman vill deliver a lecture on the ceramic irts, a subject of vital aud growing merest. He brings with him an old fashioned "kick wheel" and makes vessels of clay the while he talks to ;he audience at Chautauqua. 04 afcvOtwP?f?lfc asEbmkSvBHpI THE BIG HORN BASIN is now so well started on its creat wealth producing era that it not only appeals to farmers looking for new lands upon which to establish new homes under most favorable conditions, but appeals to the Business man, Professional man, Mine oper ator and Manufacturer in new towns that are springing up and where raw material in plenty can be handled at a profit. The business opportunities consist of locations for new Banks, General Stores, Creameries, Blacksmith Shops, Butcher Shops, Barber Shops, Bakeries, Harness Shops, Hotels and Restaurants, Farm Implement Dealers, Lumber Dealers, Flour ing Mills, Canning Factories, Furniture Factories, lawyers. Doctors and Dentists. WORKMEN NEEDED: All kinds of labor is in great demand, and the highest possible wages are paid; carpenters get from $4.00 to $G.0O per day, farm laborers from .$30.00 to $50.00 a month; there is not an idle man in the Basin. CHEAP RATES: Landseekers' excursion to look over this new country, June 7th and 21st, and July 5th. GLEM DEflVER. General Agent band Seeker Information Bureau 1004 Farnam Street. Omaha. Nebr. Madam Reno, Empress of Magic ofTea a refined entertainment at Chautauqua. MLH iHliilniH Mane Binding Jm I Old Books I Klk I Rebound I BBIIIIIIIHft 'IK iBBB iLLLHKiLI In fact, for anything in tbc book I BUBIIIIIIHH aUBHV KiV I binding line bring your work to I P I CTG I 1 journal (mice I I Phone 184 I Burton Thatcher A singer of songs and a lecturer on the origin and why of music. Ably assisted by Miss Mary Wilson Cook, accompanist. Hear and see Damron. Reno and Thatcher at CHAUTAUQUA
