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If you do not viish the Journal continued for another year af ter the time pid for lias expired, yon should previously notify ua to discontinue it. :HANUK IN ADDKKBB-When ordering a change In the address, subscribers should be sure no vi ve their old an wll as their new address. THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION. The republicans of the state of Nebra ska lire hereby culled to meet in conven tion in the city of Lincoln on Tuesday, July 20, at 13 o'clock noon for the pur pose of adopting a platform and select ing a .state central committee and for the transaction of Mich other business 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 stale at the regular delegate county con ventions, in the manner provided by law, apportioning one delegate for each 150 volt-B, or fraction thereof, cast at the l'.KKS election for ). O. Hell, republican nominee for presidential elector. Said apportionment entitles the several coun ties to the following representation in said convention: A1. mm ! Antelope 11 Hhiiuit 1 Mlaiui; 1 ItlMlUll 11 Itox iiuttu 4 Boyd Itmwn 4 Hutlulo 1 Hurt IS HlltltT '- "tllH H tVdar 11 ("liiiw '' Cherry " "hej'Uiie :i Clay Vt Collar 8 'uuiiu 'J CllHttT HI Dakota ! l)awti ItilWMOtl I 'J Deuel I llizou . . s U.iiiK" If. IJouvliitj '.'I .lolmwin Kwirni-j ixfith Ki-ia I 'aha Kimlmll ... . Knox l.-inranlcr I.mroln I-om lOII .Mcl'hurwm MudiMin Mi-rrii-k Morrill Nam .Nfinalia ... .. Nuckolls I'autii-o IVrkinn Phelpe 1'icrce l'latto 1'olk. ........ i:.-d Willow. . ISidiurdr-on I a K am . . . . . Sal i no Sarpy Sauiiilerw Si-i.iCm Itlull & ward Sheridan Slierinall Sioux Slanlon T1ipjt Thomas 'I'liiirnlon .... Valley Vu-liiuKton WllJIlH WMiMt Wheeler Voik Total .... tl . 1 .12 .1(1 . 1 ....14 .... N !."..ii ....in ...i. .10 "."lo .... ....II .... s ...11 .... :t .. it ... Ii ....15 . . " . i:t Dundy. 3 Fillmore Franklin Frontier. Furnat iac, ... tSartii-M .... (i;iril'U... . (iohiht (irant. (invlcy Hall Hamilton . Harlan llajtH Ilitt'hroi'lc.. Holt Hooker Howard ... .letlrou... ...i: .. 3 1 .ii .11 l . i; .11 . y 4 .lit 1 ir .i:: .: It is further reconimended that no proxies be nllowed, and that delegates present from onch of the respective co unties be authori'.rd to have the full vote of their delegation. In accordance with the rules of the republican state committee, cretlentiuls of delegates to the convention tmould be filed with the secretary of the state committee at lenst five days before the datp of said conven tion . The members of the county central committee for each county, who are to conduct the 1110 campaign, must be chosen at the delegate county convention which electa delegates to said state con vention, and reports at once to the state committee. (Signed) Ci.vue ISaknaku, Sec'y. Myiion L. Lkakni:i, Yicc-Chnirman. Dated Lincoln, Neb., JunelC, 1110. LIVELY ROW IN THE COUNTY OPTION FORCES. There is a formidable row on among the county option forces in which the people of the whole state will he inter ested. It arises from the desire of the Nebraska leaders who have heen build ing up a cause in this slate for some years to get rid of the carpetbagging anti-saloon league agent sent out to reform this state by main strength ami awkwardness ami at a handsome salary paid him by the league. This agent is M. S. Poulson, a professional auti saloon worker, who has headquarters in Lincoln ami has been making con siderable noise, t Frank A. Harrison, the former railroad lobbyist for the Union Pacific, who has been couductinga prohibition paer in the capital, and who has not been getting the financial support for his paper which he thinks it entitled to, has started and is leading the fight, not only upon the work of Poulson, but also upon the Anti-Saloon league and its methods. There is no more determined politi cal force in Nebraska than Frank Harrison. He did railroad political work so long and so faithfully, and traiued along with the inner circles of republican leadership in this state with such fidelity that he knows just how to go to work to accomplish a political end, and when he got after the offi cials of the state Anti-Saloon league it became time for them to sit up and take notice. That he is after them is evidenced by the fervor with which he goes for them in his paper, The Capi tal, published in Lincoln. He declares that inquiries over the state demonstrate that the league is perfecting no organization to secure the election of county option candi dates to the legislature, and he blames the officers of the league for the vigor with which they pass the hat and refrain from doing their work. "The Anti-Saloon league' says Harrison in his paper, "is a magnifi cent collecting machine, and there its effectiveness stops. It disclaims any part in conventions or platforms, makes no preparation for the nomina tion of suitable candidates at prima ries, and simply attempts to carry elections by proclamations issued from the headquarters at Lincoln, and from the national headquarters in Ohio. The failure to secure a county option legislature two years ago was because earnest county optionists be lieved the state was organized, when in fact the organization was only a pre tense, and the coterie responsible for this situation had been so intent on securing donations from churches to keep up salaries that tf e nomination of candidates had been totally neglected. "The campaign Is too far along this year, and the issue too vital, to will fully permit of the same mistake again. The fact that an organization keeps up its existence and maintains 'superin tendents' and 'attorneys' on fat salaries through the aid of money collected on the inside of churches does not exempt it from sensible criticism. What is demanded is less proclamation and more result. "What the Anti Saloon league claims is that it works entirely within the churches that it is the church in action against the saloon. It organizes by naming three men in each church whose duty it is to furnish to the head quarters at Lincoln the names of the church men who will vote against the saloon. These meu are to be instruct ed by mail from Lincoln how to vote, and the sum of $50,000 is to be collect ed for this purpose. 'None of this money is to be permitted for use in the local counties. General Superintend ent Baker of Ohio, sends out notice that some of the churches may retain some of the money thus collected fur their local campaigns, 'but not for loug if they have a name to live and waut to retain it.' " Harrison complains because promi nent salaried officers of the state league deserted the state and hired themselves out to the Colorado communities just while the spring campaigns were on in Nebraska, ami fail to show their Colo rado earnings in the treasurv state ment. This is perhaps also a matter for complaint from those who pay only. "The plain facts," says Harrisou, "are that the good preachers of Ne braska could furnish the lists of their membership without expense, and could influence that membership them selves ten times better than can any mail order scheme. And the money that is poured so freely into the mys terious treasury of a league of three men in Lincoln could better be used iu the communities and counties, organ izing for practical results under the leadership of local men. "County optionists should at once awake to the situation. Let us have au end to these high priced proclama tions, and this hat passing for the benefit of salaried do nothings, and let us have some actual and sensible work done where work counts. Don't imag ine for a moment that the walls of this modern brewery Jericho can be tum bled down by the blowing of rams' horns, especially when the horns are in the exclusive hands of three officers who first demand all the available funds as an inspiration for full breath and long continued blowing." It would seem as if the radical tern (terauce people of Nebraska are thus tardily finding out what a graft the Anti-Saloon league has been from its inception, here and everywhere, and are discerning that they have been milked systematically in the name of religion and moral uplift. It is sad to see the reformers at each other's throats in this way, but where rival ries obstruct ambitions of men, there is bound to be warfare. A fat slice of that 50,000 would have done Frank Harrison's paper a mighty good turn if applied at the right time. Omaha Examiner. SENDING NEWS TO HEAVEN. The tone of church services should be always impersonal. The most suc cessful preachers are those who can thunder against wrong in such abstract ways that every member of the con gregation can pick out some other as a mark of the preacher's righteous wrath. Naming names, or so clearly indicating individuals as to brand them in the eyes of the congre gation, would not be charity, even in a sermon. The negro preacher who announced that he had detected a member of his congregation in chicken stealing, and threatened to burl a missile at him, did not need to be more specific. When, with one missile in hand, he struck the attitude for hurl ing it, that brother in a front pew who ducked, named himself. Neither was this Christian charity, in the strictest sense of the woid. But it had in it more of the essence of charity than would be in the quality of a sermon which would designate, clearly enough for the general identification, any mem ber of the congregation as being guilty of deadly sins. To grow personal in a prayer is not only uncharitable, but is highly ridic ulous. A prayer is heard by, but not addressed to, those present. It is spoken to one who, knowing all things, and searching all hearts, may safely be assumed to have advance knowl edge of any shortcoming of any mem ber of any flock. If one of the breth ren in a congregation, looking for evidence of a brother's guilt, shall happen to find it, he may be sure the Lord knew it first. Wherefore that member of a church at Maplewood asked: "Oh, Lord, help the official board of this church to deliver us from the black hearted demon in our midst who now seeks to celebrate the second anniversary "of his advent in this church" was, so far as Omniscience was concerned, going to wholly unne cessary trouble for purposes of identi fication. If there is "a black hearted demon" in that Maplewood congrega tion, the fact was known to divinity before ever it was known to him who pretended to be telling the Lord some thing he didn't know. The result of this wholly useless gossiping was that the only member of the congregation who is about to celebrate the second anniversary of his connection with the church walked to the front at the con clusion of the service and called the reporter to the Throne of Grace a liar. The reporter retorted with a blow in the face, which was not re turned, a fact seeming to indicate that the "black hearted demon" has more of the Christian grace of humanity than has the adviser of the Lord. A just humau view of such a situa tion as this was handed dowu by the Supreme Giurt of New York a year or two ago. A self-righteous husband had, at family prayer, fallen into the habit of relating to high heaven what he called his wife's faults aud weaken esses, and imploriug Divine forgiven ess for her sius, aud a better under standing of her duty. Exasperated beyond endurance at last, the poor woman one morning seized the family Bible and hurled it at his head. He sued for divorce. The wife filed a cross bill in which this humiliation in the presence of their children was set out. The court, in granting the wife a decree, with liberal alimony, pointed out what it called the enormity of the husband's offending. The judges im plied their conviction that as much time as the ordinary man gives to prayer could all lie taken up in asking for forgiveness for his own transgres sions, and they denounced, as rank hy pocrisy, that arrogated virtue which presumes not only to sit in judgment upon frail and beset humanity, but al so to inform Omnipotence of what is going on in the world. This is yellow er than the yellowest journalism, for a Paradise edition of the sensational ex tra has not yet been thought of. St. Louis Globe Democrat. MARRIAGE PREVENTS CRIME. Science is merely "organized com mon sense," in Huxley's words, and, therefore, what the experience of life teaches the average man is pretty apt to be formulated as a scientific "law" by some savant. It has been a truism for ages that to marry is to "settle down," to become steady and "respon sible." Now, Dr. Bertillon, on the basis of very elaborate French statis tics and studies, has promulgated cer tain "theories" concerning the relation between marriage, family life and criminality. There is nothing strange or new in these theories, but they are interesting simply because they are now demonstrable by facts and figures. Crime, Dr. Bertillon shows, is not as "rife" among married men as among bachelors; the bringing up of a family imposes "beneficent burdens" and cre ates a desire for respectability and an honored name. Widowers revert to the criminality records of wild bache lors including "Apaches." Childless widowers are the worst offenders of all; they stand highest on the criminality lists. This shows the valueof woman's control or companionship. The pre sence of children is wholesome and de terrent, but the best moral condition of all is complete family life, with a wife and mother to guide the house hold and inspire or curb "the old man." Chicago Record-Herald. The Real Grievance. "You are always complaining. You ought to be satisfied with the money you've got" "I am. It's with that which I haven't got that I am not satisfied.' A Reminder. "Since I've come back I find I'm forgotten by all my friends." that "Why didn't you borrow money ef tnem before you went awayl" I Judge's Library. SENATOR BURKETT. Senator Barkett goes home feeling well satisfied with his work during the past session. He is greatly pleased over the much good legislation that has been enacted, and says that during his twelve years in congress there has never been a session when so much good progressive legislation has been passed as at the one just closing. In addition to the general public legisla tion he says there has never been a session when he was called upon for so much special legislation for Ne braska as at this one. The Congressional Record shows that .the senator has been a busy man for he has introduced 147 bills, offered 15 amendments to the legislation pending, presented over 3,000 peti tions from constituents to the senate, addressed the senate on 02 different occasions, that he never missed a vote except on the 30th of May when he was making a flying trip to Lincoln for his Decoration Day ad dress. The Record also shows that he passed 24 special pension bills for the old soldiers, secured an appropriation of $100,000 for the Lincoln post office building, $15,000 for a site for a pub lic building at Chadron, $25,000 for a rifle range in Nebraska, an appropria tion to build employes' quarters, a blacksmith's shop and a superintend ent's cottage at the Genoa Indian school, $25,000 to establish a fish hatchery in Nebraska. Also that he passed his bill giving settlers on reclamation projects the right to transfer their title after they had lived there the period required for homestead entry, notwithstanding the fact that they had not proven up their case under the reclamation law. Also he passed the Omaha Indian bill for the settlement of the accounts of the Omaha Indians with the govern ment This is a matter that has been pending in congress and that different senators and represenatives have been trying to enact into law for the last dozen or fifteen years. He also passed a law permitting the Indians in Richardson county to co ojierate with the citizens for the drain ing of the Nemaha valley, amended the federal court law and secured a favorable report upon bis bill for the establishment of a school of forestry at Nebraska City. Also a favorable re port upon his bill for federal boiler in spection of locomotives. Iu addition to this, several private claim bills. ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE. John Wilson, jr., had a quarrel with his father, Judge Wilson of Tecumseh about thirty years ago and went away to Texas. After the joung man had gone away the father regretted the hard words he had uttered. The youug roan, too, may have been sorry for having caused the father's anger, but he went away, kept his secret, called himself by an other name, and for thirty years no letter nor word came back from him to tell that he was an engineer on one of the Texas railroads. The father and mother at Tecumseh after waiting till they were old for the letter that never came from their only child, and after spending a part of their estate in travel and advertising search, died at last, leaving $30,000 in pro perty to John Wilson, jr., if he ever came back. Realizing that some im postor might appear and try to cheat himself into the ownership of the pro perty, the old folks left a will with the probate court propounding ten ques tions that the claimant must answer to prove himself the rightful heir, and the proof must be made before July 1, 1910, or the property will go to some nephews of Judge Wilson living in the vicinity of Tecumseh. Waiting anxiously and counting the days till the $30,000 would be theirs, the nephews were startled and the whole town of Tecumseh thrown into a twister of gossip by the sudden ap pearance last week of the Texas engi neer, John Wilson, jr. He is reported to be answering the old-timers who are questioning him, for these old-timers are trying the case in advance and an nouncing their decision that the Texas engineer, now 60 years old, a grand father, is the young man, the only son, who went away thirty years ago and kept his secret and sent no message of reconcilation to his forgiving father. Was it right? Of course not. He will probably get' the estate. No one except the nephews will grudge him the property. But every one who reads the story will wish that the son had sent some message to the father whose honest old heart was softer than his hard words Sioux City Tribune. ENDOWING HOME BUILDERS. A Missouri farmer, who retired after having accumulated a modest fortune, died the other day, leaving a will the provisions of which open a new field in which philanthropist may make investments that are certain to produce perpeta! returns for the public good. I The fanner, Peter R. Burns of Lib-1 erty, Mo., provided in his' will that one-half of his estate is to go to the co unty of Clay, "to be administered by the county court in loans to men who desire to build homes." The loans are to bear 2 per cent aud are to be made in amounts not exceeding $2,000 to any one individual, aud are to be se cured by real estate mortgages, to be paid back at the rate of at least $100 a year. Half of Mr. Burns' estate will amount to $20,000. This will provide for loans of $2,000 each to ten home builders. The interest will amount to $400 a year, and as the loans are paid back and the fund grows from the in terest payment the benefits will lie far reachiug. It presents an opportunity by which a good many deserving men may be enabled to secure homes, whereas without such assistance they could not do so without great difficulty. The ultimate effect will be the advan cement of the geueral good. St. Paul Pioneer-Press. Senator of U. S. A. Robert L. Taylor of Tennessee Senator Taylor in. without question, the most popular Chautaiutfia lecturer is America, and he is coining to pTjr nlatform for the forthcoming assem bly. "THE OLD SMAN ELOQUENT OF THE SOUTHLAND " 35 Mrs. Sarah Wathena Brown. Harplute of national reputation,. Uses the most expensivo instrument ever built in each peWormnjice. Mrs. Brown with her five musical hoys wjU appear at Chautauqua Managing the Weather. It may safely be said that control Of the weather by sorcerers was al together disbelieved in by very few persons in the sixteenth century. P.ut If the belief was held more strongly along one coast line than another it was around the I'altic rather than elsewhere. As late as 1(570 a traveler tells us how. !cing becalmed off Fin land, the captain sent ashore to buy a wind from a wizard. The fee was 10 kroner (say 'M shillings) and a pound of tobacco. The wizard tied a woolen rag with three knots in it to the mast. Untying the lirst knot pro duces just the wind they waut. south west. That .slackening, untying knot No. 2 revives it for a time, but knot No. 3 brings up a fearful northeaster. which nearly sinks them. "Qui nescit orare. discat navigare." was a much quoted phrase. True enough of one traveler, it would appear, seeing he is reported to have prayed during a storm: "O Lord. 1 am no common beg gar. I do not trouble thee every day. for I never prayed to thee before, and If It please thee to deliver me this once I will never pray to thee again as long as I live." Atlantic Monthly. Norway's Leve For Bjornson. What Bjornson was to his own people is best made clear by an inci dent which occurred at his beloved Aulestad not long before he was forced to start on his final journey to Paris in search of another lease of health and life. A regiment passed the place in the course of a maneu ver. Its commander sent word ahead to the poet asking him to review the soldiers as they marched by. Bjorn son stood on the veranda of his house, surrounded by his entire family a man who had never held any public office, mind you! As the troop ap proached ou the highroad below offi cers and men gave the salute due to a commanding general or a member of the royal bouse. But this was not all. 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