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Vs I l i ( A J Columbus g oumal. Columbus. Nebr. Consolidated with the Columbus Times April I. 19M; with the Platte County Argus January 1,1903. ftntarad at tte Postosaos. Colambas, tfebr.. as cood-olass sasll auttar. TSBMS OF SDBSOBI VTIOS : (Jaaiaar, by mall, postafs prepaid.. ..$LM .. .Tl Six xnoatas .., InrMmoatks.... WKDNK8DAY. JULY 1610. BTKOTHKB & STOCKWELL. Proprietors. BKliEWALH The date opposite yoor name on yoax paper, or wrapper ahowa to what time yoor subscription is paid. Thus JanOS shows that payment Las bsea received np to Jan. 1, 1905, rebOS to Keb. 1, 1905 and so on. When payment la made, the date, which anawars a a reoeipt, will be chanced aocordlncly. luMXNTJNDANCE8-Itesponsible snbscrib, era will ooatinae to receive this Journal until the publishers are notified by letter to discontinue, when all anaaragss mast be paid. If you do not wish the Journal con tinned for another year af ter the time paid for has expired, you should previously notify us to discontinue it. CHANQK IN ADDUKSS-When ordering a j nance in the address.subscribera should be sura to give their old aa well aa thatr new address. THE TRANSIT OF "MIKE." The Hat of delegates commissioned to represent Holt county in the demo cratic state convention is headed by the name of "Mike" Harrington. We take it that this means that "Mike" has finally shutiled off the last remnant of his populist clothes and clad himself in out and out democratic garments. Up to two years ago "Mike" had always insisted that he was a populist of the blown in the bottle variety, although he was always busy steering the populist cart in the wake of the democratic machine. Two years ago "Mike" got one foot over the fence when he ran as one of the Bryan pres idential electors with the populist brand on one shoulder and the demo cratic biand on the other. This ila grant fraud proved to be successful, if the theft for Bryan of votes intended for "Tom" Watson can be called suc cessful. But "Mike" has evidently been forced to the conclusion that the game has been overplayed and that he now has nothing more to gain by masquerading as a populist. The transit of "Mike," therefore, is now complete, and he will perform in the democratic ring at Grand Island as he used to perform in the populist end of the tent. Omaha Bee. FEDERAL COURTS FEARED. It is true that the criminal dreads the federal court, when he ma have little fear of the state courts. Several reasons contribute to the fear of one tribunal of justice and the lack of fear which in mauy cases borders on con tempt, of the other. The federal court, particularly in criminal cases, is more likely to deal impartial justice, and the criminal dreads justice. The federal jurors are drawn from "at large"; it is possible that none who sits on the case will come from the crimi nal's county. That fact minimizes the influence of the crimiual, his family, friends and his lawyers upon the jury. It is more dangerous for a lawyer to attempt to influence a prospective juror drawn from at large. The fed eral court does not give the criminal every advantage as in the state court. The federal prosecuting officers are better paid than the state solicitors, and in almost all cases are abler law yers with more experience. They are furnished with means with which to secure evidence that is not given the state's solicitors. The federal judges are independent of politics and "j.ulls." They take a broader view than most state judges, and have greater power. They give less heed to technicalities. When convicted in a federal court the I criminal can not readily dodge the sentence. He can not count upon trifling with the law. Columbia (S. C.) State. INFLUENCE OF OUR CENTURY. Very few citizens of the United States, unless they have recently tra versed in foreign lands, have any con ception of the influence our country has in nearly every nation on the globe. We do not solely refer to the interests of their people and rulers iu our form of government and in the great success in all business affairs that our citizens have had under our repub lican institutions, but our achieve ments have been so great in science, art and invention, as well as in com merce, that in the majority of the countries the inhabitants concede to our people the position of the advance guard of progress of the world. Whatever antagonism racial preju dices have aroused inChina and Japan, however resentful or revengeful the lower classes in those countries may be, yet even with them there exists a wonderfully high -estimate of our prowess in war and our ability in business. In India, from the summits of the Himalayas to the most southern point of the peninsula, the intelligence and enterprise of the people of the United States are discussed, admired and envied in every city and town by the inhabitants. So all through Europe the men of advanced thought, the men of political activities, the men of large business affairs, and the masses of the people as well, endow our people with attributes that place them far in the front of others in the present civilization. On our own continent our influence is paramount in business, and our ex ample, politically, has been followed by all nations, from the Canadian line to Cape Horn, as far as classing them selves as republics is concerned. Cincinnati Enquirer. HOW TO LIVE TO BE 114. Possibly the oldest man in the United States is Capt. G. E. D. Dia mond, now living in the Old People's Home in San Francisco. He cele brated his one hundred and fourteenth birthday anniversary May 1, and con fidently anticipates being "Johnny on the spot" to greet Hal ley's comet wheu that tramp of the skies comes peram bulating back this way seventy-five years hence. He has seen the celes tial wanderer in two centuries and if he survives to see it again he will be well qualified to assure a nervous public that nothing untoward is going to happen. Captain Diamond was born at Ply mouth, Mass., May 1, 1796. He has a vivid recollection of the War of 1812, in which his father served. His first vote was cast in 1 SIC, in the campaign that resulted in the election of James Monroe as president. He helxd build some of the first railroads in the United Sttes, among them the roml from Worcester to Boston, the Old Colony Railroad from Boston to Ply mouth, and the railroad from Albany to Schenectady. Before he was 50, Captain Diamond was an old mau, decrepit, rheumatic, and plainly on the toboggan. A photograph of him taken at the time of the Civil War shows that he then looked older than he does todav- It was at about that time that he evolved the dietetic theories (including the liberal use of olive oil, both internally and externally), to which lie attributes his advanced age and perfect health. Diet and exercise, he believes, are the secrets of Iougevity; and if a man lives right and eats right he can seem reason why the machine should not 1 kept running indefinitely perhaps until even the record run made by old Methuselah himself is beaten to a frazzle. Captain Diamond did not enlist in the Civil War, because he had ideas on the subject of personal liberty that would not have worked at all hail he been in the army. However, he le came a government agent connected with the transportation department, with headquarters in St. Louis. After the close of the war he engaged in the real estate business, until in 187-!, wheu he drove overland from St. Louis to San Francisco, where he has made his home ever since. TWO COLONELS IN LIMELIGHT. There are two of them a republi can colonel and a democratic colonel the first standing for success; the se cond for failure. Not a decade ago, or about that time, the democratic colonel was the most conspicious per sonality iu the republic, though a cap taiu without a victory. Since 1901 the republican colonel, like another Coriolanus has been "every man him self." It is amusing to note the view each party takes of its own colouel. In the republican camp they do not seem to know exactly what their colonel is go ing to do, but all alike, regular ami insurgent, are agreed that he is think ing of and will work for the exaltation oftheG.O.P. On the other hand, in the democrat ic camp there is a feeling, amounting to incipient alarm if not demoralizing panic, that their colonel is a bull in a china shop. This impression is not confined to the "sane" contingents. but pervades the ranks of the cranks as well. And even enthusiastic Bryan men of 1!M)8 are asking the portentous question: "Is our colonel for us; and if so, what does he mean? ' Only a while ago the democratic colonel issued a general order that Judson Harmon should not be a candi date for the democratic nomination for president of the United States. The Ohio democracy rebuked Colonel Bry an for that iraertinence, which amounted to insolence, and did it with emphasis, if not with resentment. And at this writing the democracy of Indians, with fear and trembling, is debating the question. "Is Bryan a republican asset?" Until now the Indiana democracy was ready to swim the Wabash to hear the "Peerless One" make a speech; but in the iinpendiug campaign the consensus of hoosier de mocracy is that "The Matchless" keep out of the state. An uncrowned king is a sad specta cle. Washington Star. A Soft Place. First Artist Reduced to a drainpipe for a pillow, old chap? Second Artist -Idiot! Can't you see it's filled with straw? Bon Vlvant. ROOSEVELT AS ORATOR; AN ENGLISH ANALYSIS "Think of a sledge hammer, a steam roller, a slow moving, stone walling batsman;" then, "think of a combina tion of all three," and you have some idea of Mr. Roosevelt's oratory, says "One Who Has Heard Him," in the London Daily Mail. An orator must first of all make himself heard. No body ever found fault with Mr. Roose velt on this score, we are told. He speaks slowly and very clearly. Every word, every syllable even, is separate and distinct. His one gesture is tremendous. He raises his right arm. He holds it threateningly above his head. It trembles with emphasis. It grips the hearers tight. They watch it as one watches a thundercloud ready to burst or a great tree about to fall. Then with a pistonlike movement he brings it down. The clenched right fist thuds into the left palm. His point is rammed home. The tension is relaxed. The kaiser was greatly taken by this characteristic attitude of his guest. He told his intimates with great glee how he had sent Mr. Roosevelt a photograph in which the ex-president on horseback was expounding some thesis with uplifted arm, while the kaiser was bending forward in the saddle to listen. Upon the back of the photograph his imperial majesty had playfully written: "The general in chief of the German armies agreeing with ex-President Roosevelt" Then for a change oratory must be well varied Mr. Roosevelt will turn to humor. His features, which have leeu almost convulsed with strenuous ness, relax and grow mild. His teeth are no longer terrible. A smile I had almost said a grin broadens out his cheeks aud jaws. His eyes gleam with enjoyment. Up goes his voice up, up, into a falsetto. The audience lean forward not to miss the joke. The point cornea on the high G. In the perfect stillness even a whisper could be heard. It is almost in a whisper that he ends. Then, as a roar of laughter checks him, he stands tri umphant, smiling benevolently .watch ing the effect he has made. His humor, which is always an - SIN OF THE NATION. A nation heavily indebted, pluug ing rapidly deeper into debt, fast ex hausting the means by which the in terest upon its debt might be paid, yet living thoughtless of to-morrow in unexampled extra vagauce such is the strange picture of the United Stales paiuted by the broad facts of its international exchange situation. Six hundred million dollars was needed la.t year to pay our balance due foreign nations, remarks the New York World. Mouey spent by tour ists abroad, the dowries of American wives to noblemen, remittances home by immigrants, the interest and divid ends on our foreign-owned securities must all be paid in an excess of reports over imports. When the purchase of foreign silks and wines and automo biles and furs aud jewels grows rapid ly, exports must also grow or we fall behind. A princely husband in Par is costs a million pounds of mess pork. A dog collar of pearls imported calls for a cargo of cotton in return. Exports in 1909 fell nearly $400,- 000,000 short of meeting our require ments. The bounty of our gold and silver miues reduced tbedeiict to $300, 000,000. So iu a year we have $300, 000,000 worth of fresh borrowings; and if no more than 4 per cent interest is paid on the newly-exiled securities, then by $12,000,000 more in interest are this year's difficulties enhanced. With such a balance sheet at New Year's one might have looked for some effort at economy. Nothing of the sort happened. With January, total imports for twelve months shot above $1,500,000,000 for the first time in his tory. With February came an ex cess of imports for the first time in fifteen years at that season. We have grave warnings from economists that food with which heretofore our lavish bills were met will soon be needed at home; that cotton our great exchange crop, is menaced by corners which pro voke foreign spinners to sell colonial cotton fields. But neither people nor governments take heed. Extravagance is the national sin. In the city a mayor with vast powers exposes the waste of millions. In the State we confront an increase of$12,- 000,000 in yearly expenditure, and no official has the power of retrenchment. In the nation Senator Aldrich tells us of $300,000,000 annual waste, yet Rep resentative Gillette complains that no one takes any interest in economy. In private life a lavish spirit demands everything in multiples, from opera houses to splendid restaurants. Great country and city .houses which a Zola or a Ferrero would liken to the building mania of Rome in a deca dence; Italian gardens, game preserves. nounced by the falsetto, is large and hearty,- never illnatured, never very subtle. It consists largely of dressing up familiar maxims in some quaint and arresting form of words. Those who only read Mr. Roose velt's speeches can not understand the ir spell. "He says nothing which is not familiar," they complain. "What is the secret which compels audiences to listen to him and to come away loud in his praise?" The secret is personal ity, which really means vitality, abounding, overflowing life and vigor, setting in motion a current of energy which it fa impossible to resist Mr. Roosevelt is a hypnotist. He "puts the 'fluence" on every one who comes into touch with him. He makes an ordinary remark with such force of emphasis that you are carried away. "What a profound thought!" you mur mur. "Why has that never occurred to me before?" Yet upon reflection you cannot for the life of you explain where the profundity came in. This English writer remarks that the public speakers of his own country scarcely ever make a "downright state ment." They would think it indecor ous." But to the colonel the real plea sure of speaking is in the chance it gives him to relieve his mind. At Cairo he was asked to leave out his reference to the murder of the prime minister. "No," he answered, "that is just what I want to say. If you do not care about it let us call the engagement off." There spoke the essential Roosevelt not the politican, but the preacher. His object in speaking is to do good. To give advice, to stiffen healthy in stincts, to strengthen public opinion against meanness aud cruelty.to induce every man and every woman to make the beat of themselves those are the essential Roosevelt aims. His style smacks more of the pulpit than the platform. "If I had been a Methodist," he once declared, "I should have applied for a license as a lay preacher." Since then he has obtain ed a license to preach but from a greater body than the Methodist con ference. He is preacher in ireneial to 1 the whole civilized world a hundred foolish forms of aping upon new soil the feudal excrescences that Europe was centuries in developing, exhaust resources. The well to do fling their coins about until the very sleeping car porters buy automobiles and break the speed laws driving home from work. Lowell before the war thought that America was to be a land of "small estates." In Emerson's "Concord" it was a land of plain living and high thinking. It has been a land of thrift and mainly of steady habits. We need to get back to the ways of our wisest, simplest men. Extravagance robs the future. Waste is unpatriotic. Debt assumed for no good cause is disgrace. For public and private economy the time to begin is right now. The Union. THE SPIRIT OF AMERICAN EN TFRPRISE. The American's mental attitude may be surmised from his attempts at interpretation of his "great men," the captains of creative effort, those Tit nic psychical phenomena that move upon the face of the continent and are in their effect their sheer power to transform, more potent than tempest or flood. What is the popular con ception of these tremendously efficient organisms that sit in their New York offices and see the travail of their spirit express itself in the material excres censes of railroad and pipe line, eleva tor and steel mill? The American idea of a "great man" is that he is a being not of extraordinary subtlety, but of transcendent directness and perspica city. He can see through sixteen in ches of armor plate. His superior in telligence does not exule in triply in volute mazes of labyrinthine dailectic. The captain of industry that looks out at you from the pages of the magazines is so simple that it is hard to believe in him. The character sketch that goes with the picture sounds like the ans wer to a conundrum. His schemes are so artless that it seems a shame to take the money. He "thinks in straight lines." Some day with the same naive di rectness we shall recognize the ad ministrative function. The complex ity, of chicane, the depths of dishonesty in our organization of the political ma chine, begin to weary the hearts of men who define a straight line as "the shortest distance between two points." Presently we shall find our cities pro ceeding to their ends of government with as straightforward purpose as we expect in a business house. Gradually the relations of state and nation will be worked out in frank recognition of essential conditions. That which now seems so vast and multifarious a con-1 flict of warring interests and irrecon cilable advantages will be bound to gether in a federal compact so simple, so basic in its assumptions, that we shall at last have attained to a true democracy, an immediate application of the social authority to the ordering of life wherein the community spirit will sway the vast sweep of America, as it scarcely swayed even the city state of Athens. Then we shall have a governmental machinery worthy of our democratic social organization and of the traditions of our diplomacy. For nowhere has the peculiar American penchant for coming to the point pro duced more startling results than in our foreign policy. So simple a mat ter as to say what you want and to say what you say has completely non plussed the diplomatic world, masters of shift and artists in evasion. The triumphs of "shirt sleeve diplomacy" have taken away its name of contempt. The artifice of the plain truth, the in volved subtlety of a blunt demand, the elusive double entenere couched in an ultimatum of so many words there is our secret, the directness that misleads, and the simplicity that lie fuddies. David Martin Key in Har per's Weekly. Clyde Fitch's Joks. "Clyde Fitch was an indefatigable worker," Baldwin actor who has played In many of the Fitch comedies. "When he had a play on the stocks he would labor over It day and night, often scarcely pausing for his meals and getting very little sleep: consequent ly his health suffered. lie would work until on the verge of a uerrous break down, and then bis physician would step In and force him to knock off. "During one of these periods of en forced idleness be was lounging in the Players club one day when Harry U Smith, the prolific comic opera libret tist, strolled in. "'What are you doing now? asked Smith. " 'I am in my doctor's bands,' replied Fitch. 'lie tells me I'm in a bad way and has absolutely forbidden me to do any brain work. "That's tough. said Smith. 'How do you manage to put iu the time? "Oh. I'm writing the libretto of a musical comedy!' replied Fitcb. with one of his cynical siulles.-New York Times. Hair Monstrosities. French theater managers in the eighteenth century had worse evils than picture hats to contend against. Marie Antoinette, who was short even according to French standards, set the fashion of bigb coiffures, and ultra fashionable women prided themselves on measuring four feet from their chins to the tops of their heads. These structures took about six hours to erect, the hairdresser mounting a ladder in the process. Some coiffures were almost as broad as they were long, with wings sticking out about eight Inches on each side of the bead. For the "frigate" coiffure the hair was rippled in a huge pile to represent the waves of an angry sea and surmount ed by a fully rigged ship. As a con sequence of these monstrosities dis turbances in theaters occurred almost daily nntll nn ordinance was issued against the admission of women with high coiffures to the floor of the house. Chicago News. Yst He Msant Well. Just as the train was leaving the Fifty-eighth street elevated station a man who had got off there hurried along the platform and spoke to a pas senger sitting by an open window in the smoking car. "Quick!" be cried. "Please hand me that package. I left It on the seat when I got out just now." "Sure," said the passenger, picking up the bundle and tossing it out of the window. "Thanks!" "Hey, there! What are you doing that for?' demanded the wrathful, red faced man sitting next to him. "Why, he "You double dyed Idiot, that package belonged to me! It was $15 worth of laces and ribbons I was taking home to my wife!" Over the scene that followed let us draw a veil. Chicago Tribune. -All Things Corns." The magnate looked up impatiently from his work. "Well, my good man," be snapped at the diffident rural person who stood twirling his rusty hat. "what can I do for you?" "I guess ye don't remember me. Hank." faltered the caller. "But you an me use ter go swimmin' together In th' ol town. Then you got a Job In th bank, an I got a Job la th' gro cery store." "This Is all very interesting, and I seem to remember your face. But come to the point my time is valu able." "Yes, Hank. You got a better offer and left the old village. I stayed plug ging along in th grocery store." "Well, well?" "Well, Hank, when you left you owed $73.02 on a grocery bill. Here's where you pay up!" Cleveland Leader. Psrfumss In Ancisnt Days. Old as the history of the world itself is that of the queen of flowers. The ancient Greeks and Romans reveled in roses. They were used lavishly at their feasts. In the time of the republic the people had their cups of Falernian wine swimming with blooms, and the Spartan soldiers after the battle of Clrrba refused to drink any wine that was not perfumed with roses, while at the regatta of Baiae the whole surface of the Lucrine lake was strewn with flowers. Spiteful. Patience Did you enjoy my last song? Patrice I might have if I had (known it was your last. Yonkera (statesman. ,. Laziness travels so slowly that pov erty soontovertakes him. Franklin. 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. He Saved the Patent Office. When In the war of 1812 the British, who had taken Washington, t mined their guns uion the patent office. Dr. Thornton, throwing himself directly before the guns, cried: "Are you Englishmen or Cot lis and Vandals? This is the patent office a depository of the ingenuity and inven tions of the American nation, in which the whole civilized world is interested. Would you destroy it? Then let the charge pass through uiy body. And the building was spared. Twenty-four years afterward, however, it was destroyed by fire, together with everything In It. 7"""W TBM rJBBBBBBBBBBBHBQBVaBBBBBBa9aBBBBHBBBKSflMaBMaALvj J- -Wulip Tf f2Jt-'tiisSatSaw JJSm9&iJGEBtRBSK99K6BiMwm.tM QSSCBBBflRSallaHaiaHHaHaHHaal VTI I L." VSVSBaKUaf rlMl'alB BaHBaBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBal PSlaCaaSSfylit- BPMsaaaBI WATCH THE PROGRESS OF FARM DEVELOPMENT IN WYOMING Th Richtst Uflicvtlaata State to the West GO WITH ME on one of our personally conducted Iandsrckers' excursions to THE BIG HORN BASIN the first and third Tuesdays of each month, and see what the farmers are doing on these new lands where the Bur lington Railroad is building new lines; where new towns offer splendid business openings in all lines of trade and profession. EXAMINE THESE LANDS PERSONALLY with me. I will help you to pick out the best. I am employed by the Burlington Railroad for this very purpose. OUR HOMESEEKERS' TICKET allows you 25 days with stop overs everywhere in homeseekers' territory; ample time to examine the lands and spend a few days fishing in the mountain streams if you like. Seethe irrigated lands where the ditches are built by the Government and also by private companies, and the Mondell 320-acre FREE home steads all on one trip. SPECIALLY PREPARED WYOMING LITERATURE just off the press. Write for it today. Hjfl Magazine Old Books Rebound In fact, for anything in the book binding line bring your work to tShe Journal Office Phone 184 Columbus, Neb. Why He Applauded. "Are ymi fni.d f iiiusio?" asked a stnisccr r rlie vomit; man at the con cert uim u-is applauding vigorously after a pretty yirl hud Ming a song in a very painful way. "Nt p:irtit-nl:irly." replied the young man frankly, "but I am extremely fond of the musician." Out of Her Reach. "Does your heart ever reach out for the unattainable?" "X. hut my hands do when my hus band N not at imiue. There are three button-: at the back of my gown that I can't rea-h D. CLEM DEAVER. General fluent Land Seekers Infsrmatlen Bureau 1004 Farnam Street. Omaha, Nebr. Billing A i T A T Sf
