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AN AMAZING THINC.
There were many surprises in the
recent Nebraska primary election and
a number of amazing things transpir
ed, but nothing more amazing than
the vote that Dahlman got in Lan
caster county and in Lincoln for the
nomination of governor of the state.
Governor Shallenberger was not un
popular in his party. He had made a
very satisfactory governor. He was
also quite acceptable to the republi
cans. He was not an offensive parti
san on the liquor question. He was
not a radical either way. His signing
of the 8 o'clock closing law bill
brought him no condemnation from
the thoughtful "wets," for he could
have consistently done nothing else.
Mayor Dahlman's vote against Mr.
Shallenberger in Lincoln, therefore,
cannot be accounted for on the ground
of Shallenberger's unpopularity. Mr.
Dahlman's battle cry was "Down
with Lincoln! Let us remove the
capital from that accursed city."
And under this rallying cry he got
531 more democratic votes in Lancas
ter county than Shallenberger.
How can you account for such sui
cidal decision on the part of our voters?
It docs not explain it to say his sup
porters were anti-count7 optionists,
who wanted to show forth their
sentiments. They could vote for
Shallenberger and have been consist
ent, for the democratic state platform
was auti county option, and Shallen
berger's position was not offensive to
them.
For a citizen of Lincoln or vicinity
to vote for Dahlman was to vote for
the loudest enemy Lincoln ever had.
It was to vote lor the injury of their
own town, and their own property.
It is an amazing thing, that vote.
Lincoln Star.
LAFOLLETTE UNMASKED.
If there is a blatant anti tariff
shooter in Congress, it is Senator La
Follette, of Wisconsiu. He fairly
raves in his abuse of the Aldrich-
Payne tariff, and howls about "mon
opoly," "privilege," "predatory trusts,"
etc., with demagogic fervor. But
when it comes to anything Wisconsin
wants, this fierce freetrader for the
products of other states becomes a high
protectionist in short order a salient,
illustration of the Hancock theory.
Of course, Cannon and Cannonism
have no louder opponent than this
Wisconsin firebrand, whose professed
love of the people is only surpassed by
his actual love of office. In his Kan
sas speech, during the primary cam
paign, Speaker Cannon showed the
utter humbuggery of LaFolIette's
low tariff professions, and his agoniz
ing concern for the consumers, in tha
following forceful paragraph:
"I refused to make a dicker with
some of the big publishers whereby
they were to toot my horn in return
for free print pajer, and now they are
abusing me. Some magazines and
newspapers are making their wares
like the Yankee made razors, to sell.
They are feeding the public on misre
presentations, lelieving that the peo
ple want it.' The tariff on print paper
has caused the republican party more .
trouble than any other one thing.
What happened when we tried to re
duce duty on print paper to $2 a ton?
Why, that archangel of reform from
Wisconsin, who talks six hours at a
time at Chautauquas denouncing the
tariff, solemnly arose and said that
the old duty of $ a ton was not high
enough for the Wisconsin paper mills.
And we had to compromise by making
the tariff S3.7o a ton instead of $2, as
the house had voted."
Yet a lot of newspapers which make
such a hue and cry over the duty on
print paper delight in abusing Uncle
Joe Cannon and in praising Bob La
Follette, who would more than double
the tariff on it if he could have his
way. Troy Press.
LOST FIFTY-TWO YEARS.
Abandoned in a carpet bag fifty-two
years ago, when he was hut nine days
old, Alfred Summers Molyneux, of
No. 665 Grove street, Jersey-City, has
determined to devote the remaining
years of his life if necessary to clearing
up the mystery of his birth.
Molyneux is the name he got from
his adopted parents, Henry and Betsy
Molyneux, who took him into their
home to replace a son who was born
the day he was found, September 10,
1858, and died the next day. Both
his adopted parents are now dead.
While they lived Molyneux respected
their wishes and did not attempt to
sol ve the mystery of his birth. It was
not until he was 28 years old that he
even knew that he was not their own
son.
He was then told how the carpet
bag, filled with air holes, in which he
was left to his fate, had been found
aboard a train on the Aniboy division
of the Pennsylvania railroad.
A man and a woman had boarded
the train at Princeton Junction. They
occupied separate cars. The man car
ried the carpet bag. He left the train
before it reached Perth Amboy ferry,
and the bap; was found beneath the
seat he had filled. There were no
cries from the bag, a sleeping potion
having been given the child.
There were some 600 or more pas
sengers who took the ferry to New
York city. Among them was a Mrs.
King, of Jersey City, who took the
baby to her home. The following day
Dr. Lutkins, her physician, told her of
the loss of the Molyneuxs, and his
fears that Mrs. Molyneux would not
survive unless she had a child to re
place her dead baby.
Mulyneux believed that one of his
parents was English, and that he was
born at Washington. He also has
reason to believe that he was heir to
considerable wealth.
When he started upon the search
for his relatives he learned that when
he was between' 6 and 7 years old, or
just at the close of the civil war a tall,
dark stranger, who looked very much
as he looks now, made inquiries in
Jersey City for an abandoned baby.
He called upon Dr. Lutkins, and the
doctor, who had promised Mr. and
Mrs. Molyneux that he would never
disclose the history of their adopted
son, misled him and sent him away
without enlightening him. The man
said he must find the child or the
record of his death in order to settle
up a big estate in Washington.
When he was seventeen years old
Molyneux was taken before a justice
of peace named Allen, and Mrs. Moly
ncux had him sign some papers, telling
him to be sure to sign his fiill nanu,
"Alfred Sommers Molyneux." He
did not know what the papers con
tained. When he was twenty-three years old
Frederick Payne, brother of Mrs.
Molyneux, asked him one day to sign
two papers, which he said were appli
cations for a position at Washington
for a friend. After he had signed
Molyneux became suspicious and askc d
to see the papers. Payne ordered him
from the office.
Molyneux attempted to compel
Payne, through proceedings in the
court of chancery, to disclose the
nature of the papers he signed, but
because he could not swear that he had
suffered property loss the effort failed.
For over twenty years Molyneux
has been employed by the Lackawana
railroad, and he nnwliolds a responsi
ble position at the shops at Hobokeu.
He married Anna Eichs in 1898.
Philadelphia Telegraph.
PACKING A GUN.
There are few habits more danger
ous than that one affected by many
people and known as "packing a gun."
That is. the vernacular, meaning car
rying a concealed firearm, and it has
taken toll of thousands of valuable
lives.
Every man who "packs a gun" is
potentially a murderer. He does not
carry the weapon as an ornament, and
it serves no useful purpose. In fact,
itserves no purpose whatever save that
of taking life, and that is one which
should be sternly discouraged.
Almost every community has or
dinances against this vicious practice.
Many states, likewise, have statutes
against it, and in some cases it is made
a felony.
That is what should be done in all
cases. Exceptions may lie made for
the men who carry weapons as an inci
dent to their duty, such as policemen
and watchmen and residents in sparse
ly settled sections, where depredations
from wild animals aud from lawless
men are to be feared.
But in well established communities
there is no reason whatever that justi
fies the carrying of concealed weapons
by the average man, anil the sooner
the practice is ended the safer will be
human life and the less will be crime.
In this city there is an ordinance
providing the maximum punishment
of a fine of $50 for this offense. This
is inadequate, and as soon as possible
the ordinance should be changed so
that the punishment may be made
more severe and therefore more effect
ive. In the meanwhile, however,
every man caught with a concealed
weapon upon his person should be
given the maximum fine, as thus there
will be something accomplished to
ward suppressing this
practice.
pernicious
We have lately had an illuminating
illustration of the evils of carrying
concealed weapons in the attempted
assassination of Mayor Gaynor of New
York, but this is only one of a number
of daily occurrences which demonstrate
how dangerous is this practice.
We must protect our public men
and we must also protect all other
people to the best of our ability, and
one of the best ways to do this is to
take steps toward ending weapon car
rying. Pueblo State Journal.
NEW CENTER OF PROSPERITY.
Has the center of prosperity over
taken and overlapped the center of
population in its westward trend? Or
is the check to activity noticeable only
in the east of a temporary character?
Various reasons are assigned for the
falling off in bank clearings in New
York and other eastern money centers,
while at the same time increases are
reported from western and southern
points in sufficient volume to bring the
total above the corresponding dates of
last year. Dismissing the explana
tions, which do not explain, together
with others which are contradictory,
there are left for consideration two or
three things which undeniably are
among the factors that have brought
about the anomalous result that de
pression exists in the east in face of
increasing prosperity west and south.
One of the obvious reasons why the
east is falling behind is the heavy de
crease in exports, which affects the
earnings of the railroads hauling them
and the banks that financed them.
While the east last year was falling
hundreds of millions behind the high
point, the southern ports were actually
gaining over the previous year.
The drift of speculation away from
the east has much to do with the de
crease in bank clearings and telegraph
business. The public is tired of the
game for out: thing, and then it was
found more profitable to put money in
westeru farm lands and mortgages than
in stocks. Thus, the western banks
are turning their money over at a rate
rarely exerienced, while the New
York banks are worrying over the
slack demand for funds to move the
crops, not fully realizing as yet that
the crops do not move that way aa of
yore.
While the decrease in exports and
the slump in spallation are probably
only temporary, and the cast may
regain all or more than it has lost
from these two causes, more doubt
attaches to the third and principal
factor in the equation. This is the
higher cost of living. It cuts into the
east's prosperity both ways, reducing
its buying power and causing a lessen
ing demand for ils manufactured pro
ducts. All that the west has gained
from inflated prices for foodstuffs has
come out of the pockets of the eastern
consumers, while the economies prac
ticed on account of the high priced
necessities have paralyzed eastern in
dustries to a point not equalled in
receut years. Before the east can
rally from its present condition the
prices of raw cottou and foodstuffs
must come dowu materially, ami there
is no sign that these changes are at
hand. Washington Post.
OLDEST WOMAN ON EARTH.
Frau Dutkievitz, living at Posen, in
Prussian Poland, has long enjoyed the
distinction of being the oldest woman
in the whole world. She was born on
February 21, 1785, and thus was 125
years old last February. However, a
Bulgarian peasant woman, named
Bahavasilka, and who has never quit
ted her native village of Bavelsko, has
deprived the aged dame of Posen of
her record of longevity, for the Bulga
rian peasant was born in May, 1784,
and is thus nine months older.
For nearly one hundred years the
Bulgarian peasant has worked in the
fields; her descendants, who are nearly
a hundred in number, now make her
a joint allowance. The old dame re
calls events that happened in the be
ginning of last century much more
easily than she can recall those of the
last forty years. Pall Mall Gazette.
IT WAS REVISED DOWNWARD.
The Cedar Rapids Republican
points out that during the first year of
its operation the Payne law has in
creased imports of foreigu goods to the
tune of 200 millions of dollars. This
means that about that amount of
American goods were displaced on the
American market. It would not be
surprising if it should be found in a
year or two that the new tariff law
makes too great concessions to foreign
manufacturers. In the meantime,
what becomes of the contention that
the tariff was not revised downward?
Manchester (la.) Press.
SAMPLE JUSTICE.
Yesterday's reports announced that
a jury had at last been secured to try
Lee O'Neill Browne, the Illinois legis
lative leader accused of bribery in the
interest of Senator Lorimer. In all
700 veniremen were examined before
the twelve were accepted, a proceed
ing occupying Learly three weeks.
This, it should be remembered, is the
second trail of Browne. The first en
ded in a hung jury, the tenacity of one
or two jurors being sufficient to save
bim.
This is an old story, hut it will re
quire telling some more thousands of
times. Wise men tell us the greatest
danger to our country lies in .our law
lessness, in theuumber of unpunished
murders, lynchings, thieving. When
failure to convict criminals is our na
tional menace, and that failure is due
to the failure of our judicial processes,
what remedy is "indicated?"
The answer is not eas, for care
needs be taken that conviction is not
so swift as to imperil innocence. But
in the great Hau trial in Germany a
year or so ago, a trial equal in public
interest to our own Thaw trial, a jury
was empaneled in ten minutes. The
case was ended in five days, and no
body doubted that justice was done.
They do as well in England. The
thing is obviously not impossible.
A great difficulty in the Browne
case lies in the fact that the entire
graft organization of the state of Illi
nois is defending Brown. This in
volves the machines of both political
parties, politicans from the least to the
greatest, and business interests rang
ing from fish poachers to captains of
iudustry. The courts cannot altogeth
er be blamed if they work badly
with such enormous influence busy
blocking the wheels of justice. When
the defense can have 100 pripate de
tectives putting in their time fixing
prospective jurymen the way of jus
tice is manifestly hard.
But. that something could be done
with the machinery of justice to faci
litate the output of justice even law
yers and judges agree. In Browne's
case the mistrial would have been
prevented under a system of allowing
a verdict by something less than a
unanimous vote. It's a poor lawyer
who cannot get as many as one striker
on his jury. Scotch juries of fifteen
decide by majority vote, and there is
no such complaint of Scotch justice as
there is of ours. State Journal.
THE ISSUE IS PROTECTION.
That Senator Aldrivh, the most stal
wart of standpatters, is going into the
hotbed of Insu rgency to meet the
charges brought against him in that
quarter and to uphold the tariff law
as it stands, is the boldest and most
signal stroke of the campaign. Also
it gives a real dramatic touch to the
attitudinizing ensemble.
If Senator Bristow reconed that a
lifelong policy of ignoring "malicious
and unjust attacks" would permit him
to assail Senator Aldrich with impuni
ty, the announcement that the Rhode
Islander is to fight back this once, con
fronting his assailants in their owu
bailiwick, must have made the Kansan
gasp. He must make good his asser
tions that Senator Aldrich framed
the rubber and cotton schedules with
the view to lining the pockets of him
self and associates with tainted mil
lions, or rest under the reproach that
he challenged the probity of a collea
gue on unsupported testimony.
This shift in the situation means that
an agressive front, with Senator Al
drich pointing the way, is the stalwart
plan of campaign. The issue is the
Protection of American industries, aud
this is narrowed down to a few sched
ules. Upon other points of differen
ce, the two wings of the party were
brought together by the enactment of
the Taft programme into law.
Prosjerity on a lasting basis is ours
through the workings of a system
never once impaired except when the
people saw fit to send its enemies to
Washington with a mandate to make
a "TarifT for revenue only." To sho w
them the folly of repeating the mis
take of 1892 is the task to which Sen
ator Aldrich now lends his voice and
leadership. Washington Post.
THE MAN WITH A GRIEVANCE.
The recent attack upon Mayor
Gaynor of New York brings to mind
the man with a grievance. The man
with a grievance we have always with
us. There is no escaping him some
where on the road. Occasionally he
has a real cause to start him on his
way, but more often he has become
peevish through some mischance of
fortune for which no one is really to
blame. A man with a grievance us
ually develops along normal lines,
varying little in method from his pre
decessors. Generally he loses some
little office or privilege, broods over
it for a while, takes the world into his
confidence on his hard luck, cultivates
cynicism also a taste for strong drink
and in the course of his evolution be
comes a candidate for an anarchistic
colony. Some timet the man with a
grievance merely extends his activi
ties to arousing discontent among his
fellows. One such worker can disrupt
the discipline of a whole ship's com
pany. On a vessel they give him an
unofficial rating of "seal lawyer."
But whether he is on sea or land he is
a nuisance. And it is too bad that
there can be declared no open season
on bim. Leavenworth Times.
HOW OLD IS THE WORLD.
The researchers of the first students
of geology showed them that there
must have lieen vast ages in the
world's history ages during which
thousands of feet of rocks were laid
down under water, ages during which
strange races of animals came into be
ing, flourished and then passed away
to make room for other strange races.
The theologians did not accept this,
and the battle raged for years, the
scientists maintaining that the "day"
were periods of time, perhaps millions
of years long.
But no sooner had peace been pro
claimed than a new dispute arose.
The geologists did not pretend to mea
sure the earth's age exactly, but cal
culated that 300 million years was a
modest estimate. A new science was
being developed by the physicists, and
their calculations put the earth's age
at only from twenty to thirty million
years.
Now comes another order of scien
tists, those "who are investigating those
queer elements, radium, helium and
the like. All the old ideas of the pro
perties of things have been upset, for
some of these new and wonderful sub
stances have the strange power of
transforming themselves into new
forms of matter. It is all very new
but already it is announced that the
geologist seems to le right. Freshly
mined thorianile coutaius an amouut
of the new substance, helium, that it
would take 240 million years to gener
ate, as measured by careful experi
ments; hence, that is the minimum age
tht the world must have. Trial ex
periments upon pilchblend seems to
give a similar result. When the new
and careful exjieriments already begun
are completed they expect to have
proof that will satisfy all doubters.
So the geologists may be vindicated
by a method of research that was not
dreamed of when men first liegan to
hammer at neks in the infancy of one
of the most fascinating of studies.
Boston Globe.
A Weary Celebrity.
When Mrs. Roger A. Pryor was a
young woman llvlpg In Cbarlotteville,
Va., visiting authors seldom reached
the beautiful university town. "Thack
eray, Dickens and Miss Martlneau
passed us by." says Mrs. Pryor In her
book entitled "My Day Reminiscences
of a Long Life." But Frederika Brem
er condescended to spend a night with
her compatriot. Baron Scheie de Vere
of the university faculty, on her way
to the south.
Scheie de Vere inrited a choice com
pany to spend the one evening Miss
Bremer granted him. Her works were
extremely popular with the unversity
circle, and every one was on tiptoe of
pleased anticipation.
While the waiting company eagerly
expected her the door opened not for
Miss Bremer, but for her companion,
who announced:
"Miss Bremer, she beg excuse. Sbe
ver tired and must sleep. If she come
she gape la your noses."
Carrying a Bundle.
A stylish looking woman who looked
as If she had rather die than carry a
bundle that wouldn't go Into a hand
bag went into the women's suit depart
ment of a big store lugging a paste
board box half as big as herself. Other
customers present wondered at her un
dignified action, but the saleswoman
did not wonder.
"There is one time when the proud
est woman on earth will carry a bun
dle," she said. "That is when somo
garment has been sent home finished
off badly and has to be brought back
for alterations. If the customer would
only telephoue to the store we would
send for the garment, but that would
take time. She wants It finished with
out delay, aud rather than wait she
brings It down herself." New York
Sun.
It Looked Suspicious.
"As I was coming out of a store this
evening I saw an amusing sight," said
a shopper. "A Jlgbt rain was falling.
and as the woman in front or me
stepped out she opened her umbrella.
Out of It fell a Jeweled hatpin, a pair
of gloves and two men's handkerchiefs.
On its face It seemed like a case of
shoplifting, but as she gathered up the
articles the woman said:
"Well. If here Isn't Mary's emerald
hatpin and the gloves I was looking
for last week and two of George's
best handkerchiefs. I never thought
of looking in the umbrellas for them."
New York Sun.
Got His Reply.
A funny man indulged In a practical
joke recently. lie put an advertise
ment in a paper for a wife and re
quested each candidate to inclose her
carte de vislte. It was a foolish thing
to do, but one of the candidates served
him out very well by sending the fol
lowing letter: "Sir I do not Inclose
my carte, for, though there is some
authority for putting a cart before a
horse, I know of none for putting 'one
before an ass."
Wanted Holp.
Wife (crying In a troubled dream)
Help! Help! HubvPoor dear! Wor
rying about the servant problem evea
In her sleep. Boston Transcript.
The secret of successIs constancy U
purpose. Baaconsfleld.' .
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THE BIGGEST SMUGGLERS.
They Are Not the Society Pooplo Who
Gat tho Advertising.
"Society people are supposed to be
the biggest offenders," said a treasury
official, "but It Is simply tbatthey get
more publicity. We had a Harlem
butcher who smuggled in $1,000 worth
of Jewels and then got trapped be
cause he took an orange from the
table after lunch. lie put the orange
In his pocket, and the bulge drew the
Inspector's attention. lie was search
ed and the jewels found.
"There was. too," he continued rem
inlscently, "a noted musician who goes
back and forth every year to Paris
and who bought a Stradlvarius violin
one year. lie sold his old one and
brought the famous Strad back in his
own case, covered as it was with cus
tom stamps. Naturally the Inspectors
passed It, but the musician boasted of
his violin, and a dealer who went to
see It heard the story of Its purchase
and notified us.
"There was a man from Naples who
came In with his shirt fairly lined
with Jewels, and there are the Syrians
who smuggle In laces and handker
chiefs, and there are the manufactur
ers who declare half or three-quarters
in and smuggle the rest
"There are automobile men who
bring their machines In with faked
certificates of value, and there are
buyers of cheap jewelry who bring In
great cases of plated brooches and
bracelets, etc., with magnificent sap
phires, rubles and even diamonds set
In with bits of glass, and these ncces- '
sltate weeks of work for the Jewel ex
perts in the appraiser's stores."
Washington Times.
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THE AND0RRANS.
All tho Inhabitants of tho Littlo Re
public Are Related.
The inhabitants of Andorra, the little
republic which Is wedged in between
France and Spain and which has exist
ed since the year 782, are very proud
of their blue blood and ancient lineage.
In their eyes a gavache (foreigneri of
any description or nationality Is mere
ly an Inferior being, a sort of mush
room upstart in comparison with them
selves. During 1,200 years they have
continually married and intermarried
to such an extent that at present all
the inhabitants are practically cousins,
yet, strange to say. neither their physi
cal, mental nor moral qualities seem to
have suffered. Both sexes are strong
limbed, broad shouldered, bright eyed,
hardy and long lived, retaining their
hair and their teeth to n green old age.
They are also keen witted and intelli
gent, alert and happy hearted, sober.
Industrious, hospitable and devout.
The feminine Andorran has not a vest
ige of coquetry about her. She Is Just
the female pure and simple. She Is a
thrifty housewife, a helpmate to hor
husband In the most literal sense of
the term ready and able to trudge off
across mountain and valley beside bim
with a pack of smuggled goods on her
back in case of need. Wide World
Magazine.
Aching Voids.
"Brooks." said Rivers, "that's the
second time I've heard you use the
phrase 'aching void.' I wish you would
tell me how a void can ache."
"Well." said Iinioks. reflecting a mo
ment, "not to speak of a hollow tooth,
don't you sometimes have the bead
ache?" Chicago Tribune.
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I. F. RECTOR, Ticket Agent
Columbus. Nebr. -
Gen'l. Passenger Aaent. Omaha. Mmhr.
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