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CHANGE IN ADDHE88-When ordariac j nance is the aJdrass.anbscribersahonld be esra t ocle their old a well aathatr new address. REPUBLICAN TICKET. For U. S. Senator EI.MEK J. BUKKETT For Congressman, Third District JOHN F. BOYD For liorernor C. II. ALDUICH For Lieutenant-Governor M. K. HOPEWELL For Secretary of State ADDISON WAIT For Auditor SILAS It. BABTON For Attorney General GBANT (1. MAKTIN For Land Conimitwinner E. 11. OOWLES For Treasnrer WALTEK A. GEOKOE For Superintendent Instruction J. W. CICABTBEE For Railroad Commissioner 1IENKV T. CLABKE. jb For State Senator EDWIN' IIOABE For Stiite HeitrraentativA FBANK SCIIKAM For County Attorney C. N. McELFBESII For Supervisor, District No. 1 C. A. PETEItSON A CONTINUOUS PERFORMANCE. The friends of old Joe Caiinon seem to have deserted him, whether or not they did so to go oyer to the enemy. Everything seems to be fair in politics, as it has long been counted in love and war. But is that any reason for rub bing it in? If they have thrown the speaker over, the best he can do is to make a losiug fight, although surely he is no different and no worse than those who are deserting him. And since they have duly stated that the speaker is down and out, they might gracefully let it go at that, instead of telling it to the public every day. Only a few fteople can atteud a vaudeville perfor mance at one time, but in the world of news it is different, and the continuous performance becomes monotonous. If the speaker is a dead issue, he should at least be permitted to rest in peace, while enterprising politicians look elsewhere for something to View With Alarm. Atchison Globe. OUR VAUNTED CIVILIZATION. Wealthy, prosperous, progressive Kansas ought to be more civilized. This is equally true of others of these United States. And there is certainly room for it in one particular. It con cerns the care of fatherless, or mother less, children who become public charges, or rather the inhuman meth ods with which the parents of such unfortunate.children are treated. Either the rules V the existing state home for orphans, where the children referred to are admitted ander certain conditions, should be changed, or, if this is not advisable, another state institution should be established where children with one destitute parent living and in such cases it is gener ally the mother can be kept until such parent gets into a position to care for her children. Then they should be turned over to her. Present methods of handling such cases are little more than barbaric. The Atchison Globe told the otherday of the terrible grief displayed by a mother as she signed away all rights to her children after she had secured their admission to the orphans home. If a woman, now left in destitute cir cumstances with a family of children, finds it necessary to place them in the state orphans' home, she is compelled to sign away every vestige of right she has to them. Either through mar riage or work she might get into a position to care properly for her chil dren in two or three years. If she Is that fortunate she cannot get them back. When she placed them in the home she gave them away forever. They are lost to her for all time. She is not even permitted to know wheie they have been adopted out. One of the strong arguments pre sented against slavery in ante-bellum days concerned the separation of the negro children from their mothers. But the slave mother was enabled to keep track of her children through the bills of sale for them. And it was frequently the case after the slaves had been given their freedom that the black mothers traced their children in this fashion and reassembled their families again. But the poor, the miserable mother of today whom misfortune has frowned upon to such an extent that she is compelled to make her children a pub lic charge if they are not to be per mitted to starve to death, hasn't even the advantages or the opportunity of the slave mothers of a half century ago. They could at least keep track of their children if they could not be with them. And civilization is report ed to reign here these days quite ex tensively. Topeka State Journal. become successful. The deficit report ed for the Chicago Telephone company however, is found after not oaly cost of service has been allowed, but also 5 per cent dividend on capital stock. About the possibility of economical saving in maintenance, salaries, and the amount of bonds on which 5 per cent is paid, or the amount of capital stock whether inflated or not, on which 8 per cent is paid, the official report as published by the World to day gives no information. Lincoln Star. AND STILL THEY COME. A few weeks ago it was general stores in New York city; now it is the biscuit manufacturers all over the country. The trust plan of organiza tion continues to conquer, and it is getting to be a question whether a single industry is going to be left on the old basis. In a book on Ameri can trusts, published in 1U04. Mr. G. H. Montague, a Harvard econo mist, seemed y find the impulse to ward forming such combinations subsiding. About that time a num ber of the newest and biggest appear ed to be in trouble. Several of them passed their dividends, their stocks went down, and the investing public got timid and distrustful. But it is now evident that the reaction was only temporary. The movement seems to have set in again, stronger than ever. What is to be the end of it? What jumi win inuusiry, anu society in general, finally take as a result of the process? Only the socialists are quite confident that they can answer these questions, and most of us still decline to accept their answers, because we can not see how their general scheme is going to work without some radical and inconceivable change in human nature. But some things seem al ready so plain that we all have to admit them. One thing is that attempts by con gress and the state governments to restore competition where it has once yielded to the principle of combination fail pretty generally, if not universal ly. A great many of the combina tions not all, perhaps, but certainly a large number, probably the larger number have evidently come to stay. They have proved their case, economi cally speaking. It would appear, there fore, to be high time for the lawmakers to stop legislating on the theory that the old conditions in those industries can be brought back, or ought to be brought back. Harper's Weekly. THE TELEPHONE DILEMMA THAT PUZZLES CHICACO. Municipal regulation of public ser vice corporations is a principle that has steadily gained in favor as a cure for the various evils the public has had to suffer. Especially a reduction in the rates charged by such corpora tions is the boon greatly desired. But in Chicago a new phase appears in the task of regulation. If it is Itest for public interests to regulate in such a way as to raise rates instead of low ering them, will it approve? Henry C. Morris, who writes on this "New Phasevof Municipal Regulation" in The World of Today for July, says of the Chicago situation: "A new condition has, however, recently arisen in connection with the pending revision of the ordinance af fecting the Chicago Telephone com pany, which contains the germs of startling possibilities. The principle involved is not by any means limited to the situation in Chicago, but may easily be of general application throughout the country. Municipal play and a square deal, on the one hand for the people making use of the service furnished by a public utility company, and, on the other hand, for the corporation supplying the product or service essential for the comfort and convenience of the community, and for those whose capital is invested in POOR LITTLE KID. Aren't you sorry for Baby Vinson McLean, heir to the McLean $100, 000,000? You must remember that newspaper story of several months ago, telling how an attempt was made, or thought to have been made, to kidnap little Vinson. Well, his folks were badly scared and they rushed him up to Bar Harbor, Maine, for a vacation, where he now is. Wherever this baby now goes he is accompanied by a Pinkerton detective armed to the teeth. Little vinson is really only an ordi nary baby. The only thing in partic ular that is the matter with him is that he will some day be worth, in money, many millions of dollars. Aren't you sorry for him? He can't run and loll in the dirt and have fun like other children. He must have a big man with big pistols always with him. Nothing save money for the future. Nothing save protection from being a baby in the present Aren't you sorry for him? And, really, aren't you sorry for his rich parents? What joy, what comfort can there be in having a baby that you must be forever worrying about his being stolen? The miser who worships and sleeps with his gold must lie happier than a mother who lives in terror of kidnappers. Nor does babyhood alone contain all the evil that threatens this little oie. The chances are largely against his leing useful, when grown up, and it is certain that he will be the object of bitter envy, if not downright hatred. Often must the picture of poor, old, heartbroken Mrs. Thaw come before the mind's eye of this baby's mother, for Harry Thaw was, not long ago, just such a hothouse flower, so choice that he must have anything that money could get, so precious ami cov eted that he must le nursed by an armed policeman and raised in some such a thing as a steel cage, a safety deposit vault, or a refrigerator. Poor little McLean baby! Guarded and caged against beiug a real baby and threatened with 8100,000,000 that he will not have earned! And, too, perhaps when he is a very old man, he will have to die and account for what he did with all that money. The very rich have their sorrows, plenty of them. Think about it! It will soften the envy that may possibly be in your heart Omaha News. TAFTS PLEA TO PARTY. The plea of President Tail to the republicans of America that they for get their differences and unite in a solid front in support of the principles for which republicanism stands, and in rapport of a continuation of pro gressive legislation and redemption of the party platform of 1908, is a doc ument that should be given heed by every citizen of this country who has the welfare of the nation at heart The Taft administration is only half finished. If the pledges made by the republican platform of 1908 are to be carried out in full, as the people want ed them to be carried out when they elected Taft; then the president must be given a congress that will work with him toward the redemption of those pledges, and not one that will block the desired legislation and even overthrow the protective principle that the republican party stands for and restore the free trade of the Cleve land day. The administration has given a downward revision of the tariff and has provided a tariff board that will still further outline reductions in the schedules that need pruning. And if the people want downward revision, the one way in which they can get it is to elect a republican congress that will work with the administration. The election of a democratic house would either mean the overthrowing of the protective principle or blocking all legislation with a result of nothing done, whatsoever. President Taft points to the corpora tion tax, the improvement of the in terstate commerce bill so as to give the government greater supervision, the postal bank savings bill (which democratic Congressman Latta of the Third Nebraska district tried to de feat), the conservation measure, the statehood bill and any number of other important measures. The re cord is the greatest that has been known for so short a time, under any president in our history. On top of that, Tail's administra tion is saving millions of dollars in the expenses of the government, by intro ducing new, economical methods. If there had lieen a democratic con gress, none of the above program of legislation, demanded by the people, would have passed. The action of Latta in opposing the postal bank bill shows how the democrats would have tried to block every measure that came up. Common business judgment would seem to dictate, therefore, that the achievement in the next congress depends upon its being republican. Norfolk News. CHURCH TO RUN PICTURE SHOW. owner ashamed of himself, as the case may be. And when it comes to gorgeous rai ment, Hayward will justify, at least, the retention in our language of that much abused phrase, "the cynosure of all eyes." Nothing like him has been seen in congress since James Hamil ton Lewis betook himself and his pink whiskers to Chicago in quest of riches beside the cool waters of Lake Michigan. Washington has had all too brief a glimpse of William Hayward. As secretary of the republican national committee he has dropped in on us at odd times for a few days, leaving a dazzling streak as he departed, before we'd really gotten accustomed to the elegance of face, figure and garments. Wherefore we want him to come again when he can stay longer. Don't ever get the idea, however, that all there is to William Hayward is good looks and good clothes. Strange as it may seem, he's possessed of real gray matter in spite of them. He's only 34 years old, and his father was a United States senator, but he's got a fine, large war record and has been chairman of the Nebraska republican state central committee. He lives at Nebraska City and has views, primarily, in Cannonism, on deep waterways, on railroad regulation on military reform, on trusts, and on a few other such simple little prob lems. He's a chain lightning debater, and his personality is such that out in Nebraska everybody, from newsboy to governor, calls him "Bill." It's a cinch that his looks and "Bill" couldn't travel together unless he was pretty near right Washing ton Times. it The Chicago Telephone company appears to be incurring an annual loss and the city council has to decide whether to give authority to raise rates. An investigation by technical engineers and expert accountants, who have examined the books of the tele phone company, resulted in a report to the city comptroller of a net annual deficit of $908,533. This is the first time the report of experts justified an increase in charges of a public utility corporation. The report is a disap pointment to the public which had expected further reduction. The claim -is made that it costs more per telephone for service in a large city than in a small city. The larger the city grows the more tele phone service will cost Plant instal-1 lauon is more expensive in the city with its many trunking facilities and .complex switchboard wiring. The particular interest this Chicago dilem ma presents is in the question whether municipal regulation will work or can THE STATE TICKETS. The Bee has refrained up to this time from commenting on the makeup of the state tickets put in nomination at the recent primary for the very good reason that it has not been cer tain, and is not yet certain, who will be the opposing candidates. On the republican side it is fully demonstrated that the ticket will be headed by Chester H. Aldrich, nomi nated for governor by a plurality of approximately 3,500 out of a total vote greatly decreased by the defection of the liberal republicans who went over into the democratic primary to vote for Dahlman. On the democratic side Mayor Dahl man has a small lead over Governor Shallenberger. His margin is so nar row that a recount or contest may yet change the result If Mr. Aldrich is to be pitted against Mayor Dahlman the issue will be sharf.ly defined between wet and dry and will have to be fought out on those lines. If Aldrich has Governor Shallenberger as his opponent, both of them committed to sign a county option bill if passed by the legislature, that issue will be relegated more to the respective senatorial and legislative districts, and the fight for the guber natorial office will be waged around other issues as well. In either event victory or defeat for Mr. Aldrich as head of the ticket must turn on the measure of success his campaign scores in winning back the support of the liberal republicans and in appealing to the democratic and indefiendent voters dissatisfied with the personality or record of the demo cratic candidate. Omaha Bee. A moving picture theatre to be con ducted by churches and Sunday school workers is the substance of a plan now being pushed by Harold Trump, superintendent of the First Congrega tional church Sunday school, and sev eral other Detroit men. The plan has already received the approval of the Wayne County Sun day School Superintendents' associa tion, and negotiations are now in pro gress to raise the necessary funds to take over a theatre already established or build a new one. "The new theatre will be run strict ly on business principles and will be just the same as any other theatre, except that we will cut out all of the features which make the ordinary cheap moving picture house a place of menace to voiincr people." said Mr. Trump the other morning. "We may keep open Sunday and we nay not; we may charge 5 cents and we may charge 10. We will use a good many of the films that the other theatres use, but in addition we will have special films on biblical and semi religious subjects. "They are available in the eastern film exchanges. Travel and other educational pictures will have an im portant part We may and we may not have vaudeville in connection. The details of (he plans are not yet arranged. Most of the money has been raised." Detroit Journal. A SERIOUS DINER. The Way the Great Emperor Charts V. At His Meals. The diary of a German gentleman, Bartholomew Sastrow. who lived In the time of the Emperor Charles V., gives us a good Idea of the gastronom ic customs of those times. Sastrow's description of the table habits of the greatest ruler in bis day is very inter esting. Young princes and counts served the repast. There were invariably four courses of six dishes. The emperor had no one to carve for him. He be gan by cutting his bread in pieces large enough for one mouthful, then attacked bis plate. He often used his fingers while he held the plate under his chin with the other hand. When he felt thirsty be made a sign to the "doctor standing by the table; then they went to the sideboard for two silver flagons and filled a goblet which held aboit a measure and a half. The emperor drained it to the last drop, practically at one draft. During the meal he never uttered a syllable, scarcely smiled at the most amusing sallies of the jesters behind his chair, finally picked his teeth with quills and, after washing his hands, retired to a window recess, where any body could approach him with a petition. 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. The Nature off Friendship. Friendship may be fostered, but can not be forced. Two are as one, not because it is in the will of either, but because it is in the nature of both. When souls of similar fiber encounter each other the gods preside at the meeting. 1 may not cocklly say, "I will make this man my friend." He either is or is not my friend without any decision of mine or his. The ages have been shaping the two of us, and if we fit into each other well and good; if not, we know it instinctively and are worlds apart though we toas our shins at the same fire and bandy words till doomsday. Richard Wightman in Metropolitan Magazine. The Price ef Eloquence. auctioneer held up a battered SALT WATER. Cancelation. There bad been a little quarrel after the honeymoon. "And just look at my pretty linen collar," sobbed the young wife: "the tears have trickled down and wilted it out of shape. You haven't a bit of feeling." "Indeed I have," laughed the big! husband; "I'm going to fix things up." "H-how, George?" "Why, the next time I go downtown I am going to buy you a waterproof collar." Chicago News. A Special Brand. Mrs. Recentmnrrie I want half a dozen red lemons. The Fruiterer Red lemons? Mrs. Recentmarrie Yes, sir; I want to surprise my husband by making him some red lemonade. Chi cago News. The fiddle. "What am I offered for this antique violin?" he pathetically inquired. "Look it over. See the blurred finger murks of remorseless time. Note the stains of the hurrying years. To the merry notes of this fine old instrument the brocaded dames of fair France may have danced the minuet In glittering Versailles. Perhaps the vestal virgins marched to its stirring rhythms in the feasts of Lujtercalla. Ha. it tears :iu abrasion perhais a touch of fire. Why. this may have been the very fiddle ou which Nero played when Rome burned." "Thirty cents," said a red nosed man in the front row. "It's yours!' cried the auctioneer cheerfully. "What next?" Cleveland Plain Dealer. Blessed is the man who has found his work. Let him ask no other bless edness. Thomas Carlyle. IX THK DISTRICT rolIKT OF J'LATIK COUNTY. NKHICASKA. Id I ho matter of Out rotate of Freeman M. ('uoL--inKlmtii. lwwisel Onler to show muse. To all ierftoBH intsresteti in I ho ttate of Freeman 91. (onkioKham. lnased. Thin ranse e-iin on for hearing spun the I tion of Kdici'BMI I. CookiBubata, atlminintrntrix of the ratal f if Freeman M. CoohinKhaiii. '! erased, praying for license to stjll I lit north half of lota nvo (S) and aiz () in block eighteen l Is) of Lorkner'a second addition to the village of Humphrey, Nebraska, for the payment of ttfliin allowed against said estate and cotttHof admini- I ration and it appearing to tho court, that th lenonaI property of said estate w insnSacient ! juiy itaiil debt and eipeneiw. It is therefore ordeird thut all iln interested in wiid estate appear before me at the curt lumsoin i'oiiuu Ihjh. Nebraska, on ( he 22ud day of Octolier. i''iu. at the hour of ten oVIoclca. m., there to how cause, if any then lie. why n license should not lie granted to mid iMiniuifetrntrix to m-11 much of said real eitlate as may be necessary to pay said dehbi and expenses, and that this order be published four succesMve weeks in the Co lo in uuh Journal Dated this 3rd day of September. 1UI0. Geo. It. Thomas, Judge of the district court of Platte county. Nebraska. 'JJ-1 Deep Seas Are More Saline Than Those That Are Shallow. The density of sea water depends upon the quantity of saline matter It contains. The proportion is generally about 3 or 4 per cent, though it varies In different places. The ocean con tains more salt In the southern than in the northern hemisphere, and the Atlantic contains more than the Pa cific. The greatest proportion of salt In tho Pacific is in the parallels of 22 degrees north latitude and IT degrees south latitude. Near the equator it is less, and in the polar seas it is least, from the melting of the ice. The saltness varies with the seasons in these regions, and the fresh water, being lighter, is uppermost. Rain makes the surface of the sea fresher than the Interior parts, and the influx of rivers renders the ocean less salt at their estuaries. Deep seas are more saline than those that are shallow, and inland seas com municating with the main arc less salt, from the rivers that flow into them. To this, however, the Mediterranean Is an exception, owing to great evap oration and the Influx of salt currents from the Black sea and the Atlantic. The water in the strait of Gibraltar at the depth of 670 fathoms is four times as salt as that at the surface. St. James Gazette. Special September Rates I he Language. "This is a pretty state of affairs, isn't "Yes. It is a very ugly matter, be somebody will have to nay handsomelT for if'-New York Journal. A good way to be happy la to try to bo asefal and helpful "BILL HAYWARD." Every lover of the beautiful should rejoice in the nomination of William Hayward as the republican candidate for congress in the First Nebraska district. If he succeeds in defeating his democratic opponent, every wor shiper at the shrine of Apolio and every admirer of perfection in sartor ial art should be grateful for the good taste of the Nebraskans who send him hither. William Hayward is some pumpkins in looks and dress. If he comes he will easily wrest from Ham ilton Fish the title of "handsomest man in the house," for Fish, it mutt be remembered, is handsome in a big, broad, commanding, imperialistic way, while Hayward is a straight out thing of beauty a joy to the eye for as long as the eye can train itself on hie clastic features without making iu Lore ef the Clever. Any one who carries about a four leaved clover will be lucky and will have the power of discovering ghosts or evil spirits. With it under the pil low the lover may Insure dreams of the beloved one. A fragment in the shoe of a traveler insures a safe jour ney. Of the five leaved clover it is de clared that if it be worn on the left aide of a maiden's dress or fastened behind the hall door the Christian name of the first man who enters will be the same as that of the future hus band. The power of the four leaved shamrock for good is familiar to all from Lover's pretty and once popular song, the speaker in which pictures what she would do should she find the magic plant: I would play the enchanter's part and scatter bliss around. And aot a tear or aching heart should in the world be found. London Globe. TO THE EAST: Yon can make an eastern trip at reduced rates any day. and for many eastern trips the limit has been extended to 60 days instead of 3o days. iu aiiwin ufuuii aiu Kb i ukin: special rates, September 13th to 17th for the Grand rny Reunion. NEBRASKA STATE FAIR, LINCOLN: September 4th to 9lh inclusive Special reduced rates and train service from Nebraska points. LOW ONE WAY RATES TO THE COASTr-General basis, only $25.1)1); Angast 25th to September 9th anil October 1st to 15th to California deati nations, and from September 15th to October 15 to the Northwest and Puget Sound. CALIFORNIA EXCURSIONS:-General basis, only $50 00 roand trip, dir.et routes. September 1st to 7th and September 24th to 30tb; $15.00 higher includes the Shasta Route HOMESEEKERS' EXCURSIONS:-lst and :U Tuesdays. Irrigated land assure a crop and values will greatly increase during the immediate future. Is. F. REGTOR. Ticket AffSMt Columbus. Ntbr. L. Ml. WAKfcL&Y. CM'I. rlsjent, Omaha. Near. And Such Is Fame. Mrs. Bluebose Your new boarder si literary, I am told. Mrs. Malaprop Yes, Indeed. Why, with hla books and paper be litters his room worse than any boarder I ever had. Exchange. Miner Operations. Surgeon's Son What Is a "nUaor OBeradoa," pa? Surgeon One for which the fee is less than three figs -New. York Times. BBIBBI LsssKilKslisH I Magazine Binding I Old Books I I Rebound I I In fact, for anything in the book I I binding line bring your work to I I Journal Office I I Phone 184 I rem, isa ns m- m A T Hi 1 2? I I