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ffiolumbus gonrual. Oolumbus. NeVbr. Consolidated with the Columbus Times April 1. 1901; with the l'latte County Argus January 1.10M. KotTMi Kt th Potofflv.ColBmbu,Kbr..M r.osd-olaasmHil mutter TBSVB OF HUBBOBirnOJN One rear, bf mall, postsse prepsld... .$1.80 . .71 . .40 dizmoatha. Tbn WEDNKBDAY. OCTOBER 12, 1P10. 8TKOTHEH &. COMPANY. Proprietors. ttKNKWALU The date opposite your name on oar paper, or wrapper shows to what time your subscription is paid. Thus JanOS shows that payment has been received np to Jan. t, 1806, rb06 to Feb. L. 1KB and so on. When payment is made, the data, which answers as a receipt, ml be changed accordingly. IJiriCONTINOANClCa-ltesponBible mbacrib ers will ooBtinne to receire this Journal until the publisher r.9 notified by letter to discontinue, when all arrearage mast be paiU. If yon do not iah the Journal continued for another year af ter the time paid for has expired, yoa should previously notify as to discontinue it. CHANUE IN AUDliKSH-When ordering a change In the address. subscribers should be sure to gits their old as well as their new address. REPUBLICAN TICKET. For U. S. Senator KI.MKK J. HUItKKTT For CongrebBiiiiiu, Third District JOHN F. HOYD For Governor ('. II. AI.Dl'H'II For Lieutenant-tJovi-rnor M. It. HOPEWELL For Secretary of Slato ADIUSON WAIT For Auditor S1LA8 II. UAKTON For Attorney (icuoral (iHANT (i. MAHTIX For Land CominiMiioner E. li. COWI.ES For Treasnrer WALTEIl A. (iKOUCK For 8uiMrinttnduut Iw-tructiun J.W.CKAlirilEE For Uuilnuul C-oiuiutsHioniT 11ENKY T. CLAKKE. JH For Statu Senator EDWIN HOAltE For State l.eiintH-ut.utivH FKANK SCI1 HAM For County Attorney C. N. McELFKESH For Supervisor, Dint rirt No. 3 C. A. PETEKSON After reading some of the paiers in regard to Senator E. J. Burkett's action? in congress and then read what ex-President Hoosevelt and Senator Dolliver, two of the greatest progress ive men in the United States, have to say in behalf of Senator Unrkett, one can draw his own conclusions that the senator has been greatly misrepresent ed and that he has been working all the time for his constituents in Ne braska. Alexandria Argus. Senator Korris Uiown, in a speech at David City last Saturday, showed up the great interest that ( Jilhert M. Hitchcock, the democratic nominee for the U. S. senate, had in the cause of the people when important measures were before the recent congress. Mr. Hitchcock, who is an aristocrat and silk stocking, kid glove sort of a fellow, it appears, was in Europe having a good time at the people's excuse when our present senator, E. J. Bur kett, was voting for the McCumber amendment to the tariff bill, which put lumber on the free list Senator Brown showed by the Congressional Record and the roll calls made in the senate that Senator Burkett had voted with LaFollette, Bristow, Cummins and Dolliver on all of the amendments that were offered by the progressives to the tariff bill, while the same was under consideration. That when Bur kett was voting for the amendment offered by McCumber putting lumber on the free list, Congressman Hitch cock, who is now a candidate for sena tor, was in Europe spending the salary paid him by the people to represent them in congress. Pierce Call. A BLANK SPACE. At the head of this column appears the democratic ticket. It will be noticed that wc do not print the name of the democratic nominee for United States senator. For more than twenty-five years the editor "of the Telegram has been doing his part in promoting the democratic cause in Nebraska. We admit that sometimes we have supported demo cratic candidates not as good as they might have been, whose personality was not pleasing to the editor, but in such cases we placed party duty above personal feeling. But now we are face to face with a situation in which duty as a citizen demands that duty as a partisan must take a back seat. We dare not sup port G. M. Hitchcock, the democratic nominee for the United States senate. Our opposition is not personal. We entertain no sentiment of ill will toward the man, personal!', nor in deed toward any man. We shall oppose his election because of his bad record in dealing with a public matter. That record is so bad that it will pre vent him from receiving the vote of any Nebraskau who knows the record. We have been hoping that Mr. Hitchcock would withdraw from the ticket, and thus forbid the necessity of a public discussion of his record, which discussion might injure the deserving candidates on the democratic ticket It shall not be our part to make public the hideous details concerning the record of Mr. Hitchcock's dealings in this matter of state. Perhaps the record may not be made public daring the campaign. But, having knowl edge of that record, the Telegram, in the exercise of a sacred duty toward the cause of good citizenship, must decline to support Mr. Hitchcock. We are aware that this action on our part will bring down upon our head the clubs of some democratic editors who hold duty to the party higher than duty to the state. We have taken everything into consideia tion. We yield to the call of a public duty, no matter how serious may be the effect upon the Telegram and its editor. We ask no man's sympathy in this fight, if he should believe that our opposition to Mr. Hitchcock is personal, but we do ask the sympathy of every man who places the duty of the citizen higher than the duty of the partisan. We know that when the men of Nebraska shall know the record as we know it, they will desert the cause of the candidate as rats desert an unseawortlry ship. Some will ask why we do not make public the record. We reply that we do not have permis sion to make it public at this time. We received the story and the proof of it under the seal of secrecy. Per haps the seal may be broken tomorrow perhaps next week perhaps the week following. Perhaps Mr. Hitchcock may notify the state committee that he has with drawn from the ticket, and then it will not lie necessary to publish the shame fill story. Columbus Telegram. FOUR OF A KIND. Four favorite sons have thus far been entered in the democratic free for all presidential race nearly two years in advance. Ohio has its Harmon, Texas has its Bailey, Georgia its Smith, Missouri its Folk. And still there are more to come. New York is sure to bring out Gaynor, Indiana may project Marshall, New Jersey is likely to liack Woodrow Wilson, should he win for governor, and Illi nois, if it can split its affection between Carter Harrison and J. Ham Lewis, may yet be in the race for old time's sake. Besides all these, Missouri, should David R. Francis win out for senator, is likely to have two favorite son candidates. It is of interest to note these facts just now while democrats are talking about harmony. But why talk, do not these facts speak for themselves? Is there need for anyone to argue that harmony reirus with this array of ambitious favorite sens before him? And the national campaign is yet two years ofil How many candidates there will be by 1112 is beyond the ken of any man to determine. If the leaven of harmony keeps up its work it may raise a score of them. But should the number of entries lie kept down to the present there would be enough to make an interesting race. Say, for instance, that only Harmon, Bailey, Smith, Folk and Gaynor en tered the preliminaries for the nomina tion; there is one eastern man, Gaynor; two middle western men, Harmon and Folk, and three southern men, Folk, Smith and Bailey. Where is the seer who would like to undertake the task of forecasting the result of figuring out the alignment between the five aspir ants? Harmony, indeed! And thus early in the campaign, too. No wonder democratic editors and orators are anxious to divert attention to the re publicans. Omaha Bee. A PROPHECY BY LINCOLN. There are not many people who know that President Abraham Lin coln looked into the future during the Civil War and prophesied that the next generation following him would see the initiative and referendum adopted by every state in the Union. This is the statement of A. H. McCor mick, a member of the last legislature from Crawford county, Kansas, and republican nominee for reelection. "I heard President Lincoln tell General Grant and General Meade that the initiative and referendum was bound to become universal in the United States." said Mr. McCormick. "I was a Union soldier. Just a short time before the breaking of the rebel lines in front of Petersburg, President Abraham Lincoln visited Gen. Grant at City Point on the James river. At that time I was crippled in the left arm by a musket shot and was detailed as mail agent for the Second Corps. I frequently made trips from the front to City Point One day General De Fobriann gave me a letter and ordered me to deliver it to General Meade. He asked for a reply. When I enter ed General Meade's tent I found with him General Grant and President Lincoln and two other officers. They had evidently been talking earnestly about Switzerland. They stopped when I entered the tent I presented I my letter to General Meade. He read it and said: " 'Tell the general yes." ' "I was about to withdraw when a sudden thunder shower burst Gen eral Meade turned to me and said: 'Soldier, ait down and wait for the rain to quit' I sat on a camp stool in rather a dark corner of the tent Apparently not noticing my presence President Lincoln continued the con versation evidently where he had left off when I came in. Turning to Gen eral Grant, he said: " 'General, the day will come, but it will not be in your day or mine, when every state in this Union will have the initiative and referendum. When that day comes the people will rule, the people will rule.' As he said this he brought his fist down on the table with such vehemence that he over turned the ink bottle. I knew short hand. I sat there and took the con versation as it was given. When I returned to my camp I made two copies of President Lincoln's remarks. I sent one copy home and kept the other. I carried it in my family Bible. I still have it "It was many years after before I realized what President Lincoln had meant by the initiative and referen dum. I became an advocate of the principle. It was I who introduced in the last house Concurrent Resolution No. 2. This called for the initiative and referendum. It was lost I int tend to try again this winter if I am sent back to the house." ARKANSAS, A REVERIE. The years have flown swiftly since the old Arkansas traveler days, and on the site of the "squatter's" cabin there towers a college, and on the banks of the Thames ripe lawyers read the decisions rendered by the son of the boy that sat in the ashhopper listening in wonder to old Faulkner's fiddle. One by oue the old-timers, in dividualism underscored with a heavy stroke, have dropped out, giving place to cultivation and the art of liuguistic skill, and with Dryden I am constrain ed to believe that "what we gained in -kill we lost in strength." For romance, poetry and heroic men in every age have turned to the past, but in Arkansas romance and charact ers were contemporaneous. 1 he cot ton field in bloom, the melancholy cy press, brooding sentinel over the dreamy waters of the bayou, the joy ous mocking bird worshiping a sunrise which he himself had "melodied," the song of the negroes, away off some where, chimes from the lielfry of happy souls; the quaint old planter, sitting on his veranda, humorous under a mortgage, calling out to passersby: "What's your hurry out there? Get down, come in and pay your respects to the ladies while I make you the finest julep you ever smacked your mouth over, sir." Where stood his rambling old house now stands a cot ton mill. Do you see that dead apple tree, the only remaining relic of an orchard away over yonder on the hill? Beneath its decaying boughs the old man bleeps. And do you hear those men laughing out there in that auto mobile? The grandson has just repeated one of the old fellow's stories. The young man has returned from the state uni versity. He knows Ovid and can splutter Pindar, hut he has no imag ination. The old man was the troub adour; the young chap is only an elocutionist I recall oue night at a neighltoring reception given in honor of a foppish poet whose fame, native in Vicksburg, stretched thinly up and down the Mississippi. Among the guests was the old man who now sleeps beneath the dead apple tree. Sopho mores would not have accepted him as a scholar, hut philosophers would have looked upon him as one of their guild. He did not kuow many books, but among those of his intimate acquaint ance were Swift, Fielding and Shakes peare. The river poet resented his literary opinions, expressed surely with mildness and decorum, and turning upon the old man snarled at him. "Colonel," he said with a sneer, "perhaps you don't know as much alout such matters as I do." "Ah, as much as you think you do." "Think I do! Old man, I have written more poems than you eyer read." "Yes, you have written more poems than anybody ever read." (Opie Read in National Magazine.) TIMOTHY WEBSTER, SPY. Allan Pinkerton, under the nom de querrc "Maj. . J. Allen," organized and commanded the first military se cret service of the Federal armv. Timothy Webster, without question, followed his chief and former employ er into the new field; within a few days he had begun one of the most remarkable careers of which there is record in that remarkable service. Almost from the first he occupied that most dangerous position known in warfare, the double spy, the man who serves two masters, who carries water on both shoulders. He served the South with the knowledge of the North he gave that he might in greater measure take; he betrayed, with per mission, the Federal government in little things, in order that his oppor tunities in the Confederacy might be form more complete betrayal. He was all things to all Southern men an actor of a thousand roles; unerring ly he read character almost at a glance shrewdly chose his role his bait as an angler selects his fly from the many in his fly book, and cunningly made his cast of that personality which bid fair to entice his quarry into trustful ness; wherever he would he hooked his man. In Alabama they would have made him colonel of a regiment; in Balti more he was a member of the "Knights of Liberty;" Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Virginia, Mary land he was known to the foremost citizens of the principal cities, and to the commanding officers of camps and fortifications and armies, as an ardent Confederate who was doing inqiortant work for the cause; until at last as his position strengthened and as those persons who vouched for him were men of greater influence, he became a trusted emissary of the Confederate War Department in Richmond. There was no more daugerous Union spy within the Confederacy. His connection with the Lincoln as sassination conspirators was the chief, almost the sole, means of accomplish ing this result For the most part the members of the plot were men of posi tion and of wide acquaintance through out the South; and Webster, who was believed to have fled to avoid arrest, as had many of the others, now went to those of his fellow conspirators who had returned to Perrymansville and Baltimore. He did not ask for their help instead: "I am going to attempt to get South,' said he; "perhaps I can do you some favor there at least carry letters to where they may be safely posted; per haps bring others back to you." And they gladly gave him letters to be posted, or to be delivered in person in those cities to which he was going letters that in efTect said, "Open se same this, our friend, is already prov ed." And the Confederates of Mem phis and BowlingGreenaud Louisville, Mobile and Nashville, aud later of Richmond itself, welcomed hin:, and he charmed them until he was intro duced among their friends, and loaded down with letters to be delivered when he should go north again. He was working within a circle, operating an endless chain; it seems very simple credentials for any time or place! But all these letters, whether going South or coming North, stopped in transit at the headquarters of Allan Pinkerton, and were read, and their contents copied, before being resealed and allowed to continue on their journey. There was no limit to his capacity for gaining information for the Union. Yet each trip that he made was like a cumulative poison only a question of repetition to result in certain death. Timothy Webster served the Union for just twelve months; and the re cord of each month would in itself furnish ample material for an entire story. In a Pennsylvania city Pittsburg he was mistaken for a Confederate spy and nearly lynched by a hot-headed mob, from which he was saved only by the opportune arrival of Allan Pinkerton. Together, backed against the wall, with drawn revolvers, they held off the mob, until the chief of H)lice rescued and identified them. In Tennessee, on his very first trip into the Confederacy, he incurred the suspicion of a member of a committee of safety of which each community was well supplied to investigate and question strangers. He was "shadow- ed" from city to city; and at last .took a train for Chattanooga, though he did not wish to go there; he dared not start North until the man had lieen disposed of. It almost seemed as though his mind had been read; the man he had entered the same car with Webster was now for the first time in company with another. The train had gone but a few miles when a lady came and sat down beside Web ster. Presently, without looking at him, she whispered: "I am no enemy to a Union man. I have overheard two men say that if you try to go North they will 'get' you; they believe you are a Yankee spy." He whisper ed his thanks, but she did not speak to him again. At a way-station he got off and walked up and down be side the train. The two men also got off, and he felt them stealthily watch ing. v- "Conductor," he said, in a loud voice, "tell me a good hotel in Hum boldt; I must stop there several days." The train reached Humboldt in a deluge of rain. Webster and those passengers alighting there scurried for the shelter of the station; almost at the door there stood a heap of baggage and Webster darted behind it; he saw his men, blinded by the dashing rain, and certain that he was ahead of them ran across the street into the hotel. He had intended to take his old train the moment it should start, but when it was about to pull out a northbound train arrived aad when it left Hum boldt for the North Timothy Webster was on board. He never saw the two men again. William G. Beymer in October Harper's. QUEER NATURAL HISTORY. Some Curieus Eighteenth Century De scriptions ef Animals. Some curious speclmcnts of folklore and natural history are contained in a rare book called "The Sportsman's Dictionary," which was published to ward the end of the eighteenth cen tury. The author was evidently a Philistine among Philistines in bis at titude toward nature. Of the master musician, the black bird, he says: "This bird Is known by all persona and Is better to be eaten than kept being much sweeter to the palate when dead and well roasted than to the car while living; sings about three months in the year, or four at most though his song Is worth nothing, but If he be tanght to whistle he Is of some value, being very loud, though coarse." And here is a story of the squirrel with the ring In it of the seventeenth even more than the eighteenth cen tury. It reminds one of the hares of Izaak Walton, that changed their sex es once a year: "If what is reported of them be true the admirable cunning of the squirrel appears in her (where we commonly use 'his when the sex need not be specified our ancestors often used 'her) swimming or passing over a riv er, for when she is constrained by hunger so to do she seeks out some rind or small bark of a tree, which she sets upon the water and then goes Into It, and, holding up her tail like a sail, lets the wind drive her to the other side and carries meat In her mouth to prevent being famished by the length of the voyage." Of the wild boar we have this: "And what place soever he bites, whether man or dog, the heat of his teeth causes Inflammation in the wound. If there fore he does but touch the hair of a dog he burns off nay, huntsmen have tried the heat of his teeth by laying hairs on them as soon as he was dead, and they have shriveled up as If touch ed with a hot iron." WIND AND NERVES. Effects of Breezes From the East, West and Northwest. The east winds hug the earth close ly and gather moisture, dust and bac teria. They are cold and humid, al together forming an enervating influ ence on human ami animal life and rendering it susceptible to the disease germs which the winds carry and dis seminate. The coal, pure northwest winds come from a region of dry, highly electrified air where ozone exists in comparatively large quantities. They are invigorating. The framework of nerves in the human being is like a delicate electrical apparatus, the nerves being the wires and the brain and ganglia receiving and distributing centers. Every one knows that a telephone works better on a clear, dry day than on a wet. muggy one. The moist at mosphere lessens vitality. The nerve wires grow flaccid and heavy. The messages become confused. Ilenco low spirits, melancholia, distorted mental outlook, faulty assimilation, and disease. The opposite effects &ovr from the northwest winds. The west and northwest winds keep the mucous membranes of the body in good work ing order. The coating of moisture which is always present with the cast wind disappears. Absence of any wind if long continued has a bad ef fect on the human body and mind. A prolonged calm means lack of ven tilation on a great scale. The winds serve to mix In normal proportions the gases which compose the atmo sphere, and in this way they are con ducive to health up to a certain point Beyond about twenty miles an hour their influence begins to be unfavor able. Chicago Tribune. Dropped In on the Bears. The removing of the polar bears at the zoo recalls that some years back a visitor dronned in on these bears. A hat fell into the pit. and its owner at once jumped in after it. He alight ed on a bear who was enjoying a doze In the sun. The bear made him wel come. It seized him by the shoulder and waltzed htm round and round. Luckily the visitor kept his feet until a keeper opened a side door and pulled him into safety. But the hat was left behind. On the. following day the man sent to the society a letter in which he claimed the cost of a new hat Lon don Tatler. A Vicious Fish. In South America there Is a small fish that not only attacks its fellows of the sea and river, but is greatrjr dread ed by the natives, who during certain seasons have to ford the streams in which the carbitos arc-found. Bathers are often attacked by tbem. the sharp, chisel shaped teeth taking a bit from the flesh wherever they attack. They are perfect .scavengers, eating the ani mals that -f oat down the river dead or alive. Couldn't I ell. "Has your pocket ever beeuplcked?" "Really. 1 don't know. It never was befoe I got married. If it has been since I. of course, would hove no way of finding-out about it" Chicago Record-Herald. The Inspiration. "This Is a pretty good poem. You must have had some strong Inspira tion." "I had. The-editor promised me $10." Loulsville4Courieronnial. The heart of a loving woman is a golden sanctuary where often f there reigns an Idol of clay-Llmmrae. L There is Like the Now then, since the climate ii Good, toil productive, crops remunerative,nuriall abundant, water pure and land values certain to raise, why not buy now.? Tou have thought many times that you would go out and buy as soon as you could get away, but. you have put it off time and again until you have practi cally forgotten about it. Did you ever atop to think that the man who ACTS QUICKLY gets his profit from fellows who WAIT A WHILE? We have made scores of sales to men this year whom we asked last year to come out and buy for far less money. We will make scores of sales this com ing year to men who would come now and buy for far less money than they will pay when they do come, imply because NOW is the Time to BUY. KARR SL NEWLON Exclusive Columbus agents for the choice districts of Cheyenne county farm lands. Excursions every week. Fare refunded to buyers. Thurston Hotel Building, Columbus, Neb. HELPED BY HUMIDITY. Many Materials and Products Which Require Meist Air. There are many materials, operations and products whteb require special atmospheric conditions for advanta geous or profitable maintenance. Prin cipal among such operations Is the manufacture of textiles, perhaps the largest single Industry carried on In factories. In the favored climate of the Lancashire district of Englaad the natural climate affords working con ditions equaled In America only on oc casional days In certain localities. Even in England, however, there are many days In which the atmosphere is too dry for the best work. Since textile fibers are increased In strength and elasticity by high humid ity and moderately high temperature, breakages are less frequent under proper conditions, and the output is in creased. But even before the fiber reaches the manufacturing plant at mospheric humidity plays an Important part Cotton loses weight as it dries out. but. more than that, the fibers bristle and appear shorter and of lower grade than when slightly moistened. Leather, feathers and many other por ous substances lose a considerable per centage of weight In drying oat. so that the maintenance of average and uni form humidity In the storage rooms OCTOBEK THE HOMESEEKERS' EXCURSIONS on the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays to the West, Southwest and South offer an ex cellent opportunity for a journey of inspection or pleas ure, during the autumn and winter, through the fast grow ing localities where land is constantly increasing in value. THE CHEAP ONE-WAY RATES TO THE PACIFIC COAST are in effect this year only until October 15. Go early and escape the final rush for sleeper accommodations. Every day round trip Coast rates are in effect this winter; gen eral basis $90.00, and $15.00 higher via Shasta. THE DAILY WINTER TOURIST RATES to Southern re sorts become effective about November 1st These rates with their desirable routes and privileges, together with the out door and hotel attractions of the Southland, should appeal to many looking to avoid the rigors of a northern winter. L. . MMKBLfcY. ssl Mapiue 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 no Time Present nas a i;ri-t-i :id vantage to ilu nwuer la nialiiiiiiiuim the value of his goods as I hey n in the warehouse. Cigars and toluitvtt luxe flavor Id dry air and regain it to home extent, after loss, by storage In proiier humldlied rooms. Woodeu furniture and musical iaatru tneutM are sometimes cracked or the faith Injured by the dry air of steam heated rooms. All these and other similar goods are advantageously worked or stored in rooms te which the atmospheric humidity Is artificially controlled and kept at.the nost desira ble point. Engineering. Against His Convictions. "Have some of tills Welsh rabbit. Bjouson;" asked Bjunes as be stirred the golden concoction in the chatlug dish. -No, thanks. BJonesey." returned Bjonson. patting bis stomach tenderly. MI am unalterably opposed to all cor poration taxes.' Harper's Weekly. ' Off Again. "I met your husband In town. lie was very much elated" The villain: He told me.be would never take another drop. Houston Post. He who would do a great thing welt must first have done the simplest thing perfectly, c'ady. BWMMEWIJf k. F. RE6T0R. TlGkwt Atnt Gvlumbut. Ntbr. Gen'l. Mt I ; y i f 2 y it
