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CHANGE IN ADDBE8S-When ordering a aaang la the address, subscribers should be sore to give their old aa well as their new address. Taking the country as a whole, the election just past brought an end to more personal attacks than has been usual in recent years. In New York Mr. Roosevelt has been a target for a remarkable fire of criticism, and he has not taken it in silence by any means. In Nebraska personalities entered more largely than could have been wished, mainly because of the extreme personal vulnerability of the two leading democratic candidates. The mere publishing of Dahlman's speeches and of Mr. Hitchcock's let ters constituted "mud-throwing." More genuine mud was used against the republican candidate for governor than against any other candidate, however. So general has been the disposition to pick personal flaws in the candidates that many a man will feel like falling back upon the Epicu rean rule: A wise man will not enter political life unless something extraor dinary should occur. The free man will take his free laugh at those who are fain to be reckoned in the list with Lycurgus and Solon. Lincoln Journal. COATLESS LAWYERS BARRED. The lawyers of Rome, Ga., are said to be greatly stirred up over an inva sion of their ancient rights by the judi ciary of that place. The edict has gone forth that hereafter attorneys musi not appear in the Roman forums without their coats on, and the anguish of spirit which the bar has suffered be cause of this oppressive measure is said to have been intense. On the day the new rule went into effect the Hon. Sea born Wright, the noted prohibition advocate and a leading lawyer, very nearly got himself into serious trouble by coming into court without either coat or necktie. By the aid of a rear guard of friends he managed to beat a hasty retreat in time to escape a fine for contempt, but it was a close call. From Law Notes. INSURING NATURAL RE SOURCES. With all the progress that has been made in the conserving of natural re sources, the Nation has not yet taken the first great step in this direction, so far as the saving of the forests is con cerned. That first great step would be a sufficient investment in the Forest Service practically to insure the great timber lands against fire. No matter what that service would cost, within the bounds of probability, the rate of insurance, computed along the conven tional lines of fire insurance estimates, would be exceedingly low. In the recent great fires in the Northwest, covering a period of about two weeks, the loss in matured timber alone was approximately 200 million dollars, and more than one hundred lives were lost. This destroyed timber would have been equal to the average cut of timber in the whole country for two years.or 80 billion board feet. We deplore the enormous and increasing consumption of timber in this country in view of the inadequate provision for replacing it to any great extent by reforestation or original planting, yet here in one series of fires enough tim ber to have supplied the cutters for two years has been destroyed. The fires could have been prevented and should have been prevented. The fault is not with the Forest Service, but with Congress for not making that service adequate to pat rol all the great forest reserves and, in co-operation with private patrols, to cover the great forest areas throughout the country. The stopping of fire de struction is one of the most imperative duties of the government As a policy it is merely that the wise business man who can have fire protection at a low rate of insurance, with the distinction that the insurance cost to the govern ment would be very much lower than it is to the private individual for pro perty of relative value. Kansas City Star. LIBERTY AND THE LAW. The history of liberty is a history of law. Men are not free when they merely conceived what their rights should be. They are not set free by philosophies of right Their theories of the rights of man may even lead them astray, may make them break their hearts -in pursuit of hopes they can never realize, objects they can never grasp, ideals that will forever elude them. Nothing is more practi cal than the actual body of liberty. It consists of definitions based upon experience, or rather of practices that are of the very essence of experience. A right is worth fighting for only when it can be put into operation. It can be put into operation only when its scope and limitation can be accurate ly defined in terms of legal procedure; and even then it may amount to noth ing if the legal procedure be difficult, costly or complicated. Liberty of speech is defined in the law of slander and of libel, and becomes mere license against which there is no protection if the law of slander or of libel be difficult or costly or uncertain to apply. Lib erty of the person is defined only when the law has carefully enumerated the circumstances in which it may be vio lated, the circumstances in which ar rests and imprisonments and army drifts and all the other limitations up on which society may insist for its pro tection or convenience, will be lawful. Its reality, its solidarity, consists in the definiteness of the exceptions, in the practicality of the actual arrange ments. And it is part of its definiteness and reality that liberty is always personal, never aggregate; always a thine inher ing in individuals taken singly, never in groups or corporations or communi ties. The indivisible unite of society is the individual. He is also the in digestible unit He cannot be merged or put into combination without being lost to liberty, because lost to inde pendence. Make of him a fraction in stead of an integer and you have bro ken his spirit, cut off the sources of life. That is why I plead so earnestly for the individulization of responsibility within the corporation, for the estab lishment of the principle by law that a man has no more right to do wrong as a member of a corporation than as an individual. Establish that principle, cut away the undergrowth of law that has sprung up so rankly about the corporation and made of it an ambush and covert, and it will give every man the right to say no again, to refuse to do wrong, no matter who orders him to do it It will make a man of him. It is in his interest no less than in the interest of society, which must see it that wrong doing is put a stop to. We are upon the eve of a great re construction. It calls for creative statesmanship as no age has done since that great age in which we set up the government under which we live, that government which was the admiration of the world until it suffered wrongs to grow up under it which have made many of our own compatriots question the freedom of our institutions and preach revolution against thera I do not fear revolution. I do not fear it even if it comes. I have unshaken faith in the power of America to keep its self-possession. If revolution comes, it will come in peaceful guise, as it came when we put aside the crude government of the confederation and created the great federal state which governed individuals, not corporations, and which has been these hundred and thirty years our vehicle of progress. And it need not come. I do not be lieve for a moment that it will come. Some radical changes we must make in our law and practice. Some recon structions we must push forward which a new age and new circumstances im pose upon us. But we can do it all in calm and sober fashion, like statesmen and patriots. Let us do it also like lewyers. Let us lend a hand to make the structure symmetrical, well pro portioned, solid, perfect. Let no fut ure generation have cause to accuse us of having stood aloof, indifferent, half hostile or of having impeded the reali zation of right Let us make sure that liberty shall never repudiate us as its friends and guides. We are the servants of society, the bond-servants of justice. Woodrow Wilson in the North America Review. THE SPIRIT OF SOUTH AFRICA. The spirit of South Africa is a sav age recluse. From the gray dawn of the world he ruled undisturbed the gigantic barren leagues of desert and plain, whose sullen, cowering peoples propitiated him with sinster sacrifices. Then came the intruders, the fearless and insolent white men, breaking the barriers of perilous rocks and currents, feverish swamps and waterless deserts. Leaving their dead behind, they pushed over into the heart of the land, and found at last the gold and dia monds. Perhaps he needed more sacrifices. If so, he had his desire, for the souls as well as the bodies of men perished in uncounted number in the frantic and unholy battle of gain. la the Africa I love, the splendid, virile land of danger and romance, like a boy's dream' come true, the spirit of the land is bat half awakened. Does he dream of past kingdoms, crumbled ages ago to dust, and will he rouse himself to see a strong young race poskiag.before it the buffalo and the lion? He does not care. They may turn on you, rending to a quiver ing mass that which was once a man, and fever and thirst will take their tribute of our bravest He is wholly indifferent, as far from any vindietive ness as from sympathy. But the rains twice a year spread living green over the parched plains, large scented blue water lillies surprise you with their beauty, starring the muddy reach of a sluggish stream, and in a solitary glade of the gray, primeval forest you may stumble upon a kaleidoscopic dance of great swal low tailed butterflies that takes your breath away. Something of the charm of the child hood of the world clings to the coun try. You may come across a Masai herd boy piping on a reed under a tree, the flock of grave brown sheep and goats cropping around him. The lovely lines of his limbs are uncon cealed by the loose hide slung over his shoulder; but for his chocolate skin you would dream yourself back in ancient Greece, a startled dryad van ishing into the forest, and the echoes of the mocking laughter of Pan still haunting the air. Janet Allardyce in Scribner. LIONESS FOR BUFFALO JONES. But the lioness did not run far. Her next and last position was in the bed of asmall gully about three feet deep in the bottom of the domaand thickly grown with grasses. Here the ropers held a brief consultation and planned a final attempt Loveless made a throw and the noose landed fairly above the beast's head, but the thick grasses held it up. Loveless passed the other end of his rope over the branch of a near-by tree and down to the horn of his saddle. The rest of us, with the cameras trained on the scene, had no knowl edge of the plan. We had the slight est idea what Colonel Jones intended to do. Still wondering, we watched him procure a long pole and ride quietly along the edge of the ditch toward the place where the lioness crouched. For a moment there was intense silence. The colonel stopped his horse. Then, leaning over from his saddle, he poked the noose down through the grass. With a roar the beast sprang at him sprang through the loop and at the other end of the rope Loveless yanked quickly and caught her by the last hind leg going through. Putting spurs to his horse, Loveless galloped away, hauling the lioness back across the gully and up into the tree, where she swung to and fro, dangling by the one hind foot and snapping upward at the rope she could not reach. "Got her!" yelled "Buffalo." "Now the rains can come when they like." The beast was furious. She was still swinging, head down like a pen dulum, from the limb of the tree, and was tossing her body about in frantic endeavor to get loose. Means ap proached close and deftly slipped a noose over one of the wildly gyrating fore legs. Leading his rope over the branch of another tree, he stretched her out in a helpless position parallel with the ground. "Now lower away on both lines," said the colonel. He dismounted and stood beneath her, directing affairs as methodically as the foreman of a construction gang. "Steady, Means a little more, Loveless now together easy." She came within his reach, and with a quick grab he caught and held her two hind legs with both hands while Kearton bound them together with a piece of light line. The rest was easy. In less than five minutes she was bound securely and lowered all the way to the ground to rest in the shade. It was nearly noon and time to call a halt to let the heat of the day pass before attempting to bring her back to camp. Porters were sent to fetch food and more water, horses were off- saddled and turned loose to graze and one by one the dogs came straggling in. The men stretched themselves out on the ground where a bush or a tree afforded some protection from the sun. But the colonel kept wandering over to the prize, to examine a knot, to arrange a better shade, or to pour the last drops of water from his canteen into her open mouth. Once he stood over her for a while, watching her vain attempts to cut the ropes with her teeth. "Yes, you're a beauty," he finally said. "You're certainly a beauty. I guess we'll just have to take you home with us as a souvenir of the trip." Quy H. Scull, in November Everybody's. GLADSTONE AND DISRAELI. It is a curious thing that the adora tion of political England should all this time have been divided, though not in equal proportions, between two illustrious men, and governed first by one and then the other of them, neither of whom she more than half under stood or even pretended to understand. Palmerston, for instance, was one of the most plain headed men that ever became prime minister. In his two successors political fortune brought ex traodinary paradox. Mr. Gladstone, from the day when he resigned about Maynooth, offered to his most ardent friends endless puzzles. He would have scorned to call himself by any name but Catholic, and amid all his vicissitudes was ever the most devoted son of the church of England. Yet he was the idol of Protestant ultras, the political hero of Scotch Presbyter ians and English independents, not to name the small but ardent band of Rationalists, some of whom were his stoutest henchmen to the end. Disraeli's apotheosis was just as strange. Mr. Gladstone used to tell how one day, sitting on the bench while Disraeli was making -a strenuous peech for the removal of Jewish disa bilities, Lord John Russell whispered: "Look at the fellow, how manfully he sticks to it, though he knows that every word he says is gall and wormwood to every man who sits around him and be hind him!" It took him a generation to drive the Ghetto out of the minds of the country gentlemen. He was re galed with a host of nicknames from every quarter indicative of mystery and legerdemain. Yet after some five and thirty years of it a huge ma jority of English voters at last hailed him for first minister. The strange riddle stands over. Meanwhile we do not forget that one who began his career by so much lit erary extravagance as the present vol ume recalls, yet when he came to the great business of his life, the creation and working of a powerful political party, showed himself cool, shrewd, patient, far sighted, practical, full of tactical resource, a consummate mas ter of the fatiguing art of managing men, and those, too, the kind of men to whom he was not by race only but by temperament and deepest habits a chartered alien. He grew larger, and not less, as time went on, even down to the days of disaster and overthrow in 1880. Those who were in confiden tial relations with him at that baleful hour have recorded, as the present writer has said elsewhere, how the fall en minister, who had counted on a very different result, faced the ruin of his government, the end of his career and the overwhelming triumph of his antagonist with an unclouded serenity and a greatness of mind worthy of a man who bad known high fortunes and filled to the full the measure of his gifts and his ambitions. John Morley in the London Times. WASTING TIME. f An Ottawa man is delivering a ser ies of lectures in which he endeavors to prove that the scriptural account of the creation does not agree with the teachings of geologists and other scien tists. He argues that religion must be a pipe dream because of this. In order to get. material for his lec tures he has been studying and grub bing around for years, and nothing that he says makes any difference. The silliest tiling a man can do is to try to prove that religions are wrong. He kicks against a stone wall and bruises his corns but he doesn't hurt the wall. There are so many useful employ ments open to every man that it is al most criminal wasting time as this Ottawa man wastes it He would be far better employed shucking corn or driving mules or pounding sand. Eveiything that he says has been said a million times before, and by abler men, without knocking any of the fea tures off religion. At Ottawa there is a man named JefTeries, who makes cider and vinegar which he claims is the best in Kansas, and it must be good for he sells a lot of it How much better and wiser it is to make vinegar than to fuss around trying to prove that this or that creed is out of plumb. Emporia Gazette. ' WOMEN AND WAR. John Ruskin says that women could end war if they would go at it right. Here is his suggestion: "It tell you more, that at whatever moment you choose to put a period to war you could do it with less trouble than you take any day to go out to dinner. You know, or at least you might known if you would think, that every battle you hear of has made many widows and orphans. We have none of us, heart enough truly to mourn with these. But, at least, we might put on the outer symbols of mourning with them. Let every lady in the upper classes of civilized Europe simply vow that, while any cruel war proceeds, she will wear black a mute's black with no jewel, no ornament, nor excuse for evasion into prettiness I tell you again no war would last a week." That would certainly do it As powerful as the thunder of heaven woald be the silence of that black garb. A kindred expression could be used in overthrowing many abuses and injustices. The women could run this world, if they would go at it in the right way; if they could, in some concen trat ed way, project their protest among the nations in which they live From the Ohio State Journal (Columbus.) FINDING LOST THINGS IN GER MANY. Take care how you pick up a thing that is lost in Berlin. The other day one of our deputies going through the Prussian capital on his return from the congress at Frankfort noticed a key at the edge of the sidewalk. He picked it up to hand it to a police agent The representative of the city police refused to take it, saying: "You should take this key to the special bureau of things that are lost" "Very well, where is it?" The agent named the street "Is it far from here?" "A half hour, three-quarters of an hour if you don't walk rapidly." The deputy replaced the key on the pavement "Someone else will pick it up," he said. "Not at all," said the agent in a commanding tone. "You should have left it where it was, but now you are obliged to go to the bureau. If you don't I'll make a complaint against you and you'll be fined, perhaps given a day in prison. That's the law." The deputy was compelled to obey orders. ' Since that day he carries his hands in his pockets. From Le Cri de Paris. Fleet Foottd Postmen of Venice. Probably the letter carriers In Venice are the most ingenious in the world. They know how to dodge every water way, turning up on their routes with a precise regularity tbut convinces you they have mapped every scrap of the damp city's dry land on their brains. If you go tti your destination by gon dola they csn beat you thereto by a good bit ef time. What they know about canals has been applied by them to navigation on land, and they know every tiuy street in the city. Of course there are postofBce gon dolas, too, gay yellow things that quite outcolor the yellow sunlight, and any day you happen over the bridge of the Rialto you will see them all fastened to their red and gold poles just under neath the old palatial Fondaco del Tedeschi, which centuries ago by de cree of the Venetian senate two fa mous architects of early days, Girola mo Tedesco and Giorgio Spavento, built for the use of the many German merchants then living In Venice (some where about the year 1503). Travel Magazine. Tha Mystery of a Dust Having fought bis duel and saved his honor by firing a shot In the ah, the editor of a French provincial newspaper went back to his desk, and thu Incident bad quite left his mind when he felt something strange In his thigh. He looked and found that he was bleeding profusely. A doctor was called, who discovered that a bullet was Imbedded In the editor's thigh some two inches deep and required extraction. "Why was this not taken notice of on the spot where the duel took place?' he asked. The editor was as much in the dark as the doc tor. At the moment of the duel he had fired Into the air, and bis adver sary also took a distracted sort of aim. There had evidently been no in tention of doing the slightest harm on either side. The editor felt nothing as he left the field and had shaken handsiwlth his antagonist as a sign of reconciliation. How a bullet came to be lodged, in his thigh was simply one of the mysteries of dueling. London Telegraph. An Irish Grand Prix. There was once an Irish Grand Prix. The horse that lowered the French colors was the property of an eccen tric Irishman named Conolly and was a big, bony roan, not much to look at in the way of horseflesh, so it was a great surprise to everybody but his owner when he came In first His previous record at the English Derby tho preceding year had not been bril liant enough for anybody to lay any large bets on him, with the sole excep tion of ConoDy himself, whose faith in his entry was so great that he mort gaged his lands and put every cent on the horse. Up to the very end of the race everybody looked on Conolly as a mined man, but when the roan shot first under the wire he not only carried the British colors to victory, but won a great fortune for his master. This happened in the time of Napoleon III., and Conolly was so proud of his tri umph that he insisted on walking ahead of the mperor and empress, cheering and waving his hat New York Press. Old Tim Railway Travel. Third class passenger coaches in England used to be coupled on next to the engine. The 'travelers came in for terrible treatment when any accident occurred. At times the engine was drivea-tender first in which case frozen hands conld be warmed at the smoke stack. The passengers were packed, seventy, of them, into a .truck eighteen feet In, length by seven and a half in width. There was no roof and not as a rule.mroper protection-at the sides. Vigarsus. Victim If your hair restorer is good, why is it that you are bald yourself? Barber Well, sir, once I had a very big order for ladies' plaits, and to exe cute it I used some extra doses of my restorer over my hair and got half a dozen long plaits, sir. But it drew; all the hair out of my constitution, sir. London MalL, Bell Telephone Service Baa rsaeked its cease ita policy Hon that thick alwaja "Sttcossa eoasasu in gaining aad dsaertieg thscoafldaacs aad the support of iatelligeat people?" How well this attitude has won paWks apuetal shown by the aetoajshiag growth of the Ball System ia all parts of the country. Statistics Show One Bell Telephone installed every aaiaute. One thousand miles of wire strung every day. More than six billion connections aaade every year. Five million telephones in use in 4t,Nt American cities. In Nebraska the installation of Mt new telephones a month. In Nebraska the building of 4.2H miles of copper toM lines last year. In Nebraska one hundred twenty thousand telephones ia 5ft cities and towns. Our Policy Has always been to deal frankly and fairly with the pnblie aad rely for our achievement upon square deal ing and satisfactory service. Our First Lacamativee. The first locomotives In the United States were brought over from Eng land by Horatio Alien of New York In the fall of 1S29 or the spring of 1830, and one of them was set up on the Delaware and Hudson railroad at Carbondale, Pa., but, being found too heavy for the track, its use was aban doned. The first locomotive construct ed in this country was built by the West Point foundry at New York In 1S30 for the South Carolina railroad and named the Phoenix. A second en gine was built the same year by the same establishment and for the same road and named the West Point In the spring of 1831 a third engine was built by the same establishment for the Mohawk & Hudson railroad from Albany to Schenectady and called the De Witt Clinton. This was the first locomotive run In the state of New York. The first Stephenson locomotive ever Imported into this country was the Robert Fulton. This engine was brought out in the summer of 1S31 for the Mohawk & Hudson railroad. It was subsequently rebuilt and named the John Bull. Th Obstacle. "Why not set your cap for that young fellow? He's single and well sir." "Yes. he's single, but he knows hes well off." A Deaperat Case. John-Ill bring you a fork, sir. The Customer What for? John The Ca memberr, sir. The Customer-A fork's no good. Bring a revolver.-Exchange. THAT WILL MAKE YOU RICH The greatest combination of industrialism and farming, bow rapidly developing, is to be found along the Burlington Roate ia the vicinity of SHERIDAN. WYOMING. HARDIN and BILLINGS. HON., AifoniTHE BIG HORN BASIN. where large, deeded, alfalfa ranches that have made millionaires of the owners, are being divided into small farms, and where Government irri gated homesteads and Carey Act Lands are available. A WONDERFULLY RICH COUNTRY: You can get hold of an irrigated farm within a radius of a few miles of excellent coal, natural gas, illuminat ing oil, building materials, fast growing towns that have varied iadoatries. PERSONALLY CONDUCTED EXCURSIONS: On the first and third Tuesdays I personally conduct landaeekere' excursions to see these lands. Mane Old Books Rebound In fact, for anything in the book binding line bring your work to Journal Phone stele of dT4opet be- beta based upon tie coavis- Nebraska Telephone Co. D. J. ECHOLS, Local Managert The Chinee Gang. The bugle dow not sound the call to meals on the Pacific liners, aa Is the Atlantic habit. Instead a Chinaman pats a gong gently, and its booming echoes find the ear. no matter how re motely located. The gong Is the quintessence of vibration. It seta waves of sound into motion that rever berate from every barrier. It moans or defies according to the strength with which it is struck. No wonder the Chinese used it in battle to scare the foe!-New York World. His FiraVVayafl. The old sailor came along with a bucket of tar. -What are you doing?" gasped the aeasick passenger feebly. "Pitching the deck, sor." responded the salt, with a deep sea salute. "Pitching the deck? Great Scott! Isn't it pitching enough already?' Chicago News. IN THE MSTK1CT COURT OF I'LATTK COUNTY. NEBRASKA. In the matter of the estate of Freeman af . Cooking-bant, deceased. Notice is hereby gives that ia persaaace of aa order of the District Court of Platte eoaaty. Nebraska, made oa the 22nd day of October. described. The aadersfeaed will eeU at pablic door of tbeCoert House la the city of Cotambo. in Platte eoaaty. Nebraska, oa the 25th day of November, ivio. st tae Boor or secioca p. in., he following described real estate, to-wit: itw. nnrth half IN. t) of Lota smbefed St f5) and six (6) ia Block Banker eichteea (18) ia Lockaer'e secoad addition to the Tills f Humphrey, neorasaa, eaia property ww m mu Boneparcel.EuGENiA COOKmQnAM, Administratrix of the estate of Freeman M. CookiBgbani, deceased. D. CLEM DEftVER. Gtntral rift-, leant! Seeker brfermatlen Bwei 1004 Far-lam StrMt, Omaha. 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