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ViH -J.l n i ; i ! li W M Columbus Journal. Oolumtouw. Motor. Consolidated with the Colanibos Time" April 1, 1901; with the Tlatte County Argus January 1.1MM. .a-ot-K.; wi the PototHri.Colnmbn.NebT..aa ...tori-rift mail mutter. rasas orHCBecEirnon One year, by siall, pnate prepaid $IM Mt month TS r rf month M WEDNESDAY. APRIL 13, 1JJ1. 8TKOTHEK & COMPANY. Proprietors. RENEWALS The date opposite your nam oa f oar paps'". or wrapper chows to what time yonr tsbacription is paid. Thus JanOS shows that payment has been received op to Jan. 1,1005, FebCB to Feb. 1, 1005 and so on. When payment is made, the date, which answers a a reoeipt, will be changed aooordincly. DldCONTINUANCES-lieepcmible obacrib ers will oontinae to receive this jonrnal until the pabliabera are notified by letter to discontinue, when all arrearages ostbepaid.If yon do not wish the Journal oontincw! for another year af ter the time paid for h expired, yon should ererionaly notify as to discontinue it. CHANGE IN ADDBE88-When orderisc a abases in the address, subscribers should be ears to fie their old as wrll as their new addreat. Coogressmau Lindberg once more comes into prominence before his con stituency of the sixth district by tak ing a decided stand against the Cana dian reciprocity bill. He declares himself very emphatically in the speech he made recently in the House regarding the terms of the proposed Tariff revision. He decries the dis tinction that this bill makes between pig and pork, wheat and flour, lumber in the rough and articles manufactur ed from lumber, and many other arti cles of a like nature in which there is a gross discrimination in favor of everything that is controlled by a trust. Mcnahga (Minn.) Herald. What prosjiect is there that a Re publican administration will, on the eve of a national campaign, agree to a trade deal which admits free every important manufacture from Canada with no corresponding concession to American manufactures and that too, in the face of the probability that un der the favored nation clause the free admission would extend to all other manufacturing nations? And what prospect is there that a great body of Protectionists in a Re publican Senate will sit juietly by while this free admission of Cauadian, if uot world, manufactures is beiu" added to the Canadian deal without having some amendments of their own calculated to fully counterbalance the situation? Des Moines Register and Leader. TOO MUCH LAW. In a lawsuit just ended the argu ment of one attorney contained (42,000 words and consumed 53 1-2 hours in delivery. There will be admiration in legal circles over this brilliant effort, yet a layman is likely to take another view of it. In all litigation one party is right and the other wrong. Why should it be necessary to have so many laws on the statute books that the rights of a case cannot be de termined without the loss of so much valuable time? Many of our present laws are not accommodating either plaintiffs or de fendants, for under them there are long and expensive delays and in the end justice may be blinded. Before the long delayed trials witnesses may have disappeared, and worse still per jured, testimony may have been man ufactured. What is desirable is more justice and fewer laws. Lawmakers and members of bar associations who will co-operate to remedy the present evil condition surrounding legal proceed ings will deserve ami receive the grat itude of the public. Boston Globe. HOW THE DUTCH GRASP AFRICA. What I saw a year ago in East Africa was illuminating. In British East Africa the men who discovered the country, who annexed it, who started to settle it, who are governing it, who have made it what it is, are the English. But the men who are breeding its future citizens and mas ten are the Dutch! The Englishmen there are fine fellows; they are doing excellent general work; I like and ad mire them. But as settlers they are hopelessly behind the Boer farmers whom I met,'because they have very small families, and most of them do not look on the country as their per manent home. Of ten settlers of each nationality the ten Englishmen will be the leading men in the present life of the colony; but most of them are looking forward to going "home," as they call it, to England; only three or four pf them will be married, and those will among them have only five or six children. The ten Boers think of Africa as their home; each is married, and almost every one has a good sized, probably a large, family; and, unless conditions change, the future is theirs, so far as the white race in that part of Africa is concerned. Theodore Roosevelt in the Outlook. I NOT A PLEASING PROSPECT. The Free-Trade newspapers of the country are in high glee over the pro spect of an all summer campaign of Tariff ripping in the social congres sional session which the Insurgent Democratic alliance has forced upon the country. The New York Evening Post, which has about as much respect for a Tariff schedule as a thirsty Sioux Indian has for a glass of mineral water, is busily engaged in codding the Democratic congressional leaders and making suggestions for a "working program." Says the Evening Post: This should have as its first item the speedy enactment of the trade agree ment with Canada. For this purpose the extra session is called by the president, and the Democrats of the House should pass the bill at as early a date as possible and send it to the Senate without amendment or "rider" of any kind. To amend it is, of course, to defeat it; while to fasten sonic other measure or measures to it to cover up the naked issue. The De mocrats should make haste to accept the Canadian offer intact, first, because public sentiment demands it; second, because they are committed to it, and. third, because it is the shrewdest thing they can do politically. They saw last mouth how like a sword thrust in to the vitals of the Protectionist party is this arrangement with Canada for free trade. What could be sounder party policy than for the Democrats to drive it home? Certainly it will uot be the Democratic party that will sullcr in the eyes of the country if President Tali has to depend upon his political opponents for securing legis lation which the Republicans are too split up ami too tied up to give him. Then after "clear and prompt action" on the Canadian reciprocity issue the New York paper, while not disposed to the wiping of all Tariff schedules out of existence right now never theless feels that the "woolen schedule" aud the "cotton schedule" and the schedules relating to the "necessities of life" might well receive the con sideration of the statesmen who are to assemble in early April. On with the dance! The Chautau qua platform has been thundering for just such an upheaval as is here con templated for several Imigand boister ous years. Perhaps there are a good mauy people who imagine this will be just the thing for the business interests of the country. We are not sure but that a baptism of this kind of fire would cure the present generation of voters of some of the things which seem to ail it. There is at least some satisfaction in the present status of affairs in seeing the New York Even ing Post in such an amiable and hopeful frame of mind. Des Moines Capital. WHEN UNCLE SAM BUYS CLOTH. The men of the United States army conic nearer knowing to a certainty what they are buying in the way of cloth than do any other, consumers in the country, says Mary Heaton Vorse in success Magazine. When the gov ernment gives out a million-dollar contract, it sees to it that it gets ma terial according to specification. The specific contracts for various sorts of cloth are elaborate aud go into the technical side of the matter; the num ber of threads to be used to the yard, the kink of wool to be used in the manufacture for the United States soldier has to be well dressed in clothes that will stand the strain of weather and of work. On Governors island, New York city, there is a testing la boratory for cloth. A specification of u :i. i: i me mciiii, jilt uueur yam oi eacil kind of cloth is mentioned; each bolt of goods is weighed, aud if it falls short of the proper weight it is thrown out. Next the question of wear and tear is considered and again the specification is stated that each special kind of cloth will stand a strain of so many pounds to the inch work way and so many pounds to the inch filling way. So after weighing, the next test is to cut a sample and try in a ma chine the strength of the cloth. If it won't stand this teat the cloth is thrown out. After the cloth has been pronounced perfect for weight and strength, the dye tests are made; it must stand two acid tests for perspiration and the material must stand boiling for ten minutes in a certain soan solution. w showing that it will stand washing with strong alkalies; and finally comes the weather test, the material being: exposed thirty days on the roof with out changing color appreciably. If the cloth has passed its examinations successfully, each yard of each piece of cloth is inspected, being run over machines for the purpose, while in spectors watch for any imjicrfections in the weave. An eighth of a yard for each imperfection is charged to the manufacturer. So when the cloth i? fiually sent to the contractor to be math into mii- forms, it is known to be of really good material. Each spool of thread, each button, each lining, each filling used in the clothes of soldiers has its own special test. CUMMINS AS A QUITTER. Senator Cummins, in a speech at Des Moines, has declared his aversion to reciprocity with Canada, has criti cised the pending agreement aud has censured the President for making it. The chief reason for his objections is that under the "most favored nation" clause in all our commercial treaties we might have to reduce Tariff rates on their products as well as Canada's! That is the Cummins reason as given by Cummins. If the result were to be what Mr. Cummins says it would be, Mr. Cum mins ought to be the last to object. He ought to welcome it with glad smiles and open arms. And if he were a sincere man he would prepare even now to do so. For years Senator Cummins has been roaring against the Tariff rates as "too high." For years he has been screaming from Chautauqua platforms against the Regular Kepublicaus as men of sin because they had not re duced the cost of living. Wei I, here's the thing to do! Here's a proposal really to reduce the cost of living. And if it should extend its operations from Canadian to other products, then the Tariff is so much more reduced and with it the cost of living according to Cummins. This ought to lie just what Senator Cummins wants. It is what he has said for years he wanted. But does he hail it with joy, receive it with thanksgiving and hasten to do his part to enact it into law? He does not! He backs away from it. He deprecates it. He circles around as if he were looking for a chance to give it a fatal blow. He gives it a kick whenever he thinks no one is looking! The minute Tariff re duction is offered him, he ceases to whoop for it! Senator Cummins' conduct is, of course, characteristic of the hypocrisy and moral cowardice of the typical Insurgent, who is always roaring for anything that he thinks may get him a job, but is always against it when it comes, if it threatens his job! Chica go Inter-Ocean. MEN FOR HOUSEWORK. A significant sign of the times is the increasing employment of men and boys for domestic duties which were formerly considered to be entirely wo men's work. Lately it has been grow ing more aud more apparent that a large number of women will not qual ify for or accept domestic employment. Women seem to want to gel away from household duties and fight side by side by men, and simultaneously with their revolt from what wc must call do mesticity comes a movement on the part of the other sex to qualify them selves for the work from which women arc now turning aside. It is now possible to get all spring cleaning done by men, aud, low lie it spoken, the work is more thoroughly performed- than it has liccn done by female servants, assisted by the garrulous, greedy, and none too energetic female household grudge. Furthermore, lads are now beiug trained, and with con spicuous success, to do daily work at houses. They arc found especially useful by dwellers in flats, aud both as cooks and as "housemaids," boys who have been properly trained do their work far more thoroughly than their sisters. New York Weekly. ALL HONOR TO THE HORSE. When Bill and Mary, the William Allen White youngsters, began to grow up it was decided that the family needed a horse. "No Nnucy Hanks that can do a mile in 2:04 is wanted," Mr. White's advertisement read. "AH that is necessary is that the animal have a leg on each of its four corners, aud that it be so gentle that the chil dren can play teeter totter " over it when it is not pulling the buggy." "Old Tom" qualified, and since the Whites have owntd him, "the original firelcss-cooker horse," as Mr. White called him, has become one of the landmarks of the town. The assessor came around and among the items of personal property Mr. White declared was "one horse, value one hundred dollars." The as sessor looked astonished. "You don't mean to tell me," he said, "that you are putting in the old nag you drive arouud town at one hundred dollars! Let's make it fifteen; even then I'll feel the county is skinning you." "What," Mr. White returned, em phatically, "assess that versatile horse at fifteen dollars? I'd be ashamed to look him in the face." Success Maga- zine. Relies sf Other Days. Miss De Pevster. a. vaitfi- v. fork woman who died recently. Iefti an ner property to the New Ytork His torical society. Some of the articles enumerated in her will have bean In. her family for 200 years. There will probably be a room set aside fn the4 society for the portraits and other, beautiful possessions. IN THE EARLY DAYS OF WALL STREET. Before telephones imagine it! be fore there were even tickers to dis tribute prices instantaneously, while railroads were still experimental, Frank Work, a big, sudden sort of man, who died recently, was perhaps the most important broker in Wall Street Names of thoroughfares, which do not change; the likeness of Commodore, Vandcrbilt on New York Central stock certificates aud four or five rickety old buildings in Broad Street with smelly restaurants in their basements and curb brokers in their lofts there is little else that survives his day. To those whose minds may bridge the gap, the name of Work suggests Wall Street as you tiud it in old prints, before there were skyscrapers, when a building came honestly by its four walls, when a man was nobody downtown unless he wore a silk hat in the daytime, when all money was re spectable by presumption, and none was tainted, when successful specula tors might wear waist coats with dia mond buttons, when after a bear day on the stock exchange bears opened champagne nearby and brokers drove fast horses iu the park. All of this was when black walnut furniture was fashionable. Work belonged toau era. It was a man in his office who sold his stock exchange seat for $3,500 and invested his whole capital in a company to manufacture jiolite cuspidors. They were made to resemble anything else, but mostly to resemble plush covered footstools. You put your foot on a treadle and the top opened; then you removed your foot and the top closed. The firm of Frank Work it Co., was at 30 Broad Street. There is still a 30 Broad Street, but the building is a skyscraper instead of the low brick structure which occupied the site in Work's time, aud which you may still make out iu one of the old prints if you look down Broad Street on your right to the corner beyond the stock exchange. Work loved to be told that the ways of finance and specula tion had become too complex to be be lieved. For example, nowadays, it is thought bad practice to "corner" a stock. It is all but forbidden on the stock exchange, the general sense of decency is strongly against it, and it does not pay any more. But iu his day a "corner" was perfectly business like and legitimate, and what a beauti ful operation it might be! Work was Commodore Vandcrbilt's confidential broker, and the commodore knew how to corner stocks aud make it pay. He once "cornered" Harlem for the educa tion of the legislators at Albany, who refused to give him something he wanted,, and then went short of his stock. Commodore Vauderbilt was an ex acting man and had to trust his broker deeply, but he was also a dcuuHratic man. lie spent a good deal ot Ins time in the house of Frank Work & Co., and was never too stiff to exchange salutations with the men he might meet in the outer ollice the other customers of the firm. One of these was Capt. Jake Vauderbilt, his broth er, who lunched sumptuously and smoked excellent cigars at the expen se of those who expected some day to get a straight tip out of him. He knew less about what his brother, the commodore, did than the commodore's broker knew. Those with whom Cap tain Jake lunched so oflen were a com pany such as you would r.robably find in no stock exchange house today. One was Jimmy O'Brien, sheriff of New York. Another was John Mor rissey, with the broken nose, former pugilist, statesman and owner of the largest gambling club at Saratoga. Another was John C. Hccuau, prize fighter. Men have always kept strange com pany iu Wall Street, but never since has it been so queer. Methods and manners are refined. Drinking for one thing has gone out of form; then every large and prosperous stock ex change house had its own little bar, where men could help themselves. Men came to Wall Street not so much to speculate intelligently as to gam ble. Whereas, now they talk of such sterile things as barometric conditions, the balance of the trade, the gold out put of the world and earning power of capital, as if prices might be thought to go up aud down for such reasons, they talked then of the desperate games men played iu the stock mar ket to make it go up and down. Was the commodore digging n pit for Drew and Gould and would they fall iuto it, or were Gould and Drew lying in am bush to surprise the commodore? It was not so easy then for men to con ceal their acts, so it was the more ne cessary that they should disguise their motives. When Jay Gould determined to buy control of the Western Union Tele graph he began with a bear campaign. Frank Work was the broker for a crowd cousistiugof Cammack, Woeris hoffer and others, who found out what Gould was doing and .undertook to bay all the stock that he sold. They did and cornered him in Western Union, but he wriggled out aud en gaged one of the bear conspirators to help him buy control of the stock af terward. At another time Work was one of a committee of men called iu by Jay Gould to see the contents of his strong box and satisfy themselves that he was solvent, though allega tions to the contrary were being open ly made. New York Post. EVEN THE GERMANS. On the eveniug before the last solar eclipse in Germany the colonel of a regiment sent for the sergeants and said: "There will be no eclipse of the sun tomorrow. The regiments will meet on the parade ground in undress. I will come and explain the eclipse before drill. If the day is cloudy, the men will meet in the drill shed, as usual." Thereupon the sergeants drew up the following order of the day: "Tomorrow morning, by order of the colonel, there will be an eclipse of the sun. The regiment will assem ble on the parade ground, where the colonel will come and superintend the eclipse iu person. If the sky is cloudy, the eclipse will take place in the drill sheil." From the Christian Register. BLACK CATS IN 61G DEMAND Fur Is Used in Making Ladies' Cloak?, Hats, Muffs, Cspes and Other Articles. The market value of black cats 13 rising, rapidly, owing to the fact that their fur Is greatly in demand for the making of ladies' cloaks, hats, oiuffs, capes and other articles of tress. In the London fur market at tractive prices are being paid for black cat Fkins; in fact, the price is so rery attractive that organized gangs ot cat thieves are going from town to town on the south coast of England (n search of dusky felines. Within the past week or two the "Lost" columns of newspapers In few York and elsewhere have record ed the disappearance of some flno black cats, family pets, for the re turn of which large rewards and "no questions asked" were offered. Of course there may be no connection between the increasing value of black cats and the disappearance of family pets, but the owners of black cats may bo acting wisely In keeping an eye on "Topsy" or "Smut" until the market price for black cat fur touches rock bottom. LATEST MODEL WORKABOUT Farmer Creates 8ome Excitement by Appearing on Streets With Rig of Own Invention. Walter Lanfair, a farmer living on Dewey street, Tatham, created some excitement by riding through the town In a "workabout" of his own invention. It consisted of a body placed on four rubber tired wheels with a single seat on which he rode. This rig was pro pelled by the occupant working his arms back and forth after the manner of a person on a hand car. and that was the only apparent source of pow er In the movement of the "work about." There was a sort of a gear arrangement under the body of the rig, but just to what extent It operated was not visible to the onlooker. Mr. Lanfair coasted down hills and seemed to experience no difficulty in climbing others, so that the machine worked to advantage both ways. At all events he was the envy of a small army of school children who ran after him and his "workabout" until he disappeared over the hill. Springfield Republican. A Dignified Function. George Ade was out walking with a guide in Kioto. Japan, when he ob served a great procession approach ing, and he paused while it passed. The people wore gay apparel, and carried banners with Japanese inscrip tions. Their faces were grave. They were mournfully chanting to the ac companiment of tomtoms, cymbals and drums. It was a long procession. Ade took off his hat with due respect to the unknown dead. Finally he turned to his guide and asked: "Buddha?" Tire guide shook his head. "Shinto?" inquired Ade. Again tho guide shook his head. "Was not that a funeral proces sion?" asked Ade. "Xo." said the guide. 'That's the way of advertising. It is tooth powder for sale." The Sunday Magazine. Bitterly Disappointed. Here's a story in the week's annals of Maine merchants, this time from Portland. A Portland tradesman was visited by a friend from the country and among attempts to entertain took the visitor to tho theater. When the lights were low tho merchant quietly drew forth a pair of opera glasses and handed them to hl3 guest. A con tented "Ah" slipped from the man from the country and then his anna in the air were faintly discernible. "What's the trouble?" asked the host. The answer came in a distressingly plain whisper of disappointment: "Oh, nothing, only the thing's empty." Vacations for Cattle. In western Australia one fanner may be heard to Inquire of another whether he has as yet sent his cattle on their vacation, and what is meant is Just what is asked. Those farmera who live anywhere near the coast and in Australia "near" might mean a distance that would startle dwellers in other lands send their cattle for a month or six weeks' holiday at the seashore each summer. The change of air and food is said to he extreme ly beneficial. The grass on the coast is impregnated with salt and has the effect of a tonic on the animals. Harper's Weekly. Makes die most nutri tious food and the most dainty and delicious. MYAL BAKING POWDER Tne only Baking Powder made from RoyalGrape Cream of Tartar No fussing or fretting over thebiscuit-making. Royal is the aid to many a cook's success. nsjwf CpMk avfafrwW ROYAL BAKING SOWOOI CO.. NEW YORK. Father of His Country Had the Grip. As the Father of His Country had the grip it is not surprising that it should run through all the family. Oh, yes. Georgo had it. Witness tho pro ceedings of the Lexington Historical society. Vol. I. pago 50: "And how thereby ho Incurred a most vile grippe, which his loyal subjects there upon took to themselves, being only too happy, so they declare, to share even tho infloowenza with the noble Washington." Boston Transcript. Lace From St. Helena. It is pleasant to read that tho work of the St. Helena government lace school has met with the approval of her majesty tho queen. Since the withdrawal of the garrison a few years back the historic Httlo island has passed through a period of severe depression. The lace school was start ed with a view to improving things. It will be a godsend to tho Island if ItB lace becomes fashionable in Lon don. London Globe. SSSBlJSBBBBMBBBBBBBBBBBBSBBSMWaw . 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The tour of tb coast is the world's greatest railroad journey. YELLOWSTONE PARK: Plan a summer tour of this wonderland. All kinds of excursion rates through Gardiner and Yellowstone gateways; also person ally conducted camping toura through Cody. BIG HORN MOUNTAINS: The resortn of this delightful region near Sberi dan and Thermoplis are attracting a largn volume of tourist patronage. Send for special publication. COLORADO AND ROCKY MOUNTAINS: Usual popular Hummer rates to Colorado and Utah cities and rewortw. Send for Estcs Park booklet. Get in touch with me, and let "Colorado Hand Book", "Uig 'Paciiic Coait Tours." bbbbbb i JbIIbTbsbbbbI SBBBbWSOKbBBBbI SSBlsBBBBBBBlSBBBaSBBBBBBBBBBBBBBWsBBBSBaSBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBl Magazine Binding I Old Books I I Rebound I I In fact, for anything in tbc book I I binding line bring your work to I I 15he I I Journal Office I I Phone 184 I 5(aw rMMsff flaw Awmttttm How Pennsylvania Boy Caught Car. It Isn't safe for the carp in the West Branch to take a nap. Clarence Shaf fer, a ten-year-old boy of Mnncy Dam. caught a 20-pound German carp re cently by a unique method. Clarence said that he was walking along the shore when he happened to see the big fish "sitting near the bank asleep." He waded out to the fish and putting both artis around It threw It to the bank, he says, and it "never woke up until It hit." After It did "wake up." though, he had a tussle, but finally got it back In the field and then took it home. Pennsylvania Rec ord. NOTICE TO CONTHACTORS. Sealed tiropiwalft will lw received by the Secre tary of tho Hoard uf relocation of the city of ColambuM. Nebraska, on or before 7 JO p. m.. Ai'ril ?.. 1011. for tho ri'ptiir and alteration of tlu Columbua IHkIi school building. I'ropoeala to tie considered most be accom panied by a certified check ninal to threo per cent of the bid. Plans and specifications for said work may bo seen at tdeotticoof Wardeiuaa & Grab. Archi tects. Colombo. Nebraska. Thn ISoard reserves tho right to reject say and all bids. Dli. K. II. NadhA!!. 1-3 Secretary. r me ei'ml you any of our pttblicatiouf, Horn Ue6orts", Yellowstone Park", l. F. RE6T0R, Ticket flgont Columbus. Nabr. L. W. IVAKbLbY. Gen'l. rassenaer ftacnt. Oman. Near A' f ! X L
